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INSIDE: EYES ON ISRAEL, PAGES 20-25 ALIYAH AGAIN
Thirty years after giving up their first effort at becoming Israelis, Edie and Mort Barr try again. Page 20
NOT ALONE
TEEN TIME
Shani Weinmann may be a lone soldier when she joins the IDF this summer, but she feels right at home. Page 21
High-schoolers can apply to follow Carlie Ladinsky and Tyler Schwartz in spending a semester at Alexander Muss. Page 25
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The annual Eizenstat Lecture becomes a conversation with Michael Bloomberg. Page 7
SUPER EFFORT
Doug Hertz discusses making the pitch to NFL owners that won Atlanta the 2019 Super Bowl. Page 15
GOOD START
Flame On Photo by Michael Jacobs
GROWING SCENE
Take a tour of the backyard beauty three homeowners have nurtured this spring. Page 26
Schuster, Lopez Win; Alembik In Runoff
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EIZENSTAT CHAT
A $1 million gift helps the Epstein School revive an endowment initiative. Page 16
JUNE 3, 2016 | 26 IYAR 5776
Lag B’Omer, the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer between Passover and Shavuot, offered a break Thursday, May 26, from weeks of mournful practices with celebrations across the Atlanta area involving outdoor games, picnics, cookouts and bonfires, including these flames rising from two steel drums behind the Chabad Israeli Center Atlanta in Brookhaven. Congregation Beth Tefillah joined the Brookhaven festivities, attended by outgoing Israeli Deputy Consul General Ron Brummer and his successor, Anat Tsin. More from Lag B’Omer, Page 6
ewish judges held off challengers in DeKalb and Cobb counties, while Ahavath Achim Synagogue member Gary Alembik advanced to a runoff for a Fulton County Superior Court seat in Georgia’s primaries Tuesday, May 24. Eric Dunaway was the leading votegetter in the three-way race to replace Fulton County Superior Court Judge Wendy Shoob with 47 percent. He will face Alembik in a runoff July 26. Alembik received 29.2 percent, while fellow Ahavath Achim member Andrew Margolis was third with 23.8 percent. In DeKalb County, State Court Judge Dax Lopez cruised past Roderick Bridges, who made Lopez’s Judaism an issue. Lopez received 62.9 percent of the votes. Also in DeKalb, State Court Judge Mike Jacobs was re-elected unopposed. In Cobb, Chief Superior Court Judge J. Stephen Schuster won re-election against JoAnne Elsey and Cindie Alter. Congressmen Tom Graves, Barry Loudermilk and Doug Collins all had victories in Republican primaries. Loudermilk will face Democrat Don Wilson in the 11th District. Graves and Collins are assured re-election. In the race to succeed Congressman Lynn Westmoreland in the 3rd District, Angela Pendray won the Democratic nomination and in November will face either Mike Crane (26.9 percent) or Drew Ferguson (26.8 percent), who advanced to a Republican runoff July 26. • Judicial reactions, Page 9