Leadership
AJWS's president is Ruth Messinger, formerly Manhattan Borough President and the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City in 1997. She has been at the helm of AJWS since 1998, and in late 2005, The Forward named her in its annual "Forward 50" list of the most influential American Jews. Messinger returned to the Forward 50 in 2009.
AJWS has received a Four Star rating from Charity Navigator for seven years in a row.
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