Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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The Schmooze 3 Love Stories From Jewish Home’s ‘Over 80’ Gala
The March 5 inaugural Jewish Home Lifecare “Eight Over Eighty: Celebrating Eight Remarkable Lives” Gala honored octogenarians who proved that life can be a hoot at any age. In an filmed interview, Klara and Larry Silverstein, president and CEO Silverstein Properties, Inc, revisited their meeting-to-marriage saga. In 1951, Larry got a job at a camp…
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The Schmooze Jewish Outreach Celebrates ‘Shabbat Across America’
“Our parents prayed for a ‘melting pot’ but instead, we have gotten a ‘meltdown,’” Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, executive director of National Jewish Outreach Program, told the guests at its “Generation to Generation Dinner” at the Grand Hyatt. While touting NJOP’s March 7th “Shabbat Across America” (now in its 18th year) at 450 locations, Rabbi Buchwald…
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The Schmooze Jewish Museum’s Purim Ball: A Rap and Twitter Spiel
“It’s hard to imagine that we sold out The Armory!” beamed Claudia Gould Director of the Jewish Museum at its February 26 Purim Ball which raised a record $2.5 million. More than 1,000 festive donors dined on a fabulous meal beneath a ceiling installation of 3,000 T-shirts with such imprints as: “I Love Esther” and…
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The Schmooze Polish and Yiddish Art Songs Shine at New York Festival
The New York Festival of Songs’ (NYFOS) February 18 “Warsaw Serenade” program at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall was right up my linguistic alley — a juxtaposition of “Songs by Polish Composers” plus “Seven Yiddish Songs Opus 13 (1943)” by Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996). The evening starred Moscow-born American soprano Dina Kuznetzova and Montreal-born…
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The Schmooze Obama Appointee Honored At Camp Good Grief Lunch
Honored with the Good Heart Award at the 15th Annual “Power of Your Heart” Valentine Salon Luncheon, which benefits Westhampton’s East End Hospice’s Camp Good Grief, was Life Camp founder Erica Ford, recognized by President Obama, who appointed her to the President’s Task Force on gun violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook Massacre….
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The Schmooze Robert Farber Photo Show Opens
Opening night of internationally renowned photographer Robert Farber’s solo exhibition “Farberesque: From Pensive to Provocative” by 3 West Project 57 Cavalier Gallery (next door to Bergdorf-Goodman) was an uber trendy New York happening. Adding sizzle to the 400-strong crowd were — what I call “tree tall” those extraordinarily leggy stunners who mingled with the international…
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The Schmooze How Shirley Temple Helped Me Come to America
Shirley Temple in 1988 // Photo by Karen Leon. Shirley Temple Black — who died at 85 on February 10 — may have indirectly helped my mother and me get a visa to America. I became a Shirley Temple fan after seeing her in “The Little Colonel” in pre-war Warsaw. For weeks I ran around singing…
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The Schmooze Stuart Eizenstat Honored By Leo Baeck Institute
“Memory! Memory! ” was the tattoo of Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat’s discourse at the 56th Leo Baeck Award Dinner and Lecture at the Center for Jewish History. He was presented with the Leo Baeck Medal by Michael Blumenthal a past Chief White House Domestic Policy Advisor (1977-1981) and (1993-2001) Deputy Secretary of the Treasury now CEO…
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