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JCC announces transition plan for President and CEO Brian Schreiber
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Local Israeli expats and others protest proposed judicial changes
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The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh announced that CEO Brian Schreiber (left) will transition to a new role in the agency on Sept. 1. Jason Kunzman (right) will succeed him in the role. Photo provided by JCC of Greater Pittsburgh. By David Rullo | Staff Writer
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s part of a planned transition, Brian Schreiber will step down as president and CEO of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh and assume a new role as chief external affairs officer and special adviser to the CEO. Chief Program Officer Jason Kunzman will become president and CEO. Schreiber, who has served as the organization’s CEO since 1999, will continue to serve as special adviser to JCC Association of North America President and CEO Doron Krakow, a position he began in 2018. The JCC’s programs include early childhood development centers, J Line, Diller Teen Fellows, day camps, the Emma Kaufman Camp, AgeWell at the JCC, Center
for Loving Kindness and fitness centers. Under Schreiber’s leadership, the agency has more than doubled its size and scope of services and its operating budget. It built a $20 million endowment fund while retiring $10 million in debt. The JCC has reinvested more than $32 million in its five owned and operated facilities located in Allegheny County and Morgantown, West Virginia. Schreiber said the announcement, nearly six months before the transition, will provide time for the community to process the information and allow Kunzman to hit the ground running in September. It also allows the JCC’s management team and board to talk about the agency’s vision for the future, he said. Please see JCC, page 10
Merav Amos dressed in a costume resembling characters from the popular television show “The Handmaid’s Tale” while protesting proposed changes to Israel’s judiciary. Photo by David Rullo By David Rullo | Staff Writer
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bout 70 Israelis living in Pittsburgh, along with other members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, gathered on Sunday, March 12, on the corner of Forbes and Murray avenues to protest proposed changes to the Israeli judiciary by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies. The demonstrators stood in front of the Carnegie Library in the afternoon chill for nearly an hour holding signs reading “Save Israel’s Democracy” and “Israel Must Stay a Democracy,” waving Israeli flags and chanting “What do we want? Democracy. When do we want it? Now.” The gathering was the second in two Please see Rally, page 10
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