Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News From Forest Hills and Hillel to the International Debutante Ball
From Forest Hills and Hillel to the International Debutante Ball “I was brought up Jewish. I went to Hebrew school at Forest Hills Jewish Center… and my father gets the Forward and Sports Illustrated,” Abigail Tufts, a 2008 International Debutante Ball alumna, told me at this year’s 56th ball, held last year, on December 29,…
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News Newark Mayor Cory Booker Talks Talmud at Yeshiva University Hanukkah Dinner Convocation
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Talks Talmud at Yeshiva University Hanukkah Dinner Convocation “I’m going to dare what has never been done at Yeshiva [University]: read the day’s parsha,” declared Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker, keynote speaker at Y.U.’s 86th annual Hanukkah Dinner Convocation, held December 12 at the Waldorf Astoria. Y.U.’s president, Richard Joel —…
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News Remembering Richard Holbrooke as Diplomat Extraordinaire and Loving and Devoted Husband of Author Kati Marton
Remembering Richard Holbrooke as Diplomat Extraordinaire and Loving and Devoted Husband of Author Kati Marton My encounters with diplomat extraordinaire Richard Holbrooke, who died December 13 at age 69, span some 20 years. We met at events at which he or his wife, Kati Marton, author of “The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler…
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News Help on the Way for the Food Challenged, Announced at Food Allergy Ball
Help on the Way for the Food Challenged, Announced at Food Allergy Ball Among the gowned, the beautiful, the allergic and their loved ones at Food Allergy Initiative’s December 6 Food Allergy Ball were Marion Wiesel, Mary Richardson Kennedy and Ingeborg Rennert**. Gala co-chair and FAI vice chair Sharyn Mann told the black-tie crowd at…
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News A Star in His Own Right
Stanley Fischer, a Litvak From Rhodesia (Now Zambia) Who Transformed Israel’s Economy, Honored at Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Benefit, at N.Y. Public Library “I was born in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia]… a true Litvak,” began Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel and honoree at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s December…
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News Vowing To Support Israel
Honorees at ZOA Dinner Include Gary Bauer, Founder of Christians United for Israel, French Senator Jean-Pierre Plancade, Journalist William Kristol and Genesis 10 Founder Harley Lippman “He’s good for Israel, good for the Christians, good for the United States,” said host Alan Mazurek, chairman of the ZOA National Advisory Council, of Gary Bauer, keynote speaker…
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News The ‘Cancellation’ of Heschel
Remembering Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Man — Forgetting “Imagining Heschel,” the Play As soon as I saw the ad for Colin Greer’s new play, “Imagining Heschel” — starring Richard Dreyfuss as the theologian whom Edward Kaplan, author of “Spiritual Radical, Abraham Joshua Heschel in America 1940–1972” (Yale University Press, 2007), heralds as “one of America’s…
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News A Medical Merger
A Medical Mazel Tov for the Merger of Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital With North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems “Three years ago we gathered here to celebrate 150 years,” William Hiltz, Lenox Hill Hospital’s executive committee chairman, told the 900 black-tie guests at its November 1 Autumn Ball. Beaming, he said that “the evening…
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