In This Issue
Newsletter: June 1, 2006
JSPAN announces new director nominees
JSPAN’s Nominating Committee announced today a list of new directors who will be presented to the membership at the annual meeting on Tuesday, June 6th. They are:
  • Irwin Aronson - An attorney at Willig, Williams and Davidson in Harrisburg, Pa. and co-founder of Keystone Research Center, Inc.
  • Brian Gocial - An attorney at Blank Rome, LLP in Philadelphia, Pa., and Fellow of the Center for Progressive Leadership
  • Brian Gralnick - Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and Fellow of the Center for Progressive Leadership
  • Lazar Kleit - Former Executive Director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations
  • Barry Kramer - Deputy General Counsel in Governor Rendell’s Office of General Counsel
  • Norm Newberg, Ph.D. - Former Senior Fellow at the University of Pa. Graduate School of Education and Director of “Say Yes to Education”
  • Ruth Perry – Former President National Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America; former Regional Director of American Jewish Congress
  • Burt Siegel - Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia
The Nominating Committee has also proposed the re-election of:
  • Ruth Schultz, Ph.D. – Chair Mentoring Program for Future Leaders of Hadassah, and Past National Chair of Read Write Now
  • Barry Ungar - Mediator/arbitrator, former President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia, and former Vice Chair of Jewish Council on Public Affairs
The Nominating Committee has proposed re-election of the following officers:
  • President Jeffrey Pasek
  • Vice-President Kenneth Fox
  • Vice President Kenneth Myers
  • Secretary and General Counsel Stewart M. Weintraub
  • Treasurer Joel Beaver
We hope you will join us at 7:30 p.m. on June 6th to welcome the new directors and hear a provocative talk by Professor Harvey Glickman from Haverford College on All Terrorists are Not Alike: The Policy Consequences. Reservations are required as noted in the program announcement which is reprinted below.

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JSPAN Officers
Jeffrey Pasek
President

Kenneth Fox
Vice President

Kenneth Myers
Vice President

Joel Beaver
Treasurer

Stewart Weintraub
Secretary & General Counsel

Directors:
Susan Myers, Chair
Connie Beresin
Deanne Comer
Hon. Ruth Damsker
Helen Fox
Nancy Gordon
Jerome Kaplan
Eve Klothen
Ruth Laibson
Judah Labovitz
Theodore Mann
Sidney Margulies
Joshua Pasek
Jared Solomon
Rabbi David Straus
Barry Ungar
Rabbi Avi Winokur

 

 
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