Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Hitting the Road With Reiser and Falk
“I know just enough Yiddish to answer an old lady in an elevator that I am not going to kill her,” Paul Reiser joshed during our August 31 interview at the Regency Hotel. He was in town to tout his new film, “The Thing About My Folks,” which he wrote and in which he co-stars…
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News Bidding Abe Hirschfeld Farewell
Parking-garage mogul, publicity hound and overall one-of-a-kind character Abe Hirschfeld died of cancer August 9. The August 10 New York Post headline read, “A ‘Post’ Mortem for Crazy Abe Hirschfeld” (who had owned the paper for two weeks in 1993). The more sedate New York Times went with “Abe Hirschfeld, a Millionaire and an Eccentric,…
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News On Becoming a Fan of Japanese Film
At the July 18 reception for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, held at Gracie Mansion, host Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the organization “for bringing a small measure of justice to the millions of Jews victimized by the Nazis” and the resulting “distribution of over $1 billion… to more than 500,000 Jewish victims…
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News Two Farewells: One Warm, One Tearful
‘Polish society is most paradoxical,” said Poland’s consul general, Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, at the July 28 adieu luncheon in her honor, hosted by the American Jewish Committee at its headquarters. “It is the most pro-Israel in Europe today…. There is no such thing as being anti-Israel, yet antisemitism exists in Poland…. It’s kind of schizophrenic. Israel…
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News Of Sugihara and Hiroshima
Among the 3,000 champagne-sipping guests crowded into New York City’s French Consulate for the July 14 Bastille Day celebration — hosted by consul general François Delattre and his wife, Sophie L’Hélias-Delattre — were Rabbi Arthur Schneier and his wife, Elisabeth; concert pianist Charlotte White (whose grandfather and father were avid readers of the Yiddish Forward),…
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News Theater Lover Gets Ovation
Corey (Gedalye) Breier, president of the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club and the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance, celebrated his 50th birthday at the organizations’ June 27 dinner dance, held at Park Avenue Synagogue. The place was jumping as the ballroom vibrated to the music of Mitch Kahn’s orchestra, and a multigenerational crowd filled the floor…
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News Rabbi and Professor Face Off In Bioethics Debate
It was thrust and parry at the Aleph Society’s June 21 dinner at the Essex House, at which Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow refereed a dialogue on bioethics between Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and University of Chicago professor Leon R. Kass. Born to a secular family in Palestine in 1937, Steinsaltz — whom…
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News Fund Honors Cancer Survivors
“In the room today is my wife, Linda, alive because of the work done by [the] Israel Cancer Research Fund,” said high-profile criminal attorney Benjamin Brafman, who served as master of ceremonies at the ICRF’s June 20 Women of Action Luncheon, held in New York City at The Pierre. Honored was Luna Kaufman, who survived…
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