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Israelis Rush To Aid Nepal Israel and Israeli-based aid agencies responded quickly to the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that devastated Nepal on Saturday, April 25. The Israel Defense Forces sent an 80-person team to Nepal, a 12-hour flight away, by Monday, April 27, and a second team of 170 personnel soon followed. “We’re on a mission to achieve three things: deploy major search-and-rescue operations; admit patients to our field hospitals within 12 hours of landing; help the Nepalese people,” said Col. Yoram Larado, who is leading the IDF humanitarian mission. The death toll in Nepal has topped 5,000. IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Ler ner said Israel’s field hospital likely would be the first in operation in Nepal. The hospital includes pediatrics, surgery, neonatal care and radiology. Magen David Adom, the Israeli Red Cross, had a team of eight doctors and paramedics in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, the day after the earthquake, and IsraAID also was sending a team to Nepal. The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta joined with the Jewish Federations of North America to launch a Nepal Relief Fund (bit.ly/1KkFArv); all money raised will go to emergency aid. ■
$5M Gift To KSU Creates Leven School By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com
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Haifa native David Broza, who mixes Spanish guitar and American blues with Hebrew words and Israeli themes, helps the Israeli Consulate General to the Southeast celebrate Israel’s 67th birthday with a nearly two-hour solo concert at Congregation Or Hadash on Sunday night, April 26. More celebrations of Yom Photo by Michael Jacobs HaAtzmaut, plus Yom HaZikaron, Page 8
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Mike Leven said he never thought he would put his name on anything but a check, but after he committed to the biggest individual contribution in the history of Kennesaw State University, the Michael A. Leven School of Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality was born. The University System of Georgia approved the name change April 15. Leven, who began working in the hospitality industry about two years before Kennesaw State launched in 1963, is donating $5 million to endow a faculty chair and provide student scholarships. Leven, the CEO of the Georgia Aquarium after retiring last year from Las Vegas Sands, said Kennesaw State attracted him because it’s a state school in the Atlanta area, it’s affordable for the middle class, it attracts many students who, like Leven, are in the first generation in their families to attend college, and the hospitality program is less than 2 years old. “Change is not easy as the bureaucracy gets intensified,” Leven said. He said he can be a mentor and facilitate student connections in the industry. He also can help close the gaps between what is taught and what the industry needs. Leven hopes to see the school grow from about 200 people taking courses now to 500 or even 1,000 and within a decade become one of the best of its kind in the Southeast, if not the nation. “If I can help it grow by being a resource to them, fine,” he said. “I don’t want to be intrusive; I just want to be used.” ■
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explained how JF&CS provides the services and support she needs to keep living independently in Atlanta, and she told about the importance of the
ewish Family & Career Services focused on the how-to of its community services April 24 as it kicked off its annual fundraising campaign with the ninth annual Community of Caring luncheon at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead. “Why is there a need for our services?” incoming CEO Rick Aranson said to a crowd of more than 600 people. “Why do Ashley Semerenko, an on-site social worker at people come to us for help?” the Ben Massell Dental Clinic, discusses her In a video-heavy program, work with clients in need on a video shown the agency presented what during the Community of Caring luncheon. Aranson called a sample of the services it provides and the impact they have, such as: monthly Café Europa social gatherings • Developmental Disability Servic- of 50 to 60 survivors. es’ Tools for Independence programs, • Career services to shift career including TFI WORKS and Art WORKS. gears. Jennifer Tinter told her story of • The Holocaust Survivors Pro- going back to school to make a career gram through Aviv Adult Services. change, only to flounder for two years Hungarian survivor Eva Friedlander in science classes and lose sight of her
goals and strengths. Her bubbe suggested she call JF&CS, and a 90-minute session in February with a career counselor she called an angel got her back on track and is keeping her moving forward. Aranson asked her to come back to the luncheon next year to tell where her journey has taken her. • The Ben Massell Dental Clinic, which uses clients’ visits for necessary free dental care to also provide mercy care and counseling. Client Markus said that after a year of weekly meetings, social worker Ashley Semerenko is not only his counselor, but also his best friend. • Helping Atlantans Manage Substance Abuse. Rachel Rabinowitz and her mother, Lisa Galanti, tracked Rachel’s journey from thriving child and student into teenage drug addiction until she bottomed out, got the help she needed from HAMSA and her family, and became a HAMSA counselor herself, where Aranson said JF&CS is fortunate to have her. You can donate to JF&CS at yourtoolsforliving.org/donate/online. ■
Miss Sandi’s Legend Dazzles Breman Home By Marcia Jaffe mjaffe@atljewishtimes.com
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ultigenerational dance teacher Sandi Friedman brought the youngsters and oldsters to perform at the William Breman Jewish Home on Sunday, April 26. A former Rockette, as was her sister, the instructor known as Miss Sandi is entering her 48th recital year and preaches that “it’s important to share your talent with the community.” The official recital will be at Riverwood International Charter School in Sandy Springs. Now teaching out of her home, Friedman has students ages 3 to 87. Her students performed several dance numbers with lively costumes, umbrella props and smiles, all for the benefit of the residents. “I have the world’s best job,” she said. ■
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wo-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank has signed on to play Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt in a big-screen adaptation of Lipstadt’s court battle against Holocaust denier David Irving. David Hare will write the script for “Denial” based on Lipstadt’s account of her English libel trial against Irving, “History on Trial.” Hare was twice nominated for the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay, for “The Reader” in 2008 and “The Hours” in 2002, so he’s good at turning books into screenplays. “This is a powerful story about the legal and personal battle Deborah Lipstadt fought to defend the veracity of historical facts. No one has the right to erase history by distorting the truth, and David Hare’s brilliant script weaves a relevant and thrilling journey,” said a statement from the producing team of Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff, Mick Jackson, who directed the HBO movie “Temple Grandin,” is set to direct. ■
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Jewish-led ownership group has agreed to buy the Atlanta Hawks, just not one of the groups reported to be finalists. Billionaire Antony Ressler, a private equity fund manager, and his group, which includes former NBA AllStar Grant Hill and Atlanta entrepreneurs Jesse Itzler and Sara Blakely, are buying the franchise and the operating rights to Philips Arena for a widely reported price of $730 million, plus $112 million in assumed debt on the arena. Two other Jewish-led groups, one headed by Oaktree Capital Management’s Steve Kaplan and the other by Lionsgate Entertainment Chairman Mark Rachesky, had been reported as the only remaining potential buyers when bids were due April 10, but the team confirmed April 22 that Ressler’s group was the winner. The new ownership collective will need the approval of the NBA’s Board of Governors but has expressed interest in retaining the Hawks’ Jewish CEO, Steve Koonin, and NBA Coach of the Year Mike Budenholzer. “We are pleased that the group is committed to continue building on the franchise’s storied history and recent success,” Koonin said in a statement. Ressler, co-founder of private equity firm Ares Management, is worth an estimated $1.43 billion. In 2014 he tried to buy the Los Angeles Clippers but was outbid by fellow Jewish billionaire Steve Balmer, who paid $2 billion. He owns part of the Milwaukee Brewers. At least two of his Hawks partners, Itzler and Rick Schnall, are Jewish. Hawks majority owner Bruce Levenson decided last fall to sell the team after a racially insensitive email he sent to Hawks staff members became public. Despite the distraction, the Hawks had the best season in franchise history with a 60-22 record and the top playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. “We are honored and thrilled to have been chosen to become the new stewards of the Hawks,” Ressler said. “We respect the NBA’s approval process and accordingly can say no more.” The Hawks are tied with the Brooklyn Nets 2-2 in their first-round, best-of-seven playoff series. ■
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Ethiopian-Israeli Fusion Ester Rada, an Israeli-Ethiopian singer who blends jazz, urban funk, neo-soul and R&B with her cultural influences, performs the next installment in the Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series on Thursday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Rada has opened for Alicia Keys and in 2013 headlined the Atlanta Jazz Festival, which is presenting the concert with the Israeli Consulate General in partnership with the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation and the Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation. Tickets are $39 for Breman members and $50 for others; thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.
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Film history. Bob Bahr teaches “Fitting In — A Short History of Jewish Film in America” each Tuesday at 10 a.m. for six weeks (started April 7) at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Open to all; register at www. templesinaiatlanta.org. Temple Sinai and the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival are co-sponsors.
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Lew visits Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Roswell Road, East Cobb. Events include dinner with a discussion of his adventure in Greenland at 7:30 p.m. Friday ($24 for adults, $14 for ages 7 to 12, $8 for ages 3 to 6 until April 27, then $5 more each); a lunch discussion on “Realizing Our Potential” at 12:30 p.m. Saturday (free); and a discussion of Chabad teachings on happiness at 10 a.m. Sunday ($12). Register at www. cobbjewishacademy.org, or call 770565-4412.
SUNDAY, MAY 3
ADHD lecture. Psychiatrist Smitha Bhandari addresses whether attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is being overtreated or undertreated during the annual Sam Chyatte lecture on medicine and ethics at 10 a.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; www.templesinaiatlanta.org. Kosher Day at Turner Field. Take in a Braves game against the Cincinnati Reds at 1:35 p.m. and enjoy a variety of kosher food available for purchase. Game tickets are $10. For more information, call the Atlanta Kashruth Commission, 404-634-4063. Student awards. Greater Atlanta Hadassah presents the 24th annual Marian F. Perling Hadassah Chesed Student Awards to seventh- to 12thgraders at 2 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody. Free; atlanta@hadassah. org or 678-443-2961.
MONDAY, MAY 4
Golf for a cause. Atlanta Jewish Academy holds its Jerry Siegel Legacy Golf Tournament at the Dunwoody Country Club, 1600 Dunwoody Club Drive, and honors Jerry Siegel’s sons,
Michael and Andy. Entry is $350; www. atljewishacademy.org. AJC dinner. The American Jewish Committee’s Atlanta Chapter honors Eliot Arnovitz with its Selig Distinguished Service Award at 6 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, 3434 Peachtree St. Tickets are $180; www. ajcatlanta.org or 404-233-5501.
TUESDAY, MAY 5
U.S.-Israeli ties. Emory professor Ken Stein addresses “Shifting Regional Landscapes: Israel and the U.S. in a Turbulent Middle East” in a discussion sponsored by the Center for Israel Education and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta at 7 p.m. at the Weber School, 6751 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs. Free; info@ JCRCAtlanta.org or 678-222-3740.
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Tradition! Explore “Judaism Decoded: The Origins and Evolution of Jewish Tradition” weekly through June 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Roswell Road, East Cobb. Fee of $89 ($160 for a couple) includes the book; www.myjli.com or 770-565-4412. Hollywood in the camps. “Filming the
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Parshah Acharei-Kedoshim Friday, May 1, light candles at 8:03 p.m. Saturday, May 2, Shabbat ends at 9:02 p.m. Parshah Emor Friday, May 8, light candles at 8:08 p.m. Saturday, May 9, Shabbat ends at 9:08 p.m.
Facing the end of life. Paul Root Wolpe, the director of Emory University’s Center for Ethics, offers a Jewish perspective on end-of-life issues in the Alembik Lecture at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; www.templesinaiatlanta.org.
TUESDAY, MAY 12
Brickman celebration. The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta honors Dr. Perry Brickman while hearing Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation CEO Joel Peresman and Spanx CEO Jan Singer at FED Talks at 8 p.m. at the Buckhead Theatre, 3110 Roswell Road, Buckhead. Open to 2015 Community Campaign donors. Tickets are $36; jewishatlanta.org/FEDTalks.
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Meet the G-man. FBI Special Agent Britt Johnson speaks about counterterrorism to the Edgewise group at 10:30 a.m. at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free; Sid Stein, 770-232-4887. The Tasting. The night of food, wine and a silent auction, all to benefit Jewish Family & Career Services’ Zimmerman-Horowitz Independent Living Program, starts at 7 p.m. at a new location, Mason Fine Art, 1386 Mayson St., Buckhead. Tickets are $100 if you’re 36 or older, $50 if you’re 21 to 35; yourtoolsforliving.org or 770-677-9329.
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Muslim-Jewish Dialogue. The final part of “Jews and Muslims: Intimate Strangers,” to be followed by discussion, is shown at the Clarkston Community Center, 3701 College Ave., Clarkston, at noon in a program co-sponsored by the American Jewish
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Committee. The $18 fee includes a meal; www.ajcatlanta.org. Mikvah groundbreaking. Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah breaks ground and shares its plans for Atlanta’s first community mikvah at 2 p.m. on the grounds of Congregation B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free; www.atlantamikvah.org or info@atlantamikvah.org.
TUESDAY, MAY 19
FIDF gala. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces honors Israeli Consul General Opher Aviran and his wife, Talyah, and welcomes speaker Brig. Gen. Gila Klifi-Amir in a celebration of women in the IDF at the annual Atlanta gala dinner at 6 p.m. at the Georgia Aquarium, 225 Baker St., downtown. Tickets are $250, $118 if you’re 35 or younger; www.fidf.org/ATLGala.
THURSDAY, MAY 28
Eagle Star Awards. The Conexx gala, honoring Emory University’s Dr. Raymond Schinazi, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and others, begins at 6 p.m. at Georgia Power, 241 Ralph McGill Blvd., downtown. Tickets are $125; www.eaglestargala.com.
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Help for women. Greater Atlanta Hadassah presents “Women in Crisis,” featuring Wendy Lipshutz of the JF&CS Shalom Bayit program, Helen Kotler of the JF&CS Starting Over program and Laura Kahn of Jewish Interest Free Loan of Atlanta, to highlight the urgent services available for women in Atlanta, at 1:30 p.m. at Berman Commons, 2026 Womack Road, Dunwoody. Free; RSVP by May 20 to gahprogramming@gmail.com.
Corrections & Clarifications Paula Levine’s career-ending soccer injury was to her ankle. The injury was explained incorrectly in an article on the Emory Summer Business Institute in the April 24 issue.
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Camps — John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg” opens as the featured exhibit and runs through Nov. 20 at the Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Road, Buckhead. Admission to the museum is $16.50 for adults, $13 for students and seniors, $11 for children 4 to 12, and free for museum members and younger children.
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Happy 67th Birthday, Israel
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fter the somber observances of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) from April 12 to 19 and of Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day) on April 21 and 22, Jewish Atlanta unleashed the joy of the Jewish state’s modern rebirth by celebrating Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) from April 23 through at least April 26. In addition to the events shown on this page, observances included a Jewish National Fund lunch for women with paratrooper and Negev resident Yedidya Harush, a Young Israel of Toco Hills-organized barbecue at Mason Mill Park, and the Blue and White Party, which brought together several of the community’s young-adult and young-professional groups. Photos by Michael Jacobs
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Cooking Up Something Good
No event on the calendar is as certain to bring out Atlanta’s Israelis as Yom HaZikaron, and sure enough, a large crowd turned up at Ahavath Achim Synagogue the night of April 21 to remember the 23,320 Israelis who have died fighting for the country, as well as nearly 2,500 victims of terrorist attacks.
It wasn’t just the chance to purchase dinner from Goodfriend’s Grill or the convenience of celebrating Israel’s birthday before or after a ballgame at one of the fields across the parking lot, but the birthday barbecue at the Marcus Jewish Community Center on Thursday evening, April 23, felt more vibrant than the similar Federation event (same food, many of the same festivities, many of the same attendees) three days later. Maybe it was the juggler or the Israeli dancing, or maybe it was just Rabbi Brian Glusman.
Left: The “Yizkor” banner and the candles beneath it set the scene for the remembrance ceremony. Right top: Keynote speaker Avichai Peretz talks about losing two older brothers in the line of duty 12 years apart, one in Lebanon and one in Gaza. Right middle: Georgia State University’s Robbie Friedmann, as usual serving as master of ceremonies, listens as Israeli Deputy Counsel General Ron Brummer reads the order of the day from the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff.
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Right bottom: Standing beside emcee Robbie Friedmann, Ambassador Opher Aviran addresses his final Yom HaZikaron ceremony as consul general to the Southeast.
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Top: Staying cool in the sun is no sweat when a fountain awaits. Bottom: Israeli dance proves a draw for all ages.
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta organized a community celebration of Israel’s 67th birthday on a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon April 26 at the Davis Academy. Perhaps the weather was too nice: It seemed as if most of Jewish Atlanta found other ways to enjoy the break from the recent rain, despite free Atlanta Jewish Music Festival entertainment, free Dippin’ Dots and water, free face painting and sand art, a couple of inflatables and a climbing tower, and Goodfriend’s grilled goodies.
It’s hard to imagine a more pleasant, more heartfelt conclusion to the Yom HaAtzmaut festivities than the concert Israeli singersongwriter David Broza performed the night of April 26 at Congregation Or Hadash. Broza captivated the crowd with his stories, his voice and his Spanish guitar playing for almost two hours, concluding with his 38-year-old peace anthem “Yihye Tov” (“It Will Be Good”) — the song host Rabbi Mario Karpuj says he used to win the heart of Rabbi Analia Bortz.
Top: Atlanta Jewish Music Festival head Russell Gottschalk (left) likes what he sees from Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz. Bottom: Artist Karin Mervis (right) finds some helping hands for her birthday mural.
Top: Former Sen. Saxby Chambliss, one of the honorees, along with Sen. Johnny Isakson, at the pre-concert reception, sits next to Jay Davis for the start of the show. Left: David Broza’s hands work their magic as he plays Spanish guitar.
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Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home
Bacteria use DNA memory to stop viruses. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot have discovered how bacteria protect themselves from invasive viruses called phages. Their immune systems add part of the phage DNA into the bacteria’s genome. The research may lead to new treatments for autoimmune diseases. U.N. praise for Israel. It doesn’t happen every day, but a report from the United Nations is singling out Israel for good reasons instead of bad. According to Globes, a report dealing with the U.N. Convention Against Corruption cites the good work Israeli law enforcement is doing to root out public corruption. The woman in charge of foreign exchange technology. Ilit Geller is the CEO of Tel Aviv-based TradAir. Trad Air’s systems allow smaller banks to trade high volumes of foreign currency and get a slice of the profits normally available only to large multinationals. She also has broken into an area of finance that is traditionally a man’s world. Printing aircraft components. A consortium of top Israeli companies and universities is developing 3D printing technologies for the Israeli aerospace industry. The aim is to design and manufacture complex geometric structures that can be produced only by printing. Israeli tech feeds 1 billion people. Rafi Mehudar was one of this year’s Israel Independence Day torchlighters, 42 years after he invented the modern form of drip irrigation. His system is used by only 5 percent of the world’s farmers but is responsible for crops that feed over 1 billion people.
Ryanair really wants Israel. Europe’s largest airline, Ryanair, is resuming talks in Israel to operate flights from Tel Aviv to several destinations in Europe, with return tickets costing around 140 euros (about $150). “We want our flag in the state of Israel,” said Ryanair’s deputy director of route development, Kate Sherry.
Israel’s beaches are open. Lifeguard services began on all of Israel’s beaches April 20 and continue until Oct. 12. Tel Aviv’s award-winning beaches expect 9 million visitors this summer. Beachgoers can also enjoy free WiFi. Compiled courtesy of verygoodnewsisrael. blogspot.com and other news sources.
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The Israel Defense Forces’ Combat Intelligence Corps conducts reconnaissance and ground surveillance to warn of dangers in real time. The men and women of the Combat Intelligence Corps have been adopted by the Friends of the IDF Southeast Region as part of the FIDF Adopt a Brigade Program, through which the community provides for the educational needs and well-being of a unit’s soldiers. The FIDF Southeast Region will host A Night to Honor Women of the IDF on May 19 at the Georgia Aquarium; www.fidf.org/ ATLGala.
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May 6 - November 20, 2015 Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller created American cinema classics, but their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services. An exhibition by the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France.
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The blind can “see” sounds. Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have published more results of their research into the brains of people who are blind from birth. Their visual cortexes are similar to the fully sighted. They can even be trained to “see” sounds.
Lower credit card transaction costs. The Israeli-developed Zooz platform enables shops, hotels and other merchants to get the lowest transaction fees when processing credit cards from customers. Kfar Saba-based Zooz will find the cheapest financial institution to process the transaction, which ultimately could mean lower costs.
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JNF Breakfast Thrives Without Pastor Stanley By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com
the breakfast if Stanley attended, said he attended the breakfast in the end because Stanley’s exit allowed him to he absence of the Rev. Charles show his support for JNF in good conStanley meant the presence of science. several rabbis and other comJNF CEO Russell Robinson on May munity leaders who had planned to 8 will meet in Atlanta with people who stay away from protested StanJewish National ley’s honor. Fund’s Yom Rebecca StapelHaAtzmaut Wax, the exbreakfast April ecutive director 23. of SOJOURN: But JNF Southern Jewleaders didn’t ish Resource shy away from Network for the controGender and versy that had Sexual Diversplit commusity, said that nity opinion for meeting will weeks. have a large efPhoto by Michael Jacobs In making fect on how SOthe closing plea JOURN’s board JNF Southeast Region Co-President Alan Lubel for donations at members and asks breakfast attendees to help him send the 12th annual supporters feel a message to Charles Stanley of strongerthan-ever financial support for JNF. Jack Hirsch Meabout JNF in morial Breakthe future. fast at The Temple, JNF Southeast ReThe breakfast did go on with a secgion Co-President Alan Lubel looked ond honoree, reserve paratrooper Yearound a room filled with nearly 400 didya Harush, a representative of the people and declared that efforts to boy- northwestern Negev town of Halutza, cott the breakfast had failed. founded by his parents and others af“You each have a chance to send ter they were forced to evacuate Gaza a message, a message that the Atlanta in 2005. The town faced repeated rockJewish community and its support for et attacks during last year’s Gaza war. the Jewish National Fund is as strong as He received the Cantor Isaac and Betty ever and is stronger than ever,” he said. Goodfriend Community Service Award Lubel noted that Stanley, the se- from the Goodfriends’ son Enoch. nior pastor at First Baptist Church Beth Gluck, JNF’s regional direcAtlanta, had decided days earlier to tor in the Southeast, kept the crowd decline JNF’s Tree of Life Award and focused on the agency’s work to meet thus shift the focus from himself back Israel’s needs. While acknowledging to support for Israel. Despite the criti- the controversy, she tried to move past cism he took from members of the Jew- it and never mentioned Stanley. ish community over his public decla“If it wasn’t clear a month ago, it rations against the LGBT community, surely is crystal-clear now that Jewish Stanley made a generous donation to National Fund exists for the sole purJNF, Lubel said. pose of supporting the land and people Lubel earned a standing ovation of Israel” and that the agency must rewhen he said: “I would like to be able sist mission creep. to report to Dr. Stanley that each perFor over a century, JNF has been son in attendance here made a contri- the constant for Israel even as the nabution for the work of JNF in Israel. I tion has changed because JNF has worwould like to be able to report that de- ried only about how to benefit the Jewspite the protests, JNF raised as much ish state, she said. or more support for Israel as it ever has Defense of Israel is necessary but in the past at this breakfast.” reactive, Gluck said, and JNF is a proRabbi Michael Bernstein of Con- active, visionary force. That vision gregation Gesher L’Torah, who, like involves projects like developing the such colleagues as The Temple’s Peter Negev and securing enough water for Berg and David Spinrad and Temple the future. “Urgent is sexy, but vision is Sinai’s Ron Segal, was planning to skip really smart,” Gluck said. ■
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Sleeping With the Enemy
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When one of those evangelicals, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), recently visited Israel, he proclaimed to the Knesset that he was a “Christian Zionist.” Funny, here I am, fully vested in the American dream, and DeLay and his co-religionists want to see me in Israel so their dreams can come true.
Guest Column By Steve Berman
Jews may view this “end of days” scenario with raised eyebrows, but don’t fool yourself: Millions of Americans subscribe to this dream, which has an ending that either doesn’t have us here in the United States or certainly places us in hell for not believing in their God.
Letters to the Editor opinion, make any statements to the Honor Mishandled media off the record or share their Pastor Charles Stanley’s decision to decline the Tree of Life Award is a bitter disappointment. As a former chief elected officer of four Jewish organizations and an officer for two others, I am certain that this situation could have been prevented. While I believe the choice of Stanley was excellent, his views on homosexuality were widely known. Before the announcement of his selection, contact should have been made with leaders in our community who were likely to have negative feelings about Stanley as an honoree. JNF could have asked them to decline an
feelings among friends only. They could have expressed their opinions to JNF and perhaps thought twice about going public. In the final analysis, those who did comment publicly did more harm than good. Israel is facing a crisis. We as Jews cannot fight the battle alone. We need a committed Christian community. Stanley is the face of that community in our area. Now an opportunity to show our appreciation to the pastor is gone, and it’s our fault. Our community owes Charles Stanley an apology. We can only pray that this insult will not diminish his
I’d like to ignore that kind of theology, but the rush by some American Jews to forge alliances with the evangelical right for Israel means I can’t. Some analysts feel the same way. Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory, warns that “American Jews need to be careful about whom they get into bed with politically. The Christian Coalition sees the Jews as a means to an end, and that end does not include them.” But doesn’t Israel need all the help it can get, damn the short-term consequences? Let Abramowitz do some political math: “This is all aside from reactionary views on everything from birth control to sex education to government aid to religious schools to abortion to gay rights — views that are contrary to those of the large majority of American Jews.” On top of all this comes the new Mel Gibson-directed movie “The Passion of the Christ.” In it, according to Hollywood sources, Jews are portrayed
as a bloodthirsty and greedy people, not to mention Christ-killers. After the National Association of Evangelicals screened the movie, the group implied that its support for Israel could vanish if Jewish leaders were to risk alienating 2 billion Christians over a movie. Great, the Christian right supports Israel, so we should have to swallow an inflammatory movie that might actually incite more anti-Semitism? Once we’re in bed with these people on Israel’s security, are we expected to have to deal — even agree — with them on other issues that we may actually find offensive? If the Moral Majority, the evangelical right and their cohorts want to back Israel, let them — the Jewish state needs all the support it can get. But American Jews should not be aligning themselves with this movement. Doing so only sacrifices important long-term interests for a short-term gain.
unequivocal support for Israel. Cary Rosenthal, Sandy Springs
Stanley controversy, and he showed me the Jaffe piece. I was impressed with the summary and views. I am a strong supporter of individual rights and believe that two people who love each other should be able to marry no matter their gender. However, there is a time when you need to put personal beliefs and agendas aside to come together in support of something so important as the survival and strength of Israel. We need to encourage supporters of Israel and the Jewish people, not discriminate against them because of their dissimilar beliefs. I wish this article could have a wider audience. Susie Moskowitz, Marietta
Jaffe Column Right
Since Pastor Charles Stanley pulled out of the JNF breakfast, I want to comment on Marcia Jaffe’s column (“On JNF, Not Needing to Make a Choice,” April 17) as it seems the air is not clear about Jewish unity or the role Christians play in support of Israel. Having endured rushing to bomb shelters during the war in Gaza last summer while in Israel with Congregation Etz Chaim, I was moved to learn that Stanley led over 400 of his congregants to Israel shortly after the war. My husband and I were discussing the
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The following column originally ran in the Atlanta Jewish Times on Sept. 5, 2003. The writer, founder of OA Development, asked that it be rerun in light of the controversy over Jewish National Fund’s plan to honor the Rev. Charles Stanley. recall chatting one day with one of my partners in a real estate deal about his deeply held Southern Baptist beliefs. We were taking a break from attorneys, accountants and other “suits,” and he was talking about how he liked to travel the world visiting religious missions that he supported. When I asked whether he planned to visit Israel any time soon, he responded: “I’ll go there when all of your people get over there.” Of course, what he was referring to was the messianic vision, held by millions of evangelicals, that their redemption will involve the ingathering of the Jews to Israel and a “final war” of monumental proportions.
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Our View
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he death toll has topped 5,000 people, and we’re still a long way from realizing the final toll of the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25. But we have confirmation of something that has long been obvious to anyone willing to see: Israel is the world’s hero when a disaster strikes. It’s roughly 3,000 miles from Tel Aviv to Kathmandu as the crow flies, if the crow could get permission to pass through the often-hostile airspace of Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and soar into the Himalayas. A human needs half a day to fly from Israel to Nepal in ideal conditions. Despite some tourism (about 500 Israelis were in Nepal when the quake hit) and a thriving business in surrogate parenting (more than two dozen newborns or soon-to-be-borns destined to be adopted by Israeli parents became instant relief targets), Israel and Nepal aren’t close geographically, culturally, religiously or economically. But Nepal’s government expressed a desperate need for medical teams and foreign expertise to get through the crisis, and Israel answered as fast or faster than any other nation. A Magen David Adom medical team reached Nepal the day after the earthquake. Two Israel Defense Forces teams, offering search-and-rescue capabilities and a 200-patient-a-day field hospital, left for Nepal the day after that and might have left sooner if not for problems with the Kathmandu airport. IsraAID quickly followed. Israel, not the United States or the European Union or neighboring India or China, appears to have been the first country to get a field hospital up and running in Nepal in response to the disaster. Israel’s quick response is in part the good side of a bad situation. When you’re in a perpetual state of war and face a ceaseless threat of terrorist attack, you are always ready for disaster. It’s also true that as a matter of foreign policy, Israel recognizes the value of cultivating friendships wherever and whenever possible by doing good things for other countries. But Israel doesn’t stop to make cold calculations when others are hurting; while others are talking about what to do, Israel acts. We’ve seen it happen around the world, year after year, disaster after disaster, from Japan to Haiti to even the United States. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has enough to worry about with the pending Iranian nuclear deal and his struggles to form a governing coalition, explained that Israel has a two-part mission in Nepal: to find and rescue Israelis who need help, because the world has shown that Jews have to watch out for ourselves, and to help people, any people, in distress. We couldn’t help noticing that Oxfam, which broke with actress Scarlett Johansson last year because of its dedication to boycotting Israel, has been one of the lead agencies calling for global aid for Nepal. It’s a good thing Oxfam’s politics haven’t forced Israel to retreat from the world stage. Israel never comes closer to embodying Jewish principles than at times like these. Someday, maybe the world will realize that among the many benefits of the Jewish state, none is more important than its shining example of doing good because it’s right. ■
Being Right Can Be So Wrong
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He declared victory over the boycotters because aybe two wrongs don’t make a right, but the room at The Temple was packed and urged the the Jewish National Fund-Charles Stanley nearly 400 people there to show their love of Israel controversy has demonstrated that two by taking up arms, in the form of pens and checkrights can make a wrong. Both JNF and its supportbooks, to defend Stanley as a fellow Israel lover. ers and SOJOURN and its allies were in the right. Never mind that some people in his audience Unfortunately, neither was willing or able to see that were there only because the other side was addressStanley wasn’t. Never mind ing a different question. that the people who had JNF used a simple yesEditor’s Notebook criticized the breakfast or-no question: Are you for plans got their prime wish: or against Israel? If you’re By Michael Jacobs no award for Stanley. for Israel as a vibrant Jewmjacobs@atljewishtimes.com Never mind, above all, that ish state, we want you as a initially no one called for friend. a boycott of the breakfast, And JNF was right: let alone an abandonment of JNF. Saying you won’t Israel needs every friend it can get, even if we don’t attend is different from demanding no one else goes. want to spend any time with some of them after we But JNF leaders heard a call for boycott, a pardance the hora. ticularly loaded term in the case of Israel, and conSOJOURN also applied a simple yes-or-no ditioned to be defensive about Israel, they naturally perspective: Are you for or against the LGBT commubecame defensive about Stanley. That’s why Lubel nity’s life-or-death civil rights battle? If you want to was less than conciliatory when he saw a big crowd. consign every gay person to hell or see G-d’s hand in He spoke after JNF’s regional director, Beth every AIDS diagnosis, you’re an enemy. Gluck, tried to focus on celebrating Israel’s birthday And SOJOURN was right: Stanley’s attitude is and raising money for JNF’s vital work. abhorrent — not because he opposes same-sex marShe drew a lesson to guide JNF going forward: riage, but because of his fundamental belief that gay We’re about Israel for the long term, and we can’t afpeople are choosing to be the object of his hatred. ford to be distracted by other issues, no matter how Unfortunately, no middle ground connects the important. Israel’s vitality is the first, last and only JNF rightness and the SOJOURN rightness once the concern for JNF. line is crossed and an invitation is issued. To my ears, that was neither a “damn the torpeThe disconnect between “we support Israel, does, full speed ahead” attitude nor an apology for period” and “we can’t support a homophobe, period” a poor choice of honoree but an acknowledgment was frustrating throughout the three weeks of rising that JNF must play it safe and even boring with its anger leading up to the Jack Hirsch Memorial Breakawards. That’s as close to a compromise position as fast and the planned Tree of Life Award for Stanley. anyone is likely to take, and I hope it points the way So it seems appropriate that in the final moments to JNF and SOJOURN remaining allies on Israel and of that breakfast April 23, JNF Southeast Region Cootherwise staying out of each other’s way. ■ President Alan Lubel ripped off the scab.
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The Night We All Cried were fed and given thin mattresses on the floor. Tired from the difficult journey, my father and I lay down, and in spite of our tiredness, neither of us could fall sleep. We were anxious to find out what had happened to our family. Although we were the first trans-
young women — their daughters. There in the classroom in Bratislava I bore witness to an extremely rare event, so rare indeed that I must call it a miracle: the reunification of a total family. What about the rest of us? Of course we were happy for them, but at the same time I was envious of them — and in my heart angry at G-d: “Dear
G-d, why not us?” Very few slept that night. I didn’t. I silently cried. I empathized with that family’s good fortune and dreamed and hoped that, like them, we too would have the good fortune and luck to be reunited with our families. Unfortunately, miracles by their very nature are extremely rare. ■
One Man’s Opinion By Eugen Schoenfeld
port to arrive at this waystation, we knew that other transports on their way to former homes would join us through the evening. My father and I, dressed in our donated clothes, settled down on the mattresses to rest and perchance to sleep. But no one slept. All of us were waiting for the transports to come, hoping to get news about our missing family members. Early in the evening a new group of survivors arrived. All of us immediately jumped up from our mattresses, surrounded them and asked the usual questions: Do you know anything about so and so? Do you know anything about Benjamin, Edit and Yolanda Schoenfeld? Among those who ran to question the arrivals was a man whose name I cannot recall but who was interned with us in Muhldorf Wald Lager. Just as he arrived to the periphery of the new transport, he emitted a loud cry, for there among the new arrivals he saw his wife. Needless to say, this reunion affected all of us; it maintained and reinforced in all of us the hope that we, like this man, could be reunited with a family member. After this extraordinary event we returned to our mattresses, but hardly anyone slept. Each of us, at least my father and I, had wistfully chatted about the possibility that we would be reunited with some of our family members. Near midnight, a transport from a women’s camp arrived. Again, all of us, including the reunited couple, hastened to query the new arrivals about family members. Suddenly, our questioning was interrupted by hysterical shrieks emitted by the newly reunited couple. In the midst of a great tumult, they were hugging, kissing and crying with two
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ach year as we enter the month of May, I cannot help but remember the time of my liberation. Spring, in a sense, is also my personal Pesach, and like the traditional Passover, mine came with its own miracles. Let me share with you one such miracle that occurred in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. A few weeks after our liberation from the German camp Muhldorf and a subsequent stay in a quasi-hospital run by the American military, all of us survivors were declared by the physicians to be fit for repatriation — a euphemism for being sent back to our hometowns, which in my case was Munkacs, the city from which, with the assent of the Christian population, we were sent to Auschwitz. Standing in line next to barrels of old clothes donated by Americans, we were given a set of underwear, a jacket, slacks and shoes and declared to be ready for repatriation. Were we being repatriated? Were we being sent back to our patria, to the land of our forefathers? What happened to me gave me a clear indication that the town and the country where I was born considered me an undesired stranger who therefore could not and should not claim it to be my patria. We were also each given an ID that attested in three languages that the bearer was a displaced person, and by agreement this served as our passport and free transportation. With a box lunch in our hands and directions to our former home, we embarked on a difficult journey — not necessarily to go to a nonexistent home, but at best to seek a chance for rebuilding a life somewhere. With other survivors, my father and I embarked on the train for a long and difficult journey. What made the journey physically difficult, besides the anxiety of the future, were the bombed-out rails that forced us to make frequent detours. We began our trip in early morning, and by nightfall we arrived in Bratislava. Under normal circumstances the train ride should have taken only three hours, but the circuitous routes we had to take made the trip last almost 10 hours. We left the train for an overnight stay in Bratislava. Trucks ferried us from the station to an empty public school, where we
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Taking Steps to Stop Crohn’s
Spandorfer family fights back against children’s disease By Kevin Madigan kmadigan@atljewishtimes.com
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ack Spandorfer, a cheerful and polite 14-year-old who lives in East Cobb, will be the Honored Hero at this year’s Take Steps Atlanta walk for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. The May 2 event will raise money for research into Crohn’s, an inflamma-
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tory bowel disease that causes swelling in the lining of the digestive tract. Pediatric Crohn’s affects 80,000 children in the United States, 75 percent of whom are descended from Ashkenazi Jews. Crohn’s has no cure. Altogether, IBD afflicts 1.6 million Americans. Jack’s journey has been a difficult one. His parents, Philip (better known as Dr. Pip) and Ellen, gradually began
to notice that their son didn’t seem quite himself when he was 11. “He wasn’t growing all that well, hadn’t gained a lot of weight, had no appetite. We thought maybe he’s just going to be a late bloomer,” said Pip, an emergency pediatrician. “It came on so slowly that you just don’t appreciate it.” Ellen, a child psychologist, said, “He became the last one to finish dinner, eating slowly, running to the bathroom, shoving food around his plate, sort of like an anorexic.” An initial test failed to find evidence of the condition, but subsequent ones confirmed in November 2011 that Jack had IBD. He responded to treatment right away. “Immediately after, the very Bottom: Photo by Kevin Madigan next day, he was bouncing Pip Spandorfer, a pediatrician, and Ellen Spandorfer, around the house,” Pip said. a child psychologist, have become top fundraisers “It was striking how much and launched a popular support group in response to the disease that affects their children. better he was.” Top: This is the first year that both Carly and The treatment started Jack Spandorfer will participate in the Take with infusions, and now Steps walk as diagnosed Crohn’s sufferers. Jack gets a weekly injection of a drug called Humira, which targets the immune system in- November. The CCFA estimates that volved with Crohn’s, according to Pip. 20 percent to 30 percent of Crohn’s But more trouble was ahead. Scar patients have a relative affected by the tissue in Jack’s intestines was sched- disease, and families often share a patuled for removal, but once inside, the tern of illness. surgeon decided against the procedure. “I think we caught her in time,” ElThat’s not what they expected, Pip len said. “I was hyper-vigilant to all the said. “We tried to be positive. So maybe signs, of course, so … knock on wood. the medicines are working better than It’s pretty good. We started her on the we thought. We appreciated the sur- medication Jack is on very quickly.” geon opening him up and saying, ‘I’m Carly, age 12, is not too fond of the not going to do this,’ because once you treatment. “I have to get a shot every start cutting, it’s really hard to stop. He week. They hurt,” she said. “They sting.” pulled us out during surgery, which The family now takes an active scared us to death. But I respected him role in helping others with Crohn’s, for doing that.” organizing a popular support group It was tough on Jack. “He was re- that has become a national model and ally upset that they did surgery on him raising more than $35,000 the past two for nothing,” Pip said. Not to mention years to help find a cure. ■ the two-week recovery period that followed. What: Seventh annual Take Steps “Fast-forward a year later, he has Atlanta walk for Crohn’s and colitis to have the surgery again because then Where: International Plaza, Georgia he started having symptoms. Same surWorld Congress Center, 285 Andrew geon cut it out, and since then he has Young International Blvd., downtown felt great,” Pip said. When: 2 p.m. Saturday, May 2 Just when things were looking up, Registration and donations: cctakesteps. though, Jack’s little sister, Carly, was org diagnosed with the disease as well in
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many capacities, such as a member of AJC’s board, president and interim CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Ator Eliot Arnovitz, helping out in lanta, and president of Greenfield Hethe community is in his blood. brew Academy. It’s something he learned from “Eliot is a pillar of the Atlanta comhis parents and has carried with him munity,” Wilker said. He has “engaged through his life. and inspired people to serve as well. “He feels a real passion and com- That’s something that is very evident passion for those people with Eliot. He has engaged who are less fortunate,” his friends and the comsaid Steve Selig, a lifemunity in a way that few long friend of Arnovitz’s. others can.” “I think it’s just a natural Arnovitz has been way of life for him.” thinking about what isBecause of his involvesues need to be addressed ment and leadership in the locally in the future. Those local Jewish community, issues come down to each Arnovitz is receiving this individual, he said. Some year’s Selig Distinguished people think the focus Service Award from the Atshould be on adult educaEliot Arnovitz lanta Chapter of the Amertion, while others think ican Jewish Committee. Jewish children should The prize, given annually to someone be at the forefront. “It seems the comwho has been active in the community, munity is very fragmented in terms of is named in memory of Selig’s parents, where it wants to place its emphasis,” Caroline Massell Selig and Simon S. Arnovitz said. “Are you somebody’s Selig Jr. child? Then your need is for the agArnovitz is more deserving than ing. Are you somebody’s parent? Then anyone, Selig said. your need is for the child. It depends on “He helps everyone, sometimes where you sit on any single day. We’re quietly without fanfare, which is the complex beings. On any time of the way he likes it,” Selig said. “He’s very day, we have different needs that need modest. He does not seek recognition. to be satisfied.” But he’s the kind of person you can alAfter decades of working in the ways call on to be there for you.” Jewish community, Arnovitz plans to For Arnovitz, being involved in stay involved. the Jewish community has not only “I’d like to have a seat at the table helped others, but has also helped him to at least hear the debates,” he said. “I in learning more about the Jewish faith think there are a lot of bright kids. The and the history of Jewish people. next generation is very capable. They “Those of us who grew up as baby do business different than our genboomers, our parents didn’t talk about eration, and we did business different [what happened in World War II] as than our parents. I’d like to still stay Jews, what happened to our people in at the table. I think I still have some terms of Europe and the Holocaust,” words of wisdom to impart.” Arnovitz said. The AJC “educated me But Arnovitz said he won’t be doto those issues — not only what hap- ing the heavy lifting. pened, but the aftermath and how “I think that is done by the next we deal with it and ensure that those generation,” he said. “If we can add to atrocities never occur to our people.” or give some benefit of our experience Arnovitz traveled to Germany in and save some mistakes from being 1996 to learn more about issues that made, that would be a good legacy.” ■ Jewish people faced and are facing. “It says something about him, about someone who’s willing to travel What: AJC Selig Award Dinner to another country to understand the Who: Honoree Eliot Arnovitz issues there and the ties to the Jewish community,” said Dov Wilker, the AJC’s Where: Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, 3434 Peachtree Road regional director. Arnovitz has spent years involved When: 6 p.m. Monday, May 4 with the Jewish community, serving in Tickets: $180; www.ajcatlanta.org
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Jaslow Keeps Running With Jacobs’ JCC Spirit crowds of screaming spectators. Suddenly, he had celebrity status. “Crowds were six people deep. hen Donald Jaslow moved to Everyone wanted to take my picture. Atlanta in 1968 as a recent I was signing hats and shirts. All my graduate of the University family was there wearing shirts my of Alabama from Pensacola, Fla., he niece designed that said, ‘See Don Run. was looking for a substantial Jewish See Don Carry the Olympic Torch.’ It is community. something I’ll never expeHe moved to Buford rience again.” Highway, the center of Amid the JCC’s move Atlanta’s Jewish singles from Midtown to Dunscene in 1968, and joined woody in the late 1990s, the Jewish Community Jaslow was recognized for Center’s men’s softball his leadership, guidance league. Harris Jacobs, a and passion for sports. He sports enthusiast and JCC took on the role of vice president, took him unpresident of the board of der his wing. directors and chaired the “I remember his $22 million expansion Don Jaslow is a 20-year words to me when we at Zaban Park. Jaslow veteran of the Harris met: Get involved. Give became the president of Jacobs Dream Run. back,” Jaslow said. Jacobs’ the board in 2003 with a spirit continues with the annual Harris goal to “recycle the generations” by reJacobs Dream Run, occurring for the engaging adults who grew up at the JCC 22nd time May 3. Only a heart attack to enroll their children in preschool, and bypass surgery have kept Jaslow camp or sports. from participating each year. “I want to keep the cycle of life goJaslow has remained committed ing,” he said. to the Marcus JCC. He married Dianne That is one reason he participates and continued playing softball. His each year in the Harris Jacobs Dream daughter, Lisa, was born in 1971, and he Run. Jaslow said he recalls Jacobs as was coaching soccer and basketball at a “good old Southern boy. He had the the JCC when his second daughter, Lau- gift of gab. He never met a person who rie, arrived. wasn’t a friend. He would be so happy While his career was taking off at and proud of all the people who are General Electric, he became commis- in this race from a Jewish community sioner of the JCC softball league, led standpoint.” the health and physical education deThe 5K road race/walk starts at 8 partment, and joined the JCC board of a.m.; a special-needs 1-mile community directors. walk begins at 8:15 a.m. On the weekends, Jaslow ran races After a heart attack and quadruple and half-marathons. He has run in the bypass surgery in 2004, Jaslow’s runPeachtree Road Race 15 times. In 1994 ning has slowed to a walk. He serves he learned that United Way and Coca- on the Temple Emanu-El board, volunCola were planning to award “the ev- teers at the Georgia Aquarium and reeryday guy” a chance to carry the 1996 tired from GE after 42 years. Olympic torch. “When I speak at the center as a “Someone had to nominate you, former president, I tell young leaderand my wife said, ‘We should do this.’ ship: Do something constructive, no So we sat down, and my daughter matter what it is. Do something for wrote the letter,” he said. Jewish life. Don’t sit around,” Jaslow President Bill Clinton announced said. “I’m 70 years old, and I still want that the first two torch carriers were to make sure we have good Jewish heriOklahoma City bombing rescuers. tage.” ■ Jaslow and his wife thought he was no longer in the running, but just days What: Harris Jacobs Dream Run later he was in the office when he got Where: Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, a message from Dianne: “Guess what? Dunwoody You’re going to carry the torch!” When: 8 a.m. Sunday, May 3 When the day came, Jaslow loaded Registration: $30 for 5K, $15 for 1 mile; up with the runners and stepped off www.atlantajcc.org the bus in a Roswell neighborhood to
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power ourselves to face the challenges of our lives, individually and collectively,” said keynote speaker Karim Chowdhury, a former U.N. undersecretary-general and founder of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace. A place on the Board of Preachers is honorary and comes with no fixed
Congregation Gesher L’Torah Rabbi Michael Bernstein joined clergy from around the country April 9 in being inducted into the 30th class of the Board of Preachers at Morehouse College’s Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. The board induction recognizes clergy of all faiths who follow in the ethical tradition of King. Few of the roughly 900 people brought onto the board over the years are rabbis. “For me, it was particularly significant because I’ve often talked about Dr. King as a hero, just in a number of different directions, especially the idea of the power of faith as way to move people in a positive way,” said Rabbi Bernstein, who added that he has thought more about King’s work and legacy since coming to Atlanta. Rabbi Bernstein isn’t sure how he was nominated for the honor but believes that it resulted from his interfaith work Photos by Philip McCollum and his involvement with Top: Rabbi Michael Bernstein (left) receives his certificate the Atlantic Institute. of induction into the Board of Preachers on April 9. “We all received recBottom: Rabbi Michael Bernstein (top left) participates in a ognition for doing work tour of the gallery at the Martin Luther King Jr. International that promotes the proviChapel at Morehouse College as part of the activities around the April 9 induction of the Board of Preachers. sion of peace in the vein of Dr. King, Gandhi and Ikeda,” the rabbi said. term of service or required tasks. But The College of Ministers & Laity Rabbi Bernstein said members are ininduction ceremony added 54 mem- vited to remain in touch with one anbers of the Board of Preachers, Board other, and he reached out to some of of Sponsors and Collegium of Scholars the local inductees to get to know them on the 47th anniversary of King’s fu- and look for ways they could work toneral at Morehouse. Rabbi Bernstein, gether to make life better in Atlanta. dressed in maroon academic robes, Temple Sinai Rabbi Bradley Levwas ninth on the alphabetical list. enberg was also part of the festivities, He and the others were charged to speaking the night of April 9 at the serve as spiritually conscious and ethi- presentation of the Gandhi King Ikeda cal role models in an era suffering a cri- Award for Peace to Fethullah Gulen. sis of character and to strive to usher Rabbi Bernstein said the entire in an age of peace and nonviolence in induction experience, including a chathe spirit of King, Gandhi and Japanese pel tour that was led by chapel Dean Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., was awe“The absence of peace takes away inspiring. “It was incredible,” the rabbi the opportunity that we need to better said. “Humbling is the only word that ourselves, to prepare ourselves, to em- really captures it.” ■
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eil Sheff, the international president of the Sephardic Education Center in Jerusalem, will visit Atlanta on May 2 to speak at Congregation Or VeShalom. His trip has two purposes: recruiting high school students for summer programming and spreading awareness of the worldwide Sephardic community. Sheff talked to the Atlanta Jewish Times about the Sephardic way of life, continuity in the United States and his trip to Atlanta. AJT: What’s behind your trip to Atlanta? Sheff: Atlanta has one of the largest Sephardic communities in the United States, and we have had ties here for many years. So I’m going to Atlanta to hopefully recruit some young high school kids for our summer programs going on in Israel. It’s important not only for the Sephardic community to realize that they belong to a worldwide movement, but also for Ashkenazi organizations to understand the message that the Sephardic philosophy brings to the table, which is coexistence, tolerance and moderation over extremism.
ganization we needed to have fundraisers, so I thought about doing something a little bit different, like a film screening about the Sephardic experience, and maybe have sponsors. We tried it one year, and it worked, and we did it the next year and the next year after that. Soon we had to do it Neil Sheff presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to every other year because it got Yehoram Gaon (right) at the 2014 Sephardic Film Festival. a little too big. It’s now our major fundraiser and a major culabout how it started. tural event in LA. It’s interesting to find Sheff: A number of years ago we out that now Atlanta has taken over realized that fundraisers where you AJT: You founded the Los Ange- get a rubber-chicken dinner and hear San Francisco as the largest Jewish film les Sephardic Film Festival (www.sep- a lot of speeches are boring and people festival because I’d like to maybe introhardicfilmfestival.com) in 1997. Tell me don’t like to go to them. As a Jewish or- duce our festival there. ■ Rhodes, and Or VeShalom was founded by immigrants from there. If you know anything about Jews from the island of Rhodes, they’re all related to each other or know each other’s families somehow. I grew up in Los Angeles, but many of my family’s relatives are here in Atlanta. My grandmother’s last name was Benator, and Atlanta is full of Benators. We’re all connected in that way.
AJT: What is the current landscape of Sephardic communities in the United States? Sheff: The Or VeShalom synagogue is one of the oldest and still one of the main Sephardic synagogues in the United States, especially of Jews from the island of Rhodes, which is where my family comes from. We are now left with basically Atlanta, Seattle and Los Angeles. L.A. once had a synagogue of Jews from Rhodes, but now that has merged with a congregation of Turkish and Persian Jews. AJT: Just what is Or VeShalom’s connection with the island of Rhodes? Sheff: I happen to be a grandson of immigrants from the island of
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AJT: Tell me more about the Sephardic way of life. Sheff: Well, it’s a feeling that Judaism should have a positive impact on your life and that you can have a personal relationship with G-d regardless of your religious knowledge or background. We believe in the rabbi as a teacher, not a preacher, and in that way we are not as judgmental on our fellow man and fellow Jew. I think it’s an optimistic, open-minded approach.
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was the only one of 12 siblings to survive.” Several local Turkish people and ho, after all, speaks today of the annihilation organizations reportedly tried to get of the Armenians?” Ad- the Armenian community and the Breolf Hitler said a few days before invad- man to cancel the commemoration. Seing Poland in 1939. The implication curity at the Breman thus was higher was that after the annihilation of Jews, than usual, but the expected protesters Poles, Slavs, Roma, Communists and did not appear. While the Atlanta Armenian popuother “undesirables,” they would be all but forgotten — and the international lation has only several hundred famicommunity could not do anything lies, the Turkish population is much larger and includes Honorary Consul about it. Mona Sunshine, To ensure a member of the the continuing Jewish commumemory of the nity. genocide that Tu r k e y killed an estidoes not recogmated 1.5 milnize the forced lion Armenians deportations, in the final years collective killof the Ottoman ings and ethnic Empire from cleansing of 1915 to 1923, the Armenians as Breman Musegenocide but inum joined with Photo by Benjamin Kweskin the Armenian The Armenian Church’s youth choir performs during stead as the unfortunate results community of the commemoration at the Breman Museum. of war. Includmetro Atlanta to host a commemoration of the centen- ing other Christians and minorities, the Ottomans killed 2 million civilians nial of the genocide’s start. The interfaith commemoration in that eight-year period. Among the clergy who spoke at was co-sponsored by Hemshech, the Armenian Assembly of America, Inter- the event was Rabbi David Spinrad of faith Community Initiatives and the The Temple, who concluded the commemoration by saying Kaddish “for all Georgia Coalition to Prevent Genocide. The invited clergy included the victims of genocides.” Armenians lobby in Georgia and Rev. Creflo Dollar of World Changers Church International, whose short beyond for a more inclusive genocide curriculum that encompasses the Arspeech received polite applause. Worldwide, Armenians com- menian genocide, the Holocaust and memorated April 24 with the motto others. National Armenian organizations “I remember and demand,” reflecting their collective demand for the in- also are pressing U.S. officials, includternational community to recognize ing President Barack Obama, to forwhat happened to their ancestors as mally acknowledge the genocide. As a senator and presidential cangenocide. April 24, 1915, was the day 250 Armenian leaders were paraded didate, Obama promised to recognize in the middle of Istanbul and publicly the genocide, but, although 43 states slaughtered, setting the stage for worse recognize the genocide, the federal atrocities. In Armenian, the genocide is government has not followed suit and referred to as Medz Yeghern, the Great risked angering NATO ally Turkey. Israel also has not officially recogCrime. The local Armenian community nized the genocide; roughly 20 counheld the commemoration April 23 to tries have. Many speakers referenced similaravoid a conflict with Shabbat the next ities between the Armenian genocide night. “Our main motivation is to draw and the Holocaust and between the attention and bring to the forefront the fates of the Armenians and Jews in the events of 100 years ago,” said Robert 20th century. A feeling of defiance rose Sarkissian, a member of the Armenian through the somber mood: Armenians community. “Every Armenian is relat- are thriving in diaspora communities ed to a victim — my own grandfather and have an independent country. ■
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Davis Nurtures Nature in Outdoor Sanctuary
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new outdoor classroom at the Davis Academy will serve as a sanctuary in multiple ways, Rabbi Micah Lapidus said during the dedication of the space at the Davis Lower School on Monday, April 27. With plants selected to attract butterflies and hummingbirds, the space is a wildlife sanctuary. Set at the back end of the Davis property, as far from Roberts Drive as possible, the site is also a sanctuary for students and adults from the sounds and pressures of modern life (although, as the 30 people at the dedication learned, the chirping birds can be drowned out by a passing helicopter). And with five rows of stone seating facing a circular stage that can be a bimah, an everyday center of natural science can transform into a religious sanctuary for study of text or Shabbat prayer. Rabbi Lapidus said the dedication crowd showed that the space already is a Jewish sanctuary “because no one is sitting in the front row.”
Head of School Amy Shafron said the transformation of the formerly overgrown ground behind the parking lot and athletic field from “a beautiful outdoor mess” into “a beautiful space” is an example of what Davis does best: bring the school community together to turn “almost nothing into something that is pretty incredible.” The creativity behind that transformation came from landscape designer Karen Faulkner of the Inspired Garden and metal artist Corrina Sephora. Faulkner had to deal with a steep slope that was a bit of a mystery until the overgrowth was cleared. She combined inspirations from Israel — a dry river bed for the Jordan River, overlooks to re-create the high ground above the valleys, Hezekiah’s water tunnel in Jerusalem — with the feel of being in the trees, including birdhouses for birds and humans, hidden lights in the branches and a wooden treehouse built around a beech tree that one day will dominate the sanctuary. Sephora said that railing, which features stylized flowers and plants, and the green fence at the front of
the sanctuary, meant to evoke flower stems, are examples of the whimsy she and Faulkner brought to the project. It’s a change in tone from another day school project she did about seven years ago: a Holocaust memorial at Greenfield Hebrew Academy. Five paths wind through the sanctuary, each representing one of the school’s five menschlikeit values: wisdom, respect, community, spirit and righteousness. ■ Photos by Michael Jacobs
Top left: A beech tree is at the center of the sanctuary treehouse, which sits near the bottom of the hillside space. Top right: Karen Faulkner (left), who designed the Davis sanctuary space, and Corrina Sephora, who created the iron railing around the central platform and the flower-inspired fencing, are recognized during the dedication ceremony April 27. Bottom: Rabbi Micah Lapidus leads a bit of text study during the dedication in the central classroom space, which can seat about 80 students in five rows.
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bout 50 first- through fifth-graders in the Montessori day school at Chabad’s Chaya Mushka Children’s House in Sandy Springs recently got a taste for Pesach and the daily counting of the Omer in ancient Israel. Chabad Rabbi Levi Mentz of the JCrafts experiential learning program said the children re-created the barley harvest offering performed on the second day of Passover in Temple days to start the counting of the Omer, the seven-week period between Pesach and Shavuot. Leviticus 23:15-17 offers the details of the grain offering. The children went into the field, gathered and bundled the barley, made and measured the flour, and applied such ancient measures as the lug and the ephah to make the offering. ■
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pstein School seventh-grader Tal Brill has won the 2015 Metro Atlanta Athletic Conference middle school championship in the discus with a throw of 95 feet, 10 inches. Next year he’s targeting the school record, set by Scott Fineberg, who has helped coach Tal this season. “He really took Scott’s instruction to heart,” said Robin Brill, Tal’s mom. ■
AJA Partners With AIPAC
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am delighted to announce that Atlanta Jewish Academy has officially become a partner school with AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. As the president of the Israel Advocacy Club at AJA’s Upper School, I know this small change will enable many incredible opportunities for the Zionist student leaders at our school. For instance, we are now eligible to attend the Schusterman Advocacy Institute High School Summit, an annual event in Washington, D.C. Students will learn and be encouraged to join in the effort to lobby their congressmen and get involved in the facilitation of a better relationship between the United States Guest Column and Israel. We will also By Dafna Kadosh be eligible for seats at the AIPAC Policy Conference each March. These conferences will be more affordable for students with financial burdens. Our school will be in the know about all the current events and happenings in the state of Israel. Rabbi Reuven Travis, our Israel Advocacy Club adviser, will no longer bear the sole burden of telling us the news each morning. As a senior, I won’t be here for these exciting changes, but I wish I could. I am incredibly enthusiastic about this development for the rising Jewish student leaders at AJA. ■
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he Weber School launched PRISM, the Pro-Israel Student Movement, with an Israel engagement fair April 21, the week of Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut. Twelve organizations, including the Atlanta Jewish Times, participated in the launch to show 450 students from Weber and Atlanta Jewish Academy how they can advocate for Israel. PRISM is a student-led movement that aims to promote Israel education and engagement among Jewish teenagers. Weber seniors Talia Katz and Ilan Palte started the organization and its Alef Chapter at Weber, and the goal is to expand to other Jewish high schools to strengthen American Jewish teens’ connections among themselves and with Israel. PRISM aims to prepare
teens to be effective, knowledgeable advocates for Israel when they reach college. Palte said Weber’s senior trip to Israel and Poland showed him that American high school students need to understand Israel better. “I have always been connected to Israel,” Katz said, “but I realized that once we leave our small high school communities, we need to be able to grasp the complex and political issues about Israel.” Rabbi Ed Harwitz, Weber’s head of school, said the launch of PRISM and the Israel engagement event “reflected two important aspects of Weber’s mission: cultivating student leadership and reinforcing our relationship with the land and people of Israel.” ■
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mory University’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity has denied playing any role in the disrespect some ZBT members showed to wounded U.S. military veterans during a recent trip to Panama City Beach, Fla. Veterans in Panama City for their Warrior Beach Retreat said members of the fraternity spit on veterans and urinated on American flags. Fraternity members from Emory and the University of Florida were at the hotel. But the Emory chapter issued a statement that none of its members participated in the abusive behavior and that the chapter of the traditionally Jewish fraternity was “shocked to learn of the atrocious acts” that occurred at the Laketown Wharf Resort the night of April 17. “Our fraternity has been accused in the media of involvement in offensive acts on the aforementioned occasion,” the April 24 statement read. “ZBT has worked in close collaboration with administrators at Emory to conduct a thorough investigation. We have found no evidence that members of our fraternity were involved. If information implicating any member of our organization arises, we will hold those individuals fully accountable.” Emory backed up the frat’s claims after conducting an investigation. “To date, no evidence has been found to implicate Emory students in these reported incidents,” the university’s statement read Aug. 24. “If any members of our community are identified as being responsible, they will be held accountable for their actions by the university.” By contrast, the president of the University of Florida, Kent Fuchs, issued an apology for the behavior of ZBTs from that school, and the Florida chapter expelled three members. The national office of ZBT has suspended chapter activities at Florida and Emory while it investigates. “We have a zero tolerance policy towards this type of behavior and are committed to appropriately disciplining any members of our Fraternity who were involved,” Laurence Bolotin, the executive director of Zeta Beta Tau International, said in a statement. ■
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abbi Ed Harwitz was praising the behind-the-scenes work of several adults but just as easily could have been talking about the Weber School students who took the stage April 26 when he said, “You make it look easy, and you make it special, all at the same time.” In a presentation of musical and dramatic theater, those 14 students brought to view the high school’s new focus on the arts under Rabbi Harwitz as head of school. The show at the Marcus Jewish Community Center opened Weber’s three-day Artfully Yours celebration of performing and visual arts. Hilda Willis, Weber’s performing artist in residence, served as artistic director for the show, which ran two nights before the visual arts took the spotlight at the Sandy Springs school April 28. The two opening songs set the mood and range for the show. The full-cast opening from “Fame” displayed enthusiasm, fun, a touch of adaptation (praying to make PA, Weber’s performing arts program) and a few technical glitches with the sound system. We knew we were in for an entertaining two acts with the young cast. The lone senior, Jennifer Freedman, then made it clear serious talent was on display with a solo performance of “Nothing” from “A Chorus Line.” Freedman and junior Abby Blum, who had the next musical solo, stood out among the voices, but all of them were a pleasure to hear and watch. For pure entertainment, nothing topped the kosher ham junior Daniel Whitesides, a stage novice, delivered as Tevye singing “If I Were a Rich Man.” Here’s hoping the nonseniors, including Zoe Aaron, Rebecca Adler, Adele Stolovitz, Ayelet Bernstein, Lindsey Bradford, Samantha Bradford, Rachel (Relly) Hayut, Joshua Marx, Blake Rosen, Abby Goldberg and Sammy Weiss-Cowie, play it again next year. ■
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Atlanta is the third DeskHub location, after Scottsdale and San Diego, and Chernikoff plans to open more offices in the coming year. “We really believe there’s a fundamental shift in the way people are working,” he said. “I think there is a tremendous amount of opportunity to expand this concept across the country.” ■
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ay Chernikoff wants to change the way Atlanta does business. DeskHub, the co-working office concept that he founded in Scottsdale, Ariz., recently opened a space at Piedmont Center in Buckhead. Now the Jewish entrepreneur and Cleveland, Ohio, native hopes that startups in Atlanta are ready to join his vision for a unified work environment. DeskHub (www.deskhub.com) leases out desks in its shared office space on a month-to-month basis. Rent covers Internet access, conference rooms, unlimited printing and community events, which Chernikoff hopes will foster a collaborative work environment. A stocked kitchen area with drinks and snacks is included. “We really believe in the opendesk, open-environment concept,” he said. “A lot of people are going through variations on offices, and we have found through research that the way the environment promotes interaction is really important. One of our big value adds is that we encourage collaboration not only with people at companies, but across different companies.” The target demographic for DeskHub, Chernikoff said, is a growing company with three to 10 employees who wouldn’t be able to find a suitable
location on their own because of expenses or space requirements. Atlanta’s co-working movement has steadily gained steam since Buckhead’s Atlanta Tech Village (atlantatechvillage.com) opened in 2012. The work style solves the problem of isolation that many freelancers and small companies face. Zoe Fox, the office curator for Atlanta’s DeskHub, is tasked with maintaining a welcoming and collaborative community. Before being hired by Chernikoff, Fox worked at the Marcus Jewish Community Center as youngadult coordinator. She said her experience working with young adults has translated well into managing the dayto-day operations of DeskHub and its wide variety of clients. “When you’re around people, it’s stimulating,” Fox said. “So it’s nice you have this group that feels like co-workers. It’s a nice sense of community, getting up in the morning and knowing that you have a desk to go to. If you want to bring in a client, you don’t have to worry about what Starbucks to meet at. They can come to DeskHub.” DeskHub doesn’t use a formal application process for businesses seeking space; instead, the business is looking for people ready to buy into the concept, Fox said. “At this point, if you’re excited about co-working, I’d want you in here.”
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Gifts for Moms and Grads Picture jewels, skin care, stories and the right time By Robyn Spizman Gerson
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t’s almost Mother’s Day, and graduations are right around the corner. From gift cards for your graduates’ favorite places to gifts that are useful, practical and purposeful, there are endless choices. Match your gift recipient with something she or he values and you’ll have a can’t-miss gift. Here are some ideas to get you started. Picture this — For a picture-perfect gift, bring your personal snapshots to Chuck Wolf’s Photo Design Bar (www.photodesignbar.com) and transform them into works of art, from beautiful canvases to restored family treasures. Photo Bar designers are also ready to help you in a flash. Buy a frame and get a print free or select from the many photo options to create gifts on the run. It’s a perfect way to say I love you to Mom and to create lasting keepsakes that will preserve lifelong memories. It’s also an ideal way to celebrate your graduate and design gifts that will remind your graduate of home sweet home. For a jewel of a mom — I have the pleasure of working with ESBE Designs (www.esbedesigns. com). ESBE presents an on-trend, absolutely gorgeous collection of jewels. For fabulous selections for Mother’s Day, visit the virtual catalog at www.esbejewelry.com. ESBE is perfect for any age, and its signature piece is something every mom will love. Featured in the Baroque Collection, the handmade endless-faceted hematite necklace is perfect for day or evening and will give any mom that special sparkle she deserves. Just layer it up and have fun. Like a fox — If your mom is a fashionista but doesn’t want you to spend too much, check out Fox’s (www.foxs.com) Designer Off-Price Boutique in Buckhead on Roswell Road. Find fabulous, in-style fashions, shoes, handbags and more at savings that will put a smile on any mom’s face and yours, too. Gift cards are available and give the gift of choice. For the on-the-go new mom 26
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— New moms will appreciate stylish diaper bags that double as handbags (www.twelvelittle.com). Let’s face it — Visit Julian’s Cosmetics + Skincare (www.julianscosmetics.com) at Town Brookhaven. It offers a unique shopping experience in a boutique environment with highquality cosmetics and skin care products, as well as professional spa and makeup application services. Check out cosmetics brands such as Obagi, Smashbox, Revison and Bliss. For the beach-loving mom — Dive into Vikki Australia (www. vikkiaustralia.com) for fabulous and fashionable tops and wraps from poolside to beach side. For the new mom — Give the new mom the gift of special bonding time with her little one. Prince Lionheart’s (www.princelionheart.com) DevelopMat, Everywhere playMAT and Back to Sleep Bear will ensure that Mom and her bundle of joy spend plenty of quality time together engaging in creative, imaginative play and outdoor activities. Ready to label — Mom will love get-organized personalized gifts for the entire family as featured on “The
View” and “Today” and in InStyle magazine. Mabel’s Labels (www.mabelslabels.com) is the award-winning creator of durable labels by four moms and is a celebrity-loved phenomenon, with its line expanding to include child safety products, household labels and clever solutions moms love. These reusable stickers and assorted personalized name stickers and luggage tags make it easy to identify belongings, household goods and even baked goodies customized for Mom with her signature style. Carry on — For the traveling mom, check out Olympia Luggage (www.luggageamerica.com). This brand A visit to the Photo Design Bar can turn any is the luggage to the stars, as memorable family photo into a keepsake seen in many award show gift a mom or a graduate will treasure. bags. It’s durable and stylish. Looking for a deal? Olympia make a difference, check out RX Cliniis offering 75 percent off when you use cal Cosmeceuticals (www.rxclinical. the code “jjolympia22.” net). This highly popular line is hot in Indulge Mom — For the mom Hollywood. Mention the Mother’s Day who loves an array of skin care lotions gifting article for a courtesy price. and products that soothe the skin and Here’s a hug from Grandma —
ESBE Designs’ necklace options include the $219 Red Carpet Hematite and Pyrite Endless Necklace, featuring faceted red agate; the $195 Legato Necklace, which includes a sterling-silver pendant and lobster clasp; the $149 Shining Star Pyrite and Hematite Necklace, which alternates gold and silver colors; and the $139 Baroque Hematite Necklace, which includes 113 beads.
Frecklebox (www.frecklebox. com) is a fabulous site where you can purchase one-of-a-kind personalized gifts for children. Check out my new Frecklebox personalized storybook, “The Hug Book,” which is a personalized story about grandparents sending hugs to a special grandchild. This personalized book includes the child’s name and yours (Bubbe, Mimi, Grandma, you name it) and is completed within 48 hours. You select the shipping. All manufacturing is done in the good old USA. For the bargain-loving mom — The Krazy Coupon Lady (www.thekrazycouponlady.com) is the leading online destination for up-to-the-minute coupons, deals and money-saving shopping strategies. Founders Heather Wheeler and Joanie Demer are also co-authors of a great gift for Mom, the best-selling book “Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey,” which is available in print and
MOTHER’S DAY ebook versions. B.D. Jeffries (www.bdjeffries.com) — This fabulous Buckhead store is filled with a treasure-trove of beautiful gifts from A to Z that moms will enjoy. Favorites include gorgeous décor and entertaining items, Longchamp bags, an array of beautiful books, home accessories, antiques and exquisite décor statements. Write away — No need for a paper chase. How about ordering custom stationery for Mom by Sweet Jane Paperie (www.sweetjanepaperie. com)? You’ll love the stationery with its flair online, or check out Atlanta’s supersources, such as Swoozies (www. swoozies.com) and Paces Paper’s gifts galore right in store. Be sure to add a thank-you note and show an attitude of gratitude for Mom. A gift that’s a real find — Check out www.thetileapp.com. Mom or your graduate will never lose anything again with the help of this handy tile. Do you know where your keys are? Tile does. For $25, attach a tile to anything, and with the help of this app, you’ll be able to locate it with your phone. It’s a great gift for the grad on the go or
anyone who is memory-challenged. Time for the graduate — For a cool gift, look into the latest Bedol water watches (www.bedolwhatsnext. com). There’s no need for batteries: These watches and clocks run on water. You have a choice of many fashionable colors, as seen on many high-profile, fashion-forward celebrities. Grads will love this smart way to tell time. Perfect personalization — Your grad will love the assortment of personalized T-shirts and hoodies with the grad’s name, initials, hometown or even ZIP code on them from Just Jen (www.justjen.com), a creative way to personalize something special. Just name it. Just Jen even can do it in sparkling crystals. ■ Robyn Spizman Gerson (www. robynspizman.com) is the New York Times best-selling author of “When Words Matter Most” and “Make It Memorable.” She is also a communications professional and a well-known media personality, having appeared often on “Atlanta and Company” and on NBC’s “Today” show.
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Mother’s Day Without Mom Other’s Day makes it special for kids 6 to 15 By Rebecca McCarthy
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hat must it be like for children to see other children buying Mother’s Day flowers and gifts when they have no mother at home? What if a father’s military career has him deployed out of the country on Father’s Day? Other’s Day may be the perfect celebration for children coping with the loss of a parent because of divorce, death or temporary separation. For the past five years, it has offered children and their caretakers or guardians a joyful way to celebrate and remember loved ones. Ty Klein, now 13, was 7 when he first attended Other’s Day. He didn’t know what to expect, but things turned out better than he thought they would. He said he met “kids like me who had experienced no parents. They knew how awful I felt. We had a lot of fun together.” Ty has since been adopted by his foster family. This year, he will wel-
come younger children to the Other’s Day festivities on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10, at 2:30 p.m. at the Concourse Athletic Club in Sandy Springs. Other’s Day will offer children ages 6 to 15 an afternoon of food, fun and friendship. It will feature magical entertainment from Howie Marmer, aka Howie the Great, who has donated his services to every Other’s Day celebration, and face painting by Phil Price, among other activities. “The magician, he’s really funny,” Ty said. Atlantan Leslie Greenberg organized the first Other’s Day when Mother’s Day fell on May 9, her birthday. Her only child, Steven David Greenberg, was dead, and she was feeling bereft that he couldn’t celebrate either event with her. She was also remembering how she felt as a child when Father’s Day rolled around after her daddy died of a rare cancer when she was 9. She had long dreaded the day. “I decided I wanted to turn it
The great thing around for kids who about Other’s Day, are missing their Betty Klein said, “is dad,” said Greenthat Leslie makes berg, a schoolteacheach child feel that er-turned-event the party is being planner. “There are given just for them. so many children I’m thrilled that my in foster care or kids appreciated single-parent famiit and want to give lies. I know how that back.” feels.” Sponsors for Like her adopOther’s Day include tive brother Ty, K.K. the Dunwoody CriKennedy was one er, the Dunwoody of the children who Police Department, went to the first OthSprouts Farmers er’s Day. She was Market, Hampton living with a foster Inn, Publix, Kroger, family because her Walgreens, Robeks, mother was sick. Willie’s Mexicana Her mother has Grill, Nordstrom since died, and she Lancome, Picayune has become part of Toys, Sandy Springs the Klein family. Fire & Rescue, McThe other kids Donald’s, Whole at the event “didn’t Foods and Burger have their mothers King. with them on MothTop: With Howie the Great, the Other’s Day fun includes birds, Children must er’s Day or any day. I balloons and a flaming wallet. register in advance to knew what they were Bottom: Howie the Great entertains attend Other’s Day. To going through.” one of the Other’s Day guests, Ethan. reserve a spot, email This year she’s O t h e r s D ayR SV P @ looking forward to being a counselor to the younger par- gmail.com. For more information, conticipants, she said. And she’s going to tact Leslie Greenberg at 404-520-0190 or leslierg@bellsouth.net. ■ help with face painting.
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Send condolence announcements to editor@atljewishtimes.com for inclusion here. Hilda Danzig, 90, of Atlanta, mother of Sol and Joel Danzig, on April 25. Leo Guttman, 93, of Montreal, father of Gita Berman, on April 17. Dorothy Hytowitz, 96, of Portland, Ore., mother of Temple Sinai member Allan Hytowitz, on April 20. Dave J. Kirschbaum, 24, of Atlanta, a Temple member, son of Paul and Janet Kirschbaum, and brother of Sarah Kirschbaum, on April 24. Louis Taratoot, 92, of Atlanta, husband of Amy Blumberg Taratoot, and father of Jim Taratoot, Dan Taratoot and Robert Taratoot, on April 22.
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Arnold Balser, age 83, of Atlanta died Sunday, April 26, 2015. Survivors include his loving wife of 60 years, Claire Freedman Balser; son Mark Balser of Atlanta; son and daughter-in-law Billy and Ellen Balser of Atlanta; son Jeff Balser of Chattanooga, Tenn.; and grandchildren Mel, Josh, Seth, Jake and Sam. Arnold was a founding partner of the accounting firm Tauber & Balser and a former board member of the Georgia Society of CPAs. He loved spending time with his family. As a young man, his passion was playing baseball. Through the years, Arnold participated in many sports, including running and tennis. He was
OBITUARIES - MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE A BLESSING an avid Braves fan and enjoyed traveling and spending time with friends. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sam Balser camp scholarship fund at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. A graveside service will be held Monday, April 27, at 11 a.m. at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.
Isaac “Buddy” Jolles 83, Augusta
Isaac “Buddy” Jolles, 83, born in Augusta on Dec. 13, 1931, died Friday, April 24, 2015. Mr. Jolles was preceded in death by his parents, Nathan Jolles and Dorothy Levy Jolles Robin; his stepfather, Harry Robin; his brother, Howard P. Jolles; and his sister, Natalie Jolles Miller. Mr. Jolles is survived by his wife of 47 years, Myra Abelman Jolles; children Scott and Karen Jolles of Atlanta, Marcy Jolles and John Achee of Athens, and Jonathan and Leslie Jolles of Atlanta; and grandchildren Rachel, Philip, Lily and Olivia Jolles of Atlanta. Many loving nephews, nieces and cousins also survive Mr. Jolles. Mr. Jolles spent the first 82 years of his life in Augusta. He attended the Academy of Richmond County, where he graduated in 1948, and a junior college that became Augusta State University. Mr. Jolles attended the University of Georgia School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Jolles was a member of the Phi Delta Pi Law Fraternity, a student editor of the Georgia Law Review and a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. Mr. Jolles passed the Georgia Bar in 1952 and graduated law school cum laude in 1953 with an L.L.B. degree. Mr. Jolles served his country with honor as a captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the U.S. Army. He served from 1954 to 1957 and completed a tour in Korea during that time. Once Mr. Jolles left the army, he joined the law firm of Sanders, Thurmond and Hester in Augusta. He later became a partner in the firm. In 1967, Mr. Jolles left the firm and started a private practice. In 1967, Richard Slaby and Mr. Jolles formed the law firm of Jolles and Slaby, which remained in practice until 1997. In 1998, the citizens of Richmond County elected Mr. Jolles probate judge of the county. He held that position until his retirement in March 2012. Mr. Jolles was an active member of the community in Augusta, serving on various board positions in the Augusta Bar Association, teaching at the former Augusta Law School, and being a board member and past president of Congregation Children of Israel, Walton Way Temple. Mr. Jolles was vice commander of the Jewish War Veterans and a member of the Lions Club. From 1973 to 1981, Mr. Jolles served as judge of the Recorder’s Court of Augusta. In 2003, the Augusta Bar Association honored Mr. Jolles on the 50th anniversary of his practice of law. Mr. Jolles was a man of honor and integrity. He never met a person whom he would not help, and he had many good friends. Mr. Jolles loved antique automobiles, Cushman motor scooters and Boston terrier dogs, especially his little Molly. The last year and half of his life, he and his wife moved to Athens to be closer to their children. His daughter Marcy was granted the honor and privilege of assisting in his care during that time. The family extends great thanks to his caregivers at the St. Mary’s Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care and St. Mary’s Hospice House in Athens. His nephews Frank Miller, Henry Miller, Nathan Miller, Richard Miller, Nathan Jolles, Alan Jolles, Steven Jolles, Harris Abelman and Tom Brown served as pallbearers at his funeral. Honorary pallbearers were his good friends Richard Slaby, Carlton Vaughn and John Harley. The funeral was held April 27 at Congregation Children of Israel, Walton Way Temple, in Augusta. A military tribute was held graveside after the service. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, Congregation Children of Israel in Augusta or St. Mary’s Hospice House in Athens. Arrangements by Elliott Sons Funeral Home, Martinez.
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fore she married, she worked as a clothing model for department store clients. She became a secretary before becoming a homemaker. In their home in Sandy Springs, she decorated each room herself, each depicting a different culture. She was an active volunteer with the elderly. She taught her children and grandchildren many things that cannot be described in words, and she will be missed. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Contributions can be made to the Brian Neuwirth Fund at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Graveside services were held April 6 at Arlington Memorial Park. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.
Margie Shure 82, Atlanta
Margie Shure, 82, native to and lifelong resident of Atlanta, passed away peacefully Saturday, April 18, 2015. Born April 3, 1933, to Fannie and Macy Glenn, both of blessed memory, she graduated from Grady High School before enjoying a successful and award-winning career as a senior sales representative for Airborne Express, which would become DHL Express. Margie also developed and taught self- improvement classes at the DeKalb YWCA and for the federal government civil service. She was preceded in death by her son, Michael, and survived by her loving husband of 64 years, Jerry; daughter Carol Schwab (Scott); grandchildren Mickey, Abby and Howie Schwab (Alison); brother Jimmy Glenn (Dale); nephews Brad (Tova) and Marc (Kimberly); great-nieces and great-nephews Noah, Jaren, Harper, Jonah, Asher and Isabella; and many cousins. An online guestbook is available at www.edressler.com. Graveside services were held Monday, April 20, at Greenwood Cemetery with Rabbi Judith Beiner officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Congregation Bet Haverim, 2676 Clairmont Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, www.congregationbethaverim.org, or the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, www.cff.org. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.
81, Sandy Springs
Barbara Miller Neuwirth, age 81, who was born in Decatur, passed away Friday morning, April 3, 2015, at her home in Sandy Springs. She was the beloved wife of Herbert Neuwirth; loving mother of Wayne, Glenn and the late Brian Neuwirth; a beloved mother-in-law to Sara Fran Neuwirth; an admirable sister to Stanley Miller; and a loving and caring grandmother to Lauren and Dana Neuwirth. She was classy, caring and fun all of her life. Be-
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hen I was in sixth grade, girls took cooking and sewing, and boys took shop and mechanics, but I wanted to make things that could splinter or rust. I loved the heavy-duty aprons the boys wore and loathed the calico apron I sewed first semester so that I wouldn’t get cookie dough on my clothes second semester. I envied the birdhouse my brother made and resented the recipe box I had to buy. The smell of sawdust and the sound of table saws excited me; the scents of yeast and cloves put me to sleep. My friend Charles hated getting dirty and complained that droning machinery made him nervous and adversely affected his self-esteem. He decided that we had to talk to the principal about changing our assignments. We invited another pal, Myra, to join us because she detested sewing and cooking even more that I did. She’d cleverly managed to visit the nurse or lost-and-found during many of those classes, but I, less cunning and more bad-grade-fearing, silently suffered through each lesson. Charles, Myra and I gained an audience with the principal. Mr. Mueller was a former respected football coach, and he had the physique and confidence to prove it. I had been chosen as the (reluctant) official spokesperson of the trio. This was because, unlike them, I had never been in trouble, and, although we all had braces, my pronunciation was deemed clearest. Mr. Mueller listened carefully as I made our case. In retrospect, I see that we were pretty pitiful and I should have been stronger, but at the time we were hopeful. We thought we had a chance. However, when I finished our presentation, Mr. Mueller denied our request. “You’re learning real-life lessons,” he explained. “This is the way the world works, and we’re teaching you exactly what you need. Girls need to sew and cook, to follow a recipe and a pattern. Boys need to use tools, build things, take care of cars, change fuses.” I was 100 percent certain that he was dead wrong, but I was in sixth grade. I didn’t know how to debate, 30 nor did I have the guts to confront an
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authority figure (except my parents, of course). Defeated, Charles, Myra and I shuffled out, but Mr. Mueller got up from his desk and stopped me. After all, the man had been a coach. He had to teach me to be a good loser.
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“Miss Shatzman,” he said, “you’re upset now, but you’ve got to stick with the program. Stand up straight. Make the best of it.” I wanted to maintain my 11-yearold dignity, but tears rolled down my cheeks. I knew very well that I’d be great at shop and mechanics. My birdhouse and cutting board would be spectacular. All my nails would go in straight. I’d never electrocute myself or anyone else. And poor Charles would have given anything to make blueberry muffins. I didn’t discuss any of this with my parents. My mother (usually wearing an apron she or my grandmother had made) sewed perfect hems and prepared a lovely dinner every single day. My father erected a fence and repaired our bikes. If I’d asked them, they’d have agreed that boys use lathes and girls use stoves. But even if my parents had sympathized with me, they would have repeated the family mantra that I’d heard all my life: You learn more from bad experiences than you do from good ones. There are terrible bosses in the world. School is your job, and Mr. Mueller is your boss. Put a smile on your face, and don’t kvetch. You know what? In spite of the fact that our parents didn’t storm the administration on our behalf, Charles, Myra and I were not destroyed by Mr. Mueller’s decree. Charles is a costume designer in Chicago. Myra teaches math in a university. And I changed a tire on the New Jersey Turnpike using the top-of-theline Swiss Army knife my apron-wearing mother bought for me. ■
ACROSS 1 Dangerous feature of a Lebanon border fence wire 5 Norwegian site of early 1990s peace talks 9 Kind of hit Julie Taymor’s “Lion King” is on Broadway 14 Haman quality 15 The Central Bus Station in Jerusalem might be the last one 16 “___ Speaks” (autobiography of a Marx Brother) 17 Ingredient in many pareve entrees 18 Downton Abbey character whose father was a wealthy Jew 19 Tool for making a sukkah, perhaps 20 Woody’s 1999 romantic comedy about a jazz guitarist 23 Alan Dershowitz’s audience, sometimes 24 Put it in a fine stein 25 Carl Sagan’s book about them came out just before Halley’s in 1986 28 Kitchen items at Tein Li Chow kosher eatery outside Chicago 30 Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colo.), e.g. 33 “Changing Lives ___ a Time” (Jewish Family Service slogan) 34 A break-the-fast tries to do this to people’s hunger 35 Fish species of StarKist’s Charlie, voiced by Herschel Bernardi 36 Woody’s 2011 romantic comedy about a screenwriter 39 “Father of American Anthropology” Franz 40 Ingredient in gluten-free matzah 41 1970s Linda Lavin sitcom character 42 TV show created by a Canadian Jew born Lorne Lipowitz 43 Reactions to a Houdini escape 44 Sivan season 45 He might call a foul against Northwestern’s Aaron Liberman on the court 46 Spock colleague 47 Woody’s 1995 romantic comedy about a sports journalist 55 Don Rickles comedy forte 56 Robert whose name is
synonymous with synthesizer 57 Something for Abram to destroy 58 “How to ___ Shiva” (essay at shiva.com) 59 Psychoanalyst’s line 60 “Skies of Parchment, ___ of Ink” (book on illuminated manuscripts) 61 Place to take a dip (or two)? 62 Suffix for Jewish or clueless 63 “A Yiddishe ___” (Song about a Jewish father) DOWN 1 Visits a Sheldon Adelsonowned casino 2 Appear before a beit din, perhaps 3 Like anti-Semitism in the Muslim world 4 Levi Strauss was the first to manufacture them 5 The subject of this puzzle has four 6 Like many a 57-Across 7 Hashem 8 Blueish-whitish shade 9 Tallitot 10 1970s Bea Arthur sitcom character 11 Escape-from-the-Ayatollah 2012 movie 12 Spout, as with hate 13 Shofar, e.g. 21 ___ Frutti (Bazooka gum flavor for Passover) 22 Not exactly made of gopher wood 25 They’re useful for Jewfros 26 Cholent ingredient 27 Something gold on Mark Spitz’s chest 28 Liev Schreiber’s actress wife Naomi (“Birdman”) 29 Oregon city with an “elevator” name where B’nai B’rith Camp is located 30 Perfect day to dress like a Megillah Gorilla 31 “Frozen ___” (chilly show where kids go to sing
Idina Menzel songs) 32 Beam in Kenny G’s eye surgery 34 “Pygmalion” playwright who told Jews to “stop being Jews and start being human beings” 35 Adin Steinsaltz of the Koren Bavli, e.g. 37 Disney character created by Art Babbitt 38 Canadian actor Costanzo (“Royal Pains”) 43 Place for some Manischewitz 44 Leaps forward in the polls for Knesset 45 Lillian Hellman’s “Watch on the ___” 46 Tevas, e.g. 47 Essential supplies for a tourist in Israel 48 They say one’s car should be this way on Shabbat 49 “Rejoice and be ___, O daughter of Edom” (Lamentations 4:21) 50 Idi of Entebbe 51 Recite a Four Questions question, perhaps 52 Monotheism, or social justice 53 How a custom-made kittel might fit 54 “So what ___ is new?”
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