LAY LEADERSHIP


Jon Stolper, President

Jon Stolper is a financial advisor, founder of Stolper Asset Management, and graduate of Oklahoma State University. He and his wife, Angie, make their home in Tulsa.

Jon proudly represents the family’s third generation to call Oklahoma home and whose humble reform Jewish roots date back to the early 1900’s in Muskogee where Jon grew up, became a Bar Mitzvah, and maintained membership at Temple Beth Ahaba until the time of its closing. For the past twenty-five years, Temple Israel has been Jon and Angie’s beloved house of worship where their sons, Nathan and Matthew (now in college), became a Bar Mitzvah. 

He previously served on the Temple Israel Board for three non-consecutive terms, including as treasurer and member of the Temple’s Foundation and Finance committees. 

Jon, a Leadership Tulsa graduate, also serves in various lay roles at Zarrow Pointe and Jewish Federation of Tulsa. He looks forward to listening, learning, and growing closer to all Temple Israel members by working together in mutual service.  


Brina Reinstein, President-Elect

Brina grew up in Detroit, Michigan, attended the University of Michigan, married and moved to Tulsa in 1973.  She served in numerous volunteer positions within the Federation and general community.  She sat on the Tulsa Jewish United Fund Women’s Campaign Cabinet and chaired the campaign for two years.  She was a founding member of the United Jewish Appeal’s Women’s Young Leadership Cabinet in 1976 and served on its executive committee for six years.  Brina received Tulsa’s Young Leadership Award in 1978.  Her avocation became her vocation when she joined the staff of the Jewish Federation in 1985.

She has served on the boards of Planned Parenthood, The Jewish Federation of Tulsa, The Tulsa Ronald McDonald House, The Tulsa Jewish Community Center, Tulsa Zoo Friends and Temple Israel. Brina has three children, Julie, Jennifer (aláv hashalóm), and Matthew (Angela) and four grandsons Benjamin, Jared, Jacob and Joshua.

Brina has been a member of Temple Israel for 49 years.  Her children celebrated their B’nai Mitzvah, confirmations and were married at Temple Israel.

She has served on Temple Israel’s Executive Committee, taught Sunday school, chaired several Temple Fundraisers, chaired the 75th and 100th Temple Anniversary celebrations; co-chaired the first Rabbi Transition committee and is an Amudim recipient.

Brina currently serves on the boards of Temple Israel, Zarrow Pointe, Tulsa Jewish Federation Foundation, and the Temple Israel Foundation.


.Mark Lobo, Vice President

Mark literally grew up at Temple Israel, among the first confirmand class to have spent all their Sunday School days in the current home of our congregation. As an adult he has served as chair of Adult Education, Membership, ShalomFest and ARZA committees and is currently Treasurer. He was awarded Brotherhood’s Isaiah Award in 1996 and is among the Amudim of Temple Israel.

Mark served the Tulsa Jewish Retirement and Health Care Center as Personnel Committee Chair and Treasurer, and has been a member of Tulsa’s Council for Holocaust Education since its inception. He led the Israel Committee of the Jewish Federation of Tulsa from 1999 to 2007 and currently chairs the Facilities Committee. He has been a docent for the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art since 2010

Outside of Tulsa’s Jewish Community Mark serves as Vice President of Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, Co-Chair of OCCJ’s Jewish Christian Muslim Trialog Study Group and is a member of the Dialog Institute of the Southwest Advisory Council. He also serves on the Tulsa Global Alliance Tiberias Committee and is on the Advisory Committee for the Oklahoma Israel Exchange.

Mark is a licensed Professional Engineer and currently manages Valve Systems International LLC that developed the Atlas severe service industrial control valve based on patents he was awarded in 2015 and 2016.


Leisa Weintraub, Treasurer

Leisa Weintraub has been an attorney in the Tulsa area for over 30 years. She has spent the last 17.5 years as general counsel for the Tulsa County Assessor’s Office. Prior to working in the Assessor’s office, Leisa worked for the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office and the Osage County District Attorney’s Office, respectively.

Leisa and her husband, Adam, met at the University of Oklahoma law school and have been married since 1990. They have two wonderful children, Allison (25) and Ben (23), who both have graduated from the University of Oklahoma. Allison has been working in New York City since 2018 and Ben has been working with a Washington, DC company since 2020.

Leisa and her family have been part of the Temple Israel family since 2006. Both Allison and Ben were active in the religious school as students and, after they graduated from the program, as teacher’s aides. One of Leisa’s proudest moments was when she became an adult bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in 2015. She followed in the footsteps of her children who both completed the b’nai mitzvah program at Temple Israel. 

Leisa is finishing her second term as a Trustee on the Temple Board and would be honored to continue her service on the Board.


Gwendolyn Savitz, Secretary 

Both of Gwen’s children attended what became Happy Campers at Temple Israel from the time they were infants and she formally joined Temple Israel itself when her son Jeremy was about to enter Pre-K and able to start Shorashim. After joining she was the Sisterhood Treasurer for two years. Jeremy is now finishing fifth grade at Zarrow, joined by his sister Gabi who is finishing second. Gwen has accordingly spent time volunteering at the school as well as coaching Gabi’s soccer team, which she did for two years prior to COVID. 

With young children, childhood education - both in and out of TI - is of particular interest to Gwen. She hopes to ensure that Temple Israel has a strong foundation to educate and support Tulsans for generations to come. Gwen received bachelor’s degrees in genetics and chemistry from Dartmouth before obtaining law degrees from American and Yale. She currently writes about administrative law and teaches law at TU.


Malcolm Milsten, Co-Honorary President
Paula Milsten, Co-Honorary President


Board Trustees

Carol Miller
Carrie Pollak
Devin Renberg
Eric Scholl
Sandi Tilkin
Zac Waxman

 

Ben Berman
Grant Bumgarner
John Clayman
Josh Corngold
Rebekah Kantor
Merrilee Langer



 

Representatives to the board

Donna Gantner, Sisterhood President
David Gantner, Brotherhood President
Dr. Stephen Galoob,  Temple Israel Foundation President