Event targeted in DC shooting was AJC’s Young Diplomats Reception, about responses to humanitarian crises

The event Wednesday night at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, outside of which the deadly shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers occurred, was the American Jewish Committee’s Young Diplomats Reception. The victims were shot as they were exiting the event.

It was organized by AJC ACCESS, the organization’s young professional division, which says it empowers Jewish leaders to advocate on behalf of critical domestic and global issues facing the Jewish community.

The annual reception brings Jewish young professionals aged 22–45 together with the diplomatic community.

This year’s theme was “Turning pain into purpose.” Attendees heard from members of the Multifaith Alliance and IsraAID nonprofits on humanitarian diplomacy and how a coalition of organizations — from the region and for the region — are working together in response to humanitarian crises throughout the Middle East and North Africa.