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Tova Schreiber, imparting a passion for
the Dead to the next generation

and was friends with a Deadhead named
Herby:' Weiss recalls, when the Dead
released a live album, Reckoning.
"I heard the first song, 'Dire Wolf and I
was hooked:' Weiss says. Soon he was on
his way to his first Dead concert, traveling
to Chicago "in a school bus full of Ann
Arbor hippies:'
While Weiss knew many Jewish
Deadheads, they connected around the
band, not religion. But on reflection he
finds a connection.
"I had never given it much thought
till now:' Weiss says, "but the nation of
Deadheads is similar to American Jews —
an invisible minority, unless we're in tal-
litot and kippot (or tie-die, for Deadheads)
— ifs a group where you'll be welcomed in
because you're already a member:'
Weiss didn't try to get a Chicago ticket,
but hopes to catch a show on pay-per-view.
Michael Steinberg, 51, an attorney living
in West Bloomfield, has two "magic tick-
ets" for each of the Chicago shows. Deeply
networked into the Dead family for more
than 30 years (his nickname is Miko —
after the song "Iko, Iko"), Steinberg saw the
band hundreds of times in the 1980s and
'90s. He runs a Dead-focused Facebook
page, the Weir Here/Further Listening
Party with more than 13,000 members.
Steinberg says the Dead was very
popular at his Pikesville, Md., high school,
which was 97 percent Jewish. He recalls
how Carlebach disciples would attend con-
certs on Shabbat after arranging for their
tickets to be pre-torn.
"For me, the Grateful Dead community
was doing what you learned in Hebrew
school; Steinberg says. "Nobody got shut
out, everyone took care of everybody else.
It was group consciousness that brought
people together to live in peace, provide
tzedakah and do good deeds and tikkun
olam [repair the world].
"I learned in Hebrew school that one of
the greatest ways of calling God is through
music:' he says. "I had some very spiritual
experiences with the Dead. Sometimes it
was just me, Jerry Garcia and God:"
For decades, Steinberg has been a
"wharf rat" The title of a popular
Dead song, it denotes fans who
eschew drugs and counsel and
assist other fans who do not.
Howard Spinner, 48, discov-
ered the Dead while at Southfield
High School in the mid-'80s when
friends lent him concert tapes. In col-

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lege he fell in with other Dead fans and
would road trip to concerts. His career in
sales allowed him the flexibility to pick up
and go to concerts, which he loved for the
music and the sense of community.
"You'd meet people on the road or at
shows and you would see them at other
shows and they became good friends. So
touring became kind of a reunion:' he says.
His fmal Dead concert was at Soldier
Field in 1995. He hoped to be back in
Chicago next week after sending away
for tickets and booking a hotel, but the
mail-order didn't come through. When the
Ticketmaster tickets went on sale, he had
four computers logged on, but again came
away empty-handed. He'll be watching on
pay-per-view with a group of friends and
will see the fmal show simulcast at the
AMC Livonia 20.
Tova Schreiber, 26, who lives in Oak
Park and teaches at Akiva Hebrew Day
School, was introduced to the Dead by her
parents, Batya and Ronnie.
"I probably started listening to the Dead
in utero," Schreiber quips. "It's always been
a part of my life. For me the Dead are a
journey, a transportation kind of experi-
ence. They touch me, speak to me and
inspire me spiritually, mentally, emotion-
ally and even physically:'
For Schreiber, an observant Jew, it's not a
religious experience, but a spiritual one.
"You close your eyes and meditate on it.
It's almost like davening," she says. "Like
davening, the only right way is being in the
moment. You can immerse yourself in it; if
you don't totally let it wash over you, then
you are missing something"
She never planned to go to Chicago,
but hopes to catch a simulcast. She also
disdains the drug scene at some concerts.
"Ifs insulting when someone says you must
smoke to get it. The music itself gets you
there. If you allow it to transport you, it
will. No drugs needed7 ❑

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