Richard Friedman - Executive Vice President

                                      Rich Friedman  began his service as Executive Vice President of the Syracuse Jewish Federation in July of 1999.

He was the Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Manchester (NH) for four years directly prior to coming to Syracuse. His additional professional Jewish Federation experience was with the Ocean County Jewish Federation (NJ) as program coordinator and as the editor and business manager of the OCJF newspaper.

Currently Mr. Friedman serves on the InterFaith Works Round Table of Faith Leaders and as part of the group's Steering Committee in the position of "Community Builder".  He represents the Jewish community on the Onondaga County Emergency Food and Shelter Board.   In addition, he continues to serve as a founding member of the Jewish Community Foundation of CNY.

Rich has extensive volunteer Jewish, fraternal and charitable experience. He is a past Temple president, has served on the board and/or the executive committee of two Federations, was the Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of NJ, created a statewide funding program in support of the fight against cystic fibrosis and was a founding member of a county Make-A-Wish Foundation chapter among numerous communal activities.  Mr. Friedman has been involved in many social action activities highlighted by an activist, inter-faith and project-oriented approach.

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