| Mark L.
Briskman
 Mark L. Briskman is the Director of the North Texas-Oklahoma Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League located in Dallas, Texas. From October, 1974 until May, 1976 he was the Assistant Director of the New Jersey Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League. In the early 1970’s, Mr. Briskman was a research assistant at the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, where he was involved in forming the Model School Division Community Council of the Washington, D.C. public schools. Mr. Briskman holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Political Science from the American University School of Public Affairs. He has written Op-Ed articles for The Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Currently, he is a member of the Texas Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Mr. Briskman recently chaired a subcommittee of the Hate Crimes Working Group of the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. He has been involved with the successful development and passage of Hate Crimes Legislation in the State of Texas. He has participated in law enforcement seminars sponsored by the F.B.I. in the areas of Hate Crimes and Civil Rights. He has lectured at the Southwestern Law Enforcement Institute as well as the Tri-City Police Academy (academy is a joint effort of the police departments in Plano, Richardson and Garland) and the Regional Police Academy in Arlington. He is a graduate of the first FBI-Dallas Citizens’ Academy as well as the inaugural class of the City of Plano Citizens Police Academy. Mr. Briskman has served as chair of the Multi-Ethnic Committee of the Plano Independent School District, and a Task Force in the International Business Forum of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Dallas Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Crime and the Boards of the Greater Dallas Community Relations Commission, the Community College Ministry of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches, the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Arnold A. Jaffee Holocaust Collection of the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Briskman was appointed Director of the ADL’S North Texas – Oklahoma Regional Office in May, 1976.
Mike
Friedman
 Mike
Friedman is a Senior Vice President of Retail Services
at CB Richard Ellis in Dallas. He has over 35 years
of experience in commercial real estate, specializing
in retail leasing and sales, dispositions,
sale-leasebacks, shopping center sales and retail
land sales. He has represented numerous clients
across North America including 7-Eleven, Blockbuster,
RadioShack, Pep Boys, Lone Star Restaurants and WAMU.
Mr. Friedman is actively involved in several community
organizations and volunteers each week at Medical City
Dallas and Children’s Medical Center.
Sherry Goldberg
Partner
with her husband Ken in their family business, doing
Community Relations work with the City of Dallas.
Former fulltime advocate and volunteer for the Dallas
and Richardson Independent School Districts; founding
member of the RISD Religious Practices Advisory
Committee and The J.J. Pearce High School Excellence
in Education Fund; member of the boards of the Dallas
Jewish Community Center and Federation, of the Jewish
Community Relations Council, of the North Texas
Regional Hillel, of the University of Texas-Austin,
Hillel, and of the Dallas BBYO; former Dallas Teen
Tour to Israel Chair and Jewish Community Center
Board of Education Chair.
Morton L.
Herman, JD
 Attorney,
Cantey & Hanger, LLP, Fort Worth, Texas; former
President of Congregation Ahavath Sholom, Fort Worth;
board member of the Carter Blood Care in Fort Worth
and of the advisory council of the University of
Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts; a co-founder
and board member of the University of Texas at Austin,
Texas Cowboys Alumni and the T Association. He is
also a member of local, state, and American bar
associations.
Stephanie
Hirsh, PhD
 Executive
Director for the National Staff Development Council;
U.S. Microsoft Partners in Learning Advisory Board;
National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform;
the University of Texas Education Foundation; former
school board trustee in the Richardson Independent
School District; Dallas Jewish Community Center
Board of Directors; Chair, Social Action Commission,
Jewish Community Relations Council; Advisor, Center
for Advancement of Jewish Education (Miami).
Allyn
Kramer
President and owner of Kramer Direct (a national direct marketing advertising agency;
Vice-Chair of AIPAP (Dallas); member of Temple Emanu-El Israel Committee
Mitchel
Kruger, MD
Cardiovascular Specialists, P.A.; Alpha Omega Alpha
Honor Medical Society; United States Army; former
Chair of Medicine and Chief of Staff of Presbyterian
Hospital of Denton; Member, Presbyterian Hospital
of Denton board of trustees; Denton County Medical
Society; Lewisville Chapter of the American Heart
Association; and past President of Congregation
Kol Ami, Flower Mound, Texas.
William S.
Lee, JD
I am licensed as an attorney and CPA in Texas. My principal areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, and income tax planning. I am a member of the board of Hebert Acquisitions, LLC in Austin, Texas. Formerly, I was a board member of Tide-Air, Inc. of Houston, Texas, and Vice President and General Counsel of INDSPEC Chemical Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA. I am a member of the State Bar of Texas and the AICPA, and a member and former board member of the Texas Society of CPAs.
Nathan
Margolis
Born in Dallas, Nathan graduated from the University of North Texas in
1975 with a degree in Business Administration. He moved to Houston in 1982, and
married Terri. Since graduation, he has worked in the financial services profession,
and has been with AIG Global Investments Group (the investment arm of AIG insurance) for 17
years. Nathan has over 30 plus years in volunteer/philanthropy service in Dallas, Denton,
and Houston starting with UNICEF while attending Sunday School at Temple E-manuel. At UNT, he
was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity, active in charity events, including the American Heart
Association, blood drives, and work at Denton State School. He subsequently participated in the
Big Brothers/Big Sisters program a mentor to a Jewish child for five years with whom he is still in touch.
In Houston, he has been involved with Seven Acres (Houston’s Jewish nursing home) “friendly
visitor” program assisting residents for over five years. In 1998, he started his second tour
of Big Brothers Big Sisters giving guidance to a Jewish teenager, and is currently chapter advisor to
Sigma Alpha Mu at Texas A&M, Stephen F. Austin Sammy Alumni Club president, National Alumni Relations Coordinator,
and part of Sammy’s Centennial Committee. His hobbies are gardening, motorcycles, high performance cars, and helping
worthwhile organizations, and community projects.
Dmitry Portnoy
Associate professor, Anesthesiology Department, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Medical Director of Anesthesia Support Services, UTMB; Member of American Society of Anesthesiologists; Member of European Society of Anesthesiologists; Member of Society of Obstetric Anesthesiologists; Former member, Advisory Board, Operation Rainbow Inc. (non-profit Medical Mission Organization), Houston; Staff Anesthesiologist, Operation Smile Inc. (international non-profit organization)
Richard
Rafes, PhD
 President, West Virginia School of Ostepathic Medicine, Lewisburg, WV: Former President, East Central University, Ada, OK; University of North Texas, former Senior Vice President for Administration; University of North Texas System, former Vice Chancellor and General Counsel, and served as the chief legal officer; former Director of the Center for Education Law, Administration and Policy; former General Counsel, Texas State University System; former Assistant Attorney General of Texas; founder, Texas Higher Education Law Conference at UNT.
Bernard Rapoport
Bernard Rapoport, better known as B, was raised by Jewish Russian immigrant parents – his father initially sold blankets from a pushcart in San Antonio. B went on to found the American Income Life Insurance Company, which grew to a multi-billion dollar company catering to labor unions. B never forgot his roots, which helped shape the establishment of The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation. Today the foundation seeks to further the pursuit of social justice and equality, help the disadvantaged and underserved, support reading and music, and provide children with education. B has been active in civic affairs, and his interest in politics has often led him to the national stage, as a major supporter of the late Governor Ann Richards, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President Bill Clinton. B’s, along with his wife Audre’s gifts to institutes of higher learning in Texas have funded buildings, established scholarships, and created endowed chairs. The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas (UT) serves as a focal point for critical discussion and analysis of human rights law and advocacy. For his service on UT’s Board of Regents, B received the university’s highest recognition in 2008 the Santa Rita Award. In 1999, B was recipient of the Horatio Alger Award of Distinguished Americans, given to individuals who succeed despite adversity and in turn encourage young people to pursue their dreams. He was also named one of America’s 40 most generous philanthropists by Fortune magazine in 1988. For more than 40 years, the Rapoports also have supported the Texas Observer, a twice-monthly news magazine that serves as the state’s leading journalistic outlet for liberal voices and hard-nosed political coverage in Texas.
Mark
Schor, PhD
Senior Vice President, Executive Services Right
Management Consultants North Texas Region; President,
Dallas Jewish Historical Society. Member and former
Chair of the Scholarship Committee of the Foundation
of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; member
of the board of Hillels of North Texas, and former
Vice President of the Southwest Region of the American
Jewish Congress; member of the Human Resource Committee
of the Dallas Jewish Community Center and of CEO
Netweavers. Dr. Schor is a member of Congregation
Shearith Israel, Dallas, where he taught confirmation
and post-confirmation classes for 15 years.
Jaynie
Schultz
Vice President, Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center;
Director of the Schultz Family Foundation of Dallas,
Texas; past President of the Akiba Academy Board
of Directors; Chair, Jewish Education Department
and Board member, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas;
birthright israel Foundation Board; member, Lippman
Kanfer Institute Board; Yavneh High School Board.
Iris
Young Sheppard
WW Program Manager, Hewlett Packard Corporation.
Current Vice-President of Academy of Torah in Greater
Dallas (ATID). Current board member of Ann and Nate
Levine Academy. Former board member of BBYO, the
North Texas Youth Commission. Former board member
of the Dallas Jewish Community Center.
Fredell
Shulkin
Board member of Congregation Tiferet Israel, of
Bnai Brith Youth Organization, and of the Dallas
Area Torah Association; member of the Education
Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas
and of Texas Hillel in Austin; social worker for
Home Health Agency; Chair of Jewish Community Center
Arts Fest Volunteers.
Larry
Strauss
President of the Dallas chapter of Bnai Zion; Board
member of Israel Bonds, Dallas Hebrew Free Loan
Association, and Dallas Area Torah Association;
Past president of Congregation Beth Torah (Richardson);
previous board member of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Dallas.
Peggy Tobolowsky, JD
Professor and the Associate Chair of the Criminal
Justice Department, University of North Texas;
formerly a federal prosecutor in the United States
Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
and a litigator at a major law firm with offices
in Dallas, Texas, Washington, DC, and several other
cities. Immediate past chairperson and currently
Life Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas
Jewish Community Foundation. Member, Board of Directors,
and former member of various committee as well as
Chair of the Education Committee of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Dallas; member of the United Way of Metropolitan
Dallas Foundation Board of Directors; former Chair
of the Community Investment Committee, Chair of
Central Allocations Committee, and member of the
Executive Committee of the United Way of Metropolitan
Dallas Foundation.
Helen Waldman
Psychotherapist with Legacy Counseling Center of
Dallas; member of the Mental Health and the Social
Work committees of the Medical Reserve Corp of Dallas
County, of the New Leadership Network of AIPAC,
and of the non-profit child advocacy organization
TEX Protects; former board member of BBYO, the North
Texas Youth Commission, Family Outreach of Carrolton,
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas Young Leadership,
Akiba Academy (Dallas), and Solomon Schechter Academy
(Dallas); former member of the Steering Committee
for the Jewish Family Services Career Placement.
Howard
Watt, JD Advisory Board Chair
Attorney at Law, The Law Office of Howard E. Watt,
P. C., Former Municipal Judge, City of Denton; former
president, Congregation Kol Ami, Flower Mound, Texas;
former chair, Big Brother, Big Sister of Denton
County; Denton Country Child Welfare Board; and
Regional Hillel of North Texas.
Sharon Wisch-Ray
I was born and raised in Fort Worth where I graduated from Trinity Valley School. I graduated from Washington University with a BA in Psychology. I earned my MSSW from UT Arlington. I maintained a private practice for several years and was an adjunct at UTA's school of Social Work. In January 2002, when my father passed away, I was "ABD" for my doctorate, and left social work to help out at the Texas Jewish Post. I have been at the TJP ever since.
Martin
Yaffe, PhD
Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University
of North Texas; Curriculum Consultant and Bar/Bat
Mitzvah Director, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas
(1973-2003); Research Director, Institute for Jewish
Studies, Dallas, Texas (1972-83); member of Academy
for Jewish Philosophy, American Academy of Religion
(President, Southwest Region, 1989-90), Association
for Jewish Studies, National Association of Scholars,
North American Spinoza Society, North Texas Philosophy
Association, Society for the Study of Ancient Greek
Political Thought.
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