Milken honors educators

By Ryan Torok
Published on December 5, 2012

“We are planting seeds — not me, but all of us.” With those words of hope offered to her fellow teachers, Lidia Turner, a seventh- and eighth-grade Hebrew teacher at the David Saperstein Middle School of Milken Community High School, accepted the Milken Family Foundation’s 2012 Jewish Educator Award during an assembly at her school on Sept. 21.

Richard Sandler: A philanthropic life

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on November 20, 2012

In 2007, when philanthropist Stanley Gold was asked to become board chair of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, he knew he would need an effective partner to accomplish the reinvention of Federation he envisioned.

Foundation gives teachers respect

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on December 15, 2010

The Milken Family Foundation and BJE (Builders of Jewish Education) awarded four Jewish day school educators $15,000 prizes at their annual Jewish Educator Awards Luncheon last week, a feel-good event that brings out the Jewish community’s top brass and a wide swath of the denominational spectrum.

Milken family recognizes Jewish educators, YULA rides, ADL honors

By Danielle Berrin
Published on December 29, 2008

When Dena Wolmark first found out that someone at Bais Yaakov School for Girls would receive one of four Milken Family Foundation Jewish Educator Awards earlier this fall, the general studies administrator at the Orthodox high school organized an assembly where the unnamed teacher would be surprised with a $15,000 check. Surprise indeed: the winner turned out to be Wolmark.

Bush should pardon Mike Milken

By Dean Rotbart
Published on December 18, 2008

Milken is a good man. Dare I say, a tzadik (righteous one)?

Tragedy and Triumph Comes Alive for Teens

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on April 28, 2005

As 14-year-old Lisa Jura said goodbye to her mother at a Vienna train station in 1938, Jura’s mother spoke words that would inspire her for a lifetime: “Hold on to your music. It will be your best friend.”
Jura didn’t imagine that these words — and how her life came to embody them — would inspire subsequent generations of teenagers, even 70 years later.

Briefs

Published on December 25, 2003

Milken Opens Vault of Jewish Music

By Ellen Jaffe-Gill
Published on July 24, 2003

The Milken Family Foundation, well-known for its philanthropy to education and medical research, has announced that it will begin to issue recordings this fall from its 13-year-old music archive project, an enormous undertaking spanning more than three centuries of American Jewish music.