J Street
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| Founded | November 29, 2007 |
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| Founder | Jeremy Ben-Ami |
| Type | 501(c)(4) organization |
| 26-1507828 | |
| Focus |
Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| Location | |
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Area served
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 Israel /  USA
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| Method | Lobbying |
| Jeremy Ben-Ami | |
| Morton H. Halperin | |
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Key people
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Franklin Fisher(Advisor) Daniel Levy (Advisor) Debra DeLee (Advisor) Marcia Freedman (Advisor) Shlomo Ben-Ami (Advisor) Samuel W. Lewis (Advisor) Lincoln Chafee (Advisor) |
| Subsidiaries | J Street Education Fund, J Street PAC |
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Revenue (2014)
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$2,418,969 |
| Expenses (2014) | $2,207,771 |
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Employees (2014)
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59 |
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Volunteers (2014)
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40 |
| Mission | Promote meaningful American leadership to reach a peaceful, two-state resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the use of coalition-building, mobilizing public opinion online, engaging younger Jewish Americans, and amplifying the public's voice. |
| Website | www |
| 20-2777557 | |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) organication |
| Jeremy Ben-Ami | |
| Morton H. Halperin | |
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Revenue (2014)
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$4,955,262 |
| Expenses (2014) | $4,671,950 |
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Employees (2014)
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0 |
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Volunteers (2014)
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40 |
| Mission | To provide education with respect to the need for bold American leadership to reach a peaceful, two-state resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by organizing within the local communities, mobilizing rabbinic leaders, empowering students on university campuses, planning educational trips for members of Congress to the region, and hosting an annual national conference. |
J Street is a nonprofit liberaladvocacy group based in the United States whose stated aim is to promote American leadership to end the Arab–Israeli and Israel–Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. J Street was incorporated on November 29, 2007.
According to J Street, its political action committee is "the first and only federal Political Action Committee whose goal is to demonstrate that there is meaningful political and financial support to candidates for federal office from large numbers of Americans who believe a new direction in American policy will advance U.S. interests in the Middle East and promote real peace and security for Israel and the region".
J Street describes itself as "the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people...advocat[ing] policies that advance shared US and Israeli interests as well as Jewish and democratic values, leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
J Street, as an American lobby organization aimed at Washington leaders and policymakers, derived its name from the alphabetically named street plan of Washington, D.C.: J Street is missing from the grid (the street naming jumps from I Street to K Street since I and J were not yet considered to be distinct letters at the time the Washington street plan was created). Also, by association, the letter J is a reference to "Jewish". Further, K Street is a street in downtown Washington on which many influential lobbying firms are located, and that become synonymous for Washington's formidable lobbying establishment. Consequently, the choice of the name reflects the desire of J Street's founders and donors to bring a message to Washington that, metaphorically like the missing "J Street" of the D.C. grid, has thus far been absent.
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