Board of Directors

Executive Committee 

Jerry Hert - Hazak Co-President

Debbie Kahn - Sisterhood Co-President

Rich Cohen - Long Range Planning/Business Network

Rich Cohen served as President of B’nai Aviv for the past 2 years and has been a member assuming various roles for over 13 years. Prior to joining B’nai Aviv, Rich was a member of several synagogues located in Ohio and New Jersey as his career took him to different places. Today, Rich is President and General Counsel of Corporate Creations International Inc., a registered agent services provider. Rich has more than 36 years of legal, business and consulting experience focused on providing the most efficient legal services to his clients. Rich has been recognized as an AV Preeminent rated attorney every year since 1998.

Rich has served on the Corporate Counsel Advisory Board of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and is the Editor in Chief of The Electricity Journal. He is a recipient of the Corporate Legal Times Distinguished Legal Service Award. He has served as President of Association of Corporate Counsel Central Ohio, on the Board of Advisors for Bryan University, and as Co-Chair of the Mass Tort Subcommittee of American Bankruptcy Institute. Rich is a member of Ohio State Bar Association and an authorized house counsel in Florida. He graduated from State University of New York at Buffalo and from University of Akron School of Law.

Rich and his wife, Lisa, of 37 years reside in Weston.

Baylene Wacks Feldman - ECEC/Israeli Affairs

Synagogue life has been central to my upbringing, having participated in weekly Shabbat services and volunteered as a Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutor, involved in Kadima and USY, while at Beth Ahm Israel. A David Posnack Hebrew Day School alum and former Camp Ramah Darom staffer, I am excited to make my way back home to South Florida after studying and working in Washington, D.C., Israel and most recently, New York City. Now, as part of the B’nai Aviv family, we hope to immerse our children in Jewish communal involvement. Our daughters, who both received their Hebrew names at B’nai Aviv, are thriving in ECEC and Camp B’nai Aviv.  Having spent most of my professional career working at AIPAC, I am proud to be a part of a synagogue community that maintains the importance of Israel and a strong U.S.-Israel relationship as a core value.  

Brian Gotkin - Social Action/Israeli Affairs

I was born in New York, but grew up in Hollywood Florida.  I have been a member of B’nai Aviv for the past 8 years and was previously a member of Beth Ahm Israel.  We moved to B’nai Aviv the same year that Rabbi Watstein joined the synagogue.  I have been married to my wife, Gina since 1997.  We met when I was doing my Internal Medicine Residency in Chicago.  We have two children, Matthew age 18 and Sara age 16, and  they had a B’nai Mitzvah at B’nai Aviv 5 years ago.  My son Matthew is now getting ready to attend the University of Wisconsin in Madison and my daughter Sara is finishing up her junior year in high school.  I have been practicing Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine in Hollywood since 2000 and am on staff at Memorial Healthcare System.  We enjoy travelling with the kids every summer.  I am excited to join the B’nai Aviv Board and become more active in the synagogue.  Through unfortunate events this past year, I have gotten to know many of the minyanaires and look forward to maintaining those relationships.

Jill Jacobson - Fundraising

Seth Lubin - Parliamentarian

Seth is a past president of B’nai Aviv and a 13 year member of the Board. He lives and works in Weston as an attorney focusing on property tax appeals, estate planning, corporate services and data privacy and security law. He has been married to his wife Lucy for the past 21 years and has three “children”; Noah (28), a physician in South Florida, Jonah (18) who will soon be attending Rice University in the Fall as a freshman, and Leah (15), a rising Junior at NSU University School. Aside from synagogue life, Seth enjoys playing and watching football, going to the theatre, playing board games with the family, streaming movies and searching for the best onion rings in United States. Seth is honored to once again be able to represent the members of B’nai Aviv on the Board. 

Corinne Rosner

     Corinne Rosner has been a Plantation resident for twenty-three years and a member at B’nai Aviv for fourteen years. Corinne is married to Jeffrey, and the mother of three daughters; Stephanie 25, Julie and Carly 22.  In addition to being involved with her family activities, she enjoys cooking, playing canasta, reading books with her book club, and working out six days a week, which includes weight training, walking, and TRX. Corinne received a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Miami, School of Law in 1990 and a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations at The University of Florida in May of 1987. She is the managing partner at Corinne B. Rosner, P.A and has practiced exclusively commercial litigation and post judgment collections continuously for thirty years. Corinne dedicated her life to her family and work however, she started getting involved and volunteering with Sisterhood when she became an empty nester and her twin daughters went to college. Corinne has made many lasting friendships through her involvement with Sisterhood and thoroughly enjoys spending time with the strong, dynamic, group of women in Sisterhood.