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Richard Krasne, President
Randy Wechter, President Elect
Michelle Haston, Vice President
Carlos Kaplan, Vice President
Candy Neustein, Vice President
Sam Ellowitz, Treasurer
Ezra Cappell, Secretary
Stuart Shiloff, Immediate Past President
Board Members:
Haidi Appel, Bernadine Belkin, Matt Blaugrund, Jay Druxman, Lana Esquenazi, John Garcia, Louis Gomar, Henry Kellen, Jaime Kimmelman, Barry Kobren, Lester Lieberman, Sol (Skip) Litt V, Gary Nadler, David Paseornek, David Pearlman, Lisa Rosenbaum, Harriet Roth, Phil Rothstein, Dr. Jerry Schwartz, Michael Tomor
The Jewish Federation of El Paso is located at:
405 Wallenberg Drive
El Paso TX 79912
915/584-4437
About Us
Helping Others in Need: A Brief History of the Federation System
When the Jews were exiled from the Land of Israel, nearly two thousand years ago, they dispersed across many countries, fragmenting into small groups among widely divergent cultures and empires. Under Christian and Islamic rule, in the German ghetto or in the Polish shtetl; however, the Jews remained internationally united. The glue was an allegiance to a code of laws and rituals set forth in the Torah and Talmud. But Judaism is more than a religion; it is a way of life experienced through the kehillah, the community. more
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