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LYNNE MEREDITH COHN

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abbi Tzvi Hochstadt has
tasted the glamorous life.
But after five years of
yelling "Cut!" and "It's a
wrap!" he decided that a life of
Torah was a little richer.
Hired in December to handle
administrative affairs for the Detroit
branch of Aish HaTorah, Hochstadt
takes every opportunity to talk
about the urgency of educating secu-
larized Jews who are being lost to
the "silent Holocaust" of assimila-
tion.
Aish HaTorah is a $17 million
organization with 14 branches and
55 full-time outreach professionals.
"Man-for-man and dollar-for-dollar,
it's the most effective [Jewish- out-.
reach] organization in the world
today," he asserted.
Hochstadt, 34, grew up in
Hewlett, N.Y., in a "marginally"

He arrived at an absorption cen-
Conservative home. By the time he
ter in Tiberias, near his future wife's
got to New York University to study
family in the north of Israel. Since
film and TV, his family had become
he had been studying Hebrew regu-
even less observant.
larly, Hochstadt was interested in an
After graduating in 1985, he
advanced
ulpan there. Next stop: Tel
worked as a film editor in New York
Aviv
and
a
job in TV.
and Israel. At the end of 1987,
After a year in Israel, Hochstadt
Hochstadt fell in love — with the
did four months of basic training in
Jewish homeland and with the
the engineering corps of
woman who would become
the Israel Defense Forces.
his wife, Victoria, a native of
Rabbi Tzvi
That's when he became
Zaragoza, Spain.
Hochstadt wastes Shabbat-observant.
In the spring of 1988, he
no time before
"My wife and I both were
did an Israeli army course
plunging into the
very
sensitive to [the
called Marva, which educates work at Aish
trend] that young people
non-Israelis about Israel and Ha Torah.
were not as concerned
Zionism.
with the common Jewish
"It had a big impact on
destiny that we felt. That's why we
me, made me very, very Zionistic,"
were Zionistic, in the army. We said,
Hochstadt said. "That's when I pret-
`Where are the people who are
ty much knew I wanted to live in
transmitting [Judaism] effectively?' I
Israel."
wasn't finding it in Tel Aviv, espe-
But it took a while until that
cially working in television."
dream became reality. Hochstadt
Hochstadt and his wife married
returned to New York to work for a
during the Gulf War, in a short
year before making aliyah in 1990.

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