Jewish Leaders of The JAO
- Alexander Vinnikov - mayor of Birobizhan
- Valery Solomonovich Gurevich - Vice-Chairman of the JAO
- Lev Toitman - Chairman for Birobidzhan's 4,500 member Jewish Community (Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS). Died in September 2007
- Rakhmil Leder - succeeded Lev Toitman as Chairman of Brirobidzhan's Jewish Community Freud
- Mordechai Scheiner - Chief Rabbi of JAO
- Boris "Dov" Kaufman - Native JAO rabbi
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