Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring Sets Up Shop in New York City’s Garment District
Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring Sets Up Shop in New York City’s Garment District The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring marked a grand opening at its new home, on West 37th Street, with a celebration that was both historic and haimish. “I welcome you to our beautiful new home,” Allen Breslow, vice president for development, announced to the assembled…
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News ‘Boardwalk Empire” Star Steve Buscemi Co-hosts Reel Works Gala
HBO “Boardwalk Empire” Star Steve Buscemi Co-hosts Reel Works Gala A dapper Steve Buscemi, who portrays corrupt city official Enoch “Nucky” Thompson in HBO’s luminous series “Boardwalk Empire,” and his wife, artist, filmmaker and choreographer Jo Andres, faced the photographers with grace as hosts of the 10th anniversary gala benefit of Reel Works Teen Filmmaking,…
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News ICRF Makes a Fashion Statement as It Honors Three Women of Action
“I am not sure how many people are thrilled to get out of bed while it is still dark and go to work,” Deborah Axelrod said at the Israel Cancer Research Fund’s Women of Action Evening, held September 13 at the American Museum of Natural History. Axelrod, one of the evening’s three honorees, is director…
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News A Film Exploration of the Camp David Peace Negotiations
‘Back Door Channels’: A Film Exploration of the Camp David Peace Treaty Negotiations “When a war is won, there are people in the streets celebrating. Unfortunately, when a peace treaty is signed, there is no one in the streets celebrating,” political pundit and media personality Leon Charney said at the September 13 premiere of the…
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News Whoopi Goldberg Lauds 9/11 Canine Heroes
Whoopi Goldberg Lauds 9/11 Canine Heroes at American Humane Association Gala I’m not sure who got more attention at the American Humane Association’s 10th Anniversary Tribute to Hero Dogs of 9/11, held at the National Arts Club on September 8: Whoopi Goldberg of ABC’s “The View” or AHA Spokesdog Rin Tin Tin, a 12th-generation descendant…
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News Life Chronicles
Joann Sfar’s Film “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life”: An Homage to a French-Jewish Star French comics artist Sfar, author of “The Rabbi’s Cat” (Pantheon Books, 2005) said, “I was raised by two powerful personalities: my Algerian-born grandfather and Polish-born grandfather. I tried to survive between those two dominant gorillas.” I blinked, and asked him, “Do you…
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Israel News The Unsinkable Sally Goodgold
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Rabbis Remember the ‘Unsinkable’ Sally Goodgold “If she had been on the Titanic, it would not have sunk,” said NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, one of the eulogizers at the August 21 funeral of Sally Goodgold, whose death at the age of 82 on August 18 sent shock waves through…
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Israel News Meat Loaf on the Menu at UJA Long Island Summerfest Fundraiser
Meat Loaf on the Menu at UJA Long Island Summerfest Fundraiser “We are totally blown away by the turnout,” said Scott Smith, corporate chair of the UJA-Federation of New York’s twenty-first annual Summerfest, at Westbury’s NYCB Theatre on August 10. “Tonight we have [a record] 1,400 people in the house!” The crowd was treated to…
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