Dateline: NEW YORK
By Trade Weiss-Rosmarin
YIDDISH SUCCEEDS OIV THE STAGE
Herschel Bernardi has replaced Zero Mostel as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," now in its second year as a Broadway hit. Less ebullient and more subdued than Mostel's, Bernardi's interpretation of Sholem Aleichem's most memorable character has met with much critical acclaim.
On the other hand, Dore Schary's production of "a play with music," based on Dan Jacobson's "The Zulu and the Zayda," has had a mixed reception. Menasha Skulnik as the Zayda has been compared to Sean Con-nery by the "New York Times," but connoisseurs of the Yiddish stage are not amused by his antics. Nevertheless. "The Zulu and the Zayda" is playing to full houses.
•'Hello, Charlie" Sholem Aleichem's popularity with Broadway audiences has given the Yiddish ' stage a new lease on life, and other Yiddish plays have done well. "Hello, Charlie," a "Yiddish American musical," was the "in" play to see for a number of months.
In the words of Leonard J. Lyons, one of the columnists who tell New Yorkers what is the done thing, it was "chic to head for the Anderson Theatre and see
who prophesied the early demise of the Yiddish theatre underestimated its vitality.
Los Angeles, which has displaced Chicago as "the second city", has proved to be fertile ground for Yiddish theatre and cabaret, as, indeed, has Chicago itself. Entertainers with Yiddish repertoires are much in de mand by Jewish community centres and synagogues. Suddenly, everybody seems to understand Yiddish; the time when not to understand Yiddish was a sign of perfect   acculturation   is no more. True, the American Yiddish which third-generation American Jews can understand, is resented and denigrated by Yiddish literati and purists, but this does not detract from the enjoyment of Yiddish programmes in the provinces.
In the 32 synagogues and Jewish centres I have visited during the past three months or so I have counted 27 Yiddish programmes presented or to be presented.
On the non-Yiddish scene, the Jewish Theatre for Children, affiliated to the Jewish Education Committee of New York, is doing verj' well, too. It is observing its twentieth anniversary at present and. although its
the Yiddish musical 'Hello | performances are not adver-Charlie'. It has everything", i lised, they are  packed to
The new attraction at the Anderson, Boris Tomashev-sky's ""Dos Pintele Yid", may not be quite so chic, but it is a huge success with Yiddish-speaking audiences.
the 800-seat capacity of the auditorium.
Directed by Samuel J. Citron, who also doubles as a playwright, the Jewish Theatre for Children gives
At the East Broadway; between 14 and 20 perfor-Folksbiene, "Dos Finfte Ge-; mances annually. An estimat-bot", by David Licht, has | ed quarter of a million chil-been performed   at   week- dren at least, their teachers
affiliated to the Jewish Education Committee.
In addition to delighting and inspiring youthful audiences, the Jewish Theatre for Children conducts the annual "Golden Pen" play-writing contest (the prize to the winner is $1,000), which has stimulated and enriched the writing of children's plays on Jewish themes. A member of the staff of the London Chronicle, Pamela Melnikoff, won the contest in 1961.
In previous, years, the Poetry Centre of the 92nd Street Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association was also part of the non-Yiddish scene, but now it does full justice to Yiddish — and Hebrew — poets. The "Y" has also changed its policy of small advertisements for Jewish lectures. These day the display advertisements of the "Y's" Jewish programmes are as large and as frequent as those of general cultural offerings.
With respect to children's programmes, however, the picture is different. Of the 25 plays and festivals the "Y" is offering this year, only three have any Jewish content. At a time when the Jewish Theatre for Children must ration its seats, perhaps the "Y" should substitute plays on Jewish themes for "Rumpelstiltskin ' "Hansel and Gretel", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and so on, especially since theatre, ballets and concerts for children are plentiful in New York.
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ZNIIISTS. B'lHI Bmni REFUSE HAH FOR NON-TRADmiMAl SERVICE
Tht Canedien JcwmIi News, Friday, Febraory 11, 1966 — Pag* S
JERUSALEM, (CJN) — Reform and other non-Orthodox congregations requiring financial help to build places of worship or acquire religious appurtenances can obtain such help for the asking from the Ministry for Religious Affairs.
It is understood that the Ministry is prepared to extend the same assistance to these congregations that it extends to Orthodox congregations in organizing and holding services. Leaders of the Reform movement in the United States have been in-
gle thing from the Ministry for Religious Affairs."
On this specific charge, an informed observer, who is also close to Progressive Judaism, said that the congregations apparently never really asked the Ministry for "standard assistance. If they had, they probably would have got it — barring the usual bureaucratic negligence or red tape."
vices on the premises lest the kashrut approval be withdrawn. This would deprive it of essential income from weddings and banquets."
In connection with the congregation's request to rent Beit B'nai B'rith, which ' was refused on the grounds • that Chief Rabbi Unterman might object, it is understood that the Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Zager, in an inter- i ^^^^ consulted and would view over Kol Yisrael's En-1 have preferred not to have glish language "Jerusalem I his name mentioned in con-Callmg" programme, saidlnection with the refusal. In that the refusal of B'nai i fact, if consulted quietiv, he formed of the Ministry in- B'rith and Z.O.A. House to ^^.q^u have given a replv in tentions. allow a Progressive congre-, ij^e with what is now under-
On the other hand. Rabbi gallon to rent their premises ^moj m be the Ministry's Moshe Zager, leader of the in Tel Aviv for services "ap- permissive policy, it is bc-Kfar Shman-ahu Progressive! parently was due cither to h^ypj Congregation, whose at- pressure from the Rabbi- Meanwhile, leader, of the tenipts to organize ser^'.ces I nale or to I^^alpr^^^^^ • Xonsenative congregation in m Tel Avivniet with severar HEKHSHER AT STAKE Ashkelon. which has been ostensiblv officially-m.spired ,   Rabb. Zager told the press , ^^^.^^ ^^^^^^^ y^-^^
rebuffs, told The Jerusalem Post:
that in the case of Z.O.A. House. Mr. Jacques Torczy-
"As far as I know, none ' ner. President of the Zionist
of the Progressive movement's seven congregations in Israel "has ever got a sin-
Organization of America, had told him that "it could not afford to allow Reform ser-
premiscs in the Afridar quar tcr, said they would hold outdoor ser\'ices if they do not get new premises by then.
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AT BRANTFORD BB LOOGE. - At a Hebrew University Evening sponsored by Brontford Lodge, B'nai B'rith 1154, of Beth David Synagogue, Allon Bronfmon addressed the Brontford Jewish community on the Hebrew University's Endowment Program.
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