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EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP Rabbi Steven Burg.............................International Director, NCSY; Managing Director, OU Keevy Fried........................................Associate International Director, NCSY Dr. Simcha Katz..................................President, OU Joseph Stechler.................................National Youth Commission Chairman, OU Rabbi Steven Weil..............................Executive Vice President, OU Paul S. Glasser...................................Senior Director of Institutional Advancement, OU David Frankel.....................................Chief Operating Officer, OU Shlomo Schwartz..............................Chief Financial Officer, OU David Olivestone...............................Senior Communications Officer, OU Ronit Meitlis-Hofer............................Director of Strategic Planning, OU
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP Rabbi Jack Abramowitz....................OU Torah Content Editor Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin.....................Associate Director of Education Devorah Becker.................................Program Executive Rabbi Moshe Benovitz......................Dean of Summer Programs Rabbi Glenn Black.............................Director of Strategic Planning David Cutler.......................................Director of Summer Programs & Finances Rina Emerson.....................................Assistant Director of Institutional Advancement Marc Fein............................................Director of Advisor Development Rabbi Dave Felsenthal......................Director of OU NextGen Tova Flancbaum................................Marketing Associate Rebekah Friedman............................Summer Programs Associate Rabbi Yaakov Glasser.......................Director of Education Jen Goldman......................................Assistant Director of Summer Programs Dan Hazony........................................Director of Information Systems Rabbi Yehoshua Marchuck...............Director of Alumni Jenni Richton.....................................Director of Professional Development and Evaluations Duvi Stahler........................................Director of Marketing
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