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Uniquely Ours and the JCC Rosh
Chodesh Program.
"It's really.a deep look into my life
and the things I thought about," says
Blum, near 30, married, the mother of
three and the director of a tutoring
company. "I did a lot of things that
people think are 'it,' and I was not
unhappy. Still, they didn't answer the
question of why I'm here. I thought I
would be a rich and famous performer
but learned there was more to life."
Accompanying herself on piano and
drums, Blum uses songs she's corn-
posed to show how she bases her life
on Torah. Her song "My Own Small
Way" communicates her purpose:
"In my own small way, I can use my
little spark to make fire in the night.
In my own small way, I can brighten
up the darkness with my own light.
•
In my own small way, I can change
the world I find full of pettiness and
strife.
In my own small way, I can give back
the kindness I have taken all my lifi."
'As my life journey developed, people
realized the background I had perform-
ing could be of use in the Jewish com-
munity," explains Blum, who stopped
performing in front of men because she
thinks that would make her a specta-
cle instead of someone who's
respectable.
"I really didn't come up
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Julia Blum grew up thinking a large
part of her life would be devoted to
entertainment, but she did not antici-
pate that the entertainment would
involve her experience with
Orthodoxy.
Blum, whose family lived an afflu-
ent life in Beverly Hills, Calif, studied
acting privately, won roles in films
such as Karate Kid and Bound for
Glory and appeared in commercials.
Holding a Conservative outlook that
placed no barriers before her secular
career, she earned a degree in film
studies at Yale University.
A trip to Israel changed all that.
After enrolling at Neve Yerushalaym
Yeshiva, she decided that observance
was more important than performance.
Because Orthodox doctrine forbids
women from singing before mixed
groups, Blum bowed out of the direc-
tion she had been taking, put together
a piece that tells other women and girls
about her religious experience and trav-
els to audiences around the country.
Her narrated concert can be seen
Sunday evening, Oct. 17, at the
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building of the
Jewish Community Center in
Oak Park. The perfor-
mance is sponsored
by Machon
L'Torah,
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Julia
Blum:
A trip
to Israel
changed
her life.