World Jewish Congress | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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00:01:10 1 Organization and related bodies
00:04:29 1.1 Current World Jewish Congress leadership
00:06:18 2 History
00:07:32 2.1 Precursor organizations (1917-1936)
00:12:31 2.2 Foundation (1936)
00:18:20 2.3 WJC efforts during the Holocaust and its aftermath
00:21:14 2.3.1 Riegner Telegram
00:24:20 2.3.2 Rescue efforts
00:27:25 2.3.3 Letter to State Department
00:30:23 2.3.4 Meeting of WJC representative with SS leader Heinrich Himmler
00:31:35 2.3.5 Post-war efforts
00:34:20 2.4 WJC and the creation of the State of Israel
00:36:37 2.5 Negotiations with Germany on reparations and compensation
00:40:38 2.6 WJC efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry
00:48:30 2.7 Securing the rights of Jews in North Africa and the Middle East
00:52:48 2.8 1950s-1980s
00:54:58 2.8.1 Opposition to UN resolution condemning Zionism as racism
00:56:40 2.8.2 Leadership changes
00:58:03 2.8.2.1 Edgar M. Bronfman
00:59:44 2.8.3 Controversy over Catholic convent's presence at Auschwitz
01:02:00 2.8.4 Diplomatic contacts with Communist countries
01:04:17 2.8.5 Waldheim affair
01:07:30 2.9 Restitution of Holocaust-era assets and compensation payments
01:09:05 2.9.1 Swiss bank settlement
01:14:19 2.9.2 Nazi gold
01:15:45 2.9.3 Agreements with other European countries on Holocaust-era property restitution and compensation
01:17:03 2.9.4 Restitution of looted art
01:18:27 2.10 Relations with Poland
01:24:20 3 Key policies and activities of the World Jewish Congress
01:24:33 3.1 Support for Israel
01:25:06 3.1.1 Fighting the delegitimization of Israel
01:30:09 3.1.2 Support for peace process and opposition to Palestinian unilateralism
01:34:35 3.2 Holocaust legacy issues
01:34:58 3.2.1 Holocaust remembrance
01:37:01 3.2.2 Restitution of Jewish assets
01:38:44 3.2.3 Fighting Holocaust denial, revisionism and glorification of the Nazis
01:42:45 3.2.4 Prosecution of Nazi war criminals
01:44:37 3.3 Fighting anti-Semitism
01:50:54 3.3.1 Hatred on the internet
01:52:34 3.4 Dialogue with other religions
01:53:03 3.4.1 Jewish-Christian dialogue
01:59:19 3.4.2 Dialogue with Islam
02:02:01 3.5 Pluralistic Israel
02:02:35 3.6 Opposing Iran
02:10:28 3.7 Jewish refugees from Arab countries
02:14:06 3.8 Other issues
02:16:48 4 Fundraising and finances
02:17:11 4.1 Controversies, internal conflicts and allegations of financial irregularities (2004-2007)
02:20:48 5 Annex
02:20:57 5.1 Leaders of the World Jewish Congress (1936–present)
02:21:09 5.1.1 List of presidents of the World Jewish Congress
02:22:09 5.1.2 List of secretaries-general of the World Jewish Congress
02:23:26 5.2 Major gatherings of the World Jewish Congress
02:23:37 5.2.1 Prior to 1936
02:24:22 5.2.2 After 1936
02:27:47 5.3 List of member communities and organizations of the World Jewish Congress
02:28:08 5.3.1 WJC member communities
02:35:48 5.3.2 WJC member organizations



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The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people." Membership in the WJC is open to all representative Jewish groups or communities, irrespective of the social, political or economic ideology of the community's host country. The World Jewish Congress headquarters are in New York City, US, and the organization maintains international offices in Brussels, Belgium; Jerusalem, Israel; Paris, France; Moscow, Russia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Geneva, Switzerland. The WJC has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.