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  

Dr. 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
Sarah Barnett^
Kevin Berman^
A. Robert Bloom^
Daryle Bobb^
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 Federowicz^
Jeffrey I. Finkelstein
Daniel Flesch
Mike Flyer
Esther Foer^
Eileen Frazier^
Sharon Freundel
Robert Fried^
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^
Rabbi Esther Lederman
Henry Levine^
Dr. Marc A. Levitt
Jason Levy^
Laura Loeb
Mitchell Malasky
Joshua Maxey
Louis Mayberg^
Riva Mirvis
Benjamin A. Nussdorf
Robert Parker
Ira Polon
Thorn Pozen
Daniel Raskas
Rabbi Steven Rein
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
Paul Springer^
Mindy Strelitz
Avery Sudow
David Volosov^
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Edward R. Weiss
Jessika Wellisch
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 Dr. Hillel Broder
Jeff Dannick
Glenn Easton
David Ervin
Havi Goldscher
Ronald J. Halber
Lianne Heller
Amanda Herring
Rabbi Ari Israel
Amanda Katz
Adena Kirstein
Bruce Lederman
Ariel Levinson-Waldman
Rabbi Shmuel Lichtenstein
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
Liz Dunst
Peter Federowicz
Vicki Fishman

Dr. Michael Friedman
Robin Hettleman Weinberg
Michele Hymer Blitz
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Samuel Kaplan
Drew Karr
Stuart Kaswell
Stuart Kurlander
Randall Levitt
Shary Levitt
Dr. Ronald A. Paul

Gil Preuss, Ph.D.
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
Todd Rich
Jonathan Schilit
Rhea Schwartz
Daniel Simpkins
Daniel Solomon
Rabbi Shira Stutman
Stefan Tucker
Julie Wallick

TRUSTEES EMERITI
Joel Breslau
The Honorable Joseph B. Gildenhorn*
Alan L. Meltzer

* Of Blessed Memory
**Non-voting Members

Updated August 2023