Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Remembering Bruce Adler
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND HONORS REMARKABLE, SPUNKY WOMEN “There are women in this room who are alive today because of the work being done by ICRF scientists,” declared Benjamin Brafman, a criminal lawyer who served as master of ceremonies at the Israel Cancer Research Fund’s June 17 Women of Action Luncheon. “We always try to…
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News Spotlight On Folksbiene
LAUGHTER IN THE AISLES AT TOWN HALL’S FOLKSBIENE GALA With its curtain-raising musical opener, “Tzadiks and Nudniks, Shlemiels No Goodniks” — a takeoff on Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” — the June 17 National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene benefit at Town Hall was off and running. In keeping with the…
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News Alec Baldwin: Half Jewish?
AL AND TIPPER GORE PRESIDE OVER CONSERVATION GALA AT CENTRAL PARK The Wildlife Conservation Society’s June 3 “Safari! India” gala to save the Indian tiger, held at the Central Park Zoo, honored David Schiff, its longtime board member and chairman (1990-2001). A managing partner at the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Schiff is the…
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News French Film’s Yiddish Roots
HARLAN COBEN’S BEST-SELLER “TELL NO ONE” NOW A FRENCH FILM THRILLER “All my books have Jewish characters,” award-winning author Harlan Coben said during our chat at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. We were discussing the French movie thriller “Tell No One” (“Ne Le Dis A Personne”). The recently opened film is based on…
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News Remembering Daddy Long Legs
CELEBRITIES LAUD MEMORY OF FRED ASTAIRE AT AUDITORY SCHOOL BENEFIT “We loved you as a teenage prostitute in ‘Pretty Baby’, onstage in ‘Chicago’ and as a worthy adversary to Tom Cruise,” said gossip columnist Liz Smith to Brooke Shields, who presented dancer-choreographer Tommy Tune with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the June 2 “Fred and…
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News Tribute to Jewish Women
700 HELP INAUGURATE FIRST-EVER UJA-FEDERATION WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY LUNCH It was a double-nachas day for real estate mogul Larry Silverstein when his wife, Klara, and daughter, Lisa, received the Philanthropy Award at the May 29 UJA-Federation of New York’s Women’s Philanthropy inaugural luncheon. “Our greatest gift is to inspire future generations,” said Klara, whose roster of…
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News Hillel Looks to the Future
NEW YORK REAL ESTATE DYNAMO JACKY TEPLITZKY HONORED BY PAJAMA PROGRAM “I grew up in a low-income, middle-class area in [Santiago] Chile,” said Manhattan real estate maven Jacky Teplitzky, recipient of the Sweet Dreams Award at the Pajama Program’s May 2 luncheon, held at the Hotel Pierre. Her family moved to Israel, where Teplitzky served…
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News Remembering a Yiddish Treasure
AUTHOR DIANE ACKERMAN HAILED AT KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION Among the attendees at the recent “Evening With Ackerman” — featuring Diane Ackerman, author of “The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story” (W.W. Norton, 2007), and held at New York’s Kosciuszko Foundation — were several Polish diplomats. The event can best be described as a Polish-Jewish historic love-fest. Ackerman…
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