24 Friday, January 18, 1980

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS •

Masada Epic RCreatd for Television

From Israel Digest

JERUSALEM — Deep in
the Judean Desert, two
mountains away from
Masada, Herod's famous
desert fortress, ABC Televi-
sion and Universal Studios
have recreated the life and
times of the famous moun-
taintop as it must have
looked more than 1,900
years ago. The sets were
constructed with amazing
attention to detail.

The "Hollywood Masada"
and the Roman siege camp

were constructed after
months of research and con-
sultation with Deputy Pre-
mier Yigael Yadin, ex-
cavator and restorer of the
site.
Both the zealot moun-
taintop village and Roman
camp look surprisingly real.
Both sets were made from
local materials, including
wood and styrofoam, by a
U.S. construction crew and
local contractors.

Tenor Misha Alexan-
drovich will perform in con-
cert 8 p.m. Feb. 17 at Cong.
Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses, sponsored by the
men's club.
A native of Russia,
Alexandrovich received its

Lecture Series
Begins at Beth El

Temple Beth El will in-
augurate its "Focus '80"
series at Shabat services
8:30 p.m. today. in the tem-
ple. Mrs. Arthur R. Bloom is
chairman.
At tonight's services, Dr.
Gerald L. Levin, director of
The Orchards Children's
Services, will speak on
"1980 — The Year of the
Family — The New Jewish
Diaspora."
Rabbi Richard C. Hertz
will be the moderator.

In little more than two
months, the battlements,
western and northern

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Two Roman catapults are shown in position on
the Israel movie set in front of a wood and styrofoam
Masada. The ABC-Universal film epic is expected to
be televised later this year in four 2-hour segments.

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palaces, storerooms,
tanneries, vegetable gar-
dens, animal stockade,
living quarters, and
synagogue were "con-
structed."
Twenty Israeli Army
engineers welded 110 tons
of steel into a new siege
ramp, strong enough to
support a specially-built
gargantuan Roman siege
tower weighing 14 tons.
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The script is based on Er-
nest Gann's "The An-
tagonists" and on Roman

historian Josephus

Flavius's account of the
zealots' resistance and
eventual mass suicide.

The cast includes Peter
O'Toole playing the Roman
commander and Peter
Strauss playing the zealot
leader Eliezer Ben-Yair.
This ABC-Universal $20
million coproduction is one
of the largest movies ever
filmed in Israel.

Kiryat Arba Settlement
Expanded, Housing Added

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Work began last week,
under the protection of Is-
raeli army guards, to ex-
pand the Jewish settlement
of Kiryat Arba near Heb-
ron. The work, that of build-
ing additional housing, con-
tinued undisturbed despite
a protest demonstration by
a group of Arabs claiming
ownership of the land
known as Harsina Hill.
At the same time, it was
learned that work has been
completed on the recon-
struction of the Hadassah
building in Hebron — which
still houses a group of Gush
Sony Trinitron with remote control, of course. This • Emunim women despite a
government order for their
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Meanwhile, unrest con-
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Russian Jewish Tenor Due
in BAHM Men's Concert

At the same time, pro-

gress was reported on the
construction of Djebil
Kebir, the new site for the
Gush Emunim settlers who
must evacuate Elon Moreh
soon in compliance with or-
ders by the Supreme Court.

Anatoly's Sabbath

The Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan De-
troit has reminded area
congregations of Anatoly
Shcharansky's 32nd birth-
day on Sunday. In a letter to
all community rabbis,
Committee on Interna-
tional Concerns Chairman
Prof. Richard Strichartz
urged the Detroit Jewish
community to "not forget
Shcharansky, and the
USSR's continuing abuse of
his human rights."

Strichartz asked the
community to demonstrate
its solidarity with
Shcharansky by making
appropriate mention of him
on the Sabbath through
sermons, discussions or
other programming, or to
write letters of concern over
Shcharansky's continuing
imprisonment and reported
failing health to Ambas-
sador Anatoly Dobrynin.
Embassy of the USSR,
1125 16th Street N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20036.

MISHA
ALE XANDROVI C H

Stalin Medal and sold mil-
lions of records.
He began his career at
age 9 and by age 19 he was
the chief cantor of Manches-
ter, England. Now a resi-
dent of the U.S. and Israel,
Alexandrovich performs in
concerts all over the world.
There is a charge for the
concert. Tickets are avail-
able at the synagogue or by
calling the synagogue
office, 851-6880.

Young Marrieds
Meeting Planned

Cong. Bnai David's young
married group will meet
1:30 p.m. Sunday at the
synagogue. Couples in their
20s and 30s are invited.
The group will go bowling
9:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at Ark
Lanes West. For reserva-
tions and information, call
Gail Granat, 968-2866, or
the synagogue, 557-8210.

Haifa Lock-Out

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Hai-
fa's 10 movie houses were

shut down by their owners
Sunday for an .indefinite
time to protest against the
city tax on movie tickets.

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