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Heidi Gantwerk
Heidi Gantwerk, a Congregation Beth Israel member for eight years, is
Vice President of Viewpoint Learning, a La Jolla based firm that develops dialogues
for business and public policy. Heidi specializes in civic engagement, public
policy research, community relations and media production. She has designed and
directed civic and stakeholder engagement projects on a wide range of complex
public and private sector issues including healthcare reform, land use and housing
development, governance reform and caring for the elderly. Heidi runs the La
Jolla office of Viewpoint Learning.
Formerly the director of youth programs at Price Charities, Heidi also has extensive
experience as a media liaison and producer. She served as director of community
relations for San Diego's NBC owned-and-operated station. Prior to joining Viewpoint
Learning, her career focused on building bridges between communities, from serving
as a liaison between local communities and network television to creating and
implementing innovative educational opportunities for inner-city schoolchildren.
Heidi holds a B.A. in psychology from Yale University. Her husband Andy Mayer
is the pianist for the Friday Night Chai Band and one of this year's Volunteers
of the Year Award winners. Heidi often sings with the Chai band at Friday Night
Chai Music Shabbat services and other CBI musical events. Heidi and Andy live
in Tierrasanta with their three children, Isaac, Sebastian and Gabriel.
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Lisa Gittleman
Lisa Gittleman and her family have been members of CBI since 1999. Since joining CBI Lisa has served on the Interfaith Outreach Committee, the Kehillah Caring Committee, was a member of the Adult B’nai Mitzvah class of 2006 and has served on the Board of the Women of Beth Israel. She was recently selected co-president of WBI and is in her first year of a two-year term.
Professionally, Lisa is a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and has been working in the San Diego County Tuberculosis Control and Refugee Health Programs since 2002. She is also an active member of the United States Navy Reserve, serving as a Nurse Corps Officer since 1996. Lisa has been active in her daughter’s Girl Scout troop over the years and is very involved as a volunteer with the San Diego Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training marathon training and fundraising program. She has completed 2 half-marathons (13.1 miles) and one full marathon in the past year.
Lisa is a fourth generation native Southern Californian, born and raised in Redlands, CA. She and her husband Jeff (a third generation native Los Angeles man) came to San Diego in 1983 to attend San Diego State University. They married in 1988 in Balboa Park, a week after graduation. In 1990 their daughter Amanda was born. She has also been active at CBI, attending the Religious School, becoming Bat Mitzvah in 2003 and confirmed in 2006. She was active in BITY and this past year served as NFTY SoCal Social Action Vice President. She recently graduated from Serra High School in Tierrasanta and is excited to start UCLA in September.
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Jerry
Goldberg
Jerry Goldberg, Honorary Board Consultant, has served the Congregation
in a variety of leadership capacities including President (2001-2003),
founding chair of the Tikkun-Social Action Committee, chair of the Aleinu-Continuing
Education Committee and co-chair of the 2004 Senior Rabbi Search Committee.
He has fulfilled leadership roles nationally for the Union for Reform
Judaism as Regional Vice President and member of the Commission on Social
Action. He has also held a number of key leadership positions for the
United Jewish Federation of San Diego including Vice President for Planning
and Allocations, Treasurer, founding chair of the Audit Committee and
chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council. A strong advocate of
synagogue/ Federation partnership, Jerry is a founding member of the
UJF Synagogue Committee. He is currently co-chair of the 2008 Men’s Event.
Jerry is a member of the prestigious Wexner Heritage Foundation’s Jewish
leadership program.
In his "other life" as an attorney, Jerry is a senior partner in the law
firm of Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP, with which he has been
associated since his arrival in San Diego from Washington, D.C. in 1975.
At the firm, which focuses primarily on residential and commercial real estate,
development and construction, he heads the litigation and risk management
group.
Jerry's professional interest in housing and development dates from the
beginning of his career as an Attorney-Advisor for the General. Counsel of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has continued in other
endeavors including his service as a founding Trustee of the San Diego Housing
Trust Fund, pro bono counsel for a variety of Jewish and secular nonprofit
organizations and various teaching roles.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Jerry is a graduate of the University of Chicago
Law School and Miami University (Ohio) where he received various honors including
election to Phi Beta Kappa. He is the husband of Linda and father of Matthew
(a Beth Israel Day School "lifer") who is currently a law student at U.C.
Hastings in San Francisco. Jerry's avocations include distance running, hiking
baseball (both as spectator and player), golf and travel.
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Herbert H. Hafter, Jr.
Herb is a third generation member of Congregation Beth Israel. Over the years
he has held various CBI leadership positions which included a prior six-year
tenure on the Board of Directors, with service on the Executive Committee, Budget
Committee, Long Range Planning Committee, Chavurah Coordinating Committee. He
is also a past Membership Committee chair and past Men’s Club President. He currently
serves on the Membership, Strategic Planning and Finance Committees.
Herb is active in the UJF and a member of the Downtown Breakfast Club. He is also a past Board member of the Home of Peace Cemetery.
Herb is a 30 year veteran of the real estate industry with a background in investment
and property management, appraisal, consulting and commercial brokerage. He is
currently a Senior Vice President and co-manager of the San Diego Tenant Representation
practice for the Dallas-based real estate services firm, Trammell Crow Company.
He specializes in acquiring space for corporate, professional and retail clients.
He is married to Ellen, an elementary and former Religious School teacher, and
also a native San Diegan. The Hafters are active CBI Chavurah members and have
two grown daughters, Juliet and Laurie.
Herb earned undergraduate and MBA degrees from San Diego State University. He
holds professional designations in property management (CPM) and real estate
counseling (CRE).
Aside from being a Charger fanatic, his other avocations include golf, running,
and music.
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Barbara
Buchstane Haworth, Immediate Past President
Barbara Buchstane Haworth served as President from 2005-07 and led the congregation through a period of change. During her presidency, she led the searches for a new Senior Rabbi and also for a new Assistant Rabbi. One of her most proud accomplishments was to successfully complete a long term contract with our beloved Cantor Arlene Bernstein. Additionally, Barbara oversaw the hiring of Lesley Mills as the Congregation’s first Development Director and then her subsequent move to become the Acting Executive Director. Barbara envisioned and directed the process of long range planning as the means to align congregational resources with member needs in a comprehensive, fluid and continuing effort. . The congregational emphasis on “Community and Connectedness” was the result of this work.
During Barbara’s presidency, various task forces were commissioned and changes were made as a result of their findings. For example the youth director was added to the staff, three vibrant youth groups emerged and the teen lounge was opened and activated. Also, the membership function was examined which resulted in redefining the staff positions. Financial resources and operational capacity was a major focus and the endowment grew by over $1 million, or 17%. Planned giving was emphasized and Congregation Beth Israel is now prominently included in many of our member’s estate plans.
Prior to her presidency, Barbara was actively involved at Congregation Beth Israel for many years. She was Vice President of Education for three years, and has chaired numerous committees including Nominating, Fundraising, and Religious School. She was named CBI Volunteer of the Year in 2002.
Barbara has also held several other leadership positions in the Jewish communities of both San Diego and Chicago. She was active in United Jewish Federation where she served on the Board of Directors and also was Vice President of Women’s Division. She was on the Board of the JCC for eight years and served in several capacities there. She was named the JCC's Volunteer of the Year in 1995. She served on the Board of Hillel and various committees for many other Jewish organizations. She is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Foundation and was one of the founders of the San Diego Wexner Graduate Leadership Institute which ultimately brought the Wexner Heritage Foundation program back to San Diego for a repeat program in 2003.
Barbara was the San Diego County Fundraising Chair for Diabetic Youth Services, which operates a resident camp near Big Bear for children with diabetes. She created the very successful fundraiser, "Stars Cook for Camp," which was held in 2002 and 2004. In 2001, Barbara, her husband Gordon, and their children were honored as "Family of the Year" by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She also served in various capacities in her children's schools.
Barbara was raised in Alabama and received her undergraduate degree from Tulane University and her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. She began her business career in Chicago, first in commercial banking then in commercial real estate where she was a partner and Senior Vice President of LaSalle Partners (now Jones Lang LaSalle).
In 1992, she and her husband, Gordon, moved to San Diego where they have invested in real estate and other business opportunities. Barbara is a partner in Grahamanda Development. Barbara and Gordon have two children and live in La Jolla.
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Joan Jacobs
Joan Jacobs served as president of Congregation Beth Israel from
1976 to 1978. She was the first woman president of CBI. Currently Joan
serves as Honorary Life Consultant & President of the Cemetery and
Mausoleum Association.
Gladie Jaffe
Gladie Jaffe, VP, Membership, has been an active temple member since joining
the Congregation Beth Israel family in 2000. She sat on the Rabbinic Search
Committee that selected Rabbi Michael Berk, and she chairs the Outreach to Interfaith
Committee. Gladie has been actively involved in young adult programming at CBI
since 2001, including three years as chair of Makom. She and her family belong
to an active CBI chavurah, Makir Tovah.
As a Bill & Sid Rubin Preschool parent, Gladie has chaired the Preschool Parent
Committee for the last three years. As a new Religious School parent, she has
accepted chairmanship of the Religious School's Room Parent Program. She has
also chaired the Shalom Walk fundraiser for the Preschool and the Beth Israel
Day School for three years.
Gladie co-chaired the Programs and Services Subcommittee of CBI's Long Range
Plan. She co-chaired the Rabbinic Transition Task Force that explored "Other
Models." In addition, Gladie served on the Associate/Assistant Rabbi Search Committee. She serves on CBI's Security
Committee.
Beyond the walls of CBI, Gladie is working on the planning committee of the San
Diego Walk for Darfur. She also sits on the regional URJ-PSW outreach and synagogue
management committee.
Gladie is a native San Diegan, living in Scripps Ranch with her husband, Ian,
and her two sons, Joel and Cooper. She is a full-time student at San Diego State
University, majoring in Geography with an emphasis in Environment and Natural
Resources. Looking forward, she is beginning to prepare for the LSAT and GRE.
In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, snowboarding, wine tasting, and having
fun with family and friends.
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Emily Jennewein
Emily Jennewein, Secretary and VP, Communications of the CBI Board, is
Director of Marketing and Communications for the Jewish Community Foundation
of San Diego. She was formerly a Web developer, building
Web sites for business clients. She built CBI's Web site in 2002, and served
as the synagogue's volunteer Webmaster for four years.
Emily lives in Del Mar with her husband Chris, who runs SignOnSanDiego.com,
the Internet operation of the San Diego Union Tribune. Their daughters, Maddy
and Penny became b'not mitzvah in June 2005.
At Beth Israel, Emily is chair of the Cantor Bernstein 10th anniversary
event committee. She sat on the rabbinic search committee that selected
Rabbi Michael Berk. Emily chaired the Religious School parent committee
for several years. She designed CBI's current weekly E-Newsletter, which
debuted in 2004. She was honored as a CBI Volunteer of the Year in 2003,
and served on the Capitol Steps fundraiser committee. She co-chaired the
2006 assistant rabbi search and co-chaired the
committee that produced the One People Many Voices youth choir concert
in 2006.
She earned an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at
Dartmouth College and graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in English.
She was a banking and economic reporter for The Miami Herald and The Atlanta
Constitution and held management positions at The Coca-Cola Company in corporate
communications and shareholder services. Emily grew up in Washington, D.C.
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