Governance
Officers
Rachel Cohen, President
Claire Berger Fagen, Immediate Past President
Roslyn Slawner, Vice President
Jean Teboul, Vice President
Howard Berish, Treasurer
Erica Fagen, Secretary
John Hobday, Officer-at-large
Michael Crelinsten, Executive Director
Board of Directors
Yolande Amzallag
Reuben Abitbol
Cindy Bassel Brown
Lionel Chriqui
Anthony Davis
Harvey Elman
Avi Finegold
Kathryn Gabinet Kroo
Arlene Greenberg
Barbara Maldoff
Marc Oliel
Eva Raby
Robert Schwartzwald
Sydney Warshaw
Kimberley Tepperman, Staff Representative
Honorary Board Members
Liba Augenfeld z”l
Rivka Augenfeld
Norma Cummings z”l
Rosalind Goodman z”l
Pearl Lighter
Marilyn Nayer
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 Fagen, Chair
Rivka Augenfeld
Cindy Bassel Brown
Judy Gardos Bergman
Eva Raby
Roslyn Slawner
Dana Zinman
Ombudsman
Daniel Frajman