Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Officers
Rob Bohbot, President
Rachel Cohen, Immediate Past President
Matthew Meland, Vice President
Jean Teboul, Vice President
Howard Berish, Treasurer
Nanci Ship, Secretary
Alain Dancyger, Executive Director
Directors
Yolande Amzallag
Margaux Chetrit
Denis Cohen-Tannadji
Barbara Maldoff
Joe Ronn
Brenda Stermer
Sydney Warshaw
Bradley Wiseman
Maya Pasternak, Staff Representative
Ombudsman
Daniel Frajman
Nominating Committee
Rachel Cohen, Chair
Robert Bohbot
Marla Gold
Marvin Shahin
Nanci Ship
Alain Dancyger, Executive Director
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 z"l
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)
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