Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
News

Jay Yoskowitz, American Technion Society Official

Jay Yoskowitz, a Jewish communal leader who most recently served as senior vice president of the American Technion Society, died suddenly May 2 from heart failure.

Yoskowitz suffered a fatal heart attack in his Scarsdale, N.Y., home just hours after attending the double funeral of his parents, who had passed away within hours of each other from separate illnesses. Both parents were in their 90s.

In addition to his seven-year stint at the ATS, Yoskowitz served as associate executive vice chairman and executive vice chairman of United Israel Appeal, senior associate executive vice president/chief operating officer and executive vice president of Council of Jewish Federations, and executive director of the Jewish federations in Greenwich, Conn., and Des Moines, Iowa.

“He was a highly committed Zionist and saw Israel very much at the center of his personal and professional life,” said Melvyn Bloom, the ATS’s executive vice president. He added: “In addition to his management skills, he was widely known and felt to be a caring person. Mensch was the operative word with Jay.”

Yoskowitz is survived by his wife, Janet; his three children, Seth, Joy and Rebecca, and his brother, Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.