Eric is a longtime active member in the Jewish community and served in a number of senior lay positions before being appointed UJA-Federation’s CEO in 2014. Before joining UJA, Eric was a leading partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Eric served as vice chair of UJA’s board and was a member of UJA’s Executive Committee and chair of UJA’s Lawyers Division, Commission on Jewish Identity, and Renewal and Global Strategy Task Force.

Eric was a founding board member of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and has served as president and chair of the board of Manhattan Day School, president of the Beth...

Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a B.A. in government and dramatics from Boston University and an M.A. in international relations and American government from Northeastern University. She built a career devoted largely to public health that included positions at Lehman Brothers, Pfizer, and the National Research Council. After her first marriage ended in divorce, she married Joe Lieberman, a U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president with Al Gore and would go on to run for president. 

In her memoir, Hadassah, Lieberman relates the story...

Rob Schwartz is the founder of Hidden Light Institute and executive producer of Centered: Joe Lieberman. He served as chief of staff for Senator Lieberman when he was Connecticut State Senate majority leader. He also functioned as the senator’s political director, assisting him in building his statewide organization, and was the director of his campaign for Congress. A friend of over 40 years, he credits Senator Lieberman with helping him create Hidden Light Institute and make the first English documentary on the life of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin. Rob is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Rutgers School...

A fighter from the Bronx, Ritchie Torres has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Like many others in the Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him. At 25, Ritchie became NYC’s youngest elected official and the first openly LBGTQ+ person elected in the Bronx. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.