A born New Yorker, she is both direct and protective. Judy – Deborah’s best friend, early-twenties, tall and athletic. Brilliant, she attended Radcliffe, pioneered special education and has a deep understanding of human nature that Deborah unknowingly absorbs. She has a soft island voice, and colonial British demeanor. She was brought up in Bermuda, where her father was an entrepreneurial Jewish Ukrainian immigrant. Battling health problems of chronic pain, discouragement and disabilities, her courage not only keeps her alive, but empowers her to confront the country’s growing hate and antisemitism.Įstelle Levine – Deborah’s mother, mid-fifties, soft and plump. Unaware of the impact of her Jewish and immigrant background, she struggles to fit in. When the family moves to New York, she’s bullied for being different.
CHARACTERSĭeborah Levine – Deborah was born in Brooklyn and brought up in Bermuda as the only Jewish little girl on the British island. She uses her talents to counteract hate and antisemitism and when her voice returns, she writes and narrates a radio theater script with her father’s letters. Robbed of her voice by surgery gone wrong, she turns to writing and becomes an award-winning author of 15 books, founder/editor of the online American Diversity Report, and a newspaper opinion columnist. Determined to persevere in her efforts, she transforms herself into a Holocaust Educator, using her dad’s letters to share his passion, and now hers.
The additional visibility leads to her being targeting by neo-Nazi groups online and she’s again protected by the FBI. As the political environment becomes more divisive and hate groups multiply, she counteracts their racism and antisemitism in her writing and speaking. When the Volkswagen plant is built in Chattanooga, her expertise in diversity and cross-cultural background surprisingly turns this hobby into a new profession training expats in the South.ĭeborah is named a Diversity & Inclusion Trailblazer by Forbes Magazine. Recovering, she creates a Women’s Council onĭiversity to stay active and connected to the community. Her brother and father come to Chattanooga to support her as she heals. But she almost dies on a Uzbekistan mission, resigns, and her husband supports them as a Deborah responds when the Federation in Chattanooga needs a new executive director who can build a Jewish cultural center to serve the community.ĭeborah becomes a full-time executive director and builds Chattanooga’s Jewish cultural center. Her life’s goals change when she discovers that dad was a US military intelligence officer in WW II assigned to interrogate Nazi prisoners of war. She reunites with her brother and her father visits Tulsa. Deborah is trained by the FBI to deal with neo-Nazis and confronts international Holocaust denier, David Irving. Having interviewed Holocaust Survivors when writing a script for a Holocaust education video, she’s motivated to work in Tulsa after the OK City bombing by extremists. Looking for a more stable life, Deborah takes a part-time job at a Jewish Federation, remarries and completes a masters degree in religion. Deborah decides to go on living and commutes to their New York City office. Despondent at first, she’s offered a consulting job with the national Union of American Hebrew Congregations to do research for the next century’s prayer book. Financial issues pile up and her husband leaves for good. She pioneers an interfaith coalition in the suburbs and publishes her first book on religious diversity. After directing a national interfaith conference, Deborah’s health requires a major shift. She completes her masters degree and gets a job with a Jewish organization to honor her dying mother. Her mother suffers from cancer, her brother cuts her off and Deborah becomes a homeless single mom.ĭeborah recovers slightly and joins her husband in Chicago at her parents’ insistence. The couple separate and husband leaves for a Chicago graduate school. She marries and has a daughter before her health fails and she has to resign her job. Determined to be independent, she leaves the university and takes a job as director of a nonprofit. EPISODESĭeborah ends up in the ICU of a Cincinnati hospital, but starts a masters degree at the university when she recovers.
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TV PILOT of 6 Episodes: The daughter of a WW II military intelligence officer battles disabilities, sexual harassment, hate and antisemitism as she strives to heal herself and repair a broken world.
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