NFTY Lifetime Membership
NFTY Lifetime Membership is an honor bestowed upon individuals who our NFTY teens believe have offered exemplary service to the youth movement. It is not a title that can be purchased or requested, rather it is exclusively earned through exceptional dedication and commitment to our Reform Jewish youth.
We are forever grateful to the individuals listed below for everything they have done for NFTY.
Our NFTY Lifetime Members
| Recipient | Year | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Rabbi Leo Turitz | 1963 | NFTY |
| Eleanor Schwartz | 1964 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Sam Cook* | 1964 | UAHC |
| Dr. Bert S. Gerard* | 1965 | Kutz Camp |
| Malcolm Lauderstein | 1969 | TOFTY |
| Gerald Miller | 1969 | Canada |
| Ms. George Stutz | 1969 | Michigan |
| Rabbi Arnold Task | 1969 | Louisiana |
| Rabbi Nehemiah Mark* | 1969 | Israel |
| Theodore Broido* | 1969 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Joe Goldman | 1970 | NJ |
| Rabbi Bill Cutter | 1970 | HUC |
| Anne & Jack Lerner | 1970 | NJ |
| Rabbi Allan Levine | 1970 | Israel |
| Dan Kaufman* | 1970 | Chicago |
| Rabbi Robert Samuels | 1970 | Israel |
| Irving Wollack | 1970 | NJ |
| Paul Kent* | 1970 | NOFTY |
| Harry Kalish | 1971 | SWFTY |
| Betty Katzman | 1971 | Michigan |
| Lynn Ochman | 1971 | MAFTY |
| Cantor Norm Swerling | 1971 | LIFTY |
| Thelma Mayerson | 1971 | SEFTY |
| Rabbi Joe Glaser* | 1971 | CA |
| Heinz Warschauer* | 1971 | Canada |
| Terry Goldstein | 1971 | LIFTY |
| Rabbi Harry Danziger | 1973 | SOFTY |
| Pearl Goldman | 1973 | PAFTY |
| Anne Hill | 1973 | CT |
| Bill & Carol Moch | 1973 | CT |
| Cynthia Rumpler | 1973 | MA |
| Rabbi Alan Sokobin | 1973 | LIFTY |
| Rene Kerne* | 1974 | CraFTY |
| Michael K. Fefferman | 1975 | NoFTY |
| Dorothy Walrond | 1975 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Dr. Gary Zola | 1977 | NFTY |
| Arthur Grant* | 1979 | NELFTY |
| Terry Pollack | 1979 | NELFTY |
| Rabbi Allan Smith | 1980 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Stephen Schaffer* | 1980 | UAHC |
| Norma Ball | 1980 | CNYFTY |
| Rabbi John Spitzer | 1980 | MoVFTY |
| Rabbi Dan Syme | Circa 1981 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Henry Skirball | 1981 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Charles Herring | 1981 | SWFTY |
| Rabbi Leonard Troupp* | 1981 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Bernard Zlotowitz* | 1982 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Steven L. Jacobs | 1982 | SEFTY |
| Rabbi Daniel Freelander | 1982 | UAHC |
| Paul J. Reichenbach | 1983 | UAHC |
| Albert Vorspan | 1983 | UAHC |
| Macy B. Hart | 1983 | UAHC |
| Arie Gluck | 1983 | UAHC |
| Gerard Kaye | 1983 | UAHC |
| Loui Dobin | 1983 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Lawrence 'Jake' Jackofsky* | 1983 | UAHC |
| Allan Solomon | 1983 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Andrew Hillman | 1983 | SEFTY |
| Rabbi Ronald Klotz | 1983 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Ramie Arian | 1984 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Jim Bennett | 1984 | OVFTY |
| Etty & Giora Dolgin | 1984 | Chicago |
| Rabbi Peter Kasdan | 1984 | JFTY |
| Rabbi Ernst Conrad | 1984 | Michigan |
| Elizabeth Segal | 1984 | CFTY |
| Cantor Howard Stahl | 1984 | CNYFTY |
| Rabbi David Forman* | 1985 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Stuart Geller | 1985 | LIFTY |
| Rabbi Bruce Lustig | 1986 | OVFTY |
| Florence Daks | 1986 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Michael Abraham | 1986 | JFTY |
| Rob Kern | 1986 | JFTY |
| Rabbi Arnie Gluck | 1986 | JFTY |
| Rabbi Stanley Davids | 1986 | NEFTY |
| Rabbi Arthur Starr | 1986 | NEFTY |
| Russell Daum | 1986 | UAHC |
| Larry Cooper | 1986 | UAHC |
| Karen Cooper | 1987 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Rich Sternberger* | 1987 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Jonathan Stein | 1988 | OVFTY |
| Ronnie Brockman | 1988 | MoVFTY |
| Charlie Vann | 1993 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Eric Bram* | 1993 | NFTY |
| Eric Leventhal* | 1993 | Kutz Camp |
| Merri Arian | 1997 | Kutz Camp |
| David Altshuler | 1997 | Kutz Camp |
| Rabbi Jerome Malino | Unknown | NFTY |
| Rabbi Maury Davis | Unknown | NFTY |
| Rabbi Jerome Davidson | Unknown | NFTY |
| Rabbi Harold Dworkin | Unknown | NFTY |
| Max Frankel | Unknown | NFTY |
| Rabbi Erv Herman | Unknown | NFTY |
| Betty Katzman | Unknown | NFTY |
| Irving Levitas | Unknown | NFTY |
| Ms. William Loewy | Unknown | NFTY |
| Cantor Bob Miller | Unknown | NFTY |
| Hayim Perelmutter | Unknown | NFTY |
| Evelyn Sandler | Unknown | UAHC |
| Bob Schur | Unknown | NFTY |
| Rabbi Alex Schindler* | Unknown | UAHC |
| Ms. Robert Shur | Unknown | NFTY |
| Rabbi Jack Stern | Unknown | NFTY |
| Sylvia Small | Unknown | NFTY |
| Rabbi Len Schoolman | Unknown | UAHC |
| Ms. Leonard Seder | Unknown | NFTY |
| Norma Tapper | Unknown | NFTY |
| Marvin Walts | Unknown | NFTY |
| Debbie Friedman* | Unknown | NFTY |
| Matthew Shotkin | 2000 | Kutz Camp |
| Rabbi Glynis Conyer | 2001 | UAHC |
| Rabbi Norman Roman | 2001 | NFTY Michigan |
| Sue Cohen | 2002 | Southern California |
| Rachel Mersky Woda | 2003 | UAHC |
| Mark S. Anshan | 2003 | NFTY-NEL |
| Rabbi Eve Rudin | 2004 | NFTY/URJ |
| Baruch Kraus | 2004 | NFTY-EIE HS in Israel |
| Josh Bennett | 2004 | NFTY-MI |
| Shelley Schweitzer | 2004 | NFTY-NEL |
| Jeffrey Kagan | 2005 | NFTY-CAR |
| Rabbi Billy Dreskin | 2005 | URJ Kutz Camp |
| Cantor Ellen Dreskin | 2005 | URJ Kutz Camp |
| Rabbi Eric Yoffie | 2005 | URJ |
| Dan Nichols | 2006 | NFTY |
| Hope Chernak | 2007 | NFTY |
| Jonathan "JC" Cohen | 2008 | NFTY-SO |
| Eugene Krupitsky | 2008 | NFTY/NFTY-SO |
| Joseph "Eddie" Emmanuel | 2009 | NFTY |
| Keith Emmanuel | 2009 | NFTY |
| Rabbi Elliott Kleinman | 2009 | NFTY |
| Nicole Rand | 2009 | NFTY |
| Ruben Arquilevich | 2010 | NFTY |
| David Berkman | 2010 | NFTY |
| Louis Bordman | 2010 | NFTY |
| Lisa David | 2010 | NFTY |
| Rabbi Frank DeWoskin | 2010 | NFTY |
| Bobby Harris | 2010 | NFTY |
| Cantor Jeff Klepper | 2010 | NFTY |
| Rabbi David Saperstein | 2010 | NFTY |
| Anna Blumenfeld | 2011 | NFTY |
| Robin Hirsch | 2011 | NFTY |
| Scott Hertz | 2011 | NFTY |
| Rabbi Michael Mellen | 2011 | NFTY |
| Melissa Frey | 2012 | NFTY/Kutz Camp |
| Mark* and Peachy Levy | 2013 | NFTY West Coast Regions |
| Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, z"l, PhD.* | 2013 | NFTY/HUC |
| Mary Levy | 2014 | NFTY-TOR |
| Subie Banaszynski | 2014 | NFTY |
| Beth Rodin | 2015 | NFTY |
| Bradley Solmsen | 2015 | NFTY |
| Joy Friedman | 2015 | RAC |
| Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, PhD | 2015 | NFTY/HUC-JIR |
| Michael Fuld | 2017 | NFTY |
| Miriam T. Chilton | 2019 | NFTY |
| Lynn Butner | 2022 | NFTY |
| *Deceased |