Annual Benefit 2024
Join us for a celebration of community, belonging, and the power of music.
Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 6 pm
The Samuel Priest Rose Building
334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
Attire: Summer Cocktail
Jeffrey Ori Feig, 2024 Honoree
Jeffrey Ori Feig was raised in Toronto alongside his brother Paul, sons of Holocaust survivors Arthur and Fay. The family arrived in Toronto in 1962, with Arthur from Romania and Fay from Israel. Growing up in a conservative Jewish household, Jeff attended a Jewish Day School through 9th grade.
Following his graduation from the University of Western Ontario, Jeff embarked on a career in finance on Wall Street with Citibank. One lasting legacy was establishing an innovation center for Citibank in Israel, now employing over 300 individuals.
In 2016, Jeff survived a cardiac arrest, prompting him to retire from finance and redirect his focus to family and the Jewish people.
Jeff's involvement with the JCC began in 2007 after experiencing the transformative Tikkun Leil Shavuot, now named in memory of his late brother Paul. Over the years, Jeff served as treasurer, vice-chair, led the CEO search committee, and then assumed the role of board chair in 2021.
Serving as Chair of the JCC board has been a pinnacle experience for Jeff. Working closely with esteemed Jewish leaders Rabbis Joy Levitt and Joanna Samuels has been a cherished privilege. Jeff is also a Wexner Heritage fellow and actively participates on various non-profit boards.
Jeff treasures spending time with his children: Zachary, Benny, and Jacob. He is filled with joy that his kids proudly embody the spirited Judaism and passionate Zionism Jeff inherited from his late father and mother.
Transitioning from Board Chair to Chair Emeritus, Jeff eagerly anticipates allocating more time to enjoy JCC classes, films, concerts, art shows, and workouts alongside his partner, Emily.
Being succinct has never been a goal or strength, so you will find Jeff’s more personal, less edited and not entirely appropriate biography here.
Idan Raichel, Israeli Singer-songwriter and Musician
Producer, keyboardist, lyricist, composer, and performer Idan Raichel is an Israeli global music icon who has brought his inspiring example and soul-stirring music to some of the planet's biggest stages. As the leader of The Idan Raichel Project, Idan acts as a musical ambassador representing a hopeful world in which artistic collaboration breaks down barriers between people of different backgrounds and beliefs. Over the past 21 years, Idan has collaborated with American pop stars India.Arie, Dave Matthews and Alicia Keys, not to mention a wide range of artists who are household names in their native countries: Portugal's Ana Moura, France's Patrick Bruel, Italy's Ornella Vanoni, Germany's Andreas Scholl, and Mali's Vieux Farka Touré to name but a few.
The Idan Raichel Project's spectacular live show has enchanted audiences worldwide. They have headlined in some of the world's most prestigious venues, including New York's Central Park Summer Stage, Apollo Theater, Town Hall and Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles' Kodak Theater, the Sydney Opera House, Zenith in Paris, London’s Royal Albert Hall and many international festivals. Idan have also performed across Europe, South and Central America, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, Japan and dozens of other countries for enraptured audiences of all backgrounds.
Kol Achai, 2024 Annual Benefit Performers
Kol Achai are three brothers, Yitzchak, Yossi, and Boaz Goldshmid, who formed an Israeli vocal group when they were young. Having grown up in Jerusalem with their younger sister Karni, the children of holocaust survivors who also battled the British to help create the Jewish state. They grew up as the children of pioneers with intense pride in what they were able to accomplish as Jews in the state of Israel. Click here to read more.
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