American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece

The American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece was founded in 1982 by Dimitri Molfetas in order to promote and provide much-needed financial support to the Jewish Museum of Greece that was founded in 1977.

The American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece is the only official representative of the Jewish Museum of Greece in the United States of America. It is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization registered in the States of New York and Illinois. AFJMG is also a Jewish Community Endowment Fund approved public Charity.

AFJMG is the oldest association affiliated with JMG to bring together Sephardic and Romaniot Jews in North America. AFJMG maintains close relations with other Jewish organizations as well as government agencies both in the United States and Greece.

o 2008 Trip to Greece
     The Jewish Museum of New York in cooperation with
     the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Jewish Museum of Greece
     is proud to sponsor a unique opportunity to see Greece
     through the eyes of 2,000 years of history.

o Message of Foreign Minister of Greece Mrs. Dora Bakoyanni
on the opening of the exhibit "The Hidden Children in Occupied Greece" in Los Angeles
on February 19, 2008

o Message of Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece Mr. Theodoros Kassimis

to the Greek Jewish Community on the occasion of the Holocaust Memorial Day
(Athens, January 2007)

o Short History of the Jewish Communities in Greece

o Archbishop Damaskinos - TIME Magazine, October 1, 1945