Staff

Leadership

• Cheryl Cook

  CEO

  • Phone(212) 545-7765
  • Emailccook@avodah.net

• Steve Bocknek

  COO

  • Phone(917) 310-2162
  • Emailsbocknek@avodah.net

• Sarra Alpert

  Director, Avodah Institute for Social Change

  • Phone(929) 532-4602
  • Emailsalpert@avodah.net

• Emilia Diamant

  National Program Director

  • Emailediamant@avodah.net

• Rachel Glicksman

  Director of People and Culture

  • Phone(917) 534-7477
  • Emailrglicksman@avodah.net

• Shira Sarfati

  Director of External Affairs

  • Phone(929) 532-4602
  • Emailssarfati@avodah.net

Board

• Cheryl Cook

• Elana Bildner

• Rose Jagust

• Sheila Lambert

• Deborah Levine

• Harry Lowenburg

• Benetta Mansfield

• Absera Melaku

• Karyn Polak

• Daniel Price

• Janna Rosenberg

• Max Rothstein

• Ilana Zafran Walden

• Lynne Wasserman

Advisory Councils

Chicago

• Hannah Barg

• Beckee Birger

• Jacob B. Handelman

• Rose Jagust

• Liz Jones

• Benetta Mansfield

• Ursula Rigberg Wagner

• Ilana Zafran Walden

• Abby White

• Sheila Pont

• Michael Simon

Kansas City

• Patti Adler

• Alan Edelman

• Rabbi Caitlin Brazner

• Kim Kushner

• Rabbi Michael Zedek

New Orleans

• Aleeza Adelman

• Dr. Marc Behar

• Gail Chalew

• Suri Duitch

• Suzy Glazer Lazarus

• Susan Green

• Ben Horwitz

• Lis Kahn

• Dana Keren

• David Kulick

• Simone Levine

• Josh Lichtman

• Harry Lowenburg

• Jennifer Medbery

• Jackie Stern

• Evette Ungar

• Lynne Wasserman

• Karen Weissbecker Remer

• Liz Yager

Washington, D.C.

• Jenny Ackerman Helfand

• Rachel Farbiarz

• Fran Goldman

• Leib Kaminsky

• Rabbi Esther Lederman

• Deborah Levine

• Elissa Oshinsky

• James Radack

• Jim Sturim

• Rabbi Ilana Zietman

Avodah Institute for Social Change

• Rabba Yaffa Epstein

• Shana Bloom

• Rachel Giattino

• Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt

• Beth Huppin

• Steven Jacobson

• Ilana Kaufman

• Dani Levine

• Isaac Luria

• Danielle Natelson

• Sarah Raful Whinston

• Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay

• Yolanda Savage-Narva

• Rabbi Sid Schwarz

Rabbinic Council

• Alana Alpert

• Benjamin Altshuler

• Alexis Berk

• Angela Buchdahl

• Aryeh Cohen

• Megan Doherty

• Lizzi Heydemann

• Shai Held

• Emma Kippley-Ogman

• Sandra Lawson

• Michael Moskowitz

• Scott Perlo

• Rori Picker Neiss

• Becky Silverstein

• Keith Stern

• Rachel Van Thyn

• George Wielechowski

• Shmuly Yanklowitz