MAQOM Associates

Maqom: Judith Z. Abrams Jewish Learning is a non-profit organization. For information about tax-deductible contributions to Maqom: Judith Z. Abrams Jewish Learning, about becoming a Maqom Associate (a $36 or greater annual contribution), a lifetime Maqom Associate (a $360 or greater contribution), or for sponsoring a weekly Talmud portion please send email to Maqom or snail mail to P.O.Box 31900-323 Houston, TX 77231.

Please Note: The Tree of Life lifetime member tree in the Maqom Associates list below denotes a Lifetime Associate.

Lifetime MAQOM Associates

Note: These individuals and groups are all Lifetime Maqom Associates lifetime member tree
David Abramowitz lifetime member tree
Bernard and Shirley Abrams lifetime member tree
Steven and Judith Abrams lifetime member tree
Advisory Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City lifetime member tree
Stanford and Joan Alexander lifetime member tree
Anonymous lifetime member tree
Stacie E. Bahle lifetime member tree
Shirley Barish lifetime member tree
Shirley and Marvin Barish lifetime member tree
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Barvin lifetime member tree in honor of:
Drs. Helene and Stephanie Jacobs-Skolik and Family, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Weisberg and Family, Ms. Pam Weisberg and Family
Olga Bassewitz lifetime member tree
Christopher P. Benton lifetime member tree
Lydia Bilton lifetime member tree
Boston Strategic Partners, Inc. lifetime member tree
Robert Brown lifetime member tree
Meira Chamiel lifetime member tree
Kirsten Coco lifetime member tree
Congregation Beth Israel, Corpus Christi, Texas lifetime member tree
Consumer Eyes, Inc. lifetime member tree
Covenant Foundation lifetime member tree
Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan lifetime member tree
Elinor Danknerlifetime member tree
Rabbi Joshua Davidson lifetime member tree
Rabbi Richard Davis lifetime member tree
Stuart Dow lifetime member tree
Robert Dwek lifetime member tree
Lee Egerton lifetime member tree
Sharon and Gary Endelman lifetime member tree
Andrew V. Ettin lifetime member tree
Miri Fleming lifetime member tree
Rabbi Karen Fox lifetime member tree
Cantor Jordan Franzel lifetime member tree
Rabbi Gordon Fuller lifetime member tree
Ellen Glasslifetime member tree
Ann Glazier in memory of Jeffrey Glazier lifetime member tree
Len Goodman lifetime member tree
Rabbi Roberto D. Graetz lifetime member tree
Melissa Gregory lifetime member tree
Dr. Razei Haimi-Cohen lifetime member tree
Rabbi Robert Haas lifetime member tree
Rabbi Geoffrey Huntting lifetime member tree
Naomi Mara Hyman lifetime member tree
J. Audrey Ickovits lifetime member tree
The Jewish Federation Endowment Fund of San Antonio lifetime member tree
Maurice Kamins Jr. lifetime member tree
Laura Duhan Kaplan lifetime member tree
Bernice Kaufmanlifetime member tree
Randall Kelso lifetime member tree
Rabbi James Kessler lifetime member tree
Rabbi Lynne Landsberg lifetime member tree
Carla Longhofer lifetime member tree
Babs and Bill Lowenstein Donor lifetime member tree
Lowenstein Brothers Foundation lifetime member tree
Glenn and Pam Lowenstein lifetime member tree
Ms Kay Magilavy lifetime member tree
Abby Michaleski lifetime member tree
Rabbi Mark Miller lifetime member tree
Nahariyah Mosenkis lifetime member tree
Gary Nathanson lifetime member tree
Stanley Novy, M.D. and Diane Novy, Ph.D. lifetime member tree
Rabbi Wendy Pein lifetime member tree
Steven Plumb lifetime member tree
Rabbi Sarah Reines lifetime member tree
Rabbi Louis A. Reiser lifetime member tree
Eileen Rodgers lifetime member tree
Rose Rose lifetime member tree
Michael Rosen lifetime member tree
Rabbi Dennis Ross lifetime member tree
Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein lifetime member tree
Rabbi Steven J. Rubenstein lifetime member tree
The Samuels Foundation (J. Victor and Barbara G. Samuels) lifetime member tree
Robert Saunders, L.P.C. lifetime member tree
Thomas G. Shafer, M.D. lifetime member tree
Nahalat Shalomlifetime member tree
Sondra Shapirolifetime member tree
Cathy Schechter lifetime member tree
Susan L. Schley lifetime member tree
Rabbi Judy Schindler lifetime member tree
Rabbi Adrienne Scott lifetime member tree
Jeffrey Schulman lifetime member tree
The Schulweis Family Foundation lifetime member tree
Edward Selig lifetime member tree
Rabbi David J. Seligson lifetime member tree
Thomas Shafer lifetime member tree
Nahalat Shalom lifetime member tree
Debrah A. Shenefelt lifetime member tree
Arthur Sigel lifetime member tree
Edward S. Stafman lifetime member tree
Gary Stein lifetime member tree
Robin and Brad Stein lifetime member tree
Howard Stern lifetime member tree
Beverly Sufian lifetime member tree
Barbara Sussman lifetime member tree
Rabbi Joshua Taub lifetime member tree
Orna Trigubeff lifetime member tree
Joe and Jeanie Victor lifetime member tree
Daniela and Erik Weil lifetime member tree
Rabbi Paula Jayne Winnig lifetime member tree
Joel S. Winograd lifetime member tree
Lucy M. Zabarenko lifetime member tree
Jonathan Zasloff lifetime member tree

2013 Maqom Associates

Ellie Dankner
Shulamit Fagan
Rabbi Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Ph.D., Congregation Etz Chayim
Rabbi Min Kantrowitz
Stanly Novey
Gary Raffel
Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld
Wendy Suttin
Leslie Weiner

2012 Maqom Associates

Rabbi Chava Bahle
Rabbi Jordana Battis
Rabbi Joe Blair
Dottie Clemmer
Elinor Dankner, M.D. lifetime member tree
Michelle Dannemiller
Kathryn Dreyfus
Mark Frydenberg
Rabbi Alan Greenbaum
Jamie Grossman
Rachel Gutow-Ellis
Karen Harberg
Patricia Hasson-Owens
Dale and Kim Haufrecht
Renee Helfman
Sid Kleiner
Rabbi David Meyer
Eric Miller
Rabbi Heather Miller
Nahariyah Mosenkis
Rabbi Franklin W. Muller
Ricardo Portal
Barbara Rosenfeld
Rabbi Judith Schindler
Jerold Shpargel
Rabbi A. Brian Stoller
Heather Westendarp

2011 Maqom Associates

Boston Strategic Partners, Inc. lifetime member tree
Susan Brookman
Rabbi Richard Davis lifetime member tree
Tamar Earnest, M.D.
Rabbi Karen Fox lifetime member tree
Rabbi Jimmy Kessler lifetime member tree
Judy Morris
Ricardo Portal
Michael Rosen lifetime member tree
Cathy Schechter lifetime member tree
Tom Shafer, M.D. lifetime member tree

2010 Maqom Associates

David Abramowitz lifetime member tree
Lydia Bilton lifetime member tree
Rabbi Karen Fox lifetime member tree
Rabbi Gordon Fuller lifetime member tree
Rabbi Robert Haas lifetime member tree
Dr. Raziel Haimi-Cohen
Rabbi Geoffrey Huntting lifetime member tree
Lowenstein Brothers Foundation lifetime member tree
Glenn Lowenstein lifetime member tree
Ms Kay Magilavy lifetime member tree
Rabbi Mark Miller lifetime member tree
Marian Moore
Suzi Neft
Michael Rosen lifetime member tree
Thomas G. Shafer, M.D. lifetime member tree
Cathy Schechter lifetime member tree
Rabbi Adrienne Scott lifetime member tree
Barbara Sussmanlifetime member tree
Jonathan Zasloff lifetime member tree

2009 Maqom Associates

Shirley and Marvin Barish lifetime member tree
Christopher P. Benton
Sulamit Fagan
Rabbi Karen Fox lifetime member tree
Rabbi Karen Fox
Rabbi Gordon Fuller lifetime member tree
Rabbi Linda Goodman
Karen Hammer
Lester and Nacy Lockspeiser
Judith Lyons
Kay Magilavy
Dr. Jason Mann
Marian Moore
Drs. Stanley and Diane Novy
Ricardo Portal
Rabbi Louis and Connie Reiser
Michael Rosen lifetime member tree
Michael Rosen
Cathy Schechter lifetime member tree
Jeffrey Schulman lifetime member tree
Thomas Shafer lifetime member tree
Thomas Shafer
Lori Shaller
Mrs. Patrice Spitz
Meir Stone
Thomas G., M.D.
Lucy Zabarenko lifetime member tree
Rain Zohav

2008 Maqom Associates

Robert Brown
Rabbi Gordon Fuller lifetime member tree
Melissa Gregory lifetime member tree
Dr. Raziel Haimi-Cohen
Randall Kelso lifetime member tree
Abbe Lyons
Judith Lyons
Abby Michaleski lifetime member tree
Nahariyah Mosenkis lifetime member tree
Ricardo Portal
Dr. Gary Raffel
Rabbi Louis Reiser lifetime member tree
Eileen Rodgers lifetime member tree
Eileen Rodgers
Charles Rosenblum
The Samuels Foundation lifetime member tree
Cathy Schechter lifetime member tree
Sybil and Charley Schwartz
Tom Shafer
Edward S. Stafman lifetime member tree
Aimee Strunk
Aimee and M.H. Strunk Jr.
Orna Trigubeff lifetime member tree
Heather Westendarp

2007 Maqom Associates

Ronald B. Cohen, M.D. and Julia Hauptman Cohen
Lee Egerton
Marvin Kamp
Rabbi Andrew Klein
Rabbi Marc Kline
Rabbi Eric Lazar
Hans and Marge Mayer
Rabbi Saul Osadchey
Rabbi Audrey S. Pollack
Ricardo Portal
Monica Solomon
Nancy and Fred Stowe
Sam Strum
Leslie and Sanford Weiner

2006 Maqom Associates

Elisheva Brenner
Robert Brown
Edwards Buice
Dr. Raziel Haimi-Cohen
Dorit Ori Har
Linda Kates
Eve and Robert Lapin
Laura C. Laviage
Hope and Jerome Lipnick
Marian D. Moore
Sybil and Charles Schwartz
Laurie Morgan Silver
Meir Stone
Sanfrod and Lesie Weiner

2005 Maqom Associates

Paula Eisenstein Baker
Olga and Carl Bassewitz
Hanna Berger
Robert Brown
Linda Burrell
Dorothy Clemmer
Marcia Gilbert
Peter A. Gray
Cindy Harris
Karen S. Hurwitz
Dr. Kalman Kafetz
Freda Katz
Suzanne Korn
Kurt and Ilana Lothman
Judith S. Lyon
Marian D. Moore
MJ and Tony Newman
Stanley and Diane Novy
Sylvia Brown Olivetti
Ricardo Portal
Charlie Rosenblum
Hazzan Sunny Schnitzer
Thomas Shafer
Jim Tobias
Mark Torche
Leslie Weiner in honor of Rabbi Abrams
Dr. Annette Weinstein

2004 Maqom Associates

Gideon Amir
Stacie E. Bahle
Christopher P. Benton, Ph.D.
Stephen Berer
William Bernstein and Marrianne Borgardt
Lynn F. Borker
Robert Brown
Reverend Patricia Clark
Eli Cohen
Elinor Dankner
The Ellman Family Philanthropic Fund of the Columbus Jewish Foundation
Gary, Sharon, Yoni and Gabby Endelman
The Falmouth Jewish Congregation of East Falmouth, Maine
Marcia Gilbert
Judith Goleman
Nathan H. Gordon
Karen Greenspan
Cindy Harris
Dr. Kalman Kafetz
Rabbi Andrew F. Klein
Burt Kobylivker
Rabbi Elias Lieberman
Sylvia B. Olivetti
Ricardo Portal
Gayle and Richard Rockoff
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Shalom Schachter
Susan L. Schley
Rabbi Mark Dov Shapiro
Rabbi Joshua Taub
Ms. JudyRey Wasserman
Dr. Annette Weinstein
Gaye Weintraub
Lee Wunsch
Theresa Wyszkowski
Lucy Zabarenko
Mimi Zarenchansky

2003 Maqom Associates

Barbara Baruch in honor of the continued recovery of John Ackerman
Gloria Rose Barsky
Shirley Burkom
Stuart Dow
Richard and Carol Emery
Mark Frydenberg
Joyce Gilbert
The Glenn L. Lowenstein Philanthropic Fund of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation
Lynn Gordon and Hy Penn in honor of Dan Gordon's birthday
Professor Wendy J. Gordon
Rabbi H. Greenstein
Jonathan Gruenhut
Karen McFadden
Stephen Miller and Stephen Stein
Marian Moore
Dr. Eliot Percelay and Life Associates
Ricardo Portal
Susan Rojo
Rabbi Rutenberg of Gesher
Susan L. Schley
Rabbi Schoenberg of Gesher
Lynne J. Schpero
Barbara S. Sussmanlifetime member tree
Sanford and Leslie Weinerin memory of Thea Cooper

2002 Maqom Associates

Stephen M. Berer
Robert Brown
Linda Burrell
William A. Carpenter
Marie Countiss
Doris M. Edut
Joyce Gilbert
Professor Laura Duhan Kaplan
Anna M. Lewis
Sylvia Brown Olivetti
Ricardo Portal
Thomas G. Shafer, M.D.
Judith G. Stoloff
Barbara Sussmanlifetime member tree
Lucy Zabarenko

2001 Maqom Associates

Gloria Rose Barsky
Martha Barvin in honor of her family: Mark, Eric, Josh and Daniel Barvin
Elmo Blay
Marie Countiss
Elinor Dankner, M.D.
Lee Egerton
Marc S. Ehrlich
Rabbi Daniel B. Fink
Rabbi Karen Fox and Michael Rosen
Joyce Gilbert
Rabbi Sheila Goloboy
Suzanne Korn
Rabbi Howard O. Laibson
Marian Moore in honor of Rabbi Murray Blackman
Deborah Newman, M.D.
Sylvia Brown Olivetti
Ricardo and Eliz Portal
Robert M. Saunders
Rabbi Susan Stone
Barbara S. Sussmanlifetime member tree
Leslie Weiner
Rabbi Joel Wittstein
Rabbi Danny G. Zemel

2000 Maqom Associates

Hannah Berger
Robert C. Brown
Marie Countiss
Elinor Dankner
Rabbi Karen L. Fox and Michael Rosen
Dan M. Gordon in honor of:
Shirley Barish's 75th birthday and in honor of 18 years of The V'Shinantam,
In honor of Rabbi Jill Hammer receiving s'michah from the Jewish Theological Seminary,
and Wishes for peace and healing for Rabbi Judy Abrams
Dennis and Kathy Gura
Suzanne D. Hirshberg
Toby Hudson
Lawrence M. Jackson
Anna M. Lewis
Gail Loyd
Rabbi Stacy Offner
Sylvia Brown Olivetti
Eliot E. Percelay
Eliz Portal
Ricardo A. Portal
Thomas Shafer
Rabbi Mark Dov Shapiro
Norman Sider
Sidney and Carolyn Starrels
Rabbi Daniel Zemel
Lt. Col. Ret. Meyer D. Zuckerman

1999 Maqom Associates

Christopher P. Benton, Ph.D.
Sylvia Brown
James Brule
Dorothy Clemmer
Seth Coren, M.D.
Mariee Countiss
Gary and Sharon Endelman
Joyce Gilbert
Judith Goldman
Cary Gottlieb
Dr. Raziel Haimi-Cohen
Rabbi Howard Jaffee
Andy Klein
Annette Koch
Suzanne Korn
Honey Leone
Anna Lewis
Mark Liebowitz
Lou Maze
Marian Moore in memory of Ms. Katrina Staack
Deobrah C. Newman, M.D.
Sylvia Brown Olivetti
Eliot E. Percelay, M.D.
Ricardo Portal
Triple S Steel
Barbara Schwartz
Annette and Bernie Weinstein

1998 Maqom Associates

Jacques Abourbih, MD
Joan Alexander
Plonit Almonit
Anonymous
Suellyn Bache
Martha Barvin
Christopher P. Benton
Sylvia Brown
Eric J.G. Bonnell
Jim Brule
Nada Chandler
Shasten Coco
Mrs. Roslyn Cohan
Congregation Beth Israel, San Diego lifetime member tree

Tony Contreras
Elinor Dankner
Lee Egerton
Paula Eisenstin-Baker
Rabbi Arthur W. Fletcher
Mark Frydenberg
Joyce Gilbert
Anthony A. Gottlieb
Cary Gottlieb and Carol Gamber
Bonnie Graff
Rivka Greenberg
Tsvi Greenberg
Seth Harrison
Tom Hope
Leo Jed
Bernice Kaufman
Rabbi James Kessler (matching donation received from the Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund)
H. Durel Kirby
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell, Temple Beth Sholom, Mesa, AZ
Honey Leone
Anita Lewis
William and Gloria Lewitt
Solomon J. Lirtzman
Gail Loyd
Michael Lotker
Susan B. Lynch
Stephen A. Miller
Jeanne T. McConnell
Drs. Stanley and Diane Novy
Elinor Ortel
Elliot Perceley
Dianne Portnoy
Rabbi Richard S. Rheins, Temple David, Monroeville, PA
Rose Rose
Cheryl and Michael Rubenstein Philanthropic Fund of the Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community of Houston
Lynn Saul
Rabbi Marc Dov Shapiro
Robin Schling
Rabbi Arlene M. Schuster
Thomas G. Shafer, M.D.
Rabbi Judy Shanks
Dennis Shulman, Ph.D.
Harvey Slater, M.D.
Robert Slater
Howard Sontz
Temple Beth Hillel, Valley Village, California (Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes)
Triple-S Steel
Bernie and Annette Weinstein
Marcia Goren Weser
Joel Winograd
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Meyer Zuckerman
DG Mendes art piece

(top) Dona Gracia Mendes by Barbara Mendes
(bottom) Mazel Tov - It's A Bar Mitzvah! by Charles Fazzino

Charles Fazio Bar Mitzvah painting