Board of Governors
Rabbi Mark Dratch
Chair of IJCIC
Mr. David Michaels
Vice-Chair of IJCIC and B'nai B'rith International representative
Ms. Carole Nuriel
Treasurer of IJCIC and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) representative
Rabbi Dr. David Sandmel
Chair Emeritus of IJCIC
Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum
Israel Jewish Council for Interreligious Relations (IJCIR) representative
Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) representative
Rabbi Elie Buechler
Orthodox Union (OU) representative
Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn
Israel Jewish Council for Interreligious Relations (IJCIR) representative
Amy Levin Ragen
American Jewish Committee (AJC) representative
Rabbi Daniel F. Polish
Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) representative
Rabbi Joshua Stanton
Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) representative
Rabbi Dr. Burton Visotzky
Rabbinical Assembly (RA) representative
IJCIC represents world Jewry in dialogue with the Vatican, Ecumenical Patriarchate, World Evangelical Alliance, and World Council of Churches. It represents 11 major Jewish organizations, bringing together Jews from across denominations and areas of focus in common cause. IJCIC was founded in 1970 to build upon transformational change in Catholic-Jewish relations brought about by the declaration of Nostra Aetate five years earlier.
As the American Jewish Committee reflected:
“IJCIC is the recognized representative of world Jewry in its dialogues with the Vatican, Ecumenical Patriarchate, and World Council of Churches. The consortium of 11 Jewish organizations was founded in 1970, in response to the dramatic, positive transformation of Christian attitudes toward Jews and Judaism, notably the Roman Catholic Church’s Nostra Aetate.
IJCIC member organizations include American Jewish Committee (AJC), Anti-Defamation League (ADL), B’nai B’rith International (BBI), Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), Israel Jewish Council on Interreligious Relations (IJCIR), Rabbinical Assembly (RA), Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU), United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), and World Jewish Congress (WJC).”
Member Organizations
