Please join us for our SPECTACULAR Spring Gala in roaring 20s style

Anticipation is building for Beth Israel’s Let’s Play Spring Gala, a spectacular fundraiser in roaring 20s style! Our emcee for the evening will be Emmy Award winner Dan Cohen, co-anchor of CBS News 8 This Morning and CBS News 8 at 11:00 a.m.  SHENANIGANS will include the whole kit and caboodle: a snazzy silent auction, craft beer tasting, swell 1920s-era amusements such as bocce ball and croquet, and our very own glamorous Chai Life Nightclub featuring Billie, Pate, and AASD Award winner Debra Wanger!

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

5:30 p.m.
Silent Auction
Croquet, Badminton and a Putting Green
Speakeasy-inspired cocktails, wine, and craft beer tasting
Delicious dinner of sumptuous cuisines
7:00 p.m.
Chai Life Nightclub featuring Debra Wanger and other special surprises
8:15 p.m.
Dessert Reception

Auction
We invite you to join us as an auction donor by providing a gift certificate, experience, or item of your choosing.   Your extraordinary generosity is a vital part of this effort.  In exchange for your generous donation, we will acknowledge your organization’s contribution on event related materials. Click here to download the Auction Procurement Form.

Debra Wanger has won Billie, Pate, and AASD Festival Awards for her San Diego theatre and cabaret appearances. San Diego theatre audiences may recognize her onstage from the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Musical Theatre, Cygnet Theatre in Old Town and New Village Arts. She has been featured in Berlin to Brooks and the Richard Rodgers Centennial Celebration at the University of Judaism. The Miami Herald hailed her “a comic sparkplug.” Debra has also appeared at Vantage Theatre, the Lawrence Welk Dinner Theatre, La Jolla Stage, Lyric Opera San Diego, and in the Pate Award-winning San Diego premiere of Triumph of Love.

Dan Cohen  “Find a job you love doing, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Words to live by…from Dan Cohen, 3-time Emmy award winning anchor of CBS News 8 at 4:30, 5, 6, and 11 AM.
Dan considers it an honor and privilege to help the people of San Diego begin each day. He started at San Diego’s #1 TV station, KFMB, in 2002. Dan’s passion, enthusiasm, and energy quickly led to a full time position as morning anchor in 2004.

TICKET OPTIONS

BIG CHEESE SPONSOR
$2500 for two people
Includes cocktails, dinner, dessert, inclusion in three Facebook posts, two reserved priority seats for the performance, name/logo listed in the program and video

PUTTING ON THE RITZ PATRON
$900 per person
Includes cocktails, dinner, reserved priority seat for performance, dessert, listing in program and video
Click here to download the reply form.

THE CAT’S MEOW
$500 per person
Includes cocktails, dinner, one priority seat for performance, dessert, listing in program

THE BEES KNEES
$180 per person
Includes cocktails, dinner, one performance seat and dessert

THE REAL MCCOY
$90 per person (Under 40 or first time Gala Attendee)
Includes cocktails, dinner, one performance seat and dessert

BIG CHEESE SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES
Sponsor and Non-Profit Community Partner Opportunities are also available. These underwriting opportunities provide a variety of participation levels of benefits including reserved priority seating, inclusion in event publicity.