JDC Officers and Board Members

President

  • Penny Blumenstein

Executive Vice President & CEO

  • Alan H. Gill

Chairman of the Board

  • Dr. Irving A. Smokler

Honorary Presidents

  • Sylvia Hassenfeld
  • Judge Ellen M. Heller
  • Jonathan W. Kolker
  • Donald M. Robinson

Honorary Executive Vice President

  • Ralph I. Goldman

Vice Presidents

  • Alan S. Jaffe
  • Caryn Wolf Wechsler

Treasurer

  • Stanley A. Rabin

Secretary

  • Jacob Schimmel

Executive Committee

  • Helen Abeles
  • Amy A.B Bressman
  • Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
  • Martha Freedman
  • Rani Garfinkle
  • Merle Z. Ginsburg
  • Nancy Grand
  • Irving Granovsky
  • Michael Horowitz
  • Karen Jaffe
  • Carol K. Kaplan
  • Irene R. Kaplan
  • Arlene G. Kaufman
  • S. Lee Kohrman
  • Alice L. Kulick
  • Joseph Lebovic
  • Alan Leifer
  • Dr. Michael J. Levinson
  • Kris MacDonald
  • Martin Paisner
  • Nigel Ross
  • Jay Ruderman
  • Professor Carol R. Saivetz
  • Max R. Schrayer
  • Harvey Schulweis
  • Jodi J. Schwartz
  • Paula Sidman
  • Mark B. Sisisky
  • Jerome Spitzer
  • Steven C. Taub
  • Louis B. Thalheimer
  • Andrew H. Tisch
  • Patricia Werthan Uhlmann
  • Elizabeth R. Varet
  • Marshall M. Weinberg
  • Jane G. Weitzman
  • Dario Werthein
  • M. Kenneth Witover
  • Etta Gross Zimmerman

International Council of Co-Chairmen

  • Judge Ellen M. Heller
  • Charles R. Bronfman

International Council

  • Leonard Abramson
  • Jacob Benatoff
  • Lester Crown
  • Baroness Ruth Deech
  • Alan C. Greenberg
  • Irwin Jacobs
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Olivier Kraemer
  • Robert Kraft
  • Harvey M. Meyerhoff
  • Bernard A. Osher
  • Margot Pritzker
  • Albert B. Ratner
  • David de Rothschild
  • Michael H. Steinhardt
  • Simone Veil

JDC Honorary Board Members

  • Mandell L. Berman, Franklin, MI
  • John C. Colman, Highland Park, IL
  • Manuel Dupkin II, Baltimore, MD
  • Patricia Gantz, Harrison, NY
  • Murray H. Goodman, Palm Beach, FL
  • Sylvia Hassenfeld, New York, NY
  • Judge Ellen M. Heller, Baltimore, MD
  • Saul Kagan, New York, NY
  • Jonathan W. Kolker, Baltimore, MD
  • Philip M. Meyers, Scarsdale, NY
  • Bert Rabinowitz, Antigua, West Indies
  • Donald M. Robinson, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa, OK
  • Dr. Irving A. Smokler, Boca Raton, FL
  • Esther Treitel, Riverdale, NY
  • Marshall M. Weinberg, New York, NY
  • Elaine K. Winik, Palm Beach, FL

JDC Board Members

  • Helen Abeles, Melbourne, Australia
  • Jonathan Art, New York, NY
  • Daniel J. Bader, Milwaukee, WI
  • Nora Lee Barron, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Alan R. Batkin, Greenwich, CT
  • Saby Behar, JFNA
  • Elaine Berke, Encino, CA
  • Richard Bernstein, UIA
  • Angelica Berrie, Englewood, NJ
  • Ellen Block, Chicago, IL
  • Penny Blumenstein, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Wendy Brenner, Advance, NC
  • Amy A. B. Bressman, New York, NY
  • Stuart L. Brown, Bethesda, MD
  • Sandra Cahn, New York, NY
  • David Colman, Philadelphia, PA
  • Elizabeth Osher Del Pico, Houston, TX
  • Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Chancellor Arnold Eisen, New York, NY
  • Fran Eizenstat, Chevy Chase, MD
  • David Ellenson, New York, NY
  • Alejandro W. Ergas, Santiago, Chile
  • Zachary D. Fasman, New York, NY
  • Diane Feinberg, JFNA
  • Larry Field, Highland Park, IL
  • Eva Fischl, Sydney, Australia
  • Martha Freedman, Houston, TX
  • Morton L. Friedkin, San Francisco, CA
  • Howard Friend, Glencoe, IL
  • Jack A. Frydrych, Encino, CA
  • Elaine Galinson, La Jolla, CA
  • Rani Garfinkle, Boca Raton, FL
  • Merle Z. Ginsburg, New York, NY
  • David Goldberg, Shaker Heights, OH
  • Yoine Goldstein, Montreal, Canada
  • Richard C. Goodman, Chicago, IL
  • Benjamin Gordon, Palm Beach, FL
  • Nancy Grand, San Francisco, CA
  • Irving Granovsky, Toronto, Canada
  • Ronald Grossman, New York, NY
  • Nancy Hackerman, Baltimore, MD
  • Andrew S. Hochberg, Northbrook, IL
  • Michael Horovitz, Minneapolis, MN
  • David Horwitz, Atlanta, GA
  • Alan S. Jaffe, New York, NY
  • Karen Jaffe, Norfolk, VA
  • Michael Jesselson, New York, NY
  • Richard Joel, Riverdale, NY
  • Peter Joseph, Riverdale, NY
  • Neil Kadisha, Beverly Hills, CA
  • Betty Kane, Boca Raton, FL
  • Carol K. Kaplan, Highland Park, IL
  • Irene R. Kaplan, Potomac, MD
  • Arlene G. Kaufman, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
  • Barbara Green Kay, Palm Beach, FL
  • Earle W. Kazis, New York, NY
  • S. Lee Kohrman, Cleveland, OH
  • Jim Koshland, East Palo Alto, CA
  • Judah Kraushaar, Chappaqua, NY
  • Alice L. Kulick, New York, NY
  • Hon. Ronald S. Lauder, New York, NY
  • Murray Laulicht, Bal Harbour, FL
  • Nigel Layton, WJR
  • Adele Lebersfeld, Boca Raton, FL
  • Joseph Lebovic, Toronto, Canada
  • Alan Leifer, Newton, MA
  • Sandy Lenger, New York, NY
  • H. Fred Levine, Houston, TX
  • Dr. Michael J. Levinson, Memphis, TN
  • James Libson, WJR
  • Jayne Lipman, Larchmont, NY
  • Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt, Atlanta, GA
  • Hannan Lis, Farmington Hills, MI
  • Kris MacDonald, Minneapolis, MN
  • Robert Mann, Providence, RI
  • Kathy E. Manning, Greensboro, NC
  • Edward Merrin, New York, NY
  • Laura Miller, Virginia Beach, VA
  • Linda Mirels, New York, NY
  • Joanne Moore, Washington, DC
  • Joseph H. Orley, Troy, MI
  • Martin Paisner, London, United Kingdom
  • Richard Parasol, San Francisco, CA
  • Trevor Pears, London, United Kingdom
  • Stanley Plotnick, Montreal, Canada
  • Sandra Post, Beverly Hills, CA
  • Stanley A. Rabin, Dallas, TX
  • Jehuda Reinharz, Brookline, MA
  • George Rich, Short Hills, NJ
  • David Robbins, Jacksonville, FL
  • Kellee Rosenberg, Atlanta, GA
  • Nigel Ross, London, United Kingdom
  • Alan E. Rothenberg, San Francisco, CA
  • Jay Ruderman, Rechovot, Israel
  • Professor Carol R. Saivetz, Chestnut Hill, MA
  • Annie Sandler, Virginia Beach, VA
  • Nathan Sandler, Los Angeles, CA
  • Jacob Schimmel, London, United Kingdom
  • Rabbi Arthur Schneier, New York, NY
  • Max Robert Schrayer, Highland Park, IL
  • Jaynie Schultz, Dallas, TX
  • Harvey Schulweis, New York, NY
  • Jodi J. Schwartz, New York, NY
  • Gary Segal, Vancouver, Canada
  • Betsy R. Sheerr, Philadelphia, PA
  • Paula Sidman, West Newton, MA
  • Michael Siegal, JFNA
  • Beryl D. Simonson, Philadelphia, PA
  • Mark B. Sisisky, Richmond, VA
  • Terri Smooke, Beverly Hills, CA
  • Richard G. Spiegel, Excelsior, MN
  • Jerome Spitzer, New York, NY
  • Adin Steinsaltz, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Susan K. Stern, JFNA
  • Marc Suvall, New Rochelle, NY
  • Jeffrey Swartz, Newton Center, MA
  • Jane Swergold, Westport, CT
  • Steven C. Taub, Demarest, NJ
  • Louis Thalheimer, Towson, MD
  • Andrew Tisch, New York, NY
  • Elizabeth Varet, New York, NY
  • Patricia Werthan Uhlmann, Prairie Village, KS
  • Spencer Waxman, Riverdale, NY
  • Caryn Wolf Wechsler, Bethesda, MD
  • Penni Weinberg, Moreland Hills, OH
  • Jane G. Weitzman, Greenwich, CT
  • Dario Werthein, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Joseph Wilf, Hillside, NJ
  • Mark Wilf, Short Hills, NJ
  • M. Kenneth Witover, New York, NY
  • Jacqueline Woolf, La Jolla, CA
  • Joyce Zeff, Englewood, CO
  • Etta Gross Zimmerman, Boca Raton, FL

Emeritus Board Members

  • Helene Berger, Miami, FL
  • Andrea Dubroff, Edgartown, MA
  • Debby Miller, Greensboro, NC
  • Karen Moss, Columbus, OH
  • Rebecca Newman, San Diego, CA
  • Robert Reitman, Cleveland, OH
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