(JTA) -- As a struggling young actor in the early 1950s, Leonard Nimoy, inspired by the rebirth of the Jewish state and childhood memories of Zionist rallies in Boston Garden, considered making aliyah to join Habimah, Israel's national theater. Upon cooler reflection on the huge language barrier he would face,… Read more »
Behind those pointy ears, a ‘nice, earnest Jewish boy’
Leonard Nimoy, circa 1980. (Larry D. Moore/Wikimedia Commons)
