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Jeremy Ben-Ami, born 1962, is the President of J Street, a liberal advocacy organization in the United States whose stated aim is to promote American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. He is also the executive director of JStreetPac, which endorses and raises money for federal candidates. Ben-Ami was President Bill Clinton's Deputy Domestic Policy Adviser, and later Policy Director on Howard Dean's presidential campaign. He was most recently Senior Vice President at Fenton Communications. Earlier he was the Communications Director for the New Israel Fund and started the Israeli firm ''Ben-Or Communications'' while living in Israel in the late 1990s. Ben-Ami has worked with Jewish peace groups, including the Center for Middle East Peace and the Geneva Initiative-North America. Ben-Ami's father, born in Tel Aviv, was a founder of the ''American Friends for a Jewish Palestine'' and other Zionist organizations. His grandparents were among the first settlers of Tel Aviv, where many relatives continue to live. He graduated from Princeton University and received a law degree from New York University. He married Alisa Biran in 2001.〔(Alisa Biran, Jeremy Ben-Ami ), ''The New York Times'', February 18, 2001〕 Biran, who was working in fundraising at a music school, happened to be the daughter of a cantor from Ben-Ami's childhood synagogue. Despite a near set-up by their parents, they met on a popular dating website; "We had both tried JDate and we were both disillusioned with it, so we met on Match.com." ==Viewpoints== In March 2011, Ben-Ami commented, Ben-Ami's 2011 book ''A New Voice for Israel'' articulates a philosophy and an agenda for pro-Zionist, pro-peace Judaism based on religious and humanist values. He argues for a two-state solution and for U.S. efforts to promote the same. He also analyzes the dynamics and politics of Israel in the U.S. Jewish community. Reviewing the book, Sari Nusseibeh wrote "Ben-Ami provides an arsenal of logistical and moral arguments stressing that not only is Israel's occupation over another people a threat to the Zionist dream and American interests in the region, but that it also runs counter to rabbinic values....". Abraham J. Edelheit found the book's thesis to be 'not original', and that it fails to "explain how J Street will achieve anything but cementing their criticism of Israel. ". A similar view was expressed by Joseph Finlay, reviewing for ''Jewish Quarterly'', who wrote that Ben-Ami’s critique of contemporary American Jewish leadership is 'entirely unoriginal' and that the book is at its weakest when it attempts to describe potential solutions to the problems. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeremy Ben-Ami」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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