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Tatanis Turning toward Russia for creditors. He dismissed notions possible as well as energy and that Moscow is trying to entice business deals while locked in Greece in order to divide the EU tough talks with international and weaken its resolve to punish By Demetris Tsakas lenders, Greece’s growing rela - Russia over its actions in TNH Staff Writer tionship with Moscow has Eu - Ukraine. ropean Union leaders anxious. Greece has been reliant on NEW YORK – Ethnikos Kyrix- Prime Minister and Radical the Troika for two rescue pack - National Herald, the people Left SYRIZA leader Alexis ages of 240 billion euros ($260 with roots in Elia in Pelopon - Tsipras, a former Communist billion) since 2010 but most of nesos and by extension, the Youth leader, went to talk with the money has run out and whole Greek-American commu - Russian President Vladimir Tsipras took office with the nity, Greece, and Cyprus, cele - Putin as Greece has been stalled country’s economy, seemingly brated the 100th anniversary of in getting release of a delayed on the edge of recovery, relaps - the founding of the newspaper 7.2-billion euro installment ing into recession. and paid tribute its visionary from the troika of the European Locked out of markets, un - founder Petros Tatanis on April Union-International Monetary able to tap more aid from cred - 2. Fund-European Central Bank itors, and with tax revenues The ceremony took place (EU-IMF-ECB). plummeting, Tsipras has been Thursday afternoon in Cedar The creditors said Greece, torn between trying to satisfy Grove Cemetery in Flushing and which is fast running out of cash, the creditors and voters he told was attended by the Consuls won’t get more aid until Tsipras he would bring relief from aus - General of Greece and Cyprus, imposes more of the austerity terity. Ambassadors George Iliopoulos measures he vowed to reject, Getting nowhere with the and Vasilios Philippou; Manos leaving the two sides at odds troika and EU, he went to Koubarakis, the Greek Consul; and in limbo at the same time. Moscow on April 8-9 hoping to Anthony Papadopoulos, Presi - Putin offered to increase co - strike some business deals, par - dent, Panelian Federation of operation with Greece on en - ticularly in energy, and develop USA & Canada; and Sotirios ergy and industry but stopped closer links with a fellow Ortho - Konstantakopoulos , President AP PHOTO/AlExANdEr ZEmliANiCHENkO, POOl short of extending direct finan - dox country with whom his own of the Paneliakos Society of New Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attend a cial aid that might complicate York, among others. signing ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Greece’s talks with its European Continued on page 13 Fr. Nektarios Papazafiropou - los, Dean of St. Demetrios Cathedral of Astoria, who presided over the memorial ser - vice for the repose of the soul UNESCO Evasive about Hagia Sophia of Tatanis, spoke about his con - tributions and said “Our hearts are flooded with gratitude and By Theodore G. Karakostas its list of World Heritage Sites litely introduced myself as a appreciation to our great coun - Commentary upon the request of the Turkish writer with a theological degree tryman who had the wisdom to government. Last year, Ankara who wanted to discuss Hagia support free speech, the first PARIS, FRANCE – I recently had ominously announced plans to Sophia of Constantinople. I finally freedom enjoyed by man from the opportunity to visit the beau - convert Hagia Sophia into a made my way to an adjacent the first day he comes to life. tiful and splendid City of Paris. Mosque as during the period of building on an upper lever before The man of blessed memory What an outstanding city, with the Ottoman Empire. Having sub - meeting a woman who was a UN - founded the newspaper because great Museums such as the Lou - mitted messages to UNESCO's ESCO "Chief." I politely intro - he believed in these rights and vre and D'orsay, the Great Cathe - New York office, and having spo - duced myself and held out my comprehended the necessity of dral of Notre Dame, the Eiffel ken with them last year, nothing hand and described my purpose. Tower, and the great palaces of happened. As such, I began asking questions. Continued on page 11 Versailles. On my visit to the Paris office, The first question had to do Paris is not only the location I suspected that I would receive with UNESCO's silence in re - of great sites but is also the seat a rude reception as I was once sponse to Ankara's previously-an - for the international headquar - hung up on by a diplomat of the nounced plans for Hagia Sophia. ters of UNESCO (United Nations New York Office. In any case, I I was told that UNESCO has re - Ex-Adelphi Educational Scientific Cultural went to the headquarters, where ceived many letters and that they Organization). there was some sort of reception have been in touch with the Turk - Since I was in Paris and hav - for people I can only speculate ish authorities. UNESCO has not President is ing spoken and corresponded were diplomats or other impor - confirmed the plans to convert TNH/COSTAS BEJ with the New York office of UN - tant officials of European, Asian, Hagia Sophia. The encounter was Holy Week Services in NJ ESCO in the recent past, I de - and unnecessarily tense, as I could see Remembered cided to pay a visit to its head - African backgrounds. There from this official's angry facial ex - Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey kneels during the Holy quarters. appeared to be a banquet with pressions, and statements that she Monday service at Sts. Constantine and Helen in Roseland, NJ. In 1985, UNESCO added the food and drink. Parish’s look forward to Holy Week visits of their hierarchs. TNH Staff Great Church of Hagia Sophia to I entered the building and po - Continued on page 14 Related story on page 4.

NEW YORK – Dr. Peter Diaman - dopoulos, the former president of Adelphi University in Long Is - land died on April 1 in New York Jennie Eisenhower is Lighting up Philadelphia Stereoviews: City at the age of 86 surrounded by his loving children. Diamandopoulos was born in By Constantinos E. Scaros iad of ways. She is a two-time is a director, an instructor at way to act them truthfully is to A Look Back Heraklion, Crete, in 1928. He Barrymore Award winner – once Temple University, and she gives plunge yourself fully into the attended Athens College, and PHILADELPHIA, PA – Above all, for Best Actress and once for singing and acting lessons pri - emotion that's called for, be it immigrated to the United State Jennie Eisenhower loves to tell Best Supporting Actress, with vately. And if her last name – grief, rage, shame, joy, or fear. Into our Past in 1948 to attend Harvard Uni - a story, and she tells it in a myr - four additional nominations. She Eisenhower – rings a bell, that’s We learned so much using the versity where he earned his BA, no coincidence: she is the great- Ancient Greeks and that training MA, and PhD. granddaughter of President remains at the core of who I am By Steve Frangos A lifelong educator, Diaman - Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the as an actor.” TNH Staff Writer dopoulos taught at the Univer - granddaughter of President The daughter of Nixon’s sity of Maryland and at Brandeis Richard Nixon. daughter Julie, and of Eisen - CHICAGO- The history of University, where he served as GREEK THEATER hower’s grandson David – for Greeks in the United States can dean of faculty from 1965 to Her professional love and whom the Camp David Presiden - be found anywhere – all one has 1971, and was chairman of the passion is theater, and it all be - tial retreat is named – she has to do is look. Popular culture of - Philosophy Department from gan with Greek theater. “I played the distinct and rare honor of fers many unexpected insights 1972 to 1976. He also served as Antigone” at Northwestern Uni - being a close relative to an into the ongoing questions of director of studies at the Adlai versity, from where Eisenhower American president on both Modern Greek culture and his - graduated Summa Cum Laude. sides of her family. But when it tory. Family photograph albums, Continued on page 10 “I was a theater major and the came to choosing performing old record collections, treasured first semester that we got on - over politics, the choice was post cards sent from families stage, we tackled the Greeks,” never even close. “I'm interested abroad, yellowed magazines she told TNH. “Greek theater is in politics but am not passionate and newspapers, as well as for - For subscription: great material to use to begin about politics the way I am gotten parlor games can now 718.784.5255 the process of getting actors to about theater,” Eisenhower says. serve, each in its own unique [email protected] open up and experience all of “It was never a debate for me as fashion, to report upon the past their emotions in a heightened to what I was going to be when in truly revolutionary ways. and raw way. The stakes of I ‘grew up.’ I always wanted to Stereoviews are but one ex - Award-winning actress, director, and Temple University in - Greek tragedy - Antigone, be a performer – from the time I ample of this wider field of orig - structor, Jennie Eisenhower is also the granddaughter and Medea, Oedipus, Electra, etc., great-granddaughter of two U.S. presidents. are incredibly high! The only Continued on page 8 Continued on page 9 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 11-17, 2015 Hellenic Happenings –– From Coast to Coast GOINGS ON... n APRIL 19 Friday, May 15 through Sunday, TNH Staff PORT JEFFERSON, NY – “Re - May 17 for our annual Greek betiko…to Perpetuity: Spanning Festival! Fri and Sat: 11AM- ELKHART, IN the History of Classical Rebetika 9PM, Sun: 11AM-3PM. The An - Melpomene’s gone missing! A from Smyrna to Piraeus to the nunciation's International Greek 7-foot tin statue of the Greek Blues of New Orleans,” with Food Festival is the largest eth - muse that proudly stood outside Grigoris Maninakis and Special nic Food Festival in the state of the Bucklen Opera House in Guest Artists from Greece: Arkansas! Every year our Festi - Elkhart, IN since 1884 has mys - Stavroula Manalopoulou, Chris - val sponsors a number of AR teriously disappeared, but the tos Vidinioitis, and Priscilla charities and celebrates the di - town’s local newspaper, the Owens will take place on Sun - verse cultures of our Little Rock Elkhart Truth, got to the bottom day, Apr. 19 5:30 PM at the community. It features a of it. Over the years, people ac - Greek Church of the Assumption scrumptious medley of Greek tually took shots at Melopomene, Community Center, 430 Sheep and Mediterranean menu fa - for target practice, and soon she Pasture Road in Port Jefferson. vorites, including gyros, cala - was riddled with bullet holes. Pi - Adults $50, Students $20. mari, pastitso, sourouta, Greek geon droppings, spilled paint, Please RSVP (631) 473-0894 pizza, and much more. All of and natural weather wear also (Maria). this mouthwatering cuisine can caused the statue to decay to the be enjoyed at the Festival or point where people thought it n APRIL 23 picked up at our Drive Thru. was a hazard that could topple MANHATTAN – The Cyprus-U.S. The Festival will again feature at any time. There was an at - Chamber of Commerce’s 2015 our popular Old World Market, tempt in 1986 to restore Career Fair takes place on offering specialty foods such as Melpomene, but some of the Thursday, Apr. 23 4:30-7PM at falafel, Greek olive oil, hummus, workers were careless in bringing the Holy Trinity Cathedral Cen - dolmathes (stuffed grape down the statue, and broke it. ter Ballroom, 337 East 74th leaves), cheeses and the popular Attorney Richard Noser tem - Street in Manhattan. Job seek - Pete’s Famous Salad Dressing porarily took custody of the ers should come with their re - that is handmade and bottled at piece, and the public’s intent was sume. Company representatives the parish. Frozen dinners to go, to restore the statue and place will be available to discuss ca - pastries, Russian collectibles, it in a park. It was soon there - reer and internship opportuni - fine jewelry and an array of im - after determined, though, that Young Greek Alaskans get ready to dance at the annual Gala on May 2nd in Anchorage. ties. Companies in the field of: ported gift items from around the statue was too fragile – made Insurance, Banking, Accounting, the Mediterranean will also be of tin, not of cement – to endure ers told the Tennessean. “This tell it to the Greeks of Alaska. Church Services at Transfig - Attorneys, Trading, Finance, and available in the Market. In ad - a permanent outdoor climate. time of year, most of these The annual Greek Gala is set to uration are primarily in English many others will be on hand to dition to great activities for chil - But Melpomene has found a broadleafs aren't up yet, espe - take place in Anchorage on May with some Greek. During the Di - meet with job fair applicants. dren to enjoy throughout the good home. She sits in the Time cially while cold-hearty edible 2, to benefit the Transfiguration vine Liturgy, the Lord’s Prayer is Companies interested in partic - grounds, our huge stage high - Was Museum, safely tucked in - chickweed runs rampant. In the Greek Orthodox Church there, recited in Greek, Arabic, Armen - ipating, please contact Despina lights our famous Greek dancers doors, and even has a view of summer, I plan to go on a pick- which is the Northernmost ian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Axiotakis, Executive Director along with performances from the opera house on which she and-ride with Darsinos to see Greek Orthodox church in the French, English and sometimes 201-444-5609 or e-mail: direc - a wide array of other interna - stood for decades. and identify the plants he enjoys nation. The event will feature other languages. The parish has [email protected]. tional entertainment. Our Festi - but can't name in English.” entertainment by the dance an active Philoptochos, Sunday val also features our very popu - NASHVILLE, TN group “Stars of the North,” School, Greek School, and other n APRIL 25 lar Old World Market, that Greeks in the heart of Dixie… ANCHORAGE, AK which consists of 30 children youth dance groups besides the MANHATTAN – Celebrate includes our famous handmade So reports Jim Meyers in the If you thought it was a little who have won multiple awards Stars. The parish also operates spring with the Greek-American Baklava along with a wide array Tennessean, fessing that once he too chilly standing outside in all in national competitions over the popular Alaska Greek Festi - Writers Association on Saturday, of other pastries together with married into a Greek family, he those Greek parades last month, the years. val each August. Apr. 25. Award-winning story- a unique shopping experience enjoyed lamb like never before. teller Barbara Aliprantis and that highlights imported gift While he still likes eating it the Nicholas Zaharakas will demon - items from around the world. way he first learned to as well – strate the art of dramatic yarn- Free admission, free parking with a slather of mint jelly on it spinning originated by the an - and free trolleys to and from the – “I would need to cover my face cient bards. Singer/guitarist/ Church grounds! with a napkin to hide my shame composer Aristides Duvall will As in years past, one of the most from their stern Hellenic gaze.” debut new songs. Cornelia wonderful parts of the Interna - Myers also describes his de - Street Cafe. 29 Cornelia Street, tional Greek Food Festival is votion to horta – greens, and in Manhattan. 6-8 p.m. $8 ad - YOU, our friends! When you how Bill Darsinos, owner of the mission includes a glass of wine, visit the Festival with your fam - nearby Southside Grill, has al - beer or soft drink. ily and friends, a good time is ways had them on the menu. guaranteed. In addition, you can Though the array of entrees do n APRIL 30 make new friends at the Festival not immediately make you think MANHATTAN – Archbishop by enjoying a wide array of in - Greek, a careful glance reveals Iakovos – a Musical Tribute, pre - ternational entertainment while how Mediterranean cooking is sented by the Education and reveling in all of the food & infused throughout. The lamb Culture Committee of the Hel - shopping available. You can chops, for instance, are topped lenic American Chamber of even learn more about your with olive oil-lemon- sauce, with Commerce on Thursday, Apr. 30 neighbors by taking a tour of a side of fries tossed with feta & at 7PM at Saint Peters Church, the Annunciation Church and oregano. “Plants like dandelion, 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th discover the rich history and tra - purslane, amaranth, mustard, Street in Manhattan. Limited dition of the Orthodox Christian nettles and fennel grow wild in seating: RSVP by Apr 15 at faith as well as enjoy the largest the Mediterranean, and many A seven-foot statue of the Ancient Greek muse Melpomene, as it once stood at the entrance of [email protected] (212) collection of Byzantine iconog - can be found here as well,” My - the Bucklen Opera House in Elkhart, IN. Now it sits in a museum, protected from the elements. 629-6380. No charge for admis - raphy in Arkansas! sion. n MAY 22-24 n MAY 2 NEW ORLEANS, LA – Opa, opa, PORTLAND, OR – The Hellenic- opa! The annual New Orleans American Cultural Center & Mu - Greek Festival is Memorial Day seum, 3131 N.E. Glisan Street weekend. This event is filled in Portland, is proud to an - Greek food, music, culture and nounce the exhibition of Kather - fun for kids and adults alike. ine Pappas-Parks, "Treasures of New Orleans's connection with Age: Carriers of Memories Past Greece dates back to the mid- and Present." Opening reception 1800s when large numbers of Saturday, May 2 6-8PM. Kather - Greeks immigrated here, bring - ine Pappas-Parks is an accom - ing along their storied culture plished artist whose Greek cul - and traditional heritage. The ture has shaped her artistic Greek Festival celebrates that vision. The other-worldliness, culture and heritage every year surrealism and intensity in her on Memorial Day Weekend at landscapes have their roots in the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox her experience of being raised Cathedral (1200 Robert E. Lee in a Greek immigrant home. Her Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70117), artwork is influenced by the art which is on the banks of Bayou and traditions of ancient Greece St. John. Free off-site parking and Byzantium and by folklore and shuttle service is also avail - and superstitions of a culture able. FOOD: Kali Orexi! This connected to the land in a way popular phrase means "Bon that has remained virtually un - Apetit" or "good appetite". In changed for over 3000 years. other words - you better come Her paintings have been exhib - hungry. Trying a gyro sandwich ited throughout the United is a must. The Goatburgers, States. She currently displays at which is a hamburger the Greek the Walter Wickiser Gallery in way, are also delicious. For New York City. dessert, try a Loukoumades, which is like a beignet topped n MAY 15-17 with honey and cinnamon. For ANAHEIM, CA – Join us for Or - a caffeine fix, pick up a Frappe ange County's premiere Greek (no relation to Starbucks), Festival, the OC Greek Fest! Ex - which is basically an iced coffee. perience the flavors, sights and MUSIC: Every year, people sounds of Greece and enjoy the come together to perform and very best of Greek food, music, dance to traditional, live Greek dancing and culture right here music. Guests will have the in Orange County at St. John the chance to learn the Zorba and Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, other traditional dances out on 405 N. Dale Street in Anaheim. the Bayou. SPECIAL EVENTS: Friday, May 15 through Sunday, For all the runners out there, May 17: Fri 3-10PM; Sat and the annual Greek Festival Sun, Noon-10PM. Free parking Walk/Run will take place that behind Wal-Mart at the Buena Friday! Participants can either Park Mall; free shuttle service to choose to walk/run one mile or and from the Buena Park Mall 5k. Cash prizes will be given to to the festival grounds. Live mu - the winners. Registration is sic; Traditional Greek dance per - open until the day of the race. formances scheduled each day; Back this year by popular de - Authentic Greek foods, appetiz - mand is Toga Sunday! Anyone ers and homemade pastries; wearing a toga gets free admis - Greek wines, beer, spirits, and sion. There will also be a Best coffee. Great shopping at our Toga contest with some great outdoor marketplace; dozens of prizes. Fun For The Whole Fam - unique vendors; Carnival rides ily! Kids will love the Athenian and games for all ages; Compli - Playground. Families can rent a mentary guided tours of our canoe and tour Bayou St. John, Greek Orthodox church sched - or climb Mount Olympus. uled each day. There’s also a bounce house for the younger ones. Once you tire LITTLE ROCK, AR – Join us this out the little ones, check out the year at the Annunciation Greek Agora, the outdoor marketplace Orthodox Church, 1100 Napa with Greek paintings, jewelry Valley Drive, in Little Rock from and other souvenirs.

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By Constantine S. Sirigos including a new line of products community widely praised – not TNH Staff Writer from Mount Athos called Evlogia. least of which by Metropolitan There is honey, olives, even soap. Savvas of Pittsburgh – for its con - NEW YORK – Pascha 2015 is a They are authentic and original spicuous absence of parish in - bittersweet time for the Greek- products.” fighting, led by the steady hand American community. Judging He congratulated TNH on its of Fr. Tom Pappalas and assisted from the brisk business of the 100th anniversary. Every year for by 50-year-plus veteran Clergy - food stores and restaurant reser - Christmas and Easter Titan or - man Fr. Spyridon Papademetriou, vations, they are starting to feel ders 1000 copies of the paper and the congregation prepares not affluent again, but in Greece, makes them a gift to appreciative only for the Resurrection, but their loved ones are more anx - customers. also for a contribution to the re - ious than ever. Bill Tentolouris, owner of building of the St. Nicholas Fr. Nektarios Papazafiropou - Mediterranean Foods I and II, Church at Ground Zero. A special los, Dean of St. Demetrios Cathe - told TNH “We have a number of Benefit Concert will take place at dral in Astoria, was in the midst new brands of olive oil now that Reading Area Community Col - of the transition from last week’s there are more exports from lege's Miller Center for the Arts bustle of school activities to the Greece.” on April 26, featuring Pianist spiritual calm of Holy Week. He He said the stores are offering Maria Asteriadou and Violinist noted there were large crowds many new products, such as pre - PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ Kurt Nikkamen. on Palm Sunday and senses an pared octopus and seafood for Parishioners at St. Constantine and Helen in Roseland, NJ. Metropolitan Evangelos worshipped Lower Midtown Manhattan, intensification of the spiritual salads, a number of new brands with them as hierarchs try to visit as many parishes as possible during Holy Week. not far from Ground Zero, will lives of his parishioners. of pasta and specialty olives. witness a Good Friday procession It is not known whether the Mediterranean III will open in communities restaurateurs told turo Cortes. the first time in recent memory. by the parish of St. John the Bap - Greek crisis has made them more May in the building the company TNH. The large parish of St. The parish will have opportu - tist led by Very. Rev. Vasilios Bas - pensive, but Fr. Nektarios said just bought on 23rd Avenue. “It Kyma restaurant in Roslyn, NY Demetrios of Merrick, NY will be nities to establish new traditions sakyros. The parish will offer a “we must pray for them and God will be a big, modern store for owned by Reno Christo, origi - marking Holy Week in a huge as there has been an influx of traditional meal to all – avgole - will strengthen them and help the community, which we thank nally from Cyprus, opened tent of church grounds. Fr. Niki - young professional and their fam - mono soup, salad, lamb with them overcome this crisis, as they very much for supporting us around Easter two year ago will foros Fakinos said the sanctuary, ilies. potatoes, cheese pies, tsoureki, have done in the past…We must through the years. again celebrate with lamb roast - which was heavily damaged by Orthodox Pascha has been cel - and wine, but not after the Res - a fire, will be ready by Labor Day. ebrated in the Deep South since urrection service, but following They will serve traditional ma - the mid nineteenth century in “the Triumphant Divine Liturgy.” giritsa and meze with sweets af - New Orleans, so Greek-style “When they stay for the ter the Divine Liturgy on Holy Easter in not new to them. Fr. Liturgy and receive Holy Com - Saturday. Alexander Papagikos, pastor of munion,” Fr. Bassakyros said, There were record crowds for Sts. Constantine and Helen in they receive the Light of the Res - Palm Sunday at the Cathedral of Fayetteville, NC loves the peace - urrection, the eternal light, Sts. Constantine and Helen in ful character of Holy Week there, within themselves,” not just ex - downtown Brooklyn, where Fr. although he does hope to revive ternally in the physical lamps of John Lardas said his congrega - the practice of Pascha feasts on those who leave early. He noted tion is growing as young couples church grounds. The parish is that those physical lamps are re - move in from Manhattan. also Holy Week home for Ortho - minders that “we are reflections He looks forward to all the dox military personnel at nearby of the eternal light of God that is Holy Week services, especially Fort Bragg. within us, and if we stay for the the Good Friday procession In the Reading, PA community liturgy, that is what we experi - through downtown Brooklyn of Sts. Constantine and Helen, a ence.” when the his parish’s kouvouk - lion – the flowered bier of Christ -meets that of St. Nicholas Anti - ochian Cathedral when the Lamentations will be sung in Greek, English and Arabic. The Church of the Annuncia - tion on New York’s Upper West Side will have outdoor proces - Crowds have been packing the well-stocked aisles of stores like the newly-renovated Titan sions on Good Friday and Holy Foods in Astoria, above, where Kostas Mastoras (center) distributed free copies of TNH. Saturday. The popular Good Fri - day fakes-lentil soup meal will be all support Greece,” including by Vasilios Papavgeris, owner of ing on spits and festive music. repeated, and on Holy Saturday purchasing its products. the Plaza Meat Market in Astoria Traditional Pascha specialties are they serve a lamb dinner with all New Yorkers appear to have has seen brisk sales of lambs, offered on Saturday after mid - the trimmings. Every parish loves followed his lead. goats, pork and all the ingredi - night, which will also be offered its choice and chanters but Fr. Kostas Mastoras, owner of Ti - ents for magiritsa soup, kokoretsi, on as an addendum to their reg - Gilbert sang the praises of the tan Foods told TNH “This year and other specialties. ular menu. Annunciations chief chanter Pascha sales are very strong.” He PASCHA CELEBRATION Residents and passersby in Christos Stavropoulos. expects to set records this year OPTIONS Midtown Manhattan will be Fr. Stamatios Sfikas, whose and he is proud to present the Across most of the America greeted with the aroma and vi - roots are in Chios, was just ap - new Titan. “We have completely Holy Saturday and Sunday sion of roasting lamb on spits in pointed Dean Annunciation renovated and it is a new store. Agape service congregations will the courtyard of Avra restaurant. Cathedral in Chicago, so he is All the display cases come from have a choice of Pascha meals at “It will be a big feast, with live looking forward to his first Holy Greece,” he said, helping the their parishes, at home or in music by Olympia and dancing Week experience there, and Bill Tentolouris displays bright red-colored eggs in 2014. He economy there. “We offer cooked restaurants. beginning at noon on Easter Sun - noted that on Good Friday there owns Mediterranean Foods I and II, where new products food, sweets and food supplies, Make reservations early the day,” said general manager Ar - will be an outdoor procession for abound, and the soon-to-be-opened Mediterranean Foods III. Lenten Gift of Music: Heavenly Concerts throughout New Jersey Metropolis

By Stavros Marmarinos Thomas in Cherry Hill and on TNH Staff Writer April 4 at St. Catherine’s in Falls Church Virginia. CHERY HILL, NJ – The Metrop - Members of the famous mu - olis of New Jersey could not of - sical ensemble, "Romeiko" also fered a better Lenten gift to be - participated, along with lievers than the concerts chanters of the Metropolis. presented in three churches un - The atmosphere in the der its jurisdiction. The musical church of St. Thomas in Cherry offerings helped the audience Hill was heavenly. The space enter into the spirit of the Pas - was pervaded by ecclesiastical sion of Christ and the salvific melodies and the setting, with message of the Resurrection. the choir in front of the altar’s The chief chanter of the Me - Great Gate, and the seemingly tropolis, physician Dr. George effortless presentation of the Bilalis, an interpreter of genuine Byzantine hymns by Metropoli - Byzantine music with few rivals, tan Evangelos and Dr. Bilalis along with the Byzantine Choir and the choir made a powerful of the Metropolis of New Jersey, impression on the believers who created a spiritually uplifting at - had filled the church. mosphere. The concerts featured music To the voices of the excellent from the Akathist Hymn to the choir was added the well-known Lamentations of Good Friday. It fine voice of the Metropolitan, was a musical journey consist - who individually sang verses ing of pieces put together by the from, among other pieces, the Nicholas, a renowned chanter beautiful Akathist Hymn. and important 19th century mu - The three concerts featuring sical figure. the choir under the direction of The concert was dedicated to Dr. Bilalis were held March 28, TNH/COSTAS BEJ the Feast of the Annunciation at St. John the Theologian in Metropolitan Evangelos, at right, participated the concert of Hill. Dr. George Bilalis, second from R, a premier interpreter and Holy Week, the Passion of Tenafly, NJ, April 3 at St. the Byzantine Choir of New Jersey at St. Thomas of Cherry of Byzantine music, directed the choir. Christ and the Resurrection.

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By Constantinos E. Scaros days/workdays, typically). blocks away on the corner of Working in New York City as I Pinehurst Avenue and 181st Growing up Greek Orthodox, did at the time made it easy – it Street. Jesse’s was a bar/restau - as most of you know, involves doesn’t take much to bump into rant that featured the greatest following a set of rules. Among a panhandler in Manhattan. karaoke show I have ever seen. them is fasting during Lent. I went to the bank and asked Most karaoke experiences are There is what I call “hardcore for $200 singles. I wasn’t going hokey, goofy, silly, and not even fasting,” eating only Lenten to take the easy way out, and close to being “high-quality.” foods during the entire 49-day write one check for $200 to This one was very different. Pro - period (it’s not 40, it’s 49; “40” charity. I wouldn’t even give a foundly better. It was run by a is an urban myth). Then, there five dollar bill out every day. No friend of mine, and I had the is an entire array of modified – I would hand a dollar to five privilege of cohosting it for five versions, tailored to the degree different people for 40 days – years – just for fun. Sadly, Jesse’s of modification with which a that’s how I would extinguish Place no longer exists – it closed person if comfortable (after-all, the wad of 200 singles I kept in a few years ago. these are self-created modifica - my jacket pocket, separate from I walked from St. Spyridon tions, so they are based on one’s the rest of my money. to Jesse’s, and less than a block own standards). Well, things didn’t go quite away from my destination, I en - These include: 1) fasting according to plan. That particu - countered a man on the street only during the first and last lar year was a very cold one in who asked if I could spare a dol - weeks of Lent; 2) fasting only New York. A lot of the folks usu - lar. I looked at him and said: Holy week only; 3) fasting only ally out on the street asking for “You are in luck, my friend!” I on Good Friday; and more vari - money had gone indoors. I re - reached into my jacket pocket, ations. alized that not every day would pulled out the wad of 67 dollar Typically inclined to think result in a perfect dollar-to-five- One late night about a decade ago, a walk in Washington Heights from St. Spyridon to Jesse’s Place bills, and handed it to him. He outside the box, at some point I people situation. Some days I turned into a Good Friday for a man who asked for a single dollar and got 67 of them, instead. couldn’t believe it! “Bless you!” thought better than abstinence would give more, and others he said, over and over, “Bless would be to focus on being less. half left before the Resurrection! from my childhood: St. Spyri - Again, too easy. On a worst-case you!” more Christlike; to do some - Much to my dismay, I sat in I worked into the into the don, in Washington Heights. It basis, I would do that the fol - I saw how overcome with joy thing different during Lent than my Midtown Manhattan office early evening (as I did on Fri - is located on Wadsworth Avenue lowing night, at the Resurrec - he was, and that brought tears I do throughout the year. So on Good Friday (yes, I’m not days back then), until it was between 179th and 180th tion service. But I still had about to my eyes. about eight or nine years ago, I one of those who usually takes time to call it a day – take the Streets. I thought about putting 24 hours to go… Hardly a sacrifice for me, it decided that I would give one that day off), and counted my train Uptown, and visit the the rest of my money in the After the Good Friday was actually quite a wonderful dollar to five different people “Lent cash”: I realized I still had church that remains most spe - church collection plate – but evening service, I walked to treat. And one of my favorite every day for 40 days (week - 67 singles left, with a day and a cial to me, because it is the one that seemed like my last resort. Jesse’s Place – which was a few Lent experiences ever. Hellenic Chamber Panelists: Building Industry is Still Booming in New York

By Constantine S. Sirigos He was told that sales remain TNH Staff Writer strong but the market is not un - limited. NEW YORK – “There is only one Consolo, whose clients sell the Fifth Avenue,” the guests heard world “denim to diamonds” on – the same could have been said Fifth Avenue, described bidding of Manhattan and New York City wars among retailers who are – during the annual panel dis - desperate to be there. She added cussion “The State of New York that the renaissance of big de - City Development Design and partment stores in Manhattan in - Construction” presented by The dicates the market’s confidence Development, Design and Con - in New York’s future – Katsos re - struction Committee of the Hel - ferred to a tidal wave of Chinese lenic American Chamber of investments. Among the new ar - Commerce (HACC). rivals will be Neiman-Marcus. New York’s building boom, The tourist boom continues, the envy of the world, continues especially driving hotel construc - and Lou Katsos, the chairman of tion, including a Katsos’ project the Committee, was the host and on Ninth Avenue and 42 Street, moderator of the informative the heart of New York’s pre-As - and entertaining panel on the toria Greektown. topic that consisted of Jay Predictions about the Manhat - Badame, president and CEO of TNH/COSTAS BEJ tan bubble bursting continue to Tishman Construction, Faith Lou Katsos, Chairman of the Hellenic American Chamber of tee, at the podium introduces panlists for “The State of New fall by the wayside. “I thought it Hope Consolo, Chairman, Dou - Commerce’s Development, Design, and Construction Commit - York City Development Design and Construction.” would burst by 2015, but I was glass Elliman’s Retail Leasing wrong” Olivieri said. He noted and Sales Division, Carlos R. Avalon Bay Communities. struction management market likes to present “unscripted pan - members year after year. that in New York, as some areas Olivieri, Jr. Sr. VP, Edward Min - Katsos, who has 40 years of and is president of Jekmar As - els” whose success is indicated The discussion was drive by cool off, other get hot, and that skoff Equities, Inc. and Martin major project experience in the sociates, Inc., a construction and by the industry heavy hitters Katsos’ description of a hypothet - outer boroughs are growing Piazzola, Sr. VP of Development, New York real estate and con - development consulting firm, who are panelists and audience ical project in the heart of Man - faster than Manhattan. hattan’s fabled real estate mar - Although he no longer sees a ket, Fifth Avenue in the 50s, in bust, he said the market wills the glorious shadows of St. eventual “deflate a little bit.” Patrick’s Cathedral and Rocke - Amb. George Iliopoulos, feller Center. Greece’s consul general in New Each panelist contributed York, greeted the guests and facts and perspectives – property Nancy Papaioannou, the presi - costs, union vs. non-union labor, dent of HACC, presented an steel vs. concrete – that fleshed overview of the organization. out the fascinating universe of She emphasized the value for people, markets, technology, and its members and the community designers, which determines the of the networking opportunities pros and cons and mix of resi - generated by its events. “The free dential, retail, and commercial exchange of ideas HACC that fa - properties – hotels are still hot cilitates contributes to making commodities – that will be born the world a better place,” she on Manhattan’s storied earth. said. Badame and Piazzola spoke Katsos expressed his gratitude about the finance dimension and to the sponsors who enable the mindset of investors. The lat - HACC to host such events free of ter also noted that the criteria for charge, thus maximizing the picking architects include their Chamber’s ability to support good mastery of the nuances of New causes, such as helping the needy York’s zoning laws with don’t per - in Greece. mit much flexibility and thus Among HACC’s upcoming place a premium on the imagi - events that are generating excite - nation and experience of the de - ment in the community are its signers. “First National Hellenic American Olivieri suggested the ideal Genealogy Conference,” on April situation is international “starchi - 25, from 9AM to 5PM in the Holy tects” who will attract buyers Trinity Cathedral Ballroom and working with local architects “to the “Archbishop Iakovos Anniver - create a special project.” sary Musical Tribute to be held Piazzola spoke noted that job on Thursday, April 30 at 7PM at growth is the engine of the resi - 53rd Street and Lexington Av - dential market and Katsos in - enue. 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By Constantine S. Sirigos game and can move forward on on a sound business basis.” TNH Staff Writer the merits of their products. The have a good early track The AHCC is 85 years old, record. Last October working NEW YORK – The American and Anastasopoulos said it it’s with HACC, the chambers Hellenic Chamber of Commerce the largest and most active brought Greek defense ministry in Athens (AHCC), the Hellenic chamber of commerce in officials to the United States, American Chamber of Com - Greece. The crisis propelled the and a number of deals resulted merce (HACC) in New York and Chamber into non-traditional from the meetings. Enterprise Greece organized areas. Its members are working Bakatselos is also the CEO The 2015 Trade USA Construc - to solve Greece’s problems in and managing director one of tion Mission in cooperation with many areas, and Anastasopou - Greece’s many little known ex - The Greek Press Office that los noted, “We have the best port success stories. His com - brought Greek companies to minds in Greece on our commit - pany, Pyramis Metallurgy, was New York March 23-27th 2015. tees.” established in 1959 in Thessa - A press conference was held “We are working to change loniki and was always export - at Holy Trinity Cathedral on the business environment in oriented. March 26 to highlight the latest Greece” he said, and developing The company now sends 97 initiative to connect the Hellenic new models for doing business percent of its production Diaspora with Greek companies because the old models have abroad. For example, its Ger - capable of producing quality failed. For example, the group man and British market shares products and boosting exports, emphasizes the value of trans - are approximately 10 percent which is the key to Greece sur - parency in business dealings. and in France their products viving the crisis and thriving in The larger aim is to produce have more than 20 percent of the future. more competitive goods, but the market. The press conference was Anastasopoulos acknowledged, They sell to every country in hosted by Louis Katsos, Presi - “It will not happen without re - Europe but “the U.S. market is dent, Jekmar Associates and forms” meaning, a more effec - huge and New York is its gate - Chairman of the Construction, tive state, better education and way” Bakatselos said. Development, Design and Con - TNH/COSTAS BEJ a more efficient judicial system. He was impressed by the fact struction Committee of HACC, (L-R) Nikolas Bakatselos, Nancy Papaioannou, Simos Anastasopoulos, Louis Katsos and Lambros The partnership has that New York builders have and Lambros Kazis, Press Sec - Kazis at the press conference for the 2015 Trade USA Construction Mission. arranged meetings in May with open minds. “Coming here I retary for the Greek Mission to the American Bar Association thought American companies the UN. She also touched on devel - we want to support them,” and put them in touch with the ma - and top American judges that are interested exclusively in The endeavor brought oping greater cooperation be - he added during added during jor players in the industry…be - will focus on best practices. Amercan designs – but they are Greece’s nine largest building tween the two chambers and Q&A period, “We can also link ing introduced to the right peo - But the bottom line Anasta - not. They like European prod - supply, design and construction the Diaspora’s ability to help them up with people in indus - ple is of value…and we are sopoulos said, is that “we must ucts, so we have a chance,” he companies to New York. Con - Greece, which Anastasopoulos tries like tourism.” confident that if they are produce more goods of quality now knows. struction, a vital sector with man said is also an important agenda Katsos said can help by fos - brought before the right people that are competitive…but we For additional information quality providers of goods and item for his organization. tering relationships and convey - they will succeed. are not here to ask for favors. and agenda visit: services, has been hit hard by the Katsos said “there are manu - ing knowledge. “New York is a Bakatselos said now that We are well-organized and are http://www.amcham.gr/2015tr crisis, and the two chambers facturers of Greek products and very difficult market…We can they now know the rules of the prepared to seize opportunities adeusa-construction-mission. grasped the value of helping companies pursue opportunities in New York’s booming retail and commercial market, were con - struction is expected set record Year of the Cat: Roundtable Celebrates its First Radio Anniversary highs of $35.3 billion in 2015. Simos Anastasopoulos, Pres - ident of the American-Hellenic TNH Staff tion that often makes headlines Giuliani doubled down, explain - elaborated, contending that spend billions of dollars on de - Chamber and Nikolas Bakatse - in other media outlets, largely ing why he thinks the president White House adviser Valerie Jar - fense, for state-of-the-art los, Vice President, led the suc - NEW YORK – Greek-Ameri - due to the news made, through does not love America “the way rett was instrumental in perpet - weapons, aircraft, and sea ves - cessful mission, the idea for can self-made billionaire John their statements, by Catsima - you or I do.” uating the email scandal that sels that ISIS “doesn’t even care which emerged from conversa - Catsimatidis, who ran a strong tidis’ consistent array of impres - Next, there was Dick Morris, currently threatens Hillary’s about.” tions Katsos had in Greece last but ultimately unsuccessful race sive guests. a veteran of the Clinton White presidential viability, adding Besides being a longtime year. for Mayor of New York City in Just over the past month, for House who was arguably the that both Jarrett and First Lady friend of the Clintons – Hillary, The original goal of three 2013, may have stepped aside example, three nationally- president’s most influential ad - Michelle Obama “hate” her. despite the email scandal, as of meetings per company was ex - from electoral politics for the known guests introduced or re - visor during his first term. Mor - Following Morris on that this writing remains the odds- ceeded by far. There were more time being – he has neither con - iterated comments that have ris resigned before the 1996 same broadcast was former on favorite to win the Democ - than 70 meetings with contac - firmed that he will seek public been the buzz among politicos election and soon became a po - Massachusetts Governor and ratic nomination, and the White tors, including one-on-one office again, or that he will not from coast to coast. litical analyst, mostly appearing 1988 Democratic Presidential House – Catsimatidis has been meetings and visits to construc - – but over the past year has Former New York City Mayor on the Fox News Channel and Nominee Michael Dukakis. The a strong supporter of Republi - tion sites, up to 10 for each com - hosted one of the more provoca - Rudy Giuliani, who prompted a mostly disparaging the Clintons. Greek-American, now in his can candidates. Through Cats pany. tive political shows anywhere in firestorm of backlash for his de - On Cats Roundtable, Morris de - early eighties, who is happily Roundtable, he has interviewed Nancy Papaioannou, presi - the country. claration that he doesn’t think clared that President Obama immersed in academia but still the majority of the 2016 GOP dent of HACC and of Atlantic Cats Roundtable, which can President Obama loves America does not want Hillary Clinton to dabbles in politics, spoke about presidential hopefuls. Bank presented, presented an be heard on Sunday mornings – incidentally, he first made the run for president in 2016, and how he is not afraid of ISIS. He On March 29, Catsimatidis overview of HACC and empha - on 970AM Radio – and which is comment at a dinner that Catsi - clearly prefers Senator Elizabeth thinks “ISIS will be crushed,” had a busy day. He is Chairman sized the value of networking, available on the Internet on Live matidis hosted – appeared on Warren of Massachusetts, fast because most governments Emeritus of the New York City which the organization and Time as well as in archived pod - Cats Roundtable shortly there - becoming the preeminent voice “don’t want these guys in the Greek Independence Parade, but member of the community can casts – has a local version as after to elaborate. Rather than of the Democratic Party’s pro - neighborhood.” But Dukakis he made sure host his radio facilitate for Greek companies. well, but it is the national edi - backtrack from his remarks, gressive wing. Morris further wonders why we continue to show that morning, too.

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By Dr. William H. largest Greek immigrant popu - secular teacher and theologian money that was required to Samonides and Dr. Regine lation in the Western Hemi - in a college in Athens long be - properly and adequately deco - Johnson Samonides sphere. fore he entered the priesthood.” rate the interior of the new According to the parish his - The article added that “although church. It was by far the hand - The year 1904 was a mo - tory written by Peter T. Kourides he is about 65 years old, this is somest Greek Orthodox church mentous. Internationally, the be - (1910-2010), longtime General his first pastoral charge. It is in the Americas in 1905.” ginning of the Russo-Japanese Counsel to the Archdiocese, said that he speaks English As beautiful as the church War in the Pacific hastened the Holy Trinity was “in total disar - well.” was said to have been in 1905, collapse of the Russian Empire, ray.” Michael Contopoulos in In December he was replaced Father Kourkoulis had the inte - imperiling the lives of tens of The Greek Community of New by Mytilene native Fr. Method - rior decorations magnificently millions of Orthodox Christians. York City claimed “there were ios Kourkoulis. Before leaving redone 15 years later. In the Nationally, the World’s Fair few active parishioners. The for America, Fr. Kourkoulis had early 1920s, shortly after the es - and the third modern Olympic Church of the Holy Trinity had been appointed by the Ecumeni - tablishment of the Archdiocese, games in St. Louis preceded the only 45 enrolled members out cal Patriarch as priest of the St. Archbishop Alexander desig - election of President Theodore of a possible 6,000 Greeks in Nicholas parish in Pittsburgh. nated the church a cathedral. It Roosevelt. In New York, the New York.” The primary reason When he arrived in New York, would be the home of the Holy modern city was for the membership dilemma the board of trustees of Holy Trinity parish until January taking shape: construction was said to have been dissatis - Trinity convinced him, with the 1927, when it was destroyed in began on Grand Central Station, faction with the priest. consent of the Pittsburgh a spectacular fire. and the first underground Because of the prohibitive church, to remain instead in In 1938, the 72-year-old Fa - stretch of the subway went into cost of Manhattan real estate, New York. Pittsburgh’s loss ther Kourkoulis was invested operation. There were also ma - no parish could afford to build would be Holy Trinity’s gain. On with the title of Grand Archi - jor developments at Holy Trinity, its own church immediately. December 14, 1904, Father mandrite of Constantinople, the first Greek Orthodox parish Holy Trinity first held services Kourkoulis celebrated his first which gave him privileges at established in New York. In April on West 53rd Street in the base - Liturgy at Holy Trinity. any Greek Orthodox monastery 1904, Holy Trinity purchased its ment of a Swedenborgian According to Peter Kourides, in the world. The honor was first building, and later that year church, which it rented for $50 who knew him well, Kourkoulis conferred by Ecumenical Patri - a new priest, 43-year-old Father a month. From there, it moved “had an impressive presence. He arch Benjamin I, through Arch - Methodios Kourkoulis (1864- briefly downtown to 77-79 had a beautiful resonant voice, bishop Athenagoras, head of the 1941), arrived from Greece. Greenwich Street and then to a and he officiated with ceremo - church in North and South Both developments brought Midtown site. For $83.33 per nial and imposing dignity. He America. At the time of Kourk - stability to a community sorely month, the parish rented Fr. Methodios Kourkoulis, who served the Holy Trinity Church was most articulate. His ser - oulis’ death in April 1941, he in need of it. The fledgling premises at 138 East 27th Street in NY from 1904 until 1941, was instrumental in the growth mons were well-prepared and had served Holy Trinity for 37 parish, established in 1892, was previously occupied by the First and development of Greek Orthodoxy in the community. delivered with stentorian elo - years, uniting parishioners and not the majestic Archdiocesan Swedish Baptist Church. Ser - quence… contributing significantly to the Cathedral of today. During the vices were held there until Palm than the previous sites and in a The first services were held To many of the Greek immi - growth of the parish. first dozen years of its existence, Sunday in 1904. desirable location. Originally the at the new Holy Trinity on Holy grants of 1904, he quickly be - Holy Trinity rented three spaces At that time the parish finally St. James Episcopal Church, the Monday, April 3, 1904. The came the heroic and majestic Drs. William and Regine Sa - and was served by ten priests. acquired its own building, a East 72nd Street church was de - priest was Father Zissimos Typ - figure that they were painfully monides are authors of the At the time, establishing a Greek one-story stone church of Gothic signed by James Renwick, Jr. aldos, who had arrived in Amer - seeking in their new world. book Greeks of Stark County. Orthodox parish in America was architecture on East 72nd Street (1818-1895) who was also re - ica to take charge of the parish Immediately, Kourkoulis took He submitted this article, which not easy, but maintaining one between Lexington and Third sponsible for St. Patrick’s Cathe - the previous April. He was de - total and complete control of appeared in the Orthodox Ob - proved an even greater chal - Avenues. Purchased for dral, which was under construc - scribed by The New York the new edifice on East 72nd server (January), to TNH for lenge, even in the city with the $65,000, it was much larger tion on Fifth Avenue at the time. Evening Post as having been “a Street. He quickly raised the publication. Jennie Eisenhower, Presidential Pedigree, Lights Stage

Continued from page 1 etc.) so much as I have favorite shows that I have been a part of was old enough to get up on – including a new musical I re - stage.” cently acted in called "Field “MA NIXON” Hockey Hot." “I was very close to my Eisenhower has a full sched - grandparents,” Eisenhower says, ule, including her next show, referring to Richard and Pat “Passion,” at the Arden Theatre, Nixon, former President and “a Stephen Sondheim musical First Lady of the United States. that I am really looking forward “They lived about a two-hour car to doing. And next spring I'll be ride away from us when I was starring as Lilli Vanessi in ‘Kiss growing up and we would visit Me Kate,’ a favorite of mine. their home about once a month, That will be at Act 2 Playhouse. staying the whole weekend. I My schedule is constantly chang - used to cry when we would pull ing,” she says, and it is updated away in the car.” Eisenhower regularly on her website. lived in the Philadelphia suburb PRESIDENTIAL PEDIGREE d. PANAGOS/GOA of Valley Forge and the Nixons Eisenhower has truly made a Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece with Arch - lived in Saddle River, NJ. “And name for herself in the Greater bishop Demetrios of America (L), and Constantine Dimtsas, once when they visited us,” she Philadelphia area. She recalls: the director of "Apostoli-Mission during a meeting in Greece. continued, “I wrote a song titled “There was a day when my ‘Ma, Stay,’ to convince my grand - mother and I were shopping to - mother (“Ma”) not to go back to gether and a woman ap - New Jersey! My relationship proached my mother while I was Jaharis Foundation and IOCC with them was very special and looking at a rack of clothing I miss them very much to this across the store. I overheard her day. It was hard to lose them say to my mother, ‘You're Jennie Send Medical Aid to Greece when I did – I always hoped they Seen here in “A Grand Night for Singing,” versatile actress Eisenhower's mother, aren't would live to be great-grandpar - Jennie Eisenhower learned her craft by first studying Greek you?’ It was a hilarious moment, TNH Staff to the daily intensification of the ents and meet my child – but I theater at Northwestern University. because my whole life I had crisis. am grateful to have been able heard ‘You're Julie's daughter,’ ATHENS – With the crucial fi - Through this endeavor, the to spend as much time with choose with her outfit, and this or ‘You're the President's grand - nancial help of the Jaharis Fam - financing of specific projects by them as I did while they were would go on for hours and daughter.’ I think that was the ily Foundation, Inc., which was Greek-Americans, the commu - living.” Mrs. Nixon died in 1993 hours. I used to have so much moment that I realized there are established by Michael and nity’s contributions, coordinated and the president in 1994. Eisen - fun with Ma.” people (mostly in the Philadel - Mary Jaharis, Apostoli-Mission, by the IOCC in Apostoli, make hower is married to Anthony The Shoe Store game was an phia area, where I work on - the social service agency of the a maximum humanitarian im - Cheslock; they have one daugh - early indicator for Eisenhower’s stage) who see me as an actor Church of Greece, in coopera - pact in Greece. ter, Chloe, born in 2013. love of playing roles. “I always first, a political relative second.” tion with International Ortho - Constantinos Dimtsas, Apos - On her website, jennie-eisen - wanted to be a performer,” she In past interviews, Eisen - dox Christian Charities (IOCC) toli’s General Director, who hower.com, Eisenhower includes told TNH, “from the time I was hower has stated that she thinks sent $900,000 worth of medical works with Despina Katsivelaki, a video that she made for the old enough to get up on stage.” her famous Republican ances - supplies to Thrace. IOCC Program Coordinator in American Cancer Society, which JENNIE ONSTAGE tors, Presidents Eisenhower and The materials will be di - Greece, expressed thanks and includes a heartfelt account of With all the different hats she Nixon, would probably be De - rected to healthcare facilities gratitude to the Greek-American her “very special bond” with her wears, Eisenhower says “my pri - mocrats if they were alive today, throughout Thrace in Northeast community for their support of grandmother, who died of can - mary passion is to tell a great and on a related note, reminded Greece. the people of Greece who are cer. “We made up a lot of differ - story. For that reason, I do tend that Eisenhower was an advo - The large donation of hospi - enduring hardships. ent games together. My favorite to wear a lot of hats, as the op - cate of universal health care. “I tal supplies is part of a larger Dimtsas especially praised game was one called Shoe Store. portunities to tell great stories try not to get too political,” she project Give for Greece II, which the initiatives of IOCC and Because my grandmother was have been quite varied during tells TNH, and “though I stand was implemented by Apostoli Michael Jaharis, saying that the First Lady and in the White the course of my career. Be it by those statements, they are and is funded by IOCC and their efforts every day demon - House, she had a lot of shoes in singing in a musical, directing a obviously speculation on my other Greek-American organiza - strate their faith in the values her closet. So, I would go into play, or even teaching a student part.” Nonetheless, Eisen - tions like AHEPA, which also and strength of Hellenism. He the closet, and she would come to tell a story in the best and hower’s take on the modern-day made substantial contributions reminded that the Jaharis Fam - in, and I would be the shoe store most authentic way they can, my Jennie Eisenhower as an infant Republican Party is that it has to the effort. ily has given an additional two owner. And she would try on all love of storytelling is the com - in the arms of her grandfather, “changed a lot since my grand - The delivery of medical sup - million dollars for the relief of the different pairs of shoes and mon thread throughout the var - Richard Nixon. Her grand - father and great grandfather plies will continue throughout people in need, particularly the I, as a five-year-old, would ad - ious items on my resume. I don't mother, Pat Nixon, is on the were in office, and I would love the year as the needs of the children of Greece. vise her on which pump was the have a favorite "hat" (in terms right, and in the center is phil - to see it become more moderate country's hospitals increase due most stylish, or which color to of whether to act, teach, direct, anthropist Lenore Annenberg. again.”

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ALL HISTORY Stereoviews: Rediscovering Historic Images of our Collective Antiquity

Continued from page 1 now assign to Hellenes. Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem (Un - In following the general derwood & Underwood 33) and inally unintentional documen - trend of travel images there are Easter procession of Greek Pa - tation. Undoubtedly few Greeks seemingly endless series of triarch, entering Church of the in North America can with cer - “Scenes of Greece” issued by Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem (Un - tainty say they know what a any number of stereoview com - derwood & Underwood 22- stereoview is. Still, this once ex - panies. Several representative 3101). If you still think these tremely popular Victorian Era travel stereoviews includes: stereoviews are simply antique amusement offers quite literally West to the Heights of Tage - amusements when exactly do hundreds of photographs of tus—Looking over Modern you recall seeing the Greek Pa - Modern Greek life. And, in turn, Homes in Ancient Sparta, triarch of Jerusalem on televi - while it was not the initial in - Greece (Keystone View 205 sion? One last public event in - tention of the professional stere - V17122T); Pious monks of the volving this same religious oview photographers these in - Eastern Orthodox Church at figure readily found on stere - dividuals nevertheless clearly door of monastery, Megaspelion, oviews would be the Ceremony documented many of the every - Greece (Underwood & Under - of Washing the Saints’ Feet, by day cultural complexities of not wood 76-9339); Shepherds and the Greek Patriarch, Jerusalem only Greeks within Greece but their Flocks on the Argive Plain, (Underwood & Underwood 9). those living in the Diaspora as Greece (Keystone View 480- Unexpectedly, over the last well. 7171) and A Sailboat in the Har - ten years or so libraries and But what are stereoviews, bor of Piraeus, Greece (Keystone archives around the country precisely? Popular from the View P204 P-17107). have not only established, ac - 1850s until well after the 1930s Stereoview having to do with cessioned and made available stereoviews, which are also Classical Greek monuments their stereoview collections they sometimes called stereographs, abound. A small selection of have gone one step further lit - are paired photographs of the such images would be: East end erally hundreds of these stere - same image on a stiff card mea - of the far-famed Parthenon from oviews are free to the public on- suring, most often, 3 ½” x 7”. among shattered columns at N. line. The Library of Congress, The card is placed within a side, Acropolis, Athens (Under - the New York Public Library, the wooden viewer. This viewer is wood & Underwood 8-9284); Online Archive of California and designed such that the card is Splendid columns of Olympian many others can be searched held fast on a movable arm. The Zeus-Acropolis at W.N.W., any day of the week by those individual using the viewer Athens (Underwood & Under - interested in looking at these vi - looks through a special magni - wood 17 S767); Tower of the sual historical treasures. fying glass. This glass piece is Wind (Keystone View 23-9293); Without question stere - encased within a wooden frame, Stereoviews provide a great glimpse into our community’s history. This one depicts Greeks in The best preserved temple in all oviews will one day be found which serves to hood the eyes Patras about to get inside a small boat to take them to a steamship, which will take them Greece, the Doric “Theseion” of that reveal historical events and and so improve the quality of across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States. time-yellowed marble, Athens persons directly related to the the image seen. The stere - (Underwood & Underwood 21- history of Greeks in North Amer - oviews’ two photographs are set having dual lens, provided the forms, stereoviews were never - categories those not versed in 9292); Southwest from the Lyk - ica. To give proof to this claim 2 ½” apart which is also the two images on a single negative theless one of the most success - our history would even think to abettos past Royal Palace and we need only cite one such same distance as the pupils of plate. All this physical descrip - ful home entertainments ever seek out. This is no obvious task. Acropolis to Sea, Athens, Greece stereoview: Greek Immigrants the human eye. By adjusting the tion aside virtually every home invented. Millions upon millions It must be stressed that review - (Keystone View V17124 T) and Embarking in Small Boat for distance of the card from the in the United States was of these stereoviews were made ing these stereoviews, from a just to illustrate not all Classical Steamer for America, Patras, glass piece the optical illusion equipped with a viewer (called available to the general public distinctly Greek perspective im - stereoviews were taken in Greece (Keystone View Co of a three-dimensional image is a stereopticon) and a good sup - all across the planet. Initially all mediately involves one in unex - Athens we can cite Olympia, 17100). Do you see one of your created. The paired images of ply of stereoview cards. manner of images presenting pected political ramifications From Wall of Altis, showing ancestors in this photograph? the stereoviews were first taken Forgotten today perhaps, by more or less at random individ - embedded in a host of these Temple of Zeus and Kronos Hill, Might they be in another stere - with two cameras set side by all except those dedicated to the uals, locations and situations photographic images. For as re - Greece (Underwood & Under - oview? This is not some idle fan - side. Later binocular cameras, collection of old photographic were placed on these cards. In visionists re-write the histories wood c. 1897). tasy. Literally millions of crystal time, four types of views came of Greek populations in Mace - These stereoviews often clear stereoviews were taken by to dominate the overall market: donia, Cyprus, Epirus, as well serve as testimony to a view of professional photographers all news events of the day, travel, as the organic Hellenic commu - history once clearly understood over the planet. Aside from the social sciences and comedy. nities of western Anatolia, but now with all manner of re - various Greek stereoviews I GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Stereoviews of Greece, and southern Russia and Jerusalem visionism afoot lost to the gen - have cited above it is only a mat - things Greek, were avidly these unassuming photographs eral American and Western Eu - ter of time before those with a sought. We know this by the offer unintentional visual proof ropean public. Stereoviews of Greek eye for modern history Shut off Your TV! sheer volume of stereoviews against the most outrageous of the Greek Patriarch in Jerusalem will begin to systematically re - now readily available in virtu - these politically driven tracts. are readily found. Three exam - locate these now lost images of By Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos your toenails corrode or you no - ally any antique mall, local cam - With all this in mind let us ples involving processionals as our collective past. And as even Special to The National Herald tice a strange growth on your era show or seen on even the briefly survey three broad do - part of the religious observa - our brief survey here reports any forehead.” most general Internet search. mains of Modern Greek history tions dating between the late rediscovery of stereoviews as a I was lying on the sofa wait - Thinking about the symp - But given the complex nature of found on stereoviews: the travel 1890s and early 1900s include: medium for viewing the past ing for my movie to start and toms, I couldn’t tell you what modern Greek history, including images, Classical Greece stere - Palm Sunday at the Church of can only be undertaken with a hoping to take my mind off the the movie was about. Should I the diaspora, those interested in oviews and finally those photo - the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem Hellenic understanding of world myriad of problems the week talk to my doctor? During the finding Greek related stere - graphic images that have pre - (Universal Photo Art Co 15); history. flung at me. How often do I get next commercial I got up, taking oviews will have to look for served images of Greeks outside The Eastern Procession of the a chance to loll on my sofa, re - my empty tea cup to the kitchen these images under an array of of locations Western European Greek Patriarch. Church of the [email protected] lax with a cup of tea and a cup - and t grabbed a cup cake and cake? The answer is never! I sat back down. mean, never a cupcake. It’s usu - Two hours later when the ally a slice of gluten-free bread movie was over, on the screen, with soy butter spread over it appeared: “An Important No - and tea. 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Art. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY Apostle Family - his alma mater, as a trustee of He is survived by his children (SSNY) on 07/07/11. Purpose: any lawful act. Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - Office location: Kings county. SSNY Athens College. Ted Diamandopoulos, Cybele designated as agent for service of process. Funeral Directors of A proud son of Greece known Diamandopoulos, Ariadne Dia - SSNY shall mail process to: 2204 Ave. U, RIVERDALE for his love of books, music, fine mandopoulos; step-daughter Brooklyn, NY 11229." FUNERAL HOME Inc. cigars and cognac, Diaman - Mary Blackstock; grandchildren 27 4331 /19442 5044 Broadway dopoulos consistently ques - Dr. Peter Diamandopoulos, college president and philosopher. Harry, Teague, Rita, Teddy; step- LEGAL NOTICE New York, NY 10034 tioned conventional attitudes granddaughter Sofia Bocchino; (212) 942-4000 and challenged everyone around level, but his tenure there, which caused a drop in enroll - and brother Dr. George Diaman - Notice of Formation of 719 PINE LLC. Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE Articles of Organization filed with Secretary him to strive for excellence. where he often clashed with fac - ment. dopoulos. of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/25/14. CONSTANTINIDES His goal at Adelphi was to el - ulty, was controversial. He in - After being forced out as A memorial service will be Office location: Kings county. SSNY is desig - FUNERAL PARLOR Co. evate the school to Ivy League creased tuition and cut staff, president, he was hired as a spe - held at a date to be announced. nated as agent for service of process. SSNY (718) 745-1010 shall mail process to: Ramin Gold, 139 -43 86 Ave, Brairwood,NY 11435." Purpose: Services in all localities - any lawful act. Low cost shipping to Greece DEATH NOTICES 27 4330 /19441 LEGAL NOTICE ANTONOPOULOS FUNERAL HOME, INC. n BALIOS, IOANNIS the service. Peter is survived by missioned a 2nd Lieutenant in owned and operated Tanners Notice of Formation of MREG RSG-SHEF 298 Konstantinos Antonopoulos - FLEMINGTON, NJ (From the his loving wife of 70 years, the United States Marine Corps Snack Bar on North Tryon St. for WEIRFIELD MEMBER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY Funeral Director Hunterdon County Democrat, Sophia (Thanos); and three in 1955. He then served two 25 years. He was an avid soccer (SSNY) on 03/23/15. Office location: Kings 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., published on Apr. 3) – oannis sons, Christopher of St. Peters - years of active duty with the 2nd fan and always cheered for his County. Princ. office of LLC: 360 Lexington Ave., Astoria, New York 11105 A. Balios, age 82 years, of Flem - burg, Florida, George of Los An - Marine Division out of Camp favorite team Panathenaikos in 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be (718) 728-8500 ington, NJ, died on Wednesday, geles, California and John from Lejeune, North Carolina. There - Greece and was a member of served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Mack Real Not affiliated with any April 1, 2015 at his residence. Syracuse; along with several after, he served for 18 years in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Estate Group, 60 Columbus Circle, 20th Fl., NY, other funeral home. Born in Limnos, Greece, May nieces and nephews. He was the Organized Marine Reserves, Cathedral. The funeral service NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 24, 1932, he was the son of the predeceased by his five siblings: principally with the 12th Infantry will be held 11:00 AM, Thursday, 27 4329 /17976 late Agorastos and Fotina Balios. sister, Mary Togais; brothers, Battalion in Pittsburgh. He re - the 12th of March 2015, at Holy LEGAL NOTICE He was a retired teacher in Stephen, Constantine, James tired in 1975 with the rank of Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathe - TO PlACE yOur Greece and also served in the and Paul. Peter and Sophia en - Major of Infantry. The Marine dral with the Reverend Father 525 MYRTLE AVENUE CONDOS REALTY LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY ON ClASSiFiEd Ad, CAll: Greek Army. He was a member joyed world wide travel where Corps was in his heart until his Michael Varvarelis officiating. In - 02/10/14. Office: Kings County. SSNY desig - (718) 784-5255, ExT. 106, of St. Anna Greek Orthodox they visited many countries to - death. He graduated from the terment will follow at Evergreen nated as agent of the LLC upon whom E-mAil: process against it may be served. SSNY shall Church, Flemington, NJ. An gether a particular favorite was Duquesne University School of Cemetery. Nikolaos is survived mail copy of process to the LLC, 37-36 75th classifieds@ avid reader, he also loved swim - Greece from which they both Law in 1961 and following ad - by his beloved wife of 40 years, Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: thenationalherald.com ming, bicycling, and walking. had descendents and relatives. mission to the Bar, began his law Despoina Groumbas; two daugh - Any lawful purpose. Surviving are his wife of forty- Peter was an active member of career with small firms until he ters, Helen Groumbas and hus - 274323/17973 seven years, Efthimia Theoharis Saint Sophia's Church and was established his own private gen - band, Aris Mamalis of Thessa - Balios; a daughter, Sofia a lifetime member of the Order eral practice in 1969, remaining loniki, Greece and Maria Hadley Manoussakis, of Clinton, NJ; of the AHEPA national and local a sole practitioner until the end. and husband, Robert Hadley of two sons, Alexandros Balios of chapters and was instrumental In addition, from 1986 to 1996, Charlotte, NC; four grandchil - Warren, Ohio. He is survived by Southern Nazarene University), Centerville, VA, and Nicholaos in building the AHEPA he served as an Assistant Al - dren: Despoina and Georgia of his wife Kathy, children Dr. she was associate editor of the Balios of North Arlington, NJ; Home/Apartments for the el - legheny County Solicitor. At the Greece and Nikolaos and Elisavet William (Mary) of Elgin, John Revelli Echo newspaper, associ - and five grandchildren: Adriana, derly in Onondaga Hill. He time of his death, he was an ac - of Charlotte, NC; two brothers: (Celeste) of Belvidere, and ate editor of the Arrow year - Alexa, Corinna, Andrew, and served on the Board of Saint tive Emeritus member of the Angelo Groumbas of Greece and Jimmy (Georgia) of Bloomfield book, and an all-school cheer - Anna. Also surviving are two sis - Sophia's Church during the pe - Academy of Trial Lawyers of Al - Apostolos Groumbas of Ger - Hills, Michigan, as well as his leader. There, she met and ters and nieces and nephews. riod when the current church legheny County and a retired many. In addition to his parents grandchildren Athena, Michael, married a fellow student, Mar - Funeral services will be held on was built in DeWitt. The Co - member of the Allegheny County he was preceded in death by a Jimmy and J.J. Funeral services ion, and both became school Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 10:30 panas family is extremely grate - Bar Association. In 1972 he had brother, Constantine Groumbas will be at 10:30 A.M. at St. teachers. Before retirement, she AM in St. Anna Greek Orthodox ful for the loving care given to the good fortune to meet Mary of Greece. Memorials may be Sophia Greek Orthodox Church was an accountant at the Okla - Church, 85 Voorhees Corner Peter by the staff at Menorah Jane O'Malley, a lovely Irish lass made in remembrance of Niko - on Friday, March 20, 2015, 525 homa State Health Department. Road, Flemington, NJ. Inter - Park for four years, in particular who he married in 1975. George laos Groumbas to the Renovation Church Road in Elgin, with Fa - Helen joined OKC First Church ment will be in Prospect Hill for the daily attention provided and Mary Jane shared a love of Fund of Holy Trinity Greek Or - ther Andrew Karamitos officiat - of the Nazarene as a teenager. Cemetery, Flemington, NJ. Call - by Theresa. Calling hours will travel and vacationed during thodox Cathedral or to the Pana - ing. In lieu of flowers, memori - There, she served as a Sunday ing hours will be held on Friday, be held TODAY, Tuesday, March their years together in every gia Prousiotissa Chapel, at Elatos als can be made to St. Sophia School teacher, president of the April 3, 2015 from 5-8 PM in 24, 2015 from 2 to 4 p.m. at country in Europe as well as Rus - Park, Weddington, NC, all in c/o Greek Orthodox Church in his Nazarene Young People's Soci - the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Saint Sophia's Greek Orthodox sia and all of the Scandinavian Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox memory. www.lairdfamilyfuner - ety, and president of the Home, 147 Main Street, Flem - Church, 325 Warring Road, De - countries. They also enjoyed sev - Cathedral, 600 East Blvd., Char - alservices.com or 847-741-8800. Women's Missionary Society. ington, NJ. Memorial contribu - Witt, New York. Funeral services eral Caribbean cruises. George lotte, NC 28203. Please specify Helen called herself a "joiner," tions in his memory may be will follow at 4 p.m. Burial with particularly loved Greece and her which fund on the memo line of n JAMISON, HELEN as she loved to be a part of dif - made to St. Anna Greek Ortho - full Military Honors will be held islands, the home of his ances - check. Notes of encouragement (SARRAS) ferent kinds of organizations. dox Church, 85 Voorhees Corner at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, tors. His main avocation was the and condolences can be made to OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (From She was a member of the Sun - Road, Flemington, NJ 08822. March 25 at Oakwood-Morning - continuous study of History, es - the family by visiting the Oklahoman, published on downers, who were hosts to ex - Please visit www.holcombe - side Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, pecially Greek, the Civil War and www.ellingtonfuneralservices.co Mar. 22) – March 3, 1929 - hibitors and helped with hospi - fisher.com for further informa - contributions may be made to World War II, which he contin - m.. March 18, 2015 OKLAHOMA tality for events at State Fair tion, or to send condolences. the local AHEPA chapter in Pe - ued to pursue until his death. CITY Helen was born in Okla - Park; Pinocchio Rose Garden Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home ter's memory. To leave a mes - Friends received at Mccabe Bros., n HOLEVAS, JAMES homa City, OK to Greek immi - Club, where she served as Pres - 147 Main Street Flemington, NJ sage of condolence, please visit Inc. Funeral Home, www.mc - CHICAGO, IL (From the Chicago grant father Louis Chris Saran - ident; International Toast - 08822 (908) 782-4343. burnsgarfield.com. cabebrothers.com, 6214 Walnut Suburban Daily Herald, pub - topoulos (changed to Sarras to mistress Clubs, and the Acad - Street, Shadyside on Monday, 3- lished on Mar. 18) – ELGIN - reflect an American pronuncia - emy of Senior Professionals. Her n COPANAS, PETER n DIAMANTOPOULOS, 7 p.m., with a Trisagion Service James V. "Jim" Holevas, 84, of tion), from Lefka, Greece, and later years of service were spent SYRACUSE, NY (From the Syra - GEORGE C. at 6:30 p.m., Fr. Christopher Elgin passed away on March 15, a red-haired Irish mother, in the visitation of the home - cuse Post-Standard, published HIGHLAND PARK, MD (From Bender, celebrant. A Prayer Ser - 2015, surrounded by his family Claudie Lee Isbell, from bound. She treasured the 15 on Mar. 24) – Peter N. Copanas, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, pub - vice will be held on Tuesday at after a brief illness. Jim was born Sasakwa, OK. She was preceded years of Tuesday mornings, 96, of Syracuse passed away lished on Mar. 9) – George C. 11 a.m., Fr. Jack O'Malley, cele - March 27, 1930 in Trikofon, in death by her parents; her hus - when she met church lady quietly in his sleep at Menorah Diamantopoulos of Highland brant. Interment private. In lieu Greece and was the youngest band of 48 years, Marion Merle friends for coffee and fellow - Park nursing home on March Park on Sunday, March 1, 2015, of flowers, memorials in his son of Vassilios and Paulette Jamison; a brother, Chris; his ship. Helen watched Wheel of 20, 2015. Peter retired at age age 81. He is survived by his lov - name may be made to the Ma - (Karafinas). Jim emigrated to twin, Cristeen Sarras Gray; a sis - Fortune nearly every evening 88 from his business Thanos Im - ing wife of 40 years, Mary Jane; rine Corps Heritage Foundation, the United States in 1951 and ter, Angeline; and a daughter, and played Scrabble by herself port Market on North Salina his beloved in-laws, the O'Malley www.marine heritage.org. truly lived the American dream. Janet Merle Morgan. Helen was many afternoons. She loved to Street, which was originally family; as well as numerous In the early years, he worked at a graduate of Central High shop, especially thrift stores, started by his father-in-law, nieces and nephews. Born on n GROUMBAS, NIKOLAOS the Elgin Sandwich Shop during School, where she served as ed - though hardly ever making a Christ A. Thanos. Before taking September 25, 1933, he was the CHARLOTTE, NC (From the the day and at night at Chicago itor of the Sooner Spirit news - purchase. All things chocolate over from his father-in law, Pe - youngest child of the late Con - Charlotte Observer, published on Rawhide where he saved paper, president of the Black and Braum's hamburgers were ter worked at his family's well stantine and Patricia Diamantop - Mar. 11) – Nikolaos Groumbas: enough money to buy Grove Skirt Pep Club, and secretary of diet staples. Her relationship know factory/retail store Queen ulos. His beloved father emi - Mr. Groumbas, 74, of Charlotte, Liquors which he ran with his the Intra-city Student Council. with God and family were of Ann Ice Cream on South Av - grated from Greece to America NC, passed away Tuesday, the brother, Chris, for over 25 years. At Bethany Peniel College (now greatest importance. She was enue. Mr. Copanas served dur - at age 13. George grew up in the 10th of March 2015, at his home He later managed Paul's Family loved by friends, respected and ing World War II for four years Point Breeze neighborhood of surrounded by his family. He was Restaurant for his best friend, This is a service cherished by her family. She is in the United States Army rising Pittsburgh with his older siblings, born the 6th of December 1940 John Paul. Of Jim's many accom - to the community. survived by daughter, Lynn He - to the rank of master sargent at the late Theodora "Teddy", and in Episkopi, Naousis, Greece, one plishments, he was most proud Announcements of deaths len Anderson; and granddaugh - the time of his separation from James, a WWII combat Marine. of four brothers to the late Ioan - of being a founding father of St. may be telephoned to the ters, Azure Nichole Anderson, He graduated from Linden Public nis Groumbas and Triantafilia Sophia Greek Orthodox Church. Classified department of Amber Michelle Bergerson, Jan - School and then Taylor Zarras Groumbas. Nikolaos He was an avid golfer, but en - The National Herald at uary Marie Morgan, and April days and dates of funerals, Allderdice High School in 1951. served in the Greek Army and joyed spending the majority of (718) 784-5255, Helen Morgan; and by nephew, memorials, and other events di - George received his Bachelor of worked as an agent with Asteras his time with his family, and par - monday through Friday, John Mark and wife Patty rectly correspond to the original Arts degree from the University Insurance/realty company in ticularly his grandchildren which 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST (Quick) Gray. Helen donated publication date, which appears of Pittsburgh in 1955 with a ma - Greece before he and his wife, he adored. Jim married his or e-mailed to: her body to the OU Willed Body at the beginning of each notice. jor in History. His proudest mo - Despoina, came to the United beloved wife, Katherine [email protected] Program and has requested ment came when he was com - States in 1985. He and his wife Economo, on June 29, 1958 in there be no services. THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 11-17, 2015 COMMUNITY 11 Mayor de Blasio Hosts Greeks at Gracie Mansion

By Constantine S. Sirigos TNH Staff Writer

NEW YORK – Gracie Mansion, the home of the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, was filled with Greek-Americans and Phil - hellenes celebrating Greek In - dependence on April 1. Feeling the love and enthu - siasm of the crowd that packed the reception room, First Lady Chirlane McCray said “It feels like a small village tonight.” “It is truly unfortunate I have not had the opportunity to visit Greece,” she said, eliciting moans of empathy, but that doesn’t stop me from celebrat - ing all the contributions of Greece to the world… including the vital Greek community.” She thanked the guests and said “it is my pleasure to intro - duce a pillar, perhaps I should say, a column of the Greek com - Greek UN Rep Bouras Visits TNH Headquarters munity, Archbishop Demetrios,” and His Eminence then thanked Seen with an enthusiastic Mayor Bill de Blasio at Grace Mansion are his wife Chirlane McCray, Ambassador Katerina Bouras, who had served successfully as the First Couple for again invit - Archbishop Demetrios of America, Emma Wolfe, Thomas DiNapoli and Costa Constantinides. Greece’s Consul General in New York and is now Greece’s Per - ing the community to their manent Representative at the UN, paid an official visit to TNH home, and offered the invoca - and congratulated her for an im - The Mayor said it is a joy to tonight,” he concluded to the headquarters. She expressed her admiration for community tion. portant early childhood devel - host the community and asked loudest applause of the night. and congratulated Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris on The Mayor thanked the first opment initiative she just for a round of applause for the Wolfe told TNH “it was a ter - the newspaper’s 100th anniversary. Lady for her gracious welcome launched with Hillary Clinton. Archbishop. rific event and I was thrilled to After also praising Hellenism be a part of it and I was much and the community de Blasio honored to be standing next to acknowledged the presence of Sophia Pappas. Everything the New York State Comptroller Mayor said about her was Thomas di Napoli, City Council - tremendous and it was great to man Costa Constantinides and see her honored.” other officials from New York, Haeda Mihaltses, Wolfe’s Greece and Cyprus. predecessor who now is Execu - “Now I want to introduce a tive Director for External Affairs woman who has become fa - for the Mets also expressed her mous because of the work she joy at “celebrating Hellenic cul - does and I think it is because of ture in New York and I am ex - her Greek roots,” and turning to cited the Mayor has continued Emma Wolfe, his Director for In - this time-honored tradition.” tergovernmental Affairs, he She looks forward to this year’s drew laughter when he said Greek Day at Citifield. “Emma I think you learned Elias Tsekerides enjoyed be - everything you need to know ing onstage when he was the from your Yiayia.” Federation’s president, and is He then earned more ap - happy to be there as humble plause with the double compli - guest. He is still active with the ment that “it makes sense that Federation. “I can’t go away. The such a great political mind federation is inside me. I call the would come from the Greek President and tell him whenever people.” you need me, I am available.” Fr. Alex Karloutsos, Petros The mansion was also graced Galatoulas, the President of the with the presence of Claudia Gi - Federation that organizes the annakopoulos, Miss Greek Inde - (L-R) Demetris Tsakas, Nicholas Arvanitakis, Panagiotis Pliakas, Iliopoulos, Very Rev. Nektarios Papazafiropoulos, Sotirios Kon - Greek parade and Dr. George pendence, and her entourage. Manos Koubarakis, Amb. Vasilios Philippou, Litsa Diamataris, stantakopoulos, Eleni Pappas, Georgia Papadopoulos and Giota Malegiannakis were singled out She enjoyed the view of the Antonis H. Diamataris, Konstantinos Likogiannis, Amb. George Patlia honor Ethnikos Kyrix Founder Petros Tatanis. by the Mayor for praise and ap - parade from her special, a dif - preciation – the latter for more ferent experience from march - personal reasons as he is the ing on the ground with her First Family’s physician. Church, St. Markella of Astoria. Founder Tatanis Honored on Herald’s 100th Birthday De Blasio was especially “Everyone was showing their proud of the next person he in - Greek pride,” and she was troduced. “Sophia Pappas plays proud to represent Greek-Amer - creating the newspaper for the all, but above all for the four sized that the Herald is an ex - and we congratulate Mr. Dia - a key role in our administration ican youth.” Diaspora." generations of immigrants who tension of Greeks Abroad which mataris for 100 years of its con - because the number one initia - Ioanna Katehis, the second The Herald’s Publisher-Editor supported us for a century and is distinguished for its multifac - tributions to Greeks abroad," Pa - tive of this administration was runner-up, is studying biomed - Antonis H. Diamataris thanked are providing the paper the op - eted contributions to Hellenism. padopoulos concluded. to bring a full day of high qual - ical science at CUNY’s Sophie all those who responded to his portunity to live its best days to - " Konstantakopoulos said, "To - ity pre-kindergarten for all the Davis school, said, “I felt like a call to honor Petros Tatanis, who day,” Diamataris said. He also congratulated the day is a great day for the Na - children of New York City.” princess up there, watching founded the newspaper on April Amb. Iliopoulos said, "The Herald and the Elias associa - tional Herald, for the commu - “We walked in with that vi - everyone smile at us,” but she 2, 1915. Tatanis “set aside 100th anniversary of a newspa - tions for their decision to find nity and for all of us from Elia, sion, we had a lot to do quickly most enjoyed the comradery of $100,000 in addition to startup per and an organization such as Tatanis’ grave and to mark it because we have the opportu - and we turned to the person her new friends. costs and chose good collabora - The National Herald constitutes with a tombstone to perpetuate nity to pay tribute to Petros who has to be in charge of mak - Despite having to stand on tors such as Father Dimitrios a major historic event. The Na - his memory. Tatanis and to feel joy, pride and ing it all happen as the Execu - high heels from 8AM to 10PM, Callimachos, a distinguished tional Herald is an integral part "Greece honored Petros Tata - admiration for our newspaper. tive Director of Early Childhood Anastasia Loukissis, the first priest, and he made a good of the Greek-American commu - nis turning his house in Amali - I would like to congratulate Mr. Education…Sophia Pappas.” runner up, had a great experi - start,” he said. nity because it faithfully writes ada into a museum of the press Diamataris for his initiative to He continued his introduc - ence. "The memories of being Diamataris continued to its history and has been its com - in the Diaspora," added Philip - erect this tombstone and to tion saying “Sophia is the proud with the girls will stay with me speak about the newspaper’s panion and a source of inspira - pou honor Petros Tatanis on this day granddaughter or Greek immi - forever…we have become like journey and its present state. tion …it is the second oldest and Papadopoulos referred to the every year.” grants…who started out at the sisters.” She is a Liberal Arts ma - "We stand on the shoulders of most important , largest and efforts made to locate the tomb Former presidents and exec - beginning as a pre-K teacher jor at Queensborough Commu - Tatanis, Kehages, Poulos, Vla - most vibrant newspaper of Hel - of Tatanis and emphasized that utives of the Paneliakos Society herself…that is a beautiful New nity College and is considering vianos, Marketos, Rossides,” his lenism abroad, which makes us Tatanis died poor, and that his told touching stories they had York story, a beautiful America becoming a social worker. predecessors as publishers, “and all proud. Continue to make grave was donated by one of his heard about the life of Tatanis story and a story of the Greek- Regina Katapodis, owner of thousands of journalists and your contribution with the same associates. and his siblings and said that American experience that we Artopolis in Astoria, donates the workers who served the Na - passion and dedication." "The Panelian Federation and Amaliada, Elia, and all Greece can be very proud of, but there sweets every year. “It’s our tional Herald with dedication.” Amb. Philippou congratu - all of Ilia are proud of Petros was celebrating the 100th an - are many stories life Sophia’s greatest pleasure,” she told "I feel admiration for them lated Diamataris and empha - Tatanis and The National Herald niversary and Tatanis’ memory. and we celebrate them all TNH.

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By Constantine S. Sirigos polyphenols and the best taste. works out of Westchester, NY. TNH Staff Writer The olives are cold pressed – After establishing the opera - they are not heated – adding to tions, Kastania had just started NEW YORK – With time energy the high quality. selling the oil outside the family and imagination, every Greek- The company has secured all – sales and marketing is now American can discover ways to the permits and proper shipping critical – and they are research - help his or her family and and storage arrangements, and ing bringing other edibles to the friends, and Greece as a whole, draws on an extensive network United States. during the crisis. Among the of talented people powered by Geaneotes, who grew up in positive stories that have sprung 21st century communications a typical Greek family – her dad up is that of Kastania Olive Oil, technology. Their website is kas - began as an engineer and ended a brand of extra virgin olive oil, taniaoliveoil.com. up in the restaurant business – which was told to The National Things are possible in 2015 studied business at Villanova. Herald by Vanessa Geaneotes. to help Greece that the people She now lives in Astoria and Kastania is an endeavor of who got the country into its has gotten the product into the Lagakos family which in - mess never dreamed of – and gourmet and specialty markets cludes Patricia (Patty) Lagakos few ever gave the power of the – vegetarians and vegans love it Huffman, David Lagakos, Diaspora a second thought. – in Queens , Brooklyn, and Michael and Christina Huffman Michael Baptista, who mar - Manhattan, including the Baptista, and Tommy and Nikki ried Patty’s daughter Christina, Brooklyn Kitchen, Euromarket, Agriodimas. They demonstrate handles sales and operations. Food Cellar and Green Bay Or - the power of modest invest - His family roots are from Co - ganic Market, Ceriellos in Grand ments by Diaspora Greeks to lumbia, however, he fell in love Central Terminal, and the boost Greece’s exports, which ABOVE: Every Diaspora gathering around the table during the with all things Greek, and the Health Nuts on the Upper East are critical to national recovery. holidays, like that of the family of Patty Lagakos Huffman (2nd village of Kastania after meeting Side. Patty, who is Geaneotes’ from L, next to Vanessa Geaneotes far R) at New York’s Periyali his wife, and, like David, he has They’ve expanded into wed - mother’s koumbara, has roots in restaurant, can be a brainstorming session for how Hellene’s poured his high energy into the ding favors, and have shown at the village of Kastania in Mani abroad can help Greece. LEFT: Quality Greek agricultural prod - project. The two of them, along vegetarian festivals throughout province, the home of wonder - ucts like Kastania olive oil that are well-packaged and marketed with their brother-in-law the city. ful olive groves. and supported by the Diaspora can be the leading edge of the Tommy Agriodimas, who also She coordinates sales, mar - The two women met in Greek recovery. has roots Gythio, had the vision keting of the product, tastings Philadelphia, and the families and also invested the money in in stores, recipe development, remain close, even though Patty retirement is just a word. “She his relatives, it’s good for his vil - the operation. and distributes the marketing and her husband Larry Huff - is full of energy and tons and lage and Greece…he can talk Cousin Jeanne Arfanis, who brochures, which are very at - man, a retired pharmaceutical tons of ideas – we can’t keep up about it for hours,” Geaneotes signed on in New York, has fam - tractive, with breathtaking pic - executive, now divide their time with her,” Geaneotes said. told TNH. ily roots on the same mountain, tures mountainside olive groves. between the Poconos where Patty has been bottling oil Kastania has undertaken lab and is a cousin of the grower, The artwork of the bottling they can garden, and New York, from her family’s groves for testing that certifies that it pro - Kostas Arfanis. and promotional materials is all where their children live. years. When she began to give duces premium and very Penelope Lagakos Constanti - done by graphic designers in Their friendship shows how out bottles as favors at her healthy olive oil. nidi and her husband, Andrei, Greece. “No matter how difficult ties between Greeks who are not daughters’ weddings, people The oil comes from a mix of along with Matina Lagakos are it is, David wants everything to blood relatives can help build liked it and asked for more, so olives, 80 percent consists of ko - cousins in Philadelphia and han - be done in Greece to help the the new Greece. she and her nephew David roneiki olives, the main variety dle sales there and presentations local economy,” Geaneotes said, Geaneotes told TNH that Legakos began bottling it and in the family groves. The blend at the Artisan Exchange. A fam - “and the more people buy it, the when she was in Greece for the selling it privately in America to ensures the right amount of ily friend, Mary Jean Fitzpatrick more money the village gets.” wedding of her daughter, Nikki, friends and family. Patty, whom she calls Nona, told and traveled the world with her David is a professor of eco - her “if you want to help, let me husband, but she visited Greece nomics and oversees the tech - know” and she signed on, help - regularly, maintaining strong nical and scientific elements of ing with marketing and sales. family ties. the operation. From our Website’s Travel Section Patty was born in America Like many Greek-Americans, “It is his passion – he helps New York to Athens…Via Moscow THE HERALD SQUARE By Constantinos E. Scaros If you’re thinking of going to TNH's Crossword Challenge Greece this summer and haven’t booked your tickets yet, and if you’ve ever thought about visit - ing Russia, now’s your chance! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 O ne of the b ig gest bargain fl ig h ts – as o f this writi ng avai l - 14 15 16 able in ample quantities thro ughout the summer – is on 17 18 19 A er o flot, from JFK Int ernational 20 21 22 23 24 Airport in New York to Elefthe - rios Venizelo s airport in Athens 25 26 27 28 – w i th a pit stop in Moscow! Personally, I’ve never been to

29 30 31 32 33 34 Russia – so please take this all w it h a grain of salt. Ra ther than 35 36 37 38 39 a review of what it’s like to sp e n d a few hours there, or even This is not a Russian ballroom. It is a typical subway station in 40 41 42 43 44 par t ake in an overni ght jaunt, I Moscow. Top that, Times Square and Omonia! merely convey this information 45 46 47 48 49 and encoura ge y ou t o do a little likely to be hit by a Molotov if you leave sweltering New York mo r e exp loring on your own. cocktail thrown by an austerity City midsummer headed toward 50 51 52 53 Talk to Americans who have protester, or trampled on by sweltering Athens, a little cool - bee n there , especially recently, panicked Athenians rushing to ing off in Moscow may be just 54 55 and they c an tell you what to the bank to withdraw what little the respite you need. expect. money they have left there. Finally, if you think 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 A ccording to a Delta Airlines Of course, you can, and “Moscow’s too far,” think again. offic ial with who m I spoke re - should, use your own judgment, Russia’s capital is actually closer 67 68 69 70 71 cently, visitors can travel there assessed from an array of from New York City than Athens and stay for 24 hours w ithout a sources, about what is fact and is, in terms of flight distance. 72 73 74 visa – and eve n lon ger if they ’re what is fiction regarding your Sure, it’s farther East, but there’s flying on Russian aircraft, such travels anywhere: whether no heading South. 75 76 77 as Aeroflot. Yemen or Yellowstone Park. Remember, Athens’ latitude B ecause of how R ussia is p or - As for the second-biggest is closer to that of the Carolinas www.CrosswordWeaver.com tray e d in the media, there is a concern, the weather, this one’s than to New York. So the trip perception that even setting foot a lot easier to pinpoint. You from New York to Moscow is ac - the re would get you thro wn in to won’t have to worry about pack - tually a little less in flight time ACROSS 11 Same cite as previous one of Presid ent Vladimir ing winter clothes, if your expe - than that to Greece – and after 1 Berth 12 Car Putin’s KGB jails and you’ll be rience with Russian weather has a break of a few hours or a 4 Saudi Arabian c iti z en 13 Sulk ship ped o ff to Siberia, never to been limited to watching the night’s sleep, the flight to 9 Saint honored on July 20 21 Grow older be heard from again. Then film Dr. Zhivago. The average Athens, at about four and a half

14 Type of retirem e n t acct. ( init.) 23 Presid ent E isenh ower, informa lly again, people have similar no - temperatures in June, July, and hours, seems like a hop, skip, 15 Blemished 26 Abridg ed ( abbr.) tions abo ut Gr eec e the se da ys – Au g ust are wonderfully com - and a jump. 16 Beginning of career or course 28 Seaver and Selleck that if you visit there, you’ll fortable – in the low 70s. In fact, Safe travels! 17 Cntr. for Inve stig a tive Re prt ng. (abbrev.) 2 9 Softne ss 18 ____ and the Man 30 "The Jungl e" author Si nclair 19 Bring together 31 Barack 20 Saint honore d on December 9 32 Childr ens s liding to ys 22 Slanted font 33 Puts away Golden Greek 24 __ Jones Industria l averag e 34 Fife 25 Guy's counterpart 35 Challe nge d us to ask what we can do for our Stylianos Kalamaras 27 Kit ___ choco late bar country ( init. ) won the 2015 Daily 29 Indian village 37 Eviden ce B ased Educ. (abbrev.) News Golden 32 Made angry 39 Young Republicans Assn. (abbrev.) Gloves 35 Swindle, info rma lly 41 Killed championship on 36 Revolt 43 Matur ity April 2 in the light 38 Author Dickinson 46 Habitable heavyweight 40 Cooking oils 48 Motor ists' o rg. ( init.) division by 42 Blade 51 Deer outpointing 44 Mumble 53 Scott Joplin Composition Franklin Johnson. 45 Mound 56 Rebuff Kalamaras' boxing 47 Communicat ors 57 L oosen trunks, bearing a 49 Seventh Greek letter 58 Connect Greek flag design, 50 New York Ind ian 60 Volubl e are made by 52 Widely separ ated 61 European m onetary unit Spartan, which also 54 War Veterans Org. (abbrev.) 62 Greek soccer team reflects his Greek 55 Europ. Assn. of A rchaeolo gists (a bbrev.) 64 Dalai _ ___ roots (his family is 56 Aegean or Io nian 65 Baseba ll c a rd com pany from Sparta, and 59 Greek airline 66 Lugosi of Dracula fame Macdeonia). 63 Ball 68 Cereal grain 67 Man of mean s 70 Mouse y 69 Bait 71 Mr. Lincoln, info r mally This Week in Greek History: 72 Wonted Solution to last week’s puzzle Solution: 73 Scots' neighbors 74 Bad (prefix) B U L B N O M A D E C O N Mystery Murder of 8-Year-Old on Corfu 75 Grande Dam e of Hollywood Davis A S E A B R I N E B O L E 76 Oldest child characteristic R E A R C A C T I B L E W 77 Also known as (abbr.) B U S B Y L E I G H L O T On April 11, 1891, an eight- advancing their political agen - under Nazi occupation during year-old girl was found dead on das, fueling the anti-Semitism, World War II. P E A C H S N O W E DOWN the first floor of a Jewish home which resulted in mass violence A 2001 report indicated that 1 Bldg. Industry Credit R A I N S M A G I C on the Greek island of Corfu. toward Corfu’s Jewish commu - “all that remains of the vital Assn. (abbrev.) B O T A G N U S E N I O R There was a large Jewish nity. Jewish presence in Corfu is a 2 Happy Days' Moran O T H C H E S T E R A T E presence on the island for cen - Newspapers throughout small and highly assimilated 3 Doggone it S T I L L S A A A C L A W turies, but the events that tran - Greece reported on the story, fu - community, numbering about 4 South Atlantic Conf. (abbrev.) spired after the little girl’s death eling anti-Semitism elsewhere 80 Jews, most survivors of the 5 Weak-heeled mythical C O C O A N I M O Y caused a mass exodus of Jews in the country. But judicial au - Holocaust, and La Scuola Greca figure K A P P A Y A C H T from the island. thorities did not find the ac - Synagogue, built in the 18th 6 Troop I R E S A N T A F L A I R Rumors were abound that cused Jews guilty of the murder, century and still standing in 7 Prefix ten N A N A S T A L L O N T O the girl herself was a Christian and the Greek government sent what was once the ‘Jewish 8 Graven image and was murdered by the Jews military forces to protect the Ghetto." 9 Train G R E G H I C A P P E A T as some sort of religious ritual. Jews that remained on the is - A Holocaust memorial was 10 Quarterback Dawson A E R O A C O R N S Y N C Some Greek politicians used land from further violence. dedicated on November 25, the rumors as a springboard for Further deportation ensued 2001.”

THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 11-17, 2015 GREECE CYPRUS 13 As Turkey Leaves the EEZ, Cyprus Unification Talks Set to Reconvene

NICOSIA — A United Nations clusive economic zone (EEZ) at lender Hellenic Bank told envoy says halted talks on re - that it would be a mistake for Reuters while the Bank of unifying ethnically divided Ankara to send it back in with Cyprus also said activity was Cyprus will resume after a clash negotiations over reunifying the normal. over the island’s potential off - island divided since an unlawful The last controls to go were shore gas riches has subsided. invasion in 1974 still up in the regulatory approval to move Espen Barth Eide told re - air. more than 1 million euros ($1.1 porters that Cypriot President “The fact that the Barbaros million) out of the country, and Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish has left is a positive step. What a traveler’s limit of 10,000 euros Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu is left is for the Navtex not to be per trip. agreed to resume talks after an renewed and for Cyprus’s sov - “The controls that were in April 19 Turkish Cypriot leader - ereign rights not to be disre - place until this week were suffi - ship election, a week after garded,” he said, referring to the ciently loose to have been es - Easter. technical term used to issue a sentially non-binding,” Sofronis Cyprus was divided in 1974 navigation order. Clerides, Associate Professor of when Turkey invaded after a Barbaros, whose presence Economics at the University of coup by supporters of union within Cyprus’s EEZ prompted Cyprus told the news agency. with Greece. Nicosia to suspend peace talks “The Cypriot government has Anastasiades put talks on ice in October, left Famagusta port – quite rightly – made a point last October when Turkey on March 30. of distancing itself from launched a search for gas off the NO BANK RUN Greece,» said Clerides, who said island in waters where the It took more than two years financial ties had been reduced Cypriot government had li - and wiped out a lot of people significantly. censed companies to drill. but Cyprus has ended its strin - “The complete abolition of Turkey doesn’t recognize gent capital controls. capital controls is another step Cyprus and says a unilateral Anastasiades in 2013 or - in that direction. The Cypriot Greek Cypriot search for gas in - dered confiscation of 47.5 per - UN envoy for Cyprus, Norway’s Espen Barth Eide, left, speaks with Cyprus' president Nicos government is taking a calcu - fringes upon the rights of break - cent of accounts of more than Anastasiades during their talks at the Presidential Palace in divided capital Nicosia, April 7. lated gamble that the removal away Turkish Cypriots to min - 100,000 euros in banks, im - of capital controls reduces the eral wealth. posed austerity and set limits on closed, completely emptying the As the controls ended, there “It was just an ordinary day. possibility of contagion from Anastasiades, who had sus - how much people could take bank accounts of depositors was no turmoil or unusual ac - Absolutely nothing out of the Greece should things deteriorate pended unity talks after Turkey out, reneging on campaign who lost everything. tivity. ordinary was noted,” a source there,” he said. sent an energy research vessel promises to satisfy the country’s and warship into the country’s international lenders. waters, welcomed their depar - In return, Cyprus got 10 bil - ture. lion euros from the troika of the But Anastasiades said even European Union-International On The Brink, Greece’s Reform Talks Lag with Troika though the Turkish seismic ves - Monetary Fund-European Cen - sel Barbaros left the island’s ex - tral, although the Laiki Bank ATHENS – With international Technical teams from the not get a 450 million euro pay - day after he said they were be - creditor deadlines missed and troika were in Athens to look ment on April 9, several days ing negotiated. illusory, Greece's coalition gov - over the books again while Eu - after Finance Minister Yanis All that has left EU officials ernment is giving the lenders rozone finance ministry officials Varoufakis told the agency di - puzzled over who's in charge in contradictory signals about were also set to talk about the rector Christine Lagarde in Greece. “It’s up to Greece to what reforms will be pursued Greek proposals but some are Washington that it would. make a move,” a European amid political infighting. scratching their heads over ex - Varoufakis, who had receded Commission official said. The troika of the European actly what's on the table. from the limelight after his com - Kathimerini said Tsipras has Union-International Monetary Tsipiras was elected on Jan. bative stance irritated EU offi - come around to realizing Greece Fund-European Central Bank 25 on a promise to not negotiate cials, is now talking again, call - will go broke without more aid (EU-IMF-ECB) ignored its own with the troika, end austerity ing them The Brussels Group - even if he has to administer re - line in the sand to give Greece and halt privatizations but has even though the IMF is in Wash - forms he vowed to reject. more time to prepare a reforms largely backed away from all of ington, D.C. - after he called Varoufakis told Lagarde that list that must be accomplished that - but now some in his Cab - them The Institutions because Greece intends to hit a primary before the release of a delayed inet are disagreeing with him, he said he wouldn't call them surplus of 1.5 percent of Gross 7.2-billion euro installment. openly, without any action from the Troika. Domestic Product he earlier said Greece, which got a four- him. While Tsipras said he would was unattainable. month bailout extension on Feb. The Eurozone is trying to de - institute the reforms the troika A Greek official said the IMF 20 and has done almost nothing termine if any progress has been wanted he has backed away agreed not to press for more since then, used the new break made in the deal and hopes to from that after backing away pension reforms until after to send the list - and now min - conclude its review by April 24, from his own pledges earlier June, when a four-month isters in the ruling Radical Left which could lead to Greece get - and now said that he will go bailout extension ends, but only AP PHOTO/iVAN SEkrETArEV SYRIZA party of Prime Minister ting at least some of the delayed ahead and rehire hundreds of if the government makes longer- Sergei Naryshkin, right, speaker of the State Duma, lower par - Alexis Tsipras are bickering over aid while the government said fired workers from the defunct term reforms to social security liament chamber, right, welcomes Greek Prime Minister Alexis it and undercutting him at the it's about to go broke otherwise. national broadcaster ERT even after that. Tsipras in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 9. same time. Tsipras claimed the the talks though a replacement station in On privatizations, the gov - While Tsipras and some of are “developing and maturing,” on the air - staffed by fired ernment wants to keep a 20-30 his advisors are saying one thing but statements by many of workers from ERT. percent stake in what it sells off to the troika, a number of his Tsipras’s ministers, and legisla - Government spokesman and is seeking sales that will at - In Meeting with Tsipras, ministers and officials are dis - tive initiatives contradict him. Gavriil Sakellaridis also said tract investments, along the puting that to say something Labor Minister Panos Sk - there would be no Value Added lines of Cosco’s entry into Pi - Putin Offers Energy Help else. ourletis said the that IMF might Tax hikes on Aegean islands, a raeus.

Continued from page 1 posed crippling economic sanc - tions on Russia over its annexa - politics is in line. tion of Ukraine’s Crimean Penin - His trip may clarify whether sula and support for an he views his relationship with insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Russia as a potential bargaining Moscow retaliated by banning chip, or whether he simply aims most Western food imports, to enhance Greece’s interna - which hurt Greek agricultural tional relations and deepen the exports. two countries’ traditionally Moscow hopes talks with warm ties. Tsipras will help further weaken “It’s a move clearly of high the EU’s resolve to maintain the symbolism on the part of sanctions against Russia, said Greece,” said Constantinos Filis, Sergei Oznobishchev, head of research director at the Institute Russia’s independent Institute of of International Relations. “From Strategic Assessment. there on, one must see what the “We see a group of countries substance is and whether there ... which are against the prolon - will be any substance.” gation of sanctions against Rus - He noted, however, that “Rus - sia, and Greece is among them,” President John S. Sargetis sia is not and cannot be a (EU) Oznobishchev said. “Now it’s substitute for Greece, it can only time to move further. For the be a supplementary option.” Russian side, this is one more and the National Board Russia, whose own economy possibility to raise (the issue of) is struggling, could only offer sanctions, to make the European limited financial help to Greece. Union less strong and to acquire of the But Tsipras has been cultivat - some economic privileges.” ing the impression that Athens But analysts warn Tsipras is might see Moscow as a potential playing a dangerous game, par - means of pressure in its current ticularly if the tough talk reflects Pancretan Association of America negotiations. actual intentions rather than “Greece lost a large part of just rhetoric aimed at a domestic its economic power in the last 4 audience. Cordially Wish ½, 5 years,” Tsipras said April 6 “If Greece goes to Moscow in an unrelated Parliamentary with the logic of showing, as the debate. But, he added, “it is a prime minister said, to its cred - sovereign country that partners itors that it cannot be black - a Blessed Easter and creditors cannot play with. mailed, and it attempts itself to You will see that, and the part - blackmail its partners through ners and creditors will see that.” the so-called deepening of its re - Tough talk, particularly in re - lations with Russia, then I fear to All Members, Friends and their Families lation to Greece’s creditors, has this will be a very strong blow made Tsipras’ popularity soar at to the confidence of our part - home, with many Greeks saying ners toward us,” said Filis. they have regained a sense of Tsipras is opposed to the EU lost national pride. sanctions put on Russia for its And Greece is seeking any fi - part in backing violent sepa - nancial leverage it can get. En - ratists in Ukraine. That moved www.pancretan.org b ergy Minister Panagiotis Lafaza - Putin enough to suggest that a nis returned last week from his retaliatory Russian sanction on own Moscow trip with pledges EU foodstuffs might be lifted in to deepen energy cooperation Greece’s case as the two coun - a and hopes that an embargo on tries otherwise have close ties. Greek fruit imports to Russia might be lifted. (Material from the Associated The U.S. and EU have im - Press was used in this report) Greek Prison Shut after Riots

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Au - temporarily detained. thorities say two policemen Tuesday night's clashes saw were injured and nine people dozens of youths throwing were arrested during a night of petrol bombs and stones at po - clashes between rioting youths lice, who responded with tear and police in central Athens af - gas. At least two cars were ter a demonstration by hun - burnt. dreds of anarchists calling for Anarchists want authorities the closure of a maximum-secu - to close a prison where many

rity prison. convicted militant anarchists are 3 8

Police said Wednesday the held — and have continued 4 / arrests were made on charges their protests despite pledges to 7 3 including attempted grievous do so from the new radical left- 6 3 bodily harm, arson and vandal - led government elected in Jan - ism. A further 21 people were uary. 14 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 11-17, 2015

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We hope and pray that the government of Prime Minister U.S., Iran, and National Security: We are Blowing it Again Alexis Tsipras knows more than we do about Greece’s situation. Otherwise, we fear that without warning, we will wake up one morning and Greece will be found outside the Eurozone. By Constantinos E. Scaros was our golden opportunity, once less likely than other options. lives of about 80 million people, There is a strange, maddening lull in the government's actions. again, to disarm the world. Not In one episode of the HBO hit most of them wonderful, peace- They behave as if nothing serious is going on even though – lit - One of the things that makes so that we could take it over, but series The Sopranos, named after loving, and just as opposed to erally – the country's very future is at stake. America exceptional is that it is so in order never again to be a fictional organized crime family their oppressive leaders as we We doubt if anyone – except maybe the prime minister – is the only country in history that threatened by a nuclear weapon. from New Jersey, one gangster, are. losing any sleep about what the next day will bring. Indeed, ever had a clear chance to control It would not have been easy, but Christopher, hired two outsiders Nuclear war should only be a some ministers speak in language taken from the chapters of the entire world, and effectively we could have done it. But we to kill a rival mobster. Later, fam - truly last resort. And we are – books written two centuries ago or more – and are proud of it. said “no thank you.” didn’t. ily boss Tony Soprano, who thankfully – not at that point. But It is almost surreal. The country is bankrupt and yet it appears In 1945, we forced Japan to We allowed terrorists to planned the hit, changed his unless President Obama’s deal to be under a peculiar ideological occupation by forces from a surrender, after warning it that sprout all over the world, virtu - mind about it, and told Christo - falls into that “make sure” cate - bygone era and their discredited ideas. Furthermore, they insist we had developed a weapon so ally unchallenged, and even now pher to “make sure” the two hit - gory, then it is simply not good that the problems are caused by what they are being asked to devastating that it would kill its continue to sit by idly as Vladimir men would never talk. “They’ll enough. implement and not by their ideology. people by the hundreds of thou - Putin tries to reconstruct the Iron be quiet,” Christopher assured. And it’s not just Iran. It is ISIS, In the cacophony of declarations and statements from different sands at a time. They called our Curtain. And now, our president But Tony repeated: “Make sure.” Putin, al-Qaeda, North Korea, etc. members of the same party and the same government, which bluff, twice, until they finally re - is making a deal with Iran, which Christopher got the message, and We wasted one opportunity to en - seems as if the right hand does not know what the left one is do - lented. he says is a better option to pre - had them both killed. sure our safety in perpetuity. Let’s ing, and amid a peaking international fear that the money has At that point, if we wanted to vent that country from obtaining We, too, need to “make sure” not waste a second one. run out, the defiant finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis launched – and thank God, we didn’t want a nuclear weapon than if we did Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Because if the day comes – a lightning trip to Washington for an “informal” meeting with to – we could have issued the fol - nothing, or if we bombed their Period. and may it never come – when the leadership of the IMF and American officials who handle in - lowing ultimatum to every nation nuclear facilities. It may be a bet - All out nuclear war against terrorists are dropping bombs in ternational economic issues. on earth: either become our sub - ter option, but it is not the best them would be one way to ensure New York, Boston, LA, Philadel - This was just another opportunity for Varoufakis to poke the jects or we will blow you one. that. I am not suggesting we do phia, and Chicago, downing sky - Europeans in the eye. smithereens. So, what would the best op - that; I am merely citing it as an scrapers by the dozen and killing In essence, the government is apparently seeking two things: Surely, some would counter: tion be? I am not sure of the example of “making sure.” If civilians by the thousands as if first, the support of the IMF, which is controlled by the U.S. gov - “calling America ‘exceptional’ for specifics, and probably neither is there are no Iranians left, then it’s a video game, an action/ad - ernment – it is important that Varoufakis is also meeting with not taking over the world is like anyone else. But whatever that certainly they cannot develop the venture thriller, or just a very bad technical experts – and second, to carry the message to the U.S. calling a parent exceptional for option is, it must be one that en - bomb. dream, then we are going to wish that it should not worry about Tsipras’ impending visit to Moscow. not killing his/her young and sures Iran won’t get nukes. En - Naturally, that decision would we had “made sure” when we still Regarding the first point, it would be better if he had brought thereby physically defenseless sures, not merely calculates it is be barbaric, as it would take the had the chance. a general with him, considering that the United States is mainly children.” Good point, insofar as interested in the geopolitical side of Greece. exercising common decency Germany is the one that handles the financial end of things. should not render one excep - As for Tsipras’ visit to Moscow, we do not think anyone believes tional. Except that whereas with that Greece will change alliances, even if Moscow wants that – extremely rare exception, parents UNESCO’s Evasiveness about Hagia Sophia which it doesn’t. would not kill their children, the Nevertheless, this visit causes a new disturbance, another same cannot be said of world sticking point in relations with Brussels, and is further proof of powers vis-à-vis weaker coun - Continued from page 1 Syria that nothing should be ently, criticizing governments how difficult the intraparty forces are that are compelling the tries. Therefore, if America is not done about Hagia Sophia. who destroy cultural monuments prime minister to try an old-fashioned and obvious maneuver to “exceptional” by the standards of could not "discuss with me." She Sensing that this Chief was los - is "politics." pacify them. humanity, it is, at least, by the made some brief comments about ing patience with me, I decided She asked why I was taking But all of these are meaningless, and merely create the illusion measure of superpower savagery. "universal values" and other irrel - to proceed with the relevant notes, and I said I would like to of calm before the storm. So, again, thank goodness we evant statements. points I wanted to make. I write a book about Hagia Sophia were not savages. We did not I pointed out that Turkey has pointed out that Hagia Sophia's and I wanted UNESCO's position. take advantage of our nuclear su - already converted two other origins had nothing to do with I said flat out Hagia Sophia was The Iran Deal periority and overtake the planet. Churches also named Hagia UNESCO's "universal values." Ha - doomed because UNESCO would But we blew a golden opportu - Sophia in Trebizond and Nicea gia Sophia, I said was the product not speak up. At that point, I nity: to channel our strength (Iznik) but this did not seem to of the asked for her name and card, Even before President Obama concluded his address in the wisely in order to prevent anyone interest the Chief. She affirmed Gospel, revelation, and Ortho - which she refused to give. I po - White House’s Rose Garden, regarding the proposed agreement else from developing the big what one spokesperson from the dox theology. I pointed out I was litely thanked her for her time between the United States and Iran, his political opponents had bomb. That is where we blew it New York office previously had of Greek descent and that the and left, but before leaving I men - already condemned it. the first time. told me that sovereign countries Greeks who took refuge during tioned the Christian Armenians, But such condemnation is not deserved. The deal is worth en - If a barroom brawl breaks out can do as they like with their the conquest of Constantinople in Assyrians, and Greeks and their dorsing, and putting to the test. and you pull out your gun and monuments. At one point I asked 1453 were either slaughtered or fates. Granted, America and its allies did not gain total and uncon - fire a warning shot in the air, your if UNESCO does any work within taken away into slavery. I also It is not often that one gets the ditional concessions from Iran. That typically happens after an next command should be: “every - Hagia Sophia, and she responded mentioned that Justinian, who opportunity to put forward the opponent’s military defeat and surrender – which is not the case one, down on the floor, face in the affirmative. built Hagia Sophia, is a Greek Or - national and theological claims here. down, arms and legs spread wide Apparently, all monuments thodox Saint and that the rightful to Hagia Sophia on behalf of Hel - As the president explained, the agreement “would cut off apart. Then, have everyone supposedly "protected" by UN - heirs to Hagia Sophia are the lenism and Orthodoxy before every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon.” searched for weapons and con - ESCO are put on the list by gov - Greek inhabitants of Constantino - such a prominent official, but they Surely, he did not agree to this deal based on trust alone – he is fiscate any you find. That way, ernments and if said governments ple, who live in miserable condi - were things that needed to be not a fool, after all. Quite to the contrary, he described it as the no one else has the chance to pull want to destroy or convert his - tions today. said. On my return to the United “most robust and intrusive inspections and transparency…ever out a gun, too. torical monuments then this is ap - The UNESCO Chief responded States, I learned that an exhibit negotiated for any nuclear program in history.” It was that advantage, on the parently fine and well with UN - by saying she would not discuss based on photographs of the The U.S. and Iran have been rivals ever since the seizure of world stage, that the U.S. squan - ESCO. On the other hand, the "politics." I asked if Turkish influ - Turkish invasion of Cyprus origi - the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, under the regime of the Ayatollah dered. The Soviet Union got the Chief did =mention the destruc - ence had anything to do with UN - nally scheduled to be shown at Khomeini, which held 54 Americans hostage for 444 days. bomb, too, and our brief respite tion of cultural monuments in ESCO's silence and again she dis - UNESCO headquarters was can - But this cannot continue. Iran is a large country that has from national security threats ex - Iraq and Syria and pointed out missed the question. My last celled as a result of Turkish pres - caused – and continues to cause – many problems for us. If, in pired. how nothing can be done there. question was to ask what UN - sure. But that, I guess, somehow fact, it is willing to change, and demonstrates that through ac - Amazingly, thanks mostly to UNESCO has in fact condemned ESCO was doing about the de - is not politics. tions, not must words, then it should be allowed to return to the Ronald Reagan but also to other the destruction in those countries struction of the cultural monu - family of nations. factors, the Soviet Union col - to its credit. I pointed out that ments in Cyprus, and she again Theodore G. Karakostas is author The United States has a longstanding tradition of talking to lapsed in 1991. As the world’s just because nothing can be done said she would not discuss any - of the book In the Shadow of its rivals within the context of a practical strategy. Accordingly, only remaining superpower, that in Iraq and thing to do with "politics." Appar - Hagia Sophia. the constant demonization of Iran does not do us any good. This agreement should be given a chance. And if Iran does not comply, then, as the president said, the economic sanctions Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris “can be snapped back into place.” The harsh attacks against President Obama will come from both home and abroad. Only with the support of all of us will he Thank You, Colleagues station MEGA of Cyprus, which devoted a – who guard Thermopylae. be able to withstand it, and will the agreement endure. long segment – five minutes – to us, in an And it is not just today 's colleagues who I received many congratulatory calls and interview with me, during their lunchtime express the love and pride for the newspa - emails for the 100th anniversary of our Na - program. And to HuffPost Greece for a very per. Ms. Popi Ragouzeos, who was respon - Older than the Herald tional Herald. substantial tribute to our anniversary, as sible for years for the critical Classified de - There were messages from everywhere well as to the Athens News Agency for the partment, sent me the following email from (the power of the internet!). eloquent and lengthy presentation of the Limassol, Cyprus: “Dear Mr. Diamataris. It In the midst of a busy-as-always workweek, we took some Greetings from politicians flowed in, Anniversary by Panikos Panayiotou. is with great emotion that I write these lines time on April 2nd to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our sister such as from Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister But today I want to express my admira - today on the 100th anniversary of the publication, Ethnikos Kyrix - National Herald. The Kyrix is not of Greece. It was a message of substance, tion to my colleagues in New York, Boston, founding of our beloved newspaper, Na - only the community’s oldest publication, but also the oldest for - not like the usual messages politicians send. Athens, Nicosia, and Tripolis, who have ded - tional Herald-Ethnikos Kyrix. I wish you eign language newspaper printed in the United States. A hundred I also heard from former Prime Minister icated their careers to the newspaper and, good health and happiness and even greater years is a very long time, indeed. Constantine Mitsotakis, who said he has by extension, to our Community, and to the success!” But this week, we pay tribute to some who are even older been reading the Herald for decades. He homeland. And Stavros Marmarinos wrote me from than the Herald – not newspapers, but people. said: “you should be proud of what you It is a group of people – more than fifty Florida, to which he moved a few years ago, On April 1, the world’s oldest person, Misao Okawa of Japan, have accomplished, for your priceless, self - – with rare talent, character, ethics, and a but who continues his long and exemplary passed away at 117, thereby relinquishing that distinction to less service, in the Greek-American commu - dedication to their mission which is truly service with the newspaper as a correspon - Gertrude Weaver of Arkansas, age 116. Fully aware that she had nity, that special portion of Hellenism, in impressive. dent: “Antoni, I feel proud because I expe - become the world’s oldest, Weaver suddenly got sick on April 4, Greece, and in the U.S. You deserve con - They do not have 9-to-5 jobs. Nor do rienced ‘from inside’ a large part of the his - and died on April 6. gratulations.” they only work merely five days a week. tory of this 100-year-old newspaper that we The title now shifts to 115-year-old Jeralean Talley of Michi - Former Prime Ministers Kostas Karaman - Neither is the environment a tranquil one. loved and all continue to love. gan. She bowled until she was 104 and went fishing until 113. lis and Antonis Samaras also sent warm The pressure of meeting deadlines is ex - “I lived, dreamed, prospered, cried, and And she lives by the Golden Rule. wishes. A message from Vice President Joe hausting. learned in that place. I became a better per - Also worthy of mention is Richard Overton of Texas, who at Biden will be published in a forthcoming And their compensation is not propor - son there. I never regretted it. And I never 107 is America’s oldest veteran. He still smokes cigars, drinks special issue. I thank them all. tionate to their contributions. forget the wearying but oh-so-sweet hunt whiskey, drives his truck, does yardwork, and on April 5 served I particularly thank our readers, known So, it is mainly their love for the news - for information every morning. as Grand Marshal in Austin’s Veterans Day Parade. and unknown, who took the time to wish paper, the feeling of obligation to the com - “Happy Birthday to our National Herald, May they live to be a thousand! us “a thousand years.” munity, that drives them. and may you be blessed to guide it for as Thanks are also owed to the television They are the people – men and women many more years as God shall bless you.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 11-17, 2015 VIEWPOINTS 15 The Iranian Nuclear Threat Pascha is Hellenism’s Holy and Inexplicable Intoxication

And Greek-Israeli Relations If you want to understand the the Resurrection! thrice-holy and in - Hellenic way. The strict fasting Greek soul within the defining As Papadiaman - explicable intoxica - gives way to a sumptuous feast concept of the Hellenic Ortho - tis explains “The tion! The Greek featuring the traditional roasted By Benjamin Weinthal dox worldview, your first order Church takes off its people feel this no - lamb (reminding us of Jesus’ Special to The National Herald of business is to read (and con - mourning clothes ble intoxication in sacrifice). Similarly, there are the tinuously reread) Alexandros Pa - and dons a radiant their hearts more dyed eggs symbolizing Christ’s Two items in the March 7 is - padiamantis and Ioannis white outfit, as if than any other peo - blood, but also the miraculous sue of The National Herald, an Makryiannis, for if there was a the radiant white ple. For them, no change in color of the eggs upon editorial, “Netanyahu’s Pyrrhic way to circumscribe Romanity, light of the angel other Christian the announcement of the Resur - Victory” and an opinion piece, it would certainly be through who rolled away feast holds the rection by Mary Magdelene to “A National Disgrace: Boehner their writing. It’s hard to imagine the boulder from place of the feast of Caesar Tiberius. Meanwhile, the Undermines the President,” take Christmas or Pascha – the “me - the tomb shined Pascha.” ecclesiastical melodies magnify - sharp aim at Israeli Prime Min - tropolis of feasts” and the “feast upon it. The light - by Christopher This is a truth ing the feast are accompanied ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s of feasts,” respectively – without less depths, the TRIPOULAS that remains stead - by singing and dancing in the March 3 address to a joint ses - Papadiamantis’ stories. Espe - dark vaults of the Special to fast. The unrivaled households and communities sion of Congress. cially today, when the poly - Christian churches The National Herald poetry comes to life celebrating the feast of feasts. The objections outlined in headed hydra of commercializa - shine brightly as on throughout Holy “The Pascha of the Greeks rises the National Herald to Ne - tion and materialism has the day of the unwaning light, Week and reaches a crescendo and sets in the boisterous out - tanyahu’s speech center on infiltrated every aspect of our the cool fragrant flowers which of emotion and devotion with pouring and superlative delight House Speaker John Boehner’s lives, sparing not even our reli - were taken from the meadows the Lydian (2nd Tone) and Phry - of the people, who still have circumvention of protocol. gious institutions, the impor - and the gardens to decorate the gian (3rd Tone) harmonies that drops of blood in their veins Boehner reportedly failed to in - raeli relationship at Israel’s Bar- tance of tranquility to genuinely Savior’s burial cloth retain their comprise the Canon of Holy Fri - from our wild and unruly fathers form President Barack Obama Ilan University’s BESA Center on celebrate these feasts becomes delicate grace and the traces of day and the Lamentations (En - who were lulled by the love of prior to inviting Netanyahu. March 10, The Jerusalem Post paramount. their worldly allure in the at - comia), only to burst into exu - liberty… Spring, as another Sadly, the bickering about eti - reported. Discussing Greece’s Papadiamantis says it best mosphere of the church that is berance celebrating the myrrh-bearer – a sister of Mary quette has been exploited to ob - left-wing government, he said, when he writes “each year, as cloudy with incense. And the Resurrection of Christ in Hy - Magdalene – proclaims through scure discussion of something “The core relationship will con - one gets older, he is overcome Church sends its Paschal wish podorian (1st Plagal) har - a thousand voices that ‘it has far more substantial: the danger tinue, amid an agreement to dis - by the desire to spend these days on this day in a language other monies! Nature participates fully seen the Lord.’ Come, let us exit that Iran’s drive to obtain nu - agree on the Palestinian issue.” in a small, miniscule village, at - than the usual; a language filled in the services (hence the added the dark vaults of the church, clear weapons poses to Israel, Tziampiris delineated the ele - tending holiday services in a with childlike, we would say, benefit of celebrating Pascha which do not allow our joy to Greece, the United States, and ments of the core relationship small rural chapel, with a ven - frolicking and allowance. It in - away from the city), with the explode uncontrollably. Come, the entire international commu - as tourism, commerce, and mil - erable priest, who is meek and vites everyone – those present blossoming trees bending their let us praise the Lord under the nity. itary and security cooperation. virtuous, and a chanter with a and absent, those who fasted branches to pay homage to the sapphirine and star spangled Whether or not there was an Tziampiris’ comments seem modest but sweet voice – in or - and those who did not, believers Epitaphios during the litany and vault of heaven and receive the Israeli election on March 17, Ne - to be buttressed by reports from der to experience all the poetry and non-believers, those clothed filling the air with fragrance as unwaning light, awaiting the tanyahu would have delivered a February conference at an and beauty of the holidays, glo - in a wedding garment and those the faithful gather to bear wit - first smiles of the saffron-robed a talk on Iran’s eliminatory anti- Athens military college. Accord - rify Christ, and celebrate Pascha wearing street clothes – to the ness to the Resurrection. Dawn,” writes Papadiamantis. Semitism. Israeli leaders cannot ing to Haaretz, 80 leading Greek with his loved ones, perhaps grand banquet of the Resurrec - And our entire life bears wit - “At this moment, Christ is pooh-pooh the murderous jin - military officers listened to an even becoming worthy of the tion. O, intoxication of the Bride ness to this testimony, which is Risen ‘granting to those in the goism stemming from Tehran. Israeli journalists deliver a talk continuous heavenly Pascha, in upon finding the Bridegroom; o, done most symbolically, as is the tombs life everlasting.’ May He Iran’s clerical leaders have, on the Middle East. A Greek mil - the unwaning day of the King - grant to us in the world, life time after time, called to anni - itary colonel asked “whether dom of our Lord Jesus Christ.” from life! Christ is Risen! Let us hilate Israel. Supreme Leader Ali Greece could replace Turkey as One of the marks of a great gather around the lamb roasting Khamenei declared: “The Zion - Israel’s closest friend.” A second piece of writing is its timeless - on the spit and accompany its ist regime is a cancerous tumor officer questioned whether in - ness, and if the “Alexander the roasting, skillfully spun over the and it will be removed.” Former tensified Greek-Israeli relations Great” of Greek literature was coals, by the clatter of fireworks. President Ali Akbar Hashemi are “genuine or a temporary right about this back in the 19th May gunpowder serve as the Rafsanjani said: “Application of substitute until relations be - century, it rings even truer in the symbol of the Resurrection and an atomic bomb would not tween Israel and Turkey are re - 21st century, when the danger kissing as the symbol of Love. leave anything in Israel, but the vived.” of turning these beautiful mys - We cannot conceive of the radi - same thing would just produce A litmus test for the Greek- teries into a publicity event ance of the Resurrection without damages in the Muslim world.” Israeli security relationship, looms larger by the day. the sound of the muzzleloader. The current president, Has - from the perspective of the Jew - However, as a culture where And love without a kiss is like a san Rouhani, is in the so-called ish state, will be how to confront tradition takes precedence and flower without fragrance. This moderate camp of Rafsanjani. Iran and its strategic partners safeguards the values and con - is how the Greek people wel - In 2013, Rouhani left no doubt Hamas and Hezbollah. Greece’s cepts that self-actualize its peo - come and conceive of Pascha. about his aspirations: “Saying neighbor Bulgaria was hit by a ple, Hellenism/Romanity knows When the Greek people say the ‘Death to America’ is easy. We Hezbollah-Iran terrorist attack how best to magnify the mo - word Resurrection, a secret need to express ‘Death to Amer - in 2012. Hezbollah operatives ment, while keeping its sanctity chord is struck in the depths of ica’ with action.” blew up a tourist bus in the intact. Ours is a culture of hu - their heart, reminding them of All of this helps to show that Black Sea resort town of Burgas, manism that is ever cognizant the resurrection of the Nation, Iran – the leading state-sponsor killing five Israelis and their Bul - of man and his environment, and Christ and the Homeland of terrorism, according to the garian Muslim bus driver. while at the same time embrac - meet together having suffered U.S. State Department – poses Thirty-two other Israelis were ing as its Savior the God-man, equally and being equally di - the gravest threat to interna - seriously wounded. who bound the lesser to the vine.” tional security today. The rise of an authoritarian greater through His two natures, Christos Anesti! The Obama administration and increasingly Islamized which exist in one person – has continued to keep the de - Turkey will also present security thanks to which we too can par - Follow me on Twitter tails of its concessions to Tehran challenges to Greece and Israel. ticipate in the light and joy of Alexandros Papadiamantis @CTripoulas under wraps. The effects of Ne - It is also worth noting that tanyahu’s speech coupled with Qatar remains a key financial 47 Republican senators warning supporter of Hamas and of ji - Iran’s leaders that a flawed nu - hadists in the Syrian and Iraqi LETTER FROM ATHENS clear agreement can be over - war theaters. The non-democ - turned after Obama leaves office ratic Qatari regime has played are now obvious. Secretary of a key role in destabilizing the State John Kerry was compelled Middle East. SYRIZA Amateurs: the Gang That Can’t Govern Straight to admit that a nuclear agree - Back to Iran: The Islamic Re - ment with Iran would be “non- public’s revolutionary ideology binding” on the United States. mirrors the ideology of the At least members of the would impose re - due the IMF, Alter - put them in erector sets or the Obama famously said of his Hitler movement. Iran’s clerical Coalition of the Looney Left forms and pay the nate Finance Min - spare parts IKEA leaves out government, “This is the most rulers support jihadist organiza - SYRIZA gang misruling Greece country’s debt – ister Dimitris Mar - when you’re trying to put the transparent administration in tions such as Hezbollah and can say they don’t belong to an only to turn around das came out and furniture together. history.” Yet the full text of the Hamas, whose raison d'être is organized political party, given say now he won’t, said, “we strive to SYRIZA ministers are run - 2013 interim agreement (the to murder Jews and obliterate that it’s acting like a many- or will, depending be able to pay our ning around like they’re in a JPOA), meant to curb Iran’s Israel. Iran’s Khomeini system – headed Hydra. on what day you obligations on Chinese fire drill, undercutting work on its illicit nuclear like prior fascist regimes in Eu - Where’s Alexander Haig catch him and in time.” their leader and themselves and weapons program in exchange rope that sought to devour ter - when you need him? Those wild what kind of mood Then Economy would ruin their principles ex - for relief from economic sanc - ritory –seeks to control Syria, and crazy SYRIZA guys and gals he’s in. Minister Giorgos cept they don’t have any, beyond tions, was not made public. Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq. must have swell pot parties or And if he doesn’t Stathakis undercut despising government while try - Obama’s decision to shroud his The March 15 remembrance maybe the marijuana’s gone to give you an answer his own Finance ing to lead one. negotiations with Iran in secrecy of the deportations of Thessa - their heads too much because it you like, just walk by ANDY Minister and repu - After anarchist sympathizers has triggered anxiety among loniki Jews to the Nazi extermi - looks like no one’s in charge of on down the hall DABILIS diated Varoufakis. stormed into the Parliament America’s allies in the region, nation camps can serve to illus - the motley crew of Stalinists, and talk to another WHO’S ON courtyard, they were denounced including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, trate the modernized threats Maoists, Leninists, Trotksyites, minister until you Special to FIRST? by Citizens Protection Minister and other Gulf monarchies. Israel faces. More than 53,000 Anarchists, Communists and the find one who does The National Herald That came after Yiannis Panousis, who wrote a The alternative to a bad deal Thessaloniki Jews from a com - rest of the –ists. because apparently German magazine newspaper column ripping his with Iran is not war, as the munity of 56,000 were mur - That includes Prime Minister no one in the party or Cabinet Der Spiegel quoted Finance own party and, by implication, Obama Administration con - dered in Auschwitz. The same Alexis “Che” Tsipras, who can’t is listening to him or following Ministry General Secretary Tsipras, who apparently doesn’t tends, but rather a “good deal,” lethal anti-Semitism that ani - keep his people in line or from his orders as they’re busy setting Nikos Theocharakis as saying care his own people mock him. to quote Netanyahu. Economic mated the Nazis to murder shooting themselves and each policy themselves, even if that Greece would probably not pay Panousis said that many in sanctions brought Iran to the ne - Greek Jews is now embedded in other in the foot while talking doesn’t come under their juris - the IMF only to have the min - SYRIZA “think a leftist govern - gotiating table. New robust radical Islam. In addition to the out of both sides of their mouths diction. istry issue a statement saying he ment means a defenseless coun - sanctions could secure more 2,000 Greek Jews who this year at the same time and contradict - His Defense Minister, Panos denied what he said, too much try and city,” and ripped at concessions from Iran’s leaders. commemorated the first step of ing each other over what gov - Kammenos, who brought his even for Abbot and Costello to “purists of the left who call any - Greece’s government signed the Holocaust in Greece, more ernment policy is. fruitcake Dependent Greeks understand and would have had one who doesn’t please them ‘a on to the European Union’s than 200 Syriza supporters par - The government is firing off (ANEL) into the government, the Marx Brothers reeling and fascist.’” tough energy sanctions target - ticipated in the event. so many mixed messages it has caught the same affliction adding it to their insane dia - But the biggest division came ing Iran in 2012.The renais - Surely SYRIZA, with its anti- looks like a swinger’s wife-swap - because he’s been busy running logue. between Tsipras and Energy sance in Greek-Israeli relations fascist traditions, should be able ping party where someone around setting energy policy Syrizans pride themselves on Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, began in 2009. One decisive to fathom the murderous anti- mixed up all the keys. It starts and foreign policy too. thriving on dissent, discord and who defied him outright and re - moment in the Greek-Israel re - Semitism of the Nazis and its with Tsipras himself, who was You have Finance Minister many voices quibbling and fused to go ahead with privati - lationship was Greece blocking mirror image in radical ji - elected on a promise to end aus - Yanis “Die Easy” Varoufakis first squabbling and bickering at the zations that the Premier vowed in 2011 an anti-Israel protest hadism, from Iran to Islamic terity and stand up to the troika saying Greece won’t pay its debt same time but that’s not leader - to halt in their tracks only to re - flotilla intended to break the le - State to al-Qaeda. The pressing of the European Union-Interna - nor talk to the Troika – which ship: it’s anarchy, which is, of lent to Troika pressure to say gal blockade of the Hamas-ruled question is, will Greece’s gov - tional Monetary Fund-European he called The Institutions, then course what it wants and is fine they would go ahead. Gaza Strip. Radical Turkish Is - ernment translate its rejection Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) changed his mind and said it at the Che Guevara Coffee - What’s happening inside lamists sent a flotilla to Gaza in of the Iranian nuclear threat— that rashly wants to be repaid was The Brussels Group even house, but it doesn’t work run - SYRIZA isn’t discord or dissent 2010, resulting in Israeli naval and the proliferation of jihadist the 240 billion euros ($272.5 though the IMF is in Washington ning private business or govern - or healthy debate, it’s outright commandoes intercepting the groups—into a sustainable anti- billion) it lent a bankrupt coun - – only to say that he would talk ment in in real life. defiance at the expense of the Mavi Marmara ship and the terrorism policy as part of Is - try. to them and that Greece would If SYRIZA were to build a country they purport to love al - deaths of 10 Turks. Iran’s mili - rael-Greek relations? SYRIZA being SYRIZA, it pay its debt, both challenging horse, it would come out look - though for these types Greece tary support for the U.S.-desig - doesn’t want to pay, wants more and mirroring his Prime Minis - ing like a camel, and the dis - might as well be Venezuela or nated terrorist entity Hamas is Benjamin Weinthal reports on money and doesn’t want to im - ter. jointed chaos that comprises the Cuba or China or Marxist rule, well-known. European affairs for The pose any of reforms it stood up After it was reported that party is the epitome of what it because that’s what they want University of Piraeus Prof. Jerusalem Post and is a fellow against previously. Or maybe many in SYRIZA said the gov - means about trying to herd wild it to be. Next stop: The Twilight Aristotle Tziampiris, an expert at the Foundation for Defense previously because Tsipras took ernment would rather pay pen - cats because these people are Zone. on Hellenic-Israel ties, attended of Democracies. Follow him on office on a platform of reversing sioners and workers even if it out there past Pluto. They have a symposium on the Greek-Is - Twitter @BenWeinthal. austerity, then told the troika he meant defaulting on a payment so many screws loose you could [email protected] 16 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 11-17, 2015

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