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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, October 14, 1968
HIGH HOLY DAY ECHOES
Observant Actress Dismissed
For High Holy Day Absences
NEW YORK (JTA)—A Jewish
actress who has been playing a
key role in “Fiddler on the Roof,”
has been dismissed from the
award-winning musical after ab
senting herself on Rosh Hashana
Goldberg Attends
Orthodox Service
By RUTH GERSHON
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
Ambassador Arthur Goldberg,
who finds no difficulty in read
ing the traditional Hebrew pray
ers, observed Rosh Hashana this
year in a New York Orthodox
synagogue of which one of his
friends is an officer.
The U. S. Ambassador to the
UN, who has just completed one
year of successful service as
Washington’s Representative in
the world organization, made this
fact known in an amiable chat
with David Horowitz, editor of
the World-Union Press and U. S.
correspondent for Hayom daily of
Israel, and Richard Yaffe, cor
respondent for the London Jew
ish Chronicle and for Israel’s
daily Al Hamishmar, during a
luncheon here which Justice
Goldberg had given for the Exe
cutive Committee of the Foreign
Press Association. Mr. Horowitz
serves as president this year, and
Mr. Yaffe is one of the 13-mem
ber Executive.
The special guest at the lunch
eon was Leonard Marks, the new
head of the United States Infor
mation Agency (USIA). Intro
duced by Justice Goldberg, who
had taken a special interest in
welfare of foreign correspondents
in the United States, Mr. Marks
announced that the Foreign Cor
respondents Center in New York,
originally established by the late
John F. Kennedy and Ed Mur-
row, would not only continue to
function in new quarters but that
services would also be improved
and expanded.
The luncheon came as a victori
ous climax to a six-month battle
by the Association to keep the
New York Center, whose exis
tence was threatened as the
headquarters and meeting-place
of foreign correspondents. Am
bassador Goldberg had personal
ly intervened on behalf of the
correspondents. Others espousing
their cause were Senators Ken
nedy and Javits and Mayor
Lindsay.
Association President Horowitz
spoke briefly at the luncheon ex
pressing the appreciation of his
Executive and total Association
membership to both Justice Gold
berg and Mr. Marks for their co
operation in facilitating the work
ing conditions of foreign corres
pondents stationed in New York.
Chief of the New York Center
is Richard Monson, who also
serves on Ambassador Goldberg’s
UN staff. William Strieker is di
rector.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
•HANCKA
December 8-15
Thursday - Thursday
•PURIM
March 26, Sunday
•PASSOVER
April 25, Tuesday
(First Day)
May 2, Tuesday
(Eighth Day)
LAG B’OMER
May 28, Sunday
•SHAVUOT
June 14, Wednesday
•ROSH HASHANA
Oct. 5-6, Thurs.-Fri.
•TOM KIPPUR
October 14, Sat.
•HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAT
and Yom Kippur. The actress is
Ann Marisse, in private life the
wife of Rabbi Herbert Freed.
Mrs. Freed charged in a letter
to Harold Prince, producer of the
play, that company manager Carl
Fisher had explained her dis
missal with the statement: “You
stayed out of the show for the
holidays, and we didn’t want you
to.” She said she had informed
Mr. Fisher of her intention to
observe Yom Kippur “in ample
time” to make the necessary ad
justments, a reference to the
need to provide for an under
study. Mrs. Freed had been play
ing the role of Tzeitel, Tevye’s
eldest daughter, for two years.
Mrs. Freed also asserted in her
letter that she had informed Ed
Baylies, the stage manager after
her Rosh Hashana absence, that
she absented herself “only after
alerting my understudy, so that
the show would not suffer. I
made it clear to Ed Baylies that,
being the daughter of an Ortho
dox rabbi and the wife of an or
dained rabbi, my religious con
victions dictated to me that I
observe the Holy Days and absent
myself from the show.”
Mr. Prince replied in a state
ment that Mrs. Freed "did not
ask for permission to take Rosh
Hashana off. Instead she tele
phoned in that she was sick. I
happened to be in the theater that
night, called her back and dis
covered she was out for the night.
Such behavior is highly unpro
fessional.” Mrs. Freed said the
reason she had not been home
on the eve of Rosh Hashana,
when Mr. Prince called, was that
she was attending synagogue
services in Queens, and that she
did not return to her apartment
in Manhattan after services be
cause she does not travel on Jew
ish holidays.
Mr. Prince added that “we have
been in the habit of letting peo
ple observe all manner of high
holy days.” This was a reference
to a practice of allowing person
nel in the play to be absent on
either Rosh Hashana or Yom
Kippur but not both, Mr. Fisher
said that Herschel Bernardi, the
current star of the musical as
Teyve, was off on Yom Kippur,
but that he performed on Rosh
Hashana.
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Hear Shofar CO LUMBUS DAY
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WILKES BARRE, Pa.—A ten-
year-old boy with a talent for
blowing the Shofar brought some
of the beauty, warmth, spiritual
depth and meaning of Rosh Hash
ana to hospitalized Jewish pati
ents.
Representing the Wilkes Barre
Jewish Community Center, the
boy, Seth; his father, Sy Hefter,
new educational director of the
Center, and Louis Smith, execu
tive director of the Center, paid
a unique visit to Jewish patients
at Mercy Hospital on the after
noon of the second day of Rosh
Hashana.
As they visited each patient
in his room Mr. Hefter briefly
described the origin and meaning
of the Shofar and then recited
appropriate prayers for the
sounding of the ram’s horn by his
son.
“One needed to be present to
underestand and appreciate the
positive values which Sy and
Seth established,” Mr. Smith
stated in describing the experi
ence. “The hearing of the Sho
far stirred in each of the patients
a feeling for God, a reaching out
of the spirit for something more
lasting and secure than mere ma
terial and temporary joys.”
GUEST EDITORIAL
In the very interesting book “Yankees Yes,” just published
by David Schwartz, the author points out that history has been
unfair in the case of Columbus and, even more so, in that of
the Jew Luis de Santangell, the man who, next to Columbus,
was most responsible for the expedition of discovery.
The new world was not named after its discoverer, but at
least by now we all know that it was Columbus who “turned
the trick.” Santangell is almost entirely forgotten.
Schwartz recalls a bit of history of the eventful 1492.
A man disheartened by twenty years of vain seeking for
support, but nursing one last hope appeals before Queen
Isabella.
The queen listens and then he hears from her the same
word he has been hearing for years.
It is a very short word, but a terribly fateful one. It is the
same in Spanish and English. It requires no translation. It is
the word—“No.”
With that word, Columbus knows his hopes are smashed.
Maybe God will yet hear, hope faintly whispers to him.
Maybe God does! Anyway, Luis de Santangell, a Jew,
hears. He learns what happened and he rushes to the Queen.
He pleads with the Queen with all the eloquence of his being
to reconsider. Perhaps in his pleading he remembers inwardly
that his own cousin has been burned in the fires of the Spanish
Inquisition, and it is time to uncover a new world of freedom.
Anyway, there is an urgency in his voice—an emotion that
moves the Queen. But he does more than move her emotion.
The Jew Santangell who has occupied the post of Government
Treasurer points out that there are government resources
available for financing the expedition and he offers and actual
ly gives of his own fortune for the expedition.
He changes Isabella’s ‘No’ to ‘Yes.’ An emissary is sent to
recall Columbus. If history were fair, we would have a
Santangell Day along with Columbus Day.
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