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Lisa Looney
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llooney@weinsteinjcc.org
For 17 years the JCC Forum has been one of the largest fundraising events for the Carole and Marcus 
Weinstein Jewish Community Center, your Center.The JCC Forum supports programs and services in the community that would otherwise not exist, including adult Jewish education, cultural arts events, and activities for children and senior adults. Your support of the JCC Forum helps to strengthen our community and helps to make the Weinstein JCC home for your family and many generations to come. It only takes one person to change the world. Be the one.
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For ticket information contact Lisa Looney (804)545-8608 or via email llooney@weinsteinjcc.org
2009-2010 JCC Forum Guests
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Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
A conversation with Campbell Brown and Dan Senor
Saturday, November 7, 2009 7:30 pm
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Campbell Brown
Campbell Brown is one of the most respected and recognizable
faces in American news. She won an Emmy for her reporting
during Hurricane Katrina; was on the trail during the last two presidential elections; has made numerous reporting trips to
Iraq and reported on the trial of Saddam Hussein. Brown joined
CNN in 2007 and shortly became the anchor of the nightly prime time news program Election Center for the network. She currently hosts Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull. Brown was with NBC News for 11 years prior to joining CNN.
Dan Senor
Dan Senor has been a foreign policy advisor to the Bush administration
and was one of the longest-serving civilians for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. In his business career, he has worked at the Carlyle
Group where he led an initiative to develop an Israel-focused investment strategy and is co-founder of Rosemont Capital, a New York based private equity firm. His new book: Start-Up Nation will be released November 3rd.
An Evening with Tiki Barber 
Reflections on being Sports Ambassador to Israel, Teamwork, Leadership and Determination
Saturday, February 20, 2010 7:30 pm
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Tiki Barber
Three years ago, Tiki Barber, star running back for the New York Giants and former UVA star football player, spent the better part of the week in Israel
as a guest of the Peres Peace Center. Visiting several Peres Center
projects, including a "Sports for Peace" project at kindergartens in
Jerusalem, and
the Peace Soccer School in Issawiya, Arab village in east Jerusalem as well
as a girls' basketball and boys' soccer in Jerusalem, Ashkelon and Kiryat
Gat, among other locations.
But Barber, who is active
in numerous
charitable activities in the U.S., as well as being an eight-year veteran of the violent and often brutal N.F.L., said it may be another generation before attitudes change and people work together in the Middle East. Barber said he hoped he had transmitted a message of cooperation and teamwork and that even the most bitter of rivals on a football field can be friends off the turf.
Tiki Barber was born Atiim Kiambu Barber on April 7, 1975 in Roanoke, Virginia along with his identical twin brother Tampa Bay Buccaneer's cornerback Ronde. Tiki attended the University of Virginia where he gained 4,883 all-purpose yards and he rushed for 100 yards or more 19 times during his college career. The New York Giants drafted him in the second round in 1997 and in his rookie season he started at running back and rushed for 500 yards and had three touchdowns.
Barber retired from the NFL at the end of the 2006 NFL postseason as the franchise's all-time rushing and reception leader. In 2007 he was formally introduced as a correspondent for NBC's Today Show and Football Night in America/Sunday Night Football.
On September 18, 2007 Barber's book Tiki: My Life and the Game Beyond was published. His second book Tiki Barber's Pure Hard Workout which was released in 2008 reveals Barber's intensive lifting program.
Living the Year Biblically with A.J. Jacobs
New York Times best-selling author and Esquire Editor
Sunday, May 2, 2010 7:00 pm
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From following the famous 10 commandments to the often neglected
rules in the Bible, A.J. Jacobs’ most current book The Year of Living
Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, is a New York Times best-seller. For this book, Jacobs
attempted to abide by the hundreds of rules in the Bible and manages
to find humor and comfort in both the rituals and meaning of the Old Testament. The book has been optioned by Paramount Pictures.
A.J. Jacobs is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The
Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person
in the World,
a memoir of the year he spent reading the entire
Encyclopedia Britannica
from A to Z, all 44 million words of it!! This book
was featured
on The
Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America. Time Magazine called this book “hilarious and touching”.
Jacob has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, CSPAN, as well as Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Jacobs was a correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition, senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, and a staff writer for MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch. A.J. Jacobs is the Editor-at-Large at Esquire.
More information at www.ajjacobs.com
In the Oates Theater at Collegiate School
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Patrons -----------------------------------------------------------
Platinum • $1,200
• Two reserved platinum floor seats
• Reserved parking
• Invitation to a sponsor event
• Invitations to all receptions
• Recognition in each JCC Forum program
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Gold • $600
• Two reserved gold floor seats
• Reserved parking
• Two receptions with featured guests
• Recognition in each JCC Forum program
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Silver • $400
• Two reserved silver floor seats
• Reception with a featured guest
• Recognition in each JCC Forum program
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Bronze • $300
• Two reserved bronze seats
• Reception with a featured guest
• Recognition in each JCC Forum program
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For ticket information contact Lisa Looney, Forum Director, (804)545-8608
* Individual tickets for each show will not be for sale until September 1, 2009. We strongly recommend purchasing season tickets to ensure you get seats as we anticipate selling out for the season.
| Previous JCC Forum Guests | ||
| Mitch Albom Johnathan Alter Peter Arnett Dr. Bob Arnot Ed Asner Wolf Blitzer Hadassah Lieberman Peter Bogdanovich David Brenner Capitol Steps Jean Chatzky Governor Mario Cuomo Alan Dershowitz Kirk Douglas Richard Dreyfuss |
Forbidden Broadway Mike Greenberg Joel Grey Jewtopia Gabe Kaplan Thomas Keneally Robert Klein Alan King Ed Koch Rabbi Harold Kushner Marv Levy Marlee Matlin Andrea Mitchell DenRita Moreno Dennis Prager Leah Rabin |
Janet Reno Joan Rivers Cokie Roberts Dennis Ross Rita Rudner Mark Russell Beverly Sills Bob Simon Steve Solomon Joeseph Telushkin Jennifer Weiner Elie Wiesel Dr. Ruth Westheimer Henry Winkler Bob Woodward Elliott Yamin |
JCC Forum Proceeds
Proceeds from the JCC Forum help benefit the over $100,000 in scholarships
awarded annually to deserving families and individuals for their Weinstein JCC memberships,
and so that they can attend preschool, after school care, seniors programs,
camp, classes and other programs of the Weinstein JCC.
