Page 12 - Boca Club News - September '23

Page 12, Boca Club News
JARC Florida Names Five to Board of Directors;

Howard Halpern Named President of the Board

JARC Florida, a nonprofit organization based in Boca of Visitors; Member of the David Pratt is the
Raton that provides programs and services to educate and M.D. Anderson Children’s Chair of the Private Client
empower individuals with intellectual and developmental Cancer Hospital Advisory Services Department of
disabilities, has named five new individuals to its board of Board; and Member of Proskauer and Managing
directors. They are Jay Eisenberg, Marvin Greenberg, Cliff several strategic committees Partner of the Firm’s Boca
Hark, David Pratt and Richard Steinberg. The organization at M.D. Anderson. He and Raton office. He had the
also announced Howard Halpern as President of the Board. his wife Lori established privilege of serving as
It is the mission of JARC, in partnership with the families an Endowed Distinguished Chair of the Florida Bar’s
of its clients, to promote independence dignity, and self- Chair at M.D. Anderson and Tax Section and Chair of
respect in order to create more fulfilling lives. JARC currently an Endowment at the cancer the Fiduciary Income Tax
operates ten group homes in the Boca Raton and Delray Children’s Hospital for the Committee of the American
Beach area for adults with developmental disabilities. JARC Stem Cell Transplant & Cell Bar Association’s Section
offers apartment living for those who do not require 24-hour Therapy Research Training Program; and more recently the of Taxation. Pratt is a Fellow in the American College of
supervision, as well as vocational training in the Mel & Elaine Lori & Jay Eisenberg Respite Care Program at JARC. Trust & Estate Counsel, has served on its Board of Regents
Stein Living and Learning Center. The organization was Marvin Greenberg is and was the first Chair of the New Fellows Steering
created in the mid 1980s in response to the needs of families the former Chairman and Committee. He is an adjunct professor at the University
with adult children with developmental disabilities. Learn CEO of Creative Designs of Miami Law School and has been an adjunct professor
more at http://jarcfl.org. International and CEO of at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, in
Howard Halpern, of Arbor Toys Limited. He is their LL.M. programs. He has published various articles in
Boca Raton, was raised in also a past Board Member legal journals, and lectures extensively to other lawyers,
South Florida. A graduate of Linwood Country Club, professionals and laypersons.
of the University of Miami, and the Milton & Betty Katz Richard Steinberg is
he served in the U.S. Army Jewish Community Center the Chief Market Strategist,
and the Florida National in Margate, New Jersey. Co-Chair of the Investment
Guard, and was awarded an Greenberg attended Temple Division and a Principal
honorary PhD in Business Preparatory and resides in of The Colony Group.
Administration from Johnson Boca Raton with his wife Steinberg is a Chartered
and Wales University. Halpern Sheila. Financial Analyst and
was the founder and CEO of Cliff Hark is the member of both the CFA
Buckhead Beef, a premier managing member at Society of South Florida
meat distribution company and later founded Halperns’ Steak Hark│Yon│Marmor, PLLC, and the CFA Institute. He
and Seafood, which grew to be the largest meat and seafood and focuses his practice on is a graduate of Emory
company in the US. Halpern and his wife, Lynne, founded Probate, Guardianship and University Business School
the Lynne and Howard Halpern Family Foundation, which Trust Administration, as and Harvard Business
has a primary focus of Jewish philanthropy with a particular well as Probate Litigation, School’s Executive Education Program. Steinberg
emphasis on supporting individuals with special needs. Guardianship and Trust serves as Vice Chair of the Jewish Federation of South
Howard and Lynne have a son who resides in the independent Litigation, Estate Planning Palm Beach County’s Annual Campaign and sits on both
living apartments at JARC. In 2022 the Halperns made a and Real Estate matters. its Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. He has
transformative gift to JARC, resulting in the establishment Hark received a Bachelor served as Chairman for the Jacobson Jewish Community
of the Lynne and Howard Halpern JARC Campus and of Science degree from the Foundation of South Palm Beach County and now serves
expansion of services for individuals with intellectual and University of Florida and is a graduate of Nova Southeastern on its Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, and the
developmental disabilities. University School of Law. Hark has been a member of the Governance Committee of the Foundation’s Professional
Jay Eisenberg has spent the past 40 years specializing Florida Bar since 1980, a member of its Real Property, Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Greater
in owning and managing a large portfolio of industrial Probate and Trust Law Section, and an authorized agent of Boca Raton Estate Planning Council and serves on the
properties in several states. He is a past president of Temple Attorneys’ Title Fund Services, LLC. He previously served investment committee of B’nai Torah Congregation’s
Beth Torah Sha’aray Tzedek in Tamarac; Senior Member of on the Executive Committee of the Temple Beth El of Boca Foundation.
the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Board Raton Board of Trustees.
Boca Downtown Public Library

Presents Art Exhibit “Written in Flowers”

by Bonnie Sorsby, Through October 8th

The Downtown Library in Boca Raton presents a new children’s boutique, and now works primarily as a offered the nudge she needed to pick up a brush, and she
art exhibit, “Written in Flowers” by Bonnie Sorsby. A photographer and graphic designer at Photo + Design hasn’t looked back. Says Sorsby, “What a blessing this
native Floridian, Sorsby notes, “Flowers speak a timeless Company in Lake Worth. Brushes, paints and canvases ride has been!”
language, and I am forever in awe of their ability to stared at her for a couple of years after she photographed “Written in Flowers,” a free exhibit, runs through
communicate a variety of emotions. My artistic goals them for a client. She felt a pull to paint, but as a October 8th in the front lobby of the Downtown Library
include creating work that brings about positive energy, homeschooling mom of two battling Lyme disease, she at 400 NW 2nd Avenue in Boca.
that heals and evokes cheerfulness and joy of life in our felt overwhelmed by the thought. A friend and mentor
world.”
Bonnie Sorsby is a self-taught artist who works
primarily in acrylics. Creatively self-employed for the
past 10 years, she has crafted jewelry, owned an online ª

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