{"id":2337,"date":"2019-12-10T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yiddishpiel.dreamhosters.com\/?page_id=2337"},"modified":"2025-01-19T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:30:18","slug":"benevolent-theater","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yiddishpiel.co.il\/en\/about\/benevolent-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Benevolent Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Contribution to the Community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to its day-to-day activities, the Yiddishpiel Theater has\n regular performances in old age homes and geriatric institutions all \nover Israel. For this purpose, a troupe of actors travels to this \npublic, which is no longer able to come to the auditoriums. This is our \ntheater’s modest contribution to lift up the spirits of this sector of \nthe population that is not one of the nation’s top priorities.

In\n the twilight of their lives, our theater grants them an hour of \npleasure and a re-connection to the world of their memories in their \nbeloved language
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This unique project would not exist \nwere it not for the support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims \nAgainst Germany, Inc. Collaboration between the Claims Conference and \nthe Yiddishpiel Theater.began over 12 years ago with the encouragement \nand support of Akiva Levinski, Rabbi Dr. Azriel Miller, Yitzchak Artzi, \nand Moshe Zanbar. At its outset, the expectations from this project were\n very modest, but its success surpassed all our dreams – from 62 \nperformances in 1998 to 142 performances in 2008, and we are willing to \nextend ourselves even more to grant our utmost to this public who \nreciprocates so wholeheartedly.

Yaakov Neeman, the \nformer Treasury Minister, who happened to attend one of our performances\n at an Old Age Home for Holocaust Survivors, was deeply impressed, \nsaying, “I discovered a theater of benevolence. Thanks to the \nYiddishpiel Theater, for the first time in many years, I saw my Aunt \nlaugh! She told me afterwards, that for a short time during the \nperformance, she forgot all her aches and pains, and was simply \ndelighted”.
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In recent years, the A. Safra Fund<\/strong> joined this effort, and enabled us to expand our activities.

\n In July 2007, with the outbreak of the Second Lebanese War, the \nYiddishpiel actors cut short their vacation and travelled up North in a \ntour organized by “Umanut Laam”. Residents of the North, who had been \nspending days and nights in bomb shelters, enjoyed some respite and \nrelaxation which our actors extended to them through their songs and \ntext in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian.

In January 2009, with the \noutbreak of the “Cast Lead” campaign, the Yiddishpiel actors travelled \nto Southern Israel, to the areas surrounding Gaza where they appeared \nbefore the older population.<\/p>\n\n\n

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