2025 Terezín Legacy Award
We are honored to present our 2025 TLA to Dr. Kevin Tabb and Caron Tabb in recognition of their exceptional contributions to Holocaust remembrance, Jewish cultural preservation, and social justice, demonstrated through their leadership, commitment to healing, and advocacy in the arts.
Dr. Kevin Tabb serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Lahey Health and is an ex officio member of its Board of Trustees.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), Dr. Tabb is responsible for leading a pioneering integrated healthcare system offering a full continuum of healthcare services, ranging from hospital to ambulatory to urgent to behavioral healthcare. Beth Israel Lahey Health was created as a transformational approach to health care delivery in the Commonwealth — its unique structure designed to advance meaningful collaboration across organizations, care settings, specialties and geographies to ensure patients receive the treatment they need in the communities where they live and work.
Dr. Tabb was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess system and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).
Before joining Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Tabb was Chief Medical Officer at Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Stanford, California. There, he had broad strategic and operational responsibilities, which included physician network strategy, clinical quality and patient safety initiatives, regulatory and medical staff affairs, and graduate and continuing medical education. He was previously Chief Quality and Medical Information Officer at Stanford. Prior to joining Stanford, Dr. Tabb led the Clinical Data Service Division of GE Healthcare IT.
Raised in Berkeley, California, Dr. Tabb emigrated to Israel at the age of 18 and served in the Israel Defense Forces, the country's military service. He received his undergraduate degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his medical degree from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School. Dr. Tabb completed his residency in internal medicine at Hadassah Hospital.
Caron Tabb is a Boston-based mixed media artist whose life journey—from apartheid South Africa to Israel, California, and Massachusetts—informs a powerful, socially engaged art practice. Raised on a moshav in Israel, Caron developed a deep commitment to community, service, and justice. She holds a B.A. in Education and Contemporary Jewry and an M.A in Organizational Administration of Nonprofits both from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Before becoming a full-time artist, Caron had a robust career in the nonprofit sector. In Israel, she served as Director of Outreach and Community Engagement for the Israel Antiquities Authority, and in the U.S., she held leadership roles at the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco and as Executive Director of My New Red Shoes, a Bay Area nonprofit supporting homeless children.
Since moving to Boston in 2011, Caron has focused on art that explores identity, feminism, immigration, mental health, and social justice, often incorporating found objects and personal Jewish symbolism. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the US as well as in Israel. Her work is held in private collections across the country.
Caron lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her husband, Dr. Kevin Tabb the President and CEO of Beth Israel Laney Health. They have two children, Shai (30) and Noam (26). She serves on the boards of The Vilna Shul, and American Friends of the Umm el-Fahem Museum, and is active in numerous Boston-area cultural and Jewish organizations.
I Am My Sister's Keeper 2 (2023) by Caron Tabb
Newspaper, wood, goat parchment, ink, recycled silk from a wedding dress, thread, women’s nylons, barbed wire, and spray paint.
THE TABBS JOIN A LIST OF INSPIRING TLA RECIPIENTS
Lynda and Jeff Bussgang graciously accepted the 2024 Terezín Legacy Award, presented by 2023 recipients Susan and Alan Solomont. The award is created by Alex Bernstein. Photo by Michael Lutch
2018 recipients Steve and Barbara Grossman presented the 2022 Terezín Legacy Award to Senator Ed Markey and Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA . Photo by Michael Lutch
2024: Lynda and Jeff Bussgang
2023: Susan and Alan Solomont
2022: Senator Ed Markey and Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, MD, MPA
2021: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and survivor and musician Simon Gronowski
2020: Secretary Madeleine Albright and psychiatrist and survivor Anna Ornstein
2019: Norman L. Eisen, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic
2018: Barbara and Steve Grossman
2017: Khizr Khan, civil rights advocate and Gold Star Parent
2016: Bernie and Sue Pucker
2015: Carol and Joe Reich
2014: "Monuments Man" Harry Ettlinger
2013: Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick
2012: Painter Samuel Bak
2011: Edith and Löet Velmans
2010: Dr. Robert J. Mayer