About Us
We’re Changing the Conversation about Aging
Learn about our mission and meet our leaders and board members.
Our Mission
We can work together to create new active aging programs that engage more people in Jewish and civic life–and change the conversation about aging.
Let’s use this site to connect to colleagues worldwide and share information, insights and ideas about active aging. We’ll share what we’ve learned and what we’ve achieved–and point out what to watch out for when creating active aging initiatives.
We started the Active Aging Resource Network to broaden B3’s mission, focusing on research and consulting to help organizations and funders better understand the active aging landscape and how it affects their community. We also strive to connect people and organizations so that information and insights can be shared. Active aging programming has not (yet) been recognized as a major agenda item in Jewish life, especially on the national and international level. We hope to change that and to encourage sustained investment in this life stage. Our likelihood of success will increase if we connect and collaborate.
Leadership
B3 was founded by David Elcott, PhD., and Stuart Himmelfarb and is governed by a stellar board of experts in Jewish and civic life.
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David Elcott, Ph.D.
Co-founder of B3, David served as the Taub Professor of Practice in Public Service and Leadership at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and faculty director of the Advocacy and Political Action specialization. His groundbreaking research on aging launched the focus on vital aging for Jewish organizations.
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Stuart Himmelfarb
Stuart is CEO and a co-founder of B3/The Jewish Boomer Platform. His encore career in Jewish communal life followed twenty-five years in marketing, research and consulting. He co-founded CollegeTrack, Inc., which was the leading college research and consulting company in the U.S.
Board of Directors
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Rabbi Laura Geller
Laura, Rabbi Emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, is a founder of the first synagogue-based village, ChaiVillageLA, and Chair of the Synagogue Village Network which helps synagogues explore a new paradigm for engaging active older adults.
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Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D.
Hayim is passionate about the power of nonprofits as catalysts for social good. He has a Ph.D. in Organization and Management and, in his work, integrates academic and real-world clergy and organizational leadership experience.
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Rae Janvey
Rae is an executive Coach, Facilitator and Mentor in the areas of non-profit Leadership, Life Transitions and Thriving Aging. Rae is the Founder of Flourishing Women Circles, which focuses on whole-being positivity, compassion, meaning, purpose and deep relationships as key building blocks for living a flourishing life and workplace.
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Peter N. Wang
Peter is a litigation lawyer and managing partner of the New York City office of Foley & Lardner LLP. A member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an organization limited to the 500 leading trial advocates in the world, he is also an active volunteer leader in Jewish organizations in the New York and Westchester communities.