NY Pontians Celebrate, Plan For New Year
NEW YORK – In these times of homogenized languages in all countries, it was a joy to hear traditional Greek carols sung in the delightful dialect rooted in ancient Greek of the Black Sea region of...
View ArticleGreek-Am Company Thrives in Tarpon
TARPON SPRINGS, FL – Jim Cantonis is President of a thriving company, Acme Sponge and Chamois in Tarpon Springs that has benefitted from Florida Sea Grant (FSG) initiatives, Florida Trend magazine...
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AGAPW Celebrates New Year – and Art
The Association of Greek American Professional Women (AGAPW)and the global Greek networking organization ALLILONnet co-sponsored a cutting the New Year’s vasilopita in Manhattan on January 4. The many...
View ArticleDennis Assanis Preparing for U. of Delaware Presidency
NEW YORK – The march of Greek-Americans to the top of every field continues. Dennis Assanis, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Stony Brook University, is preparing to take...
View ArticleKnoxville Church ex-Treasurer Begins Prison Term
KNOXVILLE, TN – Constantine D. Christodoulou, the former treasurer of the St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Knoxville begins serving the first part of a 10-year sentence in a Knox County jail...
View ArticleMet. Evangelos and NJ Philoptochos President Visit Hajiantoniou Family
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey and Anne Michals, president of the Philoptochos of the Metropolis of New Jersey visited the family of Manolis Hajiantoniou in East...
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Wall Street Heavy Hitter Koudounis Shaped by Sports and Hellenism
NEW YORK – John S. Koudounis is President and CEO Mizuho Securities USA, the American investment banking subsidiary of the Japanese financial behemoth. There is a Greek component to the rise to such...
View ArticleColumbia U. Journalism Students in Lesvos Documenting Crisis
NEW YORK – Harriet Dedman and Fahrinisa Oswald are graduate students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism but during the past few months they have spent more time on the coast of...
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Manchester Mayor Gatsas Speaks TNH
MANCHESTER, NH – Ted Gatsas was sworn in to serve a fourth term as the 47th mayor of the historic New Hampshire city of Manchester. “I am certainly excited about two more years moving down the path we...
View ArticleOn Being Greek in America: Privilege and Responsibility
“Greece is the cradle of Western Civilization,” we Greeks proudly remind the world, claiming a special kinship (ownership!) to the achievements of Ancient Greece (“A rocky promontory in the...
View ArticleTurkish Official Calls for Priests’ Salaries to be Paid by State
ANKARA – The Chief Ombudsman’s Office of Turkey has given the green light to the Directorate General of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) to pay priests’ salaries after an appeal by Nazaret Ozsahakyan,...
View ArticleEcumenical Patriarchate Hosts International Scholars
CONSTANTINOPLE – As part of the preparations for the Great and Holy Council that will convene this spring, The Ecumenical Patriarchate recently hosted a meeting of thirty international scholars. The...
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Orthodox Diaspora Blesses Waters Around the World
NEW YORK – The blessing of the waters that is part of the Orthodox Christian celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany is a beautiful tradition that graces the start of the New Year. While it can...
View ArticleGreek and Jewish-American Leaders Visit Greece, Cyprus, Israel
ATHENS – The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), the American Hellenic Institute (AHI), B’nai B’rith International, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish...
View ArticleSpecial TNH Feature: Our Everyday Greek – Greek Verbs Conjugation Made Easy
By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou If you pay attention to the endings, it is very easy to distinguish the verb among the words in a sentence. For example if a word ends in –ω, it is a verb in present tense,...
View ArticleHELLENIC HAPPENINGS
FROM COAST TO COAST PHILADELPHIA, PA – The City of Brotherly Love is fast turning into the City of Greek-American Jurists. Last week, HARRY KARAPALIDES was sworn in for his third term as PENNSYLVANIA...
View ArticleCombined Vasilopita Brings Together N.Y. Professionals
NEW YORK -The ballroom of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity was filled with the members of the community’s professional organizations in the New York Metropolitan Area on the evening of January 12....
View ArticleGlobal Volunteers Teaching English+ to Greek Children
By Lynn Lotkowictz Based on my most enjoyable 2013 experience, I booked my second, two-week program teaching English to students in an after school program organized by Global Volunteers, a non-profit,...
View ArticleMoney Manager Calamos Advises Greece
Although his father was a Greek immigrant, John Calamos Sr., founder of Naperville-based Calamos Asset Management, grew up with little connection to the country or its heritage. Today, Calamos, 75, is...
View ArticleOrthodoxy Online In Florence, SC,
FLORENCE, SC – Many Christians – Greek Orthodox and otherwise – say they would like to read the Bible on a regular basis, but often simply don’t have the time to do so, and throughout their busy...
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