JEWS AT THE STEERING WHEEL
Jews at the helm of ostensibly non-Jewish organizations
(New listing at JTR, ever-growing. This list could go on for
miles. It is only a sampling.)
Some valid questions about Jewish influence: to what degree do
these people have allegiance to the Jewish victimology tradition,
by extension to what degree do they hold dear the state of Israel
and/or other Judeocentric interests within their respective
organization's policy? Also, to what degree do they reflect a
"Jewish view of the world," so popularly declared as
something very real in Jewish circles -- particularly in
deconstructing and/or subverting the non-Jewish social, cultural,
and political order? To what extent are these people activists in
such public policy socialization processes, sensitizing the
public to Jewish interests and concerns?
CULTURAL / ETHNIC
NAACP (and other African-American organizations)
Washington Kurdish Institute,
Executive Director: Mike Amitay -- reputed to be the son of
former head of AIPAC (the massive Jewish American lobbying
organization for Israel), Morris Amitay.
American Institute of Polish Culture,
Founder and President: Blanka A. Rosenstiel
Emperor's Clothes,
(ostensibly about Yugoslavia and the Balkans)
Editor: Jared Israel (apologist for Israel)
Asia Society,
Chairman of the Board: Maurice R. Greenberg (article: 2001)
"To meet the increasing demand for greater awareness and
understanding of Asia and its dynamic relationship with America,
the Asia Society extensively renovated and expanded its world
headquarters in New York City. The $30 million initiative
substantially enhanced the Asia Society's museum galleries, as
well as its public facilities and programs, and strengthened the
Society's role as the only institution in North America
addressing the intersection of the arts, economics, politics, and
society throughout the Asia-Pacific region." This building
is called The Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Building.
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq,
President: Randy Scheunemann
"The president of the Committee is Randy Scheunemann, Trent
Lott's former chief national-security adviser. Last year
Scheunemann worked for Donald Rumsfeld as a consultant on Iraq
policy ... The Committee is little more than an extension of the
Project for a New American Century (PNAC), an 'educational'
organization packed with neocons such as William Kristol and
Robert Kagan."
Open Society Institute,
Founder/Billionaire Moneybags: George Soros
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon,
"Golden Circle" members include: Elliot Abrams, Salo
Aizenberg, Eleana Benador, David Chazen, Alain Gabriel Courtines,
Rachel Ehrenfeld, Michael Eisenstadt, Eliot Engel, Philip
Epstein, Gil Feiler, Douglas Feith, Leonard Getz, Richard
Greenfield, Richard Hellmann, Irwin Hochberg, Michael Ledeen,
Matthew Levitt, Daniel Lubetzky, Richard Perle, Daniel Pipes,
Scott Rosenblum, Nina Rosenwald, Michael Rubin, Eric Silverman,
David Steinmann, Jonathan Usher, Stanley Weiss, David Wurmser
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF),
President: Antonia Hernandez (married to Michael Stern)
Chairman of the board: Joseph A. Stern
Foundation for Ethnic Understanding,
Founder and President: Rabbi Mark Schneier
Coalition for Democracy in Iran,
"Supporter": Michael Ledeen
The Burma Project,
a division of the billionaire George Soros empire
American Himalayan Foundation,
Chairman: Richard Blum, husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein
Member of Board of Directors: Leon J. Weil, Ambassador to Nepal
"HATE," GENOCIDE, ETC.
A List of "Anti-Hate" organizations
(includes some overtly Jewish groups)
Institute for the Study of Genocide,
Executive Director: Helen Fein
POLITICS
America First Party,
Chairman: Dan Charles (Recently became "Chairman
Emeritus")
"[The] Reform Party as a whole is in big trouble these days
.... Earlier this year, several national executive committee
members resigned, along with the leaders of 18 state chapters
that decided to disaffiliate from the national organization and
launch a new group, the America First Party (AFP). Based in
Boulder, Colo., the upstart AFP is headed by Dan Charles, a
Jewish right-wing activist previously aligned with the Reform
Party."
FrontPage magazine,
Founder/editor: David Horowitz (former far Left political
activist, now a conservative apologist for Israel and
Judeocentrism)
National Endowment for Democracy,
President: Carl Gershman
Heritage Foundation,
President: Edwin Feulner
(Likely Jewish. Married to Linda Claire Leventhal and author of
Hate is Hate).
Center for the Study of Compassionate Conservatism,
Member of Board of Directors: Marvin Olasky
Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation,
Chairman: S. Daniel Abraham (avid pro-Israel acitivist)
Center for the Study of Popular Culture,
co-founder: David Horowitz
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs,
President: Joel Rosenthal
Hudson Institute,
Founder (deceased): Herman Kahn
President: Herbert I. London (Winner of the 2001 American Jewish
Congress Award)
Chairman of the Board: Walter P. Stern
Vice President and Director: Kenneth R. Weinstein ("Prior to
rejoining Hudson, Weinstein was the managing director of the
Shalem Center, an educational and research institute with offices
in Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.")
Manhattan Institute for Policy Studies,
President: Lawrence J. Mone
People for the American Way,
Founder: television director Norman Lear
The Center for Libertarian Studies (venerates Murray Rothbard),
Founder: Burton S.. Blumert
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
Executive Director: Thomas A. Dine
Dine "headed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) from 1980 through June 1993."
Middle East Forum,
Executive Committee Chairman: Irwin Hochberg
"The Middle East Forum, a think tank, works to define and
promote American interests in the Middle East ... In particular,
it believes in strong ties with Israel, Turkey, and other
democracies as they emerge; works for human rights throughout the
region; strives to weaken the forces of religious radicals; seeks
a stable supply and a low price of oil; and promotes the peaceful
settlement of regional and international disputes ... Toward this
end, the Forum seeks to help shape the intellectual climate in
which U.S. foreign policy is made by addressing key issues in a
timely and accessible way for a sophisticated public."
The Conservative Caucus,
Chairman: Howard Phillips
"Constitution Party & Independent American Party
Presidential Nominee ... Born February 6, 1941 in Boston,
Massachusetts. Married to Peggy Phillips. Six children, eight
grandchildren. Evangelical Protestant (Jewish by birth, later
converted in adulthood to Christianity)."
The Mitre organization,
Chairman of the Board: James Schlesinger
"MITRE is a not-for-profit national resource that provides
systems engineering, research and development, and information
technology support to the government. It operates federally
funded research and development centers for the DOD, the FAA, and
the IRS."
Aspen Institute,
Chairman: William E. Mayer (Jewish?)
Vice Chairman: Lester Crown
(Jewish Aspen officials include everyone from Henry Kissinger to
Madeline Albright).
Project for a New American Century,
Chairman: William Kristol
Institute for Policy Studies,
Founder/funder: Samuel Rubin
"Cora Weiss, nee Cora Rubin, daughter of Samuel Rubin. She
was a director of the Samuel Rubin Foundation from its inception.
She was also instrumental in the funding decision to create the
Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, was the
first IPS chairman of the board of directors. She and her husband
Peter selected Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet as co-directors
of the Institute for Policy Studies."
World Affairs Council,
Chair: Bill Grinstein
Center for the Research on Military Organization,
Director: David R. Segal
Term Limits,
President: Howard Rich
Council on Foreign Relations,
President: Leslie Gelb (Succeeded by Richard N. Haass, also
Jewish)
Vice President: Abraham Lowenthal
Center for Policy Alternatives,
Board Secretary: Miles Rapoport
Drug Policy Alliance,
Executive Director: Ethan Nadelman
Education Policy Institute,
Chairman: Myron Lieberman
Ethics and Public Policy Center,
President: Hillel G. Fradkin
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public
Policy, (Harvard U.)
"The Shorenstein Center was established with a generous gift
from Walter H. and Phyllis J. Shorenstein, in memory of their
daughter, Joan. Joan Shorenstein Barone is remembered by all who
worked with her as one of the most dedicated professionals ever
to enter the field of political journalism."
Miller Center of Public Affairs,
Executive Director: Philip Zelikow
"The Miller Center's mission is to study and inform the
national and international policies of the United States, with a
special emphasis on the American Presidency. We conduct primary
historical research, hold public forums, document presidential
oral history, award fellowships in American political development
and organize commissions on important public policy issues."
9-11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon
the United States),
Executive Director: Philip Zelikow (see also above)
"January 27, 2003: Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller
Professor of History and Director of the Miller Center of Public
Affairs at the University of Virginia, has been appointed as the
Executive Director of the National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the '9/11
Commission.'"
Ethics and Public Policy Center,
President: Hillel Fradkin
Center for Ethics and Public Policy,
President: Elliot Abrams
SITE Institute-The Search for International Terrorist Entities,
Director: Rita Katz
The Federalist Society (for law and public policy studies),
President: Eugene B. Meyer (Jewish?)
Executive Vice President: Leonard A Leo (Jewish?)
Social Democrats,
"The Social Democrats, USA (SD/USA) has its political roots
in the Socialist Party. Its philosophical forefather was the
intellectual Trotskyite, Max Shactman. Shactman, initially a
Communist, became increasingly disenchanted with the actions of
the Soviet Union under Stalin and developed a new genre of
antiStalinist leftists. This group joined the Socialist party of
Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas in the 1960s. (2) It was in this
period that the SD/USA made its commitment to, and its first
inroads into the organized labor movement. In 1972, the Socialist
Party split into two factions; the left led by Michael Harrington
and the right or conservative wing led by Tom Kahn, Rachelle
Horowitz, and Carl Gershman. (2) The latter became the
SD/USA."
Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare,
Director: Yossef Bodansky
"Yossef Bodansky is the Director of Research of the
International Strategic Studies Association, and is also the
Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives. He is
also a Senior Editor for the Defense and Foreign Affairs group of
publications. He is the author of five books (Target America,
Terror, Crisis in Korea, Offensive in the Balkans, and Some Call
it Peace) ..."
Partnership for America's Families,
Director: Steve Rosenthal
"A bitter split within organized labor over control of $20
million earmarked for mobilizing voters is threatening to
fracture a broader effort by liberal groups to ally themselves
against President Bush's reelection bid in 2004. The dispute
involves the new Partnership for America's Families, a political
committee financed with $20 million from unions and as much as
$10 million from individual, pro-Democratic donors. The
partnership's executive director, Steve Rosenthal, former
political director of the AFL-CIO, is pitted against Gerald W.
McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees. Also at odds with Rosenthal are leaders
of black and Hispanic labor organizations affiliated with the
AFL-CIO."
Draft Al Gore,
Chairman: Monica Friedlander
Center for American Progress,
Senior Vice President: Morton H. Halperin
Democracy 21,
President: Fred Wertheimer,
"promotes changes in campaign finance,"
(Important contributor: Geoge Soros)
Bush/Cheney 2004,
Campaign Manager: Ken Mehlman
National Democratic Institute For International Affairs,
Chairman: Madeleine K. Albright
Vice Chairman: Rachelle Horowitz
President: Kenneth D. Wollack
[Contributor's note: This organization "specializes in
setting up puppet governments."]
MASS MEDIA
Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR),
Executive Director: Jeff Cohen
Paul Revere Society,
The PRS apparently IS Michael Savage (born Michael Weiner).
Conservative talk-show host and apologist for Israel.
Association of American Publishers,
Chairman of the Board of Directors: Jane Friedman
(Friedman is President and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers).
Screen Actors Guild,
President: Melissa Gilbert
"Other Jewish performers in the cast [of the play "The
Education of Max Bickford"] include Jill Clayburgh and Sara
Gilbert. Gilbert, 27, is best known for her youthful role as
Roseanne's youngest daughter on the "Roseanne"
television series. Her sister, MELISSA GILBERT, 38, was the
former child star of "Little House on the Prairie" and
many TV movies. Melissa was elected president of the Screen
Actors' Guild late last year." -- Jewish Bulletin
American Film Institute,
Director and CEO: Jean Picker Firstenberg (Jewish?)
Recording Industry Association of America,
Prior Chairman and CEO: Hilary Rosen
New Chairman and CEO: Mitch Bainwol (formerly a Jewish Republican
Party official)
National Association of Recording Merchandisers,
"The Voice of Music Retailing"
President: Pamela Horovitz
Chairman: David Schlang (Jewish?)
National Film Board of Canada, (government subsidies for
independent filmmakers) Commissioner and Chairperson: Jacques
Bensimon
Arbitron, (media research)
President and CEO: Stephen B. Morris
(non-executive) Chairman: Lawrence Perlman
The Media Coalition, Inc.,
Executive Director: David Horowitz
The Media Access Project,
President and CEO: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada's BBC),
President and CEO: Robert Rabinovitch
Canadian Museum of Civilization,
President and CEO: Victor Rabinovitch (brother of Robert - see
above)
"Their [the Rabinovitch brothers] appointments, the apex of
careers built largely in the federal civil service, were 'a
source of naches [pride] for the entire Jewish community,'' said
Irving Abella, a Toronto historian and former president of the
Canadian Jewish Congress. 'They are energetic and dedicated, and
never tried to hide their Jewish background.'"
Center for Media and Public Affairs,
President: S. Robert Lichter
Vice President: Linda Lichter
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies,
Executive Director: Richard Karpel
Project for Excellence in Journalism/Committee of Concerned
Journalists,
Director (and Vice Chairman of CCJ) -- Tom Rosenstiel
Chairman of CCJ -- Bill Kovach (Jewish?)
LAW, RIGHTS GROUPS
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
President: Nadine Strossen
Judicial Watch,
Chairman: Larry Klayman (a Jewish convert to Christianity)
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights,
(strong interest in fighting antisemitism)
Executive Director: Michael Posner
Human Rights Watch,
Executive Director: Kenneth Roth
American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ),
Chief Council: Jay Alan Sekulow
He also operates: The Slavic Center for Law and Justice (SCLJ),
along with SCLJ co-founder Vladimir Ryakhovskiy (Jewish?)
and also The European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ)
Note: The "Jay Sekulow Live!" daily radio show is
co-hosted by Gene Kapp.
National Lawyers Guild,
President: Bruce Nestor (Jewish surname)
President-Elect: Michael Avery (Jewish surname)
Executive Vice President: Marjorie Cohn
Child Welfare League of America,
President and CEO: Shay Bilchik
"Cardinal McCarrick announced July 11 that a Child
Protection Advisory Board with experts from related fields has
been formed to review and strengthen the Archdiocese of
Washington's policies and procedures on preventing and dealing
with cases of child abuse. The chairman of the nine-member board,
Shay Bilchik, is the president and CEO of the Child Welfare
League of America ... 'Every child as a birthright is entitled to
nurturance and protection,' said Bilchik, whose Child Welfare
League is the nation's oldest and largest association of agencies
that directly help abused, neglected, abandoned and other
vulnerable children and their families. The board chairman, who
is Jewish, said members would examine archdiocesan policies, help
the local Catholic Church in 'confronting and preventing the
tragedy of child sexual abuse,' and determine if there are 'more
effective methods for protecting children, for whom the Church is
a spiritual home.'"
Southern Poverty Law Center,
CEO: Joe Levin
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law,
Executive Director: Robert Bernstein
Center for Equal Opportunity,
President: Linda Chavez
"She met her husband, Christopher Gersten, while attending
the University of Colorado. Gersten, who is Jewish, heads the
Institute for Religious Values."
Center for Law and Social Policy,
Chair: Joe Onek
"Berkowitz: I see also that you worked on the Hill at one
point? Onek: I'd worked on the Hill for Kennedy but not on health
issues particularly. Berkowitz: And Mondale was not a rabbi?
Onek: No, I knew Mondale because I'd worked on the Hill, but I
had no ties."
"The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) was founded in
1968 by Charles Halpern and three other lawyers, with the
assistance of Justice Arthur Goldberg."
Second Amendment Foundation,
Founder -- Alan M. Gottlieb
UNIONS, OCCUPATION ORGANIZATIONS, ACADEMIA, ETC.
American Library Association,
President: Maurice Freedman (through June 2003)
American Federation of Teachers,
President: Sandra Feldman
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
President: Andrew L. Stern
Communication Workers of America (AFL-CIO),
President: Morton Bahr (also President of the Jewish Labor
Committee)
Executive Vice-President: Larry Cohen
(Note: Barbara Easterling (Jewish?) is this group's
Secretary-Treasurer and also
co-Chairman of the Labor Advisory Board for State of Israel
Bonds).
Unite,
President: Bruce Raynor (Jewish surname)
Raynor succeeded Jay Mazur in July 2001. "A new chapter in
the history of the U.S. labor movement began in 1995 with the
founding of UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile
Employees). The new union was formed by the merger of two of the
nation's oldest unions, the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile
Workers Union (ACTWU)."
Per Jay Mazur: He is noted as an official of one of "53
member organizations of major American Jewish organizations that
seeks to strengthen the U.S.-Israel Alliance, and to protect and
advance the security and dignity of Jews abroad." Mazur is
here noted as a representative for the National Committee for
Labor Israel.
The Newspaper Guild, (union - part of Communication Workers of
America)
International Chairperson: Carol Rothman
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
CEO, and Executive Publisher of "Science" magazine:
Alan Leshner.
Chairman of the Board: Floyd E. Bloom (Jewish?)
Director of science & policy programs: Albert H. Teich
(Jewish?)
Union of Concerned Scientists,
President: Howard Ris [Jewish?]
Chairman of the Board: Kurt Gottfried
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education,
President and Co-Director: Alan Charles Kors
Co-Director: Harvey A. Silverglate
Institute of Medicine (National Academy for Science),
President: Harvey Fineberg
American Political Science Association,
President-Elect: Margaret Levi
Vice President: Ira Katznelson
Secretary: Judith Goldstein
American Psychological Association,
President: Robert J. Sternberg
International Association for Philosophy and Literature,
Executive Director: Hugh J. Silverman
National Association of Science Writers, Inc.
President: Deborah Blum
National Association of Social Workers,
President: Terry Mizrahi
Writers Guild of America, West
President: Victoria Riskin (also on the American Film Institute
Board of Trustees)
("Welcome to the official Web site of the Writers Guild of
America, west, a labor union that represents more than 8,500
professional writers who create your favorite films and
television programs."
Writers Guild of America, East,
President: Herb Sargent (Jewish?)
The Songwriters Guild of America,
Executive Director: Lewis Bachman
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP),
President and Chairman of the Board: Marilyn Bergman
Vice Chairman: Cy Coleman (Jewish?)
Vice Chairman, Publisher Board: Jay Morganstern
Treasurer: Arnold Broido
Music Publishers Association of the United States,
President: Tom Broido
American Psychiatric Association,
President: Paul Appelbaum
"Dr. Appelbaum, a world-renowned psychiatrist, presented
'Religion and Psychiatry: An Orthodox Jewish
Psychiatrist’s Perspective' at the luncheon."
Institute of Industrial Engineers,
President: Jeremy Weinstein
Middle East Studies Association (MESA),
(Previous) President: Joel Beinin
The American Educational Research Association (AERA),
Executive Director: Felice J. Levine
American Sociological Association,
President: William T. Bielby
"Bill’s non-observant Jewish mother worked in
a shoe store at the Palmer House and then with her husband in the
store."
American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)
[a division of Magazine Publishers of America]
Executive Director: Marlene Kahan
American Sportscasters Association,
President: Lou Schwartz
Committee to Protect Journalists,
Chairman of the Board: David Laventhol
Executive Director: Ann Cooper (Jewish?)
PSRC,
Chairman: Howard B. Goldstein
"The PSRC of America is an organization of physicians,
nurses, administrators, allied health care professionals, and
data analysts providing services to promote quality of care and
the efficient management of health care resources in managed care
and traditional settings."
American Orthopsychiatric Association,
Executive Director - Lisa Shuger Hublitz
President - Oscar Barbarin
President Elect - Gary Melton (Jewish?)
Institute of International Education,
President & CEO: Allan E. Goodman
IMMIGRATION
American Patrol,
Co-founder Shirley Lertzman
Federation for American Immigration Reform,
Executive Director: Dan Stein (Jewish citation here)
National Immigration Forum, (pro-immigration)
Chairman of the Board: Diana Aviv
Executive Director: Frank Sharry (Jewish?)
MONEY / BUSINESS
World Bank,
President: James D. Wolfensohn
Federal Reserve System,
Chairman: Alan Greenspan
Economic Policy Institute,
President: Larry Mishel (Mishel comes up on a web search as a
Jewish surname)
Vice President: Ross Eisenbrey (Jewish?)
International Futures and Options Exchange,
CEO: Hugh Freedberg
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT),
Chairman: Nickolas J. Neubauer
New York Board of Trade,
Acting President, CEO, Chairman, and Chairman of the Board:
Charles H. Falk
Vice Chairman of the Board: Frederick W. Schoenhut
American National Standards Institute (ANSI),
President and CEO: Mark W. Hurwitz
American Corn Growers Association,
CEO (in 2000): Gary Goldberg
"In February 2001, Goldberg was sentenced to five years
probation for obtaining child pornography by mail. 'When the FBI
and police knocked on his door, it was the end of Gary Goldberg,
chief executive of the American Corn Growers Association,' The
Tulsa World reported. 'Now and forever, it’s Gary
Goldberg, convicted sex offender.' Goldberg, who once rubbed
elbows with senators and even visited President Clinton in the
White House, now says: 'I’m a felon. They
don’t let felons in the Oval Office.'
Goldberg’s crime led to a very public resignation
from his high-profile ACGA role. But the organization did not
divorce itself of Goldberg entirely: he now serves as the Chief
Executive Officer of the ACGA-linked American Corn Growers
Foundation, where he remains in charge of fundraising and
glad-handing the big-money foundations that keep ACGA afloat.
Goldberg, a Tulsa corn grower, served as CEO of ACGA for three
years and National President for five.
Electronic Retailing Association,
Chairman: Linda A. Goldstein
Gemological Institute of America,
President: Lee Berg
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
(Previous) Chairman: Arthur Levitt
Secretary: Jonathan G. Katz
Commissioner: Cynthia A. Glassman
Commissioner: Harvey J.. Goldschmid
Direct Marketing Association,
President: H. Robert Weintzen
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments,
Chairman of the Board: Richard Danzig
"Recently [1999], Richard Danzig was appointed Secretary of
the U.S. Navy. The appointment marks the very first time a member
of the Jewish faith has reached the commander level of one of the
American Armed Forces divisions. The office is second in rank
only to the Secretary of Defense ... Observing that the
prestigious appointment was duly noted within the Jewish
community, I asked Danzig if he felt that his Judaism had played
a significant role in his line of work. He pointed out that the
structure of the military community is, in fact, quite similar to
the Jewish community ... . Although his position as Secretary of
the Navy is rare for a civilian officer, the military offers many
jobs for civilians."
National Economic Council,
Chairman: Stephen Friedman
Turnaround Management Association,
Chairman: Randall S. Eisenberg
Penultimate Chairman: Melanie Rovner Cohen
American Council for Capital Formation,
President: Mark A. Bloomfield
Business Council for Sustainable Energy,
Chairman: Scott A. Wiener
Consumer Energy Council of America,
President: Ellen Berman
Consumers Union,
Director: Gene Kimmelman
Policy Analyst: Adam Goldberg
Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)
(Trade association for the computer videogames industry)
President: Douglas Loewenstein
Antitrust Institute,
President: Albert ("Bert") A. Foer
(Mr. Foer is apparently a member of the Adas Israel synagogue
which implores its members: "Buy Israel. At this time, in
particular, we should buy as many Israeli products as possible to
support the state of Israel." Foer's wife is Esther and his
young son, Jonathan Safran Foer, has made hundreds of thousands
of dollars on his first novel, Everything Is Illuiminated.
"Jonathan, son of Esther and Bert Foer, grew up in the
synagogue." [p. 6]
American Society of Travel Agents,
President & CEO: Richard M.Copland (Jewish surname)
NASDAQ; Stock Market,
President & CEO: Robert Greifeld
ART
Art organizations
College Art Association,
President: Michael Aurbach
Campaign for Museums, (Great Britain)
Chairman: Loyd Grossman
Americans for the Arts,
Chairman of the Board: Steven D. Spiess (Jewish?
"Spiess" comes up in a computer search as a possible
Jewish surname)
WOMEN / FAMILY / SEX / GENDER ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
President: Gloria Feldt
"At the tenth annual Power of One event, over 600 women
gathered in San Francisco to celebrate their commitment to the
Jewish Community Federation. They were inspired by messages from
Jan Richer, Liki Abrams, and keynote speaker Gloria Feldt,
President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, who
spoke eloquently about her Jewish roots, personal challenges and
the importance of activism."
National Abortion Federation,
President and CEO: Vicki Saporta
(Jewish? Saporta is a Sephardic Jewish surname)
Feminists for Free Expression,
Founder: Marcia Pally
Vice President: Marilyn Fitterman
Secretary: Jayme Waxman
"Jamye Waxman is a writer, producer, performer, sex educator
and outspoken advocate for women's sexual liberation. Jamye is
currently pursuing her masters in human sexuality education and
teaches sexuality classes at a well-know adult toyshop in
downtown Manhattan. She is the Associate Producer of the
television show Naked New York and a columnist for Playgirl
Magazine. She produced 'Love Bytes' with Bob Berkowitz and hosted
her own show 'Aural Fixation' on WSEX Radio.."
Member of Board of Directors: Abby Ehmann
"Abby describes herself as a 'Sexpert' and 'New York's
preeminent female smutmeister,' began a career in the adult
entertainment industry as an Associate Editor at Penthouse Forum.
She has also served as Consulting Editor of Masquerade Erotic
Newsletter, Girls of Outlaw Biker and Erotica Online. She has
written for many sex-oriented publications from Screw and Hustler
to Forum and New Rave."
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
Co-Chair: Loren S. Ostrow
"Loren Ostrow ... is outgoing President of the Board of
Congregation Kol Ami, a predominately gay and lesbian synagogue
in West Hollywood, CA, and he previously served as Co-Chair of
the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Board of Directors."
Queer Nation,
Co-founder: Alan Klein
"Mr. Klein's involvement in social issues and civil rights
work has been extensive. He was a founding member of the AIDS
activist organization ACT UP and organized several of the group's
most successful demonstrations. He also co-founded QUEER NATION
... In 1997, a year television critics will remember as the
"Year of the Lesbian," Mr. Klein played a pivotal role
in the international media frenzy that accompanied ELLEN
DEGENERES' historic announcement. As National Communications
Director and chief spokesperson for the Gay & Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), he orchestrated the media's
Ellen coverage from day one. Mr. Klein also co-founded the
successful multimedia campaign STOPDRLAURA.COM. Alan Klein most
recently served as Communications Director for Rainbow25
..."
Museum of Sex,
Executive Director and Founder: Daniel Gluck
National Partnership for Women and Families,
President: Judith Lichtman
Population Action International,
President: Amy Coen
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom,
Chairperson of the Board of Directors: Vivienne Kramer
(A Jewish "Vivienne Kramer" is noted here. The same
one?)
Children's Defense Fund,
Founder and President: Marian Wright Edelman
(Married to Peter Edelman).
Women's Independent Forum,
Chairman: R. Gaull Silberman
ENVIRONMENT
Voices in the Wilderness,
Prominent Activist: Bert Sacks
(Sacks is active against the planned invasion of Iraq. He has
lived in Israel). [From a correspondent: Bert Sacks, an open
Zionist, is one of the highest-profile activists in the Voices in
the Wilderness, a group that has long protested sanctions on
Iraq. The price of his participation, which is cherished because
he is a self-described "saint", is complete silence by
VITW (including by founder Kathy Kelly) on Israel (he is a former
west bank settler and a dual-citizen), on Dual-Containment, and
in the Israeli role in setting US policy on Iraq].
Alliance to Save Energy,
President: David M. Nemtzow
(Nemtsow: Jewish surname.)
OTHER THINK TANKS, ADVOCACY GROUPS, ETC.
The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism ("Ayn Rand
Institute"),
(includes avid activism on behalf of Israel)
Chairman: Peter Schwartz
President and CEO: Yaron Brook
Georgia Rural Urban Summit,
founder: Daniel Levitas
(Levitas also is the former executive director of Atlanta's
Center for Democratic Renewal)
American Humanist Organization, (largest American atheist
organization)
President: Melvin Lipman
2002 "Humanist of theYear" - Steven Weinberg
2003 "Humanist of the Year" - Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine
Advocacy Institute,
Co-chair: David Cohen
Co-Chair Michael Pertschuk
Alzheimer's Association,
President and CEO: Sheldon Goldberg
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
Executive Director: Joan E.. Bertin
Co-Chairman: Jeremiah S. Gutman
Alliance for Justice,
President: Nan Aron
Chairman of the Board: Jim Weill (Jewish?)
Council for a Livable World,
President: John Isaacs (Jewish?)
"John Isaacs has served as executive director and president
of Council for a Livable World since 1991, headed the Washington
office since 1981 and lobbied for the Council since 1978."
Nuclear Control Institute,
Founder: Paul Leventhal
"Paul Leventhal founded the Nuclear Control Institute in
1981 and served as its president for 21 years prior to his
retirement in June 2002. Mr. Leventhal now serves as Advisor and
President Emeritus. Prior to founding NCI, Mr. Leventhal held
senior staff positions in the United States Senate on nuclear
power and proliferation issues."
Institute for Popular and Reproductive Health (Bill Gates'
foundation),
Director: Laurie Schwab Zabin
"In 1999, Zabin accepted the position of the Director of the
Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive
Health."
"It would be very hard for me to separate my whole moral
compass from what I take from the history of the Jewish
people." -- Zabin.
Nonprofit Watch,
Founder?: Bernardo Issel (Jewish?)
Free Kobe,
[web site found to profit off support of basketball star Kobe
Bryant (accused of rape)]
Founders: Jeff Reichman and David Feingold
Fans launch "Free Kobe" Web site,
[sidebar to the article entitled: Kobe Submits DNA during
hospital visit]
ESPN, July 10, 2003
"Californian Jeff Reichman and Boston-area resident David
Feingold have created a campaign and a retail store at
www.freekobe.com, where they are offering T-shirts, coffee cups
and hats.
Violence Policy Center (VPC),
Executive Director: Josh Sugarman
Center for Individual Rights,
General Counsel (listed as #2 man behind the president): Michael
E. Rosman
Director of Legal and Public Affairs (listed fourth): Curt A.
Levey
The Urban Institute,
President: Robert D. Reischauer (Jewish?)
Chairman of the Board: Richard B. Fisher (Jewish?)
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence/The Educational Fund to Stop
Gun Violence,
Executive Director: Joshua Horwitz
Foundations and Grant Organizations
The MacArthur Foundation,
President: Jonathan F. Fanton (Jewish surname)
Vice President: Joshua J. Mintz
V.P.& Secretary: Arthur M. Sussman
AT&T Foundation,
President: Esther Silver-Parker
Executive Director: Marilyn Reznick
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
President: Ralph E. Gomory (Jewish?)
Chairman: Harold T. Shapiro
Scripps Howard Foundation,
President & CEO: Judith G. Clabes (Jewish?)
J. Paul Getty Trust,
President & CEO: Barry Munitz
Chairman: David P. Gardner (Jewish?)
Vice Chairman: Lewis Bernard
Vice Chairman: Helene L. Kaplan
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
President: Joan Edelman Spero
Chief Financial Officer: Alan Altschuler
Carnegie Corporation,
Chairman: Helene L. Kaplan
Vice Chairman: Martin L. Leibowitz
Kaiser Family Foundation,
President & CEO: Drew E. Altman (Jewish?)
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy,
Executive Director: Rick Cohen
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UNIVERSITIES:
(Current or recent)
"Ronald Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of
Industrial and Labor Relations and vice president for academic
programs, planning and budgeting, drew mainly from his personal
experiences and his background as a Jew to demonstrate the
continued need for affirmative action programs ... . Six out of
eight Ivy League universities in recent years have had Jewish
presidents, Ehrenberg said."
"It's fascinating," observed President James O.
Freedman in the February 11 Los Angeles Times, "that there
was not a Jewish president of a major university - with one or
two exceptions - until about 15 years ago. And then all of a
sudden - without notice - there are Jewish presidents now at
dozens of major institutions." Among all those presidents,
however, Freedman remains among the most outspoken on Jewish
issues in higher education. Through a series of public comments,
notably his 1990 attack on the Dartmouth Review, Freedman has
repeatedly used his ethnicity to make a name for himself in
academic circles. The Los Angeles Times interview concerned his
comments at the opening of the Roth Center for Jewish Life, in
which he exposed Dartmouth's history of anti-Semitism."
Tufts University,
"Lawrence S. Bacow, recently installed as president of Tufts
University, likes to say that the naming of a Jewish college
president is hardly newsworthy anymore. After all, MIT named
Jerry Weisner in 1970, and since then Jewish presidents have
reigned at prestigious institutions from Dartmouth to Harvard,
Penn to Princeton ... And, the new Tufts head boasts, every door
of the President's mansion on the Medford campus now hosts a
mezzuzah, while the kitchen has been koshered for his family's
use. Bacow's strong commitment to Judaism and the Jewish
community is clear from his positions as a director of the Jewish
Community Housing for the Elderly and a trustee of Hebrew
College, and his wife's role as a trustee of Temple Emmanuel in
Newton. He believes it is important for American Jews to 'speak
up on behalf of Israel and to show their support visibly,' yet he
understands the complexities of the situation."
Harvard University,
President: Lawrence Summers (replaced Neil Rudenstine)
"I speak with you today not as President of the University
but as a concerned member of our community about something that I
never thought I would become seriously worried about -- the issue
of anti-Semitism. I am Jewish, identified but hardly
devout."
(More concern about anti-Semitism)
Yale University,
President: Richard L. Levin
Princeton University,
President: Harvey Shapiro (stepped down after 12 years, in 2001)
Dartmouth College,
President: James O. Freedman
(What Being Jewish Means to Me: "I dearly wish that my
father, who had confronted anti-semitism in finding his early
teaching positions, had lived long enough to see the installation
of Jewish presidents at numerous Ivy League and Big Ten
universities.")
More hysterical Judeocentric weirdness from Freedman.
Cornell University,
President: Jeffrey Lehman
University of Pennsylvania,
President: Judith Rodin
* "KOL NIDRE REMARKS: We ask: 'Where are we, ourselves?' not
just, 'Where am I?' We pray collectively, both to recognize our
collective responsibilities and to acknowledge the failings and
limitations that are common to us all. In this way, we express
the essential inter-relatedness between our own actions and the
larger community in and for which we act."
* "[T]he University of Pennsylvania will not support
divestment from Israel, boycotts of Israeli scholars and
scientists, or any effort to stifle the free expression of
diverse ideas and opinions about the Middle East conflict by our
faculty and students."
* "[T]argeting Israel for divestment and boycotts is
wrong."
Northwestern University,
President: Henry Bienen, also Jewish
"Northwestern hosts an annual summer Institute for Holocaust
and Jewish Civilization .... President Bienen serves as the
honorary chair for the Institute."
University of California,
President: Richard Atkinson (former Chancellor of UC - San Diego)
(Atkinson is a member of the Board of Directors of the avidly
pro-Israel Koret Foundation, which features its "Israel
Emergency Fund")
Stanford University,
Chairman of the Board: Isaac Stein
McGill University (Canada),
Principal: Bernard Shapiro (stepped down in 2002)
Shapiro has been replaced by Heather Munroe-Blum
(she is married to Jewish screenwriter Len Blum)
Caltech,
President: David Baltimore
Carnegie Mellon University,
President: Jared L. Cohon
"Steven L. Isenberg, who has been Adelphi University's board
chairman since the appointment of this group of trustees by the
New York State Board of Regents in February 1997, was named
interim president of Adelphi on July 26, when Matthew Goldstein
announced his departure to become chancellor of the City
University of New York."
West Chester University,
President: Madeleine Wing Adler
WCU is the headquarters of the National Association for Holocaust
Studies.
(Note from a JTR contributor: Dr. Lawrence Davidson of the WCU
history dept. says that "Israelis have come to believe in an
alternate history." See page 84, April '03 issue of
Washington Report On Middle East Affairs magazine.)
Bard College,
President: Leon Botstein
Connecticut College,
President: Norman Fainstein,
Report of the Presidential Commission on a Pluralistic Community
at Connecticut College
University of Denver,
President: Marc Holtzman
Swarthmore College,
President: Alfred H. Bloom
Dean of the College: Robert Gross
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New School for Social Research,
Dean of Graduate Faculty: Richard Bernstein
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The University of Alberta (Canada) has had two Jewish presidents:
Max Wyman and Myer Horowitz.
From a correspondent: "When I was at the University of
Arizona in the 1980s, the president, Henry Koffler, was a Jew and
an open supporter of the JDL [Jewish Defense League], which was
strong there.. He also sat on the board of the Office of
Technology Assessment. He now is the chairman of the U of A
Foundation, which manages endowments."
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RELIGIOUS
(Note: a pillar of "interfaith" Jewish-Christian
organizations tends to be the propagandizing of Christian
sensitization to Jewish concerns about "anti-Semitism"
(underscoring alleged Christian blame for the
"Holocaust"), and revision of historical Christian
religious texts to accommodate Jewish demands. These types of
organizations are typically constructed towards Christian
sympathy of Jewish hostility to Christianity. Note that at least
two organization directors are rabbis at Christian colleges -- a
situation that is reciprocally (read: "priest")
unthinkable at a Jewish center of higher learning. Interfaith
"dialogue" with Jewry is essentially Christian
CONCESSION to Jewish perspective, never the other way around.)
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,
Director: Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
(Note: this organization is a noteworthy exploitive scam. Rabbi
Eckstein has sucked tens of millions of dollars from innocent
Christians for brutal, racist Israel -- a country that has
contempt for them.)
The Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies,
Director: Michael Cooper
The Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding,
(Sacred Heart University - Fairfield, Connecticut)
Director: Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkranz
The Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies,
(Southfield, Michigan)
Executive Director: David Blewett
Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning,
(University of St. Thomas - St. Paul, MN)
Director: Rabbi Barry D. Cytron
Chrétiens et Juifs pour un Enseignement de
l’Estime,
(Belgium),
Managing Director: Menahem R. Macina
Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations,
(Cambridge University - Great Britain)
Executive Director: Edward Kessler
The Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions,
(Jerusalem)
Director: Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Interfaith Encounter Association, IEA,
(Jerusalem)
Director: Yehuda Stolov
Koordinierungsausschusses für Christlich-Jüdische
Zusammenarbeit,
(Coordinating Committee for Christian-Jewish Cooperation)
(Austria)
Director: Markus Himmelbauer
Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel,
(Jerusalem),
Director: Rabbi Ron Kronish
"[Chris] Gersten, a Reform Jew, president of the Institute
for Religious Values and organizer of last November's [1999]
Jewish-Christian dialogue at Catholic University, 'Affirming the
Sanctity of Life,' provided specific goals and actions that can
be pursued immediately."
"At its opening session on June 10 [2003], the 31st General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America elected Joel Belz
as moderator. The PCA General Assembly is holding its annual
meeting in the Convention Center in Charlotte through June 13.
Belz is a ruling elder in Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church
in Asheville, N.C. Belz is chief executive officer at God's World
Publications in Asheville. At GWP, where he began work in 1977,
Belz founded and pioneered the growth of the God's World
newspapers for children, with a weekly paid circulation of nearly
a third of a million. In 1986, he founded World magazine, which
now has a weekly paid circulation of 130,000. GWP also includes
the ministry of God's World Book Club and the World Journalism
Institute, started in 1999."
(Note: Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic University).
Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
Executive Director - Philip Cunningham
Associate Director - Rabbi Ruth Langer