So as I result the lines go into you more easily, if you will, as you're moving. From there, she went off to Palestine and joined the Haganah, the underground paramilitary army, where she was trained as a sniper and a messenger (I was small and fast; Im also a great sharpshooter).

And Im the first actress of the Jewish religion to play this part on Broadway in 60 years.

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) Mark St. Germains play Becoming Dr. Ruth a one-woman show about famed sex therapist and radio personality Ruth K. Westheimer has been performed regularly since he wrote a version in 2012.

Just need a pair of sneakers.

Tovah Feldshuh in The Book of Ruth. Photo by Arin Sang-urai. We also owned a horse and rode horses.You mentioned Law & Orderhas Sam Waterston or Dick Wolf ever joined you for a run?When we use to shoot Law & Order on-location down at the courts, I would take the lunch break to run the .css-1hr08dr{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.125rem;text-decoration-color:#59E7ED;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-1hr08dr:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Brooklyn Bridge.

It's very interesting.



Basically the audience is saying to you, the second you step on stage, thank you.

I would run and play tapes in my ears and then, of course, use my iPod and I would do my [singing] lessons. Enter address: This website, like most media sites, uses small files called cookies to anonymously customize the advertising that you see.
I'm not always running in the same place.

Ihave no idea who reads this column. Lea never talks about herself.

In 2021 she published her memoir "Lilyville: Mother, Daughter And Other Roles I've Played" (Hachette Books).

Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Im one of two people who wear a corset in this show.

Of all the sports, it requires the least equipment-wise.

They married less than a year later, and son Joel soon arrived. Forget just coming back to Broadway.

(It was a huge success as a 2019 film, too).

We can also see her make the transition to mother and finally getting that sewing machine she saved up for.

I just read it so it's clearnot particularly emotional.

Recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award.



I also love the view of nature. Does life have any meaning ifit all ends in death?

Its like performing with The Beatles. In the talkback, Feldshuh says she was honored to be asked to take on Dr. Ruth, who she has known for years (Ruth attended the weddings of both Feldshuhs daughters).

It relaxes me and I feel that to stay healthy you should cut a sweat every day and it's really an easy way to do that.Do you say the lines out load?I say them out loud when I run.

Over the years, she has taught at Columbia as well as at Princeton and Yale.

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Im very careful. Mandy Patinkin Image by Getty/Noam Galai/Stringer. Just like when I'm singing, I run in place. Last year, Broadway and TV veteran Tovah Feldshuh spent most the year working from home.

Sometimes I go to bed at 2 in the morning. Feldshuh finished the book while waiting out the pandemic last year, but it was a project shed been working on for a few years following the death of her mother,

An old parent? Both women started with nothing in this country and wrote and managed their own journeys with a constant upward spirit that not only took stamina but mental discipline, Feldshuh said.

Born in Germany in 1928, she was sent to Switzerland on the Kindertransport at the age of 10 it the last time she saw her immediate family.

I like the release.

So she tells us in Becoming Dr. Ruth, a witty, poignant, inspiring look at her life before her unlikely rise to international fame. ), PJ Grisar is the Forwards culture fellow.

WebTovah Feldshuh, in Becoming Dr. Ruth, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC, on December 8, 2021. It is Israel that gives that..

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How do youse guys think we all should say it?

Graduated from Sarah Lawrence which she opted over Julliard.

We considered Richard Kind.

I ride my bike to the theater most nights.

It's fun to relive those moments that are inspiring, when the body repeats the same physical action.So you were always very athletic?I was very involved in sports and very close to my father.

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I've run in Johannesburg, LondonI always run along the Thames in London.

Hundred and hundreds of citizens. I always figured if I could run, I could perform.

Feldshuh is hoping to reprise her performance on Broadway.

I just really enjoy the sweating, and enjoy the rhythm.

It takes a while to relax.



I'm an oral learner and enjoy movement; it relaxes me. Running opens you up. She learned English by reading True Confessions magazine (This was my Dickens and Shakespeare).

Despite her significant achievements, Feldshuh said her mother found fault in every performance she gave. She was trained as a sniper and messenger and was later wounded in the 1947-48 Palestine war.

Actually, this is a very good thing.

In New York, Ruth received a scholarship to the New School for Social Research, where she earned a Masters degree in Sociology (somehow managing to skip a bachelors degree).



I'll be running again in a couple of days. Have you spoken to her since youve joined Funny Girl?

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Apparently, it is all how you look at it. But as the pandemic waned this spring, the New York native launched into a frenzy of activity that began in April with the publication of her memoir, Lilyville, followed by two different productions of the same play, Becoming Dr. Ruth, this month.

Shes packing up to move from the Washington Heights apartment they shared for the 36 years of their marriage. Without a doubt, she said.

Hopefully she wont end up making one of these numbers with it.

I usually get 20 minutes and get it elevated.

And Anne Hathaway is like Lea Michele, just a superb human being.

You need to do plis so that the center of the body is empowered and the derriere is dropped down. Goldas unfaltering strength also inspires: Throughout the pressures she faced on the domestic, national, and international stages, Feldshuh said, she was unshakeable, not a person who wept when confronted with troubles, always presenting a stalwart front to her people.. You were also in Yentl, another show thats closely associated with Barbra Streisand.

But Feldshuh is a gifted, experienced solo artist. Tovah Feldshuh knew that she and her Upper West Side apartment were meant for each other when she walked into the living room for the first time and saw the

And, frankly, so are most of us. |

Her I like to close my eyes. Currently, Feldshuh is in the arduous process of Being Dr. Ruth (Westheimer, the well-known sex shrink and little-known Haganah sniper), via a one-person play by Has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Human Letters. She has played the same character (Danielle Melnick) in three different series: Appeared 13 times as defense attorney Danielle Melnick on the original "Law & Order", which is the most in the series for a recurring defense attorney character. During her 50-year acting career, Feldshuh has earned four Tony nominations for stage roles in Yentl, Goldas Balcony, Lend Me a Tenor and Sarava, and two Emmy nominations for roles in Law & Order and Holocaust. She also spent two years on AMCs The Walking Dead and played memorable roles in the films Kissing Jessica Stein and A Walk on the Moon. One of her greatest honors in recent years was meeting several times with the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to prepare for playing the jurist in the Jonathan Shapiro play Sisters-in-Law in 2019. It was a photograph I had taken of actress Tovah Goldas Balcony, The Film showcases Tovah Feldshuhs award-winning Broadway performance. The sweating is a really good thing.How do you know you've had a great run?I judge it by my heart.

I was walking home Andy [Levy, Feldshuhs husband] and I rented a beautiful apartment near the Croisette and I met Julia Roberts. When he works on set, hes in the tunnel.

Their difficult, but ultimately healing, mother-daughter relationship is the focus of the book Lilyville: Mother, Daughter and Other Roles Ive Played..

I shut my eyes and go into this slightly altered state and in a way wake up when the run is over.

How do you lift it off the page and make it deep, true, real and Jewish?

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Weve been friends for such a long time, I cant even remember when we met, Feldshuh said of the 92-year-old Westheimer. Idina Menzel Image by Getty/Kevin Mazur/Contributor.

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Embarking on a phone call with Tovah Feldshuh one recent morning, I had the feeling I was entering a conversation in media res.

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True story: When I was about six or seven I went to a dinner theater production of Fiddler and fell asleep. In our free-ranging conversation, what came through most forcefully was how Feldshuh (by the way, she wanted to clarify that its pronounced Feld-shoo) sees her portrayals starting from the early performances and through the many times she has inhabited the role on stages throughout the world as embodying Goldas, and her own, passion for the nation and people of Israel.

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Headstrong and independent, Feldstein would make the role of Hodel her own. She took courses at the Sorbonne, and ultimately made her way to America, where she struggled to be a single mother, learn the language, and get an advanced education.

Youre also in James Grays new movie Armageddon Time. What was it like working with Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins?

She originated the role of Yentl on Broadway in 1975, and she also played Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in Goldas Balcony which became the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history.

Dr. Ruth and a Beatle! She wasnt sure which one, but it looked like Paul); memorabilia from her youth, her long marriage to Fred, photos of her children, grandchildren, parents and Grandma.

Whenever they would have a thought or question about the script, they could either call up Westheimer or the playwright for insight and advice. Contact: Sarah Diamond at sdiamond@jccmetrowest.org or 973-530-3417 or visit jccmetrowest.org/njjff. He coached David in football and baseball, and coached me in basketball and soccer.

Do you know each other? Are you a bitter person? I'm mad for Sauconys 'cause they have the wide base. Lea finally got the part she was destined to play in the first place, and shes brilliant in it., Feldshuhs certain kind of maternal energy and shes played her share of Jewish mothers on stage and screen in Kissing Jessica Stein and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend seeps into real life as she interjects her musings about the theatre to make sure her company is well fed.

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A newlywed?

Has the reception been that enthusiastic every night? Being alone down in the gym on the treadmill, it's just monotony.

The whole population was out doing Tai Chi and various aerobic exercises as a community.

But perhaps the most potent reason it felt as if we were in a talk-in-progress was that the main focus of the call was something, she said, that she has proudly poured her energies and spirit and talent into for more than 15 years: the lead role in Goldas Balcony. It is, she said, the greatest role of my 40-year career, playing Israels first woman prime minister facing the greatest challenge of her career..

WebTovah Feldshuh: I started running because of performing.

Who do you get to play the shy bookish daughter who breaks out of her shell to test tradition?

At some point, she realized that she wanted to specialize in sex education, and by 1970, she had a Doctorate in Education from Columbia Teachers College (part of Columbia University).

Occupation: Singer and actress, Law & OrderAge: 50sResidence: New York CityRunner's World: How did you get started running?Tovah Feldshuh: I started running because of performing.



Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh is an American actress, singer, and playwright. I enlist my ears, my body.

A lot of people hate running on grass, too spongy, but I know it is good for me. The Corruptor.



I went to Vietnam and Cambodia.

The actor-director of Maori and Jewish descent would bring his puckish humor to the role of the fabled milkman while also tapping into the roles as-yet-unrealized hot dad potential.

Please reload the page and try again. Courtesy of Bay Street Theater. The crowd at Broadways August Wilson Theatre has been nothing short of euphoric ever since Feldshuh and Michele joined the company of Funny Girl in September.

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol.

[But] how can I distinguish this part?



Before that I was on the treadmill in Chicago because it was so bloody cold.

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Whoops! Star Tovah Feldshuh will appear at the screening.

Additionally, for her theatre work, He can be reached at [emailprotected]. Throughout the casting choices, surprise departures, and critical pile-on, theres been no shortage of headlines to dine out on the on- and off-stage gossip. Its very demonstrative. I like to keep my heart rate up for 30 minutes, but I never can do that.

I won the big race across two big fields at Camp Taconic in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, when I was nine. Its her love for Israel, Feldshuh said, that has motivated the supportive efforts of which she is unabashedly proud: raising funds around the world for Israeli and Jewish community service organizations, hospitals, and schools, including Magen David Adom, Ben-Gurion University, and Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Ruth greets us enthusiastically (as she does everything), and says shes always enjoyed going to the theater.

How about the woman now playing Emily Dickinson?

Now that were in a hit [show], everybodys flocking to the theater. I also have to be diligent to do the newer stuff. So now that the Broadway performance of Goldas Balcony is accessible via the big screen, will Feldshuh continue to bring her idol to the stage?

But a new decade needs a new kind of Tevye.

The night before we spoke, she had attended a spectacular symphony performance, and as we chatted, she set off in her car to find her way to a nearby nature and wildlife preserve shed heard about (I love nature like Golda loved her boys).

I change into the beginning of my costume and go to the stage to warm up my body and voice.

A grandparent?

I hope so. Scream, Pretty Peggy.

I do not chat. The night before we spoke, she had attended a spectacular symphony performance, and as we chatted, she set off in her car to find her way to a nearby nature and wildlife preserve shed heard about (I love nature like Golda loved her boys).

She has also written 45 books on sex and sexuality.

He grandmother had told her, Always smile and be cheerful. She never forgot that counsel.

The cinematography and editing (by Aaron Rumley, also responsible for projections and sound design) is excellent and intimate, bringing us as close as streaming can to being there.

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