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Marilyn Ziering is a retired American business executive and
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, California. She served as Senior Vice President of the Diagnostic Products Corporation for three decades. A trustee of the
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, she has endowed programs at
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Shalem College Shalem College ( he, המרכז האקדמי שלם, ''HaMerkaz HaAkademi Shalem'') is a private liberal arts college in Jerusalem, Israel providing undergraduate education and founded with the aim of producing "broadly educated citizens for liv ...
and the
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. She has also supported the American Friends of the
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, the
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and
Shalem College Shalem College ( he, המרכז האקדמי שלם, ''HaMerkaz HaAkademi Shalem'') is a private liberal arts college in Jerusalem, Israel providing undergraduate education and founded with the aim of producing "broadly educated citizens for liv ...
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Early life and business career

Marilyn Ziering is the daughter of Harry and Eva Brisman and was born in New York around 1932. She married Sigi Ziering in 1953. She and her husband did graduate work at
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, where she earned a master's degree in audiology in 1956. She was the Senior Vice President of the Diagnostic Products Corporation, a medical supplies company founded in 1973 by her late husband, for three decades.Kelly Homan Rodoski
Syracuse University to host groundbreaking symposium on Holocaust education
, Syracuse University, October 09, 2008
Featured Donor: Marilyn Ziering
Hillel at UCLA, March 14, 2011


Philanthropy

She is a co-founder of the
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. She was also the founding president of the Women's Group at the Friends of
Sheba Medical Center Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer ( he, המרכז הרפואי ע"ש חיים שיבא – תל השומר), also Tel HaShomer Hospital, is the largest hospital in Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan at Tel HaSho ...
, a hospital based in
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, Tel Aviv, Israel, from which she is the recipient of the Woman of Achievement Award. She has endowed the Sigi and Marilyn Ziering National Center for Newborn Screening at the Sheba Medical Center.Norma Zager
Good friends; Keeping the Covenant; Marvelous Mandy
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Additionally, she has served on the Board of Directors of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, where she is a Hall of Honor inductee and recipient of the Torah Fund Award.Ryan Torok
Moving and Shaking
''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', June 13, 2013
She served on the board of trustees of the Venice Family Clinic. Moreover, she serves as one of four co-vice presidents on the board of directors of the American Friends of the
Israeli Philharmonic The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ''ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit ha-Yisra'elit'') is an Israeli symphony orchestra based in Tel Aviv. Its principal concert venue ...
. She also serves on the Honorary Board of the World Alliance for Israel Political Action Committee (WAIPAC). She served as the chairman of the board of trustees of the
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(AJU) in Bel Air. Shortly after her husband's death, she established the Sigi Ziering Institute Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at AJU.American Jewish University: Sigi Ziering Institute
/ref> In 2008, she sponsored the "Symposium on Holocaust Education: A Tribute to the Voices Lost" at Syracuse University, her alma mater, co-organized by the
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, the
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and the Spector/Warren Fellowship for Future Educators. In 2011, she sponsored the Alternative Spring Break to
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, Uruguay, of students associated with Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the
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(UCLA). She has also donated to the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. In February 2013, she established the US$1 million Marilyn and Sigi Ziering Endowment for the Arts at
Shalem College Shalem College ( he, המרכז האקדמי שלם, ''HaMerkaz HaAkademi Shalem'') is a private liberal arts college in Jerusalem, Israel providing undergraduate education and founded with the aim of producing "broadly educated citizens for liv ...
in Jerusalem, Israel.Ziering Family Donates $1 Million to Establish Endowment for the Arts and Fund for Philosophy and Ethics
Shalem College, February 24, 2013
The endowment led to the hiring of Roy Oppenheim as Professor of Music and Music Theory. She also established the Sigi Ziering Fund for Philosophy and Ethics at Shalem College. The fund endows the research of
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, a co-author of the Israel Defense Forces's Code of Ethics, and
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, a human rights legal scholar. She has also donated to Camp Ramah, a summer camp.Naty Saidoff
Meet some extraordinary givers
''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', November 15, 2007
She serves as one of five vice chairmen on the board of trustees of the
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, where she has been a major donor. In 2006, she made a US$3.25 million charitable contribution to the L.A. Opera for the performance of works by artists assassinated by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.David Ng
L.A. Opera's Recovered Voices to go quiet in 2010–11
''The Los Angeles Times'', April 12, 2010
The program, known as 'Recovered Voices,' was first suggested by conductor
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. However, it was discontinued in 2010 due to financial constraints.David Ng
Colburn School creating Recovered Voices program with James Conlon
''The Los Angeles Times'', December 10, 2013
In 2013, she revived the program at the
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in Downtown Los Angeles, by donating US$1 million. It came to be known as the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices. In 2014, she was a Gold Sponsor of the
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Personal life

She married
Sigi Ziering Sigi Ziering (March 20, 1928 – November 12, 2000) was a German-born American business executive, scientist, playwright and philanthropist. A Holocaust survivor, he immigrated to the United States with his family, earned a doctorate in theor ...
in 1953.Myrna Oliver
Sigi Ziering; Tycoon Survived Nazi Camps
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They joined Temple Beth Am, a Conservative Jewish congregation in Los Angeles in 1969. The couple had two sons and two daughters: Michael Ziering, Ira Ziering, Rosanne Ziering,
Amy Ziering Amy Ziering (born 1962 in Massachusetts) is an American film producer and director. Mostly known for her work in documentary films, she is a regular collaborator of director Kirby Dick; they co-directed 2002's ''Derrida'' and 2020's '' On the Re ...
. Their daughter Amy is married to
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and works as a documentary filmmaker.Michal Shmulovich
'Gatekeepers' director plays down Oscar hopes
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References

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