Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Munich, on Film and in Person
A barrage of laudatory critics’ quotes in print ads and on television regarding Steven Spielberg’s overlong, gory thriller about the slaughter of the 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and the ongoing media debate — some of which reads like an apologia — has left me with “Munich” fatigue. Though a sympathetic texture…
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News The Power of the Pen
When I apologized for using a plebeian ballpoint to take notes at Montblanc North America’s December 8 launch of its “Limited Edition Juilliard 100” pen, its president and CEO Jan-Patrick Schmitz, reassured me, “It’s not about the pen, but about the arts.” Schmitz added, “It was the written word that has carried arts and culture…
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Culture Ron Howard’s Moving Images
The celebrity-filled Museum of the Moving Image December 4 gala salute to actor-director-producer Ron Howard was akin to a photographer-frenzied Hollywood premiere. Herbert Schlosser, museum board of trustees chairman, and Rochelle Slovin, the institution’s director, welcomed the stellar crowd at The Waldorf-Astoria. A beaming attendee was Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, in whose Astoria bailiwick…
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News Remembrance Without a Call For Revenge
“We can’t ignore the fact that murder was done by human beings who had children and families like us,” declared Elyezer Shkedy, commander of the Israeli Air Force. Shkedy was the guest speaker at the November 20 American & International Societies for Yad Vashem dinner. “Israel was built by survivors and Jews kicked out of…
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News From National Issues to National Treasures
“Today’s young people are no longer satisfied with the story of survival,” said Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Shlomo Lahat, former mayor of Tel Aviv, at the November 16 American Friends of Beth Hatefusoth-The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora dinner, held at The Pierre. “They are looking for positive concepts and values based on tradition…
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News Clinton Gives Food For Thought — But Hold the Gluten
‘I believe every Palestinian in Europe or America is either a millionaire or a college professor,” Bill Clinton told the more than 700 attendees at the November 10 State of Israel Bonds’ Real Estate and Construction Division lunch at The Pierre. The former president, who was speaking in reference to the Palestinian diaspora’s apparent tightfistedness,…
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News Recalling a Screen Legend’s Legacy
Images of stunning, flame-haired Hollywood “love goddess” Rita Hayworth were projected onto a huge translucent globe suspended above the ballroom of The Waldorf-Astoria for the November 1 Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth “Meet Me at the Stork Club” Gala (so titled because “Rita made a point of meeting everyone there,” the program noted). The walkway to…
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News Remembering Yitzhak Rabin
“Of all the leaders I dealt with, I most admired Rabin,” keynote speaker Dennis Ross recalled at the October 30 American Friends of Rabin Medical Center dinner. Held at the Pierre, the event occurred just days before the 10th anniversary of the leader’s assassination. “He was the embodiment of Israel,” mused Ross, who played a…
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