Professional Staff

Regional Youth Directors

Central District

The Central District spans 18 states and 2 Canadian provinces, from Western Pennsylvania to the Great Plains, north to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, west to Colorado, and south to Texas.
Arlyne Bochnek
Regional Youth DirectorCRUSY
Julie MarderRegional Youth DirectorCHUSY
Jamie SkogRegional Youth DirectorEmtza
Maury Jacobs
Regional Youth DirectorSWUSY

METNY District

METNY includes Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx; Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties, and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Rachelle GrossmanRegional Youth DirectorMETNY
Todd HausmanDivisional DirectorChazak Division (Nassau County)
Mark SpielvogelDivisional DirectorKiryah Division (Five Boroughs)
Bruce VaronDivisional DirectorKoach Division (Bronx and Westchester/Rockland/Putnam/Orange counties)
Michael HirschDivisional DirectorRakevet Division (Suffolk/East Nassau counties)

Mid-Atlantic District

The Mid-Atlantic district includes all of New Jersey and Delaware, and Pennsylvania from the Delaware River to Altoona.
Barbara SharofskyRegional Youth DirectorEPA
Dassy MarkRegional Youth DirectorHagalil
Matan SilbersteinRegional Youth DirectorHagesher

Northeast District

The Northeast District includes Ontario and the Canadian provinces to its east, New England (except Greenwich, Connecticut), and New York state north of the New York City metropolitan area.
Max MarmerRegional Youth DirectorECRUSY
Joyce JudaRegional Youth DirectorNERUSY/Hanefesh
Emily BerkowitzAssistant Regional Youth DirectorNERUSY/Hanefesh
Sandra GoldmeerRegional Youth DirectorTzafon

Northern Pacific Region

The Northern Pacific region includes the Pacific seaboard from northern California up to British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska.
David KaplanRegional Youth DirectorNew Frontier
Aviva TillesRegional Youth DirectorPinwheel

Pacific Southwest Region

The Pacific Southwest region includes southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
Merrill AlpertRegional Youth DirectorFar West

Southeast Seaboard District

The combined Seaboard and Southeast regions stretch south down the eastern seaboard from Maryland to Florida, go west to include Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and east to include the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Barbados.
Stephanie NicholRegional Youth DirectorHanegev
Shira KaplanRegional Youth DirectorSeaboard
Shayna KritzAssistant Regional Youth DirectorSeaboard