Dear Friends,

We are just about two weeks away from our Gala and a few hours away from the opening of our online auction at midnight on 2/13.  I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our Gala chairs, Bayla Friedman Treiger and Julie Varon and their hardworking committee* for all that they are doing to ensure that you have a FABULOUS evening on 2/27 and that we have a successful fundraiser!  

We hope you will be joining us at the gala on February 27.  Imagine a magical evening. You walk into the luxuriously modern yet warm and friendly Grand Hyatt Hotel in Downtown Seattle.  You are greeted with a complimentary glass of Bartenura's Prosecco Brut.  You are also warmly greeted by your NYHS family.  Look around the great foyer.  Honorees Moshe Genauer and Ruben Owen are surrounded by admiring and appreciative friends and family. The crowd is multi-faceted and multi-generational.  Current and former parents, alumni, grandparents, faculty, staff members and friends mingle and admire the student art exhibit and silent auction.  NYHS students dressed in their finest tempt you with offers to win diamonds and much more. Beautiful bronze and silver tables are laden with all kinds of wonderful auction items.  It is the best kind of perusing and shopping you can do since all your purchases support NYHS, Jewish education and the faces of the future, those young people you just bought a raffle ticket from!    

This is just a  teaser...help make it a reality!  Make your reservations today! You won't want to miss out!  

Shabbat shalom!

Melissa Rivkin

Director of Advancement 

Amazing Gala Committee:

Elena Alberstone, Amy Allen, Michele Appelbaum, Nathalie Bentov,Jami Blumenstein,Jack DeLeon, Deanne Etsekson, Regina Friedland, Lori Gamel, Zoe Goldeshtein, Joyce Phillips, Mark Rogers, Tami Rogers, David Rossen, Iris Schwartz, Ellen Spear, Ben Varon  and Honorary Committee members:  Kari Haas, Maureen O'Hara and Debra Rettman!!!!!!!!!