From: ajin (Am. Jewish Inf. Network)
Subject: AJIN Board Announcement
Originator: scj@israel.nysernet.org
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Organization: Nysernet
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:06:24 GMT

For Immediate Release

AJIN -- The American Jewish Information Network

For further information, contact ajin@israel.nysernet.org.

The American Jewish Information Network is pleased to announce the
formation of its board of directors.  The directors, chosen by the
founding officers, include Marty Block, Daniel Elazar, Avi Feldblum,
Richard Mandelbaum, Jeff Markel, Myra Shoub Nelson, Aaron Schmiedel,
Alan Sobel, Mark Steinberger, Stephen Stone and Jonathan Woocher.  Each
will serve a three year term.

The board of directors will soon start adding to itself, eventually
forming a board with between thirty and forty members, with staggered
terms on one, two or three years.  A number of additional nominations,
including self-nominations, have already been made and will be
considered by the board.  Nominations and other correspondence to the
board may be mailed to ajin-board@israel.nysernet.org.

AJIN was formed with the following missions in mind:

a.  Promoting the effective use of electronic communications networks by
the American Jewish community.

b.  Acting as the central American coordinator for the worldwide effort
known as the global Jewish information network, and coordinating with
similar groups in other countries.

c.  Helping to plan, coordinate and facilitate efforts by different
groups in the United States to make user-friendly electronic
communications accessible to all members of the Jewish community, both
individuals and organizations.

d.  Raising funds to help support the various projects needed in America
for the global Jewish information network.

e.  Encouraging and educating Jewish organizations to make the most
effective use of communications networks to communicate internally, to
communicate with their members and other Jewish organizations, and to
bring their messages to the general public.

f.  Assisting Jewish organizations and individuals in connecting to the
global Jewish information network, and training them in using the
resources of the network.

Martin Block (72617.3071@compuserve.com), Director of Information
Systmes for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, holds a BS in
Computer Science from the University of Maryland and has been involved
in the micro computer industry since 1980.  He has held various
positions for computer products and services companies in the Washington
Baltimore area, including Customer Service Manager for Estimation
Incorporated, DP Manager for Institutional Pharmaceutical Services, and
Senior Systems Analyst for CDSI of Rockville.  He has also served as a
board member and officer of SCAN Furniture and Greenbelt Cooperative
Inc., a large consumer cooperative in the Mid Atlantic Region.

Daniel Elazar (elazar@hujivms.bitnet), founder and president of the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, holds the Senator N.M. Paterson
Professorship in Intergovernmental Relations at Bar Ilan University in
Israel, where he heads the Institute for Local Government.  Professor
Elazar also is Professor of Political Science at Temple University in
Philadelphia, where he directs the Center for the Study of Federalism,
and was the founding president of the International Association of
Centers for Federal Studies.  Dr. Elazar, who received his M.A. and
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, has written or edited over 50
books and many other publications and is the editor of Publius, the
Journal of Federalism, the Jewish Political Studies Review and the
Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints.

Avi Y. Feldblum (avi_feldblum@att.com) is a physicist working as a
Member of Technical Staff for AT&T Bell Laboratories. He received his
B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University, where he also spent 3 years
learning with Rav Soloveichek and holds a Ph.D. from the U. of
Pennsylvania. He has been actively involved in electronic Jewish
networking since the mid-1980s, starting with organizing a weekly torah
portion of the week discussion on net.religion.jewish (the Usenet jewish
discussion group before the Great Renaming that is now
soc.culture.jewish). Avi now moderates mail.jewish, one of the oldest
and largest Jewish mailing lists, with over 500 members around the
world.

Richard Mandelbaum (rma@poly.edu) is the president and chairman of
Nysernet, the home of the Israel Project and the israel.nysernet.org
host, and the director of the Center For Advanced Technology in
Telecommunications at the Polytechnic University.

Jeffrey B.Markel (72561.1526@compuserve.com) is the founder of NJN, the
NationalJewish Network, which provides free access to electronic networking
for Jewish agencies and organizations and their constituent members. Mr.
Markel is a member of the national Executive Committee of the UJA Young
Leadership Cabinet, and has served on the Boards of Directors of the United
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and The Jewish Family and Childrens'
Service (Pittsburgh). Mr. Markel is an honors graduate of Vanderbilt
University (B.A. 1977) and the Cornell University School of Law (J.D. 1980),
and currently practices in the area of corporate finance as a partner in a
major Pittsburgh law firm.

Myra Shoub Nelson (nelson@acfcluster.nyu.edu) is currently a PhD student
in the Educational Communication and Technology Program at New York
University.  She has worked in the American Jewish community as director
of the Jewish Women's Resource Center and is currently an educational
consultant and field Worker for United Synagogue. Ms. Shoub Nelson is
also an active member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish
Education.

Aaron Schmiedel (aaron@kesher.lerctr.org) is a co-founder and
International Director for KESHERnet, and director of "The Mitzvah
Project," a program to solicit donations of articles of Jewish religious
purposes to be distributed to those who can't afford them.  Mr.
Schmiedel owns a computer consulting firm specializing in Novell
networks and Unix.

Alan Sobel (sobel@boulder.colorado.edu), a graduate of the University of
Colorado, has worked in the computer field for twelve years and is the
publisher of Springwells Jewish Computing Catalog.

Mark Steinberger (mark@sarah.albany.edu) is an associate professor of
mathematics and statistics at SUNY at Albany, where he chairs the
Libraries and Information Services Council.  He is the moderator of
CJ-L, an electronic discussion group on the beliefs and practices of
Conservative Judaism.

Stephen Stone (73026.772@compuserve.com) is the region II Small Cities
chair for United Jewish Appeal, a former vice president of the Council
of Jewish Federations, and a member of the executive committee of the
National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council.

Jonathan Woocher (72461.1762@compuserve.com) is the Executive Vice
President of the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA).
Previously, he was Associate Professor of Jewish Communal Service at
Brandeis University.  He has a B.A. from Yale University in Political
Science, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Temple University in Religious
Studies.  His activities in a lay capacity include service on several
committees of the Jewish Federation of MetroWest, NJ and on the
Executive Committee of the North American Jewish Forum.


These board members join AJIN's founding officers, President Alan Stein
and Vice Presidents Rachel Dunaief, Chaim Dworkin and Jerry Krupnick.

Alan H. Stein (astein@israel.nysernet.org) is a graduate of Queens
College and New York University, where he earned his Ph.D. in
mathematics.  He is an associate professor of mathematics at the
University of Connecticut.  He is currently chairman of the
Federated/United Jewish Appeal Campaign for the Jewish Federation of
Waterbury, which he has also served as president and as editor of
Chavurah, its monthly community newspaper.

Rachel Bork Dunaief (rdunaief@israel.nysernet.org) is a graduate of
Brandeis University and the Wharton School of Business.  She is a
Marketing Manager of consumer communications services at AT&T.  She is a
member of the board of the New York Chapter of the Brandeis University
Alumni Association.

Jerold B. Krupnick (krupnick@netcom.com) is a graduate of New York
University and Brooklyn Law School. He is President of Kineret Kosher
Foods and is the former President and a current member of the Board of
Directors of The Greater Five Towns YM&YWHA. He is also a Board Member
of the United Jewish Ys of Long Island and is currently serving as the
Chairman of the Computer Committe of UJYs. He has received the National
Kashruth Award of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
and the Shofar Award of the National Council of Young Israel.

Chaim Dworkin (dworkin@israel.nysernet.org) earned his Ph.D. in Cell
Biology, with studies in computer science, from Temple University. He is
the executive director of Chai Computer Associates, a consulting firm
specializing in communications, and is an Information Scientist working
for Information Ventures, Inc., a Philadelphia firm which provides
computerized information for researchers in Biology, Medicine, Physics,
and Environmental Studies.

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