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The 21st Annual President's Dinner

 

The 21st Annual President’s Dinner is SOLD OUT.

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Bari Weiss is the host of the podcast Honestly.

 

She’s the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize honoring writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.”

 

Vanity Fair called her the New York Times’ “star opinion writer.”

 

She won the LA Press Club’s 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.

 

In 2023, she and The Free Press won the Dao Prize for their work on the Twitter Files.

 

4:00 p.m.

President's Roundtable

$25,000 minimum annual contribution

 

5:00 p.m.

Major Gifts Reception

$5,000 minimum annual contribution

 

5:30 p.m.

General Reception & Registration

 

6:30 p.m.

Tikkun Olam Award

Dinner & Program

 

Bari Weiss

  • Former New York Times and Wall Street Journal editor and op-ed writer

  • Winner of 2019 National Jewish Book Award for the book How to Fight Anti-Semitism

  • Founder and editor of The Free Press

 

Presenting Sponsor

 

President's Cabinet

 

                                     

 

PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE

 

Akerman LLP | Brown & Brown Insurance | Bush Ross, P.A. | Ferman Motor Car Company

Carolyn & Matthew Fink | Gould Family Philanthropic Fund at TOP | Jaffe Tilchin Wealth Management

Publix Charities | Cherie & Harvey Schonbrun | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Tampa General Hospital | TD Bank | United Janitorial Solutions

United Security Solutions of America | Mark H. Wright, PLLC Injury Attorney

 

PRESIDENT'S FRIENDS

 

EXOS | Stacy & Michael Leeds | Karen & Jonathan Levy

Michele & Mark Miller | Susie & Mitchell Rice | RSM US LLP

Amy & Lee Schaffler | Lisa & Steven Zaritsky

The Annual President’s Dinner is an opportunity to get together to celebrate our Jewish community, its growth and successes. This event is evidence of our community’s shared commitment to carrying our community forward. This is an event with a tradition of bringing world leaders and national recognized speakers to address our community.

 

Past distinguished speakers include: Author and Speaker Daniel Gordis, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, Frank Luntz, Ph.D.; Ambassor Ron Prosor; U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross; Former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak; Cokie Roberts; General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), former Secretary of State; Former Senator Bill Bradley; Dr. Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer-prize winning syndicated columnist and commentator; The Honorable Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State & Distinguished American Diplomat; The Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani, former New York City Mayor and TIME Magazine’s 2001 Person of the Year; Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist; David Brooks, commentator and author; and U.S. Special Operations Commander Admiral Eric T. Olson (retired, 2011).

 

During the Annual President’s Dinner, one outstanding lay leader in our community is honored with the prestigious Tikkun Olam Award. Tikkun Olam means “repairing the world” and recipients are given the award based on their demonstrated commitment and leadership to making our community and our world a better place.