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President	Term
Solomon Pribram	1852-1853
Herman Lisberger	1853-1854
Isaac Herzberg	1854-1855
Joseph Friedenwald	1856-1857
Captain Jonas Phillips Levy	1857-1858
Leopold Oppenheimer	1858-1859
Moritz Fisher	1859-1860
Levy Bar	1860-1861
Isaac Herzberg	1862-1863 (2nd Term)
Ben Kaufman	1863-1867
Bernhard Gusdorf	1867-1869
Ben Kaufman	1869-1870 (2nd Term)
Morris H. Prince	1870-1871
Simon Wolf	1871-1873
Marx Kaufman	1873-1874
Henry Adler	1874-1880
Isaac L. Blout	1880-1881
Charles Baum	1881-1882
Louis Rosenberg	1882-1885
Henry King, Jr.	1885-1897
Isaac L. Blout	1897-1916 (2nd Term)
Adolph M. Fishel	1916-1919
Lee Baumgarten	1919-1923
Adolph M. Fishel	1923-1924 (2nd Term)
Charles A. Goldsmith	1925-1928
Levi H. David	1928-1929
Joseph Salomon	1929-1935
Jacob H. Gichner	1935-1937
Colonel Julius Peyser	1937-1940
William L. Bush, Sr.	1941-1942
Theodore D. Peyser	1942-1945
David A. Baer	1945-1947 (Died in Office)
D. Bernard A. Baer	1947-1948 (Acting President)
Colonel Julius Goldstein	1948-1949
Milton W. King	1949-1952
Garfield I. Kass	1952-1954
Judge Milton S. Kronheim, Jr.	1954-1956
David W. Dreyfuss	1956-1958
Jack E. Bindeman	1958-1960
Jac J. Lehrman	1960-1963
David G. Bress	1963-1966
William C. Koplovitz	1966-1968
David Wise, Jr.	1968-1970
Millard Cass	1970-1972
Robert I. Silverman	1972-1974
Julian C. Cohen	1974-1976
Richard D. Kaufmann	1976-1978
Leonard I. Abel	1978-1980
Paul J. Mason	1980-1982
Jay W. Freedman	1982-1984
Froma B. Sandler	1984-1986
Stuart L. Bindeman	1986-1988
David C. Forman	1988-1990
Earl M. Colson	1990-1992
Bernard M. "Bob" Shapiro	1992-1994
Susan J. Hanenbaum	1994-1996
Richard M. Young	1996-1998
Kenneth L. Marks	1998-2000
David R. Berz	2000-2002
John M. Nannes	2002-2004
David A. Vise	2004-2006
Henry D. Levine	2006-2008
Lauren S. Racoosin	2008-2010
Peter L. Winik	2010-1012
Sherry Bindeman Kahn	2012-2014
Margaret Jacobs Flax	2014-2016
David Astrove	2016-2018
Nell Shapiro	2018-2020
Mark D. Director	2020-2022
Lewis S. Wiener	2022-2024
Jeffrey Weiss	2024-2026
Melissa Schwartz	2026-

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Past Presidents

Washington Hebrew Congregation (Temple)

Julia Bindeman Suburban Center (JBSC)

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Washington Hebrew Congregation
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Julia Bindeman Suburban Center
(JBSC)