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Parent topics
- Zionism [r]: The ideology that Jews should form a Jewish state in what is traced as the Biblical area of Palestine; there are many interpretations, including the boundaries of such a state and its criteria for citizenship [e]
- Two-state solution [r]: Resolution of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by creating distinct, sovereign Israeli and Palestinian states, with adjustments of current borders [e]
- Tika olam (concept) [r]: Add brief definition or description
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Leadership
- Avi Glicksman [r]: sociologist and Director of Research and Evaluation for the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, and as a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Ameinu board of directors; past President of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry [e]
- Carolyn Amachet [r]: Nonprofit management of Jewish Community Centers; Ameinu Board of Directors and co-chair of Ameinu's St. Louis chapter; worked for United Press International covering the Lebanon War and the absorption of Ethiopian immigrants [e]
- Jerry Goodman [r]: Executive Director of the National Committee for Labor Israel; board member, Ameinu; Executive Director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry ;author of the weekly Internet bulletin "Labor Israel News." [e]
- Brad Rothschild [r]: Citigroup's Global Consumer Bank; Ameinu's Board of Director Policy and Advocacy Committee; Brad worked as a speechwriter and Director of Communications at the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations (1995-97) [e]
- Dan Fleshler [r]: New York-based media and public affairs strategist; board member of Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now and the Givat Haviva Educational Foundation [e]
- Avram Lyon [r]: consultant to labor and Jewish communal organizations; Ameinu board member; writer for Forward (newspaper); member, Morristown Jewish Center, Morristown, NJ, and executive director, Jewish Labor Committee; member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Rabbinical Assembly commission investigating the Agribusiness kosher meat packing scandal [e]
- Kenneth Bob [r]: Management consultant in emerging technology companies; President, Ameinu (2004-); Advisory council, J Street; contributor to the Israel Policy Forum; immediate past-chair of the Habonim Dror Foundation, the alumni organization of the Labor Zionist youth movement. [e]
- Judith Gelman [r]: Salop Economics in Washington, DC, and Vice President for Policy and Advocacy, Ameinu and Chair of Ameinu’s Executive Committee; Executive committee, Habonim Dror Foundation ; previously worked for the Council of Economic Advisers and Federal Trade Commission [e]
- Nomi Colton-Max [r]: Board Member, Vice President and Chair of Membership and Outreach Committee, Ameinu; Previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and a private energy consulting firm. [e]
- Samuel Norich [r]: Executive Director and Publisher of the Forward; Vice President, Ameinu; Boards of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Atran Foundation, the Claims Conference, the Workmen’s Circle, the American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters House and Midstream magazine; Vice President of the World Jewish Congress from 1975 to 1981, and executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 1980 to 1992. [e]
- Maggie Bar-Tura [r]: Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation for Jewish Camping; Ameinu's Vice President, Fundraising [e]
- Martin Taft [r]: Mechanical engineer, who often serves as an expert witness in accident cases; board member, Ameinu; has held senior positions at the Affiliated Organizations of the Jewish Federation, the Aliyah Demonstration Project and his local Jewish Federation; performs and teaches magic to patients at Daniel Freeman Hospital. [e]
- Steven Weinberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Simmy Ziv-El [r]: Senior Director of Business Development at Educational Testing Service; Vice President and Chair of Israel Connections Committee; Mazkir of Habonim Dror in South Africa from 1976-1977 and was the leader of the United Kibbutz Movement Delegation to the United States in the 1980’s [e]
- Harriette J. Leibovitz [r]: Consultant in the commercial insurance and risk management industry, specializing in software; Board member, Ameinu an avid and active Israeli Folk Dancer and a teacher of B’nai Mitzvah preparation (Haftarah and Torah) [e]
- Barbara P. Zabitz [r]: Nurse for the Michigan Department of Community Health Division of Nursing Home Monitoring; Board Member, Ameinu; third generation Labor Zionist [e]
- Jeffry Mallow [r]: Add brief definition or description
Website Contributors
- Mira Sucharov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jamie Levin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Einat Ramon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Noam Dolgin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yael Dayan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ezra Weinberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guy Spigelman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Colette Avital [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Norman Gelman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ron Werber [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Steven Hancoff [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gershon Baskin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yona Prital [r]: Add brief definition or descriptiona past recipient of the Excellency Award from the Jewish Agency, was the Central Shlicha for Habonim Dror North America; For twelve years, Yona was the Head of the Kibbutz Movement Education Department where she was the Kibbutz representative for the Labor Party (Israel); lives in Kibbutz Maale Hachamisha.
- Stuart Appelbaum [r]: Add brief definition or description President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and President of the Jewish Labor Committee; contributor to Ameinu website
- Esther Lederman [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionAssistant Rabbi at Temple Micah, a Reform synagogue in Washington, DC; Prior to becoming a rabbi, she worked at the Israel Policy Forum, as well as on a project on Middle East peace education for the Union of Reform Judaism and Habonim Dror North America as the Mazkira; received the Dreamers and Builders Award from Ameinu in 2009; contributes to the Ameinu website
- Theodore Bikel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ron Finkel [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionAustralian venture capitalist and President of Ameinu Australia
- Leila Gal Berner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nomika Zion [r]: Add brief definition or description is Program Director of Van-Leer Jeruslaem Institute’s Center for Social Justice in memory of Yaakov Hazan; also Gvanim Association where she creates and oversee programs that use technology to foster dialogue between different sectors of Israeli society (Jews-Arabs, kibbutz-cities, religious-seculars, and more.) Previously,journalist with Al-Hamishmar and Hotam
- Danny Shapiro [r]: Add brief definition or description Tel Aviv University's director of development and public affairs; In 1995, he founded the ShomerNet, an internet forum for past and present members of North American Hashomer Hatzair, which has grown to nearly 500 members; Was in Hashomer Hatzair
- Yigal Sela [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Advisor to the Treasurer of the Jewish Agency on Foreign Affairs. He is a member of Kibbutz Machaniyim.
- Russel Harris [r]: Add brief definition or description serves as MarComs Director of an Israeli security software developer; writing marketing collateral and managing the company website. In his spare time he freelances as a writer, commenting on life in Israel for the Cape Times; and as a photographer for the PictureNET Africa online photographic agency; Ameinu contributor
- Edyth Geiger [r]: Add brief definition or description a resident of Safed, built a free library in her apartment over many years which serves villages from all around the Galilee. She also has a variety of games, puzzles, jigsaw etc. that she circulates to everyone. After her small apartment got overwhelmed (more than 10,000 volumes) she built with her own funds a separate unit which now operates with coded and numbered books; Ameinu contributor
- Danny Cohen [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionStrategic consultant for Labor Party (Israel) Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer.
- Ephraim Sneh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bruce Temkin [r]: Add brief definition or description New York Director of the New Israel Fund, an organization that advances civil rights, equality and social justice for all Israelis
- Ruth Kestenbaum Ben-Dov [r]: Add brief definition or description lives in the Galilee community of Eshchar with her family. She is a professional painter and part-time writer and fundraiser for Neighbors.
- Eran Schafferman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Miri Gold [r]: Add brief definition or description Rabbi of kibbutz synagogue, Kehilat Birkat Shalom; not recognized by the state, she receives her salary directly from the congregation. Gezer regional officials have backed her bid for government funding and support the Israel Religious Action Center’s petition with the High Court of Justice to compel the government to recognize her and pay her salary, like any other community rabbi
- Ann Shlay [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor of Urban Studies at Temple University
- Elihu Davison [r]: Add brief definition or description is an alumnus of the 17th Habonim Workshop in Kibbutz Urim]
- Benjamin Murane [r]: Add brief definition or description is the co-chair of the New York City chapter of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, a contributing editor to Jewschool.com, and the former director of the Jewish Student Press Service, publisher of New Voices magazine.
- Moises Salinas [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionprofessor of psychology at Central Connecticut State University; contributor to the Ameinu website
- Daniel Orenstein [r]: Add brief definition or description Visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and Ameinu representative on the Jewish National Fund USA Board of Trustees.
- J.J. Goldberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yigal Tzahor [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionChairman of the World Labor Zionist Movement and Manager of the Ideological-Educational Center at the Berl Katzenelson Foundation in Israel.
- Daniel Levy [r]: Add brief definition or description is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Century Foundations and directs their respective Middle East Peace policy initiatives. He formerly worked as an adviser in Israeli Prime Minister Barak’s office and as an official negotiator and as lead Israeli drafter of the informal Geneva Initiative peace plan.
- Leonard Gordon [r]: Add brief definition or description rabbi at the Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia, PA. This fall, he is teaching Talmud at the Reconstructionist Rabbinic College where a version of this article was presented at a pre-High Holiday workshop.
- Diana Bletter [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionIsraeli writer who lives in the Western Galilee, has just completed her first novel, The Dead Can Never Thank You. She has written for The International Herald Tribune and other publications and is a member of a Jewish-Muslim-Druze-Christian women's peace group, Acco Women's Vision.
- Tom Segev [r]: Add brief definition or description columnist for Ha’aretz and book author
- Gilead Sher [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionformer Israeli Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff and Policy Coordinator, acted as co-chief negotiator in 1999-2001 at the Camp David summit and the Taba talks as well as in extensive rounds of covert negotiations with the Palestinians.
- Gadi Baltiansky [r]: Add brief definition or description Director General of the Geneva Initiative and was Press Secretary to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
- Sharon Brous [r]: Add brief definition or description founder and rabbi of IKAR (www.ikar-la.org), a vibrant Jewish spiritual community in Los Angeles.
- Gavri Bargi [r]: Add brief definition or description Secretary General of the Kibbutz Movement since 2000. A member of Kibbutz Ramot Menashe, during the years 1996-1999 Bargil was the head shaliach (emissary) of the Kibbutz Artzi in North America. He previously served as the Executive Director of Peace Now and as a brigade commander holding the rank of lieutenant colonel.
- David Gedzelman [r]: Add brief definition or description Rabbi; is Executive Director of The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life.
- Saadia Gelb [r]: Add brief definition or description Labor Zionist and kibbutz movement activist who has lived on Kibbutz Kfar Blum since immigrating to Israel from the United States in 1947.
- Michael Givel [r]: Add brief definition or description Department of Political Science at Oklahoma University in August of 2002.
- Liel Leibovitz [r]: Add brief definition or description is the executive producer of Tablet's video and interactive media; doctorate researching the ontology of video games, which means he spends more time playing games than a grown man should. He is obsessed with coffee.
- Julia Chaitin [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionSenior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Sapir College in Israel and a member of Kibbutz Urim.
- Sidney Topol [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Twersky [r]: Add brief definition or descriptioncovered Washington DC for the Forward (newspaper) during the George H.W. Bush administration, was editor of the New Jersey Jewish News and while living on Kibbutz Gezer edited Shdemot, an English language kibbutz movement journal. Most recently he was Senior Adviser, International Affairs at the American Jewish Congress
- Sarah Michaels Levy [r]: Add brief definition or description member of the Habonim Dror Tnuat Bogrim (Graduate Movement); manages the Anglo-Saxon Desk for World Habonim Dror.
- Vernon Kurtz [r]: Add brief definition or description Rabbi of North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park, Illinois and is a past president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of 1500 Conservative Rabbis. Rabbi Kurtz currently serves as President of MERCAZ OLAMI, the World Organization of the Zionist arm of the Conservative Movement and is also on the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency and serves as co-chairman of its FSU committee.
- Alisa Belinkoff Katz [r]: Add brief definition or description Chief of Staff of Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. She grew up in the Habonim Labor Zionist youth movement, currently serves on the board of the Pacific Southwest Region of ARZA (Association of Reform Zionists of America) and recently joined the Executive Committee of the LA Jewish Federation Los Angeles/Tel Aviv Partnership. In December 2008 she was received a Special Ameinu Award.
- Bernard-Henri Levy [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionis one of France's most famed philosophers, a journalist, and a bestselling writer. He is considered a founder of the New Philosophy movement and is leading thinker on religious issues, genocide, and international affairs.
- David Grossman [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionIsraeli author and outspoken peace activist, supported Israel during the Second Lebanon War. On August 10, 2006, however, he and fellow authors Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua held a press conference at which they urged the government to agree to a ceasefire that would create the basis for a negotiated solution.
- David Breakstone [r]: Add brief definition or description Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization, where he serves as head of the Department for Zionist Activities.
- Amy Eilberg [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionfirst woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Rabbi Eilberg directs interfaith dialog programs in the Twin Cities, including at the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning and the St. Paul Interfaith Network
- Yossi Beilin [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionformer Knesset member and government minister, was a central player in the Oslo peace process as well as the author of The Path to Geneva: The Quest for a Permanent Agreement, 1996-2004.
- Hillel Schenker [r]: Add brief definition or description co-editor of the Palestine-Israel Journal, a Jerusalem-based independent English-language quarterly, initiated and maintained by a group of prominent Israeli and Palestinian academics and journalists
- Tsvi Bisk [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionHe is the Director of the Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking and Contributing Editor for Strategic Thinking for The Futurist magazine
- Leonard Fein [r]: Add brief definition or description life long Labor Zionist, he grew up at Habonim Camp Moshava and is a well known writer and teacher.writes a syndicated OpEd column for the Forward and a blog for Americans for Peace Now. Previously faculty at MIT and Brandeis University where he was Professor of Politics and Social Policy and, for six years, the Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies. In 1974, he founded Moment magazine, which became America's leading independent magazine of Jewish affairs, and which he served as editor and publisher until 1987. In 1985, Fein founded Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger, now widely recognized as the American Jewish community's principal vehicle for participation in the campaign against world hunger. Received the Ameinu Dreamers and Builders Award in November 2009
- Jim Gerstein [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionfounding partner of Gerstein | Agne and offers clients a unique blend of experience in managing non-profit organizations, strategic planning, and communications for large scale projects ranging from U.S. presidential campaigns to international peace efforts to crisis management for corporations. During the 1999 Israeli election campaign, he served on Ehud Barak's American consulting team. He served as the U.S. team's person on the ground and oversaw the polling, paid media, and message development for the Barak campaign.
- Einat Wilf [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shawn Guttman [r]: Add brief definition or description is the current Mazkir Klali (National Director) of Habonim Dror North America.
- Gil Browdy [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionwas the National Director of Habonim Dror North America for two years starting in August 2006.
- Chris MacDonald-Dennis [r]: Add brief definition or description Assistant Dean of the Undergraduate College and Director of Intercultural Affairs at Bryn Mawr College. He has been a scholar-activist for more than fifteen years and has been involv He has written regularly for the website. He serves on the joint committee Ameinu has formed with MeretzUSA to address the Left's attitudes towards Israel and Zionism and is also part of the effort to establish an Ameinu chapter in Philadelphia.