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Advisory 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.)

  • Marie Abrams
    Past Chair, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Louisville, KY
  • 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
  • M. Cherif Bassiouni
    Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
  • Patricia Bauman
  • Rabbi Leonard Beerman
    Founding Rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple
  • Dolores Beilenson
    Former Co-Chair, Congressional Spouses for Soviet Jewry
  • Rep. Anthony C. 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 G. 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 M. 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 J. Downey
    Former Member of Congress, New York
  • Sheldon Drobny
    Co-Founder, Nova M Radio, Air America Radio
  • Albert J. 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
  • 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 I. 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
  • Eric Geller
    Former member of National Board of Governors, American Jewish Committee
  • 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
  • Len Goodman
    Criminal Defense Attorney and Adjunct Professor of Law at DePaul University
  • Dr. Richard C. 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 and Lois Gunther
  • Morton H. Halperin
    Former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State
  • Ambassador William C. Harrop
    Former Ambassador to Israel and former Inspector General of the State Department and Foreign Service
  • Floyd Herman
    Rabbi Emeritus, Har Sinai Congregation, Baltimore, MD
  • 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 D. Jacobs
    Chair, Courage Campaign
  • Rabbi Steven B. 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 H. Kapp
    Founder and Co-President, International Senior Lawyers Project
  • Ambassador Ted Kattouf
    Former US Ambassador to Syria and the United Arab Emirates
  • Marilyn Katz
    President, MK Communications
  • Stanley N. Katz
    Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
  • Jim Klutznick
  • Rabbi Peter Knobel
    Former President, Central Conference of American Rabbis
  • Herbert S. Kohlmeyer, Jr.
    Former Louisiana AIPAC Chair
  • Doris Kosmin
    Cantorial Soloist,Nashville, TN
  • Markos Kounalakis
    President and Publisher, The Washington Monthly
  • Melodee Kornacker
  • Victor Kovner
    Former Corporation Counsel of the City of New York
  • Rabbi Douglas E. Krantz
    Congregation B’nai Yisrael
  • Rabbi Charles A. 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 I. Lerner
    President, MeretzUSA
  • Daniel Levy
    Former Advisor, Israeli Prime Minister’s office
  • Lawrence S. Lewin
    Former President and CEO, The Lewin Group
  • Geoffrey Lewis
    Kernstein, Coren & Lichtenstein LLP
  • Hon. Samuel W. Lewis
    Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
  • Bud Lifton
    Board Member, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
  • 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
  • Seth Morrison
  • Professor David N. Myers
    Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
  • Arthur Obermayer
    President, Moleculon Research Corporation
  • Ambassador Herbert S. 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
    Jewish and Community Activist
  • Kevin F.F. Quigley
    President, National Peace Corps Association
  • Rabbi Arnold Rachlis
    University Synagogue, Irvine CA
  • Casey Ribicoff
  • Jeri Rice
  • Rabbi Laurie Rice
    Nashville, TN
  • Fran Rodgers
  • Dr. Irwin Rose
    Nobel Prize Winner, Chemistry
  • Rabbi Kliel Rose
    Nashville, TN
  • Norman Rosenberg
    Former Chief Executive Officer, New Israel Fund
  • Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein
  • Leonard Rubenstein
    Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights
  • Barnett R. 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
  • Bettylu Saltzman
  • Herb 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 I.  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
    Vice President & National Practice Leader, Social Risk Consulting, Control Risks
  • 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 R. Spiro
    Former Chair, Jewish Agency for Israel Committee on Immigration and Absorption
  • Rabbi Toba Spitzer
    President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
  • Ronna Stamm
  • 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 B. Tenenbaum
    Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • J. Marty Tenenbaum
    Chairman and Founder, CommerceNet
  • Rabbi David A. 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 L. 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 L. 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 C. Wilcox, Jr.
    President, Foundation for Middle East Peace
  • Edward Witten
    Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • Alan Wurtzel
  • Mark Zivin
    Partner, Morrison & Morrison, CPAs, Chicag
  • Sandra Zylberman
    Member of the Board of Governors of Israel Bonds, Baltimore, MD
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