Responsible for the oversight of the affairs, funds, records, and property of Temple Israel, the Board of Trustees meets regularly throughout the year to strategize and better Temple Israel.
Officers (nominated to serve April 22, 2022 – April 2024)
Leigh Baim Mansberg
President
Wendy Rotter
Sr. Vice President
Betsy Saslawsky
Vice President
Bruce Landau
Vice President
Rena Rose
TI Sisterhood President
Helen Gronauer
Secretary
Mark Finestone
Treasurer
David Bearman
Counsel
Laurie Meskin
Immediate Past President
David Petersen
TI Brotherhood President
Trustees
Presidential Appointments
Dana Wilson
Mark Levine
Auxiliary Representatives
Rena Rose
TI Sisterhood President
David Petersen
TI Brotherhood President
2022-2024 Serving 1st Year of Term 1
Lindsay Califf
Sam Fargotstein
Geoffrey Hirsch
Ben Katz
Jami Lazarov
David Portnoy
2021-2023 Serving 2nd Year of Term 1
Peter Blumberg
Leah Gafni
Virginia Palacio
Marcy Stagner
2022-2024 Serving 1st Year of Term 2
Bob Dinkelspiel
Cara Greenstein
Mary Kanowitz
Karen Koplon
2021-2023 Serving 2nd Year of Term 2
Phillip Cook
Wendy Radtke
Additional Trustees
Sisterhood Immediate Past President – Waynette Besser
Brotherhood Immediate Past President – Marc Taub
Past Presidents
Moses Simon*, 1855 – 1857
Joseph Strauss*, 1857 – 1858
David Levy*, 1858 – 1859
Emanuel Barinds*, 1859 – 1860
Joseph Strauss*, 1860 – 1862
Ephraim Frankland*, 1862 – 1865
A.S. Meyers*, 1865 – 1866
Ephraim Frankland*, 1866 – 1867
R. Hoffheimer*, 1867 – 1868
V.P. Folz*, 1868 – 1869
Jacob S. Menken*, 1869 – 1870
Elias Lowenstein*, 1870 – 1871
Nathan D. Menken*, 1871 – 1872
Elias Lowenstein*, 1872 – 1875
Gabriel H. Judah*, 1875 – 1883
Elias Lowenstein*, 1883 – 1894
Herman Gronauer*, 1894 – 1907
Sol Harpman*, 1907
L.G. Pape*, 1907 – Dec. 1914
Joseph Newburger*, Jan. 1915 – 1926
Leon Sternberger, Sr.*, 1926 – 1928
Milton Binswanger, Sr.*, 1928 – 1930
Louis Levy*, 1930 – 1937
Jacob C. Felsenthal*, 1937 – 1939
Abe Wurzburg*, 1939 – 1945
Leo Bearman, Sr.*, 1945 – 1951
William A. Loewenberg*, 1951 – 1954
Edward Felsenthal*, 1954 – 1957
S L Kopald, Jr.*, 1957 – 1961 & 1963-1964
Herbert Kohn*, 1961 – 1963
Milton Binswanger, Jr.*, 1964 – 1966
Julian Allenberg*, 1966 – 1969
Sam Cooper*, 1969 – 1973
Herschel L. Feibelman*, 1973 – 1977
Irvin Bogatin*, 1977 – 1979
Leo M. Bearman*, 1979 – 1982
Sam M. Haspel, Jr.*, 1982 – 1984
H. Kirke Lewis*, 1984 – 1986
Mildred Schwartz*, 1986 – 1988
Arthur B. (Tim) Malkin, 1988 – 1990
Neil E. Ringel, 1990 – 1992
James B. Jalenak, 1992 – 1994
Rudi E. Scheidt*, 1994 – 1996
Judith E. Royal, 1996 – 1998
Benjamin Isenberg*, 1998 – 2000
Sherry W. Samuels, 2000 – 2002
Kenneth Wurzburg, 2002 – 2004
Mark J. Halperin, 2004 – 2006
Arnold E. Perl*, 2006 – 2008
William E. Orgel, 2008 – 2010
Nancy R. Robinson, 2010 – 2012
Paula Jacobson, 2012 – 2014
Jonathan Frisch, 2014 – 2016
E. Elkan Scheidt, 2016 – 2018
Mark Fogelman, 2018 – 2020
Laurie Meskin, 2020-2022
Honorary Presidents
Jacob Goldsmith* 1932 – 1933
Hardwig Peres* 1934 – 1948
Louis Barnett* 1949 – 1962
Joseph Lewis* 1964 – 1965
Abe Plough* 1972 – 1984
Sam Cooper* 1993 – 1999
Rudi Scheidt, Sr.* 2016 – 2020
*of blessed memory