Joel is the son of Holo­caust sur­vivor Nathan Porem­ba. Stunned after hear­ing his father give his tes­ti­mo­ny to the Shoah Foun­da­tion in 1998, it took 21 years and a trip to Israel for Joel to watch his father’s video tes­ti­mo­ny. Busi­ness attor­ney; grad­u­ate of West­ern State Uni­ver­si­ty, Col­lege of Law and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Diego.