Board of Directors

Directors 2025-2026

President

Jonathan Sterling 

Vice Presidents

Ralph McDowell
Nita Cohen

Treasurer

Susan Hodess

Secretary

Dr. Jonathan Fellows

Immediate Past President

Dr. Allen Berman

Executive Director

David C. Contorer

Board of Directors

Dr. Steven Arbit
Jeffrey Aronoff
Amy Berlin
Scott Bernstein
Joshua Borson
Nikki Budaj-Chatfield
Steve Carrel
Kevin Chupack
Marc Crane
Lauren Daitch
Loren Dickstein
Judy Domstein
Amy Ersher
Mark Feiler
Randall Fogelman
Lacey Foon
Rabbi David Furman
Diane Goldstein
Eli Golshteyn
Tara Forman Hack
Julie Trepeck Harris
Lulu Rubens Hartman
Joel Hechler
Philip Kafka
Dr. Emily Shwedel Levin
Dr. Zachary Liss
Nancy Luckoff
Jared Rothberger
Joshua Rubin
Michelle Rubin
Carly Schiff
Neil Sherman
Nechama Soloff
John Teweles
Yoni Torgow
Pamela Torraco
Lauren Willens
Todd Wolfe
Barbara Zaltz

HFL Past Presidents

Dr. Allen Berman, 2023 – 2025
David Kramer, 2021 – 2023
Carolyn Tisdale, 2019 – 2021
Carolyn Bellinson, 2017 – 2019
Harriet L. Orley, 2015 – 2017
Michael Berke, 2013 – 2015
Stuart Sherman, 2012 – 2013
Robert Schwartz, 2010 – 2012
Peggy Daitch, 2008 – 2010
Michael Banks, 2006 – 2008
Richard Broder, 2004 – 2006
Laurie Frankel, 2003 – 2004
Arthur Y. Liss, 2001 – 2003
Robert Citrin, 1999 -2001
Stuart J. Snider, 1997 -1999
Paul A. Hack, 1995 – 1997
Marlene J. Borman*, 1993 – 1995
Henry P. Lee*, 1991 – 1993
Irwin Kahn*, 1990 – 1991
Sherwin A. Behrmann*, 1988 – 1990
Emery I. Klein*, 1986 – 1988
Milton Marwil*, 1983 – 1986
Graham Landau*, 1979 – 1983
Henry Leopold*, 1976 – 1979
William Wetsman*, 1974 – 1976
Jacob L. Keidan*, 1972 – 1973
Henry Auslander*, 1971
Samuel Lieberman*, 1970
Lawrence Crohn*, 1967 – 1969
Henry Auslander*, 1966
Samuel Lieberman*, 1966
Jack Tobin*, 1965
Samuel Lieberman*, 1961 – 1964
Maurice Klein*, 1957 – 1960
Julian L. Zemon*, 1955 – 1956
Robert R. Marwil*, 1952 – 1954
George M. Stutz*, 1949 – 1951
Morris Blumberg*, 1946 – 1948
Isaac Shetzer*, 1944 – 1945
David S. Zemon*, 1924 – 1943
Jacob Nathan*, 1923 – 1924
David W. Simons*, 1923
Morris Friedberg*, 1917 – 1920
Isaac Shetzer*, 1913 – 1917
Selig Koploy*, 1908 – 1913
Isaac Shetzer*, 1907 – 1908
Selig Koploy*, 1901 – 1907
Michael Davis*, 1895 – 1901

*of blessed memory

Honorary Life Members

Sam Bernstein
Stan Bershad
Joanne Danto
Michael Graub
Mary S. Keane
Dr. David Kirsch
Rex Lanyi
Jay Must
Joyce Sherman
David Wallace

NextGen Liaison

Justin Polk

Everyone at Hebrew Free Loan was incredibly kind, and now we have Pearl.

- Rachel and Aaron Schwartz, who received a personal loan from HFL to pay for in vitro fertilization.