Our Leadership and Professional Team

The dedicated lay leaders and professionals at the Charleston Jewish Federation work together to strengthen and connect the greater Charleston Jewish community. Please contact us with your questions and ideas.

2023 Board of Directors 

Executive Board

President: Ilene Turbow

President-Elect: Hilary Rieck

Vice President: Mike Mills

Vice President: Sharon Hox

Treasurer: Brian Shulman 

Secretary: Elliott Lessen

Immediate Past President: Ava Kleinman

Jewish Endowment Foundation President: Terry Fisher

 

 

Board Members at Large

Keath Blatt

Kapri Kreps Rhodes

Abigail Leibowitz 

Joshua Reeves

Joann Sherman

Shara Star

Danielle Trauth-Jurman

Fred Volkman

Marilyn Hoffman*

Harold Fox (OBM)*

 

*Emeritus Lifetime Board Member

Charleston Jewish Federation Professionals

Judi Corsaro, Chief Executive Officer

judic@jewishcharleston.org

843-614-6480

 

Rebecca Engel, Chief Development Officer 

rebecca@jewishcharleston.org

843-614-6484 

 

Erin Boynton, Chief Impact Officer

erinb@jewishcharleston.org

843-614-6491

 

Brandon Fish, Director of Community Relations

brandonf@jewishcharleston.org

843-614-6481

 

Natanya Miller, Director of Educational Initiatives

natanyam@jewishcharleston.org

843-614-6486

 

Jason Roebuck, SCN Regional Security Advisor

jroebuck@securecommunitynetwork.org 

 

Samantha Krantz, Remember Program Associate

remember@jewishcharleston.org

 

Vicki Schmidt, CPA, Accountant

vickis@jewishcharleston.org

 

Past Presidents

We are grateful to celebrate our current leaders and past presidents whose dedication and vision has built a vibrant Charleston Jewish community.

Ava Kleinman

Eileen Chepenik

Stuart Tessler

Harry Goldberg

Spencer Lynch 

Jeffery Buncher

David Odle

Richard Friedman

Jack P. Brickman, OBM

Wendy Marcus Goer & Paul Saltzman

Anita Zucker

Sharon Toporek

Mitchell Fischbein

Jerry Zucker, OBM

Hugo Spitz, OBM

Ellis I. Kahn

Herbert E. Rosner

Nathan Rephan

Charles H. Banov, OBM

David L. Cohen

Stanley Wright 

Melvin Solomon, OBM

Leon Steinberg, OBM

Shirley F. Prystowsky, OBM

Alwyn Berlin, OBM

Morey Lipton, OBM

Gordan B. Stine, OBM

Bernard P. Mendelson, OBM

Burton A. Kaplan, OBM

Harold Sherman, OBM

Jack P. Brickman, OBM

Milton Banov, OBM

Hyman Rephan, OBM

William Ackerman, OBM

Aaron Solomon, OBM

Nathan Goldberg, OBM

Karl Karesh, OBM

Milton W. Kronsberg, OBM

Henry Yaschik, OBM

Bernard Olasov, OBM

Walter H. Solomon, OBM

Edward Kronsberg, OBM

Sam Berlin, OBM