Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News ‘Six Million and One’ Documentary and a Letter About Bel Kaufman
“Six Million and One” a documentary by veteran filmmaker David Fisher, is a Holocaust film, yet it isn’t. It chronicles a journey that Fisher took with his Israeli-born middle-aged siblings— Esti Fisher, Gideon Fisher and Ronel Fisher — to retrace their late father’s life, as Joseph Fisher wrote about it in the memoir his children…
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News Honoring Amy Winehouse
Looming storm clouds did not keep 200 guests from attending the Amy Winehouse Foundation USA cocktail party, hosted by foundation board member David Hryck on August 10 at his Southampton house. In attendance were Winehouse’s parents, Janis Winehouse Collins and Mitch Winehouse, and their respective spouses. Winehouse’s parents began the foundation in the United Kingdom…
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News Soviet Yiddish Writers Remembered; ‘The Essence’ and More From the Yiddish Theater
Soviet Yiddish Writers Remembered on 60th Anniversary of Their Murder “Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union began with a flourish of trumpets and ended with a mute, strangled voice,” said Thomas Bird, a Queens College professor of European language and literature, at a memorial. held on August 12 , it was for the Soviet Yiddish…
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News Two Thousand Mourn, Celebrate and Sing at Marvin Hamlisch Funeral
“We are gathered here not because Mavin Hamlisch died, but because Marvin Hamlisch lived.” Rabbi David Posner said to the 2000 mourners gathered on August 14 at the composer’s funeral, held at Congregation Emanu-El….This is the same sanctuary where George Gershwin’s funeral was held, in July 1937.” Rabbi Paul Kushner recalled: ” I met Marvin…
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News Olympics 2012; Conversation With Director Avi Nesher
Jewish London and the 2012 Olympic Games The next best thing to being at the Olympic Games in London turned out to be an introduction to Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky. I’d written to Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill and author of some 85 other books, to ask about the involvement of…
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News Bel Kaufman Is Too Busy To Grow Old; ‘The Lion of Judah’
Bel Kaufman Is Too Busy To Grow Old “I have stepped into the future,” 101-year old Bel Kaufman told me July 31, over lunch at Demarchelier, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Taking off her “80-year old Puccis” — oversized multicolored sunglasses by Italian designer Emilio Pucci — Kaufman mentioned that her two novels, “Up the…
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News Carl Bernstein, Jeffrey Toobin, Susan Blumenthal Headline The Common Good Health Care Discussion
“Welcome to my building,” joked Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein, who moderated a discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court and health care on July 19 at the Manhattan headquarters of AllianceBernstein. Sponsored by The Common Good, the event’s featured panelists included Susan Blumenthal, rear admiral and former U.S. assistant surgeon general, and Jeffrey Toobin, senior…
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News Kosher Jewgrass, Country and Folk Performed by Mare Winningham and Friends
“We welcomed her with open arms. She came to shul regularly,” David Gaffney, rabbi at the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue, said of actress and singer-songwriter Mare Winningham, who had visited the synagogue in years past. We (the rabbi, his wife, my daughter and I) had just seen Winningham perform on July 16 in a…
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