Ernest Borgnine and Theodore Bikel star. Ronald Reagan is the host.
"The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky," 1962. In this installment of "General Electric Theater," Orlovsky, a Russian defector, falls in love with Miriam Raskin, the widowed daughter of a rabbi. Although Orlovsky fell away from religion as a child-fleeing home, serving in the Russian army-he re-connects to his tradition through Miriam, who is preparing to celebrate her son's bar mitzvah. Orlovsky returns to Judaism and decides to become a Bar Mitzvah.