Honorees

Leslie Sacks
Leslie Sacks has been a prominent art dealer and gallerist in Los Angeles for the past 15 years, having established Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood in 1992. His academic background includes both psychology and computer science degrees from the University of Witwaterstrand, South Africa.
While in South Africa, Leslie worked in various capacities in opposition to apartheid and in support of the Black and Jewish South African communities in the early Seventies. He was Chairman of the South African Union of Jewish Students and served on the Executive of the World Union of Jewish Students while also publishing and editing various student publications including Mussar and Jewits whilst at university. Today Leslie supports numerous charities concerned with the defense of western civilized values and writes a regular blog on issues of deep concern regarding the future of the West. Leslie has two sons and lives in Beverly Hills.
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Barak Lurie
Barak Lurie was born in Israel, the son of famed Israeli political cartoonist Ranan Lurie. In 1985 he graduated with honors from Stanford University, and then obtained his joint JD/MBA degree at UCLA Law School and Business School. He became a real estate and business lawyer and after working in large firms started his own firm (now known as Lurie & Park LLP), serving entrepreneurs, mid-sized companies, and investors in both business and real estate. Formerly a champion of atheism, multiculturalism and global governance, Barak came to realize the shallowness and danger of those ideologies. He soon began writing about America and its democratic values as the salvation of Western civilization, rather than the cause of its problems. In 2008 he joined the Board of the American Freedom Alliance. Barak, his wife Stacey, and their children, Max (4) and Sasha (1) live in Brentwood.
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