Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News A Golden Chain
Author Dan Senor’s Election Reality Check on the Menu at UJA-Federation’s Lion of Judah Luncheon “Who [in this room] is a Holocaust survivor? Who was helped by NYANA [UJA-Federation’s New York Association for New Americans]? Who sent their kids to a Jewish camp? Stand up!” said Judy Baum, event chair at the October 26 UJA-Federation…
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News Celebrating Renewal
Paul Simon Sings for His Supper and Award at Arts Horizons Gala “I’m a 59-year-old Jewish guy with no rhythm,” said Marc Summers, host of the October 25 Arts Horizons Gala. Summer, who hosts the Food Network’s “Unwrapped,” was so impressed with the kids of the PS 94 Fly Rhythm Steppers, who entertained the black-tie…
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News A Glass Half Full
ACCORDING TO RUPERT MURDOCH, HONOREE AT ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE GALA: ?THE WORLD CAN?T END TODAY BECAUSE IT?S ALREADY TOMORROW IN AUSTRALIA? ?I can?t say I have been chosen by God. But tonight I am honored to be chosen by His people for this award,? declared Rupert Murdoch, who accepted the Anti-Defamation League?s International Leadership Award from…
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News A Yiddish Sing-along
“Nora’s Will’ — In Search of a Kosher Funeral — Not Necessarily Kosher L’pesach So how do you bury a Mexican-Jewish woman who committed suicide? A woman who, before doing the deed, sets a meticulous Seder table, leaves a refrigerator full of food with labeled cooking instructions and designates her ex-husband — an atheist —…
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News Magic and Music
Magic and Music at Elem Gala, Honoring Its Founder, Ann Bialkin The September 28 ELEM/Youth in Distress benefit, held at the Harvard Club and honoring organization founder and chair Ann Bialkin, was an evening of music and magic. NBC’s chief legal analyst, Dan Abrams, hosted. Greetings by ELEM/Israel’s president, Nava Barak, and a video of…
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News International Honorees
The Many Splendored Tony Curtis — Hollywood Hunk and Humanitarian Bronx-born Tony Curtis (ne Bernie Schwartz), who died at 85 of cardiac arrest in Las Vegas on September 29, portrayed an astonishing range of characters. These included Antoninus, a Greek slave, in “Spartacus” (1960); the Brit-Norse slave Erik, half-brother of Viking Einar, played by (yet…
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News Cantors or Rock Stars?
’‘100 Voices: A Journey Home’ — Cantors Treated Like Rock Stars During Visit to Poland Had anyone in pre- or postwar Poland predicted that one day, 72 cantors — men and women — would be joined by a Polish children’s choir and the 100-strong Wielki National Opera Orchestra and Chorus to perform “Hatikvah” and “Ani…
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News A Life of Music and Love
Demystifying a Genius: Pianist Glenn Gould — His Life, Music and Love The life of the brilliant, eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who died October 4, 1982, at the age of 50, gets sensitive, nonjudgmental treatment by Canadian filmmakers Peter Raymont and Michele Hozer in their revelatory documentary, “Genius Within, The Inner Life of Glenn…
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