Mike Adler is the Chief Technology and Chief Product Officer at N-able (NYSE: NABL), where he is responsible for the global technology and product development organizations.  For the past 20 years, Mike has worked in technology including leadership positions at RSA, Constant Contact, Symantec and other startups.

Mike married into the Eisner Crane Lake family (Beth Newman Adler) and has sent all 3 of his boys through the program as campers and now staff members.  Never one to be shy with opinions, the kids’ experience and opinions helped shape Mike’s love, drive, and desire to ensure the future of the URJ’s Northeast Camps.

Mike lives in Framingham, MA and spends weekends (as many as possible) and summers in the Berkshires.

Karen is a proud Eisner Crane Lake Board member, Eisner Camp alumna and parent of two Eisner alumni. 

After a successful career in the private sector, Karen transitioned to a career in not-for-profit management. After serving as chief executive officer of two different organizations, Karen currently serves as a strategic advisor to philanthropists and institutions providing consulting on strategy, fundraising, board development and other growth-related opportunities. Since 2019, Karen has also served as an independent director of ACRA Re, a strategic, on-demand capital vehicle that allows investors to participate alongside life and retirement reinsurance firm Athene Holding Ltd. in private deals. 

Karen is a past President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Rodeph Sholom School for 12 years. 

Karen received her AB Harvard College and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Manhattan with her two teenaged sons.

Liz is thrilled to serve on the Board for URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps!

Outside of camp, Liz works as an oncology and palliative social worker, counseling patients and families who have been impacted by cancer. She earned her MSW from NYU’s Silver School of Social Work and completed a Palliative and End-of-Life Care MSW fellowship. She previously earned a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and enjoyed a 25-year career as a technology consultant. Liz grew up in Springfield, New Jersey, attending Temple Sha’arey Shalom and enjoying many (then-called) JFTY youth events.

Liz and her husband Adam are the proud parents of two Eisner Camp alumni, Becky and Sam. They each spent eight summers at camp; Becky also worked as a general counselor and Sam was on staff at URJ Kutz Camp. Through these transformative summers, Liz realized how much our camps have to offer and—especially since she never had the opportunity to go to a URJ camp—she wanted to get involved and help contribute to the magic we provide for so many campers and staff.

She first got involved as an Ambassador for her congregation, Temple Shaaray Tefila in Bedford, NY, helping to increase camp awareness among temple families. She was thrilled to join the Eisner/Crane Lake board in 2007 and has since chaired the Marketing and Communications Committee, was Board Secretary on the Executive Committee, and was honored to serve as Board Chair from 2018-2022. 

Jordan Brackett is Chief Executive Officer of Asphalt Green, a NYC non-profit providing sports, fitness and play opportunities for people of all backgrounds. Jordan oversees over 550 employees, a nearly $40 million operating budget, two flagship locations (including an Olympic Pool, sports fields, and a summer camp) and 90 satellite locations through New York City. Prior to joining Asphalt Green, he was the Executive Director of the Educational Alliance’s 14th Street Y, a Jewish community center. Prior to joining the 14th Street Y, Jordan worked for the New York City Department of Education and for Mayor Bloomberg in City Hall. Before joining city government, Jordan practiced law, specializing in corporate financial restructuring.

Jordan currently serves on the Executive Committee of Union Square Partnership, New York City’s first Business Improvement District. He also served on the East End Temple Board for nine years, including as Vice President. Jordan graduated from Swarthmore College with honors. He graduated from Boston College Law School and attended NYU School of Law as a visiting student.

Jordan lives in Greenwich Village with his wife, Amy (who serves on the Board of the URJ and Chairs the Investment Committee for the Reform Pension Board), and two children, Arielle and Asher (who attend the Heschel School and love spending their summers at Eisner).

Stephen is an Assistant Professor of Practice for Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Prior to working at Babson, he has short term academic roles at UMass Amherst, Bay Path University, Olin College of Engineering, and Case Western Reserve University. His academic focus is in create learning environments that inspire entrepreneurship, innovation, and creative/design thinking. Beyond his classroom teaching of undergraduate and graduate students, he is also a faculty member at Babson’s Summer Study for HS students in 30 countries as well as engaged in working with entrepreneurs in places like Macedonia, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. His role is focused on empathy driven venture creation and building the curiosity of those he works with. His consulting explores creating new revenue streams and innovation building on the organizational assets of his clients in the corporate, start up, and nonprofit sectors. Some of his clients include: New England Public Media, MIT, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Jim Henson Company (Muppets), Anchorage Museum, Creative Education Foundation, Center for Medical Simulation, Hathaway Brown School, Thayer Academy, Center for International Private Enterprise, Strategic Air and Space Museum, Center for Medical Simulation, Pixar, Ford Motor Company, Polaroid, Harvard Medical School, and the Eastern States Exposition.

Before moving into consulting, Stephen was the President of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, VP of Liberty Science Center, and Director of Public Outreach at the Boston Museum or Science. While at the National Inventors Hall of Fame, he was instrumental in creating the business model for a local summer day camp about creativity and invention that ultimately expanded to all 50 states and engages well over 50,000 children each summer.

Stephen has a BA in Multimedia Design and Production from Ohio State, a Master’s in interactive learning from Harvard, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University. His doctoral research explored what early inspirations led successful innovators as they progressed in their careers. Some of whom were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Some of his more recent research explored what it takes to be an entrepreneur in pre-Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

He attended Camp Eisner for 10 years and URJ Camp Harlam for 2 as camper, counselor, unit head, songleader, and Eisner’s Director of Creative Arts and Special Projects. More recently he led innovation bootcamps for Jewish camp staff and directors through the Foundation for Jewish Camps. His passion for Jewish camping is strong as well as his early career participation in the Long Island Region of NFTY (LIFTY) as a HS student and as Director of both LIFTY and Crafty (NYC).

Stephen has 4 amazing daughters, 3 of whom are raising our 6 grandchildren. His wife Pattie is the CEO of Girl Scouts of Central and Western MA. They live in Wilbraham, MA – not far from Eisner and Crane Lake.

Doug is proud to serve on the URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Board, where he focuses primarily on the scholarship program and helping to make camp financially accessible to as many children as possible.  

A lawyer, Doug has worked in a number of law firms you have probably never heard of.  For the past 10+ years he has been General Counsel to First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm.  He lectures frequently on a variety of topics – primarily to his wife and children (all of whom attended Eisner Camp).   

Doug has served for a number of years as a Trustee of Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, New York, where he is currently also a Vice President.  

Hypercompetitive, Doug competes in an annual “whac-a-mole” tournament – which (sadly) he has never won.   

He lives in Great Neck, New York, with his wife and their two children. [This is where Doug would list his degrees if he thought they would impress you.]

Vivian is an independent financial advisor with a business located in Tarrytown, NY.  Her expertise is in the areas of college, retirement and estate planning, and she is skilled in the development, execution and maintenance of personal investment portfolios.

After graduating from Brandeis University with a BA in history, Vivian completed the MBA program at Columbia University with a major in finance. She began her professional career in commercial banking, and started her own firm in 2003.

Vivian and her husband Gary have been members of Temple Shaaray Tefila in Bedford, New York for more than 35 years.  Vivian taught in the religious school and has been active on a variety of committees, most recently chairing the search for a new senior rabbi.

Vivian and Gary have four children, ranging in age from 34 to 19, and two grandchildren.   They are committed to Jewish camps, and Eisner/Crane Lake in particular, as foundational for the future of the Jewish community

Jeffrey Clopper has served as rabbi and spiritual leader for Temple Beth El since 2003. Jeff received his B.S. from Tufts University in 1989 and was ordained in 1995 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Following Ordination, he worked at Congregation Emanu El in Houston, Texas, and has also served at congregations in Piqua, Ohio, Quincy, Illinois, and Lafayette, Louisiana.  He was a Rabbinic Intern for the Youth Programs Department of HUC-JIR in Cincinnati, and Chaplain Intern at Jewish Hospital and Bethesda North Hospital.

Camp has been a big part of Rabs (a camp nickname) life.  He has had the opportunity to be involved with several URJ camps, including Goldman Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, IN, Jacobs Camp in Utica, MS, Eisner Camp in Great Barrington, MA, Greene Family Camp in Bruceville, Texas, and the former Kutz Camp in Warwick, NY.  For the past 9 years, Jeff has had the deep pleasure of being part of the faculty at Crane Lake Camp in West Stockbridge, MA.  He, too, tends to live “10 months for two”.  Jeff brings wisdom, passion and innovative thinking to congregational and camp life, while honoring and preserving sacred traditions and rituals. He enjoys doing it all – Shabbat services, bringing Torah to life, educational programs, working with the greater faith community on Long Island, camp programs, playing guitar and singing, and sharing his wisdom and talents.  Jeff is well-loved by congregants and the greater Huntington area and has loved being a part of the community.

Jeff and his wife Carol have three children, a dog and two cats.  They make their home in the South Huntington area.

Scott Dworman is a Network Engineer and Lead Project Engineer with Custom Computer Specialists, (CCS).  CCS is a premier technology solutions provider to companies and lower and higher education organizations.  Scott has worked for CCS for the past 7 years leading and mentoring team members.

Scott has served on the Temple Sinai Board of Trustees, and is currently Co-Chairman of Temple Emanuel Sinai Technology Advisory for the past 8 years in Worcester, MA.  He also has served on a Rabbi Search committee and is very active in the Worcester Jewish community.

He and his wife Nancy have 3 children at Crane Lake.  His wife Nancy is on staff for 2 weeks as the camp doctor.  They are members of Temple Emanuel Sinai in Worcester, MA.

For the past 7 years Scott has also run 8  1/2 marathons for Team Challenge.  This is a non-profit organization which helps find cures for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Team Challenge is part of Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation.

Scott is excited to serve on the URJ Eisner and Crane Lake board.

Meredith is excited to be a part of the Eisner/Crane Lake Board!  Her first experience at a URJ camp was during her temple’s first “Family Camp” weekend at Eisner when her children were young.  Though not an overnight camper herself, she was delighted to provide the gift of summer camp to her own children.  In 2022 her daughter started her ninth summer at Crane Lank camp as a junior counselor.

Meredith has sat on the board at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, MA on and off for more than a decade, serving as a Trustee, VP of Early Engagement and involved in myriad committees over the years.  Bringing in her professional experience, she has participated on and led search committees within the temple community as well.  In addition to volunteering at Temple Beth Shalom, Meredith has been an active volunteer in the Needham Public Schools.  She led the Curriculum Engagement committees at both the elementary and middle school levels for many years and currently serves on the town’s special education parent advisory committee.

A graduate of Brown University, Meredith’s professional background is in recruiting and organizational development.  She is currently the Planning and Projects Manager at PharmStars, a pharma-focused accelerator for digital health startups (and if you don’t know what that means she’s happy to tell you lots more about it!).  She and her husband Gabe live in Needham, MA with their two children and two dogs.

Staci Eisenberg Kosto is an academic physician.  Board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, she has the privilege of teaching and working with residents an Assistant Program Director for the Harvard Medicine-Pediatric Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as the Assistant Program Director for Wellness for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine Residency.  In addition to her residency program roles, she is a primary care provider for children and adults.  She has a particular interest in adolescent and young adult health, including for those with complex chronic diseases.

Originally from Southern California, Staci first experienced the joy of Jewish summer camp one summer when her grandmother helped make it possible for her to attend, and since then knew that she wanted her children to be able to go to Jewish camp.   She was able to get another taste of the joy of camp herself as the camp doctor at Crane Lake, and can’t wait to come back and work in the beautiful new Mirpa’ah.  She is appreciative of ECL’s commitment to inclusion and acceptance, and is honored to serve on the ECL board.

Staci and her husband Seth live in Newton, MA with their two children, who both attend Crane Lake Camp.  They are members of Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley where the ECL spirit is strong and helps forge special connections, even within an already close community. 

Rich Feifer is chief medical officer at InnovAge, a leading national provider of PACE programs, serving frail dual-eligible seniors by delivering comprehensive patient-centric care that enables them to age independently for as long as possible.  He has responsibility for all medical, nursing, behavioral health, dental, in-home, and pharmacy services.

Prior to joining InnovAge, he served as chief medical officer at Genesis HealthCare, one of the nation’s largest skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and long-term care providers.  He led the medical directors and a team of over 550 providers who cared for Genesis patients. In that capacity, he also served as chief medical officer of the Genesis HealthCare Accountable Care Organization, the only national ACO focused on nursing home patients.

Before Genesis, Rich was Aetna’s chief medical officer of National Accounts. He led Clinical Consulting, Strategy, and Analysis, which helped our nation’s largest employers improve the health and productivity of their members.  He also previously served as vice president of Clinical Program Innovation and Evaluation at Medco, where he was responsible for the organization’s portfolio of care enhancement programs.

Rich has served on various boards and committees, providing strategic and fiduciary leadership.  He currently is a director at the Accreditation Commission for Health Care, one of the largest healthcare accreditors.

A graduate of Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Rich is a board-certified internist with experience in population health, primary care, geriatrics, and urgent care medicine at the Fallon Clinic.  He received his MPH in Health Services Management from Columbia University, and is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut.

Leveraging his experience in healthcare leadership, Rich has supported Eisner and Crane Lake Camps and the entire URJ camping system throughout the COVID pandemic as a member of the URJ medical advisory team.

Rich and his wife, Marianne, live in the Hartford suburb of Simsbury, Connecticut, where they are active members of the Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation. Their kids, Deborah and Sam, spent many summers at Eisner Camp as campers and counselors.

Jenny Goldstein is the Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Americares, a health-focused relief and development organization that responds to people affected by poverty or disaster with life-changing medicine, medical supplies and health programs, based in Stamford, CT. She is passionate about international development, human rights and developing creative approaches to resource development. 

She spent the past 20 years working in various international NGOs, including Digital Divide Data, NYU and American Jewish World Service where she ran the Donor Engagement team,  launched the Global Circle program and staffed many service trips for young adults and synagogues.  Jenny is also a certified professional co-active coach and earned an MA and an MPA both from NYU, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow.

Growing up in Texas and Arizona, Jenny has traveled extensively and spent time volunteering, and working abroad including time in Jerusalem working for HUC-JIR as a grant writer, and volunteering in Izmir, Turkey with the JDC.  She loves facilitating group experiences, whether it was as a unit head at Eisner or leading volunteer groups across Latin America, Africa and Asia.

She currently lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with her husband Rabbi Evan Schultz, who serves as senior rabbi at Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport. She is proud that her eldest son just finished Ktanim at Eisner and her younger boys spend their favorite week of the summer at Eisner Day Camp and can’t wait to be overnight campers.

 Alan is the New York Executive Director of The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) which is the largest non-government funder of cancer research in Israel. Prior to joining ICRF, Alan served as the Executive Director of several leading New York City Synagogues, most recently he was the Executive Director / Chief Operating Officer of Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope Brooklyn. Prior to pivoting to the not-for-profit world, Alan held executive positions at the Bentex Group and was the founder and president of A&L Apparel for over 25 years, a wholesale distributor of consumer products.

Summer camp is central to who Alan is and he still maintains significant friendships with his bunkmates from 45+ years ago. Alan, his wife Miriam, and daughter Noa reside in the Midtown East section of Manhattan where they feel fortunate to call Central Synagogue their spiritual home. The Hermans take great pleasure in watching Noa develop into her true self as part of the Crane Lake Community.

Rabbi Lisa Izes is thrilled to be involved in URJ camping in a new capacity as a member of the Board!

Over the years, she has been an Eisner camper, Jewish Education Coordinator at Camp Coleman, Coleman group-leader for a NFTY Israel trip, and proud part of the Crane Lake family for 10 years. Her two daughters grew up at Crane Lake- one is currently a 2nd year counselor and the other is on the Yallah Israel program with her CLC friends.

Lisa is currently serving as the rabbi of Chavura Beth Chai in Northern Westchester. In her past work at the Shames JCC on the Hudson, her responsibilities also included being the Jewish educator of the JCC’s camp

Lisa received a BA in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and Rabbinic Ordination from HUC-JIR, NY in 2000. She and her husband Jason live in Irvington, NY with their family.

She has been an active member of Woodlands Community Temple since childhood. The congregation sends large numbers of kids to Crane Lake and Eisner every summer and is very proud of the close connection.

As part of the Crane Lake Community, she has witnessed how campers have flourished and connected with their Judasim, and learned skills and values that will help them become the best versions of themselves.

Heidi Klopfer’s connection to the URJ camps began in 1981 when she was an Ofarim camper at Camp Eisner. Over the course of 8 years, Heidi experienced some of her favorite summers at Eisner first as a camper and later as a camp counselor. Her three daughters Talia, Halle and Jordyn also have been campers and counselors at Eisner for a combined 13 years and counting. They all share a love of camp and the Berkshires.

Heidi is passionate about early childhood education and Judaism. Working at the Rashi School in Dedham, MA, a Reform Jewish Independent School, as a second grade teacher for the past 15 years allows her to live her passion every day. Heidi has volunteered for several non-profits and is especially proud of her partnership with the non profit, Facing History and Ourselves, for which she helped to write curriculum for their ‘Choosing to Participate’ program.

Heidi has been an active Jewish community member both in and out of synagogue and is a member of Hevreh in Great Barrington. Heidi loves spending her weekends and summers in the Berkshires.

With her affinity for education, the Berkshires, and Jewish camping, Heidi is thrilled to be part of the Eisner Crane Lake Board.

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Jodi Kerper is a Training Program Coordinator with the Professional Development Program at the Research Foundation for SUNY Albany. Jodi joined PDP in 2002 and currently manages a team of staff providing training to thousands of state program staff and social services caseworkers and providers who use proprietary computer systems to track and manage casework and clients. As such, Jodi leverages her “geek-like” affection for databases and computer systems and love of language to translate complex systems and technical terminology into relatable concepts for users. 

Although born in Brooklyn, Jodi grew up in Richmond, Virginia, where she was active in B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, serving as local chapter president and regional president. She returned to her northern roots for college, receiving her BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and has lived in the Northeast ever since. As an adult, Jodi found her Jewish identity in the Reform movement and embraced its traditions of spirituality and study married to community services and Tikkun Olam. A current member of B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany, NY, Jodi served as board member and president of the Board of Trustees. 

Jodi credits URJ and Eisner Camp with providing the formative experiences for her son’s Jewish identity; as the child of an interfaith marriage, he found his spiritual home at camp, attending from third grade through Olim, Machon, and later on as staff. Jodi serves on the Eisner and Crane Lake board as a way of thanking the camp community for this incredible gift and helping other children and families share in the camp experience. She firmly believes her family could visit any city in the Northeast and find families with a connection to Eisner and Crane Lake; her family even successfully tested this out during a ski trip to Whistler, B.C.!

Jodi currently resides in Delmar, NY with her husband R. Karl. Rethemeyer, the dean of University at Albany’s Rockefeller College and the School of Criminal Justice. Their son, Ben is studying Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, where he immediately bonded with other students who attended URJ camps.

Evan is a long term member of the board at URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps, serving for many years as a member of the Executive Committee and as the Development Chair. Evan is a founding principal of Edge Principal Advisors, LLC, a real estate private equity firm headquartered in New York City. He received his BA from the University of Rochester and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Of particular interest to Evan is the health and wellness of our broader community, as well as providing all of our various constituents with opportunities to seek and experience Jewish spirituality. To that end, Evan and his wife Jb have supported and led our mindfulness efforts at the camps. Further, Evan enjoys counseling our teams on leadership development, and mentoring future leaders of the Reform Jewish movement.

Most important, Evan and Jb have two children that are 3rd generation Eisner campers and counselors. Evan’s parents, aunts, uncles, brother, children and nieces and nephews have all attended Eisner over the years, and this is one of his proudest accomplishments in life.

Doug Mishkin is a lawyer and singer-songwriter who now lives in the Berkshires because he was a camper at Eisner in 1968-69. Eisner led to Kutz Camp, where from 1971-75 Doug had the greatest job ever invented, of being a NFTY National Songleader.

Eisner and Kutz shaped everything that followed. After practicing law in Washington, D.C. for 37 years, Doug now works with a law firm that represents low income tenants throughout western Massachusetts. Doug also serves as a member of the board of the Town of Egremonts Municipal Affordable Housing Trust. Doug has recorded two albums of his music, Woodys Children and Climbing That Ladder, and is due to release a third album, Tip of the Spear, in 2025.

Doug and his wife Wendy enjoy listening to Doug talk non-stop about his days at Eisner.

Lisa Pascetta is excited to be a part of the URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camp board.  Having grown up in Pittsfield, MA, she loves that her daughters, Molly and Sammy, also have a special connection to the Berkshires through their summers at Crane Lake Camp.  Molly and Sammy have been Crane Lake campers since 2015 and are delighted to be coming back to camp in 2021 – their Olim year!  

Lisa works at MassMutual where she is responsible for programs that manage the risks associated with cyber-threats. Lisa and her husband Jonathan Siegel live in Larchmont, NY and are members of Westchester Reform Temple.

Lara (she/her) grew up attending Crane Lake Camp from 1997-2010 as a camper, staff member, and programming director.  Her love for camp and the bubble has brought her back to join the advisory board as a proud CLC alumnus.

Lara graduated from Lehigh University in 2010 with a B.A. in Psychology and a Jewish Studies minor.  She has spent the past 10+ years working in the strategy and operations fields and traveling internationally during her time at WeWork.  Lara is currently the VP of Operations at Teal, a tech startup that helps individuals find career clarity, land jobs they love, and continue growing their careers.

Lara lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband Mark and their dog Australian Labradoodle Ringo.  In her spare time, she likes to travel to new places, scuba dive, spend time outdoors hiking and camping, and also curl up on the couch to watch a good movie.

Kelly Ramot is the Executive Director of Thanks To Scandinavia, an organization that provides scholarships to students from Scandinavia and Bulgaria to study in the United States and Israel in appreciation for the heroism showed by the people of those countries in protecting their Jewish citizens during the Holocaust. Prior to this position, Kelly worked for AJC for 12 years in a variety of roles, including the Associate Director of the AJC San Francisco office and the National Program Director of ACCESS, AJC’s new generation program, in AJC’s New York headquarters.

Kelly has been committed to serving in the non-profit world for as long as she can remember, both personally and professionally. This commitment to helping others was formed during her many years at URJ Greene Family Camp where she was a camper and counselor.  She is thrilled her three children are now being exposed to the same Jewish values at URJ Crane Lake Camp.  Kelly is honored to serve on the ECL Board.  

Kelly received an MSc in Nonprofit Management from The New School and a BA from Colby College.  A native Texan, Kelly has traveled extensively around the world and lived in Israel for many years. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is a member of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.

For forty- four years, Paul Reichenbach supervised many of the youth programs of the Union for Reform Judaism. During much of the 70’s and 80’s, Paul was the Co-Director of the NFTY Teen Leadership Camp (Kutz) in Warwick, NY. Commencing in 1978, until his retirement in September 2019, he served as the Director of NFTY Summer and Semester programs in Israel sending more than 30,000 teens and young adults (Birthright) to Israel for joyful and inspiring adventures. In the last seventeen years of his journey (2002-2019) , Paul served as the Director of URJ Camps across North America. During his tenure, URJ camps grew from twelve to eighteen camps at the peak of the Reform Movement’s camping experience providing thousands of young people with transformative summers of personal growth, deep friendship, Jewish pride and striving to ensure a bright future for Reform Judaism. Engaging and guiding truly gifted URJ Camp Directors was central to his sense of vision and mission. The welfare, safety and happiness of campers and camp staff was the core of wonderful summers for young people and their parents. Encouraging the dedication of lay leadership camp committees and the growth of philanthropic support of Reform Jewish camping was a key element of his fulfilling career.

Paul grew up in Newton, MA. and at Temple Israel in Boston and was deeply engaged in NFTY as a teen. While attending NYU, Paul began his lifelong professional connection to URJ Youth programs. Paul’s children grew up at NFTY’s Kutz Camp, his daughters attended URJ Camp Harlam and his son was proud camper and staff member at Eisner. His oldest daughter met her future husband at Crane Lake in 2001 where they were on the staff team.

Paul is a member of the Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, NJ and Hevreh in Great Barrington while residing much of the year in Stockbridge, MA. Paul is delighted to have the opportunity to serve on the Eisner/Crane Board together with very dedicated lay leaders working together to provide support of two extraordinary camps.

 Rabbi Rena Rifkin (also known as Triple R) grew up at Eisner Camp, and is now a proud Eisner Mom! Rena serves Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as the Director of Youth Education, overseeing all K-12 programming and serving as clergy for the community. She began working at Stephen Wise in 2016. Prior to that, Rena worked at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York for three years and North Shore Synagogue in Syosset, NY for three years. Rena was ordained by Hebrew Union College in 2010, and received her master’s in Jewish Education also from there in 2008.

Rena’s relationship with Jewish camping started before she was able to be in a bunk, and continued through her years as a staff and faculty member. She is a strong believer in the power of Jewish camps and is honored to serve on the Eisner Crane Lake Board.

Danielle Schmelkin is Chief Information Officer for J.Crew Group, encompassing J. Crew, crewcuts and Madewell brands. Prior to J.Crew, Danielle was the Head of IT for Coach, part of the Tapestry family of global brands. She previously held leadership positions at Barnes & Noble, Campbell Soup Company, and Pepperidge Farm with additional experience at PepsiCo and Andersen Consulting. Born and raised in New York, she is a graduate of Cornell University.

Danielle brings her background in Information and Technology to the Eisner and Crane Lake Camp community and enjoys working to ensure that our ECL campers and wider community continue to be nurtured in an open and inclusive environment that allows them to grow and challenge themselves.

She is a member of the Society for Information Management and also serves as a mentor to women looking to develop their skills and grow their careers in the fields of STEM. Danielle and her wife, Mary, have 3 children who all attend Crane Lake Camp. They are members of Temple Israel in Westport, CT. They discovered the magical Crane Lake Community through friends and clergy at Central Synagogue in New York, NY and are so thankful to be part of these amazing communities.

Amy grew up in Larchmont New York, where she was a member of Larchmont Temple (and still is).  At 8, she first attended Eisner Camp with the help of a Larchmont Temple scholarship.  Starting in Bonim Bunk 1, Amy spent six summers at Eisner, one at Kutz Camp, and then one in Israel before going off to college.  After college, Amy sent her three children to Eisner, two of them for 10 summers each.  While Amy’s husband Bob was not an Eisner kid himself, he got so caught up in the camp “ruach” that he served as the camp doctor for two summers.  Amy remains very active in her synagogue, and has joined the Board of Eisner and Crane Lake Camps.

Professionally Amy is an Executive Coach and a Human Resources consultant.  In her work, Amy is known for her innovative and practical problem-solving approach. Her corporate career included Executive HR positions with Fortune 500 companies including: IBM, American Express, Grey Advertising and Time Inc.  In 2007, Amy founded AMS Strategic Talent Consulting, a private firm focused on delivering talent solutions to drive business results.  With her new firm, Amy has worked across a broad array of industries including: Media, Education, Technology, Healthcare, Fashion Retail and at number of non–profit organizations focusing on conservation, social entrepreneurship, religion, and volunteerism.  In addition to her consulting, Amy’s has helping to shape the next generation of leaders.  She has been a mentor in the prestigious AmEx Fellows Program sponsored by the National Council for Research on Women, and has served as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Amy earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from SUNY Albany, and a Masters in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is a graduate of the iCoach NY Executive Coaching Program at Baruch’s Zicklin Graduate School of Business.

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Gabby Spear is thrilled to join the URJ Eisner Crane Lake Board.  Her connection to camp started when she was in CRaFTY and continued as a counselor and Unit Head at Eisner.  Gabby continued her involvement as an ambassador for her congregation, Temple Beth Shalom, where she could continue to reminisce with anyone who would listen.  Now she gets to continue to enjoy Eisner through the eyes of her two daughters, who spend their summers in the bubble and like every camp parent, waits by the mailbox every day throughout the summer for a letter letting her know how much fun they are having.

Outside of camp, Gabby is the Senior Director of Human Resources and Total Rewards for an immuno-oncology company in Cambridge, MA.  In addition to her professional work, Gabby volunteers her time representing the patients voice in the cancer community and helping grow and sustain an affordable after school program in her local community.

Gabby is most looking forward to bringing her knowledge of employee and team development as well as advocacy work to the Eisner Crane Lake Board, Staff and overall community.  She’s most looking forward to leading the initiatives around building and providing an even more diverse, equitable and inclusive community at Eisner.   

Born and raised in Staten Island, NY, Gabby attended SUNY Buffalo and received her BS in Business Administration.  Moving to Boston for a job over 20 years ago, she met her husband, Andy, and has called MA her home ever since.

 Cory Stern is a diversified Human Resources executive and Executive Coach who has been building, coaching, and leading teams and organizations across Johnson & Johnson since 2004. In his current role, Cory serves as VP, Global Head of HR for J&J’s Ethicon Medical Technology business, a $9B business providing surgeons around the world with innovative and trusted surgical technologies and solutions.  He is also the Founder and President of CJS Leadership Pathways, LLC.

Cory’s experiences span both established and entrepreneurial start-up businesses across healthcare and finance. He has built and scaled commercial models, driven business model transformation across, developed and executed talent acquisition strategies, orchestrated multiple acquisition integrations, and launched new B2B business models.

Prior to joining J&J, Cory spent 6 years in finance working in investment banking, capital markets and sales before making a career transition into the HR profession. Cory leveraged his Master of Industrial and Labor Relations degree from Cornell University as a platform for building his career across HR. He earned his B.A. in Russian Studies from Tulane University.

Cory, his wife and two daughters live in New York City and enjoy every moment experiencing the vibrancy and chaos of the city. Outside of his “day job”, Cory serves as a Mentor Coach for America Needs You (ANY), an organization which invests in economic empowerment and leadership development for first generation college students. He is an Advisor & Founding Member of TroopHR, an Advisory Board member to the Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations MILR Program, a Trustee at Temple Israel of the City of New York, and is President of the School Leadership Team at Public School 183 in NYC.

Liz Gutmann Weingast (she/her) is an alum of both Eisner and Kutz Camps. She was raised in a Reform household and met her husband Jim in NFTY (WeFTY). Liz’s two children attended Crane Lake Camp after her eldest heard about Crane Lake at a hebrew school introduction to the URJ northeast camps and came home asking to attend Crane Lake. Her youngest was a staff member at Crane Lake for summers 21 and 22.

Liz’s commitment to Reform Judaism includes her involvement at Temple Israel of New Rochelle, where she is a past president. She was instrumental at raising funds and gaining congregational support for an on-site Jewish day camp at Temple Israel. The future of Reform Judaism is of great importance to Liz, her involvement on the Eisner Crane Lake Advisory Board is inspired by the camps role in enabling campers to grow with a core sense of Judaism as a central part of their lives.

Liz works as a nurse practitioner in geriatrics. Her career has spanned over 35 years from work at NYU Medical Center, to The New Jewish Home, and most recently to ConcertoCare as Clinical Director of their New York market. Liz’s career has been in service to older adults and their families in the hospital, nursing home, and community. She has worked in leadership positions throughout her career and hopes to bring her experience working leading staff and program management to her work on the board.

Staci Woska started her time at Eisner Camp in 2001 and returned summer after summer until 2010, when she was an Olim Counselor. Eisner Camp has left a lasting impression on Staci, where she formed friendships for a lifetime. When she got married, 6 of her bridesmaids were her camp friends. She is thrilled to be part of the URJ Eisner Camp and Crane Lake Board, supporting alumni engagements. Staci has her Bachelors in Science and Masters in Business from the University of Maryland and has spent her career in Supply Chain since graduating. She currently works for the planned Consumer Health company of Johnson & Johnson. She leads Strategy and Performance Management for Procurement and is very involved in the Women’s Leadership Initiative as well as supporting young talent development.

Staci and her husband Will live in Bucks County, PA, where they spend their weekends golfing, baking treats, and exploring local restaurants. They love to travel and got to visit eight new cities on their honeymoon. Staci also loves to spend time with her niece and 3 nephews.