Organization Directory Organizations: Continued from page 10 JEWISH WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH The Jewish Women’s Foundation supports organizations that improve the lives of women and girls, with a focus on social change.
1620 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-727-1108; Fax: 412-681-8804 Website: jwfpgh.org Facebook.com/jwfpgh Email: jcohen@jwfpgh.org
Paula Garret, Lauren Goldblum and Joan Gurrentz, Co-Chairs; Elyse Eichner and Susan Leff, Small Grants Committee Co-Chairs; Paula Garret, Signature Grant Committee, Chair; Judy Greenwald Cohen, Exec. Dir. ••• JOINT JEWISH EDUCATION PROGRAM (J-JEP) Providing innovative learning experiences that inspire and prepare students to engage meaningfully in Jewish life
4905 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15213 Phone: 412-621-6566, ext. 111 Website: www.jjep.org Email: RabbiLF@jjep.org
Rabbi Larry Freedman, Director; Kate Kim, Assistant Director; Aaron Bisno, Rabbi; Sharyn Henry, Rabbi; Seth Adelson, Rabbi; Hal Coffey, Todd Roscoe and Betsy Schwartz, Co-Chairs. ••• KEHILLAH LA LA An inclusive community engaging members in creative Jewish experiences
Phone: 412-335-0298 Website: ravchuck.com Facebook: Kehillah La La Email: ravchuck@gmail.com, ravchuck@yahoo. com
Chuck Diamond, Rabbi and Executive Director; Fred Davis, President; Bobbi Gerson, Treasurer; Mickie Diamond, Secretary. ••• KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER 5808 Beacon St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-420-0220; Fax: 412-420–0224 Website: kollelpgh.org Email: info@kollelpgh.org
Rabbi Levi Langer, Rosh Kollel; Rabbi Doniel Schon, Associate Rosh Kollel; Philip Milch, Esq., President; Dr. Frank Lieberman, Vice President; Michael Kaminsky, Treasurer, Mark Sindler, Esq., Secretary; Rabbi Avrohom Rodkin, Director of Education; Stacie Stufflebeam, Director of Development ••• LADIES HOSPITAL AID SOCIETY 3459 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-648-6106; Fax: 412-692-2682 Website: lhas.net
President, Carole L. Kamin; Vice Presidents: Jackie Dixon, Peggy Smyrnes-Williams, Heather Ziccarelli; Secretaries: Denise Shipe, Judy Woffington; Treasurer, Cindy Kacerik; Directors: Brittany Holzer, Linda Melada, Jill Nolan, Denise Pochan, Ruth Rubenstein, Marcia Weiss, Gayle Zacharia. ••• LUBAVITCH CENTER SYNAGOGUE Chabad of Western Pennsylvania
2100 Wightman St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (Corner of Hobart & Wightman streets) Phone: 412-422-7300
Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld, Mr. Charles Saul, Esq., Pres.; Lior Shkedi, Vice President; Shmuel Huebner, Daniel Wein, Chaya Hoffinger, Chavie Goldshmid, Yosef Goldberg, Yosef Silverman, Arkie Engle, Shimon Zimbovsky, Board Members ••• NA’AMAT USA Pittsburgh Council (formerly Pioneer Women) A voice for Women and Children in Israel. Committed to gender equality, religious pluralism, the status of women in and out of the home, the prevention of domestic violence and education. We have moved from Tree of Life to Rodef Shalom – Please come visit us!!
4905 Fifth Ave (Inside Rodef Shalom) Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-5253 Cell: 412-303-5769 Website: naamatpgh.org • naamat.org Email: naamatpgh@gmail.com
Roselle Solomon and Dorothy Greenfield, Co-Presidents; Barbra Bowman-Labbie, Fundraising VP; Judy Kobell, Treasurer; Natalie Rosenbloom & Rhoda Judd, Recording Secretary; Barbara Caplan & Elinor Young, Correspondence Secretary; Gail Neft & Diana Spodek, American Affairs & Allied Activities VP; Gloria Elbling Gottlieb, Julian Elbling & Carole Wolsh, Spiritual Adoption/Scholarship Chair; Lisa Steindel, Past President; Jackie Braslawsce, Executive Director. ••• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN Pittsburgh Section
1620 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-6118; Fax: 412-421-1121 Website: ncjwpgh.org
Teddi Horvitz, Pres.; Lynn Farber, V.P.; Paula Garret, Treas.; Debbie Levy Green, Imm. Past. Pres.; Cristina Ruggiero, Exec. Dir.; Megan Rose, Director of the Center for Women (a joint project of NCJW and the JWF); Misi Bielich, Director of the Children’s Rooms in the Courts; Meredith Brown, Manager of Programs and Operations; Lynn Tomasits, Director of Retail-Thriftique; Amy Herlich, Dir. of Development ••• NEW COMMUNITY CHEVRA KADISHA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH Email: NewCommunityCK@verizon.net Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/NCCKPGH/ Website: www.ncckpgh.org Phone: 412-422-8044
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NEW LIGHT CONGREGATION/ OHR CHADASH Conservative, Egalitarian • Come Join Us
5915 Beacon Street Pittsburgh PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-1017 Website: newlightcongregation.org
Jonathan Perlman, Rabbi; Barbara L. Caplan, Stephen Cohen, co-presidents; Marilyn Honigsberg, Administrative Assistant.; Janet Cohen, Corresponding Secretary; Debbie Salvin, Membership V.P.; Barbara Caplan, Social V.P.; Harold Caplan, Treasurer; Carl Solomon, Fin. Secy.; Ileen Portnoy, Secy.; Sharyn Stein, Sisterhood Pres.; Harold Caplan, Men’s Club Pres. ••• PARKWAY JEWISH CENTER Egalitarian Conservative Synagogue in the East Suburbs
300 Princeton Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15235 Phone: 412-823-4338; Fax: 412-823-4338 Website: parkwayjewishcenter.org Email: parkwayjc@verizon.net
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Cantor Henry Shapiro, Spiritual Leader; Robert Caplan, Lynda Heyman, Hal Lederman, Executive Committee; Laurie Barnett Levine, Sisterhood Pres.; Rick Sternberg, Office Manager. ••• PASTE Pittsburgh Association of Synagogue and Temple Executives
Drew Barkley (Temple Sinai), President; Leslie Hoffman, Treasurer (Temple Emanuel of South Hills); Barb Feig, FSA (Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha); Lisa Rothschild (Adat Shalom Synagogue); Steve Hectht (Beth El Congregation of the South Hills ), Ken Turkowitz (Congregation Beth Shalom), Barbara Wilson (Beth Samuel Jewish Center), Barry Weisband (Rodef Shalom Congregation). ••• PENN STATE HILLEL 114-117 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-863-3816 Email: Hillel@psu.edu Website: pennstatehillel.org
Executive Director: Aaron Kaufman; Chair: Jill Epstein, First Vice President, Wealth Management, Wealth Advisor, UBS; ViceChair: Todd Goodstein, Owner, Energy Transfer Solutions, Inc.; Secretary: Cindy Ruben; Treasurer/Finance Chair: Jeffrey Ruben; WSFS Mortgage. •••
V.P.; Richard Levine, 2nd V.P.; Nathaniel Scholnicoff, 3rd V.P.; Rabbi Ari Goldberg, Fin. Officer; Shifra Poznanski, Rec. Secy.; Todd Stufflebeam, Exec. Dir.; Shifra Poznanski, Stacie Stufflebeam & Naama Lazar, Sisterhood Presidents; Shmuel Isenberg, Men’s Club Pres. ••• RAUH JEWISH HISTORY PROGRAM & ARCHIVES AT THE SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER Preserving the History of Western Pennsylvania’s Jews
1212 Smallman St. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Phone: 412-454-6406 Websites: heinzhistorycenter.org/collections/ rauh-jewish-history-program-and-archives; jewishfamilieshistory.org; jewishhistoryhhc.org Email: RJArchives@heinzhistorycenter.org Eric Lidji, Director, eslidji@heinzhistory-center. org; Adam Reinherz, Chair
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RIVERVIEW TOWERS APARTMENTS Live Life Your Way
52 Garetta St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-7876; Fax: 412-325-7041 Website: riverviewtowers.com
Amy Weiss, Chair, Mitchell Pakler, Vice, Barry Roth, Secretary, Alec Stone, Treasurer, Debbie Winn-Horvitz, Hanna Steiner, Executive Director. •••
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RODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION An Inclusive Reform Jewish Community, LGBTQ+ Safe Zone, & Fully Accessible Gathering Place
5915 Beacon St., 5th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15217-2005 Phone: 412-687-1000; Fax: 412-521-0154 Website: pittsburghjewishchronicle.org Email: newsdesk@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org
4905 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-621-6566; Fax: 412-687-1977 Website: rodefshalom.org Email: info@rodefshalom.org
Evan Indianer, Chairman; Gayle R. Kraut, Secretary; Jonathan Bernstein, Treasurer; David Ainsman, Immediate Past Chairman; Gail Childs, Elizabeth F. Collura, Dan Droz, Milton Eisner, Malke Steinfeld Frank, Seth Glick, Tracy Gross, Tammy Hepps, Richard J. Kitay, Cátia Kossovsky, Andi Perelman, David Rush, Charles Saul, Evan H. Stein, Board Members; Jim Busis, CEO and Publisher; Liz Spikol, Acting Editor-in-Chief. ••• PLISKOVER ASSOCIATION, INC. Pliskov Landsleit org, manages Pliskover Cemetery
P.O. Box 8237 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Website: pliskover.com Email: pliskover@pliskover.com
Kimball Rubin, President; Bruce Ibe, 1st Vice President; Pam Ludin, Vice President of Budgets, Investments, and Audits; Carole Rubenstein, Vice President of Marketing; Steven Speck, Vice President of Membership; Honey Forman, Vice President Scholarship and Special Events; Jared Kaufman, Treasurer; Cheryl Kaufman, Financial Secretary; Joel Dresbold, Recording Secretary. Anastasia Abramson, Marilyn Brody, Marshall Cohen, Cookie Danovitz, Andrew Pearl, Frank H. Rubin, Paula Rubin, Gloria Shapiro, Ruth Stock Zober, Board Members. ••• CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK 6318 Phillips Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-9786 Website: pzonline.org Email: info@pzonline.org
Rabbi Daniel Yolkut, Spiritual Leader; Dr. Louis Felder, Pres.; Joe Ungar, 1st
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Aaron B. Bisno, Rabbi; Sharyn H. Henry Rabbi; Dr. Walter Jacob, Rabbi Emeritus & Senior Scholar; Barry D .Weisband, Exec. Dir.; Karen Brean, Pres.; David Kalson, Sr. V.P.; Alex Heit, Margot Cavalier, V.P.s; Bob Rosenthal, Secy.; Eric Kruman, Treas.; Joel Katz, Asst. Treas.; Dir.; Mimsie Leyton, Family Center Dir.; Rabbi Lawrence Freedman, Dir. of J-JEP; Amy Langham, Dir. of Finance & Admin; Stephanie Rex, Dir. of Communications & Marketing; Yael Eads, Dir. of Informal Jewish Life; Mayda Roth, Dir. of Development. ••• RODEF SHALOM BROTHERHOOD
Thomas Litman, Pres.; Peter Rosenfeld, Edward Mandell, V.P.s; Richard Meritzer, Brotherhood Treas.; Al Rosenfeld, Brotherhood Rec. Secy. ••• WOMEN OF RODEF SHALOM
Teri Cowan, Pres.; Sandie Brand, Marjorie Goldfarb, Goldie Katz, Elaine Rybski V.P.s; Terri Sterrett, Rec. Secy.; Sheila Werner, Assist. Rec. Secy.; Phyllis Feinert, Corr. Secy.; Emmeline Silk, Assist. Corr. Secy.; Gail Lefkowitz, Treas.; Nancy Rosenthal, Assist. Treas.; Marilyn Caplan, Karen Hochberg, Marla Perlman, Ruth Rubenstein, Directors; Marion Damick, Parliamentarian. ••• SHAARE TORAH CONGREGATION At the gateway to the community — come visit or join our family
2319 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-8855; Fax: 412-521-9938 Rabbi: 412-377-1769 Website: ShaareTorah.net Email: Office@ShaareTorah.net
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