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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Gala Premier of The Chosen'
to Celebrate Israel's Birth

By HERBERT LUFT

(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD — "The
Chosen," the best-selling
novel by Chaim Potok
which sold some 3,500,000
copies in hard cover and
paperback and was pub-
lished in 15 languages, is
being brought to the screen
by producers Edie and Ely
Landau, with Jeremy Paul
Kagan directing from a
screenplay written by him
in collaboration with Edwin
Gordon.
Most of the footages was
shot by cinematographer
Arthur Ornitz on actual lo-
cations in the Lower East
Side of Manhattan, at the
center of Jewish Orthodoxy.
After two months of photog-
raphy, the picture was in
the can at the end of Sep-
tember and ready for the
final editing by David Gar-
field.
Rod Steiger, who won an
Academy Award nomina-
tion for Landau's "The
Pawnbroker," and Maximi-
lian Schell, who received an
Oscar nomination for his
portrayal of the title char-
acter in "The Man in the
Glass Booth," the latter a
part of Landau's Film Thea-
ter series, once more por-
tray Jewish characters,
though neigher one is of the
Hebrew faith.
In "The Chosen,"
Steiger appears as Reb
Saunders, a Hasidic
leader who wants his son
(portrayed by Robby Be-
nson) to follow in his
footsteps though the boy
yearns to study psychol-
ogy. Schell portrays the
part of David Malter, a
secular Jewish leader
and ardent Zionist who at
that time, 1942, believes
in the establishment of a
Jewish state to save. our
brethren from the
Holocaust, while Saun-
ders maintains that Is-
rael can only be re-
deemed when the Mes-
siah comes. Barry Miller
is chaell's son.
Others in the cast are Jeff
Marcus, Hildy Brooks, Ron
Rifkin and Kaethe Fine
plus a number of yeshiva
students somehow portray-
ing themselves. Author
Chaim Potok has a cameo-
role.

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"The Chosen" will pre-
miere as the largest theater
benefit party ever stages,
with an expected
attendance of some 500,000
movie goers in 1,000 theat-
ers throughout the United
States and in 13 other coun-
tires around the world.
It will coincide with the
celebration of the 33rd an-
niversary of the State of Is-
rael on May 11, 1981. The
first designated be-
neficiaries of the $100-a-
ticket gala event, which is
expected to raise $50 mil-
lion, are Hadassah, ORT,
American Friends of the
Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and of Haifa
University.
JESSE L. LASKY'S
100th birthday (Sept. 13)
was the occasion for a trib-
ute paid to the late show-
man with a reception for the
family by the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, combined with a
screening of excerpts from
his (still silent) Paramount
productions; a repeat of his
apperarance on Ralph Ed-
wards' "This is your Life";
and in its entirety, "The
PoWer and the Glory," an
early sound film of Lasky
for Fox starring Spencer
Tracy and Colleen Moore.
Lasky and Samuel
Goldwyn, then his brother-
in-law, joined forces in 1913
to go into motion picture
production.

SAMUEL
THE
GOLDWYN STUDIO,
early in September was
taken over by Warner Bros.
An era came to an end — as
the main gate to the movie
lot no longer carries the
name of the pioneer pro-
ducer, who came to the
former United Sartists
Studios on Santa Monica
Blvd. and Formosa Avenue
in Hollywood in 1923, first
as a tenant later to share
the facilities with owners
Mary Pickford, Douglas
Fairbanks and Charles
Chaplan to buy out his
partners and acquire the
sole ownership in 1955.

SOL LESSER, who
started as a film distributor
as early as 1907 and was the
last living rounder of Hol-

New Emigres Fulfill Need
for Teachers in Israel

t.

JERUSALEM — Some
400 new immigrant
eachers will be assuming
positions in the Israeli
school system this month.
The teachers, from sev-
eral countries, have been
absorbed into the education
system after completing
various retraining pro-
grams specially designed
for academics.
Teachers of English, still
in great demand in Israel,
were placed in 165 jobs
throughout the country; 98
are teaching mathematics,
chemistry or biology; 26 are
teaching physical educa-
tion, and 111 are in pre-
school and kindergarten

posts.
In order to prepare
teachers for teaching
English as a second lan-
guage, a special retrain-
ing program has been de-
signed. A five month in-
tensive Hebrew course at
Haifa is offered for all
candidates who have no
working knowledge of
Hebrew.
The second stage of the
course introduces the
teacher to the methods and
didactics of teaching in Is-
rael. The absorption center
also provides housing ac-
commodations for par-
ticipating teachers and
their families. - t

Friday, October 17, 1980 17

Three Profs Take Posts at Dropsie U . P—FREEDOM

lywood, died in Los Angeles
at the age of 90. A native of
Spokane, Washington, he
moved with his family to
San Francisco before the
turn of the century. He
began his career as an usher
in his father's nickelodeon.
He made his first picture in
1910, "The Last Night of the
Barbary Coast," thereby
utilizing the headline story
of the closing down of vice,
gambling and prostitution.
Among his outstanding
films are, "Our Town,"
"Stage Door Canteen" and
"Kon-Tiki." He was the re-
cipient of the Jean Hersholt
Humanitarian Award.

PHILADELPHIA —
Three biblical scholars have
joined the faculty at Dropsie
University to provide for an
expanded curriculum at the
post-graduate university.

year from Israel will join the
teaching faculty as associ-
ate professor of medieval
literature.

Dr. Stephen A. Geller,
coming from the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America in New York, has
been named Joseph
Meyerhoff Assistant Pro-
fessor of Biblical Studies in
the Max L. Margolis De-
partment of Biblical
Studies. Dr. Sol Cohen, who
has taught Bible and bibli-
cal archeology at Gratz Col-
lege, has been named asso-
ciate professor in Semitics.
Haim Vitaly Shayn-in,
who came to Dropsie last

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Some people are talking about
sitting out this election. Or voting
for Republican John Anderson. (It's
the same thing.)
Well, if we want to elect Ronald
Reagan and his right wing
supporters, that makes a lot of
sense. Just as it did for those
who helped Nixon beat Hubert
Humphrey in 1968.
But before we do that, take a
look at who's not sitting out
this election.
The rightwingers think 1980 is
their year. They see the radical right
on the rise. Now, with Republican
Ronald Reagan, these groups are
ready to take charge. And impose
their narrow, exclusive views on the
rest of us.
But we can stop them.
Jimmy Carter and Walter
Mondale stand proudly in the
progressive, humane tradition of
Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt
and Harry Truman.
'They've shown their courage by
fighting for principles of social
justice, concern for the needy, a
fair deal for the elderly, and human
rights that have always characterized
the Democratic Party.
That's why the same people
who opposed Roosevelt, Kennedy,
Truman, Johnson, and Humphrey

stand today behind the extrethist
Reagan wing of the Republi-
can Party.

For Israel For Human Rights •

Jimmy Carter. His name means
human rights throughout the world.
The Carter Administration has
worked hard to increase Jewish
emigration from the Soviet Union.
By 1979, it totalled more
than 50,000.
President Carter is committed
to what Israel needs to survive:
❑ Secure and recognized borders
of Israel.
n An undivided Jerusalem with
free access for all faiths to the
holy places.
❑ No independent Palestinian
state.
❑ No negotiations with, or recog-
nition of, the P.L.O.
❑ Energy Independence. President
Carter knows that, to resist
blackmail in the Mid East, the
United States must reduce its
dependence on OPEC oil. That's
why he won a tough windfall
profits tax to pay for conserva-
tion and development of new
energy sources. And today, oil
imports are down 1.5 million
barrels a day compared
to 1976.

Re•Elect President Carter
and Vice President Mondale.
The Democrats.

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