25th Anniversery Founders Gala
Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 7:30PM
Gindi Auditorium of the American Jewish University

A resounding thank you to everyone who made this sell-out evening a success!! From the pre-show event to the dessert reception, our 25th Anniversary was one to remember.
Rewarded with multiple standing ovations, our performers and Guest Artists wowed the house, while Headliner Tovah Feldshuh kept everyone laughing.
To our LAJS family and friends, thank you for a fabulous 25 years!
“It was truly fabulous. And Noreen, what a Maestra. I love working with her and always become more impressed with her work. What a star!!!”
Honorees

Dr. Richard Merkin
Founder

Dr. Ian Drew
Founding President

Dr. Noreen Green
Founding Artistic Director

Mark Kashper
Founding Concertmaster
Master of Ceremonies

Brad Pomerance currently serves as the Host of Air Land & Sea, broadcasting weekly on the national cable network JLTV. As Host of this global travel series, Brad has traveled to Barbados, the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Jamaica, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. He also serves as the Host of JLTV’s weekly news magazine, The J Report with Brad Pomerance.
Brad is also hosting Uncovered in the Archives, a historically driven television show that Brad developed for PBS-affiliate KVCR in Southern California.
Headliner

Legendary broadway star and playwright Tovah Feldshuh has won four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre Critics Circle Award and the Helen Hayes Award and has received six Tony nominations and six Emmy nominations. Her play Golda’s Balcony is the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway. Jason Zinoman of The New York Times raved, “No one earns more laughs than the marvelous Tovah Feldshuh. Her diva-like flourishes are precisely timed, her entrances and exits designed for maximum impact.”
Featured soloists

Hila Plitmann has performed on many notable albums, and continues to accumulate an impressive catalogue of virtuosic recordings: Hans Zimmer’s Grammy Award nominated soundtrack to The Da Vinci Code; Eric Whitacre’s Good Night Moon with the LSO; Oscar winner John Corigliano’s song-cycle Mr. Tambourine Man with the Buffalo Symphony (for which she won a ‘Best Classical Vocal Performance’ Grammy); Richard Danielpour’s Grammy Award winning recording The Passion of Yeshua, with Buffalo Symphony Orchestra, to name a few.

An award-winning composer and recording artist since the age of five, Emily Bear has achieved groundbreaking success as a pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter. Her expertise and love for film and media scoring highlights her ability to move between musical styles and to communicate story through music.
Sculpture Garden Entertainment

Ben Seidman
Magician

Isaac Sadigursky, Accordion and Gary Gould, Clarinet
Klezmer Duo

Max Brenner
Classical and Jazz Guitarist