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AMIT HOLDS 2007 NATIONAL CONVENTION: DR. FRANCINE STEIN ELECTED PRESIDENT
New York City, July 17, 2007...... AMIT recently convened its 2007 National Convention at the landmark Puck Building in New York City. Dr. Francine Stein, a resident of Englewood, New Jersey, and a pediatrician specializing in behavior/developmental pediatrics, was elected president of the organization. Dr. Stein succeeds Jan Schechter of Lawrence, New York. Her term will officially begin on September 1. 2007.
Other national officers elected include Debbie Isaac, treasurer; Mindy Liebman, chair, Board of Directors; Barbara Nordlicht, chair, Board of Governors; Robyn Price Stonehill, chair, New Generation Board; Peggy Danishefsky, vice president, leadership development; Suzanne Doft, vice president, marketing; Brenda Kalter, vice president, financial resource development; Debbie Moed, vice president, Israel programming; Ina Tropper, vice president, strategic planning; Ellen Hellman, vice chair, Israel Executive Committee; Rahel Rogers, associate treasurer; and Sharon Merkin, secretary of the Board of Directors.
NATIONAL CONVENTION SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION
Former New York State Governor George Pataki made a special guest appearance during the cocktail reception which preceded the presidential dinner. He lauded AMIT for its more than 80-year history of caring for and providing quality education to Israel’s children.
Other convention speakers included Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project, who discussed the need for better communication of Israel’s point of view to the world’s journalists and media; and Scott Shay, chairman of the Board of Signature Bank, who discussed his thought-provoking book, Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry. Updates on the AMIT Network in Israel, which this fall will encompass more than 70 schools and programs for over 20,000 students, were provided by Dr. Amnon Eldar, director general of AMIT in Israel, and Arnold Gerson, executive vice president of AMIT. Torah study was led by Shani Taragin, rosh Beit Midrash of Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem, and in the evening Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, associate rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City, delivered the featured address.
The 2007 National Convention was chaired by Mindy Liebman and Harriet Seif, assisted by a Convention Committee composed of Esther Goldman, Audrey Lookstein, and Esther Semmelman.
Dr. Francine Siegel Stein was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and graduated Barnard College with a B. A. in biology. She then attended New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, where she received her M.D. degree.
Dr. Stein served her internship and residency in pediatrics at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and completed a fellowship in behavioral/developmental pediatrics at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. She is licensed to practice medicine in both New York and New Jersey, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics. She also is a member of the Society for Behavioral Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Stein is currently in private practice and is a member of the voluntary staff at Englewood Hospital. She was previously a clinical associate in the Division of Child Development at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and a developmental pediatrician at the Children’s Center for Special Services at the Jersey City Medical Center.
Dr. Stein is married to Dr. Aaron Stein, a cardiologist who is affiliated with Palisades General Hospital and Englewood Hospital. They are the parents of three children: Beth, an MBA student at the New York University Stern School of Business, who is married to Nat Lipschitz, an agent for New York Life Insurance Company; Michael, a senior at NYU; and Gary, who is a sophomore, also studying at the NYU Stern School of Business. Dr. Stein is the daughter of Mollie Siegel, also an Englewood resident.
AMIT enables Israel's youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values and Zionist ideals.
AMIT educates and cares for Israel’s youth, including the most vulnerable. Some 70 per cent of AMIT students cope with educational, psychological, economic and/or social risk factors. AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli society. The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities. Founded in 1925, AMIT operates more than 70 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs, constituting Israel’s only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies.
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