Over 200 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 - Daniel Bader
President of the Helen Bader Foundation - 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 - Professor Martin H. Belsky
Dean and Professor of Law, University of Akron - Bennett Freeman
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State—Democracy, Human Rights and Labor - 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
- Cantor Susan Caro
President, American Conference of Cantors
- Daniel G. Cedarbaum
Immediate Past President, Jewish Reconstructionist Federation - Lincoln Chafee
Former United States Senator - Michael Chabon
Pulitzer Prize-winning author - Cantor Jack Chomsky
Senior Vice President, Cantors Assembly - Avner Cohen
Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington DC
- 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 - Bruce Corwin
Chairman of the Board Metropolitan Theatres - Rabbi Rachel Cowan
Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Spirituality - Lynn Cutler
Former Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs - Rabbi Harry Danziger
Former President, CCAR - 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 - David M. Elcott
Former Executive Director, Israel Policy Forum, Professor, NYU Wagner School of Public Service - Edith Everett
President, The Everett Foundation - 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 - Rabbi Capers Funnye
Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation - Gail Furman
Board Member, Democracy Alliance - Eve Galanter
Past President, Wisconsin Women in Government - Larry Garber
- 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 - Barbara Gould
Board Emeritus, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion - 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 - Joan Harris
Chairman, Irving B. Harris Foundation - Ambassador William C. Harrop
Former Ambassador to Israel and former Inspector General of the State Department and Foreign Service - Gary Hart
Former United States Senator, Former Co-Chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century - 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 - Franz Leichter
Former New York State Senator
- Lawrence I. Lerner
President, MeretzUSA - Daniel Levy
Former Advisor, Israeli Prime Minister’s office - Rabbi Richard N. Levy
Former President, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Director of Spiritual Growth, HUC-JIR, Los Angeles - 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 - Bob Lord
2008 Congressional Candidate, AZ-03 - 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 - William Marovitz
Former Illinois State Senator - Rabbi Shira I. Milgrom
Congregation Kol Ami, White Plains, NY - Judson Miner
Partner, Miner, Barnhill & Galland - Newton Minow
Former Chairman, Board of Overseers of Jewish Theological Seminary - Seth Morrison
- Professor David N. Myers
Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies - Timothy D. Naegele
Former Counsel, Senate Banking Committee; Former Chief of Staff, Senator Edward W. Brooke - 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
- 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 - Dr. Howard Sachar
Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs, George Washington University - Alan Sagner
Organizer/First Chairman, Young Leadership Cabinet of National UJA - Deborah Sagner
Board Member, Democracy Alliance - Bettylu Saltzman
- Herb and Marion Sandler
- Rabbi Herman Schaalman
Former President, CCAR
- Mark Schneider
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights - Irwin Schneiderman
Senior Counsel, Cahill Gordon & Reindel - Mitchell Schwartz
California State Director for Obama - 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. - Daniel Solomon
- Robert Solow
Nobel Laureate, Economics; Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT - Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro
Vice-President, American Conference of Cantors - 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
- Henry J. Steiner
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School - Rabbi Jack Stern
Past President, Central Conference of American Rabbis - Paula Stern
Former Chairwoman, United States International Trade Commission - David P. Stone
Retired Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- Rabbi Alvin Sugarman
Rabbi Emeritus, The Temple-Hebrew Benevolent Congregation - Jeremi Suri
E. Gordon Fox Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison - 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 - Rabbi Martin Weiner
Former President, Central Conference of American Rabbis - Bernice Weissbourd
President, Family Focus - Robert Weissbourd
President, RW Ventures - Carl Weisbrod
Former President, New York City Economic Development Corporation - 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








