MILESTONES Hartford’s Jewish Community Foundation announces new board chair and members HARTFORD – Three community leaders were elected to the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford (JCF) at the organization’s recent annual meeting.
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Gayle Temkin of West Hartford was elected chair of JCF’s Board of Trustees. Temkin is immediate past president and current chairwoman of the Board of the Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center. She also serves as vice president of Connecticut Voices of Hope and a board member of Jewish Family Services. At Solomon Schechter Day School, she serves as vice president and chair of the Development Committee. She also was recently elected to the board of Beth El Temple in West Hartford. She also serves on the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, for which she has held positions as past co-chair of the Presidents Council and is a Lion of Judah. Temkin earned her B.A. in Industrial Psychology and her M.S. in Social Work with a focus on community organization at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Ethan Goldman of West Hartford was elected a trustee of JCF. Goldman is chief financial officer at FLEXcon Holdings Trust, an international pressure sensitive materials manufacturer.
A retired Major in the United States Army Reserve, he previously served as treasurer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and as an instructor at JTConnect, where he taught Israeli military history. For the last 15 years, he served as treasurer of the West Hartford Soccer League, and as a coach. A Certified Public Accountant, Goldman earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. in Accounting and Taxation from the University of Hartford. Rachel Rubin of Bloomfield was also elected a trustee of JCF. Ms. Rubin is deputy director of Athletics/Chief of Staff at the University of Connecticut and executive secretary to the University’s Board of Trustees. She previously served as chief of staff to the university’s president and was a member of the higher education subcommittee of the Governor’s Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group. Rubin served on JCF’s Center for Innovative Philanthropy Advisory Committee, and on the Board of UConn Hillel. A member of B’nai Tikvoh-Sholom in Bloomfield, she earned a B.S in Business from the University of Connecticut and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. In addition to Board of Trustees Chair Gayle Temkin, JCF’s executive officers for 2020-2021 include Vice Chair Merrill Mandell, Treasurer Elysa GraberLipperman, and Secretary Gerald Goldberg.
New England Jewish Academy teen named Commended Student by National Merit Scholarship Program WEST HARTFORD – Liya Simon, a senior at New England Jewish Academy (NEJA) in West Hartford, has been named a Commended Student in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program, it was announced last week by NEJA principal, Dr. Richard Nabel. Simon is among approximately
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