Nancy Kliewer - Financial Manager
Nancy is CBI's Financial Manager, working with the Executive Director and the Finance Committee to conduct the financial functions of the synagogue. Nancy has an MBA in Economics from George Washington University and a BA in Business Economics from Willamette University in Salem, OR. She brings financial management experience from other Charlottesville non-profits. Nancy and her husband Rob moved to Charlottesville in 2010, along with their three (now adult) sons. In her spare time, you can usually find Nancy somewhere with knitting in her hands.
Sharon McCord - Music Director
Cantor Sharon McCord, B.Mus., M.Mus., serves as Music Specialist and Shaliach Tzibbur - service leader - at Congregation Beth Israel. Ordained in January 2021 through the Aleph Ordination Program after a five year intensive course of study, Sharon leads services and performs Jewish rituals for individuals and communities throughout the US as well as for the CBI community. She runs a music studio, teaching lessons in several instruments, and composes and arranges Jewish music for liturgy and concert. At CBI, she leads Shabbat services, directs the Chutzpah! Chorus, and instrumental groups, teaches music in the religious school, and hopes to add music related beit midrash classes for the adult community. Cantor Sharon co-produced with Liora Laufer z”l, a CD of Shabbat Hallelu music, which is available in the CBI office.
Latifa Kropf - Senior Connections Manager

Latifa Berry Kropf has been the Senior Connections Manager since 2015 through a generous grant from the United Jewish Fund for Charlottesville. In this role she has the pleasure of meeting with seniors one on one and creating Jewish and festival programming. She was also trained by the Institute of Jewish Spirituality as a Wise Aging facilitator and presently has three ongoing wise aging groups.
Latifa is also the co-leader of P’nai Yisrel Chavurah , a Jewish renewal community which has been in Charlottesville for over 30 years. She has choreographed and taught Jewish Sacred Dance to adults and children around the country and published teaching materials. She was also the first teacher and one of the founders of the CBI preschool besides being a public school elementary school teacher and reading specialist. While teaching at CBI, she wrote a series of Jewish themed books featuring her students. These books were published by Kar-Ben and include "It's Challah Time", "It's Sukkot Time" "It's Chanukah Time," "It's Purim Time", "It's Shofar Time" and "It's Seder Time."