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
Directors
Joseph S. Allerhand
Met Council
Rabbi Steve Axinn
Rabbi Andy Bachman
Dr. Jeannie Blaustein
ReImagine End of Life
Rabbi Amy Bolton
Rabbi Lester Bronstein
Bet Am Shalom
Rabbi Ayelet Cohen
Alan Cohen
JASA
Nadine Habousha Cohen
Rabbi Jackie Koch Ellenson
Rabbi Steven Exler
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale- The Bayit
Jerry Gottlieb
Moshe Greenberg
Rachel Neumark Herlands
Lincoln Square Synagogue
Matt Hiltzik
Rabbi David Ingber
Romemu
Peter Joseph
Tom Kamber
Senior Planet/OATS
Joel Kazis
Rabbi Georgette Kennebrae
Lynn Korda Kroll
Rabbi Sara Luria
Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
Rabbi Adam Mintz
Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim
Rabbi Joel M Mosbacher
Senior Rabbi at Temple Shaaray Tefila
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik
Executive Vice President,
New York Board of Rabbis
Rabbi Shaul Robinson
Lincoln Square Synagogue
Cantor Sam Rosen
CBST
Irvin Rosenthal
Michelle Rubel
Rabbi Peter Rubinstein
Rabbi Maurice Salth
Central Synagogue
Rabbi Joanna Samuels
Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan
Harriet Schleifer
Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Howard Sharfstein
Heidi D. Silverstone
Laura Spitzer
Rabbi Ben Spratt
Senior Rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom
Rabbi Mychal Springer
Manager of Clinical Pastors Education at NY Presbyterian Hospital
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
Rabbi Rachel Timoner
Congregation Beth Elohim Brooklyn
Rabbi Gordon Tucker
Temple Israel Center of White Plains
Rabbi Jan Uhrbach
The Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons
Toby Weiss
Robert Wolf
Rabbi Baruch Yehudah
Bnai Adath
Rabbi Neil Zuckerman
Park Avenue Synagogue
Gillian Rittmaster
LCSW, Director of health and healing services at Westchester Jewish Community Services
Barry N. Winograd
Julie Zeuner
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.
Reform, Reconstructionist and Renewal), executives of social service agencies and community lay leaders.