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 —O 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. 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