Join UJA’s Wine & Spirit Division for our annual event. We’ll honor Max L. Shapira, executive chairman of Heaven Hill Brands, for his professional and philanthropic leadership.
We’ll also pay tribute to UJA’s powerful work meeting the crises of today, including rising antisemitism, increased hunger and poverty, and the war in Ukraine.
Wine & Spirits Division Annual Event
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
6:00 PM
place The Harmonie Club, 4 East 60th Street, New York, NY, 10022
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Max L. Shapira
Executive Chairman, Heaven Hill Brands
As the only son of Ed Shapira, one of the five brothers who founded Heaven Hill Brands immediately following the repeal of Prohibition, Max L. Shapira was born into the bourbon business in January of 1944.
After spending his childhood growing up in the shadow of his family's Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, Max left to earn his undergraduate degree at Washington and Lee University in 1965 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1967. He joined his family's company in 1970 as director of corporate planning, after spending five years at Morgan Guaranty Trust (now J.P. Morgan) in New York.
Max became president in 1996 following the death of his uncle...
Leadership
Chair: Roy Danis
Executive Committee: John Devin, David Drucker, Jason Glasser, Herman Hochberg, Roni Jesselson, Joseph Lehane, Richard Leventhal, Joshua Ratner, Jody Slone-Spitalnik, Marc Taub, Gary Wartels, Jonathan Yusen
Chair: Mark Chaplin
Vice Chair: Adam Wilson
Committee: Jon Dubin, David Finkelstein, Michael Fisch, Samuel Hirsch, Chase Glick, Olivia Kupfer, Matt Lande, Andrew Merinoff, Noah Phillips, Charles Sachs, Talia Shalen, Jake Taub, Todd Wiesel, Kyra Zeller
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Chair: Roy Danis
Executive Committee: John Devin, David Drucker, Jason Glasser, Herman Hochberg, Roni Jesselson, Joseph Lehane, Richard Leventhal, Joshua Ratner, Jody Slone-Spitalnik, Marc Taub, Gary Wartels, Jonathan Yusen
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Commemorative Journal Close Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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