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Lay Leadership

Officers 2026–2027

President of the Congregation Adam Pollock [email protected]
Executive Vice President Susan Radin [email protected]
Treasurer David Umansky [email protected]
Financial Secretary Ralph Kleinman
Recording Secretary Stephanie Kolber
Vice President Rachel Goldklang
Vice President Eli Mark
Vice President Daniel Tamman

Officers are nominated and elected each year for the Synagogue’s coming fiscal year (August 1 to July 31). The President of the Congregation traditionally runs for and serves for two or three consecutive terms.


Trustees 2026–2027

Trustee cycle
ending 2027
Trustee cycle
ending 2028
Trustee cycle
ending 2029
Rachel Goldklang Sari Fensterheim Leslie Budnick
Hedi Hruby Amanda Harris Shawn Fox
Aimee Kraft Paul Lubetkin Stephanie Kauffman
Sarah Lichtman Jeremy Pearl Jacobvitz Michael Klein
Jill Rose Megan Poliner Stephanie Kolber
Jodi Susman Renee Rettig Joanne Robinson

Trustees serve three-year terms, each elected on a triennial “cycle”, starting August 1 and ending July 31 three years thereafter.
Upon a vacancy that precedes the end of an elective cycle, a new Trustee may be appointed by the Board of Trustees to serve the rest of the year, then may be nominated for the remaining years of the term, or a new member may be nominated to the remainder of the term.


Past Presidents (1969–Present)

2022–2025 Norman C. Cohen
2020–2022 Leslie J. Wilsher
2018–2020 Adina Solomon
2016–2018 Lisa Smith
2014–2016 Jonathan Sack
2012–2014 Harry Chevan
2010–2012 Vicky Vossen
2008–2010 Jay Brodsky
2006–2008 Susan K. Rifkin
2004–2006 Donald Olenick
2002–2004 Daniel Sarfati-Magill
2000–2002 Ralph Kleinman
1998–2000 Ellen A. Bowin
1996–1998 Herbert L. Cohen z”l
1994–1996 Judith R. Greenwald
1992–1994 Leonard Wasserman
1990–1992 Robert Weinstein z”l
1988–1990 Michael D. Squires
1986–1988 Stanley Friedman
1983–1986 Ronald J. Stein
1980–1983 Nancy Fink
1979–1980 Arthur Lichtman z”l
1977–1979 A. Seth Greenwald z”l
1975–1977 Isaac Druker z”l
1972–1975 Arthur Lichtman z”l
1969–1972 Jacob Hertz z”l

 


Life Trustees

Members of the Synagogue who have served for 25 years or more as Officers or as Trustees.

First Elected
Evelyn Rubenstein 1973
Howard Schneider 1976
Allen Rubenstein 1981
Rena Schklowsky 1988
Sharon Neuman 2000
Albert Romano 2001
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