{"id":160,"date":"1959-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1959-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:31:55","slug":"israel-1959-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/israel-1959-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, 1959 to 60"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In September of 1959 I went to Israel as an exchange student from Yeshiva University. I was supposed to be there for six months, studying Hebrew. But while there, I heard that a club called The Cave in Jerusalem was looking for performers, and I decided to audition for them. I went in and saw the owner. He said \u201cI\u2019ll give you ten minutes.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jerry Lewis had made lip syncing impersonations popular in the 1940s, and I\u2019d done some at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City and on the Ted Mack amateur hour back in the states. I knew they\u2019d never seen it in Israel, so I decided to give them something new. That first night I did Paul Anka, Jackie Wilson and Little Richard. These performers were popular in Israel but had never performed there in person. The crowd went crazy; they couldn\u2019t believe it wasn\u2019t me singing. So the owner started to book me there four or five times a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We started to get some crowds coming in. Usually these crowds were largely Israeli soldiers and young people, but one night three talent agents from an agency called Amargahn, and they wanted to work with me. Another night, Marcel Marceau came in. He approached me afterwards and told me he loved the act, and he wanted to know if I would study with him in Paris. I was 19 at the time, and as much as I wanted to join him, I felt compelled to return to my studies back home. So I told him no.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_163\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-image-163 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-with-Marcel-Marceau-and-others-at-The-Cave-1959.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-with-Marcel-Marceau-and-others-at-The-Cave-1959.jpg 625w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-with-Marcel-Marceau-and-others-at-The-Cave-1959-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-with-Marcel-Marceau-and-others-at-The-Cave-1959-508x491.jpg 508w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-with-Marcel-Marceau-and-others-at-The-Cave-1959-400x387.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie (center) with Marcel Marceau and others at The Cave, 1959<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_161\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-image-161 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-left-with-Marceau-center-and-owner-right-at-The-Cave-1959.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-left-with-Marceau-center-and-owner-right-at-The-Cave-1959.jpg 668w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-left-with-Marceau-center-and-owner-right-at-The-Cave-1959-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-left-with-Marceau-center-and-owner-right-at-The-Cave-1959-508x458.jpg 508w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-left-with-Marceau-center-and-owner-right-at-The-Cave-1959-400x360.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie (left) with Marcel Marceau (center) and the owner of The Cave at The Cave, 1959<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Marcel-Marceau-Signed-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Marcel-Marceau-Signed-Pic.jpg 640w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Marcel-Marceau-Signed-Pic-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Marcel-Marceau-Signed-Pic-508x686.jpg 508w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Marcel-Marceau-Signed-Pic-400x540.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signed by Marcel Marceau, with message for Bernie, 1959<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But I wasn\u2019t ready to go home just yet, so I continued to perform at The Cave, and through Amargahn started getting booked all over the country: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the resort towns. At that time, Israel was a brand new country, and they hadn\u2019t seen a lot of American performers. At some point I began to combine my own singing with the lip syncing, so the audience wouldn\u2019t know when I was singing and when I wasn\u2019t. It was enough of a success that I started getting booked with established rock and roll bands, and I even headlined on my own. I never had a minute to myself; I did eight shows a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By this time, I was no longer attending the Teachers\u2019 Institute in Jerusalem. I contacted a cousin of mine, Jonathan Etkes, who had an apartment in Tel Aviv, and moved in with him. As a side note, Jonathan Etkes was the only Israeli prisoner in the 1956 Sinai War. He was exchanged for three thousand Arab prisoners three months after he was captured.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_162\" style=\"width: 896px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162\" class=\"wp-image-162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-performing-in-Tel-Aviv-1960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-performing-in-Tel-Aviv-1960.jpg 886w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-performing-in-Tel-Aviv-1960-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-performing-in-Tel-Aviv-1960-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-performing-in-Tel-Aviv-1960-508x369.jpg 508w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/Bernie-performing-in-Tel-Aviv-1960-400x291.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie performing in Tel Aviv, 1960<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the spring of 1960, Leo Fuld, who was the biggest Jewish performer of the time, came to Israel and headlined a show I was in called \u201cIsrael 1960.\u201d We toured the country, went to all the army bases, doing eight shows a week. We\u2019d do a show in Tel Aviv, then get on a plane and they\u2019d fly us to Ma\u2019alot. We\u2019d do a show there and then get on a plane and they\u2019d fly us back to Tel Aviv. We worked everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, in August of 1960 I decided I would go home and finish my studies. But before I left I was lucky enough to fit in a movie. Israel was just starting its film industry, and a director from Canada named Peter Fry wrote and directed a comedy named \u201cI Like Mike,\u201d which starred Topol and in which I had a co-star role.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_164\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/I-Like-Mike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/I-Like-Mike.jpg 655w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/I-Like-Mike-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/I-Like-Mike-508x676.jpg 508w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/03\/I-Like-Mike-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie on set for I Like Mike, Kibbutz, 1960<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, I came back. I lost a year of college. But it was a terrific year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/rachelle?moderation_action=report_form&amp;object_type=post&amp;object_id=160&amp;width=250&amp;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\t    \n\t\t\t    \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September of 1959 I went to Israel as an exchange student from Yeshiva University. I was supposed to be there for six months, studying Hebrew. But while there, I heard that a club called The Cave in Jerusalem was looking for performers, and I decided to audition for them. 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That summer he appeared on Ted Mack's amateur hour and made a subsequent appearance two years later. In 1959 Bernard introduced rock and roll to Israel and appeared opposite Topol in the comedy feature film \"I Like Mike\". Soap fans will recall his role as photographer\/pornographer Stu Samuels opposite Sylvia Miles and Kim Delaney on \"All My Children\". He is most proud of his work on Arthur Miller's \"Incident at Vichy\". The first New York City revival that Mr. Miller attended was in 1981. Years later Mr. Miller graced 4 staged readings with \"Bernie\", along with varying casts featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Fritz Weaver, Peter Weller, Austin Pendelton, F. Murray Abraham and Barry Primus. While his film career spans 3 decades including \"Fort Apache, The Bronx\", \"Rollover\", \"Blowout\", \"The Purple Rose of Cairo\" and \"The Yards\", in 2006 Bernard co-starred as Chaim opposite Denzel Washington and Clive Owen in Spike Lee's \"Inside Man\". 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