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Executive Board and Executive Staff

Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland

2008 OFFICERS

Board Chair
Harley I. Gross

Vice-Chairs
Larry P. Goldberg
Robert A. Immerman
James A. Ratner
Susan E. Rubin
Judith Weiss

Treasurer
Reneé Chelm

Associate Treasurer
J. David Heller

President
Stephen H. Hoffman
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Executive Committee

Thomas W. Adler
Jules Belkin
Beth Wain Brandon
Reuven D. Dessler
Robert Goldberg*
Henry J. Goodman*
Gary L. Gross
Rubin Guttman
William H. Heller
Ronnen Isakov
Ann Nickman Jacobson
Jeffrey M. Kahn
Stuart F. Kline
Jennifer L. Korach
Randall J. Korach
Nancy K. Levin
Bruce P. Mandel
Morton L. Mandel*
Kim M. Pesses
Albert B. Ratner*
Charles A. Ratner*
Enid Rosenberg
Karin F. Schleifer
Michael D. Siegal
William J. Stern
Sally H. Wertheim*
Judy Klein Willensky
Timothy F. Wuliger*
Bennett Yanowitz*
Daniel Zelman

* Trustee for Life

SPECIAL TRUSTEES

Trustees-for-Life
(past Board Chairs of the Federation)

Robert Goldberg
Henry J. Goodman
Morton L. Mandel
Albert B. Ratner
Charles A. Ratner
Sally H. Wertheim
Timothy F. Wuliger
Bennett Yanowitz

Trustees-for-Life
Victor Gelb
S. Lee Kohrman
Charlotte R. Kramer
Milton S. Maltz
Tamar Maltz
Barbara A. Mandel
Jack N. Mandel
Joseph C. Mandel
Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum (of blessed memory)
Samuel H. Miller
Elmer I. Paull
Robert S. Reitman
Peter Rzepka
Robert Silverman

Emeritus Trustees
Jordan C. Band
Morton G. Epstein
Leonard Fuchs
Robert D. Gries
Aileen Kassen
Elaine Rocker
Edwin M. Roth
Harold S. Stern
Norman Wain
Philip Wasserstrom
Jerome A. Weinberger

2008 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
David Adler
Rabbi Richard A. Block
Debra Bloom
Howard J. Bobrow
Richard Bogomolny
Barnett N. Bookatz
Susan R. Borison
Rabbi Eric J. Bram
Amy Budish
Rabbi Naphtali Burnstein
Marilyn Baruch Cagin
Kerry Chelm
Deborah A. Coleman
Beth Curtiss
Jeffrey S. Davis
Marian Drost
Leslie D. Dunn
Irwin M. Feldman
Bonnie Frankel
Mitchell L. Frankel
Samuel M. Frankel
Carl D. Glickman
Bruce H. Goodman
Lois K. Goodman
Tamra F. Gould
Roe Green
Robert A. Heiser
Andrew W. Hoffmann
Susan R. Hurwitz
Francine G. Immerman
Lawrence M. Kadis
Suellen S. Kadis
Ira Kaplan
Ilana Isakov Katz
Adam S. Kaufman
N. Herschel Koblenz
Karen Krause
Adam Levin

Keith Libman
Irwin M. Lowenstein
Larry A. Mack
Herbert L. Marcus
Rabbi Sharon Marcus
Jared S. Miller
David J. Millstone
John Osher
Terrence Ozan
Michael C. Perlmuter
Roman Petroff
Peter E. Raskind
Barbara S. Rosenthal
Betty Rosskamm
Shelley Roth
Evie Safran
Gordon H. Safran
Mitchell C. Schneider
Lee G. Seidman
Bradley A. Sherman
David B. Shifrin
Scott Siegel
Robert L. Sill
Robert L. Stark
David Strauss
Jeanne Tobin
Michael Wager
Stephen J. Weinberg
Gary Weiss
Rabbi Stephen I. Weiss
Marcia J. Wexberg
Jeffrey J. Wild
Nancy G. Wolf
Warren L. Wolfson
William A. Wortzman
Darrell A. Young
Daniel N. Zelman
Robert A. Zimmerman


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2008 Committees

Allocations Committee
Randall J. Korach, Chair
Nathan S. Lipsyc, Peter Meisel, Vice Chairs
Louis J. Bloomfield, Capital Repair & Replacement
Nathan J. Lipsyc, Subcommittee on Human Services
Peter Meisel, Subcommittee on Education Agencies
Deborah Shifrin, Liaison Team for National & Overseas    Agencies

Community Planning Committee
Jeffrey H. Kahn, Chair
Ronald A. Fisher, President, Jewish Community
    Housing, Inc.
Allan Goldner, Older Adult
J. David Heller, Government Relations
Andrea Kanter Jacobs, Research and Evaluation
Jessica Semel, Affiliation, Identity and Outreach
Will Sukenik, Facilities Planning

Community Relations Committee
Bruce P. Mandel, Chair
Susan R. Borison, Mark S. Rosentraub, Vice-Chairs
Fran Doris, Jewish Volunteers in Action
Nancy J. Glick, Public Education Initiative
Jeffrey J. Wild, Israel Action
Warren L. Wolfson, Inter-Group Relations

Development Committee
Thomas W. Adler, Chair
Howard B. Edelstein, Professional Advisory Council
Robert Goldberg, Charles A. Ratner, Morry Weiss,    Centennial Initiative for Jewish Cleveland
Ronnen Isakov, Young Leadership Division
Nancy K. Levin, Women’s Division
Robert S. Reitman, Major Gifts Strategy
Michael D. Siegal, 2009 Campaign for Jewish Needs    General Chair
Nina and Norman Wain, Silver Circle

Endowment Fund Committee
Jules Belkin, Chair
Beth Wain Brandon, Foundation Advisory Council
Harold E. Friedman, Philanthropic Fund Advisory

Finance and Investment Committee
Stuart F. Kline, Chair
Gerald Goldberg, UJC National Investment Program    Subcommittee
Sally Gries, Subcommittee on Charitable Trusts
Richard Horvitz, Agency Endowment Subcommittee

Human Resources Development Committee
Judy Klein Willensky, Chair
Thomas W. Adler, Gries Award Committee
Thomas W. Adler, Simon B. Feiglin, Career Pathing
Scott D. Garson, Leadership Training
Gregg A. Levine, LGBT Task Force
Marcia Levine, Advancing Women to Leadership
Enid Rosenberg, Agency Leadership Roundtables
Sally H. Wertheim, Mandel Foundation–HRD Joint    Advisory Team

Marketing and Communications Committee
William J. Stern, Chair

Overseas Connections Committee
William H. Heller, Chair
Cindy J. Attias, Cleveland/Beit-Shean Partnership
Robin K. Avery, PACT (Parents and Children Together)
Robert A. Goodman, ONAD Elective Subcommittee
Jon Joseph, IDF Education Corps/Havat HaShomer
Marcia Levine, ISHA (Israel Health Advancement
    for Women)
Judge Dan A. Polster, Israel/Jordan Cross-
    Border Initiative
Neil R. Waxman, Cleveland/St. Petersburg Partnership

Strategic Planning
Timothy F. Wuliger, Chair

Additional Committees

Administrative
Robert S. Reitman, Chair

Advancing Women to Leadership
Marcia Levine, Chair

Agnon-College Building Operations
Robert A. Heiser, Chair

Audit
Daniel N. Zelman, Chair

Awards
Harley I. Gross, Chair

Cash
Ronald A. Fisher, Chair

Chaplaincy
Judy Kaufman, Chair

Charles Eisenman Award
Harley I. Gross, Chair

Commission on Cemetery Preservation
Jeffrey Gottlieb, Chair
Rubin Guttman, Vice Chair

Executive
Harley I. Gross, Chair

Legal
David S. Inglis, Chair

Nominating
David Strauss, Chair

Real Estate
Steven Soclof, Chair

Retirement Fund
Keith Libman, Chair

Risk Management
Barry Minoff, Chair

Security
David B. Shifrin, Chair

Solon Building Operations

Daniel S. Moskowitz, Chair

Strengthening and Growing Jewish Cleveland
Steven Willensky, Chair

Technology
Alan B. Semel, Robert D. Weitzner, Co-Chairs


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Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland Staff
(as of 12/31/08)

Stephen H. Hoffman, President

Administration
Harvey Freiman, JCF Vice President
Linda Knable

Community Planning & Allocations
Erika Rudin-Luria, Director
Karen Baker
Pamela Clark
Shelley Fishbach
Diane Fistek
Lakshmi Eastman Nebel
Susan Hyman
Michelle Miller
Niki Resnick
Charles Varkala

Annual Campaign
Shelley Milin Marcus, Director
Sheryl Berman
Michelle Feinberg
Matt Fieldman
Stephanie Gooch
Abigail Hirsh
Debbie Klein
Matt Klein
Joyce Lisiewski
Jackie Reed

Community Relations
Dayan Gross, Director
Shoshana Chazin
Frances Pursell
Tammy Rubin
Julie Schoenberger
Elisa Usher

Community Services/Community Options (CO)
Cathy Weiss, Director
Rabbi Akiva Feinstein
Rabbi Melvin Granatstein
Marilyn Jacobs
Pat Keating
Rabbi Alan Lettofsky
Sharon Levey (CO)
Janet Moses (CO)
Barbara Rose (CO)
Rabbi Stanley Schachter
Kelly Sperber Rubanenko
Bobbi Sedley (CO)
Karen Steiger
Rabbi Edward Sukol
Phyllis Witriol

Donor Service Operations Center
Allison Levine, Director of Campaign Operations
Rosie Brown
Cindy Doehring
Pat Fallon
Rima Melman
Bela Mindlin
Miriam Shtoff

Endowment Development
Alan Gross, JCF Vice President
Charles M. Miller

Endowments & Foundations
Hedy P. Milgrom, JCF Assistant Vice President
Jean DeMine
Julie Dewey
Ann Garson
Marcia Greenis
Matthew Kaliff
Marianne Lax
Alida Oatman
Janet Schwartz Shapiro
Francesca Williams


Fiscal
Barry Reis, JCF Senior Vice President &
    Chief Financial Officer
Sheila Allenick
Annette Banks
Larry Blaha
Heather Colbert-Eckert
Debbie Duval
Paul Feinberg
Pearl Foti
Elizabeth Grayson
Lisa Hausmann
Nancy Hoffner
Bonnie Huston
Nancy Kaleal
Judy Kirchick
Joan Longbon
Marybeth Losh
Faye Matitia
Kathryn Palus
Donna Resar
Barbra Schwartz
Manya Smilovich
Irina Temkin
Elaine Thomas
Howard Wolf

Government Relations
Amy Kaplan, Director
Rachel Flatow Haas
Wendy Lefko Messeloff

Human Resources Development
Daniel Blain, JCF Senior Vice President
Susan Avitan
Jennifer Burton
Jennifer Cohen
Tamara (Tammy) Dubin
Dana Verbyla

Information Technology

Susan Roth, Chief Information Officer
Paul Gajowski
Darrell Hayn
Chris Jacobs
Adam Oman

International Operations
Oren Baratz, Director
Julie Auerbach
Leah Epstein
Sally Levine
Lacey Roth

Marketing & Communications
Annie Becker, Director
Allison Agin
Lisa Gill
Jayme Honigman
Donna Korn
Mike Kostechak
Jennifer Stuart Lesch
Sylvia Morris
Bryan Thomas
Hyla Winston
Debbie Yasinow

Operations
Walter Augustyn
Rachel Berkovicz
Joe Ferenczy
Grant Fish
Rosemary Geisweidt
Ron Hale
Gwen Johnson
Rochelle Klein
George Majernik
Paul Mazzola
David Moughan
Chuck Muckley
Robert Polzner
Jim Ross

Philanthropic Planning
Berinthia LeVine, JCF Vice President
Robert Deitz
Elizabeth Klein
Steven Pike
Connie Risteen
Dana Scott
Char Rapoport Nance
Cathy Speer
Renee Tyler

For more information, contact:
Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
1750 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(216) 566-9200; fax (216) 861-1230
e-mail: info@jcfcleve.org

“Thank you so much for your support and thoughtfulness. It was very comforting to know that the
Jewish community of Cleveland was actively assisting in my job search.”
– job seeker with the newly-created Employment Related Supports program, a partnership
between the Federation and Jewish Family Service Association

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