Ann
Harris receives Woman of
Achievement Award from
Floyd Abrams. |
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND
Women
of Achievement
Lunch to Fight Cancer
Photos
by Sharon Stern
 ENOWNED
civil rights attorney Floyd Abrams stood in for his son. Dan Abrams
was set to emcee a luncheon for Israel Cancer Research Fund at New
York’s Pierre Hotel. But at that very hour he began a new assignment as anchor of MSNBC
afternoon news.
Floyd
Abrams helped ICRF president Dr. Yashar Hirshaut and chairman
Leah Susskind present Women of Achievement Awards to
five deserving individuals:
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Ann
Harris,
vice president and executive editor for the Bantam Dell Publishing
Group at Random House.
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Carole
Basri,
University of Pennsylvania law professor.
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Wilma
J. Friedman,
professor at Rutgers biological sciences department.
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Janice
Lieberman,
NBC’s Today Show consumer correspondent.
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Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney
of New York’s 14th District. |
Lieberman
said her father, who retired as a gastroenterologist at age 75, is
struggling with liver cancer.
Basri
is corporate law columnist for the New York Law Journal. She serves
on the executive boards of the American Sephardic Federation and
Sephardic House.
Floyd Abrams (l-r), ICRF chairperson
Leah
Susskind, ICRF president
Dr. Yashar Hirshaut and
Rep. Carolyn B.
Maloney.
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Her
father was a doctor who succumbed to cancer. Both her brothers are
doctors.
An
Iraqi Jew, she is also the alternative representative to the United
Nations for the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries.
“It’s
important to tell about the Jewish refugees from Arab countries who
were twice the number of the Palestinian refugees,” she said.
“They
did not get any money, unlike the funds that went to the Palestinian
refugees.
“Their
children made successful lives for themselves – they did not
become suicide bombers and terrorists.”
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