Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Alan Alda Issues Verdict on Court TV
Henry Schleiff, chairman and CEO of Court TV Network, was presented with the Torch of Liberty Award at the Anti-Defamation League’s November 6 dinner at the Plaza. “There’s no CEO in our business like Henry Schleiff,” said master of ceremonies Regis Philbin. Time Warner’s chairman and CEO, Richard Parsons, joshed: “Welcome to the 50th anniversary…
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News ‘Get Larry King,’ Jokes Clinton at Rabin Center Gala
Some 500 guests at the November 2 American Friends of Rabin Medical Center gala at the Waldorf-Astoria were treated to a Russian-accented “God Bless America” by diva Elena Bokorova; a sublime “Hatikvah” by Israeli-born opera star Hadar Halevy De Vito and a bravura “Star-Spangled Banner” by Metropolitan Opera great Sherill Milnes. They chuckled at master…
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News CUNY’s Chiefs Befriend Israel’s Open U.
Presidents of a dozen City University of New York colleges joined 450 guests at the Waldorf Astoria’s Starlight Roof for the October 29 American Friends of Open University of Israel gala honoring the City University of New York’s chancellor, Matthew Goldstein, the first CUNY graduate to lead the prominent urban public university. The evening’s chair,…
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News Making a Splash on Behalf of Israelis With Disabilities
At the October 26 Friends of AKIM USA dinner at the Plaza, black-tied, gowned and bejeweled Hamptons, Palm Beach and Friars Club boosters mingled to honor “Man of the Year” Daniel Rattiner, publisher and president of Dan’s Papers, Inc. AKIM is the Hebrew acronym for the Association for the Habilitation of the Mentally Handicapped in…
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News Foxman Fetes Feldshuh at New Run of ‘Golda’s Balcony’
When playwright William Gibson’s one-woman play “Golda’s Balcony” opened last March at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater, reviewers proclaimed Tovah Feldshuh’s portrayal of Israel’s Prime Minister Meir as “blazing,” “sensational” and “extraordinary.” Nothing has changed in the recent move to Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre, except that the seats are far more cushy. At the play’s October…
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News Hayworth Gala Pays Respects to Alzheimer’s Victims
The décolletages were jaw-dropping and the masks astonishing at the October 7 “Magic of Mardi Gras” Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth gala. Chaired by Muffie Potter Aston, the gala was established 18 years ago by Princess Yasmin Aga Khan in memory of her mother, Rita Hayworth, who died of Alzheimer’s. To date the galas have (cumulatively)…
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News Party Packs a Punch for Academic Freedom
More than 100 guests with stratospheric pedigrees crowded the spectacular New York Times penthouse where its chairman, Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, hosted the September 24 reception for the Columbia/Barnard Hillel Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life (whose executive committee he chairs). Robert Kraft, chairman of the Kraft Group, owner of the New England Patriots who…
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News A Nod to Italy: From Freedom to Film
It was ciao or shana tovah and a gut yontef as nearly 500 guests arrived at the Plaza hotel for the controversial Anti-Defamation League September 23 “Appreciation of Italy” dinner honoring Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Waiting to be scanned airport-style at the entrance to the ballroom, I had a heymish litvishn Yiddish exchange with…
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