We did some digging and mangaged to find out who is on the guest list of this afternoon’s meeting at the White House between President Obama and Jewish leaders. UPDATED: After the 3 p.m. meeting did not appear on initial versions of the president’s schedule for today, an update was just issued this morning, adding a meeting with "key leaders" of Jewish-American groups.The White House is apparently keeping the meeting very low-key–it doesn’t even appear on the president’s publicly-released schedule for today (although a meeting with "labor leaders" is listed.)
The 16 invitees include representatives of the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements, AIPAC as well as J Street and Americans for Peace Now, major mainstream groups like ADL and the American Jewish Commitee, umbrella organizations such as the Conference of Presidents and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and Jewish women’s groups NCJW and Hadassah. Here’s the full guest list:
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, Union for Reform Judaism
Rabbi Steven Wernick, Executive Vice President, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Stephen Savitsky, President, Orthodox Union
Nancy Ratzan, National Council of Jewish Women
Marla Gilson, Washington Director, Hadassah
Andrea Weinstein, Chair, JCPA
Kathy Manning, Chair, UJC
Abe Foxman, ADL
Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street
Jason Isaacson, Washington Director, AJC
David Victor, President, AIPAC
Lee Rosenberg, President-elect, AIPAC
Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
Alan Solow, Conference of Presidents
Debra DeLee, President & CEO, Americans for Peace Now
Ira Forman, CEO, National Jewish Democratic Council
Some of those not on the list, after having been invited to a larger meeting of Jewish leaders with Obama aides right before the inauguration, include Israel Policy Forum, the Zionist Organization of America, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom and B’nai B’rith International.
