JStreet

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JStreet is an organization that, according to its website, "was founded to change the dynamics of American politics and policy on Israel and the Middle East." Observers believe that the group, while nominally supporting Israel, is a pro-Palestinian wolf-in-sheep's-clothing.

Adivisory Council

Over 160 former public officials, policy experts, community and academic leaders serve on the J Street Advisory Council.[1]

  • 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
  • Rabbi Don Berlin, Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Oheb Shalom, Baltimore
  • David Birenbaum, Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for U.N. Management Reform
  • Ernest Bogen, Board Member, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University
  • 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 Rachel Cowan, Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Spirituality
  • Lynn Cutler, Former Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Rep. Tom Downey, Former Member of Congress, New York
  • Peter Eckstein, Jewish Educator, formerly of Temple Israel of West Palm Beach
  • Chai Feldblum, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Lila Garrett, Emmy-Award Winning Writer and Director and Host, public radio's Connect the Dots
  • Rabbi Arthur Green, Rector, Hebrew College Rabbinical School
  • David Gross, Nobel Laureate, Physics; Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Ambassador William Harrop, Former Ambassador to Israel and former Inspector General of the State Department and Foreign Service
  • Stanley Hoffmann, Professor of Government and Social Studies, Harvard University
  • Professor Robert Jervis,Professor of International Politics, Columbia University
  • Ambassador Ted Kattouf, Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria and the United Arab Emirates
  • Stanley Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
  • Doris Kosmin, Cantorial Soloist, West End Synagogue of Nashville, TN
  • Victor Kovner, Former Corporation Counsel of the City of New York
  • Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate, Physics; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Daniel Levy, Former Advisor, Israeli Prime Minister’s office
  • Robert Malley, Former Special Assistant to the President for Arab-Israeli Affairs
  • Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate, Economics; Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • Professor David Myers, Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Professorial Lecturer, Schoolof Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

  • Ambassador Robert Pelletreau, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain.
  • Professor H. 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
  • Hannah Rosenthal, Former Executive Director, The Jewish Council on Public Affairs
  • Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
  • Mark Schneider, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights
  • 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
  • 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
  • Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate, Economics; Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT
  • Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, Rabbi Emeritus, The Temple-Hebrew Benevolent Congregation
  • Joshua Tenenbaum, Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Rabbi David Teutsch, Director, Center for Jewish Ethics, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
  • 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
  • Edward Witten, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jstreet.org/supporters/advisory_council
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