The Women of Rodef Sholom
2026-2027 Board of Directors

Thank you to the current Women of Rodef Sholom's Board of Directors for all your hard work, dedication and service to our wonderful organization.

The Women of Rodef Sholom continues to recruit members to volunteer to work on committees within our organization. If you are interested in sharing your talents with Membership, Programming, Social Justice and Fundraising endeavors, please email your contact details to wrs@rodefsholom.org.The Women of Rodef Sholom is now recruiting members to volunteer with several committees within our organization.

Board Biographies

Jennifer Golbus, Co-VP, Membership

Jennifer Golbus was born and raised in Marin County. She and her husband, Aaron, a lifelong Rodef Sholom member, raised their twins, Jonah and Adina, with Rodef Sholom woven into the fabric of their family's life. After welcoming their children in 2002, Jennifer became an active member of the congregation and has found Rodef Sholom to be a place where community is truly lived—celebrating life's joys, supporting one another through its challenges, and creating meaningful connections across generations.

Jennifer has volunteered in many capacities at Rodef Sholom, including serving on the REAL Mental Health Initiative, leading Mitzvah Day projects and a peer-led Jewish recovery group, delivering meals, teaching Qigong classes, leading workshops, and helping revive the Women of Rodef Sholom college care package program. She is honored to serve as Co-Vice President of Membership for the WRS Sisterhood and looks forward to helping others build the same sense of belonging that has enriched her family's life.

Professionally, Jennifer is owner of Golbus Communications, a marketing and communications agency serving nonprofit organizations throughout Marin County. She also coaches women seeking freedom from alcohol and mentors them as they make lasting, positive changes in their lives. Whether through her professional work, volunteer service, personal life or coaching, Jennifer is guided by a deep belief in living with purpose, giving back, and treating others with compassion, mutual respect, and integrity.

Outside of work, Jennifer enjoys hiking Marin's beautiful trails, hosting gatherings at her home, and sharing the practice of Qigong with her community.

Lara Gremmels

Lara grew up in Tiburon and with Rodef Sholom. Her parents joined the temple in the early 70’s. She went to Sunday School, along with her brother Steve and sister Debra. She was a Bat Mitzvah under the guidance of Michael Barenbaum. She also went to Camp Tawonga for many years.

Lara moved up to Arcata, California and went to Humboldt State University, where she got her Bachelor’s degree in Child Development and was very active in the Marching Lumberjacks. After living in Lake County for ten years, she moved back to Marin County to help her mom with her growing catering business. During the 22 years she worked at Delicious Catering, she got to know the temple again and started her journey back to her Judaism. In 2020,

Lara started attending weekly Shabbat services on Zoom. She then reached out to Rabbi Stacy and Rabbi Elana about becoming a member. She was a part of the membership committee with the Women of Rodef Sholom, which brought her great joy. She is passionate about making sure new members feel welcome and part of the community. Lara is currently going to school full time to get her degree in Health Information Management. When she’s not studying, she loves to knit, sing, and garden.

She is very close to her family and is excited that her son Cameron and fiancé Alexis have moved to Rohnert Park, so they can see each other more often. She is excited to become the Recording Secretary and hopes this helps her understand the workings of the temple, and she can contribute her time to the Women of Rodef Sholom.

Toni Grimes

Toni and her family have been synagogue members for nine years. She believes that it is such a joy to be part of an inclusive and expansive community. The experience of her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah was pure bliss and cemented her family to Rodef Sholom.

During her career years in human resources at UCSF, Toni served in many roles from traditional HR duties for a variety of employees to organizational structure review for department/division growth well, as staff engagement lead, creating programing to build the ‘glue’ leading high retention rates. In 2011, Toni earned her Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR) certificate and recently complete a certificate in College Admissions and Career Planning (CACP) from UCB.

After retiring from her position at UCSF, Toni is branching out to new community roles, as well as starting a new venture as a college and career counselor, and feeling passionate about providing affordable and easily accessible knowledge. Toni also volunteers in the WRS gift shop and initiated once-a-month Rodef Sholom hosted brunch meal at Jonathan’s Place, a Homeward Bound Shelter located in San Rafael. This continues her commitment to her years volunteering in the former REST program for unhoused men. As an active reader, Toni is a member of the Jewish American Book Club.

Toni has been an active member of the WRS programing committee for the past three years. She has been nominated to serve a second term as Co-VP of Programing and Social Justice with Jan Goldberg and is excited to bring her organization and engagement skills from her career to this new community role. As bringing communities together is one of Toni’s core values, she is excited to bring this passion to her position and is looking forward to connecting with many fantastic and inspiring women.

Cheryl Gross

Cheryl Gross has been a member of Congregation Rodef Sholom since 2000 and has enjoyed being a part of the community. She has worked for over 20 years in financial services, starting out as a tax preparer and then moving into financial advisory roles. She is a Certified Financial Planner® and IRS Enrolled Agent, and currently works for a Marin-based financial advisory firm as a financial planner and advisor.

Cheryl grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, then came to UC Berkeley for college and fell in love with the Bay Area. After spending a few years in the midwest for grad school (University of Michigan), she was lucky to be able to come back and live in Marin and start a family. She lived for over 20 years in Corte Madera with her family and recently moved to Novato. Her two children, Emily and Jacob, participated in Chavurah, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, religious school, educational trips, and the Madrichim program at Rodef Sholom. They are now in their 20s and in college and graduate school, and Cheryl is an active empty-nester.

She regularly attends Jewish events and classes, and she thoroughly enjoys everything Rodef Sholom has to offer. She is very close to her children and to her mother, all of whom currently live in California, and whom she sees as often as possible. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, reading, and spending time with friends. Cheryl is looking forward to being involved with WRS, strengthening relationships with those she knows, and meeting and getting to know her new sisters at WRS events.

BettyAnn Kram

BettyAnn was a Cross-Cultural Communications Consultant for a Swiss marketing firm following over 20 years as Director of Global Communications and Investor Relations for INFICON, a multi-national manufacturer of high-tech instrumentation. She is a founding member of the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (Syracuse, NY) and continues on the Board of Trustees. Ms Kram is a professional voice talent for TV/radio commercials and records audiobooks for Learning Ally. She was an Adjunct Professor at the Whitman School of Management of Syracuse University and lecturer for EXPORT NY of the Central New York Technology Development Organization.

Currently, BettyAnn lives both in Sausalito and New York state. BettyAnn serves on the WRS Board of Directors, is Publicity Committee chair, and Newsletter editor.

Jen Levine

Jen retired in 2022 after more than thirty years of a professional career as a property and casualty actuary for several large insurance companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jen lives in Mill Valley with her husband and altogether too many pets. She misses her three grown children, who live in three different time zones: Mirabel (26) in St. Louis, Milo (23) in Boston, and Ili (23) in Los Angeles.

Jen has been a member of Congregation Rodef Sholom and the Women of Rodef Sholom (WRS) since 2007 and has been an active WRS volunteer since 2014. Jen currently holds the WRS positions of Co-Vice President of Membership and Gift Shop volunteer. Prior WRS roles include President, Treasurer, Walking Group Coordinator, and Gift Shop Volunteer Coordinator. Jen is eternally grateful for the support and perspective she received from WRS women while she was raising three challenging teenagers. She now simply enjoys the social connection, social justice initiatives, and other activities of WRS and Congregation Rodef Sholom.

Kris Malone Grossman

Kris Malone Grossman studied at UC Berkeley and Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently a doctoral candidate of Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she is researching how women artists in menopause engage creativity. Throughout her adult life, she has worked in book publishing, in libraries, in academia, and in the not-for-profit sector, where she served on the Mill Valley Library Foundation and also co-founded Seed Releaf, a Covid-19 mutual-relief organization supporting congregants, community members, local organic farmers, and restaurateurs. Recently, along with a circle of feminist scholars, Kris co-founded the Women’s Spirituality Studies Press, a nonprofit publishing house that will publish women’s work beginning 2025.

Kris and her husband, Ed, along with their sons Zev, Leo, and Sol, joined Congregation Rodef Sholom in 2012. Since then, she has served on the CRS Social Justice Steering Committee and the Chevra Kadisha, and she currently co-chairs the Green Team/Gan Mitzvah committee. During Covid-19, she helped to found the CRS Congregation Supported Agriculture program, which in turn supplied the CRS Community Fridge with sustainably-farmed local produce. When Kris’ son, Zev, underwent major surgery several years ago, the meals that CRS members brought to her family’s door brought her to tears every time. This is community. This is love.

Informing all of Kris’ work is her abiding love of women, women’s knowledge, and women’s circles. She looks forward to connecting with the Women of Rodef Sholom in service and in Sisterhood. 

Barbara Miller

Barb grew up in Newton, MA, in a conservative synagogue. She went to Hebrew school six days a week and actually loved it! She was one of the first women to become Bat Mitzvah.

Barb graduated from Boston University with a BA in Sociology and a minor in Education after attending Chatham College, a small women’s college in Pittsburgh, PA. She moved to Washington, D.C., and attended George Washington University in the first interdisciplinary graduate program in Organization Behavior and Women’s Studies. While living in D.C., she worked in the U.S. House of Representatives doing leadership development and team building workshops for Members of Congress and their staffs.

In 1982, she moved to San Francisco and worked for Kaiser Permanente and then Stanford University’s School of Medicine. In 1989, she created her own consulting firm doing executive coaching, leadership development, and team building for a variety of clients. In 1991, she was selected to lead a three-year organizational change project sponsored by the Ford Foundation. At the completion of the project, Barb authored a workbook, Relinking Life and Livelihood to Benefit Business and Staff, to teach managers and teams how to achieve their business goals while supporting work-life harmony for their staff. The workbook has been translated in Hebrew and Japanese.

Barb raised her daughter, Alyssa, in Mill Valley. Alyssa attended Brandeis and then Tam High. Barb was a committed soccer mom, traveling every weekend to tournaments around the state. They were members of Kol Shofar, where Alyssa was a Bat Mitzvah.

In 2020, during the pandemic, Barb found Congregation Rodef Sholom’s Shabbat services online. After her partner, Gary, passed from cancer, Barb joined Rodef Sholom, where she has found both a spiritual home and a place to live her Jewish values, commitment to social justice, and support of women in leadership.

Barb enjoys hiking the incredible trails in Marin. She also is an avid traveler, having visited 30 U.S. states and 22 countries. 

Jeanette Rosen

Jeanette Rosen joined Rodef Sholom in 2010, finding a vibrant and welcoming Jewish community in which she and her husband could raise their two children. Through her children’s b’nai mitzvah journey and her own exploration of Jewish learning, observance, and prayer, Jeanette fell in love with the spiritual riches of Judaism and made the decision to convert. Jeanette continues to find many points of connection at Rodef Sholom, and has served on the High Holiday Committee since 2019.

Jeanette has lived in the San Geronimo Valley for 27 years. Her children attended Lagunitas elementary school where she served in various leadership roles from 2007-2016 including Treasurer and President of the PTA, President of the Lagunitas Schools Foundation, and Secretary of Schools Rule Marin. Jeanette currently serves on the board of SGVERG, her local readiness group.

Jeanette is a jeweler by trade, and ran a successful jewelry design, wholesale, and production consulting business for 18 years before starting a new business with her husband in the promotional products industry. Jeanette is currently a managing partner at their sustainability-focused merchandising company, managing finance and administration, compliance, supply chain, and product development.

Jeanette is thrilled to serve as Member at Large and bring her professional skillset, along with her passion for Jewish life and learning, to the WRS board.

Fanny Stein

Fanny Stein, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. worked as a reading and language specialist in the NYC public schools after college and later at Lenox School in Manhattan.

After moving to California and discovering that her teaching license was not valid in this state,  Fanny joined her husband in the art business. With two galleries, a publishing company, and three children, his sudden death at forty-three years old in 1990 was overwhelming. She is grateful that at that time they had just joined Congregation Rodef Sholom and were embraced by the community.

Fanny made a vow to give back to her community where she could. She found a home in the Women of Rodef Sholom, and she has worn “many hats” within WRS. Her positions included the Women’s Seder Chair, Gift Shop Volunteer, Gift Shop Volunteer Coordinator, Programming Vice President, and  Membership Vice President to name a few.

Fanny’s other activities have been teaching at the JCC preschool, teaching Sunday school, and volunteering at the Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival. Last but not least, she is totally involved with her three daughters and five grandchildren who all live close by.

Ingrid Tolson

Ingrid was born and raised in New Jersey, graduated from Boston University in 1989, and moved to New York City. In 1997, she married Andrew Tolson, and in 1998 they moved to San Francisco. Andrew is a fifth generation San Franciscan, so there has always been a lot of family close by.

The Tolsons introduced Ingrid to Hadassah, where she became one of the founders of the L'Atid chapter in 1999. Ingrid also volunteered with the Jewish Community Federation Women's Alliance and helped start a mothers' group called Kids and Kibbutzing until moving out of the city.

In 2003, Ingrid and Andrew moved to Mill Valley, where they raised their two sets of fraternal twin boys, born in 2000 and in 2002. The children attended local public schools from kindergarten through high school. Ingrid was active on the PTA boards, the Kiddo! Foundation board, Cub Scouts, and the Tam High Foundation board, while the kids were in school and living at home.

The Tolsons joined Congregation Rodef Sholom in 2008, where the boys attended religious school and became b’nai mitzvah. As a family they attended retreats at Camp Newman and traveled to Israel with Rabbi Stacy and other Rodef families. Ingrid began volunteering in the Women of Rodef Sholom Gift shop in 2014, became its buyer in 2019, and during the Pandemic created a website for the shop with delivery and pick up available. Over the past several years, Ingrid has become more involved with the Women of Rodef Sholom board and the organization’s activities, has developed meaningful friendships through the Sisterhood, and is honored to serve as President for the 2024 - 2026 term.