Lay Leadership

2024-2025 Federation Executive Committee

Robin Hettleman Weinberg
President  

Jill Granader
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  

Marty Janis
Vice President for Finance & Treasurer  

Marla Schulman
Vice President for Leadership & Volunteer Development  

Janis Schiff
Vice President for Network 

Dan Rosenberg
Vice President for Next Gen 

Abby Cherner
Vice President for Women’s Philanthropy  

Zachary Friedlis
Vice President At-Large  

Jeffrey Distenfeld
Secretary  

David Selden
Presidential Appointee  

Melanie Nussdorf
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 

2024-2025 Federation Board of Directors

Rise Ain
Linda Adams
Sarah Barnett^
Vivian Bass
Sarah Bederson
Kevin Berman^
A. Robert Bloom^
Philip Blumenthal
Daryle Bobb^
Josh Brown
Scott Brown
Sheila Budoff^
Johanna Chanin^
Laura Cutler
Rabbi Sholom B. Deitsch
Lisa Downing
Nancy Duber
Eli Engelbourg^
David Farber
Peter Federowicz^
Shai Fierst^
Jeffrey I. Finkelstein
Julie Fisher
Daniel Flesch
Esther Foer^
Sharon Freundel
Robert Fried^
Robyn B. Garnett
Eric Goldberg
Pamela Gottlieb
Ariela Greenberg
Daniel Hirsch
Rachel Hofstatter
Sarah Honigfeld^
Rabbi Brett Isserow^
Ronald Kaplan
Kavitha Kasargod-Staub
Julie Kass
Stuart Kaswell
Aaron M. Kaufman
Susan Kristol
Jeffrey Kupfer^
Amy Lancellotta^
Rabbi Esther Lederman
Joseph Levin-Manning
Henry Levine^

Dr. Marc A. Levitt
Laura Loeb
Oliver Macklin
Mitchell Malasky
Joshua Maxey
Louis Mayberg^
Riva Mirvis
Ayala Nuriely Kimel
Robert Parker
Ira Polon
Thorn Pozen^
Daniel Raskas
Rabbi Steven Rein
Scott Rosen^
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Ilana Rothberg
Jeffrey S. Rum
Ruth Z. Ruskin^
Heather Sachs^
Max Sandler
Yolanda Savage-Narva
Philip Schiff
Joseph Schmerling^
Jackie Schultz^
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Jessica Sher
Arnie Sherman^
Jane Shichman
Lisa E. Silver
Craig Simon
Samantha Sisisky
Paul Springer^
Rabbi Alexandra Stein
Mindy Strelitz
Daniel Strouse^
Avery Sudow
Danielle Traub
Jessika Wellisch
Natalie West^ **
Tal Widdes
Naomi Yadin-Mendick
David Yaffe
Reuven Zakheim^
Rabbi Ilana Zietman^
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
Neil Gurvitch
Robin Hettleman Weinberg
Mark Lezell
Jocelyn B. Krifcher
Alan L. Meltzer
Melanie Franco Nussdorf
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**
Josh Bender
Jason N. Benkendorf
Rabbi Dr. Hillel Broder
Jeff Dannick
Glenn Easton
David Ervin
Havi Goldscher
Bea Gurwitz
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
Todd R. Schenk
Dr. Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn
Jody Tick
Aviva Walls
Annie Weinberg

Jennifer Zwilling 

^Partner Agency President
*Of Blessed Memory
**Non-voting Members

Federation’s Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Washington

2024-2025 Board of Trustees

Deborah Ratner Salzberg
President

TRUSTEES
Diana Aviv
Ann Bennett
Adam Berman
Jeffrey Distenfeld
Liz Dunst
Peter Federowicz
Vicki Fishman
Meg Flax
Robin Hettleman Weinberg

Cookie Hymer Blitz
Ellen Kagen Waghelstein
Samuel Kaplan
Drew Karr
Stuart Kurlander
Jonathan Lerner
Randall Levitt
Shary Levitt
Gil Preuss, Ph.D.
Todd Rich
Jonathan Schilit
Daniel Simpkins
David Sloan

Daniel Solomon
Mindy Strelitz
Shira Stutman
Stefan Tucker
Julie Wallick

TRUSTEES EMERITI
Joel Breslau
Steve Jacobson
Alan L. Meltzer
Dr. Ronald A. Paul

* Of Blessed Memory
**Non-voting Members

Updated September 2024