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FRIENDS OF ARAVA

The Friends of the Arava Institute Board of Trustees

2012-2013

Officers:

Hillel Salomon
Chair

Frank Chudnow
Vice-Chair

Karen Fierst
Treasurer

Karen Schapiro
Secretary

Staff:

Daniel Schachter
Executive Director

Rabbi Michael Cohen
Director of Development

Branwen Cale
Associate Director

Erin Jenkins
Development Associate

Board of Trustees
2012-2013

Mehnaz Afridi
Long Beach, CA

Mohammad Atwa
Kansas City, MO

Eric Berzon
Oakland, CA

Andrea Boyarsky-Maisel
Potomac, MD

Colleen Camp
Los Angeles, CA

Moriah Cohen
San Francisco, CA

Sonia Simon Cummings
Los Angeles, CA

Brock Evans
Washington, D.C.

Barry R. Fierst
Silver Spring, MD

Aaron Frank
San Franciso, CA

Lisa Friedman
Agoura Hills, CA

Audrey Galex
Atlanta, GA

Steve Greenberg
New York, NY

Barbara Gural
Washington, DC

Rabbi Amy Wallk Katz
Springfield, MA

Zach Korenstein
New York, NY

David Lehrer
Kibbutz Ketura

Jonathan Leo
Orange County, CA

Ron Lubin
Boston, MA

Michael Marcus
Denver, CO

Paul Miller
Livingston, NJ

Glenda Blum Minkin
Atlanta, GA

Dan Mogulof
Berkeley, CA

Mark Mower
Los Angeles, CA

Eric Pallant
Meadville, PA

Mandy Patinkin
New York, NY

Alison Pepper
Washington D.C.

Jack Platt
Philadelphia, PA

Howie Rodenstein
Newton, MA

Bonnie Roth
Thousand Oaks, CA

Nigel Savage
New York, NY

Stuart Schoenfeld
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jonathan Schorsch
New York, NY

Miriam Sharton
Kibbutz Ketura

Ori Sivan
Chicago, IL

Bruce Stanger
West Hartford, CT

Chet Stein, DDS
Washington DC

Butch Weaver
Boulder, CO

Sunny Zia
Irvine,CA