Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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Culture Educate! Empower! Endow! And Entertain
“The myth is: We eat and non-Jews drink. Not so!” said Sylvie Sherman-Bloch to the 315 guests at the April 21 Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York benefit luncheon at The Pierre. A foundation grant recipient, the blond, attractive Sherman-Bloch, a recovering drug and alcohol addict, concluded with the unsettling query: “Is there an addict…
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Israel News Takes-a-Village Outlook Marks Citizens of NYC
“Tonight is all about our love for New York City,” Mike Wallace said as he raised the curtain April 14 on the Citizens for NYC’s awards dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. The event, dubbed “New Yorkers for New York,” honored Kati Marton, Nane Annan, Walter Cronkite and Kevin Roberts. The benefit raised $700,000 for the organization’s…
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Israel News Boys May Be Boys, But Boys’ Town Makes Men
Brother Anthony D’Amato, executive vice president of Boys’ Town of Italy, jokingly told the multinational, multiethnic black-tie crowd at the April 2 “Ball of the Year” at the Waldorf-Astoria: “If you have qualms about eating meat on Friday… [rest assured] we were given special dispensation by the archdiocese.” Founded in 1945, the Rome-based Boys’ Town…
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Israel News From Under the Chupah to Over the Ark, and Other Ottoman Tales
Ömer Öhnon, Turkey’s consul general in New York, was the keynote speaker at the March 31 launch of the “Jewish Costumes in the Ottoman Empire” exhibit at the Center for Jewish History. Curated by Sylvio Ovadya, the exhibit has been sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation, the Sephardic House with the Jewish Community of Turkey…
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Israel News The Boomerang Effects of Acts of Kindness
The spectacular Park Avenue apartment of Island Def Jam Music Group chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid and his wife, Erica Reid, was the setting on March 18 for The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s spring benefit. The event raised $250,000 to support such projects as its new Ethnic Congressional Caucus in Washington, D.C., and the Shared Dreams…
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Israel News Lost in Translation: ‘The Ghost Is Eager, But the Meat Is Tender’
The March 15 reception for the Institute of International Education’s launch of its Ruth Gruber Chair of the Scholar Rescue Fund was hosted by Patti Kenner at her Park Avenue home. Recapping the institute’s rescue work in the 1930s, Scholar Fund chairman Henry Jarecki said that out of 8,000 applicants, they were only able to…
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News At ELEM Benefit, Nava Barak Shares Sorrow Over Distressed Youth
Braving an unseasonable blizzard, 400 boosters of ELEM/Youth in Distress in Israel headed to Sotheby’s for the March 16 benefit, where they helped raise $500,000. Greetings by ELEM/America president Ann Bialkin were followed by an invocation by Rabbi Arthur Schneier of Park East Synagogue, anecdotes by emcee Jason Flom, president of Lava Records, and comments…
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News ‘Tevye Isn’t Jewish — and Golda Is’
Last week, I relished Broadway’s latest “Fiddler on the Roof.” When I told Bel Kaufman, Sholom Aleichem’s 92-year-old granddaughter, how much I enjoyed the performance, she concurred: “It’s sheer magic!” Kaufman, author of “Up the Down Staircase,” said: “You know, there was a real Tevye, a small, scrawny man who had no daughters. My grandfather…
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