A couple of old lions.
Wolf Blitzer
SUNY Buffalo 1970 Journalist, Author, CNN Correspondent Art Garfunkel, Columbia 1964 Singer/Composer Paul Simon, Queens 1963 Singer/Composer Mark Zuckerberg Harvard 2006 Creator of Facebook.com Gene Wilder Iowa 1955 Actor/Producer/Director Jerry Lewis Comedian/Chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Rondae Hollis-Jefferson The Univeristy of Arizona Professional Basketball Player (NBA) Chet Simmons George Washington 1950 Founder of ESPN James Brooks NYU 1958 Academy Award and Emmy Award winning Producer/Director (The Simpsons) Richard Lewis Ohio State 1969 Actor/Comedian Wayne Firestone George Washington U. President, Hillel Jerry Reinsdorf George Washington 1957 Owner of Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox Ron Klein Ohio State 1979 United States Congressman Alan Galumbeck Old Dominion 1968 Creator of The Weather Channel Charles MoskowitzNew York 1914Former President/Treasurer, MGM Studios (Deceased)Scott WolfGeorge Washington 1991Actor Gary BettmanCornell 1972Commissioner, National Hockey League Howard LorberC.W. Post 1970 CEO/President, Nathan's Famous and Vector Group Irving Azoff Illinois 1970 Chairman of LiveNation Entertainment Josh MandelOhio State 2000State Representative of Ohio Myles Brand R.P.I. 1964 Former President, NCAA (Deceased) Samuel (Sam) Zell Michigan 1963 Real-estate entrepreneur, co-founder and Chairman of Equity International, a real-estate private equity firm Steve Stone Kent State 1969Cy Young Winner 1980 Orioles, Chicago Cubs Announcer Brad CohenBradley University 1996 Teacher, Author, Motivational Speaker and subject of the film "Front of the Class" Taylor KraussYale 2002Voice of Rwanda, FilmmakerMichael YormarkMaryland 1988President of the Florida Panthers Sanford Weill Cornell 1955 Co-chairman, Citigroup Newton Becker Kent State 1952 Founder, Becker CPA Review Course (Deceased)Alan BarryToledo 1965CEO Masco Corporation Samuel Shapiro Illinois 1929Former Illinois Governor (Deceased)Bernard Marcus Rutgers UniversityFounder, Home Depot Listed in alphabetical order: Michael Albert, MIT 1969 - Political activist, economist, co-founder/co-editor of Z MagazineScott Arogeti, Georgia 2006 - Former Jewish Liaison to the White House Alan Baker, Carleton University - Current Israel Ambassador to Canada Mitchell Bard, Brandeis 1988-Author of Myths and Facts/Israel AdvocateHerbert Baum, Drake 1958 - Former president, Quaker OilGiora Becher, Drexel - Past Consul General of Israel-PhiladelphiaEliyahu Ben-Elissar, Johns Hopkins - Former Israeli Ambassador to the United StatesJeffrey Berkowitz, American 2001 - Former White House liaison to the Jewish Community from 2005-2006General Robert Bernstein, Vanderbilt 1942 - Former Commander of the Walter Reed Hospital (Deceased)Gary Bettman, Cornell 1972 - Commissioner, National Hockey League Dr. James Borin, Yale '93 - US Fencing Team Matthew Brooks, Brandeis 1988 - Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition Ron Carner, Honor Initiate - President of Maccabi Games in IsraelKen Chertow, Penn State 1989 - U.S. Wrestling TeamJeff Cohen, UC-Berkeley 1996 - Entertainment Attorney/Actor Matty Cohen, Florida International University - Past Deputy Consul General of Israel-FloridaHonorable Irwin Colter, McGill - Former Canadian Minister of JusticeEhud Danoch, UC-Los Angeles - Past Consul General of Israel-Los AngelesRabbi Stanley Davids, Case Western 1961 - President of Assocociation of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA) |
Steven Friedman, Illinois 1968 - Executive producer of NBC Nightly NewsFrank Gehry, USC - Architect, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, SpainLeonard Goldberg, Pennsylvania 1955 - Former Chairman of 20th Century Fox
Rob Goldberg, Washington U. 2001 - Vice President of External Affairs for Hillel InternationalNeil Goldman, Yale '93 - Television Writer and executive producer, Family Guy, Scrubs, Worst Week Steve Goldman, Illinois 1964 - Executive Vice President, Paramount PicturesNathaniel Goldstein, NYU 1915 - Former New York Attorney General (Deceased) Sheldon Good, Illinois 1955 - International Realtor, Former World President of FIBICA Josh Gottheimer, Pennsylvania 1994 - Senior Counselor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, former Presidential Speech Writer for President Bill Clinton, and authorThe Right Honourable Herb Gray, Carleton - Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chancellor of Carleton U.Sanford Grossman, Alabama 1957 - Director of NFL telecasts for CBS and now FOX Patrick Harker, Pennsylvania 1981 - Dean of the Wharton School of Business David Harris, Washington University - Chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council Merrill Hassenfeld, Pennsylvania 1938 - Creator of Hasbro Toys (Deceased)Yoel Hasson, York - Member of KnessetRuss Herman - Past President, Association of Trial Lawyers of AmericaGil Hoffman - Chief political correspondent for the Jerusalem Post David Horowitz, Bradley 1959 - Television Personality/Consumer Advocate H. Robert Horvitz, M.I.T. 1968 - Nobel Prize recipient in Medicine William Immerman, Wisconsin 1959 - Former senior VP for 20th Century Fox/Film Producer Allan Jaffe, Pennsylvania 1957 - Family Owner of New Orleans' Preservation Hall (Deceased) Richard Joel - President, Yeshiva UniversityJonathan Kessler - Director of AIPAC/Political Leadership Development Program Allyn Kilsheimer, George Washington 1963 - Structural Engineer who orchestrated the rebuiling of the Pentagon after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Howard Kohr - Executive Director of AIPACMartin Leaf, Illinois 1947 - Family Owner, Founder, Leaf Candies and Donruss Baseball Cards Robert H. Lurie, Michigan '64 - Real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist (deceased) Dan Mariaschin, New Hampshire 1971 - Executive Director of B'nai B'rith InternationalDavid Markin, Bradley 1953 - Former Chairman of U.S. Tennis AssociationBrad Meltzer, University of Michigan, 1992 - Bestselling author, host of Decoded Phil Meltzer, New York 1957 - President Jewish AgencyPerry Mendel, Emory 1943 - Founder, Kinder Care Day Care Centers Jerrald Nadler - 8th Congressional District of New York, Columbia Louis Nizer - Lawyer/Novelist, Columbia (deceased) Rabbi Bob Orkand - Current President Assoc. of Reform Zionists of AmericaRon Popeil, Illinois 1957 - Inventor, Infomercial Producer, Owner, Ronco Industries Stanley Prusiner, Pennsylvania 1962 - Nobel Prize recipient in Medicine Adam Richman, Emory 1996 - Creator and star of Man vs. FoodJacob Rosen - Past Consul General of Israel-AtlantaSamuel Rothberg, Bradley - Creator of Israel Bonds (Deceased) Avi Rubel - Director of North American Operations for MASAAbe Saperstein, Illinois - Former owner of Harlem Globetrotters (Deceased) Alexander Schindler, WPI - Past President of Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Deceased) Alan Schulman, NYU 1955 - Retired CEO/Chair of Board, Ecolab, Inc., Michael Schwerner, Cornell 1961 - Civil Rights worker killed June 21, 1964, depicted in Mississippi Burning Rabbi Levi Shemtov - Director Chabad, Washington, D.C.Neal Sher - Former head of the Office of Special Investigations, former Executive Director of AIPAC Fred Silverman, Syracuse 1958 - Independent Producer, Former President NBC Television Norm Sisiski, Virginia - U.S. Congressional Representative of VirginiaRandy Sklar, University of Michigan, 1994- comedian and sportscasterJason Sklar, University of Michigan, 1994- comedian and sportscasterMoishe Smith - Past International President of B'nai B'rith Jack Stahl, Emory 1976 - Current President of Revlon Matt Weitzman, American 1989 - Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of American Dad Walter Winchell, Miami - Early Gossip Columnist/Radio Personality (Deceased) Asher Yarden - Consul General of Israel-HoustonH. Albert Young, Delaware 1926 - Former Delaware Attorney General (Deceased)Saul Zabar, Kansas 1950 - Co-owner of Zabar'sStanley Zabar, Pennsylvania 1953 - Co-owner of Zabar'sStephen N Zack, University of Florida, 1969 - past President of the American Bar AssociationMitch Zacks, Yale '95 - Author and columnist, Chicago Sun-Times Lew Zale, Texas 1950 - Owner of Zale's Jewelry Corporation Jacob Dayan - Consul General of Israel-Los AngelesRabbi Shalom Denbo, Honor Initiate - Creator of AEPi's Jerusalem Road TripsBob Diener, University of Florida, 1979 - Founder and former owner of hotels.com and current President and Co-Founder of getaroom.comHaim Divon, Carleton University - Former Israel Ambassador to Canada Ian Eagle, Syracuse 1990 - Sports BroadcasterEric Engelmayer, Chicago 1999 - Vice-President, HSBC Private Bank of Luxembourg, Vice President of B'nai B'rith EuropeBoris Epshteyn, Georgetown 2004- Political Consultant Jay Feinberg - Founder and Executive Director, Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation Richard H. Frank, Illinois 1964 - Former president of Walt Disney Studios |