Sara Bloom

Vice Chair

Sara Bloom is the Vice Chair of the Board of The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life. She is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of Hebrew Public and the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School. She was also the founding Chair of the Board of of Trustees of Hebrew Language Academy Charter School in Brooklyn. From 2004 to 2008, she was a weekly columnist for The New York Sun focusing on raising children in New York City. She has been a regular guest on CBS Morning News and FOX News, as well as a frequent guest lecturer at local schools and community centers throughout the city. Before this, she was the Features Editor and then the News Editor at the Forward, America’s national Jewish newspaper. From 2002 to 2005, Mrs. Bloom chaired the board of one of the eight centers of the 92nd Street Y, the Makor/Steinhardt Center. She also currently serves on the Boards of the Areivim Philanthropic Group, Hebrew Public: Charter Schools for Global Citizens, and OneTable: Shabbat Together. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University, where she studied history.

David Steinhardt

Board Member

David Steinhardt serves as a Director on the Board of The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life. He is also Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Natan, a giving circle that inspires young philanthropists to engage actively in Jewish giving by funding innovative projects that shape the Jewish future. A 20-year veteran of the investment management industry, he is also Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager at Wooster Capital Management LP and a Co-Founder and Managing Member of Clarity Capital KCPS Ltd. He has been Director of mBank and an Independent Director of Mackinac Financial Corporation since 2012. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rabbi David Gedzelman

President & Senior Philanthropic Advisor

Rabbi David Gedzelman is President and Senior Philanthropic Advisor of The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life. whose activities and terminal grant-making he oversees as the Foundation winds down through 2028.

David is also the Managing Director of the Areivim Philanthropic Group, which is a learning community of private foundations and independent funders deeply interested in exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the American Jewish community with a focus on Jewish Peoplehood and Zionism. In Areivim, principals and foundation professionals learn together as one community and explore strategies, philanthropic solutions, and idea possibilities for meeting the Jewish future.

Rabbi Gedzelman was the Founding Director of Makor, which was a cultural and learning center for Jewish New Yorkers in their 20s and 30s. In his Foundation work, he has helped to launch and oversee a range of initiatives including Hebrew Language Charter Schools, OneTable, Kayitz Kef/Hebrew at Camp, and JECEI, the Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative. He recently led a feasibility study exploring interventions in American Higher Education. He holds degrees from Hamilton College, Duke University, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. In Israel, he studied at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies and the Hebrew University. He lives in Harlem in New York City with his wife, Judith Turner, and his three children, Nomi, Anina and Ziv.