Biography

In 1948 a little girl 7 years old came to America with her mother and father on the Queen Mary with hundreds of other refugees. Nearing the shores of New York, she saw a tiny statue in the water. Everyone on the boat became very quiet and started softly singing prayers of gratitude, kneeling down to kiss the ground. The little girl couldn’t stop looking at the beautiful statue. As they got closer and closer, it seemed as if this beautiful woman with a wand so tall and strong was smiling at her and was saying something good to her. It reminded her of when her father threw her over the barbwire fence in 1944 at the Swiss border, looking up to the heavens he said, “Save my daughter and she will always serve you.” This little girl always knew in her heart her destiny had been chosen. Believing fervently that we are all connected, visionary Cantor Estherleon, for many years, has been bringing all faiths and cultures together for a deeper understanding of each other.

Poverty has a particularly strong meaning to Estherleon. A child Holocaust survivor, she has endured the poverty of food, shelter, safety and thoughts when she was on the run from the Nazi’s for the first 4 years of her life finally escaping in 1944 to Switzerland. Sheltered by nuns in convents through parts of this period, she didn’t realize until now that the DNA of the church music would ultimately play a big role in the Jewish music she sings as a cantor. Her gifted and compassionate voice has been chronicled in numerous testimonials.

Life’s challenges saw her rise from welfare to riches, which she gave up, after a family tragedy. She became a Cantor, a female in a male’s world. She survived that, then decided “Against all odds” (CCN News) to take her administering to the people, founding 3 storefront spiritual reading rooms for all people, religions and cultures, in the process creating Beth Shirah (House of Song). She has always seen challenges as a gift to the higher spirit echoing the survival of her earliest years. She is now welcomed by the Buddhist at the Hsi Lai Temple, the Baha’i Faith the Braille Institute and healing centers. She tirelessly administers to the sick through her voice, as a volunteer Para-Chaplain at a renowned hospital in Los Angeles. Voices of Hope is her dedication to the immense insurmountable challenges to see the end of poverty in her lifetime. Her music, and poetry will bring people into the fold of caring, through nurturing and compassion. Her determination is unshakable.

The children are our future, what better way to receive than to give them life through our deepest caring. Their poverty is our poverty, and our shame. We have to listen to their voices of hope.

Mission

I am very grateful to have the honor of fulfilling my father’s prophesy in 1944 at the Swiss border when the Nazis were chasing us. I was 4 years old and when he threw me over the barbed wire fence he said, “Save my daughter and she will serve you forever.” It has been a painful, tiring yet inspirational journey in reaching my goal to have a deeper understanding of myself, my purpose in life, in relationship to the world around me. One thing I always hung on to were my father’s words of serving, so I “hung out” with God, asked for guidance, tried to have patience and faith which gave me hope and wisdon to understand that everything is in divine time. You are my voice of hope on earth to ensure that no human being goes to bed hungry, has a warm bed to sleep in, medicine, education, a fruitful and meaningful life, and a way to peace – in a peaceful way. Together, and with God’s blessings…everything is possible.

Cantor Estherleon Schwartz

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Catalyst, a nonprofit focused on helping women work outside the home, on Tuesday celebrated adding its archives to Hagley Museum and Library’s collection of business records.

The organization, which also is celebrating its 60th anniversary, started as a way to encourage educated women to go to work at a time when businesses were dominated by men.

It evolved to encompass all women and work on helping corporations change workplaces to make them more attractive for women who wanted to work and have a family. Catalyst was an early champion of job sharing, for example.

Hagley will store and preserve Catalyst’s archives, which archivists say is the only collection of its kind that shows the evolution of women in business and the workplace.

It came in 350 boxes that are still being archived, but should be open to researchers in a few months.

FELICE N. SCHWARTZ

Looking at business through the eyes of women is an area Hagley hopes to be able to continue to strengthen.

The library already is known for having a major collection of manuscripts, archives, photographs and books from many companies, including DuPont, that document American business and technology.

Catalyst was established by Felice N. Schwartz in 1962.

The nonprofit’s debut tracks along with the rise of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but rather than burning bras, Catalyst wanted to encourage women to have the satisfaction of a career and a paycheck of their own while balancing that with family.

“The focus on the role of women in business is squarely where we are,” said CEO Lorraine Hariton. “Our vision and mission has evolved over time, but it’s always been about women being successful in business.”

Catalyst evolves
Somewhere in the 90s, Catalyst realized that corporations needed to change their workplaces in order to attract and keep more women and shifted focus to that. It champions diversity and embraces changes, such as working virtually, which it started doing 20 years ago.

The company is based in New York but is global. It works with hundreds of companies and has revenues of $25 to $30 million annually.

Catalyst bused dozens of workers to Hagley Tuesday to attend a preview of the archives as part of its 60th anniversary.

Sixty years from now, Hariton told the crowd, Catalyst will still be trying to help women in the workplace.

Also speaking Tuesday was Dr. Anne Boylan, professor emerita of history and women and gender studies at the University of Delaware.

She fascinated the crowd with stories about how women came to the workplace, starting with a study group created in December 1961 by President John F. Kennedy.

The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women was housed in the cabinet-level Department of Labor and led by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Those on the committee included five cabinet secretaries, congressmen and leaders of important major corporations.

“In other words, this was not just window dressing. This was a consequential group,” she said. “It wasn’t just designed to sort of placate Kennedy’s women supporters.”

DR. ANNE BOYLAN

When the commission delivered its landmark 300-page report to Kennedy in October 1963, it offered a blunt assessment of women’s status in early 1960s America in everything from job opportunities, marriage and family life, to law, education, tax code and political status.

It said American women were systemically disadvantaged and treated as second class citizens in the economy and the family. It also said Black women and women of color generally suffered worse from economic and discriminatory structures in every facet of their lives.

Boylan pointed out that both Schwartz and Betty Friedan went to Smith College in the 40s. Neither was allowed into Ivy League schools, who accepted only men.

Schwartz founded Catalyst a year before Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” was published in 1963. The book was a reworked collection of essays that Friedan had written for magazines.

It’s possible, Boylan said, that Schwartz had read those articles.

The Catalyst archive promises to open a variety of new lines of research, Boylan told the crowd that filled the second floor of Hagley’s Soda House.

“It’s also likely to propel forward interpretive projects that historians have had in development for the past 25 years or so,” she said. “That project involves challenging outdated notions about women’s historical experiences during the 1950s and 1960s, especially experiences in the economy.”

The event ended with a preview of the archives’ content and a champagne toast celebrating Catalyst’s 60th anniversary.

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Steven D. Sladkus is a founding partner of the firm. He zealously represents clients in all facets of real estate-related litigation including on behalf of cooperatives and condominiums. He also regularly handles a wide variety of construction and general commercial and corporate-law cases as well as the defense of discrimination claims, including those against cooperative and condominium boards.  https://ssrga.com/attorney/

Mr. Sladkus also provides general counseling to the boards of the firm’s cooperative and condominium clients and also lectures on many of these topics.

His reported cases include Constantiner v. Sovereign Apartments, Inc., et al.,  granting a protective order prohibiting destructive testing and creating artificial conditions for sound testing in connection with a noise dispute in a cooperative; Weinreb v. 37 Apartments Corp., dismissing shareholders’ cause of action for permanent injunction against directors of residential cooperative corporation where only substantive  claim against them had previously been dismissed;  61 W. 62 Owner’s Corp. v. CGM EMP LLC, granting injunction in favor of residential cooperative corporation against nearby bar from causing noise nuisance;  Peacock v. Herald Square Loft Corp., dismissing shareholders’ claim for breach of fiduciary duty against board members in their individual capacities; Raimondi v. Board of Managers of Olympic Tower Condominium, granting summary judgement to condominium holding that an agreement between the board and a purchaser as a condition for waiving the board’s right of first refusal was enforceable; Teitelbaum v. Mordowitz, granting summary judgement on personal guaranty for real estate loan; Terk v. 40059 Owners Corp., reversing summary judgement against cooperative where question existed whether tenant waived proprietary lease notice requirement for cooperative’s repairs;  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Barney Skanska Construction Company, granting summary judgement to defendant construction company dismissing plaintiff’s claim that defendant was liable for discrimination as a successor-in-interest of company purchases by defendant; and 178 East 80th Street Owners, Inc. v. Jenkins, denial of defendant’s motion to vacate the parties’ freely negotiated settlement agreement.

Mr. Sladkus serves as an arbitrator in the Civil Court of the City of New York, is a member of the Cooperative and Condominium Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is the co-chairman of the Cooperative and Condominium Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. He has also been selected to Super Lawyers from 2010 to 2016.

Mr. Sladkus has also been featured in articles concerning cooperatives and condominiums and real estate-related matters in The New York Times, The New York Post, Crain’s, The Daily News, The Real Deal, Habitat Magazine and the Cooperator and is regularly called upon to contribute to The New York Times Real Estate Section’s Q & A.

He is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and before the United States District Courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, District of New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Mr. Sladkus graduated from Brandeis University (B.A. 1991) and from Brooklyn Law School (J.D. 1994). He received a LL.M. (Masters of Laws) in Taxation degree from New York University School of Law (1995).

Mr. Sladkus is on the Ambassador Board of ConnectOne Bank and is a former member of the Board of Directors of Make-A-Wish Metro New York and Western New York.

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Enjoy Amazing Music from: Deni Bonet, on Violin;
Dermot Henry, on Guitar; Michael Brunnock, on Guitar
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Noon – 4:00 PM
At Salon De Ning, the Roof Lounge of Peninsula Hotel
700 5th Ave., 55th St. NY

Hotel Door Charge: $50
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In his groundbreaking and conservative new book, George P. Schwartz, CFA outlines the blueprint for the pro-life and pro-family Ave Maria Mutual Funds. These mutual funds have attracted over 100,000 shareholders from all 50 states, who have invested more than $2.2 billion in five separate award-winning funds.

And they are changing America.

“The country and society itself are stronger when people have higher levels of morality and ethics. Abortion and pornography fly right in the face of that,” says Schwartz. “It makes sense that businesses with moral ethics and a commitment to family values are stronger and more reliable to work with as well

“This book is a comprehensive primer on morally responsible investing, heart and soul.” John Kelly

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TALK TO RENOWNED RELATIONSHIP EXPERT, SOCIOLOGIST &SEXOLOGIST PEPPER SCHWARTZ, PhD.

NEW RESEARCH ON MODERN LOVE
WITH THE HOST OF THE HIT SHOW
‘MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT’

One of the Nation’s Top Relationship Experts Shares an AVVO Study that Explains How Americans Feel about Marriage, Divorce & Relationships

When it comes to relationships and modern love, Pepper Schwartz, PhD., is one of the top experts in the nation. She’s best known as the Co-Host of the unique and top-rated show MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT, but is also the author of 25 books on relationships. She is truly recognized as one of the premiere experts on dating in today’s society. In our contemporary world, relationships are constantly changing with internet dating sites, marriage and divorce. So with spring and love in the air, Dr. Schwartz is ready to discuss the fascinating findings in a new AVVO Relationship Study that provides some interesting and often surprising information about the way people feel about relationships. From the 1st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Gay Marriage to Millennial and ‘Grey Love’ viewpoints on modern love. Your internet subscribers will find the topic and the information both timely and educational.

LINK TO THE FULL STUDY

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MORE ON THE STUDY

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The number of opportunities to listen, in person, to a child survivor of the Holocaust describe her tragic experiences and inspire us with her wisdom are passing; therefore, it is with honor and respect that the Animo Classified Employees Association and Green Dot Public Schools welcomes Cantor Esterleon Schwartz to Animo Pat Brown’s campus.

Despite a lifetime of adversity, her relentless faith led her to become a Cantor, a community leader, an Ambassador for Peace, a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Association, USA Pacific-Los Angeles Chapter, and a recipient of several humanitarian awards….. Her healing singing voice, poetry and lectures have won over hearts all over the world

Schwartz will have a Question and Answer session for Animo Pat Brown students at the end.

“This may be the last generation able to listen and speak to a child survivor of the Holocaust,” said Daymond R. Johnson, President of the Animo Classified Employees Association and the person responsible for Schwartz appearance.

For more information on Schwartz: http://www.estherleon.com

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Mission of Cantor Estherleon Schwartz

I am very grateful to have the honor of fulfilling my father’s prophesy in 1944 at the Swiss border when the Nazis were chasing us. I was 4 years old and when he threw me over the barbed wire fence he said, “Save my daughter and she will serve you forever.” It has been a painful, tiring yet inspirational journey in reaching my goal to have a deeper understanding of myself, my purpose in life, in relationship to the world around me. One thing I always hung on to were my father’s words of serving, so I “hung out” with God, asked for guidance, tried to have patience and faith which gave me hope and wisdom to understand that everything is in divine time. You are my voice of hope on earth to ensure that no human being goes to bed hungry, has a warm bed to sleep in, medicine, education, a fruitful and meaningful life, and a way to peace – in a peaceful way. Together, and with God’s blessings…everything is possible.
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Mission of Lenny’s Deli.

Enjoy, be happy, be comfortable and healthy when at his deli restaurant and in life.  www.lensdeli.com. The Story of Lenny’s Deli

Lenny’s Deli is committed to serving the very best meals to its patrons with the highest quality foods. Our baked goods are made from scratch and our family recipes are a true labor of love. Special occasion and wedding cakes are our specialty and we would love to host your next party. From hot matzo ball soup to delicious rugalah, unbelievable deli platters, and our fresh chopped grilled vegetable salad.

Lenny’s is honored to serve you, your family and your friends. Since the 1950′s Lenny’s family has been in the Jewish delicatessen and bakery business, committed to providing only the best quality food in New York. In 1996 Lenny brought to Los Angeles the same commitment to quality food and service in opening notable California restaurants and bakeries such as the Nosh of Beverly Hills and 17th Street Cafe and Bakery.

Now, nearly two decades later, Lenny and his partners present Lenny’s Deli, the best of New York in Los Angeles! Lenny’s Deli at its Westwood Landmark location, offers the same favorites of the New York Jewish Deli and bakery, combined with an exciting healthy food menu. Lenny’s Deli is proud to present many organic foods, cage free eggs, and a gluten free menu.

Lenny welcomes you and looks forward to serving you and your family again soon!

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