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RABIN MEDICAL CENTER
Rudy Says Sopranos
Belong In Jersey
Story and photos by Tim Boxer
 MERICAN Friends of Rabin Medical
Center held its fifth annual dinner on the eve of Chanukah at the
Pierre Hotel. As keynote speaker Rudy Giuliani kindled the
first candle on the menorah, emcee Larry King broke out
into song: "You better watch out, You better not shout, The
rabbi is coming tonight."
Dinner chairman Bruce Mosler and board
chairman Barry Cohen paid tribute to guest of honor Alfred
Mann, medical products entrepreneur and chairman of Advanced
Bionics Corp. Mann, 78, son of an immigrant grocer, is worth $1.4
billion and intends to give it all to charity. He has already
donated $200 million for medical research institutes in Israel and
at Johns Hopkins.
Mann’s wife Claude remarked, "Even though I’m
Catholic, my husband says I’m more Jewish than he is."
In the holiday spirit King announced,
"Remember, Catholics, we gave you your lord." That
brought a smile to his wife, Shawn, who’s a Mormon.
The Sopranos is Giuliani’s favorite TV show.
He says it opens the same way every time: Tony sits in his car,
lights a cigar, and drives home to New Jersey. "Thank
God," the former crime-fighting New York mayor said. "I
like to think I played a role in that."
That cracked up the audience, including opera star
Sherrill Milnes, Kitty Carlisle Hart and King’s brother, Marty
Zeiger.
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