Robert Horenstein has served as Chief Community Relations and Public Affairs Officer for the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland since 1994. In this role, Horenstein has directed the Federation’s efforts to safeguard the social safety net, promote civil rights, and combat antisemitism and other forms of bigotry. He is also a freelance writer, having been published in the Oregonian, Jerusalem Post and The Forward, and served as a regular contributor to the Jerusalem Report (2007-2025), an English-language bimonthly Israeli magazine. Horenstein has been awarded the American Jewish Press Association Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary, and he was recognized by the Oregon Society of Professional Journalists for Excellence in Journalism. He speaks frequently before government organizations, grassroots human rights groups, and schools and has lectured, among other places, in Juneau, Alaska, Springfield, Illinois, Vancouver, B.C., and at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. Horenstein earned a master’s degree in political science, specializing in Middle East politics, from Portland State University in 1993.
