Fern Hurst
Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of CLAL
Fern K. Hurst, a Jewish leader and champion for pluralism, was recently named the new Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Ms. Hurst succeeds Thomas O. Katz, Esq. as Chairman of the organization.
Active in CLAL since the late 1980’s, Ms. Hurst has been a member of the Board for many years, most recently in the position of Associate Chair/Secretary. Long active in the work of the organization, she was a member of the delegation that went to the 2004 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona, the pre-eminent interfaith forum, and has been a key participant in CLAL’s annual workshops in Aspen, Colorado.
In addition to her participation at CLAL, Ms. Hurst is a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC, and was the founding president of The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York. She is a member of the Business Council of the Democratic National Committee, and a member of the Democratic Leadership Council. She is also on the board of Goucher College, from which she holds a B.A, and is an overseer of the School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania, from which she holds a Masters of City Planning.
Fern co-hosted Rule of Law, Investigations, Testing the New Supremes in 2019 and hosted a Meet & Greet: The Right Honorable David Miliband in 2016 at The Common Good.
