by Sarah Breger Right to left: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Chris Christie and his wife at Sunday's awards night In a raw speech during an otherwise canned evening, Jacob Ostreicher, the Orthodox Jewish businessman who was imprisoned in Bolivia for 18 months, thanked Sean Penn for the actor’s role in his escape. “I can’t go into all the details of … how difficult the road to freedom was and how many times Sean saved my life. But I can say he literally dropped everything for a fellow American half way across the planet, even to the point that Sean himself had to flee Bolivia.” Ostreicher, who was speaking at the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala in New York last Sunday night, went on to detail how Penn helped the father of five transition back into life after captivity....

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