Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Discussing Madoff
SPOTLIGHT ON MADOFF (“THE MOMSER”) AT YIVO PANEL DISCUSSION When I mentioned to someone that I’d be attending the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s January 15 panel discussion, “Madoff: A Jewish Reckoning,” the snap retort was: “That momser! They should hang him like in the Wild West.” At the Center for Jewish History, no one…
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News Chef Gets Top Honors
FOOD ALLERGY GALA NOTES: ALLERGIES NOT JUST SNIFFLES — THEY CAN KILL “I bit into a piece of bread on Swedish TV and passed out. My system shut down,” said Marcus Samuelsson, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Food Allergy Initiative’s Food Allergy Ball, held December 8, 2008, at the Waldorf-Astoria. Executive chef…
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News American Friends of Hebrew University Honors Bill Gates
BILL GATES TOUTS ISRAEL’S HEBREW U. AS AGRICULTURAL LABORATORY TO THE WORLD Calling the Einstein Award, presented to him at the December 2, 2008, American Friends of the Hebrew University gala, “the goy award,” Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates, its first recipient, got a roaring welcome from the nearly 600 guests at the New…
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News Celebrating a Holy Space
AN ECUMENICAL HAPPENING AT THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE My observant grandfather, Shmuel-Yankl Goldin, murdered by the Nazis in 1942, was a carpenter in Byten (now Belarus) who helped build synagogues and churches. My first school in Warsaw, Poland, was a Yiddish school on Krochmalne, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s favorite street. My first English…
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News A Hanukkah Remembrance
CHARLIE ROSE DIALOGUES WITH DAN GILLERMAN, LALLY WEYMOUTH AND MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN AT AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE AWARD DINNER Between sobering reality checks, Dan Gillerman’s wry sense of humor delighted the crowd at the December 1 America-Israel Friendship League Partners for Democracy Award Dinner, held at the Plaza Hotel. Gillerman, who is Israel’s former permanent representative to…
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News ‘Gimpel’ Revival A Must-See
LIES, LUST AND PATHOS IN FOLKSBIENE’S NEW MUSICAL, “GIMPEL TAM” From his literary perch in heaven or hell — both of whose existence he doubted — Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer must be applauding the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene’s delicious musical “Gimpel Tam” (“Gimpel the Fool”). Based on Singer’s 1945 short story, translated into English by…
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News A Musical Evening
DYNAMIC DUDAMEL CONDUCTS THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC AT CARNEGIE HALL “The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will continue to make beautiful music… and seek peace,” Lily Safra told the American Friends of the IPO audience at the November 17 Celebration of Israel’s 60th Anniversary concert, held at Carnegie Hall. “To chair such an event in the United States……
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News Another Gore in the Spotlight
Karenna Gore Schiff a Hit at UJA Women’s Lion of Judah Luncheon “Amazing what women can achieve,” said Bonni Gould, chair of the UJA-Federation of New York Women’s Philanthropy Lion of Judah luncheon held on November 5. She then introduced guest of honor Karenna Gore Schiff to those gathered at the New York Hilton. Daughter…
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