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Fashion Diva Iris Apfel Honored at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Women’s Division
“She is fashion’s latest ‘It Girl,’ who wears necklaces for elephants,” event chair Andrea Stark said of Iris Apfel, an honoree at the Spirit of Achievement Luncheon of the Women’s Division of Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, held May 5. Stark continued: “One of the most influential personalities in fashion, textile and interior…
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"The People In The Picture": Ich, Uch, Feh! Oy!
“The People In The Picture”: Ich, Uch, Feh! Oy! If you can survive Act I of Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of “The People in the Picture,” which opened on April 28 at Studio 54, by the end of Act II you will witness one of the longest, schmaltziest onstage bedside-death scenes since Second Avenue’s Yiddish…
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Israeli Writers Sound Off at PEN Event
Israeli Writers Sound Off at PEN Event “I don’t pay my children to empty the dishwasher or take out the garbage. I pay them $1 a book to read. Children are not reading,” lamented Israeli novelist Yael Hedaya (author of “Housebroken,” “Eden” and “Accidents,” and head writer for “In Treatment,” an Israeli TV series adapted…
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Floral Designer Bella Meyer Reminisces About Her Grandfather, Marc Chagall
Floral Designer Bella Meyer Reminisces About Her Grandfather, Marc Chagall “I grew up with his paintings around me,” said Bella Meyer, floral designer and founder of the studio Fleurs Bella, describing her grandfather, Marc Chagall. Meyer was among those attending and competing April 12 in The Horticultural Society of New York’s “Flower Show Dinner Dance…
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At Last! A “Permanent Greek Exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial”: Barack 18
At Last! A “Permanent Greek Exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial”: Barack 18 In one of the early frames of an upcoming documentary that soon will be shown in New York — “The Rescuers: Heroes of the Holocaust,” by African-American filmmaker Michael King and featuring British historian Martin Gilbert as narrator — Britain’s Prince Charles is…
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Kvelling in the Aisles at Folksbiene: Tilson Thomas Thomashevsky Theatre Gala
Kvelling in the Aisles at Folksbiene: Tilson Thomas Thomashevsky Theatre Gala Before the over-the-top theatrical saga of Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky was showcased at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, there was noshing and shmoozing at the April 6 reception for the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene gala held on the Promenade, at which Michael Tilson Thomas, music…
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Paul Libin, Broadway Powerhouse and Alum of Workman’s Circle Schools, Honored
Paul Libin, Broadway Powerhouse and Alum of Workman’s Circle Schools, Honored “In 1922, in a small village in Russia, not far from Minsk [Moghilev], my father returned from the warehouse he was in charge of,” said Paul Libin, executive vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters and recipient, at UJA-Federation of New York’s March 28 dinner, of…
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Susan Sarandon and Padma Lakshmi Put Spotlight on Endometriosis at Blossom Ball
Susan Sarandon and Padma Lakshmi Put Spotlight on Endometriosis at Blossom Ball ?I won?t bore you with tales of my genitalia,? said Padma Lakshmi, co-founder with Dr. Tamer Seckin of the Endometriosis Foundation of America, at the foundation?s third annual Blossom Ball, held March 18 at the New York Public Library. Lakshmi, a model, actress,…
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Literary Lions and Lionesses are the Mane Attraction at Jewish Book Awards Event
Literary Lions and Lionesses the Mane Attraction at Jewish Book Awards Event “To speak of Cynthia Ozick is to speak of magical storytelling,” said Francine Klagsbrun, a board member of the Jewish Book Council, before presenting Ozick with the council’s lifetime achievement award at its 60th annual National Jewish Book Award ceremony, held March 9…
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Forward and Forverts Celebrate the Past and the Future at Gala Dinner
Forward and Forverts Celebrate the Past and the Future at Gala Dinner “A good newspaper.. .is a nation talking to itself,” said Jane Eisner, editor of the Forward, quoting playwright Arthur Miller at the Forward Association’s March 8 “Looking Forward” fundraising gala, held at Mandarin Oriental. Actors and husband-and-wife team Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker…
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Pro-Israel Lawmakers Push for One State
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