WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 |
Kick off UJA's 2024 Annual Campaign and celebrate the strength of our community. Join us for an unforgettable night, featuring surprise talent and special guests:
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 11 | 7:30 PM
MERIDIAN HALL
Doors open @ 6:30 PM
Main event 7:30 PM
Tickets start at $52
Tickets are being exclusively sold through Ticketmaster. Please note that space is limited.
Planning on attending with a group of friends?
Be sure to book your main event tickets at the same time to secure seats together. Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. Once tickets have been purchased, changes cannot be made.
TALENT & SPEAKERS
SPEAKER SPONSOR
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020, Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine. She is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism and the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize. A proud Pittsburgh native, Bari's first book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award.
Shira Haas (born May 11, 1995) is an Israeli actress who gained national recognition through her roles in local film and television, earning two Israeli Ophir Awards. She achieved international acclaim in 2020 for her performance in the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, for which she received Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations. The same year, she won the Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best International Actress for her role in Asia. Haas continues to expand her career, starring in the Netflix series Bodies (2023).
Rabbi David Wolpe is the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. Author of eight books, including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times, Wolpe has been named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek, and among the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post. He is the senior advisor at Maimonides Fund and the inaugural Rabbinic Fellow for the ADL. Wolpe’s most recent book David: The Divided Heart, a biography of King David, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Shlomo Lipman is a 26-year-old husband, father, and resident of Bet Semesh. He grew up in Maryland and made Aliyah in 2004 at the age of seven. Surrounded by music and choirs in his childhood, Shlomo knew he always wanted to be a singer. He put out his first single (Kan Itcha) in the summer of 2022, which became a number-one single on the Jewish music charts. In addition to working on his debut album, Shlomo is a highly sought-after wedding singer in Israel. He hopes to continue using his talents to enrich the world with Jewish music and Israeli culture.
PRESENTING SPONSORS
SPEAKER SPONSORS
RECEPTION SPONSORS
EVENT SPONSORS
2024 CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS
Cary Green & Laurie Sheff
2024 CAMPAIGN LAUNCH CO-CHAIRS
Zack Belzberg and Bram Belzberg
2024 WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY CHAIR
Gayle Goldgut
For more information, please contact Adi at atooch@ujafed.org.
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