The JLJS Rabbinic and Professional Advisory Board

Chair:

Mr. Perry J. Hoffman, Principal, Perry Hoffman & Associates P.C., Northbrook, Illinois

Nina S. Appel, Dean Emerita, Dean of External Relations, and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Dean Bell, Dean and Chief Academic Officer, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago

Theodore Bloch, CEO and President, Ted C Bloch Futures Co. and Chairman Emeritus, Bloch Lumber Co., Chicago

Robert Breisblatt, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Chicago

David T. Brown, Principal, Much Shelist Denenberg Ament and Rubenstein, P.C., Chicago

Joseph E. Davis, Principal, Joseph E. Davis, Chicago

Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, B’nai Yehuda Beth Sholom, Homewood, Ilinois

Stephen P. Durchslag, Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago

Alex Felch, Rabbi, Congregation B’nai Tikvah, Deerfield, Illinois

Larry Fleisher, Principal, Fleisher & Associates, Chicago

John Geiringer, Partner, Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, Chicago

Samuel Gordon, Rabbi, Congregation Sukkat Shalom, Wilmette, Illinois

Shai Halivni, Vice-President and General Counsel, Alma Lasers, Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Sheri Hokin, Principal, Hokin Sternberg Insurance Services, Northbrook, Illinois

Debra Newman Kamin, Rabbi, Am Yisrael, Northfield, Illinois

Erwin I. Katz, Retired United States Bankruptcy Judge; formerly "of counsel" to Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Chicago

Shalom Kohn, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago

Vernon Kurtz, Rabbi, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, Highland Park, Illinois

Josh M. Leavitt, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, Chicago

John D. Mandelbaum, Partner, Husch Blackwell Sanders Welsh & Katz, Chicago

Steven S. Mason, Rabbi, North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe, Illinois

Leonard Matanky, Rabbi and dean, Ida Crown Jewish Academy; Rabbi, Congregation K.I.N.S. of West Rogers Park, Chicago

Robert B. Millner, Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Chicago

Michael Myers, Rabbi and Dean, Hebrew Theological College; Chair, Department of TaNaCH, Ida Crown Jewish Academy, Chicago

Alicia Schuyler Oberman, Foundation Director, Jack Miller Family Foundation, Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Yehiel Poupko, Rabbi and Judaic scholar, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

David Prystowsky, Division Director, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Patti Ray, Director, Hillel at Loyola University Chicago

Michla Schanowitz, Education Director, Central Avenue Synagogue, Highland Park, Illinois

Keith Shapiro, Co-managing Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Chicago

Judy A. Siegal, Senior Development Executive, American Friends of The Hebrew University, Chicago

Arnold G. Siegel, Principal, Law Offices of Arnold G. Siegel, Chicago

Michael S. Siegel, Senior Rabbi, Anshe Emet Synagogue, Chicago

Michael J. Small, Partner, Foley & Lardner, LLP, Chicago

Paul H. Vishny, Of Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, Chicago

Carl Wolkin, Rabbi, Congregation Beth Shalom, Northbrook, Illinois

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