Shelley Rubin

Shelley Rubin is the wife of late JDL International Chairman Irv Rubin, and is currently the chairman and CEO of the USA-based, far-right, Kahanist group, the Jewish Defense League. She is responsible for ideological and strategic direction, organizational development, activities coordination and daily administration of JDL. Shelley has been a member of JDL since 1979, served from 1985–2006 as Administrative Director, primarily under the leadership of her husband, late JDL International Chairman Irv Rubin, and has served as Chairman and CEO of JDL since 2006.

In 1982, she was arrested during a scuffle at a Carter rally, as she carried a Reagan-Bush poster.

In 1985, while she was administrative director of The Jewish Defense League, she said she and her husband had received "nothing but supportive feedback" from Fairfax area merchants in a preliminary opinion poll in which they sought support to change the name of Fairfax Avenue to Raoul Wallenberg Boulevard, in honor of a Swedish diplomat who saved Jews during World War II.

In 1988 she was editor of the B'nai B'rith Messenger.

In 2002, after her husband's death she called for an investigation, saying he would not have comitted suicide.

She and and Maureen Feller filed suit in 2010 in Los Angeles Superior Court asking a judge to prohibit the city of Lancaster City Council sessions from including "a prayer wherein the name of Jesus Christ is invoked," after attending a meeting where that took place. She said of the invocation which named Jesus Christ the "only one mediator between God and man" by the Rev. Martin Brauer: "He's showing a lack of respect for every American who doesn't share his brand of religion". She filed the suit three weeks after Lancaster voters supported a ballot vote to allow the prayers. The case was assigned to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Susan Bryant-Deason. In June 2011, Judge Dale Fischer of the U.S. Central District Court found against her and her co-plaintiff.