January 10, 2007
 
To Our AJC Community:
 
It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Jewish Committee has a new Executive Director, Seth Brysk, who will be moving with his family from Boston to join the chapter in the spring.
 
The selection of Seth is the result of an extensive nationwide search led by Immediate Past President and Chairman Peter Weil and our search committee in consultation with lay leadership and local and national staff.  We should all feel a sense of enormous gratitude to Peter for his wisdom in guiding the search committee’s procedure and deliberations.  I likewise am grateful to the search committee members and all of the chapter’s lay leaders who earnestly participated in evaluating the choices and made this exceedingly important search a priority in their busy lives. 
 
It was a superb process and the proof, I believe, is in the result.  Seth comes to us as Director of the Israel Action Center of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Boston, one of the strongest JCRC’s in the country.  There he’s worked closely with many Jewish organizations, including the AJC’s Boston Chapter, which is how Seth came to our attention.
 
Previously, Seth was the Executive Director of San Francisco Hillel for 6 years.  Before that, he fulfilled compulsory military service and basic training in the Israel Defense Forces.  Seth obtained his Bachelor of Arts with Honors majoring in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Arts at Tel Aviv University, majoring in International Relations with a concentration in Conflict Resolution.
 
Seth was born in Southern California and looks forward to spending Passover this year with his parents and sister in San Diego, along with his wife, Jennifer, and their one-year-old child, Noa.
 
I know that you are all eager to welcome Seth to Los Angeles.  There will be opportunities for you to meet him soon that we will communicate to you as our plans develop.  Until then, please join me in wishing him Mazel Tov!
 
With very best regards,
Sherry A. Weinman
President