- List of Jewish American activists
"This is a list of notable Jewish American activists and polemicists
For other notable Jewish Americans, see
List of Jewish Americans .Activists
Animal Rights activists
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Freddy de Freitas , founder and director of theIndiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - ISPCA AIDS activists
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Elizabeth Glaser , founder of theElizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
*Larry Kramer , co-founder ofGMHC Anti-corporate activists
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Judi Bari , environmentalist (Jewish mother)
*Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, Health food and fitness guru
*Laurie David , environmental activist
*Rob Reiner , actor, director, producer, writer and anti-tobacco activist; son of Carl Reiner [R. Reiner — [http://www.dailynewstribune.com/artsCulture/view.bg?articleid=74975] "Reiner, however, said Gibson also must do some "major soul-searching." "It’s not a matter of just apologizing for some words you’ve said," said Reiner, who is Jewish. "It’s to really understand why it is you’re anti-Semitic and where those feelings came from.""]
*Henry Spira , animal rights activist
*Ron Rosen , alternative medicine and Native American rights activist (d.2007)
*John Wilner, director of theCounterCorp Film Festival Anti-racist
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Kivie Kaplan , head of theNAACP
*Winona LaDuke , Native American activist & environmentalist (Jewish mother)
*Stanley Levison ,Communist Party USA member, advisor toMartin Luther King
*Abel Meeropol , composer of anti-lynching songStrange Fruit
*Michael Schwerner &Andrew Goodman , CORE activists,KKK victims
*Joel &Arthur Spingarn , early NAACP leaders
*Tim Wise , anti-racism activistAnti-war
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Leslie Cagan , founder of UPJ
*Daniel Ellsberg , leaked thePentagon Papers
*Allen Ginsberg , poet and Pentagon-levitator
*Jeremy Glick, author & son of September 11 victim (WTC )
*Allard K. Lowenstein , politician and anti-Vietnam war leader
*Bernard Lown , co-founder of IPPNW, Nobel Peace Prize (1985)
*Murray N. Rothbard , writerAnti-Zionist
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Elmer Berger , Reform rabbi, deceased
*Noam Chomsky , linguist, historian and pamphleteer
*Norman Finkelstein , defunct former Professor, (denied most recent tenure at DePaul University)
*Fred Newman , founder of International Workers Party
*Adam Shapiro , member of International Solidarity MovementCivil liberties
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Felix Frankfurter , Supreme Court Justice, helped found theACLU
*Nadine Strossen , head of ACLU (father half Jewish holocaust survivor)Conversatives and neoconservatives
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Midge Decter , writer
*David Horowitz, writer, activist, commentator
*Irving Kristol , founder of American Neoconservatism.
*William Kristol , editor, writer
*Rabbi Daniel Lapin , founder ofToward Tradition
*Jay Lovestone , AFL-CIO cold warrior; earlier, chairman of Communist Party USA ousted on orders fromStalin
*John Podhoretz , writer and commentator
*Norman Podhoretz , writerCounterculture
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Abbie Hoffman , co-founder of the Yippie
*Ed Rosenthal , cannabis activist
*Jerry Rubin , co-founder of the Yippie
*A.J. Weberman ,Yippie activist, authorElectronic rights activists
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Mitch Kapor , co-founder of EFF
*Bruce Perens , open source advocate, co-founder of SPI
*Richard Stallman , founder ofFSF
*Jonathan Tasini ,National Writers Union leader, fighter for electronic rights for authorsFeminism and gay rights
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Bella Abzug , feminist politician, deceased
*Gloria Allred (1941–) lawyer and radio talk show hostcite news | last =Waxman| first =Sharon| coauthors=Richard Siklos| title =New Dispute Over Firing of Publisher| pages=| publisher =The New York Times| date =2006-12-19 | url =http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/business/media/19regan.html?ref=media| accessdate =2006-12-18 ]
*Bettina Aptheker (1944–) lesbian activist, author, and educator ["other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Bettina Aptheker"]
*Andrea Dworkin , feminist writer
*Susan Faludi , feminist writer
*Leslie Feinberg , transgender activist & author
*Clara Fraser , founder ofRadical Women and theFreedom Socialist Party [http://www.socialism.com/Clarasmemorial.html]
*Betty Friedan , co-founder & first president of NOW
*Franklin E. Kameny , gay rights leaderCitation
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*Harvey Milk , murdered gay rights activist and openly gay politician
*Robin Morgan , editor ofMs. Magazine
*Ernestine Rose , feminist
*Gloria Steinem , founder of Ms. Magazine (Jewish father)
*Rebecca Walker (1969–) feminist writercite news|last=Ross|first=Ross|coauthors=|title=Rebecca Walker bringing message to Expo|pages=|publisher=Pensacola News Journal|date=2007-04-08 |url=http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070408/NEWS01/704080331/1005|accessdate=2007-04-08]
*Naomi Wolf , feminist writer
*Evan Wolfson , gay marriage activistCults
*Maurice Davis, Rabbi, testified to joint-Congressional panel in 1976
*Steven Hassan ,exit counselor author, "Combatting Cult Mind Control "
*Rick Ross, consultant oncult sGun rights advocacy
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Daniel Burros , American Nazi Party and KKK activist (committed suicide in 1965 when his background was revealed)*
Adam Yahiye Gadahn ,Al Qaeda member, federal fugitive (son of musician Phil Pearlman, who converted from Judaism to Christianity)
*Harold von Braunhut , wealthy Aryan Nation and KKK supporter, deceased (born Jewish according to Washington Post)Immigration reform
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Kinky Friedman , country singer, 2006 candidate for Governor of TexasLeaders of Jewish communal organizations
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson , the Lubavitcher Rebbe
*Abraham Foxman , national director of theAnti-Defamation League Liberal and leftwing activists (miscellaneous)
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Michael Albert , co-founder ofZ Magazine
*Saul Alinsky , community organizer
*Ben Cohen, founder ofTrueMajority
*Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR
*John Garfield , blacklisted actor, left-liberal activist
*William Kunstler , civil rights lawyer
*Al Lewis , actor, Green Party candidate, anti-prison and anti-drug war activist
*Eli Pariser , campaigns director ofMoveOn.org
*George Soros , founder of OSI
*Barbra Streisand , entertainer, liberal activist and fundraiser
*David Lempert , Founder of Unseen America Projects, Inc. and author of Modern Democracy Amendments.Jewish Defense
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Freddy de Freitas , founder and director of theNew Republican Vegetarian Jews ,
*Rabbi Meir Kahane , founder of theJewish Defense League , deceased
*Mordechai Levy , founder and chairman of theJewish Defense Organization ,
*David Marcus ("Mickey" Marcus), U.S. Army Colonel, hero of Israeli War of Independence
*Avi Weiss , Orthodox rabbi, leader of Free Soviet Jewry movementNazi hunters and Holocaust educators
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Marvin Hier , Orthodox rabbi, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
*Eli Rosenbaum , director of the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations since 1995; Nazi hunter since early 1980sPro-life
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Nat Hentoff , author and columnistRights of Ethiopian Jews
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Graenum Berger , founder of American Association for Ethiopian Jewsocialists, anarchists and communists (historical)
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Alexander Berkman , anarchist leader
*Daniel De Leon , revolutionary socialist leader
*Emma Goldman , anarchist leader
*Murray N. Rothbard , anarchist leader
*Charles Ruthenberg , early leader of theCommunist Party USA
*Max Shachtman , democratic socialist leader and theoristTrade union leaders
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David Dubinsky , labor leader
*Samuel Gompers , labor leader
*Sidney Hillman , labor leader
*Jackie Presser , Teamster leader, racketeerWeather Underground and its offshoots
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Kathy Boudin ,Weather Underground member and convicted terrorist
*David Gilbert ,Weather Underground member and convicted terrorist
*Mark Rudd ,SDS leader during 1968 Columbia University strike; later aWeather Underground memberSee also
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