Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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Israel News Jerry Stiller: Son Of Sunni, Shi’ite
STILLER A STELLAR HIT AT CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY GALA “My father was a Litvak, my mother a Galitz — one Sunni, the other Shi’ite,” Jerry Stiller told the guests at the Center for Jewish History’s December 6 Board of Overseers and Board of Governors dinner, held in the center’s impressive atrium. Special guest Stiller…
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Israel News Saluting Those In Uniform
THEME AT DECEMBER 7 USO GALA: “LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE” “If you want to see America’s melting pot, look to the military,” said Brian Whiting, executive director of USO of Metropolitan New York, at the December 7 USO & Armed Forces Golf Medal dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street as he looked…
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Israel News Brainy Banter At 92nd Street Y Benefit
LIGHTS! CAMERA! LAUGHTER! AT 92ND ST Y’s BENEFIT “She knows more about movies than I know about sex,” said petite psychiatrist Ruth Westheimer about film scholar Annette Insdorfat New York City’s 92nd Street Y’s “On Politics & Culture” lecture series benefit, held December 4 at Cipriani 23rd Street. Insdorf, director of Columbia University’s undergraduate film…
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Israel News Saluting The Fresh Prince
MULTITALENTED WILL SMITH HONORED AT MUSEUM GALA “I salute all of you who contributed to my career,” Will Smith, honoree at the December 3 Museum of the Moving Image dinner, told the black-tie crowd at the Waldorf-Astoria. “I want to thank my mother for making love to my father… I know it was not easy,”…
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Israel News Applauding the Adelsons
YAD VASHEM HONORS THE ADELSONS — PHILANTHROPISTS EXTRAORDINAIRE “I don’t remember so many people standing up as when I was on the chow line in the army,” said Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp. He and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, were honored at the November 19 American & International Societies…
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Israel News Stars Shine In Alzheimer Gala
GLITZ AND GLAMOR IN SERVICE OF ALZHEIMER RESEARCH At the mingling reception ritual of the November 14 Alzheimer Association “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” Rita Hayworth Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria, I got a “hello” kiss from bearded actor Ron Silver, was heymishly hugged by Broadway producer Marty Richards, exchanged a quip with Ivana Trump, was…
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Israel News Boxer Honored At Science Award Dinner
NO LONGER “FLOATING LIKE A BUTTERFLY,” ALI IS STILL “THE GREATEST” “I’ve heard a new sexy phrase tonight: I want to sequence you,” joshed Deborah Norville at the November 9 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Inaugural Double Helix Medals dinner, held at New York’s Mandarin Oriental. She was alluding to the laboratory’s chancellor, James Watson, co-discoverer…
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Israel News Bolton Talks Tough At Rabin Center Gala
BOLTON A HIT AT AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER FUNDRAISER “Why are we Americans so disliked in the world?” Larry King queried John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and keynote speaker at the November 5 gala of the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center at Cipriani 42nd Street. “Because they don’t like…
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