Annual Report 2017 Our Centennial Year
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Dear supporters and friends We launched our JCC Movement Centennial Celebration in 2016, anticipating a festive year ahead. The year 2017 was exciting indeed, with such Centennial initiatives as Making Music Happen, the JWB registries, our centennial website and a host of other programming developed for JCCs to help them celebrate this milestone. After all, you don’t reach 100 years every day. I think those who came together under the threat of war to form the Jewish Welfare Board in 1917 would be proud today, knowing that their legacy endures in the work that JCC Association of North America and JWB Jewish Chaplains Council perform each day to strengthen the Jewish community of North America. We saw this role play out most vividly this past year in how we responded to the waves of bomb threats made Stephen P. Seiden against our communities. No one could have imagined CHAIR this development. Despite the fear we experienced, we learned, through wave after wave of evacuations, that we are truly a movement, gaining strength in our support for one another and from the leadership that JCC Association provided. Meetings at the highest level of government demonstrated the seriousness of the matter—both within our own community and in the broader one—and just how important our JCCs are to our communities’ leaders. We again witnessed this as we found strength and support from all quarters during natural disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. JCC Association served as the leadership organization during this time, speaking to our nation’s leaders and to the news media on behalf of all JCCs. We saw how critical a role this can be. During this time, we welcomed Doron Krakow, our new president and CEO. Joining us earlier than we anticipated, he provided vision and focus during a troubling time. We are certainly glad he is now on board full time. I have served as chair since 2014, my term ending at the JCCs of North America Biennial in Memphis in May. I never could have anticipated what my tenure was going to be like. At times, it certainly was challenging, but it has been a truly rewarding and gratifying experience and I was honored to be chair. I am proud of the work that JCC Association—and by extension, our JCCs and camps—has done during this time, and excited about the direction in which we are moving as we enter our next century. I know that as we move forward, we will continue to enrich and energize the Jewish community of North America and beyond. May we go from strength to strength. Warmest regards,
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Cover photo: JWB Weekly Saturday night soldier’s dance at Jewish Educational Alliance, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 1917. Photo from Center for Jewish Archives
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At the outset of 2017, the JCC Association board of directors agreed that a new mission statement was needed. The new statement, which came out of a process that included both board and staff input, reflects with strength and simplicity the work of the JCC Association of North America in the 21st century.
We lead and connect the JCC Movement, advancing and enriching North American Jewish life.
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The work we do Our proprietary programs and services • Professional development • Consultation and engagement • Signature events and convenings • Preferred vendors and partners • JWB Jewish Chaplains Council
Who we serve...by the numbers • 160 JCCs in North America • 1.5 million weekly participants • Over 37,000 JCC professionals • 80,000 campers • 22,000 children in ECE programs • JWB serving 84 locations worldwide • Nearly 3,000 teens at JCC Maccabi® • 10,000 people at JCC Maccabi® opening ceremonies • 500 JCC staff at JCCs of North America Professional Conference
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THE STRENGTH OF A MOVEMENT, THE POWER OF COMMUNITY Our centennial year was to be a year of celebration, a year to welcome new leadership and a year of new beginnings.
in the power of coming together as the JCC Movement. JCC Association spoke for all JCCs—affiliated or not— representing them on the highest national level, alongside the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish Federations of North America and Secure Community Network. In two separate meetings, JCC Association met with then-FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, representing more than 160 JCCs, 135 day camps and 23 overnight camps, harnessing the power of our network and bringing focus and attention to our concerns. Doron Krakow, our incoming CEO and president, came on board early to assist during the crisis. Up until that point, JCC Association’s board chair, Steven P. Seiden, stepped up with an unassuming manner, adroit sensibility and unflappable grace, navigating through the rocky terrain of an emergency situation no one could ever have anticipated.
On March 3, 2017, JCC Association joined the ADL, JFNA, the Conference of Presidents and the Jewish community’s Secure Community Network (SCN) for a special brieng by then-FBI Director James Comey (seated at the table head) about the state of the investigation into the unfolding series of phone and e-mail bomb threats. Stephen P. Seiden, JCC Association’s board chair, is seated third from left.
We offered assistance to JCCs as they ran the gauntlet of international media coverage, secured funding for and hired a continental security consultant and addressed the subject head-on at the JCCs of North America Professional Conference.
Doron Krakow, JCC Association of North America president and CEO, was joined at the Department of Justice by Stephen P. Seiden, chair of JCC Association of North America’s Board of Directors; Paul Goldenberg, National Director, Secure Community Network; Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director, Anti-Defamation League; Jerry Silverman, President and CEO, the Jewish Federations of North America; Richard Stone, a previous Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Michael Feinstein, CEO, Bender JCC of Greater Washington, in Rockville, Md.; Ivy Harlev, Executive Director, Siegel JCC in Wilmington, Del.; Barak Hermann, CEO, JCC of Greater Baltimore; and Betzy Lynch, Executive Director, Levite JCC in Birmingham.
On the first day 2017, the JCC Movement was 100 years strong. Yet we had no idea what lay in store. On the fourth day of the new year, the Roth Family JCC in Orlando, Florida, received the first of what would be 130 bomb threats called into JCCs across the U.S. and Canada. The waves of threats continued through March. Terrifying in content, these threats affected 88 JCCs in 36 states and four Canadian provinces. They forced many to
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evacuate, some multiple times. It was harrowing and seemed, at the time, never-ending. JCCs were created as places to welcome the Jewish community, where it could gather in safety. The threats lay adversity right at their doorsteps, demonstrating that an allied network of JCCs, with a strong leadership organization to guide it, is more important than ever. We saw it
We saw local communities galvanized against hatred. They held rallies of support at a time when virulent anti-Semitism had crept into the daily social media discourse. Christians, Muslims and Jews stood together in support of their JCCs. You couldn’t have asked for a better endorsement of a JCC’s mission as a community connector. Through it all, we learned that 100 years after we first came together as a movement to represent the Jewish community, we still do.
Mark Shapiro (center), president and CEO of the Harry and Rose Samson Family JCC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award from the Department of Justice. He is flanked by JCC Association board member Lisie Gottdenker and JCC Association President and CEO Doron Krakow. Dozens of clergy from many different faiths gathered on stage at the end of a an event at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington to show solidarity with the Jewish community during the bomb threat crisis.
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Leading the JCC Movement
At the start of the year, we were excitedly waiting for Doron Krakow to finish his tenure at American Associates of BenGurion University of the Negev and join JCC Association as our new president and CEO. In the midst of the bomb threat crisis, Krakow recognized the need for an immediate leadership presence and chose to jump into his new role early. He took charge as the crisis unfolded, handling daily briefings with the senior team, our communications firm and a new security consultant. Just as importantly, he became the face of JCC Association and the JCC Movement—effectively representing the movement and individual JCCs at the Jewish communal world’s table. “It was a security crisis of the largest order, like nothing we had seen in a generation. Our hopes and dreams for what we want to achieve at JCCs are predicated on safeguarding the people who walk through our doors,” Krakow says, noting that roughly 1.5 million people visit JCCs each week. It certainly wasn’t a typical start. But in many ways, it cut to the heart of JCC Association’s role as a leader in North American Jewish life. Krakow’s vision is one of a Jewish “town square,” where the fullest expression of Jewish identity can take place, allowing Jews of all backgrounds to connect to one another. It serves, too, as the place where the broader community comes to connect with the Jewish community, enabling us to build bonds and demonstrating how valuable an asset JCCs can be in cultivating strong community connections. As we headed into 2018, Krakow began laying out a vision that includes Israel as a connector, rather than a divider, and seeks to put it at the heart of the JCC conversation. Moving forward, he sees JCC Association fueling research and development within the JCC Movement, providing resources for JCCs to serve as creative labs for the North American Jewish community and offering a renewed sense of self and pride within the JCC Movement.
“The Jewish community a generation from now will be the recipient of the work we do today. This is an urgent investment in our future.”
Doron Krakow, President and CEO, JCC Association of North America
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JCC Association helped raise $175,000 for the Houston J.
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC cleanup
Facing the Elements Throughout 2017, we witnessed the raw power of nature.
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, along with wildfires in California, left damage and devastation behind. In Houston, the Meyerland neighborhood—long a home to the Jewish community—and the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC were devastated. The JCC had significant flooding, yet
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IsraAID in Houston
The Evelyn Rubenstein JCC serves as a distribution center for the Houston community in the days following Hurricane Harvey.
through the days of recovery that followed, it continued to serve as a hub of support for the surrounding area.
JCC Association helped raise $175,000 for the Houston J through a continental gift card program. Our board of directors agreed to hold its annual board meeting in Houston so that it could do some hands-on tikkun olam—working at a food pantry and repairing a home. These efforts planted the seeds for JResponse, a continent-wide, IsraAID in Houston hands-on assistance team we can deploy to JCCs and communities in crisis following natural or man-made disasters. Inspired by the series of devastating hurricanes, wildfires, mudslides and floods that have marked the past 12 months, JResponse will be a collaboration with IsraAID. A pilot training program will begin in 2018.
When Camp Ramah in the Rockies burned following a fire on its grounds, JCC Ranch Camp, having just completed its summer, stepped in, offering its site to the Conservative movement camp.
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98 percent of those who attended say they would recommend attending in 2019 to their colleagues.
Gathering When We Needed It Most Just when JCCs were feeling most vulnerable, the JCCs of North America Professional Conference took place in March.
A group of 500 JCC professionals gathered in Orlando—people who understood the situation from the inside out. The conference provided both respite from the menace they were experiencing back home and a collective embrace from the unique field of Jewish community professionals. Repeatedly, participants shared that being able to talk face to face with others enduring the same terrifying scenario was invaluable. Our JCC professionals were our first line of defense and response throughout the crisis, and they rose spectacularly to the occasion, above and beyond their normal duties. While security was a top concern, the conference addressed so much more. For four days, these outstanding and enthusiastic JCC professionals
gathered to learn, network and enjoy themselves among their peers. With 16 individual professional tracks covering everything from aquatics to youth and after-school programming, the conference dug deeply into questions of Jewish engagement in the 21st century and how JCCs can meet the needs of an ever-evolving Jewish landscape while paying heed to customer-driven expectations. Sessions tackled such topics as: creating safe spaces in which to talk about Israel, strategic financial planning, examining what works and what needs reworking in arts and culture programming and creating a culture of safety, among many more. The conference was also a chance for participants in the Sheva-Covenant Director’s Institute to meet face to face and learn with and from their peers. The conference was a tremendous success, with 98 percent of those who attended saying they would recommend attending in 2019 to their colleagues, and 97 percent saying that they would attend another JCC Association conference themselves. Keynote speakers included documentary filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, The Redwoods Group CEO Kevin Trapani and “business magician” Kostya Kimlat, a huge crowd-pleaser whose customer service message resonated deeply with the crowd.
Throughout the conference, security was on everyone’s mind. The arrest of the JCC bomb threat suspect in Israel would happen only a day after the conference closed. The local J, the Roth Family JCC, had experienced four threats in all, including the very first one of the year. JCC Association acknowledged the concern directly by including sessions on the related topics of crisis communications and IT security. Recognizing the urgency of the situation, foundations and donors provided $360,000,
JCC staff from around North America take a break from learning to smile for the camera.
enabling us to hire consultant Paul DeMatteis, a seasoned international security specialist who addressed JCC executives at the conference. DeMatteis went on to author several security updates and guidelines to assist JCCs in hardening their buildings and grounds, along with other security measures based on his observations in the field.
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2017 Professional Conference hit high marks in providing stimulating keynote presentations.
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Celebrating a Milestone
How do you mark 100 years? If you lead the JCC Movement, you do it by creating programs for JCCs that help them connect to the people who know and love the J. JCC Association provided creative ways to weave the Centennial throughout JCCs and JCC camps, and to connect their participants and professionals with the JCC Movement. Some programs provided funds, while others were simply fun.
Lisa Brill, Centennial Chair.
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While we delivered many programs directly to JCCs, some, like 100 Recipes, were available through JCC Association’s Centennial website, 100.JCCA.org.
Soldiers and women socializing at the 65th Street JWB Club, New York City, circa 1942.
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Celebrating a Milestone
Remembering 100 Years
The “First Passover Seder Dinner‘ given by the Jewish Welfare Board to men of Jewish Faith in the A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) in order that they may observe the Passover holidays, Paris, France, April 1919.
Women in “English for Foreigner’s” class, National Jewish Welfare Board Federation Settlement, New York, 1928.
Chaplain Richard Dryer holds a seder in Vietnam, 1964. Women enjoying an exercise class, circa 1950s.
Shabbat services at Camp Interlaken, Milwaukee JCC overnight camp, 1978.
Children lighting menorah at Boston YMHA, 1946.
Sukkot at the Harry & Rose Samson JCC, Milwaukee, 1999.
Women and men in uniform, circa 1917.
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JCC Maccabi Games®, Memphis, 1982.
Campers at the Levite JCC of Birmingham, 2006.
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Celebrating a Milestone
Making Music Happen: The Soundtrack of North American Jewish Life
A Selection of Our Making Music Happens Projects Asheville JCC, North Carolina: “Asheville Jewish Folk Music Collection”
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Calgary Jewish Community Centre, Canada: “Fin Dortn Biz Do/Masham L-chon/ From There to Here” 2 Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas: “One Voice, One Vibe, Our Community” Galbut Family Miami Beach JCC, Florida: “Concert Series: Jewish Music with Soul” JCC of Central New Jersey, Scotch Plains: “Connecting to our Jewish Roots through Music” JCC of Greater Baltimore, Maryland: “MLK Celebration featuring The Maccabeats and Naturally Seven”
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JCC of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas: “Yiddish Las Vegas” JCC of Greater Baltimore, Maryland: “MLK Celebration featuring The Maccabeats and Naturally Seven”
JCC of the Greater St. Paul Area, Minnesota: “St. Paul JCC Symphony”
By far the most ambitious of these Centennial initiatives was Making Music Happen: The Soundtrack of Jewish Life in North America, which awarded 22 grants to JCCs, allowing them to create an array of music programs as diverse as their communities. Generously funded by Marvin J. Pertzik, an honorary JCC Association board member from St. Paul, Minnesota, in cooperation with the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, Making Music Happen allowed Marvin J. Pertzik JCCs to spread their creative wings and create something unique and reflective of their own communities throughout the United States and Canada. The Evelyn Rubenstein JCC in Houston, for example, created “One Voice, One Vibe, Our Community,” commissioning a piece of music based on original writings from the community following two enormous floods. The event took place just before Hurricane Harvey hit, but as Marilyn Hassid, the JCC’s assistant executive director, put it: “This concert spoke to the heart of the community. We only hope that those who were able to attend think back on this transformative experience with
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a bit of hope in their hearts as they forge ahead to the next round of rebuilding. Thank you.” The award-winning programs in this JCC Association Centennial initiative include a variety of styles and events to engage communities through music and culture. Among them were a bluegrass recording, a classical concert to engage Russian immigrants, and young listeners and a Holocaust-memorial project geared toward high-school students, families, seniors and survivors. Nearly 50 JCCs applied for the grants. The 22 JCCs selected received between $1,500 and $7,500 for programs that took place between Jan. 1 and Sept. 20, 2017. Grants were awarded across the continent, to JCCs large and small. Awarding grants for Making Music Happen allowed JCC Association to highlight arts and culture as a powerful vehicle for meaningful, creative engagement throughout the movement, and provided them an opportunity to develop new funding and community partnerships, as they worked with JCC Association’s arts and culture department.
Jewish Community Alliance of Jacksonville, Florida: “Tales of the Forgotten Kingdom” Jewish Community Center of Austin, Texas: “JAAM Fest” Kings Bay YM-YWHA, Brooklyn, New York: “Contemporary Jewish Music Series with Emerging and Emigré Artists” Mayerson JCC, Cincinnati, Ohio: “Pianist Eric Himy Presents: Gershwin in Paris”
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Mittleman JCC, Portland, Oregon: “Summer Concerts on the Green” Schwartz/Reisman Centre, Toronto: “The Mosaic Project: Cultural Fashion in Toronto’s Jewish Music Scene” Springfield JCC, Massachusetts: “Lox and Lyrics” St. Louis Jewish Community Center, Missouri: “Gesher Music Festival” The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus, Ohio: “Jason Robert Brown Cabaret Weekend” 3 The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, Florida: “Violins of Hope” 4
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Tucson JCC, Arizona: “Tucson Jewish Songbook and Community Kumzitz” YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood, New York City: “Musical Journey of Y’s 100 Years”
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1OO Days of Fitness
JWB Registries
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, over 1,200 participants at 30 JCCs took part in 100 Days of Fitness. Participants cycled more than a quarter of the distance to the moon, walked all the way around the earth and then halfway around again, and ran the equivalent of 608 marathons in our newest signature program, 100 Days of Summer Fitness Challenge. The Mike Siegel receiving program allowed individuals the 100 Days of Fitness to compete for glory on a first place award for continent-wide platform in Cardio Machines, at the Mittleman JCC, several fitness categories, Portland, Oregon. while JCCs were able to rack up points through their participants as they competed against one another. “We had really enthusiastic participation in 100 Days of Fitness. About 160 in all took part, and we are not a very large JCC,” says Kat Ackerman, health and wellness director at the Savannah Jewish Educational Alliance, which placed first in personal training, cardio and walking, and third in
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Since JCC Association began as the Jewish Welfare Board, coming together in 1917 to meet the needs of young Jewish men heading into military service during World War I, we wanted to highlight the role of JWB in the lives of the men and women who have served our nation over the past 100 years. running, swimming and group exercise. Ackerman herself placed first in walking as she tackled trails over the summer in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, logging 20 miles a day. “JCC Association made it easy to tailor the program to our J, and our members really got into it. They not only wanted to know their own personal standing as the competition progressed, but they also wanted to know our standing as a JCC. It really brought out their competitive drive!” The program was so successful that the 100 Days of Fitness challenge will become an annual signature program of JCC Association. By logging their fitness stats daily into a dedicated portal hosted by our organization, participants experienced connection to JCC members across the continent, who were subtly reminded as they competed against one another in this sweat collective that they are all part of the broader JCC Movement.
The JWB registries were created to do just that, allowing Jewish chaplains, lay leaders and those who have served in the military to register their service and upload their stories and photos. By visiting 100.jcca.org/registry, family members can add the contributions of those who have passed away, to create an online memorial and archive of Jewish military service to the United States.
The Jewish Chaplains Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
The registry will ultimately create an archive of those who have served and are serving our country, connecting them to JWB’s history, and by extension, to the greater Jewish community through the JCC Movement. Army Chaplain Oscar Lifshutz chats with troops celebrating Passover in Seoul, Korea in 1950. Seder provisions were shipped by JWB.
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Sheva Success
In the fall, 20 early childhood educators wrapped up their three-year participation in the Sheva-Covenant Early Childhood Directors Institute. The program was created to respond to a need identified by JCC Association: a dearth of individuals ready to take on leadership roles in Jewish early childhood education. Funded by the Covenant Foundation, the program sought to address that need by identifying people already working in JCC early childhood education who have the potential to move into the role of director and investing in their professional development. The program offered a platform for study, discussion and relationship-building, and allowed participants to earn their National Directors Credential from the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University. The final meeting took place in Massachusetts, where the cohort visited two JCC early childhood programs and made final presentations to the group over an emotional few days.
The Covenant Foundation funding helped lay the groundwork to expand and enhance the program, which will see further development with support from the Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF). The nearly $1.9 million from JJF will guide 30 early childhood educators through an enhanced iteration of the Early Childhood Directors Institute over the next three years. Additionally, the Crown Family Philanthropies has committed $400,000 over two years in support of the Sheva Center and the development of new initiatives in family engagement. This additional funding makes 2017 the most successful fundraising year in the recent history of JCC Association, with more than $4 million raised. Sheva-Covenant Early Childhood Directors Institute participants at their final gathering at the Babson Executive Conference Center in Wellesley, Mass. The grant provided funds to take participants in the institute for a study and travel seminar in Israel.
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Mark Horowitz, director of JCC Association’s Sheva Center for Innovation in Early Childhood Education and Engagement, listens as Susan Horowitz, Assistant director of early childhood, JCC of Greater Ann Arbor, presents her final project to the group.
Sheva funding makes 2017 the most successful fundraising year in the recent history of JCC Association, with more than $4 million raised. Annual Report 2017
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A Prayer Book Like No Other What better way to mark the 100th year of our roots as the Jewish Welfare Board than with the publication of a second edition of the phenomenally successful JWB Jewish Chaplains Council Siddur. An initial run of 10,000 copies of the prayer book, published in 2014, had been depleted. This presented an opportunity to create an upgraded version, which included refinements based on our experience with the prior edition. With feedback from JWB chaplains in the field, we added prayers and improved the pagination and readability. We raised funding of $125,000 to meet the design and printing needs of this incredible overhaul, which included a redesigned cover with the latest camouflage patterns used by the various branches of the U.S. military, custom English and Hebrew typesetting and transliteration.
JWB has been producing siddurim since the early days of the First World War, but none have been as comprehensive as this one. With both a pocketsized edition and a larger, hardback version meant for VA hospitals, the siddur remains the only one of its kind, with contributions and endorsement from the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements. Creating a siddur that met those demands wasn’t easy, but those involved in its making deftly navigated the challenge. “There was a lot of excellent work done by each denomination, so
that there is something each chaplain can use that works for them,” says Ira Kronenberg, an Orthodox rabbi and chair of the Rabbinical Council of America’s Military Chaplains Committee. Kronenberg has always carried a copy of a JWB siddur in his pocket no matter where he served, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan for the Jewish holidays. The siddur allowed Kronenberg, who chairs JWB’s plenum, which is made up of rabbis representing the Conservative, Reform and Orthodox movements, to have a ready source of material for the impromptu ceremonies and invocations at which chaplains are often called upon to serve.
Hot off the press: The new printing of the JWB Siddur provides better readablity and pagination and added prayers, as well as an updated cover.
“In civilian life, the Jewish denominations sometimes struggle to find common ground,” Kronenberg says. “But we were able to overcome our differences to create this siddur, which honors the brave Jewish men and women who make sacrifices every day to serve our country.” Wherever their orders take them: JWB director, Rabbi Irving Elson, skydiving with a Navy Seal (holding a JWB Siddur) in Hawaii over Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, December 2017.
Recruits at Marine Recruit Depot San Diego each receive a JWB prayer book, 2017. Deputy director, Rabbi Abbi Sharofsky, at the Kotel with her JWB Siddur, while attending the JPRO Rodkin seminar in Israel.
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Sing it Loud, Sing it Proud with JCC Camps Rock! “JCC Camps Rock!,” is one of JCC Association’s initiatives to strengthen the culture of music in our camps. Led by our camping department in collaboration with singer-songwriter Rick Recht’s Song Leader Boot Camp and the St. Louis JCC, this year’s cohort of six camps taking part in JCC Camps Rock! was generously funded for the first time by the Staenberg Family Foundation. The program begins by modeling camp activities, with an auditorium filled with Jewish educators, youth group leaders, song leaders, and camp staff who had come to fine-tune the ways in which they use music at camp to create a Jewish learning environment filled with ruach, or spirit. A concert kicked off the three-day program, where teachers from the Song Leader Boot Camp (SLBC)
modeled what participants would be doing over the ensuing few days. “It feels a lot like camp and it gets you ready for camp,” says Gabe Miner, who, as assistant director of Pennsylvania’s Pinemere Camp, a JCC Associationaffiliated independent camp, was selected to attend SLBC as part of JCC Camps Rock! “It expanded my repertoire and challenged me to think intentionally about the place of music in camp and how we use music to create a sense of community at camp.”
Exploring music in such a way can turn camp from a great experience into a transformative one, connecting campers to one another, their camp and their Jewish identity.
Miner was able to attend along with a younger song leader from Pinemere, enabling them both to focus on how to use music to engage campers.
In 2017, JCC Association brought more than a dozen staff from nine JCC-associated day and overnight camps to JCC Camps Rock! at SLBC.
Can you hear the ruach (spirit)? JCC Camps Rock offers a special track at Song Leader Boot Camp to help song leaders integrate music in their program.
Song Leader Boot Camp’s Rick Recht with campers.
The grant program includes mentorship for designing music programming and a site visit by Recht or one of the faculty during the summer. Leveraging such partnerships helps build the JCC Movement and goes a long way toward creating JCC success at the local level. “We are the largest camping movement in the country,” Miner notes. “But because all our JCC camps are individual, separate entities, it doesn’t always feel like a movement. In addition to focusing on music, learning together at SLBC helps create just that. It’s great to see the JCC camp world learning together.”
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JCC Camps Rock at SLBC gets them off their feet, modeling the types of activities song leaders will organize at camp.
In 2017, JCC Association brought more than a dozen staff from nine JCC-associated day and overnight camps to JCC Camps Rock! at SLBC. Annual Report 2017
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JCC Maccabi Teaches a Difficult History Lesson ®
A hush fell over the crowd of Jewish teens gathered in the 16th Street Baptist Church, the oldest house of worship serving African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Teens participating in JCC Maccabi®, hosted by the Levite JCC in Birmingham, Alabama, enter the historic 16th Street Baptist Church, once targeted by white supremecists in a bombing that killed four young girls.
The Levite JCC asked the question: How do we incorporate the mission of JCC Cares, our own community history, and the solemnity of Tisha B’Av, a Jewish holiday marking the destruction of the ancient Temple? Their answer was a magnificent program of remembrance.
hosted by the Levite JCC in Birmingham from July 31 through August 4, and it became an unparalleled learning opportunity for all.
It is perhaps best known for being cruelly targeted in a racially motivated bombing in 1963, in which four little girls died. What was this assembly of young Jewish athletes doing there on Tisha B’Av, one of the saddest days on the Jewish calendar, which marks the destruction of the two ancient Temples in Jerusalem and many other tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people? This solemn day fell during JCC Maccabi®,
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The timing required that organizers grapple with marking this day of Jewish mourning during a time of celebration and competition. It wasn’t easy, but part of each JCC Maccabi experience includes JCC Cares, a day of intentional programming during the course of each JCC Maccabi Games® and ArtsFest® that engages teens, coaches and delegation heads in tikkun olam, or repairing the world, by giving back to the host communities. In 2017, host communities included the Levite JCC in Birmingham, the Sidney Albert Albany JCC and the Schenectady JCC in the Capital Region of upstate New York and the Alper JCC in Miami, Florida, which also hosted JCC Maccabi ArtsFest®, the companion program offering professionallevel arts workshops in a variety of disciplines and a final showcase that the entire JCC Maccabi community attends.
community’s past. They did so eloquently, inviting a woman to speak who as a child was present at the church the day it was bombed. The program vividly brought this period to life for teens who may have had little knowledge of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and was especially potent at a time
when issues of race, anti-Semitism and activism are roiling our cities. Tisha B’Av, which is about the loss of a sacred place, was made very real for the nearly 900 teens as they considered the fate of a more contemporary sanctuary that had itself once been destroyed.
The JCC Cares program included a visit to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, bringing to life the Midot Values of JCC Maccabi.
In Birmingham, the Levite JCC gracefully wove together the Jewish need to recognize a major fast day with a desire to engage and wrestle with its own
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2017: Making our mark
JCC Association staff recognized for their leadership and expertise: Doron Krakow, president and CEO, partnered with Foundation for Jewish Camp CEO Jeremy Fingerman to author How Trump’s Visa Changes Could Hurt Jewish Summer Camps in The Forward. The article outlined how proposed changes to visa programs would affect the number of Israeli shlichim (cultural emissaries) and other international workers employed at Jewish summer camps. At the height of the bomb threat crisis, David Posner, vice president, authored Bomb Threats Won’t Derail the Vital Activity of JCCs in the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency). Dr. David Ackerman contributed JCCs As Gateways to Jewish Peoplehood, the lead and eponymous article for the 20th issue of The Jewish Peoplehood Papers. The article also ran in eJewishPhilanthropy.com.
2018: Looking ahead
JCC Association staff contributed the following articles to eJewishPhilanthropy.com: Mark Horowitz, vice president and director of the Sheva Center for Innovation in Early Childhood Jewish Education and Engagement, coauthored Continuing to BUILD Jewish Early Childhood Education with Cathy Rolland, director of families with young children at the Union for Reform Judaism and Maxine Handelman, early childhood education specialist for United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Training Israeli Shlichim and Day Camp Directors—Together by Aaron Greenberg, senior consultant for day camp initiatives, featured our Israel Up Close program, which makes it possible for day camp directors to attend the shlichim training seminar held in Israel each spring. At the seminar, day camp directors gain insight into how the shlichim are prepared, and they are able to offer the shlichim valuable information about day camp.
Partners in Jewish Community
The goal of this program, based on a longstanding program at the JCC of Metropolitan Detroit, fosters chevruta-style (partner) study between members of the Orthodox Jewish community and those of other denominations. A pilot cohort of JCCs will be selected in 2018 with a projected 2019 launch. This is a scalable project and is part of the research and development we are fostering to bring new engagement programs to the field.
JCCs of North America Biennial
Nearly 500 JCC leaders will convene for three days of learning, networking and fun during this reimagined gathering. Focusing on “Strengthening the New Jewish Community,” this three-day event in Memphis, Tennessee, will bring together thought leaders, JCC professionals and the leadership that supports the JCC Movement. Look for announcements about future initiatives to energize the movement and appeal to a new generation.
JResponse
This JCC Association-led response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises launches officially at the JCCs of North America Biennial in May 2018, when our partner, IsraAid, trains 15 JCC professionals to become pilot JResponders. As we move forward and evaluate future crises, JCC Association will mobilize this network, binding JCCs to one another in a manner consistent with our mutual accountability and our collective responsibility to one another.
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Song of Service
Our hearts will soar when we hear a live performance of the winning submission to “A Song of Service” at the JCCs of North America Biennial. This unique musical competition—sponsored by JWB Jewish Chaplains Council (JWB), along with the Jewish War Veterans and the American Conference of Cantors—asked participants to create an original cantorial work based on the prayer for the United States Armed Forces that appears in the new edition of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council Siddur.
We’re Growing…
We’ll be hiring a new chief development officer to emphasize our commitment to establishing new funding sources, stewarding donor relations and growing our overall resources for the agency and the field. JCC Association will also hire a new JCC Maccabi® director in time for him or her to attend the 2018 JCC Maccabi Games® and ArtsFest® in California and to come on board full time in the fall to set the vision for these key signature programs.
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Endowment-Funded Program Support
JCC Association Annual Fund
Endowed Programs
Endowed Scholarship Fund
MERRIN CENTER FOR TEEN ENGAGEMENT JCC Association is grateful to Anne Heyman z”l and Seth Merrin, whose generosity established the Merrin Center for Teen Engagement, which is dedicated to enhancing the work of professionals who work with teens and providing programming for the youth they serve.
JCC ASSOCIATION GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND The future requires well-trained professionals. JCC Association recognizes donors who endowed the Graduate Education Scholarship program.
$18,000 AND ABOVE Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs Irene and Eddie H. Kaplan Lisa and Thomas Mandel Eric and Stephanie Nislow Sharon and Stephen P. Seiden and the Russell Berrie Foundation Paula L. Sidman Sharon and David Wax
SUPPORT OF THE JCC ISRAEL CENTER Judith z”l and Mark D. Litt
Ella and Gerrard Berman Scholarship Fund
JEWISH EDUCATION PROGRAMMING Geri and Lester Pollack z”l JCC ASSOCIATION SCHOLARS FUND Syril z”l and Leonard Rubin z”l
Robert L. Adler Memorial Scholarship Fund Alumni Scholarship Fund Elayne and Julian Bernat Scholarship Fund Harold Dinerman Memorial Scholarship Fund Shirley and Royal H. Durst Scholarship Fund Joan and Jesse Feldman Scholarship Fund Frances and Samuel Finkelstein Memorial Scholarship Fund Frenkel Memorial Scholarship Fund
THE LENNY RUBIN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND In honor of Lenny Rubin z”l, this fund supports Israel education for JCC Association staff. We thank the generous donors who contributed to this fund in 2017.
Israel Goldberg Memorial Scholarship Fund
Laura Rubin Kate Obstgarten Private Foundation
Irene and Edward H. Kaplan Scholarship Fund
Goodstein-Kleitman Memorial Scholarship Fund Edwin Hochstader Scholarship Fund Joan and Irwin Jacobs Scholarship Fund Philip R. Kaplan Memorial Scholarship Fund Bea D. Katcher Scholarship Fund Charles R. Katz Memorial Scholarship Fund Mary and Solomon Litt Scholarship Fund Minnie and Louis Nathanson Memorial Scholarship Fund Pesses-Sachs Scholarship Fund Evelyn S. and Shaol L. Pozez Scholarship Fund Henry S. and Anne S. Reich Scholarship Fund Joanna S. and Daniel Rose Scholarship Fund Syril and Leonard Rubin Scholarship Fund
$10,000–$17,999 Harriet and George Blank Joanne and Donald W. Brodsky Howard and Rosalyn Jacobson Ann P. and Stephen M. Kaufman Millie and Lawrence Magid Evelyn and Jerome B. Makowsky Pottstown Jewish Federation Mark Ramer Amy Rosenberg Jill and Ken A. Steinberg The Sunshine Foundation $5,000–$9,999 Kara and Paul Bierman Lisa and Ron Brill Carol Weintraub Fogel and Ronald P. Fogel Richard Frankoff and Laurie Robinson Jane Gellman Catherine and Michael Gildenhorn Alison and Paul Gillis Joyce and Neil Goldstein Felicia and Michael Gottdenker The Irma T. Hirschl Trust Barbara B. and Stuart Hochwert Doron and Janet Krakow Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation Joshua Langenthal and Diane Halberg Ronald L. Leibow
Judith Lieberman Adrienne and Rick Matros Amy and Alan Meltzer Marc and Sharon Merklin David Peltz Jane Tzinberg Rubin Linda and Barry Russin Annette and Michael Saxon Philip Schatten Elizabeth and Edward Schreiber Shirley and Allan Solomon Andrea and Alan P. Solow Susan and Richard Strait Joan and Peter Swartz Phyllis Tabachnick Francine Zorn Trachtenberg and Stephen Trachtenberg Suzanne Albin Tucker and Richard Tucker Dr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Jennifer Tuvlin Craig Weiss $1,000–$4,999 Robin Ballin Lynne and Daniel M. Bernstein Robert Cohn and Ruth Cohn Family Foundation Jane B. and John C. Colman Janet S. Elam Marilyn Fox Alan Goldberg Linda and Frederic Greenberg JCC of Rockland County Howard Kades Robert D. Kimsal Laurie F. Lieberman James Schwartz Norman Seiden Susan Stearns Myron and Muriel Strober
Michael-Ann Russel Memorial Scholarship Fund Fedgie and Hy Schulltz Memorial Scholarship Fund Geraldyn and Henry Sicular Scholarship Fund Diana S. Simberloff Memorial Scholarship Fund Avraham Soltes Memorial Scholarship Fund Sam Sulstan Memorial Scholarship Fund Olga F. and Oliver B. Winkler Scholarship Fund Helen and Harold O. Zimman Scholarship Fund The National Federation/Agency Alliance is a partnership that provides a significant amount of funding to several national agencies, including $794,600 to JCC Association of North America in 2017. The national agencies funded by the Alliance engage in critical work to build capacity and support the work of the federations and their local affiliates. They also help advance the federation system’s goals on a national and international stage. While mindful of its role in evaluating and monitoring the national agencies, the Alliance works to promote deeper relationships and create synergy between the national agencies and the federations.
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JWB Jewish Chaplains Council Donors
Program and Project Funding
THE JACK, JOSEPH AND MORTON MANDEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT JCC Association is grateful to the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation for its grant created to sustain the Mandel Center for Excellence in Leadership and Management. THE JACK, JOSEPH AND MORTON MANDEL CENTER FOR JEWISH EDUC ATION JCC Association is grateful to the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation for its grant created to sustain the Mandel Center for Jewish Education. JCC Association acknowledges the AVI CHAI Foundation for its support of training programs within the Mandel Center for Jewish Education: Lekhu Lakhem IV: Brings JCC Association’s proven Jewish educational leadership to the wider Jewish overnight camp community in collaboration with the Foundation for Jewish Camp.
SECURIT Y INITIATIVE The security initiative funded critical expertise and resources required by the JCC Movement in response to the bomb threats. The Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation Jim Joseph Foundation Irving S. Weinstein Philanthropic Fund SHEVA CENTER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONAL S JCC Association supports the largest number of Jewish early childhood centers in North America, which are often a family’s first and most significant gateway to Jewish communal life. The Sheva Center raises the level of excellence in early childhood education. The Covenant Foundation The Crown Family Jim Joseph Foundation Helee Lev Myra Reinhard Family Foundation
Chizuk: Recruits, trains and places Jewish educators in Lekhu Lakhem camps to support the camps’ Jewish mission.
STR ATEGIC AC TION FUND The Strategic Action Fund supports newly identified goals, urgent needs and core programs.
JCC MACC ABI GAMES ® AND ARTSFEST ® The largest gathering of Jewish teens in North America, JCC Maccabi® has helped teen athletes and artists strengthen their Jewish identity as they hone their skills, engage in JCC Cares community service, be part of a global Jewish community and integrate Jewish values into their everyday lives.
Lynn and Daniel M. Bernstein Kara and Paul Bierman Harriet and George Blank Lisa and Ron Brill Catherine and Michael Gildenhorn Felicia and Michael Gottdenker Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs Howard and Rosalyn Jacobson Ann and Stephen Kaufman Joshua Langenthal and Diane Halberg Ronald L. Leibow Judith Lieberman Evelyn and Jerome B. Makowsky Lisa and Thomas Mandel Adrienne and Rick Matros Eric and Stephanie Nislow Amy Rosenberg Linda and Barry Russin Elizabeth and Edward Schreiber Sharon and Stephen P. Seiden Shirley and Allan Solomon Jill and Ken A. Steinberg Susan and Richard Strait Joan and Peter Swartz Phyllis Tabachnick Francine Zorn Trachtenberg and Stephen Trachtenberg Sharon and David Wax
Stephanie Bloom The Feldman Family Foundation Glassman Family Charitable Fund Morton Goldfield Robert and Terry Machi Jody and Robert Mansbach Michael Rosenberg Wendy Saltzburg Soref-Breslauer Texas Foundation Dov Wasserman Susan and Richard Zinn JCC MACC ABI ARTSFEST® ROCK BAND SPECIALT Y James Sudakow
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CENTENNIAL FUND JCC Association of North America and JWB Jewish Chaplains Council recently celebrated our 100th anniversary. We are especially grateful to the following donors: Lisa and Ron Brill Sharon and Stephen P. Seiden and The Russell Berrie Foundation Ann P. and Stephen M. Kaufman JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA GRANT-MAKING INITIATIVE MAKING MUSIC HAPPEN: THE SOUNDTR ACK OF JEWISH LIFE IN NORTH AMERIC A This JCC Association grant-making initiative celebrating our 100th anniversary was made possible by a generous grant from Marvin J. Pertzik in cooperation with the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation. This was an exciting opportunity for JCCs to share their stories through music.
$10,000 AND ABOVE Joanne and Donald W. Brodsky* Nancy and Irving Chase* Ralph Dweck* Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York Sandy Fainbarg* Cheryl Fishbein and Philip Schatten* Everett Foundation Inc. Catherine and Michael Gildenhorn* Joshua H. Landes* Irene and Eddie H. Kaplan* Adrienne and Rick Matros* Isidore C. and Penny W. Myers Foundation Endowment Fund Isidore C. and Penny W. Myers Foundation Philanthropic Fund J. Victor and Barbara Samuels* Sharon and Stephen P. Seiden* Leonard Shaykin* The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc. Myron Steves and Rowena Young* Sharon and David Wax* $5,000–$9,999 Rabbi Brett and Cori Oxman** Dr. Paul and Mrs. Harriet Rosen Deborah Ratner and Michael Salzberg The Marion & Norman Tanzman Charitable Foundation
$1,000–$4,999 Dr. David C. Ackerman* Rabbi Alvin K. Berkun Joshua Bernstein* Beth El Congregation, Phoenix, Ariz. Dr. Scott Bier Kenneth J. Bloom B’nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, Md. Mark and Barbara Brookner* Brian and Helene Bushwick Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck, N.J.* Covenant B’nai B’rith Unit #2215 Rabbi Irving and Francine Elson* Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations of Maryland Carol Weintraub Fogel and Ronald P. Fogel Robert A. Hammel* David and Janet Hoffberger The Jewish Federations of North America Jewish War Veterans Post 755, Fort Worth, Texas Jewish War Veterans Post 142, Stamford, Conn. William and Susan Kristol* Jay and Connie Krupin* Ronald L. Leibow David and Lainie Gordon Mincberg* Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Rosine Nussenblatt Clive and Zoe Rock* The Robert Sillins Family Foundation, Inc. Rabbi Matthew H. and Mrs. Sara Simon* Rabbi Gerald and Mrs. Robin Skolnik* The Albert and Lillian Small Foundation Temple Beth Sholom, Miami Beach, Fla. Temple Israel of the City of New York Tidewater Jewish Foundation Robert A. Waldman*
*We are delighted to acknowledge the donors making generous, multi-year gifts.
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JCC Association Revenue & Expenses
JCC Association Officers and Board 2016-2018 Officers CHAIR Stephen P. Seiden, West Orange, NJ
SECRETARY Harriet I. Blank, Bridgewater, NJ
PRESIDENT AND CEO Doron Krakow, New York, NY
VICE CHAIRS Donald W. Brodsky, Houston, TX Joyce Goldstein, Essex Fells, NJ Gary Jacobs, San Diego, CA Howard T. Jacobson, Overland Park, KS Ronald L. Leibow, Los Angeles, CA Eric M. Nislow, Baltimore, MD Francine Zorn Trachtenberg, Washington, DC
A SSOCIATE SECRETARIES Lisa F. Brill, Atlanta, GA Felicia Gottdenker, Rockville, MD
INTERIM PRESIDENT (2016) Alan Mann, New York, NY
HONOR ARY CHAIRS Edward H. Kaplan, Washington, DC Ann P. Kaufman, Houston, TX Jerome B. Makowsky, Memphis, TN Morton L. Mandel, Cleveland, OH Daniel Rose, Bronx, NY Paula L. Sidman, Boston, MA Alan P. Solow, Chicago, IL
PRESIDENT EMERITUS Allan Finkelstein, Columbus, OH
2016-2018 Board of Directors
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6% 4%
42% 19%
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25%
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Arthur R. Allen, Dallas, TX Alvin K. Berkun, Pittsburgh, PA Kara Bierman, Memphis, TN Harriet I. Blank, Bridgewater, NJ Lisa F. Brill, Atlanta, GA Donald W. Brodsky, Houston, TX Alex Budnitsky, Brooklyn, NY Joel Dinkin, Houston, TX Andrew L. Eisenberg, Boston, MA Michael Feinstein, Rockville, MD Cheryl Fishbein, New York, NY Revenues Carol Weintraub Fogel, Detroit, MI Carol Folkerth, Columbus, OH National Federation/Agency Alliance and Individual Federations 1,057,000 9% Richard Frankoff, Las Vegas, NV 5,177,000 42% Affiliate Dues Jane Gellman, Milwaukee, WI Annual Giving and Foundation Grants 2,310,000 19% Michael Gildenhorn, Rockville, MD Corporate Sponsorships / Other 474,000 4% Paul Gillis, Denver, CO Draw from Investments for Operations 760,000 6% Joyce Goldstein, Essex Fells, NJ 2,656,000 21% Program Fees Felicia Gottdenker, Rockville, MD Ivy Harlev, Wilmington, DE Total Revenue 12,434,000 100% Barak Hermann, Baltimore, MD Stuart B. Hochwert, Chicago, IL Gary Jacobs, San Diego, CA Expenses Howard T. Jacobson, Overland Park, KS Edward H. Kaplan, Washington, DC Program Enrichment Services 3,129,000 25% Ann P. Kaufman, Houston, TX 2,598,000 21% Jewish Education and Israel Operations Stephen M. Kaufman, Houston, TX Bonnie J. Koppell, Mesa, AZ Community Consultation Services 2,032,000 17% Ira I. Kronenberg, Passaic, NJ Professional Leadership 999,000 8% Josh Langenthal, Berkeley, CA Services to the Military 623,000 5% Ronald L. Leibow, Los Angeles, CA 881,000 7% Financial Resource Development Judith M. Lieberman, West Orange, NJ Marketing & Communication 744,000 6% Lawrence Magid, Searington, NY Finance & Administration 1,301,000 11% Jerome B. Makowsky, Memphis, TN Total Expenses 12,307,000 100% Morton L. Mandel, Cleveland, OH
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Thomas A. Mandel, Akron, OH Adrienne Matros, Irvine, CA Marc B. Merklin, Akron, OH Richard Nelson, Richmond, VA Eric M. Nislow, Baltimore, MD David Peltz, Toronto, ON Geri Pollack, New York, NY Mark Ramer, Atlantic Beach, NY Stuart Raynor, West Orange, NJ Stephen R. Reiner, New York, NY Daniel Rose, Bronx, NY Amy Rosenberg, Ft Lauderdale, FL Jane Tzinberg Rubin, St Louis, MO Linda Russin, Rockland County,NY Annette G. Saxon, Baltimore, MD Philip Schatten, New York, NY Brian Schreiber, Pittsburgh, PA Edward Schreiber, Houston, TX Stephen P. Seiden, West Orange, NJ Mark F. Shapiro, Milwaukee, WI Paula L. Sidman, Boston, MA Shirley Solomon, Boca Raton, FL Alan P. Solow, Chicago, IL Kenneth A. Steinberg, Memphis, TN Susan B. Strait, Milwaukee, WI Joan P. Swartz, Austin, TX Phyllis Tabachnick, Chicago, IL Francine Zorn Trachtenberg, Washington, DC Suzanne Albin Tucker, Scotch Plains, NJ Jeffrey A. Tuvlin, Louisville, KY David S. Wax, San Diego, CA Craig Weiss, Memphis, TN Lynn Wittels, St Louis, MO Eric M. Zachs, West Hartford, CT
HONOR ARY BOARD MEMBERS Gilbert Fox, Nashville, TN Marilyn Fox, St Louis, MO Sandra O. Gold, Tenafly, NJ Gordon Gross, Getzville, NY Mark D. Litt, White Plains, NY Marvin J. Pertzik, St Paul, MN Irwin Jay Robinson, New York, NY Harriet L. Rosenthal, West Orange, NJ J. Victor Samuels, Houston, TX Norman Seiden, Tenafly, NJ Jerome Spitzer, New York, NJ Myron Strober, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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JCC Association Staff and Services ADMINISTRATION Doron Krakow President and CEO (212) 786-5096 | dkrakow@jcca.org Allan Finkelstein President Emeritus (973) 224-0984 | jccal@jcca.org Yael Lubofsky Coordinator of Board Relations and Manager of Special Events (212) 786-5084 | ylubofsky@jcca.org Vanessa Waye Project Coordinator to President and CEO (212) 786-5083 | vwaye@jcca.org OPERATIONS Alan Goldberg Senior Vice President of Operations (212) 786-5122 | agoldberg@jcca.org PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND THE MERRIN CENTER FOR TEEN ENGAGEMENT Joy Brand-Richardson Vice President | Director of Training and Professional Development (212) 786-5114 | jbrand@jcca.org Ellen Gettinger Professional Development Coordinator (212) 786-5099 | egettinger@jcca.org Dina Yakar Conference Coordinator and Registrar (212) 786-5152 | dyakar@jcca.org Jess Foroutan Program Associate, Professional Development (212) 786-5093 | jforoutan@jcca.org MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Joanne Harmon Vice President | Creative Director, Marketing and Communications (212) 786-5101 | jharmon@jcca.org Marla Cohen Director of Communications, JCC Circle Editor (212) 786-5092 | mcohen@jcca.org Morgan Weiss Digital Media and Marketing Manager (212) 786-5117 | mweiss@jcca.org Loraine Machlin Graphic Designer (212) 786-5087 | lmachlin@jcca.org Angela Tranquille Marketing Administrator (212) 786-5154 | atranquille@jcca.org JCC MACCABI Randy Ellen Lutterman Vice President, Arts and Culture Director, JCC Maccabi Games® and ArtsFest® (212) 786-5123 | rlutterman@jcca.org ®
Jordan Zarin Lanczycki Deputy Director, JCC Maccabi® (212) 786-5145 | jzarin@jcca.org Dena Sokol Manager, Program Registration and Administration, JCC Maccabi® (212) 786-5081 | dsokol@jcca.org
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Emma Schorr Program Associate, JCC Maccabi® (212) 786-5081 | eschorr@jcca.org Liran Shoseyov Continential Shlicha (212) 786-5121 | lshoseyov@jcca.org PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Robin Ballin Senior Vice President, Program Development Director, JCCs of North America Biennial Convention (212) 786-5112 | rballin@jcca.org Shlomo Schwartz Program Development Associate (212) 786-5155 | sschwartz@jcca.org SHEVA CENTER: INNOVATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD JEWISH EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT Mark Horowitz Vice President | Director, Sheva Center (212) 786-5098 | mhorowitz@jcca.org Mackenzie Noda Assistant Director, Sheva Center Coordinator of Health and Wellness Strategies (212) 786-5095 | mnoda@jcca.org Kathy Pomer Educational Director, Sheva Center (617) 797-6848 | kpomer@jcca.org Michelle Kimso Program Associate, Sheva Center (212) 786-5144 | mkimso@jcca.org HEALTH AND WELLNESS Steve Becker Vice President, Health and Wellness Services (212) 786-5105 | sbecker@jcca.org JCC ISRAEL CENTER Leah Garber Vice President | Director, JCC Israel Center 011-972-2-625-1265 | lgarber@jcca.org Sara Sless Assistant Director, JCC Israel Center Director, Israel Seminars 011-972-2-625-1265 | ssless@jcca.org Shira Lupiansky Hasson Boarding Pass Associate, Israel Seminars 011-972-2-625-1265 | shasson@jcca.org Vicki Rosenberg Office Administrator, JCC Israel Center 011-972-2-625-1265 vrosenberg@jcca.org Elkana Bar-Eitan JMI Program Manager, JCC Israel Center (202) 537-6056 | elkanab@jcca.org COMMUNITY CONSULTATION Janet S. Elam Senior Vice President, Community Consultation and Executive Leadership (512) 241-1118 | jelam@jcca.org Dori Denelle Vice President | Certified Governance Consultant, Emerging Leadership, and Community Consultation (651) 452-2219 | ddenelle@jcca.org
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THE JACK, JOSEPH AND MORTON MANDEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE David E. Posner Vice President, JWB Community Consultation Director, Strategic Performance (212) 786-5124 | dposner@jcca.org Andrew C. Paller Vice President, Community Consultation Director of JCC Benchmarking, Strategic Performance (212) 710-6432 | apaller@jcca.org Michael Rowland Marketing Consultant (212) 786-5153 | mrowland@jcca.org Yuliya Mazur Resource Communications Manager (212) 786-5140 | ymazur@jcca.org JWB JEWISH CHAPLAINS COUNCIL Rabbi Irving A. Elson Director, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council Director, Armed Forces and Veterans Services (212) 532-4949 | ielson@jcca.org Rabbi Abbi Sharofsky Deputy Director, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council (212) 786-5137 | asharofsky@jcca.org Janine Acevedo Program Associate, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council (212) 786-5090 | jacevedo@jcca.org THE JACK, JOSEPH AND MORTON MANDEL CENTER FOR JEWISH EDUCATION Dr. David Ackerman Senior Vice President | Director, The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Jewish Education (212) 786-5110 | dackerman@jcca.org JCC CAMPS Aaron Greenberg Senior Consultant for Day Camp Initiatives (212) 786-5150 | agreenberg@jcca.org
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE Bob Kimsal Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (212) 786-5141 | bkimsal@jcca.org Dina Rudolph Controller (212) 786-5132 | drudolph@jcca.org Irina Abramov Accounting Assistant (212) 786-5133 | iabromov@jcca.org HUMAN RESOURCES Irina Khomina Manager, Human Resources (212) 786-5131 | ikhomina@jcca.org
Beth Garfinkle Hancock Chizuk Director & Program Manager of JCC LTI bghancock@jcca.org Yael Warach Program Associate, MCJE | Arts & Culture (212) 786-5088 | ywarach@jcca.org
Canada
Marcus JCC of Atlanta, Dunwoody, GA Zaban Park, Dunwoody, GA
Sidney Albert Albany JCC, Albany, NY
Camp BB Riback, Edmonton, AB
Jewish Educational Alliance, Savannah, GA
Edith & Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY
Calgary Jewish Community Centre, Calgary, AB JCC of Greater Vancouver, Vancouver, BC Rose and Max Rady JCC, Winnipeg, MB B’nai B’rith Jewish Community Camp, Winnipeg, MB Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto, ON Prosserman JCC, Toronto, ON Schwartz/Reisman Centre, Vaughan, ON JCC of Windsor, Windsor, ON Harry Bronfman Y Country Camp, Montreal, QC
United States
Levite JCC, Birmingham, AL
Elaine Vasquez Accounting and Benefits Associate, Front Desk (212) 786-5136 | evasquez@jcca.org
East Valley JCC, Chandler, AZ
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Andy Zhang Manager, Information Technology (212) 786-5103 | azhang@jcca.org
Peninsula JCC, Foster City, CA
Bernardo Arocho Associate, Information Technology Network Administrator (212) 786-5094 | barocho@jcca.org PRODUCTION Franklin James Supervisor, Production and Facilities (212) 786-5118 | fjames@jcca.org
Valley of the Sun JCC, Scottsdale, AZ Tucson JCC, Tucson, AZ JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley, CA Merage JCC of Orange County, Irvine, CA Lawrence Family JCC of San Diego County – Jacobs Family Campus, La Jolla, CA Barbara and Ray Alpert JCC, Long Beach, CA Westside JCC, Los Angeles, CA Addison-Penzak JCC of Silicon Valley, Los Gatos, CA Shalom Institute, Malibu, CA Oshman Family JCC , Palo Alto, CA Camp Mountain Chai, San Diego, CA
Donald Credle Production Assistant and Front Desk (212) 786-5113 | dcredle@jcca.org
JCC Maccabi Sports Camp, San Francisco, CA
FINANCIAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Lisa Zbar Director, Individual Giving (212) 786-5120 | lzbar@jcca.org
Contra Costa JCC, Walnut Creek, CA
Samantha Hordes Development Associate (212) 786-5126 | shordes@jcca.org
Jewish Senior Services, Bridgeport, CT
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Jodi Sperling Senior Consultant for Overnight Camps (347) 931-7002 | jsperling@jcca.org Amy Grassel Program Coordinator for Camping Services (212) 786-5109 | agrassel@jcca.org
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JCC Association Midwestern Services Office 2478 Pond Circle West St. Paul MN 55120 (651) 452-2219 ddenelle@jcca.org JCC Association Southwestern Services Office 2303 S Third Street Austin, TX 78704 (512) 241-1118 jelam@jcca.org 3 JCC Israel Center Solomon and Mary Litt Building 12 Moshe Hess Street Jerusalem, 9418513, Israel 011.972.2.625.1265 fax 011.972.2.624.7767 israel@jcca.org
Camp Tawonga, San Francisco, CA Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael, CA Valley JCC, Woodland Hills, CA Boulder JCC, Boulder, CO Staenberg-Loup JCC, Denver, CO Greenwich JCC, Greenwich, CT JCC of Stamford, Stamford, CT Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford, West Hartford, CT Mandell JCC Fitness Center at Saint Francis Edlavitch JCC of Washington, DC, Washington, DC Siegel JCC, Wilmington, DE Adolph and Rose Levis JCC, Boca Raton, FL
JCC Chicago, Chicago, IL Early Childhood Services – JCC at Woodland Commons, Buffalo Grove, IL Children, Family & Wellness Services, Chicago, IL Day Camping Services, Chicago, IL Ezra Multi-Service Center, Chicago, IL Florence G. Heller JCC, Chicago, IL Hyde Park JCC, Chicago, IL Bernard Horwich JCC, Chicago, IL Early Childhood Services, Chicago, IL Bernard Weinger JCC, Northbrook, IL Pritzker Center for Jewish Education – Mayer Kaplan JCC , Skokie, IL Resident Camping Services – Camp Chi, Lake Delton, WI Florence Weiss Perlstein Vacation Center, Lake Delton, WI JCC of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN JCC of Greater Kansas City, Overland Park, KS JCC of Louisville, Louisville, KY New Orleans JCC, New Orleans, LA Goldring-Woldenberg JCC – Metairie, Metairie, LA JCCs of Greater Boston, Newton, MA JCC Brookline, Brighton, MA Metrowest JCC, Framingham, MA Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton, MA Springfield JCC, Springfield, MA Worcester JCC, Worcester, MA JCC of Greater Baltimore, Owings Mills, MD Park Heights Branch, Baltimore, MD Capital Camps & Retreat Center, Rockville, MD Bender JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, Portland, ME JCC of Greater Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI Fresh Air Society/Tamarack Camps, Bloomfield Hills, MI JCC of Metropolitan Detroit, West Bloomfield, MI Jimmy Prentis Morris Building, Oak Park, MI JCC of the Greater St. Paul Area, St Paul, MN St. Louis JCC, St Louis, MO Marilyn Fox Building, Chesterfield, MO The Staenberg Family Complex, St Louis, MO
David Posnack JCC, Davie, FL
Asheville JCC, Asheville, NC
Jewish Community Alliance of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Sandra and Leon Levine JCC, Charlotte, NC
The Roth Family JCC of Greater Orlando, Maitland, FL
Charlotte & Dick Levin JCC, Durham, NC Raleigh-Cary JCC, Raleigh, NC
Dave & Mary Alper JCC, Miami, FL Galbut Family Miami Beach JCC on the Simkins Family Campus, Miami Beach, FL Michael-Ann Russell JCC, North Miami Beach, FL Rosen JCC, Orlando, FL Mandel JCC of the Greater Palm Beaches, Palm Beach Gardens, FL Mandel JCC of the Palm Beaches, Boynton Beach, FL
Omaha JCC, Omaha, NE Shimon and Sara Birnbaum JCC, Bridgewater, NJ Betty & Milton Katz JCC, Cherry Hill, NJ JCC Jersey Shore, Deal Park, NJ JCC Princeton Mercer Bucks & Abrams Camps, East Windsor, NJ NJ Y Camps, Fairfield, NJ Milton & Betty Katz JCC, Margate City, NJ JCC of Central NJ, Scotch Plains, NJ
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, FL
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Tenafly, NJ
Tampa JCC, Tampa, FL Bryan Glazer Family JCC, Tampa, FL
JCC Metrowest, West Orange, NJ Leon and Toby Cooperman JCC, West Orange, NJ
Augusta JCC, Augusta, GA
Bergen County JCC, Township of Washington, NJ
JCC of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Riverdale YM-YWHA, Bronx, NY
Kingsbay YM-YWHA, Brooklyn, NY Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, NY Sid Jacobson JCC, East Hills, NY The JCC of Greater Buffalo – Benderson Family Building, Getzville, NY Holland Family Building, Buffalo, NY YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood, New York, NY Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp, New York, NY Surprise Lake Camp, New York, NY Moise Safra Center, New York, NY JCC of Schenectady , Niskayuna, NY Sunrise Association (Sunrise Day Camps Association, Inc.), Oceanside, NY Harold and Elaine Shames JCC on the Hudson, Tarrytown, NY JCC Rockland, West Nyack, NY Shaw JCC of Akron, Akron, OH Mandel JCC of Cleveland, Beachwood, OH Mayerson JCC, Cincinnati, OH Camp Livingston, Cincinnati, OH The JCC of Greater Columbus, Columbus, OH Marjorie and Oscar Boonshoft – Center for Jewish Culture and Education, Dayton, OH JCC of Toledo, Sylvania, OH JCC of Youngstown, Youngstown, OH B’nai B’rith Camp, Beaverton, OR Mittleman JCC, Portland, OR The JCC of the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, PA Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA Pinemere Camp, Philadelphia, PA JCC of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA South Hills Branch, Pittsburgh, PA Scranton JCC, Scranton, PA Jewish Community Alliance of Northeast Pennsylvania, Wilkes Barre, PA Kaiserman JCC, Wynnewood, PA York JCC, York, PA Dwares JCC of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, Providence, RI Charleston JCC, Charleston, SC Katie and Irwin Kahn JCC, Columbia, SC Memphis JCC, Memphis, TN Gordon JCC, Nashville, TN JCC of Austin, Austin, TX Aaron Family JCC of Dallas, Dallas, TX Evelyn Rubenstein JCC, Houston, TX JCC West Houston, TX Barshop JCC of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX I.J. & Jeanne Wagner JCC, Salt Lake City, UT JCC of Northern Virginia, Fairfax, VA Weinstein JCC, Richmond, VA Marilyn and Marvin Simon Family JCC, Virginia Beach, VA Stroum JCC, Mercer Island, WA Harry and Rose Samson Family JCC, Milwaukee, WI
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