CBE Leadership Through Time

RABBIS:

Joseph Gitin (part-time 1945-1947); Leo Trepp (1947-1950); Sidney Akselrad (1951-1962); M. Arthur Oles (1963-1966); Arthur Abrams (1966-1970); Leo Abrami (1971-1976); Arnold Levine (1976-1994); Ferenc Raj (1995-2007); Yoel Kahn (2007-2021); Rebekah Stern (2014-present)
 
Jane Litman  (Rabbi-Educator, 2000-2008); Reuben Zellman (Rabbinic Intern, 2009-2010) and (Assistant Rabbi & Music Director, 2010-2018); Ira Rosenberg (Associate Rabbi & Director of Congregational Learning, 2021-present)
 
Interim Rabbis: Alfred Barnston (1962); George Vida (1971); Raphael W. Asher (1980-1981); Gary Tishkoff (1990-1991); Sam Braude & Shelley Waldenberg (1994-June, 1995)

CANTORS:

Flori Monroe Baranco (1945); Robert Rose (1958- 1965, approx.); Ben Roth (1965-1985, approx.); Cory Winter (1985-1988); Brian Reich (1988- 2008); Reuben Zellman (2009-2018); Cantor Elaya Jenkins-Adelberg (2018-present)
 
ORGANIST:

Laurette Goldberg (1945); Rose Friedman (1958); Rose Rust (1965)
 
PAST PRESIDENTS:

William Blackfield (1945-47); Harold Edelstein (1947-48); Samuel Goldeen (1948-49); Rafael Silver (1949-50); Phillip Feiger (1950-52); Maurice Moonitz 1952-53; Samuel Goldeen 1953-54); Sidney Hoos (1954-57); Manfred Finkel 1957-59); Leon Klugman (1959-62); David Golner (1963-64); Leon Klugman (1964-66); Fred Meyer (1966-68); Sami Hassid (1968-70); Fred Meyer (1969); Elmer Grossman (1971-72); Joel Zebrack (1972-74); Alfred Goldschmidt (1974-75); John Goldsmith (1975-77); Marian Magid (1977-79); Lawrence Levine (1979-81); Robert Katz (1981-83); Arthur Goldman (1983-84); Frances Alexander (1984-87); Bill Berland (1987-89); Lois Marcus (1989-91); Thom Seaton (1991-93); Andy Ganes (1993-95); Stephen Joseph (1995-97); Harry Pollack (1997-99); Stuart Berman (1999-2001); Buddy Warner (2001-03); Martin Dodd (2003-05); Julie Kennedy (2005-07); Katherine Haynes-Sanstead, (2007-09); Joanne Backman (2009-11), Dan Magid (2011-13), Paul Sugarman (2013-2015); Jill Siegel Dodd (2015-2017; Leo Levenson (2017-2019); Allen Nudel (2019-2021); Jeremy Alberga(2021-present)
 
FOUNDING MEMBERS (as remembered by Odette Blachman & Bob Fischer):

Maurice and Ruth Adler; Kurt and Gay Austin; Prof. Percy and Ruth Barshay; Ben and Sally Berke; William and Cecilia Blackfield; Max and Odette Blachman; Sam and Phyllis Blachman; Roy and Edna Bloch; Prof. Boris and Joy Bressler; Ed and Pearl Brosler; Blanche Cardwell; Prof. Israel and Evelyn Corner; Benjamin and Frances DeRoy; Simon Eckstein; David and Marie Edelstein; Harold and Marian Edelstein; Harold and Gertrude Ellis; Dr. Philip and Ilse Feiger; Manfred and Vera Finkel; Robert and Ruth Fischer; Morris and Isabel Freifeld; Morris and Rose Friedman; Dr. Nat and Libby Frug; Samuel and Doris Goldeen; Rudolph and Elizabeth Goldschmidt; Harold and Fran Goldstein; Emile and Irene Grossman; Ernst and Herta Hessing; Dr. Brian Hilton; Fred and Ruth Hirsch; Fred and Carolyn Kahn; Julius and Gerda Kauffman; Joseph and Anna Kay; Prof. Alex and Ethel Levens; Sam and Kitty Levy; Elliot and Ethel Lewis; Dr. Julius and Emmy Lewis; Dr. Robert and Sylvia Lewis; Rebecca Lubin; Ben and Mollie Malik; Dr. Henry and Gertrude Mankin; Rafi and Tuaba Mayeri; Prof. Maurice and Ruth Moonitz; Burrell and Sally Rubenstein; Dr. Fritz and Greta Schmerl; Sol and Rose Seldin; Max and Bianca Shulster; Rafael and Frieda Silver; Friedrich and Edith Strauss; Moritz and Lilli Strauss; Paul and Dorothy Traum; Hugo and Frances Wolf; Dr. Henry and Sandra Yaffe; Chester and Ann Zeff