Our Leadership

Executive Officers 2024-2025

Paul Eisenstein
President
Paul joined CBS after moving to Columbia in 2016. Paul has served on the Board of Directors since 2019. Paul is married to Kim and they are proud parents of Asher and Millie who’ve both enjoyed attending the religious school since they were three. Professionally, Paul serves as President of REDI, an organization committed to the economic development of Columbia and Boone County, Missouri.
Ben Trachtenberg
Vice President
Ben Trachtenberg was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up there and in Washington, D.C. He attended the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland and was bar mitzvahed at Adas Israel in Washington.
He attended college at Yale, earned a master’s degree at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and studied law at Columbia (the one in New York). 
Since 2010, he has taught at the University of Missouri School of Law. He is married to Joanna Trachtenberg, a lawyer. Their kids are Akiva and Shoshana.
 

Judith Goodman
Secretary

 

Michael Gardner

Treasurer

 

 

Other CBS Board Members

Alix Cossette
Director
Tisya Cooke
Director
Judith Goodman
Director
Rich Iken
Director
Deidra McClendon
Director
Margie Sable
Director

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