Board
The Board is elected for two years terms. Members may serve in a position for up to two consecutive terms.
Michelle Margolis, President
Sean Boyle, Vice President, President-Elect
Sharon Benamou, Membership V.P.
Jackie Ben-Efriam, Development V.P.
Rebecca Levitan, SSCPL President
Aviva Rosenberg, SSCPL VP
Kathy Bloomfield, Past President
Rivka Yerushalmi, Secretary
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, RAS President
Eitan Kensky, RAS V.P.
Andrew Lillien, Treasurer
Council (Includes Board Members)
Council positions are appointed by the Board.
Joseph Galron, HaSafran Moderator
Haim Gottschalk, Librarianship & Education Committee
Rachel Leket-Mor, Judaica Librarianship Editor
Paula Breger, Public Relations Chair
Heidi Rabinowitz, Member Relations
Anjelica Ruiz, Member-at-Large
Amalia Levi, Member-at-Large
Laura Schutzman, Publications Chair
Positions Reporting to the Council (Non-Voting)
Lenore Bell, Conference Stipends Chair
Jackie Ben-Efriam, Advertising Chair
Emily Bergman, ALA Liaison
Rebecca Levitan, KarBen Scholarship Committee Chair
Elana Gensler, Conference Proceedings Compiler
Aileen Grossberg, Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award Chair
Shaindy Kurzmann, Accreditation Committee Chair
Susan Kusel, ALA Liaison
Eitan Kensky, Reference & Bibliography Awards Committee Chair
Sean Boyle, Strategic Planning
Martha Simpson, Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee Chair
Sheryl Stahl, ATLA Liaison
Jackie Ben-Efraim, Endowment Committee Co-Chair
Andrew Lillian, Endowment Committee Co-Chair
Paula Breger, Jewish Fiction Award Committee Chair
Daniel Stuhlman, CATHLA Liaison
Rachel Greenblatt, AJS Liaison
Amalia Levi, International Liaison
Lisa Silverman, Fanny Goldstein Merit Award
Tina Weiss, Student Scholarship Committee
Neil Frau-Cortes, RAS Cataloging Committee
Past Presidents
2020-2022 Kathy Bloomfield
2018-2020 Dina Herbert
2016-2018 Amalia Warshenbrot
2014-2016 Yaffa Weisman
2012-2014 Heidi Rabinowitz Estrin
2010-2012 James P. Rosenbloom
2008-2010 Susan Dubin
2006-2008 Laurel Wolfson
2004-2006 Ronda Rose
2002-2004 Pearl Berger
2000-2002 Toby Rossner
1998-2000 David Gilner
1996-1998 Esther Nussbaum
1994-1996 Zachary Baker
1992-1994 Ralph Simon
1990-1992 Linda Lerman
1988-1990 Marcia W. Posner
1986-1988 Edith Lubetski
1984-1986 Hazel Karp
1982-1984 Philip E. Miller
1980-1982 Barbara Y. Leff
1978-1980 Harvey Horowitz
1976-1978 Margot Berman
1974-1976 Leonard Gold
1972-1974 Anne Kirshenbaum
1970-1972 Nathan Kaganoff
1969 Mae Weine
1968 Charles Berlin
1967 Jacob Dienstag
1966 Herbert Zafren