att Okin opposes religious labels.
He won't use them when talking
about characters in the play he
illit co-wrote and directed,
Tivist of
Faith, and he won't use them when talking
about himself.
A July 26 audience at Southfield's
Millennium Theatre will see how he employs
this outlook professionally when he visits
Michigan with Twist of Faith for a perfor-
mance sponsored by the Sara Tugmdn Bais
Chabad Torah Center of West Bloomfield.
"Labels like 'Orthodox are disunifying,”
says Oki, whose seriocomic theater piece
is about a nonobservant commodities bro-
ker forced to spend an entire Sabbath Nvi th
a yeshiva student in Brooklyn.
The play has a very positive message
— that everyone has a spiritual potential
that can be reached. We have to under-
stand that a Jew is a Jew and spirituality
is spirituality in every person.
"I try really hard not to say I'm
Orthodox because of this play. 1 say that
I'm an observant Jew trying to be more
religious on a regular basis."
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The Sarah Tugman

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play about tzvo men

who explore, and

ultimately question,

their very di erent

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