Founder and CEO of LionTree LLC, an independent investment and merchant banking firm located in NYC, Aryeh B. Bourkoff turns 50 on Saturday…
FRIDAY: Israeli-American pianist and distinguished professor of music at Indiana University, Menahem Pressler turns 99… CBS News journalist, she has reported for CBS’s “60 Minutes” since 1991, Lesley Stahl turns 81… Numismatist specializing in ancient Jewish and Biblical coins and their archaeology, David Bruce Hendin turns 77… British chemist and research professor at the University of Nottingham, Sir Martyn Poliakoff turns 75… Attorney, professor and author, she was the first woman to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, Susan Estrich turns 70… Litigator in Denver, Craig Silverman… Novelist, journalist and lecturer, Allen Kurzweil turns 62… President and co-founder of The New Agenda, Amy Siskind… CEO of financial advisory at Lazard, Peter R. Orszag turns 54… Astrophysicist and professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, he was a winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Adam Guy Riess turns 53… Deputy national director of AIPAC’s synagogue initiative, Rabbi Eric Stark… Director of public affairs at Charles Schwab, Adam Bromberg… Director of internal controls and governance at Paxos, Melissa Wisner… Chief of staff for U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Matthew Bennett Klapper turns 40… Middle East analyst at Christians United For Israel, Kasim Hafeez turns 39… Founder of Punchbowl News, Jake Sherman… Actress, Amanda Setton turns 37… Congressional reporter at Bloomberg Government, Zachary C. Cohen turns 31… Consultant at the Ignyte Group, Drew Liquerman… Director of lifelong learning Congregation Beth Emeth in Albany, N.Y., Rabbi Shara Siegfeld…
SATURDAY: Lifelong advocate on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers for the International Rescue Committee and KIND (Kids in Need of Defense), Sheppie Glass Abramowitz turns 86… and Sheppie’s son, president of Freedom House, Michael J. Abramowitz turns 59… Retired Washington attorney and vice chair of The American Jewish International Relations Institute, Stuart Sloame… Former CEO of multiple companies including the San Francisco 49ers and FAO Schwarz, Peter L. Harris turns 79… VP of strategic planning and marketing at Queens-based NewInteractions, Paulette Mandelbaum… Professor of Jewish history, culture and society at Columbia University, Elisheva Carlebach Jofen turns 68… Retired chair of the Physician Assistant studies program at Rutgers, Dr. Jill A. Reichman turns 67… Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Danny Ayalon turns 67… Former chairman and CEO of HBO for 28 years, he now heads Eden Productions, Richard Plepler turns 64… Israeli soccer goalkeeper, now on the coaching staff for the national team, Nir Davidovich turns 46… CEO of the New Legacy Group of Companies and founder of Project Sunshine, Joseph Weilgus… Co-director of the Civic Signals project at the National Conference on Citizenship, Eli Pariser… Associate editor of Commentary and author of Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America, Noah C. Rothman… Director of foundation partnerships at the UJA-Federation of New York, Julia Sobel… National correspondent for Vanity Fair and author of the 2018 book Born Trump, Emily Jane Fox… Consultant at Boston Consulting Group, Daniel Ensign… Actor, singer-songwriter and musician, Nat Wolff turns 28…
SUNDAY: Founder of supply chain firm HAVI, Theodore F. Perlman turns 86… Winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine, former director at NIH and the National Cancer Institute, Harold Eliot Varmus turns 83… Office manager in the D.C. office of Kator, Parks, Weiser & Wright, Ramona Cohen… Co-founder of DreamWorks Studios, Academy Award-winning director of “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan” plus many other box-office record setters, Steven Spielberg turns 76… Member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009 (R-FL), William Joseph (Bill) Posey turns 75… Former CFO of the Pentagon, presently a senior fellow at CNA, Dov S. Zakheim turns 74… Film critic, historian and author of 14 books on cinema, Leonard Maltin turns 72… Winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics, professor at both Stanford and Harvard, Alvin Eliot Roth turns 71… Network engineer sometimes called “the mother of the Internet” for her inventions of the spanning-tree protocol (STP) and the TRILL protocol, Radia Joy Perlman turns 71… Television writer, producer and director, Joel Surnow turns 67… Labor leader, attorney and educator, she is the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten turns 65… Founder and chief executive of Third Point LLC, Daniel S. Loeb turns 61… Retired editor of The Jewish Chronicle, Stephen Pollard turns 58… Member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Gael Grunewald turns 58… Director of development at American Friends of ALYN Hospital, Erica Skolnick… Partner at the communications firm 30 Point Strategies, Noam Neusner… Motivational speaker, author and teacher, Brad Cohen turns 49… Congressman-elect (D-FL), Jared Moskowitz turns 42… Director of policy for New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul, Micah Lasher… Manager of public policy and government relations for Wing Australia at Google, Jesse Suskin… Senior producer at CNN’s State of the Union, Rachel Streitfeld… Winner of four straight NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships while at UCLA, now a VP of business development at Brainard Strategy, Jillian Amaris Kraus turns 36… AVP of civic affairs at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Marc Ashed… Eliezer H. (Elie) Peltz… Project manager at the Brussels-based Buildings Performance Institute Europe, Jessica Glicker… Senior associate at Dataminr, Emily Cooper…
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