FY 2008 Annual Report

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Annual Report
September 1, 2007 to August 31, 2008
Photo provided by Dr. Erhlich: Dr. Erhlich with child from Dafur displaying children’s
artwork depicting bombs from planes with government markings. Dr. Erhlich was our
keynote speaker at HIAS and Council’s 2007 Annual Meeting.
Mission
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia
(HIAS and Council) was founded over 126 years
ago to help Jewish immigrants and refugees fleeing
persecution and seeking opportunity in America.
HIAS and Council works to represent, resettle,
and reunite Jewish and all immigrants and refugees
of limited means residing in Pennsylvania and the
Delaware Valley. We seek the fair treatment of and
integration into American society of immigrants
from all backgrounds.
Dear Friends:
“Whoever saves a single life, it is as if he had saved the whole world.” This Jewish teaching from
the Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:5 marked the 126th year of HIAS and Council’s work in Pennsylvania.
We do our work in the spirit of “each one, reach one,” a call for involvement and engagement.
Save One. Save
a Generation
Whether its representing an asylum
seeker, providing a safe-haven for an
immigrant victim of domestic violence,
assisting a family member to reunite with
a loved one, or providing resettlement
services to refugees fleeing persecution
today, HIAS and Council’s staff, board
and volunteers serve as a humanitarian
life-line to those seeking opportunity and
freedom in the United States. During
these difficult economic times, it is good
to remember that immigrants and refugees bring new ideas and new energy to our
region; short-term assistance and support reaps long-term benefits, building healthy
families and strong communities.
The theme “Each one, reach one,” was highlighted by our 126th Annual Meeting
in September 2007 when our guest speaker Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, showed a slide
presentation from his experience in “Doctors Without Borders” treating refugees from
Dafur, Sudan in the United Nations camp. Dr. Ehrlich was able to bring out children’s
artwork depicting attacks by military aircraft on civilians, which proved government
complicity in the genocide. HIAS and Council volunteers who tutor refugees from Burma who lived
in camps for as long as 20 years and our pro bono attorneys who handle critical immigration cases
dramatically impact our clients’ lives; after life-threatening situations end, re-building must begin.
During our 2007-2008 fiscal year, we helped re-build many lives as we served more than 2000 clients
representing over 60 nationalities. We completed and began to implement our strategic plan, which
resulted in a stronger board with new by-laws and active committees. We began a new initiative to
represent immigrant youth, many of whom are in the U.S. without close family members. We settled a
major class action suit, Kaplan v. Chertoff, which expedites the citizenship applications of vulnerable
refugees who faced being cut off from safety net benefits because of processing delays. We also held a
wonderful event honoring the Honorable Harold Berger, scholar, attorney, and philanthropist.
We thank our board members, staff, funders and volunteers for enabling HIAS and Council to continue
its life-changing work.
Norman Weinstein
President
Judith Bernstein-Baker
Executive Director
Photo taken by HIAS and Council staff: Norm Weinstein, Esq. and Judith Bernstein-Baker, Esq.
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First day of school for refugees from Burma/Myanmar. These children were resettled by HIAS and Council’s resettlement team.
They were born in refugee camps in Thailand where opportunities for education were very limited. Photo taken by HIAS and Council staff.
OUR LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
HIAS and Council’s staff appeared in the media, received community recognition and participated in many policy
task forces during the year. Some highlights are:
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Attorney Maggie Niebler was featured on a panel at a national conference concerning immigrant youth.
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Senior Attorney Ayo Gansallo sits on the advisory committee of the Mayor’s Commission for African and
Caribbean Affairs.
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Independence Fellow Lisa Hurlbutt worked with Jason Leckerman from Ballard on the asylum case of a
deaf-mute woman from Guinea written about in the Legal Intelligencer.
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Accredited Representative Lori Alexander was invited to USCIS training on citizenship waivers and trained
attorneys for pro bono citizenship day.
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Jessi Koch, Resettlement Volunteer and Resource Developer was featured in the South Philly Review
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Managing Attorney Philippe Weisz was selected as an adjunct clinical lecturer at Penn Law’s
Transnational Clinic.
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Accredited Representative/Resettlement Case Manager Marina Merlin was given a citizenship award by the
Pennsylvania State Refugee Program.
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Executive Director Judith Bernstein-Baker was given a Community Service Award by Community College,
participated in a televised panel discussion of immigration, and was awarded a Senior Law Fellowship.
OUR PROGRAMS
ADVOCACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
HIAS and Council works with other service
providers, faith-based organizations and
community groups on a national and local level,
including national HIAS to provide a voice for
immigrants and refugees. Issues such as access
to government services, immigration reform,
promoting citizenship and voting, and the fair
treatment of the foreign-born are addressed
with coalition participation.
Shmul Kaplan passed the citizenship
exam with a 100% score. He received
HIAS and Council’s “Global Citizenship”
award. © All copy rights reserved by
Jeannette Flam Brockman.
ASYLEE OUTREACH PROJECT
Links those granted asylum to available
services and provides immigration documentation
assistance. The Project also sponsors selfsufficiency workshops for asylees and refugees.
Reunited after three years with
the help of HIAS and Council’s
Asylee Outreach Project.
Photo taken by HIAS and
Council staff.
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR VULNERABLE
ADULTS PROGRAM
Provides application and support services to the
elderly, disabled and low-income immigrants and
refugees seeking to naturalize. During 2007-2008,
we initiated a partnership with the JCCs Klein
Branch which hosts ESL and citizenship classes.
Raisa and client in
citizenship class.
Photo taken by HIAS
and Council staff.
REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SERVICES
Provides case management services to newly
arriving refugees leading to self-sufficiency.
During 2007 to 2008 we worked with vulnerable
refugees who were forced out of Burma/Myanmar
and were living stateless in camps in Thailand.
REPRESENTATION AND LITIGATION
Handles more complex immigration process
cases and represents immigrants and refugees
before the Immigration Judge in the Executive
Office of Immigration Review, the Board of
Immigration Appeals and U.S. federal courts.
This program focuses on the most vulnerable
populations including asylum seekers, victims of
interpersonal violence and abused, neglected and
abandoned children.
IMMIGRATION PROCESSING ASSISTANCE/
CORE MIGRATION SERVICES
Helps individuals navigate the various immigration
agencies including the United States Immigration
and Citizenship Service. Services include:
• Family petitions
• Adjustment of status (obtaining a “green card’)
• Sponsoring family members who live abroad
• Replacement of documents
• Travel documents
Women from West Africa who was represented by HIAS and Council
and obtained asylum. She faced threats to herself and her family from
the country’s rulers; her husband had been arrested and subject to
mistreatment and torture on numerous occasions.
Photo presented by client.
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Grants
Grants from the Jewish Federation
Service Fees
Investments
$219,496
$668,447
$129,800
$111,047
$19,259
$244,355
$648,601
$120,822
$127,776
$40,562
Total Revenue and Support
$1,148,049
$1,182,116
$159,222
$164,598
$115,739
$65,710
$473,028
$206,679
$118,686
$58,976
$68,100
$422,056
$978,297
$874,497
HOW WE RAISED OUR FUNDS
SUPPORT AND REVENUE
EXPENSES
Investments 2%
JFGP 11%
Fundraising 19%
Service
Fees 11%
Programs
Core Migration
Resettlement Program
Naturalization
Asylee Outreach
Litigation and Representation
Total Programs
Grants 58%
Support Services
General and adminstrative
Fundraising
$65,752
$34,317
$77,746
$27,584
Total Support Services
$100,069
$105,330
Total Expenses
$1,078,366
$979,827
Increase in Net Assets
$69,683
$202,289
HOW WE SPENT OUR FUNDS
Detail of Increase (decrease) in Net Assets
Unrestricted
Board Designated Funds
$97,564
$88,115
Temporarily Restricted
$27,881
$114,174
Increase in Net Assets
$69,683
$202,289
Complete fiscal statements for the fiscal year, audited by Snyder, Daitz and Co.
are on file at HIAS and Council, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
Fundraising 3%
Management 6%
Litigation 44%
Core Migration 15%
Resettlement 15%
Naturalization 11%
Asylee Outreach 6%
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STATISTICS AT A GLANCE
2,700
Immigrants and refugees served.
300
Immigrants and refugees served by our
Citizenship Project.
900
Immigrants received consultations and
comprehensive representation including:
More than 100 victims of interpersonal
violence or crimes;
Over 115 immigrant youth who are abused,
neglected or abandoned.
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Asylees received assistance from our
state-wide asylee outreach program.
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Intakes of new callers.
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New refugees were resettled in our region.
Over 50 presentations to attorneys, social service
and health professionals and the community at large,
reaching 75,000 people including:
• A national conference of immigrant advocates
representing minors.
• Appearing on Telemundo to discuss citizenship.
• Collaborating with the Mayor’s Commission on
African & Caribbean Affairs.
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Intake Coordinator (r). Photo taken by HIAS and Council staff.
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Sharon Ash (z”l) and
Linda Harker
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Dream Award,” a piece of art by a young refugee. Photo taken by Steve Hopkins.
MEMBERS
Matthew Baxter, Dr. Penni
Blasky, Emily Cohen, Janice
Diamond-Smith, Judith
Drasin, Jeannette Flamm
Brockman, Jill Freeman,
Rose Gold, Lisa Cordiero
Kricun, Benita Fair Langsdorf,
Michael Lieberman, Adele
Lipton, Irwin Lipton, Sharon
Sherman, Susy SimpserRafalin
EVENT PLANNER
Lita Weinstein
HIAS and Council’s dedicated staff speaks eleven languages and collectively
has over 60 years of immigration experience. Photo taken by Steve Hopkins.
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SPECIAL APPRECIATION
Mr. Robert Harmelin,
Allied Beverage Group,
for his generous gift of
wine for the event.
HIAS and Council’s Board of Directors came out in full force to honor Judge Harold Berger. Photo taken by Steve Hopkins.
OUR PEOPLE
HIAS AND COUNCIL STAFF,
2007-2008
Executive Director
Judith Bernstein-Baker, Esq.,
MSW
Director of Development and
Refugee Program Manager
Sarah Peterson, MSW
Social Work Supervisor
Lori Alexander, MSW
Managing Attorney
Philippe Weisz, Esq.
Staff Attorneys
Ayodele Gansallo, Esq.
Sondra Miller-Wein, Esq.
Maggie Niebler, Esq
Meredith Rapkin, Esq.
Independence Fellow
Lisa Hurlbutt, Esq.
Refugee Resettlement
Outreach and Volunteer
Manager
Jessi Koch
Accredited Representatives
Shaloo Jose
Resettlement Case
Manager and Accredited
Representative
Marina Merlin
Citizenship Specialist
Raisa Davidovich
Asylee Outreach Coordinator
Nicole Boehner, Esq
Intake Coordinator
Qing Hui Wang
Office Manager
Latda “Loy” Omphommasack
Receptionist and
Administrative Assistant
Vilma Rivera
Finances
Anita Young
VOLUNTEERS
Refugee Resettlement
Program
Phyllis Berger
Ruthie Garelik
Lynne Hernandez, JFGP
Ilyse Kramer, Vasser College
Melissa McKrell, Temple/
Messiah College
Zoe Tillman, University
of Pennsylvania
Jasmine West, Germantown
Friends School Junior Project
Intern
Elaine Webster
Main Line Temple Reform
Volunteers: Resa Rudney
and congregants supported
by Rabbi David Strauss and
Cantor Marshall Portnoy
PRO BONO MEDICAL
ASSISTANCE
Dr. Judy Eidelson*
Dr. Carol Gantman
Dr. Robert Rabinowitz
Law School
Vleidmy Velarde-Duffy, Temple
Beasley School of Law,
LLM program
Karina Yamada, Penn Law
Public Service Program and
Visual Advocacy Program
OTHER INTERNS
Miriam Eisenstat, Jack M.
Barrack Hebrew Academy
Samara Jaffe, Jack M. Barrack
Hebrew Academy
Jamie Johns, Penn School of
Social Policy and Practice
Amy Li
Kristy Li
Hui Min Liu, Ben Franklin High
School
Seth Lyons, Cornell College
Values
Our values are based on the core
Jewish belief of “welcoming the stranger”
and Tzedakah-generosity and charity. HIAS
and Council believes newcomers are an
asset, not a burden to the community.
We believe in the dignity of all people
and in the compassion, empathy,
conscientiousness, tolerance, respect, and
commitment to a multicultural society.
LEGAL INTERNS
Emily Breslin, Rutgers Camden
School of Law
Jane Cheng, Drexel Earle Mack
School of Law
Mary Clark, Temple Beasley
School of Law
Laura Conn, Penn Law and
Penn School of Social Policy
and Practice
Amanda Harris, Drexel Earle
Mack School of Law
Michelle Payne, Drexel Earle
Mack School of Law
Colin Stewart, Temple Beasley
School of Law
Students from Penn Law
Immigration Clinic
Andrea Sollie, Penn Law School
Emily Torstveit, Penn
Barbara Magee, Ben Franklin
High School
Dahlia Norry, Jack M. Barrack
Hebrew Academy
Alan Raisman, Ash Intern,
Lafayette College
Samara Thomas (entering Penn
Law School)
Matthew Scheinerman, New
Linkages InternshipHaverford College
PRO BONO VOLUNTEERS
AND ADVISORS
Lisa Baird, Esq.
Jonathan Blazer, Esq., National
Immigration Legal Center
Stephen Brownback and Heath
Lynch, Drinker Biddle and
Reath
Shereen Chen, Esq.
Jason Leckerman,* Esq. and
the Ballard Spahr immigration
team
Andy Chirls, Esq. and Joe
Vasquez, Esq., Wolf Block
Cherylle Corpuz, Esq. and
Francis X. Crowley, Esq.,
Blank Rome
Cathryn Cutrell, Esq. Brian
Watson, Esq. Yordana Teferi,
Esq. and the Morgan Lewis
immigration team of over
twenty attorneys
Dechert VAWA Practice Group
with a team of attorneys lead
by: Ethan Fogel, Esq., Sarah
Gelb, Esq., Reena Ganju,
Esq., Kristin Hopkins, Esq.,
Ned Diver, Esq. and John
Grogan, Esq., Langer,
Grogan and Diver
Martin Duffey, Esq., Ann Feld,
Esq. and Matthew Henry,
Esq., Cozen and O’Connor
Wendy Hess,* Esq., Goldblum
and Hess
Carl Hittinger, Esq. Erin
Ginsberg, Esq. and Nicholas
Solosky, DLA Piper
Joe Hohenstein, Esq.
Michael Lieberman, Esq.*,
Shara Alpern, Naomi
Mendelsohn, Esq. and the
Hangley Aronchick Segal and
Pudlin immigration team
The Kaplan Litigation
Team: Jonathan Stein,
Esq., Richard Weishaupt,
Esq., Michael Froehlich, Esq.,
Community Legal Services
and Thomas Roberts, Esq.,
Jordana Greenwald, Esq.,
Ballard Spahr, and John
Bouman, Sargent Shriver
National Center on Poverty
Law
Steven Morley, Esq*, Morley
Surin and Griffin
Daniel Scott. Esq., Michael
Gottsch, Esq. and M. Kathy
Meermane, Esq.
Chimicles and Tikellis
Wayne Sachs, Esq.
Jeffrey Scott, Esq. Pepper
Hamilton
Anthony Scutti, Esq.
Robert Welch, Esq.
* Board Member, HIAS and Council
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS
INSTITUTIONAL,
GOVERNMENTAL
FUNDERS AND INDIVIDUAL
CONTRIBUTORS
HIAS and Council gratefully
acknowledges the support
of its institutional and
governmental funders
and individual contributors
whose support makes our
life saving work possible:
Institutional and
Governmental Funders
(FY 2007 to 2008)
City of Philadelphia
Claneil Foundation
Cohn Family Foundation
Demos Fund
Drexel Earle Mack School
of Law
Samuel S. Fels Fund
Horace Goldsmith Foundation
HIAS, Inc. (Pass through
funding from the Office of
Refugee Resettlement
and the Department
of State, Reception and
Placement Program)
Independence Foundation
Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia
Lasko Family Foundation
Patricia Kind Family
Foundation
Pew Charitable Trusts
Pennsylvania IOLTA Board
Pennsylvania State
Refugee Program
Philadelphia Bar Foundation
Philadelphia Foundation
The Seybert Institution
Tuttleman Family Foundation
United Way of Southeastern
Pennsylvania
Verizon Foundation
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
^ Designates a multi-year pledge
Double CHAI for HIAS and
Council, $36,000
Sharon & Frank Ash ^
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CHAI for HIAS and Council,
$18,000+
Geraldine Aaron (The Aaron
Family Foundation)^
Harold & Renée Berger ^
Adele & Irwin Lipton ^
Marty Tuzman ^
Norman & Lita Weinstein ^
Golden Door, $10,000+
Irvin Borowsky
Kenneth Kaiserman (Kevy
& Hortense Kaiserman
Foundation)
Jason Leckerman
Liberty Circle, $5,000 +
Mervyn Golder
William & Adonna S. Kaplan
Endowment Fund
Ronald Krancer
Ethel Verticelli
American Dream, $2,500+
Berger & Montague, PC
Blank Rome LLP
Daniel Cohen
The DLA Piper Foundation
Adam & Anna Herzig
Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia
Philip & Annabel Lindy
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Weinstein, Schleifer,
Kupersmith
Andrew Youman & M. Ellen
Quinn
Benefactor, $1,000+
Maureen Abrams
American Immigration Lawyers
Association (AILA)
– Philadelphia Chapter
Photo taken by HIAS and Council
staff: Recently arrived refugees
at the 2008 Annual Refugee
Resettlement Meeting.
Penni & Mark Blaskey
Jeannette Flamm Brockman &
Bob Brockman
Citizen’s Bank Foundation
Lisa Cordeiro-Kricun
Cozen O’Connor
Dechert LLP
Janice Diamond Smith
Judy Drasin & Bob Washburn
Arlene Fickler
First Trust Bank, Inc.
Linda & Stephen Harker
Wendy & Steven Hess
The House of Bernstein, Inc.
Hoyle, Fickler, Herschel &
Mathes LLP
Warren Hyams
Bernard & Aimee Katz ^
H. Ronald Klasko, Esq.
Kline & Specter, P.C.
Langer, Grogan & Diver
Louis E. Levy
Gregory Marx
Sandy Mozes & Clare Kahn
Mozes, in memory of Auriel
Mozes
Steve Morley & Liz AbramMorley
Philadelphia Bar Association
Harriet Potashnick
Thomas B. Roberts
Lyn & George Ross (Ross
Family Fund)
Schnader, Harrison, Segal
Edwin Seave
Dveera Segal & Bradley Bridge
Stefanie Seltzer
John Reid Taylor
Wolf Block LLP
Roger & Lillian Youman
Zarwin, Baum, Devito, Kaplan,
Schauer, Todd, P.C.
Partner, $500 +
Marci & Dan Bacine (Bacine
Family Fund)
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
PC – Howard Scher
Andrew Chirls
Citizen’s Bank
Congreso de Latinos Unidos
Benita Fair Langsdorf
Fox Rothschild LLP
Nancy Fuchs
Goldblum and Hess
Hangley Aronchick Segal &
Pudlin
Arthur Hausman
JEVS Human Services
Jewish Family & Children’s
Services of Greater
Philadelphia
Shahir Kassam-Adams
Eve Biskind Klothen & Ken
Klothen
Carole & Stanton Moss
Nationalities Service Center
Philadelphia Corporation for
Aging
Dr. Sara Rafalin-Simpser &
Mario Rafalin
Anna Roberts
Paula and Ben Schuster
Paul & Joanne Tanker, (Tanker
Family Charitable
Foundation)
Ten Thousand Villages
Tri State Rehabilitation
Medicine PC ( Donna & Michael
Rosenthal)
Melissa Levy Watters
Contributor, $350+
Berner & Klaw
Judi Bernstein-Baker
CBIZ
Dilworth Paxson LLP
Dr. Bernard & Lana Dishler
DSD Reporting
Saul Ewing LLP
Feldman, Shepherd,
Wohlgelemter, Tanner &
Weinstock
Germantown Jewish Centre
Heffler, Radetich & Saitta LLP
Lois Katzen
Lynne and Abelardo Lechter
Leon Levy
Michael Lieberman, Esq.
Abraham & Sherri Reich
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Scher
William Seltzer
Barbara Shaiman
Sharon & Michael Sherman
Marc and Barbara Zuckerman,
in honor of Sharon and Frank
Ash
Friend of HIAS and Council,
$118
Ronald Abraham
Abraham Akselrad
Herbert Altman, in honor of
Linda Harker
Larry Ash, in honor of Sharon
Ash
Jacob and Marcy Aufschauer
Craig Axler
Boris Ayzenberg
Karl Baker
Matthew Baxter, Esq.
Dean Beer
Arnold Berkowitz
Michael Berman
Joseph Bernstein
Gene Bishop and Andy Stone,
in memory of Jerry Bishop
Richard Cantor
Lee Casper
Fernando Chang-Muy
Rhoda Coben
Emily Cohen, Esq.
Steve Cohen
Israel Colon
Sonia Crane
Maris Ekert, in honor of Adele
and Irwin Lipton
Jill Freeman
Ivan and Ruth Gabel
Elizabeth Gable
Rose Gold
Alan Gordon
Donna & Louis Greenberg
Richard Grossman
Francie Hansen
Barbara & Mayer Horwitz, in
honor of Sharon Ash
Andrew Indriso
Rabbi Alan Iser
Marina Kats
Caroline Kemmerer, in honor
of Roger Youman
Jeffrey Klamut
Isador Kranzel
Martin and Sylvia Kreithen
Judah I. Labovitz
Ruth Laibson
Barry Levin
Paul & Susan Lichtman
Christopher & Leslie Link,
in honor of Adele and Irwin
Lipton
Vlad Lipschutz
Morley, Surin & Griffin P.C.
Morris J. Cohen & Co. P.C., in
honor of Judge Berger
Roy & Lynn Neff
Roslyn and David Pollack
Renée & David Rosenbach
Sackey
Norm-Anne Rothermel
Southeast Asian Mutual
Assistance Associations
Coalition, INC. (SEAMAAC)
Jerome Sklaroff
Marla Soffer
Murray Spain, in honor of
Judge Berger
Harriet Sepinwall
Adelaide Sugarman &
Marshall Greenberg, in
honor of the birth of
Solomon Meir Aronoff, son of
Gideon and Victoria
Aronoff.
Lillian Cohen
Lilia Cojocari
Robert Collings
Cherylle Corpuz
Barbara Ambrose Curtis
Sharon Dietrich,
Denise Dorn
Michael Dvorak
Ray Eidelson
David and Adrienne Ellis
Mary Faustino
Alan Feldman
Cheryl Feldman
Photo taken by HIAS and Council
Kim Fendrick
staff: The Morgan pro bono team
Barbara & Larry Finkelstein
received HIAS and Council’s pro
Maimouna & Zoumana Fofana
bono award during our 2007 Annual
Marcia Friedman
Meeting. From left to right:
Emma Friedman
Judith Bernstein-Baker, Esq., HIAS
and Council; Brian Watson, Esq.;
Friends of Farmworkers
KC Roney, Esq.; Maria Arbona,
Ayodele Gansallo
Esq.; Catherine Cugell, Esq.; Angeli
Sophia Geyfetsman
Murthy, Esq.; Yordanos Teferi, Esq.
Mark Ginzburg
United Way of Southeastern
Mark Girshovich
Pennsylvania
Janis Glusman
Yan Qun Wang
Mark Goodman
Carol Weener, in honor of
Norman Goodman
Judge Berger
Thomas Grahame
The Welcoming Center for New
Herbert Greenberg
Pennsylvanians
Janis Gusman
Dr. Roger Wint
Randie Harmelin
Women Organized Against
Amy Hirsch & Jessica Robbins
Rape
Judith Hoenig
Shelly Yanoff, in honor of Philip
Nilafur Jamir
Kovnat
Jose John and Shaloo Stanly
Yenny Yulianti
Carole Johnson
Ben Zuckerman and Marian
Alla Karagodova
Robinson, in honor of Sharon
Zolya Karlinskiy
and Frank Ash
Kelsey Kats
Other Supporters
Deborah Kauderer
Kenneth Aaron, Esq.
Klapholz Kosher Delicatessen
David & Enid Adler
Kristina Klugar
Lena Allen-Shore
Jessi Koch
Jerry Alten
Nancy Langen Steketee
Florence Arkans
Roberta Lawson
Aya’s Cafe
Robert Levin
Mark Berger
Yanrong Li
Helen Birnbaum
Guo Lin
Jonathan Blazer
Arnold Lincow
Diana Braunstein
Myrna Linsenberg
Mandi Bucceroni
Lutheran Children and Family
Cambodian American Seniors
Service
Association
Helen Luu
Herbert Caplin
Mama’s Vegetarian Restaurant
Francis Carney
Selma Margulies
Catherine Carr, Esq.
Phebe Matsen
Eugene & Roslyn Chaiken
Dr. Jerry Melamut
Marina Cherkassky
Sondra Miller-Wein, Esq.
Children’s Village, Inc.
Mind Shift
Dorothy Minkoff
Marina Mistetsky
Jerry Moncarz
Marlene Moskow
Gertrude Moskowitz
Margaret Niebler, Esq.
Michelle Payne
Sarah Peterson
Leah Pillsbury
Larisa Popili
Thomas Prettyman
Rachael’s Nosheri DeliRestaurant
Meredith Rapkin, Esq.
Dr. Robert Rapkin
LaRose Ray
Olga Redenscaia
Richard Redfern
Arkadi Relin
Marina Remizova
Edward Rosen
Phyllis Ross
Anna & Yuriy Rubinov
Michael Rubinov
Resa Rudney
Eileen Rudnick & Stephen
Feldman
Elena & Marc Salz
Stanley Scheindlin
Marvin Schwartz
Robert Schwartz
Marcia Sherman El-Baz
Ronald Sherr
Sheldon Soffer
Marjorie Steinberg
Jane Tausig
Augustinus Tee
Temple Sinai
Seymour Toll
Andy Toy
Trader Joe’s
Domenic Vallone
Dr. Geraldine & Jose Velasquez
Iigor Vigdorchik
Domenic Vitiello
Marina Volin
Qing Hui Wang
Elinor Wapner
David Weinstein
Sandra A. Weiss
Philippe Weisz, Esq.
Elizabeth Werthan
David H. Wice
Zorba’s Tavern
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Non-Profit Legal Services for Immigrants & Refugees
2100 Arch Street, 3rd Floor • Philadelphia, PA 19130
215.832.0900 • www.hiaspa.org
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia
Board of Directors — Fiscal Year 2007-2008
OFFICERS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Norman Weinstein, Esq.
Jacob Aufschauer
Matthew Baxter, Esq.
Judge Harold Berger
Dr. Penni Blaskey
Jeannette Flamm Brockman
Emily Cohen, Esq.
Judith Drasin, Esq.
Arlene Fickler, Esq.
Jill Freeman, Esq. *
Rose Gold
Linda Harker
Rabbi Alan Iser
Eric M. Jacobs, Esq.
Marina Kats, Esq.
Bernard Katz
Lois S. Katzen, MSW, LSW
Lisa Cordeiro Kricun, MSW
Louis E. Levy, Esq.
Melissa Levy*
Michael Lieberman, Esq., MSW*
Harriet Potashnick
Sara “Susy” Simpser-Rafalin
DDS, DMD*
Thomas Roberts, Esq.
Benjamin R. Schuster, Ph.D.
Dveera Segal, Esq.
Sharon Sherman
Janice Diamond Smith, Esq.*
Ethel Verticelli
Marina Volin, Esq.
Robert Washburn, Esq
Vice Presidents
Wendy Hess, Esq.
Warren P. Hyams
Steven A. Morley, Esq.
Treasurer
Adam Herzig
Recording Secretary
Marty Tuzman
Corresponding Secretary
Roger Youman
Advisor on National
Immigration Policy
H. Ronald Klasko, Esq.
PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE
(FORMER PRESIDENTS)
Sharon Ash (z”l)
Kenneth S. Kaiserman
Benita Fair Langsdorf, Esq.
Adele S. Lipton
Irwin Lipton
Sanford K. Mozes, Esq.
*New Board Member
Donor Choice Agency
Donor Choice 4519
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
The official registration and financial information of HIAS and Council may be
obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within
Pennsylvania, 1.800.732.0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.
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Photo taken by HIAS and Council Staff: Proud son of
new citizen parents at Philadelphia citizenship ceremony
sponsored by HIAS and Council. **