Experience a taste of Long Island’s best restaurants at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s annual benefit: “Taste of Long Island.” This year’s benefit features a tasting event and silent auction on Monday, May 7 at 6 p.m. at Westbury Manor, 1100 Jericho Turnpike in Westbury. In addition, three middle and high-school students will be presented with the Friedlander Upstander Award.
The Tolerance Benefit is a way for donors, volunteers, Holocaust Survivors and members of the community to join together to raise money in support of HMTC’s Holocaust, anti-bias and anti-bullying education programs. Those donations make it possible to provide transportation for school groups to visit HMTC’s world-class museum and to hear first-hand testimony from a Holocaust survivor and for nurses and law enforcement officers to participate in free training workshops.
The Friedlander Upstander Award, presented by HMTC and the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation, in conjunction with the Nassau and Suffolk County Police Departments, is awarded to Nassau and Suffolk County middle school and high school students who have acted as Upstanders against bullying or intolerance in any of its forms. Recipients receive a $2,500 scholarship.
The Tolerance Benefit is sponsored by Sterling Risk Insurance, the Ike, Molly & Steven Elias Foundation, the Maidenbaum Property Tax Group, Title Associates, The Claire Friedlander Family Foundation, and Samar Hospitality. Other Sponsorship opportunities are available. Tickets are $130 a person and a ten-pack of tickets is available for $1,250. To make a donation or purchase tickets online visit www.hmtcli.org/tolerance.
For more information about sponsorship packages and to purchase tickets, contact Deborah Lom at 516-571-8040 or via email, dlom@hmtcli.org.
