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Synagogue Council of Massachusetts

Executive Board

Officers

  • Ruth C. Glazerman, President
  • Dr. Jesse Hefter, Vice-President
  • Anita Redner, Vice-President
  • Richard Shulman, Treasurer
  • Alan Karlsberg, Assistant Treasurer
  • Cookie Rosenbaum, Secretary
  • Dr. Fred Cohen, Assistant Secretary
  • Laura Dickerman, Past-President
  • Dr. Matthew Zizmor, Past-President
  • Richard S. Wissoker, Past-President

Organizational Representatives

  • Aaron L. Kischel, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  • Rabbi Daniel Liben, Rabbinical Assembly
  • Rabbi Michael Menitoff , Massachusetts Board of Rabbis
  • Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, Vaad Harabonim
  • Rabbi David S. Wolfman, Union for Reform Judaism
  • Audrey J. Wilson, Union for Reform Judaism
  • Rabbi Karen Landy, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Assembly
  • Rabbi Barry David Hartman, Vaad Harabonim
  • Sharon Levinson, Orthodox Jewish Congregations
  • Dr. Martin P. Newman, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  • Jim Ball, Union for Reform Judaism
  • Melvin Hoffman, Orthodox Jewish Congregations
  • Shirley Gordon, Union for Reform Judaism
  • Bill Gabovitch, Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
  • Elizabeth Pressman, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  • Rabbi Howard Jaffe, Boston Area Reform Rabbis
  • Cantor Donn Rosensweig, New England Board of Cantors

Honorary Members

  • Rabbi Paul J. Menitoff, Central Conference of American Rabbis
  • Rabbi Howard K. Kummer z"l
  • Alan J. Tichnor z"l

Ex Officio

  • Alan Teperow,Synagogue Council of Massachusetts
  • Jane Salk, Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts
  • Rabbi Abraham Halbfinger, Kashruth Commission
  • Rabbi Judith Kummer, Jewish Chaplaincy Council of Massachusetts

Past Presidents

  • Marshall Schneider
  • Keith R. Osher
  • Lillian Shulman
  • Alan M. Edelstein
  • Irving Belansky
  • Norman Koss
  • Robert Kahn

Staff

  • Alan Teperow, Executive Director
  • Marilin Lipman, Projects Coordinator
  • Linda Skolnik, Program Associate
  • Paul Kelly, Office Manager
  • Vladimir Foygelman, Coordinator, Program for Russian-Speaking Jews
  • Valerie Isaacs, Bookkeeper

Affiliated Organizations Staff

  • Rabbi Abraham Halbfinger, Kashruth Commission
  • Rabbi Judith Kummer, Jewish Chaplaincy Council of Mass.
  • Jane Salk, Jewish Cemetery Association of Mass.
  • Aliza Kline, Mayyim Hayyim