Masha Leon, Legendary Forward Society Columnist, Dies At 86
Image by Karen Leon
By Josh Nathan-Kazis April 5, 2017
Masha Leon, the Forward’s society columnist for nearly 30 years, died Wednesday morning. She was 86 years old.
Leon covered Jewish charity galas and events in her weekly column, “On the Go,” for more than three decades, beginning at the time of the English Forward’s founding in 1990. She continued to write the column through the end of 2016.
Leon was a fixture on the Jewish social scene. A Holocaust survivor, she was born in Poland in 1931. Poland honored Leon in 2011 with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit.
Leon is survived by three daughters.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
