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Board of Directors
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Our Directors have energy and passion, speak the language of congregational life, and love congregations. They are wary of complacency and maintain a healthy, skeptical, and reflective attitude about Synagogue 3000's work. They bring extensive experience and expertise in governing successful nonprofit organizations.
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Rabbi Aaron Spiegel
Aaron Spiegel works as a director for the Indianapolis Center for Congregations. Aaron's work for the Center includes resource consulting with congregations on better use of technology for enhancing congregational effectiveness and efficiency, strategic planning, building issues, finance, and leadership. Together with Center colleague Nancy Armstrong, he developed a course-series entitled "Computers and Ministry: Making Technology Work for Your Congregation" which resulted in publication of the book
40 Days and 40 Bytes: Making Computers Work for Your Congregation.Before relocating to Indianapolis in 1996, Aaron served several congregations in South Florida. A transdenominational rabbi, he has a Bachelor's Degree in Comparative Theology from the Union Institute & University (Miami, FL), rabbinic ordination from The Rabbinical Academy of Mesifta Adath Wolkowisk, and is currently a D.Min. candidate in congregational studies at Hartford Seminary. He also serves as the campus rabbi for Butler University and co-advisor of Butler Hillel. |
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Terry Rosenberg
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Rosenberg holds several volunteer positions within the Boston Jewish community
and nationally. From 1998 through 2004 she served as Vice-President of Temple
Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Massachusetts. During this time she expanded the
temple's adult learning programs through the development of a women's Torah
study group and the implementation of Me'ah, a 2-year foundational course in
Judaism sponsored by Boston's Commission on Jewish Continuity and Hebrew
College. In 1999 she joined the Commission on Jewish Continuity as co-chair of
the Me'ah steering committee, and currently serves as the Commission's co-chair.
She is also on the Executive Board of Combined Jewish Philanthropies and on the
Board of Hebrew College.Nationally Ms. Rosenberg serves on the Board of
Governors of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, where she
chairs the Partnership subcommittee for the strategic planning initiative. She
is also chair of Synagogue 3000's newly formed governance board.
In her professional life, Ms. Rosenberg is an organizational consultant where she designs and leads programs in communication and leadership development. She holds a masters degree from New York University.
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Beryl Weiner
Beryl received a Bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1965 and obtained his law degree from Loyola University of Los Angeles in 1969. In the area of litigation, Beryl is involved in complex business litigation as well as family law matters, at both the trial and appellate levels, and participates and conducts mediations and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures. In the area of general business counseling, Beryl advises many of the firm's major clients on matters ranging from business organization to the specifics of various transactions. Beryl is also involved in the leasing, purchase and development of real property, in the area of health care law, in which he counsels both health care providers and entities which own and operate health care facilities, and in the areas of gaming and casino law, election law, governmental relations and licensing and regulation.
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Bruce F. Whizin
Bruce F. Whizin, President of The Whizin Foundation, The Whizin Support Foundation, and Two Eagles Design, Inc., joined the Jewish Community Foundation Board of Trustees in 1994. Bruce has been a restaurateur, a real estate property manager, and a licensed psychotherapist/hypnotherapist and family counselor. Dedicated to the Jewish future, Bruce founded the Shirley and Arthur Whizin Center at the University of Judaism. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors and a past Vice-Chair of the University of Judaism. He is a member of the board and Secretary of Synagogue 3000 and as President of the Whizin foundation was one of the original founders and funders of Synagogue 2000 and Synagogue 3000. Bruce serves on the International Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology as well as the National Board of Regents of the American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Southern California Chapter of the American Technion Society. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Camp Ramah in California. Bruce serves on the Board of Governors for the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Israel. He established the Shirley and Arthur Whizin Center for Biotechnology at the Technion in Israel. Bruce is Secretary of the Board of Directors of Beautiful City Corp., a commercial and residential real estate holding company. He holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and a master's degree in Education, Psychological Foundations, Counseling, and Guidance from the California State University at Northridge and a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa from the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, California. Bruce has five children and seven grandchildren and lives in Sherman Oaks, California. He is a poet, a certified Advanced Scuba Diver, and loves to take long trailer trips; his favorite was 8,999 miles for seven weeks to Alaska.
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Marion Blumenthal
Marion Blumenthal chairs the United Jewish Communities Renaissance and Renewal Pillar, and is immediate past chair of the Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal at the UJA/Federation of New York. She serves as an officer of the UJC,and is an officer of the Jewish Educational Services of North America. She is a board member of the Jewish Agency where she chairs its committee on the Jewish Experience of Israel and a board member of the Joint Distribution Committee, where she chairs its Committee on Volunteerism and Philanthropy for Israel.She currently serves on the boards of the American Jewish Co., Synagogue 3000 and the Schechter School of Manhattan. She is the national co-chair of the North American Coalition on Israel Engagement. She is a past board member of the Foundation for Jewish Camping, the JCC of Manhattan and the Hartman Institute and a former member of the UJA/Federation of NY's Executive Committee.
A psychotherapist by profession, she formerly ran the graduate training program for social work students at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and was an instructor at the B.U. School of Social Work. A mother of two, she resides in New York and Jerusalem. |
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Rabbi Rachel Cowan
Rabbi Rachel Cowan currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality - with a major focus on clergy renewal for rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators. Prior to this job, she served as the Director of the Jewish Life and Values Program of the Nathan Cummings Foundation for 14 years. She was ordained at HUC-JIR in 1989. She and her late husband Paul Cowan wrote Mixed Blessings: Marriage between Christians and Jews. She lives in Manhattan and is a passionate grandmother of Jacob Pablo and Tessa Margalit. |
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Don Friend
Don Friend is a licensed attorney involved in the real estate investment and management business in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his BA from University of California at Davis, and his JD from Hastings College of the Law. He has been active in synagogue life in San Francisco at Congregations Sherith Israel, Beth Shalom and Temple Emanuel. He became interested in synagogue transformation when his oldest son began preparation for his Bar Mitzvah. To insure that there would be participation at the ceremony, he sent out a tape of the T'fila melodies to the invitees. He chaired the Temple Emanuel "Synagogue 2000" team that was part of the 2nd National Cohort and continues to be involved in making and keeping the synagogue the spiritual center of people's lives. He has volunteered as a song leader for both all three synagogue religious schools and currently helps leads services in the Martin Meyer Minyan (contemporary style service) at Temple Emanuel. Don presently serves on the boards of the Jewish Community Center, AIPAC and Jewish Home. He is the former chair of the Jewish Family Education Project at the Bureau of Jewish Education and has emphasized outreach to families to become involved in Jewish ritual together. He is a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation Leadership Seminar Program (1996-1998). He has extensive fundraising experience having chaired the Jewish Community Federation and AIPAC Annual Campaigns. He is married to Janie and has three children, Benjamin (21), Jason (18) and Lauren (15).
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Lee Meyerhoff Hendler
Lee Meyerhoff Hendler is a past president of Chizuk Amuno Congregation
and The Park School Board of Trustees in Baltimore, Maryland. She sits
on a number of local and national boards and several of her family
foundations and is a popular speaker on the subjects of family
philanthropy and adult Jewish learning. She is the author of "The Year
Mom Got Religion," an autobiographical chronicle of adult Jewish
transformation published by Jewish Lights in 1998 and the primary writer
of "Freedom's Feast: A Thanksgiving Celebration for the American
People", available on the web at www.freedomsfeast.us. The mother of
four children ranging from 19 - 29, Lee currently team-teaches The
Abraham Curriculum designed by the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School to introduce Jewish funders to key Jewish values and texts. Her synagogue recently launched the Hendler Learning Center, a walkable timeline of Jewish history set against the backdrop of world history. Apart from Pilates, kayaking and walking very fast, her passions are travel and
Torah study.
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Rabbi Richard Jacobs
Rabbi Rick Jacobs has been the Senior Rabbi of Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York since 1991. Having been ordained in 1982 by HUC-JIR in New York, he served as the Rabbi of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue from 1982 until 1991. During his first five years there, he also served as the Educational Director.
From 1980 to 1986, Rabbi Jacobs was a dancer and a choreographer with the Avodah Dance Ensemble, a modern dance company which performs services in dance and concerts throughout the United States. Currently he is working on his Ph.D. in Ritual Dance at New York University. He is the co-author with David Ellenson of "Scholarship and Faith: David Hoffman and His Relationship to Wissenshaft Des Judentums," Modern Judaism, February 1988 and "The Body of Prayer," Compass, Spring-Summer 1989.
Rabbi Jacobs has led workshops on Movement and Prayer at HUC-JIR, Union Theological Seminary and at other settings. Rabbi Jacobs serves on the Board of ARZA/World Union, Religion in American Life and Synagogue 3000, where he is also a program fellow. He has been on the international board of the New Israel Fund since 1992, and now he is the co-chair of the NIF's Rabbinical Council.
Rabbi Jacobs is married to Susan K. Freedman and is the father of Aaron, David and Sarah Jacobs. |
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Mark Schlesinger
Mark Schlesinger is a private investor and the managing trustee of Gaia Fund, a private charitable foundation that he co-founded with his wife, Christine Russell, in 1994. Gaia Fund supports environmental initiatives, as well as programs serving the Jewish community of San Francisco. He has served on various nonprofit boards since 1988, including those of the San Francisco Zoo, the Association of Small Foundations, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, where he is the current board president. He is a former Wexner Heritage Foundation fellow, and a member of the Sierra Club Foundation National Advisory Board. Originally from the Washington, DC, area, he holds a BA from Vassar College, and an MBA from Columbia University. In a former life, he was a vice president at Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, a large New York advertising agency. Since 1991, he has lived in the Cow Hollow section of San Francisco with his wife and two sons.
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Melanie Sturm
Melanie Sturm is a private equity investor with a particular interest in telecommunications and healthcare. Her prior experience includes International Finance Corp (World Bank), Morgan Stanley and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Ms. Sturm is also active in the non-profit and philanthropic communities and is co-founding partner of the Jewish Venture Philanthropy Funds in both Washington, D.C. and Denver; President of the ML Sturm Foundation; and Chair of the Aspen Jewish Leadership Forum (formerly Leadership 2000).
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