Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Celebrating Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s Half-century Leadership at Park East Synagogue
The sanctuary of Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue was packed for the March 18 celebration of Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s 50th anniversary as the leader of the congregation. Israel’s consul general, Ido Aharoni, a congregant, quipped, “I was born when you were installed.” He went on to praise the rabbi as “integral to the Jewish life of…
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News National Jewish Book Awards Fetes 18 Authors And Hails Gift From Patriots Owner Robert Kraft
“I always wanted to write a history of Jerusalem,” said Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of “Jerusalem: The Biography” (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, 2011), which received the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year award at the Jewish Book Council’s 61st National Book Awards Ceremony, on March 14. Held at Manhattan’s Center for Jewish History,…
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News Grace Hightower De Niro, Dr. Diane Reidy Lagunes and Dr. Emily Sonnenblick Honored at American Cancer Society
“When I was getting ready [to play] Jake La Motta [in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film “Raging Bull” and battling cancer and winning, it was nothing like the pressure of this speech,” Robert De Niro said before introducing his wife, Grace Hightower, one of three honorees at the March 1 American Cancer Society of New York’s…
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News Baron David de Rothschild Celebrates American Jewry
“I’ve come to the point in my life when I never refuse honors,” quipped Baron David de Rothschild, honorary chair of the Jewish Museum’s 26th annual Purim Ball, held on February 29 at the Waldorf-Astoria. After congratulating the museum’s director, Claudia Gould, de Rothschild said: “I’ve seen the museum in New York, and it ranks…
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News Hadassah’s 100th Anniversary and Its Link to the Titanic Recalled at Temple Emanu-El
“There were giants in the land at the time,” said Temple Emanu-El’s senior rabbi, David Posner, at the New York synagogue’s February 24 Sabbath service in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. The biblical allusion was to modern-day “giant” and Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, who on February 24,…
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Israel News “Adolf Eichmann Trial: Fifty Years Later” a Pivotal Revisit to the Jewish Museum Ballroom
“Israel of the post-Eichmann trial [era] was forever different,” said Ido Aharoni, consul general of Israel in New York, at “Adolf Eichmann Trial: Fifty Years Later,” held at the Jewish Museum on February 13. The event was co-sponsored by the Israel Consulate and the Anti-Defamation League’s New York region. Aharoni continued: “It was the Eichmann…
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News Remembering Kutsher’s, a Many Splendored Resort
“Russian Transport”: An American Dream Derailed “Russian Transport,” a new play by Erika Sheffer and presented off-Broadway by The New Group at the Acorn Theatre, deals with a scenario that could not have been imagined at the time of Soviet Jewry’s “Let My People Go!” movement of 1967–1989. In the play, Diana (Janeane Garofalo) and…
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News An Animated Affair
Sisters Reyna and Temma Schaechter Sing Yiddish Songs of Yesteryear Binyumen Schaechter warned me about the January 22 DVD launch of “When Our Bubbas and Zeydas Were Young — The Schaechter Sisters on Stage”: “Even though you’ve got reserved seats, you’d better get there early; the performance is oversold!” The film stars his daughters, Reyna…
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