Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Its Conductor, Zubin Mehta, Bask in Bravos and Mazel Tovs
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Its Conductor, Zubin Mehta, Bask in Bravos and Mazel Tovs The American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert, held February 22 at Carnegie Hall, was in celebration the 75th anniversary of the IPO and the 50th anniversary of Zubin Mehta as its lifetime conductor. So blown away was composer, pianist…
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News Chuck Freilich, Israel’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser for Foreign Affairs, Sounds Off at American Jewish Committee Session
Chuck Freilich, Israel’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser for Foreign Affairs, Sounds Off at American Jewish Committee Session “Israel’s Situation in the Light of the Turmoil in the East,” a February 16 lecture by Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow at the International Security Program Belfer Center for Sciences & International Affairs at Harvard, held the nearly…
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News Ruth Gruber, Star of Documentary ‘Ahead of Time,’ Honored by The Common Good
“I was born in a shtetl called Brooklyn… I thought everyone was Jewish,” journalist Ruth Gruber said. Author of 19 books, Gruber was presented with The Common Good’s American Spirit Award on February 3 by Ann Curry, news anchor of the NBC-TV show “Today,” at a screening of the Gruber documentary “Ahead of Time,” held…
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Israel News Journalist-Author Philip Gourevitch — Former Forward Staffer — Honored by France
Journalist-Author Philip Gourevitch — Former Forward Staffer — Honored by France “You are a man of books and stories,” said Antonin Baudry, cultural counselor of the French Embassy in New York, as he introduced Philip Gourevitch, recipient of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, at the January 31 ceremony held at the Cultural Services of…
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Israel News Remembering Italian Jewish Community Leader Tullia Zevi
Remembering Italian Jewish Community Leader Tullia Zevi I met Tullia Zevi, who died in Rome on January 22, at 91, when she came to New York for the October 7, 1996, Appeal of Conscience Foundation dinner honoring then prime minister of Italy Romano Prodi. She invited me for tea at Hotel Elysée, the East Side…
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Israel News Jews Who Rescued Jews: Two Heroic Jewish Women Honored By Hidden Child Foundation
Jews Who Rescued Jews: Two Heroic Jewish Women Honored By Hidden Child Foundation “Ignored by historians… the general public, even by the Jewish people, are the heroic deeds of Jewish rescuers,” Hidden Child Foundation vice president Rachelle Goldstein told the nearly 200 attendees of the organization’s seventh International Rescuers Day program, held January 19 at…
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Israel News Shylock in Yiddish: New Yiddish Rep Presents Jacob Adler’s Historic “Shylock” at Center for Jewish History
Shylock in Yiddish: New Yiddish Rep Presents Jacob Adler’s Historic “Shylock” at Center for Jewish History Not a single candy wrapper, cough nor cell phone interrupted the New Yiddish Repertory’s January 13 reading of “Shaylok, oder der Koyfman Fun Venedig,” a Yiddish adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” at the Center for Jewish…
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News Celebrating Polish Composer Chopin’s Bicentennial Finale With Yulianna Avdeeva, Russian-Born Jewish Winner of International Chopin Competition
Celebrating Polish Composer Chopin’s Bicentennial Finale With Yulianna Avdeeva, Russian-Born Jewish Winner of International Chopin Competition Yulianna Avdeeva, born in 1985 in Moscow, was the first woman in 45 years to win the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, held in Warsaw in October 2010. On January 3, Avdeeva, who beat out nearly 80 competitors, was…
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