:: Our Lay Leaders
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President:
Sherry Bindeman Kahn
email:
President@whctemple.org
Sherry, a lifelong member of the Congregation, has been a
member of the Board of Directors for the past twelve years,
having served on the Executive Committee for the past eight
years as First Vice-President, Vice-President, Secretary and
Assistant Secretary. She is currently Chair of the
Professional Development Committee, on which she has served
for the past eight years. She is a member of the Budget and
Finance and Minds Matter Committees and serves on the
Communications, Development and High Holiday Task Forces.
Sherry co-chaired the Rabbinic Search Committees that brought
Rabbi Noah Fabricant and Rabbi Aaron Miller to Washington
Hebrew Congregation. She also co-chaired the Youth Director
Committee that brought Ira Miller to the Congregation. She has
chaired the Religious School Committee, served as Co-Chair of
the Development Committee, and Co-Chair of the 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 a member of the Adult
B’nai Mitzvah class of 2005. In the wider community, Sherry
serves on the Scholarship and Loan Committee of the Jewish
Social Service Agency and is a past member of its Board. Over
the years she has been actively involved in her children’s
schools, including most recently Georgetown Day School and
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. Among other community
activities, she serves on the Town of Somerset Board of
Supervisors of Elections and is a volunteer with People
Animals Love. A
graduate of Cornell University, Sherry 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. Sherry and her husband David, a partner at the law
firm of Holland & Knight, have three children, Brooke, Hannah
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First Vice President: Meg Jacobs Flax
Meg, a member of the Congregation
since 1992, is currently completing her eighth year on the
Board, four of which have been on the Executive Committee as
Assistant Secretary and in her current position as Treasurer.
She has been Co-Chair of the Religious School Committee, a
member of the Budget and Finance and Professional Review
Committees, and serves on the Sisterhood Board. She also
co-chaired our recent Rabbinic Search Committee, has served on
the Nominating Committee, and has been a Mitzvah Day team
leader.
In the wider community, Meg serves on
the Board of Trustees of Sidwell Friends School where she is a
member of the Finance and Development Committees and has
chaired its Auction for Financial Aid. Meg has also served on
the Board of the Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) and its
Executive Committee. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Meg
received a law degree from Harvard Law School. She and her
husband Sam have three children, Caroline, Andrew, and Ellen. |
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Vice
President: David M. Astrove
David has been a member of the
Congregation since 1989 and is currently Vice President. He
has been Treasurer of the Congregation, Chair of the Budget
and Finance Committee, Buildings and Grounds Committee, and
Investment Sub-Committee, and a member of the Development Task
Force and the Long Range Strategic Planning Committee. David
has acted as Counsel to the Congregation in connection with
the renovations of the Temple and the Julia Bindeman Suburban
Center and has advised on several other real estate matters.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of
the Garden of Remembrance.
A graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania and the Columbia University School of Law, David
has previously served on the Board of the Washington, DC
chapter of the Anti-Defamation League and is currently on the
Advisory Board of the Diener School. His wife Deborah is also
his law partner at Friedlander Misler, PLLC where David serves
as Co-Managing Member. He has three children and three
stepchildren. |
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Vice President: Linda Eichelbaum Collier
Linda, a member of the Congregation
since 1994, has served on the Board for the past twelve years,
the last six of which have been on the Executive
Committee — most recently as Secretary and Vice President. 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, Linda
has served as Chair and Co-Chair of numerous Temple
committees, including Co-Chair of Mitzvah Day 2000.
Linda 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, Lipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand,
practicing municipal law. She is a graduate of the University
of Virginia and the University of Richmond Law School. Linda
is the mother of three daughters, Jill, Suzanne and Leigh,
mother-in-law of Charlie, and grandmother to Joe. |
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Vice
President: James Klein
Jim and his family have been members
of the Congregation since 1994. He joined the Board in 2008
and is currently Chair of the Worship and Music Committee. In
addition, Jim sits on the Budget and Finance Committee and is
active in implementing the Long Range Strategic Plan through
the Worship Task Force.
A native of Buffalo, New York, Jim
graduated from Tufts University and George Washington
University Law School. In addition to his involvement with the
Congregation, Jim takes pleasure in his service on the Boards
of Directors of Covenant House Washington and American Friends
of the Anne Frank House. In his professional life, Jim is
President of the American Benefits Council which represents
principally Fortune 500 companies on health and retirement
policy. Jim and his wife Lynn, a former teacher at Washington
Hebrew’s Early Childhood Center, are the parents of two
daughters, Jennifer and Lexi. |
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Secretary:
Nell Kilburn Shapiro
Nell, a member of the Congregation
since 1995, has completed two terms on the Board and one term
on the Executive Board. She chaired the Carrie Simon House
Committee for more than a decade and served as the Chair of
Mitzvah Day. Currently, she is the Chair of the Membership
Task Force, a Board committee examining aspects of membership
at WHC.
In the wider community, Nell has been
active in her children’s schools, chairing its Scholarship
Auction and serving on the Parents’ Association Board, as well
as fundraising for her college. A graduate of Wellesley
College, Nell received a law degree from the Northwestern
School of Law and was an associate for the law firm of Latham
& Watkins. Nell and her husband Ed have three children, Jack,
Griffin, and Dorothy. |
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Assistant
Secretary: Faye Levin
Faye 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 and currently sits
on the Executive Committee as Assistant Secretary. She has
also been 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. Faye
has also been Chair and Vice Chair of Mitzvah Day and has
served on the Rabbinic Search Committee.
In the community, Faye 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 L.L.M. in Taxation from New York
University School of Law. Faye 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:
Mark D. Director
Mark has been an active member of
Washington Hebrew Congregation for many years and a member of
the Board of Directors since 2010. He is currently the Chair
of the Adult Education Committee, a member of the Worship and
Music Committee, and a long-time participant in the Temple’s
Early Torah Program. He also works with and supports a number
of local and national charitable organizations, including
Everybody Wins! DC, where he has been a board member for
several years.
Mark is a senior corporate partner at
the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he advises public
company and private equity clients on a range of corporate and
transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions,
corporate finance, securities compliance, and corporate
governance issues. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English
from Harvard College and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law
School. He writes, speaks and teaches regularly on a wide
range of corporate and securities law subjects. He and his
wife Shari live in Potomac, Maryland and have two daughters,
Brittani and Chelsea. |
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Treasurer: Richard Newman
Richard, a member of the Congregation
for more than 25 years, has served the Temple as General
Counsel and sits on the Executive Committee, the Budget and
Finance Committee, and the Governance Task Force of the Long
Range Strategic Planning Committee.
He 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. Richard has served as General Counsel to the
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the Discovery
Creek’s Children’s Museum, and is active in the National
Association of Bond Lawyers. He is a fellow of the American
College of Real Estate Lawyers and is also on the Boards 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 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 the Religious School. |
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Assistant Treasurer: Andrew Marks
Andy, a member of the Congregation
for more than 20 years, is a partner in the law firm of
Crowell & Moring LLP, where he specializes in complex business
litigation. Andy served as General Counsel to the Congregation
from 2006 to 2008 and was a member of the WHC Board from 2006
to 2008 and from 2009 to 2012.
Andy is the immediate past president
of the DC Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and is
currently on the AJC’s National Board and Vice-Chair of its
International Relations Commission. He is a former President
of the DC Bar and is a member of the DC Access to Justice
Commission and the DC School of Law Foundation Board of
Directors. Andy is a graduate of Harvard College and the
University of Michigan Law School. Between 1979 and 1981, he
worked on the Middle East Peace Negotiations as Executive
Assistant to Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz. Andy is married to
Susan G. Esserman, a partner and Chair of the International
Group at Steptoe & Johnson LLP. They have three sons, Stephen,
Clifford and Michael. |
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Board of Directors |
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Joan Adoff |
Susan Rosenblum |
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Jeffrey H. Bergman |
James Salander |
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Carrie Coonin |
Cathy Zeman Scheineson |
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Brian D. Friedman |
Albert H. Small, Jr. |
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Sharon E. Gottlieb |
Mindy Strelitz |
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Jonathan Greenblatt |
Suzanne Sunshine |
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Claudia Helmig |
Richard Sussman |
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Jessica Pearlman Isen |
Kimberly Wachen |
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Janet Katz |
Joshua Weinberg |
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Dorothy C. Kornhauser |
Jeffrey Weiss |
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Todd E. Perkins |
Lewis Wiener |
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Stephanie Posner |
Lauren Cole Zelin |
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