Award-winning Author, NY Times Journalist MARGALIT FOX Speaks with Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein in West Palm Beach

Award-winning Author, NY Times Journalist MARGALIT FOX Speaks with Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein in West Palm Beach

Fox’s new book, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum, pulls back veil on little-known Jewish woman who was a notorious crime boss during the Gilded Age

Sunday, January 26, 2025, 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET (West Palm Beach Marriott – Ballroom A-D, Lobby Level)

For a complimentary press pass, contact Mitchell Slepian, mslepian@hadassah.org
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NEW YORK, NY — Award-winning author and former longtime New York Times journalist Margalit Fox will speak with Hadassah Magazine executive editor Lisa Hostein on Sunday, January 26, 2025, from 3:30-4:30 pm ET at the West Palm Beach Marriott. Fox’s latest book, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss (Random House, 2024), resurrects the little-known figure of “Marm” Mandelbaum, who reigned as one of New York City’s most notorious underworld leaders during the Gilded Age – “the doyenne of a multifaceted, sharply diversified criminal enterprise,” writes Stuart Kampel in the January issue of Hadassah Magazine.

The interview will be followed by a book signing at which The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum will be available for purchase. The event is part of Hadassah Magazine’s popular One Book, One Hadassah national book club, which focuses on Jewish-themed works by women.
Reservations are required. For a complimentary press pass, please contact Mitchell Slepian at mslepian@hadassah.org. Members of the public can purchase tickets, at $18, by clicking here.

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Originally trained as a cellist and linguist before discovering journalism, Margalit Fox retired in June 2018 from a 24-year-career at the New York Times. In her last position, as a senior writer in the newspaper’s celebrated obituary news department, she wrote Page One sendoffs of some of the best-known cultural figures of our era. Fox is the winner of the William Saroyan Prize for Literature and the author of four previous nonfiction books, The Confidence Men, Conan Doyle for the Defense, The Riddle of the Labyrinth and Talking Hands.
In 2015, Lisa Hostein became the first female executive editor in Hadassah Magazine’s more than 100-year history. She previously served as editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), the global Jewish news agency, and executive editor of Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent. Hostein has received awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Philadelphia Press Association and the American Jewish Press Association, which honored her with its Distinguished Service to Jewish Journalism Award.

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Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is the largest Jewish women’s organization in the United States. With nearly 300,000 members, donors and supporters, Hadassah brings women together to effect change on such critical issues as ensuring Israel’s security, combating antisemitism and promoting women’s health care. Through its Jerusalem-based hospital system, the Hadassah Medical Organization, Hadassah helps support exemplary care for more than 1 million people every year as well as world-renowned medical research. Hadassah’s hospitals serve without regard to race, religion or nationality and in 2005 earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for building bridges to peace through medicine. Hadassah also supports two youth villages that set at-risk youth in Israel on the path to a successful future. Visit www.hadassah.org or follow Hadassah on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads and X.