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Speakers   Rabbi Sandler originally from South Africa, is well known in the United States and abroad as a dynamic and entertaining lecturer on a broad range of Jewish topics. His extensive background and experience in the Rabbinate and military chaplaincy make him a most thought-provoking personality.  He served as the rabbi of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI, the Chairman of the South African Rabbinical Association and Senior Lecturer of JSUP - a program that combined Jewish Studies and degree courses through the University of South Africa. Rabbi Sandler is most widely known for the twelve years that he served as the Chief Jewish Chaplain to the South African Defense Force. During that period he saw service in peacetime, as well as in operations.    Cantor Bernard  Beer is the director of the Phillip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University.  He has served in this position since 1985, and has been affiliated with Y.U. since 1967.    Cantor Beer regularly lectures on Jewish Music subjects, and is involved with outreach seminars throughout the United States and Canada.  He has published several articles for numerous periodicals and journals on Jewish music as well.  Cantor Beer has composed new curriculum (updated) for all Nusach (traditional music) seminars at the Belz School of Jewish Music, and is in the process of updating soon-to-be released publications accompanied by audio cassettes of curriculum utilized at the Belz School.  Cantor Beer additionally serves as the executive Vice President of the Cantorial Council of America (an affiliate organization of the Belz School).    Dr. Gila Sandler trained in School-Clinical Child Psychology at Pace University in New York City. She currently serves as the Director of High School Guidance at Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School in Brooklyn, New York. Her work with teens has taken her around the world, and has included the development and conducting of educational and motivational seminars for Jewish high school students world wide.   After founding the Jewish Learning Institute in San Diego and successfully running it for three years, Rabbi Yossi Bryski was  ready to develop another center elsewhere. For several months he traveled across the country, communities in Atlanta and Sacramento, Calif., among others. On a cross-country drive from Southern California to New Haven, Conn., he decided to stop in Scottsdale because he had heard wonderful things about the city's Jewish community. he liked it and decided to stay. "It's a thriving, growing community," Rabbi Bryski said. He moved his family to their new home and serves as the director of adult education for the Jewish Learning Center of Scottsdale, He studied Talmud and kabbalah in New York, London and the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, N.J., and received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Shmuel Askhenazi in Venice, Italy.         Rabbi Eliezer Sandler     Cantor Bernard Beer     Dr. Gila Sandler     Rabbi Yossi Bryski.