Steve Bandler

Board President

Allison Kierman

Vice President

Allison is married to Alan Kierman and they have two children, Bond and Felicity. Allison has been involved at Congregation Beth Israel and the Chanen Preschool for the last 6 years. She has served on the Preschool Committee and is currently serving on the Religious School Committee.

In an effort to continue her personal development, Allison is studying for her Adult B’nai Mitzvah and is taking an Adult Hebrew language class.

Professionally, Allison is a lawyer and runs her own estate planning practice in North Scottsdale, where she focuses on guiding families through the trust and will process in a friendly and warm environment.

Wendy Carriere

Treasurer

The Carriere Family moved to the valley from Denver in 2001. They were unaffiliated for years until the girls attended Camp Stein and fell in love with Judaism. The family, propelled by the kid’s love of camp, joined CBI shortly after they returned from their first summer.

Wendy is an accountant by trade with a focus in forensic auditing. She specialized in cash protection and cash movement throughout various organizations in North America.
Wendy earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Tax, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In addition to become a CBI board member, Wendy has been the camp committee co-chair for several years as well as the teen liaison for the Youth Engagement Committee. Wendy has found a true passion and endless energy working with the youth of CBI.

Will Koslow

Secretary

William Koslow is a transactional attorney who specializes in corporate, commercial real estate and finance matters.  Additionally, he holds a real estate broker’s license in Arizona.

He grew up in the Phoenix Jewish community, graduating from the Phoenix Hebrew Academy and Central High School.  After graduating from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, William later obtained a law degree from The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

He began his career practicing law in New York City before moving back to Arizona in 2008 with his wife Emily.  William is an active participant in the Congregation Beth Israel community, including sitting on the Preschool Director Search Committee.  William, Emily, and their two children, Ethan and Sydney, regularly attend CBI, Chanen Preschool and Haberkorn Religious School activities and have been regular attendees of Family Camp at Camp Stein.

William is enthusiastic about the opportunity to become more involved in the congregation, expanding on the already incredible growth and success of CBI and the larger Jewish community in Arizona.

Jacki Cohen

Immediate Past President

Jacki grew up in Phoenix and her family has been a part of the CBI community since 1971. Jacki went to religious and hebrew school at the Osborn location and was Bat Mitzvahed there. Jacki’s involvement with CBI grew as she had her own family. Over the last 20 years, Jacki has been involved with many aspects of CBI including preschool, religious school, sisterhood, camp, welcome home project, chair of the simcha team, co-chair for 3 galas, museum, sanctuary renovation, and budget committees. She also participates in the mentor program for B’nei Mitzvah. Jacki was awarded the Amdur award for volunteerism in 2011. She served on the board of directors for 5 years and is currently serving on the executive committee as secretary.

Jacki was the southwest division buyer for Dillard’s departments store for 8 years. Buying men’s designer sportswear for 35 stores in 5 states.
Jacki received her Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and is now a fused glass artist and owner of Jacki Cohen Glass Art Designs, LLC.  The art of fused glass has been a passion for Jacki for the past eight years. Her most successful and preferred method is creating a custom designed piece for a client. She creates functional and decorative contemporary home décor including cabinet knobs and drawer pulls. She also has a special collection of Judaica artwork.
Jacki created the piece currently in the CBI rotunda framing the endowment donors.

Her husband, Lance is also very connected to CBI life including search committees, Kahn classic, and attends adult education regularly.
She has two college aged children, a son, Randy, and daughter, Maddie that grew up at CBI. Both children are graduates of Chanen preschool. Had their Bar/Bar mitzvah and were confirmed, Camp Stein kids, BITY presidents, and madrichim.

Dr. Laszlo Vaszar

Dr. Laszlo Vaszar is a physician practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Since joining CBI in 2007 he and his family have taken part in a broad range of activities and life events beyond religious services, including Camp Stein, Bat Mitzvah and confirmation, The Big Trip to Israel for teenagers, Adult Education (Torah Study), and an adult trip to Israel.

Laszlo is very committed to Jewish education across all age groups.

He and his wife Shelley have two adult daughters.

Matt Ross

Board Member

Matt Ross was born in Sacramento, CA and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a Public Service Emphasis from the University of California at Santa Barbara and has had a varied career in the Financial, Technology, Construction & Design Fields.  He is currently an active investor in a number of Entrepreneurial Ventures.

Matt moved to the Valley of the Sun in 2004 with his wife Amy and joined Congregation Beth Israel shortly after getting settled in his new home state.  Amy and Matt have one son, Ari, who started his schooling at Chanen Preschool, attended Camp Stein and completed his Bar Mitzvah at CBI.

Matt and his family enjoy traveling and spending time at their vacation home in Lake Tahoe Nevada.  They are also avid football fans and can be regularly seen at Cardinals games.  Go Cardinals!

Lauren Hendeles

Board Member

Lauren Hendeles is a content marketing consultant who develops communications strategies and engaging content for clients spanning real estate, retail and high tech. She now spends most of her days with her favorite clients yet — her sons, Max and Eli.

Lauren has been a lifelong member of Congregation Beth Israel, where she attended religious school and Hebrew school, became a Bat Mitzvah and confirmand, and was actively involved in BITY youth group. Most recently, Lauren served on the Chanen Preschool Committee, helped launch the Mishpacha Project, and participated in CBI’s fifth Leadership Development Cohort.

Lauren is passionate about infertility awareness and primarily donates her time and services to Fruitful, an infertility support group based in Phoenix.

She and her husband, Zev, look forward to becoming more involved in the congregation and giving back to the Phoenix Jewish community.

Bruce Meyer

Board Member

Bruce and his family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1997, from Cleveland, OH.  Bruce is a financial advisor, and is the Senior Managing Director of Beacon Pointe Wealth Advisors Arizona.

Prior to joining BPWA AZ Bruce was the Managing Director of Copperwynd Financial, a Scottsdale based investment firm. Bruce earned a B.A. from Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL; a J.D. from I.I.T.-Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL; and a LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Additionally, Bruce holds a CPA designation (inactive).

Bruce is active in the community and has served on various boards and committees for the National Kidney Foundation of AZ, The Phoenix Children’s Hospital, The Phoenix Boy’s Choir and Congregation Beth Israel. Bruce has been married to Pam since 1986 and has three children. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, skiing, and relaxing with friends and family.

Joe Luber

Board Member

After a successful career as an accountant, Joe Luber, a native of Washington, D.C., now happily calls Scottsdale his home.  Joe graduated from American University with a BS Degree in Business Administration.  His career included both Public and Private Accounting, having served as Controller of regional CPA firms, a Non-Profit Association, and a high-tech Security Firm.  He retired as the CFO / Firm Administrator of a major Washington, D.C. based national law firm.

Since relocating to Arizona in 2012, he and his wife Sharon are active members at Congregation Beth Israel serving on various committees related to the Chanen Preschool, welcoming new members and Camp Stein.  Joe and his wife are the Parents of CBI members Suzanne and Omar Treviño and their children, Kayla and Benjamin.

Sydney Saperstein

Board Member

Syd (ney B.) Saperstein is a Scottsdale resident and Congregation Beth Israel member since 2013.  Currently, a retired Commercial banker, Syd turned a long-time hobby of collecting writing instruments into a pen manufacturing company with representatives in 12 countries and 10 states under the 105 year-old WAHL-EVERSHARP trademark.  Syd attended Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA) and Emory University School of Law (Atlanta/Decatur, GA).  Syd is married to Judi (52 years) with 2 grown children and 5 grandchildren.  His hobbies include:  vintage cars, vintage fountain pens, playing piano and guitar, golf.

Employment:

Prior to 2013, Syd was Senior Vice President of Comerica Bank, one of the nation’s 20 largest banking institutions with major offices in California, Michigan, Texas and Arizona.  He was the managing senior officer of 3 of Comerica’s national divisions headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Dallas and Detroit, and was responsible for all aspects from strategic planning, marketing and sales to bottom line profitability.  Prior employment in the Banking industry included positions with Citizens and Southern National Bank (Atlanta, GA), The Arizona Bank (Phoenix, AZ Now Bank of America), The American Bank of Commerce/American Bank (Phoenix, AZ), Imperial Bank and Comerica Bank (San Francisco, CA).  During his career, Syd’s experience included Commercial Lending, Commercial Loan Supervision, Trust, Merchant Card Services, Branch Management, and Sales and other earning-asset positions.

Board Experience:

• Treasurer and Director Safari Drive Home Owners Assn (present)
• President and Director The Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living (Danville,

CA – 160 bed Assisted Living, Dementia and Skilled Nursing facility. 1999-2013)

• Treasurer and Director Beth Chaim Congregation (Danville, CA) 2008-2011
• President Rotary Club of Oakland (400 member Rotary Club #3 2000-2011)
• Treasurer and Director the Roundhill Homeowners Assn 2010-2013
• Treasurer and Board member Navy League of the United States SF Council

Jennifer Rabin

Board Member

Jennifer Rabin was born in New York but grew up right here in Phoenix. She has been a member of Congregation Beth Israel since 2017. Since joining CBI, Jennifer has participated on the Confirmation luncheon Committee, the College Care Package committee and is a member of the Kol Isha Women’s Group.

After leaving her career in Sales Training and Documentation, Jennifer has spent her time giving back to the community by working with many local philanthropic organizations such as Jewish Family and Children Services (JFCS) and Az Helping Hands.  She is a University of Phoenix alumna, married to her husband Steve and has proudly stayed at home with her two beautiful children, Alex and Rachel, for the last 24 years.

Jennifer’s children are graduates of CBI’s religious school and the B’nei Mitzvah Honors Program.  Both kids have been enthusiastically involved in all CBI has to offer: Camp Daisy & Harry Stein, Beth Israel Temple Youth (BITY), the Big Trip, Ma’ayan and Confirmation.

David Shapiro

Board Member

David Carey Shapiro is the founder of his own law firm located in Scottsdale, Arizona – David Shapiro Law, PLLC. Providing dedicated representation to clients throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area, David focuses his practice exclusively on plaintiff’s personal injury and wrongful death litigation, assisting people who have suffered losses due to the negligence of other parties. The types of cases that Mr. Shapiro has handled have involved surgical errors and other forms of medical malpractice, defective products, burn injuries, premises liability and motor vehicle accidents. Throughout his career, David has been instrumental in obtaining numerous multimillion-dollar settlements and jury awards on behalf of his clients.

A Scottsdale native, David attended The University of Arizona as an undergraduate, receiving a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 2007. He also obtained a certificate in entrepreneurship from the school’s McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. David then went on to attend the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he participated in its criminal practice clinic and served clerkships with judges on the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County before being awarded his Juris Doctor in 2010. Admitted to practice before all Arizona state courts, David is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

In order to stay abreast of current developments in wrongful death and personal injury litigation, David is an active participant in several professional organizations. His memberships include the Arizona Association for Justice, the Maricopa County Bar Association, the American Association for Justice and the Attorneys Information Exchange Group. David is also active in his community, donating his time to Little Pink Houses of Hope, a nonprofit organization that provides free week-long retreats to breast cancer patients and their families and other charitable Jewish causes such as the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and the Jewish National Fund.  David and his family have been members of Congregation Beth Israel for over fifty (50) years.

Fran Frazin

Honorary Board Member