Former Jewish Journal publisher and board chair Irwin Field was honored by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles on June 25 with the organization’s Tocqueville Legacy Award. The honor from the local division of the anti-poverty organization came during its 25th Alexis de Tocqueville Awards, held at the Getty Villa in Malibu.
Lothar Hermann, a German Jew who advised Israel that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was residing in Argentina, was honored.
Germany started its long descent into brutality and murder when the Nazi regime began to corrupt the nation’s laws, Elie Wiesel told more than a thousand guests, predominantly lawyers, on April 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Paul I. Goldenberg avoided playgrounds and sports when he was growing up because he lacked athletic prowess. He spent hours in the cool darkness of a movie house.
The Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda honored Goldenberg, 75, owner of La Habra\’s Paul\’s TV & Video, as well as others at a gala last month. Goldenberg helped fund the home\’s newest $14.3 million building, designed to reflect the latest research on Alzheimer\’s disease and dementia. He pledged another $2 million towards a $52 million nursing-home expansion, which is hoped will accommodate 40 percent of those on the facility\’s 350-person waiting list.
Miriam Dybnis, vivacious at 83, insists she and her husband never expected to be honored for their deeds. Still, she\’s deeply gratified that so many of the young orphans have thrived as adults.
Fans of the legendary first seasons of \”Saturday Night Live\” remember Laraine Newman sashaying with Gilda Radner in the hilarious faux commercial for \”Jewess Jeans.\” They recall her Barbra Streisand impression and her angry beatnik character reciting bad poetry in nasal Brooklynese. But Newman, 50, will reveal one of her more serious roles when she\’s honored at Hillel at Pierce & Valley Colleges\’ Comedy Nite 2003 on Feb. 1: her involvement with the Jewish community. The granddaughter of an Arizona Jewish cattle rancher, Newman will describe how she grew up so assimilated that \”all my Jewish friends went to Hess Kramer but I was shlepped off to Camp Trinity.\”
Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman is beaming. The fact that his studio recently ruled the weekend box office with its Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise collaboration \”Minority Report\” might have been enough to put some spring in his step.
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