Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Sting’s Met Performance
Art Spiegelman Takes Comic Character Hapless Hooligan Out of the Strip and Onto the Stage With Pilobolus Dance Theater In keeping with the adage “A picture is worth a thousand words,” one minute of watching the Pilobolus Dance Theater’s staging of the Art Spiegelman-inspired “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving,’” at the Joyce Theatre, trumps any…
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News Through a Nazi Lens
Lights! Camera! Death! “A Film Unfinished”: The Warsaw Ghetto Through a Nazi Lens When I was invited in June by Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate in a conference titled “Public Diplomacy and Polish-Jewish Relations,” to be held in Warsaw in October, I had mixed emotions. Yes! What a wonderful opportunity to revisit the…
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News Heroes Among Us
Remembering Hannah Senesh at Museum of Jewish Heritage Luncheon “I felt I was in the presence of someone special,” Auschwitz survivor Susan Beer said of her encounter in 1944 with Hannah Senesh in a Budapest prison when Beer spoke at the 18th annual Spring Women’s Luncheon of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living…
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News Religious Bridge Builders
Tanenbaum Honors Papal Nuncio and Other Religious Bridge Builders While welcoming the guests to the June 17 Mark H. Tanenbaum Award Ceremony & Memorial Lecture, held at the Pierre, founder and president Georgette Bennett articulated the Tanenbaum Foundation’s mission: “… to confront and overcome the horrors [perpetrated] in the name of religion.” In a lighter…
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News Pomp and Portrait
Hip, Hip, Hooray for National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene Hit ‘Hershele Ostropolyer’ What?! You haven’t seen “The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer”? The National Yiddish Theatre- Folksbiene’s delicious, delightful 80-minute musical, which opened on June 3 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center and runs until June 27, is, based on the positive reviews compiled by StageGrade.com, the top-rated…
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News Toasted and Roasted
SETH LIPSKY TOASTED AND ROASTED AT AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARD DINNER You could almost smell the newsprint and hear the purr of printing presses at the Harvard Club on June 2, when Seth Lipsky, founding editor of the Forward and the New York Sun newspapers, was presented with the American Jewish Historical Society’s 2010…
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News Women And Israel
WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY HIGHLIGHTED AT UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK EVENT As New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg looked on lovingly, his wife, Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, and her sisters, Carol Weisman and Lois Robbins-Zaro, were awarded tzedakah boxes at the June 3 UJA-Federation of New York Women’s Philanthropy “In Her Footsteps” event at the New York Hyatt. Introduced…
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News Analyzing Freud
Barry Manilow Wows 92nd St. Y’s Spring Gala Crowd “Holy Mackerel! Congratulations! Tonight you have something no one else has — me!” an ebullient Barry Manilow told the 600-strong audience celebrating the 92nd Street Y’s spring gala, held at the Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall. “I’ve looked forward to this a whole year! I’m from Brooklyn…….
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