This year’s Annual Meeting of the Membership will be held on Tuesday, June 3 at 7 p.m. in the CBE Social Hall at 274 Garfield Place. All members received an email with a link to register on May 18, 2025. If you did not receive that email and/or still need the link to register, please email info@cbebk.org.
We strongly encourage in-person attendance. However, a Zoom link can be made available as an accommodation for members for whom in-person attendance is a challenge. To request a Zoom link, please email Lead Administrator Nate Jaffe at njaffe@cbebk.org. Members who are unable to attend either in person or virtually are encouraged to submit a proxy. See below for a link to the proxy form.
At this time, the slate of Trustees and Officers will be submitted for election. You may view the slate and the meeting agenda below.
Please note up to two adult members per household are entitled to vote.
We hope all members will join us on June 3 for the Annual Meeting.
Welcome
D’var Torah
Vote on Proposed Slate of Trustees and Officers
Clergy Report
Executive Director’s Report
President’s Report
Finance Report
Board Tributes
Installation of Board of Trustees and Officers
Moment of Remembrance
Closing Benediction
I. Proposed Trustees
For a term ending in 2028:
Matt Baer
Jonathan Gertman
Erica Guyer*
Lisbeth Kaiser*
Doris Klueger
Joanna Pressman
Larry Sweet*
*New candidate
II. Proposed Officers
For a term ending in 2026:
President: Leslie Lewin
Executive Vice President: Matthew Baer
Vice President: Jonathan Gertman
Vice President: Ariella Golomb
Vice President: Molly Silberberg
Treasurer: Aaron Miller
Secretary: Joanna Pressman
Erica Guyer
Erica and her family have been members of CBE since 2020 when her son began at ECC. Erica was a member of CBE’s Growth Task Force and both of her kids are now active Yachad participants. Erica is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of The Rockefeller Foundation, where she has responsibility for advising Foundation leadership and managing the Foundation’s legal services, including governance, grantmaking, and compliance matters. Erica has a B.A. in Anthropology from Brown University, an M.A. in Anthropology from Arizona State University, a J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and was a Fulbright Scholar in Canada focusing on indigenous property rights.
Lisbeth Kaiser
Lisbeth was raised as a proud New Yorker, despite living in New Jersey. She and her husband Alex Rappaport joined CBE in 2019 to expose their two young daughters to their heritage, only to discover that CBE’s loving, justice-seeking Judaism was missing in their own lives. Lisbeth is now involved in CBE’s New Futures Team, Reproductive Justice Task Force, Chesed Care Team, D’var Torah Tutors, and Mahjongg Small Group, and is a co-leader of the Pregnancy Loss Small Group. Her husband Alex is also active at CBE and their daughters attend Yachad, the younger of whom is an ECC grad. Professionally, Lisbeth was the copy director for an entertainment agency and an editor at Google before becoming a children’s author. She received a BA in English and economics from Tufts University. You can often find her with her family and a big smile at Saturday morning services.
Larry Sweet
Larry is a native New Yorker and a member of CBE since 2001, when he and his wife Tracy moved to Park Slope. They raised their two children in the Park Slope-CBE community where each attended ECC and Yachad and were B’nei Mitzvah. Larry is a long-time member of the CBE Finance Committee and Tracy has previously co-chaired both the CBE Membership Committee and the CBE Art Committee. Professionally, Larry is currently the founder and CEO of IZZI, Inc, which he formed to build the next-generation global payment infrastructure. Larry established IZZI, Inc after a distinguished 35-year career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he served as Senior Vice President and Senior Payments and Market Infrastructure Policy Advisor. Larry holds a B.A. in economics from Rutgers College and an M.A. and M.Phil. in economics from Columbia University.