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Gidon D. Remba — President and Executive Director
Gidon D. Remba, a veteran American Jewish pro-Israel advocate and Middle East political analyst, is President and Executive Director of The Jewish Alliance for Change (JAFC). He also serves as Co-Director of the Campaign for Bedouin-Jewish Justice in Israel, a project of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and JAFC. He previously served as National Executive Director of Ameinu: Liberal Values, Progressive Israel, the U.S. affiliate of the World Labor Zionist Movement. He has spent over two decades in the for-profit sector as an award-winning marketing and business development manager with several Fortune 100 corporations and entrepreneurial high technology companies.
His commentaries on Israel, the Middle East and Jewish affairs have appeared widely in the Jewish and general press, including the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun Times, the Nation, Ha'aretz, the Forward, the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), Jerusalem Report, Tikkun, Israel Horizons, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Chicago Jewish News, JUF News, and the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. He blogs at Tough Dove Israel.
He served as Senior Foreign Press Editor and Translator in the Israel Prime Minister's Office from 1977-1978 during the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David peace process. He translated the Knesset speeches of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, as well as Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin and other Israeli leaders for the foreign press during the period from Egyptian President Sadat's visit to Jerusalem until the Camp David Peace Accords. He helped develop media/communications strategy for Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, and co-translated Sadat's Knesset speech into English for the world press.
Mr. Remba, born in New York, lived in Israel on a kibbutz in 1969 and in Jerusalem from 1974-1978. His education includes Jewish studies at Clark University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He received his B.A. with honors in philosophy and Middle East studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has completed his Ph.D. coursework in political philosophy at the University of Chicago. He lives with his wife and 8-year old daughter in the New York area, having relocated from Chicago.
Mr. Remba is available to speak on “President Obama, Israel & Middle East Peace” at synagogues, churches, universities and other communal institutions. To arrange for Mr. Remba to speak at your event, contact dremba@comcast.net.
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Noam Alon, who holds an MBA from the Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, serves as Treasurer of The Jewish Alliance for Change. He brings with him more than a decade of experience in the for-profit sector, having held a variety of leadership roles in his career. He serves on the Board of Directors of two non-profit organizations, manages a company that invests in new technologies and is currently involved in the launch of a start-up venture.
Formally trained as a commercial pilot, he currently works as a management pilot for a major US airline. Noam brings with him a unique perspective that attempts to bridge the gulf that divides and challenges the relationship between labor and management in the airline industry. He was recently featured in an industry magazine article discussing, for prospective pilots, his story of charting a new path to professional success in the aviation industry. Born and raised in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, Noam lived in Israel during the early 1980s. He currently lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two children.
Devorah Brous lived in Israel and worked with Bedouin for 15 years. She is the founder of BUSTAN, a Jewish/Bedouin environmental justice NGO in the Negev where she served as Executive Director for 9 years and currently serves as co-director of the Jewish Alliance for Change Jewish-Bedouin Justice Campaign. She holds two Masters degrees in Israel Studies and Development Studies and lives in LA.