The brash girl from the big city and the soft-spoken lawyer from the rural Midwest clicked, unexpectedly. Lee Heh could get only a student visa, and she was the youngest student ever to get one. Eventually, the adoption went through. Someone asks if I can do something, and I usually figure out a way to do it, so I usually say yes. ", Candidate Mezvinsky, milking the Year of the Woman to the max, touts what she privately calls "my crazy family" as the essence of family values and rages at those "trying to preach to me about what a family is.". And I met this little girl who shook my hand and said 'how do you do'.'. When Albright and Margolies stop posing for pictures with donors, Margolies, now 71, and impeccable in pearls and an elegant floral jacket, takes the mic and explains why shes running. You would feel used.. Danger lurks when a nations military deterrence fades. She was a terror, but fabulous. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Son #3 and I decided to take a cab to Rechaviah, a Jerusalem neighborhood vastly different from the one where my Son #2 and DIL #2 live. There are days when she threatens to turn the Year of the Woman into the Year of the Jewish Mother, running an underdog campaign against a career pol that's as heavy on hugs and kisses as on political strategy. "And a lot of those feelings she put in jars, figuratively speaking, and left them there.". A group of women came to me and asked me to run. She thought about it, calculated the odds of winning but I always told my kids that you cant win if you arent prepared to lose and decided to try, although I had to give up a job that I really liked, she said. When Chelsea and Marc got married in 2010, it seemed almost arranged, a dynastic American political marriage in the tradition of Nixons daughter marrying Eisenhowers grandson (another buddy of Margies, by the way). The winter after the vote, she and the family were invited for the first time to the intellectual house party that was the famous annual Renaissance Weekend in Hilton Head, S.C., a New Years ritual for the first family. 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'What better thing is there to pour money into but children. ". People like comeback stories., Her son Marc apparently disagrees. Margolies, an Emmy-winning TV journalist, the first unmarried American woman to be permitted to adopt foreign children, and an author is now the founder and president of Women's Campaign International. It turned out a solid portion of the familys moneythey owned a 15-room mansion in Narberth, Pa.belonged to other people. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and did graduate work at Columbia. Why do you want to do this, Mom? she says, paraphrasing him, Why do you want to open us up again? (Marc Mezvinsky did not respond to a request for comment.). 'When people ask, 'which ones are your real children?' She went to Brown, shes married; she has three kids. When Margolies was elected to the House in 1992, she was in her early 50s, and her last name was Margolies-Mezvinsky. We have a huge house, she confirmed. She was a pickpocket, she smoked. And she was just impossible. She feels out of touch with her mother (they haven't talked since last night). While handing out campaign literature last weekend, he said: "My other mother is Vietnamese and very conservative. Especially in our out-of-control entitlements programs. Then the president called. Susan King, WJLA commentator and anchor, recalls meeting Mezvinsky in the 1970s when both were assigned to a stakeout. During his trial, it came out that he had tried to woo investors by touting Chelseas relationship with his son. They knew that not only did I want to do the story, but I wanted to adopt. First single US woman to adopt internationally shares her journey. Its hard to sum up Ms. Margolies life. The bride, formerly on the NBC News staff here, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Margolies of Phila. She was kind, the nurse said. Lee Heh could get only a student visa, "and she was the youngest student ever to get one." Eventually, the adoption went . Some are parents; she has 21 grandchildren so far. And she was hilarious. Well, its the anniversary of when I moved into my house (along with Husband #1 and Sons #1 and 2) and it became our home. "When she wanted something, she would get it - but then she would share.". Not that living in Washington three nights a week stopped her from breast-feeding the two boys. Getting her was tough going through the adoption agencies, which can even make it nearly impossible for married couples. delphia, where her father retired as a purchasing agent for the RCA Corporation. That, broadly speaking, is the professional side of her life. A memorial service will be Sunday, June 5, in the Amado Recital Hall in the Irvine Auditorium at 3401 Spruce St. on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of Motherhood., Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories You get the check, but its not the right amount. Timeless Lessons From the Front Lines of Motherhood.". Three years later, Margolies drew on that experience to found Womens Campaign International, a globe-trotting nonprofit she still leads today. Another friend, Nancy Chasen, says that they were just best best best friends.) However close Chelsea and Marc were, Ed Mezvinsky tried to use their bond to his advantage. She asks a lot. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ Seller: KINARD, DAVID M. & ELIZABETH F. 221 NO. My dad would have loved this particular Danish, and I really hope that wherever he is, he is able to enjoy her as much as I am. Ms. Margolies also writes about grief, and coping with it, in her new book. But the fundraisers VIP cachet is representative less of Margoliess political potency than of her connections. "And it was fun. After Holly died, Margolies, tying up loose ends, called the hospice service that had cared for her daughter in her last days. Margolies was booted in 1994, after a single term. "She was forced to sort of quiet her life - and really become at peace with herself," he said. But that's the point. "(She) stuck out her hand (and) said, 'How do you do,' and that was the only thing she knew how to say," Margolies told TODAYs Hoda Kotb on Tuesday. When we had the fire, everyone came home for the weekend and all of a sudden we realized, 'Everyone is still here. I was at his wedding, you know. After planning for months and talking about it for months and anticipating it for months, I am finally in Israel. I dont gamble, but I do take chances, she said. At this point, winning is anything but certain. Simon van Zuylen-Wood is a reporter forPhiladelphia magazine. Here is another column on the joys of getting older. Three weeks later, she declared bankruptcy too and dropped out of the race; creditors were asking the two of them for more than $7 million. The implication of this, Fenton tells me, is that nothing is as important as what she needed personally, politically, and therefore she would have no problem conscience-wise to sign onto this lawsuit. She gave speeches at memorials that made everyone cry and laugh in the same breath. She went from journalism to politics; for one fraught session of Congress, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, as she was then, won an open seat in Pennsylvanias 13th Congressional District in 1992. Another housekeeper and a handyman help keep the hectic household running. Lee Heh, docile and eager to . She comes in, she meets with [Hillary], but [Hillary] doesnt do a shout-out for her. He adds, I am fairly confident by the end of this campaign that well see the Clintons help a lot. Its certainly plausible: Margolies has already received a $2,600donation from Bill and a surrogate in the person of Madeleine Albright. ), What about Liz Cheney? In fact, there probably are few families like Mezvinsky's. How many other female Democratic candidates who stood on the podium at the Democratic Convention were seized with this thought: "I thought about what Barbara Jordan had said the night before, invoking Thomas Jefferson and talking about women being in the halls and councils of power. I finally found a group in Oregon that didn't say yes, but they didn't say no. she asked. ", "Holly had a very traumatic early childhood," Werth said. Friends and relatives filed through Holly's room in hospice care during the last months of her life. And over the summer, she threw a huge wedding with 14 bridesmaids for daughter Lee Heh Margolies, 28. I dont know if theres a lot of giveback.. Margolies chronicled their experiences in the 1976 best-seller, They Came to Stay (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976), the first of five books she has authored. She shares her role as a proud grandparent with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And given that Chelsea has said she hopes 2014 will be the year of the baby, Margoliess ties to the Clintons might soon become even stronger. Unlike Marc and Chelsea, reports Margoliess friend and former congressional staffer Arlene Halpernwho was therethey didnt spend the night. She gave toasts that prompted acquaintances to ask whether she was a stand-up comedian. "It's a very difficult issue for many people," Mezvinsky said, then suddenly focused in on the woman's chubby, blue-eyed baby. I gave birth to two boys. Her vote tied the count at 217 to 217; given House rules, it passed. The seat had been held by a Republican since 1916, but she won as a Democrat. Elected in 1992dubbed the Year of the Woman, after the female representation of Congress doubledshe was a staunch feminist who had recently given up a career as an Emmy-Award winning television journalist. 'Mothering has nothing to do with biologically giving birth. There is no playing favorites with the couple's natural children, says Margolies, stressing that, after all, Lee Heh and Holly were there before her own came along. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. She won five Emmys. She then adopted a half-American, half-Vietnamese child, Holly, now 18. I had gone to visit Son #3 on an At Academy for Jewish Religion, sacred arts include circus, Accused chef faces charges on several fronts, As abuse cases proceed against former Humble Toast owner, his career boasts are undercut, Reform synagogues join in Shabbaton to consider big questions and to celebrate, Federation launches Israel Now trip for eighth graders, Raising the militarys Holocaust awareness, JFNNJs Yom HaShoah commemoration to hear director of West Point center, Rabbi Zeilicovich comes out of retirement in Israel to lead a congregation in paradise. ', She didn't care what society thought: 'It was really immaterial. JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, How much: $12 for JCC members; $15 for nonmembers. She was never charged with anything, and nobody I spoke with, from sympathetic former colleagues to bitter ex-friends, seems to think she was in on the fraud. Lee Margolies lives in Montclair, NJ; previous city include New York NY. "I introduced myself to her and I realized she was editing galleys of a book while she was on the stakeout," King said. Should a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? She worries that the housekeeper, who has a problem pregnancy, may not be up to driving her son Andrew, 10, to his eye therapy appointment. "Sometimes, it was political. "Theres just nothing like losing a child," Margolies said. "So sweet.". She's so modern. ', 'But my overwhelming feeling is that it has been so satisfying, and the kids are so wonderful. She was 48 and the mother of two boys whom she cherished, Jude and Trent Werth. "Holly was impossible," Margolies shared. Local author finds out; along the way he learnshow to network, write, and publish a book, Barnert Temple rededicates Centerville Cemetery, Synagogue in Franklin Lakes restores its old burial ground in Clifton, Real estate magnate Joseph Barry sponsors concert celebrating Israel at 75, Josh Gottheimer talks about his trip to Israel with Hakeem Jeffries. Marjorie Margolies stands at a podium; the presidents seal hangs from it. Other rewards followed. Edition of Quad-City Times. Then, lowering her voice and raising her eyebrows, she adds, Its a good question, darling. She pauses and tries to get serious. "If I'm elected, it'll be because I'm different and people want me to be different for them," said Mezvinsky. Marjorie Margolies knew she wanted to be a mom, but wasn't sure if she would get married, so she adopted a pretty revolutionary idea in the 1970s. Let me say, that there are moments where I have been laying on the sofa saying, 'why did I get into this? "And that," Margolies said, through tears, "was Holly.". The bureaucratic part of it wasn't easy. She said, I think that she has unfinished business. (Tonight, were all on a first-name basis with the Clintons.) It was an excuse to get over there, and it worked. Sign Up The whole family gathers at Marc Mezvinskys wedding to Chelsea Clinton. "They lived with us for 25 years," Margolies shared. Iactually have no idea how many parts this is going to end up being, so I apologize in advance. But when unmarried Marjorie Margolies picked up six-year-old Lee Heh 15 years ago in Korea, it simply wasn't done. (See below.). "I'm trying to raise two children, and {pay for} school and clothes. A huge thank you to Lee Heh Margolies for serving as the Chair of Impact100 Essex's Events Committee for the past 3 years. Margolies married Ed Mezvinsky in 1975, and four years later they took in a Vietnamese boat family which includes Suu, her son Vu, 10, and Suu's two nephews, Hai, 23, and Dang, 21. She appeared three times at the Summer Olympics (1972, 1976, 1980) and three times at the Commonwealth Games (1974, 1978, 1982). The nurse on the other end gasped when Margolies introduced herself. How to register: Go to www.jccotp.org/ programs/lectures-learningor call the JCC at (201) 569-7900. Even for a campaign fundraiser taking place a half-year ahead of a primary, there is surprisingly little talk of the election itself. I also knew that I had done all these stories on hard-to-place kids, and I thought, 'Hmm, thats something that I could do.' "She had this great energy. She had fought to the end. Her greatest feat of Rolodex-padding, though, might have been losing her re-election in 1994. When: On Thursday, January 19, at 11 a.m. Where: Online, for the JCC U at the Kaplen Holly arrived sickly. A half-dead economy, the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas and an insurgent electorate across the country have launched hundreds of candidacies that otherwise never would have been contemplated this year. Lee Heh Margolies, Age 59 aka Elleheh Margolies, Lee Hem Margolies, Margolies Lee, L Margolies Current Address: NNME Erwin Park, Montclair, NJ Past Addresses: New York NY, Montclair NJ +5 more Phone Number: (973) 632- BYJX +9 phones Email Address: See available information UNLOCK PROFILE Phone & Email (10) All Addresses (8) Family (5) Social Court Holly changed professions frequently - writing for television, radio production, office management for an architectural firm, and once, writing letters to irate guests at an Arizona luxury ranch, the latter job a vessel for her scathing wit. That happened many, many years later. Thirty-nine years after she left, Holly went to Vietnam in 2012, with Margolies. Two, her now-ex husband went to jail for running a Ponzi scheme. Vote for me!, Whether the scandal still qualifies as a career-ender more than a decade later depends on whom you ask. Rather, the fallout came after Mezvinsky was charged. Within a few minutes she changed her mind, walked onto the House floor and cast her vote to Republican jeers of Bye-bye, Margie! The Greek chorus proved prescient: Her right-leaning district deemed the budget too heavy on the taxes and too soft on the cuts. Welcome to a day in the life of the Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky for Congress campaign, where getting elected is hardly the candidate's only worry. Margoliess original campaign staffa precocious group that included Amy Walter, now a journalist with the Cook Political Report, and Kenny Baer, who would work in both the Clinton and Obama administrationsalso blurred the line between her private life and her public life. I'm the outsider. I felt the budget cuts didnt go far enough, she wrote in her 1994 book A Womans Place: The Freshmen Women Who Changed the Face of Congress. I dont know that they were having sleepovers, you know what Im saying? says Chasen. Fox, who has been in state and local politics almost all his adult life, has tried to turn the Year of the Outsider dynamic back on Mezvinsky, saying of her 15 years as a reporter at WRC, "She's very much the insider from Washington, D.C. Margolies was sitting in the audience and exchanged hellos with Clinton at the event. I had some limited name recognition then, she said. "She was like a mother hen -- but she's too chic to be a mother hen. When Holly came, it was like receiving a letter bomb. At 25 and single, her own efforts to adopt and start a family were foiled until another assignment, the pertinent topic: hard to place children. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Her assignment as a CBS correspondent soon opened a door she never imagined. (Shed been a no until he convinced her to change her mind. Currently, five of the children are in college, one attends a conservatory in France, and four others are in private schools. NBC-TV reporter Margolies surmounted both obstacles in 1970, after several years of effort. An untraditional family at first glimpse but for Margolies, she never imagined simply becoming a mother would spark history. And she would seemingly do something for you, but then call in the obligation at another time. "As much as some of us wish she did, the other sides of her make up for it. He always said, If you can change someones life in a positive way, then do it., The title of her book, And How Are the Children? sounds Jewish. "Great interview.". Which side are you on Jewish American or American Jew? Margolies follows this remark by insisting that she doesnt know whether Hillary is running for president, before concluding with an anecdote about the time Albright busted a move with a younger guy at Marc and Chelseas wedding. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, former United States Representative from Pennsylvania, political organization worker. In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. By the time Mezvinsky went to prisonin 2003, the conventional wisdom in Philadelphia political circles was that Marjories political career was over. Holly passed away from cancer at age 48. Seven-year-old Lee Heh Kyung was a parent's dream of loving and intelligent cooperation--so much so that the few ripples on the surface (her fear of speaking Korean, her worry about her Oriental eyes) were perhaps too easily smoothed over. She joked that now, they would have no choice but to cherish all the tacky gifts she had given them over the years. One of Mezvinsky's four daughters from a previous marriage, Eve, also dwells under their roof as does 18-month-old Brian, the son of their live-in 'organizer', Roberta. With fourteen other people at home, Margolies' house was described as a magic circus., "The circus part is right," she said. Her dish always has to be full. Herbert and Mildred's daughter.". Marjorie Margolies, 79, was a reporter for WCAU in Philadelphia working on stories about children who were considered 'hard to place' She'd started trying to adopt at age 25 but was rejected as a. ", To which Mezvinsky responds with practiced umbrage: "It's about time men like Jon Fox stopped making me feel guilty about having worked and been a mother at the same time. As one of the swindled told the Philadelphia Inquirerat the time, Who expects to be taken to the cleaners when youve got an ex-congressman whose wife is running for the Senate? Mezvinsky eventually got in so deep that he fell for one of the original Nigerian-guy-needs-cash email scams, losing up to an estimated $3 million just to try to feed the scheme. Leah has 4 jobs listed on their profile. ), In 1997, several years after their first Renaissance Weekend together, Chelsea Clinton decided to attend Stanford University, where Marc was already enrolled. Mezvinsky's is definitely one of the more unusual. "I was known as the real Dairy Queen," she said of her days at WRC, where she pumped breast milk between assignments, froze it and carted it home by car every week. But really it shows the similarity of human connection around the world. "So we had six girls and we got married and then we had two boys. ", "I had done all these stories on hard-to-place kids, and I thought, 'Hmm, thats something that I could do.' Dale Russakoff is the author of "The Prize," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (She was fine, and the case was dismissed.) That gnomic sentiment has been around at least since the early 1970s, and just about every possible shade of meaning that could be hung on it has been. The. And that she would be. And she was very, very funny. Northern New Jerseys Jewish Voice Since 1931, Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories, www.jccotp.org/ programs/lectures-learning, Israel Story looks at the countrys founding document in Teaneck program. The lease is up this weekend on the. 'I think I was the first single woman in the United States to adopt a child,' says Margolies, 43, who has made the same claim during interviews on national TV and has never gotten a dispute. Their relationship, he insists, is far more important in Marjories life than whether she wins or loses this race.. Its a very Jewish question. The seeds of WCI were planted in 1995 in Beijing, at the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women. If I have problems with her, I go to Margie. And I thought, here I am, standing here, part of all this. And then we were asked to take this refugee family," Margolies said. When Democrat Mezvinsky was defeated for reelection the next year, the family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs, where Margolies and Mezvinsky had two children of their own -- Marc, now 14, and Andrew -- and Margolies commuted to Washington for 12 years to work part time for WRC. My father, who was a gem, got a job at RCA in the Philadelphia area, but he commuted there so I could finish high school, she said. Achievements include supporting refugee children and families. Marjorie Margoliess son married Chelsea Clinton. But when unmarried Marjorie Margolies picked up six-year-old Lee Heh 15 years ago in Korea, it simply wasn't done. That night of the vote, Clinton called me. That parts true. My checks have been in the mail (electronically) for 17 years, but what about my stepsons and grandkids?

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