Charles Goldman, 54, Helped Build Hannah Senesh School
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Charles Goldman, who died May 24 at the age of 54, was president of the board of Brooklyn’s Hannah Senesh Community Day School and spearheaded construction of the school’s new building in Carroll Gardens.
A lawyer by training and vice president of the UJA-Federation of New York’s planned giving and endowments department, Goldman joined the Hannah Senesh board in 2001. He was named president in 2003 and served in the post until last year.
The school has occupied a converted warehouse on Pacific Street in Brooklyn since its founding, in 1997. The new building, at 342 Carroll St., includes expanded classroom and common space and a rooftop playground.
The new building is slated to be occupied later this month, in time for the start of the new school year in the fall, the school head, Susan Weintrob, said. “It’s sad that he didn’t live to be in it,” she said.
Goldman was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. He attended the University of Rochester and Brooklyn Law School before founding a headhunting firm. He went to work at UJA-Federation in 1990.
He is survived by his wife, Debra Rubenstein, and daughter, Molly Goldman, as well as his mother, Edith Goldman, and two sisters, Jill Rudansky and Riki Potter.
