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By Steven DavidsonDecember 11, 2017
It is the season of giving, and many Jewish not-for-profit organizations are receiving financial assistance from benefactors like you. To provide a better accounting of where your donation money may be going, we present to you the Forward’s eighth salary survey. Below, you will find the reportable compensation information about the executives of the largest Jewish national not-for-profit organizations in America. You can click on the name of each organization’s executive for more information.
After crunching the numbers, we have found recurring trends. Since our last salary survey, the gender gap at Jewish non-profits has only widened and a few non-profit executives are receiving extraordinary payouts. You can read further about our methodology in collecting and compiling this financial data here.
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Who Earns What
Rank
Executive
Organization
2016 Salary (1predecessor’s salary | 22017 figure | 32015 figure)
1
Marvin Hier
Simon Wiesenthal Center
$818,148
2
David M. Schizer
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
$735,181 1
3
Howard Kohr
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
$720,194
4
Ari Berman
Yeshiva University
$687,548 1
5
Alan Kadish
Touro College
$678,548
6
Marc Terrill
The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
$664,489
7
Gerrald Silverman
Jewish Federations of North America
$636,559
8
Barry Shrage
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
$634,572
9
Matthew Brooks
Republican Jewish Coalition
$632,950
10
Izzy Tapoohi
Birthright Israel Foundation
$609,0561
11
Steve Nasatir
Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metro Chicago
$564,955
12
Stephen Hoffman
Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
$546,515
13
Jonathan Greenblatt
Anti-Defamation League
$545,441
14
David Harris
American Jewish Committee
$539,016
15
Eric Goldstein
UJA Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
$530,000
16
Jay Sanderson
Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles
$525,594
17
Jacob Solomon
Greater Miami Jewish Federation
$519,436
18
Matthew Levin
Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
$507,430
19
Eric Fingerhut
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
$495,307
20
Gil Preuss
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
$487,4501
21
Jeremy Fingerman
Foundation for Jewish Camp
$460,501
23
Ron Leibowitz
Brandeis University
$457,6491
24
Malcolm Hoenlein
Conference of Presidents Of Major Jewish Organizations
$452,693
25
Daniel Grossman
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco
$449,7502
26
Morton Klein
Zionist Organization of America
$448,063
27
Doron Krakow
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America
$445,0002
28
Russell Robinson
Jewish National Fund
$435,011
29
Naomi Adler
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
$432,199
30
Janice Weinman
Hadassah
$409,818
31
Daniel Mariaschin
B’nai Brith International
$405,708
32
Jeffrey Finkelstein
United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh
$351,7981
33
Dov Ben-Shimon
United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey
$352,236
34
Robert Bank
American Jewish World Service
$330,000
35
David N. Myers
Center for Jewish History
$325,0002
36
Scott Kaufman
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
$323,065
37
Mark Hetfield
HIAS
$316,455
38
Michael Makovsky
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
$315,0003
39
Brad Hirshfield
CLAL (National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership)
$309,7343
40
Eric Robbins
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
$308,5781
41
Irwin Kula
CLAL (National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership)
$289,9843
42
Nancy K. Kaufman
National Council of Jewish Women
$259,644
43
Jeremy Ben-Ami
J Street
$259,203
44
Roz Rothstein
Stand With Us
$246,127
45
Jeffrey Cooper
ORT America
$235,0001
46
Stosh Cotler
Bend The Arc
$233,579
47
Debra DeLee
Americans for Peace Now
$228,866
48
Rachel Fishman-Feddersen
Forward Association
$227,2522
49
David Zweibel
Agudath Israel of America
$220,058
50
Robert Wexler
American Jewish University
$219,640
51
Ami Eden
70 Faces Media
$214,624
52
Ann Toback
Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring
$210,109
53
David Bernstein
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
$205,160
54
Nigel Savage
Hazon
$202,811
55
Idit Klein
Keshet
$153,462
56
Shoham Nicolet
Israeli-American Council
$135,6723
—
Mark Dratch
Rabbinical Council of America
N/A
—
Allen fa*gin
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations
N/A
—
Aaron Panken
Hebrew Union College
N/A
—
Arnold Eisen
Jewish Theological Seminary
N/A
—
Steve Wernick
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
N/A
—
Jonah Pesner
Religious Action Center
N/A
—
Mark Volk
National Council of Young Israel
N/A
—
Dovid Nojowitz
Torah U’Mesorah
N/A
—
Rick Jacobs
Union for Reform Judaism
N/A
—
Julie Schonfeld
Rabbinical Assembly
N/A
—
Deborah Waxman
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
N/A
You can check out these figures in their subcategories in our tables below:
Public Service and Advocacy
Jewish Federations
Education and Religion
For a deeper analysis of the gender gap evident in this data, see here.
For reporting on some of the highest earners at Jewish not-for-profit organizations, see here.
For a breakdown of our methodology, see here.
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