2023-2024 One Fund Donors

The giving levels below speak to the values that are core to the JCHS experience.

Jewish Learning | Torah ($50,000 or more)

• Theodore D. Maidenberg & Rhiana L. Wallace Maidenberg

Healing the World |Tikkun Olam ($25,000+)

• Hilda & Yitz Applbaum
• Shelley Bransten & Dr. Philip Chenette
• Leslie & Raphael Edelman
• Ellen & Barry Finestone
• Jessica & Daniel Minkoff

Social Responsibility | Tzedek ($18,000–$24,999)

• Debbie & Barry Cohn
• Michael Donner
• Chelsea Eng & Roger Low 
• Debby Jacoby & Rabbi Howard Jacoby Ruben​
• Deborah & Michael Sosebee

Conviction | Emunah ($10,000–$17,999)

• Anne Bakar & Yossi Zadik
• Elizabeth E. Bettelheim Family Foundation
• Alfred Bloch
• Anne Germanacos
• Andrea & Stephen Hasegawa
• Hyslop Shannon Foundation
• Sarah & Lev Jasper
• Susan & Moses Libitzky
• Julie & Roni Ovadia
• Louisa & Roger Philipp
• Brigitte & Dr. Samuel Saks
• Joanna Samuels & Tomer Altman
• Julie & Mark Schneider
• Rochelle Shapell & Lorne Buchman
• Deborah & Larry Stadtner
• Dr. Ingrid Tauber & Frank Taforo
• Inbar Telem & Martin Lowenstein
• The Ticktin/Kimel Families
• Bev & Dr. Leor Weinberger, in honor of Raphael Edelman
• Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter & Mark Zitter

Creativity | Yetzirah ($5,000–$9,999)

• Hope & Noah Alper
• Alison & Jay Bakaler
• Kurt Billick
• Kerry Barlas & Eric Schwartzman
• Frayda & Rabbi Yonatan Cohen
• Suzanne Felson, in honor of Julie Vlcek-Burke
• Sarah & Jordan Hymowitz
• Aaron Parker
• Lisa & Steve Pearlmutter
• Rotem Perelmuter
• Daphna & Dr. Phillip Ross
• Eileen Ruby
• Dr. Deanna & Steven Taubman, in memory of Mitchel & Jeanette Tobin, and Elias & Stella Salba
• Marlee & Neil Taxy
• Leslie & Stephen Ticktin
• Karina Vaysman & Dr. Yan Kalika
• San Francisco Humanities, Inc.
• Sarah Weinberg
• Roberta & Dr. Murray Zucker

Leadership | Manhigut ($3,600–$4,999)

• Alison & Michael Brody
• Marci & Dr. Marc Dollinger
• Robin & David Gluck, in honor of Rabbi Howard Jacoby Ruben
• Barbara & Ron Kaufman
• Gabriella & Jesse Kellerman
• Sharon Kovalsky & Jonathan Kadis
• David Samson
• Jaimie Sanford & Ted Storey
• Deanna & Gregory Sklovsky, in honor of Shana Sklovsky ‘23

Loyalty | Ne’emanut ($1,800–$3,599)

• Reni Aniela & Miguel Zuliani
• Miriam Applbaum ’15
• Alisa Arquilevich & Rabbi Ryan Bauer
• Rebecca & Daniel Burrows
• Wendy Cown & Ben Chinn
• Angela Dalfen & Elizabeth Noteware
• Suzanne D’Arcy & Gerald Yanowitz
• Alexandra & Samuel Fell
• Donna & Joe Fogel
• Dr. Amy & Dr. Jeffrey Gelfand
• Dr. Tricia H. Gibbs & Dr. Richard Gibbs
• Melissa Heller & Steven Douglas
• Linda & Eric Horodas
• Mary Ellen Hunt
• Joel & Alissa Isaacson Gift Fund
• Patti & Sammy Joselewitz
• Fran Tannenbaum Kaye & Dr. Brian Kaye, in honor of Raphael Edelman
• Daniela Kleiman & Pablo Buki
• Leslie & Jeffrey Klonoff
• Julie & Ari Lewis
• Nancy Zimmerman Pechner & Richard Pechner
• Tricia Petersen
• Sharon Sagiv & Dr. Abraham Boskovitz, in honor of Nadav Boskovitz ‘24
• Dassi & Alan Shusterman
• Avril Swan & Paul Streepy
• Lisa Tabak & Jeffrey Lipsett, in honor of Raphael Edelman & Rabbi Howard Ruben
• Dr. Rochelle & Ari Zak

Joy | Simcha ($1,000–$1,799)

• Ruth Burgin
• Dr. Sarina Castro & Dr. Robert Root
• Dr. Elin & Dr. Craig Cohen
• Dr. Adriane Concus & Dr. Jeremy Lieberman
• Andrew Ferguson
• Frieda Fogel
• Marianne & Herbert Friedman
• Nancy and Frederic Golden, in honor of Eloise Golden ’24
• Steve Gomberg
• Gittel & Nachman Goodman
• Carrie & Ben Goorin, in honor of Cassie Goorin ’22
• Susan & Bruce Heitler
• Colleen & David Horowitz
• Joanne Howard
• Leslie Kane & Manuel Fishman
• Alissa & Robert Kaufman
• Dina & Leonid Kushnir
• Kim & Matt Levie
• Inna & Eli Levine
• Sarah Lin & Tim Chan
• Dr. Tamara Troy & Dr. David Lutterkort
• June & Dr. David Marinoff
• Janice Matz
• Jessica Merz
• Jan Reicher & Alain Bismuth
• Donna & Jason Roberts
• Rachel & Eric Seder
• Tania & Muni Schweig, in memory of Yonim Schweig ’17, z”l
• Evelyn Scalora & Martin Singer, in honor of Rabbi Howard Jacoby Ruben
• Amy & Alan Sezak
• Jacqueline Shelton-Miller & Craig Miller
• Jennifer Shy & Michael Feiner
• Yuliya & Yaroslav Vinogradsky
• Julie Vlcek-Burke & Jodi Burke
• Allison Kent Weiss & Paul Weiss
• Lyn & Adam Werbach
• Jami & Andrew Zakem
• Inna & Stan Zilberleyb

Unity of the Jewish People | Klal Yisrael ($540–$999)

• Anonymous
• Alona & Jacob Bennett
• Sara & Ken Bamberger, in honor of Rabbi Ruben & the Amazing Staff & Faculty of JCHS
• Maria Barak & Vadim Altshuler
• Michelle & Daniel Barenbaum
• Helen Berenshteyn & Leonid Leyferman
• Elana Cohn ’10 & Asaf Jacobs
• Leslie & Richard Cooper, in honor of Sean Moler
• Beth Jacob Congregation of Oakland, in honor of Rabbi Howard Ruben & the BJC members of the JCHS Board
• Robert Eisenman ’14
• Micah Fenner ’12, in memory of Sarah Fenner
• Aimee Golant Casella & David Casella
• Dr. Dawn & Dr. Andrew Gross, in honor of Raphael Edelman
• Caren & Steven Gutierrez
• Lauren & Seth Greenberg
• Angela & Leo Korman
• Tamara Lange
• Jill Rabinowitz & Lawrence Gerstley, in memory of Abe Rabinowitz

Gratitude | Hakarat HaTov ($360–$539)

• Anonymous
• Dr. Gail Bolan & Dr. Arthur Reingold
• Kelly & Neal Bram
• Rabbi Shua Brick
• Yael Cohn ’13
• Celia & Paul Concus
• Judy & Brent Daniel
• Ilana Drummond & Sharon Dulberg, in honor of Micha Drummond Dulberg ’24
• Michal Edelman ’10 & Andrew Tepper
• Beth Eiselman
• Keena & David Golden
• Joan Keston
• Vicky Keston
• Rita Kohl & Steven Silberblatt, in honor of Frayda Gonshor Cohen & Rabbi Yonatan Cohen
• Dr. Yelena & Jordan Koplowicz
• Fred Korr, in honor of Yossi Offenberg
• Svetlana & Oleg Kostukovsky
• Rachel & Arik Luck
• Ofra Paz & Dr. Noam Vardi
• Lynda Porter & Selim Tuvi, in memory of Vicky Tuvi
• Alissa Robinow
• Barbara & Sheldon Rothblatt
• Olga Urman & Ilya Eybelman
• Cynthia Vaughn & Mark Bloom
• Leonard Zimmerman, in honor of Chanah Zimmerman

Integrity | Yosher (Up to $359)

• Anonymous
• Marta Alejandro
• Adi Reicher Alouf
• Dottie & Erik Anderson
• Marisa Aragona
• Erik Balin
• Kasey Balin
• Julie Beck
• Carolyn Beckmann
• Noa & Moti Beharav
• Dr. Tamara Beliak & Zeev Neumeier
• Roni Ben-David
• Joan & Nick Boodrookas
• Dr. Gail Bolan & Dr. Arthur Reingold
• Karen & Steven Bovarnick
• Elaine Bregman
• Liora Brosbe & Rabbi Daniel Isaacson
• Rabbi Josh Buchin
• Dr. Cecily Burrill
• Kathleen Cariffe & Jonathan Rosen
• Helene & Daniel Casella
• Yoon Sun Choi & Fred Lifsitz, in honor of Mal Lifsitz
• Robyn Clark
• Ariel Cohen
• Roberta Cohn, in memory of Lenore Dollinger
• Lauren Cook
• Marissa Cornelius
• Barbara Davis
• Amy Dean
• Betsy Eckstein & David Heller
• Avigayil Edelman ‘16
• Robin Eig
• Janet Endelman & Marshall Newman
• Nadyne Epstein
• Diane Epstein-Porter & Ken Porter, in honor of Eleanor Porter ‘24
• Evan Fenner ’14
• Miriam Ferrer
• Ira Fishman, in honor of Kaue Barth-Ramos ’24 & Keyana Cornejo ’24
• Naomi Fiss & Karl Horton, in honor of Gerda Fiss
• Chubasco Gaite
• Miriam Gauss
• Moriah Geller ’15
• Dr. Marina Gelman & Daniel Zilberman
• Dr. Rebecca Golbert & Dr. Doug Crane
• Reva Golden, in honor of Eloise Golden ’24
• Lynn Greene
• Alex Grigoryan
• Magda & John Hagen
• Leora Hahn
• Ellen Harms
• Irma Hernandez
• Emily & Ray Hugo
• Dr. Elena & Dr. Eugene Ingerman
• Leslie & Steve Isaacs, in memory of Yonim Schweig ’17, z”l
• Laura & Jeff Jacoby, in honor of Rabbi Howard Ruben
• Elijah Jatovsky ’12
• Dr. Naomi Jatovsky
• Anna & Joshua Katz
• Lisa & Joseph Karpanty
• Marion & Ward Karson
• Tobye Kaye
• Stella Kleiman & Gene Reddick
• Angela & Leo Korman
• Michelle Kushnir ‘10
• Naomi & Sharky Laguana
• Dr. Lissa Bernstein-Lawler & Dr. Mark Lawler
• Audrey Larkin
• Dr. Richard Leavitt
• Ron Lezell
• Stephanie & Habib Lichaa
• Raizy Lichtenstein
• Melissa Little & Josh Morenstein
• Susan Lyon & Howard Freedman, in memory of John Dearborn
• Dr. Nell Mahgel-Friedman & Rabbi Chaim Mahgel, in honor of Gerald & Sondra Malloy
• Alina & Dan Manzon
• Sarah Marchick & Robert Hallman
• Jose Martinez
• Robert Marx
• Michelle Matz
• Susan & Elisha Mayost
• Roni & Paul Melmed, in honor of Cassi Goorin ’22
• Michelle & David Merin, in honor of Jacob Merin ’24
• Jane Merrill & Samuel Johnson, in honor of Pearl Werbach ’24
• Miranda Meyerson & Joseph Gindi
• Alevtina Mokshina & Yakov Volkov
• Sean Moler
• Suzannah & Dr. David Neufeld
• Susan Orbuch & Jim Gilbert, in honor of Lauren Cook
• Yuliya Peregudova & Sergey Peregudov, in memory of Mikhail Barash
• Gabrielle Perelmuter & Scott Jacques
• Aaron Pollak
• Aaron Pollock
• Tamar Rabinowitz
• Denise Rocco-Zilber & Michael Zilber
• Dr. Rena & Mordecai Rosen
• Arno Rosenfeld ’12
• Sarah Roth
• Nina Rowan, in honor of Harvey Rappaport
• Merav Rozenblum & Francisco Hulse
• David Rubinstein
• Fred Schwarcz, in memory of Tibor Schwarcz
• Catherine & Jeff Shachat
• Alexander Shtromberg, in honor of Shaina Pollak ’24
• Donna & Brian Sky
• Catherine & Virginia Smith-Russack
• Ron Sosnick
• Merav Steinberger-Arnold & Dr. Gilad Arnold
• Jennifer Sturgill
• Gretchen Tallon
• Barbara & Chuck Taubman, in honor of Deanna & Steve Taubman
• Harold Tuchfeld
• Dorothy & Dr. Paul Wachter
• Ann Wathen, in honor of Tamara Lowenstein ’24
• Gail & Mel Werbach, in honor of Pearl Werbach ’24
• Alex White
• Nicole & Stephen Wilkes
• Evan Wolkenstein
• Russell Wright

Gifts as of February 21, 2024

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2023-24 One Fund Co-Chairs

Jessica Minkoff, parent of Leah ’25 and Noah ’27

Sarah Weinberg, parent of Josiah ’26

Yearbook Tributes

As a special benefit for senior families, making a gift to the One Fund gives graduates the opportunity to be celebrated with a tribute in the yearbook. 

Click here for tribute examples and sizes. 

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For more information, contact Julie Vlcek-Burke, Director of Development.