Jeremy Ben-Ami is Executive Director of J Street and JStreetPAC, the political voice of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.

From 2003-4, he was Policy Director for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; in 2001, he was one of the managers of Mark Green's Mayoral campaign in New York City; and, from 1992 through 1996, he worked for former President Bill Clinton, serving for two years as the President's Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor. Ben-Ami has also been actively involved in Israeli politics and communications. In 1998, he started a consulting firm in Israel which worked with Israeli non-profit organizations and politicians.

Ben-Ami was most recently Senior Vice President of Fenton Communications, a public interest communications firm, and he spent eight years early in his career in New York City government and politics.

Blog Entries by Jeremy Ben-Ami

How Diplomacy with Iran Can Succeed

Posted June 11, 2009 | 02:08 PM (EST)


As Iranians go to cast their ballots in Friday's elections, it is much more than just Iran's future that is at stake. The White House is closely following the elections, as is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli Prime Minister may be watching Washington's reaction to the results more...

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Defend Rep. Donna Edwards From Intimidation on Israel and Mideast

Posted June 9, 2009 | 10:46 AM (EST)


Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D, MD-4), one of JStreetPAC's first endorsed candidates, is under attack from the right-wing for her views on Israel -- and she needs our support right now.

Last week, Politico ran a story entitled "Should Edwards be shvitzing?," quoting three separate Jewish community officials in her...

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Avigdor Lieberman's Makeover Won't Work

Posted March 3, 2009 | 03:15 PM (EST)


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Right-wing Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman is in the midst of a makeover worthy of reality TV. With an op-ed in the Jewish Week, a team in Washington (including the former ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon) and an assist from namesake...

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Gaza, Morality, and the Jews

Posted January 12, 2009 | 04:37 PM (EST)


It's true - I'm not a rabbi. My closest connection to the clergy is that I married the daughter of the cantor from the Reform synagogue where I grew up.

I have grown up, however, with a strong sense of right and wrong. My mother, who fled the Nazis from...

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Let Truth Trump Fear in the Jewish Community

Posted November 3, 2008 | 12:30 PM (EST)


Bill Clinton liked to say that "a campaign based on hope will beat a campaign based on
fear every time."

For the better part of the past year, I've worried whether the campaign being waged against Barack Obama in the Jewish community might disprove that. Unable to...

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