Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Charlie Rose, Friend of France
BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY AND CHARLIE ROSE DEBATE ABOUT FRANCE’S NEW LEFT “The man to my right writes about ‘the Left’… his history is a stand for freedom, liberty,” said TV journalist Charlie Rose of Bernard-Henri Lévy, whom he interviewed at the September 15 luncheon hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française in its Le Skyroom. Rose,…
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News Hillary Speaks at Israel Event
HILLARY A HIT AT ISRAEL BONDS DINNER Shouts of “We love you!” greeted Senator Hillary Clinton, keynote speaker at the September 18 National Labor Division State of Israel Bonds dinner honoring Stuart Appelbaum, president, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, UFCW. “I’m told more [Israel bonds] money was raised tonight than at any other labor…
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News Fran Drescher’s New Role
FROM NANNY TO DIPLOMAT: FRAN DRESCHER ON MISSION TO SAVE WOMEN’S LIVES From the wilds of the Flushing area of Queens to the hit TV series “The Nanny,” Fran Drescher, now known as “The Cancer Schmancer Lady, ” has been appointed (thanks to a recommendation by first lady Laura Bush) as the newest member of…
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News Songwriters Hall of Fame Honors Composer
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME HONORS COMPOSER ALAN MENKEN — FROM “A BINTEL BRIEF” TO OSCAR WINNER FOR “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST” AND MORE So how did singer and songwriter-composer Alan Menken go from writing the music and lyrics for the 1960s musical “Dear Worthy Editor” (based on the Forverts’s A Bintel Brief column) to penning…
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News A New Role for Feldshuh
TOVAH FELDSHUH PORTRAYS POLISH RESCUER IN NEW PLAY, “IRENA’S VOW” “We in America tend only to study the end of the Jewish tragedy… I saw the beginnings,” Tovah Feldshuh told the guests at the August 13 reception at the Polish Consulate in New York. It was a reference to her recent visit to Ukraine, Lithuania…
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News The Hamptons Round-Up
FROM THE MOUTHS OF PRESIDENTS WHOSE WRITERS’ WORDS MAKE HISTORY “Why speechwriters?” posited Robert Schlesinger, U.S. News & World Report opinion deputy assistant managing editor and author of the recent book “White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters” (Simon & Schuster), to the select gathering at the July 15 reception at the Roosevelt House Public…
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News Painting Sephardic Themes
PAUL LECLERC, PRESIDENT OF N.Y. PUBLIC LIBRARY, HONORED BY ISRAEL’S OPEN UNIVERSITY “We are all aware [that] the primacy of the book and other forms of print material — newspapers and magazines — is seriously challenged today,” said Paul LeClerc, president and CEO of The New York Public Library and honoree at the June 16…
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News Musical Remembrance
THE OPERA “BRUNDIBAR” AND “DIARY OF ANNE FRANK” EXCERPT SHOWCASED AT AN ‘ISRAEL AT 60’ CONCERT AT USDAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The July 17 “Israel at 60 Concert of Remembrance & Celebration,” held at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, provides reassurance that the children who perished in the Holocaust will…
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