Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Christie Brinkley Goes Organic
OLDER THAN THE STATE OF ISRAEL, TEL AVIV MUSEUM CELEBRATES CALDER GALA In 1930, Tel Aviv’s first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, gave his home over to the city to be transformed into the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, with the injunction: “Guard it, for it bears a blessing, for it is destined to become an honor…
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News Whoopi Honored
WHOOPI GOLDBERG AMONG HONOREES AT ALBERT EINSTEIN LUNCHEON This is the last place I thought I would be… Thank you for shining a light on me,” said Whoopi Goldberg an honoree at the May 5 Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s 54th annual Spirit of Achievement Luncheon. Donny Deutsch, host of CNBC hit show “The Big Idea…
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News Comic Creators Discuss Legacy
A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME GATHERING OF COMIC BOOK CREATORS IN NEW YORK Michael Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movies, hailed the nine panelists at the “The Legends Behind the Comic Books” forum, for which he served as moderator. Uslan called the forum, which was held at the Jacob Javits Center as part of the recent New…
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News Churchill: Good For The Jews?
KISSINGER LAUDS THE BRITISH AT ENGLISH BALL OF THE ROSES IN NEW YORK “In 1946 I vas a sniper viz ze Haganah and shooting at you British, but now it’s okay,” said sexpert Ruth Westheimer to a medal-adorned guest during the reception at the April 25 St. George’s Society of New York’s English Ball of…
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News Emotions Run High at Yom HaShoah Event
FILM STAR LENA OLIN HONORED AT AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN GALA “Did you ever meet Isaac Bashevis Singer?” I asked film star Lena Olin at The American-Scandinavian Foundation’s gala, held April 7 at the Pierre Hotel. Olin and her husband, filmmaker Lasse Hallström, were honored at the event. “No,” Olin said, “but I was told that he was…
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News Arts Group Broadens Its Horizons
ARTIST LEROY NEIMAN HELPS LAUNCH AN ARTS CENTER “I feel like I am in Paris,” said a guest arriving at the West 67th Street high-ceilinged, paintings-filled atelier of artist Leroy Neiman for the March 24 cocktail launch of the Arts Horizon LeRoy Neiman Center. Among the guests were Neil Sedaka, Michael Feinstein, Charles “Chip” Fisher (son…
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News Students Remember Holocaust
ISRAEL U.N. AMBASSADOR GILLERMAN AND HIS WIFE HOST INTIMATE LUNCHEON “I’m the man who accompanied Janice to New York,” joshed Israel’s United Nations ambassador, Dan Gillerman, addressing the guests at the Intimate Lunch he and his wife hosted March 13 at their Fifth Avenue residence. “When I took the job five years ago, I was…
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News Martin Sheen Honored
UNPRECEDENTED EXHIBIT WOMAN OF LETTERS-IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY AND SUITE FRANÇAISE COMING TO MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE On September 24, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will launch a remarkable exhibit: Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française, a rare collection of artifacts including more than 100 unpublished family photographs, the manuscript…
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