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WILLIAM ROTHCHILD NAMED DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL GIFTS AT AMIT
New York City, July 9, 2008...... William Rothchild has been appointed director of special gifts at AMIT. Mr. Rothchild brings more than 35 years of communal service, fund raising and administrative experience to his new position.
Mr. Rothchild most recently served as executive director of Toward a More Perfect Union (TMPU) in Palm Beach County, Florida. He was one of the founding board members of TMPU when the organization was formed in 1999 as an initiative of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties.
Prior to coming to TMPU, Mr. Rothchild served as director of development for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami and as associate national director of education/director of educational policy and advocacy at the Anti-Defamation League. He also served as director of the Palm Beach Region of the ADL.
Mr. Rothchild is a graduate of Yeshiva University where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in sociology and a Master’s Degree in social work from the university’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work. He is a native
of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and for close to 18 years was executive director of the Daughters of Israel Geriatric Center in West Orange, New Jersey. He was also the founding director of the Jewish Community Housing Corporation, which developed housing and housing alternatives for the elderly, and for six years was the director of community centers for UJA-Federation in New York where he was responsible for overseeing some 28 social agencies in the metropolitan New York area.
Mr. Rothchild and his wife Sharon, who have been residents of Hollywood, Florida, for the past 14 years, currently reside in Cedarhurst. They are the parents of seven children and fifteen grandchildren.
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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