Meet our Officers
Morey Wildes, President
Morey Wildes is a patent attorney and a partner in the firm Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP in midtown Manhattan, where he practices intellectual property law.
Morey lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife and their three boys. They have been members of Lincoln Square Synagogue since 1995, and Morey was elected a Governor in 2005 and an officer in 2011.
James Nussbaum, Vice President
James Nussbaum, or Jamie as he is often called, is a Physical Therapist by license and a researcher by passion. He is the Clinical and Research Director at ProHealth & Fitness PT OT, with offices here in Manhattan’s west and east sides. James supervises all aspects of patient care, including home based, outpatient facilities and research initiatives. He has had the privilege of presenting his research related to Geriatrics, Neuropathy, Nephrology, and Sports Medicine throughout the United States and around the world.
James was coincidently born in Heidelberg, Germany, but is a proud “Yekke” through and through will all 4 of his grandparents fortunate to have escaped from Nazi Germany.
James and his wife Elana (daughter of Rabbi Marc D. and Gilda Angel) have been active members of LSS for more than 20 years. Along with their 4 children, Jake, Max, Charlie, and Kara, they continue to call the upper west side Jewish community and LSS their home.
Yitzy Rubin, Vice President
Yitzy Rubin has been an active member of LSS since 2009. A Portfolio Head at Citadel Energy Marketing, Yitzy originates physical and derivative commodities transactions for corporate clients. Together with his wife Allison, their three sons and daughter, the Rubins are proud members of the LSS community.
Paris Wald Stulbach, Vice President
Paris Wald Stulbach is a Senior Producer at Bloomberg Television where she covers financial and economic news. She lives just a few blocks from Lincoln Square Synagogue with her husband and three teenage daughters. She has been a member of the Synagogue almost all her life, became an officer in 2017, and heads the Chesed Committee.
Sara Nash, Secretary
Sara Siris Nash MD, FACLP, FAPA is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital where she cares for medically hospitalized patients with underlying psychiatric concerns. She is also the Director of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program. Sara's clinical and research interests lie in the emotional health and wellness of physician trainees. She lives in Lincoln Towers with her husband Brad and their two daughters, and considers LSS her second home. She has been an LSS governor for many years, and was recently elected an officer in 2021.
Judith Weil Epstein
Judith Weil Epstein has been a member of LSS for more than 40 years. Past chair of the Hospitality Committee, she initiated the Hospitality Shabbaton and the annual sefira Mishna project. She is a long-time participant in Rabbi Sokolow’s Parsha class and Ron Platzer’s Navi chaburah.
Tanya Gershon
Tanya Gershon is the co-chair of the Young Professionals committee at LSS. She is an award winning architectural designer with a decade of experience working on cultural, civic, educational and high-end residential projects across the country. Tanya is a Project Manager at Marble Fairbanks Architects in Brooklyn and the Founder and Executive Director of SASAI Street Artist Initiative based in Johannesburg and New York where she works with a continuously growing group of artists to safely bring art to public spaces. Tanya and her husband Joe live on the Upper West Side and have been active members at LSS since 2014 and welcomed their daughter into the community in 2017. Tanya serves as a Governor and was elected as an officer in 2018.
Jay Ziffer
Jay H. Ziffer is currently a partner in the law firm of Reddy, Levy & Ziffer, P.C. He is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and practices in the trusts and estates fields, with particular specialization relating to litigation in the Surrogate's Courts of the State of New York.
Jay has been a member of Lincoln Square Synagogue since 1991 and served on Lincoln Square Synagogue's Board of Governors for many years. Jay has served as an officer and as corresponding secretary of Lincoln Square Synagogue since 2010. Jay is originally from Schenectady, New York.
Julie Walpert
Julie Walpert has attended Lincoln Square Synagogue in the main minyan with her husband, Rabbi Charles Savenor, and their sons, Joseph and Benjy for the last ten years. Julie and her family celebrated Joseph's Bar Mitzvah at LSS two years ago and is looking forward to Benjy's Bar Mitzvah in 2021. Julie is originally from New Orleans and loves to travel. She works for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development where she is responsible for a moderate income housing program.
Michael Doppelt
Mike Roxland
Fri, March 24 2023
2 Nisan 5783
Today's Calendar
Daf Yomi : 6:20am |
Shacharit : 7:10am |
Shacharit : 7:50am |
Earliest Candle Lighting : 5:56pm |
Candle Lighting : 6:54pm |
Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat : 7:00pm |
Tomorrow's Calendar
Minyan : 7:45am |
Chazzan Sherwood Goffin Memorial Minyan : 9:00am |
Beginners Service : 9:30am |
Rabbi Herschel Cohen Memorial Minyan : 9:45am |
Rabbi Herschel Cohen Memorial Minyan : 9:45am |
Latest Shema : 9:56am |
Latest Davening : 10:57am |
Beginners Mishna Chavura : 4:55pm |
Louis & Rhoda Lazar Memorial Shiur : 5:55pm |
Mincha : 6:40pm |
Ma'ariv/Shabbat Ends : 7:56pm |
Candle Lighting
Friday, Mar 24, 6:54pm |
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