About us

Documenting Maine Jewry largely a volunteer organization coordinated and maintained by a strong and caring group of senior advisors and coordinators.
DMJ Coordinating group

Michael Cohen, David Freidenreich, Harris Gleckman, Matthew Goldfarb, Judy Halpert,
Steve Hirshon z'l, Phyllis Graber Jensen, Jessica Pollard Lantos, Elaine Crasnick Kahaner, Barbara Blumenthal Stern, Abe Peck, Wilma Rose, Ruthanne Singal, Anne Schneider, Cindy Potter Taylor

DMJ's in-state regional coordinators Aroostook County - Susan Adelman Rudolph
Auburn-Lewiston - Phyllis Graber Jensen
Augusta - Rabbi Erica Asch
Bangor - Marcia Berson Lieberman, Ruthanne Singal & Judy Gatchell
Bath - Fred Weinberg & Nathan Cogan
Belfast - Marsha Mendelson Carlin
Biddeford-Saco - Jennie Aranovitch
Greater Portland - Judy Halpert
Greater Rockland - Deborah Weisgal
Old Orchard Beach - Eber Weinstein
Old Town & Orono - Beth Hillson
Sanford/Springvale - Martin Cohn and Joan Levenson
Waterville - Peter and Joan Beckerman & David Freidenreich
Rural Maine - Avraham Tracy
DMJ's out of state regional coordinators California (San Francisco area) : Steven Kornetsky
Connecticut : Eric Persky
Washington DC : Robert J Wells
Massachusetts (Greater Boston): Karen Kornetsky Levine
Florida : Cindy Potter Taylor
Virginia : Eric Sacknoff
DMJ's Senior Advisors

Linda Elowitch Abromson z"l, Andy Brenner, Robert Hirshon, George Isaacson
Billy Miller, Norman Minsky, Kenny Nelson, Neil Rolde z''l, and Warren Silver

DMJ's program coordinators Jessica Pollard Lantos - Facebook manager
Judy Halpert - Greater Portland oral histories;
Nancy Silverman Levinsky - Maine Jewish Summer Camp exhibition (Portland)
Phyllis Graber Jensen - Auburn-Lewiston community history
Fred and Marilyn Weinberg, Nathan Cogan, and Amy Waterman - Bath community history
Ben Kissen - data collection and indexing
Project Coordinator David Freidenreich
Community and Family Historians DMJ welcomes and replies on volunteers and researchers.

If you would like to be active in your local area, contact the relevant regional coordinator via dmj@mindspring.com.

If you have documents or photographs to contribute or wish to become a DMJ volunteer, please be in touch.