The Hellenic Initiative Auction Continues Online
NEW YORK – Following The Hellenic Initiative’s 6th Annual Gala, the organization announced on September 25 that the auction continues until midnight on October 1 online to help Greece’s economic...
View ArticleGreek American Professional Women in Complex Legal Fields: Financing our...
It is not difficult to convince somebody that taxation is a very complicated matter. Apart from its complexity since it covers a wide spectrum of human activities, taxation is also a very dynamic area...
View ArticleAnti-Tsipras Posters Flood Astoria, Cite His “Betrayal of Macedonia”
ASTORIA – Posters featuring the Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras have been posted all over Astoria, on walls, telephone poles, and other surfaces by persons unknown at press time. The sentiment...
View ArticleGreek-American Disbarred Attorney Arrested for Stealing $40,000 from...
MINEOLA, N.Y. – Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced the arrest of a disbarred attorney from Hicksville for allegedly stealing $40,000 from a Hicksville couple selling their home....
View ArticleRhode Island State Senator Raptakis Talks to TNH
NEW YORK – Rhode Island State Senator Leonidas Raptakis (Democrat – District 33, Coventry, East Greenwich, West Greenwich) is running for re-election this year. He visited the offices of The National...
View ArticleGreek-American Greg Psitos Outsmarts Google Maps
For centuries, people have relied on maps to figure out where they are and where they’re going. But today’s digital maps — seemingly more precise than ever —aren’t always as dependable as they appear....
View ArticleTheodoros Halikiopoulos, TNH Reader since 1962, Shares His Story
NEW YORK – “The Ethnikos Kyrikas newspaper was my first contact with my country when I came to America in 1962 for a better life. Illegal, without knowing a single English word, without having one of...
View ArticlePres. Anastasiades at Event Honoring Bishop Sevastianos and Dr. Harris Pastides
FLUSHING, NY – In the presence of the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades and other high-ranking government officials and diplomats, the Federation of Cypriot-American Organizations...
View ArticleRussian Orthodox Church Issues Warning to Orthodoxy’s Leader Bartholomew
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Orthodox Church warned Friday that it would sever ties with the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community if he grants autonomy to Ukraine’s Orthodox Church. The stern...
View ArticleAHEPA Supreme President George E. Loucas Visits TNH
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY – AHEPA Supreme President George E. Loucas, an Ohio native, visited the offices of The National Herald on September 28 and met with TNH Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris. Also...
View ArticleGoing on in Our Community
THRU OCTOBER 2 ASTORIA – Greek Nights at Athens Square Park, 30th Avenue and 30th Street in Astoria, presents live music every Tuesday at 7:15 PM, July 10-October 2. Thirteen musical events are...
View ArticleRafika Chawishe Presents Theatre of the Refuge at NYU
NEW YORK – The A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies at New York University presented Theatre of the Refuge by Rafika Chawishe on September 24. Chawishe recently completed the Lincoln Center Theatre...
View ArticleObituaries in Greek-American Community
SHAROS, OLGA FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL (from the Belleville News-Democrat, published on Sept. 13) – Olga (nee Kefalas) Sharos, 94, was born August 10, 1924, to Panayoti (Peter) and Metaxia Kefalas in...
View ArticleElli Antoniades, Close Friend of Iranian Shah’s Wife, Speaks with TNH (Pics)
ATHENS – Elli Antoniades lives a life that many probably envied or thought of as a fairy tale. From the Pahlevi of Persia, she started her life’s journey, continuing on paths once bright with joy and...
View ArticleStavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture on Alzheimer’s Disease (Vid...
NEW YORK – The first Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture of the new school year focused on Alzheimer’s Disease. The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia...
View ArticleGeorge Hatsopoulos, Professor, Innovator, Renowned Scientist Dies at 91
BOSTON, MA (from the MIT News, published on Sept. 21) – George Nicholas Hatsopoulos, an MIT mechanical engineering senior lecturer emeritus who founded the Thermo Electron Corporation has passed away...
View ArticleKing Gyros Opens in Mooresville, Indiana: Bring Appetite
Souvlaki, Greece’s idea of fast-food but better, is available now in Mooresville, IN with the opening of the King Gyros restaurant that offers authentic Greek-American cuisine. Owner Angelo Tourloukis...
View ArticleCobbler’s Life Good for Washington’s Papadimitriou
Mihail Papadimitriou, who came from Greece in 1967 to the United States, has made a good living and a lot of friends with his People’s Shoe Repair in the city of Everett, WA, some 25 miles north of...
View ArticleCyprus Night at Holy Cross in Whitestone, Constantinides on Run for Queens...
WHITESTONE – Cyprus Night at the Holy Cross community’s Vasilios and Athanasia Kartsonis Hall in Whitestone celebrated Cypriot food, music, culture, and heritage, on September 29. The dinner dance drew...
View ArticleCelebration of the Canellos Professorship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and...
BOSTON – On Wednesday, September 26th, 2018, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School hosted an event to celebrate the inaugural incumbent of the Professorship in honor of Dr. George...
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