 After a year at the Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz leadership institute in Israel, she enrolled to study as a teacher trainee at the Auckland College of Education, specializing in drama.It was during this period, in 1974, she met Leonard Bernstein.Bernstein was so delighted her father had attended a concert he had played for Holocaust survivors at the Landsberg Displaced Person's Camp, near Munich in 1948, that he closed the Auckland Town Hall and played a piano concerto entirely to Filler.