Leaders of AFSI

Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, was elected Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) on August 11, 2024.

“At this critical moment for Israel and the Jewish people, it’s vital for friends of Israel to speak out,” Phillips said. “In the months ahead, AFSI will play a leading role in pro-Israel activism from coast to coast.”

A past board member of the American Zionist Movement, Phillips previously served as National Director of the U.S. division of Herut, and on the staff of CAMERA (Philadelphia). He also was a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress, and editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement.

Having joined AFSI's Philadelphia chapter in the 1980s when he was a school student, Moshe Phillips first joined AFSI's Board of Directors in 2013.

Phillips’s op-eds and letters have been published widely in the United States and Israel, including in the Jerusalem Post, Washington Jewish Week, Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, Algemeiner, Jewish Press, Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Five Towns Jewish Times, Baltimore Jewish Times, and Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, among many other publications.

Judy has been working with Americans For a Safe Israel since 2012. She began as Director of Special Projects, served as Co-Executive Director alongside Helen Freedman, z"l and now leads AFSI as Director.  She has planned and executed many AFSI meetings, represented AFSI at numerous functions and has been interviewed by various press outlets in her capacity as AFSI Director.

During her years at AFSI, Judy has become familiar with all of the organization's Israeli contacts, their American counterparts, and has developed great cooperative efforts with them.  Together, she and Helen planned many AFSI Chizuk missions and co-lead the trips together. Judy continues to plan and lead AFSI Chizuk Mission trips to Israel.

Judy earned her J.D. at The Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.  Her practice consisted primarily of Trust and Estate and Real Estate law. Prior to joining AFSI, Judy had many years of volunteer and paid experience working with non-profit organizations in leadership positions. She is also the very proud mother of two stellar young women and is grateful to have had the experience of raising them.

She is thrilled to be able to combine her years of varied knowledge and apply them to her work with AFSI.

Creator and editor of the blog, Ruthfully Yours, a daily summary of articles related to Israel.

Author of two books on Israeli politics (Israel Divided and Party and Politics of Israel), co-author Coercive Utopians and Madness in the Streets. Her most recent book is an expose of the global warming hoax, Roosters of the Apocalypse.