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David Saperstein is an American rabbi, lawyer, and Jewish community leader.[1] He has served as the director and chief legal counsel at the Union for Reform Judaism's Religious Action Center for more than 30 years.[2] Saperstein succeeded Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch as leader of the Washington D.C.-based political lobbying arm of the North American Reform movement. There, he advocates on a broad range of social justice issues. He directs a staff who provide extensive legislative and programmatic materials to synagogues, federations and Jewish Community Relations Councils nationwide, coordinating social action education programs that train nearly 3,000 Jewish adults, youth, rabbinic and lay leaders each year.[2] He has been described as America’s most influential rabbi.[3]
He currently co-chairs the Coalition to Preserve Religious Liberty, and serves on the boards of the NAACP and People For the American Way. In 1999, Saperstein was elected as the first Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.[4]
On August 28, 2008, Saperstein delivered the invocation at the [7]
On July 28, 2014, President Obama nominated Saperstein to be the first non-Christian to hold the post of United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Saperstein must be confirmed by the United States Senate. [8]
Saperstein lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, former National Public Radio vice president for news Ellen Weiss. [9]
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