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JBSA Winter Quarter Shabbat Dinner

Friday, March 1, 2019 7:30pm - 9:30pm

D Atrium, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States

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Join JBSA for some delicious food & wine at our winter quarter Shabbat Dinner. Our guest speaker will be Lenny Krayzelburg.

Bio:
Lenny Krayzelburg is a four-time Olympic gold medalist. He won his first three gold medals in every event in which he participated at the 2000 Olympic Games.
Despite knee and shoulder surgeries that kept him out of most competition during the three years following the 2000 Games, Krayzelburg came back to qualify for the 2004 Athens Olympics and won his fourth gold medal.
In 2005, Lenny founded the Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy. There are currently five US locations. Its core purpose is to teach children to be water safe and inspire love for the water.

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[JBSA] Dinner 4-30

Monday, March 4, 2019 7:00pm - 9:30pm

EDR, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States

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Dinner for 30 is right around the corner! On Monday, March 4th we will be hosting the following top executives:

Howard Stern (Stern & Associates):
Howard Stern is the founder and principal of Stern & Associates, LLC a full service real estate advisory and consulting firm. Current and past clients include a commercial real estate investment trust (REIT) with a $2.5 billion market capitalization; ultra-high net worth/family office landlords with real estate holdings in excess of $2.5 billion and private/institutional real estate owners. Advisory services include all aspects of portfolio strategy; asset disposition strategy and execution; project redevelopment/repositioning; value enhancement/leasing activities; and media and entertainment production studio and creative office operations. Notable transactions and assignments include a $100+ million, 1 million square foot biomed/office campus and development in Valencia, CA; a $200+ million media & entertainment/creative office campus in Hollywood, CA; a $20 million medical office building/development project in Florida; a 300-acre single-family residential and commercial development in Montana; and a $16 million Class A state-of-the-art biomedical facility in Valencia, CA

Errol Ginsber (Ixia) - Mr. Errol Ginsberg serves as the Chief Innovation Officer at Anue Systems, Inc. Mr. Ginsberg founded Ixia in 1997 and has been its Chief Innovation Officer since March 2008. Mr. Ginsberg serves as Chairman of Ixia since January 2008. He served as an Acting Chief Executive Officer of Anue Systems, Inc. He leads the newly formed Ixia Labs and responsible for advanced engineering to help drive organic growth in new product areas. He served as an Acting Chief Executive Officer of Ixia since October 24, 2013 until September 16, 2014. He has 20 years of experience in the communications industry, with broad expertise in the design, development and successful commercial marketing of technologies for the Internet and distributed networking community. He served as the President of Ixia from May 1997 to September 2007 and also as its Chief Executive Officer from September 2000 to March 2008. He overseen many of Ixia's innovations, including multiuser high-density platforms, CPU per-port interface modules and high-productivity, test-specific applications, where he helped shape the IP communications testing industry. Before Ixia, he served as vice president of Engineering at NetVantage. From November 1994 to February 1996, he served as an engineering consultant to Netcom Systems. He has been the Chairman of Anue Systems, Inc. since January 2008. He serves as a Director at QuorumLabs, Inc. He has been a Director of Catapult Communications Corporation. since June 2009. Mr. Ginsberg served as an Executive Director of Ixia since May 1997 until April 18, 2017. Mr. Ginsberg holds a BSEE from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Philip Barach (DounbleLine) - Mr. Barach is co-founder and President of DoubleLine Capital. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Barach was Co-Founder and Group Managing Director of the TCW Mortgage Group where he spent over 23 years. He has over 32 years of fixed income investment experience. Before joining TCW, Mr. Barach was Senior Vice President of Chief Investments for Sun Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles, where he was responsible for the asset/liability management of the firm and oversight and management of the company's $5 billion investment portfolio. Previously, he served as Principal Fixed Income Officer for the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest pension plan in the country. In that capacity, he was responsible for managing the fixed income portion of the fund which was 100% internally managed. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received a BA in International Relations and an MBA in Finance.





This is a great opportunity to network with influential executives in the LA Jewish community and enjoy a delicious dinner with your classmates.

Dress code: Business Casual

Bring name-tags!!!

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Hillel's 12th Annual Poker & Blackjack Tournament

Thursday, March 7, 2019 6:30pm - 9:30pm

The Mark, 9320 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90035

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It's that time of year again... POKER TIME! Our 12th Annual Poker & Blackjack Tournament will be held on Thursday, March 7th at 6:30P at The Mark. All of the funds raised go to a scholarship fund, which helps families that cannot afford tuition.
It's an awesome event with food, drinks, all types of raffles and auctions, as well as poker!
Dinner will be catered and there will be an open bar.

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D48 with Mark Tronstein, Andell Holdings, LLC

Monday, March 11, 2019 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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JBSA is invited to attend the JGSI D48 Dinner Series. Join a C-level Executive for an intimate dinner at a local steakhouse! Limited to 8 members per dinner.

Please join this dinner with Mark Tronstein, Andell Holdings, LLC
To RSVP, email info@thejgsi.org.

Mark Tronstein Bio:
Mark Tronstein is currently a Vice President at Andell, Inc., a Los Angeles-based private investment firm and family office with global business and investment interests, where he oversees the real estate strategy. Prior to joining Andell, Mark was a Director at Broadreach Capital Partners, a private real estate investment firm with over $1 billion of equity capital under management, where he was responsible for sourcing and executing value-add and opportunistic transactions across all product types as well as distressed debt in the Southwestern U.S. Prior to joining Broadreach, Mark was an investment professional at Morgan Stanley, where he focused on acquisitions in the Western U.S. on behalf of its various discretionary real estate private equity funds (MSREF, Special Situations, Prime Property) as well as its managed accounts. Prior thereto, Mark was an investment banker focused on general corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Throughout his career, Mark has completed over $8 billion of real estate-related transactions, including leveraged buyouts, distressed debt, portfolio and property acquisitions and developments, and corporate and asset-level financings. He graduated with a B.A. from the University of Southern California and with an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Remembering Their Stories: An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Renee Firestone

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Korn Hall, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States

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In partnership with the Jewish Graduate Student Initiative, the JBSA is proud to enter the last quarter of the year on a powerful note by bringing a Holocaust survivor to speak on campus. The JBSA would like to invite the Anderson community to hear Renee Firestone share her compelling story. Most famously, Renee Firestone appeared in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning 1998 documentary "The Last Days," but for decades Renee Firestone has toured the country and enraptured audiences in an effort to keep alive the memory of one of the saddest chapters in world history to ensure the atrocities are not forgotten.

In her speeches Renee has stressed that the world cannot presume that a rise to power like Adolf Hitler's couldn't happen today, given that genocide and human rights violations are still occurring in the modern age. We must continue to remember the past, if we don't want it to happen to us in the future.

The feedback from last year's attendees was overwhelmingly positive. Some students said it was the best event they attended at Anderson. With the even the youngest Holocaust survivors now in their 70's, we are honored that Renee can join us again to recount her first hand experiences.

Kosher refreshments will be provided.