Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Jewish Museum’s ‘Night in Persia’
LAURIE TISCH AND THE TISCH FAMILY LAUDED AT ALICE TULLY HALL GALA “Philanthropy for the Tisch family is what singing is to the [von] Trapp family,” said Frank Bennack Jr., Lincoln Center’s board chairman, at the February 23 “Leading Ladies of New York Celebrate Alice Tully” gala celebrating the opening of the renovated Alice Tully…
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Israel News Remembering Pearl Lang
SPIEGELMAN SOUNDS OFF AT COMIC CON: ‘WHAT THE !@##! HAPPENED TO COMICS?!’ “I am told that I am the father of the graphic novel, but am still waiting for the blood test,” said Art Spiegelman,1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” and keynote speaker at the February 6-8 New York Comic Con &…
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News An Evening of Song
“VOICES FROM THE JEWISH DIASPORA” A MULTILINGUAL MUSICAL BANQUET Picture this: Beautiful Haifa, Israel-born mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham, in a décolleté gown, singing “Kaddish” (from “Deux Melodies Hebraiques,” set to music by Maurice Ravel). This was one of the unexpected delights of the February 10 New York Festival of Song’s “Voices From the Jewish Diaspora” program…
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News Alaska Honors Ruth Gruber
KATYN — WAJDA’S SEARING FILM MEMORIAL TO THE MURDER OF POLISH (AND JEWISH OFFICERS) BY THE SOVIETS Overloaded with Holocaust films? Here’s a change of terror: Comrade Stalin’s signing of the order to slaughter 15,000 Polish officers and intellectuals at Katyn in the spring of 1940. What few know, and what is not articulated in…
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News Mike Burstyn’s Portrait of Lansky
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News Salon Series Celebrates 20 Years
AUTHOR ERICA JONG AT CHARLOTTE WHITE’S SALON DE VIRTUOSI CONCERT Several years ago, during my first lunch with Charlotte White, founder of Salon De Virtuosi, she told me: “My father and grandfather began each day with the Forverts, and my mother loved A Bintel Brief.” We were at the Regency Hotel, and a stack of…
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News ‘Soul Memories’: Powerful Art
ROSALYN ENGELMAN, WHO “SPEAKS” HER CONSCIENCE THROUGH HER ART On January 16 it was freezing outside, but inside Gramercy Park’s National Arts Club there was a glow, as Rosalyn Engelman’s friends and admirers gathered at the opening of the abstract artist’s exhibit, Soul Memories. On display, a collection of new works, brought together for the…
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News An Evening of Yiddish Song
ELEANOR REISSA A HIT AT AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC CELEBRATION Sporting stiletto heels and tight black-satin pants, singer-actress Eleanor Reissa wowed the audience at the December 28, 2008, Hanukkah concert at the Center for Jewish History, held jointly by the American Society for Jewish Music and the American Jewish Historical Society. With her Galizianer…
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