• Source: List of Jewish American activists

This is a list of notable Jewish American activists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.




A


Dinah Abrahamson (1954–2013), politician and activist for the African-American Lubavitch community
Martin Abern (1898–1949), communist youth movement leader
Bernard Ades (1903–1986), civil rights lawyer
Lori Alhadeff (born 1975), school safety activist
Saul Alinsky (1909–1972), community activist and theorist
Gloria Allred (born 1941), lawyer and radio talk show host
Lindsay Amer, LGBTQ Youtuber and activist
Stanley Aronowitz (1933–2021), sociologist, civil rights activist, and labor leader




B


Ady Barkan, founding member of the Center for Popular Democracy and progressive activist on monetary policy and healthcare issues
Michael Berg (born 1945), environmental activist and Green Party candidate
Heather Booth, civil rights activist and community organizer




C


Maximilian Cohen, American Socialist Party leader
Zipporah Michelbacher Cohen (1853–1944), American civic leader




D


Serge Dedina, environmental activist and politician




E


Adam Eli, LGBTQ activist and writer




F


Abraham Feinberg, anti-Vietnam war activist
David B. Feinberg, novelist and AIDS activist with ACT UP
Leslie Feinberg, communist butch lesbian transgender organizer.
Ada Fisher (1947–2022), physician and perennial issues candidate
Clara Fraser, founder of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, LGBTQ activist and first openly transgender White House staffer
Betty Friedan (1921–2006), feminist writer and women's movement activist
Sandra Froman, President of the National Rifle Association (NRA), second female president and first Jewish president




G


Marshall Ganz, civil rights and labor activist, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Alicia Garza (born 1981), civil rights and Black Lives Matter activist
Joseph Gelders (1898-1950), Alabama physicist and activist who cofounded the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax
Pamela Geller, pro-Israel activist, author, commentator
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), labor leader who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as its first president
Andrew Goodman (1943-1964), civil rights activist who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while working with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) during Freedom Summer 1964
Sally Gottesman, consultant for non-profits
Jack Greenberg (1924-2016), attorney, legal scholar, and activist who served as Director-Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund




H


Morris Hillquit (1869-1933), labor lawyer, a central founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), Polish-American rabbi and participant in the Selma to Montgomery marches during the American Civil Rights Movement
Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989), prominent anti-war activist during the 1960s counterculture movement, and member of the Chicago Seven
Judith Heumann (1947-2023), internationally recognized disability rights activist who was known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement"
Dario Hunter (born 1983), environmental activist attorney and first Muslim-born man to be ordained a rabbi




J


Rashida Jones (born 1976), actress, director, writer, and peace activist




K


Franklin E. Kameny, gay rights leader
Larry Kramer (1935–2020), LGBT rights activist and playwright
Julie Kushner (born 1952), trade union organizer




L


Sandra Lawson (born 1970), social justice activist and the first ever openly gay black female rabbi
Karen Lewis (labor leader) (1953–2021), educator and labor leader
Leon L. Lewis (1888–1954), attorney and spy who infiltrated and disrupted American Nazi movements before and during World War II, and who served as the first national secretary of the Anti-Defamation League
Ben Linder (1959–1987), engineer and internationalist murdered by Contras while working on hydroelectric projects in Nicaragua
Mark Levin (born 1957), host of a syndicated radio show and a show on Fox News, who worked in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and as a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese.




M


Kenneth L. Marcus, attorney and activist who founded the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights in the administration of President Donald Trump.
Henry Moskowitz (1880-1936), civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)




P


Frances Fox Piven, political scientist, sociologist, and welfare rights activist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, cosmologist, science writer, and equality activist
Dean Preston, member of San Francisco Board of Supervisors, civil rights attorney and tenant rights advocate




R


Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer, writer and anti-tobacco activist; son of Carl Reiner
Shais Rishon, rabbi and anti-racism activist
David A Rose (judge) (1906–1995), activist for human rights and against anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish bias
Zelda Rubinstein (1933–2010), actress and human rights activist




S


Max Shachtman, American Marxist and labor activist
Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972), sociologist, feminist activist, and labor union leader
Sarah Schulman, writer, historian, and LGBTQ activist
Michael Schwerner (1939-1964), civil rights activist who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while working with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) during Freedom Summer 1964
Robert E Segal, activist for displaced people; for housing for Puerto Ricans against discrimination and against anti Semitism.
Norman Siegel (born 1943), civil liberties activist and attorney
Michael Signer, attorney and politician
Arthur Spingarn, attorney and activist who served as the third president of the NAACP
Joel Elias Spingarn, literary critic and activist who served as the second president of the NAACP
Gloria Steinem, journalist and activist who is a major figure in second-wave feminism in the United States




W


Naomi Wadler (born 2006), student activist against gun violence
Louis Waldman (1892–1982), labor lawyer and founding member of the Social Democratic Federation
Rebecca Walker (born 1969), feminist writer
Bret Weinstein, biology professor and free speech advocate
Shatzi Weisberger (1930–2022), nurse, death educator, and activist who provided care to people suffering from AIDS, organized with ACT UP, and participated in numerous other activist movements
Harold Willens (1914–2003), anti-nuclear weapons activist




See also


Jewish left




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