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“The Jewish Agency is the core Zionist organization that oversees the Zionist fund-raising around the world. It is the executive of the UJA and the Keren movement. These are the real terrorists in our midst.” –Christopher Bollyn, http://www.bollyn.com/index.php
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Jewish Agency for Israel-USA: 633 3rd Ave, 21st Floor; New York NY 10017 (212) 339-6000 Fax: 212-318-6121 | CEO Maxyne Finkelstein E-mail: Maxynef@jafi.org | http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Home/ | International Offices.
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“The Jewish Agency was established by the World Zionist Organization at the 16th Zionist Congress, in August 11, 1929 as a partnership between the WZO and non-Zionist Jewish leaders, among them such luminaries as Louis Marshall , Leon Blum, and Felix Warburg, etc.” – http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/History
[If you encounter broken links, see here: http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Board+of+Governors/Members+of+the+BOG
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Shakeup at top of Jewish Agency continues. By Jacob Berkman · March 1, 2010: http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2010/03/01/1010857/shakeup-at-top-of-jewish-agency-continues.
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Richard L. Pearlstone – Chairman Of The Board Of Governors
“…Richard (Richie) Pearlstone is the new Chairperson of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors since June 2007. He was elected in February 2007 for a term of four years. Richie Pearlstone served in the past as the Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee and he is a member of the Executive. A past President of the UJA, he served as its National Chairman and National Vice-Chairman. He has also served on the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee of the Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore as well as President and Chair of the Campaign in Aspen, etc.” | Chairman and CEO of the Pearlstone Group – an Aspen-based real estate development and financial services company. Three children, P Justin, Jacqueline Lana, Remy Joseph, wife Karen, grandsons Zachary and Jordan.
-Richard L Pearlstone 18 Westview Dr; Aspen, CO 81611-2247 (970) 925-4313 [60-64]
-Richard L Pearlstone “address unavailable”; Baltimore, MD (410) 532-2263
-Aliyah, Chairman 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6063
-phone: 02-6202450 / Mobile: fax: 02-6202303 / -e-mail: richiep@jafi.org
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Natan Sharansky – Chairman Of Jewish Agency Executive
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Profile/Sharansky.htm | http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Sharansky_Natan | …married to Avital, with whom he has two daughters, Rachel and Hannah.-Benador Associates, Natan Sharansky 40 E 78th St; New York, NY 10075-1830 (212) 717-9966
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Hagai Meirom - Jewish Agency Treasurer
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Profile/Meirom.htm - Married to Malka and father of Sagi, Maya, and Maccabi. …”israel”.-Jewish Agency American Section, Treasurer, Hagai Meirom 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049 -e-mail: hagaim@jafi.org.
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Alan Hoffmann - Jewish Agency Director General
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Profile/Hoffman.htm - “…As Director General of the Jewish Agency, Alan is responsible for implementing the policies of the Board and Executive, all operations and administration, the multi-year strategy and operating plan, interdepartmental coordination and supervising the senior management staff, etc.” …lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Nadia. They have four children.******
Moshe Vigdor – Previous Jewish Agency Director General
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Profile/Vigdor.htm - Moshe is married to Magi. Magi and Moshe have three children and two grandchildren.-Jewish Agency American Section, Director, Moshe Vigdor 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049
-American Friends of the Hebrew University, Vice President, Moshe Vigdor 1 Battery Park Plz; New York, NY 10004-1405 (212) 809-4430
-Jewish Agency American Section, Director, Moshe Vigdor 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049
-American Friends of the Hebrew University, Vice President, Moshe Vigdor 1 Battery Park Plz; New York, NY 10004-1405 (212) 809-4430 | -e-mail: Moshev@jafi.org
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Zeev Bielski – Previous Chair of the Executive
-?>Gentle Hair Cuts, Zeev Bielski 2043 University Ave; Berkeley, CA 94704-1005 (510) 848-7300
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Harvey Blitz is the President of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, which represents hundreds of Orthodox synagogues throughout North America. Prior to becoming President, he served as Senior Vice-President and as Treasurer of the organization. Harvey Blitz is a Senior Vice-President at AXA Financial, Inc., a large financial services company in New York City. Born in Detroit, he holds a BA from Wayne State University, a law degree from the University of Chicago, and an MA degree from New York University. He lives in New York. …member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since September 2001. …Spouse: Judy
-Harvey E Blitz 7219 137th St; Flushing, NY 11367-2310 (718) 793-9699 [Age: 65+ / Household: Judith R Blitz]
-Job: Jewish Agency American Section, Board of Directors 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049
-7 NY and 1 Mi: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Harvey+&name=Blitz&where=
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Breakstone is head of the Department for Zionist Activity of the World Zionist Organization. …made Aliyah from the United States in 1974. …has been a member of the Board of Governors since January 2001.******
…head of the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization. …immigrated to Israel from the United States in 1974. 3 listings here (NY, Ma.), in case:******
Paula Edelstein is Executive Director of ARZENU, the International Federation of Reform and Progressive Religious Zionists. She also serves as chairperson of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism. / She made “aliyah” from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1972. (Again, in case: )-5 (NY, NJ, Ca): http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Paula+&name=Edelstein++&where=
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Amos Hermon (no longer listed in exec. OR bog)
(<-?) …member of the Board of the Pincus Fund and of the Joint Program. “israel”.******
Laufman has been elected the Head of the WZO Settlement Division and he serves as a Member of the Jewish Agency Executive and as a member of the WZO Executive since January 2008. …”israel”
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Executive Chairman of the Peres Center for “Peace” and a member of the board of the Yitzhak Rabin Center. …”israel”.******
Hagai Meirom (see above)
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Avi Pazner is World Chairman of Keren Hayesod. A veteran diplomat, Avi Pazner was formerly Israel’s ambassador to France and, before that, to Italy, Malta and Albania. Previous positions have included senior adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, and Counselor at the Israeli embassy in Washington. In addition to his role at Keren Hayesod, Avi Pazner currently serves as an official spokesman for the Israeli government. Born in Danzig (Gdansk), he spent World War II in Switzerland, immigrating to Israel with his family at the age of 16. He served in the Armored Corps of the IDF and is a graduate of the Hebrew University. Ambassador Pazner has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 1998.
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Ofra Strauss is Chairman of the Board of the Strauss-Elite Group, having held a variety of positions since she joined the company in 1989. She holds a law degree from Tel Aviv University and studied business management at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business.Ofra Strauss served as chairman of the “Adopt a Soldier” foundation from 1997 to 1998 and is a former chairman of WIZO’s local fund-raising campaign. A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors from June 2002, she served as the Co- Chair of the Mobilizing Israeli Society Subcommittee. She is a member of the Jewish Agency Executive. “israel”.
* B. in israhell…from 1987 to 1989, she was in the International marketing services and training program at Estée Lauder. In 1989, she joined the family-owned company, The Strauss Ice-cream company, becoming Deputy President and CEO in 1996.
In 2005, she was ranked 42 by Fortune Magazine as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Business”. In 2006, she became a member of the Supervisory Board of Numico. – wiki.
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Kibbutz Beit Nir.******
President and CEO of “Iscar ltd.”, a company established by his father in the 50’s, among the leading companies in the world in its field. …He has control and involvement in companies located in the US, Germany, China and Korea, as well as with high-tech and investment management start-ups. He is also President of BTI and Chairman of the Board of a joint venture with Rolls Royce PLC.…He received an honorary police commissioner award from NYPD and received the prize “exceptional exporter” and several other prizes on behalf of “Iscar”. …graduate of Harvard Business School.
-Job: Iscar Metals, President 300 Westway Pl; Arlington, TX 76018-1021 (817) 258-3200
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Bruce Arbit is the Chairman of United Israel Appeal. He also serves as President of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and a member of its Israel & Overseas Committee. He served as General Campaign Chair of the Milwaukee Federation’s Community Campaigns in 2000 and 2001 and as the Federation’s treasurer. He is a former member of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet, Wexner Heritage Foundation and has been a member of the board of his local JCC, Day School and Community Relations Council. He currently serves as Treasurer of JTA and on the Board of The Milwaukee Jewish Community Foundation. He is a member of the United Jewish Communities Executive Committee.
Bruce is founder and Co-Managing Director of A.B. Data, Ltd., a direct marketing and political consulting firm, which works closely with a number of Jewish organizations and Political campaigns. He also serves as Chairman of the Boards of Integrated Mail Industries and Asset Development Group. He lived in Israel for five years and speaks fluent Hebrew.
Bruce Arbit has been a member of the Board of Governors since June 2002. He is a member of the Jewish Agency Executive and currently Chairs the Personnel for Jewish Education Subcommittee.
-Bruce A Arbit 1125 W River Ct; Milwaukee, WI 53217-3727 (414) 352-4622 [Age 55-59 / Household: Tatyana M Arbit, Tanya E Arbit]
-4 “jobs” @: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Bruce+&name=Arbit+&where=
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<–Michael Gelman, Susie Gelman, Bonnie Roche Bronfman, and Gala Chair Charles R. Bronfman http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/149895National Treasurer of United Jewish Communities (UJC). …is also the Inaugural Chairman of the Board of The Israel Project (TIP).
…sits on the boards of several organizations, including the Jewish Agency for Israel…and Hillel International. He is a founding partner of Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, an accounting firm located in Bethesda, Maryland, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Congressional Bank.
…served three terms as president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and one term as president of its Endowment Fund. President Clinton appointed him to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum] in 1995. He was a member of the Council’s Executive Committee and chaired the Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Governance, Investment Committee, and Development Committee. He was appointed by Maryland Governor Glendening to serve on the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents.
Michael Gelman is a Board Member since February 2004. He Co-Chairs the Audit Committee.
-Michael C Gelman 11 W Lenox St; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4208 (301) 652-1113 [Age: 65+]
-Job: Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, Pc, President 4550 Montgomery Ave, Ste 650N; Bethesda, MD 20814-3250 (301) 951-9090
-Job: Jewish Social Service Agency, Manager, Susie Gelman 200 Wood Hill Rd; Rockville, MD 20850-8724 (301) 838-4200
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Charles H. (Corky) GoodmanHenry Crown and Company: http://www.muckety.com/Henry-Crown-and-Company/5002698.muckety
…served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency from 1995 to 1999. He previously served as Treasurer, Vice President and President of the CJF, as Treasurer, Vice President and President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and Jewish United Fund Campaign Chairman. Currently he is the Centennial Campaign Chairman of the Jewish United Fund, as well as a member of the Board of JDC and a trustee of Brandeis University, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Goodman is a Principal of Henry Crown and Company, a Chicago-based investment firm. …A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 1989, he serves as the co-chairman of the FRD Committee, as well as a member of the Budget and Finance Committee and of the Coordinating Committee between the Government of Israel and the Jewish Agency.
-Charles H Goodman 222 N La Salle St; Chicago, IL 60601-1003 (312) 236-5293 [Household: Richar Goodman]
-Job: Henry Crown & Company, Vice Chairman 222 N La Salle St, Ste 2000; Chicago, IL 60601-1109 (312) 236-6300
-?>Charles H Goodman 1501 N State Pkwy, Apt 22D; Chicago, IL 60610-5746 (312) 787-1515 [Age: 65+]
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Joe Kanfer (no longer listed in exec.)
“Joe Kanfer is the Assistant Treasurer of United Jewish Communities and Chair of its Nominating Committee. Among many positions in the federated system, he has served as Campaign Chair for Young Leadership of United Jewish Appeal and Chair of Community Services for the Council of Jewish Federations.
“He has a special interest in Jewish Education and is immediate past Chair of JESNA, the Jewish Education Service of North America, and past President of the Jerome Lippman Jewish Community Day School. He serves on the Board of Jewish Family and Life.
“Joe is active in the Akron and Ohio communities including Akron Tomorrow, the Regional Development Board and is past Vice Chair of the University of Akron Board of Trustees. He is a past officer of the Jewish Community Center and is a past President of the Akron Jewish Community Federation. Joe has been active in Democratic politics in Ohio.
“Joe is President and CEO of GOJO Industries based in Akron, Ohio. GOJO is a leading supplier of hygiene and topical pharmaceuticals for healthcare, institutional and consumer markets. GOJO’s most well known product is PURELL® instant hand sanitizer.”
-Joseph S Kanfer 4445 Everett Rd; Richfield, OH 44286-9536 (330) 659-3335 [Age: 60-64 / Household: Pamela C Kanfer, Mamie G Kanser, Kitto R Kanfer]
-Job: Gojo Industries, Chairman of the Board 1 Gojo Plz, Ste 500; Akron, OH 44311-1085 (330) 255-6000
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Kathy Manning
Kathy E. Manning is treasurer of United Jewish Communities (UJC), chair of the organization’s Budget & Finance Committee, and chair of the General Assembly Re-Design Committee. She is the immediate past chair of the UJC Small Federation Steering Committee and the Public Policy and Legislation Committee of UJC’s Human Services and Social Policy Pillar. She is a former member of the National Young Leadership Cabinet and a recipient of the Young Leadership Award.
Manning is the immediate past president of the Greensboro Jewish Federation, and has served as a chair of the Greensboro Jewish Federation Annual Campaign, co-chair of the Operation Exodus Campaign, and Women’s Cabinet chair. She is a past president of the B’nai Shalom Synagogue Day School and serves on the Boards of the Greensboro Symphony and Triad Stage. She has co-chaired the Alexis De Tocqueville Society campaign for the United Way of Greensboro and has been active on the National Council for Community and Justice and the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
Manning currently specializes in Immigration Law at Manning & Associates, PLLC, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Husband: Randall Kaplan, businessman; three children.
Randall R. Kaplan Director BNC Bancorp Thomasville , NC
…owner and CEO of Capsule Group, LLC…SterlingSouth Bank…Board of Governors of Int’l Hillel, etc.
“”Mr. Randall R. Kaplan & Mrs. Kathy Manning”
-?>Randall R Kaplan 302 Kemp Rd W; Greensboro, NC 27410-6043 [Age: 50-54 / Elizabeth M Kaplan]
-Job: Bank of North Carolina, Member, Randall Kaplan 831 Julian Ave; Thomasville, NC 27360-5848 (336) 476-9200
-Job: Listingbook, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Randall R Kaplan PO Box 18247; Greensboro, NC 27419-8247 (336) 896-1300
-3 Kathy Manning jobs, Greensboro, NC: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=kathy+e.&name=manning&where=greensboro%2C+North+Carolina
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Charles Ratner served as Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Community Federation and Vice-Chairman of Cleveland Tomorrow. He also served as Chairman of the Distribution Committee and Board of Trustees at the Cleveland Foundation.Charles Ratner is President and CEO of Forest City Enterprises, Inc., a real estate development company based in Cleveland. He is a graduate of Colgate University and the New York University School of Law. A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2002, he is the Co-Chairman of the Education Committee.
-Charles A Ratner 16980 S Park Blvd; Cleveland, OH 44120-1643 (216) 751-4435 [Age: 65+]
-Job: American Greetings Corporation, Director 1 American Rd; Cleveland, OH 44144-2301 (216) 252-7300
–Job: Ohana Military Communities, Chief Executive Officer 50 Public Sq; Cleveland, OH 44113-2202 (216) 621-6060
–Job: Rpm International, Director 2628 Pearl Rd; Medina, OH 44256-7623 (330) 273-5090
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Richard L. Pearlstone (see above)
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Jay Sarver was recently appointed as the Co-Chair of the Aliyah & Klitah Committee. Previously he served as the Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Board of Governors. Mr. Sarver served as President and Campaign Chair of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis; he served as Vice President-Campaign and Vice President-Planning & Allocations. He has also served on the Boards of JESNA, Hillel, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Congress and the St. Louis Jewish Community Center. Jay Sarver was formerly Chairman and President of Word Technology Systems, which was sold in 1995. He is currently a private investor. A graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation Leadership Program, he holds a BA from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2000.
“Jay I. Sarver graduated from UIUC in 1973. He then went on to get an MBA from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975. He was selected to join Phi Beta Kappa based on his undergraduate achievements and Beta Gamma Sigma based on his graduate record.
“Mr. Sarver began a retailing career and in 1981 founded Word Technology Systems, a computer supply firm. He sold his firm to Boise Cascade Office Products in 1995 and retired. Subsequently, he started The Iota Group, a consulting firm. Mr. Sarver also is an active volunteer in many foundations and non-profit organizations. He is on the Board of Governors of The Jewish Agency for Israel, an international organization responsible for relief, rescue and resettlement of Jews throughout the world. He also sits on the board of Jewish Education Services of North America and Hillel and is president of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, a past member of Young President’s Organization, and a member of Wexner Heritage Foundation. He was past Vice President of the American Jewish Congress and a past officer and board member of the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis. …married / four children…”
-Jay I Sarver 201 Bellington Ln; Saint Louis, MO 63141-8118 (314) 469-1000 [Age:55-59 / Household: Shelley R Sarver, Michael L Sarver]
–Job: Iota Group, President 101 S Hanley Rd, Ste 1910; Saint Louis, MO 63105-3406 (314) 862-4126
–Job: St. Louis Life, Board of Directors 929 Rolling Thunder Dr; O Fallon, MO 63368-4017 (636) 561-1900
–Job: Jewish Agency American Section, Board of Directors 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049
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Jane Sherman is the Chair of the Board of the UIA. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, of which she is a former Vice President. She currently serves on its Alliance for Jewish Education and its Israel Emergency Campaign committee. She was previously President and Campaign Chair of its Women’s Division and was the first woman to serve as General Campaign Chair in Detroit.She was the first chairman of the UJA’s Young Women’s Leadership Cabinet. She also served as chair of Project Renewal for UJA and well as President of the Israel Education Fund and Chair of the Endowment Committee. Jane Sherman serves of the Board of Directors of Melitz Institute and Beit Hatefutsoth – Museum of the Diaspora.
Jane has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since 1983. She previously chaired the Youth Aliyah Committee and the Rural and Urban Development Committee. She served as Co-Chair of the Israel Committee for many years.
Her father is/was arch-zionist MAX FISHER:
“…Fisher’s first wife, Sylvia Krell Fisher, died in 1952. He re-married in 1953 to Marjorie Switow Fisher. They had five children: Jane Fisher Sherman, former chairperson of the United Israel Appeal, Inc. (UIA) and former co-chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel Committee on Israel; AIDS activist Mary Fisher; Phillip William Fisher; Julie Fisher Cummings; and Marjorie Martin Fisher; as well as 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, etc.”
“The son of Russian immigrants, Max Fisher grew up in a small … His family follows in the footsteps of his great Zionist heritage and his daughter, Jane Sherman, is an eminently active member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors, a generous donor, and heads the United Israel Appeal today.”
-?>Jane E Sherman 25001 River Dr; Franklin, MI 48025-1172 [Age: 65+ / David L Sherman, Larry L Sherman]
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Carole Solomon is the Past Chairman of the Board of Governors. She currently chairs the North American Council. She is the first woman to chair the UJA, the National Campaign of the U.S. and the first woman to chair the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency. She is the past Vice-Chairman of UJC and Chairman of the Campaign/FRD Pillar. She is a former president of the UJA National Women’s Campaign; she was a member of the UJA Board of Trustees and Chair of its Budget and Finance Committee.She is a director of UJA-Federation of New York, as well as a former Chair of the federation’s Partnership 2000 program. She serves as Vice-Chair of the UJA-Federation’s Major Gifts Initiative. She also served as a member of the Board of JDC.
Formerly, Carole Solomon was Chair of the Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and Co-Chair for major gifts of that federation’s Operation Exodus campaign. In addition, she sits on the Board of the Israel Vocal Arts Institute and the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic.
Carole Solomon is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since October 1994, she served as the Chairperson of the Board from June 2003 through June 2007.
CAROLE SOLOMON ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF JEWISH AGENCY BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Ms. Solomon, Vice Chair of UJC, to succeed Alex Grass, who completes his term in June
Ms. Solomon was recommended by a nine-member committee that included Alex Grass; former Chairmen of the Board of Governors Max Fisher, Mendel Kaplan, and Charles Goodman; Harvey Wolfe, Chairman of the Keren Hayesod Board of Trustees; Irwin H. Levy, Chairman of the Budget and Finance Subcommittee on Finance and Administration; Jane F. Sherman, Chairman of the UIA; and Morris Offit, Chairman of the UJA-Federation of New York.
Three candidates had vied for the position: Robert Goldberg, Chairman of the Executive of the United Jewish Communities of North America (UJC); Richard L. Pearlstone, Member of the Board and Executive, and Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee; and Ms. Solomon.
The Jewish Agency Board of Governors, comprised of 121 members, is the highest administrative body of the Jewish Agency. It oversees the operations of the Jewish Agency and is authorized to establish permanent and ad hoc committees. The Board meets three times a year, in February, June, and October. It formulates the Jewish Agency’s budget and makes policy and operational decisions, etc.
-likely>Carole Solomon 993 Park Ave; New York, NY 10028-0809 (212) 988-1421 [Age: 65+ / Household: Barton Solomon, Mark I Solomon]
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…born in Rome Italy, in 1969. She is married to Dario Perugia, an orthopedic surgeon, and is mother of 3 girls, Rebecca 8, Noa Rakel 7, and Yasmina Leah 5. She obtained her degree in Business Administration, specializing in finance, from John Cabot University, and started her professional career in 1992 working for an international real estate company. In 1998 she became marketing director for Capital Management Limited, an international asset management company with offices in London, Monte Carlo and Rome. Presently she cooperates with a London based hedge fund management company and is a senior advisor in Europe for an international real estate company. …In June 2009 she was appointed as Chairman of the KH World Board of Trustees.
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Yechiel Eckstein
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is the founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a bridge-building organization committed to promoting mutual understanding and to strengthening support for Israel. Prior to founding the Fellowship in 1983, Rabbi Eckstein served as national co-director for inter-religious affairs for the Anti-Defamation League. He received his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University and holds masters degrees from both Yeshiva University and Columbia University.
He serves on the board of JDC and of the American Refugee Committee, and is president of an Israeli network of soup kitchens and support centers for the poor. He divides his time between Jerusalem and Chicago.
Rabbi Eckstein has been a member of the Board of Governors since February 2001 and he is a member of the Executive since February 2008.
-Yechiel J Eckstein 88 W Schiller St, Apt 908; Chicago, IL 60610-4993
–Job: IFCJ, Founder and President, Yechiel Z Eckstein 30 N La Salle St, Ste 2600; Chicago, IL 60602-3356 (312) 641-7200
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…served as Chair of UIA Federations Canada and as President of the United Israel Appeal of Canada. She also served as Co-Chair of the Toronto UJA Campaign and Chairman of the Toronto UJA Women’s Division Campaign. In 1998, Julia Koschitzky chaired the “Israel at 50” celebrations in Toronto.
On a global level, she served as Chair of the Keren Hayesod World Board of Trustees from 1992 to 1997.
She remains involved in the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, and currently serves on the board of the Canadian Jewish News.
Julia Koschitzky serves as Chair of the Pincus Fund. She is a member of the Jewish Agency Executive. She has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 1990, and recently (June 2008) became a Committee Member.
The Rich 100 / Our sixth annual ranking of Canada’s wealthiest people. Who’s in, who’s out, who’s hot, who’s not. By Canadian Business
>>>69. Koschitzky family: $495 million
“An activist, philanthropist, and leader of Canadian and world Jewry, Julia Koschitzky was born in Cardiff, Wales, the daughter of Max Podolski (b. Posen, now Poznan, 1904, d. Toronto, 1986) and Elli (Moses) Podolski (b. Berlin, 1908, d. Toronto, 2002). Her parents, who worked together in business, fled Germany in 1939 for Wales, where they had business interests, leaving for Canada in 1949 and finally settling in Toronto in 1956.
In 1963, Julia married businessman Henry Koschitzky (b. Kattowice, Poland, 1935), whose family came to Canada having lived in exile in the Soviet Union during World War II.
…Koschitzky and her husband are the parents of four children: Serena (b. 1964), Hartley (b. 1965), Jonathan (b. 1970), and Leelah (Gitler, b. 1974). Her sister is Jeannette Massouda (b.1940), etc.
-Job: Jewish Agency for Israel, Co-Chair, Julia Koschitzky 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6000
-Job: Goldis Enterprises, President Henry Koschitzky 120 Hay Rd; Wilmington, DE 19809-3509 (302) 764-3100
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Mark Leibler is the Chairman of KH Board of Trustees. He also serves as National Chairman of the Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), Life Chairman of the Federal United Israel Appeal and a Governor of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce. He is a former President of the Federal United Israel Appeal of Australia, President of the Zionist Federation of Australia and a member of the Executive of the WZO. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of Haifa University.A graduate of Melbourne University and Yale University Law School, Mark Leibler is senior partner in the Melbourne law firm of Arnold Bloch Leibler. …is a member of the Board of Governors since 1992.
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Daniel Liwerant is a former Chairman of the World Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod and of Keren Hayesod Mexico, etc.******
From 2003 to 2005, Shoel served as National President of UIA Federations Canada, the umbrella body of Canadian Jewish Federations and Regional (unfederated) communities. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Canada-Israel Committee, and currently serves on the Board of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) and the Israel & Overseas Committee of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. He is also the President of the Canadian Friends of the Menachem Begin Heritage Foundation, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem Foundation of Canada.
Shoel graduated in law and political science from the University of Toronto, and is a member of the Ontario and California Bars. He is the Chief Executive Officer of The Metrontario Group, a real estate development and investment company with interests in Canada, Israel and the United States, and the president of the Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation. He is married to Eileen and has three children. …Member of the Board since June 2004. He is also a member of the Executive.
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Jeffrey Finkelstein (new listing)
President/CEO of the the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Dr. Misha Galperin is the CEO and Executive Vice president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington – the sixth largest Jewish community in the U.S. Among his proudest achievements is the Israel Emergency Campaign in Washington that raised the equivalent of the community’s Annual Campaign dollars: by far, the best result in the US.
Prior to that, he was the COO of New York’s UJA Federation after a long career as a clinical psychologist and executive of social service. He was largely responsible for creating a system of resettlement, and integration services for Jewish immigrants to New York. Misha was born in Ukraine and came to the U.S. at the age of 18. He became committed to a career in Jewish communal service because of experiencing first-hand the power and effectiveness of the system – his family was helped to get out of the Soviet Union and to integrate to the American Jewish community.
Misha’s doctorate in Clinical Psychology is from New York University; he is a graduate of Wexner Heritage lay leadership program. He is an Associate-Member of the Board since February 2004.
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Alan Hoffmann (see above)
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(R.) …Secretary of the Zionist Executive since 1999. …”israel”.******
…Director General of Keren Hayesod – UIA, Israel’s largest and most longstanding fundraising organization, as of September 2004. He is responsible for all aspects of the multi-million dollar campaign throughout the world, managing the fundraising campaigns in 54 countries over 5 continents and overseeing its educational, community and social projects throughout Israel.In the year preceding his appointment, he was the Director of the KH-UIA English Speaking Countries Department, where he was responsible for the campaigns in Canada, Australia, UK and South Africa. Prior to that, he served as Executive Director of the UIA of New South Wales Australia. He held various prominent executive positions at KH-UIA, with significant achievements.
Throughout his youth, he was an active member of the Habonim Youth Movement in Australia and participated in various other community activities there. Greg holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelors Degree with a double major in Politics and Economics from the University of Western Australia. He is an Associate-Member of the Executive since October 2004.
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Jerry Silverman
Gerald (Jerry) Silverman is President and CEO of The Jewish Federations of North America. Before joining The Jewish Federations, Mr. Silverman served as President of the Foundation for Jewish Camp, the only non-profit national organization dedicated to raising awareness and support of non-profit Jewish resident camps. For two decades before that, he held a range of executive positions at the Stride Rite Corp. of Boston and Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco. Over the years Mr. Silverman has been on the Boards of a range of Jewish organizations, as well. He is married to Erica Silverman and is the father of five children ranging in age from 16 – 25.
JERRY SILVERMAN is the president of the Foundation for Jewish Camp, the only national organization dedicated to nonprofit Jewish resident camps, promoting program and leadership excellence to camps and access to vibrant Jewish experiences for campers. Silverman brings to the Foundation an intimate knowledge of both the corporate world and the nonprofit sector from his lifetime dedication to both Jewish and children’s advocacy causes. Before joining the foundation, he served as president of the Stride Rite Children’s Group and the Keds Corporation. While at Stride Rite, he also served as president of the Board of Directors for both Camp Ramah in New England and the Stride Rite Day Care Center. Jerry is married to Erica Silverman and is the father of five children ranging in age from 12-21. All of them attend Jewish summer camp.
-Gerrald B Silverman 28 Sherbrook Rd; Newton, MA 02458-2631 (617) 928-0255 [Household: Erica B Silverman]
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Mark Terril (no longer listed here)
(-?>)”Mark Terril, Frontier Risk Management Inc of Frontier Risk Management Inc.”
-Mark Terril 102 W Euclid Ave; Arlington Heights, IL 60004-5539 [Household: Sheryl Terril]
–Job: Frm Management, Member 300 S Wacker Dr, Ste 610; Chicago, IL 60606-6606 (312) 697-4200
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…He received his rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College in the United States. -?>M Azari West Palm Beach, FL 33414 Send email
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…a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Economies and accountancy with excellence. He has a Master (MBA) in business administration and a PH.d in Financing from Barkley University in California. He served as a lecturer at the Business School at the Columbia University in New York as well as a lecturer at the Business School of Tel Aviv University. …chairs the audit committee…-Job: Jewish Agency American Section, Board of Directors 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049
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On November 11th, 2008, Nir Barkat was elected the 9th Mayor of Jerusalem, “the eternal capital of the Jewish people”, etc.******
…born in Baghdad, Iraq. He studied academically in London and Jerusalem, etc.
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israel.
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Harvey Blitz (see above)
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Kenneth Bob
…president of Ameinu, the American Labor Zionist organization. …member of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization and a member of the Jewish Agency for Israel‘s Board of Governors, following his election at the World Zionist Congress in 2006. He is a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and a member of the Jewish National Fund Board of Trustees. Bob is a member of the Advisory Board of J Street, a pro-Israel, pro-peace, Washington, D.C.-based public advocacy group. …works as a management consultant for emerging technology companies. In the past, he has been CEO, president, or held other executive positions at several software companies, including Lightstone Group, Descartes Systems Group, Safe3w, and iPass. Bob is a member of the Board of Directors of two technology companies, HOVR and G2Planet. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Long Island Children’s Museum., etc.-Kenneth A Bob 34 Gilbert Ln; Plainview, NY 11803-3124 (516) 935-4724 [Age: 55-59 / Household: Nancy J Bob]
-Job: Ameinu, President 114 W 26th St, Rm 1005; New York, NY 10001-6812 (516) 644-5397
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David Breakstone (see “executive” above)
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Mayor of the city of Dimona since November 2003. He was born in Morocco, made Aliyah to Israel in 1962, he moved to Dimona in 1967…
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(Billionaire)…is the major shareholder, Chairman and CEO of the IDB Group. Currently, Mr. Dankner leverages his broad entrepreneurial and managerial experience to actively manage the IDB Group companies.Mr. Dankner is also the founder and Chairman of the Ganden Group, which holds controlling interest of IDB and a leading holding company. In May 2003, a consortium headed by Nochi Dankner and the Ganden Group, together with its partners, the Manor & Livnat families, acquired the majority interest in the IDB Group.Mr. Dankner serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and as a director in private and public companies within the IDB Group. Previously, Mr. Dankner served as a Director and Vice Chairman of Bank Hapoalim, the largest bank in Israel, etc.
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…Following service as a Chaplain in the U.S. Army, Rabbi Davids served a number of congregations. He received his BA from Case Western Reserve University. Together with his wife, Rabbi Davids made Aliyah in 2004, and the Davids family now maintains homes in both Jerusalem and Atlanta.
“…Rabbi Stanley Davids and his wife, Resa divide their time between their homes in…”
-(No Atlanta, but:) Stanley Davids 2700 Neilson Way, Apt 727; Santa Monica, CA 90405-4017 (310) 399-3354 [Age: 65+ / Household: Resa S Davids]
-Job: Jewish Agency American Section, Board of Directors 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049
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Amira Dotan
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…head of the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization. ”israel”.
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Rabbi Jerome Epstein is Executive Vice President of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, having served the organization in a variety of capacities for some thirty years. Before joining the United Synagogue, he served as spiritual leader in Conservative congregations in Galveston, Texas and Portsmouth, Virginia. He is currently a member of both the Executive Council and the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly.Rabbi Epstein was ordained in 1970 by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and of Temple University. ….member of the Board of Governors since June 1998. …married; he has one son and two daughters and is the proud grandfather of four grandchildren.
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Ms. Falchuk is the new President of Hadassah. She grew up on Long Island and graduated from the Woodmere Academy, was raised in a Zionist home. Falchuk has been deeply involved in Hadassah for 30 years, volunteering her talents and time to serve a multitude of positions in both the Boston Chapter and at the national level. She was most recently the National Coordinator of Development, in addition to serving on the Executive Committee of the National Board. From 2000-2004, she was the Coordinator of Hadassah International and, also served as the Chair of the 2000 Hadassah National Convention in Los Angeles.She was a Hadassah delegate recent World Zionist Congresses in Jerusalem, as well as a delegate to Vaad Hapoel meetings. In 2002, during the worst of the intifada and calls for boycotts of Israel, Falchuk promoted and facilitated the first conference in which more than 60 of America’s most prominent physicians came to show their support for their Israeli colleagues and to make the statement that medicine must not be used as a political weapon of war.
A nurse by training with a BS in Nursing from Russell Sage College, in Troy, NY, she is the co-founder of the Hadassah National Center for Nurses’ Council, the first and still only national professional organization for Jewish Nurses.
Upon the completion of her position as coordinator of Hadassah International in 2004, Falchuk was honored by her international friends and colleagues, who established a scholarship award in her name: The Nancy Falchuk Nursing Scholarship Award is given annually and includes a grant to enhance the work of 3 nurses at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. …is a Board Member since October 2007.
-Nancy E Falchuk 429 Wolcott St; Auburndale, MA 02466-1520 (617) 916-2787 [Age 65+ / Household: Evan J Falchuk, Felicia S Falchuk, Kenneth H Falchuk]
-Nancy E Falchuk 35 Drumlin Rd; Newton Center, MA 02459-2806 (617) 969-2631 [Age: 65+ / Household: Kenneth H Falchuk, Evan J Falchuk
–Job: Jewish Agency American Section, Board of Directors 633 3rd Ave, Fl 21; New York, NY 10017-8157 (212) 339-6049
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..."Aliyah" to Israel from Chile in 1981...
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Nechemia Ganot (no longer here)
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Joan Garson
...president of ARZA Canada.
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...In 1994, she was a member of the Israeli delegation to the 38th UN Committee on the Status of Women in New York. In 1995, she was part of the Israeli delegation to the 4th World Conference of Women in Beijing.
Helena Glaser was born in Romania and emigrated to Israel as a child. She lived in the United States for ten years, where she studied at New York University. ...
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Mr. Dennis W. Glick is President of Bnai Brith International. His term of office began in December 2009 and will run through 2012. Glick has been active in Bnai Brith for 40 years. He has held a variety of positions at all levels of the organization, including Chair of the Executive Committee, Treasurer, Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Public Policy, Chair of the Youth Commission, Chair of Bnai Brith Camps and some leadership roles on the local and regional levels.
Glick was a 1983 winner of the prestigious Bnai Brith Label A. Ktaz Award OUtstanding Young Leadership and is committed to broadening the base of members and supporters of the organization to include more young people.
Glick is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is owner of an accounting firm in suburban Philadelphia. ...He is a Board member since June 2010. Prior to that he served as a committee member.
“Dennis W. Glick, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., is president of B’nai B’rith International. His term began in December 2009 and will run through 2012. Glick has been active in B’nai B’rith for 40 years. He has held a variety of positions at all levels of the organization, including, most recently, chairman of the executive committee. Earlier, he served as: treasurer, chairman of the Center for Human Rights and Public Policy, chairman of the Youth Commission, chairman of B’nai B’rith camps, and held a number of leadership roles on the local and regional level.
“Glick was a 1983 winner of the prestigious B’nai B’rith Label A. Katz Award for Outstanding Young Leadership and is committed to broadening the base of members and supporters of the organization to include more young people.
"lick is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is owner/principal of an accounting firm in suburban Philadelphia.”
“Glick was a 1983 winner of the prestigious B’nai B’rith Label A. Katz Award for Outstanding Young Leadership and is committed to broadening the base of members and supporters of the organization to include more young people.
"lick is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is owner/principal of an accounting firm in suburban Philadelphia.”
–Dennis W Glick Jr 3860 Sheffield Dr; Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006-2822 [Age: 65+ / Household: Ruth A Glick]
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Mike Grabiner (new addition)
July 2010 / World Union for Progressive Judaism, UK [?]
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…born in France, studied at the “Etz-Haim” high-school Yeshiva in Switzerland, and made Aliya in 1980…
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“israel’.
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“israel”.
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Tzvi Hasson
South America.
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(w/ wife Elaine)Rabbi Richard Hirsch served as Executive Director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism from 1973 until 1999. Upon his retirement, he was elected Honorary Life President of the WUPJ.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Rabbi Hirsch graduated from the University of Cincinnatti. He received his rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in 1951. He served as a congregational rabbi in Chicago and then in Denver, before becoming Director of the Chicago Federation and Great Lakes Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Rabbi Hirsch was the Founding Director of the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center in Washington DC, which he served from 1962-1973. In 1973 he moved to Israel to assume his position at the WUPJ. Rabbi Hirsch served as the Co-Chair of the FSU & Eastern Europe Committee. He has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since 1972. Now he serves as the President of the Zionist General Council. “israel”, presumably, but (once again, in case:)
-At large: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Richard+&name=Hirsch+&where=
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Jack Kahn (new listing)
President of Mizrachi Canada.
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“israel”.
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“israel”.
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Danny Krichman (new listing)
Argentina [?]
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Jacques Kupfer (new member too)
Président du Likoud-France.
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Rabbi Vernon Kurtz is the Rabbi of North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park, Illinois, an 1100 family Conservative congregation. He was born in Toronto, Canada, received his B.A. from York University, his M.A. and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary and his Doctor of Ministry degree from Chicago Theological Seminary. He also received a Doctor of Divinity degree (Honoris Causa) from the Jewish Theological Seminary.Rabbi Kurtz currently serves as President of MERCAZ USA and MERCAZ OLAMI. He is a member of the Board of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and serves as its vice-chairman. He is a past president of the Rabbinical Assembly, and is currently a member of its Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. Currently he serves as a member of the President’s Conference and the Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism.
Rabbi Kurtz has served in leadership positions in the areas of Jewish communal and interfaith activities. He has been President of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, Chairman of the UJA Rabbinic Cabinet and President of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago. Rabbi Kurtz is the recipient of the Rabbinic Award, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Council of Jewish Federations (1984 and 1995); the Young Leadership Award, (1985); Jerusalem Covenant Award, Bonds (1996); and the Rabbi Simon Greenberg Rabbinic Achievement Award, The Jewish Theological Seminary (1998). Rabbi Kurtz has served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Spertus Institute and Adjunct Lecturer in Jewish Studies, The Chicago Theological Seminary. Currently he is a monthly Torah commentator for the Chicago Jewish News. He has authored teshuvot for the Law Committee, and has published articles in many periodicals and books.
Rabbi Kurtz is a Board Member since June 2005. From October 2002 since than he served as a Committee Member. He Co-Chairs the FSU Committee.
-Vernon Kurtz 1232 Sheridan Rd; Highland Park, IL 60035-4120 (847) 432-1039 [Age: 60-64 / Household: Bryna Kurtz, Hadassa M Kurtz, Shira M Kurtz]
-9 total @ http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Vernon+&name=Kurtz+&where=
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Mr. Ofer Laufman has been elected the Head of the WZO Settlement Division and he serves as a Member of the Jewish Agency Executive and as a member of the WZO Executive since January 2008.
Prior to this position, Mr. Laufman served on several positions within the Division, including the Director General of the Department. In addition to his experience in the Settlement Division Mr. Laufman also served as the Chairman of the Hebrew University Students Association; as the main Shaliach of Betar in New York and later on as the Director General of the Company for Developing Gush Etzyon.
Mr. Laufman has a BA degree in International Affairs from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Master degree in Internal and Public Controlling from Haifa University. …he serves as a Board Member since February 2008.
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…”Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Israel in 1939 after her father was released from Concentration camp. As a result of his arrest on Kristalnacht. Hana’s family was able to enter Israel with “Certificates” received via Hapoel Mizrachi, etc.”
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Sallai Meridor, Honorary Member (new)
…was the Israeli Ambassador to the United States.
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Rabbi Joel Meyers is Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis. He is also Chairman of the Board of the International Jewish Committee for Inter-religious Consultations and serves on the Executive of the WZO, on the Board of Directors of Mazon, and on various committees of the Conference of Presidents and UJC.
Rabbi Meyers served as a congregational rabbi in the Boston area for fifteen years before becoming Associate Director of B’nai B’rith International.
He was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1966, and holds graduate degrees from New York University, Andover Newton Theological School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
Rabbi Meyers has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 1998.
He and his wife Sandy reside in White Plains, New York.
-Joel H Meyers 204 Soundview Ave; White Plains, NY 10606-3824 (914) 993-9038 [Age 65+ / Household: Sandy J Meyers]
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Dror Morag
“israel”.
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Avi Naor was born in Haifa on 1948, and grew up in Kiryat Tiv’on. Avi is married to Eti, mother of their son Eyal. His children from previous marriage are Meirav, Guy and Ran, who was killed in a road accident on June 12, 1995, when he was almost 20 years of age.
Avi served in the Israeli army, and holds a BSC degree in computer sciences from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In 1976 he joined the Aurec Group, and in 1982 was a member of the team that founded Amdocs, a public billing and CRM Software Company traded on the NYSE.
In 1995, Avi Naor was appointed President and CEO of Amdocs. In 1998 he led the Amdocs IPO on the NYSE, and subsequently headed major acquisitions and secondary offerings.
In 2002, the year Avi left Amdocs to be able to devote himself to his voluntary work, Amdocs’ sales reached $1.6 BN, and the company was employing 10,000 employees around the globe, etc.
* “…one of the founders of Amdocs, was President and CEO of Amdocs Management Ltd., the company’s management group from 1995 to 2002. As Chief Executive Officer of Amdocs Management Limited, Naor had overall coordination responsibility for the operations and activities of the company’s operating subsidiaries. A number of senior corporate officers of Amdocs, all Israelis, moved between Nice Systems, ViryaNet Ltd., and Guardium, etc.” [Bollyn]
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Ehud Naor
-Naors in USA: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=&name=Naor+&where=
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Yaakov Ne’eman (no longer listed here)
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Arik Nudelman
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-Arik Nudelman New York, NY facebook.com/people/Arik-Nudelman/16…
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Ordained as a Rabbi in 1973, Robert Orkand has been the Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel in Westport, a Reform Jewish congregation of over 800 families, since 1982. Prior to his arrival in Westport he served as an assistant rabbi at Temple Israel in Miami, Florida and as Rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Rockford, IL.
In 2008, Rabbi Orkand was elected President of ARZA: Association of Reform Zionists of America after many years of leadership in the Reform movement’s Zionist organization. Because of his involvement with ARZA, he has traveled to Israel several times a year, as well as to numerous countries where there are Jewish communities. In 2010 Rabbi Orkand was reelected to this position for a second term.
Rabbi Orkand has served as Chair of the Human Services Commission of the Town of Westport, as President of United Way of Westport-Weston, and as President of the Westport-Weston Clergy Association. In 1989 he received the Westport Chamber of Commerce “Community Commitment Award.” In 1998 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In 2004 the Connecticut Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts of America awarded Rabbi Orkand its “Distinguished Citizen Award.”
Rabbi Orkand was Chair of the National Commission on Jewish Education for the Reform movement. In addition, he has served on the National Camp Commission of the Reform Movement, the Publications Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Small Cities Committee of the CCAR, and has chaired the Program Committee of Eisner Camp Institute. Rabbi Orkand has co-authored three prayerbooks for children: Gates of Wonder, Gates of Awe and A Children’s Haggadah.
In addition, the Rabbi serves as a member of the State and county boards of ADL and has served on the Fairfield County Board of the National Conference of Community and Justice. Rabbi Orkand currently serves as a member of the Board of UJA/Federation of Westport-Weston-Wilton-Norwalk. He has also served as the International Rabbi of Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. Rabbi Orkand is a Board Member since June 2010.
-Robert J Orkand 10 Coleytown Rd; Westport, CT 06880-1525 (203) 226-9953 [65+ / Seth Orkand, Joyce J Orkan
-Robert J Orkand 10 Coleytown Rd; Westport, CT 06880-1525 (203) 226-9953 [65+ / Seth Orkand, Joyce J Orkan
-Temple Israel, Principal Robert Orkand 14 Coleytown Rd; Westport, CT 06880-1525 (203) 227-1293
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...is a businessman and consultant specializing in the aviation and tourism fields. He formerly owned and ran the largest charter flight company in Israel. / A lawyer by profession, Amir Peled holds a law degree from Bar-Ilan University. He served in the paratroop corps of the IDF, and spent several years in the Criminal Investigations Division of the Israel Police.
He is Honorary Secretary and a member of the Executive of World Maccabi. / Amir Peled is a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since February 1999.
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Head of the Department for Zionist Institutes in the World Zionist Organization, etc. "israel'.
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Chairman and CEO of GlenRock Israel Ltd., a dynamic private investment company, whose main field of activity is venture capital investments in startup Hi-Tech and Life Sciences companies. Until 2003, and prior to founding GlenRock, he served as Co-Chairman & CEO of IDB Holding Corporation Ltd., Chairman of Clal Industries and Investments Ltd., and Chairman of Azorim Investment Development and Construction Ltd..."israel".
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Uri Regev (no longer)
Executive Director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, headquartered in Jerusalem, etc.
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"israel".
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Steve Savitsky
"Genie and Steve Savitsky reside in Hewlett, New York."
-Stephen J Savitsky 423 Daub Ave; Hewlett, NY 11557-1136 (516) 374-2123 [Age: 65+ / Household: Regina Savitsky]
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Natan Sharansky (see above)
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…born in Herzliya. At the end of his service in the IDF he started working as the assistant of the then Head of Opposition, Mr. Ariel Sharon, and when Sharon was elected Prime Minister Lior was appointed as a Senior Assistant to the Prime Minister. Among the positions he held in the Office of the Prime Minister, Lior Shilat was a member of a forum that formulated and founded the MASA program and after the program was established, he served as the first Chairman of its Education Committee.
After the election of Mr. Ehud Olmert as Prime Minister, Lior Shilat was appointed the Head of the Division for Coordination, supervision and Inspection at the Prime Minister’s Office – the division that is responsible for supervising the implementation of the Government programs and resolutions. During his tenure as the Head of the division, the position was expanded and included responsibilities on some of the important Government partnerships in issues connected to the Jewish people, including the educational programs MASA and Birthright and the connection with the organizations for promoting Aliyah Nefesh B’Nefesh and AMI.
Lior left the Office of the Prime Minister in 2007 and established the consulting team Galilaea.
Lior Shilat lives in Jerusalem. He served as a Committee Member since February 2008. From June 2009 he serves as a Board Member.
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Zeev Shor
israel.
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(w/ wife Margaret)Alan H. Silberman is a partner in Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, a U.S. National lLw firm and Chair emeritus of its Antitrust, Marketing Practice, Franchise/Distribution Group. He received his legal education at the Yale Law School and has more than 40 years’ experience in antitrust and franchising litigation, counseling and related transactional representation.
He is a Director and member of the Executive Committee of Lex Mundi, a worldwide association of 160+ law firms, a member of the Bureau of National Affairs’ Antitrust and Trade Regulation Advisory Board, and frequent speaker on antitrust topics relating to marketing, distribution, franchising, litigation at various national and international programs and seminars. He also served previously as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law.
He is currently President of the World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues, a member of the World Zionist Organization Zionist General Council and a member of the Presidium of the General Council. He previously served as President of the National Ramah Commission, Inc. of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which coordinates the operation of Camps Ramah and is the Chair of the National Ramah Commission Board of Trustees. Alan Silberman is a member of the Board since October 2006.
-Alan H Silberman 430 Oakdale Ave; Glencoe, IL 60022-2113 (847) 835-5263 [65+ / Margaret Silberman, Elena E Silberman]
-Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Partner Alan H Silberman 233 S Wacker Dr, Ste 8000; Chicago, IL 60606-6448 (888) 858-6429
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Moishe Smith was elected the first non-American President of B’nai B’rith International in December, 2006. He has been an active in B’nai B’rith for more than 30 years. A Member of Parliament chapter of AZA, Smith went on to become an active member of his B’nai B’rith lodge in Ottawa. He served various capacities and served as President of B’nai B’rith Canada, 1988-89.
A 1986 winner of the prestigious B’nai B’rith Label A. Katz Award for Outstanding Young Leadership, Smith was appointed in that year to the B’nai B’rith International Board of Governors, and served for the next five years as an active member of the Young Leadership Cabinet. In 1991 he was appointed to serve as B’nai B’rith International Young Leadership chair.
Prior to his Presidency, Smith completed two terms as Chairman of the Executive of B’nai B’rith International. He also served two consecutive two-year terms as a senior international vice president of BBI.
Smith led B’nai B’rith Canada’s first-ever mission to the Soviet Union, served as chair of the International Council of B’nai B’rith, vice chair of the B’nai B’rith International Center for Human Rights and Public Policy, and served as a member of the B’nai B’rith delegation to the WZO.
Professionally, he is involved in the food and hospitality industry, with restaurants across Canada and a head office in Ottawa. Smith also serves as a Board member of the Ottawa Food Bank, the Ottawa Tourism & Convention Association, the Ottawa Restaurant Association, and the Canada Israel Committee. He has held a number of positions with UJA Ottawa, as well. / He is a Board Member since June 2007.
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Sondra Sokal is the immediate Past President of AMIT. She has been President of AMIT since 1999, having previously served as Treasurer and Vice-President. Currently she serves as President of the Young Israel of West Hempstead and she is an Officer and Member of the Cabinet of the American Zionist Movement.
A graduate of City University of New York, she has conducted research on various aspects of public health policy. She is Sisterhood President of Young Israel of West Hempstead.
Sondra Sokal has beeen a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2002. She is the Co-Chair of the Aliyah Subcommittee.
-Sondra C Sokal 812 Myrna Dr; W Hempstead, NY 11552-3419 (516) 538-0363 [65+ / Myron M Sokal, Stephen A Sokal, David B Sokal]
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Chairman of the Board of Directors of the KKL since 2006. …”israel”.
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…is senior Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress. A former president of the World Confederation of United Zionists, he has held several senior positions in the UIA. Kalman Sultanik served as Vice-Chairman of the International Council of the Auschwitz Museum and as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is President of the Federation of Polish Jews in the United States.
Born in Poland in 1917, Kalman Sultanik was a leader of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. He is a survivor of the Thereisenstadt concentration camp, from which he was liberated in 1945. Kalman Sultanik has been member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since February 1973.
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…founder of Gitam/BBDO, one of the largest advertising agencies in Israel, and serves as an advisor to several leading political and business figures, etc.
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Moshe Vigdor (see above)
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Head of the Center for Religious Affairs in the Diaspora in the World Zionist Organization, etc. …israel.******
Eitan Wertheimer (see above)
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Gusti Yehoshua Braverman (new)
“israel”.
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Rabbi Eric Yoffie is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism (formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations), the congregational arm of the Reform Movement in North America. He previously served as Vice-President of the UAHC and Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism; and, before that as Executive Director of ARZA (the Association of Reform Zionists of America) and as Director of the UAHC’s Midwest Council. A product of the Reform Movement, he once served as a regional president and national vice-president of National Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY).
Raised in Worcester, MA, Rabbi Yoffie is a graduate of Brandeis University. He was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1974, and served congregations in Lynbrook, NY, and Durham, NC, before joining the UAHC in 1980.
Rabbi Yoffie has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since October 1996.
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Ben-Zion Zilberfarb
“israel”.
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Motti Zisser (new)
“…real estate developer Mordechay (Motti) Zisser”… w/ “mall empire” in UK…
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/motti-zisser-issues-his-mall-empire-in-london-1.203643
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David Barish is President of The Chair King, the largest outdoor furniture retailer in Texas and President of Furniture Concepts (Fortunoff Backyard Stores) in New York & New Jersey. He earned his PhD in Jewish History in Late Antiquity from Hebrew Union College in 1983. He is married to Linda Jayaram, an Iraqi Jew from Bagdad, and has two children Priya and Krish. He served as a Committee Member since March 2009. in June 2010 was elected member of the Board.
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Richard N. Bernstein is a principle shareholder of the International law firm of the Greenberg Traurig, PA [Jack Abramoff's old gig - &C.] in Miami, Florida office where he is a member of the firm’s Corporate Securities Practice Group. Mr. Bernstein specializes in Business Transactional Law, Mergers and Acquisition, International Law and private and public financing matters. Mr. Bernstein is a frequent lecturer on transactional and corporate law, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law.
Mr. Bernstein attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for his BBA (Accounting) and MBA (Finance) attaining high honors, and the University of Miami School of Law for his JD degree (cum laude). Mr. Bernstein received his designation as a Certified Public Accountant in 1978 (currently inactive).
Richard Bernstein has been involved in senior leadership positions in a number of local, national and international philanthropic organizations and currently serves as the Vice President of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, a member of the Boards of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the International Board of Trustees of the Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University.
Mr. Bernstein is listed in the prestigious the Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2006 edition. …Mr. Bernstein is a Member of the Board of Governors since October 1998. Between 2002 and 2004 he served as a Committee Member. He Chairs the Allocations Subcommittee.
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Stephen Breslauer is Treasurer of the Houston Jewish Federation, as well as Co-Chair of its Overseas Committee and Chair of its Communications Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, and a Vice President of ARZA (the American Reform Zionist Association). He is a member of the board of the Washington Institute of Near East Policy and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.Stephen Breslauer is a graduate of Cornell University and holds an MBA from the University of Houston. He has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2002.
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Gary Erlbaum is Vice Chairman of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and Chairman of the Federation’s Israel Emergency Campaign. He previously served as Chairman of the Philadelphia State of Israel Bonds and as North American Chairman of Israel Bonds New Leadership.He is currently Executive Vice President of the Jewish Publishing Group which publishes the Jewish Exponent and Inside magazine. He also serves on the boards of the Zionist Organization of America, Boystown Jerusalem, Honest Reporting.com and Etz Chaim. Gary Erlbaum has been a member of the Board of Governors since June 2002.
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Iris Z. Feinberg is the current Campaign Co-Chair for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s (JFGA) annual Campaign for Community Needs. She also serves as the JFGA’s Chair of the Endowment Board and is an officer of the organization. These appointments follow a long history of volunteer activism within Atlanta’s Jewish community including a 6 year term as an officer of JFGA as well as many campaign related activities.
In addition to her local Federation work, Iris is a Vice-Chair of United Jewish Communities (UJC) and has served the national system in several capacities, including Co-Chair of National Young Leadership and National Campaign Training Chair. She is on the National Women’s Philanthropy Board and is a member of the UJC Executive Committee and Board.
Iris is the owner and President of The Trillium Group, Ltd., a medical claims processing company and Chew on This, LLC, an investment and management company. A graduate of The Wharton School and Temple University, she is a recognized expert in both teleworking and health care administration. She was an appointee of Governor Zell Miller to the Georgia State Health Strategies Council and of Senator Sam Nunn to the Administrative Efficiencies sub-committee for the Clinton Health Care Task Force. She is the recipient of several awards including the Clean Air Task Force Award for her company’s innovative use of teleworking technology.
Iris Feinberg served as a committee member from June 2004 through June 2007. Since than she serves as a Board Member. She chairs the Board Development Committee.
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Diane Feinberg served as the President of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington (1999-2001) and also served as its Campaign Chair (1997-1999), Vice President for Human Resource Development and President of the Women’s Division. She has served on the Federation’s Board of Directors since 1986. Ms. Feinberg currently serves as Chair of the Financial Resource Development of the Federation, as well as Co-Chair of Development of the United Jewish Endowment Fund of Greater Washington.
Ms. Feinberg also serves on the boards of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington and of Hillel of Greater Washington. She is a member of the Board of Directors of UIA, Chair of UJC’s Missions Committee and member of UJC’s Israel and Overseas Pillar. Dede Feinberg has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2000. She is the Co-Chair of the Assembly Planning Committee.
-Kenneth R. Feinberg 5115 Hampden Ln; Bethesda, MD 20814-2355 (301) 657-4460 [Household: Diane S Feinberg, David L Feinberg, Sheila C Feinberg, Leslie S Feinberg]
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Cheryl Fishbein has a long history of voluntary leadership involvements, most recently as chair of the Hurricane Katrina Relief Committee at UJA-Federation of New York, chair of the Network Council and chair of Missions. She is on the Board of UJA-Federation and the 2008 recipient of the Generosity of Spirit Award at UJA. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency and past chair of the Caring Commission and the Trauma Task Force. She is on the Belarus and Moldova Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Cheryl serves on the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee and is chair of the Commission on Jewish Contemporary Life. She is on the Board of the JCRC where she co-chairs the Commission on Intergroup Relations; the Jewish Home and Hospital Board; the Executive Committee and Board of the JCC Association of North America; the Board of Directors of United Jewish Communities where she chairs the Family Caregiver Committee; the JCPA Board and several other boards of non-profit agencies. She serves on the International Board of Governors of the Diaspora Museum at Tel Aviv University, and is the President of the American Friends. She serves as Secretary of Israel 21c.
Cheryl also practices clinical psychology and divorce mediation, and has worked as an attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She holds a doctorate in psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook, a law degree from New York University and a bachelor’s in psychology from Barnard College. She is married to Philip Schatten and they have four children. …Committee Member since September 2008.
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Mr. Harold Gernsbacher is a member of the Young Leadership Cabinet, a winner of the Young Leadership Award of Fort Worth, chair of the Hebrew Free Loan, Board Member of Ahavath Sholom. In addition, he has been Campaign Chair of the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth for two years, served as Vice President of JFFW, President of JFFW, Chair of JFFW Endowment, Overseas chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, Vice Chair of JFGD, and also has been a member of the Endowment Committee and Consortium Chair of the Central Area Partnership Consortium.
Professionally, Mr. Gernsbacher is CEO at In Step Foodservice, Restaurants industry. …Board member since June 2009.
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Betsy Gidwitz is Secretary of the Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago. She is also Vice Chairman of the Council for Jewish Elderly and Vice President of the Chicago Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
She previously served on the Boards of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, the Council of Jewish Federations and the United Israel Appeal.
An expert on post-Soviet affairs, she most recently was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Betsy Gidwitz holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2000, she serves as the Co-Chair of the FSU Committee.
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(w/ wife Elaine)Herbert Gimelstob is National Vice-Chair of the UJC. He is a former President, Vice President and Treasurer of the South Palm Beach County Jewish Federation. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, and is an honorary board member of the American Jewish Committee.
A realtor by profession, Herbert Gimelstob is involved in many civic, educational and cultural organizations in his home state of Florida. He is founder of the Herbert and Elaine Gimelstob Chair for Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2001, he served in the past as Chair of the Comapnies Subcommittee and as Chair of the Assets & Liabilities Committee.
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Andy Groveman has been with Belz Enterprises, a multi-generational real estate development and investment company, for 27 years. He is Senior Vice President of Marketing and Administration, as well as President of its Belz Factory Outlet Division.
Mr. Groveman is involved with many local, national and international Boards. In Memphis, Andy is Immediate Past President of the Memphis Jewish Federation and has served as a Past President of Baron Hirsch Congregation and the Orthodox Day School and Yeshiva in Memphis. Nationally, Andy serves on the Boards of AIPAC and the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO), and is a Board Member of The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, United Jewish Communities (UJC), and United Israel Appeal, and is a Trustee of Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Ariel United Israel Institutes. Internationally, he is on the Executive Committee of the American & International Societies for Yad Vashem and is one of 36 Americans who sits on the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel. In 2007, he and his father-in-law Jack Belz will serve as the International Co-Chairs for the UJC General Assembly which will be held in Nashville, Tennessee in November 2007. He is also one of the founders of the Memphis Jewish High School, a modern Orthodox co-ed Jewish high school which opened in Fall 2006.
A member of the Board of Governors since June 1998, he serves as Chair of the Budget and Finance Subcommittee on Finance & Administration.
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Michael Horowitz is Officer-Vice President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and member of its Executive Committee. He founded the Israel and Overseas Committee and is chairing the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit/Jewish Community Center Implementation Commitee.He also serves on the Board of the Michigan Region of the Anti-Defamation League and on the Executive Committee of Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan University.
Michael Horowitz is the President and founder of Consolidated Holdings, LLC and Grant-Perry Development Co., LLC, both real estate investment and development companies. He received the “1990 Construction Entrepreneur of the Year” award of Michigan Region, sponsored by Ernest & Young, Inc Magazine and Merrill Lynch.
Michael Horowitz holds a BGS degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree from University of Chicago School of Business Administration. Michael Horowitz has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2001. He is the Co-Chairman of the Young Communities Subcommittee.
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Ms. Sharon Janks has a long history of involvement in the Los Angeles Jewish community. A graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation, she served on the United Jewish Communities’ Young Leadership Cabinet for six years, where she held a number of positions, including Mission Campaign Chair. She has chaired several missions to Israel for The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, and chaired the Annual Giving Campaign for the Milken Community High School for three years.
Sharon is a Board member of the Women’s Alliance for Israel and an officer and Executive Board member of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Currently, she serves as Chair of the Federation’s Premier Philanthropy program. Previously, she served on the Steering Committee of the Federation’s Tel Aviv/Los Angeles Partnership, and as Chair of the Sylvia Weisz Women’s Campaign of the United Jewish Fund. …Board Member since June 2008.
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Larry Joseph is a member of the board of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and its representative to the UJC. Before moving to Miami in 1997, he lived in Atlanta for more than thirty years, serving on the board of the Atlanta Jewish Federation for 16 years. He was also on the boards of the American Israel Chamber of Commerce, the American Jewish Committee and the Atlanta Jewish Community Center.
On the national level, he is a former National Vice-Chairman of the UJA as well as National Major Gifts Chair.
Larry Joseph is Past President of Sportime International, a mail order supplier of sports equipment, which he sold in 1997. He is a graduate of Indiana University and served as an officer in the United States Army. A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2000, he served as the Chair of the Budget and Finance Subcommittee on Israel. Currently he serves as the Chair of the Assets & Liabilities Committee.
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Howard Kaplan is one of the business leaders of Chicago, an attorney and CPA. He is actively engaged in commercial and residential real estate development and represents major leaders in banking, law, hedge fund and development in Chicago and all of USA.
Mr. Kaplan is the immediate past President of the National Committee of Hadassah Associates. He has served on the Board of the Jewish United Fund, Jewish Federation, Development Corporation for Israel, Hebrew University, One Hundred Club of Cook Country, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Jewish National Fund. He is a trustee of the Lincoln Academy and Past President of Byrn Mawr Country Club.
He served as Chair of the Campaign of JUF, Chair of Jewish Community Relations Council of Chicago, Chair of the Government Affairs Committee of the Chicago Federation, General Chairman of the Israel Bonds and Vice Chair of the Board of the Chicago Federation.
Mr. Kaplan was also Chair of the Care for the Elderly Committee of the Federation, Financial Overseas of Mount Sinai Hospital and currently vice President of the Hundred Club of Cook County.
Howard Kaplan is a professor Emeritus of the Chicago City Colleges, Guardian at Tomorrow at Hadassah and Keeper of the Gate, a trustee of Hebrew University, member of the Standard Club, Fair’s Club, and Past President of Northwest Suburban Jewish Congregation.
He is Chair of the Cook County Crime Commission and was Treasurer and commissioner of the Illinois Development Authority, served as counsel to various Illinois governors and Chair of the commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes. He is a Board member since June 2010.
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(w/ “Ambassador” Dan Gillerman)Arlene Kaufman is President of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. She is the national co-chair of Operation Promise for UJC. Ms. Kaufman is the immediate past chair of the Israel and Overseas Pillar for UJC and has held a variety of position within the framework of UJA activities. In addition, she is a past chairman of Project Interchange – an institute of the American Jewish Committee that introduces non-Jews to Israel through seminar trips and serves on their Executive committee.
Ms. Kaufman also serves on the Boards of national organizations such as the American Friends of the Israel Science and Arts Academy and Hillel Board of Governors. Ms. Kaufman is one of the founders and coordinators of birthright Israel post-trip activities. She serves as chair of that committee for The birthright Israel Foundation. …A member of the Board of Governors from 1992 – 1998, she returned to the Board in 2003.
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Lori Klinghoffer is the President of the UJC National Women’s Philanthropy Board. She has served as Northeast Region Idea Exchange Chair, Campaign Vice Chair, Board Retreat Chair and Co-Chair of the NWP Machar Mission. She is also a member of the UJC Campaign Executive Committee, Center for Jewish Philanthropy, Executive Committee, Board of Trustees and Coordinating Council Chairs.
Lori has traveled extensively on national and community missions to Israel, Ethiopia, the FSU, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. In her home community of MetroWest, she chairs the Israel and Overseas committee. She most recently served as Marketing Chair and is past UJA Campaign Chair, Women’s Department President, and Women’s Campaign Chair. An active member of the MetroWest Jewish community for many years, Lori has raised awareness about the importance of each individual’s gift and has educated others about how campaign contributions help those in need.
She serves as vice president on the UJC of MetroWest Board of Trustees sits on the Unified Allocations Council, Executive Committee and Campaign Cabinet. Lori continues to serve on the Women’s Campaign Cabinet and the Women’s Philanthropy Board. She is also a member of the Daughters of Israel Geriatric Center Board of Trustees.
Lori is Executive Vice President and Creative Director for WPI Communications, Inc. in Springfield, NJ and is a member of the Board of Directors of Valcor Engineering Corporation. She is a Board Member since July 2009.
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Ms. Joan Levin Co-chairs P2k SE Regional Consortium-Hadera/Eiron. In the past she has served as Treasurer and President of the Jewish Federation of Jacksonville. She served as Chair of the Partnership 2000 Committee and now serving as Chair of the Allocations Committee. She is also an Honorary Life Member of the Federation’s Board of Directors.Ms. Levin sits on the Board of Directors of Jewish Family and Children’s Services, on the Board of Directors and Program Chair of Jacksonville Jewish Foundation, and also on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Jacksonville Jewish Center.
On the national level, Ms. Levin is the National Chair of CJF Women’s Department; she also sits on UIA Board of Directors. Ms. Levin is the recipient of several awards: The Etz Chaim Tree of Life award – JNF; the Woman in Power Award – NCJW; the Lion of Judah Award – Israel Bonds; the Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Lion of Judah Award; and the Joe P. Safer Community Services Award of the Jacksonville Jewish Federation.
Joan graduated from University of Florida with majors in English and Chemistry. …Committee Member since October 1999.
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Beth Kieffer Leonard has been a pioneer in the accounting profession and has made an impact by leading by example. Beth is currently the managing partner of Lurie Besikof Lapidus and Company LLP, a top 100 accounting firm nationally and top 10 in Minnesota. She has devoted her career to assisting clients in achieving their goals. Currently, as the visionary for the continued development of the Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship at Metro State, she has led a team that has seen the number of Certified Women Business Owners triple in 3 years. This past year she received the Presidents Award ‘s from the Women Presidents Organization and the Advocacy Award from the Women’s Business Development Center.
As a volunteer in the Jewish Community, Beth has contributed in a variety of areas, from the beginning of the Minneapolis Jewish Day School on its executive committee for four years, to Alexander Muss High School in Israel advisory board, and continuously at the Minneapolis Jewish Federation. Currently, Beth is in her second year as President of the MJF which is in the process of the implementation of the strategic planning process which she chaired. She has held positions as an officer for the past 7 years, including Treasurer as well as Business and Professional Campaign Chair. She received the Tychman Family Young Leadership Award and participated in the first Harry Kay Leadership program, an intensive leadership development program modeled after the Wexner program.
Beth received her Bachelor of Science Degree in the Accounting Program at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Minnesota Society of CPAs, Board member on Minnesota Women’s Political Campaign Fund, recipient of the National Association of Women Business Owners Corporate Woman of Achievement Award, and recognized in the Business Journal as a Leader in the Profession in July 2007. …Board Member since June 2008.
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Mark Levy was born in Palm Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and has a Juris Doctor degree from the Nova University Law School. Professionally speaking, he is a Member of the Florida Bar since 1981; Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Cenvill Recreation, Inc.; He also served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Communications & Cable, Inc.Mark Levy held various positions within the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County and also served as President of the Jewish Community Day School of Palm Beach County.
Mark Levy is a Member of the Board of Governors since June 2005. He Co-Chairs the Young Communities Subcommittee.
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(Middle, w/ Edgar Bronfman, Sr. and Joseph Lieberman)A graduate of Case Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School, Mr. Moss is Chairman of Capital Investors Advisory Corporation, a financial advisory firm he founded in 1971. Mr. Moss is passionate about Jewish communal involvement and Jewish peoplehood, Jewish campus life, Israel, as well as the revival of Jewish life in countries of the FSU.
Mr. Moss currently serves as a member of the Communications and Israel Committees of JAFI. He is a member of the Board of UIA and a former member of the Board of Trustees of UJC. He is also a member of the Board of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and the Columbus Jewish Federation. He is a graduate of the first Wexner Heritage Program.
Mr. Moss is a former Chairman of the International Board of Directors of Hillel: He is currently a member of its Executive Committee and chairs its Nominating Committee. In the past he served as Chairman of the Board of AFS International Scholarships, and served on its board for over 20 years.
He is a supporter of the Ohio State University and its Wexner Center for the Arts, The Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Pro/ Musica Chamber Orchestra, United Way, Case Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School, among others. …Board of Governors since June 1998.
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Ms. Julie Wise Oreck was born and raised in New Orleans. She graduated from Tulane University and then went on to New York for graduate work in Property and Casualty Insurance.
She served 8 years on the National Young Leadership Cabinet of the UJC, where she held the portfolios of Women’s Campaign Chair, Co-Chair of the Southeastern Region, Co-Chair of the Southeast Regional Outreach Conference and National Mentor Chair.
After finishing her term on the Cabinet she was asked to join the Israel and Overseas Pillar of UJC. During her tenure with UJC, she served as the International Chair of OTZMA. Presently, she is a member of the Board of UJC and of the National Women’s Philanthropy.
Locally in New Orleans, Julie is Vice President of the Jewish Federation and also of Jewish Family Service. She sits on the Executive of Touro Synagogue and on the boards of the New Orleans Jewish Day School, the Community Center, Isidore Newman School, and the local chapter of Young Audiences. Regionally, she is on the boards of AIPAC and ADL, and the Jewish Children’s Regional Service. She has traveled on many missions and has been to the FSU 9 times, to Cuba and to Israel often.
Julie Wise Oreck is a Committee Member since June 2001. She has recently been appointed to Co-Chair the Control & Audit Committee.
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Karen Pack, a longtime leader in the Jewish community, served as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City.
Pack, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, is passionate about her work in the Jewish community. A longtime Federation volunteer, Pack has been a member of the board of directors and has chaired numerous committees and events including the Circle of Giving, a Community Mission to Israel and the Partnership 2000 committee. Pack has also been active within the Women’s Division serving on its board and as a past chair of its Campaign efforts. A Young Leadership Award recipient, Pack has never settled for sitting back and watching things take place; Pack is a “doer” serving on almost every committee or panel of the Federation.
Active on the national Jewish scene, Karen is a board member of the National Women’s Constituency of United Jewish Communities and is a member of its executive committee. She has attended several UJC General Assemblies, the largest annual gathering of world Jewry.
Karen has worked with the Jewish Community Foundation serving as vice president and a trustee. She has been active on a number of committees with the Foundation including grants, women’s endowments and the Freidberg committees. Other Jewish organizations she has been involved with include the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, the Jewish Community Center, Israel Bonds, Hadassah, Jewish Family & Children’s Services and the Menorah Medical Center Auxiliary. She has been an active member of her synagogue, Kehilath Israel, having served on its board.
Karen Pack served as a Committee Member since June 2006. From June 2008 she serves as a Board Member.
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Ms. Myra Reinhard is one of the original Board Members of the Woman’s division in San Jose, Active in Temple E’manuel. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of San Jose. In addition, she is a former Chair of the Allocations Committee; South Bay Chair of Sholam 91 Mission to Israel; she sits on the Board of AIPAC; sits on the Advocate Advisory Board; Children’s Shelter Board, and also active in arts in San Jose area.
Myra Reinhard is a member of the Board of Governors since June 2005. Prior to that she served as an Assembly member on Board of Governors Committees.
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Lester Rosenberg was born in Chicago. He has graduated from the University of Illinois.
He presently serves as Director of the JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago; Vice Chairman-Director of the UJC; Director, Israel Children’s Centers; Director, Israel Tennis Centers; Director, U.S. Committee Sports for Israel and Trustee, Michael Reese Health Trust.
In past years, he served as the President of Young Men’s Jewish Council; the Director of Mount Sinai Hospital; Director of Louis A. Weiss Hospital; Director of Jewish Community Centers; Director of Israel U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Director of the Jewish Museum of New York; Campaign Chairman, 2001 Campaign JUF of Metropolitan Chicago and Chairman of the Board, JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Lester Rosenberg is Senior Partner at B.L. Rosenberg & Company, C.P.A. in the past, he served as President of Heitman Financial (Real Estate Finance), he also served as the Chairman of Columbia National Bank and as the Director of Mid Town Bank. He is a member of the Board since June 2005 and he serves as the Co-Chair of the Absorption Subcommittee. From June 2004 until than, he served as an Assembly member on Board Committees.
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Stephen Selig is National Campaign Chairman for the 2003 Campaign for the UJC and a former Chairman of the UJC’s Human Services and Social Policy Pillar.
He also serves as National Vice-President of the American Jewish Committee, and is a former President and Campaign Chairman of the Atlanta Jewish Federation.
In 1976 he was Deputy Campaign Director for the Carter Campaign; he then became Deputy Assistant to President Carter with responsibility for liaison with the business community.
In 1998, Stephen Selig was appointed Honorary Consul of Denmark in Atlanta. He is currently President and Chairman of the Board of Selig Enterprises, Inc. He studied at the University of Georgia and at Georgia State University.
Stephen Selig has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2002. He Co-Chairs the Communications Committee.
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Mr. John M. Shapiro is a Managing Director and co-founder of Chieftain Capital Management, Inc. an Investment Advisory firm founded twenty-three years ago. Prior to Chieftain, Mr. Shapiro worked at Central National Corporation and Merrill Lynch White Weld. He received a MBA from Columbia Business School in 1978, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Wesleyan University in 1974.
John serves as President of UJA-Federation of New York, and Chairman of the Board of Lawyers for Children. He also serves on the boards, and is a member of the Executive Committees of The American Academy in Rome and the American Jewish Committee. Prior to assuming the Presidency, John was the General Campaign Co-chair for UJA-Federation. He is a Trustee of The Washington Institute of Near East Policy, a member of the Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books of the Museum of Modern Art and a member of the Investment Committee of the Asia Society. He recently completed his term as President of the Board of Trustees of The Dalton School and remains as an Honorary Trustee. Previous board experience includes The Classic Sports Network and The Children’s Museum of New York. Other philanthropic activities include participating in the creation and endowing of a Jewish Studies Program at Wesleyan University. …Board Member since October 2007.
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Bruce Sholk is Chair-Elect of THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and will become Chair of the Board starting July 2010. Serving as Campaign Chair in 2007, Mr. Sholk currently leads the associated’s overall financial resource development efforts. Mr. Sholk is a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel where he serves as Chair of the Aliyah and Klitah Budget and Finance Subcommittee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of United Jewish Communities where he sits on the Overseas Governing Committee and chairs the Ethiopian Israeli Work Group.
He is Vice Chairman of the Board of International Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Previously, Mr. Sholk chaired the Israel and Overseas Committee of the associated and is a founding board member and former President of Hillel of Greater Baltimore. An active proponent of Jewish camping, Mr. Sholk sits on the boards of Camp Shoresh and Capital Camps. He is actively involved in his synagogue and children’s day school, as a member of the Boards of Directors and Chair of the capital campaign.
Sholk is Managing Partner of Axcel Partners, a venture capital partnership. He and his wife, Beth Kaplan, have two sons, Henry and Seth who attend Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School. Bruce Sholk has been a member of the Board of Governors since September 2005.
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David Silvers is vice chairman of U.S. Realty Advisors, LLC in New York. He specializes in transactions involving real estate and corporate credit and is a frequent lecturer on net leased and structured real estate transactions.
David currently serves on the Boards of UJA-Federation of New York and United Israel Appeal, and previously was UJA-Federation’s Treasurer and Chair of its Finance Committee. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) and Harvard Law School (J.D.). …Board of Governors since July 2009.
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Richard Wexler is the Chairman of the United Israel Appeal and Past-Chairman of the North American Council. He is the former National Campaign Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the United Jewish Appeal.
He is currently a member of the Board of the UJC and Chairs as Emergency Communities Task Force.
He is a former Chairman of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Chicago Jewish United Fund and currently sits on the Federation’s Executive Committee. In the past he served as Chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and as Chairman of Operation Exodus.
Richard Wexler is a senior partner at the law firm of Lord, Bissell & Brook in Chicago. A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 1996, Richard Wexler served as Co-Chair of the Israel Committee between 1998 and 2002.
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Fred Zimmerman currently serves as UJC National Campaign Vice-Chair. A stockbroker, private investor and real estate developer from Nashville, Tennessee, Fred also serves the Nashville Jewish Federation as its president. Fred has served as Campaign Chair in Nashville and Chair of the Budget and Planning committee. He is a past co-chair of UJA’s National Young Leadership Cabinet, and has served on the Executive Committee of AIPAC. For several years, Fred has visited numerous federations of all sizes as a speaker, trainer and solicitor.
Mr. Zimmerman has served on the Board of various organizations, including Nashville’s Jewish Day School and the Gordon Jewish Community Center. He is also active in the Nashville chapter of the United Way.
Mr. Zimmerman has been a member of the Board of Governors since June 2004. From June 2001, he served as an Assembly member serving on Board committees. He Co-Chairs the Information Technology Committee.
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Italy / “israel” – CEO of Syntek Capital Israel, etc.
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….Since 2001, Pierre Besnainou has fully devoted his time to the French Jewish Community. / Pierre Besnainou was elected President of the European Jewish Congress on June 26th, 2005. His priorities during his mandate have been to defend the Jewish State, fight against anti-Semitism and federate the Jewish communities of Europe while reinforcing their links with Israel.
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Ms. Laurence Borot is the President of the Keren Hayesod International Women’s Division. Since 1976 Ms. Borot is a donor of AUJF – Appel Unifie Juif de France, etc.
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South Africa…Mick Davis is Chief Executive of Xstrata plc, a diversified mining and metals company listed on the London Stock Exchange and is in the top 20 of the FTSE100 with a market value of circa $65 billion. Previously, Mick was an Executive Director of Billiton Plc, and was Billiton’s Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of Billiton Coal. Prior to that, he was an Executive Director of Eskom, one of the world’s largest electricity utilities based in South Africa.
In his career, Mick has overseen corporate transactions in excess of $70 billion, and raised in excess of $30 billion from the world’s capital markets. The highlights of these are the acquisitions of Falconbridge and MIM, listing Xstrata on the London Stock Exchange, the merger of BHP and Billiton into the largest diversified mining company in the world; the listing of Billiton on the London Stock Exchange; the creation of the Ingwe Coal Corporation in South Africa; and the re-introduction of Eskom to the international debt markets after the 1985 South African debt standstill.
Mick is Chairman of the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA,) and is a member of the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC). In the past, Mick played an active role in Jewish communal affairs in South Africa, serving on the executive of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues and is the Chairman of the Euro Chai South Africa Charity Trust which supports old age homes, orphanages and special needs facilities in South Africa.
Mick is a Chartered Accountant by profession and an alumnus of Theodor Herzl School in Port Elizabeth and holds an honours degree from Rhodes University. …Board Member since February 2008.
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Anita Fischer was born in Santiago, Chile where she resides with her three children and eleven grandchildren.
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Canada.
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Belgium…born in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from the “American College of Istanbul” he studied Chemistry in London. …moved to Brussels in Belgium where Adnan started a textile trading company which today is considered one of the important commodity trading companies in Europe, etc.
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South Africa – homes in Cape Town and Jerusalem.
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Canada.
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Holland…Menno Paktor was born in 1946 into a family of diamond merchants. He studied Economics at the University of Amsterdam, etc.
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Stanley Plotnick is the President of AVS Technologies Inc., (which he founded), a leading designer, developer, importer and distributor of consumer electronic products. Stanley Plotnick has a B.com Degree from the McGill University and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Among his communal involvement, he serves as President of the Jewish General Hospital Corporation; he is the President-Elect of UIA Federations Canada; he is a Board member of the Jewish Community Foundation; he is a founding Chair of the CIJA Board of Directors.
Among his most recent awards, Mr. Plotnick received an Honoree from the Jewish National Fuind Negev Dinner (May 2002); a Distinguished Leadership Award from Federation CJA and an Outstanding Montrealers Award, from the State of Israel Bonds.
Mr. Plotnick is a Board Member since June 2006. From June 2005 till than he served as an Associate-Member of the Board. He Co-Chairs the Communications Committee.
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Jack Smorgon is the President and Chairman of the United Israel Appeal of Victoria, Australia.
He has headed a number of important national and regional commissions, including the Australian National Railways Commission.
Jack Smorgon was managing director of the Smorgon Group of Companies from 1954 until 1995.
A member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since February 2001, he is the Co-Chair of the Israel Committee.
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Buenos Aires.
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Canada.
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Associate Members
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WORLD ZIONIST ORGANIZATION
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Chair of the Executive of World WIZO. She was born in Tel Aviv.
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Arnold M. Eisen is the Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary and Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University. One of the world’s foremost experts on American Judaism, Professor Eisen has worked closely for the past twenty years with synagogue and federation leadership on Jewish identity, tradition, and American Jewish community.
A product of the Conservative Movement, Professor Eisen is a frequent scholar-in-residence at synagogues across America. He has regularly served as a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Program, the Wexner Fellowship, and the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He has long been well known as a passionate advocate of strengthening connections between American Jews and Israel.
Professor Eisen’s recent publications include a personal essay, Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America (1997); Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (1998); and The Jew Within: Self, Family and Community in America (2000).
Professor Eisen received a PhD in the History of Jewish Thought from Hebrew University; a BPhil in the Sociology of Religion at Oxford University; and a BA in Religious Thought from the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University.
Professor Eisen is an Associate Member of the Board since October 2006.
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Rabbi Ellenson was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1977 and is the eighth President in the College-Institute’s 130-yearlong history. Rabbi Ellenson is a distinguished rabbi and scholar, dedicated teacher, and committed leader of the Reform Movement.
Rabbi Ellenson received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981 and holds M.A. degrees from Columbia University, HUC-JIR, and the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1969.
Among his many academic and scholarly associations, Rabbi Ellenson is a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem and a Fellow and Lecturer in the Institute of Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Rabbi Ellenson has published and lectured extensively on diverse topics in modern Jewish history, ethics, and thought. He has written over 150 articles and reviews in diverse academic and religious journals and books; his academic lectures have been delivered at such institutions as Charles University in Prague, Ben Gurion and Bar Ilan Universities in Israel, Haverford College, Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Rabbi Ellenson was raised in Newport News, Virginia. Rabbi Ellenson has been an Associate Member of the Board of Governors since February 2003.
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Philip Meltzer is the Co-chair of the Educational Engagement Subcommittee of the Board. He is the immediate Past President of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA). Previously he served as President, Vice President and National Treasurer of ARZA and was its New York Regional President.
Mr. Meltzer has also served on the Executive Committees of the Union for Reform Judaism, the World Union for Progressive Judaism and AIPAC, and on the Boards of both the Jewish National Fund and the American Zionist Movement.
Mr. Meltzer is an attorney with offices in Cedarhurst, New York. He is a graduate of New York University and New York University Law School. He was elected to the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors in June 1998. From June 2005 he servedas a Committee Member and on July 2010 he started serving as an Associate Member.
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Marlene Post is the immediate past National and International President of Hadassah. Prior to her presidency, she served as the treasurer of Hadassah, and was involved in fiscal planning, budgets, financial management and investments.
She is currently chairperson of Birthright Israel North America and co-chair of the Confederation of United Zionists. In addition, she serves on the board of Israel Bonds, the advisory council of the New York Board of Rabbis, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, and the UJA-Federation of New York. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of International Hillel.
Marlene Post holds a master’s degree in nursing, and has taught nursing in numerous health care institutions.
Co-Chair of the Control and Audit Committee, Marlene Post was a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors from October 1998. She has recently become an Associate Member of the Board.
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Kurt Rothschild is President of the Canadian Zionist Federation and Chairman of the Board and Co-President of Mercaz Olami – World Mizrachi. He also serves on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Toronto, the United Israel Appeal of Toronto, Yeshiva University, Bar-Ilan University and Sha’are Zedek Hospital.
Born in Germany, Kurt Rothschild left for England as a youngster, where he was later interned along with thousands of other German Jews. In 1940, he was sent to Canada. He studied engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and went on to establish a large national contracting firm in Toronto.
Kurt Rothschild was a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors from June 1998. He has recently become an Associate member of the Board.
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Dr. Misha Galperin is the CEO and Executive Vice president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington – the sixth largest Jewish community in the U.S. Among his proudest achievements is the Israel Emergency Campaign in Washington that raised the equivalent of the community’s Annual Campaign dollars: by far, the best result in the US.
Prior to that, he was the COO of New York’s UJA Federation after a long career as a clinical psychologist and executive of social service. He was largely responsible for creating a system of resettlement, and integration services for Jewish immigrants to New York. Misha was born in Ukraine and came to the U.S. at the age of 18. He became committed to a career in Jewish communal service because of experiencing first-hand the power and effectiveness of the system – his family was helped to get out of the Soviet Union and to integrate to the American Jewish community.
Misha’s doctorate in Clinical Psychology is from New York University; he is a graduate of Wexner Heritage lay leadership program. He is an Associate-Member of the Board since February 2004.
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Steve Hoffman
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Alan Margolies
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Steven Nasatir is President of the Jewish United Fund / Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. He joined the staff of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago in 1971, becoming chief executive officer in 1979.
He currently serves on the boards of North Star Financial Corporation, the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI), the Michael Reese Health Trust; the Covenant Foundation and a number of family foundations.
Steven Nasatir holds a BA from the University of Illinois, an MA from Roosevelt University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has served on the faculty of the University of Illinois, as well as on several city and state commission and task forces.
Steven Nasatir has been an Associate Member of the Board of Governors since October 1993.
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John Ruskay is the Executive Vice President and CEO of UJA-Federation of New York.
Before joining the Federation in 1993, he served as Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and, before that, as Education Director of the 92nd Street YM & YWHA in New York.
John Ruskay currently chairs both the Publications Committee of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service and the Professional Advisory Committee of the Hornstein School of Jewish Communal Service.
He holds a BA from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Johan Ruskay has been an Associate member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since June 2002.
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Doug Seserman is the President and Chief Executive Officer for the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado. Prior to that, Doug had a distinguished career in the private sector as a marketing executive. He served as Chief Marketing Officer for Qwest Digital Media. Before that, Doug was the Senior Vice President of Marketing & Sales for AT&T Broadband and its predecessor company TCI.
Mr. Seserman started his professional career in brand management with The Quaker Oats Company. He held several domestic and international positions with the company, including Director of Marketing and Brand Manager across several of Quaker’s consumer food product lines.
He grew up in Colorado and is a graduate of Cherry Creek High School. He has a BS from Northwestern University and a MBA from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University as well. …Doug Seserman is an Associate-Member of the Board of Governors since June 2004.
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Canada.
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Canada.
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He lives in Amsterdam.
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Canada.
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WORLD ZIONIST ORGANIZATION
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Jerusalem.
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Prof. Mikhail Chlenov is President of the Va’ad — The Federation of Jewish Organizations in Russia. He also chairs the Euro-Asian branch of the World Jewish Congress and is a member of its Executive.
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Beer Sheva.
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Long committed to the ideology of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, she previously served in various leadership positions within Betar for over eleven years. …Feinstein-Cohen moved to Israel from New Jersey with her family when she was 11.
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Dennis Glick (ditto – now in BoG)
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Mishel Halimi
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Mr. William D. Hess is the Vice-President of ARZA and President of AZM. He is the Treasurer of ARZENU and he is a member of the Board of many organizations, such as UAHC/URJ; Youth Coordinating Committee; Commission on Lifelong Jewish Learning; the Zionist General Council, WZO; the Jewish National Fund, Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Board of Trustees. In the past he had held several positions within the URJ and was a member of the Executive of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. He also held the position of General Chair of the Israel Bonds New Orleans and Bonds National Cabinet.
Mr. Hess was honored Simon Wiesenthal Center Community Service Award 2001; Israel Bonds Jerusalem Award 1998; Temple Sinai Couple of the Year 1999 and ZOA Man of the Year 1982.
Mr. Hess has a BA from the New York University. He developed and operated TeleProductions, Inc., New Orleans’ first network level video post-production facility.
Mr. Hess is a Committee Member since 1998.
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israhell.
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Manuel (Mendl) Junowicz is a 56 years old Argentinean Jew.
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Argentina.
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Moshe Kopelman
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Danny Lamm is the President of the State Zionist Council of Victoria, one of the most effective and active Zionist organisations in the Diaspora.
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israel.
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…was born in France in 1941; israel.
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Dror Morag
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Mauricio Oberlander
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Motti Ohana
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Martin Oliner is an attorney who has engaged in private practice since 1972. He received a J.D. in 1971 and an L.L.M. in Taxation in 1977 from New York University Law School. He has taught at both Touro Law School and New York Law School. Mr. Oliner’s legal practice principally involved international tax and workouts. He has extensive experience in international finance, investment banking, real estate, corporate organization and reorganization matters.
Since September 1992, Mr. Oliner has served full time as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO of First Lincoln Holdings, an insurance and real estate holding company. He has also served as a Director of Regency Equities, Asian Oceanic Capital Corporation, and New Navy LDA.
Mr. Oliner serves as one of six members of the Executive Board of Touro College. He is a founder of the San Francisco School of Osteopathic Medicine and has served as a director of the New York School of Podiatry.
Locally, Mr. Oliner served as President of Congregation Sharray Tefila for 3 years, co-chairman of the Village’s Board of Design since its inception, and a member of the HAFTR Board for many years. He has provided extensive pro bono assistance to many local organizations and has regularly opened his home for fundraising events. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Village of Lawrence and as chairman of the Religious Zionists of America. …Martin Oliner is a Committee Member since June 2006.
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Sylvie Pelossof was born in Tangier, Morocco, to a Zionist family and spent her childhood in Madrid, moved to the United States, and came on aliyah to Israel in 1973.
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Yossi Ra’anan
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israel.
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Director General of World Mizrachi Organization. He was born in South Africa where he served as the Chairman of South African Zionist Federation and President of the South African Mizrachi Organization. After making Aliyah to Israel he served as Chairman of TelFed and was elected as member of Kochav Yair Town Council.
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Evgeny Y. Satanovsky is the Founder and President of “Ariel Group”, a conglomerate pf Russian companies producing and trading metallurgical products and equipment for oil industry. Moscow.
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Jan Schechter is the 21st President of AMIT and was installed at the organization’s National Convention in July 2003. Ms. Schechter represents the third generation of her family dedicated to religious Zionism and the Mizrachi movement.
Ms. Schechter’s grandparents and parents fled Vienna for the United States in the late 1930s. She was born in Philadelphia and received a B. A. from Stern College for Women and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
Ms. Schechter has worked as a legal editor of Trusts and Estates magazine and as an attorney with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. She also has served as President of the Stern College Alumnae Association.
A member of AMIT for almost 40 years, Ms. Schechter has been particularly active in the Lawrence-Woodmere area of Long Island. She has held several of the organization’s major national portfolios, including Programming, Public Affairs and Planned Giving Chair, and was National Treasurer immediately before her elevation to President. …Ms. Schechter is a Committee Member since September 2006.
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Carl Sheingold
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Ms. Iafi Shpirer was born in Argentina and made Aliyah to Israel in 1977.
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Barbara B. Spack of Edison, New Jersey, is currently Hadassah National Chair of Youth Aliyah. Barbara is a member of the Hadassah National Board, a member of the Executive Committee and is a past National Vice President.
Barbara is a member of the Education committee of the Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governors and serves as the Secretary for the World Confederation of United Zionists. She sits as a board member of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Jewish National Fund. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Middlesex County Jewish Federation and is a member of the Israel Task Force, chairing the Operation Promise Campaign.
Barbara is a regular Torah reader at Shabbat and festival services, sings in her synagogue choir, and leads services on Shabbat and High Holidays. She also has a real estate broker’s license. Her husband, Eliot, is the retired National Executive Director of the Coalition for Advancement in Jewish Education and is a proud Hadassah Associate. Barbara wears her five-generation Life membership pin with pride. …Barbara Spack is a Committee Member since October 2002.
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Raya Strauss Bendror is President and co-owner of the Strauss Investment Company and co-owner of Strauss-Elite Group, a one-billion dollars international food corporation.
Raya is deeply involved in partnerships with and support of a range of projects and organizations that embody love to humanity, to the State of Israel and to the Jewish people.
Raya serves as Chairperson, Member of the Board, member or major supporter of different organizations such as Chair of the Israel Friends of Ben Gurion University; President of Partnership 2000 between Naharia and Northern New Jersey; Talmei Geulat Israel for the unity of Israel and the Jewish people; MAALA for corporate social responsibility; Beit HaShanti Foundation for homeless youth; Ghetto Fighters’ House; Acharai for leadership and excellence among unprivileged youth; The Reut Institute for strategic support of the Government of Israel.
Raya Strauss is a Committee Member since September 2006. She serves as Co-Chair of Partnership Subcommittee.
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Dr. Stephen Wolnek is the President of Mercaz USA. He is also the President of Mercaz Olami; Vice President of the Jewish National Fund. He sits on the Board of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York; and on the Executive Committee of the American Zionist Movement.
Dr. Wolnek is a member of the WZO Vaad Hapoel. He is Past International President of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and Past President of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County.
Dr. Wolnek has a bachelor degree of Science Civil Engineering and Doctorate from the University of New Memphis. He is the President and CEO of P&S Industries Ltd. …Stephen Wolnek is a committee member since September 2006.
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Yechezkel Zakai was born in Kurdistan in 1932 and made Aliyah to Israel on 1950.
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Ms. Caryn Rosen Adelman is active in many civic and Jewish organizations. She is the Vice President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and in the past held many other positions within the federation. She is also the Vice President of UIA since 2002; she served in the Council of Jewish Federations and is very much involved in the work of UJA, UJC, Otzma and other organizations. Among her civic duties, Caryn Adelman served as a Trustee in the Village of Winnetka; she served as President of the League of Women Voters and President of Winnetka Village PTA.
Ms. Adelman is the recipient of the Yonathan Netanyahu Award of the Friends of the IDF, she is the recipient of Wexner Heritage Foundation prize, she also received the Young Leadership Award from the Chicago Federation, the Outstanding Young Women of America award and is on the University of llinois Dean’s List.
Caryn has a B.S. degree in Municipal Park Administration from the University of Illinois and a Master’s degree from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota on Philanthropy and Development.
Caryn is a Committee member since 2001. Prior to that, she served as a Board Member. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Mobilizing Israeli Society & Olim Associations Subcommittee.
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Larry Altschul
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Saby Behar is Financial Resource Development Chair and Immediate Past President of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. He also currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE).
A native of Lima, Peru, Saby has been active in the Jewish community his entire life. In Lima, he attended Colegio León Pinelo, a Jewish day school, and was involved in Hanoar Hatzioni, the worldwide Zionist youth movement. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1968 and attended New York University, earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and an MBA.
Saby has lived in Miami since the 1970’s and has been active in the Jewish community since his arrival first as a leader in the Federation’s International Division, the Young Leadership Committee and then in the Community Planning and Allocations Committee, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. He also served as Federation’s General Campaign Chairman. Saby is a past member of the Executive Committee of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet, a Wexner Heritage Fellow and a recipient of the Stanley C. Myers Presidents Leadership Award in 1986.
Professionally, Saby is a real estate developer and the CEO of General Stair Corporation, which he co-founded in 1987. Saby and his wife Rosi have three sons. …He is a Committee Member since March 2009.
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Margot Fisch Benstock was born and raised in Copenhagen Denmark by Orthodox parents. Her father was the sole survivor in his family of the Holocaust. She came to Pinellas County Florida by way of Israel where she met her husband, Michael, and after marrying him in Israel in 1978 moved to the United States.
Her involvement in Pinellas County Jewish community began as The Pre-School Parent Chair at her Synagogue, Congregation B’nai Israel of St. Petersburg. As Margot’s three children grew older her involvement continued as Parent Boosters Association President of the Pinellas County Jewish Day School.
She has served as The Women’s co-chair of The Jewish Federation of Pinellas County, Covenant Fund Chair, Founder and Chair of the Teen Council, and as Women’s President of the Jewish Federation of Pinellas County.
From 2000 she served two years as The General Campaign Chair of the Jewish Federation of Pinellas County and then for two years as the President. She received the Ludin Young Leadership award in 1998. She served four years on the Young Leadership cabinet, and has been the S.E. young leadership regional Conference Ritual Chair. For six years Margot has been on the National Women’s Philanthropy (NWP) Board where she has held several positions, including Southeast region endowment institute chair and NWP missions co-chair to France and Israel. Presently she is on the Women’s Philanthropy advisory board and chair of the ONAD committee in her community.
Margot is also an active volunteer for the Alzheimer’s Association and in 2009 received an award for her outstanding service. …She is a Committee Member since June 2009.
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Lorin Fife retired from the practice of law in 1998 to focus more on family, art and community-oriented activities. Mr. Fife currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles. He also served for many years as Vice President and Treasurer and Chair of the Foundation’s Grants and Finance Committees. Mr. Fife also has served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, and has co-chaired the Israel and Overseas Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles. In addition, he served for several years as the Los Angeles Chairman of the Federation’s Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership and on the national committee overseeing allocations of Israel Emergency Campaign funds raised by the United Jewish Communities. Mr. Fife also served his congregation, Adat Ari El, as President and as Chairman of the Board, and as Chairman of the Board of its Day School, and has served on the boards of several other major Jewish institutions at the local and international level. He is a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation.
Prior to his retirement, Mr. Fife served as a senior executive at SunAmerica Inc., a major financial services holding company, and practiced prior to that at O’Melveny & Myers, an international law firm headquartered in Los Angeles. In the broader community, Mr. Fife has served as an advisor to two California Insurance Commissioners and on numerous boards and committees in the legal community and the life insurance industry. An accomplished portrait and landscape artist, Mr. Fife has exhibited his oil, pastel and watercolor paintings in galleries in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Fife graduated with merit from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and from the University of Southern California Law Center. He also did post-graduate studies in business and economics at Tel Aviv University. A native of the San Fernando Valley, Mr. Fife has been married to his wife Linda for over 30 years. They reside in Valley Village and have two adult sons, a daughter-in-law and one grandson. …He has served on the Committee of the Board of Governors since September 2008.
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Abraham J Gafni has been a Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law, since 1994, after retiring as a judge in Philadelphia, PA, having served on the bench for 18 years. Since 1994, he has concentrated on the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution and has lectured on this subject extensively including presentations in Israel at both Haifa and Tel Aviv Schools of Law as well as before the judges of the Israel Labor Courts and other government agencies.
In Philadelphia he currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federation and is on the Israel Committee (which he also chaired in the past). He has served on other committees of the Federation, the Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Board of Jewish Education and as President of the Germantown Jewish Centre.
He began serving on numerous committees of JAFI from 1987-2000, including several years as the chair of the subcommittee on allocations of the Budget and Finance Committee. He withdrew from JAFI committee work by reason of his appointment as President of the Arbitration Tribunal of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims from 2000-2007 ( when the Commission ended its work). He has, however, continued as Chair of the Resolutions Committee of the JAFI Assembly since 1993. …Committee Member since June 2010.
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Norman Goldstein is the current Vice-President for Israel and Overseas at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, where he also served as Vice-President for Multiple Appeals, Vice-President at Large, Vice President for Leadership Development and in numerous other leadership positions. He is the Co-Chair of the Federation’s Financial Resources Development Committee and Founding Chairman of the Jewish Leadership Institute. He is Past President of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Ohr Kodesh Congregation and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. He is also on the Renewal & Renaissance Pillar of United Jewish Communities.
Norman Goldstein is the Chairman of the State of Maryland Consumer Affairs Council and a Founder of N Street Village, a rehabilitation shelter for homeless and troubled women.
Mr. Goldstein is Special Counsel to the Spectrum Enforcement Division of the Federal Communications Commission.
Mr. Goldstein is an Assembly Member who is serving on Board Committees since 2002.
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After serving in the Israeli army during the “Yom Kippur War,” Gary Heiman established Standard Textile’s first manufacturing facility, a plant in Arad at the edge of Israel’s Negev desert which opened in 1975. Today, it is the largest employer in Arad and one of the largest vertically integrated weaving mills in the world. In 2001, Mr. Heiman was awarded the “Industrialist of the Year” Prize by the President of the State of Israel. In July, 2008. Mr. Heiman received the “Pioneer of Negev” award by the President of the State of Israel which recognizes Mr. Heiman as one of the twelve major contributors to the development of the Negev desert. A holder of dual citizenship, Mr. Heiman also served in an elite, search-and-rescue unit of the Israel Defense Forces.
Before moving to Israel, Mr. Heiman received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972. He did post-graduate work at the Georgia Institute of Technology, studying industrial engineering. He also studied mechanical engineering at the Saurer Institute in Arbon, Switzerland.
He is Chairman of the Board of The Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Cincinnati where he also serves as Chairman of the Finance and Administration Committee. Additionally, Mr. Heiman is President of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati, Chairman of the Jewish Community Center, and a member of the Cincinnati Business Committee. Mr. Heiman serves as a Committee Member since September 2008.
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Irwin H. Levy is a long-time former Chairman of UJA and a member of the Executive Committee of UIA. He served as Chairman of the Government Relations Committee of UIA for many years.
Irwin Levy is currently Chairman of the Board of nStor Technologies, Inc., a publicly-traded information technology company. He lives in Florida and has been a member of the Florida Bar for more than fifty years.
He served as a member of the Board of Governors since June 1983 until June 2004, than he became a Committee Member. In the past he served as Chairman of the Finance and Administration Subcommittee.
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Dr. Sam Meline is a retired orthodontist who has lived in Hollywood for the past 45 years. He is the past president of the Greater Hollywood Dental Society, a past president of South Florida Academy of Orthodontists, and a member of most professional dental organizations. He is also a past president of Temple Beth Shalom, past president of the David Posnack JCC, and a past vice president of the Michael-Ann Russell JCC. At the Jewish Federation of South Broward, he was a past vice president, a past president of the Young Leaders Council, and a member of the board directors, on and off, for 25 years. The many committees he has served on, both at Federation and the Orloff CAJE, include Public Relations, Planning and Allocations (co-chairman), Chaplaincy (chairman), Shalom (co-chairman), Super Sunday Trainers (co-chairman), High School in Israel (National Board), and as chair of Mega Mission III.
A co-chair, along with Audrey, of the Jewish Community Foundation’s Israel and Overseas Committee (since 2006), his awards include the Hy and Belle Schlafer Leadership Award (1970), the Federation Leadership Award (1973), the Knesset Award (1975) and, with Audrey, the David Ben Gurion Israel Bonds Award (1977). …He is a Committee Member since October 2008.
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Neil Ross
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Mr. Seligman was born in Detroit, Michigan and has been involved most of his life in the establishment and operation of family-owned businesses.
He is a graduate of the University of Michigan. During 1973 and 1974 Mr. Seligman was Vice-President of Seligman of Florida, Inc.; In 1976 Mr. Seligman become Group Vice-President of Seligman & Associates, Inc. and from 1977 to 1983 he was President, Director and CEO of Seligman & Associates, Inc. In 1984 Scott Seligman and his father, Irving R. Seligman, established de novo’d Sterling Savings and Loan Association. Scott retired in 1999 as Chairman, President and CEO.
Since then, Mr. Seligman has overseen the diversification of the family’s Michigan apartment portfolio to regional malls; power centers; multi-tenant industrial buildings; apartment complexes; and offices all over the US.
Mr. Seligman currently serves on the Capital Planning Committee at the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco and was a board member of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas for three years. He serves as a Committee Member since September 2007.
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Cynthia D. Shapira is an independent management consultant to non-profit organizations and an active community volunteer. Her most recent clients include LEAD Pittsburgh (leading education and advocacy on depression), KidsVoice, and the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.
Community leadership roles include co-chair of the Pittsburgh Promise Corporate Campaign, UJF of Greater Pittsburgh Foundation, and UJF Foundation Fund for a Jewish Future capital campaign. She also sits on the JAFI Assembly and the boards of trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America, the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Council, the United Way of Allegheny County, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, The Children’s Institute, A+ Schools, the UJF of Greater Pittsburgh (board and executive committee), the Jewish Community Center, and the Jewish Women’s Foundation. She currently is co-chair of Women for Onorato, Democrat candidate for governor of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Shapira previously served as executive director of the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section. Before joining NCJW, Ms. Shapira was executive director of Chatham University’s Pennsylvania Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy. She also served as a legislative aide to Pittsburgh city councilman Dan Cohen.
Ms. Shapira’s prior experience included over twenty years as in non-profit and K-12 management consulting, including ten as executive vice president of Pappas Consulting Group, Inc., providing strategic planning, enrollment management, and operations redesign services. She joined Pappas Consulting Group after serving as a senior consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick in Washington, DC. A sampling of her clients includes UNICEF USA; National Council of Churches in Christ; Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of American; University of North Carolina System and its Historic Black Colleges and Universities; University of Massachusetts and each of the System universities; University System of Georgia; Sonoma State University (CA); University of Kansas president’s office; Miami-Dade Community College; Western Carolina University; Adelphi University; Hofstra University; St. Paul’s School; Massapequa Public Schools; Orange County and Broward County Public Schools (FL); Bellflower (CA) Public Schools; and numerous other non-profit and higher education institutions.
Ms. Shapira has an M.A. in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. summa cum laude in political science from Wellesley College. She is a committee member since June 2010.
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Barry Sobel
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Judy Wein (no longer listed)
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KEREN HAYESOD
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…Solicitor Senior Partner at PCB Lawyers LLP. Mr. Berwald serves as Non Exec Director of FIBI Bank (UK) plc.
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Canada…Member since 1998.
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Montreal.
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Chairman of the Integrated Fundraising and Development Committee of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.
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Canada.
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hello
my name is natali seri i am living in israel i want to ask you where i can get some help with economic situation i live with my husband and my little boy and i preagnet too. we live in a very small house on rent i am not working becouse it is really hard to find job when you preagnet. my husband worked in meat restaurant but one week ago they fierd him. we don’t have money to pay for a rent or buy food or clothes. i am really shy to ask for help but i really need it. iwish i can get some beautiful day when my frizider will be full and by to my baby everything he need so please try to help or tell me from where i can get some help. thank you
adress:
israel
jerusalem
neve yakov 7/17
post code: 97350
phone namber: 0542241021
Comment by natali — February 8, 2011 @ 5:51 pm