JStreet

JStreet

Adivisory Council

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

• 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

• 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. Tom 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

• 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

Robert 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 in 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 Teutsch, Director, 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 M. 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