Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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Israel News Taking New York By Storm, In Song
As the world reeled under the Nazi boot, few knew that such American icons as Superman and Captain America, who were zapping evil Axis powers and spies on comic-book page battlefields, had been created and drawn by Jewish artists. In Kobe, Japan, in 1941, before English had become my new language of speech and dreams,…
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Israel News A Blessing for John Paul II
The September 6 opening of “A Blessing to One Another/Pope John Paul II & The Jewish People,” the inspiring exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage/A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, was a remarkable happening for me as a survivor who experienced Poland’s pre-war antisemitism. “If Jewish museums had patron saints,” said museum director David…
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News Celebrating Tel Aviv University
“Jews can survive persecution. Jews can’t survive indifference,” said 90-year old Bernard Lewis, an honoree at the June 14 Tel Aviv University Jubilee dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Lewis, who is Cleveland E. Dodge professor of Near Eastern studies, emeritus, at Princeton University and visiting fellow of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, is…
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News Yiddish Sounds From the USO
One of the honorees at the June 7 USO of Metropolitan New York luncheon at the Pierre Hotel was philanthropist Francine LeFrak, an award-winning theatrical and television producer whose productions have earned Tonys, Emmys, Peabody Awards and more. Introduced by MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby, LeFrak paid homage to her father, “Sam LeFrak, who built affordable…
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News Folksbiene Salutes Yiddish; ON THE GO
Just before heading to Town Hall for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre’s June 12 gala concert, I stopped off at author Amy Tan’s SoHo loft, where she and Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, hosted a cocktail reception celebrating the PBS series “Keeping Score” — a multimedia project designed to make classical music…
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News In Praise of Hillel
‘Tonight David and Abby are our king and queen,” Avraham Infeld, president of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, said of financial guru Abby Joseph Cohen and her husband, investment analyst David Cohen. The Cohens were honorees at Hillel’s June 6 International Gala, held at the Pierre Hotel. “In China they call Abby ‘Goddess’;…
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News Stressing the Bones
‘Eat your dinner!” Joan Rivers exhorted the black-tie crowd at the May 23 National Osteoporosis Foundation’s Silhouette Ball, held at The Waldorf-Astoria. “The fatter you are, the less likely you are to have osteoporosis,” said NOF designated ambassador Rivers, who once joshed about her bones “clicking like dolphins.” Despite the comedic nature of Rivers’s remark,…
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News Museum Dinner Gets Toes a-Tappin’
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust hosted its May 15 annual Heritage Dinner
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