Our Slate

Kenneth Bob

Kenneth Bob is the National President of Ameinu. He is a member of the Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governors,  the treasurer of Board of Directors of J Street and a board member of the Forward Association. Ken is a past chair of the Habonim Dror Foundation, the national alumni association of the Labor Zionist youth movement, providing financial support for their educational programming throughout North America. In his professional life, Ken is an experienced entrepreneur and currently provides management consulting for small and merging companies.

Paul Scham

Paul Scham is a Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Maryland and Executive Director of its Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies. He is also President of  Partners for Progressive Israel and has been active in a number of organiza­tions supporting Israeli-Palestinian peace, both in Israel and the U.S., since 1989, when he set up the original APN lobbying office in Washington, D.C.  He is co-Editor of the Israel Studies Review, an academic journal.

Lilly Rivlin

Award winning filmmaker, writer and political activist, Lilly was born in Jerusalem and immigrated to the United States in 1945.  Before focusing on documentaries, she was a journalist, and foundation consultant on the Middle East and women.

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She began her prominence as an expert on Jewish history with her work as the principal researcher for the best selling account of the 1947 siege of O Jerusalem, by Larry Collins and Dominque Lapierre, (1972).

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She is listed in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 (2007) and Jewish Women, A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (2007).

Karen S. Shapiro

Karen S. Shapiro is an award-winning producer of film, television theatre and music. She is also Vice-President of Partners for Progressive Israel and a member of the World Zionist Organization Area Election Committee.

Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb

Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb has served Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda MD for over two decades.  Long active with J Street, Truah, and other progressive Jewish groups, he chairs the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and serves on the boards of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, and Interfaith Power and Light.  A past president of the Washington Board of Rabbis and frequent contributor to Moment and other publications, Fred attended the 2015 WZC in Jerusalem with the Green Zionist Alliance; he lives in Washington DC with his wife Minna and their two children

Yonathan Shapir

Yonathan Shapir is the Chair of the Board of J Street Rochester. He was born in Kibbutz Nachahonim.

Jeremy Ben-Ami

Jeremy Ben-Ami is the founder and President of J Street, the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans.  His political resume includes serving in the mid-1990s as the Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor in the White House to President Bill Clinton and working on seven presidential campaigns.

Sharon Alpert

Sharon Alpert most recently served as the President and CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where she led the foundation to launch a revised strategy for its work in Israel focused on supporting a multiethnic democracy – including an end to the occupation – shifting narratives, and building bridges across U.S. and Israeli changemakers.  

Rabbi Shira Stutman

Rabbi Shira Stutman, senior rabbi at Washington, DC’s innovative Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, was named one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis” by The Jewish Forward, a “Woman to Watch” by Jewish Women International, and featured as a notable rabbi by Tablet Magazine.