Andrew Fier
Executive Director, Emeritus
Andrew Fier is a licensed funeral director and manages the operation of Plaza Jewish Community Chapel. He has more than 40 years of experience as a funeral director and is a member of the Rosenthal and Grossberg families who have been active in the funeral business for more than 100 years. Andy is the only person to have served twice as president of the Jewish Funeral Directors of America. He was the founder of Plaza Memorial Chapel, the facility which Plaza Jewish Community Chapel acquired from SCI in February, 2001. Over his career, Andy has served as Chairman of the Religious Affairs committee of UJA-Federation of NY; President, Hebrew Institute for the Deaf; Chairman, Yeshiva University Interdisciplinary Conference on Bereavement and Grief; Honorary Trustee, Park Avenue Synagogue; Board of Overseers for the Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School; and currently sits on the board of The Solomon Schecter High School. Andy received a B.A. from NYU and an M.A. from University of Pennsylvania.

Michael McFadden
Executive Director
Michael has been a licensed funeral director since 1971 and has spent the last 22 years providing funeral services to the Jewish community at Riverside Chapel and Plaza Memorial Chapel. Michael holds a Mortuary Science degree from Simmons School in Syracuse, New York. Michael is a former member of the New York State Funeral Directors Advisory Board, the Metropolitan Funeral Directors Association and the Westchester Funeral Directors Association.

Edward Yarmus
Funeral Director
Edward joined the staff of Plaza Jewish Community Chapel in February 2001, after being associated with Louis Hirsch & Sons for more than 33 years. He graduated summa cum laude from the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, New York, New York. Ed served in The United States Air Force from 1962 to 1967 and is active with The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Plaza Jewish Community Chapel is governed by an unpaid Board of Directors which includes rabbis from the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements as well as both lay and professional leaders from many Jewish communal organizations. The members of the Board and their organizational affiliations (listed for identification purposes only) are:

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Vice President
Geoffrey Colvin
Jewish Communal Fund

Secretary and Treasurer
Irvin Rosenthal
UJA-Federation of NY

Harold Handler
Jewish Communal Fund

Rachel Neumark Herlands
Lincoln Square Synagogue

Lynn Korda Kroll
UJA-Federation of NY

Audrey Weiner
The Jewish Home and Hospital

OTHER DIRECTORS

Steve Axinn

Moshe Greenberg

Rabbi Richard Jacobs
Westchester Reform Congregation

Peter Joseph
JCC in Manhattan

Paul Konigsberg

Rabbi David Lincoln
Park Avenue Synagogue

Rabbi Joshua Lookstein
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun

Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun

Rabbi Adam Mintz

Rabbi Yael Ridberg
West End Synagogue

Rabbi Peter Rubinstein
Central Synagogue

Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Park East Synagogue

Alan Siskind
Jewish Board of Family & Children Services

Rabbi Mychal Springer
The Jewish Institute for Pastoral
Care at the Healthcare Chaplaincy

Alan Trager
Westchester Jewish Community Services

Rabbi Gordon Tucker
Temple Israel Center of White Plains

Michael A. Varet