Nan Rich
, Chairperson
Senator Nan Rich was first elected as Broward County Commissioner, District 1 in 2016 and re-elected, unopposed, in 2020. She was recently selected by her colleagues on the County Commission to be the Vice Mayor of Broward County through November 2023. Her top priority has been addressing the affordable housing crisis in Broward, as well as ending homelessness through affordable housing. Prior to her service on the County Commission, Nan Rich was elected to the …
Audrey spent the first 36 years of her professional life in a series of progressively more responsible positions with US Customs and Border Protection. Starting as a US Customs Inspector at JFK airports upon graduation from Purdue University and ultimately serving as District Director of Customs in Laredo, Texas, Director of Field Operations in Los Angeles, California. She was responsible for all customs activity at LAX and the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport and as the …
Holocaust Education Resource Council, Executive Director Barbara was born in New York City and moved to Florida in 1986. The State of Florida requires that the Holocaust be taught in schools in all grade levels, and in 2006 she was one of the founders and co-chair of the Tallahassee Holocaust Education program sponsored by National Council of Jewish Women, Tallahassee Section to assist with this unfunded mandate. She developed meaningful programs and forged partnerships with …
Hana Green is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a BA in History and certificate in Holocaust studies from the University of Florida and an MA in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa. Her research interests include Holocaust history, Jewish history, and gender and identity studies. Her doctoral dissertation addresses the phenomenon of Jewish identity passing during the Holocaust, exploring the experiences of …
Bruce was born in Brooklyn, New York where he attended Yeshiva Ateres Yisroel. He was raised in Staten Island, NY and Flemington, NJ before moving to Madison, Wisconsin to attend college. While at the University of Wisconsin, Bruce studied Accounting, Economics and Finance with a minor in Jewish Studies and later attended Nova Southeastern University receiving his MBA. Bruce has been an active member of the Jewish Community his entire life. He has served on …
I am a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley in Boca Raton who focuses on total wealth management. I was raised in Miami Beach and graduated UF in 1979 and live in Boca Raton with my wife Shari Gars Notowitz (UF 79). We have two adult children and one grandchild. Outside of work I am the past Florida Chair for the Anti-Defamation League and presently a National Commissioner. Shari and I started the Shari & Scott …
Louis Reinstein is married to his wife Adi, and they have two sons, Daniel (15) and Jonathan (12). They live in Plantation, Florida. Louis is currently a lawyer and mediator, and he was elected to the Plantation City Council in November 2022. After leaving the University of Florida in December 1996 with his B.A. and major in Religious Studies and minors in Sociology and Jewish Studies, Louis attended Emory University in Atlanta and earned a …
Richard was born in New York City and moved with his family to Orlando in 1963. He has been a Florida resident since then and currently lives in Maitland. He is a Graduate of the University of Florida with a BSBA in Banking and Finance. Richard is a brother of Tau Epsilon Phi and a member of Congregation Ohev Shalom in Maitland. Richard is co-owner of a Commercial Printing Company in Sanford Florida, Creative Printing, …
Bud earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Florida in 1959. He is a partner in Shorstein and Shorstein, P.A., a Jacksonville, FL accounting firm founded by his brother Jack Shorstein in 1959. In 1981, after more than 18 years in public accounting, Bud was appointed by then-Governor Bob Graham to secretary of the Department of Professional Regulation, the state agency regulating CPA’s, doctors, homebuilders and other professions. He was then …