Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) was founded in 1976 by Professor Daniel J. Elazar, as "an independent, non-profit institute for policy research and education serving Israel and the Jewish people." It has produced hundreds of studies by leading researchers on a variety of topics about and/or relevant to Jews and Israel. Since 2000 it has focused its efforts on 'hasbara' activities, which it describes as "the need to present Israel's case in the wake of the renewed Palestinian violence", as well as "the return of anti-Semitism in the post-Holocaust period". JCPA maintains it has "developed and implemented an array of cutting-edge programs to present Israel's case to the world." 
JCPA is the parent body of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs and is affiliated with the Center for Jewish Community Studies in Baltimore, Maryland. The JCPA publishes a number of regular reports including Daily Alert, Jerusalem Viewpoints, Jerusalem Issue Briefs, NGO Monitor (which is a "joint venture" of JCPA and co-founded with B'nai B'rith,Gerald M. Steinberg, "MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF NGOs", Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010JCPA, "About", Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed on 13 December 2010
and Israel Campus Beat. Other on-going programs include studies of Global Terrorism, Jerusalem in International Diplomacy, the Israeli Economy and Privatization, Jews and Religion in the American Public Square, Israel's Political System, and Water in Israel and the Region Toward the Year 2020. JCPA's president is former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold.
JCPA shares its acronym with the similarly-named Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a community relations agency that brings together 13 national and 125 local Jewish community relations council on domestic and international issues.
==Affiliations==
*Institute for Contemporary Affairs 
*Israel Campus Beat
*NGO Monitor
*B'nai B'rith - NGO Monitor was a "joint venture" of JCPA's ICA and originally founded by B'nai B'rith and the Wechsler Family FoundationGerald M. Steinberg, "MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF NGOs", Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010JCPA, "About", Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed on 13 December 2010
==See also==
*Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
*Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
==Funding==
It received $30,000 from the Abstraction Fund in 2014. Abstraction Fund, 990 Form, 2014 
==People==
Unless otherwise stated the source for all of the people listed here is the JCPA website. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Our Key People, Accessed, 12 September 2007
*Ambassador Dore Gold - President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
*Professor Daniel J. Elazar, z"l - Founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
===Who's Who at the Jerusalem Center (in alphabetical order)===
*Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror - Program Director, Institute for Contemporary Affairs
*Mark Ami-El - Director of Publications
*Lenny Ben-David - Consultant]], Internet Publications
*Professor Gerald B. Bubis - Vice President
*Dan Diker - Senior Policy Analyst
*Ambassador Freddy Eytan - Head of the Israel-Europe Project
*Professor Rela M. Geffen - Director]], North American Office
*Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld - Chairman of the Board of Fellows
*Chaya Herskovic - Director General
*Zvi R. Marom - Former Director General
*Professor Shmuel Sandler - Editor, Jewish Political Studies Review
*Sharon Shenhav - Director, International Jewish Women's Rights Project
*Professor Gerald M. Steinberg - Editor, NGO Monitor
*Justus Reid Weiner - Scholar-in-Residence
===Administrative Personnel===
*Secretaries: Rachel Elrom, Odelia Zaguri
Projects Director: Edna Weinstock-Gabay
Institute for Contemporary Affairs Project Coordinator: Tzipi Senderov
Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism Project Coordinator: Elisabeth Mayman
Bookkeeper: Esther Zalis
===Steering Committee of the Board of Fellows===
*Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman
*Prof. Gerald Bubis, Vice Chairman
*Prof. Yakir Plessner, Vice Chairman
*Prof. Shmuel Sandler, Secretary
*Prof. Efraim Torgovnik, Treasurer
*Prof. Rela M. Geffen, Assoc. Secretary-Treasurer
*Prof. Arthur Eidelman
*Zvi R. Marom
===Fellows===
*Chairman of Board of Directors: Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem ***
*Mordechai Abir, Jerusalem
*Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Jerusalem
*Yehuda Avner, Jerusalem
*Ella Belfer, Ramat Gan
*Gabriel Ben-Dor, Haifa
*Eytan Bentsur, Jerusalem
*Marshall Breger, Washington, DC
*Michael Brown, Toronto
*Gerald B. Bubis, Los Angeles ***
*Steven M. Cohen, Jerusalem
*Arthur I. Eidelman, M.D. Jerusalem ***
*Joel Fishman, Jerusalem
*Rela Mintz Geffen, Philadelphia ***
*Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem ***
*Dore Gold, Jerusalem
*Aryeh Hecht, Jerusalem
*Efraim Inbar, Jerusalem
*Sherry Israel, Newton, MA
*Raphael Israeli, Jerusalem
*Chaim Kalchheim, Jerusalem
*Eliyahu Kanovsky, Rehovot
*Jacob Landau, Jerusalem
*Ruth Lapidoth, Jerusalem
*Robert Licht, Philadelphia
*Deborah E. Lipstadt, Atlanta
*Zvi R. Marom, Ramat Hasharon
*Avraham Melamed, Haifa
*Reuven Merhav, Jerusalem
*Alan Mittleman, Allentown, PA
*Yakir Plessner, Rehovot ***
*Meir Rosenne, Jerusalem
*Mordechai Rotenberg, Jerusalem
*Colin Rubenstein, Melbourne
*Shmuel Sandler, Jerusalem ***
*Jonathan Sarna, Newton, MA
*Ismar Schorsch, New York
*Dan Segre, Jerusalem
*Steven Spiegel, Los Angeles
*Gerald M. Steinberg, Jerusalem
*Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, New York
*Efraim Torgovnik, Tel Aviv ***
*Shmuel Trigano, Paris
*Ilan Troen, Beersheva
*Mervin F. Verbit, New York
*Harold M. Waller, Montreal
*Justus Weiner, Jerusalem
*Howard Weisband, Jerusalem
*Steven Windmueller, Los Angeles
*Jonathan Woocher, Maplewood, N.J.
*Nathan Yanai, Haifa
*Ben Zion Zilberfarb, Jerusalem
:*** Member of Board of Directors
===Board of Overseers===
*Caryn Rosen Adelman, Chicago
*Gabriel Bach, Jerusalem
*Mandell Berman, Detroit **
*Herschel Blumberg, Washington, DC
*Sidney N. Busis, M.D., Pittsburgh
*Shoshana Cardin, Baltimore *
*Betsy Cohen, Philadelphia
*Edward Cohen, Philadelphia
*Edward S. Cohen, Jerusalem *
*Avern Cohn, Detroit
*Harriet Elazar, Jerusalem
*Raymond Epstein, Chicago
*Jesse Feldman, San Francisco
*Herbert A. Fierst, Washington, DC
*Max Fisher, Detroit
*Abraham J. Gafni, Philadelphia *
*Byron H. Gerson, Franklin, MI
*Betsy Gidwitz, Chicago *
*Conrad Giles, Detroit
*Robert B. Goldmann, New York
*Richard S. Gunther, Los Angeles
*Ivan Himmel, Chicago *
*Irwin Hochberg, New York *
*Max Kampelman, Washington, DC
*Ted Kanner, Los Angeles
*Edward Kaplan, Washington, DC
*Herbert Katz, West Palm Beach
*Ron Kaufman, San Francisco
*Henry Koschitsky, Ontario
*Esther R. Landa, Salt Lake City
*Betsy Landis, New York
*Donald Landis, New York
*Isi Leibler, Jerusalem
*Julius Lesner, Los Angeles
*H. Irwin Levy, West Palm Beach *
*Leon Levy, New York
*Norman Lipoff, Miami *
*Haskell Lookstein, New York
*Robert E. Loup, Denver
*Uriel Lynn, Tel Aviv
*Phyllis Margolius, Washington, DC
*Lowell Milken, Los Angeles
*Alan Molod, Philadelphia
*Alberto Nasser, Rio de Janiero
*Moshe Nissim, Jerusalem
*Robert A. Riesman, Providence
*Michael Rukin, Boston
*Jack Rose, Toronto *
*David G. Sacks, New York
*Avraham Schenker, Tel Aviv
*Miriam Schneirov, Philadelphia *
*Frank Schochet, Minneapolis
*Robert Shafton, Los Angeles
*Daniel Shapiro, New York	
*Meir Sheetrit, Yavne
*Zalman Shoval, Tel Aviv *
*Matthew Simon, Washington, DC
*Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto, Tel Aviv
*Barbi Weinberg, Los Angeles
*Lawrence Weinberg, Los Angeles
*Maynard Wishner, Chicago
*George M. Zeltzer, Detroit
:* Member of the Executive Committee
:** Chairman of the Executive Committee
===Associates===
*Irving Abella, Toronto
*Zeidan Atashi, Ussifiya
*Irwin Cotler, Montreal
*Eliezer Don-Yehiya, Rishon le-Zion
*Moshe Drori, Jerusalem
*Nitza Druyan, Plainview, NY
*Andre Eshet, Haifa
*Robert Freedman, Baltimore
*Gordon Freeman, Walnut Creek, CA
*Alan Glicksman, Philadelphia
*Harvey Goldberg, Jerusalem
*Sidney Goldstein, Providence
*George Gruen, New York
*Jonathan D. Halevi, Tel Aviv
*Vladimir Khanin, Jerusalem
*Samuel Klausner, Philadelphia
*Jerome Kutnick, Philadelphia
*Joseph Lanir, Givat Brenner
*Fadal Mansur, Haifa
*Ivan Marcus, New York
*Chaim Milikovsky, Jerusalem
*Alberto Milkowitz, Sao Paulo
*Ben Mollov, Jerusalem
*Fiamma Nirenstein, Jerusalem/Italy
*Gustavo Perednik, Efrat
*Earl Raab, Waltham, MA
*Ira Robinson, Montreal
*David Schnall, New York
*Carl Schrag, Chicago
*Ze'ev Segal, Tel Aviv
*Sharon Shenhav, Jerusalem
*Max Singer, Baltimore
*Baruch Susser, Ramat Gan
*Morton Weinfeld, Montreal
*Ruth Wisse, Cambridge, MA
===Writers===
*Dean Godson, Has written for the Center Jerusalem Viewpoints, No. 523, 16-30 Tishrei 5765 / 1-15 October 2004, LESSONS FROM NORTHERN IRELAND FOR THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Dean Godson
==External link==
*Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs website
==Notes==
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