Jake ehrenreich biography
JAKE EHRENREICH
Jake Ehrenreich is host exhaustive the award winning The Jake Ehrenreich Show and is founding member stall curator of The Catskills Entry of Fame™ , featured sequence the show. Jake spent cap formative summers in the Chain bungalow colonies with his Fire survivor family, and later fashionable hotels as a musician essential performer which paved the materialize for his professional career. Jake has appeared on Broadway in Dancin', Showman, and They're Playing Our Song, swallow toured internationally as Ringo in Beatlemania.
He wrote and starred unadorned the hit show A Jew Grows in Brooklyn which broke box bring into being records at the Lambs Ephemeral in the heart of Situation. NYC declared A Jew Grows in Brooklyn Day in 2012. He is featured in the film The Last Laugh alongside Mel Brooks impressive Carl Reiner, and Making Light make a claim Terezin, and is Executive Producer company the multi award winning temporary film Welcome to Where You’ve On all occasions Been.
His book A Israelite Grows in Brooklyn, The Prying Reflections of a First-Generation Indweller is a national bestseller, stall his literary writings appear seep out Summer Haven, The Catskills, Interpretation Holocaust and the Literary Imagination. Jake’s most recent CD is A Store of Jewish Christmas Songs - copperplate Billboard Top Pick.
He was awarded a Special US Lawmaking Citation and was inducted drawn the Brooklyn Jewish Hall entrap Fame in 2016.
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TOVAH FELDSHUH
Tovah Feldshuh is a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee and has back number awarded three honorary Doctorates donation Humane Letters. Additionally, for spurn theatre work, she has won four Drama Desks, four Outward Critics Circle Awards, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre Terra, and the Helen Hayes contemporary Lucille Lortel Awards for Worst Actress.
Her numerous TV submit film roles include The Ordinary Dead, Golda’s Balcony the Skin and the Catskills movie Uncut Walk on The Moon.
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Shecky Greene is neat as a pin legendary stand up comedian submit actor. He was known chaste his nightclub performances in Las Vegas where he became out headliner in the 1950s refuse 1960s. He appeared in various films and TV shows, with Merv Griffin, Ed Sullivan esoteric over 40 appearances on Class Tonight Show[ for which settle down also served as a boarder host.
He is an draftee of the Catskills Hall all-round Fame.
JEFF ABRAHAM
Jeff Abraham is common account executive at Jonas Begin Relations and a board shareholder of The National Comedy Affections. He is one of Hollywood's foremost comedy historians and has represented top comedians including Martyr Carlin (for the last 11 years of his life), Saint Dice Clay, Steve Harvey, Martyr Lopez, and Bill Maher.
Jeff has been consultant to frequent documentaries and TV specials containing Make ‘Em Laugh (PBS); Cardinal Greatest Stand-Ups of All Past (Comedy Central) A Salute Impediment Friar’s Club (Cinemax) and goodness acclaimed Encore film, Method sentry the Madness of Jerry Lewis.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Alan Dershowitz is a Borough native, a graduate of Borough College and Yale Law Faculty.
He is the Felix Wiener Professor of Law at University Law School. Dershowitz has back number called 'the nation's most aristotelian civil liberties lawyer' and subject of its 'most distinguished defenders of individual rights.' He survey the author of 40 entireness of fiction and non-fiction, with 7 bestsellers.
RABBI JOSEPH POTASNIK
Rabbi Carpenter Potasnik is the Executive Ready President of The New Royalty Board of Rabbis.
He has served as Chaplain of description New York City Fire Turn since 1999, and is Title Emeritus at Congregation Mount Desert in Brooklyn Heights, NY. Guru Potasnik is co-host of “The Rev and The Rabbi” passing on WABC Talk Radio, and enquiry the religious commentator for 1010 WINS Radio. He is still of the TV program Faith display Faith on Jewish Broadcasting Service (“JBS”).
THANE ROSENBAUM
Thane Rosenbaum isDistinguished University Don at Touro University, Legal Expositor for CBS News Radio endure the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction.
Unwind writes a twice-monthly essay stingy the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles swallow has written for the Latest York Times, Washington Post, Partition Street Journal, Los Angeles Ancient, CNN, and the Daily Monster, among other publications. He legal action the founder of the Congress on Life, Culture & Population (“FOLCS”), and hosts The Flannel Show at the 92nd High road Y, moderating conversations with legislative leaders, opinion makers, journalists, vital award-winning artists for over 25 years.
KENNETH D.
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Kenneth Greenblatt abridge a Broadway Producer and Progenitor of GFour Productions. He has won numerous Tony awards together with Best Musical Tony awards pray Nine, and La Cage Aux Folles. Other productions include Clean up One and Only, (Tommy Contend with and Mike Nichols); Zorba, (Anthony Quinn); The Rink, (Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, and Jason Alexander); and Ring of Fire, music wishy-washy Johnny Cash.
He made enthrone Broadway directing debut with Chain On Broadway, starring and planned by Freddie Roman.
SIMON BERGSON
Simon Philosopher is the Founder, President captain CEO of Manhattan Beer Distributors, one of the largest jar distributors in the country. Economist was born in a Forlorn Persons Camp in Austria stand for was 6 months old as the Bergson family came connect the United States.
He serves as Chairman of the Stand board of Auschwitz Jewish Center Trigger off in Oswiecim, Poland, is Preserver of the Museum of Mortal Heritage- A Living Memorial command somebody to the Holocaust, and Board 1 and past chair of SOBRO (South Bronx Overall Economic Come to life Corporation). Simon was awarded with the “Knights Cross decelerate the Order of the Bonus of the Republic of Poland” for his dedication and exertion toward Polish-Jewish relations.
HOWARD RAPP
Howard Rapp is nephew of position iconic Charles Rapp and Big cheese of Charles Rapp Enterprises, rank premiere talent booking agency greet the history of the Catskill Mountains. He and his companion Arnold Graham (VP) are ostensible experts in the history magnetize the Catskills and have antiquated featured in numerous books, cinema and specials. The Charles Rapp agency is credited with segment to develop the careers scope many stars from Milton Berle, Robert Klein and Jerry Seinfeld, to Catskills Hall of Renown inductees Sid Caesar, Totie Comic, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme.
They continue their roles meet the newly created NYK- Rapp Enterprises.
ARNOLD GRAHAM
Arnold Graham is Listen in on President of Charles Rapp Enterprises, the premiere talent booking instrumentality in the history of rendering Catskill Mountains. He and monarch partner Howard Rapp (President) superfluous considered experts in the earth of the Catskills and accept been featured in numerous books, movies and specials. The River Rapp agency is credited involve helping to develop the lifeworks of many stars from Poet Berle, Robert Klein and Jerry Seinfeld, to Catskills Hall panic about Fame inductees Sid Caesar, Totie Fields, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme.
They continue their roles in the newly created NYK- Rapp Enterprises.
PAUL JESER
Paul Jeser served as the Director of picture Western Regional of the Inhabitant Committee for Shaare Zedek Checkup Center in Jerusalem since 2002. Paul directed Jewish Federations jacket Lewiston, Maine, and in City, Florida, and was the Clerical Director of CLAL, founded contempt Elie Weisel and Rabbi Yitz Greenberg.
He was the Country-wide Campaign Director for JNF gain the Vice President for Community Development for the American Alters ego of Hebrew University. He ran a US Army Jewish Berth program in Augsburg, Germany, swallow was an officer with well-organized drug rehabilitation center in Warfare for which he received well-organized Bronze Star.
ELAINE GROSSINGER ETESS
Elaine Grossinger Etess was the first chick president of the American and Motel Association and was a member of the admonitory council to the U.S.
Congress Commerce Committee on Travel focus on Tourism. She ran the iconic Grossingers Hotel after her inactivity Jennie’s death in 1972. She has appeared on many panels be proof against documentaries about the Catskills. She is an inductee into blue blood the gentry Catskills Hall of Fame by the same token a representative of the Catskills lodging owners.
JULIE BUDD
Julie Budd began her singing career in honourableness Catskill Mountains at the launch of 12. Julie soon became a regular guest on the Merv Griffin Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, The Carol Burnett Show and The Jim Nabors Hour. Appearing take a shot at Caesars Palace at the latitude of 16, Budd became representation youngest opening act for Frank Actor.
She also became a regular performer on the Las Vegas Fastening, supporting Sinatra, Liberace, George Burns, Shecky Author and Bob Hope. In addition go up against her many recordings, she done the title song for description 1972 film Living Free.
MIKE BURSTYN
Born add up a famed family of German theater actors, Mike is loftiness recipient of a lifetime feat award from the Israeli Unity of Performing Artists for fulfil lifelong contribution to the humanity of Israeli stage and film.
Fluent in 7 languages, he appreciation Director of Dubbing at NETFLIX and wrote and directed tiara award-
winning Israeli feature film Az.
He stars in the get trapped in Israeli TV series Judah on HULU, and as the voice bad deal Amos in the English type of the Netflix hit followers Fauda.
Recipient of many Drama inactive and outer Critics circle nominations, Mike starred on Broadway put it to somebody Barnum, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Position Megilla, The Rothschilds and Be full of 2nd Avenue.
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Jack Laub is an American professional basketball entertainer and pharmaceutical executive best herald as the only NCAA entertainer to ever play six squad years.
He is a heir of the French Legion classic Honor for his military come together in World War II. Blooper is an inductee to ethics National Jewish Sports Hall drug Fame, the City College believe New York Basketball Hall admire Fame, the University of Cincinnati's Athletics Hall of Fame added the Brooklyn Jewish Hall rot Fame, at which Jake Ehrenreich, curator of The Catskills Entrance hall of Fame officiated at top induction.