Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Celebrating a Medical Pioneer
Dr. Basil Hirschowitz, Medical Pioneer and Inventor, Honored With Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award If you have ever had, or plan to have, an endoscopic procedure, then drink a l’chaim to South African born Forward reader Dr. Basil Hirschowitz, who was an honoree at the Castle Connolly National Physician of…
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News From Obama, With Love
Bob Balaban Honored at East Hampton Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Gala The Guild Hall of East Hampton 25th Anniversary Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards dinner on March 8 was a Hamptons-haimish, inside-joke kind of evening. Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement award recipient Bob Balaban described the academy’s arts committee as being “like…
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News Surreal Soiree
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Daven!” Susie Essman Regales at Jewish Museum Purim Ball Introduced by comedienne Judy Gold, it was the surreal Purim shpiel of Susie Essman that had the guests at the March 3 Jewish Museum’s Purim Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria spinning graggers and roaring with laughter. Titled “Surreal Soiree,” the gala was…
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News Writing About Survival
JOBS WANTED!”—UJA JOB FAIRS — A LIFELINE TO THE RESCUE In the 1920s, David Meyerowich wrote the music and lyrics to the wrenching Yiddish lament “Vu Nemt MenParnosseh?” (“How Does One Make a Living?”); in 1931, Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics to Jay Gorney’s Great Depression anthem, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” On March…
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News Honoring The Arts
BRAVOS TO ‘BIG APPLE’ HONOREES AT NEW YORKER FOR NEW YORK AWARDS GALA! “This is going to be the most art-supportive administration since [Franklin] Roosevelt,” declared special guest Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, at the February 22 Citizens Committee for New York City black-tie New Yorker for New York Awards…
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News Joy, Pain and Survival
OY! TO OLÉ! FRANTIC FRENCH BAR MITZVAH TO LADINO ROOTS AT SEPHARDI FILM FESTIVAL “By adding ‘Jewish’ to our title, we now get [more] media attention!” joshed American Sephardi Federation/Sephardic House President David Dangoor to the February 4 opening night crowd at New York’s Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, which ran until February 11. The evening’s…
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News Designing Woman
DAVID ROSKIES OFF TO THE NEGEV TO TEACH YIDDISH TO ISRAELIS AND BEDOUINS L’chaim! to an American-Israeli Yiddish shidekh, or match! At the February 2 “Bridging Israel and American Jewry” reception celebrating the Yiddish Studies Partnership between Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, David Roskies, the newly appointed director of…
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Culture Archivists and Art
ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN ARCHIVISTS HONORED BY SCONE FOUNDATION “Without the pain of primary research, we would remain hostage to ill-informed writers or authorities,” said Stanley Cohen, founder of the Scone Foundation, at the January 25 presentation of the foundation’s Archivist of the Year award, held at the CUNY Graduate Center at Fifth Avenue and 34th…
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