Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Boxer’s Story on the Big Screen
“ORTHODOX STANCE”: A FRUM MENSCH IN THE BOXING RING “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” that old joke goes. “Practice, practice,” is the reply. So if the question is, “How do you get to the White House?” a possible answer might be: “Box! Box!” Case in point: Jason Hutt’s new documentary, “Orthodox Stance,” which…
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News Thirty Years in Fashion
HATE-CRIME HERO HONORED BY FOUNDATION FOR ETHNIC UNDERSTANDING “There is no such thing as a ‘good book,’ when people get killed over the book…. We all have a good book — the Bible, the Quran, the Old/New Testament,” said Leon Charney, an honoree at the December 12, 2007, benefit for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding….
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News Kaufman Center’s Curtain Raiser
A NEW ARCHITECTURAL FACE FOR THE KAUFMAN CENTER The details of the eight-month, $17 million renovation of the Kaufman Center — located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and home to the Merkin Concert Hall — by the New York firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects are daunting. What I can say of its January 8 mazel…
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News Sobriety Book Celebrates Launch
SHELDON AND MIRIAM ADELSON HONORED BY BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL Casino mogul billionaire Sheldon Adelson may be ranked as the third richest American by Forbes 400 — behind Warren Buffett and Bill Gates — but at the December 11 Birthright Israel Foundation dinner, which honored him and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, he was, as they say…
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News Yiddish Theater: Going Strong
APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE FOR FOLKSBIENE AND ITS GALA GUESTS With the rave reviews of its 2007 season’s centerpiece “Kleinkunst!” cabaret production resonating, the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene chairman of the board, Jeff Weisenfeld, welcomed the festive crowd at Folksbiene’s December 10 benefit dinner, held at Manhattan Center Studio at Manhattan’s Center. The guest roster included lyricist Sheldon…
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News Y.U. Honors Tulane President
RESOURCEFUL TULANE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT COWEN HONORED BY YESHIVA It’s safe to say that when Yeshiva University president Richard Joel conferred the Doctor of Humane Letters — honoris causa — upon Hillary Clinton (in 2005) and John McCain (in 2006) at Y.U.’s annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation, those were not political endorsements. But if the president…
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News Germans Honor Libeskind
MEMORY AND HOPE AT YAD VASHEM DINNER “Remember! Remember! Remember! Do not repeat past mistakes! Believe those who threaten us…. What we teach our children [about the Holocaust] defines their lives,” stressed the World Jewish Congress’s Matthew Bronfman, recipient of the Yad Vashem Young Leadership Award. Bronfman received the award at the November 18 American…
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News A Yiddish Word For All Occasions
INTREPID SALUTES GOVERNOR SPITZER “We think the United States invented the idea [of a volunteer army,]” Greek American James Stavridis, a four-star admiral, told the guests at the November 14 Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s Salute to Freedom Dinner “aboard” the Hilton New York hotel. “It goes back to Athens, the first democracy in…
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