…0 27-year-old Michael Litt, who is in his sixth year of a 10- to 30-year sentence for cocaine delivery. "There are some advantages they feel being Jewish in the prison system," he says of the "holiday Jews." "They'll say they're Jewish to come over here and try to get a package of food — salami, pistachios, halvah. During Passover, we get Passover packages. They see an opportunity to get something for free: 'I'm a Jew today; tomorrow, Mus- l...…
…• A Lost Tribe c.r) LU C/3 UJ CC LU 52 Miami-based advocacy and educational organization for Jewish prisoners. Last year, Mr. Litt led the fight to light Chanukah candles. Pondering the future on his way to prison, he thought he'd become a rabbi when he got out. "It was a little thing I made with God. I don't know ZIT. do it now, but I've become a lot more adherent and studied a lot more since being incarcerated," Mr. Litt says. The A...…
…r to have an impact with these kinds of talks. "I think I teach more in prison coun- seling and by how I act toward them. They endure things that are unfair to them in prison. aire morality doesn't exist in the world they ever knew," he says. Around important Jewish holidays, up to 25 inmates at Jackson might attend services, but usually the number hovers around eight, Rabbi Ponn says. Mr. Florian and Mr. Whitney live in the medium-security n...…
…A Lost Tribe Today, Mr. Lilien says, the cravings for drugs are gone. His life is a stark portrait of bad choices and few possibilities. "When you get older, you start to view life in a different light. Now I realize what I could've done and I could've been. I would embrace having a chance to do the right thing now — to get married and have kids. I've had the American Dream before — a long-term relationship with a good woman, a good job, a ni...…
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…Akiva Hebrew What is a Chinese Auction? A Chinese Auction is an inexpensive way to have a fun-filled evening where you have the chance to take home valuable prizes for a minimal cash outlay. How does a Chime Auction Work? At a Chinese Auction you purchase tickets in denominations of $10, $20, $35, $50, $75, or $100. You then place these tickets, with your name on them, in the box corresponding to your desired gift. For example, if you would ...…
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…Marge Alper is in the pool every day, after taking a 47-year leave of absence from swimming. Daily workouts make Marge Alper a nationally ranked senior citizen. YAACOV D. SCHOLAR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Ely finishing first in both the 50-meter and eestyle swimming events at a freestyle recent Michigan qualifying meet, Marge Alper, age 81, qualified for her sixth ap- pearance at the National Senior Sports Clas- sic — the Senior Olympics —...…
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…4P at What To Do, What To Do • • • LYNNE KONSTANTIN OUT & ABOUT COLUMNIST FOR YOUR EARS Rocket from the Crypt and Ten- derloin will open up for the orig- inal hard-edged grungers, Soundgarden, Tuesday, Nov. 12; $18. The Palace of Auburn Hills. Call (810) 645-6666 ... Royal Oak Music Theatre is the venue to catch Blackhawk, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10; $19. Call (810) 645-6666 ... Better than Ezra will appear with Satchel and James Hall at t...…
…STN Entertainment This Week's Best Bets Friday, 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Brew Fest 2 TRAVELING MEN The fellas that make Blues Traveler were instrumental in developing the H.O.R.D.E. festival. See them serve up their bluesy rock 'n' roll, preceded by the Wallflowers, featuring lead vocals by Bob Dylan's son, Jakob. 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13; $20. Hill Auditorium, Ann Ar- bor. (313) 763-TKTS. Over 100 handcrafted and specialty beers will be on...…
…rocicosim News . PHOTOS BY JOHN OISCHER Lila Orbach is back home and lighting up the small screen. SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS _ ila Orbach has studied in Israel and Germany, worked in Baltimore and Boston Lila Orbach shares the weekend anthor desk with WDIV's Dan Mountney. and followed "I started in television when I was 14," the WDIV re- news stories to South Africa and porter recalled. "I hosted the program 'Kids Are P...…
…Left: Orbach talks with WDIV producer Mark Shepherd. Bottom: Orbach uses her reporting skills to interview people for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. ally like any chance to incorporate my foreign language skins into my work." Fluent in English, Hebrew and German, she is proficient in six other languages, including Spanish and Croatian. Orbach thinks of news as light moving through a prism. "The white lig...…
…PH OTO BY CH UCK HO DES An 1111-New Olin From "thirtysomething" yuppie to undercover cop. Actor Ken Olin reinvents himself. MICHAEL ELKIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ichael Steadman never lived on EZ Street. Tor- tured Lane, Self-Analysis Avenue, Whiney Road, Pining Pike, perhaps. But never EZ Street. That's where Detective Cameron Quinn lives these days, and Ken Olin is pleased with the change of address. "Now I can play a man with a gun,...…
…TV movie Doing Time on Maple c) Drive, which notched three Emmy Award nominations. The Broken Cord movie was a break- out for him: It won Christopher and Scott Newman Awards. Olin's acting outside "thir- tysomething" also has won a fol- lowing: His TV films include Dead by Sunset and Nothing But the Truth, opposite his wife and "thirtysomething" colleague Pa- tricia Wettig. Truth be told, Ken Olin seems so different from Steadman. Out- going,...…
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…* Macomb Center * for the Performing Arts elliffifte/t 0-411. M110 Adrian Zmed stars as Danny Zuko in Grease, running at the Fox Theatre Nov. 19, 21-27. Zuko, the Burger Palace Boys and the Pink Ladies rama lamma ding dang at Rydell High in the '50s musical. • BUT, REELY Hold out for Ran- as I always say. som, Dembs, who's chairing the event They're not taking prisoners. for her second year. "It was total- But they definitely want your l...…
…ISO 'Good Friday' 'Letters In The Dirt' Chuck Brodsky; Red House Records ere are plays, like newborns, that have just sprung from their mother playwrights' imaginations, if not their loins. Such is Good Friday, by Su- san Arnold, at the Attic Theatre, and we gathered at the first show- ing to see the newborn, hoping that it would be a beauty. She is a pretty thing, and one can only hope that her mother will give her some more time to matur...…
…• STN Entertainment 'Jude' 'Ransom' Rated R Rated R These scenes are large pools xcept for a few modern cine- matic flourishes, Jude stays through which Jude moves as he faithful to its roots as a late- trudges toward his dream of an 19th century novel about the academic career at Christminster life of would-be scholar Jude Faw- University and marriage to his beloved, free-thinking cousin, Sue ley. Thomas Hardy's protagonist is Bridehead...…
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…• - Paul Wunder, WBAI RADIO Yiddish Films At Oneg An evening of Yiddish film will be held at the next Oneg Shab- bat of the Sholem Aleichem In- stitute 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, at Franklin Pointe clubhouse. The double feature will include Tevye Der Milkhiker with Mau- rice Schwartz and Jewish Gou- chos, a documentary on Eastern European Jews who fled to the pampas of Argentina. '1.s*.W.Van -Michael Medved, NEW YORK POST "NICK NOLTE GIVES T...…
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