Staff Directory

Rodney J. Margolis
Executive Director
Phone: 783-7800 ext 226
Cell: (518) 441-6008
Email: rmargolis@jewishfedny.org

• Executive Committee & Board of Directors
• Grants, Allocations & Program Review
• Community Planning
• Missions to Israel
• Agency and Synagogue Federation Relations
• Human Resource Development
• Committee on Aging
• Marketing

Daniel B. Flax
Director, Financial Resource Development
Phone: 783-7800 ext 227
Cell: (518) 506-8036
Email: dflax@jewishfedny.org

• General Campaign
• Major Gift Divisions
• Corporate Sponsorship
• Societies
• Missions to Israel

Robert R. Kovach, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Phone: 783-7800 ext 233
Email: rkovach@jewishfedny.org

• Accounting
• Finance
• Operations
• Human Resource Development
• Israel Experience

Deborah Chapman Goldstein
Director, Planned Giving & Endowments
Phone: 783-7800 ext 230
Email: dgoldstein@jewishfedny.org

• Jewish Community Endowment Fund
• Foundation for the Future
• Scholarships

Linda Pollack-Kessler
Director, Women’s Philanthropy
Phone: 783-7800 ext 234
Email: lpollack@jewishfedny.org

• Women’s Philanthropy
• Super Sunday
• Phonathons

Shelly Shapiro
Director, Community Relations
Phone: 783-7800 ext 235
Email: sshapiro@jewishfedny.org

Leah Golby
Director, Coalition For Tomorrow: YAD of JFed NENY
Phone: 783-7800 ext 222
Email: lgolby@jewishfedny.org

• Community members in their 20's through early 40's 

Marci Galinkin
Director, Community Coalition For Jewish Education (CCJE)
Coordinator, Eshkol Region Israel/Northeastern New York Partnership
Phone: 783-7800 ext 239
Email: mgalinkin@jewishfedny.org

• Community Coalition For Jewish Education
• Partnership 2000
• Israel Experience Programming
• Community wide educational programming

Rabbi Beverly Magidson
Director, Chaplaincy Services
Phone: 783-7800 ext 228
Email: bmagidson@jewishfedny.org

• Long term care chaplaincy
• Visitation & holiday programming

Janie E. Garnett, M.S.
Assistant, Chaplaincy Services
Phone: 783-7800

Heidi Florussen
Graphic Designer
Phone: 783-7800 ext 240
Email: hflorussen@jewishfedny.org

• Graphic Design & Marketing

Stacey Thomas
Executive Assistant/Operations
Phone: 783-7800 ext 225
Email: sthomas@jewishfedny.org

Sara Richards
Executive Assistant to Director of Financial Resource Development
Phone: 783-7800 ext 232
Email: srichards@jewishfedny.org

Katherine Pattee
Administrative Assistant to Director of Planned Giving & Endowments and Bookkeeper
Phone: 783-7800 ext 224
Email: kpattee@jewishfedny.org

Sara Block
Administrative Assistant to Director of Women's Philanthropy and Director of Community Relations
Phone: 783-7800 ext 231
Email: sblock@jewishfedny.org

Lynda Coffey
Receptionist
Phone: 783-7800 ext 221
Email: lcoffey@jewishfedny.org