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Leadership
Dennis
Speisman, President |
Vivian Bass, CEO
| Board of Directors
| Executive Staff
Under the current
leadership, JFGH has received the following
recognition:
Four-star rating (Charity Navigator) for 7
consecutive years
Seal of Excellence (Maryland Association of
Nonprofit Organizations)
Dennis Speisman, President
 President
of The Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
Board of Directors
- President, Mileham & King, Inc.
- Native Washingtonian
- Trustee of the Gildenhorn/Speisman
Family Foundation
- Graduate of the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Married to Leslie. They have 1
daughter, Carrie, son-in-law Travis and granddaughter,
Mallory.
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Vivian Bass, Chief Executive
Officer - Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
(JFGH)
 Chief
Executive Officer of The Jewish Foundation
for Group Homes
- Presented/delivered numerous papers
to the World Congress on Disabilities,
American Association on Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) and
many more
- Board member of Potomac Community
Resources (PCR)
- Numerous distinctions including;
2006 Washingtonian of the Year; City of
Rockville Human Rights Commission’s F.
Michael Taff Award; PCR’s Patricia
Sullivan Award; 2001 Sulam Award; Jewish
Federation of Greater Washington ‘Woman
of Valor’ (Lion of Judah); Jewish Woman
International’s Community Leadership
Award; Yeshivat Chovevei Torah 2008
Award
- Undergraduate and graduate studies
at The University of Michigan
- Married to Raymond Bass. They have 3
sons and 2 grandchildren.
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Board of Directors: 2008-2009
|
Officers |
At
Large |
Past Presidents |
|
Dennis Speisman, President |
Charles Cole |
David Bindeman (z”l) |
|
Lisa Reiner Cohen, VP/Administration |
Kenneth Gilman |
S. Robert Cohen |
|
Jennifer Margolius Fisher, VP/Development |
Honey Nashman |
Charles Eisen |
|
Abba Blum, VP/Finance |
Marc Pasternak |
Robert N. Eisman |
|
David Raskin, VP/Program |
Stefan Tucker |
Ronald Glancz |
|
Sara Rubinow Simon,
Secretary |
Vivian Watkins |
Gary Henkin |
|
Nanette Bender, Assistant
Secretary |
|
Lawrence S. Herman |
|
Irving Shapiro, Treasurer |
|
Leslie Kaplan
|
|
Lewis "Buzzy" Cohn, Assistant
Treasurer |
|
Peter Levin |
|
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|
Leslie Milk |
|
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|
Gerald Wedren |
|
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|
Eugene Youngentob |
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(z”l) =
of
blessed memory |
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Board of
Directors
|
| James Ackerman |
Joshua Kaufman |
Lee Simowitz |
|
Leonard Bebchick |
Jeffrey Krauthamer |
Aaron Stopak |
|
Robert Bindeman |
Larry Miller |
Joyce Torchinsky |
|
John Bloomfield |
Clifford Mendelson |
Marvin Waldman |
|
Kenneth Braunstein |
William Oshinsky |
Elizabeth Obermayer Weintraub |
|
Beth
Eisman |
Susan Pittleman |
Carol West |
|
Mark Futrovsky
|
Raymond Pitts |
Janet Wintrol |
|
Harvey Goodman |
H. Mark
Rabin |
Joseph Wolinsky |
|
Dwayne Holt |
|
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|
Advisory
Committee
|
|
Rabbi Bruce Aft |
Norma Lee Funger |
Hon. Susan Lee |
|
Arline Atlas |
Hon. Douglas
Gansler |
Thelma Lenkin |
|
Lee Ellyn Altobello |
Estelle Gelman |
Annette Lerner |
|
Sondra Bender |
Shari Gelman |
Rabbi Bruce Lustig |
|
Stanley Berlinsky |
Alma Gildenhorn |
Carole Nannes |
|
Barbara Bernstein |
Suzan Gildenhorn |
Judy Novenstein |
|
Julie Bernstein |
Margie Glancz |
Betty Nan Obermayer |
|
Tracy Bernstein |
Norman Goldstein |
Scott Paul, M.D. |
|
Carol Bindeman |
Florence Gootenberg |
Daniel Perlin,
M.D. |
|
Shelton Binstock |
Bobbie Gottschalk |
Al Pollin |
|
Miriam Birnbach |
Carolyn Doppelt Gray |
Dennis Ratner |
|
Hon. Vincent
Callahan |
Suzanne Greenleigh |
Sandra Reznick |
|
Ruth Cantor |
Henry Greenwald |
Susan Rolnick |
|
Joy Cohen |
Stuart Halpert |
Howard Rosenberg |
|
Nancy L. Cohen |
Ira Hammerman |
Rena Rutstein |
|
Randi-Lynn Cohen |
Richard Hindin |
Carol Schuman |
|
Ryna Cohen |
Howard Hoffman, M.D. |
Mark Shriver |
|
John Colby |
Marc Hyman |
Carlynn Silverman |
|
Hon. Jean Cryor |
General James Jones |
Irvin Silverman |
|
Father John Enzler |
Annette Jolles |
Rabbi Matthew
Simon |
|
Deborah Epstein |
Sheldon Kamins |
Donald Smith |
|
Douglas Erdman |
Samuel Kaplan |
L. Judith Snyder |
|
Diane Feinberg |
Jack Kay |
Linda VanGrack
Snyder |
|
Ginny Feldman |
Linda Klonsky |
Jeffery Van Grack |
|
Israel Feldman |
Linda Kogod |
Rabbi Jeffrey
Wohlberg |
|
Marilyn Feldman |
Frieda Lacey |
Alane Youngentob |
|
Samuel
Fineman |
Marjorie Lappen |
|
|
Norman
Freidkin |
Rabbi
Jonah Layman |
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Executive Staff
Chief Executive Officer
Vivian G. Bass |
Chief Financial Officer
Keith Danos |
Director of Human Resources
Pamela Best |
Deputy Director
Deborah M. Fisher, Psy.D. |
Director of Programs
Rebecca Rubin, LCSW-C |
Director of Development
Lew Fontek |
Director of Operations
Michael Rubin |
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