Keeping Al and Sophie Alive:

KEEPING AL AND SOPHIE ALIVE is in a show outside of Detroit in a Holocaust Museum and part of a group called the Jewish Artists Salon.  The piece is about the famous Actors Temple on 47th  Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues.  The small temple was started by a group of Orthodox Jews who arrived in Hell's Kitchen  in 1910.  For many years the temple attracted people who were in show business, because it is very near Broadway and many actors lived in Hell's Kitchen, because that's all they could afford.  As the actors, etc moved away to Hollywood and to  Long Island, the temple began to fall on hard times.  It is now getting on its feet again, with its director Rabbi/Cantor Jill Hausmann.

The Show at the Detroit based Holocaust Museum is called Silent Witnesses... about Synagogues turning into churches, or decaying into rumple, or like the Actors Temple are slowly, very slowly having a renewal.  The temple does receives some economic help from the plays which are performed there and I'm sure contributors. But it still in the need of more help... lots of more help.