Masorti Olami

Alan H. Silberman became President of the World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues on December 1, 2005, succeeding Rabbi Alan Silverstein of Congregtion Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, who served as president over the past five years.
 
Mr. Silberman, a practicing attorney, is a partner in Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, a law firm located in Chicago, Illinois and eight other U.S. cities, and is the Chair of the firm's national Antitrust, Marketing Practices, Franchising & Distribution practice. He has been involved in multiple aspects of Conservative Judaism since his early years, beginning as a student in Conservative synagogue schools.

Dr. David Breakstone is the Head of the Department for Zionist Activities of the World Zionist Organization, and a member of the WZO and JAFI Executives, where he is the official representative of MERCAZ Olami (the worldwide Zionist arm of Masorti / Conservative Judaism). Prior to assuming this position in the fall of 2000, Dr. Breakstone was the Director of Ramah Programs in Israel.

Mario A. Grunebaum was born in 1949 in São Paulo, Brazil, graduated in Accountancy at Fundação Alvares Penteado, Economics at Universidade of São Paulo, did a post-graduate degree in Business Administration with specialization in Finances at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and an Executive Educational Program (Owner/President Management Program – OPM21) at Harvard Business School.

Gill Caplin joined the New North London Synagogue in 1979 when it was a very small community and Masorti was relatively unheard of in the UK.  She served as Chair of NNLS (which then had over 600 families and was growing rapidly) from 1998 – 2002, and became Chair of Assembly of Masorti Synagogues from 2002 - 2006. In 2006, Gill was part of the Steering Group for Masorti Europe which would later become the first Board of Masorti Europe. She was elected  President  of Masorti Europe in October 2008.

 
Born in Israel, Rabbi Tzvi Graetz (הרב צבי גרץ) is a second generation Masorti (Conservative) Jew who has spent his career working to build and promote Israel’s Masorti Institutions. Since 2007, he has served as the Executive Director of Masorti Olami and MERCAZ OLAMI.
 

Rabbi Chaim Weiner received his smicha [Rabbinic Ordination] from the Schechter Institute of Judaic Studies in Jerusalem. He graduated in 1989, in the second graduating class of the Bet Midrash. He was National Director of NOAM in Israel for three years, (1988-91) before taking up the pulpit at the Edgware Masorti Synagogue (1991-98) in London. He followed Dr. Louis Jacobs as the Rabbi of the New London Synagogue, in London, England.