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.)

• Marc Abrams
  The Titan Capital Group
• Eric Alterman
  City University of New York Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism
• Stuart Appelbaum
  President, Jewish Labor Committtee; President, Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union
• Bernard Avishai
  Author, The Hebrew Republic
• 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
• Dolores Beilenson
  Former Co-Chair, Congressional Spouses for Soviet Jewry
• Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson
  Former Member of Congress, California

• 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
• Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels
  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
• Rep. Thomas J. Downey
  Former Member of Congress, New York
• Sheldon Drobny
  Co-Founder, Nova M Radio, Air America Radio
• 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
• Rabbi Amy Eilberg
  St. Paul Interfaith Network
• Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
  Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 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
• Dan Fleshler
  Writer and Blogger
• Marcia Freedman
  Founding President, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom
• Rabbi Allen I. Freehling
  Executive Director, City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission
• 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
  Rabbi, Pasadena Temple and Jewish 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
• Richard and Lois Gunther
• 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
• Richard D. Jacobs
  Chair, Courage Campaign
• Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs
  Founder, Progressive Faith Foundation
• Jonathan Jacoby
• Professor Robert Jervis
  Professor of International Politics, Columbia University
• Marc Kahn
  President, The Bancroft Foundation, Inc.
• 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
• 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
• Professor David N. Myers
  Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
• Arthur Obermayer
  President, Moleculon Research Corporation
• Ambassador 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
• Michael Pertschuk
  Former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; co-founder, The Advocacy Institute
• Professor 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
• Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein
• 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
• Irwin Schneiderman
  Senior Counsel, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
• Eric P. Schwartz
  Former Senior Director and Special Assistant to the President for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs, National Security Council
• Stanley Sheinbaum
  Publisher, New Perspective Quarterly
• Michael Shtender-Auerbach
  Founder, Social Risks LLC
• Henry Siegman
  President, U.S./Middle East Project
• Maxine Singer
  Biochemist, President Emerita, Carnegie Institution of Washington
• 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
• Robert Spiegel
  Private Investor
• Rabbi Toba Spitzer
  President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
• Alexandra Stanton
  Former Chief of Staff, Empire State Development Corporation
• 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
• Milton Viorst
  Writer
• 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
• Bernice Weissbourd
President, Family Focus

• Ambassador (ret.) Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
  President, Foundation for Middle East Peace
• Edward Witten
  Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  
• Rep. Howard Wolpe
  Former Member of Congress, Michigan
• Alan Wurtzel
• Mark Zivin