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Chabad Intown: 1 Day to Make $300K Chabad Intown is trying to raise $300,000 in 24 hours in an all-or-nothing crowdfunding campaign, in part to support the outreach organization’s expansion into Decatur and Midtown. “A Jew is never allowed to rest. We’ve got to grow,” said Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman, Chabad Intown’s director. The It’s Time to Grow campaign runs from 1 p.m. Wednesday to 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14 and 15, and follows drives that raised $50,000, $200,000 and $250,000, respectively, the past three years. Rabbi Schusterman must bring in $75,000 through www.charidy.com/ itstime. One individual and two groups will each match every donation dollar for dollar, turning $75,000 into $300,000. The quadruple effect gives each donation during the campaign a powerful impact, the rabbi said, although if he falls short of the $75,000 goal, all the pledges are canceled. Most of what is raised will fund operations for Chabad Intown, which has operated for more than 18 years and has been independent of Chabad of Georgia and the official Chabad-Lubavitch movement since the middle of last year. Some of the money will fund what the rabbi called growth opportunities. One of those is in Decatur, where he and Rabbi Ari Sollish have run programming for years, such as a menorah lighting that drew 140 people last Chanukah.
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Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman has big plans for his independent Chabad Intown.
Decatur residents attend classes and events at Chabad Intown at 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Rabbi Schusterman said. That’s three miles from Decatur Square, “but traffic on Ponce can get quite crazy.” In response to the Decatur community’s needs, he said, Chabad Intown will launch Chabad of Decatur with an afterschool program and classes in homes. “When the time is right,” the rabbi said, “we’ll incorporate some kind of facility.” While the Decatur targets are young professionals and families, Chabad Intown wants to attract empty-nesters and retirees by starting Chabad of Midtown. Those groups make up almost a third of the Jewish people moving into the city, Rabbi Schusterman said. They’re separated from the synagogues they
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once belonged to in the suburbs or out of town, so they need not only Torah study, but also social opportunities. Those social events, meant to maintain engagement with the Jewish community, will increasingly be held away from Chabad Intown in neutral spaces. Chabad Intown — including the Intown Jewish Academy; the Intown Jewish Preschool, which, in addition to the Reggio Emilia philosophy, is incorporating conscious discipline to enhance the social emotional component of the curriculum; and YJP Atlanta — in September connected each of 20 young adults to an industry mentor for a year. Rabbi Schusterman said he plans to add 30 more young adults to the program in late February or early March. ■
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Virologist Schinazi Celebrated
Emory virologist and chemist Raymond Schinazi won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the pharmaceutical industry’s 12th annual Scrip Awards in London on Wednesday night, Nov. 30. The loudest applause of the night reportedly went to Schinazi at the end of a black-tie gala that recognized 15 other winners in areas such as clinical advances, technological developments in clinical trials and financing deals. Schinazi, an Egyptian-born, Englisheducated son of Italian Jews, is known for developing antiviral drugs, including Emtriva, which is taken by more than 90 percent of U.S. HIV patients. He also helped develop a drug approved for use against hepatitis C. “I think that hepatitis C is curable globally and can be eradicated globally if there’s a will,” Schinazi said in accepting his Scrip Award. “We have also the moral obligation to get these drugs to the people who need them most.” The Scrip is at least the third major award he has received in 18 months. He won the 2015 Tom Glaser Leadership Award at the Conexx Eagle Star Awards for his “unrivaled record in founding biotech companies to commercialize research in antiviral drugs.” He also received the 2015 William S. Middleton Award, the highest honor of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service. Schinazi serves as a senior research scientist at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. A VA official, Antonio Laracuente, credited Schinazi with a key role in shifting infection with the AIDS virus from a death sentence to a manageable illness. ■
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Opening Our Eyes With Prayer and Faith almost-11-year-old son, comparing it to the relationship between parent and child. If the child is saying please and thank you and being loving and polite most of the time, for example, there’s a better chance I will want to give him
Hand of Hashem By Mindy Rubenstein editor@nishei.org
what he asks for. He looked at me, smiled broadly and said, “I love you, Mom. Thank you for everything you do.” I knew it might not have been completely genuine, but the sentiment and his effort still affected me. This month I reopened my ArtScroll prayer book. Most mornings lately I stand facing east as I say the Shema, looking into our back yard and toward a distant Jerusalem I’ve never visited, while my children sit at the table and eat their breakfast or get their backpacks ready. Sometimes I also say the Amidah, the central prayer of the siddur. My concentration isn’t always completely there, but my intention is to connect as my eyes scan back and forth across the page. It’s as if there’s this whole world of energy and goodness surrounding us and within us, just waiting to be harnessed. All the problems and inconveniences of life suddenly become chances throughout the day to reconnect with G-d and to be filled with His goodness. Because of this back and forth, we become stronger. The resistance, like exercise, helps us fine-tune our souls and become more spiritually toned. The solutions to our problems, or what we lost, are always within our midst; we just need to ask G-d to open our eyes so we can see them. ■
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There’s a Jewish prayer that people customarily recite when trying to find something they lost: “Everyone is presumed blind until the Holy One, blessed is He, comes and opens our eyes.” There’s also a belief that when we experience the hand of G-d, or His eyes, in our lives, we’re supposed to share the experience with others, whether the incident seems large or small. Recently I was missing something: the headphones I use often during exercise as well as other times throughout the day. As funny as it sounds, they are important to me. When I told this story to my children, they giggled at the seeming insignificance of the object. But I wanted to find them, so after searching all over the house and in my car, I said the prayer with kavanah (focused intention). Then, without thought or reason, I walked directly upstairs to my bedroom and slid my hand into the cushion of the rose-colored reclining chair I’ve used to nurse all four of my children over the years. Out came the hot-pink headphones. I have no idea how or exactly when they got pushed so far down into the chair like that, but for a moment time seemed to stop as I laid eyes on them just after saying the prayer. I’ve used this prayer other times, and it doesn’t always work so quickly. But I don’t remember it ever not working. Like all prayers, they’re never wasted even if we are not immediately aware of their effect. Of course, we must put in the effort, but the rest is in G-d’s hands. As I’m writing this, I’m painfully cognizant of the fact that my faith waxes and wanes. There are times when my prayer and faith are abundant, and other times when I feel cut off and disconnected. When I want something specific, however, whether it’s an item lost or a problem I’m trying to work out — one of my children is struggling, for example — at those moments it seems easier to reach out and pray. But G-d wants to hear from us other times as well. To sort of check in, say thank you and connect even when we don’t want something specific. I expressed this realization to my
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Frankly Speaking. The monthly current events discussion group led by Sherry Frank meets at noon at the NCJW Atlanta office, 6303 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP to christineh@ncjwatlanta.org. Infertility support group. Wo/Men Infertility Support & Help meets at 6 p.m. at MACoM, 700-A Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP@ JewishFertilityFoundation.org or 404275-9678. State of the City. The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Business & Professional Division holds a panel discussion among Matt Bronfman, A.J. Robinson and Maria Saporta about Atlanta moving forward at 6:30 p.m. at Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown. Free with a minimum gift to Federation of $365 (under age 40) or $500; www.jewishatlanta.org. Support group. The Well Spouse Support Group helps people caring for chronically ill or disabled spouses or partners at 7 p.m. near Perimeter Mall. Email atlantawsa@gmail.com or call Jan at 404-579-6782 for details. Candle making. The Sixth Point lets adults make rolled beeswax Chanukah candles at 7:30 p.m. at the Ashford Park Community Building, 2980 Redding Road, Brookhaven. Candles are $5 per set; thesixthpoint.org.
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Vayetze Friday, Dec. 9, light candles at 5:11 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, Shabbat ends at 6:10 p.m. Vayishlach Friday, Dec. 16, light candles at 5:13 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, Shabbat ends at 6:12 p.m.
FRIDAY, DEC. 9
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SATURDAY, DEC. 10
Celebrations in Lights. The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial
Olympic Park Drive, downtown, offers Chanukah activities from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $14.95; 404-659-5437 or childrensmuseumatlanta.org. AIDS awareness service. Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, and Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal welcome the pastor and members of the spiritual music department at Virginia-Highland Church for a special Havdalah service of healing, memory and advocacy at 6:30 p.m. Free; www.facebook.com/ events/228548340892413. Pajama Havdalah. Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Morningside, and PJ Library hold a special Havdalah service at 6:30 p.m. Free; shearithisrael.com. Interfaith songs and stories. Rabbi Malka Packer joins Christian and Muslim storytellers for Winter’s Light, an arts celebration organized by Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, at 7 p.m. at First Christian Church of Decatur, 601 W. Ponce de Leon Ave. Free, but $10 donation suggested; agalex@bellsouth. net or 404-862-9498 (Audrey Galex). Pre-Chanukah party. Anshi Rabbi Mayer Freedman and Shani Freedman hold a neighborhood celebration at 7:45 p.m. at their home, 1113 University Drive, Morningside. Admission is a nonperishable item for the Atlanta Community Food Bank; rabbifreedman@anshisfard.org.
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10 years ago Dec. 8, 2006 ■ The Atlanta Kashruth Commission has announced that many QuikTrip beverages, including Freezonis, cappuccino drinks and fountain sodas, are kosher, regardless of QT location, after the AKC spent years researching how the drinks are made, including inspecting plants out of state. ■ The bar mitzvah ceremony of Blake Harris Engelhard of Marietta, son of Hadley and Suzi Engelhard and the late Lee A. Harris, was held Saturday, Sept. 2, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. 25 Years Ago Dec. 13, 1991 ■ Ex-Klan leader David Duke’s presidential campaign will gain minimal support in Georgia but will encourage other
white supremacists and neo-Nazis to launch political campaigns, according to local political activists and analysts. “It is a mistake of the highest order for people to categorize Duke’s political efforts as those of a kook or a fluke,” said Daniel Levitas of the Center for Democratic Renewal. ■ Dori and Michael Perling of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Anna Celisse, on Sept. 9. 50 Years Ago Dec. 9, 1966 ■ A Jewish Canadian Indian, Jacqueline Steinberg of Toronto, is the model for the Christmas cards sold by the Canadian Indian Center. She has an Ojibway mother and a French-Canadian father. After converting to Judaism, she married David Steinberg of Toronto 10 years ago. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gross of Pulaski, Tenn., announce the engagement of daughter Etta Raye Gross to Henry Hirsch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milian Hirsch of Tampa.
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Food’s soul and psychology. Café Chabad at the Intown Jewish Academy, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown, holds a discussion with therapist Irene Celcer and Rabbi Ari Sollish and serves a gourmet candlelight dinner at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18; RSVP at www.intownjewishacademy.org or 404-898-0434. Club-K. The Kehilla of Sandy Springs, 5075 Roswell Road, welcomes violinist Boris Savchuk to its Saturday night cafe at 8:30. Free; www.facebook.com/ events/881749401961823.
SUNDAY, DEC. 11
Jewish grief. Rabbi Daniel Greyber speaks at 10 a.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, about his book, “Faith Unravels: A Rabbi’s Struggle With Grief and G-d.” Free; aasynagogue.org. Celebrations in Lights. The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, downtown, offers Chanukah activities and Rabbi Brian Glusman from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $14.95; 404-659-5437 or childrensmuseumatlanta.org. Chanukah bazaar. Congregation Or VeShalom, 1681 N. Druid Hills Road, Brookhaven, holds its 41st annual bazaar from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3; orveshalom.org or 404-633-1737. Kids cooking for Chanukah. Congregation Ariel, 5237 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, hosts two groups of Kids in the Kitchen at 1 p.m. — for ages 4 to7 and for ages 8 to 12. Admission is $7; RSVP by Dec. 8 to shuloffice@congariel.org. Temima benefit. The 12th annual fundraising concert for Temima: The Richard and Jean Katz High School for Girls features a musical tribute to Dan Appelrouth at 1:30 p.m. at Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $36; temima.org/ benefit-concert or 404-325-5560. Nazi prosecutions. German lawyer Christoph Rueckel talks about prosecuting elderly Nazis in German courts at 2 p.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, in an appearance organized by Eternal-Life Hemshech. Free; RSVP to hemshech@eternallifehemshech.org. Mansion celebration. Temple EmanuEl clergy and members help Gov. Nathan Deal and his wife, Linda, celebrate Chanukah and honor Georgia’s Jewish history at 2:30 p.m. at the Governor’s Mansion, 391 W. Paces Ferry Road,
Buckhead. Free; mansion.georgia. gov/2016-holiday-tours. Teen music. The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival holds an open-mic session for teens from 5 to 7 p.m. at Crema, 2458 Mount Vernon Road, Dunwoody. Free admission; www.atlantajmf.org.
MONDAY, DEC. 12
Celebrations in Lights. The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, downtown, offers Chanukah activities from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $14.95; 404-6595437 or childrensmuseumatlanta.org. Jerusalem’s archaeology. Rabbi Avraham Stolik delivers an audio-visual presentation on the archaeological case for Jewish claims to Israel and the holy city at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth Tefillah, 5065 High Point Road, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door; chabadave. wufoo.com/forms/s1pf26y41i1ue8t.
TUESDAY, DEC. 13
Babyccino. Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, continues a three-part series on Chanukah for babies up to age 2½ and their mothers at 10 a.m. Free; RSVP to hs@ chabadnf.org or 770-410-9000. Celebrations in Lights. The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, downtown, offers Chanukah activities from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $14.95; childrensmuseumatlanta.org or 404-659-5437. After-school arts. Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, hosts the Jewish Arts Zone for kindergartners through second-graders at 4:30 p.m. Admission is $15; www. chabadnf.org/jaz or 770-410-9000.
Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, downtown, offers Chanukah activities from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $14.95; 404-6595437 or childrensmuseumatlanta.org.
Springs, and its Cub Club for preschoolers and their families celebrate with music, crafts, games and more from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free; RSVP at davisacademy.org/cubclub.
Build a menorah. The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, downtown, offers a workshop at 11 a.m. limited to 10 children to make menorahs that will last all eight nights. The fee is $3 on top of museum admission; childrensmuseumatlanta. org or 404-659-5437.
Menorah workshop. Chabad of Peachtree City and Jewish Kids Club help children build their own menorahs at the Home Depot, 2715 Highway 54 West, Peachtree City, at 1 p.m. Free; RSVP to shternie@chabadsouthside. com.
Holiday bowling. Sponsored by YJP Atlanta, the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, Moishe House, Tribe Atlanta, the Sixth Point, ACCESS and Grapevine, Lights & Strikes offers young adults bowling, dinner, music and a cash bar at 7:30 p.m. at Midtown Bowl, 1936 Piedmont Circle, Midtown. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door; bit. ly/2gJvyKG.
FRIDAY, DEC. 16
Celebrations in Lights. The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, downtown, offers Chanukah activities from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $14.95; 404-6595437 or childrensmuseumatlanta.org. Sober Shabbat. HAMSA joins Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, for services at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:45. Free; 770677-9318 or emiller@jfcs-atlanta.org. Shabbat dinner. Chabad of Peachtree City, 632 Dogwood Trail, Tyrone, hosts a four-course, pre-Chanukah dinner with a speaker at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 per adult, $10 per child or $50 per family until Dec. 12, then $20, $15 or $60; RSVP at chabadsouthside.com.
SATURDAY, DEC. 17
Israel documentary. Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Roswell Road, East Cobb, presents the Alan Dershowitz documentary “The Case for Israel” at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10, including refreshments; www.cobbjewishacademy.org.
Menorah lighting. Congregation B’nai Israel, 1633 Highway 54, Fayetteville, holds a ceremonial chanukiah lighting and a Chanukah celebration from 5 to 7 p.m. Free; bnai-israel.net or 678-8177162.
THURSDAY, DEC. 15
Promukkah. InterfaithFamily/Atlanta hosts a prom-themed Chanukah party for those 21 and older at 8 p.m. at Industrious at Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown. Tickets are $10 (no alcohol) or $18 (alcohol) in advance, $18 (no alcohol) or $25 (alcohol) at the door; bit.ly/2h3Gnns.
College sports and the future. Larry Conley, a sportscaster for four decades, addresses the Edgewise Speaker Series at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, at 10:30 a.m., with coffee and treats provided by Huntcliff Summit. Admission is free for JCC members, $5 for others; matureadults@ atlantajcc.org or 678-812-3861. Celebrations in Lights. The Children’s
SUNDAY, DEC. 18
Preschool Chanukah party. The Davis Academy, 8105 Roberts Drive, Sandy
Family chanukah party and auction. Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, offers a dairy dinner with lots of latkes and sufganiyot, as well as games, crafts, music and a silent auction benefiting the Alefbet Preschool, at 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for ages 5 to 12, and free under 5; www.bshalom.net. Pre-Chanukah celebration. Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, holds a women’s event with traditional holiday foods and the creation of glass mosaics with My Clayground at 7 p.m. Admission is $20; RSVP to admin@chabadnf.org.
TUESDAY, DEC. 20
Babyccino. Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, concludes a three-part series on Chanukah for babies up to age 2½ and their mothers at 10 a.m. Free; RSVP to hs@ chabadnf.org or 770-410-9000. Chanukah party. The Mount Scopus Group of Hadassah Greater Atlanta holds a celebration and screens the documentary “Another Mitzvah” at the Renaissance on Peachtree, 3755 Peachtree Road, Buckhead, at 2 p.m. Free; RSVP to Sondra Epstein at 404636-0748 or sondra_epstein@yahoo. com by Dec. 15. After-school arts. Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, hosts the weekly Jewish Arts Zone, focusing on Chanukah crafts, for kindergartners through secondgraders from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Admission is $15; www.chabadnf.org/jaz or 770410-9000.
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Certificate Program Expands Israel Education By Rich Walter Educators in the growing field of Israel education face a lack of highquality teaching materials. Existing curricula or learning plans tend to be for high school students or exist alongside Israel advocacy programs, often focusing exclusively on the Arab-Israeli conflict. If we are to truly change the way that Israel is taught and learned in Jewish and non-Jewish schools, we need to develop more sophisticated, learnerfocused, content-rich materials for students of all ages. In January 2016, the Center for Israel Education launched the Certificate in Israel Education Program (CIEP) with 12 educators from across the country. Participants in this first cohort sharpened their knowledge of Israel and Zionism through special seminars with CIE staff at the Jewish Educators Assembly annual conference and the CIE weeklong summer workshop. Staff placed special emphasis on connecting new content with innovative dissemination approaches. The core of the certificate program requires each participant to develop and field-test a curricular project in his
Rich Walter (left) joins members of the first cohort of the Certificate in Israel Education Program during June’s CIE summer workshop.
or her respective work setting. These projects included a New York scavenger hunt that explored how Israel is portrayed in the American public domain; an arts-based, multisensory approach to Israel education for second- to fifth-graders in which students explored Israel through cooking, music, dance, literature and visual arts; an experiential learning unit about LGBTQ rights in Israel and how they have evolved over time; a student-led Yom HaAtzmaut program with a studentcreated Israel museum in which each grade represented a different aspect of Israel; and an early childhood education project that used sensory materi-
als and basic science projects to engage learners. One member of the first cohort said the program “rejuvenated my passion for creative, innovative Israel education for my students. The collaboration with other educators and mentors provided incredible input for my project, and I’m walking away with an extensive list of educational lessons, resources, and programs for my institution. … This program has raised the bar for the field of Israel education.” Last month CIE launched a second cohort composed of 16 educators. It includes eight classroom teachers in congregational schools in addition to
full-time Jewish educators. Both cohorts have included Atlanta-area Jewish educators as participants: Debbie Deutsch, the director of education at Congregation Etz Chaim; Rachel Herman, the director of education and youth activities at Congregation Or Hadash; Rhonda Povlot, a teacher at Temple Beth Tikvah; and Rebecca Tullman, the religious school principal at Temple Kol Emeth. CIE’s Certificate in Israel Education Program is the only North American project-based initiative for achieving standards and excellence in the teaching of Israel for professional Jewish educators. The program participants represent 27 institutions in 11 North American communities, including Mexico City, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Austin, Texas. Pending future funding, CIE will engage a third cohort next fall. For more information about the Certificate in Israel Education Program and for examples of the first cohort’s projects, visit israeled.org/certificate-israel-education-program. ■ Rich Walter is the associate director for Israel education at the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org).
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Learning from spine injuries. The medical interventions and outcomes for Israelis with spinal cord injuries will be captured in the Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry, thanks to the Nov. 16 launch of a partnership between the Hadassah Medical Organization and the Rick Hansen Institute. The partnership will accelerate the translation of discoveries and best practices into improved treatments for people with spine injuries. An intensive birthday party. Yehoshua “Shuki” Pepper was crossing a Jerusalem street with an older sibling when a car ran him over. He was rushed to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem’s pediatric intensive care unit in fair condition, but he wasn’t speaking and had worrisome scans of his head injury. Shuki lay in bed with a broken jaw two days before his fourth birthday. When word about his birthday spread, staff and hospital vendors donated pizza, birthday cake and toys. Hadassah contributed a balloon, and medical clowns added to the cheer.
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sah Medical Organization has opened Israel’s first clinic for heart valve disease, geared toward detecting and treating the most complicated cases of what is a growing problem in an aging population. Until recently, the default treatment for valve disease has been open heart surgery to replace the damaged valve or valves. Now those invasive procedures are often superseded by less invasive cardiac catheterizations. The clinic sees three patients per week, but that number is expected to increase to five to 10 per week in 2017 as knowledge of the clinic spreads among doctors.
ganized by OneFamily and Paratrek, included 75 Canadians. Among the hikers were people who had been shot multiple times, who had suffered brain injuries, who are blind and (for the first time) who use wheelchairs.
Robotic cleaning for the brain. Yokneam-founded Microbot develops miniature robots to clean drainage pipes in the body, including in the urethra and the brain, thereby removing the necessity for surgery to replace or remove those body parts. Microbot recently completed a merger into Nasdaq-listed U.S. Stem Cell.
Russian eyes on agro tech. Dmitry Medvedev was more interested in Israeli agricultural technology than politics during the Russian prime minister’s November trip to Israel. He visited the Volcani Center in Beit Dagan, one of the world’s most advanced agricultural research facilities.
Overcoming disabilities across the Negev. The ninth annual cross-Negev hike for people with disabilities, or-
Parachuting through the glass ceiling. Two decades after Ronit Budette became Israel’s first female parachuting instructor, 20 women have enrolled in the Israel Defense Forces Paratroop Brigade’s instructors course. Ronit was inspired by seeing the historic images of paratroopers capturing the Western Wall from Jordan in 1967.
Eco-friendly paper. One of the Israeli companies highlighted at the CSR Experience Conference is Hadera Paper, which produced the world’s most re-
cycled and environmentally friendly paper, Repaper. It is made entirely of waste paper and is free of cellulose or polluting chemicals. New flights from Germany. Low-cost airline Germania will launch direct flights from Nuremberg to Tel Aviv next November, supplementing its routes from Hamburg and Dusseldorf. The Nuremberg service will operate twice a week, every Monday and Thursday. Waze for graves. The Ministry of Religious Services is working on a project to make it easier for people to locate graves. Ministry officials are calling it the Waze of cemeteries, a reference to the Israel-created, Google-purchased, crowd-sourced app that supplies up-tothe-moment traffic data. Driving ahead. Israelis bought nearly 280,000 new cars in the first 11 months of 2016, and a record of at least 290,000 cars for the year seems certain. Compiled courtesy of Hadassah.org, verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com and other sources.
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Items provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details. Dec. 9, 1914: Shmuel Katz, a leader of Revisionist Zionism and a founder of the Herut party in Israel, is born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dec. 10, 1952: At the end of the traditional 30-day mourning period for Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi is inaugurated as Israel’s second president in a Knes-
set ceremony. Dec. 11, 1947: A two-day debate on the future of Britain’s presence in Palestine begins in the British House of Commons. Eventually, Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones announces the government’s decision to terminate the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Dec. 12, 1920: The General Federation of Hebrew (and later Israeli) Labor, the Histadrut, is founded in Haifa to serve as a neutral, independent trade
union representing all Jewish workers in Palestine. Dec. 13, 1961: After the reading of a 100,000-word guilty verdict over the previous two days, Israeli Attorney General Gideon Hausner addresses the three presiding judges and demands the death penalty for Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Final Solution. Dec. 14, 1981: In a quickly organized and somewhat surprising move, the Knesset votes 63-21 to annex the strategic Golan Heights, captured from
Syria in 1967. Dec. 15, 1999: Aqua International Partners, a San Francisco-based venture fund, purchases a 25 percent stake in Israeli bottled water company Mayanot Eden (Eden Springs).
Video Supports Suits vs. Facebook Shurat HaDin (the Israel Law Center) has launched a social media campaign to gain support for a $1 billion lawsuit against the king of social media, Facebook. The Tel Aviv-based nonprofit organization specializes in fighting terrorists in court. Its successes have included a $655 million jury award in New York in 2015 against the Palestinian Authority for supporting terror-
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proceed to trial is scheduled for Jan. 19. Cohen vs. Facebook was filed on behalf of 20,000 Israelis during the first weeks of the “stabbing intifada” in 2015 after two Palestinians attacked passengers on an Israeli bus. The case was Lakin vs. Facebook until victims Shurat HaDin is seeking an injunction forcing Facebook to actively monitor and block pages that provide services to terrorists. In Force vs. Facebook, Shurat HaDin seeks $1 billion in damages on behalf the families of five Israeli victims of Hamas under the U.S. Antiterrorism Act. Facebook is accused of providing material support and resources to Hamas, a designated “foreign terrorist organization,” in the form of Facebook services. ■
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‘Yes, We Are’: Jewish Women’s Fund in Israel Guest Column By Andrea Jaron Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta trustee
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We sat in a circle in a brightly lighted room in Jerusalem. We were 14 women from Atlanta and four from Israel. Each of us took a turn to stand up, say her name and tell the group something that she is good at. “I’m Andrea, and I’m good at problem solving,” I said. In a rousing chorus, the group responded, “Yes, you are!” Welcome to Alma Preparatory Academy for Female Leadership. Alma’s founder, Michal Barkai Brody, led us in this exercise to give us some insight into how she approaches empowering at-risk Jewish girls to become leaders. You see, when Michal joined the Israel Defense Forces after high school, she realized that she would have more opportunities for leadership positions in the army than a girl who comes from a less privileged background. In Israel, your position in the IDF dictates your future trajectory. Girls who are
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officers or commanders go on to have bright futures, whereas girls who drive trucks, make coffee or type letters don’t have the same opportunities after their army service. Michal founded Alma to give those girls a chance for a brighter future. When we met her students, it was apparent that Michal is making a difference that will change the course of many, many lives. So how did I end up at Alma? The last time I visited Israel was in 1988. I was a college student, had finished a semester studying in London, and flew to Tel Aviv for a month of travel throughout Israel and Egypt. I celebrated my 21st birthday there. But this visit, 28 years later, was with 13 other women representing the 100-plus trustees of the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta. We were on a mission, but this was not your typical community trip. You see, JWFA isn’t your typical Jewish community organization. Our mission is to support partners committed to making social change for Jewish women and girls, both locally and in Israel. We look at
Jewish Women’s Fund trustees meet with participants in Kol Israel Haverim’s Sodkot (Cracking the Glass Ceiling) educational program, a past grantee.
The 14 representatives of the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta visit the Western Wall during their recent mission to visit grantees in Israel.
our prospective grantee partners and the work they do through a gender lens, and our priority is to focus on the root causes of societal problems. Over the course of seven days, our group visited with 11 grantee partners and additional nongovernmental organizations working in this field. Each was so impressive and committed to its mission of change. Michal and Alma are just one example. Susan Weiss, the founder and director of the Center for Women’s Justice, is a powerhouse. She started this public interest law organization because she realized that women in Israel were not being treated equally under Jewish law. The most glaring example was get refusal, in which a woman was denied a writ of divorce by the religious courts. Susan has successfully petitioned civil courts to intervene, compelling recalcitrant husbands to pay damages when they refuse to grant gets. Susan and her team at CWJ are using litigation and educational outreach to bring public awareness to the inequality that persists because of Israel’s merger between religion and state. This is social change unfolding, and Susan and CWJ are shifting policy in Israel, one case at a time. We met Sabine at Women’s Spirit, an organization that not only helps women get out of violent situations, but also gives them the tools to become financially independent so they can sustain themselves and their families.
Sabine is a survivor of domestic violence, but the abuse didn’t end when the beating stopped. Her husband left her with a debt of 2 million shekels ($520,000). Women’s Spirit provided training and mentorship to help Sabine become an ambulance driver so she could gain economic freedom — services that were crucial to Sabine’s survival. As a result of legislation that Women’s Spirit helped draft and enact, Sabine was recognized as a victim of economic violence, a legal status that comes with rights and compensation. She was able to lift herself out of a terrible situation because of Women’s Spirit, and she had legal protection at the same time. As she concluded her story, Sabine talked about the pride her children felt in seeing their mother change the family’s situation. She’s confident that she altered the course of her children’s future as well. We met Levi Lauer of ATZUM, who passionately spoke about the Task Force on Human Trafficking and the work it is doing in the Knesset to have an impact on the 12,500 women who are forced into prostitution in Israel, over 10,000 of whom are Jewish, and 2,000 of whom are under age 18. As Levi said: “Until you deal with this issue systemically, you cannot help women individually. … What’s at stake is worth the struggle.” This is just a taste of the work we do and how we spent our week in Israel. While our primary focus is supporting nonprofits that change the world for Jewish women and girls, members of our fund are change agents themselves. We empower our trustees to be leaders and decision-makers and to help determine how donations are invested. Every trustee has the opportunity to serve on each committee of the fund, and every trustee has the same opportunity to vote on which grantee partners to support. “We are the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta, and we are good at embracing social change philanthropy and empowering ourselves in the process.” Yes, we are! Michal would be proud. ■ To learn more about the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta, visit www. jwfatlanta.org, or contact Executive Director Rachel Wasserman at 678-2223716. You can read the full trip blog at www.jwfatlanta.org/israeltrip.
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Anti-Semitism on college campuses is a rising problem, albeit one that remains rare in most of the United States, including Georgia. In its annual report on anti-Semitism in June, the Anti-Defamation League reported that the number of anti-Semitic incidents at colleges nearly doubled in 2015 to 90 incidents on 60 college campuses, compared with 47 incidents on 43 campuses in 2014. One problem, however, is defining campus antiSemitism. For example, when pro-Palestinian students disrupted an appearance by young Israel Defense Forces veterans at the University of Georgia last school year, it was rude and perhaps threatening. But was it anti-Semitism? Free speech? Both? Legislation that unanimously passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Dec. 1, and is expected to breeze through the House provides a guide to such questions. The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act is true to its title: It would not outlaw anything but would make Department of Education officials aware of the different forms of anti-Semitism when they enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin. The legislation calls on the department’s Office of Civil Rights to apply a definition of anti-Semitism that is used by the State Department and the European Union. It includes anti-Israel statements that go far beyond criticism to demonization, an impossible double standard or denial of Israel’s right to exist. The bill treads on a slippery free-speech slope, as it acknowledges by specifying that it should not be interpreted to infringe on the First Amendment. But we believe it walks that line successfully. Anti-Semitism, while repugnant, is not illegal in the United States, nor should it be. The strength of our Constitution is that it removes the government from being the arbiter of what is and is not acceptable speech and thought. Bad actions may be punished, but bad ideas must be challenged and defeated in public discourse. The value of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act is not that anyone will be punished for comparing the IDF to Nazi storm troopers, asserting that Israel is an apartheid state, equating Zionism with racism or denying that millions of Jewish civilians were slaughtered in the Holocaust. Nor should the legislation cause anyone to be punished for using older, undeniably anti-Semitic slurs that white supremacists now feel empowered to hurl at Jews, such as calling us Christ-killers or subhuman. What we hope the legislation does — and why it has earned the support of the ADL, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Jewish Federations of North America, among others — is increase understanding that certain statements are anti-Semitic and that certain actions have anti-Semitic motivations. College administrations must ensure that their campuses enable the free exchange of ideas. People are free to say stupid and offensive things, as antiIsrael activists often do, but they may not stop others from responding. And they have no right not to be labeled as anti-Semites. This legislation will not and should not shut 10 them up, but it will help expose who they are. ■
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Remembering Effective Resistance We’ve all heard George Santayana’s warning talks about Israeli oppression of the Palestinians — that those who do not remember the past are conand most of the stories told during the IfNotNow live demned to repeat it. But video Dec. 4 focused on too many people think that Israel — that movement not forgetting is the same loses Jewish support. Editor’s Notebook as remembering. IfNotNow members By Michael Jacobs The difference came offered empty rhetoric to mind during IfNotNow’s about Trump and Banmjacobs@atljewishtimes.com Facebook broadcast Sunnon, while their passions day night, Dec. 4, meant to focused on the Israelibuild a national commuPalestinian conflict. As exnity of Jewish resistance after the #JewishResistance emplified by their White Rose Campaign to bombard rallies in Atlanta and two dozen other cities Nov. 30. the Jewish establishment with flowers of protest, A thriving republic relies on a vibrant oppositheir resistance seems aimed more at our communal tion to check the power of the ruling faction, so it’s institutions than our new national leaders. valuable to all of us that there are people frustrated Attacking Jewish institutions might be the best enough with our politics and fearful enough of Donway to produce American Jewish pressure on Israel ald Trump to take to the streets and protest and, as to take steps toward peace with the Palestinians, and they did Dec. 4, take to Facebook and organize. unfairly labeling our Jewish leadership as facilitatIt doesn’t matter whether this resistance is right ing if not outright supporting white supremacism about the dangers posed by Trump and his senior and racism might help IfNotNow and like-minded strategist, Steve Bannon. No matter how pure their organizations achieve a dramatic communal shakeintentions, Trump and his team will make mistakes, up. (I doubt it, but I’m a lousy prognosticator.) and it’s important to have active watchdogs. But the vital lesson they’re failing to remember One of the crucial lessons of the past we must is that mass movements for change succeed only remember is that tyranny thrives in silence. If no when they unify around one issue. Trying to build a one is willing or able to challenge a power grab, an coalition of groups with different goals rarely works. authoritarian leader will keep grabbing more. We saw such a failure of overreach recently with So it was a good thing that more than 40 Jewish the Movement for Black Lives platform, which cost Atlantans rallied Nov. 30 against many expressions the Black Lives Matter movement significant Jewish of hate. Whether Muslims or immigrants or LGBTQ support with a malicious attack on Israel and was so people or Jews or women have a real reason to be broad that it stifled efforts to move forward. fearful is less important right now than reminding If the activists of IfNotNow truly want to build a the president-elect that no American leader has free movement that can stand up to Trump, they should rein. We’re a nation of laws that apply to all sides. put aside their Israel concerns for later and focus on But there are problems with a Jewish resistance domestic issues now. And they need priorities. led by IfNotNow. The civil rights movement achieved one goal at The most obvious is that IfNotNow formed in a time. That’s an example any serious Jewish social opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. justice movement must remember if it hopes to be a Every time a would-be #JewishResistance leader national force the next four years. ■
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Big Business and Morality in Medicine economic system led him to declare: “In the United States, the pursuit of wealth stripped of religious and ethical meaning tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which actually gives it a characteristic of sport.” Have we indeed become a nation
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without a moral economic system? Have we relegated our economy purely to the dictum “Get all you can get”? Has that idea become so pervasive that we reject the once-common view that medicine has an intrinsic commitment to human life and is an activity based on moral underpinnings and endowed with an aura of sanctity and high esteem? What happened to the image of the caring physician? What happened to our view that health is a collective concern? Most important, should ownership of medical knowledge and healthgiving pharmacology be like all other businesses, subject to the same extrinsic amoral laws that govern the selling of a car? Should medicine become like other secular capitalist businesses, committed only to making money? Or should we insist that the task of healing the sick is a collective interest and must be subject to moral scrutiny? A half-century ago, Lawrence Kohlberg began his studies on the subject of moral development. Influenced by his Jewish learning, Kohlberg considered morality to be rooted in the principle of justice. Like our ancient prophets, Kohlberg sought to understand how people develop a sense of morals and what differentiates those who have a low level of moral convictions from those who possess a high one. Kohlberg tells us that those who adhere to moral primitivism are by nature selfish, concerned only with their interests, and they adhere to ideals only in response to the fear of punishment. In contrast, those he considers to have the highest moral standards are committed to universal morality as a matter of justice. To him, high moral
standards are exemplified by the view that central to universal morality is the right of all people to have equal access to conditions that provide a chance to live. Kohlberg constructed a story, known as the Heinz dilemma, and the responses to the story provide an indication of a person’s level of moral development. In a way, the Heinz story to me is a variation of the story that the prophet Nathan used to confront King David’s immorality. It is a story reflecting moral justice. Heinz was a hardworking man whose wife was stricken with cancer. A pharmacist in his city developed a cure for the disease. Heinz went to the pharmacist, seeking to buy the drug and thus to save his wife’s life. The pharmacist was willing to sell him the drug for $10,000, but, alas, even though Heinz sold all his possessions and borrowed from friends all that he could, he was unable to raise even half the required amount. The pharmacist was adamant in his demand for the full price for the drug. He felt that he developed the drug and thus could charge any
amount that he wished for it. That evening Heinz entered the pharmacist’s domain and attempted to steal the drug. Heinz was caught. Was Heinz guilty? Did he deserve punishment? Was the pharmacist equally guilty? When it comes to the saving of a life or the reducing of pain, what should be our moral stance? Is the saving of a life more important than the making of a fortune? In our world, at least in the United States, the pharmacy business has entered a moralless stage of capitalism. Medical care has become morally equivalent to the selling of illicit drugs. Because of the tremendous rise in medical costs, access to life has, more than ever, become differentiated between the haves and have-nots. Life in all its aspects is a function of affordability now, but we still call ourselves an advanced society. I sometimes wonder, especially after the last election, whether we have retrogressed to the standards of Sodom and Gomorrah. What do you think? ■
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Today’s economic practices of profit making, from accumulated capital and business transactions, have become disassociated from the moral base of the past. The moral underpinning of economics is associated with the Torah’s proscriptive moral laws on usury. The Torah, for instance, forbids taking advantage of those who are economically disadvantaged and those who lack the ability to gain the wherewithal for a chance at life. The Torah specifies that if your brother becomes poor, you should extend your hand to him. The moral laws associated with poverty also prescribe that if the poor leave their tools or bedding as security for a loan, the lender must give them back in the morning so that the borrower may earn income with his tools and get appropriate rest on his bedding. In short, business transactions from the Torah’s perspective have always been guided by a moral order that protected the rights of the poor. Emile Durkheim, in his treatise on the social division of labor, was influenced by the Torah; after all, he was the son of the chief rabbi of AlsaceLorraine. Durkheim proposed that an agreement between two individuals is not a morally valid contractual relationship if one party has power over the other and uses it to gain an advantage. In Max Weber’s view, the roots of modern capitalism reside in the Calvinist concept of the work ethic: hard work, frugality and moral relationships. Calvinism also teaches a particular sense of morality because money one accumulates and uses in business belong to G-d, so the use of the money must be governed by moral teachings. Weber wrote that the Calvinist idea that people are duty-bound to labor is a calling, and all such activities are to be governed by a moral obligation to G-d. That is, Protestantism brought into the marketplace the idea that economic activities are not purely secular activities outside moral obligation. Unfortunately, neither the biblical teaching nor the Protestant ethic retained the moral component in modern capitalism. When Weber visited the United States in 1904, his observation of our
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Of Peacocks and Beauty We recently took our children to the Wild Animal Safari in Pine Mountain. We rented one of the black-andwhite, zebra-striped vans, and we piled ourselves and our friends into the van for an hour of Georgia safari adventure. We saw bulls, bison, zebras, goats, deer, wild pigs, giraffes and camels. It was no Kruger National Park, as we are in the South of the United States, not Africa. As we drove along, there were some shrieks as the bulls stuck their huge tongues into the van, as well as giggles as the children watched the animals vying for space closest to our vehicle. As the animals approached for the food we were offering, we discussed which were kosher and how we could tell. The split hooves were obvious, but even though we were depositing food straight into bulls’ mouths, we still couldn’t tell whether they were chewing their cud as they ate. We had just read about our foremother Rivka and her kindness of bringing water to Eliezer and the camels in the Torah, so seeing the camels was timely and relevant. After our leisurely and somewhat slobbery ride through the safari, we continued by foot into the little zoo on the grounds. This zoo is atypical. It has ligers (a lion-tiger mix), dingoes, and some other motley, uncommon animals. As we entered, there was a large area for the prized peacock herd. There was a mixture of male and female birds with signs indicating that although they are behind a gate, they can jump out, so beware. We stood in front of the peacock pen when two of the males spread their wings — it was a sight to behold.
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Our almost-5-year-old twins were in utter awe. We all began to discuss these glorious birds and their colors — pea-
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cock blue and yellow and silver — and how majestic they appear. We were contrasting the peacock feathers with the ostrich we just saw on the safari — how both types of feathers were highly valued for clothing and headwear once upon a time, but how much more beautiful the peacock feathers look on the bird. We spent a lot of time marveling at the beauty before us. And then suddenly one male bird turned around. My daughter burst out, “But look: He has an ugly side!” She quickly turned a light pink, unsure of what she just said, but she was right: An ugly side was there indeed. As the bird turned to go about his business, to mate or to eat or to socialize, we were left with what lies behind all his splendor and glory: a mangy mass of feathers, a display of grayish plume and an exposed bottom side. So we got to talking about how two people could be standing on two sides and discussing the exact same thing, and one would describe beauty while the other described the opposite of that, and both people would be right. How fortuitous that my children saw this example right there in front of them. We took this a step further and analyzed how it was a Jewish
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value to try to look for the good in something or someone and perhaps dismiss the ugly side, in light of the beauty or the goodness. Yes, this is a lesson we mostly want our children to absorb. But it also made me think to myself that there is sometimes another lesson as well. Surely at such a young age they don’t need this information yet, but the older children will either absorb it for themselves or learn it, as I have, through life experience. That lesson: Sometimes the beautiful side is actually not very beautiful at all, or the beauty is irrelevant in light of the ugly side. In fact, my sister lives in Coconut Grove in Miami and has peacocks roaming her property endlessly. To her, these large birds are a huge nuisance; they fall into the same category as squirrels and mice. It is hard for her to see beauty in their impressive plumage when they are persistent pests. They dig up her garden, cause traffic jams, overcrowd the parking spot in her driveway and scare away the children while they play outdoors. Predictably, they also leave significant droppings all over her yard. She can see the feathers fanned out and the beautiful colors, but quickly the ugly side whips around to face her as the bird goes after its mate, food or friends, leaving behind its damage. At one point a guest bought her a set of peacock dishes, telling her how beautiful these birds are and how
appropriate a gift she envisioned for Coconut Grove dwellers. My sister smiled graciously and said, “You have no idea.” I don’t think she could even bear to keep the gift. We hope for life to be simple and straightforward for ourselves and especially for our children. We hope for easy decisions — that when we see character traits in our fellow that we do not like, we can still manage to focus on the good. But when someone’s ugly side is manifest in such a way that there is no longer any beauty to behold, we should recognize this for what it is as well. We do not need to feel ashamed for knowing this truth and for dealing with it in a way that makes our lives safe and productive. In other words, if someone is walking around strutting his stuff, acting all beautiful, but in the meantime wreaking havoc on your life, it’s OK to acknowledge that you don’t see the beauty and that this “bird” better move off your property. I do not live with the peacock, so I stand in naive admiration of its beauty. But I also understand why my sister has rejected any part of that goodness. And there perhaps we have one last lesson for another walk in the zoo or park: “Do not judge a man/ woman until you have walked a mile in his/her shoes.” ■
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economies — just a rationing of scarce investment dollars. — Rich Lapin, Dunwoody
Israel Tech Not in a Bubble I enjoyed reading David Cohen’s article “Should Israel Fear Bursting Tech Bubble?” (Nov. 25). In my view, the headline did a disservice to the article because the tech sector is an established part of the Israeli economy as it is here in the United States. The three sources provided a much better explanation of what’s going on. It’s less a tech bubble than it is a competition for investment capital. Companies that don’t get investment are usually those that don’t have an established revenue stream or can’t deliver one soon. In that case, they often don’t make it. That’s true in most free-market
Dena Schusterman is a mother of eight, the rebbetzin of Chabad Intown and the director of the Intown Jewish Preschool.
Thankful for Ambulance Having made aliyah from Atlanta after living there 36 years, where my late husband, Herbert Black, taught in the day school system and was a permanent kosher supervisor for the only kosher winery in the Southeast, I feel congratulations are in order to Laraine and Lowell Fine for their extremely generous donation (“Fines Buy Ambulance,” Dec. 2). I see the Magen David Adom ambulances traveling the roads, saving lives every day. I hope you will consider moving to this wonderful country, where you will see your work in progress. With kindest appreciation for your generous donation (ask some of your friends to do the same). — Verna M. Gartner, Jerusalem
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Trying Nazis Late in Life The last Nazi crimes during the Holocaust were committed more than 71 years ago, but a final wave of prosecutions of some of the lower-level culprits is continuing in Germany. The men are in their 90s, and no one expects them to go to prison. But German lawyer Christoph Rueckel said it is crucial to get their convictions on the record to establish that all participants in war crimes are culpable. Rueckel, who has represented several Atlanta survivors the past two years during the successful prosecutions of Oskar Groening and Reinhold Hanning, two SS soldiers who served at Auschwitz, will speak about the late-inlife prosecutions at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. “He’s really passionate about people knowing what’s going on in Germany,” said Karen Edlin, who leads event organizer Eternal-Life Hemshech. Rueckel said that until John Demjanjuk was convicted in 2011 for his service as a camp guard, German judges and prosecutors thought they couldn’t pursue Nazis who didn’t command troops or commit extra acts of violence. Such cases are not like the Nurem-
berg war crimes tribunal; the convictions are for individual cases of murder under standard German law. Because Demjanjuk died before the German Supreme Court ruled on his appeal, his case lacked a final decision to establish a precedent. The Supreme Court is the crucial next step for Groening and Hanning. Rueckel said prosecutors know of eight to 12 other ex-Nazis on the same level as Hanning, who was a guard, and Groening, who was an accountant processing confiscated property. At least six of them appear to be healthy enough to stand trial, Rueckel said. Prosecutors are looking at cases involving Stutthof in Poland, Rueckel said, to try to gain convictions for attempted murder — bringing justice for survivors whose families endured — and not just for accessory to murder. ■ Who: Christoph Rueckel Where: Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead When: 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 Admission: Free; please RSVP to hemshech@eternallifehemshech.org by Dec. 10
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#JewishResistance Protests Bannon More than 40 members of the Atlanta Jewish community rallied Wednesday night, Nov. 30, in solidarity with groups around the nation to demand that President-Elect Donald Trump fire adviser Steve Bannon. The gathering at the Philip Rush Center in Atlanta drew a literal line of candlelight to reject what protesters have called the normalization of hate speech. “Never in my life have I felt that everyone has the ability to make connections so that hate does not grow,” SOJOURN Executive Director Rebecca Stapel-Wax said. “And when I think about my children, I realize we can’t normalize this fear of each other.” Echoing protests in 25 other cities, the rally was sponsored by IfNotNow, an organization young Jews formed in response to the 2014 war in Gaza. While IfNotNow (ifnotnowmovement. org/about-us) usually focuses on eliminating the Israeli presence in the West Bank, the #JewishResistance effort Nov. 30 protested “the normalization of Islamophobia, homophobia, racism and white supremacy in the White House.” The Atlanta rally featured acoustic music and protest songs led by Sunmoon Pie, and speakers encouraged the Jewish community to band together to combat hate speech. Mothers and fathers accompanied by young children held signs that called for unity, for love of strangers and for the ouster of Bannon, whom speaker Amy Jaret said is the central figure in “a Cabinet of extremists and racists” being assembled by Trump. Attendees drew the line against Bannon, who ran Breitbart.com before running Trump’s campaign and has
been tapped to serve as a senior adviser in the new administration. Each person at the rally lighted a small candle, then placed it in a line of flames that extended well past the crowd. Although the election ended more than three weeks ago, the general feeling among the protesters was that the American people don’t ever stop voting, and their voices are only beginning
to be heard. Leah Fuhr, a volunteer organizer for IfNotNow, emphasized the need for courage among the like-minded populace. She and others, including Congregation Bet Haverim Rabbi Joshua Lesser, not only called on the Jewish organizational establishment to resist the appointment of Bannon, but also urged all groups that feel marginalized
within the political arena to join in protest. Jaret said members of the Jewish community must be concerned with more than anti-Semitism. “We call on our cultural heritage, which teaches us that when they come for one, we all rise together. We are here today to draw the line. We will bridge friendships. We will build bridges.” ■
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Rabbi Helps Others Find Faith Amid Grief By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com
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Months ago when Ahavath Achim Synagogue Rabbi Neil Sandler invited Rabbi Daniel Greyber to travel from North Carolina to talk about the struggles of unacknowledged mourners in the Jewish community, neither of them could have known how timely the topic would be. Rabbi Greyber, the spiritual leader of Durham’s Beth El Synagogue, will speak at the Buckhead congregation at 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, a week after the funeral in Israel for Rae Goodman, AA’s longtime rebbetzin. Many at Ahavath Achim are in the situation Rabbi Greyber is addressing: feeling grief at the death of someone important to you but not being one of the close relatives (parents, siblings and children) commanded by Judaism to mourn. Meanwhile, Rabbi Greyber is himself in the first 30 days of mourning for his father. “I think it will be in some ways even more poignant to do the presentation as I’m in the middle of shloshim,” he said in a phone interview.
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He chronicles his own struggles to deal with the deaths of two young friends killed by leukemia in the book “Faith Unravels: A Rabbi’s Struggle With Grief and G-d,” published in 2012. The first death is a high school friend, Jay, and Rabbi Greyber — then neither a rabbi nor observant — is bereft and baffled at being expected to toss a little dirt on his friend’s grave, provide a bit of support to the family, then fly home across the country. That crisis leads to an overpowering moment alone and in the dark in the Negev and eventually sets him on the path to becoming a Conservative rabbi. But the death of his friend Joel, a rabbinical student with a wife and three young children about the same ages as Rabbi Greyber’s children, threatens to knock him off that path again. “I think that one of the interesting questions as I teach this is that some of the time the people who are coming from outside the tradition will not even understand the question,” Rabbi Greyber said. “ ‘What do you mean that your mourning is not acknowledged?’ My sense is there’s a strength in the struc-
Rabbi Daniel Greyber is in an official period of mourning after the death of his father in November.
ture, but there is a shadow cost. Some questions we only understand when we understand what the costs are.” Most of his book recounts, at times day by day, how Rabbi Greyber dealt with his grief and an understanding of a G-d who could let someone like Joel die. In the process, he develops guidance, though not a handbook, on how others can get through a close friend’s premature death. The structure of the Jewish year provides important context for his faith struggle. “Purim was very painful, very difficult,” because it’s supposed to be such a time of joy, and Rabbi Greyber had his own rituals with friends, including a party at his home with lots of scotch. But he said that “having the structure was incredibly helpful. It gave me the means to go through the process.” He wants people to understand that the structure of the mourning process is not meant to be a foolproof recipe. People shouldn’t think that “if you go through these things and if you don’t feel better, something’s the matter with you. That’s not what the rabbis meant. It isn’t a prescription.” At the time of Joel’s death, Rabbi Greyber was the director of Camp Ramah in Ojai, Calif., where Joel had worked as the music director. In the book, the rabbi wonders how he would have faced a congregation every day and led from the bimah each Shabbat if he had been a congregational rabbi, as he is now. “I still wonder. Perhaps I would have figured out a way,” but he doesn’t
know how, Rabbi Greyber said in the interview. He said that while he feels some trepidation about mourning for his father while leading Beth El, “it’s a different type of mourning than I experienced with Joel. I feel more prepared for this process and also to share it with my community and to be OK with being lifted up with the community.” He said he’s not sure whether Joel’s death played a part in his decision to leave Ramah and become a congregational rabbi, but his plan in rabbinical school was not to become a camp director. The death of another childhood friend of a heart attack in November 2009 brought Rabbi Greyber to Durham for the funeral and connected him with Congregation Beth El, which was starting a search for a replacement for a rabbi who was retiring after 35 years. That death is not covered in the book, but Rabbi Greyber had time to write “Faith Unravels” when Beth El agreed to wait a year for him while he took a Mandel Fellowship in Israel. “One of my convictions about all of this is that each death is unique, as each life, and therefore the mourning for each person is unique and different,” Rabbi Greyber said. He said it’s important for people to know that they are reacting within Jewish tradition when they have questions about G-d and faith and struggle with their feelings after a death. And he thinks all people, rabbis included, go through crises of faith during their lives, sometimes precipitated by a painful death. For example, from some volunteering at hospitals, Rabbi Greyber said, he has realized that health care providers face the same problem as rabbis to provide care and support while struggling with their own grief. “Many people have affirmed for me, which is what I think as well, that the structure Judaism has is a great strength and a great blessing,” Rabbi Greyber said. “At a time when you feel so lost, a lot of chaos, a lot unhinged, there’s a tremendous strength in having a way and having roles decided and having that structure.” ■ Who: Rabbi Daniel Greyber What: Discussion on grief and faith Where: Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead When: 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 Cost: Free; aasynagogue.org or www. rabbigreyber.com
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InterfaithFamily Goes to Prom for Chanukah By April Basler abasler@atljewishtimes.com InterfaithFamily/Atlanta will take you back to your high school prom for a special Chanukah party Saturday night, Dec. 17, at Industrious at Ponce City Market in Midtown. IFF/Atlanta’s first Promukkah will include a dance party with music from the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, a photo booth, a dreidel area with the rules on how to play, a station for making corsages and boutonnieres, and a vintage prom movie room. Handouts will provide information about the holiday, how to play dreidel and how to light the chanukiah. Partygoers can enjoy festive food, including potato latkes, as well as beer and wine. The event is open to anyone age 21 or older but is aimed at people in their 20s and 30s. InterfaithFamily/Atlanta is a Jewish nonprofit organization that supports people in interfaith families and relationships through programming, workshops, counseling, clergy referrals and other resources.
InterfaithFamily/Atlanta has teamed up with several partner organizations, including Moishe House-Inman Park, SOJOURN, the Sixth Point, Limmud Atlanta + Southeast, AAspire, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and Honeymoon Israel. “Because we are co-sponsoring this event with other community organizations, you can also learn about other local Jewish organizations that are open and welcoming to interfaith families and couples,” said Rabbi Malka Packer, the director of InterfaithFamily/Atlanta. More than 300 people are expected to attend, and because of the possibility of a sellout, InterfaithFamily/Atlanta is encouraging people to buy their tickets online in advance. Rabbi Packer came up with the idea for Promukkah. She said InterfaithFamily/Atlanta wanted to host an event that would be a fun way to celebrate Chanukah and would not conflict with Christmas, so as not to exclude people in interfaith relationships. The other goal is to connect people with interfaith-friendly Atlanta Jewish organizations.
InterfaithFamily/Atlanta encourages people to attend in their idea of proper prom attire, whether it be traditional formalwear, a vintage ’80s prom dress or something else they feel comfortable in. “Wear anything that makes you feel fabulously promy,” Rabbi Packer said. “I also really encourage people to understand that we are open to people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, so however you want to express your gender in your clothing is welcome.” She said InterfaithFamily/Atlanta hopes Promukkah becomes an annual event. “We have big ideas of how to make it even bigger and fancier, but we want to try this version now to see how well it goes,” she said. “Even just having all these partner organizations shows us that there is a lot of interest.” ■
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A grandmother from Roswell came into Judaica Corner, where I work part time, with her son and two grandchildren on a recent Monday. “Can we see the menorahs?” she asked. I showed them children’s menorahs in the shape of fire engines, trains, cupcakes, toe shoes, wrapped presents, Noah’s Ark and others, including some with sports themes. “You have the best selection,” the grandmother said. The children looked starry-eyed. I thought I showed them too many, but they knew what they wanted. The boy chose a Maccabees airport menorah, and the girl chose the one with wrapped presents. They added colorful candles and singing dreidels to the grandmother’s purchase. Judaica Corner, celebrating its 29th anniversary, is owned by Janet and Bijan Afrah. Janet started the business for her late father to replace the gift shop he lost when he left Iran. Because of his language barrier, which did not hurt his ability to communicate warmth toward customers, Janet worked with him. Eventually, her husband, mother and other members of the family joined her. Today, Judaica Corner remains open at 2185 Briarcliff Road in Toco Hills despite competition from the Internet. “What’s going on here is beyond selling things,” Janet said. I agree. In the summer of 1994, after I took a leave of absence from teaching at Torah Day School, I started full time at Judaica Corner. I didn’t think that anything could be as rewarding as teaching in a day school, but this store is like a magnet that pulls at my heartstrings. I’ve seen a match made here, a mother’s eyes light up as her child puts on a tallit for the first time, an anonymous doctor pay for a stranger to have a kosher mezuzah scroll and an engaged couple choose a promising ketubah. “You can get everything online today,” Janet said, “but no computer can replace the human touch.” My experiences here have touched my life. One day, a bride asked whether I would show her how to bring Shabbat into her home. I helped her choose candlesticks, a challah cover and a Kid-
Judaica Corner has more than menorahs to connect people to Judaism.
dush cup. A proud father was looking for a bris pillow cover. A woman sought a gift for her niece’s bat mitzvah celebration. Someone needed a book to uplift a friend who was ill. A prospective convert asked for books from a list given to him by his rabbi; I noted the titles for my own growth. Often, we’re the place newcomers come to ask where to find kosher restaurants, synagogues, Jewish family services and other Jewish connections. Recently, a man approached Janet and said that he wasn’t Jewish, but his father-in-law, who had just died, was. “He didn’t practice Judaism while he was alive,” the man said, “but now that he’s gone, I know that he would want a proper Jewish burial.” Another non-Jewish customer asked me for the Bible, saying, “I want the real thing.” Customers searching for the real thing, Jewish or not, show respect for Judaism and a need to connect to enhance their lives and those around them. The same day that the grandmother came into the store looking for menorahs, a young mother walked in with her 4-year-old sucking on a lollipop. “It smells so good in here,” she said. “Is it the metal of the menorahs? The candles?” Behind the counter, Mrs. Naghi, as everyone affectionately calls Janet’s mother, answered, “It’s the neshamas (souls) of the people who come here.” Connecting to precious souls in search of Jewish heritage may be why the Afrahs keep Judaica Corner open and why I keep coming back to be inspired. ■
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By R.M. Grossblatt When I first went to work at Judaica Corner, Janet Afrah handed me a tablet and told me to think up ads for the merchandise. I had never written an ad, but I sat on a stool behind the cash register and looked around at the myriad of Judaica: challah boards, seder plates, Kiddush cups, mezuzahs, candlesticks, kippahs, jewelry. I went from one corner of the store to another, making up slogans for each item. It was a great way to learn the merchandise. My first slogan, “Sit Under the Stars in Style,” advertising Sukkot decorations, appeared a few months later in the Atlanta Jewish Times. It was exciting. In an ad in November, when the Marcus Jewish Community Center holds its Book Festival, I reminded everyone that Atlanta had a great place to find Jewish books after the festival. But before Chanukah, I still didn’t have an ad when the account executive
from the AJT walked into the store. She picked up a porcelain menorah depicting baseball players — one of the first sports menorahs on the market. At that time in 1994, to the anguish of baseball fans, the Braves were on strike. “Why don’t you feature this menorah and write ‘We’re Not on Strike!’?” the rep suggested. It was one of our best ads. Along with the AJT, we used the slogan in the Jewish Georgian and the (former) Maccabiah Press. That was 22 years ago. Today, we have many more menorahs. A well-dressed couple, in Atlanta for a convention, came into the store recently to buy gifts to take home to their children. They bought Chanukah coloring books. Before they left, the man said, “You have a larger selection of menorahs than we have in New York.” Besides menorahs, candles and prepared oil, which burns longer and brighter than candles, Judaica Corner has books and gifts to celebrate being Jewish year-round. ■
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OVS Bazaar a Feast of Sephardi Diversity By Patrice Worthy In addition to menorah lightings, fried food and gift giving, Chanukah in Atlanta means the annual bazaar at Congregation Or VeShalom. “We’re all so proud of our heritage,” said Angie Weiland, co-chair of the 41st annual OVS Chanukah bazaar, set for Sunday, Dec. 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Sephardim is a small community, and it represents us and our closeness and our value of Sephardic tradition.” The OVS Sisterhood prepares for the bazaar for months. Throughout the year, the synagogue kitchen is busy during the week with women cooking the congregation’s famous burekas — which are traditional savory Sephardic pies, similar to empanadas, filled with meat, potato, rice or eggplant — for orders. “It’s a select group of women,” bazaar co-chair Beth Arogeti said. “It’s a tedious operation and can be an all-day process, depending on what they are making.” As at a Greek festival, Weiland said, the food is the big draw, regardless of attendees’ religion or culture.
Members of the Or VeShalom Sisterhood spend months baking for the bazaar.
The menu includes travados, a half-moon pastry filled with nuts and dipped in honey; burmellos, which are fried dough dipped in honey; and marouchinos, cookies made with blanched almonds. The main course is spaghetti served with the OVS Sisterhood’s special sauce. More than 20 vendors will be selling items such as chanukiahs, mezuzahs, functional pottery, aprons, T-shirts, cookbooks and jewelry. The family-friendly event also offers activities for children, including a moonwalk, arts and crafts and face painting. Or VeShalom also runs a used
OVS members and nonmembers alike will pack the synagogue Dec. 11 for the traditional food.
book sale and a Chinese auction, during which attendees can bid on 50 bottles of liquor by purchasing $5 tickets. “You pick out the liquor you like and buy a ticket for $5,” Wieland said. “So, basically, you can get a bottle for $5. People really love it.” Arogeti said the annual event is a fun way for community members to reconnect, and she looks forward to talking with people she might not see the rest of the year. Jewish community leaders Deborah Maslia, the board chair of Jewish Home Life Communities; Joel Arogeti, the board chair of the Marcus Jewish Community Center; and Joel Marks, the
board chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, will be among the OVS members selling tickets at the door. Rabbi Hayyim Kassorla said the foundation of a thriving synagogue is not one person, but an organization. “Not only does our congregation include original families from Greece and Turkey who can trace their ancestry back to Sephardic Spain, but our congregation has blossomed to boast all the nationalities,” he said. Rabbi Kassorla said the Sisterhood chooses to do the bazaar year after year to celebrate the OVS community. “We believe our synagogue is unique,” Rabbi Kassorla said. “I have to thank the Sisterhood for evolving the bazaar because it’s what people look forward to every year. We have Jews from all the Sephardi lands, and they’ve all found family here.” ■ What: Chanukah bazaar Where: Congregation Or VeShalom, 1681 N. Druid Hills Road, Brookhaven (parking near Cross Keys High School and Woodward Elementary School) When: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 Admission: $3
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research and had people contact her with suggestions to fill out the holiday product line. Those items include: • Chrismukkah cookie cutters — a reindeer with a menorah for antlers, a Christmas tree with a Jewish star on top and a gingerbread man with a dreidel. • A colorful, certified-kosher gingerbread chanukiah. • A T-shirt printed to look like the ultimate ugly Chrismukkah sweater. • Kris Kringlestein, a blue-clad, 14inch doll that dances and sings. If the Mensch on a Bench isn’t enough to give you nightmares, Kris Kringlestein could do the trick, although Kritzer said, “I think he’s cute.” All the fun does have a serious side. ModernTribe has partnered with OneTable.org, a nonprofit that helps bring young Jewish adults together around the Shabbat dinner table. OneTable will get Ten percent of proceeds. Kritzer said her favorite Jew Year’s Eve-ukkah item probably is the apron “because I cook a lot”: She has a popular food blog, What Jew Wanna Eat, and a cookbook, “Sweet Noshings.” She said she’s working on some special recipes for the end-of-year holiday week, adding Chanukah touches to the usual Chinese food she prepares for Christmas Eve. ■
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Chanukah has gone to extremes in recent years. In 2013 and 5774, the first day of the Festival of Lights fell on Thanksgiving, creating the once-in-a-lifetime observance of Thanksgivukkah. Now, pushed as late in the secular year as possible by a leap month last spring, Chanukah is starting on Christmas Eve and ending on New Year’s Day. And just as online Judaica store ModernTribe.com was on the cutting edge with Thanksgivukkah gear three years ago, so it’s ready with a full line of clothes and memorabilia to celebrate Chrismukkah and Jew Year’s Eve-ukkah. “All the apparel is superpopular,” said Amy Kritzer, who bought ModernTribe from its Atlanta founder, Jennie Rivlin Roberts, during the summer. “People love a unique item they can’t get anywhere else.” ModernTribe has a history of providing such items since getting its start with No-Limit Texas Dreidel, a pokerinspired dreidel variation invented by Rivlin Roberts and her family. Kritzer said the dreidel game remains popular. The online store also is sold out of kosher chocolate Maccabees, perhaps inspired by a novelty Claus last year, when it was discovered that secret Santas were inside the Maccabee-decorated foil wrappers. This year, the chocolate inside was smooth and Santa-free. But as was the case three years ago, the hot topic this fall is the holiday crossover, which has earned ModernTribe extra media attention, Kritzer said. “I think it’s a special year.” One Chrismukkah item, a knit, one-size-fits-all Jewdolph reindeer koozie, has already sold out. Most of the site’s wearable items marking the rare confluence of American celebrations are ModernTribe creations. You can get T-shirts or aprons wishing all a “Merry Jew Year’s Eveukkah,” with supporting slogans “Let’s Get Lit” (a reference to the nine candles we’ll light on New Year’s Eve to mark the last night of Chanukah) and “Jingle Sizzle Pop” (for the jingle of Christmas, the sizzle of Chanukah’s frying oil and the pop of New Year’s champagne corks). Other Chanukah-Christmas crossovers on the site aren’t ModernTribe originals. Kritzer said she did a lot of
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Amy’s Holiday Party founder Amy Sacks Zeide spreads the joy amid the blur of activity at the packed Ramada.
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Twenty-one years after she donated her time and her bat mitzvah gift money to throw a holiday party for 25 children at an Atlanta shelter, Amy Sacks Zeide was back at it Sunday, Dec. 4, leading 400 volunteers in providing a special celebration for 850 youths, from infants through teenagers, and their families at the 22nd Amy’s Holiday Party. Adult and teen volunteers in white and tie-dyed T-shirts, including 64 Jewish teens participating in the Leadership Development Program run by Zeide’s nonprofit organization, Creating Connected Communities, guided the partygoers through a series of rooms full of fun and giving at the Ramada Plaza Capitol Park Hotel, close to
Turner Field downtown. Families who trudged in from the cold and rain walked out a few hours later with garbage bags stuffed with their share of 2,000 gifts, shoes and socks from Fleet Feet, crafts from Home Depot, and other items, including photos with Santa Claus. Mellow Mushroom provided 3,000 slices of pizza, and the kids, many from shelters, foster care or other protective agencies, got to play video and carnival games. “It makes me really happy to see the smiles on their faces,” said Audrey Kaye, 15, a Walker School student who is part of CCC’s Leadership Development Program and was volunteering at the party for the second time. “It makes you feel good inside.” ■
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Temima Benefit Also A Tribute Temima’s 12th annual benefit concert will pay tribute to the late Dan Appelrouth, the singing physician who served as the emcee for the first 11 years of the event. Scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 11, at the Atlanta Jewish Academy in Sandy Springs, the concert will feature music from Rabbi Menashe Goldberger, Judy Cole, Alan Knieter, and Appelrouth’s family and friends. Dan’s son Jed Appelrouth will be the emcee in his father’s place but said he has large shoes to fill. “It’s a chance to honor his memory and legacy,” Appelrouth said. “I’m certainly interested in doing that. I know this was a cause he cared about, and it’s a chance to pay homage to the work he did for the organization, as well as showcase some of the memories we had.” Dan Appelrouth, who died in April, was a passionate philanthropist and regularly performed and sold his music for charity. As part of the tribute, Jed and his brother, Rabbi David Appelrouth, put together a short video and photo montage of their father and will sing a few of his favorite songs. Dan’s widow, Arlene, an AJT contributor, will also say a few words about him. “It’s a nice way to commemorate and memorialize my dad,” Jed Appelrouth said. “Now that we have some more distance from his funeral, this will be a more upbeat way to remember him and honor his contributions to various Atlanta organizations that he was involved with.” Rabbi Goldberger, whom Dan helped create the first fundraising concert for the Jewish girls high school 11 years ago, will perform Beethoven’s “Sonata No. 23 in F Minor.” Cole, Dan’s most recent voice teacher and an artist in residence at Kennesaw State, will perform Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo a La Turk” on piano. The concert is open to all ages, except children who cannot sit quietly. ■ What: Temima benefit concert Where: Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs
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The construction of MercedesBenz Stadium is one of the most complex projects the city of Atlanta has seen. The building will stand 30 stories high, and its retractable roof, which is designed to open or close in less than seven minutes, is the first of its kind in the world. The stadium is also expected to be the first professional sports arena to earn LEED Platinum certification, the highest level for the environmental performance of a building. Add a tight construction window in a difficult location and concerns from the community about the promised revitalization of nearby Westside neighborhoods, and the construction has all the elements of an award-winning documentary. Enter David Lewis, an award-winning Atlanta filmmaker and journalist. He was assisting Arthur Blank with a b’nai mitzvah video project for Blank’s twins in 2013 when he approached the Falcons owner with an idea. “I said to him, ‘Arthur, are you documenting the story of the stadium? Because it’s a fascinating story,’ ” Lewis said. “ ‘You’re choosing to build an incredibly complicated building in about the hardest place you could possibly build it financially, technically and in terms of the politics.’ ” Blank brought in his chief of staff, Kim Shreckengost, and ran the idea by her. A few months later, in February 2014, Lewis got the go-ahead to start
filming. Lewis began shooting before any concrete was poured. To date, he has compiled more than 10 terabytes of video footage for the documentary project. “I’ll be filming pretty much until it opens, then it’s time to look through the tsunami of footage we’ve shot over a three-year period,” he said. The stadium is scheduled to be completed in June. It will serve as the home of the Atlanta United soccer team as well as the Falcons starting next season. “On one hand, it’s the story of the construction of an iconic building and all of those challenges,” Lewis said. “On the other hand, it’s the story of the various philanthropic efforts Arthur has been funding on the Westside.” Those efforts include the establishment of the Westside Neighborhood Prosperity Fund by the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, which will make strategic investments in the neighborhoods. The site of the Georgia Dome, which will be imploded, will become a park serving as a “gateway to the Westside.” But there are concerns from the community about gentrification and shallow promises for urban renewal. “Old issues of race and class in this town are going to be played out in this story,” Lewis said. Working on the project with Lewis, a member of Congregation Bet Haverim in Toco Hills, are two other Jewish Atlantans, director of photography Michael Epstein and associate
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producer Jacob Velcoff. Lewis and his team at David Lewis Productions use a mix of traditional and drone cameras to capture the story of the stadium. Lewis and Velcoff also produced Atlanta’s official Super Bowl bid video (youtube.com/ watch?v=nQpF8BpBUxc), which was shown to the owners of the 32 NFL teams during their spring meetings to help secure the 2019 Super Bowl for Atlanta. “It’s been a lot of fun working with David, and I’ve learned a lot,” said Velcoff, who graduated from the University of Texas in 2014 with a degree in film production and grew up attending Temple Kol Emeth in East Cobb. “I think the biggest thing I’ve learned from him is how to write something as it’s happening. He’ll be doing an interview, and he’s already editing it in his head. Then he’ll ask a question that’s two steps ahead.” Shooting on top of a 30-story stadium with drones is hardly the most dangerous thing Lewis has done in his 30-plus-year career, which includes stints at CNN, Fox News and ABC News. Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, Lewis traveled to Lebanon to do a documentary on Hezbollah for “Frontline.” “I had some Lebanese connections who helped me get access to Hezbollah, and I pitched it to ‘Frontline,’ who said yes,” Lewis said. “As an American Jew, you can’t exactly dial up 1-800-Hezbollah and tell them you’re coming, so let’s just say I did not tell them the whole truth about my background.” Lewis has been back to Lebanon 10 to 12 times since and said the contrast of nightclubs and high-end restaurants with refugee camps and poverty makes it one of the most interesting places in the world. This isn’t the first time Lewis has been profiled in the AJT. In 2004 he was on the cover for a story about a nonprofit project he co-founded with fellow journalist Ray Hanania called Comedy for Peace, which used standup comedy to bridge the gaps dividing Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs and Jews. Although he has lived in Atlanta for more than 25 years after growing up in Boston, Lewis said it’s tough to shake his original NFL allegiance to the New England Patriots. “After doing this project for Arthur, my greatest nightmare is that the Patriots and Falcons face off in the Super Bowl,” Lewis said. “I told Arthur once though at an event that if the Falcons play the Patriots in a Super Bowl, I’ll root for the Falcons, and I’m a man of my word.” ■
David Lewis has a framed copy of the cover of the Feb. 27, 2004, issue of the Atlanta Jewish Times, which profiled his Comedy for Peace project.
Michael Epstein (left) and David Lewis get some direction from Darden and Co. project manager Whitney Williams at the construction site of Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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Honoree Jarvin Levison poses with collector Judith Taylor.
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Atlanta’s denizens of culture braved the long-awaited rain to attend the sold-out 20th anniversary Breman Jewish Heritage Museum gala, honoring Jarvin Levison, Saturday night, Dec. 3. Breman Executive Director Aaron Berger worked with William Eiland, the head of the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, to curate a show of paintings, sculptures, glass and nontraditional art from different periods held in private collectors’ homes across Jewish Atlanta. The current installment, featuring art created through the 20th century by artists such as Picasso, Kandinsky, Manet and Cassatt, will be on display with admission to the museum until Feb. 26. The second show, with 21st century art, will be on display from March 12 until June 11. “This show of older pieces is amazing and two-dimensional. Wait until you see the March show with three-dimensional works created after 2000,” Berger said. He added: “No one whistles a symphony. It takes an incredible staff to execute something of this grand a nature.” Levison, a lawyer and history buff, is credited with having the vision two decades ago to work with Bill Breman and his wife, Elinor, to create the museum. His loyalty, modesty and
determination were saluted. Levison’s daughter, “Souper” Jenny Levison, performed a poignant song dedicated to her dad. “This evening celebrates two things: Jarvin’s guiding spirit and the
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Breman itself, both heroes in our community,” collector Judith Taylor said. Berger mingled among the objets d’art and took time to lend enhancing details. Standing by an Andrew Wyeth painting lent by Ellen and Jack Holland, Berger pointed out the Caravaggio Italian lighting on the subject. Ellen Holland added, “Just look at the detail: the blue jeans, the wood … when you take time to study the painting.” During the seated dinner presentations, Carol Nemo, Bill Breman’s daughter, was praised by Berger for being “over the top in making the Breman a cultural destination.” She stole the show with a lighthearted poem about “giving bundles.” The underlying context for the evening was the Breman’s need for a separate art museum building. It was the right crowd to make such dreams a reality. ■
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Sam and Marilyn Eckstein stand near a letter opener Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the president of Yugoslavia, gave to her father around 1952.
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Retired Dentist Drills in Classic Ansley Park Home What combines utility, sleek lines, impeccable quality, function and individuality? What’s sturdy yet delicate? Custom-made wood furniture by oral surgeon Walt Myers. Myers, a native of Queens, N.Y., is retired after practicing dentistry in Midtown for 34 years while mastering his woodworking hobby. Myers’ home, built in 1918, was reconstructed after a devastating fire. Walt and artist wife Barbara showcase his handcrafted furniture as a complement to their stately finds. In keeping with tradition, the effect is polished yet livable and never pompous. It dovetails charmingly with Midtown’s Ansley Park.
Jaffe: How does an oral surgeon get intrigued by furniture making? Myers: It’s been my hobby for 23 years, when I first took a course at Atlanta College of Art, where they let us loose on a project and I got hooked. Actually, woodworking is similar to dentistry. … Woodworking helped my surgery as well as the reverse. Especially things like bone grafts. The body heals if you make a little mistake. Wood is less forgiving. Jaffe: What types of wood do you use? Myers: Mostly cherrywood, but also walnut, poplar, heart pine, mahogany, oak and occasionally parrot wood. And chestnut, which is hard to locate. Chestnut has a very wormy appearance due to a blight killing over a billion trees. My inlaid veneers are around one-sixteenth of an inch. I use cypress for outdoor furniture. Working with wood is fascinating because of its natural irregularities and maneuvering that to an aesthetic advantage. So you see the real waves and imperfections of an organic thing. It’s not accidental how many of the panels fit together or contrast directionally. You see in better-made pieces that angles and edges change. DECEMBER 9 ▪ 2016
Jaffe: How would you describe your style? Myers: I use a great deal of Shaker styles: clocks, stools, chests of drawers, trundles, fireplace mantels, computer desks, triangular corner pieces, armoires with raised panels and various built-ins. Many of my pieces have tapered legs. On occasion, 32 I do a Southwest Mission style, like my
cherry bed. My stacking tables are one of my favorite projects and my own design. I would say that I am basically self-taught and use the “Woodsmith” program. Jaffe: How has wife Barbara enhanced the total interior design? Myers: She is THE designer here.
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Her blue-and-white 18th and 19th century transferware collection (depicting tranquil gardens, birds, bridges and pavilions), the light fixtures and furniture showcase her own original paintings, like this “Portrait at the Piano.” She’s even been known to pick up a treasure at a garage sale. Jaffe: What are some of the most elaborate things you have made? Myers: The walnut master bedroom four-poster frame was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. It was the most difficult by far. I had to construct a special jig in order to create the tapered, eight-sided posts. Also in the master bedroom are my dressing table and highboys. Jaffe: How long does it take to craft a piece? Myers: Around 30 hours for something moderately simple. Remember, there are no screws. Connecting points are mortise-and-tenon joints (male and female). The gargantuan oak entertainment center had to be broken down and hoisted in with a ladder in several units for me to reconstruct once inside the upstairs media room. That was a hundred-hour project. Jaffe: I love all your critters (Howie and Corky). What are your other hobbies? Myers: You mentioned pets because I constructed a pharmacy cabinet and nearby dog/cat food treat server. My motto is “If you can’t buy it, you can build it!” I am learning classical folk guitar. I finger-pick and do not strum. I also am a volunteer at the Ben Massell Dental Clinic, which does such meaningful work for the community.
A I teach the senior dental students and residents. I also hike or swim daily and play the acoustic guitar and sing. I am a screener for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. Jaffe: What is the most sentimental thing you have made? Myers: I just completed this chess set for my granddaughter’s bat mitzvah. It is square and dovetailed. See my message to her carved on the bottom. I have four children and seven grandchildren, who call me “Poppa Waltie.” Jaffe: Your deck/pool area is very special. What did you create out here? Myers: I built the pale-blue Adirondack chairs overlooking the pool,
the dark round deck table; but the most fun are the rolling chaise longues and English bench. Jaffe: Where does all the construction take place? Myers: I used to have a big studio in the North Carolina mountains. Then I had commercial space in Midtown. So rather than move again, everything now is set up in my basement. I even have spare pieces stored in the attic. Jaffe: Leave us with some parting wood words. Myers: When you make it yourself, you can angle things to fit any space and never doubt the quality. I like exacting standards yet am full of surprises. ■
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A: Walt Myers poses with his guitar by a clock, pet food cabinet and chest he designed. Coton de Tuléar Howie rarely leaves his side. B: Walt Myers says his most difficult project was this four-poster walnut octagonal master bed. He modeled the heart pine box after his mother-in-law’s sewing kit. Barbara Myers painted “Beach at Destin” (above the bed) and “Piano Recital” (to the left). C: Walt Myers made this Mission-style bedroom set and the side tables. D: The sitting room displays one of Walt Myers’ first pieces — an inlaid bridge table — as well as blue-and-white transferware from the 18th and 19th centuries. E: Walt Myers doesn’t use screws to hold his pieces together. F: Taking advantage of one of the interesting nooks in his 1918 house, Walt Myers crafted a Shaker table stand to showcase a Greek vase. G: From the dining room, Walt Myers is seen relaxing in his Ansley Park living room amid furniture he built. H: The front guest powder room showcases Walt Myers’ Mission-style bench and continues the blue-and-white transferware theme. I: Making his own furniture enables Walt Myers to craft oddly shaped cherrywood Shaker-style built-ins. He says he likes the natural defects in wood. J: The Myers pool highlights the rolling chaise longues and bench Walt Myers crafted out of cypress.
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Irene Altholtz 94½, Atlanta
Irene Friedman Altholtz, age 94½ (she wouldn’t let anyone forget the half), of Atlanta, formerly of Sunrise, Fla., and Brooklyn, N.Y., passed away peacefully in her sleep Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, surrounded by her family. Irene was born April 30, 1922, in Brooklyn to the late Sylvia and Jacob George Friedman. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister. Her family meant everything to her. Her life was devoted to them and her love of education. Her two favorite mottos, which she happily told to all and for which she would like to be remembered, were “Aspire to inspire before you expire” and “The glass is always half-full.” She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 55 years, Irving Altholtz; her sister and brother-in-law, Selma and Phil Cohen; her brother Joel M. Friedman; and her nephews Robert Cohen and Stephen Friedman. She is survived by her children, Linda (Stan) Bernknopf, Barbara (Gil) Spivack and Howard (Ginny) Altholtz; a brother, Irwin (Nedra) Friedman; sisters-in-law Shirley Friedman Chase and Nikki Friedman; her grandchildren, Brian (Misty) Bernknopf, Jason (Audrey Gil) Bernknopf, Jordan Spivack, Maddy Altholtz and Cally Altholtz; greatgrandchildren Brady and Maren Bernknopf and Justina Gil; and many nieces, great-nieces, nephews, great-nephews, cousins and extended family. Donations in her memory may be made to Congregation Etz Chaim in Marietta, Congregation Children of Israel in Athens or the charity of your choice. Graveside services were held in Tamarac, Fla., on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care.
Michael Eilen 33, Atlanta
Michael Scott Eilen of Atlanta died tragically Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, at the age of 33.
He is survived by his wife, Jessica; his father, Steve Eilen (Renee); his mother, Stephanie Eilen; a brother, Dana (Heather); grandfather Eugen Schoenfeld; inlaws John and Ruth Hertzler; and nieces, nephews and many cousins. Funeral services were held Sunday, Dec. 4, at H.M. Patterson & Son-Arlington Chapel. In lieu of flowers, send donations to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Michael P. Fisher Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Rae Goodman Jerusalem
Rae Goodman, who was the rebbetzin of Ahavath Achim Synagogue from 1982 to 2002, died peacefully in Jerusalem on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, the second day of Kislev, surrounded by her husband of 67 years, Rabbi Arnold Goodman, and her children and grandchildren. Rae loved being a rebbetzin, loved shul life and loved Ahavath Achim. Her specialty was making latkes in bulk, which she served to young couples, expectant parents and new members each December. She regularly invited congregation members to her family’s Shabbat and holiday table. She was a true helper and partner to Rabbi Goodman in critiquing his sermons and in walking with him throughout members’ lifecycle events, from britot to b’nai mitzvah to weddings to funerals and shivas. Her abiding passion was Jewish family life and the spiritual and physical beauty of home and hearth. Before the spread of the Internet, she ran a matchmaking service in Atlanta with Sherry Maziar that resulted in many Jewish couples standing under the chuppah. After Rabbi Goodman’s retirement, the couple made aliyah, joining their son Ari, who made aliyah out of high school at 17, and his wife, Ciporit, and their six children. They also spent time with Daniel and Judy Goodman and their children in Atlanta and with Shira Goodman and Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz and their children in Newton, Mass. Rae was blessed to dance at the weddings of four of her grandchildren and to hold two great-grandchildren. Rae was a perennial learner, always improving her Hebrew, taking classes, and enjoying time with friends new and old in Jerusalem. Her funeral was held Sunday, Dec. 4, in Beit Shemesh.
Sheldon Harrison 71, Atlanta
Sheldon Harrison, age 71, of Atlanta died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. Survivors include his loving wife of 46 years, Carolyn Harrison; son and daughter-in-law Gary and April Harrison of Canton; daughter and son-in-law Lori and Harley Mason of Charlotte, N.C.; son and daughter-in-law Eric and Carrin Harrison of Kennesaw; brother and sister-in-law Arnold and Sue Harrison of Roswell; sister Debbie Harrison of New York; and grandchildren Dylan and Ian. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of your choice. A graveside service was held Friday, Dec. 2, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Alexandria ShuvalWeiner officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-4514999.
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Lawrence (Larry) S. Reid, 65, of Roswell, formerly of Dunwoody, passed away unexpectedly Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, at Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital. A native of Chicago, Larry moved after college to Boston before relocating to Atlanta in 1980 with Gail, his wife of 39 years. His entire professional career was in the business world: as a business owner, entrepreneur, seminar leader and management services consultant. Larry graduated with a B.S. in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an M.B.A. from Boston College. Smart, witty and insightful, he was a voracious reader and film fan and had an exhaustive knowledge of music and sports. He loved Elvis, the Sunday New York Times wedding section, playing trivia, cooking ethnic dishes, volunteering
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Sonia Schwartz 93, Atlanta
Sonia Weinberg Schwartz, a lifelong resident of Atlanta, died peacefully Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, at her home in Atlanta. She was 93 years old and the widow of William Bernstein Schwartz Jr., an Atlanta business and civic leader and U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. Born April 11, 1923, Sonia was the younger daughter of A.J. and Lillian S. Weinberg of Atlanta. Her father, born in Poland, immigrated to the United States as an infant and moved to Atlanta as a young man. He owned a soda fountain at the end of the trolley line in downtown Atlanta, which perhaps explains Sonia’s lifetime love of Coca-Cola over crushed ice. Later he co-founded Atlanta Linen Service, which became National Linen Service and then National Service Industries. After spending her first years in an apartment at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and 14th Street, in 1926 the family moved to Buckhead and built one of the early houses there on Chatham Road when roads in Buckhead were still unpaved. Sonia attended E. Rivers Elementary School, Washington Seminary, House in the Pines School and National Park Junior College. At a dance in her early teens she met Bill Schwartz. There was an immediate attraction, and from then on they had eyes only for each other. In her childhood diary Sonia gushingly predicted, “I am going to marry Billy Schwartz!” And a few years later in December 1942 at The Temple, she did marry her Billy, who was an ensign in the Navy and had just finished Officer Candidate School. Sonia and Bill raised three boys, and people often confused the fashionable, petite brunette with sunny disposition and easy laugh as their older sister. Sonia loved needlepoint, swimming, travel and reading, but mostly she enjoyed gathering people together. Her dinner parties were coveted. She was generous with all things except her recipes; those she kept secret. Sonia and Bill lived at the U.S. Embassy residence in Nassau from 1977 to 1981, and thereafter the Bahamas became a happy home away from home for Sonia and her family. Sonia and Bill also spent over 40 years in Sarasota, Fla., where they had a home. As chair of the Chatham Valley Foundation, a family philanthropy, she was a quiet and focused leader in its endowment of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education, the Weinberg Early Learning Center at The Temple and the Weinberg Scholarship at Brandeis University. Sonia was a devoted wife, daughter, sister, aunt, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and is survived by three sons and their wives, all of Atlanta: William B. Schwartz III (Nina); Arthur Jay Schwartz (Joyce); and Robert C. Schwartz (Terry). Her six grandchildren and their spouses are Colby Schwartz (Caroline Wainwright), Tracy Stillman (Enan), Allison Schwartz (Derrick Farnham), Clay Ellish (Brad), Katie Schwartz, and William B. Schwartz IV. In addition, there are eight great-grandchildren, Max and Wills Ellish, twins Lali and Jacob Stillman, Zev Stillman, AJ Farnham, and Elinor and Jane Schwartz; her sisterin-law, Mary Jane Schwartz of Myrtle Beach, S.C.; six nieces and three nephews, Lillian Goldstein Friedlander of Atlanta, Ellen Goldstein of San Jose, Costa Rica, Ann Glick of Cincinnati, Marc Schwartz of St. Paul, Minn., and Sidney Williams, Sonia Collins, Michael Schwartz, Jay Schwartz and Jane Vickman, all of Myrtle Beach. Her sister, Harriet (Mrs. Elliott Goldstein) predeceased her. The family is
most grateful to her caregivers, Christine Lannaman, Naomi McGregor, Vivienne Davis and Leslie Quintana, for their many years of love and devotion. A private family burial will take place. Donations may be made to the Sonia W. Schwartz Playground Fund/Weinberg Early Learning Center at The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA 30309. Online condolences may be made at hmpattersonspringhill.com.
Nannette Shaw 76, Atlanta
Nannette (Nan) Shaw, age 76, of Atlanta died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. Survivors include son and daughter-in-law David and Shelly Schwartzenfeld of Alpharetta; daughter and son-in-law Elyse and William Kellert of Dunwoody; daughter and son-in-law Lauren and Todd Gordon of Johns Creek; brother Marty Nieditz of Cleveland; and grandchildren Greg (Erika Tyburski) and Bryan Kellert, Dana and Erin Schwartzenfeld, and Lindsey, Marlee, Tatum and Rian Gordon. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation (www. jajf.org). A graveside service was held Monday, Dec. 5, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs with Rabbis Bradley Levenberg and Scott Colbert officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.
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Emma Bradford, 80, of Fayetteville, Congregation B’nai Israel member, wife of Jimmie Bradford and mother of Kimberly, on Nov. 28. Lila Jurbem, 91, mother of Temple Sinai member Steve Zweigel, Keneth Zweigel and Andrew Zweigel and sister of Lenore Friedman, on Nov. 30. Dennis Katz of Hoschton on Nov. 23. Shirley Libby, 96, of New York, mother of Temple Sinai member Jim Libby and Susan Siegel, on Nov. 28. Bramy Resnik, 87, of Sandy Springs, a Holocaust survivor and husband of Rhea Resnik and father of Colette Steel and Howard Resnik, on Nov. 26.
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at the Atlanta airport and screening films for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, as well as a wide range of other activities that made him fun and interesting to be with. Nothing provided Larry greater joy than time spent through the years with his two sons, Jay and Scott, and his worldwide travels with Gail. Family and friends always remarked on his commitment to staying in touch and his willingness to reach out. Rabbi Judith Beiner conducted the funeral service at Northside Chapel, Roswell, followed by a private family burial at Milton Fields in Milton. Larry is survived by wife Gail; sons Jay and fiancée Jessica Shanken of New York and Scott of Atlanta; sister Beryl Reid of Chicago; sister-in-law Randy Reid, niece Rachel and nephew Jeffrey of Chicago; aunt Reva Truger of Chicago; cousins Harvey (Jan) Zimbler of Massachusetts and Ira (Jo Ann Churchill) Zimbler of Massachusetts. He was predeceased by his brother, Neil, and his parents, Mollie and Irving Reid. Donations in Larry’s memory may be made to the Atlanta Community Food Bank (www.acfb.org) or the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (www.ajff.org).
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I saw our friend Paul at the top of a tall ladder. It took me a second or two before I remembered that he’s 85 years old. Should he be up there, relying on his sense of balance and his unrequited love of fixing things? You bet he should, because he’s a do-it-yourself guy. It’s easy to be impressed with Paul’s home repair résumé, but I have to admit that my favorite project of his is the owl house he designed and built from scratch. It isn’t every day one meets a person who figures out how to attract owls. I wish I could do that. It’s not for lack of trying. Long ago, my friend Myra and I had an audience with our school principal, Mr. Mueller, the person who could release us from Mrs. Hoagland’s boring sewing class. We wanted to transfer into woodworking. The idea of using real tools and wearing protective goggles was so much more compelling than tracing patterns and inserting collars. We weren’t the only females who wanted out, but the other like-minded girls were cowards when it came to approaching Mr. Mueller. Unlike them, my big fear was that my mother would find out I had challenged a school rule. But Myra assured me that our parents would be proud. When they saw “Shop” instead of “Sewing” on our report cards, they’d be thrilled that we were bringing home A’s. Myra and I didn’t expect to get A’s in sewing, Mrs. Hoagland being fiendishly strict about seams and hems. Of course, Mr. Mueller said no. Lest you think that this is a rant about the way things used to be for girls, you’re wrong, because to this day I use everything Mrs. Hoagland taught me. I have altered dresses and replaced zippers. Once I sewed a man’s shirt with French seams. I can put in darts and hems like a champ. In contrast, my brother mastered a jigsaw and sander and made a beautiful recipe box, but is his life today any more fulfilling than mine? Well, probably, but that’s because he has a wine cellar, not because he took shop. That takes me to the YouTube videos of “Primitive Technology,” which 38 my grandson, Zellik, showed me.
There’s this Australian guy — at least we think he’s Australian; he doesn’t speak on camera, so we don’t know for sure where he’s from — who makes everything he needs from scratch, all by himself. We first meet him in an area he has cleared in the woods, and, through a series of videos, we watch him make his own tools from tree limbs, vines
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Chanukah ART CONTEST
We’re looking for a festive Chanukah illustration for the cover of the Atlanta Jewish Times’ Dec. 23 issue. If you’re age 15 or under, send us your Chanukah-themed artwork by Friday, Dec. 9.
Size: 9.5 inches wide by 6 inches high Materials: Anything that shows up bold and bright, such as crayons, markers or cut paper. We suggest taping your artwork to cardboard to protect it. Do not fold artwork. Digitally produced art is accepted. Artwork may be submitted as JPEG or PDF file at atlantajewishtimes.com. To enter: All work must be received at the Atlanta Jewish Times office, 270 Carpenter Drive, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30328 ATTN: Art Contest, or submitted through the website. (One entry per child, please.) All work must have an entry form attached on the back or filled out online: Deadline is 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. Artwork may be picked up in January at 270 Carpenter Drive, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30328 during regular business hours. There are four age categories: 6 and under, 7 to 9, 10 to 12, and 13 to 15.
GRAND PRIZE $50 Gift certificate to Binders. Winner’s art may be the cover of the Dec. 23 AJT.
FIRST PRIZES $25 Gift certificate to Binders for each category (total of 4)
Awards: Contest winners will be honored at a reception at Binders Art Supplies. Artwork may be reprinted in the Atlanta Jewish Times, posted online and publicly displayed at Binders.
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