Festival of Lights
our TOWN BY LINDA BENNETT AND BETSEY BARANOV, PHOTOS BY EMILIO AZEVEDO
The fifth annual celebration, Festival Of Lights, for StandWithUs San Diego was held Dec. 3 at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. The gala, named Voices of Courage, was a smashing success with 500 Jews and non-Jews attending. Jonathan Valverde, and The Hebrew Project served as the evening’s entertainment. Keynote speakers were Miri Eisin, Colonel (ret.) IDF, geopolitics expert and Kay Wilson, survivor of a brutal terror attack. Among those attending were Lea and Vick Soffer, Monica and Victor Mizrahi, Bobbi Warren, Rabbi Yael Ridberg, Rita Heller and Jeff Zimmerman, Todd Frank, Rebecca O’Neil, Simon and Ireni Patlis, Senator Marty Block, Rabbi Avi and Vicki Libman, Deborah Taubman, Lee and Stuart Posnock, Jenny and Julian Josephson, Joan and Paul Schultz, Hanna and Mark Gleiberman, Tibi and Tami Zohar, Racquel Lyons, 17, Eitan Feifel, 17, Donna and Larry Dawson, Alan Alpert, Mindy Gold and Evelyn Rady.
Birthdays...
Happy 80th birthday to Coop Cooprider! Happy 103rd birthday to Sam Weiss!
Mazel tovs...
Happy 66th anniversary to Anabel and Ted Mintz! Mazel tov to Jamie Mittleman on becoming Bat Mitzvah on Nov. 12 at Temple Emanu-El. Mazel tov to Sharon Bakcht and Ben Gamboa on the birth of their son Julian Gamboa.
COUNTER-CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Devorah Shore and Moises Eisenberg • Councilwoman Susan Davis and Hillary Liber • Joanna Fox, Geof Fox and Leslie Caspi • Micha "Mitch" Danzig.
18 SDJewishJournal.com l January 2017