{"id":37103,"date":"2021-06-25T01:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=37103"},"modified":"2021-06-25T00:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T07:20:29","slug":"cabgu-gala-now-sold-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2021\/06\/25\/cabgu-gala-now-sold-out\/","title":{"rendered":"CABGU gala now sold out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mitchell Oelbaum, national president of Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University. <em>(photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/in.bgu.ac.il\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in.bgu.ac.il<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Raising nearly $800,000 at a not-for-profit gala is no small feat, nor is having more than 1,200 people register for an event. When you add a pandemic to the mix and make it a virtual event, one might assume that it would be impossible to come close! But that\u2019s precisely what the Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University (CABGU) did in just seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a lean but unbelievably keen staff at CABGU, with an incredibly generous and committed group of lay leaders,\u201d said Mark Mendelson, CABGU\u2019s chief executive officer. \u201cAchievements like this make me so proud!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mendelson knew that every detail of the event was accounted for, beginning with the star attraction. Israeli actress Shira Haas, star of the popular Netflix series <em>Shtisel<\/em> and <em>Unorthodox<\/em>, recently nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Emmy, is the featured speaker. Fresh off her recent press tour for the newly released movie Asia, she will be joining the event live from Israel. Haas will be taking questions from Canada\u2019s Sen. Linda Frum, who will be moderating the conversation along with Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, BGU\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>CABGU\u2019s An \u201cUnorthodox\u201d National Virtual Gala for Brain Research at BGU raises money for the Canada Fund to Advance Brain Research. \u201cThe fund will go a long way in assisting researchers at the university with conducting groundbreaking and out-of-the-box research,\u201d said Mitchell Oelbaum, national president of CABGU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCABGU launched the Canada Fund to Advance Brain Research at BGU in April,\u201d added Mendelson. \u201cWe know that there is a strong appetite for the subject of brain research because so many of us know at least one person, if not more, who is impacted by neurodegenerative diseases here in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the July 7 virtual gala are sold out. However, a few sponsorships are still available at <a href=\"http:\/\/bengurion.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bengurion.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Oelbaum, national president of Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University. (photo from in.bgu.ac.il) Raising nearly $800,000 at a not-for-profit gala is no small feat, nor is having more than 1,200 people register for an event. When you add a pandemic to the mix and make it a virtual event, one might assume that it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1908,20247,3128,2864,20606,20682,20681,20680],"class_list":["post-37103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-ben-gurion-university","tag-canadian-associates-of-ben-gurion-university","tag-fundraising","tag-health","tag-mark-mendelson","tag-mitchell-oelbaum","tag-research","tag-science-gala"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}