Steven Binder

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2012

Warren Clark

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2014

Warren's family has a long-standing relationship with Temple Beth Zion, beginning with his Great Grandmother in the late 1800s. Currently, Warren serves as the Chair of the Ritual Committee and is a member of the Golf Tournament Committee. He has also served on the Membership Committee and the Senior Rabbi Search Committee.

Warren is a longtime local board member of the Better Business Bureau. He has served as the Board's Chair as well as serving fourteen years on the National BBB Board, the last 8 years as Treasurer. He has extensive experience on various committees and events throughout the community.

Warren and his wife, Lynn, are the proud parents of Julie and Jeff.

Kenneth Friedman

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2013

Kenneth is a partner at Hodgson Russ LLP where he heads the law firm's Business, Corporate and Securities Practice. He and his wife, Amy, and their 3 children, Allie, Kyle and Luke, live in the City of Buffalo where they are very active in the community. Amy is a founder of Tapestry Charter School and served on the City of Buffalo's Charter Revision Commission as a mayoral appointee.

Ken has served on many boards including the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, the Buffalo Seminary, Leadership Buffalo, the National Federation of Just Communities, the Jewish Community Center, the Buffalo Alliance for Education, and the Citizens Planning Council to name a few.

David Goldberg

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2013

David was born in Buffalo, and is the oldest of four sons of Shepard & Sheila Goldberg. He is a graduate of the Amherst Central School system, and attended Purdue University. After college, he began a career in the restaurant industry, which took him to Detroit Michigan, Cleveland Ohio, and Rochester. He then settled back in Buffalo to raise a family.

David is married to Susan Schrutt Goldberg, a lifelong member of Temple Beth Zion. They are the proud parents of Joshua. David has two older sons from a previous marriage, Austin and Tristan, who are also Buffalo Residents. David and Susan live in Amherst, and Joshua also attends the Amherst School system.

David is currently the Vice President of Choice Employee Benefits Group LLC. David is a broker for group insurance for small and medium sized businesses, including health, dental, life and disability. He has been in the insurance industry for over 13 years, including time with MetLife and MONY.

Cindy Algase Gradl

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2012

Cindy, a Buffalo native, is an attorney with Lippes, Mathias, Wexler and Friedman, LLP, where she focuses much of her attention on tax, employment, general business counseling, financial transactions, intellectual property and securities regulation.  Cindy joined Temple Beth Zion in 2002 and is currently a member of the TBZ Board of Trustees and is an active member of the Youth and Education and the Ritual Committees and is currently co-chairing the Congregational Planning Committee. Cindy is married to Wayne, also an attorney, and has two children, Dana, a senior at Michigan State University, and Alec, a junior at Williamsville North High School, both of whom have blown Shofar at TBZ.

Jack Karet

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2012

Jack is a Business Executive who makes his home in Kenmore with his wife, Joan. They have two daughters, Gail and Deborah and a son, Michael.  Jack has been active as a Co-Chair of the Kol Nidre Campaign, Mitzvah Day Captain and as a member of the Personnel Committee. Jack looks forward to Wednesdays when he continues his Jewish education at the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School.

Sarah Mador

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2012

Robyn Meyer

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2014

When Robyn and her husband Joe decided to join a Temple, they felt the choice was clear. As an interfaith couple, Rabbi Goldberg married them and becoming part of the Temple Beth Zion community was the next logical step. Robyn and her family have been members of TBZ for over 20 years.

Robyn has participated on numerous committees and also had the honor of serving on the Temple Board of Trustees in the past. One of her favorite roles at TBZ was as a teacher in the Religious School where she taught 3rd grade and Pre-K for 10 years. Robyn has served on the Youth and Education Committee since joining TBZ and is the current Chairperson. While certified as a teacher, for over 30 years Robyn's has focused her career in the field of mental health. Robyn and Joe are the very proud parents of Daniel and Emily Dobies and reside in the Town of Tonawanda.

Sharon Meer

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2012

Melissa Milch-Klein

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2014

Temple Beth Zion is the spiritual home to Melissa's grandmother, parents, husband and two young children. As a child she attended TBZ's Religious School, and today, her children attend those same Religious School classes.  She has been fortunate to be able to volunteer in various aspects of temple life: as the Co-chairperson of Mitzvah Day, the Social Action Committee Chair, the Membership Chair, Board of Trustees Member and, most recently, Senior Rabbi Search Committee.

Randall M. Odza

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2013

The Odza famiy have been members of TBZ since the August 2003. Randy and his wife Rita make their home in East Amherst. They have two children and four grandchildren.  Randy is an Attorney with Jaeckle, Fleischmann and Mugel, as part of the firm's Labor and Employment Practice Area.  Randy was instrumental in the 2009 update of the Temple Beth Zion Compilation of Personnel Policies.

Kenneth Polk

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2014

Ken Polk is a life-long member of TBZ.  He was confirmed in 1985, his mother was confirmed in 1956 and his grandfather in 1929.  Ken most recently served on the Senior Rabbi Search Committee and has been involved with Mitzvah Day over the last 10 years with his family.  Ken and his wife Cara have three children: sons Mitchell and Jordan and daughter Leah who all attend TBZ's religious school. 

Outside of TBZ, Ken coaches his kids in basketball and soccer and just completed a 10-year term on the St. Lawrence University's Alumni Executive Council, the last two years as its president. Ken works for Automatic Data Processing (ADP) where he has been in sales and sales management for over 16 years.

Kenneth A. Rogers

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2013

A resident of the Elmwood Village area of Buffalo, Ken has been a part of TBZ for most of his life. Ken's parents became members in the 1950s. Ken and his wife, Kathleen Corff Rogers, have two sons, Matt and Alex. Ken is a Self Employed Management Strategy Consultant.

This is Ken's second stint on the Board of TBZ. He has led planning initiatives (e.g. youth and education), started and chaired the Senior Rabbi Liaison Committee (4 years), been a Vice President and served on the Executive Committee.

Recently Ken chaired the Governance Task Force and helped to re-shape the board and leadership approach, including a complete revision of the TBZ by-laws. Currently, Ken is the chair of the Governance Committee and a Co-Chair of the Kol Nidre Campaign.

In addition to all of his activities at Temple Beth Zion, Ken serves on the Board of Trustees of Weinberg Campus, is the Chair of the Richmond Ashland National Historic District Initiative and is the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo UJF Division Chair.

Howard Rosenhoch, President

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2012

Howard, along with his wife Valerie and sons Alan and David, have been members of Temple Beth Zion since 1997.  Howard has served on TBZ's Youth Vision Task Force, the Youth and Education Committee, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2004.  Howard co-chaired the Kol Nidre Campaign from 2007-2009. He was Treasurer and Chair of the Financial Planning Committee from 2007 to 2009, and currently serves as TBZ's President.

Howard grew up in the Inwood Hill section of Manhattan in New York City.  He came to Buffalo in 1967 as an undergraduate at UB, where he and Valerie met.  Except for a two year stint back in New York City for graduate school in the early 70's, Howard and Valerie have made Buffalo their family home.  Howard has been a partner in the Buffalo law firm Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP since 1980.

Howard is a past board member and president of Hillel of Buffalo, an at large board member of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo where he serves on the Campaign Cabinet, and is a long time board member and current treasurer of the Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyer's Project.

Laurence Rubin, Immediate Past President

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2012

Larry and his family joined TBZ about 9 years ago, although his wife Debra Chernoff grew up at Temple Beth Zion.  Larry, Debra and their sons Aaron and Adam live just a few blocks from the Delaware Avenue building. Larry regularly attends Torah Study on Shabbat mornings.  Debra is the current president of the Jewish Community Center. Larry is the Immediate Past President of Temple Beth Zion, a past president of Jewish Family Service where he continues to serve on the Executive Committee and Board, and also on the Executive Committee and Board of Jewish Federation.  In the Western New York Community, Larry serves on the Board of the Museum of Science and practices law at Kavinoky Cook LLP in between all of these meetings.

Amy R. Schaefer

Current Temple Beth Zion Board term expires: May 2013

The newest member of the Board of Trustees, Amy has been active as the Chair of the Membership Committee. She has facilitated member discussion groups as a way to better understand members' views so the needs of our diverse community can be met.