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Yeshiva University Names AJCommittee Leader Gold Is Cautious
Israel Miller Vice President About Current Middle East Situation
NEW YORK — Dr. Israel
Miller was appointed senior
vice president of Yeshiva
University by Dr. Norman
Lamm, university
president, last week.
Dr. Miller, who earned
the bachelor's degree,
magna cum laude at
Yeshiva University, and
who was ordained at the
university's Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Sem-
inary, where he is currently
on faculty as professor of
applied rabbinics, joined the
university in 1968 as assis-
tant to the president for
student affairs.
Dr. Miller has long been a
prominent figure in Ameri-
can Jewish life. He is the
past chairman of the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, the coor-
dinating body of the reli-
gious, secular and Zionist
groups in the United States,
serving as its spokesman in
matters relating to Israel
and international affairs in
this country and abroad.
He was the founding
president, and is now hon-
orary president of the
American Zionist Federa-
tion; was for four years
chairman of the American
Zionist Council; was a
member of the Board of
Governors of the Jewish
Agency and the Executive
of the World Zionist Organ-
ization; and is past
president of the Rabbinical
Council of America.
gyptian Prof
Speaks in Israel
ISRAEL MILLER
He was appointed vice
president in 1970, and in
1975 was named chairman
of the executive committee
for university affairs, made
up of the institution's four
vice presidents, which
served as interim governing
body pending the election of
a new president.
HAIFA — Dr. Hussein
Faouzi, vice president of the
Institute D'Egypte and a
member of the editorial
board of Al Ahram news-
paper,'was at Haifa Univer-
sity last Friday as a guest of
the Maritime Center and
the Arab-Jewish Center. He
gave three public lectures.
Dr. Faouzi is the first
Egyptian academic to be
hosted by an Israeli univer-
sity.
,
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)
— Bertram Gold, executive
vice president of Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, ex-
pressed optimism about the
situation in the Middle
East, saying that the
Israeli-Egyptian peace
process is taken so much for
granted that "it is hard to
realize -the enormity of this
development."
Gold told the AJCommit-
tee's National Executive
Council meeting in San
Francisco for its annual
meeting that there was lit-
tle doubt in his mind "that
for the next two years or so
it will take for the rest of the
Sinai to be returned to
Egypt, President (Anwar)
Sadat will not find it in his
country's interest to derail
the negotiations."
Turning to the black
community, Gold acknowl-
edged that recent dif-
ferences between blacks
and Jews following the res-
ignation of Andrew Young
as U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations has had an
impact on the situation in
the Middle East.
"The most serious conse-
quence of these sad events,"
he said, "has been a re-
newed internationalization
of political anti-Semitism,
moving it out of the domes-
tic area into the Third
World and the Middle
East."
Addressing another ses-
-
sion of the weekend meet-
ing, former Israeli Premier
Yitzhak Rabin said that Is-
rael's partner for the
peacemaking process
should be King Hussein of
Jordan; that the basis for
negotiations should be the
Camp David agreements;
and that instead of au-
tonomy on the West Bank
during the transitional
period, the solution should
be a Jordanian-Israeli trus-
teeship for that period.
Rabin stressed his belief
in the importance of the
transitional five-to-seven-
year period, pointing out
that it should be utilized for
an attempt to cooperate
with Jordan. concerning
Broadway Play
Based On
Zangwill Novel
NEW YORK — "King of
the Schnorrers," currently
enjoying a successful run on
Broadway, is a musical
based on the book of Israel
Zangwill.
The story, one of conflict
and snobbery in London's
East End between Sephar-
dic and Ashkenazic Jews,
takes place in 1971. Lloyd
Battista stars in the title
role as a humorous schnor-
rer (begger). Sophie Schwab
plaYs Battista's daughter
and Phillip Casnoff plays
the part of David Ben Yon-
kel, her fiance.
A New Revival of Yiddish Theater in NY
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
r.
There was a time a few
years ago when it appeared
that the Yiddish theater
was made up of aging actors
performing for equally el-
derly audiences. But not
only are more young people
going to Yiddish plays but
this season a Yiddish musi-
cal is being presented at
Town Hall in Manhattan's
Times Square area by a
group of young producers
and performers.
The musical is "Rebecca
— the Rabbi's Daughter,"
which is being produced by
Raymond Ariel, a 36-year-
ole Belgium-born Israeli,
who has produced about 28
Yiddish plays in Israel, and
David Carey, 33, a Boston-
born actor-producer, who
also has ua featured role in
the play.
The stars are two
Romanian-born Israelis,
Mary Soreanu, who is also
Ariel's wife, and Yankele
Alperin. Last year, Soreanu
starred in "The Girl From
Tel Aviv," which marked
Ariel's debut as a producer
in the United States. Carey
appeared in that play while
at the same time he was co-
producer of another Yiddish
show, "Laugh a Lifetime."
"Rebecca — the Rab-
bi's Daughter" is one of
several Yiddish plays
being presented in New
York this fall. This has
been a develOpment of
the last few years after
seasons in which it was
hard to find even one
good Yiddish production.
In an interview at Sardi's,
in New York's theater dis-
trict, Carey and Ariel said
that the Yiddish theater,
like the Yiddish language,
has too frequently been
labeled as dying. Carey
stressed that many times
after a few years in which it
was moribund, Yiddish the-
ater has sprung back to life
as it is doing today.
He noted that Ida
Kaminska, the famed Yid-
dish actress who now lives
in New York, tells the story
that when she wanted to go
into the Yiddish theater in
Poland, her mother, Esther
Rachel Kaminski, the great
lady of the Yiddish theater,
sought to dissuade her- by
saying it would be gone in
20 years. "And that was be-
fore World War II," he
noted.
Carey said the increased
interest in Yiddish by
young people, as marked by
the many colleges and uni-
versities now offering
courses in the language, is
part of "the whole ethnicity
thing." Young Jews are
searching for their "roots."
In the Yiddish theater they
can "live vicariously what
their parents and
grandparents lived
through," he said.
While the Yiddish thea-
ter is attracting young
people in the U.S. this is
not true in Israel, Ariel
pointed out. He said the
reason is that -they can
see many of the same
plays in Hebrew.
Another reason for the
shot in the arm the Yiddish
theater has received -in re-
cent years is the large
number of immigrants from
the Soviet Union. Thirty
percent of the audience at
Yiddish shows in Israel are
recently-arrived Russian
immigrants, Ariel said.
Carey noted that fre-
quently, after a show some
of these Soviet immigrants
NEW YORK — Some 55
percent more Americans
vacationed in Israel during
August 1979 than in
August 1978. The 29,452
Americans who visited Is-
rael in August 1979 repre-
sented the biggest August
increase in American
tourism to Israel in the
state's 31-year history.
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