Peter Tarlow
Peter E. Tarlow (born May 4, 1946) is an American expert in tourism safety, a security consultant, and a professor at Texas A&M University. He founded Tourism & More Inc. and has advised Arlington, Texas on security for Super Bowl XLV. His work in tourism safety is widely cited in the media, and he has spoken at events like The Intelligence Summit in 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology and teaches “tourism safety” to police chiefs around the world.
Tarlow is a Reform rabbi and was the executive director of Texas A&M Hillel from 1983 to 2013. In 2016, Governor Greg Abbott appointed him chair of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, a position he held through 2019. He authored Event Risk Management and Safety and has written or contributed to several books on government, tourism security, and personal resilience, including The 2020 Election: A Survival Guide and Personal Resilience: Survival Strategies for Pandemic Times.
He co-founded the Center for Latino-Jewish Relations (CLJR), which aims to foster collaboration between Latino and Jewish communities and to advocate for Israel in Latino communities across North and Latin America. CLJR is certified as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) to provide affordable housing. Tarlow was ordained as a Reform rabbi at Hebrew Union College in 1974 and served as an assistant rabbi at Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1974 to 1977. He is married to Sara Alpern Tarlow, and they have three children.
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