Biography - Robert J. Meth

Dr. Robert Meth was Chairman of NCSJ from 2002-2006, NCSJ President from 2000-2002, and is involved in a variety of leadership activities in his local Jewish community of Los Angeles and nationally.  He is an alumnus of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet and remains part of the United Jewish Communities (UJC) National Training Center.  In conjunction with UJA, he traveled to the Soviet Union twice to meet with refuseniks in Moscow and Leningrad. He has returned to meet with government and community leaders in Moscow, Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) since the Soviet collapse, as well as in Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus, and with Russian Jewish emigres in Israel and Berlin.   Bobby represented NCSJ at the June 2003 international conference on anti-Semitism, held in Vienna by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), at the April 2004 follow-up conference in Berlin, and at the February 2003 International Conference on Peace and Harmony in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Bobby was Chairman of the 1994 UJA Maimonides Mission to Israel and co-chaired the 1991-93 Los Angeles Operation Exodus Campaign, which raised the funds to absorb the massive Soviet Jewish aliyah to Israel. He has served in several capacities with the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, including the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, and is former Chairman of the Jewish Community Relations Committee’s Soviet Jewry Commission. Bobby has participated in the annual February Israel missions of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Bobby has represented NCSJ in a variety of media outlets, including Adelphia Channel's "Beyond the Beltway" with Bill Rosendahl and WABC Radio's "Batchelor and Alexander". Bobby Meth also serves on the Boards of Directors of the American Society for Yad Vashem, and formerly of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. He is a member of the American Jewish Committee, the Washington Club of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. A New Jersey native, Bobby received his B.A. and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a partner in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Read L.A. Jewish Journal profile of Robert Meth Read L.A. Jewish Journal article by Robert Meth and Joel Schindler Read NY Jewish Week article by Robert Meth and Joel Schindler   Contact Robert J. Meth ... in Berlin with Rabbis Yakov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, and Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt Ron Sachs/CNP ... with Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-OH) and Amb. Boudewijn Johannes Van Eenennaam of the Netherlands, at NCSJ Annual Meeting ... in Almaty with NCSJ Executive Director Mark Levin, attending the International Conference on Peace and Harmony	Dr. Robert J. Meth, center, with NCSJ Executive Director Mark Levin and Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Jones, during OSCE Berlin Conference on Anti-Semitism (In background: Secretary of State Colin Powell)  ... briefing Secretary of State Powell on Russian issues during NGO meeting in Berlin ... in Moscow with (l.-r.) NCSJ Executive Director Mark Levin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and NCSJ Board of Governors Member Allen Kronstadt ... addressing OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism, June 2003, in Vienna ... in Vienna with former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, head of U.S. delegation to OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS ... in Moscow (at far left), with fellow American Jewish leaders, visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin at Kremlin ... greeting Amb. Daniel Fried, Special Assistant to the President and the National Security Council's Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs  (photo: Ron Sachs/CNP)
Conference of Presidents ... with then-NCSJ Chairman Harold Paul Luks and Natan Sharansky in Jerusalem, February 2001 Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk ... visiting Jewish community clinic in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine Ron Sachs/CNP ... with Robert Zwang, Executive Director of the Federation - Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut	Ron Sachs/CNP ... with (at left) Ambassador Shavkat Khamrakulov of Uzbekistan and (at right) Ambassador Baktybek Abdrisayev of the Kyrgyz Republic, December 2002 Conference of Presidents ... in Jerusalem with Shimon Peres, during Israel mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, February 2002 ... discussing the Jackson-Vanik Amendment during the JCPA Plenum in Washington, DC, February 2002