Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Ronald Lauder and Jo Carole Lauder Host Reception for The Film ‘Follow Me”
In anticipation of the May 18 New York opening of the film “Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story,” Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, and his wife, Jo Carole Lauder, hosted a reception at the Museum of Modern Art’s Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder Building on April 29. Among the guests were…
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News News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch Hails Israel at Museum of Jewish Heritage Dinner
“If you’ve been reading the papers lately, you realize I am pretty happy to be anywhere, particularly amongst such great friends,” said News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, the honoree at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust’s 16th annual Heritage Dinner, held on May 7. Roger Ailes, CEO of…
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News Lucette Lagnado Recalls “Jewish” Egypt at American Friends of Rabin Medical Center Luncheon
At the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center’s April 26 luncheon, held at the restaurant Fifteen Central Park West, guest speaker Lucette Lagnado recalled an Egypt where “Jews, Muslims and Christians lived side by side until 1953.” She explained, “There was once a vigorous 80,000-strong Jewish community between Cairo and Alexandria; what is left now…
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News From The YIVO Archives: The Unknown Memoir of Tuvia Bielski
On April 19, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research launched its “Treasures From the YIVO Archives” series at the Center for Jewish History. This first event included a panel discussion of — and readings from — a recently rediscovered memoir by Tuvia Bielski, leader of the Bielski partisans. Given to YIVO in 1955, the unsigned,…
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News Avi Scher & Dancers Present Balletic Magic
So besieged by friends and fans was 28-year old choreographer/director Avichai Scher following the April 9 performance of his Avi Scher & Dancers program, held at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, that he and I had to postpone our post-performance interview. “At 5, I decided I wanted to dance, and I never looked back,” Scher…
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News Playwright Israel Horovitz Center Stage as He Is Honored by France in New York
“I parle Français like a Spanish cow,” playwright Israel Horovitz joked as he accepted the insignia of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, awarded to him on April 3 from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, in New York. Antonin Baudry, cultural counselor of the Embassy of France, said that Horovitz “is…
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News Marlo Thomas Honored at Physician of the Year Awards Dinner
“My mother [who came to America from Zloczow, Poland, in 1919] vowed that her son would be the first family member to go to college,” Dr. Robert Brent said as he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Awards dinner, held on March 26 at The Pierre hotel….
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News Columbia University Hosts Charlie Rose’s Interview With Claude Lanzmann
“I hate the word ‘Holocaust’!” declared Claude Lanzmann, director of the nine and a half hour 1985 epic “Shoah,” during a March 20 interview with Public Broadcasting Service interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose at Columbia University’s Maison Française.. “To which god [were] 1 500,000 Jewish children sacrificed — gassed or killed — during World…
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