A book party celebrating the release of Ya Tibya Lublu: Recipes of Love for Orphans of Eastern Europe will be at held Tuesday, May 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the Adler Study of the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West. Ya Tibya Lublu was released on April 15th, 2006. Cookbook Editor Lisa Finneran and Celebrity Coordinator Jane Waldman will be on hand with their children (adopted from Arkhangel'sk, Russia) as will Linda Perilstein, Executive Director of Cradle of Hope Adoption Center, which handles adoptions in Russia, China and Latin America.
Celebrities featured in Ya Tibya Lublu (which means "I Love You" in Russian) include: Ukrainian Olympic Gold Medalist
Oksana Baiul, Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff, actress and adoptee Kristin Chenoweth (
Wicked) and actresses and adoptive mothers
Christine Ebersole (
Grey Gardens),
Donna Mills ("Knots Landing") and
Donna Murphy (
King & I, Wonderful Town). Among those expected to attend the May 16th event are: Ebersole,
Michael Cerveris (
Sweeney Todd),
Erin Dilly (
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang),
Daphne Rubin-Vega (
Rent, Bernarda Alba)
Donna Hanover (Author, WOR co-host "The Morning Show"), Cindy Hsu (Anchor WCBS-TV) Linda Dano ("Another World," "Desperate Housewives") and
Bobbie Eakes ("All My Children"),
Jill Larson ("All My Children") and
Christine Pedi (
Forbidden Broadway).
"In 2005 there were more than 700,000 orphans in Russia alone. Only a small fraction will be adopted. All of the proceeds from the sale of
Ya Tibya Lublu will go to the forgotten children in Akrhangel'sk, Russia," state press notes.
In conjunction with the release of
Ya Tibya Lublu, LeapFrog will donate educational toys to orphans in Eastern Europe who are part of Cradle of Hope Adoption Center's Bridge of Hope Program. LeapFrog products are used in schools across the United States to help educate children. They have also been extremely successful in teaching internationally adopted children English. LeapFrog products are available in six different languages at major retailers in 25 countries around the world.
Cradle of Hope Adoption Center is a non-profit company founded in 1990 by adoptive parents. In the last 15 years Cradle of Hope (
www.cradlehope.org) has placed more than 2,500 children from Russia, China and Latin America.
Ya Tibya Lublu Editor Lisa Finneran and her husband Michael adopted twins Nicholas Peter and Elena Marie from Arkhangsl'sk, Russia, in April of 2003. Coordinator
Jane Waldman and her husband Mark Braverman adopted their daughter Elaina Frances from Arkhangel'sk in December of 2004. Finneran and Waldman completed their adoptions with the help of the Cradle of Hope Adoption Center and returned from Russia with a commitment to help the children they left behind.
To order
Ya Tibya Lublu online, visit
www.arkangels.org.
