{"id":88,"date":"2015-03-06T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:22:32","slug":"board-of-directors-2018-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/board-of-directors-2018-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Region Board of Directors 2026-2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">President: Barbara Sharofsky&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Community Awareness Vice President : Denise Brand<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Education Vice President: Karen Cuker<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Membership\/Sisterhood Support Vice President: Sherrie Cohen<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Torah Fund Vice President: Ariana Burrows<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Communications Vice President: Beth Chernoff<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Ways &amp; Means Vice President: Sharon Sussman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Treasurer: Roberta Gordon<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Administrative Secretary: Michele Bernstein<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Parliamentarian: Athene Carpousis Elner<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Immediate Past President: Susan Markowitz<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Area Directors:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Faye Laveson (Area 2)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">TBA (Area 3)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Shelley Szwalbenest (Area 4)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Cindy Horowitz (Area 5)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Ruth Abrams (Area 6)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Torah Fund Area Directors:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Sandy Berenbaum (Area 2)<br \/>\nBarbara Braunstein (Area 3)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Nina Surden (Area 4)<br \/>\nIleene Jafee (Area 5)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Marsha Wasserman (Area 6)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Israel Affairs Chair: Ellie Kremer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Public Policy Chair: TBA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Judaica Shop Chair: Barbara Bess-Pashak<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Archives: Beth Chernoff<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Nominating Committee Chair: Susie Markowitz<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Past Presidents Council Chair: Susie Markowitz<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Bernice Oswald Women\u2019s League Institute: Violet Zeitlin and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Sima Sussman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Scholarship Committee Chair: Karen Cuker<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Webmaster: Lois Silverman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Women\u2019s League for Conservative Judaism Representatives:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Michele Bernstein<br \/>\nSherrie Cohen<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President: Barbara Sharofsky&nbsp; Community Awareness Vice President : Denise Brand Education Vice President: Karen Cuker Membership\/Sisterhood Support Vice President: Sherrie Cohen Torah Fund Vice President: Ariana Burrows Communications Vice President: Beth Chernoff Ways &amp; Means Vice President: Sharon Sussman Treasurer: Roberta Gordon Administrative Secretary: Michele Bernstein Parliamentarian: Athene Carpousis Elner Immediate Past President: Susan Markowitz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/board-of-directors-2018-2021\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlcjregion.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}