UNIONS, OCCUPATION ORGANIZATIONS, ACADEMIA, ETC. American Library Association, President: Maurice Freedman (through June 2003) American Federation of Teachers, President: Sandra Feldman Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President: Andrew L. Stern Communication Workers of America (AFL-CIO), President: Morton Bahr (also President of the Jewish Labor Committee) Executive Vice-President: Larry Cohen (Note: Barbara Easterling (Jewish?) is this group's Secretary-Treasurer and also co-Chairman of the Labor Advisory Board for State of Israel Bonds). Unite, President: Bruce Raynor (Jewish surname) Raynor succeeded Jay Mazur in July 2001. "A new chapter in the history of the U.S. labor movement began in 1995 with the founding of UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees). The new union was formed by the merger of two of the nation's oldest unions, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU)." Per Jay Mazur: He is noted as an official of one of "53 member organizations of major American Jewish organizations that seeks to strengthen the U.S.-Israel Alliance, and to protect and advance the security and dignity of Jews abroad." Mazur is here noted as a representative for the National Committee for Labor Israel. The Newspaper Guild, (union - part of Communication Workers of America) International Chairperson: Carol Rothman American Association for the Advancement of Science, CEO, and Executive Publisher of "Science" magazine: Alan Leshner. Chairman of the Board: Floyd E. Bloom (Jewish?) Director of science & policy programs: Albert H. Teich (Jewish?) Union of Concerned Scientists, President: Howard Ris [Jewish?] [Replaced by Kevin Knobloch (Jewish?) in 2003] Chairman of the Board: Kurt Gottfried Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Executive Director: Erich J.Wasserman President and Co-Director: Alan Charles Kors Co-Director: Harvey A. Silverglate Institute of Medicine (National Academy for Science), President: Harvey Fineberg American Political Science Association, President-Elect: Margaret Levi Vice President: Ira Katznelson Secretary: Judith Goldstein American Psychological Association, President: Robert J. Sternberg International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Executive Director: Hugh J. Silverman National Association of Science Writers, Inc. President: Deborah Blum National Association of Social Workers, President: Terry Mizrahi Writers Guild of America, West President: Victoria Riskin (also on the American Film Institute Board of Trustees) ("Welcome to the official Web site of the Writers Guild of America, west, a labor union that represents more than 8,500 professional writers who create your favorite films and television programs." Riskin serves to 2004. Writers Guild of America, East, President: Herb Sargent (Jewish?) The Songwriters Guild of America, Executive Director: Lewis Bachman The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), President and Chairman of the Board: Marilyn Bergman (Recently deceased: Vice Chairman: Cy Coleman (formerly Seymour Kaufman) Vice Chairman, Publisher Board: Jay Morganstern Treasurer: Arnold Broido Music Publishers Association of the United States, President: Tom Broido American Psychiatric Association, President: Paul Appelbaum "Dr. Appelbaum, a world-renowned psychiatrist, presented 'Religion and Psychiatry: An Orthodox Jewish Psychiatrist�s Perspective' at the luncheon." Institute of Industrial Engineers, President: Jeremy Weinstein Middle East Studies Association (MESA), (Previous) President: Joel Beinin The American Educational Research Association (AERA), Executive Director: Felice J. Levine American Sociological Association, President: William T. Bielby "Bill�s non-observant Jewish mother worked in a shoe store at the Palmer House and then with her husband in the store." American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) [a division of Magazine Publishers of America] Executive Director: Marlene Kahan American Sportscasters Association, President: Lou Schwartz Committee to Protect Journalists, Chairman of the Board: David Laventhol Executive Director: Ann Cooper (Jewish?) PSRC, Chairman: Howard B. Goldstein "The PSRC of America is an organization of physicians, nurses, administrators, allied health care professionals, and data analysts providing services to promote quality of care and the efficient management of health care resources in managed care and traditional settings." American Orthopsychiatric Association, Executive Director - Lisa Shuger Hublitz President - Oscar Barbarin President Elect - Gary Melton (Jewish?) Institute of International Education, President & CEO: Allan E. Goodman Farmworker Justice Fund, Co-Executive Director: Bruce Goldstein Co-Executive Director: Shelley Davis (Jewish?) (Contributor's Note: According to their bio's, these two attorneys have no known farm or agricultural work experience.) Association of American Medical Colleges, President: Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. Actors' Equity Association, Executive Director: Alan Eisenberg National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), President & CEO: Rick Feldman President of NATPE Educational Foundation: Lew Klein (He's also a co-founder of NATPE). World Medical. Association, Chairman of the WMA council: Y. Blachar "Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) have lambasted the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) for its silence in the face of these systematic violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention [against the Palestinian people], which guarantees the right to health care and the protection of health professionals as they do their duty. Remarkably, IMA president Dr Y Blachar is currently chairperson of the council of the World Medical Association (WMA), the official international watchdog on medical ethics. A supine BMA appears in collusion with this farce at the WMA." -- D. Summerfield, British Medical Journal, October 2004 |