Peter Zeldin joins Jewish Rhode Island staff

Peter Zeldin is Jewish Rhode Island's new advertising director. He will lead our efforts to help businesses connect to our readers.

The East Greenwich resident has more than 25 years of experience as a sales and account executive with Cox Media.  A New York native, Zeldin has lived in New England for many years.

“Jewish Rhode Island and jewishrhody.com are essential for bringing relevant content and advertising messages to the local community, and I am delighted to be the new advertising director,” he said.

 “We are excited to have Peter join our team as Jewish Rhode Island moves forward with its new design and format,” said Fran Ostendorf, editor. “He and ad representative Karen Borger will take our story to more Rhode Island businesses as we look toward the future. Growing our advertising revenue and engaging more businesses is essential to the continued success of the paper.”

Zeldin replaces Chris Westerkamp, who is retiring. 

“Chris originally joined our team on a temporary basis to help us when our previous ad director left, and ended up on the team for well over two years,” said Ostendorf. “His commitment to the paper and his willingness to stay on much longer than he intended was a great boost to the paper and our community. We really appreciate that.” 

Reservations for advertising in the Guide to Jewish Living as well as all Jewish Rhode Island issues, including the September High Holy Days edition are now being taken. Advertisers can reach Zeldin at pzeldin@jewishallianceri.org