Board of Trustees
Chair
Alan Levine, Esq.
Trustee since 1998
Senior counsel and former head of the international law firm of Cooley LLP
Vice Chairs
Daniel J. Beller, Esq.
Trustee since 2006
Of Counsel at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Mimi Alperin
Trustee since 2011
Former chair of the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee
Jonathan M. Lopatin
Trustee since 2010; MA ’09 in Talmud and Rabbinics, Gershon Kekst Graduate School at JTS
Former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs; founder of Not-So-Simple Productions, a documentary film company that focuses on Jewish educational films
Treasurer
Eric Rosen
Treasurer; trustee since 2009
Founder and managing partner of Hudson Hill Capital LP; board member of New Alternatives for Children; trustee of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Trust.
Board Members
Jonathan S. Aaron
Trustee since 2008
Principal of The Velvel Group LLC; president of the William Davidson Foundation
Yale Asbell
Trustee since 2004
Former president of Yale Asbell PC; nationally recognized authority in the field of community bank stock investments
Talya Bock
Trustee since 2019; LC ’06, DS ‘07
Wealth management advisor and portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch in Washington, DC; President of the Hadar Board
Cantor Luis Cattan
Trustee since 2021; President of the Cantors Assembly and Hazzan of the Conservative Synagogue of Westport, Connecticut
Abby Joseph Cohen
Trustee since 2004; chair emerita; board chair from 2009 to 2015
Senior investment strategist and president of the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs
Robbie Cohen-Millstein
Trustee since 2022; Principal Broker of The Millstein Group LLC.
Lester Crown
Trustee since 1991
Chairman of Henry Crown and Company of Chicago; chairman of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; past chairman of the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago
Deborah Sosland-Edelman
Trustee since 2019
Executive Director of the Sosland Foundation
Jeffrey Feig
Trustee since 2016
Member of the Board of the Manhattan JCC and The Jewish Week; Chair, Board of Directors of the Marlene Meyerson JCC
Matt Furman
Trustee since 2019
General Counsel at Willis Towers Watson
Hillary Gardenswartz
Trustee since 2021; Senior Project Manager, the Jewish Education Project and Created Equal Educators Fellowship of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
Marc Gary
Trustee, 2005–2012; 2015–present
Former executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer, JTS; previously executive vice president and general counsel of Fidelity Investments and Bellsouth Corporation
Ned Gladstein
Trustee since 2006; president of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
President of Sunrise ShopRite, Inc.; executive officer and director of Wakefern Food Corporation
Ariel Glasner
Trustee since 2021; Partner, Blank Rome
Debbi Kaner Goldich
Trustee since 2020; president of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism
Ruth Hendel
Trustee since 2013
Theater producer; board member of Play Company, LAByrinth Theater Company, Yale School of Drama, and Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (vice chair)
Robert Immerman
Trustee since 2016
Founder and CEO of InterDesign, Inc.
Allan Kahan
Trustee since 2021; Vice President of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs
Jay Kasner, Esq.
Trustee since 2014
Partner and head of securities litigation practice at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Gershon Kekst (z”l)
Board chair emeritus (1991 to 2009)
Founder and longtime president of Kekst and Company Inc., a corporate and financial communications firm
Alan Klein
Trustee since 2019
Partner, co-head of Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, and a member of the Executive Committee at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Lynette Koppel
Trustee since 2015
Board member of the Institute of Southern Jewish Life, member of UJA’s Women’s Executive Circle
Rabbi Harold Kravitz
Trustee since 2022
President of the Rabbinical Assembly
Alan Leifer
Trustee since 2014
President of Leifer Family Fund, LLC
Molly Levinson
Trustee since 2022; CEO and Founder of The Levinson Group
Stephen J. Lovell
Trustee since 1996
Board chair of Lovell Safety Management Co., LLC
Sharon Nelles
Trustee since 2019
Managing partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Litigation Group and member of the firm’s Management Committee
Aaron Priest
Trustee since 2003
President of the Aaron Priest Literary Agency
Robert Pruzan
Trustee since 2008; president of The Jewish Museum
Cofounder of the investment bank Centerview Partners
Robert S. Rifkind, Esq.
Trustee since 1983
Senior counsel at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York
Saul Sanders
Trustee since 2002
CEO of Shellpoint Mortgage
Yoni Saposh
Trustee since 2018
COO, Camp Ramah in the Berkshires
EMILY SCHARFMAN
Trustee since 2018
Corporate Counsel, Alliances, Salesforce
Wexner Heritage Fellow ’16
Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Chancellor; trustee since 2020
Eighth chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary
Deborah Shapira
Trustee since 2021
Certified facilitator and educator
Didi Wallerstein
Trustee since 2012
Fund-raising, media, and communications consultant
Chairs of the Advisory Boards
Henry Glanternik
William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education Advisory Board
CEO of TMC Properties, LLC
Liz Sembler
William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education Advisory Board
Retired Jewish educator and active community leader in Tampa-St.Petersburg, Florida
Joe Rubin
The Library Advisory Board
Founder and Principal, Pine Ledge Real Estate Advisors; Trustee of the Jewish Association of Services to the Aging
Barry Lovell
The Religious Leadership Advisory Board
President, Lovell Safety Management Co. LLC
Pat Fingeroth
Center for Pastoral Education Advisory Board
Retired from teaching, educational media, publishing, and advertising sales
Honorary Members
Stephen M. Axinn, Esq.
Trustee, 1991–2007
Founder and senior partner of the law firm of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP
Joseph Ciechanover
Trustee, 1996–2006
Founder, consultant, president, and member of the Investment Committee at The Challenge Fund-Etgar LP; former chair of El Al Israel Airlines
David H. Feinberg
Trustee, 1991–2010
Feinberg Properties, LLC; former trustee of Trinity School and trustee emeritus of the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University
Ronald Lauder
Trustee, 1995–2005
Businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and political activist; president of the World Jewish Congress; honorary trustee of the World Monuments Fund; established the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation
Harvey L. Miller
Trustee, 1999–2008; spirit behind H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music
Cofounder with his two brothers of the Quill Corporation, an office-supply business now part of Staples
Gerald Rosenfeld
Trustee, 1992–2011
Advisor to the CEO and vice chairman of investment banking at Lazard Ltd
H. Axel Schupf
Trustee, 1991–1997
Founder of H. A. Schupf & Co; trustee and chair emeritus of The Jewish Museum