Bush reappoints 10 to heritage commission

President Bush reappointed ten members of a commission that preserves properties of U.S. citizens overseas. Since its establishment in 1985, most of the members of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, which among other missions seeks to preserve Holocaust-era Jewish property, have traditionally been Jewish. The ten individuals re-named this week to terms ending in 2010 are: Andrew Klein, the chairman of the Jewish National Fund’s mid-Atlantic zone; Robert Zarnegin a California developer who is prominent in the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces; Steven Some of New Jersey, a lobbyist and a member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Warren Miller of Virginia, the current commission chairman and a commerce lawyer who raised the funds to translate from Polish into English five volume history of Auschwitz that is considered definitive; Michael Menis, the chairman of the RJC’s Chicago chapter; Ronald Bloom, a member of the RJC’s board of directors and a real estate developer in California; Linda Leuchter Addison, a Houston lawyer and a child of Holocaust survivors; Amy Epstein, the president of the Holocaust Center in St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Harriet Rotter, a Detroit lawyer active in the Detroit Jewish Federation; and Tyrone Fahner, a prominent Chicago lawyer and former Illinois attorney-general.