The Jewish Community Relations Council was born out of an urgent need to unify the voices of our community, following a self-assessment of American Jewry's response during the Holocaust. For more than 60 years, the JCRC has represented the organized Jewish community on major public affairs issues of vital concern to our community.
JCRC builds consensus on issues ranging from American support for Israel to civil rights, from quality public education to anti-Semitism, and represents those consensual views to the broader community through a robust education and advocacy program.
Over 60 years later, our JCRC - one of 125 nationwide - continues to engage in effective advocacy and build bridges of civility through dialogue, coalitions, education and social activism. Working together, across Jewish, other faith, ethnic and civic communities, JCRC strives to preserve the conditions under which Jews - as individuals and a community - can flourish here and abroad. JCRC pursues a just society and secure Jewish future.
We appreciate your support as advocates through your activism and financial support,
Jerilyn Gelt
President, JCRC
Rabbi Doug Kahn
Executive Director, JCRC
Jerilyn Gelt, President
Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky, Vice President
Michael Sweet, Vice President
Howard Kleckner, Vice President
Hadara Stanton, Secretary
Daniel Feitelberg, Treasurer
Eve Bernstein
Judy Bloom
Ruvim Braude
Richard Heiman
Bob Kane
Lenny Kristal
Mike Ralston
Paul Resnick
Eva Seligman-Kennard
Steve Tolchin
Holly Ullman
Bob Zimmerman
Education Task Force: Bob Kane & Michael Sweet
Development Committee: Eve Bernstein and Howard Kleckner, co-chairs
Committee on Membership: Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky
Intergroup Relations Committee: Judy Bloom and Dick Heiman, co-chairs
Jewish Coalition for Literacy Advisory Committee: Susan Rothenberg
Legislative Affairs Committee: Michael Ralston & Hadara Stanton
Confronting Poverty Task Force: Betsy Baum-Block and Anne Quaintance,
co-chairs
Middle East Policy Committee: Ruvim Braude
1943 Jesse Steinhart*
1946 Judge Milton Sapiro*
1949 Jefferson Peyser*
1952 Judge Albert Wollenberg*
1954 Martin Rosenblatt*
1956 Judge Lenore Underwood*
1958 Sam Ladar*
1960 Herbert Leland*
1962 Justice Matthew Trobriner*
1964 Reynold Colvin*
1966 Edward Bransten*
1968 Daniel Goldberg
1970 Lawrence Goldberg
1973 Richard Kaplan
1975 Marian Lippman
1977 Matthew Weinberg
1979 Joyce Friedman
1981 Jesse Feldman*
1983 Theodore Seton*
1985 Tanette Goldberg
1987 Andrew Colvin
1989 Ephraim Margolin
1991 Sandy Svetcov
1993 Michael Jacobs
1995 Judith Chapman*
1997 Mark Schickman
1999 Daniel Grossman
2002 David Steirman
2004 Natalie Berg
2006 Michael Futterman
2008 Cheryl L. Feiner
2010 Ruvim Braude
* deceased
