Lay Leadership
Federation Executive Committee
Samuel Kaplan
President
Robin Hettleman Weinberg
Vice President for Financial Resource Development
Julie Kass
Vice President for Strategic Planning & Allocations – Local
Kevin E. Fishkind
Vice President for Strategic Planning & Allocations – Israel & Overseas
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Vice President for Finance & Treasurer
Johanna Chanin
Vice President for Leadership & Volunteer Development
Bradley Buslik
Vice President for Network
Kerry Iris
Vice President for Women’s Philanthropy
Josh Brown
Vice President for Young Leadership
David Selden
Vice President at Large
David P. Yaffe
Secretary
Jocelyn B. Krifcher
Presidential Appointee
Melanie Franco Nussdorf
Presidential Appointee
Gary Berman
Past President
Mark A. Levitt
Past President
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
President, United Jewish Endowment Fund
Paul S. Berger
Arnold & Porter LLP, Counsel
Gil Preuss, PhD
Executive Vice President & CEO
2021-2022 Federation Board of Directors
Rise Ain
Brian Ashin
Vivian Bass
Benjamin Berkowitz
Joshua Bernstein
Michele Hymer Blitz
Philip Blumenthal
Scott Brown
Abby S. Cherner
Marcella Cohen
Rachel Weiner Cohen
Jason M. Conway
Eva Cowen
Laura Cutler
Eva Malka Davis
Behnam Dayanim
Rabbi Sholom B. Deitsch
Sean Epstein
David Farber
Carly Finkelstein
Jeffrey I. Finkelstein
Mike Flyer
Toby Frank
Fed Cohen Freue
Sharon Freundel
Edna Friedberg
Rochelle Friedman
Maharat Ruth Friedman
Alexis Cohen Gantsoudes
Robyn B. Garnett
Howard Gleckman
Hillel Goldberg
Neil Gurvitch
Rachel Hofstatter
David Kanstoroom
Candace G. Kaplan
Danielle H. Kaplan
Lawrence Kaplan
Leslie A. Kaplan
Ronald Kaplan
Stuart Kaswell
Ayala Nuriely Kimel
Susan Kristol
Selma Kunitz
Rabbi Esther Lederman
Henry Levine
Dr. Marc A. Levitt
Mark Lezell
Mitchell Malasky
Louis Mayberg
Alan L. Meltzer
Jean Milbauer
Riva Mirvis
Benjamin A. Nussdorf
Saul Pilchen
Kim Price
Jeffrey S. Puretz
Jenn Rafael
Daniel Raskas
Rabbi Steven Rein
Deitra Reiser, PhD
Scott L. Reiter
Cantor Rachel Rhodes
Pamela Rosenberg
Jeffrey S. Rum
Randi Sadugor
Yolanda Savage-Narva
Janis Schiff
Philip Schiff
Marissa Schlaifer
Marla Schulman
Brian Schwalb
Kenneth Schwartz
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Raanan Shames
Jane Shichman
Allon Shiff
Lawrence Sidman
Craig Simon
Dale Singer
Samantha Sisisky
Michelle Stravitz
Mindy Strelitz
Stuart Tauber
Edward Tolchin
David Volosov
Eric Wachter
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Edward R. Weiss
Naomi Yadin-Mendick
Cindy Zitelman
Michele N. Zuckerman
Stuart Zuckerman
Abe Zwany
PAST PRESIDENTS
Dr. Seymour Alpert*
Paul S. Berger
Gary Berman
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 Hon. Joseph B. Gildenhorn
Hyman Goldman*
Edward H. Kaplan
Irene R. Kaplan
Edmund I. Kaufmann*
Joel S. Kaufmann*
Abraham S. Kay*
Jack Kay*
Stuart S. Kurlander
Jac J. Lehrman*
Mark A. Levitt
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 MEMBERS
Seymour S. Abensohn*
Norman Bernstein*
Dr. Morris Cohen
Richard England*
Saul I. Stern*
Bernard S. White*
AGENCY EXECUTIVES**
Josh Bender
Jason N. Benkendorf
Rabbi Yitzchak Charner
Jeff Dannick
Glenn Easton
David Ervin
Rabbi Rachel Gartner
Havi Goldscher
Ronald J. Halber
Lianne Heller
Rabbi Ari Israel
Rabbi Dr. Yossi Kastan
Amanda Katz
Adena Kirstein
Sue Kurtz
Bruce Lederman
Rabbi Mitchel Malkus
Rabbi Yitzchok Merkin
Rabbi Daniel Novick
Shane Rock
Rabbi Jacob Rubin
Jacob Salem
Todd R. Schenk
Dava Schub
Dr. Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn
Aviva Walls
Laurie Wexler
*Of Blessed Memory
**Non-voting Members
Federation’s United Jewish Endowment Fund Board of Trustees
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
President
TRUSTEES
Ann Bennett
Adam Berman
Michele Hymer Blitz
Dr. Sara Cohen
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Peter Federowicz
Vicki Fishman
Dr. Michael Friedman
Jerry Herman
Stuart Kaswell
Jonathan Lerner
Mark A. Levitt
Randall Levitt
Lawrence Nussdorf*
Dr. Ronald A. Paul
Norman R. Pozez
Gil Preuss
Todd Rich
Meryl B. Rosenberg
Deborah Ratner Salzberg, President
Janis Schiff
Rhea Schwartz
Daniel Simpkins
Daniel Solomon
Rabbi Shira Stutman
Stuart Tauber
Stefan Tucker
Julie Wallick
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Robin Hettleman Weinberg
TRUSTEES EMERITI
Paul S. Berger
Norman Bernstein
Joel Breslau
The Honorable Joseph B. Gildenhorn
Alan L. Meltzer
* Of Blessed Memory
**Non-voting Members