Talia and Liron David are proud to call Great Neck home and are deeply grateful to be part of the Great Neck Synagogue community, a community that has played an important role in their family’s Jewish life.
For Talia, Great Neck Synagogue has always been home. She was raised in Great Neck in a family with deep roots in the community and a longstanding connection to GNS. Growing up surrounded by family, tradition, and community instilled in her the values that she and Liron now strive to pass on to their own children.
Liron grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where Jewish communal life and tradition were an important part of his upbringing. Since making Great Neck home with Talia and their family, Liron has become a familiar fixture in the GNS Beis Midrash Minyan each Shabbat. He is an active participant in the minyan and regularly serves as a Chazzan, something that has become a particularly meaningful part of his connection to the shul and the community.
Professionally, Liron is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Eventique, the event production and experiential agency he founded in 2006. Over the past two decades, Eventique has grown from a small New York agency into a nationally recognized company producing large-scale corporate, nonprofit, cultural, and community experiences. Liron is also the founder of Lavan, a collection of premier event venues that began in New York and continues to expand.
Most recently, Liron and Talia brought their entrepreneurial spirit even closer to home with the opening of LaVino, their community wine and spirits store in Great Neck. Talia runs LaVino and has helped shape it into a welcoming neighborhood business built around hospitality, personal relationships, and service to the community.
Above all, Talia and Liron are most proud of the family they are building together. They are the parents of Jack (14), Sam (11), and Mia (9), and they place tremendous importance on raising their children with a strong Jewish identity, a love of family, and an understanding of the responsibility that comes with being part of a community.
For the David family, Great Neck Synagogue represents much more than the place where they daven. It is where generations of Talia’s family have built lasting relationships, where Liron has found a meaningful spiritual home, and where Jack, Sam, and Mia are growing up surrounded by Torah, tradition, friendship, and community.
Talia and Liron are deeply honored and humbled to be recognized by Great Neck Synagogue and are grateful to share this special occasion with their family, friends, and the entire GNS community. They look forward to continuing to strengthen the community they are so proud to call home for many years to come.
Tovah and Josh Marmer are proud and honored to be celebrating the Great Neck Synagogue on it's 75th anniversary.
In the merit of Tovah's grandparents Jack and Millie Werber and parents, past President and dinner honorees, David Werber (ztl") and Ellie Werber, Tovah and Josh represent their family's continued commitment and love for GNS and the broader Great Neck community.
Born only a few hospitals away from each other - Tovah at Long Island Jewish and Josh at North Shore - their physical and spiritual journeys would cross paths many years later.
Tovah is a Great Neck native and Jewish day school graduate, attending NSHA through middle school, Ramaz for high school, and celebrating her Bat Mitzvah with her twin sister Shoshana at GNS in 1991.
Josh grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, eventually moving back to New York where he was the beneficiary of amazing Kiruv from the Beginner Service at Lincoln Square Synagogue, Hineni, Aish Ha Torah, and most influentially, Manhattan Jewish Experience (MJE). It was on the Upper West Side at MJE where Tovah and Josh met each other on Shemini Atzeret in 2006. They married in 2008 under the chuppah with Rabbi Polakoff and moved to Great Neck in 2011.
Tovah's volunteer involvement permeates throughout the community. For NSHA, she's been on multiple boards, including the board of Trustees, early childhood, elementary, and currently middle school board. Tovah is part of the GNS Catering Committee and Pass it Forward, on the Parent Council at Central (YUHSG), and served on the GN Mikveh Association board. She's also actively involved in organizing and securing raffle prizes for the NSHA summer outing and GNS dinners.
Josh is on GNS committees for the Yom Kippur appeal and the beautiful Kol Hanearim project, and he enthusiastically serves as Gabbai #5 in the Main Shul.
Tovah and Josh value the rich Jewish diversity at GNS and have frequented both the Main Shul and Beit Midrash minyans over the last 15 years. Together with their three daughters, Jackie (16, student at Central/YUHSG), Michaela (14, student at NSHA High School), and Violet (11, student at NSHA Middle School), the Marmer family is an exemplary role model for past, present, and future involvement in our shul.