RZA Leadership

Stephen M. Flatow is a father of five whose then 20-year-old daughter, Alisa, died in April 1995 following an Iranian terrorist attack while she was a student in Israel. Alisa’s organs were donated for transplant.

Since Alisa’s death, Steve has traveled across the United States and Canada to share his experience. Steve is the author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror. His message is of the unity and tradition of the Jewish people and how we are all part of one world. It is also the story of how a family’s life changed as the result of the influence of a four year old child.

Active in community activities for many years, Steve was a founder and past president of Congregation Ohr Torah, West Orange, New Jersey, and is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Friends of the Rabin Medical Center and the American Friends of Nishmat.

He and his wife have been the recipient of several honors in recognition of their decision to donate Alisa’s organs for transplantation, their support of Jewish education and their groundbreaking efforts in fighting terrorism.

Steve has been a witness before U.S. Congressional committees on topics dealing with terrorism and victim’s rights. He writes a weekly column for the Jewish News Syndicate and has published opinion articles dealing with Israel, terrorism, and Jewish education in The New York Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

A graduate of Brooklyn Law School and member of the New Jersey bar, Stephen owns Vested Land Services LLC, a title insurance agency in Fairfield and Ocean Township, N.J.

He and his wife are now citizens of the State of Israel and divide their time between Jerusalem and Long Branch, New Jersey. They are the proud grandparents of 16.

Martin Oliner was born in a German DP camp. A child of Holocaust survivors, he was the first member of his family to graduate from high school and became a successful attorney, businessman, and self-made philanthrophist. 

Devoted to strengthening the ties between the United States and Israel, he currently serves as Co-President of the Religious Zionists of America-Mizrachi, Chair of Israel Bonds New York Region, Committee member of the Jewish Agency, and is a generous donor to the Republican National Committee, American Conservative Union (ACU), Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and a Trustee at Bnai Brith of Long Island.

Martin received a JD and an LLM in Taxation with honors from New York University Law School, and is a member of Phi Betta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. He has taught at New York University Law School, Touro College School of Law, New York Law School, and the School of Contemporary Studies at CUNY.

As an attorney, he has engaged in private practice since 1972 and has worked extensively with multinational financial institutions to restructure a wide variety of distressed investments in locations across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Since 1992, Mr. Oliner has serve full time as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer of First Lincoln Holdings, an insurance and real estate holding company. He has also served as Director of Regency Equities, Asian Oceanic Capital Corporation, and New Navy LDA.

A passionate proponent of education, Martin served as one of six members of the Executive Board of Touro College and has been a trustee for over thirty years. In that time, he helped guide the College through significant, long-term growth including the development of graduate and professional programs alongside an extensive building program with new campuses in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, a medical campus in Harlem, and new affiliated campuses in Moscow, Berlin, and Israel.

He is also a founder of the San Fransisco School of Osteopathic Medicine and has served as a director of the New York School of Podiatry.

For much of the past decade, Mr. Oliner’s pieces have been regularly printed in the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Press, the New York Jewish Week, syndicated via JNS.org, and often run in multiple outlets.

Locally, Martin was elected to the maximum three terms as the Mayor of the Village of Lawrence, New York where he served from 2010-2016. He also served as President of his synagogue, Shaaray Tefillah of Lawrence. 

A resident of Lawrence, NY, Martin is married to Reva and they have three children and nine grandchildren.