January 13, 2010

The following chaverim were in attendence or on the conference call: Elie Abadie, Hanan Balk, Gedalya Berger, Heshie Billet, Moshe Bomzer, Aaron Borow, Daniel Cohen, Joel Finklestein, Arie Folger, Barry Freudel, Barry Gelman, Sheldon Grafstein, Simcha Green, Raphael Grossman, Basil Herring, Ira Kronenberg, Moshe Kletenik, Barry Kornblau, Doniel Kramer, Moshe Krupka, Bini Maryles, Asher Meir, Ari Perl, Steven Pruzansky, Myron Rakowitz, Fabian Schonfeld, Jonathan Schwartz, Moshe Shulman, Adam Starr, Elie Weinstock, Shlomo Weissmann, Michael Whitman, Michoel Zylberman.

The following minutes were approved at the March, 2010 meeting of the Executive Committee:

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, held at its offices on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, the president in the chair, and Barry Kornblau acting on behalf of the secretary, the following items were all approved and passed unanimously.

2010 proposed budget.

Creation, on an interim basis until the Strategic Planning Initiative concludes its work, of a Liaison Committee to form proactive and reactive connections to chaverim. The members of the Liaison Committee are Rabbis Shlomo Hochberg, Dale Polakoff, Kenneth Auman, Kenneth Hain, Heshie Billet, Moshe Kletenik, Shmuel Goldin.

Parsonage allowances for Rabbis Herring and Kornblau as RCA employees.

Membership applications for Rabbis Julius Berman, Doniel Bensoussan, Saul Epstein, Yisroel Isaacs, Eli Kerzner, Binyamin Marwick, Isaac Mizrachi, Yoni Rappaport, Doniel Schreiber Josh Yuter.