Board of Directors
Elliott Felson
PresidentPartner, Felson Companies; son of a Jewish partisan
Paul Orbuch
Founding Chairman and President EmeritusFounder and Former CEO, Wildwood Natural Foods; former VP, Odwalla, Inc.; son of a Jewish partisan
Danny Petrasek
Vice PresidentFaculty at CalTech; Medical Devices Consultant; Inventor; Businessman; Ph.D. and M.D.; son of a Jewish partisan
Mike Grossman
TreasurerBusiness Development Director, Analog Devices
Mitch Braff
Secretary and FounderPrincipal, Liquid Canvas
Lauren Feingold
MemberCFO Feingold Medical; granddaughter of a Jewish partisan
Fran Ginsburg
MemberJewish Communal Professional; daughter of Jewish partisans
Jason Goldblatt
MemberEntrepreneur
Linda Johnson
MemberDirector of Operations, Eye & Contact Lens Associates of North Texas; daughter-in-law of a Jewish partisan
Evan Kletter
MemberPhD., Psychologist; Member, Board of Trustees, University of San Francisco
Linda Koffman
Member and Fiscal, Legal, and Governance Committee ChairPartner, Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP
Jonathan Kushner
MemberPresident, The KRE Group; grandson of a Jewish partisan
Hadar Wissotzky
MemberCEO, Streamline Social, Entrepreneur; son of Holocaust survivors
Barak Wrobel
MemberPartner, Holland and Knight; grandson of a Jewish partisan
Dr. Charles Bedzow (z''l)
Honorary International Chairman
Advisory Board
Alan Bell
Son of Jewish partisan, Aron Bell
Dee Dee Benel
Education Former director of Student Programs, Ramaz School
Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Holocaust scholar; lecturer; former Executive Director, Shoah Foundation
Leyna Bernstein
Program Director, Center for Non-Profit Leadership
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Ed Cushman
Former Director of Hebrew Free Loan; former JPEF Board member
Prof. John M. Efron
Koret Chair in Jewish History, UC Berkeley
Zepporah Glass
Daughter of Holocaust survivors; former JPEF Board Member
Eileen Grevey Hillson
Former US Senate staff member; former JPEF Board Member
Saul Kaiserman
Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Institute, Jerusalem, Israel; former director of Education, Central Synagogue in Manhattan New York; board member, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.
Harry Klaczkowski
Entrepeneur; son of Holocaust survivors
Simon Klarfeld
Executive Director of Young Judea
Suzanne Leon
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Ariel Lippa
Grandson of a Jewish partisan
David Monblatt
Curriculum Writer; Jewish Educator
Rabbi Michael Paley
Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar in Residence at the Jewish Resource Center of UJA-Federation of New York
Dana Raucher
Executive Director of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation
Fred Rosenbaum
Founding Director, Lehrhaus Judaica; professor, scholar and author
Simcha Stein
Former Executive Director, Ghetto Fighters' Museum
Varda Yoran
Married to Shalom Yoran — a Jewish partisan; a writer, artist, and activist
Honored Advisors
Ed Asner (z''l)
Actor; activist
Frank Blaichman (z''l)
Partisan from Poland; author, Rather Die Fighting
Steven Holm (z’’l)
Attorney; son of Jewish partisans
Larry King (z''l)
News Anchor, CNN; host, "Larry King Live"
Sonia Orbuch (z''l)
Partisan from Poland; author, Here, There Are No Sarahs
Martin Petrasek (z''l)
Partisan from Slovakia; author of the autobiography Broken Promises, Slovakia's official entry to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film
Mira Shelub (z''l)
Partisan from Poland; author, Never the Last Road
Eta Wrobel (z''l)
Partisan from Poland; author, My Life My Way
Henry Wrobel (z''l)
Husband of Eta Wrobel (z''l)
Shalom Yoran (z''l)
Partisan from Poland; author, The Defiant