Meet a JNF Leader: T Lungwitz, lover of Israel, and Arabian horses

We recently sat down with Jewish National Fund lay leader T Lungwitz, a member of JNF's Negev Society, Century Council, Circle of Sapphire and JNF Arizona's newly founded board of trustees. T has an incredible resume, dedicating her life to caring for others first as a nurse and currently as CEO of Thema Health Services, a large home health, hospice, and palliative care company. She's also a lover of horses, owning Royal T Arabians, a company dedicated to raising and breeding Arabian horses, some of the most admired in the world. Read on to hear from this impressive member of the JNF family. 

Spotlight on Jewish women part 2: Ronna Schneider

To mark International Women’s Day 2015, March 8, Jewish National Fund lauds two powerhouse women, both Cincinnati residents, for their leadership roles and hard work on behalf of JNF, as well as their efforts in their broader local communities and in Israel. Read about Nina Levine Paul here. 

By June Glazer 

Dr. Ronna Schneider:  "It's my responsibility to give back"

Dr. Ronna Schneider, a pediatrician and owner of a medical practice in Cincinnati, credits her family’s history with motivating her to "give back" to the community. As the JNF national co-chair for both the Doctors for Israel affinity group and the 2014 Doctors for Israel tour, Ronna credits her father’s volunteer work as a dentist and a life-changing encounter in Greece for putting her on the leadership track at JNF.

"My parents were involved in Jewish Federation and in the community, so volunteerism was instilled in me early on," the Cincinnati native says. "During the 1980s, when Russian Jews were immigrating to the US, he volunteered one day a week to clean their teeth and give them dental exams. As a physician, I now understand what a sacrifice it was for him to give up a whole day of work."

Several years ago, Ronna experienced a turning point in her life that bolstered her father's example of the importance of giving back. At the Holocaust Memorial in the city of Salonika, Greece, as part of a Jewish Federation National Young Leadership Cabinet trip, she listened as the non-Jewish tour guide recounted the history of the area during the Holocaust and told the story of the Yosafat family of Katerini, whose members the town mayor helped to escape and who were hidden for two years by locals on nearby Mt. Olympus.

Spotlight on Jewish women part I: Nina Levine Paul

To mark International Women’s Day 2015, March 8, Jewish National Fund lauds two powerhouse women, both Cincinnati residents, for their leadership roles and hard work on behalf of JNF, as well as their efforts in their broader local communities and in Israel. Read about Ronna Schneider here. 

By June Glazer


For Nina Levine Paul, it all started 29 years ago when she arrived in Cincinnati from Los Angeles, married her husband, Edward, and became involved in JNF. There, she discovered people who shared her love of Israel, and she channeled her experience and skills as a businesswoman into her volunteer work, especially fundraising. Nina climbed through the ranks, became Southern Ohio regional president, and today is national vice president of the women's campaign.

Along the way, Nina joined the Sapphire Society, JNF's women's major-gifts division, and continued with other campaigns, all of which earned her recognition as JNF's first campaign all-star.

In addition, she sits on JNF's Israel Relations Committee and chairs the Manual D. and Rhoda Mayerson Inclusive Parks Project, which supports the creation and redesign of all parks in Israel to be inclusive for people with and without disabilities.