- FOKION AVGERINOS – DR. IKE: Athletic Director, Youth Mentor, and Healer
- American Hellenic Institute’s Golden Jubilee Celebration
- Leadership 100 Concludes 33rd Annual Conference in Naples, Florida
- Louie Psihoyos latest doc-series shocks the medical community The Oscar–winning director talks to NEO
- Meet Sam Vartholomeos: Greek-American actor
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“Magic Always Happens” in Books and in …Cyprus!
Following the success of his first children’s book “Magic Always Happens: My Daddy Loves Me!” (Also available in Greek, French, and Spanish) Dr. Neophytos (Neo) Papaneophytou is back again with his second published children’s book “Fluffadelia: A...
- Posted February 18, 2015
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Outstanding Speakers and Entertainment at the 24th Leadership 100 Conference
The 24th Annual Leadership 100 Conference will take place February 12-15, 2015 at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida and it will feature outstanding speakers and members, Michael Psaros, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of KPS...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Menendez blasts Turkey’s treatment of Cyprus on US Senate Floor
On December 16, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, long-time friend of Cyprus and Greece, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), blasted Turkey’s blatant violations of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone speaking on the floor of the United States Senate....
- Posted December 24, 2014
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The Manatoses Attend Holiday Party at the Vice Presidential Residence
On December 15, Andy and Mike Manatos, and their wives Tina and Laura, attended a holiday party at the Vice Presidential residence, as they have in previous years. Vice President Joe Biden and Second Lady Jill Biden host...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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Harry Mark Petrakis: A retrospective at 91
by Tina Sfondeles At 91, Greek-American author Harry Mark Petrakis still lives and breathes Chicago. It’s the city’s South Side where he watched his father, a Greek-Orthodox priest, help immigrants find faith while struggling to start a...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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The Liar and the Lady, 66 Years later
by Harry Mark Petrakis On Sept. 30 of this year, my wife Diana and I had been married for 69 years. In the third grade of our Greek parish school, she remembers me trying to convince my...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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FAITH Announces Summer 2015 Financial Aid Travel Grants to Ionian Village
Continuing for the ninth consecutive year, “FAITH: An Endowment for Orthodoxy and Hellenism” will once again sponsor a series of financial aid travel grants this summer to campers participating in the Ionian Village Summer Camp program. FAITH...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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Ophthalmic Society Honors Dr. Petros Konofaos
The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery has presented its 2014 Lester Jones Surgical Anatomy Award to Dr. Petros Konofaos for his outstanding contributions to ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is a plastic surgeon...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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Cyprus still Has the Edge in Attracting International Business
by Aristos Constantine The world corporate map is beginning to be redrawn in ways that offer us an opportunity to present Cyprus as an advantageous and effective jurisdiction for global corporations. On the one hand, concern is...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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Gene Rossides Awarded Cypriot Parliament’s Highest Honor
American Hellenic Institute Founder Eugene T. Rossides received the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by the Republic of Cyprus House of Representatives. President of the House Yiannakis Omirou presented a medal to Rossides as a token...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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“Song of My Life, A Memoir” Harry Mark Petrakis
In what he calls his coda the quintessential Greek American storyteller revisits his family, faith, home, and heritage With the discipline of a surgeon performing a critical operation, acclaimed storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis strips away layers of his...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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KOUROUNIA Portrait of a Greek Village
The village of Kourounia in Chios, Greece captured in stunning photographs by native son George Michalakis shows the lost world of the Greek countryside both haunting and beautiful George Michalakis is a software engineer who grew up in...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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Journey of Hope: Vaccinating Children in Greece
On April 2014, the Hellenic Medical Society’s Executive Committee headed by its President, Dr. Nicholas Mezitis, approved the mission of vaccinating underprivileged Greek children in Athens, Greece. Dr. Demetrios Markouizos was assigned by the committee the supervision...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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Tribute Concert for Legendary Stelios Kazantzidis in Astoria
Α tribute concert to the legendary singer Stelios Kazantzidis will take place on Friday, December 12 , at the Stathakion Cultural Center (22-51 29th Street, Astoria, NY), featuring vocalists Eleni Andreou and Elias Makrynos with a special...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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A self-proclaimed “daddy’s girl” storms the construction industry and dreams big: Baltimore’s Eleni Marketis
by Cindy Klimek When you picture the owner of a contracting company, a petite, blonde, former Miss USA semi-finalist isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But Eleni Marketis, owner of Marketi Enterprises, is all that...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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James Pedas Communication Center at Thiel College
The Coordinated Effort of Hellenes congratulated one of the Greek-American community’s most generous members, Jim Pedas, on the recent inauguration of the James Pedas Communication Center at his alma mater, Thiel College in Greenwood, Pennsylvania. This state-of-the-art...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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The American Hellenic Council of California Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
by Cindy Klimek This year marks the 40th anniversary of the American Hellenic Council of California. The organization was founded in 1974 as a Save Cyprus group after the Turks invaded the Mediterranean island nation. To honor...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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Students Gain Life Changing Experiences at AHIF’s Foreign Policy Trip to Greece and Cyprus
The American Hellenic Institute Foundation (AHIF) Foreign Policy Trip to Greece and Cyprus completed its sixth year as nine students from across the United States participated in the two-week program held earlier this summer. The participants received...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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Seven Greeks Make Forbes ‘400 Wealthiest People in the USA’ List
by Daphne Tsagari Seven billionaires of Greek origin are among the 400 wealthiest people in the USA, according to Forbes Magazine’s 2014 list. Candidates for the honor were required to have more than 1.55 billion dollars in...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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Greek Film Festival in New York
by Nikoleta Kalmouki The 8th New York Greek Film Festival is set to deliver American audiences a taste of memories and pictures, past and present, from the world of Greece. The festival includes the screening of several...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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A Time to Weep, a Time to Remember, a Time to Honor: Survivors and their Descendants at the Holocaust Sites
by Asher J. Matathias* Yom HaShoa (the Holocaust) is so total, devastating, unique in the annals of Jewish martyrdom through the ages, it merits two annual commemorations: a universal observance mandated by the United Nations on January...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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The Majesty of Sea, Surf and Montauk in the Photos of James Katsipis
by Ellen Tashie Frisina* Photographer James Katsipis, 31, lives in Montauk – the very eastern tip of Long Island’s south shore, a small beach community whose population swells in the summer when tourists come for the sand,...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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The acting “whimsy” of the Zane family
Shortly after Titanic premiered all four members of the theatrical Zane clan did their favorite thing: they gathered in London as they always have to watch a three-day whirl of matinee and evening performances at some of...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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“The Greek Monsters” at the National Hellenic Museum
A new exhibition titled “The Greek Monsters” is now open at the National Hellenic Museum (NHM). The oversized, colorful creatures are engaging for children and adults alike and tell classic mythological tales in a modern way. The...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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Heritage Greece Program – Changing Lives
The National Hellenic Society (NHS) is a newcomer on the Greek American scene and despite rumblings about NHS being a country club of the Greek American elite the characterization is inaccurate. NHS is indeed selective of about...
- Posted September 13, 2014