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The 21st Annual President's Dinner

 

We urge you to join our community in a show of solidarity and strength.

Your attendance and support will help to provide a more secure future for the Jewish people at home and abroad.

 

 

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.

 

 

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

Sunday, March 30, 2025

 

Hilton Tampa Downtown

211 North Tampa Street, Tampa, Florida

 

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

 

$118 Young Adult Ticket (For young adults 35 or younger)

$218 Early Bird Ticket (By February 10, 2025)

$250 Individual Ticket (after February 10, 2025)

$360 Patron Ticket (Includes program recognition and Bari Weiss's book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism)*

$1,118 Host a table of 10 young adults/students (For young adults 35 or younger.)

$3,600 Patron Table of 10 (Includes program recognition and Bari Weiss's book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism)*

*One book per couple

 

 

Register Here

 

Presenting Sponsor

 

President's Cabinet

 

                     

PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE

 

Akerman LLP | Bush Ross, P.A. | Jaffe Tilchin Wealth Management

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

Tampa General Hospital | United Janitorial Solutions

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

 

PRESIDENT'S FRIENDS

 

Stacy & Michael Leeds | Karen & Jonathan Levy

Michele & Mark Miller | Susie & Mitchell Rice

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.