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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

Operations and Accounting Manager

Michael Ray

Property Manager

Andy Shankman

Assistant Director of the Berman-Lipavsky Religious School & 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 and Digital Media Associate

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

Marisa Shultz

Program Coordinator for The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Center for Healing & Spirituality

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