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Circuit for June 2010
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June 1, 2010

From left: Monty and Marilyn Hall, Joyce Brandman, Jewish Home CEO-President Molly Forrest and Jewish Home board chair Dave Swartz. Photo by Steve Cohn

Emcee Carl Reiner, left, and event co-chair Pam Rubin, right, present honoree Joyce Brandman with the Jewish Home’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Photo by Steve Cohn

From left: Event co-chair Harold Foonberg and emcee Carl Reiner.
Photo by Steve Cohn

The Los Angeles Jewish Home honored Monty and Marilyn Hall with its Habonim (Builders) Award and Joyce Brandman with its Lifetime Achievement Award during the Celebration of Life: Reflections dinner at The Beverly Wilshire on May 24.

From left: Rabbi Heshy Glass, head of YULA Boys School; 10th-grade student Sammy Azair, the drive’s organizer; and Rabbi Arye Sufrin, student activities director.

YULA Boys High School students collected more than 1,000 canned items during a March food drive for Tomchei Shabbas, which provides Shabbat food packages to thousands of needy L.A. Jewish families.

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