JStreet

Adivisory Council

Over 160 prominent former public officials, policy experts, community and academic leaders are on the J Street Advisory Council.

(* PLEASE NOTE: Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only; individual involvement in this effort does not imply organizational support. Names are in alphabetical order.)

Marc Abrams, The Titan Capital Group

Tom Allen, Former Member of Congress

Stuart Appelbaum, President, Jewish Labor Committee; President, Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union

Bernard Avishai, Author, The Hebrew Republic

David Avital, MTP Investments

Diana Aviv, President and CEO, Independent Sector; Former Vice President for Public Policy, United Jewish Communities

Rabbi Andy Bachman, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, New York

David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine and President Emeritus, Caltech

Judith Barnett, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Middle East and Africa

Patricia Bauman

Rabbi Leonard Beerman, Founding Rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple

Dolores Beilenson, Former Co-Chair, Congressional Spouses for Soviet Jewry

Rep. Anthony Beilenson, Former Member of Congress, California

Marjorie Benton, Co-Founder of the Chicago Global Donors Network and Co-Founder of the Chicago Foundation for Women

Rabbi Don Berlin, Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Oheb Shalom, Baltimore

David Birenbaum, Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for U.N. Management Reform

Rabbi Barry Block, Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth-El in San Antonio and Board Member, Central Conference of American Rabbis

Kenneth Bob, President, Ameinu

Ernest Bogen, Board Member, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University

Rabbi Marcelo Bronstein, Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, New York City

Rabbi Sharon Brous, IKAR-LA

Martin Bunzl

Daniel Cedarbaum, Immediate Past President, Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Lincoln Chafee, Former United States Senator

Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

David Cohen, Co-Founder, Advocacy Institute, President, Global Integrity and former President, Common Cause

Steven Cohen, Professor of Jewish Social Policy, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Rabbi Hillel Cohn, Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Emanu El, San Bernardino, CA

Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels, Beth Shir Sholom

Rabbi Rachel Cowan, Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Lynn Cutler, Former Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs

Debra DeLee, President/CEO, Americans for Peace Now

Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rector, American Jewish University

Rep. Thomas Downey, Former Member of Congress, New York

Sheldon Drobny, Co-Founder, Nova M Radio, Air America Radio

Albert Dwoskin, President/CEO, A.J. Dwoskin & Associates Inc

Maria Echaveste, Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff

Peter Eckstein, Jewish Educator, formerly of Temple Israel of West Palm Beach

Peter Edelman, Board Chair, New Israel Fund

Paul Egerman, Software Engineer

Sara Ehrman, Former Political Education Director, AIPAC

Rabbi Amy Eilberg, St. Paul Interfaith Network

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Leonard Fein, Writer

Chai Feldblum, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Board Member, Rabbis for Human Rights

Dr. Franklin Fisher, Board Chair, Americans for Peace Now

Dan Fleshler, Writer and Blogger

Marcia Freedman, Founding President, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom

Rabbi Allen Freehling, Former Executive Director, City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission

David Friedman, Former Co-Chair, Jewish Funders Network

Dodi Fromson, Board of Directors of the American Associates of Ben Gurion Univeristy and member of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles

Gail Furman, Board Member, Democracy Alliance

Larry Garber, Chief Executive Officer, New Israel Fund

Lila Garrett, Emmy-Award Winning Writer and Director and Host, public radio's Connect the Dots

Jim Gerstein, Former Executive Director, Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation

Davidi Gilo

Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, Temple Judea, Coral Gables, Florida

Michelle Goldberg, Author, Kingdom Coming

Dr. Richard Goodwin, Chair, Middle East Peace Dialogue Network

Dr. David Gordis, President Emeritus, Hebrew College

Rabbi Samuel Gordon, Rabbi, Congregation Sukkat Shalom

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Rabbi, Pasadena Temple and Jewish Center

Rabbi Arthur Green, Rector, Hebrew College Rabbinical School

Mark Green, Former New York City Public Advocate

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films

David Gross, Nobel Laureate, Physics; Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Richard Gunther and Lois Gunther

Morton Halperin, Former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State

Ambassador William Harrop, Former Ambassador to Israel and former Inspector General of the State Department and Foreign Service

Arnold Hiatt, Former Chairman, The Stride Rite Corporation

Elaine Hoffman, Former Finance Director, Democratic National Committee

Stanley Hoffmann, Professor of Government and Social Studies, Harvard University

Michael Huttner, Executive Director of ProgressNowAction in Colorado

Dr. Jill Iscol, President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation

Richard Jacobs, Chair, Courage Campaign

Rabbi Steven Jacobs, Founder, Progressive Faith Foundation

Jonathan Jacoby

Professor Robert Jervis,Professor of International Politics, Columbia University

Marc Kahn, President, The Bancroft Foundation Inc

Linda Heller Kamm, Former General Counsel, House Budget Committee

Robert Kapp, Founder and Co-President, International Senior Lawyers Project

Ambassador Ted Kattouf, Former US Ambassador to Syria and the United Arab Emirates

Stanley Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University

Jim Klutznick

Rabbi Peter Knobel, Former President, Central Conference of American Rabbis

Herbert Kohlmeyer Jr, Former Louisiana AIPAC Chair

Doris Kosmin, Cantorial Soloist, West End Synagogue of Nashville, TN

Markos Kounalakis, President and Publisher, The Washington Monthly

Victor Kovner, Former Corporation Counsel of the City of New York

Rabbi Douglas Krantz, Congregation B’nai Yisrael

Rabbi Charles Kroloff, Past President, Central Conference of American Rabbis

Luis Lainer

J Shawn Landres, CEO & Director of Research, Jumpstart

Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate, Physics; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Lawrence Lerner, President, MeretzUSA

Daniel Levy, Former Advisor, Israeli Prime Minister’s office

Lawrence Lewin, Former President and CEO, The Lewin Group

Geoffrey Lewis, Kernstein, Coren & Lichtenstein LLP

Hon. Samuel Lewis Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel

Rabbi Andrea London, Beth Emet the Free Synagogue, Evanston, IL

Rob Malley, Former Special Assistant to the President for Arab-Israeli Affairs

Yaffa Maritz

Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate, Economics; Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Steve Masters, President, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom

Rabbi Rolando Matalon, Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, New York City

Avi Meyerstein, Founder, Alliance for Middle East Peace

Professor David Myers, Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Arthur Obermayer,President, Moleculon Research Corporation

Ambassador Herbert Okun, Former Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic and to the United Nations, Professorial Lecturer, Schoolof Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Ostrolenk, Co-founder, The Transpartisan Center

Eli Pariser, Board President, MoveOn.org Political Action

Robert Pastor, Former Senior Director, National Security Council

Ricken Patel, Co-founder and Executive Director, Avaaz

Ambassador Robert Pelletreau, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain.

Kathleen Peratis, Partner, Outten & Golden, LLP

Michael Pertschuk, Former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; co-founder, The Advocacy Institute

Professor David Politzer, Nobel Laureate, Physics; Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

Avi Poster, Chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Nashville, Tennessee

Kevin Quigley, President, National Peace Corps Association

Rabbi Arnold Rachlis

Jeri Rice

Fran Rodgers

Dr. Irwin Rose, Nobel Prize Winner, Chemistry

Norman Rosenberg, Former Chief Executive Officer, New Israel Fund

Hannah Rosenthal, Former Executive Director, The Jewish Council on Public Affairs

Mrs.Ruth Rothstein

Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies, Center on International Cooperation, New York University

Alan Sagner, Organizer/First Chairman, Young Leadership Cabinet of National UJA

Deborah Sagner, Board Member, Democracy Alliance

Herb Sandler and Marion Sandler

Mark Schneider, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights

Irwin Schneiderman, Senior Counsel, Cahill Gordon & Reindel

Stanley Sheinbaum, Publisher, New Perspective Quarterly

Rabbi Arnold Sher, Immediate Past Director of Placement of the Joint Placement Commission representing the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Union for Reform Judaism and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Michael Shtender-Auerbach, Founder, Social Risks LLC

Rabbi Dennis Shulman, Former Congressional Candidate, New Jersey

Henry Siegman, President, U.S./Middle East Project

Bill Singer, Brandeis Fellow and Commissioner on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets inScott Sklar the United States

Maxine Singer, Biochemist, President Emerita, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group Ltd

Alan Snitow, Snitow-Kaufman Productions

Daniel Solomon

Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate, Economics; Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT

Robert Spiegel, Private Investor

Herzl Spiro, Former Chair, Jewish Agency for Israel Committee on Immigration and Absorption

Rabbi Toba Spitzer, President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Ronna Stamm, Board Chair, Jewish Fund for Justice

Alexandra Stanton, Former Chief of Staff, Empire State Development Corporation

Mary Ann Stein

Rabbi Jack Stern, Past President, Central Conference of American Rabbis

Paula Stern, Former Chairwoman, United States International Trade Commission

Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, Rabbi Emeritus, The Temple-Hebrew Benevolent Congregation

Joshua Tenenbaum, Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marty Tenenbaum, Chairman and Founder, CommerceNet

Rabbi David TeutschDirector, Center for Jewish Ethics, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Sidney Topol, Former Chairman/CEO, Scientific Atlanta Inc

Joshua Tzuker, Former Legislative Director, Office of Congressman John Dingell Ambassador (ret.)

Nicholas Veliotes, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asia, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Jordan and former Deputy Chief of Mission to Israel

Milton Viorst, Writer

Rabbi Burton Visotzky,Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary

Al Vorspan, Director Emeritus, Commission on Social Action, Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Ayelet Waldman, Author, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Robert Wald, Founder and former Co-Chair, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

Bernice Weissbourd, President, Family Focus

Robert Weissbourd, President, RW Ventures

Ambassador (ret.) Philip Wilcox Jr, President, Foundation for Middle East Peace

Edward Witten, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Alan Wurtzel

Mark Zivin, Partner,Morrison & Morrison, CPAs, Chicago