She often writes for the Charleston (SC) Post and Courier’s Commentary page and has been published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency wire service, Hadassah Magazine and Jewish newspapers in Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Phoenix and New York. Leah serves on the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, and has done since since its beginning. She was named a “Woman Who Makes a Difference” by the Charleston chapter of Hadassah, was a founding member of the Charleston Foreign Affairs Forum, was named a High Profile community personality by the Charleston Post and Courier, and voted one of the city’s ten “Best Mannered Charlestonians.” She served as president of the Charleston Cancer Association, BSBI Sisterhood, the South Windermere Garden Club and the Charleston Hebrew Institute P-TA. She chaired the Jewish Community Relations Committee of the Charleston Jewish Federation.