Atlanta Jewish Times, XCIV No. 14, April 5, 2019

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VOL. XCIV NO. 14 | WINE & PASSOVER RECIPES

Passover Recipes FROM MATZAH BRIE TO BRISKET ... CHEERS WITH KOSHER & ISRAELI WINES

AIPAC REVIEW TOP HEADLINES AND OPINIONS FROM THE POLICY CONFERENCE.

AUTREY MILL COMMUNITY LEADERS SHARE LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE MAP CONTROVERSY.

MATZAH BRIE COOK-OFF CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM HOSTS A MEMORIAL FOR A MEMBER.

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Wine, Dine and Recline Passover will be here in two weeks and for many it’s one of the favorite holidays to unite family and friends and share the story of our Jewish survival.

What’s not to like about a holiday with a long list of appetizers, some a bit tastier than others? (Hint: haroseth, the sweet brick mortar of apples and nuts, versus the nostril-clearing bitter herbs.) Plus, the traditional four cups of wine filled to the brim and an assembly line of other delicacies, from gefilte fish to matzah ball soup.

Eight days of eating matzah doesn’t have to recapture the authentic hardship of Egyptian slavery when you have so many sweet and savory choices of foods and wines to choose from. In this week’s Passover Food and Wine issue, we offer a variety of holiday recipes, from blintzes to brisket and dessert. We provide tips from the pros, Atlanta’s kosher caterers, about how to avoid the stress of holiday hosting.

And we offer advice from wine connoisseurs about where and what to buy.

Aside from food, wine and recipes, we prepare you for the upcoming elections in Israel. The vote Tuesday brings to a climax months of contentious campaigning, including alliances that concern Atlanta Jews.

In community news, we introduce you to the new director of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. The human rights activist comes here after almost a decade at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she led the international genocide prevention program.

Also this week, we update the Palestinian map controversy at Autrey Mill Middle School in Alpharetta. And two Jewish community organizations – the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta and Jewish Family & Career Services – installed new leadership and recognized movers and shakers.

We also give you a roundup of news from the recent American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference and hear

THIS WEEK about the 70-year reunion at AIPAC of two preschool pals from Savannah. Now that’s a sweet morsel of kismet to sink your teeth into. Pull a comfy seat up to the adult table. There’s plenty to sample in this pre-Passover issue and more to satisfy your palate to come, starting with Home and Garden next week. ■

CONTENTS LOCAL NEWS ���������������������������������� 4 ISRAEL NEWS ��������������������������������� 8 ISRAELI POLITICS ���������������������� 10 OPINION ����������������������������������������� 14 PASSOVER FOOD & WINE �������� 18 ARTS ������������������������������������������������ 29 CALENDAR ������������������������������������� 32 COMMUNITY ��������������������������������� 34 BRAIN FOOD ���������������������������������� 38 OBITUARIES ���������������������������������� 41 CLOSING THOUGHTS ����������������� 42

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LOCAL NEWS

MJCCA CEO Jared Powers presents awards at the annual meeting to Nora Floersheim, Glenn Frank, Ari Weitz and Zak Elfenbein (on behalf of his program), among many others.

MJCCA Honors Staff and Installs New Leaders

By Eddie Samuels At its 73rd annual meeting, the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta installed new lay leaders and recognized several community leaders and staff members for their contributions to the organization.

At the meeting, Ken Winkler, board of directors chair, introduced new officers for 2019-20: Sammy Grant, vice chair and treasurer; Amy Rubin, secretary; and Howard Hyman, officer at large. He then proceeded to install all new board members.

The board of directors for 2019-20 includes Lillie Axelrod, Ron Brill, Steven Cadranel, Lee N. Katz, Michael Kay, Douglas Kuniansky, Margo Marks, Josh Rosenberg, Brian Seitz, Michelle Simon, Rick Slagle, Rodd Starr, Evan Toporek, Garrett Van de Grift, and Joel Arogeti, ex officio.

“I am incredibly enthusiastic about the pipeline of future leadership at the center,” MJCCA CEO Jared Powers said.

“We are constantly being fed quality people who are excited to be our lay leaders and, in the future, serve on our board.”

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Also recognized were staff members for winning several annual awards. Powers emphasized that the process behind the awards is entirely based on staff input.

“We send out nomination forms about a month before the meetings and they’re all nominated by the staff at the center,” he said.

He also explained that the awards are an important time for the leadership of the MJCCA to recognize all the hard work that staff put into making the MJCCA great and that he can’t think of a better venue for these awards than the annual meeting, where there is a crowd ready to cheer on their accomplishments.

“We have really built a customercentric culture at the agency and the people who drive that are the staff, and it’s really important that we recognize that,” Powers said.

Michele Chambers and Zak Elfenbein were honored with the Phillip Bush Awards for Leadership; Michael Drucker and Courtney McCormick with the Team Player Awards; Jeffrey Jenkins with the Customer Service Award; Michelle Merrick-Davis, Beverley Wasilewsky and Joy

Rosa with Raye Lynn Banks Teacher of the Year Awards; Nora Floersheim, Glenn Frank and Ari Weitz with Volunteer of the Year Awards.

Chambers said that while she was proud, her award wouldn’t be possible without the help of others.

“Although I’m honored to be awarded, it’s a direct reflection of the incredibly invested and talented teams we have in place supporting the MJCCA,” she said.

Floersheim co-chairs Active Mature Adults and teaches newcomers to the MJCCA’s Pickleball program, which attracts 30 to 40 seniors six days a week.

She shared her initial reaction to receiving the recognition.

“I was very surprised, but very excited,” she said. “I was just really taken aback, and it’s amazing to get something that I consider so special for doing something I really like and enjoy.”

Floersheim added that she really appreciates the environment and the fact that she’s been able to watch the program grow.

“There’s so much good will and camaraderie, and we all really have become good friends,” she said. “It’s nurturing and warm and welcoming, and we love to just grab people looking in. Exercise for seniors isn’t always easy, but we try to make it fun!”

Frank, a fellow Volunteer of the Year Award winner, discussed his work with the MJCCA’s soccer program and why it’s so important to him.

“I’ve been involved with the JCC since I was a little kid,” he said. “I grew up playing various sports, going to camps, and stayed involved into adult life. My kids went to The Weinstein School at the center.”

Frank said that he had participated in the MJCCA’s Erwin Zaban Leadership Development Program and ended up working to build the soccer program.

“I was a competitive soccer player and have played basically my whole life,” he said. “It’s always been a passion of mine and I understood what was needed and wanted to build a program that succeeded.”

Although he was caught off-guard by the award, he was thankful for the recognition of all the effort and time he’s put into the program.

“I see the J as my community, and I feel really good about giving back to it,” Frank said.

The third recipient recognized for his volunteerism, Ari Weitz, said that his work was driven by his passion for basketball, and that “it only makes sense to help with the organization of the league and pick-up so members who want an outlet are able to play as often as possible.”

In addition to his leadership award, Elfenbein also directs “Sinai Sports with the MJCCA,” which won the Best New Program Award. Sinai Sports was recognized for its creativity and innovation.

Elfenbein was sure to share the credit all around. He emphasized that the program was really a collaboration with staff at the MJCCA, as well as Marisa Kaiser, director of Temple Sinai’s Center for Learning & Engagement, and her staff.

“I’m pretty fortunate to be surrounded by a great team here,” Elfenbein said.

He said that the program focuses on a different value each week at Sunday School and teaches lessons through sports and activities. For example, sportsmanship, respect and tikkun olam can all be taught outdoors and interactively.

“It gives the kids who have some affinity for being active to learn through doing what they already want to be doing,” Elfenbein said. “It allows us to meet them where they are.”

This year the program is expanding beyond Temple Sinai and into other congregations, including The Temple. ■

LOCAL NEWS

Leaders Share Lessons after Autrey Mill Map Incident

By Eddie Samuels The story of the controversial map at Autrey Mill Middle School’s Multicultural Night captivated readers’ attention and confused many. Now, nearly a month after the initial story broke, the AJT spoke to several community leaders to discuss what happened, the fallout from the incident and lessons for the future.

Tempers flared when a map depicting Palestine instead of Israel was disA map of the Middle East with Palestine in played at the Alpharetta school’s Multiplace of Israel was displayed at Multicultural cultural Night March 7.

Night at Autrey Mill Middle School.

Edward Ahmed Mitchell, attorney and executive director of the Georgia multicultural night,” he said. “Leadership chapter of the Council on American- have assured me that whatever they do Islamic Relations, represented several will involve equal treatment of everyone of the families involved and spoke with under the law and that no speech will be school officials on March 26. favored over other speech.”

“We are pleased with where things Secondly, the school assured Mitchare, and as far as we’re concerned the ell that none of the children involved situation is resolved,” Mitchell said. “We with the map of Palestine display will met with school leadership yesterday be punished, which he said would not and I have been in communication with be legally possible. Finally, bullying of a few local rabbis and I met with one ear- the students involved has ceased and the lier this week.” families have confirmed Fulton County Schools that everything has calmed Chief Academic Officer Clifdown. ford Jones concurred with “The kids are fine, and that assessment, saying in they and their families will a statement to the AJT that be meeting with the prinafter Mitchell’s productive cipal [Trey Martin] soon to meeting with school officlear the air in a positive cials, the school considers way,” he said. “Obviously the matter resolved. the way that it happened Rabbi Michael Bernstein Rabbi Michael Bernwas very distressing for a stein from Gesher L’Torah said that he’d variety of reasons, but what happened, spoken with several of those involved, in- and what matters now is the future.” cluding school administrators.

In terms of takeaways for the future, “One of the lessons is that there was Mitchell explained that local Muslim and a response immediately, but there was a Jewish communities are already comlot of controversy and misinformation municating about what happened and initially,” Bernstein said. “It’s a lot harder discussing how it might be handled difto get into the mind of people and try to ferently next time. guess their intentions than to proactively “They’re discussing ways to collabodiscuss the situation.” rate and work together,” he said. “ObviMany were surprised to learn in ously when it comes to Israel and PalMitchell’s initial March 12 press confer- estine, we all have strong feelings and I ence that his clients had emails from rep- doubt we’re all going to agree on it, but resentatives of the school we can agree on the imporapproving the display. He tance of engaging in interconfirmed to the AJT that faith dialogue and counterhe had the emails but would ing hate speech and hate only have shared them pubcrimes, and that’s somelicly if the school had disthing we can do together.” puted what he’d said.

Ilise Cohen, who spoke He also explained the at Mitchell’s initial press three major outcomes from conference as a represenhis meeting. tative of Jewish Voice for “Number one: The Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz Peace’s Atlanta chapter, exschool plans to continue meeting with all plained that she was glad to hear that the concerned community members to gath- school and families had been in touch, er their thoughts and hear their opinions and that it was important to continue to figure out what they’re going to do with working to protect “the rights of students

Edward Ahmed Mitchell of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, represented several of the families involved.

to share their identities and cultures.”

She voiced her support for CAIR’s work supporting the family and engaging with the school district and also working to “prevent further acts of bigotry and bullying.”

“As I said in the press conference, these kinds of moments should be an opportunity for learning and connecting to one another,” Cohen said. “Free speech is one of the values we must cherish most. …

It is what emerges from this kind of connection that highlights our humanity.”

Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz sees the

whole incident as a learning experience.

“As the school principal so correctly explained to me, … whereas in the past there was no need to check in displays brought in from parents for events as these, we now know that we are living in different times and extra vigilance is needed, … to check and approve before being out in an open forum.”

Moving forward, Bernstein believes a more guided strategy is necessary.

“There is a place to give people a sense of the culture itself,” he said. “It’s an opportunity for people to see and learn without creating actual conflict in that moment.”

As for future multicultural nights, Jones said that the school is focused on celebrating the rich diversity of the community and bringing the community together.

“The school continues to gather input from the community, including many of the rabbis in the area, about future multicultural events. … The multicultural event is only one night, and our goal is to work toward that partnership for the entire 180 days of school and throughout the year,” Jones said. ■

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LOCAL NEWS

New Head of Civil and Human Rights Center Sets Direction

By Bob Bahr

very attached to that story. And now that I’m here, I hope to do more programming on human rights because that’s what I know.

For more than 25 years Jill Savitt, the new director of Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights, has been a prominent human rights activist. She grew up in the Jewish community in Miami and has also been an educator and curator. As a consultant, she led the creation of the center’s human rights exhibit. Before coming to Atlanta last month, she spent the last nine years on the staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where she headed the international genocide prevention program.

The AJT caught up with Savitt several weeks into her new position.

AJT: As the center’s new director, what do you see as some of the more important challenges you face?

Savitt: I think one of our challenges at this national center is to figure out our institutional role in the public conversation about human rights and civil rights in this country and around the world. I think the center is a place for people to come together and have a serious conversation

New director Jill Savitt began her job at Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights on March 10.

about what is a citizen’s role in a democracy. What is the government’s obligation to its people? How do we deal with each

other when we disagree? How do you organize if you see an injustice? What’s the best way to go about it? The story we tell in the center provides a jumping off point to have that conversation.

AJT: How do you think the national center could take a more active role in promoting a human rights agenda?

Savitt: One of my dreams has been to start a human and civil rights campaign school here where we teach the techniques of how to organize against injustices we see in society. We’d like to do something this fall just for girls around International Day of the Girl Child and do a campaign academy for young women. We’re just going to get started and see what the response is. And if it’s a good response we’re going to pursue it wholeheartedly. We won’t do the work of human rights campaigning ourselves here at the center, but I think of us as the advocates’ advocate.

AJT: In the past, the center has seemed more like a museum than a center that promotes a public dialogue about civil and human rights. Do you have any plans to change that perception?

Savitt: We hope to engage the broader community in that conversation.

There are legitimate differences of opinion about key issues that face us. And right now people are talking right past each other. It almost feels intentional. We could be a place that actually has a respectful version of that conversation where you can agree to disagree, but not be disagreeable while you do it.

AJT: How would you answer those in the Jewish community in Atlanta who may have felt that there has not been enough emphasis at the national center on the human rights aspects of discrimination?

Savitt: It would be too bad if the Jewish community didn’t feel a part of this because it is certainly our legacy AJT: How imporas Jews. Human rights tant is the work of the came into being as a center? result of the atrocities Savitt: I think that of World War II. The the venture to tell the The U.S. Holocaust Museum was collective guilt of the instory of human rights Jill Savitt’s previous home. ternational community and, more importantly, made it possible for mainly Jewish law- the values of civil and human rights to a yers like Raphael Lemkin to say we need wide audience is critical in a democracy. certain laws and standards. We’re not go- These are core values about human diging to let this happen again. It is an out- nity and how we treat one another and rage to the conscience of mankind what the importance of the rule of law and the happened to the Jews in the Holocaust. way citizens come together as a civil soThe whole U.N. system and all its ciety to be in a contract with each other, laws and policies were created by Jews and government and corporations. And I and is the result of the Jewish experience. can’t imagine a more important mission It really is based on Judeo-Christian te- than to show those values in a very comnets of human dignity and how we treat pelling and dynamic way. I am very comeach other, so Jews have a right to feel mitted to this place. ■ 6 | APRIL 5, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

LOCAL NEWS

Photos via Times of Israel // Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at the 2019 AIPAC Conference in Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump hands his pen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after signing his Proclamation on the Golan Heights on March 25.

Top AIPAC Conference Headlines The annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference took place last week, and headlines related to the event in Washington, D.C., dominated media attention for days. Here are a few of the biggest stories coming out of the event:

A Boycott That’s Not a Boycott

Following a controversial call from progressive group MoveOn for Democratic presidential candidates to boycott AIPAC, none of the major Democratic faces in the race showed up.

Vice President Mike Pence was among those who, during his speech at the conference, accused the Democratic Party of “boycotting,” in what was an unusually partisan attack at the conference, which is nonpartisan.

While some accused those candidates of the boycott, the only to official state such intent was Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt. In the wake of the controversy, AIPAC itself pushed back against the idea that there was a boycott and, on March 26, met personally with four 2020 hopefuls during its yearly lobbying blitz.

“Senators Booker, Harris, Gillibrand, Klobuchar all met with AIPAC constituent delegations,” an AIPAC official told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

JTA also reported that the foreign policy advisor for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, DMass., met with the group that same day.

AIPAC’s statement only discussed those candidates currently serving in Congress, where the group’s lobbying efforts are focused.

What is Anti-Semitic?

One big question addressed by speakers at AIPAC this year was: What defines anti-Semitism?

Among the topics raised were remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., attacking the lobbying group, statements that many decried as anti-Semitic.

Pence drew a standing ovation for his comments on Omar, including that “those who slander this historic alliance

between the United States and Israel should never have a seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives.”

Others who called out Omar by name included Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish legislator in the U.S., addressed antiSemitism coming from all directions.

“And let me tell you if you only care about anti-Semitism coming from your political opponents, you are not fully committed to combating anti-Semitism,” he said.

Pompeo also addressed anti-Semitism in his address, saying that “AntiZionism is anti-Semitism.” He referenced Omar, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., indirectly for their support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

Absent from his address was any mention of anti-Semitism from the far right.

Schumer himself didn’t hesitate to name Omar, and also discussed rightwing anti-Semitism, such as tweets from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., that three Jewish billionaires had purchased midterm elections.

“When someone names only prominent Jews as trying to buy or steal our elections, we must call it out,” Schumer said.

He also took aim at the White House, and particularly U.S. President Donald Trump’s reaction in the wake of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rallies in 2017.

“When someone looks at a neo-Nazi rally and sees some very fine people among its company, we must call it out,” Schumer said.

ognized the Golan Heights as Israeli land.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was with Trump as he signed the proclamation.

“Your recognition is a two-fold act of historic justice. Israel won the Golan Heights in a just war of self-defense, and the Jewish people’s roots in the Golan go back thousands of years,” Netanyahu said.

The move reversed more than 50 years of American foreign policy, after Israel took the Golan heights from Syria in the Six-Day War in 1967. Much of the international community still considers the Golan Heights occupied land, includ-

Bernie Sanders, who was among the Democratic Presidential candidates not in attendance at AIPAC, speaks at a rally in Brooklyn.

ing the European Union, who unanimously voted against recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the region last week.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that it is “clear that the status of Golan has not changed,” U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said March 25.

Critics of Trump’s decision say that it weakens the U.S.’s ability to chastise Russian annexation of Crimea, and also that it is an attempt to shore up support for Netanyahu ahead of difficult elections this month. ■ Compiled by AJT Staff

Trump Recognizes the Golan Heights

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ISRAEL PRIDE

News From Our Jewish Home ramps to historic construction, but as part of the project, streets were evened out and new ramps were created, including to the Western Wall area.

In addition, there is a new phone app called Accessible JLM-Old City which offers navigation help in real time throughout the passageways and sidewalks.

Courtesy of City of Jerusalem // A resident tests

out the new, more accessible sidewalks and pathways of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Jerusalem Makes Old City More Accessible

The city of ancient stone steps and bumpy roads isn’t exactly the easiest place to get around for those with wheelchairs or strollers. Four kilometers of wheelchair and stroller-accessible streets are the first steps toward changing that.

Close to 90 percent of the streets and sidewalks in the Muslim, Christian and Armenian quarters in the Old City were extensively renovated, according to The Times of Israel.

“It’s a project that’s been in the works for about 15 years,” said project spokesperson Gura Berger. “It’s all about making a 3,000-year-old city more accessible, but it isn’t easy to do.”

Given the construction of ancient, narrow streets, it can be difficult to add

Today in Israeli History

Photo by si.robi via Wikimedia Commons

Jonathan Erlich, who has won 20 professional doubles titles, remains active on the ATP Challenger Tour, the second tier of professional men’s tennis.

April 5, 1977: Professional tennis player Jonathan Erlich, known as Yoni, is born in Buenos Aires. His family makes aliyah when he is 1, settling in Haifa, where he begins playing tennis at an early age. He meets fellow Israeli Andy Ram while training at the Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sports in Netanya, and the two become a doubles team. They win the Australian Open in January 2008 to become Israel’s first Grand Slam tennis champions.

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Israel Shocks Austria in Euro Qualifiers

Behind a hat trick from Eran Zahavi, Israel upset Austria on March 24 in Haifa in its quest to qualify for the Euro 2020 football tournament. Israel currently sits in second place behind Poland in Group G. Israel’s coach Andreas Herzog is Austrian, and the win is Israel’s first over his home nation in 20 years.

Israel fell behind early as Marko Arnautović, who plays in the English Premier League for West Ham, put the first goal on the board. Zahavi responded in the 34th minute, heading one into the net.

Proving that brains can also be brawn, Zahavi’s second goal also came with a header just before the half, and he added a third, this time with his left foot in the 54th minute. While both teams would add one more to their tallies, Israel managed to hold on for the win.

Austria fell to a tie for last place in the group with Latvia. Israel has never qualified for a Euro Cup before, as it went

just 4-5-1 in the 2016 group stage, according to The Times of Israel.

ture more than 500 housing units with adjustable furnishings, lower counters and sinks, and ramps.

Israel’s First Fully DisabilityInclusive Community

Already the only Israeli campus dedicated exclusively to students with disabilities, ALEH Negev will, in the coming years, get its own town tailored to meet the unique challenges and needs of those students.

Currently treating outpatients and live-in residents, their capabilities are about to dramatically expand, as ALEH Negev received a government grant in October that will be used to create a fully accessible town where those with disabilities will live and work alongside everyone else.

Doron Almog, a retired Israeli general who now chairs ALEH Negev, told The Times that the village is not intended to isolate those with disabilities, and instead will allow them to live and work in an entirely integrated community.

“It’s a breakthrough integration concept for the most severely disabled children and people on earth. This is the supreme test of humanity,” he said.

The soon-to-be-town will be named Daniel and will house both those who ALEH Negev helps and the more than 340 staff at the facility. With an expected completion date of 2024, Daniel will fea-

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Archaeologists uncover the Hasmoneanera site in Jerusalem.

Hasmonean-Era Village Found Under Jerusalem Neighborhood

A 2,000-year-old agricultural village was uncovered in a salvage excavation in Jerusalem’s Sharafat neighborhood, a Muslim and Christian Arab area. The large village suggests previously unknown ancient Jewish ties to that part of the region.

The dig was funded by the Moriah Jerusalem Development Corporation ahead of the construction of a new elementary school in Sharafat. The Times reported that archaeologists discovered a burial estate, an olive press, ritual baths, cisterns and many jar fragments.

All of the artifacts recovered date to some time between 140 and 37 BCE. Although only a small part of the site has been uncovered, the Israel Antiquities Authority said it is believed to be attached to a village found further south. ■

ish area of settlement in Palestine. The almost-annual economic fairs began in 1924; they give way to what in 1932 becomes the Levant Fair or Orient Fair (Yerid Hamizrach). The growth of the fair leads to the construction of a permanent fairground in 1934. The 1929 fair not only showcases Yishuv products, but also celebrates Tel Aviv’s 20th anniversary.

aftermath of the December 1973 election.

The resignation of Israel’s first (and so far only) female prime minister follows the release April 2 of the Agranat Commission’s interim report on why Israel was caught off-guard at the start of the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. The report doesn’t directly blame Meir but produces mounting public criticism.

April 7, 1977: Maccabi Tel Aviv, whose international basketball success has made them Israel’s sports ambassadors, wins their first European championship by defeating the two-time defending champions, Mobilgirgi Varese of Italy, by one point. Just as celebrated is Maccabi’s semifinal upset over the Soviet team CSKA Moscow, 91-79, in a game played in a Belgian village because the Soviet Union has not had diplomatic ties with Israel since the June 1967 war.

April 9, 1921: Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s fifth president, is born in Jerusalem to a Sephardic family that has lived in the city for more than 300 years. He fights in the Irgun and Haganah, writes books and musicals, serves in positions throughout the Israeli government, chairs the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Movement, and is a Knesset member for the Rafi and Labor parties, including time as deputy speaker. He is elected president in 1978, then turns down a chance to seek a second term in 1983, opting to return to the Knesset. He dies Nov. 7, 2015, in Jerusalem.

April 11, 1909: Sixty-six families gather on the dunes outside Jaffa on Palestine’s Mediterranean coast to claim their lots in the new neighborhood of Ahuzat Bayit (“Homestead”), marking the founding of the first modern Jewish city, Tel Aviv. The goal is to escape the overcrowding and rising rents of Jaffa, the largely Arab city to the southwest. To assign the properties, Akiva Arieh Weiss writes the family names on 66 white seashells and the lot numbers on 66 gray shells, then pairs them at random. Tel Aviv now is home to more than 400,000 people. ■

April 8, 1929: The fourth Palestine and Near East Exhibition opens in Tel Aviv to showcase the commercial and industrial activity of the Yishuv, the Jew-

April 10, 1974: Prime Minister Golda Meir announces at a Labor Party meeting that she is resigning only a month after forming Israel’s 16th government in the

the second woman to serve as an Israeli Supreme Court justice, is born into the Shenburg family in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Her family makes aliyah to Haifa when she is 1. Shenburg serves in the Israel Air Force’s Judge Advocate General unit during the War of Independence and marries Elisha Netanyahu, Benjamin’s uncle, after the war. She becomes a magistrate judge in 1969, a district judge in 1974 and a Supreme Court justice in 1981. She retires April 4, 1993.

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ISRAEL NEWS Fake Media Accounts Boost Netanyahu

To add to the already complicated webs in the upcoming Israel election, a new report has concluded fake social media accounts are boosting Netanyahu. The current prime minister of Israel is seeking reelection and has launched a campaign smearing his liberal opponent Benny Gantz.

The report by the watchdog group Big Bots Project was written with the help of the liberal organiPhoto via AP // Fake news accounts are zation Israeli Alliance. The watchhelping Netanyahu gain following. dog group found no direct links to the accounts and Netanyahu or the Likud party. However, Big Bots Project did find the network of accounts work with Likud’s election campaign. Some 154 of the accounts in the network use fake names and another 400 accounts are suspected of being fake but appear to be operated by actual people, which makes them harder to detect, according to the report. The posts, all in Hebrew, have had more than 2.5 million hits.

Jewish Comedian Leads Ukraine Elections

Breaking news in Israel this week is about Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the top candidate in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election.

With 84 percent of polling stations counted, Zelenskiy has earned 30 percent support in Sunday’s vote.

Haaretz reported the success of Zelenskiy is a reflection of the Ukraine’s public desire for a candidate who is far removed from the corruption of the current political Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy is front-runner regime. The hope is he can create a in Ukraine’s presidential election race. new approach to the conflict with Russian-backed separatists resulting in 13,000 deaths since 2014. Zelenskiy, who has been dubbed the “Ukrainian Donald Trump,” will need at least half the vote to win.

Upper Galilee Becomes Culinary Destination

The Upper Galilee region of Israel is recognized for its tales of miracles and religious history, and now a new story is being told that revolves around food. Surrounded by natural water resources such as the Sea of Galilee, the region is flourishing as a result of innovations in food sustainability and agriculture. The investment in these sectors is attracting some of the most prestigious chefs from around the world, including chef Photo credit via HuffPost.com //The Upper Galilee is Lior Lev Sercarz. gaining attention as the food basket of Israel.

Sercarz is launching the Jewish National Fund-USA Institute of Culinary Arts in Kiryat Shmona, a city quickly becoming known as Israel’s culinary capital on a global scale. The Upper Galilee attracts more than 2 million tourists a year to visit the surprisingly lush landscape and taste the flavorful cuisine of Northern Israel. Considered the “food basket” of Israel, almost 40 percent of food tech startups in the world are located in the start-up nation and they’re an essential factor in socioeconomic change in the Upper Galilee region. ■ Compiled by Patrice Worthy while in Israel.

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ISRAELI POLITICS Millions of Paper Slips Add Up to New Israeli Government

By Dave Schechter On Tuesday, after displaying a national identity card, an Israeli voter will enter a screened booth and find a tray containing slips of paper with large block Hebrew letters and, in smaller print, the names of political parties those letters represent.

As this article was written, there were 42 parties vying for seats in the 120seat Knesset, down from the 47 certified

by Israel’s Central Elections Committee.

That means slips of paper for 42 parties. Trays were constructed to accommodate slips of paper representing that record number of parties.

There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Thus the need for multi-letter combinations. Some older parties, such as Likud and Labor, have used the same three-letter combinations in past elections. Newer parties pick combinations not in use.

The voter will take a slip of paper representing the party of their choice, place it in a blue envelope, then place the envelope in a ballot box. That’s it. No

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Photos via Times of Israel // Knesset election ballots at a polling

station in Jerusalem, January 22, 2013.

computer touchscreen. No key card. Just several million slips of paper to be counted by hand.

The Times of Israel reported that to cover every possible vote by 6,339,279 eligible voters, at 10,720 polling stations, election officials printed 400 million slips of paper—enough for every vote, plus extras.

Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 10

p.m. Israel time, after which time exit polling data will be released. Unofficial results will follow overnight and be certified eight days later.

Each party previously released its list of candidates in order of their priority to fill Knesset seats, depending on how many the party wins.

To be represented in the Knesset, a party must receive at least 3.25 percent of

the vote, which translates to about three or four seats. Of those 42 parties, maybe a dozen or so will meet the threshold.

The votes received by parties that do not meet the threshold are redistributed according to a formula until all 120 seats have been apportioned.

To form a government, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will turn to the leader of the party viewed as having the best chance of putting together a majority bloc in the Knesset.

No individual party has ever won a majority in the Knesset, so smaller parties have the leverage to set their price – such as control of a ministry or money for their programs – for joining a governing coalition.

The head of the party that cobbles together a majority bloc in the Knesset becomes prime minister.

In 2015, that again was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose Likud party received votes that translated into 30 seats, and then brought in smaller parties to form a parliamentary majority.

If he and Likud are successful again, Netanyahu in July will become Israel’s

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Israel By the Numbers longest-serving prime minister, surpassing the first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.

Once approved by the new Knesset, the prime minister and the new government are sworn into office.

That is set to happen April 23.

Of course, there’s a catch.

The leader of the party asked to form a government has 28 days – plus 14 more if requested – to accomplish that task. If that first effort fails, the president turns to another candidate, who has 28 days to accomplish that task. Should that fail, a majority of the Knesset could ask the president to assign the task to another Knesset member. This has never happened.

Unlike Americans, who can vote abroad, Israelis must be in Israel to vote. The only exceptions are Israelis on official business abroad, such as members of the diplomatic corps, who voted March 29 at Israeli embassies and consulates. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics says that 91 percent of eligible voters reside in Israel.

There are some 500,000 (give or take 200,000) Israelis living in the United States, including an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 in Atlanta, along with Americans who have made aliyah and also have Israeli citizenship.

To entice voters home, El Al offered special fares in the days before the election; $799 round trip from New York, for example.

While Americans and Israelis both talk a lot about politics, a higher percentage of Israelis back up their words by voting. A lackluster 58 percent of eligible Americans voted in the 2016 presidential election, compared with 72 percent of Israelis in their 2015 national election.

As in America, the voting age in Israel is 18. Arab citizens, who make up nearly 21 percent of Israel’s population, have voting rights, along with the nearly 75 percent who are Jewish, and 4 percent of “other” identification.

Unlike America, Election Day in Israel is a national holiday.

The word “knesset” comes from the “Knesset HaGedolah” or the “Great Assembly,” a group of 120 Jewish sages and prophets formed in the fifth century B.C.E. Among those on the ballot in the 21st century C.E., is the Pirate party, whose leader is listed as – yes – the internet. But no pirates are expected to win seats in the Knesset. ■

Population Growth Israel Central Bureau of Statistics May 1948: 806,000 Jan. 2019: 8.995 million May 2048: 15.2 million (estimate) Population (November 2018) Times of Israel/Central Bureau of Statistics Jews: 74.3 percent Arabs: 20.9 percent Other*: 4.8 percent *Other defined as non-Arab Christians, Baha’i, etc.

Israeli Jews/Life Expectancy (2017) Central Bureau of Statistics Women: 84.6 years Men: 80.7 years Israeli Jews (2018/self-identify as) Times of Israel/Central Bureau of Statistics Secular: 44.3 percent Traditional/not religious: 21.4 percent Traditional/religious: 12.3 percent Religious: 11.5 percent Ultra-Orthodox: 10.2 percent

Population By Religion (2017) Jewish Virtual Library Jews: 74 percent Muslims: 18 percent Christian: 2 percent Druze: 2 percent

Largest City (2018) World Population Review Jerusalem:

World Jewish Population Times of Israel/Central Bureau of Statistics 1948: 11.5 million (6 percent in Israel) 2018: 14.5 million (46 percent in Israel)

Jewish Population/West Bank-Judea and Samaria (2018) Jews in West Bank: 449,508

Israeli Jews/Native Born Jewish Virtual Library 1948: 35 percent 2017: 75 percent

890,000

Largest Metropolitan Area (2018) Tel Aviv/Gush Dan: 3.46 million

Palestinian Arab Population/West Bank Haaretz/Palestinian Authority Central Bureau of Statistics 2016:

2.97 million

These are the latest figures available, compiled from online reports.

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ISRAELI POLITICS

Democracy at Stake

By Shai Robkin Should American Jews care about the upcoming Israeli elections? If they have paid attention to the damage that has been done to Israeli democracy under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, damage that parallels the damage done to American democracy under President Donald Trump, they most certainly should.

Rabbi Daniel Gordis, an Israeli centrist if there ever was one, recently penned these words: “For many months now, some Israeli voices who were critical of Netanyahu (myself included) have denied that Netanyahu was intentionally channeling Donald Trump’s provocative attitude toward democracy, arguing that the prime minister was cozying up to the American president only because of Trump’s volatility and Israel’s need for American support in the face of Iran,

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Russia’s re-entry into the Middle East and other foreign policy concerns. Today, however, that argument rings hollow. Israel is now witness to a full-scale assault on its democracy by its own prime minister.”

This channeling of Trump’s provocative attitude toward democracy has taken many forms, including racist demagoguery.

Netanyahu's denigration of Israel’s Arabs caused Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin to swiftly rebuke him, stating that Israel does not have “second class citizens.” Like Trump, Bibi has attacked the country’s judiciary and state prosecutors. The prime minister threatened Israel’s freedom of the press by warning Galei Zahal, Israel’s Army radio station, that its existence might be in peril if the right were not given more exposure.

Like Trump, Bibi questions the patriotism of those who oppose his policies and language of divisiveness. Organizations like the New Israel Fund (NIF)

and its human rights and Jewish/Arab coexistence grantees have become Bibi’s common whipping boys. And then, there is the dismissal of truth itself, an indispensable foundation for democracy; like Trump, “fake news” has become a mainstay of Bibi’s vocabulary.

Sadly, public opinion polls indicate that more and more American Jews, particularly the younger generation, are prepared to throw the Israeli baby out with prime minister’s dirty bathwater, which also includes Bibi’s reneging on the deal for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.

And many who claim that they still love and care about Israel despite Netanyahu and his policies question whether there is

anything they can do about it since they can’t vote. Only part of the solution is likely to be found in the upcoming elections. More important are the thousands of Israelis working with Israeli NGOs day in and day out to preserve and protect Israeli democracy, demonstrating their love for Israel regardless of the election outcome. And they need the support of those Americans who truly understand what it takes to defend democracy. ■ Shai Robkin is an American and Israeli citizen who volunteers on behalf of a number of organizations that work to strengthen Israeli democracy.

Election Reflects Challenges

By Shaked Angel On April 9 the citizens of the state of Israel will vote for a new Knesset.

Why should we in Atlanta care about these elections?

First and foremost, we need to ask ourselves, “Why should we care about Israel? Does the U.S. see itself as a defender of democracy? Does the U.S. still represent core fundamental values such as free speech, equality, transparency in governance and such?” I believe the answer is a resounding “Yes!” When Woodrow Wilson spoke in front of Congress in 1917, he said, “The world must be made safe for democracy.”

I believe American citizens care about the importance of being a superpower that defends the basic values of democracy. This is why the relationship between the U.S. and Israel has become a cornerstone of keeping democracy alive in the Middle East.

Looking more closely at the situation today, Israel has reached a junction.

The upcoming election symbolizes that in many ways. Is Benjamin Netanyahu going to get reelected? If so, how will his government look? If Benny Gantz is elected, can he form a coalition? And if so, will it be sustainable? Israelis need to decide which path to take and when they do, the critical issues will be defined, including the status of the U.S. relationship.

It is no secret that Israeli democracy is facing challenges. The Knesset has

struggled to pass major reforms and, instead, legislative measures that challenge both democracy and stability have been passed, such as the “Nationality Law” and the “Supermarket Law.” This new narrative will certainly be confronted in this election.

Another major challenge is Israel’s multiple party system. Israel has a parliamentary election system that allows different parties to represent different sectors of society. In the last two elections Israel saw a massive increase in the number of parties vying for positions in Knesset. This created a very challenging situation for the Likud party as Benjamin Netanyahu had to appease government parties to remain in power. There are 47 parties trying to get elected in this election. They even had to manufacture a new ballot box because the old one did not have enough space to fit all the notes for the different parties!

How does it affect us Jews living in Atlanta? We need to be caring, educated observers. No matter if we differ on our opinions about government policies and actions, we must be united in our care and concern for the state of Israel. We must embrace our love for Israel and strive to remain informed about the upcoming elections as we watch Israel’s democracy in action. ■ Shaked Angel is the Greater Atlanta regional director for the Israeli-American Council.

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OPINION Democratic ‘Jexodus’ So, I’ve read lately that Jews are leaving the Democratic Party in droves that haven’t been seen since the Hebrews crossed the Sinai.

Pardon me if I don’t pack up quite yet. This so-called “Jexodus” is led by our modern-day Moses, Ms. Elizabeth Pipko, a 23-year-old swimsuit model and self- Doug described “fiercely proud Weinstein millennial Jew.” Good for her. The whole thing would be a joke if President Trump hadn’t latched onto the concept like a lamprey eel after seeing her on Fox News.

Where to begin?

Let’s start with how offensive the term “Jexodus” is. “Jexodus” is a portmanteau of “Jewish” and “Exodus.” Brilliant.

But I actually thought that it was Jews that took part in the Exodus, so why the need to make up this new term? Since it was the Hebrews that fled Egypt, maybe she should have called it “Hexodus.” I suppose that does not have the same ring.

The term trivializes the Exodus, reducing it to a cheap, political slogan. We

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left Egypt to flee slavery, and this collective memory and yearly remembrance are a central part of our opposition to slavery everywhere in the world today in whatever form it may take. Perhaps realizing this slight misstep, Ms. Pipko has changed the name to the Exodus Movement. That’s a fix.

There must be something to the Exodus Movement though, right? She would not make it up out of thin air. Taking a look at Jewish voting patterns, she must have clearly seen a trend toward Jews voting Republican. In 2012, 69 percent of Jews voted for Obama. In 2016, 71 percent of Jews voted for Clinton. In 2018, 79 percent of Jews voted for Democrats. So, Ms. Pipko has clearly seen the trend line moving toward Jews voting for the GOP. Ah … wait a sec. Forget that. I guess she got that backwards during her analysis. Oh well, science and math have never been a priority in the GOP. Most Jews identify as Democrats, and that is unlikely to change under the cur-

rent policies of today’s GOP. According to a Gallup poll in 2018, 16 percent of Jews identified as Republican versus 52 percent who identified as Democrat. But why? It simply comes down to Jewish commitment to tikkun olam, implemented often by present day Jews in the form of social action. We are naturally attracted to the social justice aspects of the Democratic Party. Commitment to equal rights, universal health care, a living wage, and worker rights is at the forefront of Democratic Party politics and its platform.

Yes, the GOP offers policies that can be attractive to us and that we can support. Lowering taxes, reducing government regulations, and supporting entrepreneurship can all be seen as worthy goals. In addition, the GOP’s unwavering support of Israel probably has and likely will continue to draw Jewish supporters, despite support for Israel being one of the few bipartisan policies since Truman recognized Israel in 1949. But the present attempts to turn Israel into a partisan issue are best left for another day.

Also, the rise in anti-Semitism in the left, as evidenced by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the U.K., has not been adequately dealt with by the Democratic Party. Certainly, the Democrats' feckless

response to Rep. [Ilhan] Omar’s repeated anti-Semitic remarks may drive some of us from the party. Jewish identification with the Democratic Party is down from 55 percent in 2008, but that is in keeping with the general population’s shift away from party identification.

The GOP will not be an attractive party for the majority of Jews until it changes from attacking social justice programs to, at the least, proposing legitimate conservative alternatives. Eliminating the Affordable Care Act without proposing a replacement will never win Jews over. Refusing to oppose the repeated reelection of Steve King, a GOP representative reciting Mein Kampf on the House floor, gutting government funding for Special Olympics, and shouting that “there are good people on both sides” won’t do it either.

There is nothing wrong with Republican outreach to the Jewish community.

A legitimate program that promotes social justice through conservative ideas would be welcome. But let’s not pretend that “Jexodus” is anything other than an offensive gimmick. ■ Doug Weinstein is an intellectual property lawyer and a former board member of Democrats Abroad – Taiwan.

OPINION

AIPAC is Not Just About Politics

By Simone Wilker People come to AIPAC to show their support for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. And they come to express their concerns about issues that affect Jews and their connection to Israel. Surrounded by thousands of Jews and friends, AIPAC’s voices are loud and clear. Attendees listen to global leaders, senators, representatives, both Jewish and non-Jewish, as they tell their stories and talk about things that make the audience stand up and applaud. A great feeling washes over the AIPAC supporters and they walk away with hope; just like we sing in the Israeli national anthem.

But that is not all AIPAC is about. For me, personally, it is about making connections. It is about hugging and kissing your cousin from St. Louis that you haven’t seen since last year’s conference.

It is about meeting up with that friend who moved away to Florida. It is about seeing your young cousin who is now a dentist in Baltimore and has three little children. It is seeing your children’s Solomon Schechter Day School principal after so many years. It is about recognizing your old rabbi who moved on to another congregation in another state. And, for me, the highlight was seeing one particular old dear friend.

I grew up in Savannah, Ga., and went to the B.B. [Bnai Brith] Jacob Nursery School for two years at age 3 and 4. We were a very tight-knit Jewish community and all of our lives were integrated, one with the other. Among the boys in this school was one Murray Jacobson. After nursery school, a few of us went on to the first and second grade together; still at this same B.B. Jacob Hebrew Day School. There was no kindergarten at that time. At the start of second grade Murray was told he could skip the second grade and move to third.

He was so smart. There was no Hebrew day school for the third grade so Murray attended public school. I was devastated and angry. I wanted to skip second grade too! How dare Murray Jacobson jump ahead without me! But I survived without him and we were six students in that secondgrade class at the Hebrew Day School: Berta Adams, Lynn Rabhan Owens, Sammy Sutker, Jerry Portman, Skippy Platt and me. Of the six of us, two still live in Savannah and three of us live in Atlanta. I lost touch with Murray because his family moved away from Savannah.

Fast forward to 68 years later and for some reason I decide to Google his name. Wow! There is a Murray Jacobson living in the Washington, D.C. area. After several attempts, we reconnect and find out that we are both going to attend AIPAC. This year, Murray, his wife and I met up in The AIPAC Village in between sessions. Can you imagine seeing someone you knew at the age of three and now you are 73? How weird is that?

Who would think that the relationships built at an early age would remain in place? I felt as though I had seen him yesterday.

Of the 18,000 people who attend, I can only imagine how many old friendships have been

Third grade nursery school at the B.B. Jacob in Savannah, Ga., in 1949.

Simone Broome Wilker is in the first row, fourth from left, with blonde hair, and Murray Jacobson is in the second row from the bottom, sixth from left, in a striped shirt.

Bayla and Murray Jacobson with Simone Wilker at the AIPAC conference.

revived by everyone joining together in Washington. This is what the world should be all about: relationships with people you care about, all the while fostering a love of Israel. I’m so proud of my friends and family who come

from near and far to attend this conference – for many at great expense. It makes the event personal and creates an atmosphere of love and caring. It is great to be Jewish. Thank you AIPAC for making this happen. ■

Simone Wilker recently retired as the owner of AlphaGraphics, a print, design, marketing and public relations company in New Jersey, and she recently moved to Atlanta.

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OPINION

A Call to Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress, has created a firestorm over anti-Semitic comments she made last month. In Minnesota, she has been part of a Somali community that has worked closely with the local Jewish community since it started arriving from the war-torn country of Somalia in 1993. The two communities have developed strong ties and have joined together to fight hunger and illiteracy and to raise money Harold for one another to respond to discrimina- Kirtz tion and threats of violence.

With her remarks, which are not the first she has made, Rep. Omar has caused concern not only in Congress but in her home district and in much of the country. She has basically attacked Israel for its policies towards the Palestinians, but has gone further in perpetuating anti-Semitic memes. Steve Hunegs, longtime executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in Minnesota, has had discussions with her over the years and tried to provide her information about the Jewish community and Israel.

But her views towards Israel and the Palestinians are certainly colored by her several years spent in a refugee camp to escape the violence in her own homeland.

Her strong views have now gotten her in hot water on the national scene. She has apologized for anti-Semitic comments that she has made, but some question her sincerity. She then questioned what she perceives

as continuing attacks against her.

But here is a proposition for Rep. Omar to consider. With her concern for the Palestinians and what she perceives as the treatment of them

by Israelis, she should now channel her energies to the solving of the Israel-Palestinian issue.

Rep. Omar should sit down with Palestinian leaders and try to convince them to make peace with Israel.

Many who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, including Rep. Omar, have the impression that the Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (left) and Rashida Tlaib. main issue, in fact the only real issue, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is the “occupation” by their words belie that position. The Palestinian leaderIsrael over the Palestinians. However, this view is a lim- ship must forthrightly stand for and actively promote a ited and incorrect one. The main issue is the continu- belief and a reality that there must be a two-state soluing failure of the Palestinians to recognize Israel as an tion — two states for two peoples.

Now this does not mean that Israel does not have independent Jewish state and to live side-by-side as two responsibilities towards its Arab citizens. Israel must states in peaceful relations.

Despite occasional expressions by Palestinian lead- ensure the civil and political rights of all of its citizens, er [Mahmoud] Abbas and a few others to say that they whether they be Jewish, Arab, Druse, Christian, or other. support a two-state solution, their actions and most of Many Arabs have enjoyed generally good lives in Israel, but Israel has not always made good on those goals and policies, and it must do more in that regard.

But the resolution of the conflict itself is mostly in the hands of the Palestinians. If the Palestinian leadership were to commit themselves to a real two-state solution, it is my belief that the overwhelming number of Israelis – and Jews throughout the world – would welcome a peaceful solution that can be trusted.

This is where Rep. Omar can come in. She and her fellow Muslim Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, who is of Palestinian descent, have the unique opportunity and position in their communities and now in national leadership to sit down with Palestinian leaders and convince them that they must enter into serious negotiations with Israel and resolve the conflict.

The Arab world has 22 states that are Arab; the Muslim world has 55 states that are majority Muslim.

In fact, because of the conflict, Jews have been kicked out of many of the Arab states. Certainly, the Jewish world should be able to have one state, a state that remains Jewish-majority and the nation-state of the Jewish people.

For those Jews who believe in a single bi-national state in Israel between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, such an outcome eventually becomes a state in which Jews are a minority and would eventually face discrimination, if not worse. I am speaking of the Jewish Voice for Peace and other organizations that see the conflict differently and who have bought into the proposition that the occupation is the main, or only, issue. Such a result will not end well for the Jews. ■ Harold Kirtz is president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta.

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OPINION Letter to the editor:

I thought Eugen Schoenfeld’s recent article on hope was one of the most thoughtful, insightful and inspiring I have read in a long time.

Hope is important for all people, but especially important for us Jews. Without hope and vision, we would have perished long ago. I believe the concept of hope is one of the great gifts to humanity from Jewish people.

Surprising that two Holocaust survivors, Schoenfeld and Norbert Friedman, have had similar thoughts: • Always have hope even in the darkest of circumstances.

• Look for rays of sunshine.

• There is some good in all people; we should look for that good.

Hope leads to passion, which leads to commitment and perseverance. These qualities lead to success and accomplishment.

While Eugen’s heart may be physically weak, it is spiritually very strong.

My hope and my prayers are that Eugen is with us for many, many years to share his wisdom and insight.

Al Shams, Atlanta

Letter to the editor:

Young Israel Disagreement Kudos to Rabbi Starr for defending his synagogue’s ecumenical stance and refusal to be bullied by national Young Israel leadership.

I am saddened to see the Kahane movement and its right-wing racism being condoned by the Young Israel movement. Of course, with the fact that Meir Kahane’s brother preaches racism towards Arabs from the pulpit of a Young Israel in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City (which I have experienced) it should come as no surprise that the acceptance of Kahanists by the Knesset and national YI would occur.

All this comes in a week when the vice mayor of Jerusalem refused to speak at a Conservative Yeshiva and a female rabbi of Women of the Wall was attacked and beaten by Charedi teens at the Kotel.

Unfortunately, Israel appears to be turning away from modern Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews in the U.S. Young Israel nationally has unfortunately joined in that schism.

Leon A. Van Gelderen, Atlanta

Letter to the editor:

Ilhan Omar has gone from Somalia to the halls of Congress. Sounds like a dream come true. Astonishingly, her painful background was offered as an excuse for her demonstrated inability to function without recurrent displays of age-old anti-Semitic bigotry.

In 2014, the president of Smith College was pressured into apologizing for saying that all lives matter because this was seen as being incompatible with the idea that Black lives matter. However, a generalized condemnation of hatred is apparently sufficient if the vilification is directed at Israel or at Americans who support our dependable ally.

Many Americans admire Israel’s high moral standards in the face of the unrelenting genocidal hatred directed against her by her neighbors. It is a most unnerving truth that bigotry exists among many Muslims. Look at the situation of Jews in Europe now that Muslims have a significant presence there.

Ms. Omar’s kind of ugliness hasn’t been popular in American politics in the past, but this does not mean it will not make headway now.

Julia Lutch, Davis, Calif.

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PASSOVER FOOD & WINE Big Meal, Big Tips: Caterers Talk Passover Prep

By Eddie Samuels As the seder season approaches, there can often be a lot of stress on those preparing holiday meals. In many cases it can mean cooking for well over 20 people with some pretty strict time and dietary restrictions in place.

The AJT spoke to a few of Atlanta’s kosher caterers about their advice to make Passover easier, more organized and less stressful.

With a busy Passover season for caterers too, Jodie Sturgeon of For All Occasions and More had plenty of tips to share. Most importantly, unsurprisingly, was the planning.

“Plan your menu out well ahead of time and keep your circumstances in mind,” she said. “Do you have people helping you? What kind of equipment do you have? What are the time requirements for each dish?”

Many of her clients during the Passover season tend to combine homecooked dishes with others from caterers.

“If there are dishes that take too much time or are too difficult, you can

For many, preparing a seder meal can mean cooking for well over 20 people, which is bound to cause stress.

outsource those to caterers,” she said.

“Preparation can be stressful and even getting a few things off your list can really ease some of that.”

A key for Sturgeon is keeping tim-

ing in mind. While you can’t start before getting your kitchen kosher for Passover, once that’s done you can begin with some dishes that can be prepared days ahead of time and frozen. “Be methodical and

Passover Popovers

By Elinor Greenberg

1/2 cup vegetable oil 1 cup water 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup matzah meal 1 tablespoon sugar 4 eggs Preheat oven to 375 F. Bring oil, water and salt to boil. Add matzah meal and stir with spoon. Let cool.

Add sugar and eggs, beating well after each addition.

Bake 15 to 20 minutes, then turn down to 315 F and bake another 30 minutes. ■

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keep your time in mind,” she said.

Ande Baron from Yum! catering said it was important to know dietary restrictions of guests when planning a seder.

She had a particular ingredient in mind when considering what to serve at the meal.

“I lived in Israel for 10 years and our Sephardic friends ate beans on Passover.”

While Ashkenazi Jews typically do not eat beans during Passover as a matter of tradition, they are a staple of many Sephardic seders.

“If your guests are Sephardic it gives so many options, especially if you have friends attending a seder that are vegan or vegetarian and also Sephardic,” she said. “I also think it’s a nice, new twist.”

One dish she specifically recalls from her time in Israel is “green rice salad with chickpeas. It was so delicious and springy.”

Now that you have an idea of how to plan your seder, the next step, logically, is what to serve. The AJT has compiled a few of Jewish Atlanta’s favorite recipes and spoken to wine experts to help you make your Passover the best it can be. ■

PASSOVER FOOD & WINE Elisheva’s Famous (and Easy) Brisket

By Elisheva Ingber Brisket 1 can tomato sauce 1 cup Coca-Cola About ½ cup of minced garlic Ground pepper and salt Preheat oven to 275 F. The real secret to a great brisket is to cook it LOW and SLOW. I use full-size disposable roasting pans and double them for extra strength.

Whenever I make my brisket, I start with a huge piece of meat and try to trim the really fatty pieces off, but still leave a little bit, which keeps your meat moist.

Take a fork and poke holes all over the meat on both sides. Top with tomato sauce, Coke and minced garlic.

Shake generous amounts of ground black pepper and salt on top with gloved hands. Make sure your whole brisket is covered with all of your seasonings.

I personally like to first put a piece of parchment paper over the meat before covering tightly with foil so it can’t stick and leach out any silver onto the meat. Your meat is now ready to go into your oven and you can forget about it for the next 6 hours.

Let the meat cool and put into the refrigerator overnight or for several hours. When you take out the cold brisket, the fat will have congealed to make a lovely orange layer around your meat. I skim that all off. It looks much better in my garbage pail than around my arteries!

Remove your meat from the pan and place on a large cutting board to slice. Always slice your brisket cold to get nice slices. Return the meat to the pan and all of the juices and now just heat and serve. Easy and delicious! ■

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PASSOVER FOOD & WINE My Nonna Stella’s Passover Magina (Meat Casserole/Passover Lasagne)

By Suzanne Hanein

My family are Mizrahi/Sephardic Jews. They were originally from Spain. Most of our families fled in 1492, expelled by the Spanish. My family found refuge and a home in Cairo and Alexandra, Egypt.

At Passover, one of the staples of our seder meal is a megina, a lasagna made with onions, meat, and matzah. It’s constructed like a meat lasagna, by softening the matzah with water and creating layers of matzah, meat and onions.

1 onion, chopped 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced or chopped small 1 to 2 jars of kosher for Passover marinara sauce 1 pound of extra lean ground beef salt pepper olive oil 6 to 8 matzot, dipped in water until pliable but not too mushy.

Preheat oven to 375 F. Heat olive oil in a frying pan. Add onions and stir until soft, about 5 to 7 minutes.

Add the beef and continue cooking until the meat has browned. Add the garlic, salt and pepper and stir for an additional 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the marinara sauce and mix well to combine all the ingredients.

In a 9-by-13 pan, pour the marinara sauce in the pan to coat the bottom. Alternate layering the softened matzah and meat sauce by first starting with matzah and ending with the matzah on top. Pour any remaining marinara sauce over the top layer and spread out over the matzah.

Cover well with aluminum foil and bake, covered, for 1 hour. ■

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PASSOVER FOOD & WINE Spinach Matzah Bake

By Doris Goldstein

I sort of made this up from other recipes I had seen. Not too heavy and goes well with almost anything being served.

4 tablespoons margarine 1 onion, chopped and lightly sauteed 1 box button mushrooms, also sauteed 1 box frozen spinach, defrosted 3 eggs 3 matzot, dipped in cold water 1 tablespoon lemon rind Salt and pepper to taste Few grinds of nutmeg Heat oven to 375 F. Spread a square baking dish with 2 tablespoons margarine. Beat eggs with salt and pepper.

Dip softened matzah in egg mixture one at a time. Place one matzah in pan.

Combine spinach with onion/mushroom mixture. Season with lemon rind and nutmeg.

Spread half of mixture on first layer. Dip the second matzah in egg mixture and cover with the rest of the spinach mixture. Dip last matzah in egg and place on top.

Melt remaining margarine with remaining egg mixture and pour over the top of the layers. Bake for about 30 minutes. Cool, wrap carefully, and freeze.

Cranberry Relish

By Simone Wilker

1 can mandarin oranges 1 can cranberries, either whole berries or as a jelly 1 can crushed pineapple, drained Add these three ingredients together and mix Add in various other ingredients. For example: White raisins Dark raisins Flaked coconut Shredded carrots Chopped celery Walnuts This is my mother-in-law‘s special recipe that everyone loves, and it’s so easy to make. It’s pareve and great if you have Celiac disease or are gluten-free, as there are no grains.

Prepare the day before and let it sit in the refrigerator overnight. The celery becomes extra crunchy and filled with the juice from the cranberries.

Serve it before the meal, during the meal or as dessert. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES APRIL 5, 2019 | 21

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Passover Pareve Apple Cake

By Arthur Schwartz, The Food Maven Submitted by Elinor Greenberg

I have been making this cake for decades for Passover.

For the topping: 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans 3/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon cinnamon (or a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger, mace, cloves and allspice) For the cake: 3 eggs 3/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup vegetable oil (I use either grapeseed oil or walnut oil if I have it) 3/4 cup matzah cake meal 5 medium apples, peeled, cored, cut in half, then cut into 1/4-inch slices (about 5 cups), preferably Golden Delicious, Crispin (Mutzu) or Jonagold 1/3 cup raisins (optional) Preheat the oven to 350 F. Lightly grease an 8-by-8-inch baking pan.

In a small bowl, mix the topping ingredients together. Set aside.

In a medium mixing bowl, with a handheld electric mixer, beat the eggs until well mixed. Gradually beat in the first 3/4 cup of sugar, beating until the mixture is light colored and thick. Beat in the oil, adding it in a steady stream. Scrape down the bowl and beat another few seconds. Add the matzah cake meal and beat to blend well.

Pour half of the batter mixture in the prepared pan. Sprinkle about half the topping mixture evenly over the batter. Top with half the apples and all the raisins, if using them.

Pour the remaining half of the batter mixture over the first layers, making sure to cover the apples. Arrange the remaining apples on the top of the batter mixture.

Sprinkle evenly with the remaining topping mixture.

Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until the sides of the cake pull away very slightly from the baking pan and the topping has begun to caramelize. (A cake tester may not come out clean due to the moist richness of this cake.)

Allow to cool thoroughly for several hours in the baking dish before cutting into serving portions. Even better, prepare the cake a day ahead, covering it with foil – not plastic – when cool. ■ 22 | APRIL 5, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

PASSOVER FOOD & WINE Moses Cookies Recipes by Carol Nemo

Many years ago, I was in a group therapy situation. Around Passover time, I made these, took them to the group session, passed them around (about 15 in the group) and a nice Episcopalian named Paul especially liked them and asked for a second one. He asked me what they were called, and I said, “They’re just Passover cookies.” He said, “Well, I love these Moses Cookies and I’ll have another one!”

So, in our family, we’ve been calling them Moses Cookies ever since!

6 matzot 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter or Passover margarine 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips (I use Ghirardelli) 1 cup chopped pecans, toasted ½ teaspoon kosher salt Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil or parchment paper.

Cover baking sheet with matzah; 6 pieces usually cover the pan. If not, break matzot and fill in spaces.

Combine butter and brown sugar in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring with a whisk until mixture comes to a boil. Continue stirring until mixture blends well and gets pretty dark, until foamy and thickened. (Be extra careful as toffee will be very hot!)

Pour toffee over matzah as evenly as possible, using a spatula to spread.

Bake for 10 minutes, or until the topping is crackled and bubbling all over. May take a little longer, depending on oven.

Remove from oven and place on wire rack on countertop. Scatter chocolate chips evenly over top. Wait about 3 minutes for chips to soften, then use a spatula to spread chocolate into an even layer.

Sprinkle with pecans and salt.

Refrigerate until chocolate is firm, about 30 to 40 minutes.

Using a sharp knife, cut into squares. Or, just break into odd shaped pieces. Store in an airtight tin. Refrigerate for a couple of hours. They will stay fresh throughout the eight days. These freeze beautifully too!

Passover Cupcake Blintzes I cut this recipe out of the newspaper about 40 years ago. It is so brown I can hardly read it!

1 pound creamed cottage cheese 2 ounces melted butter ¾ cup sugar ½ cup matzo cake meal 4 eggs Optional: 1 teaspoon vanilla Heat oven to 350 F. Mix first four ingredients together. Add eggs and grease muffin tins with butter. Fill ¾ full. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Serve with sour cream and strawberry preserves. Yum-O! ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES APRIL 5, 2019 | 23

PASSOVER FOOD & WINE Flourless Chocolate Cake

Creamy Chocolate Pudding

By Susan Hart Sandler

When we lived in Des Moines, Iowa, a kosher caterer there, who happened to be non-Jewish, found this to be so delicious that he served it year-round. He was so accommodating that he sometimes made extras for (Rabbi) Neil and me. After we moved to New Jersey, he was kind enough to share the recipe so I could make it myself for our son’s bar mitzvah. Serves 12.

3 sticks butter or pareve margarine 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips/semisweet bar of chocolate (pareve) 1 ¾ cups sugar 8 eggs Heat oven to 350 F. Melt butter/margarine. Melt chocolate in double broiler; add sugar and stir until smooth. Add chocolate and sugar to melted butter/margarine and stir until very, very smooth.

Beat eggs until frothy. Fold eggs and chocolate mixture together until completely incorporated.

Pour into a 10-inch springform pan greased and lined with parchment paper. (Note: spray the springform pan before placing down the parchment.)

Put the springform pan in a larger pan with 1-inch boiling water. Line the outside of the springform with aluminum foil to prevent water seeping in. (I use a large disposable aluminum pan to sit the springform in.)

Cook the cake one hour or until well-risen and firm.

Cool thoroughly in the springform pan.

By Stephanie Anchor

Don’t discount the addition of avocado for a rich dessert!

Note: I often add a layer of chopped pecans to the bottom of the springform pan to give it a bit more texture and have also added coffee liqueur for a bit of a different flavor.

I place the cake in the refrigerator overnight and remove it from the pan the next day. Wrap the cake in plastic wrap and place in the freezer. You can store in the freezer until you need. I generally remove the cake from the freezer an hour or so before I want to serve it.

It is much easier to cut smoothly when it is still partially frozen. The cake is very rich (like fudge) and you only need to cut thin slices.

1 large avocado 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 2 tablespoons agave or equivalent Passover sweetener 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract Put in blender or mini processor. Voila!

Top with fresh berries.

Seedless Raspberry Sauce 1 container of frozen raspberries, or fresh, if in season 1/3 cup water 1 tablespoon corn starch/potato starch 2 tablespoons sugar Cook raspberries with water until warm. Force thru a sieve. After sauce cools, combine starch and sugar for sauce and slowly beat into the raspberries. Reheat sauce until it thickens. (I have made and frozen the sauce until needed).

Israeli Mousse Dessert

By Doris Goldstein

I like Passover recipes that can be done in advance, frozen and taken out when needed. As soon as I have a portion of my kitchen cleaned and ready, I usually make certain dishes.

A former Atlanta resident who made aliyah sent me this wonderful, tasty, very rich dessert. Serves 8 to 10.

7 ounces bittersweet chocolate 3 1/2 ounces unsalted butter or Passover margarine 1/2 cup chopped pecans 2/3 cup sugar 6 eggs, separated Heat oven to 350 F. Melt chocolate and butter (margarine) on low heat and mix until smooth.

Mix egg yolks, nuts and 1/3 cup sugar into warm mixture.

Beat egg whites until stiff with 1/3 cup of sugar. Fold into chocolate batter.

Bake half of the mixture for 15 minutes in a greased 1 ½-quart casserole or pie pan.

Cool completely. Top with remaining half, wrap well and freeze.

Thaw before serving. Very rich. Serve small portions. ■ 24 | APRIL 5, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

PASSOVER FOOD & WINE

A Matzah Brie Cook-Off Memorial

By Roni Robbins It started as male braggadocio. Ron Bachenheimer claimed his savory matzah brie with its onions and mushrooms was superior to Rabbi Shalom Lewis’ sweet variety with its sugar and cinnamon, and vice versa. After several competitive exchanges, the two men put their recipes to the test with their salivating friends from Congregation Etz Chaim.

“We both got our frying pans and he got his ingredients and I got my ingredients and we went headto-head, mixing up batches and throwing them in the oven,” Lewis recalled. “It was hard work.” When their tasters finished sampling the entrees, the group agreed it was a toss-up, according to Lewis’ recollection.

In memory of Bachenheimer, who died about a year ago, and the legendary Passover competition, Etz Chaim is holding its first annual matzah brie cook-off April 16.

Matzah brie, for those unfamiliar with the classic Passover dish, is a cross between an omelet and French Toast, depending on the ingredients you add to the basic mixture of eggs, matzah and milk.

Among the contestants will be Bachenheimer’s widow, Iris, preparing her husband’s popular recipe. “I love the idea. It’s a wonderful tribute to Ron.” She said her husband sometimes used salami in his recipe, and other times, onions and mushrooms.

Every year, the Bachenheimers would have 30 to 40 people to their home for “Passover Delights.” Iris enjoyed baking and Ron would help her decorate the cakes. “He loved to cook, and he loved to bake, a lot of German tortes and nut cakes, his mother’s recipes.”

If the Passover Delights gathering lasted ‘til the wee hours, he’d create his matzah brie for those gathered.

When Iris whips up his classic recipe for the Etz Chaim contest, she will add a new twist – gluten free for her daughter who will fly in from Chicago for the memorial event.

Rabbi Lewis will be in Israel at the time or he would have entered the contest, he said, but he shared his recipe with the AJT. It’s a blend of sugar, cinnamon, a little pepper and his secret ingredient – vanilla.

“I cook like my bubbe, not from a recipe. … I use instinct. If it looks dry, I add eggs. If it’s too wet, I add matzah. I get rave reviews from those who eat it.”

Lewis said the Etz Chaim contest is a fitting tribute to a “wonderful personality” who shared his talents and humor with the congregation.

The Bachenheimers were among the synagogue’s original members. They sang in the synagogue choir.

“He had a wonderful tenor voice,” said Iris, who was also Etz Chaim’s first sisterhood president.

The Passover event is one of the ways Etz Chaim can honor a prominent member for his impact on the congregation, said Heather Blake, the synagogue’s director of engagement. “It’s a way to memorialize him in a fun way, to celebrate his life.”

To prepare for the competition, the synagogue will open its dairy kitchen 3 ½ hours prior and provide the basic ingredients of matzah, eggs, milk and salt, Blake said.

Cooks are responsible for bringing any added kosher and dairy ingredients, which might include vegeta-

Iris Bachenheimer will recreate the matzah brie of her husband, Ron, at the tribute cook-off in his honor at Congregation Etz Chaim.

Ron Bachenheimer used onions and mushrooms in his matzah brie.

bles and spices, and to make enough matzah brei to feed 10. Those in attendance will judge the competition, with prizes awarded for first and second place. Recipes will

be distributed following the competition. ■ For more information, to participate or attend, www. etzchaim.net/event/matzahbrei.

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Wine and Dine Israeli Style this Passover

By Eddie Samuels Italy, France, California … Israel? The first three are well known wine regions, but Israel is now staking a claim to have its name included among the best. Just in time for Passover, the AJT spoke to Larissa Nahari, vice president of marketing of The River Wine about what people should look for when trying an Israeli wine this year. With The River Wine importing from several Israeli wineries, as well as kosher vineyards in Italy and California, the company has become pretty well versed in the world of kosher wine and, as of late, many of their wines are available in Atlanta.

“We started working in the Atlanta area in the last year, and there has been an amazing reception to the fact that there are new choices in kosher wine, especially in time for Passover,” Nahari said.

With the diverse climate in Israel, Nahari explained that Israeli wine can be incredibly varied and often features unique or less common grapes and blends than wines from other countries.

“You’re getting a little bit more that are obscure grapes or ones that you don’t

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With a diverse climate, Israel produces unique wines.

ordinarily see that happen to grow well in the climate,” she said. “For instance, Beit El just released a Marselan and there are very few of those, but it turned out to be an amazing wine.”

For Passover, Nahari noted that there are two distinct kinds of wines that tend to sell well.

The first, called “seder wines,” tend to be lighter and are perfect for drinking four glasses at the table.

A patron of the 2019 Atlanta Jewish Life Festival samples Israeli wines.

“These wines tend to be more entry level, like Tishbi’s Cab-Syrah blend. It’s very light, it’s fresh and a very easy to drink red wine,” Nahari said.

The latter are special occasion wines, which, while less common with the ceremonial meal, many people enjoy breaking out later in the week to celebrate.

“You do have a lot of other meals throughout Passover in addition to the seders,” she said. “People do like to bring out their really special wines. We do see a lot of people looking for those higher-end, unique wines for their holiday meals.”

Nahari also discussed the growth and changes to the Israeli wine industry and offered her thoughts for those looking to sample some Israeli labels. In particular, she pointed to the ingenuity of Israeli winemakers, who are unafraid to try something new.

“It’s really all about being inventive, and seeing what works,” she said. “They really are coming out with things that are a little bit different than what you’d see from other regions.”

She pointed to Tishbi’s Petit Verdot, which is made from 100 percent Petit Verdot grapes — traditionally used in a blend and not solo. In this case, thanks to Israel’s warm climate, the traditionally spicy, concentrated grapes are somewhat more mellow and develop interesting flavors such as licorice.

Nahari added that there are some challenges in getting Israeli wines to consumers, particularly when they’re only displayed on kosher shelves.

“We really want Israeli wine to be seen as its own category,” she said. “These wines should be seen for what they are as wine, not just for being kosher, because a lot of consumers never walk over to the kosher shelves.”

In terms of her advice for those looking to reach beyond the ordinary and try Israeli wines, Nahari’s recommendation

was very simple.

“Don’t be afraid to try something new this year,” she said. “You can try a cabernet from all different parts of the world, but it’s not often you can try something from a totally new area or a completely new grape to you.” ■ For those looking to try Israeli wine in Atlanta, they are available at Kroger, Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits and at The Kosher Gourmet.

Tishbi Estate Single Vineyard Petit Verdot: The full-bodied, Judean Hills wine is produced from the high quality first press juice. The grapes are fermented for two weeks with their skins at a controlled temperature to preserve nature's wide range of flavors. The wine is unfiltered and barrel-aged for 12 months.

Tishbi Vineyards Cab-Syrah: Mevushal.

This young, fruity red wine displays fresh strawberry aromas with a hint of herbs.

Produced entirely in stainless steel vats.

Beit El Marselan: 100 percent Marselan: The wine has dark cherry fruit and classic notes of creme brulee, butterscotch, coffee and bittersweet chocolate. The aromatics are accented by a soft and creamy mouthfeel. These are 300 cases of a wine that will be remembered!

PASSOVER FOOD & WINE

Ramon Cardova Rioja, Tishbi Shiraz and Barkan Vinyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Rashi Pink Concord and King David Concord

Baron Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon, Herzog Lineage Choreograph and Alfasi Chardonnay

Bartenura Moscato, Contessa Annalisa Moscato and Jeunesse Black Muscat

Tower of Options for Four Cups of Wine It’s that time of year again to prepare for Passover. It’s a meaningful time for family, a holiday rich in tradition and of course, delicious food. Not to mention the importance of wine and spirits. One popular place to shop for such beverages is Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits, which has served Atlanta for more than 70 years.

Just in time for Passover, Tower has added a newly expanded kosher section.

Not only does it carry classic kosher wine Robyn such as Manischewitz, Barkan and Rashi, Spizman but it has recently added some sparkling options, the Herzog Lineage collection and kosher spirits. Also featured are specific wines and spirits that are kosher for Passover.

At each of its two locations, seasoned wine consultants can help consumers pick the right choice. The Barkan wines are kosher for Passover, and Tower has several different varieties. There are also options for those who enjoy cabernet, chardonnay or merlot. If you prefer vodka or other spirits, there are several selections that are kosher as well.

Tower will also place special orders for those who have specific preferences, as long as it’s available in Georgia.

If you’re attending a Passover seder, you can also consider beverages for gift giving, one of my favorite topics. These kosher for Passover wines make thoughtful gifts for your host or hostess. You can’t really go wrong with a bottle of wine, and Tower has some festive gift bags for sale, which make gift giving on the go easy as well. You can get your hostess gift and beverage shopping for yourself done all in one place.

Putting kosher for Passover wines to a test, I recently ordered a couple of bottles of Bartenura Moscato from Tower after a trip to Italy. It was not only delicious, but it was kosher and organic! It brought me back to the fond memories I had of our trip. This wine comes in a beautiful blue bottle and is a wonderful gift. If you like sweeter wine, you will love this. It had notes of fruit and would be the perfect wine for you to sip this spring. Plus, the price was great at $11 a bottle.

If you are having a large seder, you can save by buying six or more bottles with Tower’s case discounts.

Tower is available by phone or online to answer

questions about kosher items or to make special requests. If you order online, you pay for your items in the store. They will be ready when you arrive, and associates will even help you take your purchases to the car, which certainly makes shopping there quick and easy.

Tower has two locations: Buford Highway in Doraville and Piedmont Road, Buckhead. For online ordering, go to www.

TowerWineSpirits.com. Peruse the wine section of the website and the kosher sec-

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tion without even leaving home. You can browse by price, size or variety, or you can look for that specific item that you’ve been searching for. But don’t delay.

The clock is ticking. Passover is days away and is a wonderful time to build meaningful memories over your favorite beverages.

So eat, drink and celebrate your family and friends with time-honored traditions. L’chaim! ■ Robyn Spizman is a New York Times bestselling author and a well-known media personality, often appearing on local and national television, www.robynspizman.com.

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Sommelier Offers Wine Experiences, Picks Kosher Bests

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

Always wanting to be more of an oenophile, I enjoyed a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces event last year in “shades of pink” when Samara Kaufman-Waldman, sommelier of Cinagro Wine Experience, featured several varieties of rosé.

The wines ranged from sparkling to pinot noir and from California to Israel.

Waldman explained at the event that white grapes can become red wine and that a wine from Tasmania rivals the taste of an expensive French champagne.

Imagine dining and sipping with folks who smell and taste notes of chocolate, orange zest, burnt rubber, citrus, brioche, dark fruits and even buttered popcorn?

Helping people learn about and experience fine wine is Waldman’s passion.

Her love for wine started when she found a 40-year old vine of Zinfandel in her backyard and brought the grapes to her college viticulture department.

Waldman worked as a bartender and sommelier for many restaurants.

The majority of her career, though, she was a business strategist while moonlighting with wine education.

She is a certified sommelier, receiv-

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ing her certification in 1999. Her favorite wine appellations are Montalcino, Italy (Brunello); Paso Robles, California; the Loire Valley, France; and Priorat, Spain. She came to Atlanta by way of New York City and Southern California, living with her husband and two children.

or of the wine and removes the red grape skins when the wine reaches the ideal color. As you can imagine, nearly any red wine grape can be used to make rosé wine, however there are several common styles and grapes that are preferred for rosé, including blends of white and red wines.

Jaffe: Is Israel growing Jaffe: What’s so speits wine industry? cial/trendy about rosé?

Waldman: Israel has New York has new frozen Samara Kaufman-Waldman a rich history of winerosé bars.

Waldman: Rosé has been the most making. You can find specific wineries popular wine during the summer for referenced in biblical texts. In the last 20 nearly 10 years in the USA and its popu- years, Israel has seen incredible growth larity continues to grow. Rosé can span in the quantity and quality of wines being between red and white wine. There are produced. Many top winemakers from rosés made from either white or red France and Napa Valley have moved to Isgrapes, or a combination of both. Rosé rael to make wine. The growth is exciting happens when the skins of red grapes and innovative as many winemakers are sit with the wine for only a short time. beginning to make Israeli wine with naWhere some red wines ferment for up to tive Israeli grapes, something that hasn’t a month at a time on red grape skins, rosé happened for hundreds of years. wines sit with the red grape skins for just Jaffe: What are your top picks for a few hours to a couple days. The winemaker has complete control over the col- Passover wines?

Waldman: For kosher wines, I recommend Covenant Blue C Adom (Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah) ($40) or Tabor Tannat ($37). For non-kosher wines, I love Vico Mencia by Raul Perez ($26) or Bastide Blanche Bandol Rouge ($28). Both of the kosher wines can be found at kosherwines.com and the non-kosher wines can be found at Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits in Buckhead.

Jaffe: Kosher wine outside of Pesach?

Waldman: I love the Dalton Red Scarlet GSM ($30) and the Vitkin Grenache Blanc ($40). Available at kosherwines.com.

Jaffe: How can lay people like us know what we are tasting?

Waldman: The best way to learn how to taste wine is to simply drink it.

The best wines are the ones you like most, regardless of what the wine experts say! I always recommend to my clients that they spend a lot of time smelling and tasting their wine. Ask yourself, “Was this wine unique or memorable? Why or why not? Did this wine taste balanced?” ■ To plan a wine tasting event with Waldman, go to www.cinagrowine.com.

Photo by Joel Barr // This grouping includes

the suitcase Barr’s father carried when escaping Poland and while he was a stowaway from Cuba to Florida in the 1920s. Below it are: “Two Boats, Many Passengers” and “You are Always Free.”

Photos by Duane Stork // Joel Barr in his home workshop. From left, “On Our Island We Treasure These,” “First Visit,” and “The Men.”

Chai Style Art Abstract, Figurative, Surreal, Versatile When artist Joel Barr arrived in Atlanta in 1997, he Jaffe: Would you describe your art practice? established his studio in his Inman Park loft. Since then, Barr: I’m primarily an oil painter and have been he’s had studios in Cabbagetown, at TULA Art Center in from the start. Oil paints surprise, challenge and amaze the Peachtree Battle area, and now in Chamblee. me. I’m struck by the idea that using them puts me on He arrived at his art-centered career after years as the same art highway that stretches back to the masters a teacher, writer, business owner and city and forward to who knows what. Although planner. “I didn’t pick up a brush until I was I sometimes create sculpture, I always re47,” he says, “but became a full-time painter turn to oil painting. at once and have been painting most days for the past 25 years.” He’s a grandfather Jaffe: I’m impressed by your versatility now, living in Brookhaven with his wife, and number of styles.

Grace Collins Barr, who is a writer, and Barr: Yes, I do change often. For a their dog, Henry. while, I painted large, rounded figures and “I paint to discover things I’m usulater moved to heavily textured palette ally not looking for and to share what I’ve knife work and more layering. In the end, found,” Barr said. “My work moves quickly Marcia I’m most interested in the narrative the and often from one form to another — Caller Jaffe painting offers so the style is in service to sometimes abstract, sometimes figurative, that. The painting should present a certain and often surreal. There are common elements, though, point in time with a fuller story to unfold before and afin that I’m a colorist and will use recurring symbols and ter that point. My hope is that the viewer will participate shapes. Spheres are particular favorites and have a dif- in writing that story, with the painting and its emotion ferent meaning from painting to painting.” as a jumpstart.

The striking and airy interior of his townhouse features Joel’s art and pieces by other artists he and Grace Jaffe: How do you start a painting? have collected and treasure.

Barr: I’m enthralled by the blank canvas for the

mystery it is about to reveal. Almost anything will initiate a painting, so I have a conversation with the canvas. It’s quite a personal and spiritual conversation for me. I might begin by putting a small red mark on it and then have to answer questions about it. What is it doing there? What happened before it got there and what happened next? In that way, the painting will become a snapshot from a bigger narrative.

Jaffe: You have a small home studio in addition to your space in Chamblee at the Urban Art Collective.

Barr: The home studio is for those times when I feel the need to paint immediately to keep a painting thought from disappearing. I also like to do a small piece in the morning, a morning meditation. The small studio is perfect for these activities.

The Chamblee studio is larger, with higher ceilings.

There I can concentrate on larger works and even large sculptures. I also get to feed off the energy of over 20 other artists who are working around me in the same wonderful building. I have the room to create works like a triptych composed of three panels totaling 10 feet wide by 5 feet high.

Jaffe: Who are some of you favorite artists?

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ARTS This gourd lamp and vintage glassware complement a favorite oil by Dale Kennington.

Barr found the striking unnamed portrait on the left at a Clearwater, Fla. antique store. “He controls the room,” says Barr. "Early Spring," a Barr abstract, is on the mantle. On the right stands The Ancestor, another Barr sculpture, which uses an old churn for its base.

Barr: I love Paul Klee’s work. It’s always fresh, playful but serious at the same time and so full of color. Miro is also a favorite. We were lucky enough to be friends with Dale Kennington, a premier American painter. She was a Dothan, Ala., artist who was a mentor to me. We

have one of her earlier pieces in our dining room.

Jaffe: Share the sentiment of the special wall in your studio on which your father’s suitcase hangs.

Barr: I keep that suitcase always visible, to remind

This untitled sensual floral painting was done by Barbara Tiffany, the Florida artist who encouraged Barr to begin painting and ran a workshop he took for three years.

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The life-sized Greeter, positioned on a bird cage ring, stands at the front entrance, using navigation arrows that are not to be trusted.

ARTS Joel Barr holds Henry Barr, a rescued Bichon mix.

“Love in the Library” features Grace and their first dog, Jack.

me of my father. He came to this country as Mitchell Baryshanski, having escaped the dangerous situation in eastern Poland around 1923. He somehow made his way to Holland, then Havana, then as a stowaway to Miami.

Later, he learned English and graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. All along, he traveled with that suitcase. I did the two paintings which hang below it, not realizing their connection to the suitcase and my father’s journey until recently. One is “Two Boats, Many Passengers” and the other small one is “You are Always Free.”

Jaffe: Your sculptures are massive yet light. How do you construct them?

Barr: I carve the extruded polystyrene with a hot knife so it doesn’t crumble, then wrap in plaster cloth (like what’s used to construct an arm cast for a broken

“Sunshine State” captures bold sunlight on familiar elements of Barr’s home in Florida.

This large piece, “Greenwich Village Corner,” is a commissioned work that now hangs in a Birmingham home.

bone), then finish with oil paint.

It does take a lot of patience in this slow process of pivoting from wet to dry. I have three of these at home.

The Greeter, The Ancestor, and Bella, the Italian cook.

Jaffe: What’s coming up for you artistically?

Barr: I have a solo show, WORDS AND STORIES, opening April 11 at the Thomas Gallery in the Quinlan Visual Art Center in Gainesville. I’ve been working towards that, along with doing commission work. ■ Barr’s works are on display at his studio and locally at the I.D.E.A. Gallery and the Aimee Fine Art Gallery as well as in the Newbill Collection in Seaside, Florida. In October, he will be teaching oil painting at Muse Destination Workshops in Lake James, North Carolina.

“Safe and Adrift” is a Barr oil painting whose title suggests eternal hope.

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CALENDAR CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Tazria Friday, April 5, 2019, light candles at 7:43 p.m.

Saturday, April 6, 2019, Shabbat ends at 8:39 p.m.

Metzora Friday, April 12, 2019, light candles at 7:48 p.m.

Saturday, April 13, 2019, Shabbat ends at 8:45 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5

YJP First Fridays: Game of Carbs – Chabad Intown on the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Join YJP every month for First Fridays Shabbat Dinner on the Atlanta BeltLine. Mingle, shmooze and meet new people with an open bar and a delicious Shabbat dinner buffet.

Bring friends and make new ones. $18 early bird tickets, $25 after April 3. Tickets include open bar and dinner. For tickets and more information, www. bit.ly/2tjoUj7.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6

Feliza & Rabbi Or Zohar – Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell,

from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feliza and Rabbi Or Zohar are composers and performers of sacred music. Rabbi Zohar has served the Atlanta sister city region of Yokneam-Meggido as spiritual leader for the growing Reform movement in Israel. They tour internationally, sharing their music, teachings and life experiences. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2CqIxee.

Jewish-Latino Film Series – Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, from 7 to 9 p.m.

The series is open to the general public and showcases five fantastic films from Latin America, concluding with last year’s AJFF’s closing night acclaimed

film, “The Last Suit.” Guest speakers will introduce each film and provide additional historical context. $5 to $35.

For more information and pricing, www.or-hadash.org.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7

FIDF Hoops for the Troops – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. $180 per team of up to five players, which includes FIDF jerseys. All proceeds go to the humanitarian needs of the soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces. For more information and to register, www.bit. ly/2HtAPUW.

Camp Barney Medintz Info Session – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, at 1 p.m. Discover the magic of CBM for summer 2019. Prospective families will meet the directors and have all questions answered at their Atlanta information sessions or register for two-week and four-week sessions.

Free. For more information, www. campbarney.org/open-houses.

Achieving Better Sleep: London Family AgeSmart Lecture – The William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 4 p.m. Join Laureate Medical Group’s board-certified sleep specialist, Dr. Scott Leibowitz, for an in-depth look at how good sleep happens, the difference between what is normal and what is common, and myths versus facts about what keeps us up at night. To register, www.conta.cc/2FcBx58.

savant, improvisational comedian and singer. He is also an author, with the imminent release of “I’m Still Standing Up,” which traces his hilarious, inspirational life of twists and turns and ups and downs. For tickets and more information, www.bit.ly/2TUD1Lu.

Dissecting Israel’s Election: A Panel Discussion – Congregation Etz Chaim, 1190 Indian Hills Parkway NE, Marietta, from 7 to 8 p.m. Israel is preparing for its parliamentary election on April 9.

You may have many questions about the intricacies of the election system, the political players and the country’s demographics and what’s next after the voting. Three Atlanta journalists who have written extensively about Israel and Jewish life will address these questions and provide insight into this historic event. Free. For more information and to RSVP, www.etzchaim.net.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

Shabbat, Me & Rabbi G @ the JCC – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 5 to 6 p.m. Activities and crafts followed by songs and blessings with Rabbi Brian Glusman, concluding with a visit from the popular “Weinstein School Shabbat Dinosaur.” Challah and grape juice will be served. Free and open to everyone. For more information and to RSVP, www.bit.ly/2BwiaoZ.

Acoustic Shabbat Café: Dunwoody – Alon’s Bakery & Market, 4505 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, from 7 to 9 p.m. Join Rabbi Brian Glusman, Drew Cohen and teen musicians from The Weber School for an evening of music and Shabbat prayers. Food and wine available for purchase. This interactive Shabbat-themed experience is sponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival and The Weber School.

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/2nVTxbJ.

Friday Night Live – Congregation

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Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Shearith Israel’s monthly, spirited, song-filled Friday evening service followed by a lovely oneg and socializing. It’s a wonderful way to welcome Shabbat. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2Gp5SRI.

Happy Passover COMMUNITY SEDERS:

SATURDAY, APRIL 6

Downtown Seder – City Winery, 650 North Ave. NE, Atlanta, from 7 to 10 p.m. City Winery welcomes Speech from Arrested Development, David Broza and Ricky McKinnie from Blind Boys of Alabama. More performers to be announced. The 2019 Downtown Seder will feature guests seated at elegant, long family-style tables, each set with the traditional accoutrements, including seder plate and matzah. A limited number of tickets for the City Winery seder are available, priced at $70, $110 and $145. Vegetarian and kosher-style meals are included, with a glatt kosher option available for an additional $25 per person. For tickets and more information, www.bit.ly/2IMmPqv.

APRIL 5-24

40’s Plus Passover Seder – Chabad Intown on the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 7:15 to 11 p.m. If you are unmarried and like fine wine, this seder is for you. $50 per person, which includes dinner, drinks, matzah and all the haroseth you can eat. A minimum of 40 reservations are needed to conduct this seder.

For more information and to register, www.chabadintown.org/40s-passover-seder.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20

Passover Second Night Seder – Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Atlanta, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Read the haggadah with Rabbi Sam and enjoy a family style meal. Families, singles and couples are welcome to attend this intergenerational, congregation-wide event. For pricing and more information, www.bit.ly/2FtpVLk.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7

TKC Family Passover Seder – Temple Kehillat Chaim, 1145 Green St., Roswell,

4:00 to 6:30 p.m. The community is welcome to attend the annual model seder for special needs adults and their caregivers held at Congregation Shearith Israel. Free.

To RSVP, www.bit.ly/2ucLevd.

from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Join Rabbi Jason Holtz and his family on the second night for music, games, arts and crafts, storytelling and a delicious dinner. Special youth programming

by ISJL (Institute of Southern Jewish Life) fellow Hannah Klegon. For pricing and more information, www.kehillatchaim.org/passover-seder.

Model Seder – Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, from

MONDAY, APRIL 8

ORT Women’s Seder – Private home in Sandy Springs, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. This Passover event celebrates women with wine, music, food and traditions. This seder is potluck style where each guest brings their favorite Passover dairy or pareve dish and submits a recipe that we will be using to create a cookbook. This is a multigenerational event for ages 13 and older. Proceeds will benefit the ORT Girls in STEM campaign. $18 per person. For location and registration, www.bit.ly/2VmCs9w or 404-327-5266.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10

AJC Atlanta: Atlanta Unity Seder – The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, from 6 to 9 p.m. This year, the seder will include participants representing Atlanta’s diverse religious, ethnic and international communities. The evening is designed to introduce the powerful story of Passover that is celebrated every year in Jewish homes around the world, and to enable us to share diverse experiences with each other. Tickets are $50 per person and $36 for students and young professionals. For more information, www.bit.ly/2uu8aWZ.

Second Night Seder – Temple Emanu-El, 1580 Spalding Drive, Atlanta, from 6 to 9 p.m. Led by clergy and open to the public. $25 for children 13 and younger; $35 for adults. For more information and to register, www.bit.ly/2FBZep5.

Temple Beth Tikvah Community Seder – Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, from 6 to 9 p.m. Participate in the retelling of the exodus from Egyptian slavery through readings and songs from the haggadah. A kosher farmto-table Passover meal will be served. For pricing and more information, www.bit. ly/2U9xccG.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23

HAMSA Sober Seder – Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Atlanta, from 7 to 9 p.m. Anyone in recovery, people who support them and their allies are invited for the festive meal, friendship and celebration. Please reserve your space, $10 per person, which includes a full seder, dinner and dessert. To register, www.bit.ly/2U6J0wc.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24

9th Annual Hunger Seder – Ahavath Achim

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

Women’s Seder – Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, from 12 to 2:30 p.m. This Women’s Seder will consist of all the symbolic seder foods plus dessert. The ritual itself follows the format of the regular Passover seder, with discussions centered around women’s issues and food as part of the celebration.

Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2UcafFz.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19

Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave. NW, Atlanta, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. This year’s theme is “Hunger, Nutrition and Health.” During the meal you will hear stories about hunger in the Atlanta community and learn more about becoming an advocate for change. $36 per person, includes a fully catered, kosher meal. To register, www.bit.ly/2UeP6dS.

First Night Passover Seder – Congregation Etz Chaim, 1190 Indian Hills Parkway NE, Marietta, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. First night seder led by Rabbi Daniel and Amy Dorsch. Open to the community. $36 per adult 21 and older, $24 for ages 13 to 20, $18 per child and $18 additional per family for non-synagogue members. For questions, contact Marty Gilbert at mgilbert@etzchaim.net or call 770-973-0137. To register, www.bit.ly/2TWqg2Z.

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www.atlantajewishconnector.com

Community Seder – Congregation Bet Haverim, 2074 LaVista Road, Atlanta, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Join the synagogue on the first night of Pesach as it gathers for its CBH Community Seder. All are invited, but encouraged to reserve a seat, as they fill up quickly and seats are limited. To register, www.bit.ly/2CEslpM.

Calendar sponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Connector, an initiative of the AJT. In order to be considered for the print edition, please submit events two weeks in advance. Contact community relations director, Jen Evans, for more information at jen@atljewishtimes.com.

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Whole grilled Mediterranean sea bass was among the dishes we sampled at the Mandolin Kitchen.

Dessert included kunefe: shredded phyllo dough stuffed with cheese and topped with pistachios; accompanied by baklava and ice cream.

Photo by Tomasz Rossa // BODYTRAFFIC

Photo by Christopher Duggan // The contemporary dance company from Los Angeles emphasizes movement invention, technical excellence and artistic depth.

stuffed with cheese and topped with pistachio nuts, along with baklava and ice cream. Oh my! The service and food were both impeccable and we highly recommend Mandolin Kitchen for its ambiance, food and outstanding service.

With full bellies, we headed to Kennesaw State University’s Dance Theater for a stunning Israeli-choreographed, contemporary dance performance, featuring BODYTRAFFIC, a world-renowned contemporary dance company from Los Angeles. It is internationally recognized for its high caliber work and palpable love of dance.

We were mesmerized by the twopiece performance. The first was choreographed by Hofesh Shechter, who is known for his earthy and blunt style, powered by action and raw energy. The soundtracks he chooses tend to be moody and tense. Very often the movement looks animalistic (predatory swoops, chimpanzee lopes, lizard-like wriggles) which gives the choreography a fierce dynamic. “Dust” was the name of the piece.

The soundtrack and choreography were unnerving and uncomfortable while

beautiful and deeply moving. There was something so surreal and unusual about the movement that it took you to another place, and although the dance was deeply psychological and heavy, you didn’t want it to end. Avant-garde dance at its best.

The next piece was choreographed

by Barak Marshall, known for his masterful use of gesture. The dancers communicate with movement focusing on sole articulations of the hands, arms, and shoulders, which has the effect of a conversation. Costumes are peasant-like, with earth-tone dresses for the women and suspenders for the men. Marshall’s works take inspiration from literature and history, and exude emotion, anger, humor, love. The piece was titled “And at Midnight, the Green Bride Floated Through the Village Square…” It was light, funny and uplifting. Just what we needed after the heaviness of “Dust.” ■

at KSU’s Dance Theater featured the work of two Israeli choreographers.

Giggles, Food & Wiggles! with fire-roasted peppers, We’re back! After a sevfeta cheese and sun-dried eral month hiatus, we are tomatoes. Each dip was as back out on the town! Spring delicious as the next and is here and what better way was accompanied by a selecto start off the season than tion of tasty Mediterranean with fresh and light Medibreads. The stuffed grape terranean cuisine followed leaves (dolma) included pine by an explosive contemponuts and were simply divine. rary dance performance Tosun paired our meal with featuring the work of two Jen Evans & Turkish white wines, the Israeli choreographers?

Umurbey sauvignon blanc We were thrilled to be Michal Bonell for Michal and Kavaklidere invited to dine at the new On the Town for Jen. Mandolin Kitchen on RoWe were then served a whole Mediswell Road in Sandy Springs, which offers an intimate bar entry and expands terranean sea bass, flown in from Turkey. into a beautifully decorated and invit- The fish, perfectly grilled, light, flavorful ing dining room with a cottage feel. It and flakey, literally melted in our mouths. was a lovely evening, so we opted to sit It was accompanied by a fresh chopped in the fully-enclosed, light and spacious salad with a simple lemony dressing and patio, amidst the cobalt blue décor, wood light, fluffy rice. Another mouthwatering and stone walls on top of the ornate tile dish was the lahana sarma, cabbage rolls stuffed with lamb and rice, served with a floors. A great space for a private event!

Owner and operator Berat Tosun Turkish yogurt.

To quench our thirst and freshen spoiled us with an assortment of delectable dips, which included a dark, deep our palates, another round of wine was red, hot and spicy ezme, a white, cool and served with our decadent dessert samcomforting labne and a fragrant htipiti pling of kunefe, shredded phyllo dough

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Meals on Wheels: A New Approach to Raising Funds

By Kevin C. Madigan In an arena of so many nonprofits, how do you keep the money coming in?

That question was raised by Hillary Baker, a Jewish member of Meals on Wheels Atlanta as the organization held a special “Maj & Mitzvah” fundraising event at its headquarters March 27.

Baker and her colleagues invited 50 women to play the Chinese parlor game of mahjong, hear about meal services for seniors and perhaps be enticed to donate or volunteer, or both, all for a $36 entry fee to the cause.

“We just want to open their eyes a little bit. It’s not controversial; it’s about older adults who need to eat. There’s no religion here, no politics,” Baker said. “It breaks your heart to see someone not have the wherewithal to have lunch.”

About the Maj & Mitzah theme, MOWA Chief Development Officer Andrea Jaron said, “Our four [Jewish] hosts of the event thought mahjong would be a fun and low key way to introduce the group to MOWA. Many of the attendees have a regular game and so it was easy to ask them to do a mitzvah by making a small donation and come to our building to play instead of going to someone’s house.”

Mahjong originated with the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China starting in 1644. It is similar in principle to rummy and has gained widespread popularity in the West in recent years, particularly among women, many of whom are Jewish.

The goal of the game is to accumulate four sets and a pair among your holding of the 152 small rectangular tiles or blocks of wood with ivory or bone faces. The game, also popular online, involves a degree of chance and requires skill, strategy, and calculation.

Baker uses some of the same techniques running Purposeful Pecans. The for-profit enterprise of Meals on Wheels sells Georgia-grown candied pecans made in-house by Robert Gerstenecker, former executive chef at the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta. Purposeful’s slogan is

CEO Charlene Crusoe-Ingram, left, and Hillary Baker of Meals on Wheels, with some of their product.

“Feed the Need.”

“Every bit of the proceeds goes back to feeding seniors,” Baker said. Profits from an 8-ounce bag of pecans can feed four seniors, while a 16-ounce bag’s profit provides food for six. Wednesday’s fundraiser also served to launch the brand’s new popcorn. The products are sold online and at the Peachtree Road Farmers Market every Saturday.

Meals on Wheels first began in the United Kingdom during World War II and, in 1954, emerged in the United States, where programs usually operate at the county level and tend to vary in size, service type and funding. The Atlanta branch opened in 1965 and 97 percent of its operating budget comes from donors and foundations.

According to a 2013 report in the Nutrition and Health journal, home-delivery meals significantly improve diet quality, increase nutrient intakes, reduce food insecurity, and improve life quality in elderly recipients.

Jason Tucker, meal services director, said in a video shown at the event, “There are 100 seniors waiting to receive services from us, coupled with the fact that hundreds of seniors are becoming eligible for our services every day. The need is great, and we have to be ready to meet that need.” The problem now is the Meals on Wheels kitchen, which is not

designed to accommodate all the meals that are needed on a daily basis.

“We have to grow and build a new facility to meet that level of need,” Tucker said, a point echoed by CEO Charlene Crusoe-Ingram. She told the AJT, “We are out of space in our kitchen. We will jam as many meals out of there as we can (but) need donors to build our new kitchen. The whole thing is 3 million [dollars]. We are probably at 1 million at this

point. The challenge we have every day is to prepare enough meals to feed seniors.”

More funds would allow the organization to eliminate or at least decrease waiting times to beneficiaries, according to Crusoe-Ingram. She also wants to add an education component in the form of a demonstration kitchen in which chefs teach seniors how to prepare nutritious meals efficiently for themselves.

Jaron, who is also Jewish, said that being privately funded, Meals on Wheels does not rely on the government. So the organization’s only limitation is financial. It takes $3,000 to feed one senior for a year. About 1,000 meals a day are produced at Meals on Wheels Tuesday through Saturday (Monday is prep day).

The goal this year is to provide 493,000 meals, an increase over last year’s 345,000 meals. Those on the waiting list can receive emergency pantry bags containing shelf-stable packaged food to tide them over until regular deliveries begin.

Fulton County’s waiting list for services to seniors is a year long, “so people call us and ask if we can help them. You get on a waiting list with us too, but it’s less time,” Jaron said. ■

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Jeff Alperin, Michael Levy and Faye Dresner are among the JF&CS leaders at the event.

Hosting the luncheon were Vanessa and Isaac Frank, along with Jeff Alperin.

Georgia Gunter and Anita Beckman are among those in attendance.

Michael Osborne and Curtis Bynum enjoy the luncheon.

Journeys Through JF&CS Caring Community Jewish Family & Career Services held its annual Community of Caring luncheon March 17 following its annual meeting. During the event, board and staff thanked outgoing president Michael Levy for his two years of service, including a special tribute from Levy’s rabbi, Congregation Etz Chaim’s Daniel Dorsch.

New president Jeff Alperin was installed as well as the new board of directors. The volunteer of the year award went to Jodi Weintraub for her years of dedicated service to the agency. The staff award went to reception manager Danijela Pecanac.

The Community of Caring lunch was hosted by Vanessa and Isaac Frank and Alperin. More than 500 attendees filled the ballroom at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta

in Buckhead, where guests watched four moving stories of impact.

Philip’s Journey: A salesman finds himself at the age of 40 homeless and an alcoholic, and eventually is sent to prison, where he loses his teeth in an attack. Thanks to the great work of the Ben Massell Dental Clinic and its all-volunteer professional dentists, he is able to completely transform his life, and after getting dentures and his smile back, returns to school and starts a new career in finance at a car dealership. Philip now dreams of helping others and becoming a major donor.

Melissa’s Journey: A professional dancer and singer who lost her mom suddenly, Melissa struggled with intense grief and feelings of guilt for four years. JF&CS professional clinician Sarah French guides

her through the healing process and encourages her to go on a life-affirming trip to help Melissa “get her voice back.”

Chaplaincy Journey: This eyeopening video shared the work of JF&CS Community Chaplain Rabbi Judith Beiner and her Bikur Cholim volunteers as they “spread Jewish sunshine” to senior living facilities and area hospitals. In the story, Rabbi Beiner comforts Anna Teper, a client of the agency, in her hospital bed as part of her weekly visits to Jewish patients at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The story also sheds light on a little-known program that JF&CS provides. With the help of Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, JF&CS is able to provide a Jewish burial for members of our community who cannot afford it.

Curtis’ Journey: This story featured

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an older man who called the information and referral line and said he had not eaten for a few days. Case manager Michael Osborne listened to the call, filled up a box with items from the kosher food pantry and went to his home to check on him that same day. When Michael visited him, he found an empty refrigerator and empty shelves. In the coming weeks, Michael was able to reinstate the man’s Medicare and food stamps and connect him with other resources to support him.

In Curtis’ words, “I had lost hope, but I got it back. Through Michael.”

The Community of Caring event kicked off the JF&CS annual campaign and brought in $276,366. Next for JF&CS is the 20th Anniversary of the Tasting, Thursday, May 16, at The Stave Room. ■

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Bar Mitzvah Logan Alex Katz

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Logan Alex Katz, son of Gen and Sam Katz, celebrated his bar mitzvah on Feb. 23 at Temple EmanuEl.

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Gavin Oliver Citron, son of Deborah Osterneck Citron and Jeremy Citron, on March 30.

Evan Benjamin Goldstein, son of Robyn and David Goldstein, on March 30.

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Rachel Fayne Gruskin Saban and Elias Saban were married on March 9 at the Atlanta History Museum. The ceremony was held in the gardens of Atlanta History Center’s Swan House and the reception took place inside the museum.

The newlyweds were married by Rabbi Lydia Medwin of The Temple, a close personal friend of the couple. The ketubah was signed by Beverly Gruskin, Rachel’s grandmother, and Marcos Prozer, Elias’ grandfather.

Rachel, a native of Miami, is a writer and college professor. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor’s degree in writing and then went on to Columbia University and The New School in New York City, where she earned a master’s in fine arts in poetry. Rachel is the daughter of Linda and George Gruskin of Florida. Elias, a native of Buenos Aires, is the vice president of his family’s textile company. He attended Quinnipiac University. Elias is the son of Beatriz Prozer of New York and the late Alberto Saban.

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■ The generation gap was all but missing at Greenfield Hebrew Academy on March 23 as students welcomed 300 older relatives to Grandparents Day. Grandparents from as far away as South Africa and Israel joined the Jewish day school for a program that doubled as a 91st birthday tribute to the school’s benefactor, Al Greenfield.

15 Years Ago // April 2, 2004 ■ Jews in small Georgia towns say that while Passover seders can be a challenge to pull off, they are a special experience nonetheless. Ann Jacobson of Waycross says, “We try very hard to keep our seders strictly kosher, but it’s the thought and love that go into it that counts.”

50 Years Ago // April 4,1969 ■ Miss Robin Maisel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Maisel of Atlanta, became the bride of Ronald W. Glaser on March 23 at the Atlanta Cabana Motel. Rabbi Raphael Gold and Cantor Isaac Goodfriend officiated.

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■ The Jewish Federation Campaign and Israel Emergency Fund saw a record 46.5 percent increase in giving, reaching the $2 million mark. The leap represents an increase of almost $645,000 over the pledges of the same contributors a year ago.

BRAIN FOOD Yiddish Word of the Week

Jewish Joke of the Week

pesachdik ‘idish

The Eggs

Pesachdik ‘idish – ‫ – פסחדיק יידיש‬Passover Yiddish Yiddish is known for its poignant proverbs covering many areas, from religious practices to human relations, and, of course, food. In the advent of Passover, here are a few of those proverbs.

Rabbi Josephs was cleaning up the house when he came across a box he didn’t recognize. His wife told him to leave it alone as it was personal. One day, when she was out, his curiosity got the best of him. He opened the box and inside found three eggs and $2,000. When his wife came home, he admitted that he opened the box and he asked her to explain the contents to him. She told him that every time he had a bad sermon, she would put an egg in the box.

He interrupted, “In 20 years, only three bad sermons; that’s not bad.”

His wife continued, "and every time I got a dozen eggs, I would sell them for $1."

First comes the food: Er kumt tsu Seder Pessach nisht fur di Haggóde, ober nur fur di kneydlekh. ‫ער קומט צו סדר פסח נישט פאר די הגדה ָאבער נָ אר פאר די קנעידלאך‬.

He comes to the Passover Seder not for the Haggadah, but rather for the matzo balls.

Then, in case the four questions of the Haggadah are not enough for you, here is another: Vus gánef* zol nisht kháppen? A gánef fun di afikóymen.

‫מאן‬ ַ ‫פיקא‬ ָ ‫כאּפן? א גנב פון די ַא‬ ַ ‫זאל נישט‬ ָ ‫וואס גנב‬. ָ

Which thief should not be caught? A thief of the Afikomen.

Finally, one of the favorite topics of Yiddish – commenting on people’s appearance (often not kindly): ‘Er hot a mátse pónem – ‫ ער ָהאט א מצה ָּפנים‬- His face looks like a Matzo. *And now for the Yiddish word of the week: Gánef ‫גנב‬, from the Hebrew ganáv, ‫ ּגָ נָ ב‬thief. Different pronunciation, same meaning.

Gut yóntef! –‫ – גוט יום טוב‬Happy Holiday – ‫חג שמח‬ Rabbi Joab Eichenberg-Eilon, PhD, teaches Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic at the Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, eTeacher Group Ltd.

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Alice Sussman Harms 69, Atlanta

Alice Sussman Harms, 69, died Feb. 11, 2019, after an extended illness. Alice graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1971 and earned her Master of Business Administration there in 1972.

Upon her graduation, she was the first female management trainee to be hired by Trust Company Bank and worked there as an assistant comptroller. Later she worked for BellSouth as the director of regulatory affairs and chief strategist until her retirement. She was an active member of the Atlanta chapter of the Pomegranate Guild, the Peach Street Stitchers, an organization for Jewish needlework and fiber arts. She taught others her skills and sewed many Jewish ritual objects, including a Torah table cover that was commissioned for use by a synagogue in Montgomery, Alabama.

She is survived by her husband, Frank Harms; son, Dr. Jason (Erin Levenson) Harms; grandsons Henry and Oliver; and sisters Doris Goldstein and Susan Lanning.

Donations can be made to the Peach State Stitchers for the Alice Harms Memorial Fund and sent to 1005 Ivy Falls Drive NW, Atlanta, Ga. 30328.

A graveside service was held Feb. 13, 2019, at Arlington Memorial Park. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

Stanley Rinzler 90, Atlanta

Stanley Rinzler, 90, of Atlanta, passed away March 25, 2019, at home, surrounded by his loving family after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Stanley was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Nora and Charles. His family moved to Atlanta when he was 13 years old. He attended Boys High School and the University of Georgia. In 1955, he married his one true love, Marlene Weinstein. As young newlyweds, they moved to Houston, Texas, where Stanley worked as a homebuilder. With a growing family, they returned to Atlanta in 1962 when Stanley joined his father in their commercial real estate business.

During the bygone era of small-town Atlanta when handshakes and good faith sealed deals, Stanley built an enduring, successful real estate business. He was respected and admired by the real estate community, always acting with honor and integrity.

Stanley supported Democratic and progressive political candidates and social causes dating back to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. He and Marlene were ardent supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment and hosted a rally at their home, attended by then Gov. and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, who were leading the fight. During this period, they were also involved in the 1966 Georgia governor’s race, supporting Ellis Arnall’s unsuccessful campaign against Lester Maddox. Always generous in local philanthropy, Stanley was active in many organizations. He served as chairman of the young executive division of the Atlanta Jewish Federation; chairman of Israel Bonds in the early 1960s when Israel was still a very young state; board member of the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee; as well as many secular charities.

Stanley loved seeing the world, and he and Marlene were fortunate to have traveled extensively, often with their children and grandchildren. Vital until his 80s, among his favorite trips were walking with the lions in Zimbabwe and exploring various destinations such as Moscow, Shanghai and New Zealand.

Since age 82, Stanley faced Parkinson’s disease with great courage. Through a valiant struggle as the disease progressed, he never complained, always striving to keep going. He taught us all the lifelong lessons of caring, humor, generosity, honor, and the importance of family and community. He was a warm and generous man known for his beautiful blue eyes, easygoing nature, immediately likeable personality, and his repertoire of entertaining stories and jokes. Above all else, Stanley cherished time with his adoring family. He was a dedicated son who visited his parents every day until they passed away. He was a loving and devoted husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, brother, and friend.

In addition to Marlene, his wife of 64 years, Stanley will be dearly missed by his children Andy (Nancy) Rinzler, Lisa (Alan) Lubel and Jamie (Michael) Balk; brother Bobby (Renee) Rinzler; grandchildren Stephanie and Melissa Rinzler, Nicole and Josh Lubel, and Sayre Balk; as well as nieces and nephews. We shall miss him dearly and will cherish him always.

The Rinzler family is most appreciative of his longtime caregivers, Eric English, Nyima Sambou, Bernard Mohale, Petal Anderson, and the staff of Weinstein Hospice

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A memorial service was held at Ahavath Achim Synagogue on Wednesday, March 27, followed by a private burial. Donations may be made to Ahavath Achim Synagogue, www.aasynagogue.org, or Weinstein Hospice, www.weinsteinhospice. com. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Fred David Sachs 81, Denver, Colorado

Fred David Sachs of Denver, Colorado, passed away Thursday, March 14, 2019.

He was preceded in death by his parents Helen and Joseph Sachs of Paterson, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Jane; son Stephen Sachs of Atlanta and daughter Susan Yuen of Los Angeles, California; grandchildren Eli and Sydney Sachs of Atlanta, and Ellie and Mason Yuen of Los Angeles; brother Howard (Kathy) Sachs of Atlanta; nephews David (Jamie) Sachs of Atlanta, Jonathan (Susan) Sachs of St. Louis, and Marc (Paige) Sachs of Dallas, Texas. Donations in memory of Fred may be made to Chabad of Georgia, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, or the National Conference on Soviet Jewry.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS Nisan: Alter Your Perception of Time to Enjoy Your Life,” writes This year, Rosh Chabout the experience of odesh Nisan begins at sun“time poverty,” the belief down Saturday. The month that there’s not enough time of Nisan continues through to do everything one wishes.

May 5, and is filled with Society values busyness. He clearing, cleaning, transteaches that our focus need formation, and renewal. It not be on managing our contains Passover, which altime so that we can do more ways falls on the 15th day of work, but rather, altering Nisan, on the night of a full our perception of time. moon, after the northern Dr. Terry Segal I’ve played with this vernal equinox. concept. People always say Nisan was originally New Moon Meditations to me that I get done in one called “the first of months.”

Two weeks prior to the Exodus, Hashem day what takes most people three or four showed Moses the sliver of the crescent days. It’s because I come from a family moon and instructed him about the mitz- of time users. It’s less about multitaskvah of observing a new month. From that ing and more about the focus of full attime on, we’ve followed the command- tention on one task at a time without distractions such as the television, radio, ment to sanctify the new moon.

We were granted the opportunity eating, responding to every notification to gain mastery over time, assuring that on the cell phone or computer, resulting our holidays are celebrated during the in the completion of tasks with greater appropriate season and consistent with efficiency and speed.

When we toggle our attention back the lunar calendar. In our modern world, however, how many people feel as if we and forth between two seemingly simultaneous tasks, there’s a slight lag time have control over time?

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