Officers and Board of Directors


AFNH Board of Directors are from all over the U.S.A.

Our goal is to help our children at Neve Hanna lead happy lives and become productive citizens of Israel.

American Friends of Neve Hanna supports the various social, psychological, and religious aspects that have to do with the education and everyday life of the children at Neve Hanna. We have four major campaigns (Rosh Hashana, Chanukah/Year-End, Purim and Passover) a year in which funds are raised to support a traditional Jewish education associated with Masorti Judaism, holiday and Shabbat celebrations and Bar/Bat Mitzvah training and simcha. AFNH supports individualized therapeutic programs, extensive enrichment leisure time programs, remedial reading instruction, individual psychological services, scholarships for post IDF students and more.

AFNH Officers:

Rabbi Benjamin Kreitman z”l
AFNH Founding President

Sylvia Lubliner z”l
AFNH Co-Founder

Janet & Irwin Tobin
AFNH Co-Presidents

Rabbi Barry Dov Katz
AFNH President Emeritus

Rabbi Jill Kreitman Goldstein
Robin Tobin-Hess
AFNH Executive Vice Presidents

Samantha & Noam Tobin-Hess
AFNH Young Leadership

AFNH Board of Directors:

Marc Altheim

Heddy Belman

Ilene Berman

Rabbi Joseph Brodie & Erica D. Goldman Brodie, Rabbinic Circle

Deborah Bruce

Burton Citak

Lawrence Cohn

Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, Committee Chair, Rabbinic Circle

David E. Friedman

Marjorie Goldstein

Allan Gottesman

Rabbi Michael & Cindy Greenbaum, Rabbinic Circle

Susan Hammer

Judith & Donald Horowitz

Debbi Kaner Goldich

Joan Kase Riger, Secretary

Sandra Koppell

Rafi Lipschitz

Rabbi Jonathan Lubliner, Rabbinic Circle

Margie Miller, Treasurer

Vera Miller

Ahuva Oko

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Rabbinic Circle

Ellen Shapiro

Carol Simon

Gilit Ullman Stein

Tom Sudow

Robin Tobin Hess

Dr. Aviva Tobin-Hess

Jonathan Ullman

Rita Wertlieb

Rabbi Ellen Wolintz-Fields, Rabbinic Circle

Debbie Zaluda