Robin Silverberg
Woman of AchievementTemple Beth Sholom
Robin has never been far from Roslyn, or Temple Beth Sholom. Her family moved the short distance over the border from Queens back in 1954 when she was a baby. She celebrated her Bat Mitzvah and wedding on the bima at TBS. She and her husband Stephen never moved that far away, but returned to East Williston and joined Beth Sholom again with their toddler back in 1986.
Robin began volunteering for various events shortly afterwards. Roslyn Hadassah formed a Young Leaders group, Achot, and Robin served in various positions over the years: Bulletin Editor, Treasurer, and VP of Education and Programming. Even as a young working mother with two little boys, she was always organizing, chairing groups, and never had too much on her plate. At TBS Robin chaired the Hebrew School Model Seder, the Purim Carnival, and served on the Board of Trustees as well as the Executive Board of the temple. Robin has been the President of The Wheatley Scholarship in her school district since 2002.
During those years, Robin, who graduated from Hamilton College and received a master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling from Hofstra, changed careers several times. She worked for 25 years in a family business before pivoting and becoming a Mortgage Loan Officer for 18 years. Back in 2017 Stephen’s law office needed a new office manager, so Robin filled that role along with carrying out various para-legal duties required for his Trusts and Estates practice.
After several years of being less involved at Beth Sholom, Robin took on the role of VP of Programming for Sisterhood. For the past two years, she and her co-chairs have organized numerous programs: dinner at Cho-Sen Kosher Chinese Restaurant to honor their past president, Sunset at the Beach with Dinner and Chair Yoga, Kosher Cheese Tasting with The Cheese Guy, Challah Baking for families, a Tu-Bishvat Seder that was so successful that Sisterhood leaders wanted to repeat it. Each month there was a different program: Hamantaschen Baking, Passover Cooking Demonstration, a Docent Led Tour of the Holocaust Center in Glen Cove and of the Nassau County Museum of Art, Sip ‘n Paint, a Summer Dinner for Installation, which also honored our outgoing Sisterhood President, various book talks and author panel discussions, a Women’s Seder, and a physician presentation with an enticing title: Take 10 Years Off Your Face! She says she and her co-chairs are not done yet, they already are thinking up more ideas for the coming year.
Although Robin enjoys all of this, what really gives her the most enjoyment is spending her time with her sons and daughters-in-law, and her four grandchildren.