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Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Chair
David Wax, San Diego, CA

Vice Chairs
Ruth Fletcher, Los Gatos, CA
Lisie Gottdenker, Bethesda, MD
Thomas A. Mandel, Akron, OH
Adrienne Matros, Newport Coast, CA

Secretary
Edward Schreiber, Bellaire, TX

Associate Secretary
Michael Gold, Stamford, CT

Honorary Chairs
Gary E. Jacobs, San Diego, CA
Edward H. Kaplan, Washington, DC
Ann P. Kaufman, Houston, TX
Jerome B. Makowsky, Memphis, TN
Daniel Rose, New York, NY
Stephen P. Seiden, Livingston, NJ
Paula L. Sidman, Boston, MA
Alan P. Solow, Chicago, IL

Honorary Board Members
Irwin L. Elson, Detroit, MI
Marilyn Fox, St. Louis, MO
Sandra Gold, Tenafly, NJ
Marvin Pertzik, St. Paul, MN
Harriet L. Rosenthal, MetroWest, NJ
Myron Strober, Palm Beach, FL

Directors-at-Large

Edward Atkins, M.D., Glencoe, IL
David Begelfer, 
Waitsfield, VT
Kara Bierman, 
Germantown, TN
Lisa Brill, 
Atlanta, GA
Donald W. Brodsky, 
Houston, TX
Sandy Cardin, Queenstown, MD
Andy L. Eisenberg, Boston, MA
Heather Gilbert, Plantation, FL
Paul Gillis, Denver, CO
Joyce Goldstein, Essex Fells, NJ
Lorne Goldstein, Toronto, ON
Billy Goodman, Pittsburgh, PA
Bobby Hammel, Allentown, PA
Jonathan Hoffer, Paradise Valley, AZ
Dana Hollander, Irvine, CA
Howard T. Jacobson, Prairie Village, KS
Elise Jordan, Germantown, TN
Stephen M. Kaufman, Houston, TX
Shelly Kupfer, Chevy Chase, MD
Ron L. Leibow
, San Diego, CA
Jay Liberman, Plano, TX
Judy Lieberman, West Orange, NJ
Marisa Mandrea, Northbrook, IL
Marc B. Merklin, Fairlawn, OH
Eric M. Nislow, Baltimore, MD
David Peltz, Toronto, ON
Geri Pollack, New York, NY
Steve R. Reiner, New York, NY
Alicia Sadoff, Mequon, WI
Jeremy Samuels, Houston, TX
Annette G. Saxon, Baltimore, MD
Rhea Schwartz, Chevy Chase, MD
Shirley Solomon, Boca Raton, FL
Susan Steiner Saal, Palo Alto, CA
Susan B. Strait, Milwaukee, WI
Phyllis Tabachnick, Dune Acres, IN
Fran Trachtenberg, Minneapolis, MN
Carol Weintraub Fogel
, West Bloomfield, MI

Professionals – JCC CEOs
Zack Bodner, Palo Alto, CA
Marc Fisher, Cincinnati, OH
Addie Goodman, Northbrook, IL
Rabbi Bill Kaplan, Malibu, CA
Amy Lavin, Mercer Island, WA
Jonathan Lev, Boulder, CO
Andrew Levy, Toronto, ON
Betzy Lynch, La Jolla, CA
Dr. Jill S. Madsen, Durham, NC
Leonard Petlakh, Brooklyn, NY
Todd Rockoff, Tucson, AZ
Brian Siegel, Detroit, MI

CHAIR, JWB PLENUM
(Term expiring 2024)
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell, Phoenix, AZ

CHAIR, JCC GLOBAL
(Term expiring 2024)
Menachem Revivi, Jerusalem, Israel