
Peter lives in Great Neck, New York and is currently running for the position of Town Councilperson in the Town of North Hempstead. He formerly worked as an associate attorney in the Litigation Department at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York.
In addition to the MirYam Institute, Peter holds a number of leadership roles in various American Jewish organizations, including on the American Jewish Committee's New York Young Professional Board and National Policy Steering Committee, and AIPAC’s Young Leadership Council.
He earned his undergraduate degree at The George Washington University and received his J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Peter also remains involved with Penn Law, where he served as President of the Council of Student Representatives in his final year of school, as an Ambassador for the Graduates of the Last Decade program.
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Bipartisanship is not in vogue at the moment. Over the past few years and now heading into the 2020 election…
American Jews must ask ourselves, to the extent we were not doing so already, what are we doing right now to make our lives safer?
As a new year on the Jewish calendar begins, we are well served to reflect on the year that was 5779. For the American Jewish community, it was unfortunately a year marked with trouble. Without question, the most devastating event that will be remembered this year was the terrorist attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
After a week mired in controversy surrounding another round of anti-semitic statements from Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in which she questioned whether Jewish Americans were truly loyal to the United States, the past few years of GOP leaders blaming America’s ills on shadowy cabals of “globalists” who seem to share the same characteristics inherent in many of the tropes that have been historically used to demonize Jews, the question bears mentioning, should Jewish Americans be worried for our future in the United States?