AICE is the most important organization both in the virtual and real worlds for disseminating accurate and balanced information about Judaism, Israel, and the Jewish people. The dedication of Dr. Mitchell Bard and his staff to informing the public about Jews across the world is unparalleled in the Jewish world. Additionally, the Holocaust section of the Jewish Virtual Library, with its incredible photographs and information about both the perpetrators and victims, is an essential tool to combating Holocaust denial throughout the world. The importance of such an organization cannot be understated.
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Causes: International, Promotion of International Understanding
Mission: AICE strengthens the U.S.-Israel relationship by emphasizing the values our nations share. Tangibly, this means developing social and educational programs in the U.S. based on innovative Israeli models that address similar domestic problems, and bringing novel U.S. programs to Israel. AICE also sponsors research and the exchange of views concerning nonmilitary cooperation; facilitates the formation of partnerships between Israelis and Americans; publicizes joint activities, and the benefits accruing to America and Israel from them; serves as a clearinghouse on joint U.S.-Israeli activities and maintains the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture—the Jewish Virtual Library.
Programs: Israel scholar development fundto address the critical need to develop new scholars and place established israel scholars on campus, aice has created the israel scholar development fund (isdf). This fund will:identify u. S. And israeli scholars who could be placed in visiting professorships. Offer universities matching funds to hire a visiting scholar. Identify students who want to become israel/middle east scholars and offer them scholarships for graduate study.
dream team initiativethe dream team initiative helps students deal with the deligitimization of israel on campus.
jewish virtual librarythe jewish virtual library is the most comprehensive online jewish encyclopedia in the world, covering everything from anti-semitism to zionism. So far, more than 25,000 articles and 6,000 photographs and maps have been integrated into the site. The library has 13 wings: history, women, the holocaust, travel, israel & the states, maps, politics, biography, israel, religion, judaic treasures of the library of congress, vital statistics and reference. Each of these has numerous subcategories. Under religion, for example, we have the complete text of the tanakh, information on jewish holidays and material on relations between jews and christians and muslims. The politics wing includes collections on u. S. -israel relations, the united nations and the peace process. The reference section has bibliographies of more than 1,000 books and 1,000 web sites, and a glossary of more than 1,000 words and a time-line for the history of judaism. The library also includes the virtual israel experience, an educational tool and virtual tour of israel designed especially for students going on birthright and other trips to israel. Using virtual israel as a model, we are now creating a virtual jewish history tour that allows jewish students and other internet users to "visit" jewish communities around the world to learn about their history and culture. The goals are to educate visitors about jewish heritage, the development of judaism, the changing nature of jewish communities and the connection between the jewish past and present. Much of the information in the library cannot be found anywhere else in the world, such as material on joint u. S. -israel projects, cooperation between israel and the individual states and the treatment of americans during the holocaust. We received permission from the library of congress to put its judaic and hebraic treasures on our site. We have also received permission to use material from the american jewish historical society, anti-defamation league, the simon wiesenthal center, the israeli foreign ministry and prime minister's office, rabbi joseph telushkin (author of "jewish literacy") and dozens of other sources. One of our goals is to offer visitors a single source for information so they dont need to search thousands of other "jewish" web sites.
myths and factsmyths & facts is a book published and sold by the american-israeli cooperative enterprise to help teach readers about the arab-israeli conflict. It clarifies the conflict in a concise and helpful way. The book is meant to promote knowledge on the conflict and the issues today.