Lay Leadership
2023-2024 Federation Executive Committee
Robin Hettleman Weinberg
President
Melanie Franco Nussdorf
Vice President for Financial Resource Development
Toby Frank
Vice President for Strategic Planning & Allocations – Local
Michael Friedman
Vice President for Strategic Planning & Allocations – Israel & Overseas
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Vice President for Finance & Treasurer
Jessica Sher
Vice President for Leadership & Volunteer Development
Max Sandler
Vice President for Network
Oliver Macklin
Vice President for Next Gen
Jill Granader
Vice President for Women’s Philanthropy
Kerry Iris
Vice President for At-Large
Johanna Chanin
Secretary
Marty Janis
Presidential Appointee
David Selden
Presidential Appointee
Samuel Kaplan
Past President
Mark A. Levitt
Past President
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
President, Jewish Community Foundation
Gil Preuss, PhD
Executive Vice President & CEO
2023-2024 Federation Board of Directors
Rise Ain
Vivian Bass
Sarah Bederson
Kevin Berman^
A. Robert Bloom^
Ronna Borenstein-Levy^
Josh Brown
Scott Brown
Sheila Budoff^
Abby S. Cherner
Laura Cutler
Behnam Dayanim
Rabbi Sholom B. Deitsch
Nancy Duber
Eli Engelbourg^
Sean Epstein
David Farber
Peter Federwicz^
Jeffrey I. Finkelstein
Daniel Flesch
Mike Flyer
Esther Foer^
Toby Frank
Eileen Frazier^
Sharon Freundel
Robert Fried^
Dr. Michael Friedman
William Gale^
Robyn B. Garnett
Hillel Goldberg^
Elissa Goldfarb^
Pamela Gottlieb
Daniel Hirsch^
Rachel Hofstatter
David Kanstoroom
Danielle H. Kaplan
Leslie A. Kaplan
Ronald Kaplan
Kavitha Kasargod-Staub
Julie Kass
Stuart Kaswell
Aaron M. Kaufman
Ayala Nuriely Kimel^
Susan Kristol
Jeffrey Kupfer^
Amy Lancellotta^
Henry Levine^
Jeremy Levine^
Dr. Marc A. Levitt
Jason Levy^
Laura Loeb
Mitchell Malasky
Joshua Maxey
Louis Mayberg^
Riva Mirvis
Benjamin A. Nussdorf
Robert Parker
Thorn Pozen
Daniel Raskas
Rabbi Steven Rein
Cantor Rachel Rhodes
Scott Rosen^
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Ilana Rothberg
Jeffrey S. Rum
Ruth Z. Ruskin^
Yolanda Savage-Narva
Philip Schiff
Marissa Schlaifer
Marla Schulman
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Raanan Shames^
Jane Shichman
Lawrence Sidman
Lisa E. Silver
Arielle Silverman
Craig Simon
Samantha Sisisky
Bradley Stillman^
Mindy Strelitz
Avery Sudow
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Edward R. Weiss
Natalie West^ **
Tal Widdes
Naomi Yadin-Mendick
David Yaffe
Reuven Zakheim^
Rabbi Ilana Zietman^
Michele N. 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
Samuel 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
PAST VICE PRESIDENTS OF FINANCIAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Joshua Bernstein
Marcella Cohen
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Mark Lezell
Jocelyn B. Krifcher
Alan L. Meltzer
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
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*
AGENCY EXECUTIVES**
Ivy Barsky
Josh Bender
Jason N. Benkendorf
Rabbi Yitzchak Charner
Jeff Dannick
Glenn Easton
David Ervin
Havi Goldscher
Ronald J. Halber
Lianne Heller
Rabbi Ari Israel
Rabbi Dr. Yossi Kastan
Amanda Katz
Adena Kirstein
Sue Kurtz
Bruce Lederman
Ariel Levinson-Waldman
Rabbi Mitchel Malkus
Rabbi Yitzchok Merkin
Rabbi Daniel Novick
Ellen Oshinsky
Shane Rock
Rabbi Jacob Rubin
Todd R. Schenk
Dr. Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn
Jody Tick
Aviva Walls
Jackie Zais (Interim)
Jennifer Zwilling
^Partner Agency President
*Of Blessed Memory
**Non-voting Members
Federation’s Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Washington
2023-2024 Board of Trustees
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
President
TRUSTEES
Ann Bennett
Adam Berman
Dr. Sara Cohen
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Isabel P. Dunst
Peter Federowicz
Vicki Fishman
Dr. Michael Friedman
Michele Hymer Blitz
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Samuel Kaplan
Drew Karr
Stuart Kaswell
Stuart Kurlander
Randall Levitt
Shary Levitt
Dr. Ronald A. Paul
Todd Rich
Jonathan Schilit
Rhea Schwartz
Daniel Simpkins
Daniel Solomon
Rabbi Shira Stutman
Stefan Tucker
Julie Wallick
TRUSTEES EMERITI
Joel Breslau
Amb. Joseph Gildenhorn
Alan Meltzer
* Of Blessed Memory
**Non-voting Members
Updated August 2023