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IRF Leadership

Yonah Berman

Yonah Berman

President

Rabbi Yonah Berman serves as Dean of Rabbinic Initiatives at YCT. He works closely with over 250 alumni around the world, heads its Rikmah program for Israeli rabbis and focuses on the Yeshiva's public-facing programs. He believes in building bridges within and beyond the Jewish community through Torah and Gemilut Chasadim.

Yosef Kanefsky

Yosef Kanefsky

Vice President

Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky was ordained in 1989 at Yeshiva University, from where he also received a Master’s Degree in Jewish History.

Jordan Soffer

Jordan Soffer

Vice President

Rabbi Jordan David Soffer serves as the Head of School at Striar Hebrew Academy, a Modern Orthodox day school located in Sharon, MA.

Alissa Thomas-Newborn

Alissa Thomas-Newborn

Vice President

Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn is a Board Certified Chaplain at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Emily Goldberg Winer

Emily Goldberg Winer

Vice President

Fred Klein

Fred Klein

Treasurer

Rabbi Frederick ‘Fred’ Klein is Director of Mishkan Miami: The Jewish Connection for Spiritual Support, a program of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and serves as Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami.

Zach Truboff

Zach Truboff

Secretary

Zachary Truboff is the Director of the International Beit Din Institute for Agunah Research and Education and the author of "Torah Goes Forth From Zion: Essays on the Thought of Rav Kook and Rav Shagar".

Saul Strosberg

Saul Strosberg

Immediate Past President

Rabbi Saul Strosberg joined Sherith Israel, in Nashville, TN, as its spiritual leader in August 2005.

Jason Herman

Jason Herman

Executive Director

Rabbi Jason Herman serves as the Mara D’Atra, spiritual leader, of Congregation Beth Israel - West Side Jewish Center and as the Executive Director of the International Rabbinic Fellowship. Rabbi Herman has been an advocate for Jewish and social...

IRF Board Members

Emile Ackermann

Yonatan Cohen

Yehoshua Ellis

Rachel Kohl Finegold

Ruth Balinsky Friedman 

Dasi Fruchter

Barry Gelman

Nati Helfgot

Phil Kaplan

Elliot Kaplowitz 

Fred Klein 

Anat Sharbat

Ben Shefter

Chaim Steinmetz

David Wolkenfeld

Marc Angel*
Avraham Weiss*

*Lifetime Honorary Member-Ex Officio

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