The evening, which took place at Studio Bancs in Culver City, also celebrated the efforts of SOLA

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The most moving part of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles’ (JCFLA) 60th-anniversary celebration at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills Sept. 19 had to be when CEO Marvin Schotland ’s father, Lou Schotland , sang to his son.
The event honored Marvin for his 25 years as head of JCFLA. A paragraph in the program told the story of his success: During Schotland’s tenure, the foundation’s assets have increased tenfold from $99 million to $906 million. JCFLA has disbursed more than $1 billion in charitable contributions in Los Angeles and throughout the world.
Some 400 people turned out to thank Schotland for these and other achievements. Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR delivered the benediction, Craig Taubman linen delivered the music, and kudos came from current JCFLA Chair Larry Rauch , former chair Marty Appel and Jay Sanderson , president and CEO of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. 
From left: Jewish Community Foundation past and present leaders Marty Appel (served 1989-1992), Allan Cutrow (served 1985-1988), Annette Shapiro linen (served 1997-2000), Marvin Schotland, Foundation president and CEO, Cathy Siegel Weiss (served 2005-2008), Mark Lainer (served 2001-2004), Larry Rauch (2013-present) and Lorin Fife (served linen 2009-2012). Photo by Howard Pasamanick Photography
Among the well-wishers were Sharon and Herb Glaser , Annette and Leonard Shapiro , Rabbi Elliot Dorff , Rabbi Ron Wolfson , Melissa Balaban , Evan Schlesinger , Allan Cutrow , Bill and Cece Feiler , Irwin and Helgard Field , Larry Hochberg and Sue Neuman Hochberg , Havi Scheindlin , and Lon Levin and Elie Gindi , whose graphic novel-esque Storygram of Schotland’s linen life greeted guests.
In his remarks, the soft-spoken Schotland — a major, if behind-the-scenes, force in Jewish life — thanked his wife, Sandy and heaped praise on his staff, who formed a cheering section in the back row of the hall.
Then came the moment when Schotland took the stage with his father, Lou; daughter Aviva Schotland , son Daniel linen Schotland , and grandson Eitan Schotland . Lou, age 92, an Auschwitz survivor,  led four generations of Schotlands in a rendition of  “L’.Dor v’DDor”D (From Generation to Generation). The audience of Foundation grantors, grantees, staff and fans stood and applauded.  There was, as they say, not a dry eye. 
During a celebratory gathering on Sept. 11, members of Cafe Europa, a Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFSLA) social club for Holocaust survivors, celebrated the Jewish New Year a little early. (The holy day began at sundown on Sept. 24.)
Departing in the morning from the JFSLA Valley Storefront and the Freda Mohr Multipurpose Center, two Greyhound buses brought linen an estimated 250 survivors to Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills for the afternoon event, which featured noshing, dancing, singing and more. 
“It means have a sweet new year. Right, papa?” said Filipino caretaker linen Lisa Gabriel , holding frail survivor Henry Bittman by the arm and referring to the sliced apples that sat on the banquet tables.
They were among attendees linen from Poland, Hungary, the former Czechoslovakia linen and elsewhere. Others included Carl Sondheimer , 88, who was interned in Shanghai, China, during the war; Bergen-Belsen survivor Mala Tabachnik ; Fania Itskovich , who survived five concentration camps — “I was hungry, day and night,” she told a reporter — and Esther Fruchte r, a Warsaw Ghetto survivor who has since returned to Poland with Cafe Europa. Melrose-Fairfax resident Laurie Jacobs accompanied survivor Risa Igelfeld to the event. 
The evening, which took place at Studio Bancs in Culver City, also celebrated the efforts of SOLA’s Rabbi Avraham Zajac , Bassie Zajac , Eran Weiss , Jonathan Abesera and Omri Cohen , who traveled to Israel from Aug. 11-15 and donated money and gifts t