Photo Flash: The New Jewish Home Celebrates 8 Remarkable New Yorkers Over 80

At its fourth annual Eight Over Eighty benefit gala The New Jewish Home will pay tribute to eight New Yorkers who, in their ninth and tenth decades, continue to live lives of remarkable achievement, vitality and civic engagement. The event, at the Mandarin Oriental New York on Tuesday, April 4, is expected to attract more than 450 guests and raise more than $1 million for the nonprofit's rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and home health care programs, which together serve 12,000 older adults of all faiths and ethnicities each year.

Photos of the honorees are below!

The honorees, each of whom will be celebrated in a video vignette, are style icon and self-described geriatric starlet Iris Apfel, 95; dance legend Carmen De Lavallade, 85; civil rights leader and businessman Vernon E. Jordan, 81; activist and television pioneer Norman Lear, 94; culinary star Jacques Pépin, 81; philanthropist and business leader Morris W. Offit, 80; and New York City power couple Barbara and Donald Tober, 81 and 85, respectively. These men and women, the best of the best in their individual spheres of achievement, are movers and shakers who continue to contribute and to make waves, in the process showing the world that trailblazing is ageless.

For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.

Vernon Jordan

Norman Lear, Photo credit: Alex J. Berliner/ABImages

Morris Offit

Jacques Pepin, Photo credit: Cristiana Ceppas

Iris Apfel, Photo credit: Film Company Magnolia Pictures

Carmen De Lavallade

Donald and Barbara Tober