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Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors is comprised of clergy from all denominations (Orthodox, Conservative,
Reform, Reconstructionist and Renewal), executives of social service agencies and community lay leaders.
To access additional resources and materials related to the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel Board of Directors,
please visit: Board Member Materials

 

Officers & Executive Committee

Ethan Horwitz

Chair

 

Karen Adler

Vice Chair

 

Geoffrey Colvin

Honorary Chair

 

Howard Rubin

Secretary

 

Frank E. Linde

Treasurer

 

Robert Kanter

B’nai Jeshrun

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch

President of New York Board of Rabbis

 

Joel Kazis

Directors

Rabbi Adam Mintz

Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim
 

Alan Cohen

JASA
 

Alan S. Jaffe

 

Rabbi Amy Bolton

 

Rabbi Andy Bachman

 

Rabbi Arthur Schneier

 

Rabbi Ayelet Cohen

 

Barry N. Winograd

 

Rabbi Baruch Yehudah

 

Rabbi Ben Spratt

Senior Rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom
 

Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz

Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
 

Rabbi David Ingber

Romemu
 

Rabbi Georgette Kennebrae

 

Rabbi Gordon Tucker

Temple Israel Center of White Plains
 

Harriet Schleifer

 

Heidi D. Silverstone

 

Howard Sharfstein

 

Irvin Rosenthal

 

Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon

Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
 

Rabbi Jackie Koch Ellenson

 

Rabbi Jan Uhrbach

The Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons
 

Dr. Jeannie Blaustein

ReImagine End of Life
 

Jerry Gottlieb

 

Rabbi Joanna Samuels

Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan
 

Rabbi Joel M. Mosbacher

Senior Rabbi at Temple Shaaray Tefila
 

Joseph S. Allerhand

Met Council
 

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik

Executive Vice President,
New York Board of Rabbis
 

Julie Zeuner

 

Laura Spitzer

 

Rabbi Lester Bronstein

Bet Am Shalom
 

Lynn Korda Kroll

 

Matt Hiltzik

 

Michelle Rubel

 

Rabbi Maurice Salth

Central Synagogue
 

Rabbi Mychal Springer

Manager of Clinical Pastors Education at NY Presbyterian Hospital
 

Moshe Greenberg

 

Nadine Habousha Cohen

 

Rabbi Neil Zuckerman

 

Peter Joseph

 

Rabbi Peter Rubinstein

 

Rachel Neumark Herlands

Lincoln Square Synagogue
 

Rabbi Rachel Timoner

Congregation Beth Elohim Brooklyn
 

Cantor Sam Rosen

CBST
 

Rabbi Sara Luria

 

Rabbi Shaul Robinson

Lincoln Square Synagogue
 

Rabbi Steve Axinn

 

Rabbi Steven Exler

Hebrew Institute of Riverdale- The Bayit
 

Toby Weiss

 

Tom Kamber

Senior Planet/OATS
 

Robert Wolf

 

Chairman

Ethan Horwitz

2024

 

Geoffrey Colvin

2019-2023

 

Harold Handler

2011-2018

 

Al Engelberg

Founding board chair 2001-2010

 

The above are not qualified to make funeral arrangements, embalm or conduct funerals.

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    Plaza Jewish Community Chapel is a not for profit corporation governed by an unpaid Board of Directors that includes rabbis from all of the major denominations, representatives of Jewish social service agencies, individuals who serve as lay leaders in synagogues and Jewish communal organizations. Our mission is to ensure that every member of the Jewish Community receives a dignified and respectful Jewish funeral; to lower the high cost of funerals by eliminating the profit motive and commercialism so often associated with the funeral industry; and to provide appropriate connections to Jewish communal resources that the bereaved may need to cope with emotional or practical problems.
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