P.J. Cherrin

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P.J. Cherrin

P.J. Cherrin serves the Jewish Community Relation Council as its Assistant Director, Public Affairs. Cherrin represents the Jewish community to media, government officials and interfaith leadership. Cherrin's primary responsibility is to coordinate Council's programs that create a community of activists.  His portfolio at Council includes government relations, grassroots activism and advocacy, intergroup relations, and Council's public policy agenda.

A graduate of Michigan State University's (MSU) James Madison College, where he founded MSU's Jewish Student Union, Cherrin received his law degree from the MSU College of Law and is a member of the Bar in both Michigan and New Jersey. Spending two years of his academic life in Israel, he attended Hebrew University during his junior year and followed his graduation from law school with a year of study at Yeshivat Darche Noam. 

Cherrin began his career as an attorney in New York City, where he supported victims of the Nazi regime in the recovery of wartime slave labor compensation. He later directed operations and program development at Pulse220, a marketing and communications firm in Southfield, MI. In addition to his work at the Jewish Community Relations Council, Cherrin teaches eighth grade at the Congregation Shaarey Zedek religious school and operates Memoir Press, a publisher of custom personal history books.

Cherrin joined cw50's 'Street Beat' in 2009 as a community correspondent. E-mail PJ

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