- AR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR STAR *STAR TI • I . The Intermarriage Dilemma PBS doc explores a family in conflict. W e could be like the Mayans and the Incas. People will come to Jerusalem and say, `Yes, there were these curious people there.— The statement comes around the mid- dle of Out of Faith, a documentary airing on Detroit Public Television on April 19. It offers a moving, honest and even- handed look at the problems interfaith marriage creates for the Jewish people. We all know the numbers. Half the time a Jew marries, it's to a non-Jew. And in only a third of those unions are the children raised Jewish. What provides this film with its power is that it isn't about abstract statistics; the film is about one family in conflict over the issue. The matriarch, Leah Welbel, and her husband, Eliezer, survived almost three years in Auschwitz. They had two sons, one of whom married a Christian who converted, and five grandchildren. When the first grandchild, Danny, intermarried, Leah refused to speak to him. "If I let this happen, I feel like I betray" all those who died, she says. "I paid the highest price for my Jewish faith. I paid it with blood. And that reminds me: stick to our faith." Of course, the issue never is simple. Although Leah was raised Orthodox, she was in many ways a cultural Jew who, unlike her mother and grand- mother, never lit Shabbat candles — though she says she was Jewish in her heart. Half of Danny's relatives 12 Angry Russians Playing April 17-19 and 24-26 at the Detroit Film Theatre in the Detroit Institute of Arts is the Russian film 12, based on the famous 1957 American film 12 Angry Men. The original was the first film directed by the still active Sidney Lumet, 84, with a screenplay written by the late Reginald Rose. Both films open with a jury considering the case of a teen- age boy accused of stabbing his father to death; and, initially, most jurors think the boy is guilty. In the STAR DELI Hours: Mon-Sat 7-9:30 Sun 7-8 .TI .TAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR *- STAR • • A Off •Ti • Out of Faith airs 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19, on Detroit Public Television-Channel 56. See it also 2 p.m. Monday, April 27, at the Commerce 14 theater as part of the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival. original, the boy is Puerto Rican. In the Russian version, the boy is a Chechen war orphan adopted by a Russian officer. Juror 8, played Sidney Lumet by Valentin Graft, is an elderly Russian Jewish intellec- tual/Holocaust survivor who shares his story, as do the other jurors. 12, in Russian with English subti- tles, was Oscar nominated in 2008 for Best Foreign Language Film. p'r pwson STAR *STAR *STAR *STAR ON STAR'S BEAUTIFUL ALREADY LOW-PRICED MEAT OR DAIRY TRAYS • Expires 5/30/09 • Ono Per Order • Not Good Holidays • 10 Person Minimum Holocaust survivor Leah Weibel — the family of his convert mother — are Catholic. And to add just a touch of pressure, Danny's wife Shannon is pregnant and about to deliver Leah's first great-grandchild. The film was shot over a period of four years, and it seems as though Leah comes to regret her decision but is too prideful to make the first overture. And Danny and his wife are too angry. At one point, they refuse to come to a family Thanksgiving celebra- tion because Leah will be there. It puts strains on the entire family. When Danny's sister Cheryl also mar- ries a Christian, she's worried about how her grandmother will react. As she tear- fully recounts, Grandma embraced her. But it was a bittersweet moment. At the moment of embrace, all Cheryl thought about was how Leah "doesn't accept Danny and how much pain he and Shannon must be in at that moment" The filming includes visits to Leah's hometown in Slovakia and to Auschwitz. 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