David Jonathan Waksberg (born December 14, 1956, in New York City), was a leading activist in the Soviet Jewry Movement during the 1980s and early 1990s.
He organized numerous protest demonstrations and vigils to raise public awareness of the plight of Jews in the USSR.
[3] In 1985 Waksberg became National Vice-President of BACSJ's umbrella organization, the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.
[4] In 1990 Waksberg took on the role of Director of the Center for Jewish Renewal, newly established by UCSJ.
The CJR established a network of human rights and emigration bureaus in major cities of the former Soviet Union.