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Marry a Multimillionaire? last
Martha Jo Fleischmann
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week on the Fox network, Carole
and Dr. Larry Miller of
Bloomfield Hills were on a
* hard for a mother-in-law
Caribbean cruise. They befriend-
ed a Jewish couple from Boston
and a trio of friends — Rick,
Darya and Cheryl.
"I was at the bar and the bar-
tender said we have some celebri-
Carole and Larry Miller, standing;
ties on board, pointing to a New
met Rick Rockwell and Darya
York Times fax," said Larry Miller, a Conger, who recently married on
ewish law assigns an important
dentist in Livonia. The Millers, like television's "Who Wants to Marry
place to wine. Twice each Shabbat, it is
other cruise members, had no idea a Multimillionaire?"
blessed and consumed at the family table,
that Rick Rockwell and Darya
while on Passover, one is obliged to drink
Conger were newlyweds, who had
four cups of wine at the seder. What, then, should a
just met and wed on the TV show.
recovering alcoholic do on Shabbat and Passover?
"I walked right over to Darya and said, 'Congratulations,"' said
Should he recite the Kiddush, drink the wine and
Miller, who is not known for his shyness. (He is a local actor in
trust in God that all will be well? Or should he
many community plays — most recently Yiddle with a Fiddle at
refrain, in line with the biblical verse (Deuteronomy
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.)
4:15): "You shall carefully preserve your lives."
Since the Millers are family friends, I relayed the story to my .
Fortunately, Jewish law provides an intermediate
daughter, Erin, who then told her friend, Mild Feinberg, who works at
solution. The specific blessing recited over wine,
Inside Edition. Within a few hours, Inside Edition was at the Miller
"Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the
home. Now the envy of every reporter across the nation, the Millers
Universe, who has created the fruit of the vine," is
appeared on Inside Edition on WXYZ TV.
also recited over grape juice. Therefore, a Jew who
With their inside scoop on the "millionaire marriage," the Millers
should not drink alcoholic beverages should still
gave, as broadcaster Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story":
recite the same blessing as all other Jews and drink
• Rick, Darya and the Fox producer named Cheryl stayed in sepa-
grape juice.
rate cabins.
A recovering alcoholic who insists on drinking
• Rick and Darya did not seem like "newlyweds" — "There wasn't
wine on Shabbat and Passover is regarded by Jewish
any chemistry between them," said Carole Miller. They sometimes
law as a sinner for endangering his health and the
were together and sometimes they were not.
health of those who interact with him.
• One evening, Rick ate dinner with a female friend on board, while
Darya and the producer ate together. After dinner, Darya and Rick
Excerptedfrom Rabbi Joseph Telushkin's "The Book of
posed with a bottle of champagne at a dinner table.
Jewish Values," to be published in March by Bell Tower.
• Darya views herself as a private person.
• Rick Miller performed a comedy routine for the entire ship.
The one thing the Millers stated about the threesome, which may
rsklar@thejewishnews.com
not get into the national news, was that "They all seemed nice."
and

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