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Bio - Rand Fishbein
Rand Fishbein, Ph.D. is President of Fishbein
Associates, Inc., a public-policy consulting firm based in Potomac, Maryland.
His company advises government and industry clients on a wide range of national
security and foreign policy matters. He is a former Professional Staff Member of
the U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee and a former Foreign
Policy/Intelligence Analyst on the Senate Iran-Contra Committee. Dr. Fishbein
earned his Ph.D., with distinction, in International Relations/Middle East
Studies from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in
Washington, D.C. He served as a fellow in Brussels at the North Atlantic
Assembly, the inter-parliamentary forum of NATO, and was awarded a Fulbright
fellowship to St. Antony's College at Oxford University and another Fulbright
fellowship to the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of
London.
Dr. Fishbein is an inveterate family historian. He began his research in 1995
and in the years since has added dozens of new branches and thousands of names
to the family tree. While serving on the staff of the U.S. Senate Appropriations
Committee, Dr. Fishbein was the person primarily responsible for saving the
second oldest Jewish burial ground, the Bassatine Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt, from
destruction. He also secured emergency U.S. Government funding for the rescue
and preservation of what remained of the Kamenets Podolskiy Archives following a
fire in 2003. In 2012, Dr. Fishbein and his daughter, Aliza Fishbein,
contributed to the JewishGen Online World Burial Registry (JOWBR) the records of
20,664 burials of Jewish military personnel interred in non-federal or state
government cemeteries. Dr. Fishbein has served on the JewishGen Board of
Governors since 2009 and as its Vice-Chair since 2012. The Fishbeins have been
proud members of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Great Washington for over a
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