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Join the New Israel Fund to celebrate four decades of strengthening equality and social justice in Israel at our Guardian of Democracy 40th Anniversary Gala on Monday, September 23 at the New-York Historical Society. Gather with longtime leaders and emerging activists working together to promote democracy, human rights, equality, and a shared society for Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Together we’ll celebrate 40 years of NIF, the 10th anniversary of NIF’s CEO Daniel Sokatch, and honor the values, vision, and legacy of NIF and the Adler-Goldman-Weisberg-Greenwald-Alkalay family, the American and Israeli branches of a family that has been deeply committed to NIF for decades.
For questions and more information, please contact us at 212.613.4400 or via email at [email protected].
We look forward to sharing the evening with you!
MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
6:30pm Cocktail/Dinner Reception
7:30pm Program
8:30pm Dessert Reception
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
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Honoring
Sara, Judy, Michael, and Karen Adler, and Phyllis Goldman
Elah Alkalay, Karen Adler, and Phyllis Weisberg
Karen Adler & Larry Greenwald
Michael & Judy Adler
Sara Adler
Phyllis & Alvin Goldman
Elah Alkalay
Phyllis & David Weisberg
The American and Israeli branches of a family that has been deeply committed to NIF for decades.
Celebrating Ten Years
We are also delighted to celebrate NIF CEO Daniel J. Sokatch, in recognition of his tenth year leading the New Israel Fund. During the past decade of extraordinary challenges, NIF has risen to new heights as the great defender of justice, democracy, and equality in Israel.
Program Featuring
Randi Weingarten is president of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. Prior to her election as AFT president in 2008, Weingarten served for 12 years as president of the United Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 2, representing approximately 200,000 educators in the New York City public school system. Weingarten is the recipient of the Roosevelt Institute’s 2017 FDR Distinguished Public Service Award, City & State New York’s 2018 Labor Power 50 and 50 Over Fifty honors, and Washington Life’s 2018 Power 100 list of prominent leaders.
Maisam Jaljuli is a social activist, feminist, and political organizer in Israel. Her long record of activism spans a broad range of public campaigns: for workers’ and women’s rights, against the occupation, and to advance shared and equal society in Israel. Her career as an activist has focusing on building a shared society in Israel and creating breakthrough collaborations that bring Jewish and Palestinian citizens together.
Moderated by David N. Myers. David N. Myers received his A.B. from Yale College in 1982, and undertook graduate studies at Tel-Aviv and Harvard Universities before completing his doctorate at Columbia in 1991. Myers is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA. For ten years, Myers served as Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He has authored or edited eleven books, including the forthcoming Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction and The Stakes of History, as well as Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Brandeis, 2008). He is an instructor for the Wexner Heritage Foundation, and writes frequently on matters of contemporary Jewish concern.
Join us in strengthening equality, democracy, and a
shared society in Israel at our 40th Anniversary Gala
Co-Chairs
Diane & Marc Greenwald
Jenny Lyss
Suzanne Schecter & Todd Ruback
Jenna Weinberg* & Jacob Prosnit
Host Committee
Eliot Abbott
Shani Abramowitz**
Rebecca Arian**
Oz Benamram & Gali Freedman
David Chapman**
Jonathan Cohen & Ellie Friedman
Hannah Ellenson & Becca Israel**
Elizabeth & Randy Goldel
Bruce N. Goldberger & Esther Sperber
Mark & Julia Goldman
Rebecca & Mattis Goldman
Melanie & Eric Greenwald
Janet Heettner & Peter Silverman
Jane & Gerald Katcher
Betsy Landis
Elie Lauter & David Mantell**
Jacob Levkowicz**
Rebecca Litt**
Daniel* & Lisa Price
Daniel Raiffe & Jaimie Mayer
Jonathan & Laura Raiffe
Harry Reis & Aaron Loux**
Rachel & Alex Schapiro
Marsha Soffer
Noa Stolzenberg-Myers**
Tali Stolzenberg-Myers**
Oren Teicher
Perry Teicher**
Sarah Turbow**
Carole* & Saul Zabar
**New Generations Host Committee Member
Sponsors
Guardians of Democracy ($50,000+)
The Adler & Goldman Families
Diane & Marc Greenwald
Moriah Fund, Inc.
Kathleen Peratis
Rick Schaffer & Barbara Schatz
Mary Ann Stein*
Seekers of Justice ($25,000-$49,999)
Anonymous
Barbara & Eric Dobkin
Ilse Melamid
Changemakers ($18,000-$24,999)
Alisa & Dan Doctoroff
Michael J. Hirschhorn & Jimena P. Martinez
Marsha Soffer
Carole* & Saul Zabar
Pioneers ($10,000-$17,999)
Madeleine & David Arnow
Rita & Charles Bronfman
Jonathan Cohen & Ellie Friedman
Susie & Michael Gelman
Sally Gottesman
Jane & Gerald Katcher
Sara & Andrew Litt
Jenny & Gregory Lyss
Lisa Messinger
Suzanne Schecter & Todd Ruback
Jeffrey Solomon & Audrey Weiner
Visionaries ($5,000-$9,999)
Elkan Abramowitz & Susan Isaacs
Maggie & Andy Ball
Oz Benamram & Gali Freedman
Julie Russin Bercow & Jeffrey Bercow
Jeannie Blaustein & Peter Boker
Roberta Elliott & Charles Wantman
Helen & Henry Freedman
Peter Frey & Carrie Shapiro
Barbara Friedman
Dorian Goldman & Marvin Israelow
Rebecca & Mattis Goldman
Janet Heettner & Peter Silverman
Simon & Marie Jaglom Foundation, Inc.
Carol Joseph
Peter Joseph & Elizabeth Scheuer
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum* & Randi Weingarten
Edward Labaton
Betsy Landis
David Levy & Ellen Cutler
Barbara & David Lipman
Jonathan Nadler
Suzanne Peck & Brian Friedman
Justin Pollack & Suzanne Reisman
Marcia Ricklis
Bonnie & Jamie Schaefer
Jolie Schwab & David Hodes
Daniel & Sheila Segal
The Shepard Broad Foundation/Ann, John, & Debby Bussel and Families
Steven Slutsky and Marc & Barbara Slutsky
David P. Stone
Lois Weinroth
Honorary Gala Committee
David & Linda Altshuler
Brenda Berry & Jonathan Lopatin
Martin & Shirley Bresler
Rabbi Lester Bronstein & Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller
Alan Cohen & Robert Bank
Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen & Rabbi Marc Margolius
Elaine R. Shizgal Cohen
Stuart & Betty Cotton
Rabbi Judith Edelstein & James Meier
Peter & Gail Eisenberg
Rabbis David & Jacqueline Koch Ellenson
Eva Fogelman
Werner & Karen Gundersheimer
Ariel Rosen Ingber & Rabbi David Ingber
Stephanie Ives & Yehuda Kurtzer
Liz & Alan Jaffe
Jane & Gerald Katcher
Nancy Kaufman
Ellen & Jack Kessler
Libby Lenkinski & Isak Devries
Deborah Lipstadt
Rabbi Sara & Isaac Luria
Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon & Talia Hatzor
Ruth W. Messinger & Andrew Lachman
Gail Meyers & Andrew Hall
John & Kayla Niles
Daniel* & Lisa Price
Paula Rackoff
Rachel & Richard Robbins
Rabbis Jennie & David Rosenn
John S. Ruskay
Michael Salberg & Dr. Jill Salberg
Ariella Sidelsky & Roy Alcalay
Sandra Simon
Rabbi Felicia Sol
Bruce Temkin & Judson Morrow
Rabbi Rachel Timoner & Felicia Park-Rogers
Judith Tuller
Allan & Ray Ellen Yarkin
*International Board Member