SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel of San Diego has named Jeff Silberman recipient of the Carl M. Esenoff Memorial Award for Extraordinary Community Service. The Esenoff Award recognizes outstanding Jewish individuals for their service to Beth Israel and to the Jewish and general communities.
The award is named for its first recipient who established a high standard of extraordinary community service. It was last awarded in 2004. Silberman will be honored at a Spring 2014 event to be held at Beth Israel. Mary Ann Scher, a past Esenoff Award winner, will chair the event, along with Miriam Norten.
Silberman is a past president of Beth Israel and currently serves as a co-chair of the synagogue’s $20 million endowment campaign. He is chair of the board of directors of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego and serves on the board and executive committee of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County. He is a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation leadership program.
Silberman also serves on the board of the Francis Parker School and is co-chair of the school’s endowment campaign. He served as the 2012 National Chair of the UCLA School of Law Reunion Challenge and has served on the board of Second Chance.
For the past nine years, Silberman has been president and CEO of Carleton Management, Inc., a real estate company. Previously, he was affiliated as a lawyer with the San Diego law firm of Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith. He joined the firm in 1986, became a partner in 1989, and went on to become its youngest managing partner in 2000, a position he held for three years.
Silberman is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with honors, in economics, and earned his law degree from UCLA in 1982, where he was a member of the UCLA-Alaska law review.
Silberman was born and raised in San Diego. He and his wife Karen have four children.
Past Esenoff Award winners are Carl M. Esenoff (1987), Victor J. Schulman (1988), Herbert J. Solomon (1989), Pauline and Stanley Foster (1991), Shearn Platt (1993), Pearl Slayen (1995), Alberta and Charles Feurzeig (1998), Bob Breitbard (2000), and Mary Ann Scher (2004).
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