Officers & Board

Executive Committee

Bob Budoff President

Galia Messika Greenberg Vice President

Behnam Dayanim Vice President

Albert Bloomfield Vice President

Stefanie Sanders Levy Treasurer

Janis Schiff Assistant Treasurer

Todd Rosenberg Secretary

Thorn Pozen Immediate Past President

Ron Halber (rhalber@jcouncil.org) Executive Director


Board of Directors

  • Ira Bartfield
  • Alex Brill
  • Ellen Blalock
  • Jay Feldman
  • Wendy Fischman
  • Judith Fogel
  • Steven Gale
  • Miriam Galston
  • Jason Gerson
  • Marion Goldberg
  • Richard Goldstein
  • Lawrence Haas
  • Peter Haas
  • Aimee Imundo
  • Marc Israel
  • Susan Jerison
  • Susan Kristol
  • Alan Korn
  • Saradona Lefkowitz
  • Robert Margolis
  • Rabbi Johnathan Miller
  • Sheryl R. Miller 
  • Rabbi Gary Pokras
  • Jodi Price
  • H. Mark Rabin
  • Vic Rosenblum
  • Alan Schulman
  • Marla Schulman 
  • Marcy Schwab
  • Yosefi Seltzer
  • Robert Shapiro
  • Bobbi Shulman
  • Lawrence Sidman
  • Isaac Snyder
  • Rabbi Neil Tow
  • Barry Weise
  • David L. Weiss
  • Tal Widdes

Past Presidents

  • Rabbi Solomon Metz (1938 - 1943)
  • Hymen Goldman (1943 - 1949)
  • Rabbi Isadore Breslau (1949 - 1953)
  • Aaron Goldman (1953 - 1957)
  • Albert E. Arent (1957 - 1961)
  • Joel D. Wolfson (1961)
  • Richard Lyon (1961 - 1965)
  • Louis C. Grossberg (1965 - 1969)
  • Seymour D. Wolf (1969 - 1972)
  • Dr. Harvey Ammerman (1972 - 1974)
  • Judge William C. Levy (1974 - 1976)
  • Bernard S. White (1976 - 1978)
  • Phyllis Frank (1978 - 1980)
  • Bert Silver (1980 - 1982)
  • Nathan Lewin (1982 - 1984)
  • Helene Karpa (1984 - 1986)
  • Norman Goldstein (1986 - 1988)
  • Stephen H. Gell (1988 - 1990)
  • Marcia Weinberg (1990 - 1992)
  • Jack Serber (1992 - 1994)
  • Judge Peter B. Krauser (1994 - 1996)
  • Elaine Senter (1996 - 1998)
  • Doug Bloomfield (1998 - 2000)
  • Rabbi Jack Luxemburg (2000 - 2002)
  • Sophie Hoffman (2002 - 2004)
  • Andy Stern (2004 - 2006)
  • Susan Weinberg (2006 - 2008)
  • Ronald Glancz (2008 - 2010)
  • Harvey Reiter (2010 - 2012)
  • Joseph Sandler (2012 - 2014)
  • Cookie Hymer Blitz (2014 - 2016)
  • Michael Friedman (2016 - 2018)
  • Samuel Kaplan (2018 - 2020)
  • Ronald A. Paul, MD (2020 - 2022)