Stephanie Bernstein

Vice President, ASAC Representative, December 21st Planning Committee, Membership Committee

Stephanie Bernstein serves as Vice President of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103.  She represented the organization on the Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC) of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from July 2021-January 2025. Stephanie’s husband, Michael S. Bernstein, was killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Stephanie was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota.  She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, an MA in Guidance and Counseling from Eastern Michigan University, and an MSW from Catholic University.  She was a clinical social worker for over twenty years in the Washington, DC area. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in May 2009. Stephanie was a chaplain for Jewish Social Services and served as a rabbi at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Virginia from 2012-2022.   She is a chaplain for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., and an adjunct professor at Wesley Theological Seminary.

Stephanie has served on the Boards of Directors of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, Jews United for Justice, the Washington Board of Rabbis, and was the Board Chair of Equality Maryland. Stephanie is married to Henry Winokur. She has two adult children, Sara Bernstein and Joseph Bernstein, and three grandsons.