Word: tovah
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...bespectacled figure with the scraggly beard and the checkered kaffiyeh headdress was familiar. The manner in which he smilingly addressed Jews around the world -- with their traditional New Year's greeting, shanah tovah -- was not. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who earlier had spoken to a meeting of 165 socialist deputies to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last week, was clearly determined to make a good impression...
...fact or as fancy fiction, Daniel rarely achieves its ambitions. Hutton, Grouse, Amanda Plummer (as Susan), Ellen Barkin (as Daniel's wife) and Tovah Feldshuh (as a childhood friend) are among the most talented and persuasive of young stars; here they are either given little to do or are buried in charmless roles. One brief sequence suggests the film's potential power. At a rally for their parents, Daniel and Susan, then 12 and 7, are passed toward the stage on the upstretched hands of the faithful; the children are moved and frightened by this show of support...
...asking for this favor, to carry inspiration to Baker Field. I realize I'm requesting quite an indulgence, but I don't think you'll be sorry for helping me out this time. Really, Harvard wouldn't make me miss services for a loss, would they? Shanah Tovah...
...couple end up in Auschwitz. The oldest Weiss son (James Woods), an artist, marries a Roman Catholic (Meryl Streep), only to be sent to Buchenwald, then to the "privileged" camp of Theresienstadt, then Auschwitz. His brother (Joseph Bottoms) goes on the run, meets and marries a Czech Zionist (Tovah Feldshuh), and later joins the underground Jewish partisans fighting in the Ukraine. As Green traces the stories of these and many related characters, the audience gradually takes in the panorama of the Holocaust. It stretches from the first major anti-Jewish riot in Berlin (the 1938 Kristallnacht) to the early stages...
...this exemplary production, the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theater Company ought to be held to gether as a permanent repertory troupe. It consists of players whose passion is the theater and who possess talents of the highest distinction. Rosemary Harris could mesmerize an audience by reciting the multiplication table. Tovah Feldshuh is a steel butterfly, a young actress of electrifying presence and promise. As Masha, Ellen Burstyn lacks some consuming sensual hunger, but her parting embrace with Vershinin is a silent, agonized howl of lost love...