Remembering
Richard Fishman, architect of AIPAC’s shift to political fundraising, dies at 62
The lobby group’s co-CEO first joined the organization in 1985
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From left to right: Co-CEO of AIPAC Richard Fishman, then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) and longtime AIPAC staffer Jonathan Kessler.
Richard Fishman, AIPAC’s co-CEO and the architect of its major recent policy shift toward political fundraising and away from grassroots advocacy, died on Tuesday following a yearslong battle with cancer. He was 62.
Born in 1961 in New Jersey,...