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Ruth W Messinger

2017 Manhattan Jewish Hall of Fame Inductee

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Ruth Messinger is the inaugural Global Ambassador of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international human rights and development organization which she served as President and CEO from 1998 to July 2016. As Global Ambassador, she works to engage rabbis and global interfaith leaders on behalf of oppressed and persecuted communities worldwide. In this capacity she sits on the Interfaith Task Force of the Moral Imperative to end poverty for the World Bank.

In addition, Ruth is serving as a Fellow in Social Justice at the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York and as the Social Justice Activist at the Manhattan JCC, and is mentoring the CEOs of several smaller not-for-profit organizations. She is also doing a consultancy project on child marriage/child labor for AIDS Free World. Before coming to AJWS, Ruth had a 20-year career in public service in New York City as a city council member and as Manhattan Borough President, and was the Democratic candidate for Mayor in 1997. Ruth has three children, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren; is married to Andrew Lachman, an educator; and still skis and bike rides. She is an active member of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism.
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