Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Knowing When The Fight Begins
PETE HAMILL PRAISES LATE, GREAT NEW YORK CITY CHAMPION MOYNIHAN “As a writer [Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan] did not need rented fingers to shape a major speech. He wrote it himself,” stated author and journalist Pete Hamill at the February 5 Citizens for NYC New Yorker for New York Awards Gala, held at The Waldorf-Astoria….
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News Running On "Jewish Time"
FRAN “THE NANNY” DRESCHER APPLAUDS ZUBIN “THE CONDUCTOR” MEHTA There’s that old saw about Jewish events starting on “Jewish time” — 20 minutes late or, as Israel’s consul general, Arye Mekel, once joshed, “Israeli time, which is 20 minutes after Jewish time.” Since the February l Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert began at 7 p.m., not…
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News Theater Veterans Honored
Seniors in Japan who have practiced, enriched and husbanded their country’s national artistic forms are designated as National Treasures during their life span. Notwithstanding a lifetime of accomplishment, international renown, devoted fans and scrapbooks full of reviews, most Yiddish actors never hear the accolades heaped upon them post-mortem, in eulogies where all jealousy and acrimony…
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News A Night Full Of Maazel
YOU GOTTA HAVE A LITTLE MAAZEL — ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA BENEFIT Led by conductor Lorin Maazel, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s January 30 concert in New York at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium led off with a flawless rendition of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No 3. Guest artist Maxim Vengerov performed a bravura interpretation of Beethoven’s Violin…
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News Singing to Joschka
THE WEST IS A’CHANGING: A NEW EUROPE — NEW PERCEPTIONS “The West exists today, but it ain’t what it used to be,” said Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at Washington, D.C.’s Council on Foreign Relations. Kupchan, who is also director of European studies and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, was a panelist at…
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Israel News Richard Gere Hails Dean
FIGHTING FOR WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AROUND THE GLOBE “I would… like to acknowledge the supreme sacrifice you have made in choosing to spend the evening with us rather than watch the State of the Union [speech],” said Kati Marton, co-chair and emcee at the January International Women’s Health Coalition gala at Cipriani 42nd Street….
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Israel News Simon Says, In Yiddish
BIKEL AND FINKEL SHINE IN YIDDISH VERSION OF NEIL SIMON’S “THE SUNSHINE BOYS” From the moment Theodore Bikel and Fyvush Finkel commandeered the stage at the January 7 one-day-only Yiddish reading of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys,” “Di Komediantn” (the 1975 film version starred Walter Matthau and George Burns), they had the overflow audience at…
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Israel News Honoring Shamir
ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER READY FOR ANYTHING “My 17-year-old mother gave birth to me on the floor of a train in Kazakhstan” revealed Israel’s consul general in New York, Arye Mekel, at the intimate December 12, 2006, reception he and his wife, Ruth, hosted at their residence for Dr. Benjamin Davidson, director general of Assaf Harofeh…
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