American Friends of Rabin Medical Center EXECUTIVE BOARD BOARD OF DIRECTORS AN INTIMATE WOMEN’S LUNCHEON Abraham Barry E. Cohen, ChairMAN Aline Davidoff Arnold Burns, Esq. Claudia Davidoff WITH Lucette Lagnado Yoron Cohen Dawn Effron WALL STREET JOURNAL COLUMNIST & ACCLAIMED Author Bilha Fish, M.D. Stephen Flatow, Treasurer & Secretary Robert J. Ivanhoe, Esq. Jacalyn Barlia Florin Joseph Kahan Lawrence Magid, ASSISTANT Treasurer Claude Mann Arlene Strelitz Raquel Ramati Ofer Yardeni Peter Riguardi Tobi Rubinstein Schneier Joshua Eli Plaut, Ph.D., Executive Director David Schwartz, Esq. Andrew C. Freedman, Esq., General Counsel Stephen Siegel, President Emeritus Dr. Eyran Halpern, CEO Rabin Medical center Michael H. Steinhardt Phyllis B. Trobman Mortimer B. Zuckerman

American Friends of Rabin Medical Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit national charity based in City. Donations to this event are tax deductable in accordance with the law. Proceeds from this luncheon benefit a cancer research clinic focused on identification and early detection of BRCA gene mutations in women at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center—home to the Davidoff Cancer Center—a world class facility whose sole focus is on the treatment and prevention of cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer afflicting Jewish women in the and Israel. Throughout their lifetimes, one in eight Jewish women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Genetic mutations in the BRCA genes cause breast cancer and are known to be more prevalent among Ashkenazi women. With each passing year, more women diagnosed with breast cancer are surviving. This can be attributed in part to a number of factors: improved primary care at diagnosis, enhanced treatment facilities, advances in radiation equipment, and above all, early detection. Each year doctors and research fellows at Israel’s Davidoff Comprehensive Cancer Center are conducting vital research to find cures for breast cancer and their findings benefit doctors and patients all over the world. Thank you for supporting research to find a cure for breast cancer.

636 Broadway, Suite 218, New York, NY 10012 tel 212 279-2522 [email protected] www.afrmc.org lucette Lagnado The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to American Friends of Rabin Medical Center is a companion volume to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, which was lavishly praised by Michiko Kakutani in invites you to a luncheon to benefit as a “stunning memoir…a deeply affecting portrait of her family and its Breast Cancer Research Fellowships in Israel journey….[Lagnado] conjures a vanished world with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace, and...she calculates the emotional costs of exile with an unsentimental but Thursday, April 26, 2012 forgiving eye….Writing in crystalline yet melodious prose, Ms. Lagnado gives us an Israel Independence Day indelible galley of family portraits.” Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to flee as 11:30 am – 12:15 pm refugees when she was a small child, eventually coming to New York. In addition to Jewelry Show & Cocktail Reception The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, she is the co-author of Children of the Flames: Dr. Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, which has been translated 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm into nearly a dozen foreign languages. Joining in 1996, she has received numerous awards and is currently a senior special writer and investigative Luncheon & Talk reporter. She and her husband, Douglas Feiden, live in . Lucette Lagnado Musical Performance Leah Tehrani Leah Tehrani Leah Tehrani, a native of Toronto, moved to New York to pursue her singing career. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Restaurant at Fifteen Central Park West has graduated from the Internship Affiliate Program at Broadway Executive Chef Andy Schilling Dance Center, and was a student at The Juilliard School. She has also completed her studies at Mannes College of Music. New York City Leah has performed on numerous occasions with The New York Grand Opera, including Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” at Central Park’s Summer Stage and Verdi’s “Requiem” at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Maestro Vincent La Selva, Minimum Contribution $300 with whom she has also studied privately. Leah also had the honor of playing the role Limited Space

of Cassie in “A Chorus Line” at the Colleen Dewhurst Theater in upstate New York. Event Co-Chairs Leah studied opera in Siena, Italy at the Senese Per La Musica. Leah recently had a Phyllis Arnold and Dawn Effron debut performance of her show “My Life in Music” at the Laurie Beechman Theater to a sold out audience. Leah is also a member of the esteemed Friar’s Club. For more information RSVP by April 16, 2012 212 279-2522 or [email protected]