Meet Our Board of Trustees

Our Trustees believe that philanthropy can change lives. They are passionate community leaders committed to strengthening Greater Hartford’s Jewish community and the community at large. They lead the Foundation through their expertise and knowledge, overseeing operations, setting strategic direction and policies, and making final decisions on all grant awards.

Board of Trustees

Walter L. Harrison

Chair

President Emeritus,
University of Hartford

I. Bradley Hoffman 

Vice Chair

Chairman, Hoffman Auto Group

Rachel S. Rubin

Secretary

Chief of Staff and
Executive Secretary to
the Board of Trustees,
University of Connecticut

Jerry Rosenstock

Treasurer

Senior Advisor RSM LLC; Retired Partner, Ernst & Young

Joshua R. Feldman

Partner,
Ruel, Ruel, Burns, Feldman &
Britt LLC

Jessica L. Fish

Community Leader

Ethan H. Goldman

Chief Financial Officer,
FLEXcon Holdings Trust

Joshua Gottfried

Co-Founder and Principal of
Gottfried & Somberg Wealth
Management, LLC

Jill J. Hutensky

Senior Vice President
Harford Market Executive, Bank of America

Jason Kay

Senior Optical Engineer
Slingshot Aerospace

Naomi Baline Kleinman

Vice President and Treasurer, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. (retired)

Tracy C. Smith 

Community Leader

Alan E. Solinsky

Owner, Solinsky Eye Care

Gayle W. Temkin

Community Leader

Pia Rosenberg Toro

Community Leader

Risa Filkoff

ex officio

Life Trustees

Thomas M. Divine
Philip D. Feltman*
Hinda N. Fisher*
Blanche S. Goldenberg

Robert B. Goldfarb
David R. Miller
Michael Suisman*

* Of Blessed Memory

Past Trustees

* Of Blessed Memory

Eleanor N. Caplan
Jerome E. Caplan*
I. Martin Fierberg*
Brian Fierston
David H. Fierston
Bruce A. Fischman
Stanley D. Fisher*
Lisa Fishman
Evelyn S. Gilman*
William H. Goldfarb
Arnold C. Greenberg*
Morton Handel
Joseph D. Hurwitz*
Jill J. Hutensky
Bernard Kaplan*
Theodore Kaplan
Steven C. Kleinman
Bernhard L. Kohn*
Simon Konover*
Georgette Koopman*
Richard Koopman*
Michele G. Kostin
Katharine I. Lavitt*
Hartzel Z. Lebed*
Sheri Lublin
Joyce D. Mandell
Merrill K. Feldman Mandell
Alan M. Mendelson
Hyman L. Moore*
Harold Moskowitz
Louis Nassau*
Daniel M. Neiditz
Moses Neiditz*
Hon. Jon O. Newman
Leigh A. Newman
Steven Piaker
Lee D. Pollock
Abraham A. Ribicoff*
Emma Robington*
A. Mark Rosen
David Roth
Gideon Rutenberg
Abraham I. Savin*
Peter M. Savin*
Andrew M. Schatz
Ralph M. Shulansky*
Howard J. Siegal*
Donald Silpe
Rabbi Harold Silver*
Melvin A. Simon
Robert S. Siskin*
Julie R. Spivak
Edward A. Suisman*
Elliott D. Tertes
Melvin W. Title*
Leonard M. Troub*
Sidney Ulreich
Marjorie M. Walton*
Gail S. Weinstein
Randall Weinstock
Robert K. Yass
Henry M. Zachs
Jessica P. Zachs
Judith M. Zachs