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Brett Bossuk, Georgia Capo, Lee Clark, Jonathan Cookler, Josh Diamond, Michael Feldman, Jim Felton, Carin Freeman, Karen Getelman, David Jacobs, Jodi Kirkbride, Toby Koppekin, Susan Krane, Carole Lazar, Steve Mandel, Jay Mangel, Don Marks, Steve Martini, Harold Masor, Paul Meshekow, Judy Nussenblatt, Laura Ozer, Ed Prober, Sandy Samuels, Marvin Selesnick, Brian Weisberg, Michael Weisberg, and Janie Zimmer
Event Committee
Amy Masor
Amy Masor is the deserving recipient of the Sylvia Weisz Women’s Philanthropy Golda Award at El Caballero Country Club. This award is presented to a woman who is a member of the club and has demonstrated leadership in Women’s Philanthropy in the community. She passionately supports the work of The Jewish Federation both philanthropically and by encouraging others to follow her lead.
Amy has served on our Women’s Philanthropy Cabinet for over 30 years. She has been a Lion for 25 years and received the Lion of Judah Ruby Award in 2016. Amy has traveled on many Women’s and Major Gift missions and in 2018 she and her husband Harold dedicated a Unistream Center in Kiryat Melachi in the northern Negev. With multiple centers throughout the country, Unistream is a Federation partner which serves teenagers living on the socioeconomic fringes of Israeli society by providing tools to reach their potential as young innovators and entrepreneurs.
Amy is also involved in her synagogue Adat Ari El, AIPAC, and a lifetime member of Hadassah. In addition to her involvement in our Jewish community, she is a board member of Jacob Jonas The Company, a young contemporary dance company. Amy is most passionate about her handmade jewelry business Amasor Jewelry.
Amy and Harold are proud parents of their children, Sarah (Edward), Elliot (Michelle) and Rebecca and have three wonderful granddaughters all under three years old.
Jay Mangel
Jay Mangel is currently the Audit Partner and former Office Managing Partner in Los Angeles for Crowe LLP, a public accounting, consulting and technology firm.
Jay specializes in the manufacturing and distribution industries, with a subspecialty in the finance sector. Jay has over 35 years of experience in the areas of specialty lending and financing, mergers and acquisitions, import and export accounting strategies, business liquidations, and assisting clients with financing from asset-based lenders. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Philanthropically, Jay has been involved and supportive of The Jewish Federation for many years. He serves on the risk management sub-committee for its Finance & Accounting committee and is perennially active on the committee for the El Cab/Federation Golf Tournament & Dinner. He also enthusiastically travels each year on the Federation’s Men’s Mission.
He is a trustee for the National Jewish Health council and serves on the finance committee and advisory board of directors for Inner City Arts. Jay is a past president of the City of Hope Apparel Industries Group and was named Honoree of the Year by the Fashion Industries Guild in 2012, and Man of the Year by the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in 2002.
Jay graduated from the California State University at Northridge. He and his wife Kathi are proud parents of daughters Chelsea and Allie Mangel, Lauren Dolinka and son-in-law Mike Dolinka, and new grandparents to Lev!
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, and most recently, nominated by President Biden as State Department Special Envoy on antisemitism. If confirmed by the Senate confirmation, she will hold the rank of Ambassador. She has published and taught about the Holocaust and antisemitism for close to 40 years. Her book Antisemitism: Here and Now was published in January 2019.
She is probably most widely known for the libel lawsuit David Irving brought against her in 1996 for calling him a Holocaust denier. A 10-week trial resulted in an overwhelming victory for Professor Lipstadt. Her TED talk about the trial has received over one million views, and the BAFTA-nominated movie Denial — starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson with a screenplay by David Hare — tells the story of the legal battle. The film is based on her book History On Trial: My Day in Court With A Holocaust Denier (recently reissued as Denial). At Emory, Lipstadt directs the website known as HDOT (Holocaust Denial on Trial — www.hdot.org), which contains a complete archive of the legal proceedings and provides answers to frequent claims made by deniers.
She has written several other books on the topic of the Holocaust, including Holocaust: An American Understanding, The Eichmann Trial, and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust.
Professor Lipstadt is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Forward, and Tablet. She regularly appears on BBC, CNN, and PBS. Professor Lipstadt was a historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has held presidential appointments to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council under Presidents Clinton and Obama and was asked by President George W. Bush to represent the White House at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. She was part of a committee that advised Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on matters of religious freedom abroad.
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