AJC, The American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, and the JCRC of Greater Washington invite you to the next session in our brown bag lunch speakers' series: Religious Accommodation at a Crossroads
Featuring: Richard Foltin, Fellow for Religious Freedom at the Freedom Forum
For information about future lunch discussions, please contact Cheryl Crandell or 202-728-3039.
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Richard Foltin Fellow for Religious Freedom at the Freedom Forum
Richard Foltin is a Fellow for Religious Freedom at the Freedom Forum, where he periodically writes and speaks on religious freedom issues. Previously, Mr. Foltin served in a number of senior positions at AJC (American Jewish Committee), most recently as its Director of National and Legislative Affairs in Washington, DC. In that last role, Mr. Foltin was responsible for AJC policy and advocacy on a broad range of domestic and legislative issues, including religious liberty, civil rights, immigration, energy security, and combating domestic antisemitism and anti-Israel boycotts.
In 2009, Mr. Foltin received the Dorothy Height Coalition Building Award from the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), in 1999 was named as a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (a legal honorary society affiliated with the ABA). A native of New York City and a child of Holocaust survivors, Mr. Foltin received his B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Political Science from New York University and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the bars of New York State, Washington DC, and the U.S. Supreme Court.