How to validate if a string would be a valid JavaScript/jQuery variable name?

Question

Is there a refined and streamlined regex that will check against and replace characters within a string that are not compliant with JavaScript variable name syntax specifications. I have written the following:

jQuery

var content = $('pre:eq(0)').html();
var tmp = content.split("\n");
var validVar = [];
$.each(tmp, function(index, value) {
  validVar.push(tmp[index].replace("!", "").replace("(", "").replace(",", "").replace(")", "").replace(".", "").replace("'", "").replace("&", "").replace(" ", "").replace("/", "").replace(/\s+/g, '').replace("-", ""));
});

var validName = validVar.toString().split(",").join("<br/>");
console.log(validName);
$('pre:eq(1)').html(validName);

HTML

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td class='header zero'>Original</td>
      <td class='header'>Variable Name</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><pre>Organizer
CapRate Events (CRE)
CTIA (Cellular Telephone Industries Association)
Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC)
O'Reilly Conferences
PMI (Project Management Institute)
SYS-CON Events
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</pre></td>
      <td><pre class='valid'></pre></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Specifically, the line:

validVar.push(tmp[index].replace("!", "").replace("(", "").replace(",", "").replace(")", "").replace(".", "").replace("'", "").replace("&", "").replace(" ", "").replace("/", "").replace(/\s+/g, '').replace("-", ""));

should be condensed into a single function.

Additionally, if we could get the variable in a well formed format that would be ideal too, such as camel-case, or atleast having the first character always lower-case.

var content = $('pre:eq(0)').html();
var tmp = content.split("\n");
var validVar = [];
$.each(tmp, function(index, value) {
  validVar.push(tmp[index].replace("!", "").replace("(", "").replace(",", "").replace(")", "").replace(".", "").replace("'", "").replace("&", "").replace(" ", "").replace("/", "").replace(/\s+/g, '').replace("-", ""));
});

var validName = validVar.toString().split(",").join("<br/>");
console.log(validName);
$('pre:eq(1)').html(validName);

pre {
  color: green;
  font-size: 1.13em;
  font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
}
table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border: solid 1px #000;
}
td {
  border: solid 1px #000;
  background-color: #CCC;
  text-align: left;
}
td.header {
  text-align: center;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-family: arial;
  font-size: 1.35em;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #FFF;
}
td.zero {
  border-right: solid 1px #CCC;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td class='header zero'>Original</td>
      <td class='header'>Variable Name</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><pre>Organizer
CapRate Events (CRE)
CTIA (Cellular Telephone Industries Association)
Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC)
O'Reilly Conferences
PMI (Project Management Institute)
SYS-CON Events
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</pre>
      </td>
      <td><pre class='valid'></pre>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>