In 1977, the American Jewish Committee awarded Billy Graham its first National Interreligious Award in recognition of the evangelist’s support of Israel and endorsement of interfaith relations. While bestowing the award upon an evangelical—and not a mainline Protestant or Catholic—made sense to the AJC, not all Jewish communal organizations or American Jews understood this decision. This talk examines the shifting relations between American Jews and evangelicals in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, revealing how support for Israel has transformed American interreligious affairs.

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