YI Love Play Reading Series: “The Gospel According to Jerry” by Richard Krevolin and Irwin Kula

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YI Love Play Reading Series: “The Gospel According to Jerry” by Richard Krevolin and Irwin Kula

YI Love Jewish is proud to present the next

show in the YI Love Play Reading Series: “The Gospel According to Jerry” by Richard

Krevolin and Irwin Kula. The reading will be presented by The Mandel Jewish

Community Center (5221 Hood Rd, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418) and is sponsored

by the University of Miami’s Miller Center and Feldenkreis Program for Contemporary

Judaic Studies.

The play’s two characters are Jerry Silver who is a divorced rabbi in a Yankees ball cap

searching to fill a personal void and Nia Thompson who is a reserved African American

gospel choir director desperate to lose weight. Their lives intersect when Nia signs up

for an overeaters' anonymous group that Jerry is leading. A heartwarming relationship

unfolds in this funny, poignant new play that takes a hard-hitting look at contemporary

values, Jewish - African American relations, stereotypes, and spirituality. And in the end,

Jerry and Nia discover that gospel music and classic Jewish melodies just might be the

key to bridging the gap that exists between us all.

One of the playwrights, Irwin Kula, who is a rabbi says “Using Overeaters Anonymous

as a setting was a good tool for me,” Kula admits. “Food plays such a central role in

Jewish culture; it made it easier to set up jokes to loosen up a serious subject.”

The play reading stars world renowned actor and YI CEO Avi Hoffman and actress Lela

Elam, a multiple award winner who has been seen on shows such as “Graceland” and

TBS’ “Wrecked.” The reading of the play will be directed by Tara Weidenfeller and

filmed for later viewing by Mark Ahrens of Heritage Films.