Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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Israel News Floral Designer Bella Meyer Reminisces About Her Grandfather, Marc Chagall
Floral Designer Bella Meyer Reminisces About Her Grandfather, Marc Chagall “I grew up with his paintings around me,” said Bella Meyer, floral designer and founder of the studio Fleurs Bella, describing her grandfather, Marc Chagall. Meyer was among those attending and competing April 12 in The Horticultural Society of New York’s “Flower Show Dinner Dance…
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Israel News At Last! A “Permanent Greek Exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial”: Barack 18
At Last! A “Permanent Greek Exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial”: Barack 18 In one of the early frames of an upcoming documentary that soon will be shown in New York — “The Rescuers: Heroes of the Holocaust,” by African-American filmmaker Michael King and featuring British historian Martin Gilbert as narrator — Britain’s Prince Charles is…
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Israel News Kvelling in the Aisles at Folksbiene: Tilson Thomas Thomashevsky Theatre Gala
Kvelling in the Aisles at Folksbiene: Tilson Thomas Thomashevsky Theatre Gala Before the over-the-top theatrical saga of Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky was showcased at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, there was noshing and shmoozing at the April 6 reception for the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene gala held on the Promenade, at which Michael Tilson Thomas, music…
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Israel News Paul Libin, Broadway Powerhouse and Alum of Workman’s Circle Schools, Honored
Paul Libin, Broadway Powerhouse and Alum of Workman’s Circle Schools, Honored “In 1922, in a small village in Russia, not far from Minsk [Moghilev], my father returned from the warehouse he was in charge of,” said Paul Libin, executive vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters and recipient, at UJA-Federation of New York’s March 28 dinner, of…
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Israel News Susan Sarandon and Padma Lakshmi Put Spotlight on Endometriosis at Blossom Ball
Susan Sarandon and Padma Lakshmi Put Spotlight on Endometriosis at Blossom Ball ?I won?t bore you with tales of my genitalia,? said Padma Lakshmi, co-founder with Dr. Tamer Seckin of the Endometriosis Foundation of America, at the foundation?s third annual Blossom Ball, held March 18 at the New York Public Library. Lakshmi, a model, actress,…
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Israel News Literary Lions and Lionesses are the Mane Attraction at Jewish Book Awards Event
Literary Lions and Lionesses the Mane Attraction at Jewish Book Awards Event “To speak of Cynthia Ozick is to speak of magical storytelling,” said Francine Klagsbrun, a board member of the Jewish Book Council, before presenting Ozick with the council’s lifetime achievement award at its 60th annual National Jewish Book Award ceremony, held March 9…
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Israel News Forward and Forverts Celebrate the Past and the Future at Gala Dinner
Forward and Forverts Celebrate the Past and the Future at Gala Dinner “A good newspaper.. .is a nation talking to itself,” said Jane Eisner, editor of the Forward, quoting playwright Arthur Miller at the Forward Association’s March 8 “Looking Forward” fundraising gala, held at Mandarin Oriental. Actors and husband-and-wife team Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker…
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Israel News Having a (Purim) Ball
Lights! Camera! Roasts! Museum of the Moving Image Salutes Alec Baldwin It was raves and roasts at the February 28 Museum of the Moving Image’s salute to Alec Baldwin”, held at Cipriani 42nd Street. It was also an adieu for the museum’s founding director, Rochelle Slovin, who has led the institution for the past 30…
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