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madeleine albright
Dear Madeleine Albright, Israel is not “Overdoing It”
Jewish Journal
July 25, 2014
It\’s been 22 years since Madeleine Albright was a foreign policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter, 17 years since she was America\’s ambassador to the United Nations, and 13 since she was secretary of state.
Madeleine Albright reveals secret past in ‘Prague Winter’
Jonathan Kirsch
August 1, 2012
Madeleine Albright and Christopher Hitchens are two famous figures who discovered their Jewish ancestry only in adulthood. The discovery did nothing to temper Hitchens’ harsh view of religion in general or the State of Israel in particular. For Albright, by contrast, the belated disclosure of her Jewish identity has prompted a remarkable work of self-revelation.
Obama awards medal of freedom to Albright, Dylan, Karski
Jewish Journal
May 29, 2012
President Obama awarded Medals of Freedom to Jan Karski, Madeleine Albright and Bob Dylan, among other recipients.
Obama adds Dylan, Albright to Freedom Medal recipients
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2012
Madeleine Albright, Bob Dylan, Shimon Peres and Jan Karski will be among 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Rice, Powell and Albright: Friends
Susan Freudenheim
March 9, 2011
Revolutions spreading through the Middle East added timeliness and weight to the convening of three former secretaries of state by American Jewish University (AJU) on Feb. 28, at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk. Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, all active authors and advocates on the international scene, joined AJU President Robert Wexler on stage to agree on just about everything and bicker over only a few matters.
Rice, Powell and Albright: Friends in ‘Retirement’
Susan Freudenheim
March 2, 2011
Revolutions spreading through the Middle East added timeliness and weight to the convening of three former secretaries of state by American Jewish University (AJU) on Monday evening, Feb. 28, at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk. Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, all active authors and advocates on the international scene, joined AJU President Robert Wexler onstage to agree on just about everything, and bicker over only a few matters.
Calendar picks and clicks: Feb. 22–March 4, 2011
Ryan Torok
February 23, 2011
The composer of “A Chorus Line” and the songs “The Way We Were” and “Nobody Does It Better” has won every major entertainment award — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony — as well as a Pulitzer Prize and two Golden Globes. The pops conductor shares the bill with actress-singer Betty Buckley, who won a Tony for her role in “Cats” on Broadway. Sat. 8 p.m. $34.75-$82.75. Valley Performing Arts Center, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. (818) 677-8800.
Talks to Be Held
Michael Shapiro
December 9, 1999
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright\’s Middle East shuttle mission has paid off with the announcement that Israeli-Syrian negotiations will resume next week.
The Two Sides of the Street
Eric Silver
September 9, 1999
The only thing Jerusalem\’s Jewish and Arab shopping malls had in common when news broke last Friday of the Wye II deal was that no one was dancing in the streets. There was relief that something at last was about to move on the Israeli-Palestinian front, but it takes more than Madeleine Albright playing what she fetchingly called an American \”handmaiden\” to disperse the suspicions of half a century.
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