Leadership & Staff
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About David
David Baskin has more than 38 years of experience in the finance, venture capital, and investment fields, having pursued a career in these areas shortly after being called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978. He is the founder of Baskin Financial Services Inc., which provides discretionary investment counseling and portfolio management services to investors in six provinces. The firm currently serves 1,000 families and not-for-profit institutions with more than $2 billion of assets under management. Baskin Financial Services Inc. has 24 employees and is based in Toronto.
David is a regular commentator of the North American and global markets frequently appearing on BNN’s Market Call and other BNN programs as well as on CBC Newsworld. Additionally, he has been a frequent and popular guest on CBC Radio, 680 All-News Radio and CP4 in Toronto. He is quoted often in the business pages of the Globe and Mail, Financial Post and Toronto Star and was for several years a columnist for The Moneyletter, Investors’ Digest and The Investment Reporter.
David is a past president of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. He holds an Honours B.A. with a major in economics from the University of Colorado and Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto, where he was president of the Students’ Law Society.
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About Amy Schwach
Amy Schwach has been the Executive Director at Temple Shaaray Tefila since 2015. She has been a Synagogue professional for 24 years and has worked at Central Synagogue in New York City and North Shore Synagogue in Syosset, NY, respectively.
Amy participated in UJA's Muehlstein Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership as well as UJA’s Jewish Greening Fellowship.
She is currently an officer on the Reform Pension Board and President of the National Association for Temple Administration and holds a master’s degree from Baruch College in Public Administration.
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About Ronne
A native of Washington, D.C., Rabbi Ronne Friedman serves as Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Israel, Boston, where he served as Senior Rabbi from 1999-2016, having formerly served there as Associate Rabbi and Educator from 1978-1994. Rabbi Friedman also served as Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, NY, and began his rabbinic career at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, IL.
A 1969 graduate of Lafayette College, Rabbi Friedman then studied at HUC-JIR (Cincinnati) from which he was ordained in 1975. He served for fifteen years as the Chair of the Joint Rabbinic Placement Commission of the URJ, CCAR, and HUC-JIR in addition to service on a variety of national, regional and Boston area boards of Jewish, social justice, interfaith organizations.
Rabbi Friedman and his wife, Irene, continue to reside in the Boston area and are the parents of Zachary (married to Lilian Tan).
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