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

• 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