Board and Staff

The American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam was founded in the mid-1980s through the efforts of founding Directors Iva Kaufman and Sharon Byrd and Board co-Presidents J. Zel Lurie and Dr. Harriet Arnone.

Honorary Council

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Sara Ehrman
David Hitchcock
Khalil Jahshan
Hon. Samuel W. Lewis
Hani Masri
Hon. Richard Murphy
Naomi Shihab Nye
Shibley Telhami
Elie Wiesel

Board of Directors & Affiliations

Officers

Rev. Gordon Webster, President
Presbyterian Minister
Rochester, New York

Deborah First, Vice President
Professor (emeritus) Nazareth College
Chatauqua, NY

Adeeb Fadil, Vice President
Attorney
New York City, New York

Judith Dubin, Secretary
Child Development Specialist
Santa Monica, CA

David Matz, Treasurer
Professor, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Christina Brodie, Strategic Planning & Development Committee Chair
Plymouth, MA

Directors of the Board

Gordon Fellman
Professor of Sociology, Brandeis
Boston, Massachusetts

Richard Goodwin
CEO, Goodwin Enterprises
Aspen, Colorado

Roberta Gordon
Attorney
New York City, New York

Dr. Kayed Sobhi Khalil
Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine
Framingham, Massachusetts

Jesse Zel Lurie
Journalist, former editor-in-chief of Hasassah Magazine
Delray Beach, Florida

Susan Lurie
Nes Ziona, Israel

Rima Mahmoud
Jamaica Plain, MA

Frank Rubenfeld
Clinical Psychologist
Berkeley, California

Judith Tuller
Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley
New York, NY

 
National Staff

Abir Elzowidi, Operations Director - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it