Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Keeping the Memory of Lodz Alive
At a small, impromptu gathering held September 18 at the Polish Consulate in New York, Lodz’s mayor, Jerzy Kropiwnicki, told those gathered about plans for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the August 29, 1944, liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto. Among those gathered were Rabbi Michael Shudrich, the de facto chief rabbi of Poland,…
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News Saying Thanks to the Behind-the-Scenes Bridge-Builders
Wearing his New York City Fire Department chaplain’s uniform, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, president of the New York Board or Rabbis, delivered the invocation at the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York “Rebuilders of New York” September 9 dinner. JCRC officer and dinner co-chair Sally Goodgold offered the ha’motzi. Among the 300 guests at the…
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News How a Buttonhole Camera Kept Kovno’s Past Alive
At the Center for Jewish History on September 3, traumatic recall was the subtext of Solly Ganor’s remarks at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s reception for his book, “Light One Candle: A Survivor’s Tale — From Lithuania to Jerusalem.” “It took me 50 years to write my diary… I had nightmares,” said Ganor, who…
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News The Thing About the Other Jonathan Pollard, Producer
“Guilty as charged,” replied theater producer Jonathan Pollard when I joked about his being the other Jonathan Pollard during our interview about his latest production, “The Thing About Men,” which opened last week at the Promenade Theatre. Pollard made his producing debut with the off-Broadway, still-running hit “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.” In…
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News Praise for Theater’s Era of Enlightenment
The August 22 cocktail party celebrating the Stella Adler Studio of Acting was held at the Bridgehampton home of Barbara and John (Bunky) Hearst overlooking the Hampton hills, a setting that reminded one guest of Kentucky. At the event, hosted by Adler Studio alum Roy Scheider, its chairman, and his wife, Brenda Seimer, the winners…
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News The Comedian and the Rabbi: A Tête-à-Tête
Avi Hoffman, actor and Yiddish advocate, was Rabbi William Berkowitz’s guest at the August 13 American Jewish Historical Society-sponsored “Dialogue Forum” at the Center for Jewish History. Hoffman, whose credits include “The Golden Land” and “The Rise of David Levinsky,” recounted how he came to write his long-running one-man hit show, “Too Jewish?” “It was…
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News From ‘A Stoop on Orchard St.’ to ‘Capitol Steps’
Take the F train to East Broadway, walk past the old Forward building — now encased in pre-gentrification scaffolding — and across the street is the Mazer Theater, where the musical “A Stoop on Orchard Street” attempts to re-create New York’s Lower East Side immigrant life circa 1910. Inspired by his grandfather’s stories, this ambitious…
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News Ignorance Is Far From Bliss for Israeli Education
“We have the most profoundly ignorant Jewish population since Sinai,” said Richard Joel, Yeshiva University’s incoming president and the keynote speaker at the July 28 AMIT installation dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel. Lamenting “Jewish illiteracy,” Joel recalled asking a Jewish audience in the South if they could identify the names of Jesus’ mother and Moses’…
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