Amelia Katzen

Jewish News Syndicate

Amelia Welt Katzen is the co-founder and Vice President of Jewish News Syndicate, an online news service focusing on Israel and the Middle East for Jewish community newspapers. She spent twenty years at the New England regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Senior Enforcement Counsel, overseeing hazardous waste management and emergency response laws.

Amelia began her career focusing on commercial real estate in the Boston office of Sullivan & Worcester, later joining Kassler & Feuer and Hassman & Rackstein. She is a founding board member and current board clerk of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Boston Lyric Opera.

Amelia holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University, graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is married to Joshua Katzen, a Boston real estate developer, and has three adult children and one grandchild.