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President:
Peter L. Winik
E-mail:
President@whctemple.org
Peter L. Winik has been a
member of Washington Hebrew Congregation for close to 20 years
and has served as a Board Member and Officer since 2002. He
has served as First Vice President, Chair of the
Professional Review Committee, as well as Vice-Chair of the
Long Range Strategic Planning Committee, and a member of the
Budget & Finance and Technology Committees. He served as
General Counsel from 2002 to 2006 and a Vice President from
2006 to 2008. His past committee service includes: Chair of
the Development Committee; Co-Chair of the 2009 Rabbinic
Search Committee that brought Rabbi Noah Fabricant to the
Congregation; Chair of the 2005 Nominating Committee; and
service on the Religious School and Governance Committees. He
and his wife have also served several times as Mitzvah Day
team leaders. Mr. Winik has traveled to Israel on two
occasions with Washington Hebrew Congregation, once on the
family trip in 1998, and again in 2005 as part of the
leadership delegation trip.
In the wider community, Mr. Winik has served on the Boards of
the Jewish Council for the Aging and the Council for Court
Excellence, the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School, and
as a volunteer in numerous capacities at Sidwell Friends
School. He has volunteered in a variety of pro bono and bar
activities during the course of his legal career. Mr. Winik
also serves as a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight
Mid-Atlantic, flying missions for needy patients requiring
transportation to and from medical treatment.
Mr. Winik is a partner in the international law firm of Latham
& Watkins LLP, where he has practiced for 30 years. He serves
as the co-chair of the firm’s global Product Liability, Mass
Torts, and Consumer Class Actions practice group, and
previously served as the firm’s Washington, DC office Deputy
Managing Partner and Litigation Department Chair.
Mr. Winik received his undergraduate and law degrees from
Stanford University. He and his wife Sylvia, a learning
specialist at the Washington International School, have two
adult children: Daniel and Allison. |
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First Vice President:
Sherry Bindeman Kahn
Sherry Bindeman Kahn, a lifelong
member of the Congregation, has been a member of the Board of
Directors for the past ten years, having served on the
Executive Committee for the past six years as Vice President,
Secretary and Assistant Secretary. She is currently Vice-Chair
of the Professional Review Committee, on which she has served
for the past six years, and Chair of the Rabbinic Search
Committee. She also is a member of the Budget and Finance and
Minds Matter Committees.
Last year, Ms. Kahn co-chaired the
Rabbinic Search Committee that brought Rabbi Noah Fabricant to
Washington Hebrew Congregation. She has chaired the Religious
School Committee, served as Co-Chair of the Development
Committee, and Co-Chair of the Youth Director and Religious
School Director Search Committees. She has also served on the
Cantorial Search and Education Advisory Committees, and served
as a Mitzvah Day team leader. She is also a proud member of
the Adult B’nai Mitzvah class of 2005.
In the wider community, Ms. Kahn
serves on the Scholarship and Loan Committee of the Jewish
Social Service Agency and is a past member of its Board. She
has been actively involved in her children’s schools,
including most recently Georgetown Day School and
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
A graduate of Cornell University, Ms.
Kahn received a law degree from the University of Chicago. She
was a partner in the law firms of Sachs, Greenebaum & Tayler
and Witt, Nolan & Bindeman.
She and her husband, David, a partner
at the law firm of Holland & Knight, have three children:
Brooke, Hannah and Ben. |
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Vice
President: David M. Astrove
David M. Astrove has been a member of
the Congregation since 1989 and currently serves as Treasurer.
Mr. Astrove is the Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee
and is a member of the Long Range Strategic Planning
Committee. He has acted as counsel to the Congregation in
connection with the renovations of the Temple on Macomb Street
and the Julia Bindeman Suburban Center and on several other
real estate matters. Mr. Astrove is also the Treasurer and a
member of the Board of the Garden of Remembrance.
A graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania and the Columbia University School of Law, Mr.
Astrove has previously served on the Board of the Washington,
D.C. chapter of the Anti-Defamation League and currently
serves on the Board of the Diener School.
His wife, Deborah, is also his law
partner at Friedlander Misler, PLLC. He has three children:
Jeffrey, Brian and Michelle Astrove; and three step-children:
Jeffrey, Daniel and Erica Segal. |
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Vice President: Cheryl Paul Baraf
Cheryl Paul Baraf is the Board Liaison to
the Early Childhood Centers and Primary School and Chair of
the 2010 Annual Meeting. She previously served on the
Executive Committee as Vice President, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer and
Assistant Secretary. A member of the Board of Directors since
1997, Ms. Baraf was Co-Chair of WHC’s150th Anniversary
Celebration and Chair of Macomb Street Interiors for the
Renovation Project. Ms. Baraf has been Chair of Budget and
Finance, the Board Retreat, the Membership Committee, the
Communications Committee, and the Fine Arts Committee for
several years. She served as Chair of the 2001 Annual Meeting
and as a member of several committees including Budget and
Finance, Professional Review, Worship and Music, Executive
Director and Cantorial Search, and Annual Contribution Review.
She has also served on the Sisterhood Board.
A graduate of the University of
Michigan, Ms. Baraf received a Masters of Social Work from
Catholic University. After working in family planning and
rehabilitation medicine, she co-founded the clinical research
division of Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates and currently
serves as a consultant to their Center for Rheumatology and
Bone Research. Ms. Baraf is also active in the Arthritis
Foundation Metropolitan Washington Chapter.
She and her husband Herbert, a
rheumatologist, have two daughters: Alison and Meredith; a
son-in-law, Aryeh Portnoy; and three grandsons: Maxwell
Spencer, Brandon Fletcher and Tyler Ryan Portnoy. |
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Vice
President: Linda Eichelbaum Collier
Linda Eichelbaum Collier, a member of
the Congregation since 1994, has served on the Board for the
past ten years, the last two years of which have been on the
Executive Committee as Secretary. She also serves as Vice
President of the Board of Directors for Gan Zikaron Memorial
Park and is a member of the Budget and Finance and
Professional Review Committees. In addition, she has served as
chair and cochair of numerous Temple committees, including
serving as Co-Chair of Mitzvah Day 2000.
Ms. Collier is a Real Estate
Specialist with Arlington County, Virginia. Previously, she
was an Assistant County Attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia
and an Associate with Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson
and Hand, practicing municipal law. Ms. Collier is a graduate
of the University of Virginia and the University of Richmond
Law School.
She and her husband, Guy, a partner
in the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery, have three
daughters and a son-in-law: Jill, Suzanne, Leigh and Charlie. |
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Treasurer:
Meg Jacobs Flax
Meg Jacobs Flax, a member of the
Congregation since 1992, currently is completing her sixth
year on the Board, two of which have been on the Executive
Committee as Assistant Secretary. Ms. Flax is Co- Chair of the
Religious School Committee, a member of the Budget & Finance
and Professional Review Committees and serves on the
Sisterhood Board. She also has served on the Nominating
Committee and various Rabbinic Search Committees and has
served as a Mitzvah Day Team Leader.
In the wider community, Ms. Flax
served on the Board of the Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA)
and has served on its Executive Committee. She is also
involved in various volunteer activities at Sidwell Friends
School where she serves on the Development Committee and has
chaired its Auction for Financial Aid.
A graduate of Wesleyan University,
Ms. Flax received a law degree from the Harvard Law School.
She and her husband, Sam, have three children: Caroline,
Andrew and Ellen. |
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Assistant Treasurer: Ivan “Van” Sabel
Ivan (Van) Sabel has been a member of
the Congregation since 1978. In the wider community, Mr. Sabel
is the Chairman of the Board at Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc.,
a company providing prosthetic and orthotic rehabilitation in
620 locations throughout the United States. He also serves on
the Boards of Beverly Enterprises, a company engaged in elder
care services throughout the U.S., the American Physicians’
Fellowship for Medicine in Israel, a foundation providing
American medical personnel to the State of Israel during times
of disaster, and the American Board for the University of
Haifa in Israel.
Mr. Sabel is a graduate of New York
University where he earned a Bachelors of Science in
Prosthetics and Orthotics.
He and his wife, Sandi, an interior
designer and a life-long member of WHC, have four children:
Caroline, Amy, Jocelyn and David. |
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Secretary:
Nell Kilburn Shapiro
Nell Kilburn Shapiro, a member of the
Congregation since 1995, has completed two terms on the Board.
Ms. Shapiro has chaired the Carrie Simon House Committee for
more than a decade and served as the Chair of Mitzvah Day.
Currently, she is also the Chair of the Membership Task Force,
a Board committee examining aspects of membership at WHC.
In the wider community, Ms. Shapiro
has been active in her children’s school, chairing its
Scholarship Auction and serving on the Parents’ Association
Board, as well as fundraising for her college.
Ms. Shapiro graduated from Wellesley
College and received a law degree from the Northwestern School
of Law. She was an associate for the law firm of Latham &
Watkins. She and her husband, Ed, have three children: Jack,
Griffin and Dorothy. |
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Assistant Secretary: Faye Levin
Faye Levin has been a member of
Washington Hebrew Congregation for 16 years. She has been a
member of the Board of Directors for the last four years, a
Co-Chair of the Religious School Committee, a Co-Chair of the
Edlavitch-Tyser Family Relations Forum and a member of the
Long Range Strategic Planning Committee. Ms. Levin has been a
Chair and a Vice Chair of Mitzvah Day and has served on the
Rabbinic Search Committee.
In the wider community, Ms. Levin
serves on the board of Georgetown Day School and was a member
of the regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League. A
graduate of Clark University, she received her J.D. from
Boston University School of Law and an LLM in Taxation from
New York University School of Law.
Ms. Levin and her husband, Harvey,
have four children: Adam. Lexi, Beth and her husband, Brian,
and Robin and her husband, Evan, and four grandchildren, Asher
and Andi Dubin and Max and Sophie Hammerman. |
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General Counsel:
Richard A. Newman
Richard Newman, a member of the
Congregation for more than 20 years, is a partner at Arent Fox
LLP, where his practice focuses on real estate and public
finance, with an emphasis on the representation of tax exempt
organizations.
Mr. Newman has served as General
Counsel to the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
and for the Discovery Creek’s Children’s Museum, and is active
in the National Association of Bond Lawyers and is a fellow of
the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He is also on the
Board of the Arena Stage and the AIA Legacy Foundation.
A graduate of New York University Mr.
Newman received his law degree from Case Western Reserve
University. Richard is married to Janice Newman, who has
taught at the WHC’s Religious School for 20 years. Each of
their children, Jessica, Joseph and Jacob works or has worked
as a teacher or an aide in Religious School. 5 |
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Board of Directors |
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Mildred Lehmann Amer |
Dorothy C. Kornhauser |
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Jeffrey H. Bergman |
Andrew H. Marks |
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Robert D. Bindeman |
Todd E. Perkins |
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Robert Burman |
Susan Rosenblum |
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Daniel M. Caplan |
James Salander |
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Joan Goodman Churchill |
Albert H. Small, Jr. |
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Lauren E. Cole |
Marvin J. Spivak |
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Todd Deckelbaum |
Mindy A. Strelitz |
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Mark Director |
Suzanne Sunshine |
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Sharon E. Gottlieb |
Joshua Weinberg |
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Claudia Helmig |
Jeffrey Weiss |
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James A. Klein |
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