Advisory Council
Over 100 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.)
- Eric Alterman
City University of New York Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism - David Avital
MTP Investments - Judith Barnett
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Middle East and Africa - Rabbi Leonard Beerman
Founding Rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple
- Jeremy Ben-Ami
Former Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy - Rabbi Don Berlin
Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Oheb Shalom, Baltimore - David Birenbaum
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for U.N. Management Reform - 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 - David Cohen
Co-Founder, Advocacy Institute, President, Global Integrity and former President, Common Cause - 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 - 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 - Albert J. Dwoskin
President/CEO, A.J. Dwoskin & Associates, Inc. - Maria Echaveste
Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff - Peter Edelman
Board Chair, New Israel Fund - Sara Ehrman
Former Political Education Director, AIPAC - Leonard Fein
Writer - Chai Feldblum
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center - Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
Board Member, Rabbis for Human Rights - Dr. Franklin Fisher
Board Chair, Americans for Peace Now - Marcia Freedman
Founding President, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom - 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
- Michelle Goldberg
Author, Kingdom Coming - Dr. Richard C. Goodwin
Chair, Middle East Peace Dialogue Network - Rabbi Leonard Gordon
Chair, Rabbinical Assembly Social Action Committee - Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center - Rabbi Arthur Green
Rector, Hebrew College Rabbinical School - Mark Green
Former New York City Public Advocate - Robert Greenwald
Brave New Films - Morton H. Halperin
Former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State - Arnold Hiatt
Former Chairman, The Stride Rite Corporation - Elaine Hoffman
Former Finance Director, Democratic National Committee - Stanley Hoffman
Professor of Government and Social Studies, Harvard University - Fred Howard
- Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs
Founder, Progressive Faith Foundation - Professor Robert Jervis
Professor of International Politics, Columbia University - Robert H. Kapp
Founder and Co-President, International Senior Lawyers Project - Markos Kounalakis
President and Publisher, The Washington Monthly - 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
- 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 - Hon. Samuel W. Lewis
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel - 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 - Ambassador Herbert S. Okun
Former Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic and to the United Nations - Eli Pariser
Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action - Robert Pastor
Former Senior Director, National Security Council - Ricken Patel
Co-founder and Executive Director, Avaaz
- Kathleen Peratis
Partner, Outten & Golden, LLP
- Professor David Politzer
Nobel Laureate, Physics; Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology - Jeri Rice
- Fran Rodgers
- Norman Rosenberg
Former Chief Executive Officer, New Israel Fund - Hannah Rosenthal
Former Executive Director, The Jewish Council on Public Affairs - 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 - Mark Schneider
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights - Michael Shtender-Auerbach
Founder, Social Risks LLC - Henry Siegman
President, U.S./Middle East Project - Scott Sklar
President, The Stella Group, Ltd. - Daniel Sokatch
Executive Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance - Daniel Solomon
- Alan D. Solomont
Former National Finance Chair, Democratic National Committee - Rabbi Toba Spitzer
President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association - Mary Ann Stein
- Rabbi Jack Stern
Past President, Central Conference of American Rabbis - Paula Stern
Former Chairwoman, United States International Trade Commission - Matt Stoller
OpenLeft.com
- Rabbi Alvin Sugarman
Rabbi Emeritus, The Temple-Hebrew Benevolent Congregation - Rabbi David A. Teutsch
Past President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College - Sidney Topol
Former Chairman/CEO, Scientific Atlanta, Inc. - Al Vorspan
Director Emeritus, Commission on Social Action
Union of American Hebrew Congregations - Edward Witten
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Rep. Howard Wolpe
Former Member of Congress, Michigan - Alan Wurtzel
- Mark Zivin


