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.
