Lay Leadership

Lay Leadership Development at JTS is led by our Board of Trustees. In addition, advisory boards for the academic programs include committees for specific projects for each school as well as special interest committees. Local cabinets round out our lay leadership structure and provide our donors and supporters with many ways to connect to the JTS community and to help further our mission to provide future Jewish leaders with the finest education possible.

Jewish Studies

The Rabbinical School

William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education

The Library

Contact Information

Joan Goodman, Director of Lay Leadership (212) 678-8861

Amelia Pardieu, Development Associate

(212) 280-6030

The Jewish Studies Advisory Board

Rachelle Kaiserman, co-chair

Arthur Rosenbloom, co-chair

Ruth Aach
Evelyn Berger
Stephen Bodzin

Linda Fayne
Judith Fellner
Alfred Kingsley

Doron Kenter

Ted Lazarus
Paul Levy
Jonathan Lopatin
Benjamin Metsch

Myron Saranga
Alan Schecter

Joan Schreiber
Keith Shapiro
Robert B. Slosberg
Leonard Wasserman

Steven Weisberg
Diane Wohl
Joseph Yohlin

The Rabbinical School

Randie Malinsky, Chair
Elkan Abramowitz
Daniel Beller
Edwin Berkowitz
Hubert Brandt
Curt DeJonge

Daniel Eisenstadt
Ned Gladstein
Steven Glazer
David H. Goodman
Phyllis Haas
Hylton Jonas
Robert Jossen
Arlene W. Katz
Jeffrey Kopin
Shirley Levinson

Jessica Leibowitz
Steven Lindemann
Barry Lovell
Stephen J. Lovell
Paul Magy
Blanche Meisel
Peter Miller
Joel S. Mishkin
Marvin Rosen
Francine Roston

Eric Segal
Harry A. Wagner
Harold Wolfe
Edward Zinbarg

William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education

Floy Kaminski, Chair

Jonathan Aaron
Vicki Abrams
Robert Abramson
Boaz Ben-Moshe
Frances Brandt
Robert Brown
Amy Cushmaro

Ethan Davidson
Charles Dimston
Julius Eisen
Joshua Elkin
Julie Franklin
Joel Greenblatt
Doreen Hermelin
Michael Karp
Temma Kingsley
Francine G. Levite
Paula Mandell
Shelley Maidman Menkowitz
Robert Miller
Ariela Noy
Nancy Parkes
Rhoda Pomerantz
Elizabeth Sembler
Lois Sharzer
Diane Troderman
Deborah Tuchman
Phyllis Hofman Waldmann
Joel Weissglass
Bracha Werber

Elaine Wolfensohn

The Library

Dorothy Tapper Goldman, Chair
Sanford L. Batkin
Joan Brodsky
Marilyn Cohen
Moshe Corson
Judy Craig
Ruth O. Freedlander
Ruth Hendel
Adele Lobel
Alfred Moldovan
Joseph Rubin
Stanley Sanders
James L. Schlesinger
Donna Sommer-Batkin
Beatrice Weidman
Carole L. Weidman