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Friday, June 30, 1972
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Five
PREGULMAN ELECTED
Chattanooga Federation
Honors Ted Robbins
TED ROBBINS
MERVIN PREGULMAN
At the annual meeting of the
Chattanooga Jewish Welfare
Federation on June 25, Ted Rob
bins was honored for his many
years of service to the com
munity.
For 18 years, Robbins has
been a member of the board of
directors of the Chattanooga
Jewish Community Center. His
service included two years as
secretary, six as treasurer, eight
years as vice president and
chairman of various committees.
In addition to his service as
president of the Jewish Wel
fare Federation, he was a trus
tee for 16 yedrs, chairman of
various divisions and general
chairman of the combined UJA
and Welfare Federation Com-
paign in 1968, 1969, 1970 and
1972. He was a vice president
of Federation for seven years
and treasurer for four years.
Other memberships include
B’nai B’rith, Mizpah Congrega
tion, B’nai Zion Congregation.
Robbins also served as co-chair
man and as treasurer of Dalton
UJA campaigns.
Guest speaker at the event
was Asher Naim, first secretary
of the Embassy of Israel, Wash
ington.
RESORT
Osceola Lake
Inn Preparing
For 32nd Season
Rubin’s Osceola Lake Inn,
Hendersonville, N. C., reopen
ed June 10 for its 32nd season,
according to Carole and Stuart
Rubin, owners of the mountain
resort.
The Inn, which has accommo
dations for 125 guests, is situat
ed on Lake Osceola in one of
the most scenic areas in the eas
tern U. S. Recently expanded,
the new facilities include addi
tional guest rooms, a dining
room and a recreational area.
Rubin’s Osceola Lake Inn,
2,500 feet altitude, is close to
two 118-hole championship golf
courses. Guests may take their
choice of the many recreational
facilities offered inclu ding
horseback riding, swimming,
boating, fishing, ping pong, vol
leyball and badminton. A su
pervised program for children
is offered wth pony rides and
a wading pool for the smallest
guests to enjoy.
Casual attire is stressed. The
cuisine is Jewish-American with
freshly baked rolls and pastries
served with each meal.
Carole and Stuart Rubin are
beginning their thirteenth year
of operation of the popular
mountain resort which was
Morvin Pregulman, a member
of the University of Michigan’s
All-Time Football Team, who
later played professional foot
ball with the Green Bay Packers
and the Detroit Lions, has been
elected president of the Chatta
nooga. Jewish Welfare Federa
tion for the coming term. Preg
ulman has been a leader in the
Jewish and general commun
ities of Chattanooga for some
time.
He was 1971 campaign chair
man for the Chattanooga Fed
eration, is a member and direc
tor of the Downtown Kiwanis
Club, past president of the
B’nai Zion Synagogue and a
past board member of the Chat
tanooga Goodwill Industries.
Pregulman is currently nation
al director, fourth district, Uni
versity of Michigan Alumni
Assn.
Born in Lansing, Mich., Preg
ulman attended public schools
there and graduated in the
class of 1944 of the University
of Michigan. He was discharged
with the rank of Lt. (jg) after
three years with the U. S. Navy
during World War II.
He and his wife Helen have
four children, Mindy, 20, Betsy,
16; John, 14 and Robert, 10.
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REVIEW
previously owned and founded
by the late Joe Rubin in 1941.
Additional information is
available at Rubin’s Osceola
Lake Inn, Hendersonville, N.C.,
or phone (Miami) 0305 ) 534-
8356.
Traymore Kosher Hotel
Open All Summer
Jack Schwarz and the Man-
del Family, owner-manager of
the Kosher Traymore Hotel, an
nounced that the Miami Beach
oceanfront resort is open during
the summer months for the first
time in the hotel’s history. The
weekly rate of $59.95, all rooms,
per person, double occupancy
remains in effect until Septem
ber 24 with meals included.
Among facilities offered to
gu?»ts at the Traymore are a
series of shows and nightly en
tertainment. Free parking, sol
arium and free lounges at the
private pool and beach are pro
vided for guests. Each room has
its own TV and is fully air con
ditioned. Salt, sugar and fat-
free diets are strictly observed
with a dietician on the prem
ises plus a resident mashgiach.
Religious services are perform
ed daily.
Oi, Veis Mir, Portnoy’s Here
A Critic’s Lament
Alexander Portnoy (Richard Benjamin) shrinks from the tirade
of his over-attentive mother (Lee Grant) in a scene from the
motion picture playing at the Rhodes Theater.
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OI, veis mir! Oi, VEIS mir!
Oi, veis MIR!
The phrase of gevalt and tu
mult keeps throbbing through
our heads.
We had seen this film, which
would go unmentionable if this
were cricket for a critic. The
whole thing! The whole thing!
It lay in the craw like indigest
ible leather. If only it would
have helped, we would have
downed a hundred of those
effervescent tablets all at once.
Oi. veis mir, we had to review
the thing.
We hadn’t read the book, the
reports had been so distasteful.
Nobody forced us to see the
movie. But we did and since
we don’t dodge such terminal
dangers as wars, we’re certainly
not going to chicken out now
when it comes to a review for
our readers.
In ease, any reader doesn’t
know the story, “Portnoy’s
Complaint" is about this Jewish
guy who tells all on the shrink
couch. No wonder the shrinker
utters not a solitary word dur
ing the film. And if the story
had remained there instead of
leaking into the best-seller list
and we predict now into a
heavy box-office attraction, the
world would have been much
the better for it.
But /reach the public realm
it has. There is no escaping this
reality. Now that the story has
been translated bigger than life
onto the screen—and in match
less color and sound, complete
with all the sounds and flesh of
instant intercourse, you can
take your choice about seeing it.
Now dress this up any way
you like, or rather undress it,
which is as much the constant
theme of the show as anything
else and you’ll never come to
any idea like this is an identity
search, or who is Portnoy really
and why is he always chasing
shiksas.
His parents naturally
“noodgit” him to chase Yiddishe
maidlahs. He never quite gets
around to this until there is a
psychedelic, quick trip to Israel
after such an experience in
Rome that you wouldn’t believe
it if we wrote about it.
Suave, attractive guy that
Portnoy is, he manages in short
order to get this kibbutznick gal
into his hotel room but she re
buffs his tactless advances. His
rape attempt is frustrated only
by a manifestation of impot-
ency, fairly well in keeping
with the illusions of the story
that Jewish gals are all moral
and shicksas all immoral.
In the violence of his family
life during puberty, his mother
comes off, in our opinion, with
flying colors and if she reacts
neurotically and illogically to
her disquieting son and consti
pation-centered husband, it’s no
wonder to us her maternal in
stincts show her off to disadvan
tage. Lee Grant does a superla
tive job as the mother.
In the swinging leads as the
strange and errotic lovers Rich
ard Benjamin and Karen Black
are fabulous. The language is
positively vile—a complete com
pendium of graffiti vocabulary.
Emerging sheepishly in shock
from the showing, we were
greeted in the lobby by an
official of the movie chain
which is presenting the show
beginning Friday at the Rhodes
Theater.
“What’s a nice Jewish boy
like you doing at a movie like
this.”
The line was a steal from the
script itself.
Later we overheard a hippy-
type youth tell his date, “Let’s
do a Portnoy right here. Right
now."
The film has an effect on the
viewers, who we predict will
number into the thousands be
fore PCR sets in.
If it’s your bag, through curi
osity, research or otherwise, en
joy, enjoy. But takes along those
100 effervescent tablets. You
may need to start on them dur
ing the show itself.
— ADOLPH ROSENBERG
A Zoo Romance,
It “Rears” Watching
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two
aging female Syrian bears from
Washington, D.C., have arrived
at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo,
where they will be mated with
the zoo’s two male Syrian bears,
zoo director Prof. Aharon
Shulov of the Hebrew Univer
sity reported.
The bears are a gift of the
National Zoological Park in
Washington. Zoo officials there
who had waited in vain for
over 29 years for an offspring
of this rare animal discovered
only recently that the two bears
were both females.
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“The
I
making
of a
president”
Atlanta Lodge, B’nai B’rith, announces try-outs for
its spectacular production.
PLACE: Atlanta Jewish Community Center
TIME: 8 P.M.
DATE: July 5 and 6, 1972
An original musical comedy, authored by Steve Lesher—well known
writer for Newsweek Magazine, will be under the capable direction
of talented Michael Parver, and musical direction under the auspices
of Carlton Palmer. (Fall Dates To Be Announced Later)
All Thespians and hidden talents are urged to attend this casting call
We’re looking for new faces and new talents.