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Jewish Play
Performed
In Moscow

Moscow (JTA) — "Benjamin
III's Trip to the Holy Land,"
based on a humorous tale by
Mendele Mocher Sforim, the
famed Jewish storyteller of
turn-of-the-century Russia,
was performed in Moscow's
Hermitage Theater, the first
time a Soviet theater was
allowed to stage a play that
symbolizes Jewish aspira-
tions to go to Israel.
The dialogue was in Rus-
sian, liberally sprinkled with
Yiddish phrases and nearly
all the songs were sung in
Hebrew. Mikhail Levitin,
chief director of the Her-
mitage Theater, said that last
week's performance was a
breakthrough.
The theater was not under
pressure by the authorities to
renounce the play, though it
contains a very strong Jewish
national element, Levitin
said.
The critics, in fact, hailed
the performance as superb,
and praised the actors and
director alike for their ex-
cellent work.
Some of the Hebrew songs
contained unabashed calls to
go to Israel. The enthusiastic
audience of several hundred
people, mostly Jews, was
brought to tears when the
Russian actors in the play
uttered such Hebrew words as
"Eretz Yisrael," "Har Zion,"
"Kever Rachel Imenu,"
"Ribono Shel Olam" and
many more.
When the audience de-
manded an encore, the cast
burst into a rousing "Heveinu
Shalom Aleichem," joined by
virtually everybody in the
house.
For the first time in the
history of the Hermitage, the
theater program was printed
in both Russian and Hebrew.

B'nai B'rith
Honors Shultz

Washington (JTA) —
Secretary of State George
Shultz accepted the Philip
Klutznik Distinguished Ser-
vice Award from B'nai B'rith
International, saying that he
appreciates the support he
receives from such private
groups.
Klutznik, who was
secretary of commerce in the
Carter administration and is
a former B'nai B'rith presi-
dent, was supposed to present
The award last week but was
delayed in Chicago, where
President Reagan signed the
law making genocide a crime
in the United States.