Earl Raab is one of the Jewish community’s most widely recognized and respected community leaders and intellectuals. As the co-founder of JPAC, he recognized the importance of having a strong, unified voice in Sacramento to better the lives of those in our community. The Earl Raab Award is awarded annually to a community activist who best exemplifies Mr. Raab’s high standard of communal activism and advocacy for residents of our state.
Previous Earl Raab Awardees:
1999: Earl Raab
2000: Howard Welinsky
2001: Natalie Berg
2002: David A. Lehrer
2003: Carol Velarde
2004: Barbara Yaroslavsky
2005: No award given
2006: Jackie Berman/Susan Mogul
2007: Norma Satten
2008: Stanley Kandel
2009: Nancy Goldberg
To learn more about Earl Raab, click HERE to read a March 26, 2009, J. (the Jewish news weekly of Northern California) editorial by Rabbi Doug Kahn of the San Francisco JCRC.
