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COMPILED BY ELIZABETH RAHAIM AND Marking a milestone in the College's five-year strategic plan—redesigning its leadership structure—the new governing Board of Trustees of Hebrew College met for the first time on February 4. The culmination of over a year of planning, the new structure calls for two boards: a 15-member Board of Trustees, which will be actively involved in day-to-day decision making; and a reconfigured Board of Overseers and President's Council, consisting of Hebrew College leaders who will meet periodically to advise and consult with President David M. Gordis. The 15 Trustees, some with longtime ties to Hebrew College, some new members of the community, bring years of leadership experience and enthusiastic commitment to the institution. The snapshots below highlight their many accomplishments and affiliations. Mickey Cail Alan Steinert Malcolm E. Hindin Mark Atkins Ted Benard Cutler Betty Brudnick Jason Chudnofsky Carol Rabb Goldberg Mort Lowenthal Ambassador Alfred H. Moses Beth Moskowitz Prof. Gary Orren Leslie Bornstein Stacks Theodore H. Teplow Diane Troderman |
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Chair of the new Board of Trustees and Chair of the former Board of Directors, Mr. Cail is the owner of Cail Realty and Investment Corporation. Co-chair of the College's Capital Campaign Steering Committee, he received the Philip W. Lown Award in 1995 and established the Mickey Cail Fund for Jewish Continuity. He was Vice President and board member at CJP, President of Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly and of the Chestnut Hill Lodge of B'nai B'rith and now serves on the Executive Board of the Anti-Defamation League. He also helped build the Gosman Campus at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC in Newton and remains active at Northeastern University, his alma mater, serving on its Hillel Board of Directors.
A management consultant to nonprofit human service and medical care organizations, Mr. Steinert was President and CEO of The Eastern Company, President of the Board of Overseers of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and a Trustee of Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has held several positions in Massachusetts state government, including Undersecretary of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and Chief of Staff of Health and Human Services. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of the Executive Service Corps and serves on the Board of Directors of CASPAR, a substance addiction and homeless shelter agency. He is President of the Eastern Charitable Foundation and has served as a director of several publicly traded companies, including Arrow Automotive, Fantom Technologies and BayBank Norfolk Trust Company.
Secretary of the new Board of Trustees, Mr. Hindin is a partner with the law firm Palmer & Dodge LLP, and served as Vice Chair and Treasurer of the former Board of Directors. He was also a member of the Governance Committee. A former Prozdor parent, he co-chairs the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group and chairs the Pension Investment Committee at Palmer & Dodge. He is a member of the American Bar Association and serves as Trustee at Temple Emanuel in Newton, where he is past President. He also serves as a Trustee of the Chelsea Hebrew School Endowment Fund and the Max C. Rosenfeld Foundation, and is a board member of the New England Region of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
A 1965 Prozdor graduate, Mr. Atkins is President and CEO of Invention Machine Corporation and chairs the Hebrew College Online Strategic Planning Committee. Before joining Invention Machine, he was Chairman, President and CEO of Vality Technology, Inc., a global software company, which was sold in 2002. He has served in senior leadership positions at Computer Solutions, Honeywell Information Systems, Service Bureau Corporation (a former IBM subsidiary), Polaroid Corporation and BayBank (acquired by BankBoston, now a part of Fleet Boston Corporation). Recently appointed Adjunct Professor at the Business School of UMass Boston, he also serves on the boards of the American Jewish Committee and TECH 20 (a division of CJP).
Recipient of an honorary doctorate from the College in 2002, Mr. Benard Cutler has served as Chair and Honorary Chair of the former Board of Trustees. A partner and member of the Board of Directors of The Interface Group-Massachusetts, Inc., he is President of GWV International. In addition, he is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Emerson College, board member of the Boston Ballet and a Trustee of the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, he also serves on the boards of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, among many organizations.
A 1946 Prozdor graduate, Mrs. Brudnick served on the College's former Board of Directors and recently created, with her husband, the Betty and Irving Brudnick Fellowship at Hebrew College. The couple also established the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and the Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University. Holder of an honorary doctorate from UMass, she currently serves on the boards of McLean Hospital and the UMass Memorial Foundation and, along with her husband, will be awarded Hebrew College's 2003 Philip W. Lown Award for their outstanding contributions to Jewish learning and culture.
President and CEO of Key3Media Events, which produces events for the information technology industry, Mr. Chudnofsky is a member of the Hebrew College Online Strategic Planning Committee. He is Vice Chair, COO and board member of Key3Media Group, the parent company of Key3Media Events, and is recognized worldwide as a leader in the high-technology and meetings industry. He has served as President of the trade show division of The Interface Group-Massachusetts, Inc., and President and CEO of SOFTBANK COMDEX, Inc. A CJP board member, for the past two years he has co-chaired their Annual Fund. He currently sits on the boards of Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston, the Soloveitchik Institute, Tech Corps and TECH 20 (a division of CJP).
A 2000 recipient of an honorary doctorate from Hebrew College, Mrs. Goldberg is President of The Avcar Group, Ltd., a private investment and consulting firm she founded with her husband, Avram, in 1990. She is former President and COO of the Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. Currently Director of America Service Group and Inverness Medical Innovations, she founded the Commonwealth Institute, which helps women entrepreneurs. She has served on numerous boards, including the Gillette Company and Putnam Fund Groups. She serves on the Executive Committee at CJP and is a member of the Boston Jewish Committee Women's Fund, also part of CJP. In addition she is a Trustee of the Sidney R. Rabb Charitable Trust and the Sidney and Esther Rabb Charitable Foundation.
Past Vice Chair of Hebrew College's former Board of Directors, Mr. Lowenthal is retired from his position as an investment banker with Wertheim Schroder and Co., in New York City. A resident of Stamford, Conn., he is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies, a resident affiliate of Hebrew College, serves on the National Board and Executive Committee of Hillel and is a member of the Cornell University Council. Active in the United Jewish Federation of Greater Stamford, he is also a longtime member of the Board of Directors and chairs the Finance Committee of St. Luke's LifeWorks, which offers housing and community support to families in crisis.
Former Ambassador to Romania during the Clinton administration, Ambassador Moses is Chair of Hebrew College's National Board. A distinguished international leader, he served as President Clinton's Special Emissary for the Cyprus Problem from 1999 to 2001 and was special adviser and counsel to President Carter from 1980 to 1981. Currently an active partner and senior counsel in the law firm of Covington & Burling and consultant to Promontory Financial Group, LLC, in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Moses has served as President and is Honorary Chair of the American Jewish Committee, former Chair of the Golda Meir Association and past Trustee of the Jewish Publication Society.
The recipient of Prozdor's first Stanley Berkowitz Memorial Award in 2001 for outstanding support to high school Jewish education, Mrs. Moskowitz co-chairs the College's Adult Learning Steering Committee and serves on the Me'ah Leadership Council. At CJP, she is a member of the Executive Board and President of the Women's Division, and serves on the Commission on Jewish Continuity's Executive Committee and the Boston-Haifa Steering Committee. She also chairs the Unity Mission Council (the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts). Past President of Temple Aliyah of Needham, she serves on its board, as well as the boards of the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Solomon Schechter Day School.
Prof. Orren is the Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy and Management at Harvard University. An award-winning political analyst and author, he is a consultant to corporations, government agencies and nonprofits around the world. He also has served as a political adviser in election campaigns in the U.S. and other countries, and currently works as an elections analyst for ABC-TV. A leading expert on public opinion, he was one of the creators of the first national news media poll, The New York Times/CBS News Poll. For City Year, a national youth service program, he served as a team leader and Director of National Policy and Planning and now sits on its National Board of Trustees. He served on Hebrew College's former Board of Directors.
A 1962 Prozdor graduate, who continues to take courses at Hebrew College, Mrs. Bornstein Stacks was Vice Chair of the former Board of Directors, currently chairs the Arts Committee and is former Chair of the Budget Committee. As a member of the Building Committee, she received the Philip W. Lown Award in 2002. Trained as an interior designer, she was President of L. Bornstein & Co., a floor coverings distribution company and design showroom, now headed by her son. Chair of the Board of Trustees of Temple Emanuel and Trustee at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she also serves on the board of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Women's Division and is a member of the Commission on Jewish Continuity.
A 1999 recipient of an honorary doctorate from Hebrew College, Mr. Teplow was Chair of the former Board of Trustees and currently heads the Investment Committee. Retired as CEO and President of Crosby Valve, Inc., he has served on the boards of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies, the Stone Charitable Foundation and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Foundation, Inc. In 2002, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree honoris causa from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, where he is Assistant Treasurer and board member of its American Committee and member of its International Board of Governors.
Mrs. Troderman serves on the executive boards of such agencies as JESNA (Jewish Education Service of North America), Hillel and Project Kesher (a woman-to-woman's organization renewing Jewish life in the former Soviet Union). She and her husband, Harold Grinspoon, are founding partners in the PEJE collaborative (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education). She is past President of the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women located at Brandeis and currently serves on the boards of the Hadassah Foundation and the Jewish Funders Network. She is past President of the Springfield Jewish Federation as well as Hillel at UMass and Founding Chair of the Hatikvah Holocaust Center of Western Mass. Professionally, she directed the Grinspoon Charitable Foundation for the first eight years of its existence.