Dale Russakoff is the author of "The Prize," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. That Margolies generally resists dishing about the Clintons doesnt mean theyre secretly best friends. As Cuomo announced hed fight Jew-hatred, the Jews decided to attack him ratherthan the antisemites. A couple times a week, the entire family sits down to dinner as one, large group, but for the most part meals are served in two sittings. She had been the first single woman in U.S. history to adopt a kid from a foreign country: Lee Heh, a South Korean girl, who eventually became one of 11 children Margolies would consider her. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ 2000-04-27 Deed Recorded: Book: 05698 Page: 00363. NARBERTH, PA. -- Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky has a few things on her mind. "I don't recommend doing a fire, a wedding and a campaign at the same time," Mezvinsky said. That little girl, 7-year-old Lee Heh, became Ms. Margolies' first child; Ms. Margolies is said to have been the first single American woman to adopt a child internationally. My dad was tikkun-ish, she said. "And it was fun. 'What better thing is there to pour money into but children. Free Sign Up, Ms. Margolies will talk about that book and of course about her life, as well as her work on Zoom for the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly on January 19. When he thought it would help, a federal prosecutor toldthe New York Times, he would call and say, Im spending the weekend with the Clintons., Perhaps with this in mind, Margolies suddenly turns press-shy when asked too many questions about her personal rapport with the Clintons. She's very plugged in to their emotions, but they could wear pajamas to school and it wouldn't bother Margie if it didn't bother them. If that last fact isnt immediately obvious to everyone attending the fundraiser, it will quickly become so. I'm the outsider. 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. Thirty-nine years after she left, Holly went to Vietnam in 2012, with Margolies. Ms. Margolies shakes hands with President Bill Clinton. Mezvinsky never asked Fenton to invest, and Fenton does not suspect Margolies was involved in his schemes. Margolies, not unlike Bill Clinton, seems unable to separatethe personal from the political. How is it possible that I forgot to wish my house a happy birthday? The Maasai dont ask you how you are when you first see each other, she said. She spent a long time looking into adoption in Korea; literally, as I was ready to leave, they said, We have picked a little girl for you. That little girl, 7-year-old Lee Heh, became Ms. Margolies first child; Ms. Margolies is said to have been the first single American woman to adopt a child internationally. Margolies became the first unmarried U.S. citizen to adopt a foreign child. Was there anything particularly Jewish about her life? "Going on vacation when we were young, we would always want to sit next to Holly - we would fight over who got to share her room," her brother Vu Pham said, laughing. Smukler dismissed the episode For the Clintons and this campaign, its never going to be enough for some people, he said. she asked. Twenty-five years. The first death occurred on Aug. 5, 1993, when Clinton was one vote short of passing a budget bill and convinced Margolies to change her mind. 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. | AP Photo. They say, How are the children?, What: Will talk about her new book, among other things. When Holly came, it was like receiving a letter bomb. Marjorie Margolies stands at a podium; the presidents seal hangs from it. More than 30 years after she was married, Ms. Margolies went through a painful divorce; her ex-husband, also a former member of Congress, was convicted of fraud. "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. Some are parents; she has 21 grandchildren so far. When I ask the native Northeast Philadelphian Boyle what differentiates him from his opponents, Margolies in particular, he says hes the only candidate who isnt a millionaire or married to one. Put another way: Hes a first-generation Irish-American who grew up in a row house in Northeast Philly; she once sued US Airways after a bag fell on her head. I called him [Bill] when I was thinking about running, and I told him what was happening and he was very warm and very embracing., Finally, she relents a bit and, adopting Bills accent, mimics his reaction to the news: I love this! she drawls. A couple hours before the vote, she had appeared live on Philadelphia television to explain her opposition to the bill. All of a sudden, I kind of turned around and said 'there's got to be more to life.' Alas, Holly passed away mid-May 2016 following a three-year battle with cervical cancer. Another housekeeper and a handyman help keep the hectic household running. I picked up the phone and said hello, then heard his voice, which sounded tired and drained, she wrote. We thank our board members for their support. She was a pickpocket.". Ms. Margolies came home with another child, Holly, who was half Vietnamese, half American, and totally impossible, she said with obvious love. The presence of the Clintons may just amplify inevitable charges of carpetbaggery from Boyle and her other opponents. And shes so successful. The lease is up this weekend on the. She learned English fast, and comedic timing faster. In June 2012, Margolies rented a house in Ventnor, at the Jersey Shore, for her 70th birthday. "I could tell you if we ever had guests, Holly would walk in and shed say, 'Are we gonna adopt any of these people?'" People like comeback stories., Her son Marc apparently disagrees. Of course, it was not without its moments to say the least, it didnt work all the time but it was terrific.. Her consistent response to questions asked by her creditors about the disposition of her assets is lack of knowledge or my husband handled it, a mantra that is completely at odds with her public persona, background, and accomplishments, the judge wrote. Margolies was then a television reporter for NBC Philadelphia, and, a few years earlier, had become the first single American woman to adopt a foreign child: Lee Heh, from South Korea. Public File for KYW-TV / CBS Philadelphia. But I would like to give credit where credit is due and give a shoutout to Jo the Genius and the Apple Store in Garden Abe Foxman analyzes the profound divisions behind Israels struggles, Shes 83, on a visit, and protesting in Jerusalem, Local woman in Israel on nature trip joins and describes two demonstrations. Life lessons from an Israeli cab driver. I dont know if theres a lot of giveback.. "She smoked. Last night I came back to the house after being away on a story, and my 18-year-old started to yell, 'Mommy's home', and the younger ones followed suit and then the 3-year-old started shouting, as they all ran down the stairs. Serving as guardians for this massive brood can be a costly endeavor, she admits,but cares little about the expense. 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. So, a family of five refugees from Vietnam moved in with the family. In this vein, the harshest indictment of Marjorie I hear comes from Mezvinskys former doctor Brad Fenton. ", 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.". What could she say? one political operative told Philadelphiamagazine in 2002. I had no idea what was going on in my own household, but Im equipped to vote on a $2 trillion budget! But there was a lot of buzz about it being the Year of the Woman, she added. I was at his wedding, you know. WASHINGTON -- A single woman adopting a child hardly raises an eyebrow these days. She gave speeches at memorials that made everyone cry and laugh in the same breath. "Great interview.". 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The nurse on the other end gasped when Margolies introduced herself. Margolies told TODAY. Achievements include supporting refugee children and families. In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. And then we were asked to take this refugee family," Margolies said. A friend of mine called Hillary and said, Why do you think she wants to do this? And Hillary said something that was very interesting. Then, lowering her voice and raising her eyebrows, she adds, Its a good question, darling. She pauses and tries to get serious. I finally found a group in Oregon that didn't say yes, but they didn't say no. It was there that Marc and Chelsea met for the first time as teenagers. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and did graduate work at Columbia. She was 48 and the mother of two boys whom she cherished, Jude and Trent Werth. When Margolies was elected to the House in 1992, she was in her early 50s, and her last name was Margolies-Mezvinsky. My grandmother was a Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,, but she couldnt solve the mystery of antisemitism. She says she will vote for Mezvinsky. "I can't believe you're so relaxed," voter Sandy Levitt marveled to Mezvinsky last weekend at a crafts fair where she was trolling for votes. (Shed been a no until he convinced her to change her mind. Other rewards followed. Vote for me!, Whether the scandal still qualifies as a career-ender more than a decade later depends on whom you ask. Can you really think the Clintons were happy to have their only daughter caught up in this complicated and not fully ethical family?, But theres a flip side to the relentless networking, a sense among certain of her old friends and colleagues that her relationships are simply a means to an end. Lee Heh could get only a student visa, "and she was the youngest student ever to get one." Eventually, the adoption went . She told her adoptive mother, the former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies, how to begin her eulogy: "Tell them, 'She was always my favorite child.' But a determined Margolies, then a reporter with WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, carved out her own path to success. IE 11 is not supported. The theme of this years fundraiser was the next generation of female leaders. But that's the point. "And that," Margolies said, through tears, "was Holly.". Holly Thi Werth was never without words. In 1992, she ran for Congress, and won, serving for two years as a congresswoman from Pennsylvania. Danish did not disappoint. First Lady Hillary Clinton chaired the American delegation, and Marjorie Margolies was named. That, broadly speaking, is the professional side of her life. It turned out a solid portion of the familys moneythey owned a 15-room mansion in Narberth, Pa.belonged to other people. Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of Motherhood., Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories "I went to Korea and in 1970 and I met Lee Heh, who was 7 years old," Margolies said. Then, three years later in Vietnam, serendipity when Margolies ran into people from the same adoption agency. Especially in our out-of-control entitlements programs. Then the president called. Some of them are adopted, some are stepchildren, and some were born to her. She had campaigned with her husband, Ed, a former Iowa congressman, countless times, but had never thought seriously of running for office -- although she came close during the Thomas hearings. Look up the complete property record for 221 NO. She is passing the torch to the new Co-Chairs Risha Walden and Sunanda Sharma, featured here at their on-boarding lunch meeting. She made jokes that had half the room gasping in shock, the other half gasping with laughter. "So we had six girls and we got married and then we had two boys. But even as a family of ten, Margolies had only one answer when asked to take in a family of refugees: "Let's do it.". Its a very Jewish question. An ex-journalist and former US Representative for the state of Pennsylvania has opened up about her journey to becoming a mother which happened in 1970, when she became the first single American woman to adopt a child internationally. ", Vietnamese-born Vu Pham, 17, who was 5 when he and his family moved in, refers to Mezvinsky as "my other mother." As a journalist, Mezvinsky rarely drew a clear line between her reporting and her life. 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. Holly, a half-Vietnamese, half-American child, was a street child. 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. I've juggled pretty well.". Apparently, it is all how you look at it. What appeared as a full plate for the intrepid reporter and single mom of two young girls was just the beginning of Margolies' story. I knew some kids were sent back. She, I mean she smoked at 6. I pressed on. The most revealing Margolies-Clinton episode may have taken place at Marc and Chelseas 2010 wedding. She was a really good pickpocket, and she smoked. ), What about Liz Cheney? The housekeeper and her son, 8, also live in, as will the baby she is expecting. Her house burned down over the summer and is not yet rebuilt. I dont know, Margolies says, when I put it to her, over hors doeuvres at a restaurant before the Albright fundraiser. And she was very, very funny. "People willsay, 'Time will heal.' Earlier this month, in hospice care, at the end of a long battle with cervical cancer, she found words when no one else could. Marc was not in favor of Marjorie running, she tells me. '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. Fox's campaign consultant, Eddie Mahe, said polls show his man leading by double digits -- Mezvinsky's campaign is not polling -- enough to survive even long coattails to Democrat Bill Clinton. We just lost a lot of stuff.' ", "She doesn't use up psychological energy on things a lot of us think are indispensable," said longtime Washington friend Nancy Chasen, "like whether your kids' socks match or whether they got a bad haircut. Holly Thi Werth met her husband, Doug, when a job with a software company took her to Idaho. And she was very, very funny. Marjorie Margolies had an incredible career but dreamed of starting a family. ", "I had done all these stories on hard-to-place kids, and I thought, 'Hmm, thats something that I could do.' Lee Heh, docile and eager to . It all began when Marjorie Margolies got a reporting assignment in Korea. Her first career for 24 or so years was as a broadcast journalist; a fellowship from CBS, when she was just a few years in, helped fuel her rise. Getting her was tough going through the adoption agencies, which can even make it nearly impossible for married couples. At 50, she looks more like someone's daughter than someone's mother, which is odd, because she is the mother, stepmother and legal guardian of 11 children, ages 10 to 28 -- a family she began building at age 28 when she became the first single American woman to adopt a foreign child. TCM Emails. "I had done lots of stories on hard-to-place kids," Margolies said - kids from war zones, kids who had grown up on the streets. In 1976, she wrote a book on her two daughters, 'They Came To Stay'. "As a Homo sapiens without an X and a Y chromosome, I was not represented. Marjorie Margolies is at the World Conference on Women in Beijing in the fall of 1995. Sons Mark and Andrew are the only children living at home, although others come for weekends and a Vietnamese refugee family of five has been in residence since 1979. 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 is already being painted as the right-wing candidate running in her newly redrawn district, which is now considerably less suburban than it was 20 years ago. "(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 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. She was working as an occasional correspondent for four NBC programs, including "Today." She gave toasts that prompted acquaintances to ask whether she was a stand-up comedian. With fourteen other people at home, Margolies' house was described as a magic circus., "The circus part is right," she said. It doesnt work all the time, though, and I was sure that I would lose. I knew that it was something I truly wanted to do. Her mother, Mildred Margolies, 81, of Philadelphia, remembers always worrying that her daughter was doing too much. I was a delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1992. Absolutely hilarious," Margolies said. I say, without being flip, 'I forget,' because they are all ours. Margolies said her late daughter "was amazing" and left an incredible legacy, including two children. One, President Bill Clinton personally convinced her to cast a tie-breaking vote on his infamous 1993 budget bill that cost the Pennsylvania congresswoman her job. JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, How much: $12 for JCC members; $15 for nonmembers. "I didnt know if and when I would marry. Please enter valid email address to continue. Lee Heh is married with Mom having financed her 14-bridesmaid wedding. Me. I signed his ketubah. They [have] a very congenial relationship, let me put it that way. Apparently she means the sleepovers thing literally. Margolies became a network correspondent, then got into politics and was elected to Congress and met a man with four daughters of his own. And she was just impossible. She was a street child. 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. She returned home with the beginning of her own story a 7-year-old daughter named Lee Heh. Indeed, if you scroll through her campaign donations, youll find that most of them come from tony suburbs like Bryn Mawr and Bala Cynwyd that are still located in her old districtnot middle- and working-class Northeast Philadelphia, which now comprises more than half of the new seat. The. That election night, Id only written a concession speech. Its easy to describe what it feels like to have a conversation with her shes warm, charming, smart, honest, wide-ranging, open, and avowedly Luddite. 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. I hope she wins.". 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. 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 The night after the fundraiser I attended with Margolies, Hillary Clinton arrived in Philadelphia to give a speech to the Pennsylvania Conference for Women. Theres a sense of entitlement, says one politico who used to work with her. Two years out of prison and still on probation, Ed Mezvinsky did indeed attend, but according to several of Margoliess friends, he did not walk down the aisle with Marc and Marjorie, per Jewish custom. Fenton and his wife were close family friends who often watched over Margoliess son Andrew when she and Ed were away. Ms. Margolies got married thats where the Mezvinsky came from, as well as many more children. Is that enough to fuel her political comeback? ", Andrew, also interviewed while campaigning, said he did not expect to be lonely for his mother if she has to spend most of the week in Washington: "There's always someone there {at the house}. And she would seemingly do something for you, but then call in the obligation at another time. Montclair residents Selma Avdicevic and Lee Heh Margolies, two members of the steering committee for the Essex group, were surprised but excited by how quickly interest in the organization has. In 2007, Doug traveled to Vietnam by himself - "kind of a scout trip," he said - and found family members who spoke of a tough little girl with a sharp sense of humor. Edition of Quad-City Times. She won by a mile. Holly Thi Werth (Margolies) passed away on May 3, 2016, in her home in Boise with her family at her bedside. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ Seller: KINARD, DAVID M. & ELIZABETH F. 221 NO. She has Lee Heh and Holly, her ex-husband brought four more daughters into their blended family, they adopted three more Vietnamese sons, and she gave birth to two more sons. Then the family returned. When she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2013, he said, his wife began, at last, to open those jars. A friend from Eugene, Oregon, who worked with an adoption agency there bumped into Ms. Margolies while she was working on a story in Vietnam. After planning for months and talking about it for months and anticipating it for months, I am finally in Israel. When she still was a reporter, Ms. Margolies did a series of stories on international adoption. "I was going to reconcile that and understand that thats what made me a better mother.". She went to Quaker school in Wynnewood and threw herself into athletics. "Eat, eat, eat!". She is a slip of a woman with a short wedge of black hair -- a contrast to the waist-length tresses that were her trademark on television in the 1970s -- who alternates between Albert Nipon suits and dungarees on the campaign trail. Through it all, Margolies never gave up her professional pursuits. Its so nice to see someone who is willing to stand up for what she believes in.. She then adopted a half-American, half-Vietnamese child, Holly, now 18. Reflecting back on parenting, Margolies said she loved the curiosity and challenges. 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