Accused American is marking Rosh Hashanah in Cuban jail
Effort to help Cuban Jews with Internet connections leads to subversion charge.
Alan Gross usually celebrates Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year that started at sundown Wednesday, by playing mandolin in the klezmer band that accompanies his guitar-strumming rabbi in the High Holiday service.
But this year, Gross is imprisoned in Cuba, where he has been held since Dec. 4 in a bizarre Cold War-style case that has become the latest irritant between Washington and its longtime nemesis in Havana.
State security arrested the 60-year-old amateur musician and professional aid worker at the Havana airport after he allegedly provided unauthorized satellite Internet connections to Cuba's tiny Jewish community. The Communist regime strictly controls Internet access through state-run servers, and household Internet connections are illegal.
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