Karen J. Rubinstein

AZM Staff

Karen J. Rubinstein

Executive Director, American Zionist Movement
Karen Rubinstein is the national Executive Director of the American Zionist Movement. Karen began her tenure at AZM in 1977 as National Program Director. She was promoted to Executive Director in 1981. Under her stewardship Karen introduced a number of innovative programs to the Zionist Movement. These include her organization of a nationwide video conference with then Prime Minister Shimon Peres, which gave leaders in 60 communities the opportunities to dialogue with the Prime Minister through a private television broadcast. In addition, she brought in radical changes in the democratic electoral system of the Zionist Movement, which include expansion of the electorate and the introduction of online voting. Karen graduated from Bennington College in 1968 with a BA in ajoint major of Politics and Russian language studies. She received her MA and MPhil from Columbia University in the Department of Political Science.