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The Jewish Board: 150 Years of Care
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      Worthy and
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  • ARCHITECTS
    OF CARE
  • VOICES OF THE
    JEWISH BOARD
  • 150 YEARS
    OF CARING
  • 1870s-1930s

    Helping Hands,
    Not Bootstraps

    Worthy and
    Unworthy
    Deserted Family:
    A Story
  • 1930s-1970s

    Architects
    of Care

  • 1970s-Present

    Voices of
    The Jewish
    Board

  • 150 years of caring

Back home

1970s - PRESENT

Voices of
The Jewish Board

Explore the past half century of our history through the stories of Jewish Board staff, trustees and clients.

  • People 11
  • Issues 5
10:45

Pinchas Berger

Clinical Social Worker
Jewish Board Staff, 1970-2008

11:46

Michael Friedman

Former Director of Operations
Jewish Board Staff, 1968-1986

12:38

Mary Pender Greene

Former Assistant Executive Director
Jewish Board Staff, 1984-2011

15:05

Ellen Josem

Chief Legal Officer
Jewish Board Staff, 1980-Present

10:08

Ilene Margolin and Bruce Feig

Former Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services, NY State
Former Executive Deputy Commissioner, NY State Office of Mental Health

09:06

Jonathan McLean

Former Director of Hawthorne Cedar Knolls
Jewish Board Staff, 2007-2019

12:22

Alan Siskind

Former Chief Executive Officer
Jewish Board Staff, 1965-2007

13:39

Mayfield Stewart

Client
The Jewish Board, 1986-Present

12:22

Pierre Thomas

Former Executive Program Director
Jewish Board Staff, 1994-2024

10:59

Jean Troubh

Honorary Trustee and President Emeritus of the Board of Trustees
The Jewish Board, 1988-Present

12:37

Fred Yerman

Trustee and President Emeritus of the Board of Trustees
The Jewish Board, 1991-Present

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Project Historians

  • Gavin Beinart-Smollan, M.A.
  • Julia Thomas, M.A.
  • Erin R. Santana, Ph.D.

Academic
Advisory Board

  • Dr. Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History (Emerita), New York University
  • Dr. Deborah Doroshow, Associate Professor of Medicine, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; Adjunct Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
  • Dr. Annette Igra, Professor of History, Carleton College
  • Dr. Regina Kunzel, Larned Professor of History and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
  • Dr. Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History, Columbia University

Consultant

  • Alison Cornyn,
    Picture Projects

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  • American Jewish Historical Society
  • Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
  • Harvard Library Special Collections and Archives
  • New York University Special Collections and Archives
  • Smith College Special Collections
  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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