Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News At Touro, Loeb Honors Ideals
AMBASSADOR JOHN LOEB’S GIFT TO AMERICA AND AMERICA’S JEWISH COMMUNITY On August 24, I finally caught up with Ambassador John Loeb Jr. (who spent the summer in Rhode Island) to chat about the visitors center he built adjacent to Newport’s Touro Synagogue. Honored in July as the “2009 John Clarke Laureate” by the members of the…
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News Beating Long Odds
POKER MAVEN HENRY ORENSTEIN, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WHO CONTINUES TO BEAT THE ODDS, HONORED BY METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON POVERTY “It was my dream as a little boy to come to America,” said Henry Orenstein, who, with his wife, Susan, was honored at the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty’s Annual Builder’s Luncheon, held August 4 at…
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Israel News Memories of Molly Picon
ALEXANDRA LEBENTHAL CENTER STAGE AT RITA HAYWORTH ALZHEIMER’S KICKOFF PARTY The July 31 kick-off party for the 2009 Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth “So Near & Yet So Far” October gala was hosted by her daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Anne Hearst McInerney and Jay McInerney at the McInerney’s Water Mill home. Gala chair Alexandra Lebenthal’s…
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News 100 Candles, Times Two
A TRIPLE CENTENNIAL ‘MAZEL TOV’ TO BLANCHE AND ROMIE SHAPIRO AND BEZALEL On July 23, Jerusalem’s mayor, Nir Barkat, presented Blanche and Romie Shapiro with an official proclamation upon the occasion of their 100th birthdays. With friends and admirers gathered at their Park Avenue apartment that is enhanced by electric art, the mayor spoke movingly…
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News Money Makes The World Go Round
FRENCH “FREE MARKET” CHAMPION ECONOMIST GUY SORMAN AND U.S. JOURNALIST ROGER COHEN DEBATE AT FRENCH RECEPTION Had there been a soundtrack to the July 1 dialogue between Guy Sorman, author of “Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis” (Encounter Books), and New York Times and International Herald-Tribune…
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News From ‘Rags’ to Riches
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME HONORS MUSICMAKERS FOR THE AGES The musical “Rags,” with a book by Joseph Stein, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, closed shortly after I saw it August 23, 1986. In my Forward tribute to this work about the Jewish immigrant experience, I wrote that the audience kept shouting…
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News ‘She Refused To Be a Victim’
MAX FAERBERBOCK, FILM DIRECTOR OF ‘A WOMAN IN BERLIN,’ AN ISAAC B. SINGER FAN During my July 15 telephone interview with Max Faerberbock, who wrote and directed the riveting new film, “A Woman in Berlin,” starring the amazing Nina Hoss, he mentioned he was a fan of Isaac Bashevis Singer. “I read him when I…
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News Bikel’s B’day Bash
CELEBRATING THEODORE BIKEL’S 85TH BIRTHDAY AT CARNEGIE HALL “Whenever I’m asked what I’d like for a birthday present,” actor, singer and activist Theodore Bikel said, “I am quick to say, an evening with friends. A party where we will make music.” And that’s just what Theo, as his friends call him, got on June 15…
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