BOD WEB2 - AJC Washington DC Regional Office

AJC WASHINGTON OFFICE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
PRESIDENT
Roberta Baruch (Bobi) is the current President of the Washington, DC, Chapter of the American Jewish
Committee. She has been a member of the DC Chapter since the early 1990's. Her AJC activities have focused
primarily on intergroup and inter-religious projects including organizing a project with the Asian American
community and an ongoing dialogue with the Maryland Muslim Council. She also serves on the Board of the
Transatlantic Institute.
Bobi is the Deputy Assistant Director for Compliance in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition
where she has worked as an antitrust attorney for almost 29 years. Before coming to the FTC, Bobi worked at
the Environmental Protection Agency and in private practice in Boston. She received her JD from Harvard Law
School and her AB from the University of Chicago.
Bobi and her husband Jerry Ostrov, who is also a member of the DC Chapter Board, are both active members of Congregation Kol
Shalom in North Bethesda, MD. They have three children: Becca, Max and Julia all of whom attended the Charles E Smith Jewish
Day School in Rockville, MD.
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Andrew H. Marks is the First Vice President of the Washington Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. Mr.
Marks is a partner at the law firm of Crowell & Moring in both the firm's Commercial Litigation Group and
Insurance/Reinsurance Group and co-chairs Crowell & Moring's E-Discovery Team. He is resident in the
Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Florida bars.
Mr. Marks has a broad-based commercial litigation and arbitration practice. Among the wide range of contract
and business tort matters he has handled in recent years are business fraud, fiduciary duty, corporate
governance, defamation, foreign investment, commercial real estate, and insurance coverage cases. He also has
considerable experience with disputes involving law firms and departed/departing partners. Mr. Marks regularly
handles matters at both the trial and appellate levels in federal as well as state courts throughout the country. In addition, he has
extensive experience, both as a neutral and as counsel, in both arbitration and mediation proceedings. Mr. Marks was selected by
his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers In America 2008 as a "Best Lawyer" in the practice areas of commercial litigation and
First Amendment law.
In 2005, Mr. Marks received the Judge Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee in recognition of his
"dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and his outstanding contributions to the enrichment of our
community." He was also awarded the 2005 Servant of Justice Award by the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.
Mr. Marks is a 1973 cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a 1976 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan
Law School. At Michigan, he was a member of the Order of the Coif and an Associate Editor and then the Managing Editor of the
Michigan Law Review. Following graduation from Michigan, Mr. Marks clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia for the Honorable Charles R. Richey. Between 1979 and 1981, he served as Executive Assistant to Ambassador Sol M.
Linowitz, the President's Personal Representative to the Middle East Peace Negotiations.
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VICE PRESIDENTS
Leonard N. Bebchick has recently retired from an active 50 year Washington and international law practice
focused on administrative, corporate and financial matters as well as class action litigation. Aside from US
regulatory agencies, he regularly appeared before the air transport licensing authorities of the United Kingdom
and Hong Kong and was active on the Boards of his major UK clients.
During the last 20 years, Leonard has served on the Boards of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington,
United Israel Appeal and the Jewish Agency for Israel. A past President of Congregation Beth of Montgomery
County, he has served on the Board of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Aside from his current
service on AJC’s National Council and Chapter Board (Vice-President), Leonard presently is engaged on the
Boards of the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes, Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning and (as Vice -Chair)
Alexander Muss Institute for Israel Education - High School in Israel.
Leonard is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Finance and Business and Who’s Who in
American Law.
Toby Dershowitz
David Farber is a partner in the Patton Boggs Health Care Policy practice, a member of its Management
Committee, and Chair of the firm's Environmental, Health and Safety practice group. Having spent his career at
the firm, Mr. Farber has a strong background in administrative law and litigation, across a broad range of
complex political and litigation disciplines ranging from health care litigation and advocacy to health and safety
regulatory work. He has served as lead counsel in a number of complex litigations, including several highprofile, "bet the company," matters. Mr. Farber also has particular expertise in health care regulatory and
litigation issues, insurance law, litigation under the False Claims Act (health care and environmental), trade
secret and employment issues, and business counseling. Mr. Farber has served as the primary strategist and
policy architect for a broad range of health care clients. Working with Congress, at CMS, in the Courts, and with
academia, Mr. Farber has successfully guided clients through the legislative enactment and the regulatory promulgation
processes. He has also brought “access” suits against state Medicaid programs on behalf of trade associations and individual
beneficiaries, achieving results “on the courthouse steps” to change Medicaid coverage decisions. By combining his litigation skills,
regulatory experience, and policy expertise, Mr. Farber is able to devise effective and efficient coordinated policy advocacy to
achieve client objectives at all possible levels. He has also helped organize and serves as lead counsel for several trade
associations and has represented high-profile political candidates.
Mr. Farber is also deeply involved in the Jewish community, both locally and nationally. In addition to his work with AJC, he serves
on the Board of Directors of Panim, as well as on the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. He has chaired several
fundraising campaigns for the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, is a member of the Jewish Outreach Institute's Advisory Board
and a founding member of the D.C. Chapter of AIPAC. In the past, he has served as a Board member for CLAL -- the National
Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He is also proud to have been selected a Fellow on the 2007 Bertlesmann Foundation
Israel German Young Leaders Exchange, and to serve as a 2008-09 AJC Comay Fellow.
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Todd Alan Goodglick is a physician in Washington, DC and has been active with AJC since he joined the young
leadership board of the DC Chapter in 1998 and was a Sholom Comay Fellow. He is both in private practice and
on the clinical faculties of the Georgetown University and George Washington University medical schools. His
areas of expertise are oculoplastic and orbital surgery and neuro-ophthalmology.
After undergraduate and medical training at UCLA, he completed residencies in internal medicine at UCLA and
ophthalmology at Georgetown University, followed by subspecialty fellowship training in Miami and Pittsburgh.
He is married to Lisa Goodglick.
Steve Goodman is an international authority on university admissions. He advances the academic, social, and
professional needs of the students and families he advises. Specifically, he provides professional assistance with
school selection, application strategies, and personal statement preparation, coaching students and families
through the college, university, graduate school, and professional school search and application process. He
enables his ambitious students to make their educational dreams a reality.
Steve Goodman has lectured about college and graduate school admissions before thousands of students,
families, and counselors around the world. He has spoken at The White House and at numerous U.S.
embassies. His work has been cited in U.S. News and World Report's annual edition of America's Best Colleges,
as well as in Kiplinger's, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Chicago Tribune. He has
also been featured on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, CNN, ABC-TV, Darshan Studios/Indian-American TV in metropolitan
Washington, D.C., and TV Asahi in Japan.
Steve Goodman is a former Ivy League faculty member of The Wharton School. He served on the Undergraduate Admissions
Advisory Committee at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his master's degree in higher education. He received
his bachelor's degree in public policy from Duke University and his law degree from the University of Southern California, where
he wrote a dissertation about class-based discrimination in the college admissions process.
Steve Goodman has done extensive work with the Jewish and Indian-American communities. He has served as national student
chair of Hillel in the United States and currently chairs the intergroup relations committee and Jewish-Indian outreach efforts for
the Washington chapter of the American Jewish Committee. Hundreds of Indian and Indian-American families credit Steve
Goodman with helping their sons and daughters to get into top universities and medical schools.
Radine Legum
Mark Lezell has a domestic and international business law practice, with emphasis on assisting the funding of
companies doing business in the Unified States and Israel with the application of business, finance, securities,
licensing and contracting laws to various entrepreneurial enterprises. To further serve the needs of his business
clients, Mr. Lezell focuses on the advocacy of legislative and regulatory policy matters before the U.S.
Congress. His decades of active participation in the political process has enhanced his ongoing lines of
communications with many key administration and congressional policymakers and staffs.
Mr. Lezell has been in private practice for almost thirty years. He left his partnership at Ropes & Gray to cofound his own firm in 2003. Prior to private practice, he was an attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Corporation
Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and legal assistant to Commissioner Irving M. Pollack of the U. S. Securities and
Exchange Commission. He was a law clerk to Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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He is a past-chair of the District of Columbia Bar Association's Committee on Partnerships of the Corporation, Finance and
Securities Law Section and is the D.C. Reporter for State Limited Liability Company & Partnership Laws and State Limited
Partnership Laws, Aspen Hall Law & Business.
He obtained his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University (B.A., 1969), his law degree from American University Washington College of Law (J.D., 1973), and his master of laws degree in taxation from Georgetown University School of Law
(LL.M., 1976).
Mr. Lezell is active in various community and political activities, including leadership positions in The Jewish Federation of Greater
Washington, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), The National PAC (NatPAC),
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. He and Gerry, his wife of
33 years, reside in North Bethesda, Maryland with their 23-year old children, David and Mira.
Stuart Sloame
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
James Adler
Past President
David M. Anderson lives in Potomac with his wife Adrienne Oleck and their two children, Simon (17) and Eden
(7). They are members of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation. Adrienne is an attorney who has
worked at the FTC and AARP and served as legislative director of a non-profit health organization. Dave is
Senior Vice President, Government Relations, The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.
He oversees a 15 member outsourced lobbying team that obtains appropriations from state legislatures and the
U.S. Congress. Dave taught political ethics, business ethics, ethics, political philosophy and other courses at five
universities for 22 years, most recently George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political
Management. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from GW and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Michigan.
He is the author of Youth04: Young Voters, the Internet and Political Power (W.W. Norton, 2004) and co-editor
(with Michael Cornfield) of The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). He has
published 50 articles and op-eds and recently placed three related op-eds about the economic crisis in The Hill and Roll Call.
Maurice Axelrad
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Ruth Baker Battist
Dottie Bennett, an officer-at-large of AJC, is former chair of the National Council, a member of AJC’s Executive
Committee, former chair of the Interreligious Affairs Commission, and past president of AJC’s Washington
Chapter. She is a member of the Centennial Endowment Committee, and a former national chair of Project
Interchange.
She serves on the board of the United Jewish Endowment Fund and its Grant Committee. A former vice
president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, she now co-chairs outreach and engagement and
also chairs the major gifts campaign of Gesher Jewish Day School. She is a 2004 Presidential appointee to the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, member of its Executive Committee and chair of the education division.
David Berz
Bruce D. Brown, a former newsroom assistant to David Broder at The Washington Post and federal court
reporter for Legal Times, joined Baker Hostetler in the summer of 1997. Since then, he has worked primarily in
the areas of libel defense, pre-publication review, newsgathering, copyright, and civil rights. He also regularly
assists the Society of Professional Journalists on freedom of information matters. Bruce’s published work has
appeared in The Washington Post, The American Lawyer, The Economist, Legal Times, and The Wall Street
Journal. He has been interviewed on National Public Radio and Court TV. In the area of prepublication review,
Mr. Brown has worked on biographies of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, former New York mayor
Rudy Giuliani, and musician John Lennon. Bruce is a 1995 graduate of Yale Law School and a 1988 graduate of
Stanford University. In 1992 he received a Master's degree in English Literature from Harvard University, where he was a Mellon
Fellow in the Humanities.
Lawrence Brown
Henry Brylawski
Past President
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Lee Burstyn has been with Weichert, Realtors in the Bethesda office for over 25 years, working with both
buyers and sellers in the sale of residential homes. Lee is licensed in Maryland and DC and previously taught the
real estate licensing course. He is also completing six years as a commissioner with the Montgomery County
Historic Preservation Commission. Previously an attorney with the U. S. Department of Transportation, Lee was
with the Federal Highway Administration, specializing in environmental and real estate law and the
development and review of legislation and regulations.
Lee received a BS from the University of Kentucky and a JD from the University of Louisville. After moving to the
Washington area he completed an LLM program at the Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to
practice in DC and Kentucky.
Jewish volunteer endeavors have included: working for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, serving on the Board of the
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington for 12 years, and the boards of Capital Camps, Hillel of Greater Washington and
Israel Quest. Lee and his wife, Ellen, live in Potomac and their two daughters currently reside in New York City.
Gerald Charnoff
Melissa Goldman Davidson
Sidney Dickstein (past president), founding partner of Dickstein Shapiro LLP, currently serves as senior counsel
for the Firm. He began practicing law in 1949, and, with David Shapiro, established the partnership in New York
City in 1953. The Firm opened a Washington, DC office in 1956, which later became its principal office. For more
than fifty years, Mr. Dickstein has helped direct the Firm. With his guidance, it has grown from two attorneys
into a multiservice law firm with a national and international reach. His practice is extremely diverse, as he has
been lead counsel in many major litigation matters in a variety of fields, including antitrust, federal securities,
labor, and First Amendment matters, and he argued three of these cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Debra Diener
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Jeffrey Domber
Adam Falkoff
Ellen Fastow
Jay Freeman
Past President
Robert Friedlaender
Steve Gell
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Norman I. Gelman (past president) retired as executive vice president of Newmyer Assoc. Inc., Washington’s
leading public policy consulting firm, where his clients over the years included IBM, Citicorp, Ford, Inco, Fannie
Mae, et al. He also supervised the firm’s coverage of coverage of U.S. trade policy and related international
economic issues. Mr. Gelman graduated with a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Colorado and
obtained his M.A. from the same institution in political science. A former president of AJC’s Washington
Chapter, Mr. Gelman is also a long-time member of AJC’s International Affairs Commission. He chaired the
Intergroup Relations Committee of the Jewish Community of Greater Washington and is currently a member of
the State of Maryland’s Human Relations Commission. He also serves on the University of Colorado’s Graduate
School Advisory Council.
Mr. Gelman and his wife, Esther recently celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They have two adult daughters and three
grandchildren.
Frank B. Gilbert is a senior field representative at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He works with
local governments in many parts of the United States, helping them to develop or strengthen programs to
protect and improve landmark buildings and historic districts. Before coming to the Trust, he was executive
director of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and was a leader in the successful effort to
save Grand Central Station. In Washington, he served a term as president of the Jewish Historical Society of
Greater Washington.
Bruce Gitlin
Jonah Gitlitz served as President and CEO of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) for twelve years and was
inducted into DMA’s Hall of Fame. He has also served as President and Board member of Lillian Vernon Corp., a
major catalog company, and as an Executive Vice President of the American Advertising Federation. Earlier in
his career, Jonah was a reporter for Broadcasting & Cable Magazine and a Managing Editor at Television
Digest. In recent years, Jonah has served on the boards of several organizations, including the National Advisory
Council of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Student Conservation Association, the Direct Marketing
Educational Foundation and the Direct Marketing Association of Washington's Educational Foundation. Jonah
has been honored with many industry awards, including an inscribed flagstone at the Shakespeare’s Globe
Theatre in London by the UK DMA. He recently served as president of Temple Micah in Washington, DC, and is a long-time
member. He is a graduate of American University and serves on its alumni board. Jonah and his wife Sallie have a son and
daughter, and five grandchildren.
Barbara Goldberg Goldman is President of B&G Regal Domestics, Inc., a national employment placement
agency located in Rockville, and Managing Partner of Quorum, LLC, a consulting and lobbying firm specializing in
mixed-use and mixed-income developments. Barbara is founder of the Affordable Housing Conference of
Montgomery County and has served as Chair and Co-Chair since the organization's inception almost two
decades ago. She has also served in leadership capacities on several of Montgomery County’s Housing Task
Forces and Maryland’s Housing Committees. A graduate of Leadership Montgomery, she is a member of the
Boards of Directors of : National Jewish Democratic Council, JCC of Greater Washington, Save a Child’s Heart
and Maccabi, USA. She also served on the Board of the Jewish Community Relations Council from 2005-2008.
During the Carter Presidency, Barbara was an appointee at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the early
1970's, she was the Legislative Aide to former Congressman Ron Dellums (CA) and then Special Assistant to former
Congresswoman Barbara C. Jordan (TX). Goldman holds an MA in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Maryland.
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Andrew Goldstein is a partner in the law firm of Linowes and Blocher LLP in Bethesda. He has spent his entire
professional career at the firm, serving as Managing Partner of the firm from 1999 through 2007. Andrew
focuses his practice in the area of commercial real estate transactions. He represents builders, developers,
investors, and institutional users of real estate in sales, acquisitions, leasing, and financing transactions and he
has particular experience in the development and leasing of retail properties. Andrew has been recognized by
Best Lawyers, Maryland Superlawyers, and Chambers USA as a leader in his field. He is a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania and the Washington College of Law at American University. Andrew resides in Chevy
Chase with his wife, Dr. Hilary Sigmon, a scientist with the Center for Scientific Review at the NIH. They are
members of Congregation Beth El in Bethesda.
Eric Greenberg
Michael Gross
Past President
Jack Hahn
Gary Hauptman
Sophie Hoffman
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Robert Horn
Nancy Horowitz
Evelyn Howard
Lester Hyman
Past President
Shai Ingber
Cheryl Kagan
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Thomas Kahn
Past President
Carolyn Kaplan
Jonathan Katz is a Senior Advisor to Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) and also serves as the Staff Director for
the Subcommittee on Europe in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Katz served as Congressman
Wexler’s Legislative Director from 2001-2006 as well as the Democratic Professional Staffer for the Europe and
Emerging Threats Subcommittee on the House International Relations Committee from 2002-2006. Finally, Mr.
Katz served as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Congressman Wexler from 1997-2000.
Mr. Katz is Co-Staff Director for the Congressional Taiwan Caucus and the Caucus on U.S.-Turkish Relations and
Turkish Americans. His previous work experience includes campaign management for the 1994 John Comerford
for Congress Campaign and the 1996 Robert Wexler for Congress campaign. Mr. Katz is also the Chair of the American Jewish
Committee’s New Generation ACCESS program for the Washington DC Chapter. Born in Massachusetts, Mr. Katz moved to
Washington, D.C. in 1997.
Norton Katz
Harriet Kelman retired from a career in health policy with the Department of Health and Human Services. She
served in a variety of positions including as the liaison with the Medicare advocacy community for the Medicare
program. Since retiring, she volunteers for several organizations including Adas Israel Synagogue and the World
Bank Family Association.
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Bernard Koteen
Abe Krash
Past President
William Kreisber
Simeon Kriesberg
Leland Kruvant
Stuart S. Kurlander is a partner at the international law firm Latham & Watkins, LLP in Washington, DC. At the
firm, he is the Global Co-Chair of the Israel Practice Group, Founding Partner and former Chair of the
Washington, DC Health Care and Life Sciences Practice Group (HLS) and former Global Co-Chair of the HLS
Practice Group. Stuart is a past recipient of AJC’s Judge Learned Hand Award, which was presented to him in
recognition of his outstanding work in both the legal and civic communities. He is currently Vice President for
Campaign, member of the Executive Committee and a member of the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater
Washington. Stuart currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the United Jewish Endowment Fund. A board
member of the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, he is the Founder and Chair of the Kurlander
Program on Gay and Lesbian Outreach and Engagement, the first program of its type at a JCC. Stuart, a Wexner Heritage program
alumnus, serves as a member of UJC’s Financial Relations Committee and is a former member of its National Young Leadership
Cabinet.
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Stephen Kurzman (past president) is a former AJC national vice president, chaired the National Affairs
Commission and Retirement Plan Committee, and was president of the Washington, D.C. Chapter. A graduate of
Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he was assistant secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, legislative
assistant and counsel to Sen. Jacob K. Javits, minority counsel to Senate Labor & Public Welfare Committee,
assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of N.Y., and a partner in Washington, D.C. law firms. He is
currently a member of the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and other civic
organizations and arts organizations.
activity of ANWC.
Nancy Lang (past president) grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in
music. She received her masters’ degree from Columbia University and then taught music in a public school on
Long Island. After working at WQXR, Nancy was music director of WTFM on Long Island and worked in
broadcasting with Igor Kipnis and Alfred Wallenstein. She moved to Washington in 1965 to work as a music
specialist at the Voice of America. There, she conducted interviews, wrote scripts and prepared musical tapes
about American music for broadcast overseas. This material was translated into each of the 49 different
languages at the VOA, where she spent 27 years. Prior to this, she served as president of the American News
Woman's Club (ANWC) and was also the first woman to conduct the National Symphony. In the late 1970s,
Nancy organized a tennis tournament for members of the press and official White House executives as an
Nancy was very involved with the American Jewish Committee and was president of the Washington Chapter from 1978-1980.
She has served on the Chapter’s Board of Directors for over thirty years. In the 1980s, Nancy was involved in organizing the Martin
Luther King Memorial Forest in Israel with the professional help of then AJC Washington chapter director, Brant Coopersmith, and
Hyman Bookbinder (aka ”Bookie"). She is the current president of the Women's Club of McLean, which is associated with 7000
other international clubs under the aegis of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. For the past two years, Nancy has also
taught three classes about music at American University's OLLI Institute, a learning-in-retirement entity. For the past decade,
Nancy has also been reviewing operas for an Austrian opera magazine. She conducts at least a dozen reviews a year.
Simon Lazarus
Past President
Harold Luks
Rabbi Bruce Lustig
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Andrew Mack
Wendy Matheson
Richard Meltzer
Rabbi Avis Miller
Louis Nevins
Jerome Ostrov
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Abe Pollin
Frank Paulson
Amb. Peter R. Rosenblatt (past president), a founding partner of Heller & Rosenblatt, a Washington, D.C. law
firm, is an AJC national vice president and is a board member of AJC’s UN Watch and a member of the advisory
board of AJC’s Berlin office. He was president of AJC’s Washington Chapter (2003-2005) and chairman of AJC’s
Koppleman institute on American-Jewish Israeli Relations (1999-2002).
He served on President Johnson’s White House staff and as President Carter’s ambassador to the negotiations
on the future political status of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. He is a member of the boards of Haifa
University, the U.S. National Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation, the advisory boards of the Nixon
Center and JINSA and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Board Committee on Washington Programs. Ambassador Rosenblatt
graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School.
Betty Sachs (past president) is a member of AJC’s Board of Governors and a past president of its Washington
Chapter. She has been an instructor in French at Montgomery College and consultant to the Bilingual Program
of the D.C. public schools.
Mrs. Sachs is a graduate of George Washington University and the Georgetown University Graduate School of
Languages and Linguistics.
Anne Schenof
Amb. Richard Schifter
Past President
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Richard P. Schifter
Dr. Benjamin Schlesinger
David Z. Seide is an attorney, who moved with his family to Washington last year from Los Angeles, to work at
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (he specializes in white collar criminal defense, securities
enforcement and litigation matters). While in Los Angeles, where he lived for about a dozen years, David
worked as a federal prosecutor, and was a member of the AJC's Los Angeles chapter. David grew up and began
his legal career in New York City, where he attended the Ramaz School for seven years, followed by the Horace
Mann School, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, and the New York University School of Law. Prior to beginning his legal career, David lived
in Washington, where he worked on Capitol Hill and for the Federal Trade Commission. David is married to
Brenda E. Hansen, and they have one son, Ethan (age 6), a first grader at JPDS. They live in Bethesda.
Shepard Sheinkman
Michael Smilow
Richard Sussman
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Daniel Szabo
Francine Trachtenberg
Beth Tritter
Robert Weinberg
Robert Weinberger
Mark Weiss
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Rabbi Jefferey Wohlberg
Ralph Yodaiken
Deborah Zakheim
Seymour Zuckerman
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