Federation Executive Committee
Gary Berman
President
Mark Levitt
VP for Financial Resource Development
Jocelyn Krifcher
VP for Community & Global Impact – Local
Ron Kaplan
VP for Community & Global Impact – Israel & Overseas
Stuart Kaswell
VP for Finance and Treasurer
Jane Shichman
VP for Leadership and Volunteer Development
Abby S. Cherner
VP for Marketing & Engagement
Robin Hettleman Weinberg
VP for Women’s Philanthropy
Mitch Malasky
VP for Young Leadership
vacant
VP at Large
Dan Conston
Secretary
Norman R. Pozez
President United Jewish Endowment Fund
Scott Brown
Presidential Appointee
Neil Gurvitch
Presidential Appointee
Liza Levy
Past President
Robert Zahler
Past President
Gil Preuss
Executive Vice President & CEO
Paul S. Berger
Arnold & Porter LLP, Counsel
Federation Board of Directors
Rabbi Nissan Antine
Brian Ashin
Vivian Bass
Jason Benkendorf
Emily Benovitz
Glenn Benson
Paul Berger
Gary Berman
Joshua Bernstein
Norman Bernstein
Kara Blond
Joel Breslau
Heidi Brodsky
Scott Brown
Barbara Brown
Bradley Buslik
David Butler
Natalie Cantor
Johanna Chanin
Rabbi Yitzchak Charner
Abby Cherner
Federico Cohen
Jeff Cohen
Marcella Cohen
Morris Cohen
Daniel Conston
Jason Conway
Jeff Dannick
Eva Davis
Fred Diamond
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Amy Dweck
Ralph Dweck
Peter Federowicz
Anne Feinberg
Diane Feinberg
Michael Feinstein
Dan Finkel
Carly Finkelstein
Vicki Fishman
Michael Flyer
Toby Frank
Alan Freeman
Michael Friedman
Matthew Friedson
David Gamse
Rabbi Rachel Gartner
Jonah Geller
Michael Gelman
Susie Gelman
Morgan Genderson
Joseph Gildenhorn
Na’ama Gold
Eliot Goldberg
Hillel Goldberg
Joel Goldhammer
Laura Goldman
Louis Goodman
Norman Goldstein
Carol Gordon
Jill Granader
Sheldon Grosberg
Neil Gurvitch
Ronald Halber
Marci Handler
Liane Heller
Michele Hymer Blitz
Kathy Ingber
Kerry Iris
Rabbi Ari Israel
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Mark Kahan
Candace Kaplan
Edward Kaplan
Irene Kaplan
Lawrence Kaplan
Leslie Kaplan
Ronald Kaplan
Samuel Kaplan
Dr. Yossi Kastan
Sherry Kaswell
Stuart Kaswell
Amanda Katz
Deborah Katz
Adena Kirstein
Sheldon Klein
William Kreisberg
Jocelyn Krifcher
Rochelle Kupfer
Stuart Kurlander
Sue Kurtz
Steven Laufer
Bruce Lederman
Stuart Lessans
Henry Levine
Dr. Michael Levine
Mark Levitt
Liza Levy
Mark Lezell
Judah Lifschitz
Yelena Lingel
Jodi Macklin
Mitchell Malasky
Rabbi Mitchel Malkus
Philip Margolius
Louis Mayberg
Alan Meltzer
Daniel Mendelson
Rabbi Yitzchok Merkin
M Howard Morse
Benjamin Nussdorf
Ronald Paul
Michael Plostock
Jamie Poslosky
Norman Pozez
Gil Preuss
Kim Price
Daphna Raskas
Rabbi Adam Raskin
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
Naomi Reem
Meryl Rosenberg
Rabbi Jacob Rubin
Jeffrey Rum
Jonathan Sachs
Jacob Salem
Ivan Michael Schaeffer
Todd Schenk
Janis Schiff
Marissa Schlaifer
Susan Schor
Kenneth Schwartz
Raanan Shames
Rabbi Susan Shankman Namath
Jessica Sher
Jane Shichman
Ben Shlesinger
Lawrence Sidman
Rabbi Matthew Simon
David Sloan
Samantha Smith
Miriam Smolen
Ashley Steinberg
Rabbi Shira Stutman
Stuart Tauber
Edward Tolchin
Stefan Tucker
Eric Wachter
Edward Weiss
David Yaffe
Robert Zahler
Carole Zawatsky
Cindy Zitelman
PAST PRESIDENTS
Dr. Seymour Alpert*
Paul S. Berger
Herschel W. Blumberg*
Rabbi Isadore Breslau*
Joel Breslau
David J. Butler
Morris Cafritz*
Joseph Cherner*
Melvin S. Cohen*
Jerome J. Dick*
Dede Feinberg
Leopold V. Freudberg*
Michael C. Gelman
Susie Gelman
Dr. Leon Gerber*
The Honorable
Joseph B. Gildenhorn
Hymen Goldman*
Edward H. Kaplan
Irene R. Kaplan
Edmund I. Kaufmann*
Joel S. Kaufmann*
Abraham S. Kay*
Jack Kay*
Stuart S. Kurlander
Jac J. Lehrman*
Liza Levy
Philip N. Margolius
Phyllis G. Margolius*
Joseph Ottenstein*
Morris Rodman*
Ivan Michael Schaeffer
Rabbi Matthew H. Simon
Isador S. Turover*
Robert Zahler
honorary PRESIDENTS
N. M. Cohen*
Charles E. Smith*
honorary board members
Seymour S. Abensohn*
Norman Bernstein
Dr. Morris Cohen
Richard England*
Saul I. Stern*
Bernard S. White*
Federation’s United Jewish Endowment Fund Leadership
Norman R. Pozez
President
Trustees
Daniel H. Abramowitz
Gary Berman
Dr. Sara Cohen
Yvonne Schlafstein Distenfeld
Kevin Fishkind
Norman Freidkin
Dr. Michael Friedmen
Michael Gildenhorn
Jerry Greenspan
Neil Gurvitch
Jerry Herman
Stuart Kaswell
William Kreisberg
Jocelyn B. Krifcher
Jonathan Lerner
Liza Levy
Philip N. Margolius
Lawrence Nussdorf
Dr. Ronald A. Paul
Susan Pittleman
Gil Preuss
Meryl Rosenberg
Janis Schiff
Rhea Schwartz
Mindy Strelitz
Stuart Tauber
David Wexler
Trustees Emeriti
Paul S. Berger
Norman Bernstein
Joel Breslau
Sheldon S. Cohen
The Honorable Joseph B. Gildenhorn
Alan L. Meltzer
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Gary Berman
President
Gil Preuss
Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer
Eileen Frazier
Chief Operating Officer
Elizabeth R. Goldstein, Esq.
Deputy Director, UJEF & General Counsel
* Of Blessed Memory