JStreet

J Street "is the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.

"J Street was founded to promote meaningful American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israel conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. We support a new direction for American policy in the Middle East and a broad public and policy debate about the U.S. role in the region...

"J Street is itself a 501(c)(4) organization and is part of the J Street family of organizations, which includes an independent, legally unconnected Political Action Committee, JStreetPAC."

Israeli Supporters
Accessed May 2008:


 * Yossi Alpher - bitterlemons; former Senior Member of Mossad; former Director of the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies
 * Col (Ret) Shaul Arieli - Council on Peace and Security; former Commander Gaza Brigade; former head of the 'Peace Negotiations Administration' under PM Ehud Barak
 * Uzi Baram - Former Minister of Internal Affairs and Tourism; former Secretary General of the Labor Party
 * Shlomo Ben Ami - Former Foreign Minister and Public Security Minister
 * Daniel Ben Simon - Journalist and commentator for Ha'aretz Newspaper
 * Brig Gen (Ret) Shlomo Brom - Former deputy head of IDF Strategic Planning and Deputy National Security Advisor
 * Avrum Burg - Former Speaker of the Knesset and Chairman of the Jewish Agency
 * Naomi Chazan - Former Deputy Speaker of Knesset; founder, Israel Women's Network
 * Galia Golan - Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia
 * Tamar Hermann - Dean of Academic Studies, The Open University of Israel; Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
 * Anat Hoffman - Executive Director of Israel Religious Action Center
 * Dave Kimche - Former Director General of the Foreign Ministry
 * Maj Gen (Ret) Amos Lapidot - Former Commander of Israel Air Force; former President of the Technion University, Haifa
 * Alon Liel - Former Director General of the Foreign Ministry
 * Maj Gen (Ret) Amnon Lipkin-Shahak - Former Chief of the General Staff of the IDF; former Minister of Transport & Tourism.
 * Maj Gen (Ret) Amram Mitzna - Former Chairman of the Israel Labor Party and Knesset Member; former Commander of the IDF Central Command and Planning Branch; former Mayor of Haifa
 * Nimrod Novik - Former senior advisor to the Prime Minister; businessman; Chairman of the Economic Cooperation Foundation
 * Brig Gen (Ret) Israela Oron - Former deputy National Security Council's adviser; former Chief of the Women's Corp
 * Brig Gen (Ret) Ilan Paz - Former Head of the Civil Administration in the West Bank
 * Avi Primor - Former Israeli Ambassador to the EU and Germany; Director of European Studies at the IDC in Herzeliya
 * Ron Pundak - Director General of the Peres Center for Peace
 * Dalia Rabin - Chair of the Rabin Center; former Member of Knesset and Deputy Minister of Defense
 * Rabbi Andrew Sacks - Director General of the Rabbinical Assembly in Israel
 * Talia Sasson - Former Special Adviser to Prime Minister Sharon; authored the Sasson report on illegal settlements
 * Uri Savir - President of the Glocal Forum; former Member of Knesset and Director General of the Foreign Ministry
 * Alice Shalvi - Recipient of the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement; former Rector of Jewish Studies Seminary, Jerusalem, founding chair of the Israel Women’s Network
 * Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman - Kehilat Kol HaNeshama, Jerusalem

Advisory Council
Accessed May 2008:
 * Marc Abrams - The Titan Capital Group
 * Eric Alterman - City University of New York Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism
 * 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
 * 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
 * Michael Chabon - Pulitzer Prize-winning author
 * 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
 * Beth Shir Sholom
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * David Gross - Nobel Laureate, Physics; Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
 * 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
 * Jonathan Jacoby
 * 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
 * J. Shawn Landres - CEO & Director of Research, Jumpstart
 * 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
 * Geoffrey Lewis - Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye
 * 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
 * Herbert S. Okun - Former Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic and to the United Nations - Professorial Lecturer, Schoolof Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
 * 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
 * David Politzer - Nobel Laureate, Physics; Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
 * Kevin F.F. Quigley - President, National Peace Corps Association
 * 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
 * Stanley Sheinbaum - Publisher, New Perspective Quarterly
 * 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
 * Robert Solow - Nobel Laureate, Economics; Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT
 * 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
 * Joshua B. Tenenbaum - Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * J. Marty Tenenbaum - Chairman and Founder, CommerceNet
 * Rabbi David A. Teutsch - Past President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
 * Sidney Topol - Former Chairman/CEO, Scientific Atlanta, Inc.
 * Joshua Tzuker - Former Legislative Director, Office of Congressman John Dingell
 * 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
 * Michael Walzer - Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
 * Edward Witten - Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
 * Howard Wolpe - Former Member of Congress, Michigan
 * Alan Wurtzel
 * Mark Zivin

Contact

 * Web: http://www.jstreet.org