Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News When Being 86 Is No Big Deal
FOLKSBIENE GALA — A DELIGHTFUL SHOW THAT ENDED ON TIME! With a high-kicking ensemble performing an excerpt from “The Golden Land”; NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams’s seasoning his video greetings with such Yiddishisms as nakhas, mentschlekhkeyt and spilkes (pins), and master of ceremonies Freddie Roman ladling Borsch Belt jokes, the June 8 National Yiddish…
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News Mrs. Goldberg: ‘The Oprah of Her Day.’
AVIVA KEMPNER’S “YOO-HOO MRS. GOLDBERG” A FILM TO REMEMBER AND RELISH Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner told the 92nd Street Y audience at the June 25 screening of her latest documentary, “Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” that when she mentioned Gertrude Berg to Fran Drescher, the response of “The Nanny” was, “Who was Gertrude Berg?” There was a…
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News A Mother-Daughter Moment
JERRY SEINFELD, JOE NAMATH, DR. ERIC KANDEL, GLORIA AND EMILIO ESTEFAN HONORED WITH ELLIS ISLAND FAMILY HERITAGE AWARDS “Imagine what it must have been like to come here as an immigrant.” said Candice Bergen, host of the 2009 Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards ceremony, held May 19 and honoring Joe Namath, Jerry Seinfeld, Dr. Eric…
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News Hats Off to the Einstein Grads
“MY GRANDDAUGHTER, THE DOCTOR!” AN ALBERT EINSTEIN GRADUATION CEREMONY On June 2, my granddaughter, Michelle Cohen, was one of the graduates of the Class of 2009 of Albert Einstein College of Medicine — a personal simkha (joy) that was part of a global celebration. The 200 new medical doctors “hooded” on the stage of Lincoln…
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News Isaac Mizrahi’s ‘Green’ Dress
BACKSTAGE AT ‘IRENA’S VOW’ TOVAH FELDSHUH RECALLS BARBRA STREISAND “Barbra Streisand was very good to me,” Tovah Feldshuh told me recently backstage at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where she stars in “Irena’s Vow.” It was my fourth viewing and her 101st Broadway tour de force performance in the role of Irena Gut Opdyke, a young…
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News Celebrating‘An American Experience’
“ADELINE MOSES LOEB” — A JOURNEY THROUGH A SEVEN-GENERATION JEWISH FAMILY TREE “This is a real night for American Jewish Southern history,” said Eli Evans at the May 5 book launch of “An American Experience: Adeline Moses Loeb and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors,” held at the Metropolitan Club and hosted by Loeb’s grandson, John…
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News Milton Glaser’s Film Debut
MILTON GLASER — A MANY-SPLENDORED GRAPHIC DESIGNER WHO LIVES TO CREATE During the question-and-answer session following the May 14 premiere of Wendy Keys’s film “Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight” — about the graphic designer extraordinaire — author and critic Steven Heller, co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Department, blurted out to…
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News Philip Glass’s American Life
“GLASS ON GLASS” — A COMPOSER PERFORMS AND MUSES ABOUT HIS WORK Listening to Philip Glass speak is akin to hearing his music — staccato and zigzagging in time. At the April 28 Glass on Glass gala at St. Ann’s Warehouse — a state-of-the-art theater space in Brooklyn’s waterfront DUMBO neighborhood —composer Glass was interviewed…
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