AIPAC’s first
woman president in a decade to stress diversity
Lillian Pinkus, who took the organization’s reins this
week, laments Washington’s ‘polarized,’ ‘divisive’ politics
American Israel Public Affairs Committee President
Lillian Pinkus in Washington, DC. (YouTube screen capture)
By JTA March 21, 2016, 6:11 am
WASHINGTON — AIPAC’s first woman president in a decade said
making the pro-Israel lobby more diverse will be a priority.
Lillian Pinkus, from Dallas, assumed the post during the
American Israel
Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference in Washington,
DC, which runs from Sunday through Tuesday.
Pinkus, a child of Holocaust survivors, will be the first woman
to lead the lobby since 2006, when Bernice Manocherian
ended her presidency. Manocherian was preceded by Amy Friedkin, whose 2002-04
presidency was the first time a woman led the group. Terms run two years, and
ex-presidents generally continue as chairs of the national AIPAC board for
another two years.
This week’s conference will emphasize diversity, with a
corridor lined with poster-size photos of black, Hispanic and Christian AIPAC
members.
“We need to grow the number of people who are involved in
AIPAC and we need to grow the number of people that are involved in pro-Israel
politics,” Pinkus told
the Texas Jewish Post last week.
Pinkus also said one of her challenges would be
overcoming the polarization in Washington.
“I don’t think it’s a secret to anyone that our political
environment today is perhaps more polarized and more divisive than at any other
time in recent memory,” she told the Post. “So working in a bipartisan manner
becomes difficult and challenging in that environment.”
A major challenge
for AIPAC this conference is that Republicans and Democrats have yet to agree
on a bill that would enhance scrutiny of the Iran nuclear deal reached last
year.
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Singer was the head of Jerusalem office for AIPAC, is married to Saul
Singer, and Daniel S. Senor’s
sister.
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is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the VP for the Crown Family Foundation.
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of the Israel Defense Forces.
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the president of the Crown Family
Foundation, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
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Barack
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LLP.
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LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
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is a U.S.-based lobby group for Israel.
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