Lay Leadership
Federation Executive Committee
Mark A. Levitt
President
Gary Berman
Co-Vice President for Financial Resource Development
Jocelyn B. Krifcher
Co-Vice President for Financial Resource Development
Jeffrey S. Rum
Vice President for Strategic Planning & Allocations – Local
Julie Kass
Vice President for Strategic Planning & Allocations – Israel & Overseas
Stuart Kaswell
Vice President for Finance & Treasurer
Jane Shichman
Vice President for Leadership & Volunteer Development
Abby S. Cherner
Vice President for Donor Engagement & Stewardship
Robin Hettleman Weinberg
Vice President for Women’s Philanthropy
Jeffrey Finkelstein
Vice President for Young Leadership
Scott Brown
Vice President at Large
Dan Conston
Secretary
Norman R. Pozez
President, United Jewish Endowment Fund
Brian Ashin
Presidential Appointee
Neil Gurvitch
Presidential Appointee
Gil Preuss, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Paul S. Berger
Arnold & Porter LLP, Counsel
Federation Board of Directors
2019
Vivian Bass
Emily Benovitz
Glenn Benson
Joshua Bernstein
Cookie Hymer Blitz
Abba Blum
Philip Blumenthal
Heidi Brodsky
Barbara Brown
Johanna Chanin
Jeffrey Cohen
Marcella Cohen
Jason Conway
Laura Cutler
Eva Malka Davis
Fred Diamond
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Ralph S. Dweck
David Farber
Carly Finkelstein
Mike Flyer
Toby Frank
Federico Cohen Freue
Edna Friedberg
Rochelle Friedman
Matthew Friedson
Carin Gendell
Morgan Genderson
Eliot Goldberg
Joel Goldhammer
Norman Goldstein
Carol Gordon
Jill Granader
Marci Handler
Rachel Hofstatter
Kathy Ingber
Kerry Iris
Candace Kaplan
Lawrence Kaplan
Leslie A. Kaplan
Ron Kaplan
Samuel Kaplan
Sherry Kaswell
Steve Kelin
Sheldon Klein
William Kreisberg
Shelly Kupfer
Rabbi Esther Lederman
Dr. Stuart Lessans
Henry Levine
Dr. Michael Levine
Mark Lezell
Brian Liss
Jodi Macklin
Mitch Malasky
Louis Mayberg
Alan Meltzer
Eric Meyers
Riva Mirvis
Rhea Morgenstern
M Howard Morse
Benjamin A. Nussdorf
Ron Paul
Arthur Polott
Jamie Poslosky
Kim Price
Daniel Raskas
Rabbi Steven Rein
Meryl B. Rosenberg
Pamela Rosenberg
Jonathan Sachs
Randi Sadugor
Deborah Ratner
Salzberg
Janis Schiff
Marissa Schlaifer
Susan Schor
Kenneth Schwartz
David Selden
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Raanan Shames
Rabbi Susan N.
Shankman
Jessica Sher
Allon Shiff
Ben Shlesinger
Lawrence Sidman
David Sloan
Ashley Steinberg
Rabbi Shira Stutman
Stuart Tauber
Edward Tolchin
David Vosolov
Eric Wachter
Ellen Kagen
Waghelstein
Rachel Weiner Cohen
Edward R. Weiss
Laurie Wexler
David Yaffe
Cindy Zitelman
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 Honorable 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*
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**
Jason Benkendorf
Kara Blond
Rabbi Yitzchak Charner
Jeff Dannick
David Ervin
Michael Feinstein
Dan Finkel
David Gamse
Rabbi Rachel Gartner
Jonah Geller
Na’ama Gold
Ron Halber
Lianne Heller
Rabbi Ari Israel
Rabbi Dr. Yossi Kastan
Amanda Katz
Adena Kirstein
Sue Kurtz
Bruce Lederman
Rabbi Mitch Malkus
Rabbi Yitzchok Merkin
Daphna Raskas
Naomi Reem
Rabbi Jacob Rubin
Jacob Salem
Todd Schenk
Carole Zawatsky
*Of Blessed Memory
* *Non-voting Members
Federation’s United Jewish Endowment Fund Leadership
Norman R. Pozez
President
TRUSTEES
Dr. Sara Cohen
Yvonne Schlafstein Distenfeld
Peter Federowicz
Kevin Fishkind
Norman Freidkin
Dr. Michael Friedman
Michael Gildenhorn
Jerry Greenspan
Jerry Herman
Stuart Kaswell
William Kreisberg
Jonathan Lerner
Mark A. Levitt
Liza Levy
Philip N. Margolius
Lawrence Nussdorf
Dr. Ronald A. Paul
Susan Pittleman
Gil Preuss
Meryl Rosenberg
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
Janis Schiff
Rhea Schwartz
Stuart Tauber
Julie Wallick
David Wexler
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