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    Staff

    Miriam Jones
    Executive Director
    843-614-6494
    Miriam@CharlestonJFS.org

    Yolanda White
    Director of Senior Outreach and Case Management
    843-343-4748
    Yolanda@CharlestonJFS.org

    Jackie Jackson
    Community Support Specialist
    843870-1839
    Jacquelyn@charlestonjfs.org

    Rabbi Aaron Sherman
    Jewish Community Chaplain
    Chaplain@CharlestonJFS.org

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    Board of Directors

    President: Eileen Chepenik
    Treasurer: Elliott Lessen
    Secretary: Michael Sgobbo
    President-Elect: Lenny Purwin
    Immediate Past President: Ijo Toporek

    Board Members
    Lana Kleiman
    Spencer Lynch
    Cynthia Nirenblatt
    Erica Rabhan

Brief History of JFS

Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston (JFS) started as a program of the Charleston Jewish Federation in 2012, originally named Jewish Social Services.

In 2021, we became our own non-profit organization (Tax ID 85-3901332).