J Street Los Angeles
Join J Street Los Angeles for our annual reception!
This year we will be honoring Jane Jelenko and Hon. William Norris.
They will be joined by special guest Peter Beinart
in conversation with J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami
December 14 | 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
244 S. San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Validated parking available at Joe's Auto Park, 350 E. 2nd Street.
Hon. William A. Norris was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit for 17 years. On the bench, Judge Norris wrote landmark opinions in securities, tax, antitrust, class action litigation, election law, the First Amendment, and ERISA. He is currently a senior counsel at Akin Gump, focusing on appellate litigation. Judge Norris is the founding president of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He was appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley as president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, and by Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown as a member of the California State Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of California State University. Judge Norris received his B.A. from Princeton University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and executive editor of the Stanford Law Review. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
Jane Jelenko was the first woman partner in the consulting arm of KPMG, the international professional services firm. After retiring in 2003, she wrote Portraits in Black and White: Holocaust Survivors of Café Europa along with photographer Barbara Mack, documenting the lives of 43 survivors published by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. She serves on the boards of SunAmerica Funds, Cathay Bank, Body Traffic, The Dizzy Feet Foundation, and the Gabriella Education Foundation. She is a past board member of SHARE, The Music Center, and the American Technion Society Western Region. She is the founding president and a board member of Center Dance Arts, the founding support organization for Dance at the Music Center. She graduated cum laude in Mathematics from Barnard College and earned an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Southern California. In 2014, President Obama appointed her to the Board of Trustees of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
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Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is also a contributor to The Atlantic and National Journal, a Senior Columnist at Haaretz, a CNN Political Commentator, and a Senior Fellow at The New America Foundation. After graduating from University College, Oxford with a Rhodes Scholarship, Beinart became The New Republic’s managing editor in 1995, and served as the magazine's editor from 1999 to 2006. Beinart has written for many leading publications such as the NYT, the WSJ, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe and others. His book The Crisis of Zionism was published by Times Books in 2012. |
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Jeremy Ben-Ami is the founder and President of J Street, bringing to the role both deep experience in American politics and government and a passionate commitment to the state of Israel. His political resume includes serving in the mid-1990s as the Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor in the White House to President Bill Clinton and working on seven Presidential and numerous state and local campaigns. Ben-Ami’s family connection to Israel goes back 130 years to the first aliyah when his great-grandparents were among the first settlers in Petah Tikva while his grandparents were one of the founding families of Tel Aviv. |
CO-CHAIR: $10,000 (12 tickets, public listing, full-page ad)
CHAMPION: $5,000 (6 tickets, public listing, full page ad)
HOST: $1,800 (2 tickets, public listing, half page ad)
SPONSOR: $1,000 (2 tickets and public listing OR half page ad)
INDIVIDUAL TICKET: $250
Honorary Host Committee: Congressman-Elect Pete Aguilar, Congresswoman Karen Bass, Congressman Xavier Becerra, Congresswoman Lois Capps, Congresswoman Judy Chu, Congresswoman Susan Davis, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, Congressman Alan Lowenthal, Congressman Scott Peters, Congressman Adam Schiff, Congressman Henry Waxman
Rabbinic Host Committee: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Rabbi Steven Carr-Reuben, Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels, Rabbi William Cutter, Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rabbi Marc Dworkin, Rabbi Lisa E. Edwards, Rabbi Susan Goldberg, Rabbi Jocee Hudson, Rabbi Susan Laemmle, Rabbi Joshua Levine-Grater, Rabbi Richard Levy, Rabbi Stanley Levy, Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh, Rabbi Arnold Rachlis, Rabbi John Rosove, Rabbi Suzanne Singer
Host Committee: Evan Aptaker, Elaine Attias, Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, Liza Bercovici and David Axelrad, April and Lowell Blankfort, Peter Braun, Deborah Brin, Gerald B. Bubis, Martin Bunzl, Center Dance Arts, Dee Dee Dorskind and Bradley Tabach-Bank, Eli Broad Foundation, Leah and Sam Fischer, Dodi and Murray Fromson, Stanley Gold, Patty Gordon and Len Hill, Linda Griego, Lois and Dick Gunther, Janet Halbert, Marcia and Michael Halperin, Keri and Stan Hausner, Elaine Hoffman and Arthur N. Greenberg, Maria Hummer and Ambassador Robert Tuttle, Jane Jelenko and the Honorable William Norris, the Honorable Mickey Kantor, Marta Kauffman and Michael Skloff, Anita Mann Kohl and Allen Kohl, Irwin M. Jacobs, Lee and Luis Lainer, Ellie and Mark Lainer, Irwin Levin, Barbara Mack and Norman Levine, Paula and Barry Litt, Anika Lorber, Suzanne Rosenblatt and Jeff Buhai, Monica and Philip Rosenthal, Barbara and Rabbi John Rosove, Paula and Allan Rudnick, Kieth Russell, Thomas L. Safran, Joyce and Dan Sandel, Ellen Shavelson and Larry Title, Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum, Abby Sher, Alan Sieroty, Jackie and Manny Silverman, the Honorable Christina Snyder and Marc Seltzer, Catharine and Jeffrey Soros, Arthur and Edith Stern Family Foundation, Anne and Michael Towbes, Alejandra and David Thorpe, Karen and Sanford Weiner, Leslie Weisberg and David Hyman
To RSVP or for more information please contact:
Southwest Finance Director Daniel Rosove (danielrosove@jstreet.org) or Assistant Southwest Finance Director Ilissa Gold (ilissa@jstreet.org)
or call (323) 634-0339 or (818) 469-4966.