Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Tribute to Leona
Was it selective amnesia on the part of the New York Post’s gossip maven Cindy Adams? Her August 21 column, “Unknown Stories of the Queen of Mean,” savaged her onetime friend Leona Helmsley (nee Rosenthal), who died the day before at age 87. The unforgivable sin of all sins that enraged Adams was Helmsley’s ousting…
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News A Great Debate
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TELLS OF RESCUE BY BRITISH POWS Doris Schechter, a Vienna-born restaurateur, was kvelling at the August 14 launch of her cookbook-cum-memoir, “At Oma’s Table” (Berkley Pub. Group), held at her Manhattan restaurant, My Most Favorite Food. The crowd included journalist Ruth Gruber, who in 1944 accompanied 1,000 World War II refugees from Italy,…
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News Adieu to Arye
THE MANY GOODBYES FOR DEPARTING ISRAELI AMBASSADOR ARYE MEKEL “None has served with such personal modesty and clarity of purpose,” said UJA executive vice president John Ruskay of Israel’s departing consul general, Arye Mekel, at the joint UJA-Federation of New York/Jewish Community Relations Council of New York’s July l7 leave-taking reception. “[His was] the more…
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News JLC Honors NYC Mayor
BLOOMBERG HAILED AS UNION-FRIENDLY BY JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE “What kind of Republican is Michael Bloomberg? The best kind: a former Republican!” said the Jewish Labor Committee’s president,Stuart Appelbaum (also president of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union), at the June 12 Human Rights Awards Dinner. Award recipient Bloomberg declared: “Jews and labor are linked…
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News Smooth Sailing for Stuttering Gala Maiden Voyage Aboard the QM2
Singer/songwriter Carly Simon was among the honorees at Freeing Voices, Changing Lives, the first-ever gala of the American Institute for Stuttering. The event was held June 10 aboard Cunard Line flagship Queen Mary 2, at its Brooklyn Cruise Terminal berth in Red Hook. The event also honored former stutterers: journalist/author Dominick Dunne, NBA All Star…
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News Picture Perfect Event
WIESEL PAYS POETIC TRIBUTE TO CARTIER-SPONSORED MONUMENT TO SMILE An only-in-America shidakh: Agnès Winter’s exhibit Monument to Smile — a spectacular projection of 250 photographs of smiling Americans on the nearly full-building-height facade of Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza, supplemented by Elie Wiesel’s words and Charlie Chaplin’s music — was presented by Cartier jewelers. Rockefeller co-owners…
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News Dolly Parton Honored by SHOF
**DOLLY PARTON SPARKLES AT SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME GALA ** “You meet the most interesting people in the ladies room,” I said to wasp-waisted, mammary-endowed Dolly Parton. “Even stars have to pee,” was her cheery comeback. Recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award at the June 7 Songwriters Hall of Fame dinner, she was described by…
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News A Tribute to Sills
REMEMBERING BEVERLY SILLS: A BROOKLYN BORN DIVA WHO THRILLED THE WORLD When the Forward was preparing its 100th anniversary special edition in August 1997, Beverly Sills (who, at age 78, died July 2 of lung cancer) was one of several dozen New York personalities and politicians whom I invited to pose reading the English and/or…
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