JCRC Board Binder FY21

Rabbi Benjamin Hassan
At-Large Board Member
Rabbi Benjamin Hassan is Senior Rabbi of Sephardic Bikur Holim
Congregation in Seward Park, Seattle. He teaches Talmud at Seattle Hebrew
Academy and serves as a Dayan (Judge) on the Seattle Beit Din (Court of
Jewish Law) Rabbi Hassan is a member of the Vaad (Orthodox Rabbinical
Council) of Seattle and writes a weekly blog on a variety of Jewish topics and
how they impact the modern world at askrabbihassan.blogspot.com
Ron Leibsohn
Federation Representative
Jewish Community: Board Chair Jewish Federation, Board Chair ADL, Board
Chair AIPAC, Board Member AJC, Board Member Herzl, Board Member JCC,
Board Chair B’nai B’rith, Vice Chair JCC Community Campus.
Career: Commercial Real Estate and Development, Family: Three sons, four
grandsons. Mercer Island resident since 1974. Enjoy gardening, boating, golf.
Politically engaged.
Rene Levy
At-Large Board Member
René H. Levy is Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutics at the University of
Washington School of Pharmacy, where he served as chair of pharmaceutics
for twenty-six years. He recently received a lifetime achievement award for
his work on antiepileptic drugs. Levy holds a BS in Pharmacy from the
University of Paris, and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the
University of California, San Francisco.
He has published hundreds of articles and co-edited several books on
pharmacology, including Metabolic Drug Interactions, and Antiepileptic
Drugs In 2011, Levy turned his knowledge of neuroscience to the study of
why we hate with the publication of his book, Baseless Hatred.
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