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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW YORK — Legendary actor and producer Kirk Douglas has received an early 100th birthday present — an award from the World Jewish Congress for his strong support for Israel including starring in the first Hollywood feature film shot in the newly established nation.
Ronald Lauder, the organization’s President, said Douglas, who was born Issur Danielovitch on Dec. 9, 1916, was “always proud of his Jewish roots.”
He pointed to Douglas’ starring roles as a Holocaust survivor in the 1953 movie Juggler which was filmed in Israel and as Jewish U.S. Army Col. David “Mickey” Marcus, who helped save the Jewish state in 1948, in the 1966 movie Cast A Giant Shadow.
Oscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas accepted the award, telling more than 400 guests at a dinner at the Pierre Hotel that his father would be “so proud and so humbled,” especially since the award is the first honoring the late Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, his longtime friend.
Douglas said his father’s connection to Israel goes back to his childhood, and his dream is to see the country “peaceful and successful,” a place where Arabs and Jews can live together.
At the dinner, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received an award named for Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism who came to champion the quest for a Jewish homeland.
The award was presented by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who said Biden “stands for the principles that will ensure survival of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.”
Biden said he was certain U.S. support for Israel would not diminish under President-elect Donald Trump.
Even if the new Administration tried to reduce support, “Congress would never let it happen, the American people would never let it happen.”
(EDITH M. LEDERER)
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.