EXTRA, REAR ALL ABOUT IT!
Arthur Horwitz,
While on the road, Harley's family
always makes time for what is most
meaningful to them. "In each town, we
take someone Nye meet on the street out
to dinner," Rahael Adams says. Harley
also has donated one week's pay to a
charity in each city where he has per-
formed.
And every Friday night, no matter
where they are, the family acknowledges
the start of Shabbat by lighting candles
and reciting the blessings over the wine
and the challah. "Once, it was in the
stairwell in a theater," remembers
Harley. "We've been in places where we
have been the only Jews." Rahael adds,
"The hardest times have been Passover."
But this year, the family celebrated
with one seder in Harley's dressing
room, one at the home of a MJAC
member and a third at Temple Beth El,
where Harley and Alison were invited to
ask "The Four Questions" at an inter-
faith program.
publisher of the Detroit Jewish News,
will be the guest speaker at Bar-Ilan University's
Lunch and Learn, discussing:
Israel and The Media:
Why Can't Israel Get Its Message Out?
Arthur Horwitz
Publisher,
Detroit Jewish News
Wednesday, May 2, 12:00 Noon
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Living A Dream
Harley says after seeing the London
stage production of Les Miserable's, he
came home and put the playbill under
his pillow to dream about someday
being the child-character Gavroche.
Harley, who sings and dances tap and
jazz, won the role on Broadway in 1999.
Among the eight playbills he now keeps
under his pillow, he says, "I still have Les
Mis. I may be too big to play Gavroche,
but I want to go back someday as (Jean)
Valjean," he says of the play's male lead.
Harley, who has acted in feature
films, was a 1999 2000 season-regular
on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV show and met former President Bill
Clinton at the White House. He is sur-
prisingly grounded, very polite and says
he is living the life of his dreams.
In his bar mitzvah speech, he told
those present, "I thank God for blessing
me with the best life I could ever hope
for."
Harley's bar mitzvah service was both
atypical and traditional, with the partici-
pation of both the cast of the national
touring company of Ragtime, and
Shaarey Zedek's Rabbi Joseph Krakof
and Cantor Chaim Najman.
"We have found that Jewish people
are like family wherever we go," Rahael
Adams says. "But something magical
happened here. When you travel, life
happens on the road and Detroit really
made life happen for us.
"Harley loves Judaism and there had
been a real emptiness about him not
having a bar mitzvah. Detroit gave us
a gift that will last a whole life
through."
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