Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News At Benefit, Dan Rather Suggests Floyd Abrams For High Court
A newly retired Dan Rather, spouting Texan tales and maxims, served as the emcee at the ELEM: Youth in Distress in Israel benefit held June 1 at New York’s Jewish Museum. First Amedment lawyer Floyd Abrams, on a break from defending The New York Times’s Judith Miller, was, together with wife Efrat, among the evening’s…
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News Patinkin Wows Carnegie Crowd With Evening Of Yiddish Song
After 90 years of wending its way from its beginnings on New York City’s Lower East Side on Second Avenue through its “vagabond” years at assorted theaters and auditoriums, the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre took center stage at Carnegie Hall on June 16 at A Benefit for the Future of Yiddish Theatre in America, co-chaired by…
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News Foundation for Jewish Culture Lauds ‘Brooklyn Boy’ Playwright
“Ours was a culturally rich Jewish household,” Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies said at the June 6 National Foundation for Jewish Culture Awards in the Arts dinner, held at the Roosevelt Hotel. Margulies was honored with the foundation’s Literary Arts Award. “By that, I mean we didn’t go to synagogue, we went to Broadway.” But…
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News Honoring a Broadcaster and Remembering a Song Master
Julie Chen, anchor of CBS News’s “The Early Show,” served as emcee at the May 19 UJA-Federation of New York Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award Dinner, held at The Waldorf-Astoria. The evening’s honoree was Viacom chairman of the board and CEO Sumner Redstone, whom Chen described as “a man who has built what is… the…
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News ADL Posthumously Honors Fiume’s ‘Righteous’ Police Chief
“We must never forget,” said Rosanna Scotto, FOX 5 News co-anchor and emcee of the May 18 Anti-Defamation League Courage to Care Award dinner, which honored Giovanni Palatucci, Fiume, Italy’s chief of police, who, by forging visas and other documents, saved the lives of nearly 5,000 Jews destined for Nazi death camps. Before he was…
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News Blacks and Jews In Harmony At the New York Festival of Song
The New York Festival of Song, which for the past 17 years has presented tantalizing musical buffets, deserves bravos for its May 3 “A Prince of a Fella” tribute to producer/director Hal Prince and for the May 11 “Lost Tribes of Vaudeville” exploration of the Jewish-black musical connection. Co-chaired by Jamie Bernstein, John Kander, Barbara…
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News ON THE GO
Over the past 50 years, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University gained $100 million for research — thanks to the fund-raising magic of its National Women’s Division. At its New York chapter’s May 3 Spirit of Achievement Luncheon at The Waldorf-Astoria, among the accomplished women honored were television’s nationally syndicated, best-selling cookbook author…
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News At the Waldorf-Astoria, Lasers –– and Lots of Love –– for Lily Safra
“I want [Lily] Safra’s life, her fire, her clothes, her friends,” said “Good Morning America” anchor and emcee Diane Sawyer to the International Sephardic Education Foundation’s 650 benefit guests at its April 19 gala. “Her circle of family and friends stretches across countries and continents,” Sawyer said of the petite philanthropic Safra, who with her…
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