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Jay Ruderman

Jay Ruderman is the President of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which focuses on the inclusion of people with disabilities worldwide and educating Israeli leaders on the American Jewish community. He also has served on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Funders Network and is a member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Executive Committee. Jay is a life-long Bostonian. Upon graduating law school, he began his career as an assistant district attorney in Salem, Massachusetts. In the fall of 2001, he became Deputy Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in New England. In 2005, Mr. Ruderman enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and became the liaison between the IDF and Diaspora Jewry. After his service in the IDF, he returned to AIPAC as the Leadership Director for AIPAC in Israel. Follow Jay on Twitter @JayRuderman and Facebook @JayRuderman1
MK TZACHI HANEGBI of the Likud, co-chair of the Knesset Caucus for US-Israel Relations, which convenes lawmakers for conversations on the most pressing issues in Israel-American Jewry ties.

Concerning survey findings on Israel-American Jewry relations - comment

Young American Jews are distancing themselves from Israel for social acceptance as antisemitic incidents reach an all-time high.

MAY 24, 2022
DIASPORA AFFAIRS Minister Nachman Shai speaks to the media at the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in Malmo, Sweden in October.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israel should keep world Jewry in mind - opinion

Apart from empty speeches, Israel could do more for Jews around the world.

JANUARY 27, 2022
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog at their first work meeting, July 18, 2021.

How Israel approaches Diaspora relations is crucial - opinion

An effective action plan is required for a strong, stable and long-term connection between Israeli and American Jews.

JULY 23, 2021

Israel needs to practice inclusivity for disabilities - opinion

As Hollywood wakes up to disability inclusion, Israel should follow

APRIL 28, 2021
FROM LEFT: ‘Crip Camp’ co-directors and co-producers Nicole Newnham and disability rights activist James LeBrecht, and producer Sara Bolder arrive for the 93rd Academy Awards at Union Station in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday.

Capitol riot underscores the shared values of Americans and Israelis

Neither the US nor Israel has experienced a direct threat to the basic functioning of their democracies quite like the unspeakable act of Trump supporters storming the Capitol

JANUARY 16, 2021
Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, of Arizona, stands with other supporters of US President Donald Trump as they demonstrate on the second floor of the US Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, US, January 6, 2021.

How to value lives in the coronavirus pandemic – opinion

A life is a life. Can the Israeli healthcare system put that value into action?

JUNE 14, 2020
A ventilator is seen at the New York City Emergency Management Warehouse

Time for a strategic dialogue between Israel and US Jewry

In the two years since the Western Wall compromise fell through, Israel and the Jewish people – especially the American Jewish community – have been in unprecedented public disagreement.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
The American and the Israeli national flags can be seen outside the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv

Keeping the torch lit

Miri Regev does right by Diaspora Jewry.

MARCH 20, 2019
Fireworks in honor of Israel's Independence Day

Stop discounting US Jewry at Israel’s expense

Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett recently contended that “assimilation and growing indifference of Jews overseas... is the entire story” of this crisis.

DECEMBER 19, 2018
American and Israeli Jews [Illustrative]

MK’s quake explanation may trigger bigger one for Israel-Diaspora ties

MK Yinon Azoulay (Shas), took the occasion of the quakes to inform his colleagues that Reform Jews “are not Jews.”

JULY 27, 2018
Map of Israeli marks out higher and lower risk areas in face of an earthquake

MK’s quake explanation may trigger bigger one for Israel-Diaspora ties

“Maybe we should do some soul-searching that this earthquake was because someone is trying to touch that which is sacred to us,” Azoulay said from the Knesset floor.

JULY 26, 2018
MEMBERS OF Women of the Wall pray at the Kotel.

A critical moment in Israeli-American Jewish relations

"If religious parties place demands on the governing coalition to adopt policies that de-legitimize the non-Orthodox Jewish denominations, they affront the very identities of numerous American Jews."

MAY 13, 2015
Israel and US flags

Is it really a new year?

Our community has begun making strides toward being fully inclusive, but much work remains to be done.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
Men pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.