What's in a name?

Uri Heilman scoops some discussions at the American Jewish Committee on their search for a new identity.

I am not sure that the issue is an identity crisis as much as it is a mission crisis. AJC was founded as the outlet for the German Jewish elite. They were so elitist that they forced other Jews to start competing organizations. Now, no one can tell the difference between the alphabetic mishmash that they spawned.

AJC could have sat tight and watched the whole Alon Pinkas fiasco blow up at the AJCongress. Now everyone will question what it is that they do as well.