ImpactIsrael Staff
Ben Marchette
Chief Executive Officer
Ben@Impact-Israel.org
Ben Marchette is an accomplished executive with 20 years’ experience in education and Israel affairs. Ben spent 15 years as Deputy Regional Director at AIPAC, driving revenue growth and increasing membership across New England. Prior to AIPAC, Ben served as Director at Camp Tel Noar – a residential youth camp in New Hampshire – and as a middle school teacher educating at-risk youth in the South Bronx. Ben holds a BA from the University of Rochester, an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University, and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Robert L. Gurmankin
Director of Strategic Partnerships
bob@Impact-Israel.org
Robert L. Gurmankin joins our ImpactIsrael staff as Director of Major Gifts following five and half successful years as Development Vice President at The Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine.
His development expertise includes serving in senior executive and consulting positions in fundraising, strategic planning, organizational development at some of North America’s largest Jewish communal organizations. These include: UJA-Federation of New York, Birthright Israel International, the National Museum of American Jewish History, B’nai B’rith International, The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, The Dalton School and the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.
Working with the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, he has consulted with the Bohrer Kaufman Hebrew Academy of Morris County, NJ; Kellman Brown Academy, Cherry Hill, NJ; Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy of Philadelphia; Hannah Senesh Community Day School of Brooklyn; and the Carmel Academy, Greenwich, CT.
“The well-being and viability of a community will follow directly from the successful course on which it diligently sets every one of its members, with special attention paid to its children and adolescents most at risk. In ImpactIsrael, I join a historically effective pathfinder helping to fortify Israel’s future and the health of the Jewish people.”
Lianne Goldsmith
West Coast Development Director
lianne@Impact-Israel.org
Lianne Goldsmith is an experienced nonprofit professional in the child welfare and family and foster care areas. She served as Program Director and Development Director for the Southern California Foster Family and Adoption Agency, responsible for a broad array of management and fundraising strategies. In addition, she served as Founder and Managing Director of The Possibility Project, Los Angeles (formerly City at Peace), a nonprofit organization that uses performing arts to empower and build confidence in at-risk teens.
“I am excited to be a part of this forward-thinking organization that listens to and honors the voice of its youth and serves to support them from their teens to adulthood,” Goldsmith said. “Helping to educate and strengthen Israel’s next generation of leaders – its children – is one of the most important ways we can ensure a strong and ever-lasting Israel.”
Goldsmith grew up in Zimbabwe, Africa. Her family’s connection to Israel runs deep as her father was a founder of Kibbutz Tzorah in Beit Shemesh, where Goldsmith spent time volunteering as a youth.
Judy Moseley
Operations Manager
judy@Impact-Israel.org
Judy L. Moseley has more than 25 years of professional experience working in the Jewish Community. She spent almost 11 years as Executive Director of Temple Beth-El in Providence, Rhode Island and 7 years as Executive Director of Congregation Beth Israel in Worcester, Massachusetts. previously taught Hebrew School for 20 years.
Before becoming a Jewish communal worker, Judy was a small business owner, building and running two successful bagel restaurant/ bakeries. Judy Moseley holds a BS degree in Gerontology and Volunteer Administration from University of Massachusetts, Amherst; an MBA from Northeastern University, and holds an FTA (Fellow in Temple Administration). Judy and her husband, John, are proud parents to son, Mark Moseley and grandparents to two young children.
E.R. Silverbush
Director of Marketing and Communications
ERSilverbush@impact-israel.org
E.R. Silverbush has over a decade of experience helping Jewish and Israel-based nonprofits navigate an increasingly complex communications environment. Prior to joining ImpactIsrael, E.R. oversaw marketing and communications efforts for the Israel Action Network, the counter-BDS arm of the Jewish Federation system. He had previously served as the manager of digital communications for the American Technion Society.
E.R. is a member of the DigiTell network coordinated by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, and, as such, is a recipient of the Jerusalem Post award for pro-Israel online activism.
A native of Syracuse, New York, E.R. graduated with distinction from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He received his Master of Business Administration in marketing and finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business, spending a summer as a senior MBA associate at Google’s Mountainview, California headquarters. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two young daughters.