Chair
Melinda Grossman
Co-Chairs
Rachel Dorfman
Debbie Engel
Sara Gordon-Kaskel
Julie Maeir
Committee *
Dafna Aaronson
Leslie Apter
Wynne Baruch
Sheryl Beck
Julie Benensohn
Janna Berk
Susan Berk
Jodie Berkman
Robyn Berman
Darlene Bikshorn
Peggy Blum
Ellen Bronska
Karen Budin
Lois Chasin
Erica Cohen
Jennifer Cohen
Rachel Cooper
Judy Craven
Jennifer Deutsch
Helene Diamond
Debbie Dubin
Carol Emer
Stacy Epstein
Karen Fine
Lisa Fishbein
Suzanne Friedland
Deanne Friedman
Liz Geifman
Amy Gerstein
Amy Goldberg
Lila Ray Goldsmith
Debbie Goldstein
Roberta Goodman
Jennifer Gooze
Gladys Greenberg
Marcia Gutmann
Lisa Haas
Barbara Hochwert
Denise Hoeflich
Julie Imana
Michelle Kaplan
Nancy Kaplan
Terry Horwitz Kass
Caroline Kaplan Katz
Andrea Kawer
Penny Keeshin
Michelle Klein
Sharon Koltin
Amy Kramer
Lynn Kreda
Jessica Kubow
Lauren Kugelman
Elaine Lazarus
Julie Lefar
Andrea Leshem
Karyn Lev
Nicole Levy
Liz Lund
Lisa Mann
Monica Mellovitz
Julie Miller
Sharon Neal
Marcie Netzky
Wendy Platt Newberger
Amy Olswang
Ali Paster
Jody Perl
Stacy Pritsker
Ellen Resnick
Viki Rivkin
Linda Ross
Stephanie Sagerman
Hilary Savitt
Debbie Schneiderman
Meredith Segal
Lori Shapiro
Devra Shutan
JUF Young Women’s Board
Kimberly Shwachman
Renee Silverman
Karyn Silverstein
Susan Sirota
Shari Slavin
Melissa Spellman
Jackie Stein
Stacy Sternberg
Marcia Stone
Yvette Silverman Stone
Tammy Sugar
Karen Sutker
Dr. Amy Foreman Taub
Susan Teper
Tami Warshawsky
Katherine Weber
Alysa Weber
Pamela Weiner
Carolynne Weisenthal
Deborah Winick
Nina Winner
Nicole Woldenberg
Tina Wolf
Deborah Youderian
Lauri Zessar
Julie Zomick
*In Formation
Young Women’s Board
Lisa Rubinstein, President
Cindy Kaplan, Board Advisor
Vice Presidents, Campaign
Lisa Konik Aronin
Helaine Katz-Ratskoff
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
Harvey Barnett, Chairman of the Board
Andrew S. Hochberg, 2008 General Campaign Chairman
Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President
Jeffrey L. Cohen, Senior Vice President, Development
Beth Cherner, Vice President, Campaign
June Finder, Assistant Vice President, Campaign
Kathy Carroll, Assistant Director,Women’s Division
Yael Brunwasser
Naomi Fox
Abby Goldstein
Stephanie Oreck
Campaign Associates,Women’s Division
The Or L’Atid flame, or light unto the future, represents a women’s
commitment to ensure the future of the Jewish community by
endowing her Lion of Judah campaign gift.
Young Women’s Board of the Women’s Division
of the Jewish United Fund
invites you to attend
Highland Park Country Club
1201 Park Avenue West, Highland Park, IL
9:15 a.m. Registration and light breakfast
9:45 a.m. Program to begin promptly
With Special Guests
Abigail and Letty Pogrebin
L'dor V'dor: Generation to generation. Authors Letty Cottin
Pogrebin and daughter Abigail Pogrebin talk about their books,
Three Daughters and Stars of David respectively, and discuss
frankly the challenges of passing on Jewish identity from
parent to child.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A $500 minimum individual contribution to the 2008 JUF-IEF Annual
Campaign is required to attend.
Couvert - $25
Dietary Laws observed.
Your response is requested on the enclosed card, or you can register at www.juf.org.
The estimated value of the program is $25, which is not tax-deductible.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Yael Brunwasser in the Women’s Division office at (312) 444-2860 or [email protected]
RSVP by Wednesday, February 20, 2008. Cancellations after this date will not be refunded.
LET T Y COT TIN POGREBIN is an author, journalist, lecturer and social justice activist. She is an important early leader in the women's movement who
combined her feminist ideas with Jewish values. She was a writer and strong advocate for women's rights in the early stages of feminism in the early 1970's. She
co-founded Ms. magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus. She has written 9 books, including the memoir, Getting Over Growing Older, a book on time and
aging, and most recently, her first novel, Three Daughters. She also edited the anthology, Stories for Free Children, and served as editorial consultant on Free to Be,You
and Me, Marlo Thomas' ground-breaking children's book, record, and television special. Her first book, published in 1970, was called, How to Make It in a Man’s
World. Pogrebin's articles and Op-Ed essays have been published in The New York Times,Washington Post, Harpers Bazaar, among other publications. In addition to
her work as a writer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin has been a leader in many social justice causes and organizations. Pogrebin is a co-founder of the National Women's
Political Caucus, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and the International Center for Peace in the Middle East. She also serves on
the Women's Task Force of UJA-Federation, and the advisory boards of the Harvard Divinity School Women in Religion Program and the Women's Studies
Program at Brandeis University. She lives in New York City with her husband Bert, an attorney.The Pogrebins have three grown children and six grandchildren.
ABIGAIL POGREBIN began her career as a broadcast journalist, producing for Mike Wallace and Ed Bradley at CBS News' 60 Minutes, and for Bill
Moyers, Charlie Rose, and Fred Friendly at PBS. She has been published as a freelance journalist in New York Magazine, the New York Times Travel Section,
Radar, Salon, Harper’s Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal,Talk, Brill’s Content, Parents, the New York Sun, and more.
Abigail will be speaking on her recent book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. Sixty-one of the most accomplished Jews in America speak
intimately, for the first time about how they feel about being Jewish, the influence of their heritage, the weight and pride of their history, the burdens and
pleasures of observance, the moments they've felt most Jewish (or not). In unusually candid interviews conducted by former 60 Minutes producer Abigail
Pogrebin over the course of eighteen months, celebrities ranging from Sarah Jessica Parker to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Larry King
to Mike Nichols, reveal how being Jewish fits into their public and most private lives.This book of vivid, personal portraits reveals how the experience of
being Jewish is amplified by fame and also how the author's evolving Jewish identity was changed by what she heard. She lives in New York City with her
husband and two children, Benjamin, 8, and Molly, 6.