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Patti Kenner at Heritage Museum Wins Kudos

By Masha Leon

Patti Kenner at Heritage Museum Wins Kudos
“Every day I thank my lucky stars that Patti Kenner is on our team and that the museum is an important part of her philanthropy,” David Marwell, director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, told the 300 guests at the museum’s 17th annual Heritage Dinner held at the museum on May 13. Of Patti’ s co-honoree, her father, Bertram Askwith, Marwell joshed: “Bert is probably the only 102 year old… in the history of the world, who had to leave work early in order not to be late for a dinner being held in his honor.”Read More


Irish and Jewish Humor on Display at Robert Briscoe Awards

By Masha Leon

Irish and Jewish Humor on Display at Robert Briscoe Awards
At the May 13 Emerald Isle Immigration Center’s 2013 Annual Robert Briscoe Award Ceremony at Manhattan’s 21 Club honoring Robert Astrowsky, assistant secretary of the United Federation of Teachers and Edward Grebow, president and CEO of Amalgamated Bank, EIIC chair Brian O’Dwyer told the assemblage: “At a bad time in Belfast, in a dark alley, a man was confronted by a thug: ‘Are ye a Catholic or a Protestant?’ The man replied ‘I am a Jew.’ The thug persisted, ‘Are you a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?’” After the laughter subsided, O’Dwyer introduced the “dueling clergy” — Monsignor James Kelly, pastor of St. Brigid in Brooklyn and Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, of Temple Israel in Lawrence, N.Y. Both spoke passionately about the interfaith effort to help the devastated Jewish and Irish communities in the wake of “Superstorm Sandy.” With a twinkle in his eye, O’Dwyer joshed: “In typical Irish-Jewish tradition, we proclaim a winner, and this being an Irish room, the fix is in already.”Read More


Elie Wiesel And Evgeny Kissin At YIVO Gala

By Masha Leon

Elie Wiesel And Evgeny Kissin At YIVO Gala
Touting Kissin as “one of the greatest pianists in the world today who loves Yiddish,” Wiesel urged:“Listen to his poetry… What it meant to be a Jew in Soviet Russia!”Read More


Donny Deutsch and Bonnie Fuller Talk Mud And Power

By Masha Leon

Donny Deutsch and Bonnie Fuller Talk Mud And Power
It was chic, short and sleeveless at the “Women of Influence: The Event” reception at New York’s JW Marriott Essex House on May 7.Read More


'A Chorus Line' for Marvin Hamlisch at Memorial

By Masha Leon

'A Chorus Line' for Marvin Hamlisch at Memorial
“He’d be so happy. He so loved his college! ” a passionate, upbeat Terre Blair Hamlisch said as she recalled her late husband to the full house at the Hamlisch Memorial Concert at Queens College’s Kupferberg Center for the Arts on May 5. Originally scheduled for November 12, 2012, the event was postponed because of Hurricane Sandy.Read More







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