Louis Naviasky
President
Louis Naviasky’s active participation in Synagogue life and the extended Jewish community is directly related to his family. His paternal and maternal grandparents were founders of Beth Tilfillah in Baltimore, and Beth Shalom in Wilmington. Born and raised in Pikesville, Maryland, Louis’ Jewish education included Bais Yackov nursery school, religious school and Bar Mitzvah training at Beth El in Baltimore. Following graduation from Pikesville High School, Louis attended University of Maryland , majoring in Government and Politics. He continued his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins, majoring in business. Louis and his wife Jill were married in June 1985 and in 1988 they moved to East Hills, New York and joined Temple Beth Sholom. Their children, Tracy, a Senior at Roslyn High School will be attending Union College in the Fall. His son Perry, is a freshman at Roslyn High School. Tracy attended our
nursery and
Religious schools and Perry attended our
Religious school. Both are presently in
Machon High School and Youth Community. Louis participated in the
JTS Torah Institute of TBS to continue his own Jewish studies and continues to study with
JTS in NYC. Louis and his wife Jill work for Bayard Advertising Agency, where Louis is Executive Vice President.
Louis has been a member of the following committees: Religious Affairs, Finance, Professional and Staff Contract Negotiating, Camp and Endowment committees. As an officer he has served as Financial Secretary, Vice President of Finance & Fundraising and currently serves as Secretary. Louis established the TBS Annual Golf Classic and has chaired various Temple Journal Publications, nine UJA dinners and is currently Co Chair of our Early Childhood Center fundraising efforts. He is a member of the Four AAAA’s Newspaper Association of America, UJA’s Marketing and Advertising Committee, UJA’s Long Island Continuity & Grant Committee, as well as AIPAC’s Young Leadership Group. Louis has also been a member for many years at Glenhead country Club.
Marc Magid
Executive Vice-President
Marc Magid, has been an active member of Temple Beth Sholom for over 19 years. Marc is the owner of MAZS Realty, a real estate development and management firm located in the Village of Roslyn. He is also a member of the Village of Roslyn Planning Board and past president of The Marchant Park Civic Association.
In addition to his position as Executive Vice President, Marc serves on the following committees at Temple Beth Shalom: Endowment Committee, Early Childhood Center Building Committee, Budget and Finance Committee, House Committee, Chair of State of Israel Bonds Event. A member of the Men’s Club, Marc formerly served as a Board of Trustees member as well as Financial Secretary and Vice President of Fundraising and Finance.
Marc’s involvement at Temple Beth Sholom is propelled by extensive travel with his family to once vibrant Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Marc and his wife Amy are the proud parents of Zachary, a graduate of Machon High School and Youth Community and a current senior at Lehigh University, and Samson, a current student at Machon High School and Youth Community and a senior at Roslyn High School. Marc is a graduate of The University of Maryland with a degree in Business Finance.
Ellen Walk
Vice President of Religious Affairs
Ellen thinks of Temple Beth Sholom as a neighborhood treasure, and as VP of Religious Affairs she is looking forward to sharing that thought with prospective new members. She and her husband Paul joined the shul after sending their daughters Melissa (University of Michigan '07) and Rebecca (Indiana University '10) to the
early childhood center. But Ellen was uneasy about becoming involved at TBS. Not knowing many active members, she felt like an outsider. That feeling changed almost immediately when she joined the
Membership Committee. And that is why it gives her particular pleasure to help other new members become a part of the TBS family.
Ellen also has served on the
Board of Trustees, the
Religious Affairs Committee, the High Holiday Committee, and as the head of the
Bikkur Cholim arm of the
Chesed Committee.
A Registered Dietitian, Ellen has a B.A. in Human Nutrition from the University of Michigan and M.S. in Nutrition Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Health Education Coordinator of the Women’s Health Center at Jacobi Medical Center, where she teaches prenatal patients about labor and delivery, parenting, and family planning.
On most Shabbat mornings, Ellen can be found on the left side of the sanctuary, in the back row . (She affectionately refers to it as the "Deli section", because it is also home to our members the Bergers, the Franks, and the Freys). There she will be happy to show you her extensive sticker collection, which she keeps in her tallit bag and uses to entertain her younger friends.
Pearl Halegua
Vice President of Education
Pearl and Nathan moved to Roslyn in November, 1983, with their sons Josh and Aaron. Josh was registered in Temple Beth Sholom's
Early Childhood Center before they moved
into the house. Pearl had heard from her new neighbors that it was the best early childhood center in the area and after meeting the director, teachers and some active parents, she knew this was where she wanted her sons to be. She and Nathan were also attracted to Temple Beth Sholom by its egalitarian services, mixed seating and exciting programs.
The years flew by, Josh earned his BA from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Real Estate Development from NYU; he currently works in real estate with Nathan.
Aaron earned a BA from Brown University and a Law Degree from Harvard. He will be working as a Skadden Arps fellow for Legal Aid in the fall of 2009.
Pearl received her BA from Queens College and her MA from Hofstra University in Math Science and Technology. A recent retiree from the NYC Bd of Ed, Pearl has
increased her already active volunteer involvement. As a committed member of Temple Sholom, Pearl had chaired various committees from PTA
Model Seders, and Fund Raisers,to the Sisterhood Board where she co chaired the Public Relations Committee, Holiday Packaging for College Youth and served for two years as the
Vice Pres. of Programming. This year will mark her eighth year as Chair of the Temple's Yom Hashoah Program. Last year she was the Secretary on the Executive Board. Pearl presently co-chairs Malka's Fund for Life Long Learning, serves on the Capital Campaign Committee and the Board of Trustees. Presently, one of her most important commitments to Temple is being part of the "Morei Derech Class" another life long learning experience taught by our clergy.
Since retiring, Pearl continues to be involved in education such as, serving as a Leadership Mentor for the Student Impact Team at Queensboro Community College.
She and Nathan have recently become members of the Board of Jewish Studies at Queens College, where Pearl has become active on the programming committee. In her latest and most charitable venture Pearl founded the Long Island Chapter of JAFCO, a children's village, caring for abused and neglected Jewish children. Its format is the only one of its type in the U.S. and under Pearl's leadership the Florida- based agency is now raising funds and awareness in the northeast while assessing the need for expansion of their services to the Northeast Jewish Community.
Richard Levine
Vice President of Finance and Fundraising
Richard is a second generation member of TBS, the son of long time members Marvin and Charlotte Levine.
Richard is a graduate of our religious school and
Machon. He traveled to Israel on
USY Pilgrimage with his TBS confirmation class in 1978.
Richard became a
Bar Mitzvah and was married at TBS. Richard’s wife Lisa also grew up in Roslyn.
She is a practicing attorney in Syosset and is currently the co-president of the Roslyn chapter of Hadassah.
Their three sons, Seth a sophomore at Syracuse University, Aaron an eleventh grader and Ethan an eight grader all have been educated in TBS’s
Early Childhood Center (ECC),
Religious School and
Machon.
The three boys also all celebrated their
Bar Mitzvah’s at TBS.
Richard is an NYU graduate and currently runs his family’s insurance business, MRL Agency in Great Neck.
He is on the agency council of several major insurance carriers.
Richard’s involvement in the community spans many organizations.
He was President of the Fairfield Park Civic Association.
Upon moving to Roslyn Estates, he was elected as a trustee, and served for six years.
He is currently Roslyn Estates’ emergency manager. Richard focuses on helping Roslyn’s youth.
He has coached many teams in different sports, and was Roslyn Little League’s President for two years.
He is still currently an active member of the board, and heads the league’s student umpire program.
At TBS, Richard chairs the insurance committee, and is the synagogue’s liaison between The Roslyn Little League and The Roslyn School District.
His most challenging job at TBS has been undertaking the chairman position of the construction of the new ECC.
Gil Lipper
Vice President of Membership
Gil was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Wantagh. He received his Bachelor of
Engineering at The Cooper Union and has been a Sales Engineer in the
Electronics Industry for the last 27 years. He is married to Susan for 31
years, who is also VERY active in the synagogue and a TBS
Board of Trustees
Member as well as a member of the TBS Board of Education, and to whom he
owes his rediscovery of Judaism. His daughters Carrie (Cornell '03; now an
Account Director at BBDO Advertising) and Cindy (U. of Michigan '06; now a
Doctoral Candidate in School Psychology at Fordham University) are both
graduates of the
TBS Religious School and
Machon High School and Youth Community.
Gil and his family moved to Roslyn in 1984, and shortly thereafter joined
TBS. Since then he has served on the Men’s Club Board and was the
Men's Club President 2007-2008
and has been Financial Secretary since 2008. He has also been a Shabbat
Usher Captain, Co-Coordinator High Holiday Ushers, and Security Co-Chair for
Shabbat 1000. He is currently serving on the Finance Committee, House Committee, and
High Holiday Committee. He served as Financial Secretary from 2008-2010. In addition to the time Gil spends at TBS, he also
has been Roslyn Little League Board Member/Commissioner 1993-2008. He has
also served as a member of the Athletic Advisory Committee and Technology
Advisory Committee for the Roslyn School District.
Lewis Bartell
Vice President of Programming
Lewis was born and raised in Brooklyn where he began his Jewish education by attending the Yeshivah of Flatbush through high school. Following high school Lewis earned a B.S. in Pharmacy and a law degree from Cardozo School of Law. As a Partner at the law firm of Kaplan Belsky Ross Bartell, LLP in Garden City he provides counsel to a wide range of individual and business clients. He is a member of the New York State Trial Academy and New York State Bar and Nassau County Bar Associations.
Susan and Lewis moved into the Roslyn community in 1997 and immediately made Beth Sholom their home. Along with Solomon Schechter Day School, where Max (HS ’12), Gillian (HS ’14) and Mollie (HS’ 16) are students, Beth Sholom is where they are empowering their children to be the future of the Jewish people. All three are at home at TBS having attended early childhood classes and pre-k here, regularly attending Shabbat and Yom Tov services and have become B’nei Mitzvah here (Max and Gillian, shortly to be joined by Mollie).
Beth Sholom has also been the place where Lewis has continued his Jewish education. For almost ten years he has been fortunate to study every third Tuesday, with nine TBS friends in the Rabbi’s study group. Founded originally with Rabbi Adam Feldman, it has been led for the last five years by Rabbi Lucas. Lewis treasures this time spent in Jewish learning and sees it as a great example of how Jewish learning should never stop.
Lewis serves as a member of the House, Legal and Constitution committees where he brings his legal expertise to bear (even when it is not asked for). Lewis, along with Max and Gillian (to be joined by Mollie once she has her Bat Mitzvah) can frequently be heard reading the Torah on Shabbat and Yom Tov. Lewis is also a supporter of the Men’s Club and serves as a High Holidays Usher Captain.
Alan Goldstein
Treasurer
Alan is continuing as a member of the Executive Board as TBS Treasurer, the role which he has held since 2003.
When not concentrating on the Temple’s finances he and his wife Sherrie (a member of the Sisterhood Executive Board) and their children Jill and Todd (TBS Religious School & Machon graduates) can be found packing Yom Hashoa candles, coordinating Defensive Driving courses, dishing out potato latkes, apple sauce or ices to our Hebrew school children or lending a helping hand where needed.
In addition to the Executive Board, Alan is also serves on the Governance Committee, the Camp Committee and on the Men’s Club Executive Board.
Alan’s other full time job is as a Financial Controller and CFO for Citibank in the Corporate Headquarters.
Alan is a CPA and earned his MBA in Taxation form St. John’s University.
Morty Schaja
Financial Secretary
Morty and his family first became involved with Temple Beth Sholom when they moved from Queens to Roslyn in 1992. Morty has been a member of the Board of Trustees and has served on the Finance Committee for the last 3 years. Morty has been active with Solomon Schechter of Nassau County having served on the school’s board for ten years and the school’s Executive Board for seven years as chair of the Finance committee.
Morty received a BS in Physics from Tel-Aviv University in 1975 and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University in 1976. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Morty has extensive experience in the financial services industry and recently co-founded RiverPark Capital where he serves as CEO. RiverPark manages hedge funds, actively managed ETFs, and is in the process of launching a family of mutual funds.
Barry Epstein
Secretary
After growing up in Great Neck, Barry attended Brandeis University, graduating with honors in 1978 with majors in Economics and Sociology. After graduation, what was to be a one year volunteer program in Israel after graduation turned into a six year stay; Barry made Aliyah in early 1980 and served in the Armored Corp of the Israeli Defense Forces. After his military service he worked in banking and international purchasing.
Upon returning to the states in 1985, Barry earned a MBA from NYU with a major in Management. He entered the Financial Services field in 1987, and is now the owner of The Epstein Company. The firm specializes in employee benefits, individual insurance and estate planning, and business succession planning
A committed member of Temple Beth Sholom, Barry served on the Board of Trustees for six years. He has served for three years as the Chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee, four years at the Vice President of Religious Affairs, and is currently the Secretary. He co-chaired the Fund Raising drive for the Religious School Renovation and served on the Assistant Rabbi’s Search Committee.
Barry and his wife Bonnie are members of the Rabbi’s Circle, and have contributed to the Endowment Campaign and the current Capital Campaign. They have three children, Jacob, a recent graduate of Colgate University, Benjamin, a Sophomore at Tulane University, and Sarah, a Sophomore at the Solomon Schechter Day School.
Barry’s passion is kickboxing, and if he isn’t in shul, with his family, or watching New York Jets football he’s probably training at the International Martial Arts Academy in Garden City.