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September 11, 2018

Keith Reinhard

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Keith Reinhard

Keith Reinhard is chairman emeritus of DDB Worldwide, which ranks among the world’s largest and most creative advertising agency networks with 206 offices in 96 countries. DDB has won more Grand Prix in the 50-year history of the International Advertising Festival in Cannes than any other agency, and over the last 16 years, has won more awards in Cannes than any other agency network. As a working creative man, Reinhard gave birth to the Hamburglar and the other denizens of McDonaldland. He was responsible for McDonald’s “You Deserve a Break Today” and for the Big Mac tongue twister, “Two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions, on a sesame seed bun.” He also penned State Farm’s long-running theme, “Just Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm Is There.” In 1999 Advertising Age named “You Deserve a Break Today” the best advertising jingle of the 20th century and one of the century’s top-five campaigns. Under Reinhard’s creative leadership, his agency produced award-winning work for Volkswagen, Anheuser-Busch, Frito-Lay, Dell Computer, JC Penney, Ameriquest and many others.

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September 11, 2018

Joy Henshel

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Joy Henshel

Joy is a longtime, treasured director of Jewish Home’s Sarah Neuman Center and a prolific philanthropist in the areas of arts, health, social justice and Jewish organizations. She is an active trustee of Surprise Lake Camp, a longtime volunteer at White Plains Hospital, the mother of four daughters, and a very generous donor to Jewish Home.

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September 11, 2018

Jacques d’Amboise

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Jacques d’Amboise

Jacques d’Amboise is recognized as one of the finest classical dancers of our time, Jacques d’Amboise now leads the field of arts education with a model program that exposes thousands of school children to the magic and discipline of dance. In 1976, while still a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Mr. d’Amboise founded National Dance Institute in the belief that the arts have a unique power to engage and motivate individuals towards excellence. Mr. d’Amboise is most remembered for his portrayal of what critics called “the definitive Apollo.” As a choreographer, Mr. d’Amboise’s credits include almost twenty works commissioned for New York City Ballet.

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September 11, 2018

Harry Belafonte

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte is known worldwide for his achievements as a singer, actor and producer, and for his commitment to human rights. Beginning with the American civil rights movement in the 1950s, he has established a long and distinguished record of human rights advocacy, and in 1987 was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Born in Harlem, New York, Belafonte moved to his mother’s native Jamaica where he discovered the folk music that became his trademark. His third album, Calypso, became the first recording in history to sell more than a million copies. Mr. Belafonte started the campaign and was the organizer of the multi-artist recording “We Are the World” which won the 1985 Grammy for record of the year and raised millions of dollars for emergency assistance in Africa. In 1989 he received the Kennedy Center Honors award and in 1994 was presented with the National Medal of the Arts from President Bill Clinton for outstanding contribution to the arts in the United States.

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September 11, 2018

Bob Appel

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Bob Appel

Bob Appel is President of Appel Associates, a money management and investment firm in New York, and was formerly a partner of the investment advisory firm Neuberger Berman for 20 years. He is chairman of the board of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and in 2014 with his wife, Helen, made the largest individual gift in the organization’s history. He is also a trustee emeritus of his alma mater, Cornell University, and deeply involved with fundraising for Weill Cornell Medical College, where he and Helen have created a legacy of advancing neuroscience initiatives at the Medical College, establishing the Helen and Robert Appel Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.

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September 11, 2018

Fred and Rita Richman

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Fred and Rita Richman

Fred Richman developed Richloom Fabrics Group, a family run textile company, into a converter of curtain and drapery market cloths for manufacturers, book jobbers and retailers. Today, the company has grown into a multi-faceted global firm supplying home products to customers worldwide and is now run by his son Jim (Great Neck) Richman. Together Fred and Rita, avid art collectors, have collected Greek, Roman and Middle Eastern antiquities in addition to work from Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Indian oceans, manuscripts, jewelry and architectural fragments. They have endowed the African Art department and a curatorial position at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and are responsible for the Art of Island Southeast Asia Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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September 11, 2018

Pat Jacobs

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Pat Jacobs

Pat was the hostess of the television and then radio show The Jewish Home Show for 43 years. After her retirement, she became a volunteer at Jewish Home Lifecare’s Sarah Neuman Center and fell in the love with the residents. At the time, her husband, Dick Jacobs, was serving a term as President of the Board of Sarah Neuman. Pat wrote and directed shows, hosted English Tea Parties, Barbeques, holiday celebrations and much more for our residents. She was also a board member of Sarah Neuman, co-founded the Friends of Sarah Neuman and chaired its tasting event for 15 years, raising thousands of dollars to enrich the lives of residents. Additionally, Pat served on the Board of Trustees of Purchase College, worked with schools in Westchester, Lower Connecticut and the Upper Bronx to engage thousands of students in grades K-12 to experience dance, music and theater programs at Purchase College through the Arts-in-Education program. Pat was married to Dick Jacobs for 65 years. She is survived by two children, Diane and Suzanne, two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

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September 11, 2018

Irwin Hochberg

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Irwin Hochberg

Irwin is a co-founder and president of the accounting firm, Bloom Hochberg & Co., P.C. He was chairman of the board of UJA-Federation of New York from 1991 through 1994, is a former national campaign chairman of State of Israel Bonds and is currently a member of its executive committee. He is vice-chairman of the board of the Zionist Organization of America, an honorary vice-chairman of the Anti-Defamation League, a founding trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and chairman of the executive committee of the Middle East Forum.

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September 11, 2018

Joel Grey

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Joel Grey

In a career that was launched in the early 1950’s, Joel Grey has created indelible stage roles each decade since. Joel received the Academy Award, the Golden Globe and the British Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1972 film version of Cabaret (directed by Bob Fosse). He is one of only nine actors to have won both the Tony and Academy Award for the same role. His television appearances include “OZ,” “Law and Order: CI,” “House,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Private Practice,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Nurse Jackie” and “Warehouse 13.” He was recently honored for his illustrious television career by The Paley Center for Media in both NYC and Los Angeles.  Joel is also an accomplished photographer. He has four books of photographs, Pictures I Had to Take (2003), Looking Hard at Unexamined Things (2006), 1.3 – Images From My Phone (2009), and The Billboard Papers, which was released in fall 2013 in conjunction with an exhibition at The Steven Kasher Gallery in NYC.

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