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| Mark Gerson (NY) |
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Mark Gerson is the co-founder and Chairman of Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). He is the Chairman of United Hatzalah (the network of first responders that treat victims of pre-hospital trauma in Israel) and the co-founder and Chairman of the Africa Mission Healthcare Foundation (which supports the work of medical missionaries performing clinical care throughout Africa).
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Mark is also the co-founder and Chairman of Coverago, the Chairman of Axial Markets and the author of The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars (Madison Books: 1996) and of In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School That Works (Free Press: 1997). He lives with his wife, Rabbi Erica Gerson, and their two sons in New Jersey. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Williams College and received his JD from Yale Law School.
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| Eli Beer (Israel) |
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Eli Beer has been involved in emergency medical first response in Israel since 1988. The impetus to pursue a “career" in emergency response was the result of the tragedy which occurred on June 2, 1978...
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On that date, Eli witnessed the bombing of the #12 bus. He was struck by the chaos of the incident and the dearth of local emergency rescue resources. This traumatic experience coupled with his desire to help people, encouraged him to become a volunteer medic. Moreover, from that moment on, Eli nurtured the dream of legions of Hatzalah volunteers responding to an emergency moments from the initial call.
For the past 20 years various Hatzalah organizations had been functioning in Israel. Hatzalah became a household word in Israel. Images of rescue volunteers racing through smoke, fire and mayhem to save the lives of people stricken by terror attacks, car accidents or medical emergencies, became commonplace in the media.
Fine-tuning his idea as a youth, in 2006, following the Second Lebanon War, Eli helped establish United Hatzalah, dedicated to unifying the level of professionalism, training and efficiency of the disparate Hatzalah organizations throughout Israel.
At present, Eli currently serves as the voluntary President, Chief Coordinator and senior medic of United Hatzalah of Israel, the all volunteer, emergency medical services organization in Israel. When not in the field, Eli lectures at health organizations around the world and was a featured presenter at the European Union's Homeland Security Conference.
For the last five years, Eli has been President of 'Batya - Friends of United Hatzalah', an American organization which supports Hatzalah organizations in Israel.
Eli was the recipient of the World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur for Israel in 2010 and has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January 2012. In addition, he recently accepted the Presidential Award for Volunteerism in Israel on behalf of United Hatzalah.
In Eli's over 20 years of lifesaving, some of the worst civil, wartime and terror incidents he has responded to are included below:
Ben Yehuda Street bombings – On December 1, 2001 while responding to the first explosion, Eli began to assess the situation when he nearly became a victim of the secondary explosive device which exploded nearby knocking him to the ground. The second device specifically targeted first responders. Eleven people were killed and 188 injured in those attacks.
Versailles Wedding Hall disaster – Manning the first ambulance on the scene, Eli launched the mass casualty response plan for the worst civil disaster in Israel's history.
Second Lebanon War – Eli Beer coordinated the activities of Hatzalah in Northern Israel with volunteers in other regions, thereby establishing "proof of concept" for a United Hatzalah.
Operation Cast Lead – Building on the model established during the Second Lebanon War, United Hatzalah ensured the safety of its volunteers by providing them with NIJ III Ballistic Helmets and Body Armor. In addition, local volunteers were rotated out of the operational theatre for recuperation and other volunteers were rotated in to provide emergency medical support for the duration of the conflict.
In addition to his role as a full time volunteer, Eli runs his family real estate business. When he's not responding to emergency calls, Eli enjoys spending time with his wife Gitty, and their five children, four girls and one boy.
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| Frank Belassen (France) |
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| Chaim Berkovitz (France) |
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| Yaron Carni (Israel) |
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Yaron Carni founded the The Tel Aviv Angel Group - a boutigue group of high value angel investors from around the world who are interested in the success of innovative, disruptive Israeli technology start-ups (www.telavivangels.com).
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Yaron was lead the investment in and was the business development director of LabPixies, the first and only Israeli company to be aquired by Google. Since then, Yaron has been involved in 6 startup companies - the holdings in several of which have already been sold. Yaron is a graduate of the Sam Zell Entrepreneurship Program and holds a Master’s Degree in Law with a concentration in IP.
In addition, Yaron serves as an reserves officer in the I.D.F. and has been proudly serving on the board of United Hatzalah for the past three years."
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| Bert Cohen (Virgin Islands) |
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| Joe Dagrosa (FL) |
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| Ron Daniels (IA) |
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| Isy Danon (South Africa) |
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| Professor Alan Dershowitz (MA) |
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Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion".
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He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg.
He has also published more than 100 articles in magazines and journals such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post. The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, Commentary, Saturday Review, The Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, and more than 300 of his articles have appeared in syndication in 50 national daily newspapers.
Professor Dershowitz is the author of 27 fiction and non-fiction works with a worldwide audience. His most recent titles include “an exceptional, action packed book,” The Trials of Zion, a novel which has been called “a thought-provoking page turner,” Rights From Wrong, The Case For Israel, The Case For Peace, Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence and Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways, Finding Jefferson – A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery, Shouting Fire and The First Amendment In An Age of Terrorism.
In addition to his numerous law review articles and books about criminal and constitutional law, he has written, taught and lectured about history, philosophy, psychology, literature, mathematics, theology, music, sports – and even delicatessens.
In 1983, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith presented him with the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award for his "compassionate eloquent leadership and persistent advocacy in the struggle for civil and human rights." In presenting the award, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel said: "If there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different." Professor Dershowitz has been awarded the honorary doctor of laws degree by Yeshiva University, the Hebrew Union College, Brooklyn College, Syracuse University, Tel Aviv University, New York City College and Haifa University.
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| Zecki Dossal (NY) |
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Zecki Dossal is a Vice President at Gerson Lehrman Group, responsible for overseeing strategy and service delivery for GLG's private equity and venture capital business. He also leads the company's social impact initiatives. Zecki has extensive experience working across sectors, and has helped develop GLG’s business with a number of corporations, strategy consulting firms and non-profit organizations.
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Until the end of 2007, he was responsible for managing the global research team for the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice. He joined the firm in 2002 as a Research Analyst, responsible for recruiting and development of GLG’s global TMT network. Zecki earned a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University, after initially starting undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins, and is currently pursuing an MBA at Columbia Business School. He serves on the board of United Hatzalah of Israel.
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| Noah Elbogen (NY) |
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Noah Elbogen is currently an investment analyst at a NY-based hedge fund. Previously, he spent 7 years on the buy-side at SAC, Highbridge, and Scout Capital, as well as 2 years in the equity research department at Bear Stearns covering the consumer/retail sector. Noah holds a B.A. from Columbia University and serves as a committee member of United Hatzalah of Israel.
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| Shimon Elkabetz (Israel) |
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Shimon Elkabets is the CEO of "Harel investment in Insurance & Finance", and the Chairman of "Harel Finance" and "Harel Pia" & "Harel securities & Trade". Prior to Harel Mr. Elkabets worked in senior managerial positions at top Swiss banks DBTC and UBP, Geneva and is the co-founder of the Recanati Inbar Investment House.
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Mr. Elkabets holds a Bachelors degree in Economics and Accounting and a Masters in Economics – both from the University of Haifa.
He lives in Even Yehuda with his wife and four children.
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| David Friedman (NY) |
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| Erica Gerson (NJ) |
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Erica Gerson is an ordained rabbi and also holds a Masters in Religious Education from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She is a former KAVOD Tzedakkah Fellow and previously served as the Director of Education at Jewish Community Project Downtown, in New York City. She currently teaches children and adults at Congregation Bnai Jeshurun in Short Hills, NJ and through the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School. Erica and her husband Mark are the proud parents of Joshua Shai and Elijah Benjamin Gerson.
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| Matthew Gewirtz (NJ) |
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| Alex Goldberg (NY) |
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| Neal Goldman (NY) |
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| Jeff Goldstein (GA) |
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| Jerry Greenwald (NY) |
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| Greg Heyman (NY) |
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| Merv Jacobs (FL) |
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Merv Jacobs is retired and had worked as an electronic engineer for many years, both in private business and as an employee for electronic companies.
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Although not working, he keeps very busy and is on 3 Bds. of Directors: United Hatzalah of Israel, Tuoro College South and Weinbaum Yeshiva HS.
Mr Jacobs is married with 3 married children and (not enough) grandchildren. He enjoys many activities, such as walking, fishing, cruising, exercise. He is in the middle of his 80's and still puts in a good days work. He looks forward to someday sitting back and rocking.
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| Prof. David Latchman (UK) |
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Professor Latchman CBE is a British geneticist and university administrator. Since 2003 he has been Master of Birkbeck, University of London, and Professor of Genetics at Birkbeck and University College London.
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Professor Latchman was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and received his doctorate from Cambridge University before undertaking postdoctoral research atImperial College London and in the Department of Biology at University College London. He worked in the Medical Molecular Biology Unit at UCL, and Middlesex School of Medicine. He has been Professor of Molecular Pathology and Director of the Windeyer Institute of Medical Science at UCL and was Dean of the Institute for Child Health (1999–2002).
He serves on a number of Committees including London Development Agency (observer status); Universities UK Research Policy Network; Confederation of British Industry(CBI) London Council; National DNA Database Ethics Group; London First Board member.
As a nephew of the late Maurice and Vivienne who supported 150 projects in Israel, UK and the former Soviet Union, David unquestionably carries on their tradition of genuine care for the Jewish Nation.
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| Joseph Meyer (NY) |
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| Michael Movsas (South Africa) |
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Mr. Movsas was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of The New Reclamation Group (Proprietary) Limited and Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited, Southern Africa's leading recycling group. Mr. Movsas previously served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
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Between 2002 and 2007, Mr. Movsas was based in Sydney, Australia, running licensed corporate advisory and commodity trading businesses. Prior to this, Mr. Movsas was based in Hong Kong and Japan for 12 years at the Macsteel Group, a leading multinational metal trading house and steel stockholding corporation. During this time he was appointed to the board of Macsteel Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and was the managing director of Macsteel International (Proprietary) Limited.
Mr. Movsas is a highly experienced executive in the global commodities trading and logistics businesses, and brings extensive operating experience to the Board. Mr. Movsas has a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Natal.
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| Michael Novack (MO) |
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| Shaul Olmert (Israel) |
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| Michael Olshan (NY) |
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Mr. Olshan has spent his career in the private investment community. He is the Founding Partner of O-CAP Management L.P., where he serves as Chairman and Managing Partner. Mr. Olshan formed O-CAP in June of 2009. O-CAP is an opportunistic investment firm, focusing on both public and private sectors. The firm maintains ownership interests in the US, Canada, Brazil, and Western Europe.
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Previously Mr. Olshan served as a Managing Director of JANA Partners LLC, focusing on special situations investing globally. Prior to that, Mr. Olshan worked as an analyst in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division and MSREF proprietary real estate funds. He continues to serve as a Director of Mall Properties Inc., OTK Associates, LLC, Structural Wealth Management LLC and Terra Acquisitions, LLC.
Mr. Olshan graduated cum laude from Harvard University with honors in Government, and is a member of the Belfer Center's International Council at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He serves on various committees at the International Center for Photography, NY Public Library and Whitney Museum. Mr. Olshan also serves as a Director of the Olshan Family Foundation.
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| Dov Perlysky (NY) |
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Dov Perlysky has served as the Managing Member of Nesher LLC, a financial management company, from 2000 to the present.
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From 1999 to the present, he has served as a director of Engex, Inc., a closed-end mutual fund. From 2004 to the present, Mr. Perlysky has been a director of Pharma-Bio Serv, Inc., a public company providing pharmaceutical validation services.
From 2007 to the present, he has served as a director of Highlands State Bank, a community bank. Mr. Perlysky earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1985, and a Master's of Management degree from Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, in 1991.
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| Professor Avi Rivkind (Israel) |
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| Keith Rosenbloom (NY) |
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| Lisa Rubin (NY) |
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Rabbi Lisa Rubin is a Reform rabbi at Central Synagogue in New York City where she is the Director of Adult Education and Conversion Studies. She was ordained from the New York campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2007. After ordination, she served Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, New York for three years.
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Rabbi Rubin graduated from the University of Michigan with honors, after which she worked in youth marketing and advertising at Leo Burnett in Chicago before beginning her rabbinical career. In addition to United Hatzalah, Rabbi Rubin currently serves on the board of Elem, a nonprofit organization that aids youth in distress in Israel. She resides in Manhattan with her husband, Howard Neuthaler, and their son, Harrison.
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| Israel Shachter (Canada) |
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Israel "Yummy" Schachter is a young entrepreneur with experience in strategic management and leadership of for profit and non-for-profit companies. He sits on boards of educational institutions, hospitals, charitable foundations and numerous non-profit organizations around the world.
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Israel is the co-founder of www.CharityBids.org, www.socialgivingnetwork.org and www.FanFunderApp.com as well as numerous other web and social media platforms which were designed specifically to assist charities in building their presence and raising funds from those otherwise beyond their reach.
He is responsible for raising over $20 million for various causes on a total volunteer basis over the past few years alone. Israel is currently the CEO of Integreated Solutions, a Toronto-based internet incubator working with, and investing in, entrepreneurs pursuing high-potential, disruptive web and social media innovations.
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| Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein (OH) |
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| Dan Schwartz (NY) |
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| Scott Shleifer (NY) |
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Scott L. Shleifer is a managing director at Tiger Global Management and is the co-portfolio manager of their private investment business.
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Prior to joining Tiger Global, Mr. Shleifer was with The Blackstone Group working in private equity. He received a B.S. in economics, Magna Cum Laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Shleifer is actively involved in numerous philanthropic activities. He is a member of the Wharton Undergraduate Executive Board, a trustee of the Tiger Foundation, a member of the board of Ubuntu Education Fund, co-chair for Teach for America’s Learning from Leaders Breakfast series, and committee member of United Hatzalah of Israel.
Scott grew up in Portland, Oregon, and lives in Manhattan with his wife and two sons.
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| Bradley Spiegel (NY) |
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Bradley Spiegel is currently a Business Development Manager with BCA Research, a leading independent provider of global macro reserach. Prior to BCA, Brad spent five years as an Account Manager at the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), a New York based investment research firm that manages a global network of industry experts aiding in the research process of their institutional clients. He is also a Director of the Spiegel Family Foundation.
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Brad holds his B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and MBA from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business.
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| Michael Staenberg (MO) |
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As a young child from a family of modest means, Michael Staenberg learned that charitable giving was not only expected, but also a privilege. When he earned a few dollars by sweeping out the basement of an apartment building, his father suggested that a portion of the money should be given to help people who weren’t as fortunate as he.
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The lesson wasn’t lost on the 8 year old, who gave half of his chore money to help underprivileged children. This commitment to serving others has made him one of the most respected philanthropists in St. Louis and throughout the country.
As co-founder and president of THF Realty, Staenberg is at the helm of the third largest commercial real estate company in America. Today, due to his vision and passion to succeed, THF owns and manages more than 100 developments in over half the states in America, valued at more than a billion dollars.
The sustained success of THF is credited to Staenberg’s endless energy which he applies not only to his business ventures, but to his community and civic contributions of time, resources and money.
Through the years he has donated millions of dollars both personally and through the Staenberg Family Foundation (which he created with his wife Carol in 2005) to charities, children’s organizations, schools, hospitals, health organizations, Jewish community groups, municipalities, and bicycling events among many others. (A full list of his contributions is attached.)
From large visible projects -- $15 million to build the new Staenberg Family Complex for the Jewish Community Centers in St. Louis – to small undertakings such as a neighborhood playground, Staenberg’s generosity provides help, comfort and hope to thousands and thousands of people.
“There are so many people who may never have a chance to help themselves, but with our involvement, we can give them a way to turn their lives around,” said Staenberg. He references the students in the All Star Jazz Band he funds through Jazz St. Louis. “They couldn’t afford an instrument or lessons. Now they’re off the streets, playing their hearts out and heading for college.”
The Staenberg name is connected to many projects including The Wellness Community’s Staenberg Family Foundation Cancer Services Program, the Staenberg Dance Studio at the Center for Creative Arts (COCA), and the Staenberg Trunk Program which provides educational materials to help teach about the Holocaust.
But his contributions go beyond the framework of structured organizations. When he heard of a mother of 3 small children who was going to lose her home, he raised the money to keep her in the house. Upon learning that an acquaintance was scheduled to have a bone marrow transplant and couldn’t leave her apartment, he supplied a private exercise instructor so she could keep working out at home.
When an associate told him about an 84-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who wanted to go to visit her homeland before she died, Staenberg immediately paid for the trip.
These stories are not publicized, but they are very common in Staenberg’s world of giving, which he often does anonymously.
Michael and Carol Staenberg have been recognized often for their charitable efforts including: the Legacy Award from Saint Louis Planned Giving Council in partnership with the Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation; World of Difference Award from the Anti-Defamation League; Outstanding Citizen Award from Child Center-Marygrove; Make A Wish Foundation’s Outstanding Contributors; Couple of the Year Award from Efforts for Aids; and the Barbara Rose Memorial Award from Jazz St. Louis.
Presently Staenberg serves on the board of directors or trustees of the following organizations:
• Jewish Community Center (Chairman of the Board)
• Regional Business Council
• St. Louis Variety (Executive Committee)
• Barnes Jewish Hospital
• St. Louis University
• St. Louis Zoo Foundation
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
• Saint Louis Art Museum
• Sheldon Concert Hall and Galleries
• American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
• Holocaust Museum in St. Louis
Staenberg’s contributions have strengthened St. Louis and many other communities and will long live as a legacy to the spirit of generosity he learned as a young boy.
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Howard M. Stahl is the cantor of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, New Jersey. He was called to its pulpit in 1999 after having served congregations on Long Island and in Albany, New York. He is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, and earned a Masters degree in Social Work from the State University of New York at Albany with specializations in both Gerontology and Marriage and Family Therapy. HUC-JIR awarded Cantor Stahl an Honorary Doctorate in 1998 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the cantorate and the Jewish people.
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Cantor Stahl is well known and highly respected within the Reform Jewish movement. He is a past president of the American Conference of Cantors, and has served as an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Union for Reform Judaism. He is the founding chairman of the National Commission on Cantorial-Congregational Relationships and was the editor of the Guidelines for Cantorial- Congregational Relationships, written to facilitate healthy and productive relationships between cantors and congregations. Cantor Stahl has held the office of Executive Vice President of the American Conference of Cantors, serving as its chief administrative officer and spokesperson for the cantorate to the reform movement.
A gifted and creative educator, Cantor Stahl was honored by the National Association of Temple Educators in 1995 for his commitment to Jewish education and, in 1984, he was awarded Life Membership in the North American Federation of Temple Youth for his pioneer work with Jewish youth.
Cantor Stahl and his wife Dr. Nancy Simpkins live in New Jersey and are the parents of five children and the grandparents of a grandson.
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