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Old February 16th, 2007 #16
Steve Lillywhite
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Stanley Gold
Gold cemented a decade of transformation at the University of Southern California this year when he agreed to become board chairman of the historically WASPy college. The school, once known as a haven for the city's wealthy, white, non-Jewish elites, has tried to shed its reputation as insensitive to minority concerns and become known as a campus that welcomes Jews, Hispanics, blacks and Asians. Gold, 59, told the Forward that he saw his appointment at USC as related more to his business acumen than his Judaism. But the two aren't easily separated. A leading figure on the Los Angeles business scene for decades, he's a past board chairman of Hebrew Union College and is a senior leader of the liberal Israel Policy Forum. His USC stint isn't the first time Gold has helped re-engineer an institution known as unfriendly to Jews. He first rose to national prominence as chief architect of the 1984 takeover of the Walt Disney Co. by Walt's nephew Roy, which installed Michael Eisner as CEO of the studio long known as a right-wing bastion. Since then, as president of Shamrock Holdings, a private investment company held by Roy Disney and his family, Gold has turned the Disneys into major American investors in Israel.
http://www.pjalliance.org/article.aspx?ID=176&CID=20



Howard Kohr
When two senior employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee were indicted on charges of receiving and disseminating classified information, no one expected it would bring anything but grief to the organization. Nobody is celebrating the crisis, but executive director Howard Kohr has steered the lobbying powerhouse out of legal troubles and even managed to ride the wave of grass-roots sympathy ― and resentment of government meddling ― to build Aipac beyond anything seen before. The group's membership soared to more than 100,000 members, double what it was just five years ago, while its annual fundraising surpassed the $40 million record set the year before. Aipac is broadening the scope of its pro-Israel advocacy, too. It's expanding its campus presence and increasing grass-roots Israel-related programs. In the past year, Kohr, 50, has restructured Aipac's internal operations, combining the legislative and executive lobbying departments and broadening the organization's lobbying issues to include homeland security and fighting terror. The highlight of the overhaul comes next year, when the lobby will move into its new building in downtown Washington. Still, Kohr faces a difficult year: The ex-staffers are due to go on trial in January, and the executive director is likely to be called to the stand to give, for the first time, a detailed account of Aipac's practices.
http://www.forward.com/forward-50/



Norman Pattiz
founder and chairman of Westwood One, America's largest distributor of commercial radio programming; helped create government-funded Arabic radio and TV networks. "Al Hurra was his brainchild."
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=6752

Middle East Radio Network, or Radio Sawa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Sawa

Alhurra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_hurra