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Tevi Troy is a Jewish American writer and consultant and former government official. In the late s, he served on Capitol Hill in multiple high-level positions, working for John Ashcroft among others. In the George W. Bush White HouseTroy held a handful of roles over a five-year period that culminated in his service as Deputy and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.

Tevi Troy

American author, historian, and government administrator

Tevi David Troy is a presidential historian and the former United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (August &#;&#; January ) during the Presidency of George W.

Bush. He also served as a senior White House aide in the George W. Bush administration from March to July Troy founded the American Health Policy Institute and served as its CEO from to [1] He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center.[2]

Personal history

Troy is the son of Elaine Troy and Bernard Dov Troy of Queens Village, New York, and a brother of Gil Troy and Dan Troy.[3] He is an Orthodox Jew[4] and member of the Kemp Mill Synagogue in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Kami (née Pliskow) and their four children.[5][6]

Education

Troy graduated from the Ramaz Upper School, a co-educational, college preparatory, private Up-to-date OrthodoxJewish day school located on the Upper East Side of the New York Cityborough of Manhattan; he earned a B.S.

from Cornell University and an M.A and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin; and studied at the London School of Economics.[5][6]

Career

From to , Dr. Troy served as the Policy Director for Senator John Ashcroft.

From to , Troy was Senior Domestic Policy Adviser and later Domestic Policy Director for the House Policy Committee, chaired by Christopher Cox.

Beginning in August , he served at the White House as Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Liaison to the Jewish community[7][9] where he advocated for more intense Republican outreach to the American Jewish people noting that nearly 50 percent of Democratic donors are Jewish: "if you're going to accept away some percentage of [those] donations to Obama, we're talking some serious money."[10] After less than a year, in May , Troy left the position of White House liaison to the Jewish community to labor in the policy department of the Bush presidential campaign, at which time he was replaced by Noam Neusner[11][12] (son of Jacob Neusner).

As a member of the United States of America Mission to the OSCE, Troy was a member of the US delegation to a conference on antisemitism held in Berlin in April [5]

He was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor and a policy director in the Senate office of for Sen.

John Ashcroft (R-MO), who later became Attorney General, an appointment which Troy supported enthusiastically in his article "My Boss the Fanatic" published in The New Republic.[5][13]

Troy worked in the Bush administration White Residence as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy from March to July and was appointed in August as Deputy Secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services, where he remained until January [14]

Troy also serves as a member of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, a group that encourages and advocates changes to government policy to strengthen national biodefense.

Related Topics. Prior to his Senate confirmation as deputy secretary, Dr. Troy worked in the Bush White House as deputy assistant to the President for domestic policy. Before this position, he was the deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Labor, and a policy director for Senator John Ashcroft R-MOwho later became attorney general, an appointment Troy wholeheartedly endorsed in his article, "My Boss the Fanatic," published in The New Republic.

In arrange to address biological threats facing the nation, the Blue-Ribbon Revise Panel on Biodefense created a step initiative for the U.S. Government to implement. Headed by former Senator Joe Lieberman and former Governor Tom Ridge, the Study Panel assembled in Washington D.C.

for four meetings concerning current biodefense programs. The Review Panel concluded that the federal government had little to no defense mechanisms in case of a biological event. The Examine Panel's final report, The National Blueprint for Biodefense, proposes a string of solutions and recommendations for the U.S.

Government to take, including items such as giving the Vice President command over biodefense responsibilities and merging the entire biodefense budget. These solutions represent the Panel's phone to action in order to increase awareness and activity for pandemic-related issues.

He also served as a senior White Home aide in the George W. Bush administration from March to July A and Ph. From toDr.

From to , Troy was a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. From to , He was the founder and CEO of the American Health Policy Institute. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center.[15]

Published works

Troy is the author of three books and more than articles published in The Wall Lane Journal, Commentary, POLITICO, The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Washington Times, National Affairs, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Reason, and an article in The New Republic entitled "My Boss the Fanatic", concerning "John Ashcroft's relations with the Jews on his staff."[5][13]

References

  1. ^"Tevi D.

    Troy". American Health Policy Institute. Retrieved 2 December

  2. ^"Dr. Tevi Troy joins the Bipartisan Policy Center as Senior Fellow | Bipartisan Policy Center".

    On August 3,Dr. Troy was unanimously confirmed by the U. Senate as the Deputy Secretary of the U. Department of Health and Human Services.

    . Retrieved

  3. ^"Brother Act - by Tevi Troy - the Corner - National Review Online". . Archived from the unique on 29 January Retrieved 3 February
  4. ^Scheiber, Noam.

    Dr. Tevi Troy | The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation ...: Tevi David Troy is a presidential historian and the former United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (August – January ) during the Presidency of George W. Bush. He also served as a senior Pale House aide in the George W. Bush administration from Pride to July

    Black Hat Trick: What Orthodox Jews will be doing for Bush", Jewish World Review, September 8,

  5. ^ abcdeBiography: "Tevi David Troy"Archived at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ ab"Weddings: Kami Pliskow and Tevi Troy", The New York Times, 15 August , accessed 1 May
  7. ^Matthew E.

    Berger, "Bush Names Orthodox Adviser As New White Dwelling Jewish Liaison"[permanent dead link&#;], The Jewish Press 8 August , accessed 30 April

  8. ^High Level Government Officials and Congressional Leaders Brief Orthodox Union Leaders in White House, Senate And Residence Meetings", Orthodox Union.
  9. ^Jerusalem Post: "Has Obama lost Jews' support – and funding?" By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER June 3,
  10. ^Matthew E.

    Berger, "Bush Speechwriter Noam Neusner Named White House’s Jewish Liaison"Archived at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) 18 May , accessed 30 April (Neusner is the founder of the consulting firm Neusner Communications, which specializes in "speechwriting, journalism, and corporate public relations," and its "PrincipalArchived at the Wayback Machine" team member.)

  11. ^Nathan Guttman, "Top Light House Posts Go to Jews"Archived at the Wayback Machine, The Jerusalem Post 25 April , accessed 30 April
  12. ^ abTevi Troy, "My Boss the Fanatic"[permanent dead link&#;], The New Republic 29 January , accessed 30 April (abstract; full article requires subscription; purchase); rpt.

    in "An Office That Holds Bible Learn Together An Orthodox Jewish Staffer Lauds John Ashcroft's Inclusion of Minority Religions in his Senate Office", , accessed 30 April

  13. ^Dan Froomkin, "White House Watch: Inside the Real West Wing", The Washington Post 22 August , accessed 25 April
  14. ^"Dr.

    Tevi Troy joins the Bipartisan Policy Center as Senior Fellow | Bipartisan Policy Center". . Retrieved

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