The beautiful Blue Moon Hotel in lower Manhattan will be the site of a cocktail reception for the Aleh Foundation on the evening of June 1. The Blue Moon is an award-winning boutique hotel lovingly converted from an historic lower East-side 19th century tenement by architect and owner/operator Randy Settenbrino.
Aleh Foundation Rabbinical Board member and long-time supporter Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie will open the evening’s program by delivering the invocation. Rabbi Abadie will then sing the National Anthems of both Israel and the United States.
Rabbi Abadie’s involvement with the Aleh Foundation is emblematic of the Sephardic community’s concern for the needy of Israel and their support for the work of the Aleh Foundation.
The evening’s Guest of Honor will be Dr. Steven Shelov, a world-famous pediatrician and author who is the Associate Chief of Staff at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of North Shore LIJ, formerly known as Schneider’s Children’s Medical Center.
David and Lisa Ballasina of Axiom 33 will receive the Young Leadership award for their generous support and involvement in the Aleh Foundation’s numerous projects. Sharing this award will be Gil and Zoya Shenav of Power Solutions.
The evening’s program will also recognize the achievements of several outstanding individuals, including Dr. Howard Feldman and Jess Dolgin, CEO of J Media Group in Los Angeles. Chairpersons for the event include Susan Settenbrino Esq., Mike and Farnaz Delafraz and Jack and Violet Harounian.
For the past 21 years, the Aleh Foundation’s highly professional public relations and fundraising activities have taken the Aleh Centers in Israel from a small hospice to one of Israel’s foremost providers of care, treatment and education of the country’s most severely developmentally disabled infants and children. Buoyed by this great success, the foundation took the unprecedented step of adding several more worthy Israeli causes to Aleh’s community. Now, Aleh’s supporters are able to choose who they want to help from amongst Israel’s neediest.
The Aleh Foundation invites you to visit their new, expanded website: www.alehfoundationusa.org to learn all about the new projects and to watch for details of the cocktail reception as they develop. You can purchase tickets for this event on line or call the foundation’s headquarters in New York. Donations can also be mailed to the headquarters at Aleh Foundation USA, 5317 13th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Please call (718) 851-4596 or 800 317-ALEH for more information.
