Shoshana Dweck

Shoshana Dweck is a member of the WRJ Executive Committee and the Executive Board of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), and represents WRJ on the Religious Action Center’s Commission on Social Action. She also sits on the National Commission of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Shoshana is co-chair of ARZENU, the international political voice of Reform, Progressive, Religious and Liberal Zionists that represents the Reform Movement in the World Zionist Congress and the National Institutions of Israel. She serves on the Executive of the Jewish Agency and the Expanded Executive of the World Zionist Organization. 

A second-generation activist in the worlds of WRJ and Reform Zionism, Shoshana has been vice president of ARZA and vice chair of the United Israel Appeal. She is a board member of the American Zionist Movement (AZM). A recovering lawyer and engineer, she was a member of the WRJ then-District 3 (now Northeast District) Board and the sisterhood president and board member of Temple Shaaray Tefila in Bedford Corners, New York. As WRJ Social Justice VP, Shoshana helped to launch “WRJ says STOP: an Initiative against Sexual Harassment and Assault.” Shoshana is a former local Federation President and chaired the New York Says Thank You Foundation and its “Stars of HOPE” healing arts work that supports individuals and communities around the world impacted by mass tragedies. She is the proud mother of three sons, one cat, and two grandkitties.