THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Tovah Feldshuh Involves Herself in Roles

By ADENA BERKOWITZ

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

Just a little more than a
year ago, the now popular
star of Broadway's
"Sarava," Tova Feldshuh
attracted world-wide atten-
tion as a major star of
NBC-TV's docu-drama,
"Holocaust." What probably
was unknown then to mil-
lions of viewers, was her
strong Jewish background
and deep sense of identity.
Born and raised in New
York's suburban Westches-
ter, Ms. Feldshuh grew up

Survivor Earns
College Honors

NEW YORK — A 68-
year-old survivor of the
Nazi concentration camps
was graduated magna cum
laude from Western New
England College -' in
Springfield, Mass., recently
with a bachelor's degree in
government.
Saul Torrey, who along
with his wife lost more than
100 relatives in the
Holocaust, says he has no
particular plans to use his
degree but expects to con-
tinue his education. Torrey
is a retired furniture sales-
man and traffic manager for
a metals firm.

Kosher Meals
for Inmates

NEW YORK — The State
Correctional Facility at
Auburn, N.Y., a
maximum-security prison,
has agreed, to provide
kosher food for Jewish in-
mates, according to the AJ-
Congress.
The program will provide
kosher TV dinners to in-
mates twice a day, as is the
case in the state maximum
security facility at
Greenhaven.

as a Conservative Jew and
attended Hebrew school
from a very early age. "I
loved it. I really had a good
time and found it very in-
teresting," she recalled with
a smile, "But while I was
good in conversational He-
brew, I did have a lot of
trouble reading Rashi!"
It was in her home and
school that ToVa was first
exposed to Jewish interests
and concerns. Recently, she

Engineers Cite
Israeli Prof

HAIFA — Ehud Lenz,
professor of mechanical
engineering and head of
material processing and
machine tool center at the
Technion - Israel Institute
of Technology in Haifa, is a
recipient of one of the 1979
International Awards of the
Society of Manufacturing
Engineers.
Prof. Lenz will receive the
1979 Frederick W. Taylor
Research Medal. He has
been professor of mechani-
cal engineering at Technion
since 1974, after serving as
associate professor since
1965. Prof. Lenz performed
research for the Ford Motor
Co. as a senior scientist in
1969-1970 and again in
1976-1977.

Rebbe Dislikes
Egyptian Treaty

NEW YORK (ZINS) —
The Lubavitcher Rebbe re-
cently stated that treaties
between Israel and Egypt
are not worth "the paper
they are printed on." The
Rebbe opposes the return of
the Sinai oil wells to Egypt.
In comparing President
Carter to' King Ahasuerus
the Rebbe said, "If we don't
knuckle under the king will
support the Jews."

`Jews for Jesus' Convert
-Denied Israeli Citizenship

From the American
Jewish Press Association

The Israeli Supreme
Court has ruled that one
who was born a Jew but be-
lieves in Jesus is in effect a
Christian — not a Jew —
and is not entitled to auto-
matic citizenship under the
Law of Return.
The case involved Eileen
Dorflinder, 30, who arrived
in Israel 18 months ago with
her two children, after a
troubled personal life in the
U.S. She received 'a tempor-
ary identity card in which
she wrote next to "national-
ity" the word "Jewish."
When she applied, how-
ever, to the Interior Minis- -
try for citizenship under the
Law of Return, she was re-
fused her request on the
ground that she was a
member of the "Jews for
Jesus" movement and thus
an adherent of Christianity.
The Ministry called the
"Jews for Jesus" move-
ment, "a ruse to bring
Christianity's message to
our nation and make
Jews renounce their reli-
gion." -
The court asked Dorflin-
der if she believed Jesus was

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the Messiah. She replied,
"Yes." They then asked if
she believed in Jesus' divin-
ity and she was evasive in
her replies. When asked if
she had been converted, she
said she had "immersed her
body in water as an expres-
sion of purification" three
times.
The Court ruled that
since belief in Jesus was a
fundamental tenet of Chris-
tianity, 'this constituted
conversion to that faith and
removed the petitioner from
the ranks of Judaism.

revealed that her first
communal endeavor was
raising funds for the Jewish
National Fund to plant
trees in Israel. Yet despite
these extracurricular ac-
tivities,_it was not too long
before she realized that her
talents were best met in the
arts.
Abandoning an initial
attempt as a concert
pianist, Ms. Feldshuh
was drawn to the theater
and launched her career
at • the Tyrone Guthrie
Repertory Company in
Minneapolis. "It was very
difficult and demanding.
Yet it was so pure and
theater is so communal
an art that I loved it," she
said, describing her le=
nure there.
Tova was soon chosen to
star an Broadway in I.B.
Singer's play, "Yentl the
Yeshiva, Boy," which de-
scribes the tale of a woman
disguising herself as a man
in order to study in a
yeshiva.
As with all her roles, Ms.
Feldshuh researched this
one, too. Dressed as a man,
she found her way into a
Brooklyn yeshiva where she
absorbed the environment.
Unable to speak Yiddish,
she found the experience to
be "harrowing yet remark-
able." With the help of a •
Yiddish-speaking male
companion, she emerged
undiscovered.
Ms. Feldshuh's portrayal
of Yentl delighted audi-
ences and also caught the
eye of a casting director who
chose her to star in NBC's
Holocaust. Once again, her
role was researched, this
time - in Hungary and
Czechoslovakia. A diary
which was kept to record
her experiences now forms
the core of lectures she has
been giving to Jewish corn-
munities around the United
States.
"Holocaust enabled me
to gain great exposure
since it was viewed by so
many people. But it also
gave me the chance to
support the Jewish
community through.
fund-raising or lectures,"
she said.
Indeed, Ms. Feldshuh,
who was awarded a special
citation for her communal
work by Israel's then-
Ambassador Simcha Din _ itz,
finds time between her
theatrical duties, her
cross-country marriage to
California lawyer, Andrew
Levy to lend her name to
any worthwhile Jewish
cause.

Friday, June 1, 1979

Volunteers Seek N.Y. Units
to Aid Visually Impaired

By BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

Volunteer teams of
women are collecting mate-
rial in three sections of New
York City for use in prep-
aration of directories of
community organizations
seeking to make their pro-
grams available to the el-
derly visually handicapped
in a pilot project of the
Jewish Braille Institute, ac-
cording to Mrs. David M.
Levitt, JBI president.
The JBI chose the Brook-
lyn section of the National
Council of Jewisl Women,
the Sisterhood of Temple Is-
rael of Jamaica and the
Women's League of Cong.
Rodeph Sholom in Manhat-
tan to recruit volunteers for
the experimental program.
She said each directory
will contain a list of organ-
izations and activities in
specifically - designated
areas willing or seeking to
include in their programs
elderly blind and visually-
handicapped residents.
Jerry Kass, JBI execu-
tive director, said the
volunteers are contact-
ing Jewish and non-
Jewish agencies in those
areas and seeking com-
mitments - from these
agencies.
Mrs. Levitt said the proj-
ect had been underwritten
by a $58,00Q private grant.
An application has been

AJC

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made for additional funding
for distribution of the proj-
ected directories and for an
evaluation of the effective-
ness of the volunteer pro-
grams.

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