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Habima's Version of Toshse Kalb' Roundly Criticized
rael, was not educated on a judging by the reaction of
epidemics, sexual assaults
mysticism and the strife for
basis of the classic theater visitors and the press. A
and several wild and bar-
liberation and salvation.
tradition and if a classic part of Jewish life was
baric events which had no
TEL AVIV — The Israeli
The piece has many "tick-
work 'is not modernized, it shown in a distorted and
National Theater, Habima,
ling" elements. It is a story
has little chance of succeed- morbid way and in a place in Jewish life during
the last century.
reached a crossroad. It
about a rabbi who falls in
Michael Layne
ing here.
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cheap form which was
has to satisfy the demands
The whole performance is
love with a young girl and
The young directors in close to pornography.
facing a national theater in
his fight against evil desire.
Habima have put on the Many youngsters attend full of cheap sensations.
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a democratic country. But it
stage in recent years good the performance which is Every theater critic at-
Morris Schwarz did not
tacked it. Critic Boaz Evron
also has to solve problems of and colorful performances
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for them new and sensa- wrote that Silberg has mis- turn the performance into a
its budget, which is much
using modern techniques.. tional.
Nusach H'Ari.
used the freedom awarded cheap melodrama ruled by
higher than its allocation
But this method was not
The theater critic of the to him by the management pornography. Unfortu-
from the government.
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adopted by director Yoel daily Haaretz, Michael
nately, Yoel Silberg did not
A national theater usu-
Silberg in the performance Handelsalz, wrote that to of the theater. The perform- follow the steps of Morris
Reasonable.
ance lacks action, there is
ally performs classics. In of J. J. Singer's "Yoshe
Schwarz. He made a part of
stage Singer's masterpiece
the Diaspora it was easier to
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Kalb." If Silberg had fol- "Yoshe Kalb" in 1983 with no central figure in it and Jewish life, especially
keep this rule. In Poland, for
all
the
tragic
scenes
look
Hasidic life, cheap and
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example, the classics of lowed his predecessors, he primitive -means was a riduculous.
would have reached an ar- crime against our national
ridiculous. A young spec-
Sholom Aleichem, Peretz,
Before
World
War
II,
tistic aim and staged a culture. What has Silberg
"Yoshe Kalb" was one of the tator is taken in by doubtful
Mendele and the classic beautiful play.
One for $300
done?
He
adapted
the
text
of
most
beautiful and valuable scenes and does not feel at
world
repertoire
were
per-
Two for $500
But Silberg chose the
all the thoughts and ideas
formed. In Israel, the mat- way of the least resis- the piece and did not put plays in the Jewish theater.
which
Singer intended to
any
changes
in
it.
He
did
not
ter is more difficult. The tance and our national
Morris Schwarz, one of the
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new generation, born in Is- theater was shamed, care to consider the logic of greatest Jewish actors, put on the stage.
it and some of the scenes are often played the main role
The question is raised
not understood, some are and was also the director.
again about the purpose of a
even repelling.
There was much under-
national theater: box office
In order to draw the pub- standing and dignity for the
successes vs. the artistic
lic, Silberg used overdone
mission. We know that the
stage decorations and in-
theater has to please its
Three Knighted
cluded on the stage a fire,
audience and tries to draw
JERUSALEM — Schol- Prof. Hough said.
that over the past five
LONDON — The title of many to its performances.
ars from Israel, England
Although "many signals" years economic growth Research Center
knight was given to three But to put shame to our past
and the United States met are emanating from the had been non-existent.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — prominent British Jews last and on the Jewish way of
for a two-day conference re- Soviet Union at this time,
Among the reasons given
life, as was done in Silberg's
cently on "The Soviet Union Andropov has evidently not by Prof. Wiles for this situa- Research to unlock some month, according to the
production, is real van-
Under Andropov: Con- yet made any hard decisions tion was the heritage of behavioral problems in London Jewish Chronicle.
Knighthoods were con- dalism.
tinuity and Change," spon- in either domestic or foreign bureaucratic inertia, which modern medicine has been
sored by the Hebrew Uni- policy; the forthcoming under Brezhnev had made possible by a $200,000 ferred upon Prof. Abraham
Our young generation is
versity's Soviet and East "ideological plenum" should reached the top of the Soviet grant creating the William Goldberg, the Regius Pro- very much interested in cul-
ture and theater, and there-
European Research Center prove a good indicator of the system. Other factors were S. Schwartz Research Cen- fessor of Medicine at Glas-
and the University's De- direction the leadership in- the diversion of resources to ter for Behavioral Medicine gow University; Leslie Por- fore it is a pity that there is
partment of Russian and tends to take, Prof. Hough _ the "second economy," and in Israel, according to a ter, chairman and chief no responsible group to set
West Coast Israel Histadrut executive officer of Tesco limits. Lack of esteem for
Slavic Studies.
noted.
the Afghanistan war.
campaign
official, and a Stores; and Alfred Sher- our past can reach danger-
In the opening session,
An economic panel
Prof. Joseph Berliner of
man, a British journalist.
ous limits.
held at the Israeli Academy opened the following Harvard and Brandeis Un- local attorney.
of Sciences and Humanities, day's sessions, held at the viersities described calcula-
Prof. Jerry F. Hough, of Maiersdorf Faculty Club tions which indicated a pos-
Duke University, said that on the Hebrew Univer- itive though low rate of
Andropov seemed to be con- sity's Mount Scopus
growth of the Soviet
solidating his power via the campus. Prof. Peter economy.
traditional main-line Party Wiles of, the London
Dr. Michael Cheainski of
apparatus. Both of the ex- School of Economics the Hebrew University's
treme positions mooted in dwelt on the problem Soviet and East European
the press — on theone hand Andropov faces due to Research Center discussed
a possible KBG-military the failure of production the economic advantages
coup, and on the other an of the Soviet economy. and institutional vested
imminent series of "liberal" Analyzing Soviet statis- interests of the Soviet arms
reforms — were either tics and recently released industry, claiming that
JAPAN AND THE JEWS
wrong or misleading, per- data on the Soviet price these were a dominating
haps even disinformation, index, Prof. Wiles said factor blocking any eco-
nomic reform.
he strange twists of human
Elders of Zion.
These counterfeit
The first speaker on the
history
are often amazing
papers had been circulating in the
next panel, which dealt
to recall. One of those apparent con-
with Soviet foreign pol-
\Vest for many years. but were new
tradictions which appears to defy all
icy, was Prof. Nissan
to the East.
By HEIDI PRESS
logic has recently come to my atten-.
Mass. The chairman of the Oren (Hebrew Univer-
-Hitler's purpose, of course. was to
tion.
All Baskin-Robbins ice service, whose hefsher sity). He described the
indoctrinate
the Japanese ‘vith his
cream stores serviced by the
(symbol) is KVH, is Rabbi Soviet Union as a unique
Did you know that Japan provided
maniacal fear and hatred of the Jews,
*empire
--
an
"im-
company's plant in Ann Abraham Halbfinger. The
safe haven to more than 20M00
who are portrayed in the Protocols as
Arbor have been certified supervising rabbi is Rabbi poverished metropole,"
Jewish
refugees escaping from Nazi
controlling a relatively
a wealthy, powerful, scheming, people
kosher, The Jewish News Jonah Gewirtz.
terror? .
bent on world domination.
learned this week.
Mrs. Singal added that prosperous periphery.
Prof. Galia Golan (He-
Strange as it sounds, that is a fact.
According to Sara Singal,
this rabbinical kashrut
The Japanese leaders read these
Germany's Axis partner in World
a Baskin-Robbins fran- service has given certifica- brew University) examined
lies, and believed them.
-
chisee who led the cam- tion to Baskin-Robbins recent Soviet policy in
War II gave refuge to a significant
'But instead of joining Hitler in his
Syria;describing
it
as
basi-
paign to get kosher supervi- plants serving California,
number of those who were targeted
campaign of extermination, they
sion of the stores, all of the New York, Massachusetts cally a continuation of prey-
for extermination by Hitler. At the
ious.
Soviet
activities
in
the
decided they needed some Of that
flavors except "Rocky and Connecticut.
very time that the ocean liner, the St.
wealth and cunning fbr themselves.
Road," "Midget Marshmal-
In a letter to Mrs. Singal, area and a reaction to
American
advances
into
the
Louis, filled with refugees was being
lows" and "Cheesecake Ice which she has posted in her
That is how and why 20.000 Jews,.
turned away from our shores, others
Cream" are kosher.
store, the rabbis of the Bos- Middle East during recent
who would have otherwise perished
years.
Mrs. Singal said that the
ton agency stated:
, were being welcomed in Japan. At
in the gas chambers of Auschwitz,
Prof. Arthur Klinghoffer,
ice cream treats in her store
"This is to certify that
the very time that the Allies were
found refuge in the Land of the Ris-
visiting
Flubright
Professor
that require cake can be Baskin-Robbins ice
gathering at the ill-fated conference
ing Sun.
made with cake from the cream, frozen yogurt, from Rutgers University,
at Evian and, in effect, dosing their
noted
the
similarity
of
re-
Those refugees formed the base of
local kosher bakery super-
sherbet and water ice,
doors to Jewish immigration, Japan
what is a vital and thriving . Jewish
vised by the Council of Or-
manufactured at the cent Soviet patterns of in-
was extending an outstretched' hand
thodox Rabbi's — Vaad Baskin-Robbins Ann Ar- volvement in Syria to those
corninunity,in ,japan _today, having
of welcome.
Harabonim.
bor, Mich., plant, is pro- of the USSR in Nasser's
overcome
the dangerous stereotypes
duced under the Or- Eygpt in 1969-1970.
The motivation for their hospitali-
which prompted their accep-
(The kosher certifica-
The
conference
ended
ty was even more astounding, in a
tion only applies to the thodox rabbinic supervi- with a round-table debate in
tance: and functioning as productiv e
sion of the Vaad
way,
than their actions.
ice cream, sherbets and
citizens
at all levels of society.
which
the
participants
and
Harabonim
(of Boston)
ices.) -
The
Nazi
propaganda
mills
flood-
the
audience
questioned
As
I
said
before, the ironies of
and is certified kosher."
some of the propositions
ed Japan with their venomous anti-
history
sometimes
boggle the mind.
The certification came
The kosher certification adduced by the panelists
Jewish libels. Among the materials
But Nv hatever the reasons, I am glad
from the Kosher Food also extends to metropoli-
and defined the particular
introduced to japan for the first time
Analysis Certification and tan Toledo, which is also problems and policy initia-
those 20,000 Jews survived. Survival,
were the notorious falsifications
Supervision Service of serviced by the Ann Arbor tives which seemed to char-
in this Case. was far more important
America, based , in Boston, plant.
known as "The Protocols of the
than purity of purpose.
acterize Andropov's rule.
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
Russian Economic Policies
Analyzed at Hebrew U. Parley
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KEEPING THE
DREAM ALIVE
By Don McEuoy
Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream
Wins Kosher Certification
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