JPA Five Towns Leadership
Inna Kern
JPA Five Towns Lead Member
Inna Kern is a Marketing Executive at ESPN. She has been a strong advocate for Jewish education within her community and an active board member of various Jewish community organizations. A proud graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation RSJ cohort where her resolve for community leadership was strengthened. She resides in Woodmere with her husband and three children. Inna attended Beer Hagolah for high school and Brooklyn College graduating in 1996.
Anna Khavulya
JPA Five Towns Lead Member
Anna Khavulya immigrated in 1992 from St. Petersburg Russia, where for six months before immigration she attended a Jewish Day School. While this was her only Jewish education until adulthood, she always had interest in Judaism and bringing the spark to the Russian speaking jewish community. As an undergraduate student at NYU, Anna established the Russian Club under the umbrella of NYU Hillel. In its very first year, she organized Passover seder, welcoming more than 30 Russian-speaking Jewish students, many of whom had never before experienced this cherished tradition. Throughout her adult life she continued to be involved in the Russian speaking Jewish Community with focus to empower those who, like her, came to America as children, and the next generation, to explore Judaism and embrace their place within the tribe.
Anna has undergraduate and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and is currently Director of Platform Analytics & Insights at FTI Consulting. She grew up in Brooklyn but now lives in Woodmere, LI with her husband and 3 kids.
Rachel Raskin
JPA Five Towns Lead Member
Rachel Raskin was born and raised in New York. Her parents immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in the 1970s. She graduated from the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College with a BS and MS in Accounting. She went on to obtain her CPA license and worked in both the public and private accounting fields. She then decided to follow her lifelong dream of teaching and turned to academia. She is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY.
Rachel lives in Hewlett with her husband and 4 amazing kids- Michelle, 11, Evelyn, 9, Rebecca, 6 and Daniel, 3
Diana Kopach
JPA Five Towns Lead Member
My name is Diana Kopach, and I am a proud Bukharian Jew, wife, and mother of four incredible children. I also happen to be a holistic and integrative dentist at Mineola Dental Wellness, where I get to treat truly wonderful individuals. I have had the privilege of being a part of the 2023 JPA cohort and taking part in learning more about our incredibly tumultuous past, pondering our present, and discussing what our future may hold. In light of more recent events, I am truly looking forward to what the 2024 semester has lined up and how we can help shape the future for our children.
Irena Kopach
JPA Five Towns Lead Member
Irena Kopach is a proud alumni of the JPA Five Towns cohort. Irena was fortunate to grow up in Israel until the age of 12 when her family immigrated to the United States. Throughout her college years and adult life, she’s been an active member of various organizations that advocate for Israel and the Jewish people. Her Israeli identity and the desire to support Israel is at the core of who she is. Irena has an accounting/finance degree and works for Deloitte for over 13 years. She live in North Woodmere with her husband and their 4 children and it is their mission to raise them as proud Jews that embrace and protect their identity.
Vlad Brodsky
JPA Five Towns Lead Member
Vlad Brodsky was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and came to the United States at the age of 11 as part of the Jewish immigration out of the former Soviet Union. Vlad did not have a religious upbringing but was always interested in his Jewish heritage. This interest became stronger after the October 7th, 2023, attack in Israel. Vlad subsequently enrolled into the JPA 5T 2024 cohort, along with his wife, to better understand the Jewish experience and be able to relay it to his children.
Vlad is the Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at OTC Markets Group, a regulated publicly traded financial institution. Vlad has a Computer Science and Economics degree from Brandeis University, and an MBA from NYU Stern. Vlad is a former board member of NY Metro InfraGard, a public private partnership between the FBI and private industry with a mission to protect United States critical infrastructure. Vlad is also an Advisor at Pellonium, a continuous and comprehensive Risk Management Platform.
Vlad lives in Woodmere LI with his wife and two children. He is looking forward to helping bring awareness and education to the local Jewish community.
Dalia Tetelman
JPA Five Towns Lead Member
Dalia Tetelman is proud alumna of the JPA Five Towns cohort. Dalia, was born in Vilna, Lithuania, moved to Israel as a baby and then moved to the United States when she was a teen.
Dalia is an attorney practicing business and corporate law in Woodmere, New York. She values the importance of being involved in one’s community and has volunteered for many years in the local schools, teaching yoga to children. Dalia served on the executive board of several local nonprofit organizations.
Dalia is passionate about educating, advocating and supporting Israel. Dalia lives in Hewlett with her husband and 4 children.