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Our Experts create a unique global web of connections that
distinguishes and differentiates AJC
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Why do religious leaders, diplomats, ambassadors and foreign ministers regularly open their doors to AJC? Why do they meet with us, debate with us, and care deeply about what we have to say?
Because they know that AJC…Has the broad support of the American Jewish community - Is regarded as an invaluable advocate and friend by Israel - Enjoys deep and abiding relations with virtually every major faith - Has the esteem of top decision makers in Washington - Maintains active relations in nearly every major foreign capital
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AJC Seattle Regional Office provided opportunities to meet these experts through our local programs
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DAVID HARRIS - AJC Executive Director, is a widely recognized expert on the condition of Jewish communities worldwide, global anti-Semitism, Israel's quest for peace and security and international human rights. David has written scores of articles, op-eds, letters, and reviews in leading newspapers and magazines, and has a weekly commentary on the CBS radio network.
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JASON ISSACSON - AJC Director of Government and International Affairs since 1991, is a longtime analyst of U.S. political and strategic affairs and an advocate for Middle East peace. An observer to the 1991-92 Middle East peace talks in Madrid, Moscow and Washington, he represented AJC at the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna; since 1993 he has coordinated periodic AJC ministerial meetings throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Asia, including numerous visits that were the first by an American Jewish civic organization. He has lectured periodically at the Diplomatic Institute of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. In 2002, he was a Senior Visitor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Isaacson directed an AJC initiative to strengthen trans-Atlantic cooperation on Middle East policy – resulting in the opening of the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels in 2004. In 2005, in Tunis, he convened an NGO seminar on tolerance-promotion on the Internet, in conjunction with the UN World Summit on the Information Society. In 2007, the French Minister of Culture and Communication awarded him the rank of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. In July 2009, King Mohammed VI bestowed on Isaacson the honor of Chevalier of the Order of the Throne of the Kingdom of Morocco. |
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KEN STERN - AJC's specialist on antisemitism and extremism. An attorney and award-winning author, Stern is a nationally-recognized expert on hate and hate groups. Stern was an invited presenter at the White House conference on hate crimes, has testified before Congress, has argued before the United States Supreme Court, and is frequently interviewed by the media. He has appeared on CNN, Face the Nation, Good Morning America, Nightline, Dateline, and the CBS Evening News. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio.
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YEHUDIT BARSKY - Director, Division on Middle East and International Terrorism, The Division monitors extremist publications and websites and provides detailed analyses & briefings on Middle East extremist organizations and their supporters in the United States. The Division publishes Counter Terrorism Watch, a web-based resource designed to inform and educate professionals and the general public about international terrorism and efforts to contain it. Ms. Barsky is the author of AJC's Series on Terrorism, which includes reports on Al-Qa`ida, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Ms. Barsky regularly briefs media, law enforcement agencies and Jewish communities on the implications of terrorism on U.S. policy. In addition to her work at AJC, she is an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Middle East Council.
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RABBI DAVID ROSEN - AJC Director of the Robert & Harriet Heilbrun Institute for the International Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee, was named a papal Knight Commander of the order of St Gregory the Great for his outstanding contributions to promoting Catholic-Jewish reconciliation. Rabbi Rosen is an International President of the World Conference of Religion for Peace (WCRP), and is Honorary President of the International Council of Christians and Jews. Rabbi Rosen was a panel member in 2008 along side His Holiness Dali Lama at Seattle's Seeds of Compassion. |
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RICHARD T. FOLTIN - AJC's Director of National and Legislative Affairs, coordinates AJC’s domestic policy activities as well as oversees AJC's legislative advocacy on a broad range of agency concerns (including religious liberty, civil rights, immigration, energy security, and foreign affairs issues). He has testified before Congressional committees and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, most recently on religious discrimination in the workplace before the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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AJC not only opens doors, it alters the landscape. Policies shift, positions change…..and the world becomes a better, safer place.
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