Co-chairpersons of the Board

The Board of the Good Will Foundation is headed by the two co-chairpersonsi Andrew Baker and Faina Kukliansky. Rabbi Baker is the Director of International Jewish Affairs at the American Jewish Committee, AJC). F. Kukliansky, a professional lawyer, is currently the Head of the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community.

Both co-chairpersons have been members of the initiative group, which started negotiations regarding restitution of communal property of Jewish religious communities with Lithuanian authorities more than a decade. Negotiations were successful and resulted in adoption of the Good will compensation law in 2011, based on which the Good Will Foundation was established.

The Good Will Foundation was established by the Lithuanian Jewish Heritage Foundation.

Biography of Faina Kukliansky

Biography of Andrew Baker

Board of the Good Will Foundation

  1. Andrew Eliot Baker – Co-chair of the Board
  2. Faina Kukliansky – Co-chair of the Board
  3. Arie Bucheister, The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
  4. Shmuel Levin, Head of the Jewish religious community of Lithuania
  5. Arie Ben-Ari Grodzensky, Chairman of Litvak Association in Israel
  6. Josifas Buršteinas, Ad personam
  7. Gennady Kofman, Head of the Jewish Community of Panevėžys (Ponevezh)
  8. Gercas Žakas, Head of the Jewish Community of Kaunas (Kovno)
  9. Nachliel Dison, World Jewish Restitution Organization
  10. Prof. Leonidas Melnikas, Ad personam
  11. Mark Weitzman, World Jewish Restitution Organisation
  12. Daniel Seth Mariaschin, B’nai B’rith International

Board of the Lithuanian Jewish Heritage Foundation

  1. Andrew Eliot Baker, American Jewish Committee
  2. Julius Berman
  3. Herbert Philip Meir Block, Executive Director of American Zionist Movement
  4. Shmuel Levin, Head of the Jewish religious community of Lithuania
  5. Reuven Dov Dessler, Chief Executive Officer of the Mazel Company
  6. Vladimir Dribinskiy, Chief Program Officer of the World ORT
  7. Josifas Buršteinas, Ad personam
  8. Gennady Kofman, Head of the Jewish Community of Panevėžys (Ponevezh)
  9. Faina Kukliansky, Head of Jewish (Litvak) Community of Lithuania
  10. Ruth Reches, Vilnius Sholom Aleichem ORT High School
  11. Daniel Seth Mariaschin, B’nai B’rith International
  12. Prof. Leonidas Melnikas, Ad personam
  13. Mark Barry Levin, National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry
  14. Nachliel Dison, World Jewish Restitution Organization
  15. Feliksas Puzemskis, Head of the Jewish Community of Klaipėda (Memel)
  16. Mark Weitzman, World Jewish Restitution Organisation
  17. Gercas Žakas, Head of the Jewish Community of Kaunas (Kovno)
  18. Arturas Taicas, Head of the Jewish Community of Ukmergė (Vilkomir)
  19. Samantha Rebeca Hillman, World Jewish Restitution Organisation
  20. Semionas Finkelšteinas, Lithuanian sport club "Makabi"