Mike Diamond currently serves as the Temple Isaiah President. He has been a member of the Board and Executive Committee since July 2015, serving as past Treasurer. Mike and his wife, Elaine have been members of Temple Isaiah since 1984.

Mike has a Bachelor's Degree from UC Berkeley and a Masters and Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the founding partner of Academic Leadership Associates, LLC, an educational consulting firm. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California. He served in various leadership capacities including the Dean of the USC Leventhal School of Accounting and as a USC Vice President and Executive Vice President.

Mike is a second generation Californian and has lived in Los Angeles most of his life. Mike and Elaine have one son, Jacob, who currently resides in Washington, DC.

 

My wife Joanne and I have been members of Temple Isaiah for almost 20 years dating back to when our daughter Emily started preschool at the Temple.
 
I am honored and privileged to serve as the current Vice President of Administration, and to have previously served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors, for a year as Executive Vice President and as co-chair of the Annual Giving Campaign for several years.  I currently serve on the Finance Committee and am excited that I was invited to rejoin the Board. I am a member of the Leadership Circle at the Temple.
 
I serve as President and General Counsel of Alagem Capital Group which, among other things, is the principal owner of the Beverly Hilton Hotel and the soon to open Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills.

Janet is the current Vice President of Social Justice and the Chair of Am Tzedek: Isaians Pursuing Justice.  She has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2015.  She and her husband, Farrell, have two children, Rebecca and David.  They have been members of Temple Isaiah since 1996.

Janet was born in Harare, Zimbabwe.  She has lived in Cape Town, London, Washington DC, before moving to Los Angeles in 1987.

Kristen is a member of Temple Isaiah and has served on the Board of Trustees since 2014. She currently chairs the Parent Advisory Committee for the Preschool which she has served on since 2013.  Kristen is very active in many aspects of temple life including her own journey toward becoming a Bat Mitzvah to be completed in June of next year.  

Kristen is an experienced political strategist and planner with an extensive career in the public and private sector. Prior to the creation of her own company, Kristen was an owner of Cerrell Associates, Inc. heading up the land use division. Her advice and strategic counsel are much sought after on issues including entitlement approvals, community relations, grassroots and decision-maker coalition building, and the development of hearing strategies, among others.
 
A UCLA graduate, Kristen is a past Director of the Alumni Association and previous Chair of the Ralph Bunche Scholarship.  She currently serves as the President of the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce. She is a past President of the Westside Urban Forum and the Los Angeles County Young Democrats as well as a graduate of the L.A. Chamber’s Leadership L.A. program.

 

Sharon is a native of Los Angeles and a mom of three boys: Oliver, Jack, and Aaron. She and her husband, Chad have been members of Temple Isaiah since 2010.

In the past years, Sharon has been very active in the preschool and temple. She created and currently holds The Circle, a gratitude and prayer opportunity which meets weekly on Fridays. She also holds a seat on PAC (Preschool Advisory Committee) and is the president of the PPA (Preschool Parent Association).

The Eshaghoff family feels that Temple Isaiah is a second home for them. When not at Isaiah, Sharon enjoys cooking, playing sports with her kids, and working in her private practice as a marriage and family therapist.

David is our Immediate Past President of Temple Isaiah. David and his wife Karen have been members of Temple Isaiah for over 20 years. Their sons Alex and Matt progressed through the Preschool and Religious School and celebrated their Bar Mitzvahs and Confirmations with Temple Isaiah.

The family traveled to Israel with a great group of Temple members and Clergy in June 2006 and has enjoyed being part of a Chavurah spawned from the Temple in 1996. David has served on the Temple's Religious Education, Reimagine and Personnel committees and is presently involved in other committees.

David is a lawyer with a primarily Plaintiff's law firm which was formed over 20 years ago. 

Sam is a previous Vice President of Development who oversaw Temple Isaiah's ongoing development efforts to ensure that Isaiah grew and thrived.

San and his wife Diane have been members since 1998. Both their sons attended Isaiah’s preschool and religious school and had Bar Mitzvahs with our tremendous Clergy.

Sam is a partner of Irell & Manella LLP, practicing intellectual property litigation.

Jon has been a member of Temple Isaiah since 2014 and a member of the Isaiah board since 2016, serving on various teams and committees. He and his wife, Rachelle, have two boys, Simon and Saul, both in Isaiah religious school.  
 
Jon has an MBA from UCLA and serves as the general manager of a medium-sized brand strategy and design firm, Innovation Protocol. His natural habitat is his front yard, where he regularly sips pinot in a lawn chair and chats up neighborhood passers-by.

Tracy serves on the Board of Trustees at Temple Isaiah and has been a member since 2011. She is currently a member of the Personnel Committee, and previously served on the Communications Committee and was the Chair of the Preschool Advisory Committee from 2011-2013.

Tracy and her family joined Temple Isaiah in 2007. Her involvement on the Board allows her the opportunity to give back to the vibrant community in which she deeply cares.   

She is a native Angeleno, who graduated from American University. Tracy is Vice President of Corporate & External Affairs at NBC Universal. She and her husband enjoy raising their two children in the neighborhood adjacent to Temple Isaiah.

My husband, Boris, and I have been members of Temple Isaiah since 2010. We have two children, Nikkita and Viktor, that have been in and graduated from the Preschool and are currently in the Religious School. I have co-chaired the Tot Shabbat committee for three years and have co-chaired Social Events for Religious School. Next year I am looking forward to chairing the Religious School Parents Association. I am one of the founding members of IMA. In my time away from Temple Isaiah, I have applied to the Jewish Federation Leadership Institute for the Russian-Jewish Tract.

Debbie has served on the Board of Trustees since 2016. She and her husband Josh have three children — one attends the Preschool two attend the Religious School. She previously served on the Preschool Advisory Committee (PAC).

Debbie works as a civil litigation attorney at a global law firm and devotes part of her practice to pro bono matters. A volunteer for the Alliance for Children’s Rights, she has assisted students in obtaining special education services from their schools. She has also represented Holocaust survivors in obtaining lifelong pensions from Germany as a volunteer with Bet Tzedek.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Debbie graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English and a Specialization in Business Administration and earned her law degree from USC.

As a Temple Isaiah member for over 12 years, I have served on multiple committees, the board, and am the past Temple Board Secretary. My two children have attended the schools since they were toddlers, with the second to become Bar Mitzvah in 2014. We are enriched from Shabbat and other services, from participating in TSBY for the past six years, and from relationships with clergy, staff, and community members.

Andy and his wife Tina joined Temple Isaiah in 1991, and each year their experience at Isaiah continues to grow richer and more gratifying. Their daughter and son both had their B'nai Mitzvah at Isaiah.

Tina and Andy have benefitted immeasurably from their participation in their chavurah, in religious services, in adult education programs, and in the LifeQuest program. Also, Andy is grateful to be a member of Temple Isaiah Green Team, sharing a commitment to sustainability and environmental justice.

Finally, having taught English, including world literature, at Cal Poly Pomona from 1980 to 2014, Andy appreciates the extraordinary textual traditions – spiritual, literary, historical, and philosophical – of Judaism, and the opportunity to explore them in both the Torah study group led by Rabbi Zoë Klein and also in the Hearts and Minds Torah Study group.

As a member of the Board, Andy hopes to contribute whatever he can to this remarkable community at Temple Isaiah.

Ephraim is a member of the Board of Trustees at Temple Isaiah. He and his wife Joan have been members of Temple Isaiah since 1973. Ephraim has sat on the Board of Temple Isaiah multiple times, serving as Treasurer in 1984.  

Ephraim was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929 and was lucky to leave in the fall of 1938 when he was nine years old.  He is most grateful for being able to come to America with his parents and sisters. Ephraim has been an ardent Zionist and worked as a CPA most of his life. He and his wife Joan have four children and three wonderful grandchildren.

David has been a member of the Board of Trustees at Temple Isaiah since 2015 and a member of Temple Isaiah since 2008. He is a native of Connecticut and currently lives in Cheviot Hills with his wife Cheryl, and his two children - both of whom attended Temple Isaiah pre-school.

David is a graduate of Yale University (BA) and UCLA (MBA). He is a Director and Founder of KidUnity, a non-profit organization that provides service learning and civic leadership programs. Before that, he served as Executive Director of Upward Bound House, a homeless shelter for families with children where he involved the Temple in many ways, from arranging pre-school tours at the shelter to participating in the 9th grade Isaiah Teen Philanthropy Fund.