Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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The Schmooze Albanian President Honors Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Not quite two weeks after being knighted by Pope Francis and made a member of the Papal Order of St. Sylvester, Park East Synagogue’s Senior Rabbi Arthur Schneier received Albania’s Presidential Medal for Special Civilian Merits at a ceremony on May 8th held at New York’s Russian Tea Room. Addressing a roomful of international consuls…
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The Schmooze American Cancer Society Honors Lily Safra At Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch
“Tonight we are here for the one and only Marvin Hamlisch — one of Broadway’s brightest stars” the love of his life honorary chair and award presenter Terre Blair Hamlisch told the 200 guests at the May 4 American Cancer Society Spring Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel….
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The Schmooze Dr. Zhivago on Menu at Rabin Medical Center Russian Tea Room Lunch
The Russian Tea Room was the perfect venue to host a “Broadway Luncheon” for the launch of the new musical “DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.” The exclusive event organized by American Friends of Rabin Medical Center’s executive director Joshua Plaut for seventy-five lucky guests, who got to meet “Zhivago” producer Anita Waxman and songwriter and composer Lucy Simon…
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The Schmooze Miss America, Alan Cumming Honored by Safe Horizon
“When you are silent for a very long time, it comes back and bites you in the ass” Alan Cumming Tony Award winning actor-producer-activist told the guests at Safe Horizon’s April 28 Champion Awards Dinner at New York’s Grand Hyatt. The largest victims’ services agency in the United States, Safe Horizon presented “Great Scot” Cumming…
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The Schmooze My Tour of The Holocaust Museum With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
In honor of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s April 27th visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Arthur Berger Senior Advisor at the Washington D.C. Museum, invited me to join fellow Sugihara survivor Leo Melamed Chairman Emeritus of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, to participate in the visit. Melamed, a childhood friend, appears as a seven…
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The Schmooze Mute Survivor Shares Painful Saga at Women’s Spring Luncheon
“My mother is not only beautiful, but articulate and will take you on a journey with her” Regina Skyer — daughter of Holocaust survivor Ruth Wachner Pagirsky — told the guests at the April 23rd Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial To the Holocaust’s 23rd Annual Spring Women’s Luncheon at The Pierre. “Sixty-nine years ago…
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The Schmooze Inside Iris Apfel’s (Many) Closets
Age, fashion and wisdom fuel the late great filmmaker Albert Maysles’ documentary, “Iris,” a loving homage to Iris Apfel, the inimitable 94-year-old empress of style and chutzpah. Philosophically embellishing the subtext of fighting the clock while continuing to astound and surprise, Iris Apfel — in a sequence in which she is stacking so much jewelry shoulder…
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The Schmooze ‘Tough Year For Jews’ Remembered at Holocaust Candle-Lighting
Holocaust survivors who decades ago launched “ The Annual Gathering of Remembrance” — New York City’s largest and older Holocaust commemoration — could not have imagined that 70 years after their liberation anti-Semitism in Europe would once more be a primary concern for Jews worldwide. David Marwell director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage welcomed the 2000-strong…
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