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THE SYNAGOGUE ISSUE

Renovations Revive Bukharian Synagogue COVER STORY, PAGES 18-19

SYNAGOGUE GUIDE H.E.A.T. MAP A DIRECTORY OF ATLANTA'S SHULS & THEIR HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES. PAGES 26-29

THE ADL HAS PUBLISHED AN INTERACTIVE MAP THAT PINPOINTS HATE & EXTREMISM. PAGE 9

CHAI STYLE HOMES

THE TOWNHOME OF TERI LEVINE SHOWCASES ARTWORK & CAPTURES THE EYE. PAGES 31-33

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Scoop on Shuls The first Jews who came to Atlanta and other parts of Georgia started their synagogues modestly, in backyards, churches and even a bank, as was the case for Temple Emanu-El, celebrating 40 years next month.

In this week’s issue, we spotlight the synagogues, leaders and artifacts that make the shul a sanctuary from the outside world. Take the Holocaust-era Torah from Ahavath Achim Synagogue – also arriving 40 years ago.

Do you want to know when, where and how much High Holy Day services are? We’ve got you covered in this week’s synagogue guide.

You’ll find shul achievements and celebrations, such as Congregation Beth Tefillah’s first female co-president and youngest president, both fulfilling their father’s legacies with their new roles. Of the younger set, too, is Congregation Etz Chaim’s new rabbinic intern from Brazil by way of Los Angeles. He shares his experiences as a rabbi-to-be in Brazil, the camp life that influenced his Judaism, his favorite sports team (hint: not the Giants) and how he’s looking forward to sam-

pling a variety of a certain sweet Atlanta elixir.

Rich in history, Congregation Beth Itzhak will be celebrating its Bukharian traditions with a grand re-opening this weekend. On Sunday, the synagogue will unveil its remodeled Norcross home, ganch paintings, and a series of wood carvings that create the illusion of walking through the old temple in Jerusalem.

Talking about old shuls, Temple Beth El in Bainbridge, Ga., is now facing dissolution after more than a century. Founded in 1902, Beth El started when the Jewish community in southwest Georgia was composed largely of merchants who were all like family and active in civic life.

On a more positive note, we look to the future with a preview of the JCC Maccabi Games here next year. And we introduce you to an Atlanta bone marrow donor who helped save the life of a Michigan man battling blood cancer.

They met for the first time last week in Boca Raton, Fla. In the arts, we bring you a review of Steven Spielberg at 70 through a film class led by our very own Bob Bahr. And to top it all off, we teach you how to make a powerhouse of a meal: hummus-en-

THIS WEEK crusted salmon with bulgur salad from our Keeping it Kosher section. So, get ready to savor the tasty morsels from history and our scoop on the latest news from Atlanta and Georgia shuls across the religious spectrum. ■

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LOCAL NEWS Atlanta Prepping for 2019 JCC Maccabi Games

By Dave Schechter dschechter@atljewishtimes.com The well-worn cliché, “it takes a village,” describes what will be required when Atlanta hosts the 2019 JCC Maccabi Games.

Representing Jewish community centers from throughout the country, 1,200 Jewish boys and girls, ages 12 to 16, will join 400 of their Atlanta peers in the annual sports festival July 28 to Aug. 2 next summer. Along with the athletes will come hundreds of coaches and parents.

A virtual village of some 500 host families will be needed to house the visiting athletes, many of whom will stay in the homes of Team Atlanta members. The adults will take area hotel rooms.

Another 1,500 volunteers will be needed, in a variety of capacities, to staff the five-day event.

Atlanta last hosted the games in 2001. The Marcus JCC was selected to host in 2007 but withdrew because of financial problems.

Competitions will be held in flag football, basketball, soccer, baseball, volleyball, ultimate Frisbee, swimming,

worst traffic is dance, golf, “why we’re betennis, bowling very intening, table tentional with the nis, and track selection of the and field. venues.”

The priTransportmary venues ing athletes, at the MJCC coaches and ofand the Marist ficial members School will be of visiting delesupplemented gations will inby other sites volve a fleet of hosting a sinabout 50 buses. gle sport.

Event orThe games ganizers aren’t usually use a releasing the single hub, at Passing the JCC Maccabi Games torch during list of venues the local JCC, the closing ceremonies in Orange County, Calif., hosting combut the numon August 9, 2018 are (L-R): Stacie Francombe, 2019 Atlanta Games Director; Sam Cohen, 2018 petitions, other ber of comOrange County Games Director; Carissa Mindt, than the MJCC petitions and 2019 Atlanta Games Assistant Director. and Marist, beAtlanta’s notorious traffic made two hubs desirable, cause of security concerns. It’s a key issue according to Stacie Francombe, director with large crowds of Jews congregated at competition hubs and venues. of the Atlanta games.

“This is always the balancing act “Most of the events take place in the middle of the day. They generally end with the Maccabi games,” Powers said. by 4:30 or 5 o’clock in the evening,” said “The security issue, it’s the number one Jared Powers, chief executive officer of priority.” The games staff and the MJCC the MJCC. He added that avoiding the will coordinate with police and multiple

levels of law enforcement, who will be present at competition sites.

Weather is another of the myriad issues that must be taken into account. The average Atlanta high temperature in late July to early August is 88 degrees and the chance of rain averages about 40 percent.

Keeping the competitors hydrated will be a priority. Coca-Cola, which is a national sponsor of the JCC Maccabi Games, will provide its water and sports drinks at the venues.

Medical staff will be stationed at the MJCC and Marist hubs and at other venues as warranted, Powers said.

The athletes will be fed at the MJCC and Marist hubs and can also visit “hang time” rooms staffed by Israelis.

Beyond the wins and losses, the JCC Maccabi games are designed to promote community involvement and pride in being Jewish. Emphasis is placed on two Jewish values: Rachmanus (compassion) and Tikkun Olam (repair the world), which also are central to a planned community service day for the teams.

Since the inaugural JCC Maccabi Games in Memphis 1982, more than 120,000 Jewish teens from the United States, Israel and other nations have tak-

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LOCAL NEWS event, Powers said. Any funds raised beyond what is expended on the games will be put back into team engagement.

Host families can expect to provide breakfast and snacks, drive to and from the compeAt the 2018 Opening Ceremonies, Atlanta athletes Jake Francombe, Geordie (left) and Jake tition hubs and Jordan Starr, Hailey Rubin, Jake Powers and Barri Seitz carry Francombe pose with the a banner showcasing Atlanta as the next games' host. other gamestorch outside of the MJCCA. related events, en part in the competition.

Two evening social events “are being and do laundry.

Organizers will know early next developed with a goal of showcasing our Housing arrangements consider such year what JCCs nationally are sending great city,” Francombe said. factors as whether a child keeps kosher teams to Atlanta, as well as whether othOn Aug. 26, 2018, from 3 to 6 p.m., the and is religiously observant. er nations will participate. JCC games in MJCC will host Ignite Maccabi, a launch Volunteers will be needed to work at recent years have included teams from party for the 2019 event that is open to the MJCC and Marist as well as staff other Israel, Mexico and Panama. Powers said the public. The celebration will include venues, from working behind a desk to that “thanks to a generous grant from the the lighting of an official JCC Maccabi riding on buses.

Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta,” a Games torch. Team Atlanta members “We really do need to touch all ages delegation from Atlanta’s Israeli sister will be welcomed home from this sumcity of Yokneam is coming. mer’s games hosted by Orange County, There are two JCC Maccabi summer Calif. The kickoff will include video game events each year. Detroit will host both a trucks, food trucks, activities in the MJCC JCC Maccabi athletic competition and the pool, and music provided by a live DJ. JCC Maccabi ArtsFest Aug. 4 to 9, 2019.

The JCC games are not affiliated ArtsFest includes acting/improv, culi- with Maccabi USA, which sends teams nary arts, dance, musical theater, rock of American Jewish athletes, youth and band, social media squad, visual arts and adults, to international competitions, vocal music. including the quadrennial Maccabiah The Atlanta games will begin and Games in Israel. “We consider Maccabi end with Olympic-style ceremonies at USA and Maccabi World Union imporlocations not being released. Still to be tant partners, but the JCC Maccabi Games determined are what sports personalities is a program of JCC Association of North will participate in the opening ceremo- America,” said Marla Cohen, communiny. When the games were in Memphis cations director for the JCC Association. a few years ago, one opening ceremony The JCC games are an expensive unspeaker was Josh Pastner, then basketball dertaking, for which $1.5 million in docoach at Memphis State University who nations (financial and in-kind) are being is now at Georgia Tech. sought. The JCC will not profit from the

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Organizing this type of massive undertaking fits in with Francombe’s background as a veteran in the event planning industry. Before that, she worked in sports television at CNN and Turner Broadcasting.

Being games director “combines a lot of my passions and business skills with television and sports and event planning, and also I’ve got three teenagers, so working on an event that is supporting Jewish teenagers from around the world was exciting for me,” Francombe said.

“I’m not nervous,” Francombe said.

“I have such a great support system. I’m almost fully staffed. I’ve got a lot of really passionate and smart people surrounding me, and really, really supportive people.”

Powers echoed that sentiment. “I feel very good about our staff, our lay leadership and the community support.”

Anyone interested in volunteering is urged to visit www.atlmaccabi2019.org. ■

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Beth Tefillah Co-Presidents Defy Norm

By Sarah Moosazadeh

rying on my father’s legacy because he set that foundation for me and my mothCongregation Beth Tefillah’s first er,” Seligmann said. She is the daughter female president, Danielle Seligmann, of Felice and Martin Seligmann, who and youngest president, Adon Solomon, helped start several synagogues.

In addition to are not just fulfilling finding ways to build their fathers’ legacies relationships, Seligas they step into their mann, who works as new roles, but also a senior solutions artheir commitment to chitect in information the community. technology, hopes to For more than use her skills to help a decade, Seligmann increase CBT’s memand her family have bership, engage more been a part of CBT. young adults and emAs a member of the power women to take synagogue Seligmann on more leadership has worked alongside roles in the commuRabbi Yossi New to nity. increase membership, “While in an Orand has served as thodox community CBT’s vice president Danielle Seligmann values the you typically think of of youth and on the opportunity to serve as Congregation leadership as a maleexecutive board for Beth Tefillah’s first female president. dominated role, this two years.

“Professionally and personally I love gives an opportunity for women who are impacting people’s lives, and for me there interested in being stronger leaders to is no greater way to do that. It’s also car- actually come forward because we really

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have an amazing For Solomon, community for being CBT’s youngthat,” she said. est president is Rabbi New a very humbling said regardless of and exciting exSeligmann’s genperience and alder, she would lows him to shape have still been sea vision of which lected for the pohe’ll be a part, he sition because of said. Rabbi New her skill set and said of Solomon’s passion and comappointment, “On mitment to CBT. a personal level “On the one hand, I have enjoyed a we say it’s the first strong relationfemale president ship with Adon we have at the and his family …

Congregation Beth Tefillah’s youngest shul, but on the and in a sense, he president, Adon Solomon, hopes to use his other hand it was is representing his finance background to help the synagogue. a natural evolufamily and his fation within the community as women ther of blessed memory in this role.” get more involved in communal life in Seligmann added, “I think there is the Orthodox sector,” he said. “So as trail- a neat emotional and intellectual comblazing as it sounds, it really was just a bination that Adon and I bring from the natural progression.” male-female perspective and the way our Communal life and servitude have brains work, but I also think it encouralways been a part of Seligmann’s life. ages a lot of women to step in, in ways She began her career working for Beth that they may not have thought about Tefillah when she was 22 and says she is stepping in before.” honored and humbled to be the first feThe new co-president anticipate male president. challenges as they try to connect people “It’s a huge role, but it’s also a testa- to the congregation, find new ways to rement to our community. Yes, I am female fresh their programs, and help people step and it is awesome, but away from old ideit’s also a skill-based ologies. To help with opportunity.” that initiative, SeligTo help Seligmann says she has a mann fulfill her role, number of different Solomon is stepping programs planned in in as CBT’s youngest partnership with the president. When he Sisterhood, including was young, Solomon a program with the grew up in CBT’s comJewish Educational munity and was the Loan Fund in October. last bar mitzvah in the Rabbi New added that synagogue’s original Chabad also is expectbuilding. He most reing to open another cently served as CBT’s branch of Young Jewboard secretary and ish Professionals in was a member of the the area. executive board.

Rabbi New said, Congregation Beth Tefillah Rabbi Yossi Solomon is a “Synagogues used New says having a female president lawyer serving differto be a place to pray, is part of the natural evolution of the synagogue and the community. ent business owners but today they have and hopes to use his evolved into commufinancial background to ensure CBT is on nity centers and have become the focal stable foundation. “We live in a very po- point for people’s religious life, but also larized society, but I think people are try- their social life. So, one of the challenges ing to [express] their values and connect, for the synagogue is to expand the role and I think Danielle and I both share that that we play in that sense and to provide vision of just trying to get people back to different avenues for people to find Jewtheir roots and put us in a good footing ish expression to connect to the synaeither financially or spiritually for the gogue.” ■ next 30 years or so,” he said.

LOCAL NEWS

From Brazil to the Bima

By Roni Robbins roni@atljewishtimes.com Growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, Natan Freller’s friends jokingly caled him “rav” because the rabbi-to-be led services and taught Hebrew School since he was 16. But Freller, Congregation Etz Chaim’s new rabbinic intern, wasn’t always sure he wanted to be a rabbi.

The AJT caught up with Freller, 28, on his first day at Etz Chaim and learned about his life in Brazil, his decision to become a rabbi, his favorite American sports team, and the Atlanta attraction he’s excited to visit.

He took us back to his life before rabbinic school: “I grew up engaged in the Jewish community. As a volunteer I was a counselor for many years, secretary of the Zionist Youth Council, and represented the youth groups of São Paulo on the Jewish Federation board."

But after high school, Freller wanted to try other careers before making any decisions about being a rabbi. He headed to business school and was a business consultant for two years.

“I wanted to be able to make this decision by myself, and not just follow what others thought that I should do,” Freller said. He figured he could always use his business skills, even as a rabbi. While working in the business world, he organized weekly programming for the youth in his home synagogue, Congregação Israelita Paulista, and that experience helped convince him he wanted to be a rabbi after all.

Freller eventually became a rabbis’ assistant in Brazil before heading off to the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

In his fourth year of the five-year program, Freller will be at Etz Chaim most of August and then return monthly to learn about the job and congregation. He will discuss the Torah portion on Shabbat, participate in lifecycle events, and develop and lead programs. During his first weekend, he led Shacharit services during a bat mitzvah, gave a d’var Torah at a board meeting, and met congregants of all ages. Next month, he’s slated to give the second day of Rosh Hashanah sermon. Spoiler alert. His topic will be: Who is writing the Book of Life?

Helping to train Freller will be Rabbi Daniel Dorsch, who described the new intern as “a talented, articulate, spirited rabbi-to-be.” Dorsch said “This internship is designed to be more of a part-time rabbinic position. Rabbi Freller will have his own office and play an active role in the life of the synagogue. … As a student rabbi, I had a similarly structured internship in Middletown, New York, and it was a formative experience in my rabbinic development.”

Natan Freller (right) is the new rabbinic intern at Congregation Etz Chaim.

Dorsch said Freller “will be a presence at youth and young adult events, attend community rabbinic gatherings … and shadow various pastoral appointments.

We will then make time together to process and debrief those experiences. It is my expectation that in public, he will function in every way as a rabbinic presence in our synagogue.”

Being a full-fledged rabbi is nothing new for Freller. He led high holiday services as rabbi and chazzan for the Conservative Temple Beth Zion in Los Angeles.

As if being a rabbi is not enough, Freller also is a mashgiach, kashrut inspector, which he did for Camp Ramah in California. He’s also a shochet, a kosher butcher, but mainly so he can eat kosher meat, he said.

Camps were always a big influence in his Jewish life, so he enjoys being a part of youth activities even as an adult. He was education director of BB Camp in Oregon, and this summer was the rosh kvutza, group leader, for USY Pilgrimage to Israel, one of his many trips to the Jewish state.

When he’s not traveling and studying, Freller said he likes to play European handball, which he did growing up, along with the classic Brazilian sport, soccer. Another pastime he enjoyed even before moving to this country was watching American football. He even had a fantasy football league with friends in Brazil. He said his favorite team is the Patriots because he had family in Boston and studied English there for a while some 10 to 12 years ago. He also appreciates the outdoors and is looking forward to visiting the World of Coca-Cola.

He hasn’t been here long, but he can already tell it’s hotter than São Paulo. So will he return to Atlanta after rabbinical school? With two years of rabbinic school left, Freller wants to keep his options open.

He said he would consider being a rabbi involved with advocacy, a camp, university, Hillel or other organization. If he decides to be a pulpit rabbi, though, he prefers to be a teacher with a more interactive, discussion style, rather than just lecturing.

Having been a rabbi-in-training for so long, what’s a few more years to decide for sure? ■

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LOCAL NEWS

Meet The Temple’s New Associate Rabbi

By Rachel Fayne With the departure of The Temple’s Rabbi David Spinrad, Rabbi Sam Kaye will assume the duties as the new Associate Rabbi. Although he won’t begin at The Temple until July, we sat down with Rabbi Kaye as he readies himself for his position. We got to know: he is a board game aficionado; he’ll be taking some advice from Rabbi Spinrad; and what will likely be his favorite coffee shop in Atlanta before his big debut.

Tell us about yourself. Did you always want to be a rabbi?

Well, I married my wife Taylor in January. I’m from Colorado, and she’s from Montreal. I went to a liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, and fought being a rabbi with everything I had. My dad is actually a rabbi, but I had a lot of good reasons to do something else.

So what was the turning point?

I went on Birthright and had a powerful spiritual experience. It was during Havdalah, and I was standing on the roof of Hebrew Union College watching the city of Jerusalem come back to life.

I made a promise that I’d make my way back to Israel. A week later, I was back

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in Chicago but still thinking about Israel.

I watched Shabbat come in through the big bay windows of where I was working at the time. It was at that point I decided I wanted to do something else. I left for Israel shortly thereafter, where I studied for two years.

How did you land at The Temple?

I interviewed at several synagogues, and Rabbis coming right out of school have a multi-round matching process.

I felt an instant and very real connection with Rabbis Berg and Lapidus, but the rest of the team at The Temple was something special as well. A genuine kindness and enthusiasm radiates from all the clergy team and faculty. I’m extremely excited by this opportunity!

What has your experience been with The Temple as you ready yourself for the position?

Rabbi Spinrad has given me some great advice. I was nervous and overwhelmed at how much there is to do, and David sat me down and explained that I just need to teach what I know.

The worst thing you can do is show up and pretend to know everything. He said everything you do just has to come from love and the teachings of the Torah. I

know Rabbi Spinrad is really sad to be leaving, but he’s been nothing but gracious as he’s paved the way for me here. He’s also introduced me to Octane, his favorite coffee shop. He knows how to get in the back way.

Rabbi Spinrad ran The Well, the Temple’s young adult monthly service. What do you think you’ll bring to the young adult community?

I actually happen to fit into the demographic of a 20’s and 30’s young professional, so that’s important. Most of all, I’m looking to build the kind of place that I’d want to pray in - something spiritual that touches me and makes me think. I also want to incorporate lots of music. I’m so happy to have the opportunity to work with some wonderful musicians, and honestly, I have no biases coming into the position.

I’m open to a lot when it comes to the young adult community.

I also have a philosophy about what it means to support young people who want to engage. I think there’s a misunderstanding. We shouldn’t measure our success by how many people become members. The goal of these young adult programs should be to create positive

Rabbi Sam Kaye will begin as The Temple’s Associate Rabbi in July.

jewish experiences, especially for a city as transient as Atlanta. My program succeeds when people have community wherever they land.

I also want people to feel open to meeting me in person. My door is always open to meet people in my office, for coffee, or even for board games. I’m a big board game nerd. Anyone looking to play board games, please, knock on my door. ■

LOCAL NEWS

Interactive Map Pinpoints Hate and Extremism Marking the first anniversary of the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., the Anti-Defamation League launched the H.E.A.T. (Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism, Terrorism) Map. The “firstof-a-kind” interactive map details extremist and anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. and is a “visual reflection of select proprietary datasets developed by ADL experts” in the organization’s Center on Extremism.

Georgia saw a particularly high number of incidents: 30 cases of white supremacist propaganda; seven white supremacist events; one extremist-related murder; and 59 anti-Semitic events. This represents a big increase from previous years, the ADL stated. An increase in white supremacist propaganda on college campuses was particularly disturbing, with proponents bringing their materials to a variety of campuses, both private and public, urban and rural, the ADL reported. The map allows users to see the types of tactics extremists use, read details on specific incidents, compare activity by type and state, and access and download raw data.

“As extremism and hate amp up in Georgia and across the nation, so too will our efforts on the ground locally to expose hate and implement programs that educate all how to counter it,” said Dr. Allison Padilla-Goodman, ADL Southeast regional director. Education programs such as “No Place for Hate,” touching over 200 schools in the region – including Atlanta Public Schools – “are crucial now more than ever so that students, educators and parents have the resources they need to respond to hate. We are increasing our work with law enforcement and community partners to identify and fight hatred of all kinds to build a better Georgia.” ADL Southeast published an accompanying blog post highlighting four successes since Charlottesville that show the positive impact ADL and community partners have had in fighting hatred.

“It’s important to remember that extremist activity is not just confined to a historic town in Virginia, but rather an issue faced by communities every day across the country,” said Jonathan Green-

• Extremist shootouts with police (2008-2017) • White supremacist propaganda on and off campus (fall 2016-to date) • White supremacist rallies (2017-2018) • Anti-Semitic incidents (2016-2017)

blatt, ADL CEO and national director. “As extremists continue to spread hate and incite violence using any and all means that they can, ADL is committed to exposing their efforts and fighting to prevent the hate they aim to spread.”

The ADL H.E.A.T. Map comes with a report that evaluates the ways the white supremacist movement, and the “alt-right,” in particular, have changed in the year since the events in Charlottesville, and provides an overview of the complicated state of white supremacy.

Among the trends observed, the alt-right has embraced podcasts as a way to reach followers. White supremacist podcast audiences are not large by mainstream standards, but represent significant audiences for white supremacists, the ADL reported.

In addition, white supremacists have increased on-campus and off-campus propaganda efforts in the past year, the ADL stated. Since the beginning of 2017, ADL’s Center on Extremism has tracked more than 900 white supremacist propaganda incidents, from distributions of white supremacist literature to displays of white supremacist handbills, posters, and other materials. The 2017-18 school year saw a 77 percent increase of incidents on campus from the previous academic year, with 292 cases reported, compared to 165 in 2016-2017.

The initial information in the new map consists of more than 4,500 data points representing a range of extremist activities, including: • Extremist-related murders (20082017)

• Terrorist plots and attacks (20022017) • Right-wing: 2002-2017 • Islamist: 2002-2017 • Left-wing: 2008-2017

ADL is the world’s leading anti-hate organization. Founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of anti-Semitism and bigotry, its mission is to protect the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all. ADL is a global leader in exposing extremism, delivering anti-bias education, and fighting hate online. The organization’s ultimate goal is to create a world in which no group or individual suffers from bias, discrimination or hate. For more information, go to www.adl.org. ■

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Life-saving Atlanta Marrow Donor Meets Recipient

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Donor Judah Berger, left, embraces marrow recipient Bernard Weiner.

In a deeply emotional meeting last week, a Michigan man who was battling blood cancer learned the identity of the Atlanta man who saved his life.

Bernard Weiner, 70, of Troy, Mich., and Judah Berger, 22, formerly of Atlanta, met Aug. 7 for the first time at the Gift of Life Campus Ambassador Symposium in Boca Raton, Fla. Weiner had received a bone marrow transplant from Berger after a search of Gift of Life Marrow Registry showed that they were a match.

Berger, a former Gift of Life Campus Ambassador, joined Gift of Life’s registry at a swab drive when he was 18. Weiner was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood cancer, and had run out of options. The one treatment left was a marrow transplant. Berger agreed to donate his bone marrow for the life-saving transplant, but due to strict confidentiality laws, neither knew the other’s identity until now.

Now a New Yorker, Berger said his upbringing shaped his decision to donate. He was raised celebrating Jewish traditions, including hosting people who had nowhere to celebrate Friday night Sabbath dinners. “In the Torah it says you should help a stranger 36 times, even though it might be counterintuitive,” he told the Gift of Life ambassadors. “Know that you will make a difference.” Turning to Weiner, he added, “We are living proof.”

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Meeting at the Gift of Life Campus Ambassador Program Symposium were, from left to right: Gift of Life CEO Jay Feinberg; marrow recipient Bernard Weiner; donor Judah Berger; and Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer.

Weiner described the complications he experienced after chemotherapy and his transplant, “I am sure Judah’s cells helped me fight that off,” he said. At one point, Weiner was about to receive a transplant from a different donor, only to learn it was called off for medical reasons. He was fortunate to have more than one possible donor in the registry; not every patient can find even one donor. “I guess it was really meant to be,” he said, after embracing Berger. “My family told me to give him a big hug for them.”

Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer attended the symposium to introduce the pair. Singer said he has a special stake in Gift of Life, as his mother-in-law’s life was saved by a donor found through the marrow registry. “My family has been deeply impacted by the work of Gift of Life,” Singer said. “The return on investment of all of your efforts is to save lives.”

The symposium also featured Jesse Horwitz, Hubble Contacts co-CEO and co-founder, who discussed entrepreneurial spirit and corporate responsibility.

Last year, Horwitz was named to Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 annual list of top young entrepreneurs. He helped start America’s first direct-to-consumer subscription contact lens brand in 2016.

Hubble is a Campus Ambassador Program sponsor.

The CAP Symposium brought together 90 student leaders from more than

100 colleges and universities in 32 states for a three-day training session. Campus ambassadors play a key role in helping to find matches for those with blood cancer.

Transplant doctors tend to seek donors aged 18 to 25 because this demographic produces the most stem cells and is the healthiest population, meaning a better chance of success for the patient.

Since launching in 2014, 361 campus ambassadors have volunteered more than 11,800 hours to add 32,787 people to the registry, resulting in 45 life-saving matches. The CAP leaders will run 500 swab drives during the 2018-19 school year to reach more than 15,000 students,

each of whom may get the chance to help save lives.

Since its start in 1991, Gift of Life has grown its registry to more than 308,000 individuals who have volunteered to donate blood stem cells or bone marrow to save a life. In the process, Gift of Life has facilitated more than 15,000 matches for those with a range of blood cancers, resulting in more than 3,300 transplants.

For more information about Gift of Life or the donor-recipient meeting, contact Joe Berkofsky, joe@puderpr.com. ■

Berger addresses symposium attendees.

Bernard Weiner, 70, of Troy, Mich., and Judah Berger, 22, formerly of Atlanta.

BUSINESS Israeli Companies on the Move Networx Systems is relocating its North American headquarters to the 19-story Buckhead Tower from its previous location in Sandy Springs, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Networx, which began in Israel seven years ago, connects home improvement contractors with customers. It has nearly doubled its staff in the past two years, the Business Chronicle reported. Networx employs about 110 workers, mostly inside sales, roughly 40 percent of whom commute from the Southside of Atlanta. Another 40 technical support and R&D staff are in Israel.

The new 21,000-square-foot headquarSteve Storch is CEO of Networx, moving ters is above the Lenox Square MARTA stafrom Sandy Springs to Buckhead. tion.

Networx CEO Steve Storch told the Business Chronicle he expects the company to need another expansion in the next year to 18 months.

The company considered many locations, including Peachtree Corners, Midtown, Chamblee, Brookhaven and downtown Atlanta before deciding on Buckhead, Storch told the newspaper.

In other Buckhead real estate news, the law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. is leasing the top two floors of Buckhead’s Monarch Plaza, totaling 50,000 square feet, the Business Chronicle reported. The lease is an early restructuring of an existing agreement with landlord Highwoods Properties.

Another Israeli company, BeeHero, was among the four startups that pitched leading companies during Tech Alpharetta’s first AgTech Conference of the South earlier this month. BeeHero is a global pollination network trying to increase crop yields using technology that makes beehives stronger, healthier and more efficient.

BeeHero won the opportunity to be part of the Pitch Off competition at the conference as a finalist in a previous stage of the contest. The four presenting companies, along with nine of the finalists, were Monarch Plaza in Buckhead, the new home of Baker Donelson. showcased at a conference cocktail reception July 24.

The panel of judges included executives from TechStars, the Advanced Technology Development Center and the University of Georgia’s Innovation Gateway. ■

AgTech Conference of the South included a Pitch Off competition including BeeHero of Israel.

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ISRAEL NEWS Aftermath of Israel’s Raid on Syria Missile Facility Satellite pictures released Aug. 11 by an Israeli intelligence site appeared to show the aftermath of an airstrike on an Iranian-run missile production facility in Syria last month, an operation that has been attributed to Israel.

The facility, in Masyaf in northwestern Syria’s Hama province, was previously allegedly used to produce and store chemical weapons. It was run by Dr. Aziz Asbar, a top Syrian chemical weapons and rocket scientist, who was killed earlier this month when his car exploded in Masyaf. A senior official from a Middle East intelligence agency has pointed the finger at Israel’s Mossad for the alleged assassination, according to a report by The New York Times Aug.7.

According to that report, Israel believed that Asbar was leading a classified weapons development program called Sector 4 at the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, and was busy rebuilding an underground weapons factory to replace the one said to have been destroyed by Israel last year.

The satellite pictures were released

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Aug. 11 by the Israeli website, Intelli Times, and showed the facility two days before the alleged attack on July 22 and in its aftermath. The facility was in charge of the production of the Syrian versions of Iran’s Fateh 110 surface-tosurface missiles, which have a range of about 124 miles, according to the report.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at the time that the strike targeted a “workshop supervised by Iranians where surface-tosurface missiles are made.”

“Iranian forces and forces from Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement are deployed in that sector,” Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. Israel did not comment on its alleged involvement in the July airstrike on the facility, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement following the raid that Israel “will not stop taking action in Syria against Iran’s attempts to establish a military presence there.”

According to Intelli Times, the facility was one of two centers overseen by Asbar in the area, the second being a lo-

Photos by Intelli Times // Before and after pictures showing

destruction at a Syrian missile facility in Masyaf, Syria.

cal site of the Syrian research center, better known by its French acronym CERS. Western officials have long associated CERS with the manufacture of chemical arms. According to the United States, sarin gas was being developed at that center, a charge denied by the Syrian authorities.

In September 2017, Syria accused Israel of carrying out a strike on the CERS facility that left two dead. The bombing came after opposition sources claimed that Iranian and Syrian specialists were working there to develop chemical weapons capability for missiles. There was another bombing at the site in December 2017.

Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has sought to avoid direct involvement in the conflict, but has acknowledged carrying out dozens of airstrikes there to stop deliveries of advanced weaponry to its Lebanese enemy Hezbollah.

It has also pledged to prevent Iran from entrenching itself militarily in Syria. A series of recent strikes that have killed Iranians in Syria have been attributed to Israel.

Suspected Israeli airstrikes over the years have hit Syrian army positions near Damascus and in the central provinces of Homs and Hama. Last month, Israel was said to have carried out an airstrike on the T-4 military base near Homs, thought to be used by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fighters.

In February, the Syrian military shot down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet as it was taking part in a bombing raid against an Iranian-linked airfield in central Syria

after an Iranian drone penetrated Israeli airspace, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The F-16’s pilot and navigator were injured as they bailed out of the aircraft, which crashed to ground in northern Israel.

In July, Syrian government forces reached the frontier with the Israeli Golan Heights after capturing territory from rebels and Islamic State fighters.

It was the first time government forces had taken up positions along the frontier since the uprising against Bashar alAssad swept through the country seven years ago.

With Syrian forces now in close proximity, there have already been clashes between the two armies. Israel has insisted that the Syrian military respect the 1974 ceasefire agreement reached between Jerusalem and Damascus after the previous year’s Yom Kippur War. The agreement limits the forces each side can keep in the border region.

On July 24, a Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet entered Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights, traveling about one mile before it was downed when the IDF fired two Patriot interceptor missiles.

On July 13, the system shot down a Syrian army drone that was flying over the demilitarized zone separating Israel from Syria. Two days earlier, a Syrian military unmanned aerial vehicle penetrated some six miles into Israeli territory before it, too, was shot down by a Patriot missile. The IDF said it had allowed the drone to fly so deeply into Israeli territory because it was not immediately clear if it belonged to the Russian military. ■

ISRAEL NEWS

Iran Tested Missile for First Time In More Than Year

AP/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad // The Iranian warship Alborz, foreground,

prepares to leave Iran’s waters at the Strait of Hormuz in this photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, April 7, 2015.

A Fateh-110 ballistic missile, displayed at an Iranian armed force parade in 2012.

Iran carried out a ballistic missile test for the first time in 2018, U.S. officials reported Aug. 10. The military exercise was held as U.S. President Donald Trump reintroduced economic sanctions on Tehran.

The test of the Iranian Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile, believed to have occurred Aug. 9 or Aug. 10, was carried out at the Strait of Hormuz during a naval exercise in which at least 50 small ships took part, Fox News reported. According to the report, the missiles flew “shore to shore” for more than 100 miles over the Strait of Hormuz to a site in the desert.

While the U.S. military knew of Iran’s naval activity in the region, the missile test detected by U.S. spy satellites had not been previously reported.

The missile launch is the first known test of the Fateh-110 in more than a year.

The last time such a missile was launched

by Iran was in March 2017.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps announced it had completed a “successful” naval exercise in the Persian Gulf, which was seen in the West as a provocation in response to the U.S. re-imposition

of sanctions on Tehran.

The timing was unusual, as the exercise appeared to be similar in scale and nature to an annual drill that ordinarily takes place later in the year, in autumn.

The vessels taking part in the exercise were mostly small attack boats, and there were no interactions reported with U.S. ships in the strait, one of the world’s most important oil shipping lanes.

In a statement about the drill, Capt.

Bill Urban, the U.S. military’s Central Command spokesman, said the U.S. was “aware of an increase” in Iranian naval operations in the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman.

“We are monitoring it closely and will continue to work with our partners to ensure freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce in international waterways,” Urban said.

The Fateh-110 test launch came the same week as Trump signed an executive order to restore nuclear-related sanctions on Tehran, increasing economic pressure on the country. Trump withdrew from the landmark P5+1 nuclear agreement with Iran in May, paving the way for sanctions to be re-imposed.

Other co-signers of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action opposed the American withdrawal from the landmark pact, and Russia and China criticized the re-imposition of nuclearrelated sanctions on Iran, arguing that Tehran had kept its part of the deal.

Iranian leaders have threatened several times in recent weeks to close the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the renewal of sanctions.

U.S. officials in recent years have ac-

cused both the regular Iranian navy and the IRGC of routinely harassing American warships in the Gulf.

But so far this year, there have been no such incidents.

The IRGC is a paramilitary force that answers directly to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In January 2016, the Iranians briefly captured the crew of two small U.S. patrol boats that strayed into Iranian waters. ■

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ISRAEL PRIDE Taking a Bite Out of African Poverty To alleviate poverty among Africa’s farmers, Israel’s Ministry of the Economy and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee have teamed up to leverage Israeli agricultural technology as part of JDC’s new Tikkun Olam Ventures (TOV, or good in Hebrew) program.

TOV’s partnership with the Israeli government will include the transfer of Israeli agtech to experts, businesses and smallholder farmers in emerging economies, and the development of information in Israel about smallholder farmers' needs and effective business models for them.

The partnership will also foster communities in Israel to disseminate and develop information gained through TOV’s work in Africa, which is already underway in seven farming demonstration sites in Ethiopia.

TOV, which will be launched this fall, will provide farmers financing through a philanthropic loan fund, Israeli agricultural technology and training to increase and improve crop yield, and access to new markets to sell their crops.

TOV is a program of JDC GRID, which

deploys disaster response and development interventions around the world to use Israeli expertise and encourages Jewish community engagement in humanitarian efforts locally and globally.

U.N. honors Krembo Wings for inclusiveness.

UN Honors Group Pairing Disabled With Able-Bodied The United Nations honored Israel’s Krembo Wings, a youth movement that helps children with and without disabilities form lasting bonds with one another, by designating the group a “special advisor” organization. The U.N. recognizes youth as leaders pioneering the integration of disabled children with those who do not face health challenges.

The status of the special advisor to the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council gives the movement special recognition

Today in Israeli History

Aug. 18, 2000 — Archaeologist Claire Epstein, a London native who made aliyah in 1937 and participated in many archaeological surveys and excavations in Israel, including discovering the culture of the Chalcolithic Period (4500 to 3300 B.C.E.) in the Golan, dies at age 88 at Kibbutz Ginossar.

Aug. 17, 1898 — A few weeks before the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, 160 Zionists from 93 cities and towns in Russia meet secretly in Warsaw, where organizer Ahad Ha’am rallies support for a Jewish cultural renaissance before any Zionist political actions.

Aug. 19, 1865 — Scholar and writer Micah Joseph Berdichevski is born in Ukraine. He is best known for his Hebrew writings, which included a lengthy debate with Ahad Ha’am about the nature of Hebrew literature, as well as his extensive recording of Jewish folklore.

for its work in Israel and worldwide.

ECOSOC is the U.N.’s central platform promoting sustainable development.

Krembo Wings, established 16 years ago, has developed an innovative and inclusive model that integrates children with severe disabilities with able-bodied youth from ages 7 to 22. The movement operates 65 branches throughout Israel, from Eilat in the south to Kiryat Shmona in the north, and welcomes more than 6,000 active members each week. Krembo Wings operates branches in all segments of Israeli society, including Druze, Muslim, Christin and Bedouin communities, where acceptance and inclusion of all abilities is the guiding principle.

Coral Reefs In Gulf of Eilat Growing While coral reefs may be shrinking elsewhere, the Gulf of Eilat’s are growing. That’s thanks to Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, whose attempts to minimize the impact of factory discharges into the sea and other events are paying off.

The MoEP recently published the 2017 Red Sea Monitoring Report, written by the Interuniversity Institute for MaAug. 20, 1920 — The first Hebrewlanguage medical journal in Palestine, HaRefuah (Medicine), begins publishing on a quarterly schedule under the auspices of the Jewish Medical Association of Palestine.

The journal is still published monthly by the Israel Medical Association and distributed free to all its members.

rine Sciences in Eilat. The report found that unlike other reefs in the world, a multi-year statistical analysis of Eilat’s reef shows an upward trend of about half a percent a year in live coral cover.

Coral reefs are dying around the world, mostly because of global warming.

Rising ocean temperatures and levels of acidity cause frequent bleaching events, leading to the ultimate death of the coral.

Only a third of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef’s ecosystem, the planet’s largest reef and a World Heritage Site, remains unbleached.

Reefs in the Gulf of Eilat, on Israel’s southern coast off of the Red Sea, are particularly resistant to global warming and could possibly be used to re-seed dying reefs elsewhere, according to a June study by Israeli and Swiss scientists. ■

Photo by Michael Eisenberg

Claire Epstein led excavations of the ancient city of Hippos (Susita) on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee in the 1950s.

Aug. 21, 1982 — American, French and Italian troops arrive in Lebanon’s capital to supervise the evacuation of about 14,000 PLO fighters through Sept. 1. Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut on Aug. 30. Driving terrorists and Syrian forces from Beirut is one of Israel’s principal goals in the 1982 Lebanon War. Aug. 22, 1952 — The Development Corporation for Israel, now commonly known as Israel Bonds, brings 22 American Jewish leaders to Israel on a 15-day American Champions of Israel Bonds mission. They report to the Economic Conference for Israel in mid-September in Atlantic City, N.J., where the 600 del14 | AUGUST 17, 2018 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

The Gulf of Eilat's coral reefs are growing while others are dying from global warming.

egates pledge to raise $130 million in bonds.

Aug. 23, 1903 — The Sixth Zionist Congress, the last presided over by Theodor Herzl, convenes in Basel, Switzerland. It is the largest Zionist Congress so far, with approximately 600 delegates, and explores a proposal for a Jewish homeland in Uganda.

Items provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details. ■

OPINION Letters to the Editor What being Jewish means to me

I want to share my thoughts on what being Jewish means to me. I think that it is about family and our obligation to serve our community. I have been around a lot of other types of religions and I have seen the same level of commitment to family and community as I have witnessed within our own. Being Jewish and maintaining our tradition of mitzvahs is important to everyone around us, not just within the Jewish community alone.

Think about all the philanthropy our community is involved in and supports with our hard work, time and money. There are so many worthwhile causes and nonprofits that originate from the foundation we have from just being Jewish.

Claude Milner Decatur, Ga.

What being Jewish means to me

When I think about my Jewish identity, there are two things that come straight to mind: food and family. I think about my childhood: eating my Bubbe’s homemade challah at Shabbat or her matzo ball soup at Passover. I think about my Zeidie’s latkes. I think about singing songs with my family, either at home or at services. I may not know exactly what the words mean, but I do know the words (for the most part anyway) and that feels good. Judaism is also knowing that no matter the event, whether it be a holiday or simply visiting family, I will always be offered more food than I could ever eat. I also think of the joy of sharing the customs with my friends, inviting them to Seder or cooking with them.

To me, Judaism is all about connection. It’s about keeping up the traditions, practicing them with the people who already know them and sharing them with my friends who don’t. I feel especially grateful to attend a university where I don’t have to worry about being criticized for my religion, where I can feel free to share with my friends and community. These three things – food, family, connection – comprise what being Jewish means to me.

Morgan Mayback Atlanta, Ga.

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The issue of immigration has many facets. I want to share some facts about immigration to America over the past 240 years that could help frame the debate.

The two most populated countries in the world are China and India, with conservative estimates of 1.4 billion people each.

The next-most-populated country in the world may surprise you: the United States, with about 325 million people. To add more perspective about the top three, there are only six countries with 125 to 325 million: Indonesia at 265 million; and Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Russia at 145 million. Many of the developed countries we think about, visit and trade with (including England, Germany, Japan, Egypt) have populations of 60 to 125 Michael million. While China and In- Morris dia certainly stand apart, so Publisher does our country. When we look at immigration, crime, employment, education and a whole host of other topics, one lens we must consider is population.

In the past three decades, the U.S. has allowed about 1 million immigrants into the country a year. This number does not include illegal immigration. About .5 million people are estimated to enter the U.S. every year illegally and another .5 million are unsuccessful. The 1 million immigrants is a fraction of the 4 to 6 million people that apply for immigration every year. At 1 million per year, the U.S. allows more legal immigration than any other country in the world. Current estimates suggest that a quarter of our population today is first- and second- generation immigrants. Could you imagine what our population would be like if we allowed all 4 to 6 million applicants into our country each year over the past 30 years? With just a little bit of growth, on the back of a napkin, the U.S. population would be .5 billion. If we take the numbers back to post WWII – using less applicants, but more growth – the napkin would suggest a population of 900 million.

I am always perplexed by people who start a conversation about immigration with the notion that “I (or my family) are immigrants.” Of course you are! The overwhelming majority of us are immigrants having been in the U.S. four generations or less. In fact, less than 25 percent of us Americans are fifth-generation or more, and it should be noted that half of that population is African-American. With the U.S. being at least 1,000 years younger than China, India, Russia and most EU countries, we are all immigrants, by default. Going back

to the napkin, less than 1 percent of us have been in the U.S. for 10 generations or more.

More statistics: In 1776, there were about 2.5 million Americans. In 1800, 5 million. In 1900, a whopping 76 million. By 1950, 150 million, and at the turn of the century, year 2000, 282 million people were living in the U.S. Governing 76 million people in 1900 is vastly different than 320 million today. At the turn of the 20th century, the U.S. had as many people as the average European country does now! Bottom line, I think we can all agree that this country was built on immigration.

My family is statistically just like yours. These numbers also suggest a sound rational for why immigration limits began in 1882 and were subsequently significantly modified in the 1920s and 1960s. Without limitation, think of how crime, employment and education would look in the U.S. today.

Being a country of immigrants in no way, however, supposes that a policy of open borders is prudent. I am for continued immigration. Immigration to unite families; immigration to bolster our work force; immigration because we are the land of milk and honey. I am biased. I would have liked to have seen significantly more Jewish immigration during the 1930s and 1940s. Alas, I am also cognizant of the numbers and realize that open borders, or even merely doubling our immigration quota, is not sustainable, practical nor governable.

I am not even sure if our current level of immigration is sustainable. I certainly see how governance, crime, employment and education are impacted by our current liberal immigration policies over just the past 30 years. As an example, as we discuss crime in the U.S. today, I don’t think one can have a rational conversation without taking into consideration the crime rates in 1900, when the population was 76 million, and the quadrupling of the population a mere 118 years later. More on that in future columns.

The numbers make it clear that we cannot accept every applicant, and if we don’t accept every applicant, decisions will be made that will adversely affect the majority of applicants. When we discuss immigration, we should keep these numbers in mind. ■ Statistics have been compiled from the Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Pew Research Center, the Migration Policy Institute and Worldometers.

Historian Helps a Congregation Remember

By Marcia Caller Jaffe The Memorial Scrolls Trust in London knew who to call to ensure Ahavath Achim Synagogue was honoring the history and people connected with a Holocaust-era Torah loaned to AA 40 years ago. Doris Goldstein, a local historian and synagogue member, was known for her centennial history book about AA. The Torah is part of an exclusive group of 1,800 that were kept in the Jewish Museum of Prague in 1942. They were moved to a ruined synagogue at Michle outside Prague in 1948 until making their way to London in February 1964. MST maintains the database of this Torah collection and allocates them to communities across the world.

One ended up at AA and another at Congregation Shearith Israel, which successfully tracked down and honored the people who used the Torah before the Holocaust. AA wanted to do the same.

Jill Rosner, assistant to the AA rabbis, was able to find the names of families from Pilsen in the Czech Republic, which is known for its beer. And on April 7, Goldstein gave a presentation about this Torah, lent to AA in 1977. The Buckhead congregation was then able to say Kaddish.

“The presence of these scrolls is a reminder of those who were lost – not just the communities, but the individual souls,” Goldstein said. “When people view these Torahs, they should try to remember they represent hundreds of thousands of people who could’ve been making meaningful contributions to the world. What this Torah means to me is what it should mean to everyone – a memorial of those who perished in the Holocaust, and it is our obligation to remember them.”

Jews lived in Pilsen since the 14th century. It is one of the oldest cities in the section of the country known as Bohemia, which developed into an industrial center.

By the turn of the 20th century, the community was among the largest and most affluent in the country. A beautiful Moorish-style synagogue had been erected that covered almost an entire city block.

By 1930, Jews made up 2.4 percent of the population, or 2,773 people. But these numbers were augmented by Jews fleeing the western edge of Czechoslovakia, which came under German control in 1938. The following year, Nazis occupied the entire country and the Jews were persecuted and arrested. The Jews of Pilsen were later deported and murdered in concentration

The Holocaust-era Torah from the Czech Republic is on display at AA’s Sylvia G. Cohen Museum draped in a frayed tallit.

camps.

There were more than 350 synagogues in towns in Bohemia and Moravia. Of those, at least 60 were closed and/or destroyed while others were deserted because their members were no longer there. The Jews of Prague designed a plan and persuaded the Nazis to allow them to bring the contents of the synagogues from the now-deserted communities to a Jewish museum in Prague, where the contents were carefully catalogued. There were 212,000 items in the collection, which contained the 1,800 Torah scrolls. The hope was they would be restored to their place of origin after the war. Unfortunately, only 10 percent of those deported survived the war and returned.

After many years, London Jews bought 1,564 of the scrolls from the Communists that controlled the country beginning in 1948. The scrolls were then brought to the Westminster Synagogue in 1964, where some are still housed today. The majority are in synagogues and Jewish institutions all over the world. Some have been restored and are being used, but many are displayed as a memorial to those communities and individuals lost in the Holocaust.

This scroll is #1339 of the 1,800 from Bohemia and Moravia. It is no longer kosher to use in daily worship because of its condition. It is on display in AA’s Sylvia G. Cohen Museum draped in a frayed tallit. It remains a testament to those who lived and died as Jews as well as to those who were responsible for saving it from destruction, Goldstein said. ■

REFLECTIONS More To Brag About Than Crayons

120- crayon box with a sharpener, we were catapulted into royalty. We were With the end of summer, the hi- the king or queen of the classroom.

Reflecting on those bygone days is bernating school buses (called fondly by some the ‘yellow limousines’) have fun. Nostalgia is a pleasant, wistful direturned to the road, drawing me back version and glimpsing into the silliness to childhood. Though years, decades of youth is fun. But, most of us have thankfully grown up and have passed, I still recall are no longer defined by with clarity the preparacerulean blue or sienna. tion made as the opening Bragging rights, back in day of school approached. the day, were granted by Most were standard, but the number of crayons we into college, one Lewis rite possessed. of passage was a dozen As adults, there must pencils with our names be a new, mature standard. on them, provided by my And so, let us be boastful mother. An annual, end of of Torah knowledge. Let summer ritual.

Rabbi Shalom us be big shots because of Selecting the hip Lewis tzedakah. Let us be machlunch box, of course, was a ers with shul attendance. challenge. Hopalong Cassidy? Zorro? Superman? The clothes Let us be the leader of the pack because shopping at Gimbels on Market Street, of our performance of mitzvot and bewhere I refused the yearly attempt by cause of our mentshlechkeit. As we enmy parents to outfit me with a cordu- ter a new school year and a new Jewish roy suit. It was an exciting time as new year let us strut our stuff, not because adventures loomed in the wake of La- of crayons, but because we have grown in soul over these many years. ■ bor Day and the final BBQ. I attended Hillel Hebrew AcadRabbi Shalom Lewis is the rabbi emy, and though it was an elementary emeritus of Congregation Etz Chaim in school of relatively homogeneous, Marietta. young Jewish kids, there was a pecking order of popularity that rapidly emerged, establishing strutting rights the very first day.

I was not the best-dressed, nor the smartest class member. It had nothing to do with looks, nor an edgy temperament. Fame came rapidly and enviously to the student with the biggest box of Crayola crayons. We could survive with an eight-pack, but be assured it was a humiliating place to be. If we had the stadium seating, 64-crayon box with exWhoever had the biggest box of otic, unheard of colors, we were bordercrayons was the coolest at school. line popular. But, if we brought in the

Compiled with the help of Anne Cohen, Ahavath Achim director of marketing and community relations.

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COVER STORY Renovations Revive Bukharian Synagogue

By Sarah Moosazadeh Bukharian traditions and customs have helped preserve Congregation Beth Itzhak. The synagogue’s rich history is embedded in its new wood carvings from Uzbekistan to be unveiled Sunday.

Almost a year in the making, a series of carvings produced from walnut trees have been installed inside the synagogue’s sanctuary. The pieces include an accordion wall that divides the sanctuary and library; a panel depicting Jerusalem, the Kotel, and the 12 tribes; a menorah; a throne for circumcisions; and an ark, which creates the illusion of walking through the old temple.

The carvings also include two columns that represent fruits symbolic Photos by Sarah Moosazadeh // Ganch and woodcarving of Rosh Hashanah as well artists from Uzbekistan created a series of wooden pieces that reflect the Kotel, Jerusalem, the old temple, as a bimah that reflects the the 12 tribes, and a menorah, as well as two columns seven founding fathers of that portray fruits symbolic of Rosh Hashanah.

Judaism. Once completed, each of the components were shipped to the synagogue in large containers.

BI owner Anatoliy Iskhavov has worked extensively in the last few years to remodel the synagogue and create a unique place of Anatoliy Iskhavov worship by replicating authentic Bukharian designs throughout stands the sanctuary. To help his vision become a reality, Iskhavov reached alongside the out to the Hunarmand society, an entity that conserves Bukharian hand-carved folk culture in Uzbekistan. wooden ark he “The Bukharian Jewish community has been practicing their commissioned for Beth traditions for more than 2,000 years, and part of that tradition is Itzhak.

The wooden bimah portrays the seven founders of Judaism.

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COVER STORY their religion. For some cultures, their religion and culture are indistinguishable, but for the Bukharian Jewish community, those things are tied,” said Iskhavov, who drew inspiration from Sephardic and Bukharian designs to create the new look.

A total of 40 people worked on the project, including the ganch paintings throughout the synagogue, Iskhavov said. In addition to hand carving each piece, six of the artists also traveled to the United States to install the wooden structures.

BI is a branch of the King David Community Center of Atlanta. The synagogue formed in 1998 but because of county regulations they were forced to shut down before they acquired a new property in 2003 in Norcross.

When the AJT last reported on BI, Iskhavov had signed a deal Feb. 9, 2002 for a house listed for $895,000, but after some haggling, Iskhavov reduced it to $700,000. Yet Iskhavov was still $150,000 short before he received $100,000 from the World Congress of Bukharian Jews and $50,000 from the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta endowment fund and then president Eliot Arnovitz.

More than 200 people are expected to attend the grand opening, which will include Rabbi Shmuel Khoshkerman from Congregation Ner Hamizrach in Toco Hills. But Iskhavov believes the highlight of the event will be the revival of the Bukharian Jewish community’s spirituality, not just by ethnicity, but by faith.

“If everything I have hoped for and dreamed of comes into fruition, then I will be very proud.” ■

Artists from Uzbekistan (below) who helped create and install the wood carvings, from left: Azim Kadirov, Anatoliy Iskhavov, Mansur Asadov, Boris Sochakov, Shokir Muminov, Amin Faiziyev and Ahmad Najmiyev.

A hand-carved accordion wall divides the sanctuary and library. A plaster painting hangs above depicting the Exodus.

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SYNAGOGUES The Demise of Bainbridge’s Jewish Community When Roslyn Wolffe tory, emeritus, at the UniverPalmer and Joseph “Jody” sity of Louisville and author Grollman were born in Bainof “Jewish Life in Smallbridge in the middle of the Town America: A History.” last century, the small, but For more than 20 years, he vibrant Jewish community studied small-town Ameriin southwest Georgia concan Jewish life, looking for gregated at Temple Beth El patterns. Of 490 towns, he on weekends. But the comfocused on 12 “and tried to munity was centered downreconstruct what Jewish life town during the rest of the Jan looked like.” week as Jewish merchants Jaben-Eilon Unlike in larger citflourished. ies, where Jews worked in Palmer’s father, Jacob “Jake” Wolffe, sweatshops in the early 1900s, the Jews in initially worked for cousin-owned small towns were shopkeepers, he said.

Wynne’s Department Store, but later Economic downturns affected the enopened his own Jake’s Pawn Shop. Groll- tire populations of small towns, but the man’s father was born in Bainbridge. His impact on the Jewish communities was grandfather peddled merchandise before harsher. Weissbach said a combination opening his own retail and shoe business, of factors led to the diminishing Jewish Grollman’s Department Store, in 1912. populations in small towns.

Constructed in 1916, Bainbridge, Georgia's Temple Beth El was Bainbridge residents knew these were In Bainbridge’s case, Palmer said the built in the style of neo-classical revival architecture.

Jewish-owned stores: They were closed fact that many Bainbridge natives in her during the Jewish holidays. Bainbridge generation didn’t return to the town aflong as we can, but at some point, we will Jews were also prominent participants in ter college meant that there was no one their eventual dissolution.

JCLP helps small congregations “find sell the building.” the community’s civic life. Palmer’s par- to take over family businesses and the Levine said, “Temple Beth El can take ents were involved in the Lions Club and “young people aren’t involved in services. a way to prepare a plan that honorably Red Cross volunteer work.

That’s where the problem is. I’m the only allows them to leave a legacy as well as great pride in its legacy plan. The Temple “Growing up in Bainbridge was like one who has a grandchild living here. make sure their assets go to aspects of documents have been preserved; oral Jewish life that were important to them histories have highlighted the memories Mayberry,” reminisced Grollman, refer- There are no little ones.” ring to the fictional community in the So, Palmer read the writing on the when they were a vibrant congregation,” and reflections of long-time members; the building has been videotaped; perpetTV series starring Andy Griffith. “It was a wall. She contacted the Atlanta-based Jew- Sarnat said.

Levine contacted Palmer and worked ual care of the cemetery is ensured; and good, simple life. It was a very small Jew- ish Community Legacy Project, launched ish community. Our friends were non- several years ago by former Jewish Feder- with the synagogue’s board of directors donations will benefit both the commuJewish. We knew we were different, but ation of Greater Atlanta executives David to write their legacy plan, which was nity of Bainbridge and Jewish interests. we never heard any kind of [anti-Jewish] Sarnat and Noah Levine. Recognizing the completed in January. “It sounded like This is a model of engaging all members remarks. My father was the president of growing number of small Jewish commu- a good idea to have our ducks in a row,” of the congregation under strong Temple the chamber of commerce.” nities with declining populations strug- Palmer said. “It’s like a practical person leadership that will perpetuate the legacy Today, Palmer celebrates her 32nd gling to sustain Jewish life, they started would have a will; we decided the Temple of one of Georgia’s Jewish historic landyear as a member of the Bainbridge city JCLP to help these synagogues plan for needed a will. We decided to continue as marks.”

The synagogue’s plan lays out the council. She’s also president – “by desteps for the eventual dissolution of the fault,” she said – of Temple Beth El, a syncongregation. After its board sells the agogue formally founded in 1902 with building, pays off any debts and closes its the building dedication in 1916. Accorddoors, remaining funds will be donated ing to the local newspaper, townspeople to several organizations, most of which of all faiths attended the dedication are local, Palmer said. Although the exact ceremony. One hundred years later, for distribution of those funds has yet to be the centennial anniversary, local people determined, the board allocated funds again flooded the synagogue, Grollman to go to the Decatur County Family Consaid. “We were well-thought-of in the nection’s Backpack Program, the Decatur community. People came out of respect.”

County Historical and Genealogical SociBut nowadays, Temple Beth El hardety, the First United Methodist Church ly ever has a minyan for services. “If we Food Pantry, the Still Waters Shelter for have a service,” Palmer said, “seven to 12 Women and Children, the Birmingham people come. If we have a dinner, then Holocaust Education Center and JCLP. maybe we get 20 or more because the Although the congregation wanted children and families who aren’t memto support the local community, it decidbers come.” Although a basement had ed to support the Birmingham Holocaust been added to the one-story building to center because Palmer’s cousin is active house a Sunday School, now it’s not used there and her father was a Holocaust at all. survivor, she said.

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SYNAGOGUES to close, but they see the importance of long-range planning, Levine said. ■ This is the first in a series of articles about Jewish life in small towns, sponsored by Atlanta-based Jewish Community Legacy Project. In the Aug. 30 “Atlanta Then and Now” issue, Atlantans from Bainbridge will compare their lives growing up in a small town with life today in the big city.

Reform Temple Beth El will be sold, with funds set to go to the Decatur County Family Connection’s Backpack Program, the Decatur County Historical and Genealogical Society, the First United Methodist Church Food Pantry, the Still Waters Shelter for Women and Children, the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center and JCLP.

An Ashkenazi temple, Beth El is situated with the bimah and ark along the wall that is closest to Jerusalem.

to JCLP because “they give so much to small communities and there were no expenses on our part.”

The board will review its contributions every January “to see if those six organizations are still viable choices. Something could change, and we want to make sure we’re on target,” she said.

While selecting the destinations for a congregation’s final assets is not easy, many small-town Jewish communities have an even harder time facing a future whose end is in sight, Levine said. Oftentimes, there are only a couple of elderly Jews remaining in a town to make the final decisions about a synagogue’s dissolution. That’s why JCLP has filled such an important niche, he said.

So far, 16 JCLP congregations have closed. Thirteen congregations have completed their legacy plans and are still vibrant. Another 37 JCLP congregations are in the legacy planning process. None of those are planning

Roslyn Palmer, a Bainbridge native and longtime city council member, has watched the decline of the Jewish community. As its president, she’s helping Temple Beth El prepare for dissolution.

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SYNAGOGUES

Resilience Key to Temple Emanu-El’s History

By Logan C. Ritchie lritchie@atljewishtimes.com In the mid-1970s, Parkaire Field stopped accepting small aircraft and the Chattahoochee Nature Center started accepting naturalists. Marietta was steadily producing subdivisions full of red brick colonials, swimming pools, clubhouses, HOAs and block parties.

Families were leaving Jewish neighborhoods like Morningside and Toco Hills and areas like Midtown and Buford Highway, heading to the suburbs. As the summer came to a close in 1978 and High Holy Days approached, 10 families on the north side longed for a Reform Jewish community.

The Temple was geographically undesirable; Temple Sinai had a wait list for new members.

On Sept. 15, 1978, Don and June Raster invited a small group to brainstorm.

Just 10 days later the members of The Reform Temple of Roswell held its first Shabbat service in the Rasters’ backyard.

In a flash, Rabbi Donald Tam – with the help of the Union of American He-

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energy, joy and lots of singing and music with a meditative feel. The sanctuary is packed. We are a proud Reform Zionist congregation,” Anderson said.

The congregation shines on Simchat Torah, a spirited holiday to which Anderson brought a heightened sense of participation. After a children’s consecration, an AfroKlezmer band brings the beat as members hang out, dance and read from the Torah as the scroll is unrolled around the room.

“It is the resilience of our synagogue – whether through changes in clergy, the recession, a drop or an increase in membership – that strikes me. The resilience of members, clergy and staff is what keeps the congregation going,” said William Berger, temple historian.

Members since the early years, Berger and his wife, Rhea, watched Temple Emanu-El survive the formation of nearby synagogues, including Congregation Dor Tamid, Temple Beth Tikvah and Temple Kehillat Chaim.

Berger is a former program chair of the Jewish Book Festival and passionate about book collecting. In 2008, Berger wrote a retrospective for Temple EmanuEl’s 30th anniversary that details the history year by year.

“This congregation has invested in programming and people and it shows,” Anderson said. “If you have an involved, kind, lay leadership everything goes better. Here we have a huge percentage relative to other synagogues: onethird of adult members are involved on boards, committees, thought groups ...It’s a volunteer-driven congregation. Many people involved in early years are still active. They’ve watched for two generations the ebb and flow. We are in a good place.”

Arthur Katz was a charter member of Temple Emanu-El.

Temple Emanu-El’s graphic for its 40th anniversary celebration.

brew Congregations – installed a steering committee, charter, constitution and bylaws for newly-branded Temple EmanuEl. New Jersey transplants Arthur and Carol Katz had moved to the suburbs in search of a more attractive place to raise a family, and to escape the Northeast rat race.

“Word had it there was new synagogue starting up in our general area.

We checked it out and said, ‘Let’s do this.’

It’s a story that repeated itself with many members who were joining at that time.

For a while, Emanu-El was the fastest growing synagogue in the United States,” Arthur Katz said.

From Friday night services held at the Dunwoody Decatur Federal Springs Bank to religious school held in members’ homes, Temple Emanu-El grew into a community known for roaming Torahs. The congregation’s first permanent Torah came from Temple Sinai, where Temple Emanu-El held religious school classes for years.

On Sept. 22, 1980, Temple Emanu-El purchased 1580 Spalding Drive in Sandy Springs. The lot was under consideration

by Fulton County Board of Education to house an elementary school, until the idea was rejected.

Change was palpable: Steve Zisser was elected board president, Tam was renewed for three years, Warren Epstein was named architect, and Arthur Blank was building construction chair.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on Feb. 13, 1983. Phillip Ratner, an internationally known biblical artist, was commissioned to design and install the stained glass windows, ark doors, ner tamid (eternal light) and Temple EmanuEl’s distinctive menorah symbol. Still today, members consider the sanctuary the pinnacle of the structure.

“The sanctuary is gorgeous,” said Rabbi Spike Anderson.

The sanctuary is where Temple Emanu-El comes to life. Rabbi Max Miller (who grew up at the synagogue), Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller and Cantor Lauren Adesnik welcome in Shabbat, longtime member Ann Rollins sits down to play the grand piano, and parents shuffle in the door with young children by their sides.

“Friday night services bring high

How Temple Emanu-El Plans to Celebrate In addition to four-week classes on Jewish meditation and exploring the symbolism of the sanctuary, Temple Emanu-El plans to celebrate with several events from now until June 2019.

Aug. 19: Temple Emanu-El Maccabi Games Oct. 6: Gala Celebration Dec. 2: Cantor Lauren Adesnik performs at the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

SYNAGOGUES

Shema Yisrael Is Still the Open Synagogue When Shema Yisrael – The Open Synagogue held its first high holiday services almost 20 years ago, they were held in the Atlanta Civic Center auditorium, a vast performance space, seating 4,500 with a theater stage to match.

It was a wildly ambiBob tious start with an even Bahr more ambitious mission, to help break down some of the barriers that existed then in the community and open the holiday services to the largest possible attendance of worshippers.

Among its founding principles was that there would be no dues and no membership requirements and that it was to be a synagogue embracing all that is Jewish, without much regard to the denominational lines that separate, then, as now, in organized Judaism in this country.

For most of those 20 years, Unity Atlanta Church in Peachtree Corners has hosted Shema Yisrael for its high holidays. For the 10 days of the holiday, the

synagogue moves its ark, two Torahs, and hundreds of its prayer books, and holds services in the facility’s main sanctuary.

The long-standing partnership shows the commitment the Unity movement in America has to promoting interfaith outreach and understanding. In its principles, it stresses that G-d is not a physical man in the sky, rather it invites people to explore inspirational ideas that will lead to a deeper, more fulfilling understanding of the Divine.

Strongly endorsing this idea is Eugen Schoenfeld, the synagogue’s resident wise man and AJT contributor known for his talks as a Holocaust survivor.

“I fervently believe that the essence of the high holidays is the importance of telling all people, bar none, that everyone is responsible for peace, that there is accountability to improve the world.”

Schoenfeld maintains that the notion that G-d has handed off a world in

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Atlanta artist, Flora Rosefsky, created this large paper collage, “Beneath Thy Wings,” for the Yizkor memorial service on Yom Kippur.

need of repair is central to the ideas that confront us on the high holidays.

“G-d has given two tasks for mankind: to complete and perfect the world and to complete and perfect himself. You can either ask G-d for more things, for more wealth, for more life, or you can ask Him for understanding, the knowledge to improve ourselves.”

The most important aspect of the coming holidays, he maintains, is not in the pleading before a G-d sitting in judgment, but in the coming together in the synagogue as a sacred community “It is, perhaps, that the prayers are less important than the fact that the words of the prayers unite us with the generations of the past. Where does it make more sense than to have that feeling in a synagogue, the sense of historical community, the klal yisrael, the historical Jewish collective?”

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Cantor Herb Cole and Bob Bahr lead high holiday services together at Shema Yisrael.

and sister along with many close relatives in the Nazi genocide, so he has a deep appreciation for the sense of community that the holidays bring. It’s reflected not only in his extensive knowledge of traditional Judaism during his long life, but in the unique modern sensibility he has cultivated.

“I go to the services, and I suggest that many go, to feel that they are not alone in our Jewish world. We are all seeking belonging,” he said. “There is this yearning to be a part of that golden chain of Jewish history.”

The changing view on high holiday observance is perhaps part of a broader American movement to decide individually what constitutes meaningful religious or spiritual experience.

Picking and choosing from a variety of ideas and practices is particularly important for older, liberal Jews. The trend even has a name. The Swedish sociologist, Lars Tornstam, who has studied how religious practice changes as we age, called it “gerotranscendence.” As we mature, we become less materialistic, he discovered, and more connected to others.

That connection still survives at The Open Synagogue, even though the place where it was born, the Atlanta Civic Center auditorium, is just a memory today. ■ Bob Bahr leads high holiday services at Shema Yisrael at Unity Atlanta Church in Peachtree Corners and for the residents at Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit in Sandy Springs. For more information, go to www. shemaweb.org.

SYNAGOGUES

Angels 4 Angels Put Best Foot Forward

The shul in the center of the city

by Marcia Caller Jaffe mjaffe@atljewishtimes.com

Rina Wolfe and Roslyn Konter founded Angels 4 Angels in memory of friends who passed away from breast cancer.

The founders of the Angels 4 Angels team in the annual Susan G. Komen 3-Day breast cancer walk are gearing up for the October event while basking in their recent award from the national nonprofit. Rina Wolfe and Rosyln Konter went to Dallas in June to receive an award from the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Lifetime Commitment Circle for hitting the $1 million fundraising mark.

The pair, both members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, actually raised $1.4 million for breast cancer.

They founded Angels for Angels in memory of three friends who passed away from breast cancer before the age of 50.

The 4 in Angels 4 Angels is in memory of unnamed angels and countless others who have been lost and others who have survived and thrived.

When Wolfe received the phone call about the honor, she was excited and humbled and insisted that it be shared with her co-captain who had been by her side for the past 12 years of 3-day walks.

“The feeling of being at the table (in Dallas) with the doctors, researchers and scientists who are finding the cure was in-

describable. We really couldn’t believe we were there,” Wolfe said.

Angels 4 Angels was inscribed into a permanent mural at the Komen Texas headquarters along with 33 other top fundraisers. Together, through the 3-day walk, they’ve collectively raised more than $34 million.

The Susan G. Komen 3-Day is a 60-mile walk for women and men that raises money for breast cancer research, education and community outreach. Participants raise a minimum of $2,300 and walk an average of 20 miles a day for three consecutive days.

In addition to Angels 4 Angels, Wolfe chairs the AA Sisterhood’s annual Worship In Pink Shabbat honoring all of those who fought and are fighting cancer either themselves or alongside others. Worship In Pink will be Oct. 6 at AA Synagogue. ■

The largest Sephardic synagogue in the Southeast nestled in the Brookhaven neighborhood of Atlanta.

1681 North Druid Hills Road, Brookhaven 30319 404-633-1737 office@orveshalom.org

If you’re interested in joining the Angels 4 Angels team for the three-day walk, email RinaWolfe10@gmail.com. For more information about the walk, visit komen.org/GetInvolved/SusanGKomen3DayFortheCure.html.

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SYNAGOGUE GUIDE Find Your Place for the Holidays 's List of Atlanta Shuls by Denomination

High Holiday Candle-Lighting Times for Atlanta, Ga.: 18 Minutes before Sunset

CHABAD Torah Portion

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Chabad Enrichment Center of Gwinnett

Chabad Israeli Center

3855 Holcomb Bridge Road Suite 400, Norcross 30092 678-595-0196 | www.chabadofgwinnett.org

4276 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta 30341 404-252-9508 | www.cicatlanta.com

Serving the Jewish communities of Gwinnett and Hall counties, Chabad Enrichment Center of Gwinnett is committed to providing every Jew of the area the opportunity to celebrate Jewish programs that nurture connection, belonging, cultural fulfillment, and spiritual growth.

Chabad Israeli Center offers summer camp, winter break camp, adult education, ulpan, Judaica and more.

Vayelech Sunday, Sep 9, 2018 7:34 PM Eve of First day Rosh Hashanah Vayelech Monday, Sep 10, 2018 8:28 PM Eve of Second day Rosh Hashanah Vayelech Tuesday, Sep 11, 2018 8:27 PM Holiday Ends: 8:27 PM

Chabad Lubavitch of Georgia

Ha’Azinu

Tuesday, Sep 18, 2018

7:22 PM Eve of Yom Kippur

Ha’Azinu

Wednesday, Sep 19, 2018

8:15 PM Holiday Ends

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

No tickets needed. Call for more information.

Chabad Intown 928 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta 30306 404-898-0434 | www.chabadintown.org Chabad Intown provides opportunities to learn about and experience Jewish tradition and heritage through Intown Jewish Preschool, Mommy and Me, Intown Hebrew School, Intown Jewish Academy, and Young Jewish Professionals.

Erev Rosh Hashana services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:30 a.m.

No cost. Registration appreciated.

5065 High Point Road, Atlanta 30342 404-843-2464 | www.chabadatlanta.com Chabad of Georgia offers youth services and programming, adult education, Chaya Mushka Children’s Preschool, special needs activities for children and adults and summer and winter camps.

Chabad of Athens-UGA 1491 S. Lumpkin Street, Athens 30605 706-369-1289 | www.jewishdawgs.com Serving college students at the University of Georgia and surrounding colleges, Chabad of Athens-UGA is a Jewish student center providing social, educational, recreational and spiritual programming for students.

Chabad of Cobb

Chabad of Kennesaw Center

4450 Lower Roswell Road, Marietta 30068 770-565-4412 | www.chabadofcobb.com

1480 Shiloh Road NW, Suite 500 Kennesaw 30144 770-400-9255 | www.chabadkennesaw.org

Chabad of Cobb is more than just a synagogue.

It is a home for any Jew looking for a warm and spiritual place to grow. At Chabad, everybody is welcome.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:15 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:30 a.m.

Kol Nidrei services 7:15 p.m.

Chabad of Downtown Universities

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 10:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $100 suggested donation per adult and $50 per child.

471 10th Street NW, Atlanta 30318 678-304-8672 | www.chabaddtu.com

Chabad of North Fulton

Chabad prides itself on creating a home away from home for Jewish students at Georgia Tech and Georgia State. Through diverse and dynamic programming, Chabad offers weekly Shabbat services and dinners, trips, social events, and engaging Jewish educational opportunities.

10180 Jones Bridge Road, Johns Creek 30022 770-410-9000 | www.chabadnf.corg

Chabad of Emory

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:30 a.m.

Kol Nidrei services 7:15 p.m.

Ticket Cost: Reserved seats $100 each.

Open seating on a first-come first-serve basis.

No membership or tickets needed.

1526 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta 30307 404-441-3199 | www.chabademory.org Chabad Emory is a space where students socialize in a comfortable home-like setting with great friends, superb food, and stimulating discussion.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 10:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 10:30 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $18 suggested donation for students, $100 suggested for community members and $54 for dinner.

Chabad of Forsyth 795 Branning Road, Cumming 30041 470-253-7111 | www.jewishforsyth.org Chabad of Forsyth is the outreach branch for North Georgia. A warm and inviting community, experience Chabad Forsyth’s events, programs and services.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:15 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:15 a.m.

Ticket Cost: Reserved seats $100 each. Open seating $50 each. Children aged 2-13 $36 each.

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Chabad of Kennesaw’s presence spans from Kennesaw State University to local education, services and more.

Chabad of North Fulton serves the growing Jewish communities in North Fulton. Including Alpharetta, Crabapple, Duluth, Johns Creek, Milton, and Roswell. Satellite offices are in Roswell and Alpharetta.

Chabad of Peachtree City 632 Dogwood Trail, Tyrone 30290 678-595-0199 | www.chabadsouthside.com Serving Jewish Atlanta’s south side, Chabad of Peachtree City offers Shabbat services, holiday programs, classes for adults and children, hospital visits, lifecycle events and one-on-one guidance.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:30 a.m.

No costs nor ticket needed.

SYNAGOGUE GUIDE Congregation B’Nai Torah Chabad of Toco Hills 1985 Lavista Road, Atlanta 30329 404-337-6116 | www.chabadtoco.com Chabad of Toco Hills is a young and vibrant shul that opened in 2016. CTH is open to people of all backgrounds with a special focus on young families. Join CTH for services, family holiday celebrations, youth classes, and men’s and women’s events.

700 Mt. Vernon Hwy NE, Atlanta 30328 404-257-0537 | www.bnaitorah.org Congregation B’nai Torah is a vibrant, egalitarian, Conservative congregation in the heart of Sandy Springs. B’nai Torah is a warm, welcoming community, offering a broad range of opportunities for worship, learning, and social activities for all ages.

Join us for services, or our Hanukkah and Purim community festivals.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:30 a.m.

Kol Nidrei services 7:15 p.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:30 a.m.

No costs nor ticket needed.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:30 a.m.

No cost. Call to reserve seat.

Congregation Beth Israel

1190 Indian Hills Parkway, Marietta 30068 770-973-0137 | www.etzchaim.net

795 Branning Road, Cumming 30041 470-253-7111 | www.jewishforsyth.org Preschool, Hebrew school, Shabbat dinners and adult education are available at Congregation Beth Israel, located together with Chabad of Forsyth.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:15 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:15 a.m.

Ticket Cost: Reserved seats $100 each. Open seating $50 each. Children aged 2 – 13 $36 each.

Congregation Beth Tefillah

Congregation Etz Chaim

Congregation Etz Chaim was established in 1975 to address the Jewish community of north metro Atlanta. An affiliate of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Etz Chaim is a modern Conservative synagogue committed to blending tradition and change.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:30 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $200 each. $72 for college students.

Chabad of Atlanta 5065 High Point Road, Atlanta 30342 404-843-2464 | www.bethtefillah.org

Congregation Gesher L’Torah

Congregation Beth Tefillah is a synagogue and center of learning for Jews of all backgrounds. Affiliated with Chabad of Georgia, CBT’s mission is to engender a feeling of comfort and belonging in all Jews.

Gesher L’torah prides itself on catering to members, no matter their personal experience or background: Traditional or not traditional, interfaith families, Jewish by choice or exploring Jewish life.

4320 Kimball Bridge Road, Alpharetta 30022 770-777-4009 | www.gltorah.org

Ticket Cost: Member reserved seat: $72.

Non-member reserved seat: $180.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $180, limited ticket for $36

CONSERVATIVE

Congregation Or Hadash

Ahavath Achim Synagogue 600 Peachtree Battle Avenue, Atlanta 30327 404-355-5222 | www.aasynagogue.org Celebrating 130 years, Ahavath Achim Synagogue is a historical, egalitarian congregation driven by social action, Jewish continuity, cultural, arts and education.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $100 each for non-members.

No cost for college students, active members of the military, and Atlanta Jewish professionals.

Congregation Beth Shalom 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody 30360 770-399-5300 | www.bethshalomatlanta.org Beth Shalom is an egalitarian, Conservative synagogue committed to creating meaningful and lasting Jewish experiences for members.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:15 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:30 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $180 each

Your go to place for anything Jewish in North Fulton Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz Rabbi Gedalya & Ruthy Hertz 10180 Jones Bridge Road Johns Creek, GA 30022 770-410-9000 www.chabadnf.org

7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs 30328 404-250-3338 | www.or-hadash.org Or Hadash is an egalitarian, Conservative congregation dedicated to providing a warm and welcoming Jewish environment in which to build spiritual and social connections through prayer, learning, music and tikkun olam. We believe that a caring community is a holy community.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $198 for non-members. $36 for young adults. No cost for students and military members with ID.

Congregation Shearith Israel 1180 University Drive, Atlanta 30306 404-873-1743 | www.shearithisrael.com With more than 110 years of history, Congregation Shearith Israel has entered its next chapter.

Shearith Israel is an egalitarian, Conservative synagogue devoted to spiritual and religious enrichment, Jewish education and community.

Shearith Israel closely follows Jewish tradition while having the insights of modern thought.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:15 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

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SYNAGOGUE GUIDE NONDENOMINATIONAL Congregation Kehillat HaShem 640 Stone House Lane NW, Marietta 30064 770-218-8094 | www.rabbiatlanta.com Temple Kehillat HaShem in Roswell draws from a five-county area. As a friendly, inclusive synagogue that welcomes all types of families, enjoy programs for tots through senior adults.

Religious school is held only on Sundays and features the Institute of Southern Jewish Life curriculum, which engages students’ imaginations as they gain Jewish values.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 10:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 10:30 a.m.

No Cost. Call to reserve seat.

Congregation Shema Yisrael The Open Synagogue 6065 Roswell Road, Atlanta 30328 404-998-5410 | www.shemaweb.org The Shema Yisrael mission is to be a synagogue embracing all that is Jewish by seeking to nurture an inclusive and caring spiritual community reflecting Klal Yisrael (The Peoplehood of Israel). Shema Yisrael is dedicated to the premise that “we can worship G-D in holiness only as we serve one another in love.”

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 11:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 11:00 a.m.

Kol Nidrei services 7:00 p.m.

Ticket Cost: $75 each

Guardians of the Torah P.O. Box 767981, Roswell 30076 770-286-3477 | www.guardiansofthetorah.com Guardians of the Torah is a congregation without walls that is open to all. Guardians of the Torah is also an organization that supports police and other public safety officers and first responders in need of spiritual support. We profess our devotion to G-d, our commitment to studying Torah.

ORTHODOX Congregation Anshi S’Fard 1324 N. Highland Avenue NE, Atlanta 30306 404-969-6763 | www.anshisfard.org Anshi includes a wide array of professionals, artisans, and academics, singles, families, Holocaust survivors, grandparents and retirees.

Congregation Ariel

Congregation Netzach Israel

5237 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody 30338 770-390-9071 | www.congariel.org

1985 Lavista Road, Atlanta 30329 www.netzachisrael.org

An Orthodox community in beautiful Dunwoody, the Ariel family welcomes Jews of all ages, stages and backgrounds with daily minyanim; classes with the rabbis; one-on-one learning; events for women; youth groups; tot Shabbat; teen barbecues; father/son learning; a modern sanctuary and social hall; an eruv and a mikvah; and fun, learning and growth for all.

Email us for more information: office@netzachisrael.org.

Erev Rosh Hashanah 8:00 a.m. and 7:45 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Kol Nidrei services 5:30 p.m. and 8:16 p.m.

Yom Kippur 6:30 a.m.

Ticket Cost: Reserved seat at a table or in-town guest $108. Reserved chair or out-of-town guest tickets $54 each.

Congregation Beth Itzkhak 6030 Goodwood Boulevard, Norcross 30093 678-200-8897 | facebook.com/BeitItzkhak Congregation Beth Itzkhak offers catering for all your needs under AKC supervision.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:00 a.m.

No cost.

Congregation Beth Jacob 1855 Lavista Road, Atlanta 30329 404-633-0551 | www.bethjacobatlanta.org

New Toco Shul 2003 Lavista Road, Atlanta 30329 770-765-7485 | www.newtocoshul.com New Toco Shul was founded on the ideas that every individual has unique abilities and perspectives, that we are obligated to share our talents with others, and that our community is strongest when our members contribute to its success and well-being. Rabbinic and lay partners work together to provide a platform for sophisticated and nuanced Torah, reflective and meaningful Tefillah, and supportive and enriching Gemilut Chassadim.

The Kehilla of Sandy Springs 5075 Roswell Road, Atlanta 30342 404-913-6131 | www.thekehilla.org Kehilla means community, and that is exactly what it is: a warm and diverse community where everyone is welcomed and accepted for who they are.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

No cost.

Beth Jacob Atlanta is truly the Orthodox synagogue for all Jews. Beth Jacob aims to inspire and motivate individuals and families at all levels of observance to strengthen their Jewish connection. The Atlanta Scholars Kollel and Beth Jacob co-host study groups and workshops, presenting timely topics with a Jewish perspective.

Young Israel of Toco Hills

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:35 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 12:00 p.m.

No cost.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 7:15 and 8:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:30 a.m.

No cost.

Congregation Ner Hamizrach 1858 Lavista Road, Atlanta 30329 404-315-9020 | www.nerhamizrach.org Congregation Ner Hamizrach was founded in 1991 to serve the spiritual needs of the growing Sephardic Jewish population in Atlanta. The synagogue is home to a warm and welcoming kehilla, steeped in the Sephardic tradition of nusach Edot Hamizrach. Ner Hamizrach is a strong leader in the Atlanta Orthodox Jewish Community.

2056 Lavista Road, Atlanta 30329 404-315-1417 | www.yith.org Our mission is to inspire people to make themselves and their lives better through the wisdom of the Torah. Our diverse congregation follows Orthodox traditions.

RECONSTRUCTIONIST Congregation Bet Haverim 2074 Lavista Road, Atlanta 30329 404-315-6446 | congregationbethaverim.org Congregation Bet Haverim is a Reconstructionist synagogue founded by lesbians and gay men and embracing all Jews and their loved ones.

Shabbat services include Erev Shabbat with music from our chorus, tot Shabbat for little ones, a chant service and a monthly Shabbat dinner.

We also offer Parent ’n’ Me and Sing ’n’ Play programs for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 10:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 10:00 a.m.

No cost nor tickets needed.

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REFORM Congregation B’nai Israel 1633 Highway 54E, Jonesboro 30238 678-817-7162 | www.bnai-israel.net The mission of Congregation B’nai Israel is to welcome and to engage Jews with open minds and open hearts. We are a warm and caring multi-generational Jewish community for Jews and interfaith families on the southside of Atlanta. If you’re seeking a joyful connection to the southside Atlanta Jewish community, we welcome you.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 10:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 10:00 a.m.

Call for more information.

Congregation Dor Tamid 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek 30097 770-623-8860 | www.dorta.m.id.org A Reform synagogue serving the Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Greater North Fulton, South Forsyth, and Gwinnett area founded to create meaningful and enduring religious experiences for our members and their families. We actively welcome all families and individuals interested in participating in Jewish life and in the community of the congregation.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:30 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $72 for guests. Purchase online.

Congregation Ner Tamid 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220 Marietta 30060 678-264-8575 | www.mynertamid.info Congregation Ner Tamid is a growing Reform synagogue serving West Cobb, South Cobb, Paulding, Kennesaw, Acworth and surrounding areas. We offer a warm, welcoming environment where we are dedicated to honoring the traditions of our heritage while creating a Jewish experience that is relevant to today’s society.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 10:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 10:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $72 for member guests. $108 for non-members. No Cost: Students with ID and children 12 and under. Purchase online.

Temple Beth David 1885 McGee Road SW, Snellville 30078 770-978-3916 | www.templebethdavid.info Temple Beth David began in 1981 as the first formal Jewish presence in Gwinnett County. TBD provides a continuing spirit of worship and service that does not sacrifice the family closeness.

TBD offers weekly services, holiday celebrations, lifecycle events and educational programs.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $100 each per service or $175 for all services.

No cost for college students, active military, EMT, firefighters and police with photo ID.

SYNAGOGUE GUIDE Temple Beth Tikvah

The Temple

9955 Coleman Road, Marietta 30075 770-642-0434 | www.bethtikvah.com

1589 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta 30309 404-873-1731 | www.the-temple.org

Temple Beth Tikvah’s proud history of inclusion, ritual, and support is paving the way to an exciting future. Get to know Temple Beth Tikvah and become a part of the rich experiences available.

The Temple, founded in 1867, blends tradition with innovation to create a vibrant and warm atmosphere that is inviting to all who walk through its famous red doors on Peachtree Street. In addition to upholding The Temple’s deep-seated roots within the greater Atlanta community, The Temple’s clergy and staff have dedicated themselves to engaging with each congregant.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $180 each

Temple Emanu-El 1580 Spalding Drive, Atlanta 30350 770-395-1340 | templeemanuelatlanta.org Everyone knows that Temple Emanu-El is more than just a Reform congregation. It is a warm, caring neighborhood synagogue focused on transforming the local community. We embody the Jewish values of audacious hospitality and authentic companionship. Together we are building a congregation of thought-leaders, spiritual seekers, and engaged Jewish change-makers.

Erev Rosh Hashanah 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $50 for out-of-town relatives. No cost for visitor tickets.

SEPHARDIC Congregation Ner Hamizrach 1858 Lavista Road NE, Atlanta 30329 404-315-9020 | www.nerhamizrach.com

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: Non-members $249 each. Unaffiliated family members $99 each.

No cost for full-time college students.

Congregation Ner Hamizrach was founded in 1991 to serve the spiritual needs of the growing Sephardic Jewish population in Atlanta. The synagogue is home to a warm and welcoming kehilla, steeped in the Sephardic tradition of nusach Edot Hamizrach. Ner Hamizrach is a strong leader in the Atlanta Orthodox Jewish community.

Temple Kehillat Chaim

Congregation Or VeShalom

1145 Green Street, Roswell 30075 770-641-8630 | www.kehillatchaim.org Temple Kehillat Chaim, which means Community of Life, is a Jewish Reform congregation located in Historic Roswell. We seek to meet the spiritual, educational, cultural and social needs of our members.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 10:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 10:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: Member relative tickets $75 each. Call to purchase visitor tickets.

Temple Kol Emeth 1415 Old Canton Road, Marietta 30062 770-973-3533 | www.kolemeth.net TKE is a Southern Reform congregation in suburban Atlanta. Our demographics provide us with a congregation diverse in age and background.

Temple Kol Emeth welcomes Jews by choice and interfaith families. We are a community built on the pursuits of Torah (study), Avodah (worship), Tzedakah (charity) and Maasim Tovim (good deeds).

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 9:00 a.m.

Ticket Cost: $195 each

Temple Sinai 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs 30327 404-252-3073 | www.templesinaiatlanta.org Temple Sinai is a vibrant Reform congregation in Sandy Springs that values lifelong Jewish learning, a warm spirit of community, a sense of inclusivity and active participation in Jewish life. Our community serves as a center of Jewish life and as an extended, caring family for which we provide a Jewish context for life experiences.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 9:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 3:30 p.m.

No cost and open to the community.

1681 N. Druid Hills Road NE, Atlanta 30319 404-633-1737 | www.orveshalom.org Congregation Or VeShalom is a Sephardic synagogue in Brookhaven. At 400 families strong, we are dedicated to the spiritual and intellectual growth of our members. Building on over 100 years of tradition, we embrace our history and envision a strong future with innovative programming. Come and experience the Sephardic warmth, culture and welcoming community.

Congregation Ariel Something special is happening in Dunwoody!

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:45 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:00 a.m.

Call for guest tickets.

TRADITIONAL Congregation Shaarei Shamayim 1600 Mt. Mariah Road NE, Atlanta 30329 404-417-0472 | www.shaareisha.m.ayim.com Congregation Shaarei Shamayim is the boutique intown traditional shul. It’s a place of inspiration, comfort, companionship and healing. In an effort to break down the artificial barriers and labels that separate our people, the principle of Ahavat Yisrael (love of our fellow Jew) takes center stage, and all are welcome. That is why we offer both separate (mechitzah) and mixed seating for men and women.

Erev Rosh Hashanah services 6:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah services 8:00 a.m.

Yom Kippur services 8:30 a.m.

Ticket Cost: Suggested donation of $100.

Call to purchase.

Daily SERVICES • CLASSES • WOMEN’s programs YOUTH groups • TOT Shabbat • TEEN barbecues • HOLIDAY FUN BOYS and GIRLS CLUBS • ERUV and MIKVAH

Join us for High Holidays, a Shabbat kiddush, or one of our many classes. Meet the Rabbis and make new friends!

We are an Orthodox Synagogue and a Community for every Jew. We look forward to welcoming you!

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ARTS Spielberg at 70: A Spiritual Journey

By Breanna West Every Wednesday morning for four weeks, journalist Bob Bahr led a film and lecture series at The Temple to show and analyze films by Jewish Director Steven Spielberg. With coffee in hand, community members gathered in a conference room to explore the films and learn about Spielberg.

“We’re looking at Steven Spielberg’s life as a spiritual journey. Early in his life he did everything he could to deny that he was Jewish,” said Bahr, who is a former reporter, producer and news executive for CBS News and former producer with CNN’s documentary unit.

The first show in the film series was a 1986 cartoon called “An American Tail,” about a Russian-Jewish mouse that moves to America. The second week was a showing of the 1982 film “E.T.,” which “a lot of people don’t think of as a Jewish film, but it was very autobiographical,” Bahr said, referring to Spielberg’s childhood.

In the third week, Bahr played the 2005 film, “Munich,” a period piece about the 11 Israeli athletes who were assassinated by a Palestinian terrorist group at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, and Is-

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rael’s retaliation.

Bahr posed this question about Munich to the audience: “Steven Spielberg, the filmmaker, is asking us ‘Where does the ultimate responsibility lie in political violence?’”

The characters in “Munich” raise questions about what it means to have a clear conscience and what it means to be a Jew, and to Bahr, the film wrestles with the concept of “how one takes moral responsibility for murder,” he said. “What does vengeance do to a nation and to a person’s soul?”

Marjorie Epstein found “Munich” to be “very compelling,” and said that overall attending Bahr’s class has allowed her to be “a little more in touch with Spielberg.”

After watching clips of “Munich,” Bobi Dimond said she was full of “memories and thoughts about the families and the people.” Dimond said, “I feel like we’ve all been through things, but nothing like what people went through then.”

Bahr believes Spielberg’s intention is to raise the question of morality to his viewers. “This film is a moral lesson for us, a way to question our own beliefs, a way to discuss among ourselves what’s

Bob Bahr addresses audiences at The Temple on Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film, “Munich.”

Bahr has combined his interest in film and Judaism for his lecture series covering topics such as morality and political violence.

right and wrong in what circumstances,” he said.

A showing of Spielberg’s 1993 film, “Schindler’s List,” concluded the lecture series.

About the filmmaker, Bahr said, “He’s made his Jewish life and his Jewish roots a part of his work; so many directors have not.”

Bahr said he was inspired to host

film classes based on his newfound love of teaching and his belief that “there is a tremendous need in the Atlanta Jewish community for really quality, relevant adult education.”

Being in front of his community in his Spielberg lecture series lends itself to his interest in “how American Jews come to terms with their Judaism and come to terms with their love of Israel,” he said. ■

Levine cherishes this Salvador Dali sculpture (circa 1977, above left), “Alice in Wonderland.” This intricate vertical paper collage (right) in the upstairs mezzanine is the Ten Commandments, “Celebration of Life,” by Charles Fazzino.

Photos by Duane Stork // Levine imported much of the furniture from Miami, such as this eggplant leather banquette

on Lucite. The painting on the left is Vietnamese artist Huong's “Red Balloons.” Center, “Dancing Couple” is by Lee Moore from Tula Gallery. The glass sculpture in the center of the table is from a trip to Murano, Italy.

Chai Style Homes

Teri Levine often uses orange and red tones to complete her contemporary and cubist paintings.

Colorful Cubist Is Self -Taught

On the sentimental side, my grandfather left me an intricate wire sculpture, “El Matador,” (1920) which I purposefully positioned adjacent to my own contrasting work “Reflecting in the Garden” (2009).

I am always looking for art, but I am running out of room.

Teri Levine’s tri-level Sandy Springs townhouse is morphed into free-wheeling women, couples and a forward-facing statement about living artfully. The shapes. One could say I have loosened up. I started with décor assembled from Miami to the South of France is classes at Chastain [Arts Center], Spruill Center for the not outdone by her top-floor studio where she creates Arts and Atlanta College of Art. I am branded now as “contemporary.” her own designs. Artists rightfully don’t want to be compared to others’ styles, but Jaffe: Who are some of the artists you Levine’s work does have a Chagall/Picasso collect? feel. The mother of three boys, Levine is an Levine: I admire a Romanian child Atlanta native who began painting as an exprodigy Alexandra Nechita (referred to as pression of emotion and grief 25 years ago “the petite Picasso”). Upstairs I have her after her brother’s tragic death in a car ac“Mother and Child” oil (1992). Now she is cident at age 36. Self-taught, Levine muses, a married woman. It’s not about flaunting “I can get ideas for subjects while riding prices, but her work was commanding in in a taxi in Manhattan, seeing fireworks, the six figures when she was 11 years old. a building with graffiti, or even watching Marcia Perhaps my favorite piece is in the dinhair react to a blow dryer. It’s the impor- Caller Jaffe ing room by a Vietnamese artist Huong, tance of movement.”

“Red Balloon,” which expresses her trauma from the war and notion of peace through art. I also treasure my Jaffe: How would you describe your painting style?

Levine: I would label is as figurative. I like move- gold Salvador Dali sculpture, “Alice in Wonderland,” ment and happy colors. There are a lot of orange and circa 1977.

Lee Moore did the “Dancing Couple” from Tula Galred tones in my work. I started in oil, then went to acrylic, now both. I also began doing landscapes, which lery in Buckhead.

Jaffe: Why did you import much of your own furniture from South Florida?

Levine: I think Miami and Boca are unapologetically sophisticated with a modern verve of informed design. Florida has such a range of influences combined with sleekness. Where else can you find a high aubergine leather banquet footed on Lucite or a goat-skinned table?

I do mix it up with several pieces, desks, consoles, in distressed weathered wood in moss and off-white to tone the mood down. My master bedroom is done entirely in cream and ivory. I use many traditional local sources too, like Belles Choses for linens, Lighting Loft, Interior Philosophy, and Roswell Antiques [and Interiors] and Scott [Antique} Markets.

Jaffe: What works have you collected along your travels?

Levine: One of my favorites is a musical triptych (2012) by a Jewish artist, Lena Karpinsky from Toronto.

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ARTS Levine’s grandfather willed her this 1922 wire sculpture, “El Matador,” which is juxtaposed with her own modern work, “Reflecting in the Garden.” 2009

Artist Teri Levine relaxes with ragdoll cat, Mickey, and a sample of her own scarf and pillow home décor and fashion designs.

Levine commissioned this musical triptych (below) in Toronto from Jewish artist Lena Karpinsky. A moss green, distressed olive wood desk (right) accents oil, “Woman with Snake,” by Garnissia from Eze, France, alongside a Murano glass fish sculpture.

France, and the Old City.

My driftwood on metal is from India via ADAC [Atlanta Decorative Arts Center].

I do value Judaica, which is housed in the round floor-to-ceiling glass cabinet.

Upstairs is a floor-length vertical, detailed paper collage of the Ten Commandments, “A Celebration of Life,” by [Charles] Fazzino.

Jaffe: Where is your art shown?

Levine: I have work in galleries and shows in Santa Fe, Fort Lauderdale, Biloxi, Nashville, and several in

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Follow what you feel.

Don’t create to sell.

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Levine admires Romanian child prodigy Alexandra Nechita, often called “the petite Picasso.” Nechita’s “Mother and Child” 1992 is shown here.

ARTS

Levine’s master bedroom is decorated in off-white to balance out the colorful main rooms. Linens are from Belles Choses. Fabric is from Ainsworth-Noah.

Atlanta: Atlanta Artists Center, the Defoor Centre, and HomeGrown Decatur. My home and fashion designs have been at the High Museum of Art gift shop. My website is the best source.

Jaffe: Your website has some pretty cool designs that manifest your art.

Levine: I have marvelous craftspeople that transfer my designs to luxurious and fun scarves, pillows and more. I am affiliated with the online VIDA store as a global partner.

You can infer from the labels how much fun I am having. Scarves have names like “Fireworks” and “Jungle in Costa Rica; unisex tees are “Kite Fun,” “Italian Romance” and “Underwater Fantasy.” I have leather purses and clutches with a vision of the Old City, and cashmere tops. My “look”

is immediately identifiable. Even charm bracelets and yoga and Capri pants. My work is also for sale on Alibaba, the “Chinese Amazon.”

Jaffe: Tell us about Mickey.

Levine: He is a ragdoll cat who is photobombing our pictures. Most common in Great Britain, ragdolls are known as “puppy cats,” as he follows me from room to room. They are also known for going limp when they are picked up. I haven’t decided if he will sit still so I can paint him. The patio is filled with exotic birds that fascinate us both.

Jaffe: How would you advise someone who wants to become an artist?

Levine: There are a lot of ways to get involved. Follow what you feel. Don’t create to sell. ■

Photos by Duane Stork // The master bedroom distressed wood table and horse themed lamps

are from Peachtree Battle Antiques & Interiors and carry through the off-white décor.

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COMMUNITY Labor Day Weekend Sunday, September 2nd | 11am - 5pm Monday, September 3rd | 11am - 4pm Jewish Soul Food

Free Admission

Arts & Crafts

Bagel Eating Contest

Kid’s Activities

GAChip (Child ID Program)

Live Entertainment Mini Photo sessions

Noshfest.com Temple Kol Emeth 1415 Old Canton Rd. • Marietta, GA 30062

Dancing, singing and storytelling are part of the Israeli scouts' entertainment.

Israeli Scouts Spread Message of Peace Tzofim Friendship Caravan attracted nearly 150 people when nine Israeli scouts came through Atlanta last month and performed at Congregation Dor Tamid. Their mission is to bring excitement, energy and friendship to North America from Israel.

“I got so much good feedback from people that came to the show for their first time,” said Hagit Yehudai, who is from Israel and organized the performance.

She heard about the Caravan last year and volunteered to bring the group to Atlanta, recruiting sponsors to fund the show, finding a place to hold it, and seeking help from families who would host the teen performers.

The performance at Teen Israeli scouts share their message of hope and peace at Dor Tamid.

Dor Tamid July 29 was sponsored by the Israeli American Council Atlanta; Israeli House; HMY Realty Group; Café Crema; and Tzofim Atlanta.

Jewish National Fund also partnered with the Caravan because of its “shared mission of strengthening the bond between Israel and North America,” Yehudai said. The show at Dor Tamid included a short video about JNF, and the organization’s trademark blue tzedakah boxes collected donations.

Any proceeds from the event help the Caravan “so we can enjoy them for years to come.” Yehudai said she is already starting to plan a Caravan visit to Atlanta again next year. ■

Tzofim Friendship Caravan travels around the country to bring energy, excitement and friendship to America.

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COMMUNITY More Than One Kind of Survivor Holocaust survivor Bebe Forehand recently shared her story of survival and offered hope to homeless teens from ChopArt at a week-long camp at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.

Like Anne Frank, Forehand was hidden away from the Nazis in an attic in Belgium. A family friend brought food, books and reading materials to her family while in hiding. She survived along with her mother, father, grandfather and brother.

Other Holocaust survivors and educators also spoke with the ChopArt campers.

“Our young women learned that they are not the only ‘survivors,’” said Malika Whitley, ChopArt founder and CEO, who was homeless for 10 years from age 6 to 16. “The girls discovered that Jewish people had also survived discrimination and near destruction.”

ChopArt helps homeless youth ages 10 to 18 express themselves through art. In Atlanta, ChopArt works with kids to build coping skills, self-esteem and hope for the future.

Participants in the “From Generation to Generation” camp July 16 to 20 created a ‘zine of poetry, drawings and photography titled “Dear Black Girl,” inspired by Forehand’s discussion. The art project expressed their determination to find strength to sur-

Holocaust survivor Bebe Forehand shares her story of survival with homeless children. Cover (inset) of Forehand's book, "Life In The Attic."

vive, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta reported in a recent newsletter.

The summer camp is part of ongoing programs offered throughout the year for children. Every Sunday, The Breman offers a series of Holocaust speakers in its “Bearing Witness” program. ■

Teens from ChopArt participate in a week-long arts camp focused on resilience and survival at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.

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CALENDAR THURSDAY, AUGUST 16

istration required. To register, www. online.activenetwork.com/MJCCA/ Activities/ActivitiesCourseDetails. asp?aid=215&cid=46990.

LifeSouth Blood Mobile – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. LifeSouth is a community blood center. The blood supply collected from its donors directly serves the needs of patients in our community. Free. For more information and to register, www.bit.ly/2NpVFDd.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Shoftim Friday, August 17, 2018 light candles at 8:04 p.m.

Saturday, August 18, 2018 Shabbat ends at 9:00 p.m.

Ki Teitzei Friday, August 24, 2018 light candles at 7:55 p.m.

Saturday, August 25, 2018 Shabbat ends at 8:51 p.m.

Infertility Support Group – Intown – Jewish Fertility Foundation,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17

Congregation Etz Chaim’s Shabbat Swim-A-Long – Post Oak Recreation

60 Lenox Point NE, Atlanta, from 7 to 8 p.m. Facilitated by licensed therapist Ashley Marx. Free. RSVP to www. jewishfertilityfoundation.org/Support. or call Elana Frank, 770-843-7413.

Association pool (PORA), 2515 Tritt Springs Trace NE, Marietta, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Shabbat Swim-A-Long for a family-friendly evening. Pizza dinner, snacks, free swim, and Shabbat blessings and songs led by Rabbi Dan Dorsch and Heather Blake on guitar.

Prospective member families welcome. $5 per family.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18

The Sixth Point Havdallah Hike – Vickery Creek Trail, parking at Roswell Mill, 95 Mill Street, Roswell from 5 to 7 p.m. Havdallah followed by a refreshing 3- to 4-mile hike.

Free. For more information, www.thesixthpoint.org/event/havdallah-hike/.

for the Rest of Your Life – The Fountains, Building 12, 2nd floor boardroom, 3495 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Free. For more information, www.ortamerica. org/event/what-to-plan-for-the-rest-ofyour-life/.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22

Cricut Machines 101 – Marcus JCC,

SUNDAY, AUGUST 19

Temple Beth Tikvah Bagels and Brew – 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take a tour of the temple and religious school and kid’s activities. Free. RSVP to membership@bethtikvah.com.

The Atlanta Jewish Bowling League Wants U!! – Bowlero Spalding, 6345 Spalding Drive, Norcross, from 6:45 to 9:30 p.m. A co-ed group of bowlers who get together with friends and bowl. $15.

If you are interested in joining, call Alex Schulman, 404-667-7752 or Pauline Weiss, 404-514-9036.

5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 7 to 9 p.m. Learn the basics of how Cricut machines operate. $40 for members, $50 for non-members. For registration and more information, www.atlantajcc.org/interior-pages/arts-and-culture-visual-arts-adults/.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23

MJCCA KnowlEdgewise Speaker Series: Maital Gottfried – Berman

World History by a Jew – Torah Day School, 1985 Lavista Road NE, Atlanta, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Lecture series. This week’s topic is “The Ottoman Empire and their Jewish Duke” by Seth Fleishman. Free.

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ish Singles Meetup Group – This event takes place at a private home in East Cobb and location will be provided to paid participants only. $10 per person. To register, www.meetup.com/ meetup-group-Atlanta-Jewish-Singles/ events/253261181/.

YJP New Year’s White Party – Chabad Intown On the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 9:15 p.m. to 12:25 a.m. for young Jewish professionals ages 22 to 33. Tickets available for $20 to $40. For more information, www.atlantajewishconnector.com/ events/yjp-new-years-white-party/.

Commons, 2026 Womack Road, Dunwoody, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Free. For more information and to RSVP, www.atlantajcc.org.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24

Shabbat in the Park @ East Cobb – East Cobb Park, 3322 Roswell Road, Marietta, from 5:45 to 8:15 p.m. Congregations Etz Chaim’s annual picnic and Shabbat. $5 per person. For registration and more information, www.etzchaim.net/sitp.

Movies Under the Stars: Black Panther

– Join Marcus JCC Young Adults and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta at Candler Park, McLendon Ave. NE, Atlanta, from 6 to 10 p.m. Bring a picnic dinner and blanket. Free. For registration and more information, www.atlantajcc.org/pldb-live/moviesunder-the-stars-black-panther-40625/.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25

Atlanta Jewish Singles Cookout and Pool Party – Presented by Atlanta Jew-

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26

The Classics Film Club – Fall Film Series – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Watch movies from different Jewish directors, from different genres and discuss the techniques and themes that went into producing them. Free for members, $5 for the community.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21

National Senior Citizens Day – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the community. To RSVP, www.atlantajcc.org/pldb-live/national-seniorcitizens-day-celebration-40927/.

ORT Atlanta Presents: What to Plan

Marcus JCC Sips Under the Sea – Georgia Aquarium, 225 Baker St. NW, Atlanta, from 7 to 10 p.m. Ages 21 and up. Join MJCCA Young Adults for an evening at the Georgia Aquarium, tailgate style. $28 for admission, $48 for admission with food and drink.

This is a private event with pre-reg-

Hadassah Fashion Show, Luncheon and Silent Auction – Country Club of

AUGUST 16-26 the South, 4100 Old Alabama Road, Alpharetta, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bid on fabulous merchandise while supporting Hadassah’s groundbreaking research in Parkinson’s disease. $45 per person, $29 under 15 years old. For more information, contact Gail Golden 770- 457-3335 or gailgolden@comcast. net.

A Taste of Honey with ORT at Ga

Tech – Georgia Tech Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, 266 4th St. NW, Atlanta, from 1 to 3 p.m. Taste and tour of the Georgia Tech honey bee lab and see the bee hives on campus as a pre-Rosh Hashanah event. $10 per family. For more information and to register, www.ortamerica.org/ event/georgia-tech-honey-bee-labtour/?instance_id=763.

Congregation Etz Chaim’s 3 Score More or Less – Kickoff Brunch – Club-

IGNITE | Atlanta Maccabi Games 2019 – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill

house at The Villages at East Park subdivision, 1345 East Park Blvd., Marietta, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Ages 55 and up. $13 per person. For more information, contact Arlene Brown at arlenebrown@mindspring.com.

Road, Atlanta, from 3 to 6 p.m. Ignite Maccabi will officially light the torch for the 2019 Maccabi Games in Atlanta. Free. For more information, www. atlantajewishconnector.com/events/ ignite-atlanta-maccabi-games-2019/.

Encore Screening: “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel” – City Springs, 1 Galambos Way, Sandy Springs, on Sunday, Aug. 19. at 4:30 p.m. Inspirational documentary recounts the journey of Israel’s national baseball team and its improbable run in the World Baseball Classic, an underdog tale that captivated sports fans everywhere. This family-friendly event will also include an Atlanta Braves fan experience and giveaway, and ballpark-themed food trucks on the City Green. $18. For tickets and information, www.bit.ly/AJFF-Coming-Home-Screening.

Find more events and submit items for our online and print calendars at:

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KEEPING IT KOSHER Hummus-Dressed Salmon with Bulgur Cook & Prep: 30 minutes Serving: 4 Contains: Gluten, sesame, wheat Ingredients: Salmon • 4 salmon fillets Homemade Hummus • 1/2 to 3/4 (16.9 ounces) package Gefen Organic Chickpeas Cooked Ready-toEat • Haddar tahini, to taste • Fresh lemon juice, to taste (be generous) • Salt, to taste • Pepper, to taste • Parsley, to taste • Fresh garlic, to taste • Paprika, to taste • Additional spices of your choice, such as cumin, chili powder or hot paprika

Preference: Parve Difficulty: Easy Diet: Pescatarian, low fat

Bulgur Salad • 1 cup bulgur • 2 cups boiling water • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice • 1 tablespoon Gefen olive oil or vegetable oil • Salt, to taste • Pepper, to taste • 2 scallions, chopped • 1 cup Gefen ready-to-eat chickpeas • 2 generous handfuls fresh parsley, chopped • 1 large carrot, julienned • 1/2 avocado, cut into chunks • 1 tomato, diced

Source: Family Table by Mishpacha Magazine

Yiddish Word of the Week chutzpah

Prepare the Bulgur Pour boiling water over bulgur in a heat-proof bowl (you can also use broth or stock of your choice). Stir once. Cover and let steep for 15 minutes, or until soft. Drain excess liquid if necessary.

In a small bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper. Set aside.

Note: Use the 1-to-2 ratio of bulgur to liquid. You may want to toast the bulgur in fat before hydrating it. This salad tastes equally good chilled, tepid or reheated. You should have plenty of leftovers to serve another time.

Prepare the Hummus Place chickpeas in the food processor with knife attachment. Add tahini and seasonings of your choice and blend until the mixture is smooth but still has small pieces in it. Taste and adjust seasonings, if necessary.

Bake Smear the hummus mixture generously over the top and sides of each piece of salmon. For extra flavor, split the slice of salmon lengthwise, almost to the end, and fill with a thin layer of hummus as well.

Arrange salmon in a pan lined with Gefen Easy Baking Parchment Paper. Bake for 15 minutes or until fish is cooked through. Use any leftover hummus as a delicious spread on crackers, pretzels or bread.

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To Serve Mix bulgur and vegetables in a large bowl. Pour the dressing over the salad and stir to combine right before serving. Garnish with extra parsley, if desired. Serve at room temperature alongside hummus-topped salmon.

Hebrew/Yiddish: ‫הפצוח‬, pronounced in Yiddish XOOTS-pah (x = ch as in Bach), denotes defiant behavior indifferent to social norms. Used in Yiddish and Hebrew (and other languages as a loan word) ambivalently, somewhat more admirative of audacity and non-conformism than critical of rudeness and disrespect. For instance, “She’s chutzpahdik” would imply “feisty” rather than “rude,” whereas in “What chutzpah, showing up at his ex’s wedding with her best friend on his arm!” it would signify “He has the nerve/gall to…” Originally from Biblical Aramaic (Daniel 2:15) for “harsh”: ‫“ אָּכְלַמ םָדֳק ןִמ הָפְצְחַהְמ אָתָד הָמ לַע‬Why the overbearing decree, [issued by] the king?”, the Talmud already reflects both negative and positive aspects of defiance implied in the term in its current use.

Hebrew translation provided by: Joab Eichenberg-Eilon of Biblical Hebrew & Aramaic eTeacher Group Ltd.

Jewish Joke of the Week Spaceman Rabbi NASA had sent many shuttles to orbit the earth and attempted to include passengers of all races, color and creed. One day, they realized they hadn’t invited anyone from the clergy, so they invited a priest and a rabbi to orbit the earth.

Upon their return, they were asked to go straight to the media room to give the world their impressions of the experience.

The priest came into the room with a smile on his face. His statement was full of joy. “It was totally amazing. I saw the sun rise and set. I saw the beautiful oceans. I’m truly in awe.”

But the rabbi came into the room completely disheveled. His beard was tangled, his kippah was askew and his tallis was creased. The reporters asked him whether he enjoyed the experience.

He threw his hands in the air and said, “Enjoy? Oy vey, you must be joking.

How could I find time to enjoy? Every few minutes the sun was rising and setting!

So, it was on with the tefillin, off with the tefillin, Minchah, Ma’ariv, Minchah, Ma’ariv.... oy gevalt.”

Joke provided by David Minkoff www.awordinyoureye.com

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15 Years Ago // August 15, 2003 ■ Israel Tourism Minister Benny Elon was scheduled to visit Atlanta Aug. 13 during a swing through the Bible Belt as part of an ongoing Israeli effort to reach out to America’s evangelical Christians. Elon’s itinerary originally did not include a stop in Atlanta, but when David Schoen, a Congregation Beth Jacob congregant, learned of his trip, he contacted the tourism minister’s NY press office to arrange a visit to Atlanta.

■ Bob and Shana Amar of Gainesville, Fla., announce the birth of their son, Jacob Samuel, on Aug. 18, 2003. Jacob is the grandson of Phil and Helene Jacoby of Marietta and Al and Sue Amar of Gainesville.

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■ The bat mitzvah of Shira Elise Broder of Dunwoody took place at 9:30 a.m. Sat., Aug. 14, at Congregation Beth Shalom.

Shira is the daughter of Glenda and Fred Broder.

50 Years Ago // August 16, 1968 ■ Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nominee for President, has a long record of support for Israel and will campaign on the 1968 Republican platform, including a plank he advocated, urging the sale of supersonic jet fighters to Israel and “peace table talks among the adversaries.”

Benny Elon, Israel Tourism Minister ■ Janice Lynn Feldman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin I. Feld25 Years Ago // August 13, 1993 man of Atlanta became the bride of Michael Samuel Cohen on Aug. 10 at The Temple. Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild officiated.

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OBITUARIES

Dr. Kenneth Friedberg 83, Atlanta

Dr. Kenneth Friedberg, 83, Atlanta, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa., and Harrington Park, N.J. died Aug. 9, 2018. Dr. Friedberg practiced medicine as an internist in Englewood, N.J. for 47 years and taught future doctors at the Columbia School of Medicine in N.Y. as well as students in Atlanta. Dr. Friedberg devoted his life to helping others, including serving his country as a doctor in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. Survivors include his loving wife of 59 years, Gloria Gelfond Friedberg; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Eric and Julie Friedberg, Atlanta; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Marc and Dr. Karen Friedberg, Boston; daughter and son-in-law, Dr. Lisa and Dr. Drew Rubin, Atlanta; son and daughterin-law, Curt and Dr. Rachel Friedberg, Atlanta; brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Bernard and Zoe Friedberg; grandchildren: Jared, Adam, Elena, Nikki, Palmer, Isaac and Maya. Funeral services were held Aug. 10, 2018 at Roosevelt Memorial Gardens in Trevose, Pa., with Rabbi Jeffrey Wohlberg and Rabbi Adam Wohlberg officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to www.weinsteinhospice.org. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com. For more details, visit www.levinefuneral.com

Bradley David Katz 85, Atlanta

Bradley David Katz, 85, Atlanta, died peacefully on Aug. 8, 2018. Born in Warsaw, N.C., on Aug. 10, 1932, Bradley’s parents were Simon Nathan Katz, who had emigrated to the U.S. in the late 19th century and settled in Baltimore, Md., and Ida Katz of North Carolina. Growing up in Warsaw, Bradley’s family were multi-generational merchants who owned and operated Katz Department Store for many years. After graduating from the University of North Carolina and joining the U.S. Army Reserves, Bradley enlisted in the Korean War as a sergeant. Stationed in Peru, he was assigned to tracking Russian satellite activity, including Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite launched in 1957.

After returning home to Warsaw, it wasn’t long before Bradley was introduced to the love of his life, who eventually became his wife, Bernice Stillman, originally from Nashville, but who was living in Atlanta when they met. They married in 1962, and after a short stint in Warsaw, the couple moved to Atlanta, where Bradley and Bernice were proud to open their own ladies clothing and shoe stores, Plaza Sportwear, Plaza Footwear and Finales.

Brad and Bernice worked in the store, side-by-side every day, expanding the store to three locations, which operated successfully for more than 40 years. He was also very involved in the community, serving as a Mason for more than 50 years and a member of the Sandy Springs Kiwanis Club, serving as a club past president. Over the years, Bradley enjoyed many hobbies, including collecting bronze sculptures and hand-signed prints by the artist and father of Art Deco, Erte, as well as rare coin collecting, and establishing many flourishing salt water aquariums. But some of his biggest joys – and disappointments ¬– came as a long-time Atlanta Falcons and Hawks season ticket holder, as he cheered on and never lost faith in his beloved Falcons and Hawks teams for more than 50 years. He especially enjoyed attending games with his late wife, Bernice, and son, Stephen. Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Stephen Julian and Pamela Barfield Katz; daughter and sonin-law, Connie and Scott Hartley; grandsons: Ryan and Myles Hartley. He was preceded in death by his wife, Bernice Stillman Katz. Bradley also had many good friends who will miss him dearly. A graveside service was held at 10 am on Fri., Aug. 10 at Arlington Memorial Park, 201 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, Ga. 30328 with Rabbi Alexandria Shuval-Weiner officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Kidney Foundation, American Cancer Society, or the Alzheimer’s Association.

Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com

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Stephen Norman Danneman 71, Atlanta

Stephen Norman Danneman, 71, of Atlanta passed away Sun., Aug. 5, 2018. He is survived by his sisters, Dale A. Danneman of Atlanta and Dr. Mona L. Gitter (Bruce) of Carmel, Ind., and niece, Jennifer L. Gitter of Honolulu, Hawaii.

He is always survived by his ex-wife, Lisa Danneman, and step-children, Debbie Lott (Chris) and Matthew Tankersley (Courteney), and grandchildren: Addie Harris, Ethan Harris, Imogene Lott, Aiden Tankersley, and Arlen Tankersley.

Donations may be made to Hospice Atlanta. The family wishes to express its deepest appreciation for its excellent care. ■

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Judgment in Heaven I had a dream about how judgment works in heaven. The dream told me what happens when you die and go to heaven. Once you die, your soul rises up and you move up to meet your maker. Now, the more sins you have, the less you move up. These sins weigh Allen you down and you just can’t Lipis move up. They are weights on you and you are not as buoyant as some other people who have lived a more ethical life.

When you meet your maker, however high you get, He knows all the good that you have done, along with the sins that you have committed. You don’t know it, but there is Heavenly money you will receive for all the good that you have done. For example, if you helped someone, just a little, like opening a door, you might get a dollar in heavenly money. If you taught someone, you might get a dollar a day for doing that, and the money can really add up. If you saved someone’s life, you might get $10,000 in heavenly money, so the money does begin to roll in. Your maker will review all the good that you have done at first and give you every heavenly dollar that you are worth from the moment you were born to the day that you die.

But after that, your maker starts having you pay for all the sins that you

committed. For example, lying, just a small white lie, might cost you $10; missing an appointment might cost you $25; and hurting someone emotionally or physically might cost you $1,000.

Now if you killed someone, that might cost you $1 million. So, you start paying out all the heavenly money you received from the good that you did, and if at the end of all the sins you committed you still have money left over, then you are welcomed into heaven. But if you have to pay out more money for your sins than the money you received for the good that you did, then you have to return to earth as a new person to try to do some more good, so you can get to heaven as your second person. Imagine if you are a mafia person.

You might have to have many, many lives to ever get to heaven. That’s just the way it is.

Of course, you don’t know what a good deed is worth, and whether visiting the sick is worth more than giving charity, for example. You don’t know how much a sin will cost, whether stealing is more expensive than lying, for example.

Therefore, you have to treat each good deed as adding to your heavenly money, and each sin as reducing your heavenly money. Since you don’t know how much a particular good deed or a sin is worth,

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Given that at any point in your life you don’t know whether you have more heavenly money from your good deeds or owe more heavenly money for your sins, you should act as though you have an equal amount of good deeds and sins, and the decision you make right now can tip the balance in favor of good deeds.

In this way, you will always lean toward doing the right thing to be sure you have enough heavenly money in front of your maker to cover all the sins you committed.

The bottom line: Any good deed can shift the balance in heaven. ■

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