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*[[Yehuda Hellman]] - Executive director until death in May 1986 | *[[Yehuda Hellman]] - Executive director until death in May 1986 | ||
*[[Seymour D. Reich]] - former chairman (1988-1990)<ref>Seymour D. Reich, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/25/AR2010112503128.html Examining Mr. Obama's foreign policy], The Washington Post, 25 November 2010</ref> | *[[Seymour D. Reich]] - former chairman (1988-1990)<ref>Seymour D. Reich, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/25/AR2010112503128.html Examining Mr. Obama's foreign policy], The Washington Post, 25 November 2010</ref> | ||
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===Member Organizations=== | ===Member Organizations=== |
Revision as of 16:28, 3 July 2012
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO - also called Presidents Conference) was founded by Nahum Goldmann in 1954 as the coordinating body for 52 national Jewish organizations to lobby the executive branch on behalf of Israel. The power wielded by the organization's chairman is hinted at in a statement by ADL national director Abraham Foxman:'This position is lovingly called 'the King of the Jews,' he told the New Yorker.[1]
Principals and Members
- Richard B. Stone - Chairman
- Malcolm I. Hoenlein - Executive vice-chairman
Former staff
- Mortimer Zuckerman - chairman (2001-2003)
- Ronald Lauder - chairman until 2001
- Yehuda Hellman - Executive director until death in May 1986
- Seymour D. Reich - former chairman (1988-1990)[2]
- Alan Solow - Chairman
Member Organizations
Contact
- 633 Third Avenue
- New York, NY 10017
- United States
- Phone:(+1) 212 318 6111
- Email: info@conferenceofpresidents.org
- Website: http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/
References
- ↑ Paumgarten, Nick, "The Tycoon." The New Yorker, 23 July 2007
- ↑ Seymour D. Reich, Examining Mr. Obama's foreign policy, The Washington Post, 25 November 2010