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THE JEWISH WORLD
UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES NOMINATES NEW OFFICERS Nominating Committee Taps James S. Tisch as UJC Chair; Robert Goldberg as Executive Committee Chair, and Morton B. Plant as Treasurer Board of Trustees to Act on Nominations in November James S. Tisch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Loews Corporation and President of UJA-Federation of New York, has been nominated as the new Chair of the Board of United Jewish Communities (UJC). Robert Goldberg, President of Ohio Savings Bank, UJC Treasurer, and Immediate Past Board Chair of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, has been nominated as Chair of the Executive Committee of UJC. Morton B. Plant, Chairman of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and Chair of the UJC Budget Committee, has been nominated as UJC Treasurer. The UJC Board of Trustees voted Monday to accept the slate of nominees for the organization's top officers and will vote on the recommendations in November, during the UJC General Assembly in Washington, DC. Once elected there, the new officers will assume their responsibilities immediately and serve one-year terms. Tisch will succeed Charles R. Bronfman, whose second term as UJC Chairman ends in November. Goldberg will succeed Joel D. Tauber, whose term ends at the same time; and, Plant will succeed Goldberg as UJC Treasurer. Bronfman and Tauber praised the nominations and their successors. "James Tisch is a visionary leader who has worked tirelessly on behalf of our community and our people at home and abroad," said Bronfman. "His devotion and passion will serve UJC well as the Jewish Federation system meets the challenges of the next year - that is, attending to the needs of our community here and overseas, and further strengthening our bonds of solidarity with Israel." "The slate of nominees is remarkable for the breadth of its experience and accomplishment in the private sector and in the North American and world Jewish communities," Tauber said. "Collectively, James Tisch, Robert Goldberg and Morton Plant exhibit decades of involvement and accomplishment. UJC and the Jewish community will benefit from their dedication and vision." Tisch, president of the UJA-Federation of New York for the past three years, has a distinguished business and philanthropic background. He is a past campaign chair at the UJA-Federation and is a board member of Federation Employment and Guidance Services of New York, a trustee of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University and received a Master's of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School. "I'm greatly honored to have the faith and confidence of the Nominating Committee and the Board of Trustees," Tisch said. "I'm looking forward to building on the successes of Charles Bronfman, Joel Tauber and (UJC President) Stephen Solender. Goldberg, who served as Board Chair at the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland from 1997 to 2000, and is a Trustee for Life there, is founding chair of the Federation's Partnership 2000 Steering Committee. He is a founder, past president and Life Trustee of the Agnon School, a Jewish day school in Cleveland, and he serves on the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University and holds a law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. "I feel privileged to be nominated to succeed Joel Tauber and serve as Chair of the Executive Committee of UJC, which I consider to be the preeminent Jewish organization in North America," said Goldberg, who currently serves as Chair of the Overseas Needs Assessment and Distribution (ONAD) Committee of UJC. "I look forward to working with James Tisch, together with the other dedicated and talented lay and professional leaders. Plant is Director of the Harry Weinberg Family Foundation, in addition to his chairmanship of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. He is a Director of Mercantile Bankshares Corp. and is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania. Reflecting on his dual leadership role, as he will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board of The Associated, Mr. Plant said: "I'm looking forward to applying my experience at The Associated to the challenges ahead at UJC. It's most important, especially in this uncertain economic climate, that the federation movement remains on the soundest budgetary and planning basis, both locally and nationally. That's the focus I'll be bringing from The Associated to UJC." The UJC Nominating Committee, in tandem with the UJC Bylaws Committee and officers, will soon be recommending the establishment of additional officer positions. It is believed that a larger group of officers is needed to effectively manage an organization of UJC's size and reflect a broader cross section of the community, with consideration given to city size, geography and gender. |
