National Board of Advisors

Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy

Beth Gilinsky

John Hajjar

Tom Harb

Bob Heisser

Stuart Kaufman

Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum

Sarah Stern, Endowment for Middle East Truth

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld

Biographies

Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy: Frank Gaffney is the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. The Center is a not-for-profit, non-partisan educational corporation established in 1988. Under Mr. Gaffney’s leadership, the Center has been nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for timely, informed and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters. Mr. Gaffney also contributes actively to the security policy debate in his capacity as a weekly columnist for the Washington Times, TownHall.com, and JewishWorldReview.com. He is a contributor to National Review Online and his columns also appear periodically in WorldNetDaily.com, the New York Post and FrontPageMagazine.com. He is a featured weekly contributor to Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio program and a frequent guest on syndicated programs with hosts like: Lars Larsen, Monica Crowley, Janet Parshall, Michael Reagan and Jim Bohannan. In addition, he appears often on national and international television and radio news programs. Mr. Gaffney is the lead-author of War Footing: Ten Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World (Naval Institute Press, 2005).

Beth Gilinsky: Beth Gilinsky is a civil and human rights leader known for her bold activism on international, national and local issues. A media and political strategist, she is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Tom Harb: Tom Harb is the President of the World Council of the Cedars Revolution WCCR - USA Chapter, a NGO representing Lebanese activists worldwide. In support of the WCCR’s mission, Mr. Harb became particularly influential aiding with other team of Lebanese experts /activists the UN in introducing what is now known as the UNSCR 1559; a resolution centering on the disarmament of all militant and terrorist organizations in Lebanon. Mr Harb became the Secretary General for the International Lebanese Committee for UNSC 1559. Mr. Harb is also Chairman of the American Maronite Union, an alliance working closely with the Maronite American Leadership and the Maronite Lebanese Leadership to preserve Lebanon’s sovereignty and independence. Mr. Harb’s frequent participation and speaking arrangements include appearances at major universities, numerous UN Mission meetings as well as European Parliaments, conferences in Brussels, Paris, Lisbon and Vienna. He has also appeared on media outlets such as MSNBC, Fox News, al-Hurra as well as various radio talk programs.

John Hajjar: John Hajjar is the American Director, World Council for the Cedars Revolution, based in Boston.

Bob Heisser: Bob Heisser is the Managing Partner and founder of The Sequel Group, an Executive Search firm with headquarters in Denver, CO. Prior to founding his firm, Bob was an executive at Tandem Computers and prior to that at Unisys. Bob has been involved in various Christian and Inter-Faith organizations in Colorado, volunteering his time to help bridge the gaps that are perceived to exist between religions. He resides with his wife along with their 6 children, in Centennial, Colorado.

Stuart Kaufman: Mr. Kaufman has over 38 years of experience in all phases of environmental and real estate matters. He is a former principal of the law firm of Fisch & Kaufman, P.C. and, prior to forming his own firm, he was with the law firm of Whitman & Ransom. Before that he was Senior Vice President of E.F. Hutton Properties where he provided environmental and real estate advisory services to Hutton clients and to other groups within Hutton. In 2002, Mr. Kaufman was one of the founders of Fortress Global Investigations (www.fortressglobal.com), an international investigations and security consulting firm. From 1996 through 2005 Mr. Kaufman was principal of Management Recruiters of Great Neck, specializing in recruiting lawyers, real estate and environmental professionals. After closing Management Recruiters, Mr. Kaufman served as Fortress Global’s Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Business Development. He is currently a consultant to the firm

Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum: Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a prize-winning columnist for such newspapers as the New York Sun, Jerusalem Post, National Post, Australian, L’Opinione, and La Razón. His website, DanielPipes.org, is one of the most accessed internet sources of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam. It offers an archive of his work and an opportunity to sign-up to receive e-mails of his writings as they appear. The Wall Street Journal calls Mr. Pipes “an authoritative commentator on the Middle East.” CBS Sunday Morning says he was “years ahead of the curve in identifying the threat of radical Islam.” “Unnoticed by most Westerners,” he wrote for example in 1995, “war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States.” The Boston Globe states that “If Pipes’s admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11.” He received his A.B. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University, both in history, and spent six years studying abroad, including three years in Egypt. Mr. Pipes speaks French, and reads Arabic and German. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the U.S. Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. He served in various capacities in the U.S. government, including two presidentially-appointed positions, vice chairman of the Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships and member of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace. He was director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1986-93.

Sarah Stern, President, Endowment for Middle East Truth: Sarah Stern is the founder and President of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a Washington, D.C. policy center. She worked at National Policy Coordinator for the Zionist Organization of America from 1998 through 2004, and then as the Director of the Office of Legislative and Governmental Affairs of the American Jewish Congress. Sarah had played a major role in the drafting and passage of many pieces of legislation, including the Syria Accountability Act, the Koby Mandell Act, the resolution in support of Israel’s right to build a security fence, and the inappropriateness of the referral to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

She has worked on many other issues which include; the stationing of US troops on the Golan Heights, the sale of the Harpoon block missiles to Egypt, the hiring of Hamas agents to teach at the UNRWA camps, the issue of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in our nation’s college campuses, the treatment of religious minorities by the Moslem world, reform of the United Nations, and energy independence for the free world.

She has testified before the Senate Working Group on Religious Minorities and Human Rights about the treatment of Christians and other religious minorities by the Palestinian Authority, and has testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights on anti-Semitism on our nation’s college campuses.

Sarah was one of a panel of three expert witnesses on the issue of anti-Semitism on our nation’s college campuses. As a result of their testimony, the US Commission on Civil Rights has determined that “anti-Semitism on our nation’s campuses is a grave problem and that Jews are to be considered a protected minority.” Sarah has subsequently been appointed as a Commissioner for the US Commission on Civil Rights representing the state of Maryland. Sarah’s effort in the drafting , lobbying for, and passage of the Koby Mandell Act has resulted in the opening of an Office for the American Victims of Terrorism abroad, in the Department of Justice.

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld: Jeffrey Wiesenfeld was born in the Bronx in 1958, the son of two Holocaust survivors. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and Queens College. He served for four years in the counterintelligence of the FBI, as assistant to Congressman Thomas Manton and Queens Borough president Claire Shulman. He also served four years as Chief-of-Staff to Mayor Koch’s Traffic Commissioner, as New York Metropolitan Area Executive Assistant to United States Senator Alfonse D’Amato, and as Executive Assistant to New York Governor George Pataki for the New York Metropolitan Region. In 1999, Mr. Wiesenfeld became the New York Regional Director of the Empire State Development Corporation. He is currently a Trustee of the City University of New York. His non-government board directorships include: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Trustee); New York Metropolitan Region and National Governing Board of the American Jewish Congress; Berkshire Hills-Emanuel Camps; Queensborough Community College Holocaust Resource Center; Irish Studies Advisory Board of City University of New York; Open University of Israel; National Yiddish Theatre (Chairman of the Board); Jewish Community Relations Council of New York; Salute to Israel Day Parade Committee; North Shore Hebrew Academy; Great Necks Art Center; Rubin Museum of Art Advisory Board. He is a former Director of the United Nations Development Corporation (appointed by the Governor), and is a principal with Bernstein Global Wealth Management.