THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 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. Abe Cherow Says: DO US BOTH A FAVOR. LET ARTISTIC UPHOLSTER YOUR FURNITURE. 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