ISRAEL BONDS WOMEN
Golda Shows
She Knows
Her Nose
By TIM BOXER
WHEN
Golda opened on Broadway, Golda Meir went backstage to
meet the star who was portraying her life in the play.
Golda sat at one end of the
dressing room; Anne Bancroft at the other end.
Golda stared at
Bancroft’s stage makeup. The resemblance was uncanny.
The actress started picking
off the makeup from her jowls and from a nose that was sculpted to
enormous proportions.
“That’s fantastic,”
Golda remarked. “Show me how I can do that with mine.”
Golda’s grandniece, Alice
Golembo, related the story at the inaugural luncheon of the
Golda Meir Club of Israel Bonds Greater New York Women’s Division
at the Russian Tea Room. Bat-Sheva R. Waitman is chairman.
Named in memory of the late
prime minister of Israel (1898-1978), the Golda Meir Club is an
honor society of women who make an annual investment of $5,000 or
more in State of Israel Bonds.
Toby Schneier,
the effervescent rebbetzin of the Hamptons, whose husband, Marc
Schneier, is the founding rabbi of the Hampton Synagogue, was
guest of honor.
An accomplished painter,
Mrs. Schneier serves on the boards of the March of the Living and of
the American Friends of Nishmat, the Jerusalem Center for Advanced
Jewish Study for Women. She has been honored for her service and
support by Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women.
Rabbi and Mrs. Schneier are
the proud parents of Sloane and Brendan.
Guest speaker Fredy Zach,
a retired Israeli general, said the current unrest is not a
demonstration or riot.
“This is a war of
attrition. This is gunfire between soldiers.”
As the head of an
organization that manages joint projects with Arabs, Zach said he
knows the Arab people.
“I
know we will ultimately have peace. What we must do with the Arabs
is encourage democratization, create jobs, change the education
curriculum, and talk to other people besides Arafat.”
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