Presidents
- Lyon Cohen 1919–1934
- Samuel William Jacobs 1934–1938
- Samuel Bronfman 1939–1962
- Michael Garber 1962–1968
- Monroe Abbey 1968–1971
- Sol Kanee 1971–1974
- Sydney Harris 1974–1977
- Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut 1977–1980
- Irwin Cotler 1980–1983
- Milton E. Harris 1983–1986
- Dorothy Reitman 1986–1989
- Les Scheininger 1989–1992
- Irving Abella 1992–1995
- Goldie Hershon 1995–1998
- Moshe Ronen 1998–2001
- Keith M. Landy 2001–2004
- Ed Morgan 2004–2007
- Reuven Bulka and Sylvain Abitbol (co-presidents) 2007–2009
- Mark Freiman 2009–2011
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)