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Board of Directors

Hebrew at the Center is led by an extraordinary group of volunteer leaders, well-versed in effective governance, responsible fiduciary oversight, strategic thinking, institutional advancement, and deeply committed to the Hebrew language. As professionals, the collective has formal training in law, business, education, linguistics, Jewish studies, and management, and brings to their roles on the board professional experience in academic, educational, nonprofit, communal, and cultural settings. This talented collection of individuals also bring to work lessons learned serving on local, regional, national and international boards within and outside of the Jewish community.

ARNEE WINSHALL
President
JOANNE BLAUER

CLERK

MARC KRAMER

DIRECTOR

MOREY LEVOVITZ

DIRECTOR

NEIL KUTTNER

TREASURER

HOWARD ROSENBLOOM

DIRECTOR

DANIEL SERFATY

DIRECTOR

TODD SUKOL

DIRECTOR

GARY WEXLER

DIRECTOR

WALTER A. WINSHALL

DIRECTOR

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ARNEE WINSHALL

President

Ms. Winshall is the Founding Board President of Hebrew at the Center and Founding Chair of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School.  Arnee serves as an advisor to the Mayberg Foundation Jewish Education Innovation Challenge  and the Council for American Jewish Museums. Most recently she helped to guide the formation of DEEP , a professional learning community of Developing Embedded Expertise Programs that serve Jewish day schools. Through the years she has served on the board of numerous Jewish education organizations. She was the first recipient of Hebrew College’s Sidney Hillson/Rose Bronstein Award for distinguished leadership in Jewish education, Hebrew language, and the advancement of Jewish culture and civilization. In 2015, she was named as an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Hebrew Language in Jerusalem. Having pursued graduate studies in developmental psycholinguistics and studied 7 languages, Arnee is passionate about the power of learning languages and, in particular, Hebrew as the language of the Jewish people.

JOANNE BLAUER, CLERK

MEMBER, Board of directors

Joanne Blauer [Clerk] formerly was the Associate Dean and Secretary and Executive Vice Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences until her retirement in 2010. Ms. Blauer served as COO of HATC from January, 2010 through August, 2011. In addition, she has served on the boards of Scripps College and the National Association of College and University Attorneys and is a member of the Washington State Bar Association. 

MARC KRAMER (TREASURER)

Member, Board of directors

Dr. Marc N. Kramer is the founding director of the Kramer Education Group, an independent consulting firm focused on issues of leadership and transition in the non-profit sector.  He is the former Executive Director of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, a position he held for 17 years.  RAVSAK is one of the legacy partners of Prizmah. 

Marc earned a bachelor’s degree in Near East and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, a masters degree in social work from Columbia University, a master’s degree in Judaica from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and both a master’s and doctorate in education from Columbia University-Teachers College.  He did additional research and training under the late Dr. Linda Powell of Harvard University centered on group theory in both therapeutic and non-therapeutic settings. 

Marc was the recipient of a number of awards and public recognitions including the Sachar Prize for academic research, the Wexner Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and the 2007 Covenant Award. In addition, Marc was presented with the Benjamin Shevach Award for Jewish communal service by Hebrew College, Boston and the Hachmei Lev Award by Keshet for his work on inclusion in the Jewish community.

Marc is a member of the Leading in Hebrew Review Committee. Marc lives in Riverdale, New York.

MOREY LEVOVITZ

Member, Board of directors

Morey Levovitz lives in Park City Utah and Westport CT. He is Married with 4 Children and 10 grandchildren. He has been an entrepreneur in real estate development, real estate management, silicon wafer related services, travel, music, fish processing and fish farming. He is an investor in real estate, bio tech, medical devices and small start-up companies and is the President of AVI Business Management.


Morey has served as President of both Beth Jacob Congregation and Harkham Hillel Academy both in Beverly Hills, CA. He has also spent many years as a consultant for AIPAC and The Orthodox Union. He is the current Board Chair of FIDF (Friends of The Israel Defense Forces), an organization that raises more than $100 million for humanitarian aid for the soldiers of the IDF.

Neil Kuttner is the Chief Operations Officer of Cross Shore Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor. He has worked in the financial services industry for forty years, previously at Sanford Bernstein & Co. where he was the CFO

Neil is a CPA and has also taught tax planning at Lehman College. Neil has BA in economics from City College of New York and a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School.

Neil lives in Manhattan and has two grown sons, Sam and Matthew, both of whom are involved Jewishly.

 Neil has long been active in the Jewish community has previously served as treasurer of Camp Ramah in New England, treasurer of the Foundation for Jewish Camp, board chair of the Academy for Jewish

Religion, and synagogue president of Park Slope Jewish Center. In addition, he has spent the last couple of years as a member of HATC’s finance committee.

Neil views fluency in Hebrew as one of the important building blocks in positive Jewish identity, though his Hebrew language skills do need brushing up. He is looking forward to continue contributing both his time and expertise to HATC.

Howard Rosenbloom is President and Executive Director of the Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Foundation. He serves as co-chair of the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI), a Board member of the Middle East Forum, and The Associated Jewish Federation of Baltimore.

He is the past Board Chair of the Jewish Virtual Library and Shoshana S. Cardin Jewish High School in Baltimore, MD. And a past board member of the institute for Islamic- Christian- Jewish Studies (ICJS).

Howard received an honorary fellowship from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and holds a BA from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Howard is married to past HATC board member Dr. Michelle (Gelkin) Rosenbloom and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Daniel Serfaty is Founder & Chairman of Aptima, Inc.

As Aptima’s Founder and CEO, Daniel Serfaty has led Aptima to become the premier Human Performance Engineering business in the world. His work optimizes the integration of humans with intelligent technologies in defense, healthcare, aerospace, and education. His keynote addresses around the world are encouraging his audiences to imagine a future in which human and artificial intelligences work together in the service of humankind.

Daniel’s interdisciplinary background includes degrees in mathematics, psychology, aerospace engineering, and international business from the Université de Paris, the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and University of Connecticut. His doctoral work has pioneered the study of distributed command teams. He is the recipient of the UConn Distinguished Service Award and has been inducted in its Engineering Hall of Fame.

Daniel is the co-Chair of the New England Israeli American Council (IAC) and serves on the boards of several business and philanthropic organizations in both the United States and Israel, with an eye towards building bridges between these communities.

GARY WEXLER

Member, Board of directors

Gary Wexler is a struggling novel writer, an ongoing published columnist for the LA Jewish Journal and a reasonably fluent Hebrew speaker, who endures intensive and challenging Hebrew zoom lessons two days a week. He is also a blogger for The Times of Israel and has written several articles on the importance of learning the Hebrew language, its intricacies as well as its necessity for understanding Israeli culture. Gary has had several careers. He began as an advertising copywriter and eventual creative director for major ad agencies winning national awards for campaigns he created ranging from Apple to Coca Cola. Needing to apply his skills to help create a better world, he left corporate America to work with the nonprofit sector worldwide. He created communication strategies and campaigns and facilitated seminars and workshops on team creativity for clients ranging from the Ford Foundation and United Ways to the foundations of Spielberg, Bronfman, Steinhardt, Schusterman and Grinspoon to Jewish Federations, the Jewish Agency and JDC. In his next career Gary became a professor in the Masters program at the USC-Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, as well as Cal State University, Long Beach where he continues to teach classes on Team Creativity to visiting delegations of Chinese

WALTER A. WINSHALL

Member, Board of directors

Walter A. Winshall is a Principal in an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of technology. In addition to HATC, he is a board member of the Yiddish Book Center and the MIT Hillel. He was a founding board member of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. A long time ago, he graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School.