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Israel Cancer Research Fund Luncheon Showcases Haim Werner
Israel Cancer Research Fund Luncheon Showcases Haim Werner At the Israel Cancer Research Fund luncheon, held August 10 at The Yale Club of New York City, ICRF-funded scientist Haim Werner gave a presentation on his research specialty: the connection among hormones, obesity and cancer. At the heart of his address was a discussion of what…
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Knesset Set To Define ‘Jewish State’
A proposal likely to pass the Knesset would for the first time clarify what it means that Israel is a Jewish state, sparking controversy over its potential to clash with principles of equality and civil liberties. The bill, submitted to the Knesset on August 3, will become Israel’s 12th “Basic Law” if passed, giving it…
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Jewish Poverty on Menu at Met Council Luncheon Honoring Builder of the Year Jeffrey Levine
Jewish Poverty on Menu at Met Council Luncheon Honoring Builder of the Year Jeffrey Levine Few believe that Jewish poor exist,” New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said in his keynote address at the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty luncheon, held July 26 to honor Builder of the Year Jeffrey Levine. He described Levine…
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Eye Candy and Open-Space Connections: Spotlight on Hampton Designer Showhouse Interior Designers Gideon Mendelson and Keith Baltimore
Eye Candy and Open-Space Connections: Spotlight on Hampton Designer Showhouse Interior Designers Gideon Mendelson and Keith Baltimore One week after the Hampton Designer Showhouse Gala Preview Cocktail Party, held July 23 in Bridgehampton, N.Y., to benefit Southampton Hospital, I met with two of the 25 interior designers who had been chosen to decorate a room…
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Israel Plans to Raise the Famed Altalena
One of the bitterest confrontations on record pitting Jew against Jew is soon to be dredged up ? quite literally. The Israeli government has given instructions for the raising of the Altalena, a Jewish ship on which the country?s prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, ordered his army to fire shortly after he declared independence, in 1948….
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Massive Housing Protests Shake Israel Government
Faced with thousands of young Israelis taking to the streets, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a new proposal to solve Israel’s housing crisis and, he hopes, stem a grassroots protest movement whose popularity has shaken his government. In a speech from his office July 26, Netanyahu announced that for the first time in Israeli…
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"Sarah’s Key" Author Tatiana de Rosnay and Filmmaker Gilles Paquet-Brenner Sound Off
“Sarah’s Key” Author Tatiana de Rosnay and Filmmaker Gilles Paquet-Brenner Sound Off “I am not a person who scares easily, but of this scene I was scared,” said Gilles Paquet-Brenner, director of “Sarah’s Key,” during the interview at the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo a few days before the film’s July 22 opening. He was…
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Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal Spellbinding at U.S. Holocaust Museum Dinner
Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal Spellbinding at U.S. Holocaust Museum Dinner “There are traditional forms of anti-Semitism…. There is Holocaust denial…. There is also growing Holocaust glorification,” keynote speaker Hannah Rosenthal said at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s New York tribute dinner, held June 2 at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. Rosenthal, President Obama’s special envoy…
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General Robert Magnus and 50 Marines Honor Fallen Heroes at Jewish Center
General Robert Magnus and 50 Marines Honor Fallen Heroes at Jewish Center “In front of the Torah, we pay tribute to those who served our country,” said Rabbi Yosie Levine of the Jewish Center, in Manhattan, which hosted the May 30 Jewish Community Memorial Day Event, “An Appreciation of America’s Service Members.” With a U.S….
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Hillel: A College Campus Oasis of Judaism and Romance Honors Morris Offit
Hillel: A College Campus Oasis of Judaism and Romance Honors Morris Offit “I have a sickness! I love to go to Jewish dinners. You learn a little something you never knew,” said Morris Offit, chairman of Offit Capital Advisors LLC. Hillel honored Offit with the Renaissance Award at its annual gala, held May 26 at…
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“Renaissance” U.S. Admiral Stavridis Honored at Dinner Aboard the Intrepid
“Renaissance” U.S. Admiral Stavridis Honored at Dinner Aboard the Intrepid “He is a Renaissance admiral and a consummate diplomat,” Mel Immergut, co-chair of the May 26 Salute to Freedom Award Dinner, said of multifaceted Admiral James G. Stavridis, recipient of the 2011 Intrepid Freedom Award. Immergut, chairman of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and…
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