Peter has been a leader at J Street for over a dozen years. He was Co-chair of the NYC Chapter for four years, joined the National Board in 2016 and was elected Vice Chair in 2021. He is a retired partner of TRG Management, an emerging...
Kenneth Bob has served as the president of Ameinu (the American Labor Zionist organization) and is a member of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization, and Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors. He is a member of the...
Nancy Bernstein is the Co-Chair of J Street Pittsburgh since its launch in 2010. She also serves on the Boards of her synagogue, Congregation Beth Shalom, and the Women Donor’s Network (WDN), and participates on the Overseas Funding...
Dr. Morton H. Halperin is a Senior Advisor to the Open Society Institute and Open Society Policy Center. A renowned expert on foreign policy and civil liberties, he worked for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as its Director of...
Victor A. Kovner practices law as a partner at Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP where he is a nationally known expert in First Amendment law. He represents clients in all aspects of communications law, and advises clients in cases of alleged...
William Singer is among the early supporters of J Street and a longtime leader in civic and political affairs. William, of counsel at Kirkland and Ellis LLP, is a former elected official, an appointee to city, state and national...
Dr. Carol Hutner Winograd, MD is an emerita professor of Medicine and Human Biology at Stanford University. She serves in leadership and contributor roles on a number of boards, including, founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of the...
Peter has been a leader at J Street for over a dozen years. He was Co-chair of the NYC Chapter for four years, joined the National Board in 2016 and was elected Vice Chair in 2021. He is a retired partner of TRG Management, an emerging...
Nancy Reichman is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. Her research focuses on the barriers and opportunities for women´s equity and advancement, particularly in the legal...
Ambassador Alan D. Solomont is the Dean of Tufts University's Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. He served as United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2009-2013. Prior to that, he was Chairman of the...
Kenneth Bob has served as the president of Ameinu (the American Labor Zionist organization) and is a member of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization, and Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors. He is a member of the...
Jeremy Ben-Ami is the President of J Street, bringing to the role both deep experience in American politics and government and a passionate commitment to the state of Israel. Ben-Ami’s family connection to Israel goes back...
Nancy Becker is chair of the Greater Portland J Street chapter and is a retired registered dietitian. She has successfully lobbied for nutrition policy initiatives at local, state and federal levels, was a member of the national PAC for...
Nancy Buck combines professional training in law and social work to focus on conflict resolution in a wide array of settings. A graduate of the University of Toronto School of Social Work, Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto), and Yale Law...
Diana Shaw Clark is an author and political advocate living in London. Diana served as the UK Coordinator for John Kerry's 2004 Presidential campaign, and was the lead fundraiser abroad for Barack Obama's race in 2008. In 2013, Diana was...
Patricia Gordon MD (Harvard ’78, UCLA School of Medicine ’82, Cedars-Sinai Internship ’84) was a radiation oncologist for 27 years. She was a partner at Beverly Hills Radiation Oncology. Her commitment to saving women’s lives in the...
Virginia Gordon helped found and lead the San Diego J Street Chapter and Co-Chairs J Street’s Regional Advisory Committee. She has over 40 years’ experience in grassroots organizing and fundraising and has held leadership positions on...
Jon Greenwald previously served for over fifteen years as Vice President of the International Crisis Group, and for thirty years as a US diplomat. In 2022, President Biden appointed Greenwald as a member of the U.S. Commission for...
Dr. Morton H. Halperin is a Senior Advisor to the Open Society Institute and Open Society Policy Center. A renowned expert on foreign policy and civil liberties, he worked for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as its Director of...
Keri Hausner serves as Co-Chair of the J Street Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) and is Chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of J Street. She has served as President and as Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Temple Israel of Hollywood...
Victor A. Kovner practices law as a partner at Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP where he is a nationally known expert in First Amendment law. He represents clients in all aspects of communications law, and advises clients in cases of alleged...
Charles Kremer grew up in the UK and moved to the US in 1977 with his Israeli born wife Naomie. He is the President and founder, since 1984, of Access Leasing Corporation, a company that acquires various types of leased transportation...
Ben Linder was born in Jerusalem and emigrated to the US as a child. He serves as the J Street NYC Development Chair, as well as serving on the Executive Committee of the Silicon Valley chapter. His Israeli roots inspire his passion for...
After completing a post-law school clerkship with the Honorable Simon Sobeloff, Judson Miner returned to Chicago on a Reginald Heber Smith fellowship to bring test cases under the newly enacted civil rights laws...
Joe Pereles retired as Senior Vice President Development and General Counsel for Drury Hotels Company in December 2019, after spending 29 years with Drury. Prior to joining Drury in October 1990, Joe was a partner with the St. Louis law...
Cary Sherman previously served as Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America and as a senior partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter. He is also the Co-Chair of J Street’s Regional Advisory Committee, and will...
Phyllis Snyder leads the Philadelphia chapter of J Street and served as co-chair of the Regional Advisory Committee for three years. She worked for over forty years for nonprofits focused on linking learning and work to help adults...
Ms. Judith Steinberg has 25 years of business experience. After several years at Burson-Marsteller Public Relations in New York City, she joined Mobil Corporation in Corporate Public Affairs in 1974. She worked primarily in government...
Randi Weingarten has served as the president of the American Federation of Teachers since 2008, and previously served for 11 years as the president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City. She has received the Roosevelt Instit
Dr. Carol Hutner Winograd, MD is an emerita professor of Medicine and Human Biology at Stanford University. She serves in leadership and contributor roles on a number of boards, including, founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of the...
John Yarmuth served eight terms as the Representative of Kentucky’s third Congressional District, which includes most of the Louisville Metro area, and was Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2019-2023. Congressman Yarmuth co-led...
Michael D. Young has been active with J Street since 2015 and currently serves as Co-Chair of the New York City Chapter. Michael is currently a board member of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (“ALLMEP”) and previously served...
Mark Zivin has recently retired as a partner in the Chicago CPA and consulting firm Morrison & Morrison, Ltd., where he provided accounting, tax and business advice to closely-held businesses and high-net-worth individuals for 40 years...