Leslie Dannin Rosenthal to Chair JFNA’s Network Advisory Committee

We are proud to announce that our outgoing president, Leslie Dannin Rosenthal, is the incoming chair of the Jewish Federations of North America’s (JFNA) Network Advisory Committee (NAC). She will succeed Julie Wise Oreck who served three years as chair.

JFNA’s Network of Independent Communities serves 200,000 Jews from 300 communities across the country and raises more than $7 million a year for the annual campaign, supplemental giving and endowment support. The chair represents the Network on the JFNA Board of Trustees and the Financial Resource Development Committee/Campaign Cabinet. She will also participate in JFNA Executive Committee meetings as an invited guest.

Richard Sandler, who chairs JFNA’s Board of Trustees, thanked Oreck, a past president of the Jewish Federation of New Orleans, for her service as Network chair and looks forward to working with Rosenthal. “Julie has been a terrific partner helping small, Jewish communities with their needs. I greatly appreciated the leadership she demonstrated, and now look forward to working with Leslie, whose leadership experience is equally praiseworthy. I know that she will do an excellent job in this role,” he said.

Born in Fall River, Massachusetts and raised in Newport, Rhode Island, Rosenthal has an affinity for the needs of small Jewish communities. She has long been involved in Jewish Federations, at both the national and local levels. In GMW she has served as UJA Annual Campaign Chair, as a Major Gifts co-chair, as president of Women’s Philanthropy, and past Women’s Campaign Chair. She also served as a chair of our Israel and Overseas Committee and was a vice-chair of the merger committee that resulted in the creation of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest by merging Metro West and Central. On the national level, she is a member of JFNA’s Board of Trustees and National Women’s Philanthropy Advisory Council, co-chaired the 2010 International Lion of Judah Conference, and is an alumna of the National Young Leadership Cabinet.

A graduate of Smith College and Boston University School of Law, Rosenthal served as a deputy attorney general in the New Jersey Attorney General’s Division of Law, representing the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.