David Saperstein

David Saperstein

"During his 30-year tenure as Director of the Religious Action Center has headed several national religious coalitions. Rabbi Saperstein currently co-chairs the Coalition to Preserve Religious Liberty and serves on the boards of numerous national organizations including the NAACP and People For the American Way. In 1999, Rabbi Saperstein was elected as the first Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom created by a unanimous vote of Congress. Also an attorney, Rabbi Saperstein teaches seminars in both First Amendment Church-State Law and in Jewish Law at Georgetown University Law School. His latest book is Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time.“


 * Director, National Religious Partnership for the Environment
 * Member, United States Consensus Council Roster for Search for Common Ground
 * Member, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya
 * Member, Interfaith Alliance
 * Director, Jewish Fund for Justice
 * Trustee, Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty
 * Trustee, World Faiths Development Dialogue
 * Former Chair, Commission on International Religious Freedom
 * Honorary Advisory Board, Rabbis for Human Rights North America
 * Advisory Board, International Center for Conciliation
 * Advisory Board (former member), Coalition for International Justice