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MS-831: Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation Records, 1980–2008. Series B: Commission on Jewish Education in North America (CJENA). 1980–1993. Subseries 2: Commissioner and Consultant Biographical Files, 1987–1993.

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Commissioners' biographies. Planning correspondence and drafts, 1990.

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MEMO TO: Seymour Fox, Annette Hochstein, Dena Merriam

FROM: Virginia F. Levi ,vvr-T-\k~~:~ DATE: August 7, 1990

SUBJECT: Commissioner Bios

Attached are commissioner bios for use in the f~nal report. For each there is a "one-liner" for the body of the report and a stightly more extensive bio for the appendix.

I sent proposed listings to commissioners with a request that they respond by August 3. The+ symbol indicates that a revision was submitted. We can assume that the others are satisfied with the current wording, but should not be surprised if we hear from one or two others later this summer. Lainer, Melton and Mintz submitted revisions during the course of the Commission and are probably satisfied with them, as revised.

A few, like Peggy Tishman, went well beyond the 5-line limit we sec. I leave it to you to decide whether or not to edit. * Mona Riklis Ackerman, President - Riklis Family Foundation

Mona Riklis Ackerman (Ph.D.), Riklis Family Foundation, New York, NY Dr. Ackerman is a clinical psychologist and President of the Riklis Family Foundation. She is active in UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and American Friends of Rechov Sumsum.

* Will be revised after August 15.

Ronald Appleby. Active in Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, United Jewish Appeal

Ronald Appleby Q.C., Robins, Appleby & Taub, Toronto, Ontario Mr. Appleby is chairman of the law firm· of Robins, Appleby & Taub, involved mainly in business income tax consultations; he speaks and writes regularly on this subject. He is active in many civic and Jewish causes, including the Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, and United Jewish Appeal.

+ David Arnow, North American Chair - New Israel Fund

David Arnow (Ph.D.), New York, NY Dr. Arnow is a psychologist, North American Chair of the New Israel Fund and Chair of the UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Subcommittee on Governance.

+ Mandell L. Berman, President - Council of Jewish Federations

Mandell L. Berman, Southfield, Michigan Mr. Berman was President of Dreyfus Development, a real estate developer. He is immediate past Chairman of the Skillman Foundation, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and a past President of the Detroit Federation. He served as Chairman of the American Association of Jewish Education and is Honorary Chairman of JESNA. He is a member of the Board of the Dreyfus Corporation. + Jack Bieler, Chairman of H.S . Judaic Studies, Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington

Jack Bieler (Rabbi), Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, Silver Spring, Maryland Rabbi Bieler is Coordinator of H.S. Judaic Studies and Lead Teacher at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington. He has served as Chairman of the Talmud Department at the Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz, Permanent Scholar-in-Residence of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, and was a Jerusalem Fellow.

+ Charles R. Bronfman, Cbairman and Founder - The CRB Foundation

Charles R. Bronfman, Montreal, Quebec Mr. Bronfman is Co-Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Seagram Company, Ltd., Chairman of The CRB Foundation, President, UIA Canada, and Honorary Chairman, Canada-Israel Securities Ltd. He is active in many other civic and Jewish causes.

+ John C. Colman, President - Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

John C. Colman, Glencoe, Illinois Mr. Colman is a private investor and business consultant. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Chairman of the Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel and is active in a wide variety of Jewish and general institutions.

+ Maurice S. Corson, President - The Wexner Foundation

Maurice S. Corson (Rabbi, D.D.), The Wexner Foundation, Columbus, Ohio Rabbi Corson is President of the Wexner Foundation. He was a director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia, Executive Director of the United Israel Appeal of Canada, and Associate Director of Development for B'nai B'rith International. He is active in many Jewish and civic causes. Prior to entering the field of communal service, Rabbi Corson served as a congregational rabbi in Baltimore; Ventnor, New Jersey; and Seattle, Washington. . I

+ Lester Crown, Past Chairman - The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Lester Crown, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Crown is President of Henry Crown and Company, Chairman of the Board of Material Service Corporation and Executive Vice-President of General Dynamics . He has served as Chairman of the Board of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America .

David Dubin, Executive Director - JCC on the Palisades

David Dubin, JGC on the Palisades, Tenafly, New Jersey Mr. Dubin is Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center on the Palisades and author of several articles in The Journal of Jewish Communal Service on Jewish education within Jewish community centers.

+ Stuart E. Eizenstat, President of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington and Honorary Vice President of the American Jewish Committee

Stuart E. Eizenstat, Powell , Goldstein, Fr azer & Murphy , Washington, D. C. Mr. Eizenscat practices law in Washington, D.C. and teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was Director of the domestic policy staff at The Whit e House under the Carter Administration. He is President of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington and Honora ry Vice President of the American Jewish Committee.

+ Joshua Elkin, Headmaster - Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston in Newton

Joshua Elkin (Rabbi, Ed. D. ), Newton, MA Rabbi Elkin is Headmaster of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, Newton , MA. He has taught in the Jewish Education concentration of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University and recently completed a year as a Jerusalem Fellow. Eli N. Evans, President - Charles H. Revson Foundation

Eli N. Evans, Charles H. Revson Foundation, New York, NY Mr. Evans is President of the Charles H. Revson Foundation which supports programs in urban affairs, Jewish and general education, and biomedical research policy. He has written two books on the history of Jews in the American South .

+ Irwin S . Fiel d, Di rector-Jewish Agency for Israel

Irwin S . Field, Liberty Vegetable Oil Company, Cerritos, CA Mr . Field is President of Liberty Vegetable Oil, and Director of Luz International Ltd. He is Vice Chairman of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and a past National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. He serves many other national and international organizations.

Max M. Fisher, Former Chairman, Board of Governors - The Jewish Agency for Israel

Max M. Fisher, Detroit, Michigan Mr. Fisher was Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Jewish Agency for Israel, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and President of the United Jewish Appeal . He was Chairman of United Brands Company and has been involved with many other corporations and civic and Jewish organizations.

+ Alfred Gottschalk, President - Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Alfred Gottschalk (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio Dr. Gottschalk is President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Professor of Bible and Jewish Religious Thought. He is founder of the School of Jewish Communal Service and Chairman of the Academic Committee of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council. He also serves as Vice President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism . He has written extensively on education and Jewish intellectual history. Arthur Green, President - Reconstruccionist Rabbinical College

Arthur Green (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Reconscructionisc Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA Dr. Green is President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the author of many books and articles including Tormented Master; A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.

+ Irving Greenberg, President - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

Irving Greenberg (Rabbi, Ph.D.), The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership , New York, NY Rabbi Greenberg is President and co-fou~der of CIAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He founded and chaired the Department of Judaic Studies at City College. He has taught and written widely on Jewish thought and religion and is author of The Jewish Way.

Joseph S. Gruss, Founder - Fund for Jewish Education

Joseph S. Gruss, Gruss & Company, New York, NY Mr . Gruss is former head of Gruss & Company. He established the Fund for Jewish Education in New York in association with UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. He has provided full medical and financial support to Jewish educators, grants to 400 Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot and to community organizations dedicated to Jewish outreach, and funds for school building renovations . He supports Jewish educators through scholarships for high school and college students.

Robert I. Hiller, President - The Zanvyl Krieger Fund

Robert I . Hiller, Zanvyl Krieger Fund, Baltimore, MD Mr. Hill er is a consultant to non-profit organizations and President of the Zanvyl Krieger Fund. He has been chief professional officer of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Jewish Federations in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. + David Hirschhorn, Businessman - Active in national and local Jewish communal affairs

David Hirschhorn, The Blaustein Building, Baltimore, MD Mr. Hirschhorn is Vice Chairman of American Trading and Production Corporation. He is active in national and local Jewish communal affairs, including Jewish education in Baltimo~e.

+ Carol K. Ingall, Executive Director - Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island

Carol K. Ingall, Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island, Providence, RI Mrs. Ingall is Executive Director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island and curriculum consultant co the Melton Research Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

+ Ludwig Jesselson, Past President and Chairman - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Joint Campaign

Ludwig Jesselson, 1221 6th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, NY Mr. Jesselson has served as Chairman of Philipp Brothers, Inc., is Chairman of the Board of Governors of Bar Ilan University and Chairman of the Board of Yeshiva University.

Henry Koschitzky. Past Chairman - Board of Jewish Education

Henry Koschit zky. Toronto, Ontario Mr. Koschitzky, a former Rhodes Scholar, is President of Iko Industries Ltd. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Jewish Education in Toronto. Mark Lainer, Vice President - Jewish Education Service of North America

Mark Lainer, Encino, California Mr. Lainer is an attorney and real estate developer. He is an officer of the Jewish Fedexation of Los Angeles and Vice President of JESNA. He was founding president of Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School, Vice President of Education at Temple Valley Beth Sholom, Encino, and Chairman of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Los Angeles .

+ Norman Lamm, President - Yeshiva Universi ty

Norman Lamm (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Yeshiva University, New York, NY Dr. Lamm is President of Yeshiva University, founder of Tradition magazine and the author of many books including Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition. He was a member of the President' s Commission on the Holocaust and lectures extensively on Judaism, l~andeilii~.

+ Sara S . Lee, Director - Rhea Hirsch School of Education, Hebrew Union College

Sara S. Lee, Rhea Hirsch School of Education, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA Mrs. Lee is Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and President of the Association of Institutions of Higher Learning in Jewish Education. She is a frequent contributor to conferences and publications on Jewish education.

+ Seymour Martin Lipset, Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of political science and sociology and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution - Stanford University

Seymour Martin Lipset (Ph.D.), Stanford University, Stanford, CA Professor Lipset is a Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of political science and sociology and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been co-editor of Public Opinion and author of many books including Political Man and The Politics of Unreason. + Haskel Lookstein, Princi pal - Ramaz School; Rabbi - Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun

Haskel Lookstein (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Ramaz School, New York, NY Rabbi Lookstein is Princi pal of Ramaz School and Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. He teaches at Yeshiva University and has served in leadership roles with the National Rabbinic Cabinet of UJA, the New York Board of Rabbis, the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews and the UJA-Federation of New York .

+ Robert E. Loup, Past National Chairman - National Jewish Qent er for Learni ng and Leader sh ip

Robert E. Loup , Loup-MiLler Construction Company, Denver, CO Mr . Loup i s a real estate developer. He is life president of the Allied Jewish Federation of Denver, past national chairman of CLAL, a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency, and past national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.

+ Morton L. Mandel, Founder and Chair - Commission on Jewish Education in North America

Morton L. Mandel, Premier Industrial Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio Mr . Mandel is Chairman of the Board of Premier. He founded and chaired the Commission on Jewish Education in North America. He has been President of the JCC of Cleveland, the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the Council of Jewish Federations, and the JCC Association.

+ Matthew J. Maryles, Chairman, Fund for Jewish Education - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York

Matthew J. Maryles, Oppenheimer & Company, Inc., New York, NY Mr. Maryles is a Managing Director of Oppenheimer & Company, Inc., a New York investment banking firm. He is Former President of Yesbivah of Flatbush, Chairman of the Fund for Jewish Education and an active Board Member of UJA/Federacion of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Florence Melton, has initiated innovative projects in Jewish and secular education

Florence Melton, Columbus, Ohio Mrs. Melton is the founder of R. G. Barry Corporation where she serves as Design Consultant. She has served on the Board of Huntington National Bank, Columbus, and is an inventor who holds a number of patents. Through her philanthropic efforts, she has initiated numerous innovative projects in Jewish and s ecular education, including a research project at Ohio Stace University designed to increase the self- image of junior high school children. She has served on many nati onal education boards .

Donald R. Mintz, Past President - Jewish Community Cen ters Association of North America

Donald R. Mintz, Sessions&. Fishman, New Orleans, I.A Mr. Mintz is a senior partner of Sessions & Fishman and a Professor at Tulane University Law School. He was President of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orl eans and is the immediate past president of Jewish Community Centers Association of North America (formerly JWB).

+ Lester Pollack, President - Jewish Community Centers Association of North America

Lester Pollack, Lazard Freres &. Company, New York, NY Mr. Pollack is a General Partner of Lazard Freres, Chief Executive Officer of Centre Partners and Senior Managing Director of Corporate Partners. He is President of the JGC Association and Vice President of OJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York .

Charles Ratner, Chairman - Cleveland Commission on Jewish Continuity

Charles Ratner, Forest City Enterprises, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio Mr. Ratner is Executive Vice President of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. He is Vice President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, Chairman of the Cleveland Commission on Jewish Continuity, and of the Cleveland Jewish Welfare Fund campaign. He is active in other civic and Jewish organizations. + Esther Leah Ritz, Past President of JGC Association of North America

Esther Leah Ritz, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mrs. Ritz has been President of JCC Association and Vic,e President of the Council of Jewish Federations. She is past President of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and has served on the boards of the Shalom Hartman Institute, JDC , HIAS, UJA, CLAL and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work.

Harriet L. Rosenthal, Vice President - JGC Ass~ciation ... Harriet L. Rosenthal, South Orange, New Jersey ijrs. Rosenthal is a Vice President of JCC Association. She was a delegate of tne··National Council of Jewish Women to"- the Conference of Presidents, and serves on the Board of The National Conference on Soviet Jewry.

+ Alvin I. Schiff, Executive Vice President - Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York

Alvin I. Schiff (Ph.D.), Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, New York, NY Dr. Schiff is Executive Vice President of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, a much-published author, Editor of Jewish Education, former Professor of Jewish Education and head of the Graduate Department of Education at Yeshiva University, and past president of the Council for Jewish Education.

Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor and Professor of Jewish History - Jewish Theological Seminary

Ismar Schorsch (Rabbi, Ph . D.), Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY Dr. Schorsch is Chancellor and Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has served as President of the Leo Baeck Institute and has published in the area of European Jewish history. ,. I ~

+ Daniel S. Shapiro, Past President, Federation of Jewish Philanthropices of New York

Daniel S. Shapiro, Schulte, Roth & Zabel, New York, NY Mr. Shapiro is a partner in Schulte, Roth and Zabel. He has served as President of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and Vice President of the Council of Jewish Federations.

+ Margaret W. Tishman, Immediate Past President - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Presently chairs the Nominating Committee, the Level of Grants and is Co-Chair of Special Gifts. ~

Margaret W. Tishman, New York, NY Mrs. Tishman was the first President of the Combined UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York from 1986-1989. She has served in leadership roles with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University and the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged of which she is a past vice president. She is a past president of the Central Bureau for the Jewish Agency. She is a Director of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and serves on various committees, both in New York and in Israel.

+ Isadore Twersky, Rabbi, Professor and Director of the Harvard University Cente r for Jewish Studies

Isadore Twersky (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Professor Twersky is Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Author of numerous scholarly books and studies in Jewish philosophy and law, he is also rabbi of the Talner Bet Midrash in Brookline, MA.

+ Bennett Yanowitz, President - Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA)

Bennett Yanowitz, Cleveland, Ohio Mr. Yanowitz is a principal in the firm of Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz and Arnson. He is immediate past President of Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA). He has served as Vice President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and Chairman of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. JUL 2 3 1990

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Irwin s. Field, Director-Jewish Agency for Israelr-Las An~e½es, ~A

Irwin s. Field, Liberty Vegetable Oil Company, Cerritos, CA Mr. Field is President of Liberty Vegetable Oil , and Director of Luz International Ltd. He is Vice Chairman of the Jewish

Federation of Los Angeles and a past National Chairman of the

United Jewish Appeal. He serves many other national and international organizations.

Arthur Green, President - Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Arthur Green (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA Dr. Green is President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the author of many books and articles including Tormented Master; A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.

+ Irving Greenoerg. President - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

Irving Greenberg (Rabbi, Ph.D.), The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, New York, NY Rabbi Greenberg is President and co-founder of Cl.AL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He founded and chaired the Department of Judaic Studies at City College. He has taught and written widely on Jewish thought and religion and is author of The Jewish Way (New York 1988).

Joseph S. Gruss, Founder - Fund for Jewish Education

Joseph S. Gruss, Gruss & Company; New York, NY Mr. Gruss is former head of Gruss & Company. He established the Fund for Jewish Education in New York in association with UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. He has provided full medical and financial support to Jewish educators, grants to 400 Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot and to community organizations dedicated to Jewish outreach, and funds for school building renovations. He supports Jewish educators through scholarships for high school and college students.

Robert I. Hiller, President - The Zanvyl Krieger Fund

Robert I. Hiller, Zanvyl Krieger Fund, Baltimore, MD Mr. Hiller is a consultant to nonaprofit organizations and President of the Zanvyl Krieger Fund. He has been chief professional officer of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Jewish Federations in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. PREMU;FI INOUSTFIIA l. COFIPOl"lATION NUMBER OF 0 FACSIMILE HEADER SHEET 73138 (5190) PRINTED IN U.s.A. DATE: 8; .2o o TIME: ___ PAGES SENT: ;J.._ TO: FAX NO. ~/2.) 11 £ · //,{,/ FROM: FAX NO. '°'/~) dk I - 9 ~ i.:i._ Name D€.t-ltt mat<1AA1 Name VJA' G;-A//t'l LevJ Company tf &AD€~ P/~ ,J Company /kEh'I I Et(. Street Address ______Tele. No. f.;J.J ~ 3 'l I - 3 3 ° o Ext. .2. Yoo

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+ Irving Greenberg. President - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

Irving Greenberg (Rabbi, Ph.D.), The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, New York, NY Rabbi Greenberg is President and co-founder of ClAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He founded and chaired the Department of Judaic Studies at City College. He has taught and written widely on Jewish thought and religion and is author of The Jewish Way (New York 1988).

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Joseph S . Gruss, Gruss & Company, New York, NY Mr. Gruss is former head of Gruss & Company. He established the Fund for Jewish Education in New York in association with UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. He has provided full medical and financial support to Jewish educators, grants to 400 Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot and to community organizations dedicated to Jewish outreach, and funds for school building renovations. He supports Jewish educators through scholarships for high school and college students .

Robert I . Hiller, President - The Zanvyl Krieger Fund

Robert I. Hiller, Zanvyl Krieger Fund, Baltimore, MD Mr. Hiller is a consultant to non-profit organizations and President of the Zanvyl Krieger Fund. He has been chief professional officer of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Jewish Federations in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Virginia F. Leri

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FROM: Virginia F. Levi ,,_,..,-·JI~~- \ DATE: August 7, 1990

SUBJECT: Commissioner Bios

Attached are commissioner bios for use in the final report. For each there is a "one-liner" for the body of the report and a slightly more extensive bio for the appendix.

I sent proposed listings to commissioners with a request that they respond by August 3. The+ symbol indicates that a revision was submitted. We can assume that the others are satisfied with the current wording, but should not be surprised if we hear from one or two others later chis summer. Lainei, Melton and Mintz submitted revisions during the course of the Commission and are probably satisfied with them, as revised.

A few, like Peggy Tishman, went well beyond the 5-line limit we set. I leave it to you to decide whether or not to edit. * Mona Riklis Ackerman, President - Riklis Family Foundation

Mona Riklis Ackerman (Ph .D.), Riklis Family Foundation, New York, NY Dr. Ackerman is a clinical psychologist and President of the Riklis Family Foundation. She is active in UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and American Friends of Rechov Sumsum.

* Will be revised after August 15.

Ronald Appleby, Active in Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, United Jewish Appeal

Ronald Appleby Q.C., Robins, Appleby & Taub, Toronto, Ontario Mr. Appleby is chairman of the law firm of Robins, Appleby & Taub, involved mainly in business income tax consultations; he speaks and writes regularly on this subject. He is active in many civic and Jewish causes, including the Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, and United Jewish Appeal.

+ David Arnow, North American Chair - New Israel Fund

+ Mandell L. Berman, President - Council of Jewish Federations

Mandell L. Berman, Southfield, Michigan Mr. Berman was President of Dreyfus Development, a real estate developer . He is immediate past Chairman of the Skillman Foundation, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and a past President of the Detroit Federation. He served as Chairman of the American Association of Jewish Education and is Honorary Chairman of JESNA. He is a member of the Board of the Dreyfus

Corporation. ,; + Jack Bieler, Chairman of H.S . Judaic Studies, Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington

+ Charles R. Bronfman, Chairman and Founder - The CRB Foundation

+ John C. Colman, President - Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

John G. Colman, Glencoe, Illinois Mr. Colman is a private investor and business consultant. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Chairman of the Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel and is active in a wide variety of Jewish and general institut ions.

+ Maurice S. Corson, President - The Wexner Foundation

Maurice S . Corson (Rabbi, D.D.), The Wexner Foundation, Columbus, Ohio Rabbi Corson is President of the Wexner Foundation. He was a director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia, Executive Director of the United Israel Appeal of Canada, and Associate Director of Development for B'nai B'rith International. He is active in many Jewish and civic causes. Prior to entering the field of communal service, Rabbi Corson served as a congregational rabbi in Baltimore; Ventnor, New Jersey; and Seattle, Washington. + Lester Crown, Past Chairman - The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Lester Crown, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Crown is President of Henry Crown and Company, Chairman of the Board of Material Service Corporation and Executive Vice-President of General Dynamics. He has served as Chairman of the Board of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

David Dubin, Executive Director - JGC on the Palisades

David Dubin, JCC on the Palisades, Tenafly, New Jersey Mr. Dubin is Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center on the Palisades and author of several articles in The Journal of Jewish Communal Service on Jewish education within Jewish community centers.

+ Stuart E. Eizenstat, President of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington and Honorary Vice President of the American Jewish Committee

Stuart E. Eizenstat, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Washington, D.C. Mr . Eizenstat practices law in Washington, D.C. and teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was Director of the domestic policy staff at The White House under the Carter Administration. He is President of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington and Honorary Vice President of the American Jewish Committee.

+ Joshua Elkin, Headmaster - Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston in Newton

Joshua Elkin (Rabbi, Ed. D.), Newton, MA Rabbi Elkin is Headmaster of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, Newton, MA. He has taught in the Jewish Education concentration of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University and recently completed a year as a Jerusalem Fellow. Eli N. Evans, President - Charles H. Revson Foundation

+ Irwin S. Field, Director-Jewish Agency for Israel

Irwin S. Field, Liberty Vegetable Oil Company, Cerritos, CA Mr. Field is President of Liberty Vegetable Oil, and Director of Luz International Ltd. He is Vice Chairman of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and a past National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. He serves many ocher national and international organizations.

Max M. Fisher, Former Chairman, Board of Governors - The Jewish Agency for Israel

Max M. Fisher, Detroit, Michigan Mr. Fisher was Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Jewish Agency for Israel, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and President of the United Jewish Appeal. He was Chairman of United Brands Company and has been involved with many other corporations and civic and Jewish organizations.

+ Alfred Gottschalk, President - Hebrew Union College-Jewish Inst itute of Religion

Alfred Gottschalk (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio Dr. Gottschalk is President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Professor of Bible and Jewish Religious Thought. He is founder of the School of Jewish Communal Service and Chairman of the Academic Committee of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council. He also serves as Vice President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. He has written extensively on education and Jewish intellectual history. Arthur Green , President - Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Arthur Green (Rabbi, Ph .D.), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA Dr. Green is President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the author of many books and articles including Tormented Master; A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.

+ Irving Greenberg . President - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

Irving Greenberg (Rabbi, Ph.D.), The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, New York, NY Rabbi Greenberg is President and co- founder of CIAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He founded and chaired the Department of Judaic Studies at City College. He has taught and written widely on Jewish thought and religion and is author of The Jewish Way .

Joseph S. Gruss, Founder - Fund for Jewish Education

Joseph S. Gruss, Gruss & Company, New York, NY Mr. Gruss is former head of Gruss & Company. He established the Fund for Jewish Education in New York in association with OJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. He has provided full medical and financial support to Jewish educators, grants to 400 Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot and to community organizations dedicated to Jewish outreach, and funds for school building renovations. He supports Jewish educators through scholarships for high school and college students.

Robert I. Hiller, President - The Zanvyl Krieger Fund

Robert I. Hiller, Zanvyl Krieger Fund, Baltimore, MD Mr. Hiller is a consultant to non-profit organizations and President of the Zanvyl Krieger Fund. He has been chief professional officer of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Jewish Federations in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. + David Hirschhorn, Businessman - Active in national and local Jewish communal affairs

David Hirschhorn, The Blaustein Building, Baltimore, MD Mr . Hirschhorn is Vice Chairman of American Trading and Production Corporation. He is active in national and local Jewish communal affairs, including Jewish education in Baltimore.

+ Carol K. Ingall, Executive Director - Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island

Carol K. Ingall, Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island, Providence, RI Mrs. Ingall is Executive Director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island and curriculum consultant to the Melton Research Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

+ Ludwig Jesselson, Past President and Chairman - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Joint Campaign

Henry Koschitzky. Past Chairman - Board of .Jewish Education

Henry Koschitzky. Toronto, Ontario Mr. Koschitzky, a former Rhodes Scholar, is President of Iko Industries Ltd. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Jewish Education in Toronto. Mark Lainer, Vice President - Jewish Education Service of North America

Mark Lainer, Encino, California Mr. Lainer is an attorney and real estate developer. He is an officer of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and Vice President of JESNA. He was founding president of Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School, Vice President of Education at Temple Valley Beth Sholom, Encino, and Chairman of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Los Angeles.

+ Norman Lamm, President - Yeshiva University

Norman Lamm (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Yeshiva University, New York, NY Dr. Lamm is President of Yeshiva University, founder of Tradition magazine and the author of many books including Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition. He was a member of the President's Commission on the Holocaust and lectures extensively on Judaism, law and ethics.

+ Sara S . Lee, Director - Rhea Hirsch School of Education, Hebrew Union College

+ Seymour Martin Lipset, Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of political science and sociology and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution - Stanford University

Seymour Martin Lipset (Ph.D.), Stanford University, Stanford, CA Professor Lipset is a Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of political science and sociology and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been co-editor of Public Opinion and author of many books including Political Man and The Politics of Unreason. + Haskel Lookstein, Principal - Ramaz School; Rabbi - Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun

Haskel Lookstein (Rabbi, Ph.D . ), Ramaz School, New York, NY Rabbi Lookstein is Principal of Ramaz School and Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. He teaches at Yesh iva University and bas served in leadership roles with the National Rabbinic Cabinet of UJA, the New York Board of Rabbis, the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews and the UJA-Federation of New York.

+ Robert E. Loup, Past National Chairman - National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

Robert E. Loup, Loup-Miller Construction Company, Denver, CO Mr. Loup is a real estate developer. He is life president of the Allied Jewish Federation of Denver, past national chairman of GI.AL, a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency, and past national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.

+ Morton L. Mandel, Founder and Chair - Commission on Jewish Education in North Amer i ca

Morton L. Mandel, Premier Industrial Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio Mr. Mandel is Chairman of the Board of Premier. He founded and chaired the Commission on Jewish Education in North America. He has been President of the JCC of Clevel and, the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the Council of Jewish Federations, and the JGC Association.

+ Matthew J. Maryles, Chairman, Fund for Jewish Education - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York

Matthew J. Maryles, Oppenheimer & Company, Inc . , New York, NY Mr. Maryles is a Managing Director of Oppenheimer & Company, Inc., a New York investment banking firm. Ke is Former President of Yeshivah of Flatbush, Chairman of the Fund for Jewish Education and an active Board Member of UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York . Florence Melton, has initiated innovat.ive projects in Jewish and secular education

Flor ence Melton, Columbus, Ohio Mrs . Melton is the founder of R. G. Barry Corporation where she serves as Des i gn Consultant. She has served on the Board of Huntington National Bank, Columbus, and is an inventor who holds a number of patents. Through her phil anthropi c efforts, she has initiated numerous innovative projects in Jewish and secular education, including a research project at Ohio State University designed to increase the sel f-image of junior high school children. She has served on many national education boards.

Donald R. Mintz, Past President - Jewish Community Centers Association of North America

Donald R. Mintz, Sessions & Fishman, New Orleans , LA Mr. Mintz is a senior partner of Sessions & Fishman and a Professor at Tulane University Law School. He was President of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and is the immediate past president of Jewish Community Centers Association of North America ( formerly JWB).

+ Lester Pollack, President - Jewish Community Cent ers Association of North America

Lester Pol lack, Lazard Freres & Company, New York, NY Mr. Pollack is a General Partner of Lazard Freres, Chief Executive Officer of Centre Partners and Senior Managing Director of Corporate Partners. He is President of the JCC Association and Vice President of UJA/FedeYation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.

Charles Ratner, Chairman - Cleveland Commission on Jewish Continuity

Charles Ratner, Forest City Enterprises, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio Mr. Ratner i s Executive Vice President of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. He is Vice President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, Chairman of t he Cleveland Commission on Jewish Continuity, and of the Cleveland Jewish Welfare Fund campaign. He is active in other civic and Jewish organizations. + Esther Leah Ritz, Past President of JGC Association of North America

Esther Leah Ritz, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mrs. Ritz has been President of JCC Association and Vice President of the Council of Jewish Federations. She is past President of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and has served on the boards of the Shalom Hartman Institute, J DC, HIAS, UJA, CIAL and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work.

Harriet L. Rosenthal, Vice President - JCC Association

Harriet L. Rosenthal, Sout h Orange, New Jersey Mrs. Rosenthal is a Vice President of JCC Association. She was a delegate of the National Council of Jewish Women to the Conference of Presidents, and serves on the Board of The National Conference on Soviet Jewry.

+ Alvin I. Schiff, Executive Vice President - Board of Jewi sh Education of Greater New York

Alvin I. Schiff (Ph. D.) , Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, New York, NY Dr. Schiff is Executive Vice President of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, a much-published author , Editor of Jewish Education, former Professor of Jewish Educat ion and head of the Graduate Department of Educat ion at Yeshiva University, and past president of the Council for Jewish Educati on.

Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor and Professor of Jewish History - J ewish Theologi cal Seminary

Ismar Schorsch (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY Dr. Schorsch is Chancellor and Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has served as President of the Leo Baeck Institute and has published in the area of European Jewish history. + Daniel S . Shapiro, Past President, Fed.eration of Jewish Philanthropices of New York

+ Margaret W. Tishman, Immediate Past President - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Presently chairs the Nominating Committee, the Level of Grants and is Co-Chair of Special Gifts.

Margaret W. Tishman, New York, NY Mrs. Tishman was the first President of the Combined UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York from 1986-1989. She has served in leadership roles with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University and the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged of which she is a past vice president. She is a past president of the Central Bureau for the Jewish Agency. She is a Director of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the American J ewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and serves on various committees, both in New York and in Israel.

+ Isadore Twersky, Rabbi, Professor and Director of the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies

+ Bennett Yanowitz, President - Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA)

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Ronald Appleby. Active in Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, United Jewish Appeal

Ronald Appleby Q.C. , Robins, Appleby & Taub, Toronto, Ontario Mr . Appleby is chairman of the law firm of Robins, Appleby & Taub. involved mainly in business income tax consultations; he speaks and writes regularly on this subject. He is active in many civic and Jewish causes, including the Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, and United Jewish Appeal.

+ David Arnow, North American Chair - New Israel Fund

David Arnow (Ph.D.), New York, NY Dr . Arnow is a psychologist, North American Chair of the New Israel Fund and Chair of the UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Ne~ York Subcommittee on Governance.

+ Mandell L. Berman, President - Council of Jewish Federations

Mandell L. Berman, Southfield, Michigan Mr. Berman was President of Dreyfus Development, a real estate developer . He is immediate past Chairman of the Skillman Foundation, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and a past President of the Detroit Federation. He served as Chairman of the American Association of Jewish Education and is Honorary Chairman of JESNA . He is a member of the Board of the Dreyfus Corporation. IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR _____.. V'------'-F_ l,-_____

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Ronald Appleby, Active in Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, United Jewish Appeal, Toronto , Ontario

Ronald Appleby Q.C ., Robins, Appleby & Taub , Toronto, Ontario Mr. Appleby is chairman of the law firm of Robins, Appleby & Taub, involved mainly in business income tax consultations; he speaks and writes regularly on this subject. He is active in many civic and Jewish causes, including the Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, and United Jewish Appeal.

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David Arnow (Ph.D.), New York, NY Dr. Arnow is a psychologist, Rr::v,p~ of the New Israel Fund and chair of the UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Subcommittee on Governance.

Mandell L. Berman, President - Council of Jewish Federations, Southfield, MI

Mandell L. Berman, Southfield, Michigan Mr . Berman was President of Smokler Corporation, a real estate developer. He is Chairman of the Skillman Foundation, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and past President of the Detroit Federation. He served as Chairman of the American Association of Jewish Education and is Honorary Chairman of JESNA. Mandell L. Berman, President - Council of Jewish Federations,-Sottthfield, l,f/-

Mandell L. Berman, Southfield, Michigan

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is immediate past Chairman ofthe Skillman Foundation. President ofthe Council

ofJewish Federations, and a past President of the Detroit Federation. He served as Chairman of the American Association of Jewish Education and is Honorary

Chairman ofJESNA. He is a member of the Board of the Dreyfus Corporation. Mandell L. Berman, President - Council of Jewish Federations, Southfield, MI

Mandell L. Berman, Southfield, Michigan ~

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Ms. Virginia F. Levi Commission on Jewish Education in North America 4500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44103

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Jack Bieler

Rabbi Bieler is Coordinator of H.S. Judaic Studies and Lead

Teacher at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington. He has served as Chairman of the Talmud Department at the Joseph H.

Lookstein Upper School of Ramez, Permanent Scholar-in-Residence of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, and was a Jerusalem Fellow.

Thanks and best wishes for a pleasant rest of the summer, J~ Jack Bieler Jack Bieler, Supervisor of Instruction - Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, Silver Spring, Maryland

Jack Bieler (Rabbi), Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, Silver Spring, Maryland Rabbi Bieler is Coordinator of Judaic Studies and Supervisor of Instruction at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington. He has served as Chairman of the Talmud Department at Rarnaz Day School and was a Jerusalem Fellow.

Charles R. Bronfman, Chairman and Founder - The CRB ~uec Charles R. Bronfman, Montreal, Quebec Mr. Bronfman is Co-Chairman and Chairman of the Execu~::d:ounittee of The Seagram Company, Ltd., Chairman of The CRB Foundation~and Honorary Chairman, Canada-Israel Securities Ltd. He is Direeeer 9£ tbe · · fr-Gounci-1. ~ Cl:irisEien:!t et'ld Jew!!, --aM active in many(c~vic and Jewish causes.

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John C. Colman, President - Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Glencoe, Illinois

John C. Colman, Glencoe, Illinois Mr. Colman is a private investor and business consultant. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Joint Distribution Committee, President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and is active in a wide variety of Jewish and general insticutions.

Maurice S. Corson, President - The Wexner Foundation, Columbus, Ohio

Maurice S, Corson (Rabbi), The Wexner Foundation, Columbus, Ohio Rabbi Corson is President of the Wexner Foundation. He was a director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia, United Israel Appeal of Canada, and B'nai B'rith. He is active in many Jewish and civic causes.

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~~Stuart E. Eizenstat, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Washington, D.C.~~

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Lester Crown, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Crown is President of Henry Crown and Company, Chairman of the Board of Material Service Corporation and Executive Vice-President of General Dynamics. He has served as Chairman of the Board of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

~~David Dubin, Executive Director - JCC on the Palisades, Tenafly, New Jersey~~

~~Stuart E. Eizenstat, Board Member - National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Washington, D.C.~~

Stuart E. Eizenstat, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Washington, D.C. Mr. Eizenstat practices law in Washington, D.C. and teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was Director of the domestic policy staff at The White House under the Carter Administration. He is active in many civic and Jewish organizations and speaks and writes widely on public policy. 9/ ~ ·~ Joshua Elkin, Headmaster - Solomon Schechter Day School of;18oston~ton~

_Jp. I vt'~ Joshua Elkin (Rabbi, Ed. 0.), Newton, MA t .~ tJ> Rabbi Elkin is Headmaster of the Solomon Schechter Day School ofjiBoston A He has taught in the Jewish Education preg¥am &t: the Hornstein Program in 3ewish Communal Service at Brandeis Unive sity and~ completed a year as a Jerusalem Fellow. - ~ U,,wJ;_ ;;l;r dt

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Irwin S. Field, Liberty Vegetable Oil Company, P. 0. Box 4236, Cerritos, Californi a 90703, (213) 921- 3567 Mr. Field is President of Liberty Vegetable Oil, and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Luz International Ltd. He is Vice Chairman of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and a past National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal . He serves many other national and international organizations.

Max M. Fisher, Fisher Building, 27th Floor, 3011 Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan 48202, (313) 871-8000 Mr. Fisher was Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Jewish Agency for Israel, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and President of the United Jewish Appeal. He was Chairman of United Brands Company and has been involved with many other corporations and civic and Jewish organizations.

Alfred Gottschalk (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Hebrew Union College, 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220- 2488, (513) 221-1875 Rabbi Gottschalk is President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He has written extensively on ethics, education and Jewish intellectual history.

Arthur Green (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Church Road and Greenwood Avenue, Wyncote, Pennsylvania 19095, (215) 576-0800 Dr. Green is President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the author of many books and articles including Tormented Master; A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.

Irving Greenberg (Rabbi, Ph.D.), The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, 421 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, (212) 279-2525 Rabbi Greenberg is President and co-founder of CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He founded and chaired the Department of Judaic Studies at City College and has taught and written widely on Jewish thoughts and religion.

Robert I. Hiller, Zanvyl Krieger Fund, 101 W. Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, (301) 727 -4828 Mr. Hiller is a consultant to non-profit organizations and President of the Zanvyl Krieger Fund. He has been chief professional officer of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Jewish Federations in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. ~'>~17JJ ~ .t:> ffim'?, !:""" ~ :::I . -?~ ,~~· HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION Cincinnati • New York • Los Angeles • Jerusalem

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~~Ms . Virginia F . Levi Commission on Jewish Education in North America 4500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44103~~

~~Dear Virginia:~~

~~Another change i s needed i n the biographica1 sketch for Dr. Gottschalk . Please change Academic Council to Academic Committee as indicated.~~

~~Thank you .~~

~~Sincerely,~~

~~Cynthia~ Marmer Executive Secretary~~

~~CM/ns Enclosure ,, -JUL 2 6 19.~~

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~~Ju I y 26, 1990~~

~~Ms. Virginia F. Levi Commission on Jewish Education in Nor th America 4500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44103~~

~~Dear Virginia:~~

~~I am responding to you r July 16 letter regarding the brief biographical sketch. You will note that in the attached I have made some mod ifications in the text which you forwarded with your letter.~~

~~Best regards.~~

~~Sincerely, ~.(f1.JL__~~

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~~David Hirschhorn, The Blaustein Building, Baltimore, MD~~

~~Mr. Hirschhorn is Vice Chairman of American Trading and Production~~

~~Corporation. He is active in national and local Jewish communal~~

~~affairs, including Jewish education in Baltimore.~~

~~j JUL 2 3 1990~~

~~Carol K. Ingall, Executive Director - Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode~~

~~Island, Pro~isence, Rl~~

~~Carol K. Ingall, Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island, Providence, RI~~

Mrs. Ingall is Executive Director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode ~ ~~~~n.-L Island~ curriculum consultant to the Jewish Theological Seminary~ .A - ~epresentative of tba Council fut Jewh·b Educacj an to the Ceufetence ou ~h

~~~aromuoaJ Seryice.~~

~~[Carol: I know this is no longer accurate. Please send me your new story. )~~

j JUL 2 3 1990 COMMUSSION 01: J:EV\1SJP1 ElDUG-\J"KO... - [N r :oRT"H .r\I\1ERJIO\ 4500 Euclid Avenue Commissioners Cleveland, Ohio 44103 Morton L Mandel 2l6/391-8300 Chairman Mona Riklis Ackerman Ronald Appleby OavidAmow Mandell L Berman Jack Bieler Chark'S R. Bronfman john C. Colman Maurice S. Corson Lt.'Stcr Crown David Dubm Scuarr E. Eizenscat Joshu:i Elkin Eli N. Evans MEMO TO : Membe rs of t he Commissi on on Jewish Education lrwin S. Field i n Nor th Ame r ica Ma, M. Fisher Alh-d Gotct.chalk Arrhur Green FROM: Virginia F. Levi lrving Greenberg Joseph S. Grnss DATE: July 16, 1990 Robert I. Hiller David Hirschhorn Carol K. lngaU Ludwig Jessclson Henry K=hioky Mark Laincr Nonnan Lamm Sara S. u.-c Wo r k is currently under way on t he next draft of the Seymour Maran L1pser Commission' s final report. I n the body of t he report each Hru.kel Loolmein Robert E. Loup Commission member wil l be listed wi th a single line identifier. Matthew J. Marylcs In the appendix there will be a bri ef biographical sketch of no Florence Mcleon more than five lines . Donald R. Mintz Lcscer Pollack Chark~ Ramer On the attached page there is a proposed one line identifier as Escher Leah Rm well as a biographical sketch which has been proposed. We would Harriet L Rosenthal appreciate it if you could respond to t he suggestion and change Alvin I. Schiff it in any way that you find desirable. Lionel H. Schipper lsmar Schorsch Harold M Sdiulweis If I have not heard from you by August 3, I will assume t hat the Darnel S. Shap1m current versions are acceptable to you . Margar~ W. Tishman L

~~New York Joint Campaignr-New Yvtk, !ff~~

~~Ludwig Jesselson, ...... f_✓ Mr. Jesselson has served as Chairman of jili~p Broth~rs, Inc., Chairman of the~~

~~Board of Governors of Bar Ilan Universi~, ~:; of the Board of Yeshiva~~

~~University-~ Pt1::s1.denc or tJJA/Feee:Eatien of Jeoisb Philantlue~ios of New York~~

~~11oint-0ampalgn.~~

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~~Norman Lamm, President - Yeshiva University,,.-New-¥ork, !flt'~~

~~Norman Lamm (Rabbi, Ph.D.) , Yeshiva University, New York, NY~~

~~Dr. Lamm is President of Yeshiva University, founder of Tradition magazine and the author of many books includin~th an~He was a member of the~~

President's Commission on the Holocaust arl lectures extensively on Judaism, law and ethics. i)I) f( \}. (1\ p( .. ~.. . \\-..,. \.~"--A '!._ T~<~"- ~ . ------I - • ' ~ '~"'u-- ~~ (.-...r--d-- ~s.___~\\ - - -:\.J-.-~~ \.~ \ \

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~~Sara S . Lee, Director - Rhea Hirsch School of Education, Hebrew Union College,~~

~~J.es AngelJK, CA~~

~~Sara S. Lee, Rhea Hirsch School of Education, Hebrew Union College,~~

~~Los Angeles, CA~~

~~Mrs. Lee i s Di rector of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at Hebrew Union {fR£5 I DCVVI College in Los Angeles and Vas8 CQairm r of the Association of Institutions of~~

~~Higher Learning in Jewish Education. She is a frequent contributor to conferences and publications on Jewish education.~~

~~/ JUL 2 5 1990~~

Cc:h·c, \1\/le $" 6-. YViuvtrD H-~ess;or o.S Seymour Martin Lipset, ~r Fw.l , , i~litical science and sociology - ~ -----.J- 5e\l\ ,a, v~ l U,ID_.. Mt,l) Ver I Y\6+1 fu_-1-ur.,,, Stanford University:,. Stanford, CA

~~Seymour Martin Lipset (Ph.D.), Stanford University, Stanford, GA 6:tl'l:lh\l\e ~. €, . (v\u.nY"Z> ?i-~,-- ~-f, o1--bev-.~~

~~Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been co-editor of Public~~

~~Opinion and author of many books including Political Man and The Politics of~~

~~Unreason.~~

~~J Haskel Lookstein, Principal - Ramaz School; Rabbi - Congregation Kehilath~~

~~J eshurun ,....Ne~~ Yark I N¥~~

~~Haskel Lookstein (Rabbi, Ph.D. ), Ramaz School, New York, NY~~

~~Rabbi Lookstein is Principal of Ramaz School and Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath~~

Jeshurun. He teaches at Yeshiva University and has served in leadership roles with the National Rabbinic cdn~fhe New York Board of Rabbis, the Coalition A to Free Soviet Jews and the UJA-Federation of New York.

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4500 Euclid Avenue Commissioners C leveland, Ohio 44103 Morton L. Mandel 216/391- 300 Chairman Mona Rtklt Ackerman Ronald Appleby David Arnow Mandell L. Berman Jack Bieler Charles R. Bronfman John C. Colman Maurice . Cor on Lester Crown David Dubin Stuart E. Eizenstat Joshua Elkin Eli . Evans MEMO TO: Members of the Commission on Jewish Education lrwm S. Field in North America Max M. Fisher Alfred Gorr.schalk Arthur Green FROM: Virginia F. Levi lrvmg Greenberg Jo5eph S. Gruss DATE: July 16, 1990 Robert I. Hiller David Hirschhorn Carol K. lngall Ludwig Jesselson Henry Koschiczky Mark Lainer onnan Lamm Sara . Lee Work is currently under way on the next draft of the Seymour Marun Upset Commission's final report. In the body of the report each Haskel Lookstein Roben E. Loup Commission member will be listed with a single line identifier. Ma thew J. Maryles In the appendix there will ·be a brief biographical sketch of no Florence Melton more than five lines. Donald R. Mintz Lester Pollack Charles Ramer On the attached page there is a proposed one line identifier as Esther Leah Ric well as a biographical sketch which has been proposed. We would Harriet L. Rosenthal appreciate it if you could respond to the suggestion and change Alvin L Schiff it in any way that you find desirable. Lionel H. Schipper lsmar Schor ch Harold M. Schulweis If I have not heard from you by August 3, I will assume that the Daniel S. hapiro current versions are acceptable to you. Margaret W. Tishman Isadore Twcr ky Bennett Ynnow1r: Isaiah Zeldin In Fomuuion Senior Policy Advisors David S. Ariel ymourFox Annette Hochstein rephcn H. Hoffman Martin S. Kraar Arthur Rotman Carmi Schwartz Herman D. Stein Jonathan Woochcr Henry L. Zucker Director Henry L. Zucker taff Mark Gurvis Virginia F. Levi Joseph Reimer Convened by Mandel Associated Foundations, JWB and ]ESNA in collaboration with CJF ' .

~~Morton L. Mandel, Founder and Chair a91 - Commission on Jewish Education in~~

~~1 1 } /' North America, ele.veland, Oh10: • IT "f"~~

~~Morton L. Mandel, Premier Industrial Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio~~

~~Mr. Mandel is Chairman of the Board of Premier. He founded and chaired the~~

Commission on Jewish Education in North America. He has been President of the ., ., Cte~L · Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the Council of Jewish Federations, ,,.-;,J. and JGC Association. '

~~✓ '_Jtll 2. 6 ,99o~~

~~Matthew J. Maryles, Chairman, Fund for Jewish Education - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York,:::::::N't""~~

~~Matthew J . Maryles, Oppenheimer & Company, Inc., New York, NY~~

Mr. Maryles is a Managing Director of Oppenheimer & Company, Inc. , a New York investment banking firm. He is Former President of Yeshivah of Flatbush, Chairman of the Fund for Jewish Education and an active Board Member of OJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.

~~I JUL 2 6 .19RO OM.tYi [S§IlO - 1ON JE\'7ISJHr JED CA11O ~ ' \wl rr ~J ... IORTifiI Al½IEID :...::::_;~~

4500 Euclid Avenue Commissioners Cleveland, Ohio 44103 Morton L. Mandel 216/ 391~8300 Chrunnan Mona Rikli Ackerman Ronald Appleby David Arnow Mandell L. Berman Jack Bieler Charles R. Bronfman John C. Colman Maurice S. Corson Lcscer Crown DavidDubm ruarc E. Ei:enstat Joshua Elkin Eli . Evans MEMO TO: Members of the Commission on Jewish Education Irwin S. Field in North America Max M. Fisher Alfred Gottschalk Arthur Green FROH: Virg.i.nia r. Levi Irving Greenberg Joseph S. Grw;s DATE: July 16, 1990 Robert I. Hiller David Hirschhorn Carol K. lngall Ludwig Jcsselson Henry Koschi :ky Mark Lainer Norman Lamm ara S. Lee Work is currently under way on the next draft of the Seymour Marrin Lipset Commission's final report. In the body of the report each Haskel Lookstein Robert E. Loup Commission member will be listed with a single line identifier. Matthew J. Maryle· In the appendix there will be a brief biographical sketch of no Florence Mdton more than f i ve lines. Donald R. Mintz Le tcr Pollack Charles Ramer On the attached page there is a proposed one line identifier as Esthr!r Leah Ritz well as a biographical sketch which has been proposed. We would Harriet L. Rosenthal appreciate it if you could respond to the suggestion and change Alvin L Schiff it in any way that you find desirabl e. Lionel H. Schipper lsrnar Schor~ch Harold M. Schulweis If I have not heard from you by August 3, I will assume that the Daniel S. Shapiro current versions are acceptable to you. Margaret W. Tishman l.sadore Twersky Benne t Yanowir:: l.saiah Zeldin ln FcmntUion Senior Policy Advisors David S. Ariel Seymour Fox Annene Hochstein Stephen H. Hoffman Maron S. Kraar Arthur Rocman Canni Schwanz Herman D. Stein Jonathan Woocher Henry L. Zucker Director Henry L. Zucker Staff MarkOurvis Virginia E Levi Joseph Reimer Convened by Mandel Associated Foundations, JWB and JES A in collaboration with CJF PR.E'S 11)eNI Lester Pollack~ Ft esiJcnJ\- Jewish Community Centers Association of North

~~America, New York, NY~~

~~Lester Pollack, Lazard Freres & Company, New York, NY~~

Mr. Pollack is a General Partner of Lazard Freres and Chief Executive Officer of Centre Partners0> He is~F,;:~f.J~f the JCC Association and di- Vt Q ?Q IC?~ ~deration of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.

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~~AU6 r 2 1990~~

~~ESTHER LEAH RITZ~~

~~929 North Astor Street 1 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202~~

~~July 30, 1990~~

~~Ms . Virginia F. Levi COMMISSION ON JEWISH EDUCATION IN NORTH A.t.IERICA 4500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland OH 44103~~

~~Virginia: I suggest the changes below: Esther Leah Ritz, Past President of JCC Association of North America, Milwaukee, Wisconsin~~

Esther Leah Ritz, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mrs . Ritz has been President of the JCC Association and Vice President of the Council of Jewish Federations. She is past President of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and has served on the boards of the Shalom Hartman Institute, JDC, HIAS , UJA , CLAL and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work .

~~Sincerely,~~

Esther Leah Ritz ELR/cpr Aus o 2 199a COl\11\ 1IISS10l'\' ON JE,~vl§ft-ll EDGCrU110~ ITN 1 ORTH .Al½UE!RlICA. 4500 Euclid Avenue Commissione~ Cleveland, Ohio 44103 Monon L. Mandel 216/ 391-8300 Chairman Mona Riklis Ackennan Ronald Appleby David Amo" Mandell L. Berman Jack Bick"!' Charles R. Bronfman John C. Colman Maurice S. Corson Lester Crown David Dubm Stuart E. E1zenscac Jo~hua Elkin Eli N. Evans MEMO TO : Members of the Commission on Jewish Education lrwin S. Field in North America Max M. Fisher Alfred Gottschalk Arthur Green FROM: Virginia F. Levi Irving Greenberg Jo:;eph S. Gruss DATE: 1990 Robert I. Hilh::r David Hirschhorn Carol K. lngall Ludwig Jesselson Henry Koschmky Mark Lamer Norman Lamm Sara S. l...ce ork is currently under way on the next draft of the Seymour Martin Lrp~~'t Commission's final report. In the body of the report each Haskel Lookstcin Robert E. Loup Commission member will be listed with a single line identifier. Matthew J. Marylcs In the appendix there will be a brief biographical sketch of no Aoreru:c Melcon more than five lines. Donald R. Mint: Lt.•s-rer PoUack Charles Ratner On the attached page there is a proposed one line identifier as Esrhl'r Leah Ritz well as a biographical sketch which has been proposed. We would Harriet L. Ro:;emhal appreciate it if you could respond to the suggestion and change Alvin I. Schiff it in any way that you find desirable. Lionel H. Schipper Ismar Schorsch Harold M. Schulweis If I have not heard from you by August 3, I will assume that the Damd S. Shap1rn current versions are acceptable to you. Margaret W. Tishman Isadore Twersky Bennerr Y:mow1rz Isaiah Zeldin ln Fonnat,on Senior Policy Advisors David S. Ariel ScvmourFol\ Annctre HocNtcm Stephen H. Hoffman Marrin S. Kraar Arthur Rorman Carmi Schwarr:: Herman D. Stem Jonathan Woochcr Henry L. Zucker Director Henry L. Zucker Staff Mark Gu.vis Virginia F. Levi Joseph Reimer Convened by Mandel .As.sociated Foundations, JWB and JESNA in collaboration with CJF Alvin I. Schiff (Ph.D . ) , Executive Vice President - Board of

~~Jewish Education of Greater New York , New York, NY~~

~~Alvin I. Schiff (Ph . D. ), Board of Jewish Education of Greater New~~

~~York, New York , NY~~

~~Dr. Schiff is Executive Vice President of the Board of Jewish~~

~~Education of Greater New York, a much-published author, Editor of~~

~~Jewish Education, former Professor of Jewish Education and head of the Graduate Department of Education at Yeshiva Oniversity, and past president of the Council for Jewish Education. JUL 2 5 1990~~

4500 Euclid Avenue Commissioner Cleveland, Ohio 44103 Monon L. Mandel 16/ 391-8300 Chairman Mona Riki is Ackerman Ronald Appleby David Arnow Mandell L. Berman Jack Bieler Charles R. Bronfman John C. Colman Maurice S. Corson u.-srer Crown Dav1dDubm ~ ruan: E. Eizcn.scat Joshua Elkin EliN. Evan Irwin S. Field Max M. Fisher Alfred Gottschalk Arthur Green Vi.:-ginia Irving Greenberg Joseph S. Gruss DATE: July 16, 1990 Robert I. H1Uer David Hirschhorn Carol K. lngall Ludwig Jesselson Henry Kosch1tzky Mark Lainer orrnan Lamm Sara S. Lee Work is currently under way on the next draft of the Seymour Martin Llpsec Commission's final report. In the body of the report each Haskel Lookscein Robert E. Loup Commission member will be listed with a single line identifier. Macchew J. Maryles In the appendix there will be a brief biographical sketch of no Florence Mcleon more than five lines. Donald R. Minn Lester Pollack Charles Ramer On the attached page there is a proposed one line identifier as Esther Leah Ritz well as a biographical sketch which has been proposed. We would Harriet L. Rosenthal appreciate it if you could respond to the suggestion and change Alvin I. Schiff it i n any way that you find desirable. Lionel H. Schipper bmar Schorsch Harold M. Schulweis If I have not heard from you by August 3, I will assume that the Daniel S. Shapiro current versions are acceptable to you. Margaret W. Tishman Isadore Twersky Bennett Yanow1 z baiah Zeldin In Formation nior Policy Advi rs David S. Ariel Seymour Fox Annette Hochstein Stephen H. Hoffman Martin . Kraar Arrhur Rotman Carmi chwarrz Herman D. tem Jonathan Woocher Henry L. Zucker Director Henry L. Zucker Staff Mark Gurvis Virginia F. Lev, Joseph Reimer Convened by Mandel Associated Foundations, JWB and ]ESNA in collaboration with CJF V ~~ TvJJc,,"-1 ~;l P~JJ~t// =D~a=n=i~e~l~S~·---=S=lh=a=p'-'i=r=o, VJ.e Pref dent of tbC Cetmeil 0£ .:Jewish £ularatjp&i , New

~~Daniel S. Shapiro, Schulte, Roth & Zabel, New York, NY~~

~~Mr. Shapiro is a partner in Schulte, Roth and Zabel. He has served as President of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and i Vice President of the Council of Jewish Federations .~~

~~J JUL 2s 1990 ~~~

~~Margaret W. Tishman , President - UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New~~

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Margaret W. Tishman, N,w ·York, NY 1 urd ttA.e ~ Y-- co.-" t.t\e e. Mrs. Tishman W President of the UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New -.ft"(f)t1I. l q i' C. • I q i-Cf · ~ Yorki\ She has served in leadership roles with the Jewish Community Relations

Council of New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Yeshiva Universityt ~ ~~~ . ~ .- -Hl> <$ p- ~ ~ k 6f- w~•b ~ ~ Q. f"- <;.-r ,J ~a,e.,.. ~ . ~ I..,.__ In .,_ f.JIIA.J ~ 4 ~ ~ 01v\~OOJ ~ t1_,___ ~gk_ ~ _ SkP 1, a. 1)v~ o-t ~ J~tSN--. ~ ~ flv... ¼u.,. ~~ ~ o ~ \)'-s~ ~ -

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~~RJA;., I Isadore Twersky ,,1 Professor and Director of t:h~Center for Jewish Studies _,.,.. J bridge, mr-~~

~~Isadore Twersky (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA~~

~~Professor Twersky is Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and~~

~~Philosophy and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard~~

~~University. M~F±a-numerous scholarly books and studies in Jewish philosophy and law> k. ~ ak ~ "6- ~ ,~,,- hl t1~ ~ ~rv[fl~~

~~/ JUL 2 4 1990~~

~~BENNETT YANOWITZ TRETOWERATERIEV1EW SUlTE 2600 CLEVELAND, OHIO 4-fo:ll.4-l.82<1~~

~~July 20, 1990~~

~~Ms. Virginia F. Levi Commission on Jewish Education in North America 4500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44103~~

~~Dear Ms . Levi :~~

~~On the bio which accompanied your letter of July 16th, I would suggest that JESNA be referred to as the "Jewish Education Service of North America ("JESNA") .~~

~~I will be going out of office as President of JES~ A in September. Depending on date of publication, you may 7f want to refer to me as the immediate past President. Since ly,~~

~~BY : vjs COMMISSION ON JEWISH EDUCATION IN NORTH AMERICA~~

~~Commission Members~~

/012-c/ Mona Riklis Ackerman (Ph.D.), Riklis Famiiy Foundation, 725 Fifth Avenue. 25th Floor, New York, NY -l-Q022-2533, (212) 735-9540 /( Dr. Ackerman is a clinical psychologist and President of the Riklis Family Foundation. She is active in UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and American Friends of Rechov Sums um. r/1- ' 2 I z .. ;- - ' ' 7

Ronald Appleby Q.C., Robins, Appleby & Taub, 130 Adelaide Street, West, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario MSH 2M2, (416) 360-3333 Mr. Appleby is chairman of the law firm of Robins, Appleby & Taub, involved mainly in business income tax consultations; he speaks and writes regularly on this subject. He is active in many civic and Jewish causes, including the Toronto Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, Council of Jewish Federations, and United Jewish Appeal.

David Arnow (Ph.D.), 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, (212) 869-9700 i).,•)tr, Arnow is a psychologist, President of the New Israel Fund and chair of the UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Subcommittee on Governance.

Mandell L, Berman, 29100 Northwestern Highway "370, Southfield, Michigan 48034. (313) 353-8390 Mr. Berman was President of Smokler Corporation, a real estate developer. He is Chairman of the Skillman Foundation, President of the Council of Jewish Federations, and past President of the Detroit Federation. He served as Chairman of the American Association of Jewish Education and is Honorary Chairman of JESNA.

Jack Bieler (Rabbi), Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, 2010 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (301) 649-3044 Rabbi Bieler is Coordinator of Judaic Studies and Supervisor of Instruction at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington. He has served as Chairman of the Talmud Department at Ramaz Day School and was a Jerusalem Fellow.

Charles R. Bronfman, 1170 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec H3B 4P2, (514) 878-5-271 Mr. Bronfman is Co-Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee~The ; I ~ .,. Seagram Company, Ltd. , Chairman of The CRB Foundation and Honorary · nn, Canada-Israel Securities Ltd. He is Director of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, and active in many civic and Jewish causes. (

-,ot John C. Colman, 4 Briar Lane, Glencoe, Illinois 60022, (~ 835-1209 Mr. Colman is a private investor and business consultant. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Joint Distribution Committee and is active in a wide variety of Jewish and general institutions.

Maurice S. Corson (Rabbi), The Wexner Foundation, 41 S. High Street, Suite 3390, Columbus , Ohio 43215, (614) 461-8112 Rabbi Corson is President of the Wexner Foundation. He was a director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia, United Israel Appeal of Canada, and B'nai B' rith. He is active in many Jewish and civic causes.

Lester Crown, 222 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2000, Chicago, Illinois 60601, (312) 236 -6300 Mr. Crown is President of Henry Crown and Company, Chairman of the Board of Material Service Corporation and Executive Vice-President of General Dynamics. He has served as Chairman of the Board of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

David Dubin, JCC on the Palisades, 411 E. Clinton, Tenafly, New Jersey, 07670 (201) 569-7900 Mr. Dubin is Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center on the Palisades and author of several articles in The Journal of Jewish Communal Service on Jewish education within Jewish community centers.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Sixth Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004, (202) 347-0066 Mr. Eizenstat practices law in Washington, D.C. and teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was Director of the domestic policy staff at The White House under the Carter Administration. He is active in many civic and Jewish organizations and speaks and writes widely on publi,c policy.

Joshua Elkin (Rabbi , Ed. D.), 74 Park Lane, Newton, Massachusetts 02159, (617) 964-7765 Rabbi Elkin is Headmaster of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Boston. He has taught in the Jewish Education program at the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University and has just completed a year as a Jerusalem Fellow.

Eli N. Evans, Charles H. Revson Foundation, 444 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, (212) 935-3340 (tZw.. Mr. Evans is President of the Charles H. Revson Foundation which supports programs in urban affairs, Jewish and general education, and biomedical research policy. He has written two books on the history of Jews in the American South. ,

Irwin S. Field, Liberty Vegetable Oil Company, P. 0. Box 4236, Cerritos, California 90703, (213) 921-3567 Mr. Field is President of Liberty Vegetable Oil, and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Luz International Ltd. He is Vice Chairman of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and a past National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. He serves many ocher national and international organizations.

Alfred Gottschalk (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Hebrew Union College, 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488, (513) 221 -1875 Dr. Gottschalk is President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Professor of Bible and Jewish Religious Thought. He is founder of the School of Jewish Communal Service , Chairman of the Academic Council of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council. He also serves as Vice President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. He has written extensively on education and Jewish intellectual history .

.,, Arthur Green (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Church Road and Greenwood Avenue, Wyncote, Pennsylvania 19095, (215) 576-0800 Dr. Green is President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the author of many books and articles including Tormented Master; A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.

J..f,..,, w, 3"1 s-, z, ~ fL Irving Greenberg (Rabbi, Ph.D.), The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, ~t.le8Jrenue,., New York, NY 10001, (212) 279-2525 Rabbi Greenberg is President and co-founder of CIAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He founded and chaired the Department of Judaic Studies at City College and has taught and written widely on Jewish thoughts and religion.

Joseph S. Gruss, Gruss & Company, 900 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022, (212) 688-1500 Mr. Gruss is former head of Gruss & Company. He established the Fund for Jewish Education in New York in association with OJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. He has provided full medical and financial support to Jewish educators, grants to 400 Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot and to community organizations dedicated to Jewish outreach, and funds for school building renovations . He supports Jewish educators through scholarships for high school and college students. Robert I. Hiller, Zanvyl Krieger Fund, 101 W. Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, (301) 727-4828 Mr. Hiller is a consultant to non-profit organizations and President of the Zanvyl Krieger Fund. He has been chief professional officer of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Jewish Federations in Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

David Hirschhorn, The Blaustein Bu"lding, P. 0. Box 238, Baltimore, Maryland 21203. (301) 347-noo c~zT Mr. Hirschhorn is Vice Chairman of American Trading and Production Corporation. He is a Vice President of the American Jewish Committee and active in Jewish education in Baltimore.

Carol K. Ingall, Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island, 130 Sessions Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, (401) 331-0956 Mrs . Ingall is Executive Director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island, curriculum consultant to the Jewish Theological Seminary and representative of the Council for Jewish Education to the Conference on Jewish Communal Service.

Ludwig Jesselson, Philipp Brothers, Inc. 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, (212) 575-5900 Mr. Jesselson has served as Chairman of Philipp Brothers, Inc., Chairman of the Board of Governors of Bar Ilan University, Treasurer of the Board of Yeshiva University and President of UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Joint Campaign.

Henry Koschitzky, l Yorkdale Road, #404, Toronto, Ontario M6A 3Al, (416) 781-5545 Mr. Koschitzky, a former Rhodes Scholar, is President of Iko Industries Ltd. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Jewish Education in Toronto.

Mark Lainer, 17527 Magnolia Boulevard, Encino, California 91316, (818) 787-1400 Mr. Lainer is an attorney and real estate developer. He is an officer of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and Vice President of JESNA. He was founding president of Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School, Vice President of Education at Temple Valley Beth Sholom, Encino, and Chairman of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Los Angeles.

Norman Lamm (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Yeshiva University, 500 ~est 185th Street, New York, NY 10033, (212) 960-5280 Dr. Lamm is President of Yeshiva University, founder of Tradition magazine and the author of many books including Faith and Doubt. He was a member of the President's Commission on the Holocaust and lectures extensively on Judaism, law and ethics. ' ...

Sara S. Lee, Rhea Hirsch School of Education, Hebrew Union College, 3077 University Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90007-3796, (213) 749-3424 Mrs. Lee is Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and Vice Chairman of the Association of Institutions of Higher Learning in Jewish Education. She is a frequent contributor to conferences and publications on Jewish education.

Seymour Martin Lipset (Ph.D.), Stanford University, 213 Hoover Memorial Building, Stanford, California 94121 (415) 723-4741 Gu M•~•/\ .. 7o3 - ,ZJ •lS' O 3 Professor Lipset is a Senior Fellow in political science and sociology at tbe Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been co-editor of Public Opinion and author of many books including Political Man and The Politics of Unreason.

Haskel Lookstein (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Ramaz School, 125 East 85th Street, New York, NY 10028, (212) 427-1000 Rabbi Lookstein is Principal of Ramaz School and Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. He teaches at Yeshiva University and bas served in leadership roles with the National Rabbinic Cabinet, the New York Board of Rabbis , the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews and the UJA-Federation of New York.

Robert E. Loup . Loup-Miller Construction Company, 10065 E. Harvard Avenue, Suite 900, Denver , Colorado 80231, (303) 745-7000 Mr. Loup is a real estate developer. He is life president of the Allied Jewish Federation of Denver, National Chairman of Cl.AL, and past national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. R f_. <" rJ , •. ( , ~d"' O

Morton L. Mandel, Premier Industrial Corporation, 4500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44103, (216) 391-8300 Mr. Mandel is Chairman of the Board of Premier. He has been President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the Council of Jewish Federations, and JWB.

Matthew J. Maryles, Oppenheimer and Company, Inc., 1 World Financial Center, 200 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281, (212) 667-7420 Mr . Maryles is a Managing Director of Oppenheimer and Company, Inc., a New York investment banking firm. He is President of Yeshivah of Flatbush, Chairman of the Fund for Jewish Education and Vice President of UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.

Florence Melton, 1000 Urlin Avenue, #1505, Columbus, Ohio, 43212, (614) 486-2690 Mrs. Melton is the founder of R. G. Barry Corporation where she serves as Design Consultant. She has served on the Board of Huntington National Bank, Columbus, and is an inventor who holds a number of patents. Through her philanthropic efforts, she has initiated numerous innovative projects in Jewish and secular education, including a research project at Ohio State University designed to increase the self-image of junior high school children. She has served on many national education boards. . ..

Donald R. Mintz, McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini & Lang, 643 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisianna 70130, (504) 582-1500 Mr. Mintz is Founder and Director of McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini and Lang and a Professor at Tulane University Law School. He was President of the New Orleans Federation and is now President of JWB.

Lester Pollack, Lazard Freres & Company, One Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020, (212) 632-4829 Mr. Pollack is a General Partner of Lazard Freres and Chief Executive Officer of Centre Partners. He is Vice President of the JWB and of UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.

i ' Charles Ratner, Fore'st City Enterprises, Inc., 10800 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44130, (216) 267-1200 Mr. Ratner is Executive Vice President of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. He is Vice President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, Chairman of the Cleveland Commission on Jewish Continuity, and of the Cleveland Jewish Welfare Fund campaign. He is active in other civic and Jewish organizations.

Esther Leah Ritz, 929 N. Astor Street, ;;;2107-8, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, (414) 291-9220 Mrs. Ritz has been President of JWB and Vice President of the Council of Jewish Federations. She is Vice Chairman of Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University and is a Past President of the Jewish Federation in Milwaukee.

Harriet L. Rosenthal, 368 Woodland Place, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079 (201) 762-7242 Mrs. Rosenthal is a Vice President of JWB. She was a delegate of the National Council of Jewish Women to the Conference of Presidents, and serves on the Board of The National Conference on Soviet Jewry.

Alvin I. Schiff (Ph.D.), Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, 426 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019, (212) 245-8200)(.. ~ ~<"" Dr. Schiff is Executive Vice President of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, Editor of Jewish Education and Professor of Jewish Education at Yeshiva University. He is past president of the Council for Jewish Education.

Lionel H. Schipper, Q.C., Schipper Enterprises, Inc., 22 St. Clair Avenue, East, Suite 1010, Toronto, Ontario M4T 2S3, (416) 961-5355 Mr. Schipper is president of Schipper Enterprises, Inc., a private investment firm. He is director of several organizations, including Co-Steel, Inc., Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation and the Alzheimer Society. He is past chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of Metropolitan Toronto......

, I Q Ismar Schorsch (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, (212) 678- 8072 Dr. Schorsch is Chancellor and Professor of Jewish History ac the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has served as President of the Leo Baeck Institute and has published in che area of European Jewish history.

Harold M. Schulweis (Rabbi, Th.D.), Valley Beth Shalom, 15739 Ventura Boulevard, Encino, California 91436, (818) 788-6000 Rabbi Schulweis is Rabbi of Valley Bech Shalom Congregation of Encino. He is a contributing editor to Reconscructionist, Sh' ma, and Momenc magazines. He has taught at the University of Judaism and Hebrew Union Co l lege in Los Angeles and is on the facul ty of the B' nai B' rith Adult Education Commission.

Daniel S. Shapiro, Schulte, Roth & Zabel, 900 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022, (212) 758-0404 Mr. Shapiro is a partner in Schulte, Roth and Zabel. He has served as President of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and is Vice President of the Council of Jewish Federations.

Margaret W. Tishman, 1095 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10028, (212) 980-1000 Mrs. Tishman is President of the UJA/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. She has served in leadership roles with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Yeshiva University.

Isadore Twersky (Rabbi, Ph.D.), Harvard University, Center for Jewish Studies, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, (617) 495-4326 ',\ 1-J 1..., 3S' Professor Twersky is Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has written numerous scholarly books and studies in Jewish philosophy and law.

Bennett Yanowitz, 2600 Erieview Tower, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, (216) 696-3311 Mr. Yanowitz is a principal in the firm of Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowicz and Arnson. He is President of JESNA. He has served as Vice President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and Chairman of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council.

Isaiah Zeldin (Rabbi), Stephen S. Wise Temple, 15500 Stephen S. Wise Drive, Los Angeles, Cal ifornia 90077, (213) 476-8561 Rabbi Zeldin is the Founder and Rabbi of the Stephen S. Wise Temple in Los Angeles. He is founding dean of the Los Angeles branch of Hebrew Union College, and past president of che Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis and the American Zionist Council.

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~~8/1/89 Mandel Initiative· North America Commissioners' Phone Numbers~~

Name I Phone # Comments I ······-·········-····-·····I···· · ·················-··· ······· ------1 I. COMMISSIONERS I I Mona Ackerman 1212-888-2035 Ronald Appleby 1416-360-3333 David Arnow 1212-869-9700 Mandell Berman 1313-353-8390; 626-7731 Jack Bieler (Rabbi) 1301-649-3044 Charles Bronfman 1514-849-5271 John Colman 1312-835-1209 Maurice Corson (Rabbi) ( 1614-461-8112 (..,)·, (,,14 - JS;;:-~ 607(1..) Lester Crown 1312-372-3600 David Dubin 1201- 569-7900 Stuart Eizenstat 1301-656-6409(h), 202-347-0066(w) Joshua Elkin (Rabbi) 1617-332-2406{~), i,117-'tlli4·")7<,,(wJ Eli Evans 1212-935-3340 I Irwin Field 1213-921-3567 I Max Fisher 1313-871-8000 I Alfred Gottschalk (Rab) [ 513-221-1875· .;l',.,-751-71~o(k1 r - ,., L-lC. I ~ Arthur Green (Rabbi) 215-576-0800 Irving Greenberg (Rabb) 212-714-9500 Joseph Gruss 212-688-1500 Robert Hiller 301-727-4828, 653-1442 David Hirschhorn 301-347-7200 Carol Ingall 401-331-0956 Ludwig Jesselson 212-575-5900, 546-3333 '-' J,_. Henry Koschitzky 416-781-5545(.... ; 1 31 ,..(h Mark Lainer 818-787-1400 Norman Lamm (Rabbi) 212-960-5280 Sara Lee 213-749-3424 Seymour Martin Lipset 415-723-4741 Haskel Lookstein (Rabb) 212-427-1000 Robert Loup 303- 745-7000 Morton Mandel /216-391-8300 Matthew Maryles 1212-667-7420 Florence Melton 1614-224-5239, 486-2690 Donald Mintz 1504-586-1200 Lester Pollack 1212-373-4904 Charles Ratner 1216-267-1200 Esther Leah Ritz 1414-291-9220 Harriet Rosenthal 1201-762-7242 Alvin Schiff 1212- 245-8200 Lionel Schipper 1416-961-7011 Ismar Schorsch (Rabbi) 1212-678-8072 Harold Schulweis 1818-788-6000 Dan Shapiro 1212-758-0404 Peggy Tishman 1212-980-1000, 860-7541 8/1/89 Mandel Initiative - North America Commissioners' Phone Numbers

~~Name Phone # I Comments I ------1------1 Isadore Twersky (Rabbi) 617-495-4326, 232-7356 I Bennett Yanowitz 216-696-3311 I Isaiah Zeldin (Rabbi) 213-476-8561~~

II. SR. POLICY ADVISORS David Ariel 216-464-4050 Seymour Fox 011-972-266-2452 Annette Hochstein 011-972-272-1802 Stephen Hoffman 216-566-9200 Martin Kraar 313-965- 8217 Arthur Napar,stek 216-368-2307 Arthur Rotman 212-532-4949 Carmi Schwartz 212-475-5000 Herman Stein 216-368-4388 Jonathan Woocher 212-529-2000 Henry Zucker 216-391-8300

( "'( }b 1U\ USSJI U:"J 1O~ JE'V-\TJlSlHf EDUCA'.I'IC )l"f [l~ l'\fORTIHI AlVi ERlfCt\ 4500 Eudid Avenue Com missioners Cleveland, Ohio 44 L03 ~orron L. M al\Jd 2 !6/ 3() 1-8300 Ch:iirman Mona Riklis Ackerman Rollald Applchy David Arnow t-.fandcll L. fkrman Jack Bieler C harles R. Bronfn1.:m John C. Colman May 14, 1990 Maurice S. Corson le;cer Crown David Dubin Stu~rc E. Eizcnscac Joshua Elkin prefix first last Eli N. Evans lrwi1t S. Field title OB Max M. Fisher company OB Alfred Gonschalk street Archur Green address Irving Greenberg J=ph S. Gruss Roberc I. Hiller Dear sal David Hirschhorn Carol K. lngall Ludwig Jesse.Ison Work is proceeding as we prepare for the final Commission Henry Koschitzky meeting on June 12. Mark Lainer Norman Lamm You have received the first in a series of research papers SaraS. Lee Seymour Marcin Lipscc commissioned for our use and can expect several more in the Ha~kd Lookstein weeks ahead. In addition, drafts of sections of the final Roberc E. Loup report will be sent to you as t hey are available between now Matthew J. Maryles Florence Mcleon and Jvne 12. Donald R. Mintz Lester Pollack Reminder: The meeting is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Charles Ramer or 3: 30 p.m. at the latest on Tuesday. June 12 at the office of Escher Leah Ritz the American Jewish Committee. 165 East 56th Street. New York. Harrier L Rosenthal Alvin I. Schiff (Coffee and rolls will be available at 9:30 a.m.) Lionel H. Schipper lsmar Schorsch Please note that this is a change in location from previous Harold M. Schulweis Daniel S. Shapiro meetings. Please complete and return the enclosed reply card Margaret W. Tishman by May 21 confirming your plans to attend. I look forward to lsadorc Twersky seeing you there. Bennett Yanowirz Isaiah Zeldin In FormaLion Senior Policy Advisors David S. Ariel Seymour Fox Mo rton L. Mandel Anncrre Hochstein Chairman Sccphen H. Hoffman Martin S. Kraar Archur Rotman Carmi Schwarcz Herman D. Stein Jo·nachara Woocher Henry L. Zucker Director Henry L. Zucker Scaff Mark Gurvis Virginia F Levi ]

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~~FAX: 216-361- 9962 ATTN: GINXY LEVI RE: Bio information requested on Bernard Reisman~~

"Bernarci Reisman is a Professor of American Jewish Communal Studies and Director of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University. In May 1990 he was honored by Brandeis University with the establishment of the Barnard Reis mar Endowed Fellowship for his twenty years as director of the Hornst ein Program. Dr . Reieman has served as a consultant to Jewish communities in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Europe."

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