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Governance

Officers

Rob Bohbot, President
Rachel Cohen, Immediate Past President
Jean Teboul, Vice President
Howard Berish, Treasurer
Marc Oliel, Secretary
Alain Dancyger, Executive Director

Board of Directors

Yolande Amzallag
Anthony Davis
Erica Fagen
Arlene Greenberg
John Hobday
Emmanuel Kalles
Barbara Maldoff
Matthew Meland
Stephanie Raby-Naimer
Robert Schwartzwald
Nanci Ship 
Brenda Stermer
Sydney Warshaw
Henry Zavriyev

Honorary Board Members

Liba Augenfeld z”l
Rivka Augenfeld
Norma Cummings z”l
Rosalind Goodman z”l
Pearl Lighter
Marilyn Nayer
Eva Raby
Hillel Rosen
Howard Schnider
The late Liliane M. Stewart
Ernest Strolovitch
Murray Yudin

Past Presidents

Reuben Brainin (1914-1915)
Louis Zuker (1916-1917)
Hananiah Meyer Caiserman (1917-1920, 1923-1925, 1943-1944)
Samuel Belkin (1920-1922)
A. Katzman (1926-1927, 1932)
Nachum Myerson (1928-1931, 1933, 1947-1948)
Solomon Temkin (1934-1942)
Moses (Moe) Brainin (1945-1946)
Michael Lauter (1946-1947, 1949-1950)
Solomon Winkler (1951-1953, 1962-1966)
Joseph Berman (1954-1958)
Israel Rabinovitch (1959-1961)
Hertz Kalles (1966-1968)
Joseph Kage (1968-1970)
Jack B. Lightman (1970-1972)
Israel Nachshen (1972-1974)
Chaim Spilberg (1974-1977)
David Augenfeld (1977-1979)

Emmanuel Kalles (1979-1981, 1985-1986)
Lilian Laks z”l (1981-1982)
Anna Fishman Gonshor (1982-1984)
Aaron Ain (1984-1985)
Murray Lippman (1986-1988)
Irwin Litvack (1988-1990)
Bryna Garmaise (1990-1992)
Aron Gonshor (1992-1994)
Barbara Kay (1994-1996)
Ira Robinson (1996-1998)
Daniel Lighter (2000-2002)
Joanne Garfinkle (2002-2004)
Janie Respitz (2004-2006)
Alice Lehrer (2006-2008)
Gerald Soiferman (2008-2011)
Alain Murad (2011-2014)
Claire Berger Fagen (2014-2016)
Peter Jacobs (1998-2000, 2016-2017)
Howard Krosnick (2017-2019)

Nominating Committee

Claire Berger, Chair
Judy Gardos-Bergman
Rachel Cohen
Marla Gold
Barbara Maldoff
Marc Oliel
Danielle (Dany) Pollack
Alain Dancyger, Executive Director

Ombudsman

Daniel Frajman

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