besty leadership council

BESTY is mainly run by teens from Temple Beth El.

The 2009-2010 BESTY leadership council can be seen below!

ADVISORS-Jesse Paikin/Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman

PRESIDENT-Michael Bernstein

COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS VICE PRESIDENT- Sara Levy

SOCIAL ACTION VICE PRESIDENT- Ben Silver

RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL VICE PRESIDENT-Beckie Hamroff

Secretary- Dana Sorkin

9th GRADE REPRESENTATIVES-Jonathan Richman and Bradley Schnabel

 

Elections for the 2010-2011 board will take place during the final event.

jesse paikin (advisor: besty, bemsy)

Jesse Paikin is from Toronto, ON and currently resides in New York. He is a graduate of York University, where he received his degree in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Theatre. He is currently studying at the National Theatre School of Canada.

Jesse is often inspired, inflamed, enthralled, intrigued, and sometimes pissed off by the various “worlds” in which he lives and works - the Jewish communal world, the professional theatre world, the philosophical/intellectual world, and the Canadian political world.

His office can be found inside of the temple library.

geoff mitelman (advisor: besty)

Rabbi Mitelman is the Assistant Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester. 

Ordained by HUC-JIR in Cincinnati in 2007, Rabbi Mitelman received The Cora Kahn Prize from the Cincinnati faculty for the most outstanding sermon delivery and oratory. While at HUC-JIR, he was the student rabbi at B’nai Israel Synagogue in Grand Forks, North Dakota and Temple Oheb Shalom in Sandusky, Ohio. Over the summers, he interned at the Union for Reform Judaism in the Department of Jewish Family Concerns, co-editing a book on congregational inclusion; gained pastoral experience at Westchester County Medical Center; and worked with teenagers at Kutz and Eisner Camps.
 
In addition to his practical experience, Rabbi Mitelman is also an enthusiastic scholar. His interest in the intersection of Judaism and psychology led him to his rabbinic thesis, “Rabbinic Thought Through the Lens of Emotional Intelligence.” Additionally, he was selected to represent HUC-JIR at an international interfaith study conference in Krakow, Poland entitled “Building Towards the Future: Jewish-Christian Relations in Cultural Context.”
 
A native of Westchester County, New York, Rabbi Mitelman grew up in Briarcliff Manor, belonged to Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains, and graduated from Hackley School in Tarrytown. A Religion and Jewish Studies major at Princeton University, he graduated in 2000 with multiple prizes for scholarship in Judaic and Biblical Studies. He is a voracious reader (especially books on science, psychology, history, and politics), and ever since he went to his first game at age seven, he has been an ardent Yankees fan.
 
Rabbi Mitelman can be reached at: gmitelman@bethelnw.org or at 238-3928 ext 212

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