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Meet our clergy.

Rabbi Steven Schwartz

The Rabbi Mark Loeb Senior Rabbi’s Chair endowed by the Herbert Bearman Foundation

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Meet our staff.

Ben Wachstein

Executive Director

Eyal Bor, Ph.D.

Director of Lifelong Learning

Ben Kreshtool

Ritual Director & Beth El Memorial Park Manager

Amanda Beitman

Director of Development

Mandy Barish

Director of Pauline Mash School for Early Childhood Education

Jill Suffel

Director of Membership and Programing

Randy Arndts

Director of Finance

Jeremy Silbert

Director of Marketing and Communications

Yvonne Epstein

Beth El Memorial Park Associate & Assistant to the Clergy

Zoe Popowcer

Executive Assistant & Program Assistant for The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Center for Healing & Spirituality

Julie Hettleman

Managing Director for The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Center for Healing & Spirituality

Ellen Marks

Coordinator for The Rabbi Mark G. Loeb Center for Life Long Learning

Amy Payne

Member Relations Specialist

Josh Powell

Accounting & IT Associate

Michael Ray

Property Manager

Andy Shankman

Religious School Manager & B’nai Mitzvah Coordinator

Rebekah Waltemeyer

Senior Associate of Campaign Management

Esti Zenati

Creative Content Manager

Samantha Halle

Assistant Director of the Pauline Mash School for Early Childhood Education

Sharon Eckhaus

Early Childhood Programs Administrator

Barry Smith

Religious School Director

Sarah Shapiro, LCSW-C

In-House Social Worker for Beth El Congregation and The Soul Center

Our Officers & Board Members.

Officers

President

Hon. Bruce E. Friedman

1st Vice President

Rebecca Fruman

2nd Vice President

Josh Shein

Secretary

Jennifer Millman

Comptroller

Hal Hackerman

Treasurer

Fred Kobb

Board Members

Joel Alperstein

Maren Blum

Sharon Freiman

Neil Eisenberg

Saralyn Elkin

Justin Harvey

Anna Janet

Rachel Klein

Jordan Levin

Randy Melnick

Melissa Roth

Allison Rubin

Amy Steinberg

Bryan Wachs

Mandy Weinman

Rachel Cohen

David Dafner

Danielle Epstein

Michael Fellerman

Kevin Fruman

Richard Grilli

Jerry Janofsky

Helene Lutz

Marissa Myers

Ilene Schwartz

Bruce Supovitz

Brooke Zweig

Matt Rothstein

Jeffrey Brodie

Howard Kahn

Elissa Kohel

Bobbie Krosin Selnick

Ira Oring

Doug Shepard

Ellen Budish

Ruthye Steinberg

Jane Sacks

Freddye Silverman

Jack Boonshaft

Past Presidents

*Reuben H. Levenson

*Dr. William Raffel

*Milton Snyder

Charles Yumkas

*Sidney Friedman

Elliot Merenbloom

Alan S. Dorenfeld

Dr. Robert D. Keehn

Michael D. Steinhardt

*Jerome D. Schnydman

Dr. Edward Mishner

*Melvin H. Chernoff

*Julius Offit

*Ira Askin

*Klaus Buchdahl

*Max Mendelsohn

David Yumkas

John P. Abosch

Beverly S. Penn

Raphael Kahn

Michael S. Rubenstein

*Samuel J. Keiser

*Milton Roseman

Robert N. Smelkinson

*Mildred Miller

Louis Glick

Albert M. Katz

Margot Gilbert Gilison

Richard S. Hollander

Steven D. Silverman

Denise Franz

David Harrison

*of blessed memory

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