Giving Back We have come a long way from our roots. When you have been so blessed, it is important to give back. Over the years, Jayusia and I have served on boards of performing arts groups, Jewish organizations, and educational institutions. I was on the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, my alma mater, and Jayusia was on an Advisory Board of NYU, her alma mater, and both of us were on the Board of Directors of the Spanish Repertory Theater in New York. In Miami, I was a board member at Ransom Everglades School, which Marc attended, Temple Beth Am, the Florida Philharmonic, the Arsht Performing Arts Center Trust, the Musical Arts Association of Miami, which for a period, managed the Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency, and currently the Miami Music Project, a non- profit that provides classical musical instrument instruction after school to students free of charge. Temple Beth Am Jayusia and I believe that the survival of Judaism in the United States depends on strong Jewish institutions operating at the local level. Temple Beth Am fulfills this mission exceptionally well. Marc had his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Beth Am in 1998. We are grateful that Marc and Michelle’s daughters, Mia and Lucy, are now attending the TBA Day School, which has become one of the leading independent schools in Miami-Dade.
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