When I started becoming a
baal teshuvah, I abandoned my budding career in Hollywood and moved to New York City. I was sitting in a Hebrew
ulpan in the building of the Jewish Agency on Park Avenue one day when two Gush Emunim
shlichim from Israel, Meir Indor and Rav Yehuda Hazani, appeared and asked for volunteers to help in IDF warehouses during the 1982 Lebanon War.
The next day, I showed up at the emergency campaign headquarters they had set up in The Jewish Press building in Brooklyn. To make a long story short, since I knew a little about public relations, I was asked to become the director of the âVolunteers for Israelâ program in America.