1955 CE: “HEAVY HITTERS”

Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations founded, Washington, DC, at the suggestion of President Dwight Eisenhower.

Now compromising 51 national Jewish organizations March ‘08. Yehuda Hellman led the organization for thirty years through 1986; subsequently, Malcolm Hoenlein has.

All members of the Conference sit on AIPAC’s Executive Committee, with AIPAC being a dynamic pro–Israel advocacy/lobbying group in Washington, DC (founded two years prior in 1953).