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in a vital, alive community.
There are only about 1,400 Jews in
Cuba now. Some take two hours to
get to services and then return home.
One man cannot afford the 2-3 pesos
for bus fare; he walked two hours to
get there. We saw a community in
need of some basic items, as are other
Cubans. The community leadership is
working hard to nurture our people,
provide for communal needs and
maintain Judaism in Cuba. There were
small children, teens, young adults
and old people. The American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee is doing
a good job helping these people help
themselves, helping them to grow and
bloom as a community.
For anyone looking for a wonderful,
exciting (no time for beaches) travel
experience, we recommend this trip.
The JCC is sponsoring another trip in
February. We need to encourage partici-
pation in people-to people exchange.

Judith Miller
Bloomfield Hills

guage that all but died with the death
of our parents and most of their gen-
eration.
The production at Shaarey Zedek
was a smashing success. The director,
Helen Butleroff, a dynamo of a human
being, pulled off nothing short of a mir-
acle. Having directed Yiddle on Broad-
way and in Los Angeles this was the first
time she had to do it with amateurs, not
professionals. But the results were phe-
nomenal. The two performances were
standing room only and the audience
gave the talented cast the standing ova-
tion it so richly deserved.
Musical director Marty Mandelbaum
and each one of the four lead players —
Stacy Harold as Yiddle, Udi Kapen as
Froym, Larry Miller as Kalamatka, Louis
Soverinsky as Aryeh — and all the rest
of the cast helped make it an unforget-
table experience. Kudos should also go
to Cantor Chaim Najman of Shaarey
Zedek; he initiated and locally produced
Yiddle, attended all the rehearsals and
offered tips to the singers.

Richard
Jacobs (Reb
Gold), Udi
Kapen
(Froym) and
Lorrie Weis-
berg (Teibele)
after the per-
formance of
"Yiddle" at
Congregation
Shaarey
Zedek.

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I saw the Yiddish film Yiddle Mitn

Fiddle starring the famous actress
Molly Picon for the third time a few
weeks ago when our son, Udi, brought
a video home.
He was chosen to play the role of
Froym in a stage adaptation of the old
movie, which would be presented by
Congregation Shaarey Zedek ("Not
Just Fiddlin' Around," Nov. 26). Udi,
a pediatrician and sometime
actor/singer/dancer, wanted to get
acquainted with the original film and
especially with his counterpart Froym.
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