 In 1983, Dr. Leonard Kapiloff, a dentist and former publisher of the Sentinel newspapers in suburban Maryland, purchased the paper, continuing as owner until his 1993 death.Among the paper's staff during Kapiloff's tenure were Michael Berenbaum, Larry Cohler-Esses, Judith Colp, Charles Fenyvesi, Buzzy Gordon, and Henry Srebrnik.During Kapiloff's tenure in the 1980s and 1990s, by virtue of its geography and the quality of its staff, the "Washington Jewish Week" became a very influential paper and regularly published stories picked up by the mainstream press.