Elizabeth Fine

Director of International Relations and Development, Moscow Representative Office, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Elizabeth’s experience in corporate America and involvement in the Jewish community as a professional and lay leader are notable, but it was her 1989 Bat Mitzvah that inspired her work with JDC today. Paired with a young Soviet Jew prohibited from having a bat mitzvah herself, Elizabeth began to understand the challenges of the global Jewish community. Twenty-one years later, she joined JDC in Russia to help a new generation of Russian Jews reclaim their Jewish identity and learn how to lead Jewish communities that are uniquely their own.

Elizabeth started as a JDC Jewish Service Corps fellow and later became the director of International Relations and Development. While a corporate litigator in Chicago, she served as a member of JFNA’s National Young Leadership Cabinet and was active with JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.  Prior to law school at University of Michigan, she worked in government relations for UJA-Federation of New York and JFNA.

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