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 HUC-JIR Board of Governors Member Peter Joseph Elected New President of Israel Policy Forum 
NEW YORK, September 3 - Peter A Joseph, a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was elected President of the Israel Policy Forum (IPF), the non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that advocates for active United States engagement and a two-state solution in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. IPF's headquarters are in New York City, with offices in Washington, DC and Jerusalem, Israel. Larry Zicklin, Clinical Professor of Markets, Ethics and Law at New York University Stern School of Business, is the organization's new Chairman.
Joseph is Managing Director at Palladium Equity Partners, LLC, and a former President of the JCC of Manhattan. Zicklin, the former Chairman of the Board of Neuberger Berman, where he was Managing Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee between 1975 and 1999, and former President of UJA/Federation of New York from 2001-2004, also is a Lecturer in Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business. "Peter and Larry form a team that will strengthen support for IPF's efforts to ensure that the U.S. administration and Congress remain involved in the Middle East peace process," noted IPF Executive Director Nick Bunzl Israel Policy Forum (www.israelpolicyforum.org.), an independent, non-partisan American organization founded in 1993, advocates for sustained American diplomatic efforts to end the conflict between Israel and her neighbors and actively promotes a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
