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Chabad Of North Fulton Goes West

Chabad of North Fulton is opening a satellite site nine miles northwest of its base on Johns Creek’s Alpharetta border.

Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz announced Monday, Feb. 6, that his new location will serve the Jewish community on the western side of Alpharetta from the Crabapple area, close to the city of Milton.

“We have been providing outreach and educational services to families in North Fulton for many years,” Rabbi Minkowicz said. “With the recent development of Avalon, the new Alpharetta City Hall and much other continued growth on the west side, traffic has made it more of a challenge for people from Milton, Crabapple and Alpharetta to attend some of the classes and programs.”

He said he continues to travel to visit families in that area and is excited to offer programming in their back yard.

The first offering at 800 Abbey Court will be a lunch-and-learn the first Thursday of each month, starting March 2.

Amid the satellite launch, construction continues on Chabad of North Fulton’s expansion at 10180 Jones Bridge Road.“We will begin with some classes and other events in the Milton office while still focusing on building the mother ship in Johns Creek,” the rabbi said. ■

Natural Wonder Photo by Michael Jacobs

Children check out their handiwork in a mini-treehouse craft project at Intown Jewish Preschool’s Tu B’Shevat celebration Sunday, Feb. 5. Check out upcoming holiday activities on Page 13, IJP Executive Director Dena Schusterman’s thoughts about the new year of the trees on Page 14 and more IJP photos on Page 15.

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Falcons’ Fall Deflates City

When the Atlanta Falcons crashed in Super Bowl LI, failing to hold a 25-point second-half lead and losing to the New England Patriots, 34-28, in overtime Sunday, Feb. 5, Arthur Blank’s team did more than turn what could have been Atlanta’s greatest sports night into its worst.

The loss also inflicted suffering on the legions of Jewish Falcon faithful.

Congregation Beth Jacob had a crowdfunding challenge against an Orthodox young-adult outreach organization in Boston, JPULSE. An anonymous donor put up $5,000; the Super Bowl outcome determined whether the money helped needy families in Jewish Atlanta or extended JPULSE’s work in Boston.

That $5,000 slipped through Beth Jacob’s fingers in part because Jewish wide receiver Julian Edelman didn’t let the ball slip through his hands on a miraculous fourth-quarter catch for New England.

But the news wasn’t all bad in Toco Hills: To qualify for the bet, each side had to raise at least $12,500 for itself in three days; Beth Jacob brought in $18,061.

The Temple’s Rabbi Peter Berg and Temple Chayai Shalom’s Rabbi Ken Carr in Easton, Mass., launched a crowdfunding campaign with a bet on the game.

Because the Patriots won, Health Imperatives in Brockton, Mass., gets two-thirds of $2,031 raised, while the Zaban Paradies Center receives the rest ($677).

Temple Sinai must make a $180 donation to the charitable cause of Temple Beth Shalom’s choice and send a couple of cases of Georgia candy northward, plus the Needham, Mass., synagogue’s newsletter, Facebook page and other communications outlets will carry a photo of the Sinai clergy and staff wishing mazel tov to the Patriots and Beth Shalom.

Still, former Atlantan Rabbi David Geffen maintained the Rise Up faith from Jerusalem, where he and others watched the game in the early hours of Feb. 6.

“Every team … can be defeated,” he wrote in an open letter to Blank. “If you and your team realize that and begin to grow in the ‘spirit’ which the Falcons possess, surely, Mr. Blank, your team will grow stronger as you rebound from the Super Bowl you did not win.” ■

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Finding True Freedom denly subsided, I was left confused.

Maybe my past limitations could never be overcome.

Then I watched a video by Chana Weisburg on Chabad.org about the Torah portion, and things became more clear. It is a long and difficult journey to become free and overcome any type of limitations, Weisburg explains. Only G-d truly has power over

Hand of Hashem

By Mindy Rubenstein editor@nishei.org

us — not our past traumas or current challenges.

Yes, as a woman, I set the tone of the marriage and the home. I had read the book and practiced its clever concepts and terminology, but I had forgotten to let G-d in.

In last week’s Torah portion, Bo, we left Egypt, and in this week’s portion, Beshalach, Pharaoh chases us.

The sea splits, the Jews cross over, and the Egyptians drown — and we finally experience liberation.

The word “Egypt” means limitations. Even once freed from our limitations — finances, health, emotional trauma — we may suffer residual fear and uncertainty. Pharaoh pursues us even after we’ve escaped Egypt. The fear controlling us is the Pharaoh we allow to remain in our own lives.

So how do we free ourselves from the demons of the past and move forward?

By splitting our own inner sea — a metaphor for the material world that is hiding the divine life force. To transform the sea means to reveal that neither we nor our world are ever separate from G-d. Becoming free may be a long journey, but we can begin by realizing that only G-d has power over us. Not Pharaoh and not our past traumas or limitations.

Only a marriage with G-d’s presence will ever truly be one of peace, love and fulfillment. So while the book offered a springboard for daily living, my faith and spiritual connection are the foundation of the relationship and our home.

It’s going to take practice and prayer for the improvements to permeate. But at least now I have some of the tools to be successful, as well as the realization that G-d, not my limitations, is in control. ■

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A friend recently recommended a book that changed my life. At least for a few days. And then it didn’t.

The concepts at first seemed so empowering and enlightening, and they worked brilliantly. What happened?

The book is “First, Kill All the Marriage Counselors” by Laura Doyle.

I would never have read it, except that the person who suggested it is someone I admire, someone I would never have imagined needed to read a book like that.

The premise of the book, which has no overtly Jewish or religious themes but at its core is about shalom bayit (peace in the home), is that men need respect, which I had heard. But in this case the writer also explains how women need to replenish our spirits with self-care and to learn to recognize what we really want. As women, we have much more power than we may realize, Doyle writes, and we set the tone of the marriage.

She recommends doing three things every day that make us happy, really happy. Whether it’s playing beach volleyball, painting pottery, having coffee with a girlfriend or browsing the local bookstore, she prescribes no less than three stints of happiness and self-care per day.

Even in a modern world where women work outside the home, handle the finances and run many aspects of daily life, she says not to try to control our husbands; we should reveal our hearts with vulnerability and express gratitude.

Men inherently want to please their wives; they want to be loving and adore them. First women need to show respect, and soon the love will flow.

Doyle and her method have helped hundreds of thousands of couples in dozens of countries.

I wondered if her advice also could help me, a religious Jewish woman who observes Torah and mitzvot.

My husband and I both work full time and are busy caring for four children.

But I started trying to use the tools prescribed in the book. Expressing my desires in an inspiring way?

Check. Giving compliments and saying thank you for things I normally took for granted? Check.

At first, the difference was magical. I was beaming with joy and filled with massive amounts of love and contentment. But after the spell sud-

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Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. Screenings are held every day through Feb. 15 at various venues. Tickets are $13 for evening shows, $10 for matinees, $11 for students, children and seniors, and $18 for young professionals night (Feb. 11) and closing night (Feb. 15); ajff.org.

THURSDAY, FEB. 9

Leadership lessons. Diane Vinyard of On-Target Leadership speaks at 10:30 a.m. about “Leadership With Family and Friends” for the Edgewise Speaker Series at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free for JCC members, $5 for others; matureadults@ atlantajcc­.org or 678-812-3861.

Community change. CEOs for Cities head Lee Fisher speaks about creating an innovative area at Leadership Sandy Springs’ Live Learn Lead event, starting with appetizers at 6:30 p.m., at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church, 805 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $25 for LSS alumni and donors, $30 for others; bit.ly/2jrbT4J. Speed dating. Singles ages 24 to 45 are invited to juLuv’s first dating event, including hors d’oeuvres and beverages, at 6:30 p.m. at the William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta. Admission is $18; bit.ly/2klQ02P.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10

Scout Shabbat. Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta, welcomes all Boy and Girl Scouts and adult volunteers to a service at 7 p.m., with special patches for those in uniform. Free; RSVP to events@ mynertamid.org or 678-264-8575 with the name of the Scout attending.

Shabbat Shirah. Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, and Zimria Festivale Atlan-

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Beshalach Friday, Feb. 10, light candles at 5:59 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 11, Shabbat ends at 6:56 p.m.

Yitro Friday, Feb. 17, light candles at 6:06 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 18, Shabbat ends at 7:02 p.m. ta bring singing to the 6:30 p.m. service.

Free; bethshalomatlanta.org.

Soul & Spirit Shabbaton. Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown, hosts Rabbi Tzvi Freeman and his wife, Nomi, starting with a discussion of Kabbalah over dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday and continuing Saturday at 9 a.m. with guided meditation, a Tu B’Shevat discussion over lunch at noon, and talk about near-death experiences as part of Café Chabad at 8 p.m. The fee is $36 for adults and $15 for children for Friday dinner and $18 (adults only) for Café Chabad; intownjewishacademy. org/product/shabbaton.

Shabbat Shirah. Congregation Bet Haverim holds a festive service full of music and singing to celebrate the freedom of the Israelites at 7:30 p.m. at Oakhurst Baptist Church, 222 East Lake Drive, Decatur. Free; www. congregationbethaverim­.org.

SUNDAY, FEB. 12

Heart health. Hadassah Greater Atlanta Health Professionals presents Dave Hubbard speaking on “Your Heart Matters” at 1 p.m. at the Highlands at Akers Mill clubhouse, 3600 Akers Drive, Cumberland area. Admission is $7; RSVP to Ellen Weinstein at 770-241-8796. Details at www.hadassah.org/atlanta.

Gender discussion.

Congregation Bet Haverim, 2074 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, launches its four-part series on

gender diversity with “What Is Gender, Anyway?” at 4:30 p.m. Free; www. congregationbethaverim­.org/cal.php.

MONDAY, FEB. 13

Cooking class. Chabad of Peachtree City, 632 Dogwood Trail, Tyrone, and the Jewish Women’s Circle continue their series of kosher cooking classes at 7 p.m. with a focus on potato kugel and chicken soup. The cost is $15; RSVP to shternie@chabadsouthside.com.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15

Master chefs. The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, continues its series of chefs sharing recipes and cooking tips at 7 p.m. with The Luminary’s Eli Kirshtein. The cost is $50 for JCC members, $65 for others; bit. ly/2jSJnb9 or 678-812-3798.

THURSDAY, FEB. 16

FBI discussion. Stephen Emmett, an FBI special agent, speaks at 10:30 a.m. as part of the Edgewise Speaker Series at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free for JCC members, $5 for others; matureadults@atlantajcc. org or 678-812-3861.

SUNDAY, FEB. 19

Bearing witness. Architect Ben Hirsch, who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport, shares his experiences at 2 p.m. at the Breman, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; thebreman.org.

Anne Frank show. The Georgia Ensem-

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Remember When

25 Years Ago Feb. 7, 1992 ■ Two students who have been leaders of Emory Hillel are involved in efforts to create new Jewish student groups at the university. Paul Entis, who resigned and then returned as Hillel’s co-president, is forming the Emory Gay/Lesbian/ Bisexual Jewish Interest Group to give its members a “safe and comfortable place.” Jonathan Davidoff, who opposes having separate organizations for specific Jewish interest groups, resigned as Hillel’s treasurer and is trying to launch the Jewish Student Union, which Davidoff says he would like to have a good working relationship with Hillel.

■ The bat mitzvah of Jocelyn Gwen Sloan of Atlanta, daughter of Sybil and Stephen Sloan, will take place at 10 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 15, at Temple Emanu-El.

50 Years Ago Feb. 10, 1967 ■ Mrs. Frances Baum, a native of Atlanta and graduate of Girls’ High School, was killed in a fire that swept through the penthouse restaurant of an apartment building in Montgomery, Ala., late Tuesday, Feb. 7. Mrs. Baum, the president of the Southeastern Interstate Region of the Council of Jewish Women, was co-chair of the program committee for the approaching national CJW convention in Atlanta.

■ Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol has told the Cabinet that Israel opposed an indefinite extension of talks with Syria if the Syrians persist in bringing up matters not on the agenda. The only agenda item is consideration of cultivation rights for land in the demilitarized zone.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Saul Edward Nassau of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter, Lynn Cheryl Nassau, to Lewis Alan Morris, son of Mrs. Hyman Morris of Atlanta and the late Mr. Morris.

CALENDAR ble Theatre presents “And Then They Came for Me,” including survivor Eva Schloss, at 6:30 p.m. at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St. Tickets are $10; get.org/family-stage.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22

Bingo mitzvah. Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Metulla Group participates in bingo with seniors at Addington Place, 762 N. Main St., Alpharetta, at 1:45 p.m.

Contact Livia Sklar at livia5678@gmail. com or 914-602-8998 for more details.

An Artscape participant gets creative last year.

Jewish Family & Career Services’ fifth annual Artscape family fun event takes place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at Sensations Therafun, 1704 Chantilly Drive, North Druid Hills.

Activities include art with La Dee Da art studios, performances with the Alliance Theatre, games with In the City Camp, story time with PJ Library, yoga, a zip line, a climbing wall and face painting.

“Artscape was conceived as a way to bring families in our community together to raise funds and promote awareness for the agency’s top-notch counseling programs. What better way to promote mental health and well-being than through the arts, as they are so therapeutic for both adults and children,” said Lauren Harris, a longtime JF&CS board member who first had the idea for Artscape.

This year’s event co-chairs are Liann Baron and Lori Cahill.

Artscape raises money for JF&CS Counseling Services, through which families and individuals receive guidance and support to deal with bullying, divorce, grief, domestic violence (through Shalom Bayit) and addiction (through HAMSA).

“I think people really look forward to this event not only to support JF&CS, but also to connect with others in the community and to let their children use their imaginations and run free for an afternoon,” Harris said.

Tickets are $50 per family in advance or $65 per family at the door.

Visit www.ArtscapeAtl.org to get more information and to buy tickets. ■

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ISRAEL NEWS

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home Patching up the brain after surgery.

Biotech company Nurami Medical in Nazareth is developing ArtiFascia, a biodegradable nanofiber patch that protects brain tissue and the spinal cord after neurosurgery damage. Nurami, founded by Jews and Arabs, has secured $650,000 in funding.

Diagnosing sleep apnea by smartphone. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers have developed a system to assess the severity of obstructive sleep apnea by analyzing a patient’s speech using his or her smartphone. The system also records and evaluates overnight breathing sounds.

It has been tested on 350 people.

cyber companies, 65 more than a year ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also announced the National Center for Cyber Education.

aging for perishable foods. Polymers based on halloysite nanotubes release anti-microbial and anti-fungal oils to inhibit microbes and increase shelf life.

Driverless in Las Vegas. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jerusalem-based Mobileye and British partner Delphi demonstrated their latest autonomous technology with a 6.3-mile driverless journey through the city streets. The car self-drove smoothly and handled the problem of other cars cutting it off.

Unemployment at record low. Israel’s unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent in December from November’s 4.5 percent, which had been the country’s record low. Most of the employment increase came in full-time jobs. The average salary rose by more than 2.5 percent during 2016.

On the money. New Israeli currency designs feature two famous women.

Poet Rachel is on the new 20-shekel bill, and poet, author and playwright Leah Goldberg is on the 100-shekel bill.

Images from space. Ben-Gurion University and Or Yehuda-based ImageSat International (owner and operator of the EROS satellites) are developing a high-resolution hyperspectral imaging system. The cameras have been miniaturized and require only 10 percent of the data previously needed to produce high-resolution images.

A crowd at Cybertech 2017. Tel Aviv’s Cybertech is the second-largest conference and exhibition of cyber technologies in the world. Over 10,000 visitors heard from experts from 450 Israeli

Nano-packaging to prolong shelf life.

The European Union has invested 7.7 million euros ($8.23 million) in the NanoPack project, led by the Technion in Haifa, to develop nanotech pack-

Falling airfares. Airfares from Israel to Western Europe have fallen 18 percent in the five years since Israel signed the Open Skies airline competition agreement with the European Union. Fares to North America have dropped by 14 percent. Israel is served by 110 foreign airlines, and passenger traffic has increased by 40 percent.

More foreign tourists. Some 970,000 tourists stayed at least one night in Israel in November, an increase of 38 percent from November 2015 and 23 percent from November 2014. The revenue generated from foreign tourists

in November was more than 1.5 billion shekels ($390 million).

First student-run venture fund. Fresh. fund is Israel’s new student-run venture fund. Its aim is to invest in earlystage companies and ventures run by students and others. The fund has raised $1 million from an angel investor in Jerusalem and intends to invest $20,000 to $50,000 per venture.

Rescued Picasso sketch of ex-mayor.

The children of a former mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, found a picture of their father doodled by Pablo Picasso in a catalog for a 1965 Israel Museum exhibit of Picasso’s art. The catalog was nearly thrown away but has been donated to the Jerusalem Foundation.

A vineyard for Temple wine. When Yaakov Berg was planting his grapevines in Psagot, he discovered a cave with a 2,000-year-old wine press. His vineyard is on the site where wine was made for the ancient Temple.

Compiled courtesy of verygoodnewsisrael. blogspot.com and other sources.

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NFL Delegation Will Tour And Play in Israel

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Eleven National Football League players are due to arrive in Israel on Monday, Feb. 13, through an initiative of Israel’s Ministry for Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy with the Ministry of Tourism in cooperation with America’s Voices in Israel.

Over seven days, the Americans will visit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Haifa and Christian sites in the Galilee. The trip will include a baptism in the Jordan River at Yardenit.

No Atlanta Falcons are going.

The NFL delegation includes one member of the new Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, tight end Martellus Bennett, as well as his brother Michael Bennett, who won Super Bowl XLVIII as a defensive end with the Seattle Seahawks. Another defensive end on that champion Seattle team, Cliff Avril, also is making the trip.

The rest of the delegation consists of Tennessee Titans tight end Delanie Walker, Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Michael Kendricks, New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan, Arizona Cardinals defensive end Calais Campbell, Oakland Raiders defensive

tackle Dan Williams, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills, San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde and Denver Broncos running back Justin Forsett.

ESPN commentator and former linebacker Kirk Morrison is joining the group of 11 active players.

“I see great importance in the arrival of this delegation of NFL stars to Israel,” Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Minister Gilad Erdan said.

“I have no doubt that their visit will be a powerful experience for them, and I hope that, through their visit, they will get a balanced picture of Israel.”

Erdan said his ministry’s fight against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement includes hosting influencers such as the NFL players.

The NFL players’ stops will include the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Yad Vashem, and Dimona, where they will meet with representatives of the Black Hebrew community.

The highlight of the trip for the Israeli public will be an exhibition game with an Israel Football Association team Saturday, Feb. 18, in Jerusalem. ■

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

Feb. 10, 1913: Charles Winters, an American who helps Israel acquire fighter planes in 1948 for use in the War of Independence, is born in Brookline, Mass. The documentary “Above and Beyond” shows his success.

Feb. 11, 1995: The American Jewish Committee Board of Governors adopts a new policy statement on Israel-Diaspora relations. Responding to a weakening of the relationship between Jews inside and outside Israel, the policy addresses 12 issues. It seeks more interdependence in matters of Jewish continuity, increased efforts to bring Diaspora Jews to Israel and continued American philanthropic support for Israel.

Feb. 12, 1958: The first of 11 Basic Laws of Israel is issued by the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Basic Laws are originally intended to form the basis of an Israeli Constitution, but the constitution remains unwritten.

Feb. 13, 1931: The 1930 Passfield White Paper is rejected by British Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald.

The document contained distinct threats to the geography of the Jewish national home. The subsequent nine years saw unprecedented growth of the Jewish demographic and physical presence in Mandatory Palestine.

Feb. 14, 1896: Theodor Herzl’s “Der Judenstaat” (The Jewish State), subtitled “An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question,” is first published in Vienna.

Only 500 copies are originally printed and distributed.

The first printing Feb. 15, 1975: of Theodore Herzl’s Salvator Cicurel, a “The Jewish State” former Egyptian produced only 500 copies.

Olympic fencer and leader of the Cairo Jewish community who fled to France in 1957 after the 1956 Suez crisis made life harder for Jews and cost him his family department store, dies.

Feb. 16, 1932: Aharon Appelfeld, an Israeli author, professor and Holocaust survivor, is born near Czernowitz, Ukraine (then part of Bukovina, Romania).

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Today in Israeli History

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The June 1967 War: Actions Have Consequences How many times have I taught the causes and effects or written about Israel’s June 1967 war? Hundreds of times in 40 years.

For years, I used the premise that once Egypt put massive amounts of troops in Sinai and blockaded the Straits of Tiran at the entry to the Gulf of Aqaba and to Israel’s southern port of Eilat, Israel saw both actions as provocations for war.

Israel mobilized its citizen army, particularly after Arab leadership promised to eliminate the Jewish state. Israel launched a pre-emptive attack on Egypt’s air fields on the morning of June 5, 1967.

Israel wiped out Egypt’s air force in four hours and sped across Sinai to the Suez Canal in three days.

Until Arab leaders were emotionally driven to join Nasser’s war of liberation led by Egypt, Israel did not want to go to war against either Jordan or Syria. Israel did not have any predetermined intention to take the West Bank, East Jerusalem or the

Golan Heights.

All true.

In preparing a Center for Israel Education learning curriculum for adults and students to be ready for use in March, “The 1967 June War: How

Guest Column

By Ken Stein

It Changed Jewish, Israeli and Middle Eastern History,” I looked at Arab sources not previously read about the war.

Specifically, I read Mohamad elGamasy’s memoir. El-Gamasy was part of the Egyptian military command at the time of the 1967 war and was the Egyptian chief of staff in the 1973 October war.

What was learned? El-Gamasy was brutal in criticizing the Egyptian military’s unpreparedness; he was scathing in blame heaped on Nasser for Egypt’s losses in the war.

“Egypt was not at the time prepared for the war,” he wrote. “Our call-up system was deficient, we had a shortage of officers and trained army, our air force lacked trained fighter pilots … fewer than the number of planes available, and there was a power struggle at the top between President Nasser and Abdul Hakim Amer, the vice president.”

Amer and Nasser let their personal squabbles and political aspirations take Egypt into war, ignoring the army’s dramatic shortcomings.

Egypt dragged the rest of the Middle East into a war for which it was not prepared, a war that led to Israel’s control over Sinai, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, a war that led to Israel’s administration and occupation of the West Bank.

What if Jordan had stayed out of the June war instead of being sucked into Nasser’s political vortex?

El-Gamasy held the Egyptian political and military leadership accountable for the devastating Arab losses in the June war. Days before the war started, Nasser told a group of

army officers, “We knew that closing the Gulf of Aqaba meant war with Israel.”

What is certain from El-Gamasy’s memoir, and from other sources, is that Nasser did not understand the massive consequences of a war with Israel. In terms of territory, when Nasser lost sovereign Egyptian Sinai, Sadat decided six years later that he needed it back by means of the October war and American-led diplomacy.

Indirectly, Nasser’s 1967 war led to Sadat’s peace with Israel.

When Jordan lost the West Bank, it unfolded into an unfinished and highly controversial settlement issue that no one contemplated at the end of May 1967. The war also led to a whole new set of diplomatic terms: “two-state solution,” “withdrawal from territories,” “unilateralism,” “land for peace,” “negotiations between the parties,” and many others. ■ Ken Stein, an Emory professor of modern Israeli history, is the president of the Center for Israel Education (www. israeled.org) and leads Emory’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel.

Analyst: Embassy Move Need Not Enrage Arabs

By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com

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Moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would correct a historical injustice going back almost 70 years, but it would be a mistake to do so without a broader diplomatic context, said Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

“I don’t think this administration or any administration would be foolish enough to focus only on the embassy,” Satloff said Jan. 27 during an online discussion arranged by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Such a focus, he said, could spark a “rather vociferous response” among Arabs not because of the specifics of the embassy, but because of concerns about the lack of a broader vision.

The wise U.S. strategy, he said, would involve talking to partners in the Middle East about general policy directions, such as repairing relationships with allies rather than building new ties with adversaries like Iran. If moving the embassy is seen as just one 8 move to restore alliances, particularly

if it takes place amid efforts to strengthen U.S. ties with such Arab nations as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, “the move will be seen as more palatable.”

Pa l e s t i n ian leaders Robert Satloff have threatened to unleash violence in response to an embassy move, and Israeli military analysts reportedly have warned that the threat is real. Even though Satloff said other Arabs have less sympathy for the Palestinians today than during previous uprisings, there are concerns that Arab anger could target U.S. diplomats in other countries.

Palestinian sensitivity to anything involving Jerusalem arose again Sunday, Feb. 5, when a Palestinian Authority official, Adnan al-Husseini, demanded an apology from new U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for saying two days earlier that it was clear the Temple destroyed by the Ro-

mans in Jerusalem was a Jewish facility.

Al-Husseini told China’s Xinhua news agency that Guterres “violated all legal, diplomatic and humanitarian customs” while ignoring UNESCO’s declaration that the Temple Mount, the site of Al-Aqsa mosque, is “of pure Islamic heritage.”

President Donald Trump promised during the campaign and after his election to move the embassy to Jerusalem, but he said Jan. 26 that it was too early to talk about that action. Under a 1995 law, Trump must decide by June 1 whether to start the process of moving the embassy or follow the examples of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama and waive the move for six months for national security reasons.

Satloff said it’s a good sign that Trump has not rushed to move the embassy. “There’s quite a list of things you have to do, allies you have to talk with, to do this intelligently and effectively.”

Selecting a site, presumably in an area of Jerusalem controlled by Israel since 1949, and building an embassy would take years, Satloff said. But Trump could declare one of the State Department’s existing properties in Je-

rusalem to be the temporary embassy and make either the suite the United States leases at the David Citadel Hotel or the apartment Ambassador-designate David Friedman holds as the official ambassador’s residence.

Satloff emphasized that the question of whether the U.S. Embassy should be in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem has nothing to do with the 1967 Six-Day War or the settlements. He said President Harry Truman heroically recognized Israel 11 minutes after it declared independence, then chose not to put the embassy in Jerusalem, even after the cease-fire in 1949, because the 1947 U.N. partition plan had called for the holy city to be part of a special international zone that was separate from the Jewish and Arab states.

“That’s an injustice that needs to be corrected,” Satloff said. “This is a ’48 problem, not a ’67 problem. … The move of the embassy repairs a ’48 problem.”

Any announcement of an embassy move should include respect for bilateral negotiations to determine all Israeli-Palestinian issues, including Jerusalem, and should emphasize that the status quo on the city’s holy sites is not changing, Satloff said. ■

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Letters To The Editor Non-Orthodox Rabbis

I often receive appeals on behalf of impoverished Orthodox families in Israel. Occasionally, I donate a few dollars. I am comfortable with my choice, but I am dismayed with Raanan Isseroff’s ire over private individuals partially funding non-Orthodox rabbis in Israel (Letters, Jan. 13).

Isseroff’s letter expressing his indignation is full of inaccuracies and baseless charges. Rabbi David Geffen (“What Israelis Face as 2016 Winds Down,” Dec. 23) didn’t say most Israeli soldiers are left-wingers not trusted

by Israelis. He merely noted that twothirds of Israeli soldiers are neither religious nor from the West Bank. This is as expected: most Israelis are secular and live within the Green Line.

Isseroff refers to the Green Line as a border. It is not. The Green Line marks the 1949 armistice. The Arab nations that attacked Israel in 1948 would not negotiate on borders or anything else that would acknowledge Israel’s existence. Of course, after Israel defeated Egypt, Syria and Jordan in 1967, the aggressors who lost the Six-Day War decided the Green Line was sacrosanct.

Isseroff’s contentions aside, the Conservative groups with which I am involved have been protesting the U.N. resolutions that deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem. I suspect that the same is true of the others he castigates.

And we should recall that some Orthodox groups (such as Neturei Karta and the Satmar Hasidim) opposed the establishment of the state and expressed support for Israel’s enemies.

Israel is the world’s only Jewish state. Her population must retain its Jewish majority. That will entail converting the hundreds of thousands of Russians who have chosen to live in Israel but who are not halachically Jewish. It also means efforts must be made to reintroduce Jewish observance to Israel’s largely secular population.

Too often, the state rabbinate has made unreasonable demands on Russians seeking to convert and has antagonized secular people who must deal with the rabbinate on marriage and divorce or while making funeral arrangements. Outreach efforts by Conservative and Reform congregations provide valuable resources to those seeking to return to Jewish observance and should be supported by the nationstate of the Jews.

— Toby F. Block, Atlanta

Marching for Truth

My husband and I were in the D.C. area visiting our family one week before the Women’s March. I wanted so much to remain there to participate but could not. I wanted to express my frustration and sadness for what has occurred in our great country.

However, I was happy to watch on C-SPAN. What occurred in our country and around the world that Saturday, Jan. 21, was incredibly inspiring.

As many have stated, certain comments were made that I do not feel were appropriate, but overall, the various speakers, to me, spoke The Truth.

No, I do not believe America will be great again with all the actions the president has taken. Threatening to eliminate programs that help so many is not making America great.

Most people know and can accept that under President Barack Obama, many programs and laws were passed that have allowed all citizens to enjoy equality (finally).

This march brought attention to everyone. We the people will not allow the frightening intentions of this administration, to destroy what is good and right about our nation.

Making America great again should allow everyone to benefit from all that America offers.

Whether you are white, black, straight, LGBT, any religion or no religion, in America we have rights and freedoms.

A president should uphold our Constitution and not show bigotry toward certain citizens, and he should not demonstrate prejudice toward any-

one. All Americans should be respected for who they are, period. No exceptions.

May we continue to speak out and protest; this is America!

In regard to presidential counselor Steve Bannon’s comment that “the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while,” Bannon and the administration should recognize that the media and many Americans will not keep our mouths shut.

We are not in Russia. At the next protests, I plan to march.

Thank you, AJT, for your coverage of the marches. I appreciate the excellent observations of Marita Anderson, Rebecca Stapel-Wax and Elizabeth Friedly. You have spoken The Truth.

— Judy Bernhardt Glatzer, Bethlehem, Ga.

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Iran Pays

FEBRUARY 10 ▪ 2017

The 2015 Iran nuclear deal may or may not stop an expansionist, West-hating Tehran government from developing atomic weapons — it’s far too early to know — but so far the agreement has done nothing to make Iran friendlier to the United States or Israel.

Defenders of the deal have correctly argued that it was never intended to resolve all disputes with Iran and restore it to a place as a responsible, respectable member of the world community. The flip side of that acknowledgment, however, is that Iran remains subject to punishment for its non-nuclear bad deeds, such as its continued testing of ballistic missiles in a program that could produce a delivery system for nuclear, chemical or biological warheads.

Technically, Iran’s test-firing of a missile Sunday, Jan. 29, didn’t violate the U.N. Security Council resolution that enacted the nuclear agreement because, among the faults of the deal, the measure weakened the language on such missiles. But Iran was testing whether President Donald Trump is all bluff and bluster and no action on policy in the Middle East.

Trump passed the test.

Two days after putting Iran “on notice” for its provocations, the Trump administration acted. The Treasury Department instituted sanctions on the banking privileges of 13 people and 12 organizations across three networks involved in supplying Iran’s weapons programs. One of the targeted networks supports Hezbollah, the terrorist organization with thousands of conventional missiles aimed at Israel.

We’re under no illusions that these sanctions will end Iran’s missile program, its support for terrorists or its efforts to exert hegemony across the Middle East. But it’s refreshing after President Barack Obama’s soft treatment of Iran, including the refusal to acknowledge any violations of the agreement, and his failure to enforce his own red line in Syria that his successor is willing to back up words with actions that have bite but stop far short of war.

As National Security Adviser Michael Flynn said, “The days of turning a blind eye to Iran’s hostile and belligerent actions toward the United States and the world community are over.”

Still, the Islamist government in Tehran remains both anti-Israel and anti-Semitic, as the official news service’s PressTV affiliate demonstrated within hours of the announcement of the sanctions.

“Rogue Jewish group in US Treasury orchestrated Iran sanctions,” PressTV’s headline declared.

Relying on classic anti-Semitic memes, the article claimed that the Treasury Department is dominated by Jews, and it called out one by name: Stuart Eizenstat, one of Jewish Atlanta’s favorite sons.

We can only guess that the Iranian “news” outlet singled out Eizenstat because of his leading role in winning reparations and property restoration for Holocaust victims and their families — a noble effort that PressTV labels a “looting operation.”

Or, perhaps, Iranian journalists are demonstrating their dark sense of humor. After all, this real-life example of fake news is the closest staunch Democrat Eizenstat, a Jimmy Carter loyalist who also served President Bill Clinton and Obama, will ever get to a 10 role in the Trump administration. ■

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Super Divisions in Community One of the goals of the AJT is to be a unifying I remember an endless stream of Falcons wins force for Jewish Atlanta. That doesn’t mean a comon Hail Mary passes and last-second field goals. munity that is monolithic in religious belief, political I remember the too-few Saints wins with much opinion or social interacless clarity — the Falcons tion, of course; it means a lead the all-time series community that operates 51-45 — but there have Editor’s Notebook as a big family — disagreebeen sweet moments ing and arguing but always along the way. Most have

By Michael Jacobs maintaining respect and involved mistakes by the mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com supporting one another.

Dirty Birds, as when Steve It’s a nice dream, and Gleeson had his game- and while it’s an ideal we can’t season-defining block of a ever achieve, I believe that this newspaper can help Michael Koenen punt in the Saints’ first post-Katrina our vibrant, innovative community keep inching in game in the Super Dome in 2006 or when the Falthat direction. cons failed to convert on a fourth down in overtime But not as much as the Falcons, apparently. in 2011.

Most of Jewish Atlanta isn’t from around here The point is that I could never root for the Faloriginally, meaning that most of us have connections cons to win any game, let alone the Super Bowl. So if not loyalty to non-Atlanta teams. But, judging from on Sunday, Feb. 5, I found myself at odds with most conversations, social media, and various friendly, of the community I’m trying to serve. charitable wagers and spirited events arranged by I usually can understand the viewpoints of synagogues, the community united behind the Falpeople who disagree with me on politics and other cons with a passion unmatched for any cause short issues, but I can’t put myself in the mind of a Falcons of Israel under attack — and that might be selling fan. How could anyone root for the Falcons, regardthe Rise Up faith short. less of where they live or who owns the team?

Even among those who aren’t football fans, the As editor of the AJT, I should have rooted for the only people in Jewish Atlanta who seemed immune Falcons, who were bringing our community togethto Falcons fever were those from New England and er. As myself, I couldn’t do it, despite Arthur Blank those from New Orleans. The Boston crowd couldn’t and the charitable bets that would have benefited be blamed for standing by Brady, Belichick and the Atlanta causes. I couldn’t do it even though I find the boys, no matter how shady a path they’ve followed to Patriots deplorable and intolerable. all those Super Bowl titles.

So, for the first time in more than 30 years, I But those of us with New Orleans roots were didn’t watch the Super Bowl. I missed the biggest driven by something purer than a hometown bandcomeback and first overtime among the 51 Super wagon: the hatred of a rival.

Bowls. I missed the commercials and the halftime I’m a member of Who Dat Nation by birth, show. I missed the pleasure of watching the team I which means I have hated the Falcons as long as I hate suffer the most crushing loss imaginable. can remember.

But I saw and heard the pain of all the Falcons I remember when the Saints blew a fourth-quar- fans around me the day after the big game. And now ter lead at home against the Falcons while seeking that it’s over, I hope we all can agree on one thing: their first-ever playoff win in 1991.

The Patriots should never win the Super Bowl again. ■

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Immersed in Community On Religious Freedom build MACoM know what a community treasure has been created.

Our small stream is becoming deeper, wider and stronger. We move

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into our second year of operations with an increased desire to share our story with the community at large. We will tell this story at our first community gathering next month.

Please join us as we celebrate our journey at the Georgia Aquarium (where else?) on March 16. For tickets and more information, visit our website, www.atlantamikvah.org, or, better yet, come by for a tour.

MACoM, at 700-A Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, is open to all those looking for a Jewish connection.

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Eight years ago, President Barack Obama celebrated America’s “patchwork heritage,” acknowledging the Jews, Christians and Muslims who form our country’s diverse beliefs and cultures. It is a delicate pattern that requires mutual respect and honor.

It is also a principle that reaches across the aisle. President George H.W. Bush proclaimed Religious Freedom Day in 1993, encouraging the United States to champion religious liberty and tolerance worldwide and to decry the “reprehensible persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, anti-Semitism, and other forms of religious bigotry.”

That annual proclamation has become a plea for kindness and mercy.

“Religious freedom” has been embraced by the most intolerant and least compassionate among us. As a state and a nation, we have lost our way.

It’s time for Georgia lawmakers to pass a comprehensive civil rights bill to protect all Georgians, including those in the LGBT community.

We are in a trying time. Misguided people of faith commit terrorist acts for what they feel is in the name of G-d. Tensions rise as outdated ideals

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are challenged. But we cannot let fear and discomfort strip our freedoms.

Last year the Georgia legislature passed “religious liberty” House Bill 757, targeting marriage and employment rights. Gov. Nathan Deal heroically vetoed it, stating: “Our people work side by side without regard to the color of our skin or the religion we adhere to. We are working to make life better for our families and our communities.”

We owe it to ourselves as a community and state to continue to fight and embrace the “patchwork heritage” and reality we live in today.

That is religious freedom. ■

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What a difference two years makes. Transitioning from a satisfying career as a nurse-midwife to a more family-centered time left me fluid, like water. I became more responsive to the ebbs and flow of the day instead of a planned schedule.

My timeline paralleled another change in the Atlanta Jewish community.

The community mikvah at Congregation B’nai Torah needed to be renovated. While B’nai Torah was undergoing capital renovation, a few brave souls thought that Atlanta was ready for a true community and reimagined mikvah.

Into this space, MACoM (Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah) was born.

Macom in Hebrew means “place,” and MACoM is a place for all of Jewish Atlanta to gather.

MACoM found inspiration in Mayyim Hayyim, Boston’s community mikvah, which opened in 2004. Author Anita Diamant rallied the Boston community to create a destination for Jews across the spectrum of observance and affiliations. Mayyim Hayyim continues to create waves.

Diamant traveled to Atlanta to share her vision in January 2015, and MACoM has not looked back. The new mikvah opened to the public in November 2015, and, like a stream finding its way, MACoM slowly carved out a space in an ever-changing landscape.

In the spirit of openness and inclusivity, MACoM has welcomed Jews to explore their own connection with the divine. Spiritual curiosity is a wonderful catalyst, and Atlantans (as well as folks from surrounding states) have visited MACoM for many reasons.

Some come to celebrate pregnancy, while others find solace as they struggle with infertility. Some come at the beginning of treatment for cancer, and others mark the end of treatment or a period of remission. Some observe the practice of immersing before holidays, and some observe the practices associated with niddah (the laws related to women’s monthly immersion).

Whatever the reason, MACoM can help one connect with the challenges and rewards we all face on our spiritual journey.

Every great Jewish community deserves a sacred place for spiritual and emotional renewal. Each immersion provides a way to connect with inner holiness, be it of the mind, body or soul. Those of us who have helped

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Time for Trump to End the Circus

FEBRUARY 10 ▪ 2017

What a momentous week we witnessed in January when Donald Trump was inaugurated as president.

After 100 years, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it is closing. Why? Because, as many pundits suggested, it just couldn’t compete with Trump as the “Greatest Show on Earth.”

Along with snide comments about “sending in the clowns,” I saw and heard versions of that joke all week. But regardless of our nostalgic feelings, the reason for its closing is obvious.

How many times have you bought a ticket for the circus in the past 20 years?

All week before the inauguration, people were speculating. Who’s going?

Who’s boycotting? Who’s singing and what? Trump, of course, knows how to put on a show. He’s not the first celebrity to move into the White House.

He’s nonetheless the first reality-show personality, and he’s so unpredictable that sometimes it seems he suffers from foot-in-mouth disease.

Liat Collins said in The Jerusalem Post: “In a world that craves stability, we are receiving instead a promise that this presidency won’t be boring. … With his orange hair and show-off manner, it’s easy to satirize Trump as a clown. He’s not. … His dramatic entrance into the White House marks a new era. He’s not all-powerful, but his impact should not be underestimated.”

The past few years have been a time of great divisiveness in our country. The inauguration of a new president is usually a time for the country to come together in celebration of the hallmark of American democracy: a peaceful transition of power and leadership. However, an unprecedented number of members of Congress boycotted the inauguration while demonstrators tried to disrupt it.

George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, is no fan of Trump’s. In the primaries Trump came down hard on his son Jeb. According to reports, Bush 41 voted for Hillary Clinton.

Bush Sr., 92, was in a hospital in Houston with pneumonia during the inauguration, while his wife, Barbara, was in the hospital with bronchitis.

Even before their hospitalization, Bush was not well enough to attend the inauguration. He could have easily gotten away with a press release saying he was not well enough to attend.

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Bush. He’s one classy guy. He sent this letter to Trump: Dear Donald, Barbara and I are so sorry we can’t be there for your Inauguration on January 20th. My doctor says if I sit outside in January, it likely will put me 6 ft. under. Same for Barbara. So I guess we’re stuck in Texas. But we will be with you and the country in spirit. I want you to

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know that I wish you the very best as you begin this incredible journey of leading our great country. If I can ever be of help, please let me know.

Now, I’m no fan of George H.W. Bush’s. When he was president, he gave Israel such a hard time. But this gracious message is something we all need to hear: We are all Americans, so let’s treat one another — regardless of who voted for whom — with graciousness, civility and kindness.

Let me share an issue that excited the kosher world about this inauguration. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, had a major problem Friday, Jan. 20. As you know, they’re Orthodox Jews — Sabbath observers — and Shabbos on Inauguration Day began in Washington at 4:58 p.m.

As high-level advisers to the president, it was important that they be at many of the celebrations. Yes, it might have been possible to walk from place to place, but would it have been safe?

Jared and Ivanka asked their rabbi — I assume it was Rabbi Haskell Lookstein from their shul in New York, Kehilath Jeshurun, whom I have known for some 40 years — who gave them permission to ride in a car (probably a limo) on Friday evening after the inauguration to protect their safety.

Lifesaving measures, such as the work of surgeons and soldiers, are permitted on Shabbos because of the Jewish law of pikuach nefesh, or protection of life, which overrides the commandments of the Torah. And there is much literature in Jewish law devoted to leniencies for “court Jews.”

This was a very serious issue for them. As Ivanka, who has taken the Hebrew name Yael, told Vogue magazine in an interview (March 2015): “We observe the Sabbath. From Friday to

Saturday we don’t do anything but hang out with one another. We don’t make phone calls. Shabbat provides a blueprint for family connectivity in that it protects time for us to spend with family. It’s an amazing thing when you’re so connected, to really sign off … and for Arabella (her oldest child) to know that she has me, undivided, one day a week. We don’t do anything except play with each other, hang out with one another, go on walks together. Pure family!”

Joe Lieberman might have faced the same dilemma in 2001 had butterfly ballots in Florida bent the other way: Jan. 20 that year was on Shabbos.

On the other hand, in 2009, the Connecticut senator trekked five miles on a snowy Saturday to vote on health care amendments for the Senate. As Lieberman said: “I have a responsibility to my constituents, really to my conscience, to be here on something as important as health care reform.”

I hope someone got a photo of Ivanka and Jared making Kiddush and Motzi at one of the inaugural balls.

What a Kiddush Hashem (a sanctification of G-d’s name) this is — to have religious Jews as part of the first family.

The day after the inauguration, we began a new book of the Torah — Shemot/Exodus — just as our country began a new book in its history — the first full day of the Trump presidency.

The parshah tells us, “Vayakam melech chadash al Mitzrayim” (A new king arose over Egypt). He was to be the Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the ancient world. Likewise, a new leader has arisen over America, the most powerful man in our world.

The new Pharaoh in our parshah came into power with a definite agenda. The Torah tells us: “Lo yada et

Yosef” (He did not know Joseph).

He didn’t know Joseph? Joseph was the lowly Hebrew slave who rose to become the prime minister of Egypt.

He saved Egypt from starvation and economic ruin. How was it possible that the Pharaoh didn’t know Joseph?

Of course he knew who Joseph was. But he didn’t want to know — to be beholden to him and his people. He wanted to use them for his benefit.

Donald Trump also comes to power with an agenda, but, thank G-d, it seems to be a different kind of agenda: “To make America great again,” whatever that means. We will see.

I can only say what I said after Barack Obama was elected: “Barack Obama is not just to be the president of black Americans or Democratic Americans or liberal Americans. He is to be my president — and yours. Let us all pray that someday, through him, we will see fulfilled the promise made to Abraham (Genesis 12:2-3): ‘I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make thy name great and be thou a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee and those that cursed thee will I curse. And in thee shall all the families of the Earth be blessed.’ ” As I prayed for Barack Obama then, I now pray: May the circus atmos­phere of Donald Trump end now, just as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending. And may G-d bestow upon the presidency of Donald Trump the blessing of Abraham: “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you. … In you shall all the families of the Earth be blessed.” Amen! ■ Rabbi Mark Hillel Kunis is the spiritual leader of Congregation Shaarei Shamayim. This column is adapted from the sermon he delivered Jan. 21.

Happ TU B’SHEVAT

Many Ways to Celebrate The Trees’ New Year Tu B’Shevat, the 15th day of the month of Shevat, falls on Shabbat, Feb. 11. Traditional ways of celebrating the new year of the trees include planting trees, holding a special seder meal, and sampling Israel’s traditional seven species — wheat, barley, grapes (wine), figs, pomegranates, olives (oil) and dates (honey).

The following are some of the opportunities to observe the holiday: • Family fun — The Marcus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road in Dunwoody, celebrates the holiday of the trees with children and their families from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 9. The festivities include arts, crafts, music, Israeli fruits and a birthday cake. It’s free and open to all.

Visit www.atlantajcc.org/pldb-live/tub-shvat-celebration-34785, or call Rabbi Brian Glusman at 678-812-4161.

• Retreat — The Retreat Center at Ramah Darom in Clayton is holding its first Farm 2 Table Tu B’Shevat celebration from Friday through Sunday, Feb. 10 to 12. The weekend features locally sourced, kosher meals prepared under the guidance of guest chef Jenny Levison of Souper Jenny, plus lessons about food ethics and conservation, hikes, meditation, and work in the new orchard. A Sunday-only option from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. includes lunch and the Farm 2 Table Green Festival, as well as projects for all ages. Sunday only is $36 for ages 18 and older, $18 for ages 4 to 17, and free for younger children. Rates for the whole weekend start at $300 for ages 31 and older, $150 for 18 to 30, and $100 for 4 to 17. Get information, including a registration link, at ramahdarom.org/programs/farm-2-table-tubshevat or ekaiman@ramahdarom. org.

• Dinner — The monthly Shabbat in the Highlands dinner at Anshi, 1324 N. Highland Ave. in Virginia-Highland, starts with candle lighting at 5:59 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 10. Dinner is $18; www.anshisfard.com or 404-969-6763.

• Family service — Temple Kol Emeth’s family service, aimed at chil-

dren 7 and younger, focuses on Tu B’Shevat at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at 1415 Old Canton Road in East Cobb.

Visit www.kolemeth.net.

• Seder — Temple Kol Emeth also holds Tu b’Shabbat at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10. The Tu B’Shevat seder is woven into the Shabbat service with fruit, nuts, wine, music, poetry and art. Visit www.kolemeth.net.

• Mysticism and lunch — As part of its Soul & Spirit Shabbaton with Rabbi Tzvi Freeman and his wife, Nomi, Chabad Intown at 928 Ponce de Leon Ave. in Midtown holds a Tu B’Shevat meal at noon with a discussion of “Branches & Roots: Mystical Insights.”

It’s free; visit intownjewishacademy. org/product/shabbaton.

• Volunteering — JNFuture, for people in their 20s and 30s, holds Tu Beer’Shvat — a morning of service and an afternoon of socializing — on Sunday, Feb. 12. The event starts with bagels and coffee at 9:30 a.m. at the main entrance of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, 767 Clifton Road in Atlanta, followed by trail preservation work in the Fernbank Forest from 10 to noon. The group then gathers at the Porter Beer Bar Beer Cellar at 1156 Euclid Ave. There’s no cost to attend; RSVP by Friday, Feb. 10, to rsvpatl@jnf. org. Contact Arielle Levy at alevy@jnf. org or 512-410-1483, ext. 946, for more information.

• Planting — Trees Atlanta takes its annual Tu B’Shevat tree planting to the grounds of the Carter Center, 453 Freedom Parkway in Atlanta, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12. It’s free. Visit treesatlanta.org/event/tu-bshvat-3 for more information, and email susan@ treesatlanta.org to register.

• Spa night — Chabad of North Fulton at 10180 Jones Bridge Road in Johns Creek hosts a Jewish Women’s Circle event with spa services, smoothies, a coffee bar and guest speaker Miriam Lipsker at 5 p.m. The cost is $20. RSVP at www.chabadnf.org/spa. For more information, call 770-410-9000, or email admin@chabadnf.org. ■

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A table at Intown Jewish Preschool’s Tu B’Shevat event Sunday, Feb. 5, features samples of Israel’s traditional seven species.

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The Kabbalah of Me as a Tree

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After 20 years of living in Atlanta, it is not a stretch to consider the tree and our beautiful, lush, green surroundings as a metaphor for life.

This week, however, it is a Jewish lens through which I marvel at nature and its relation to humanity (I am not referring to the environmental relationship, although that is another lens through which I view my place on G-d’s green Earth).

This Shabbat is the 15th of Shevat, celebrated as Tu B’Shevat, the new year of the trees.

For the actual textual reference in the Torah — “that man (or woman) is a tree of the field” — it does not take a Torah scholar to notice the similarities between nature and our human experience.

Some of the lessons we can take from these similarities are profoundly simple, and some are exquisitely deep.

Sunlight, water and weeding are all allegorical to the nurture required to grow a tiny human into an upstanding adult and contributing member of society. A sapling, like a child, requires

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the right amount of care and protection, but with too much shade (overprotection), sun (discipline) or water (material indulgences), the sapling has a harder time taking root.

It is also important to note how resilient a sapling is. Although there is an ideal environment that makes its growth predictable and successful,

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it can adapt and pull through in lessthan-ideal situations.

This is probably most helpful to remember for our own lives, as we wonder about the best possible environment and the right amount of sun, shade and water needed for our own families to blossom. Ultimately, we do our best, which is not a cop-out or a defeatist position, but an acceptance of reality.

With all our best intentions, life

has a way of sending droughts and downpours and rough elements. So the knowledge that our little people are resilient at the end of it all is very empowering. It is not the mindset of the cynic; it is the mindset of the visionary.

Since we are discussing nature, let us dig even deeper. Besides the obvious, what else is practical about this text from the Torah?

The Talmud asks the question of the above Torah statement, “Is man a tree?” The given answer is yes, literally.

We all know we are not literal trees blowing in the wind, so what this must mean to say is that our bond with nature is pretty tight, and being similar to a tree is paramount.

Why a tree? A tree does not move around or speak. Perhaps being compared to an animal would be more appropriate. Especially because an animal walks around and has a brain.

According to ancient Jewish mystics, there are four categories of life: • Domem — inanimate objects, like rocks or shells.

• Tzomeach — growth, like vegetation.

• Chai — living, like animals, birds and fish.

• Midaber — literally one who speaks, meaning humans.

Our intellect is likened to the chai, an animal. While our middot, aka character traits, are likened to the tzomeach, a tree. So, indeed, we are a bit of animal and a bit of tree.

So why are we called a tree, and not an animal, of the field? It must be that one’s character is more essential to the human than even brains; therefore, it gets that “man tree” verse.

What is it about our tree that is so intrinsic, and why is it important enough to mention in the Torah?

An animal moves around. It can adapt, and it does not stay connected to its source in a visible way. The same can be said about our intellect; although it may reside in the brain, in practice it is movable.

We can understand something one way and apply it in another way.

We can comprehend two opposing sides of an argument. We can adapt our thinking to different situations.

We can be flexible of mind. We can have opinions far removed from the ones we were raised with. And we often think of this as our most profound human ability.

But that is not where the Torah wishes to extol the person.

We are called the tree of the field

Children do their best impressions of trees during story time at the Intown Jewish Preschool Tu B’Shevat event Sunday, Feb. 5.

— this is specific.

The tree’s most notable qualities are growth and immobility. Trees (and all vegetation) are the only growing organisms that stay connected visually and physically to their source. This is one of the elements that differentiate between chai and tzomeach.

What this verse is telling us is that our character traits show us for who we really are: rooted, like a tree.

No matter what our thoughts are, it is how we behave that is representative of our essence. I can be supremely annoyed or believe someone is mistaken in their ideologies. I can have a conflicting opinion. But how I treat another is what makes me who I am as a person.

Sometimes people who are more educated begin to perceive themselves as better. But, in fact, they are not. As Jon Batiste said, “You are never too important to be nice to people.”

So in this small yet profound way, we are meant to emulate and resemble a tree. Our character and potential for good are part of us from birth and are rooted deep within. Our middot are the seeds of our essence, unmoving and steady, but also meant to be growing upward — grand and majestic like an oak or a redwood.

This message of Tu B’Shevat is that just as a tree grows and takes shape firmly in one place, we are acknowledged for our roots, our inborn set of character traits. And like a tree planted firm yet with potential to grow magnificently tall and wide, we are given entire lifetimes to develop ourselves into impressive and dignified human beings. ■ Dena Schusterman is a mother of eight, a wife, the rebbetzin of Chabad Intown and the executive director of the Intown Jewish Preschool.

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from the top down, like a general giving orders. “That may be good for certain industries,” Spokoiny said, “but it does not promote creativity or innovation.”

The Jewish community is stuck in the past. New organizations should focus on the model of the brain, going all direction at once. “Only 14 percent of Jews today give out of obligation,” Spokoiny said, and rather than rely on Jewish guilt, organizations must articulate meaning and social interaction.

He pointed to Moishe House. “I don’t know how it works or why, but it’s self-generated and self-organized, which keeps millennials engaged in a meaningful way.”

Spokoiny said: “Jews are always looking for meaning, and, contrary to belief, millennials are no exception.

They are the most value-obsessed generation but just care in different ways,” Asked why they should be Jewish, “most individuals will respond with either kinship or victimhood,” he said.

“These are terrible answers and do not encourage millennials to give. Millennials do not feel victimhood or an exact affinity towards Israel. They perceive themselves as global citizens and do not wish to be tied down.”

Providing empowerment is essential for any philanthropic endeavor, but so too are programs that offer meaning, value, engagement and growth. Funding new ideas helps shift the response to the “why” question from victimhood to pride in contributions to humanity. ■

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Giving is a part of the Jewish philosophy of tikkun olam (repairing the world), yet past strategies might not compel the next generation of donors.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta confronted that problem Friday, Feb. 3, with Andres Spokoiny, the president and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, an organization designed to help foundations and individual donors give in an impactful way to projects that are meaningful to them.

Spokoiny said philanthropy is driven by a force that can change the world and the community but can do harm if done in an isolated way. JFN aims to bridge the gap between giving and the issues that affect the Jewish community through networking.

JFN will hold its International Conference at the Grand Hyatt in Buckhead from March 19 to 21.

“We are trying to build an inviting, inclusive and thriving community that is focused on the future,” Jewish Foundation Senior Director Itai Tsur said. “Inviting JFN down to Atlanta to help educate us was a natural decision.”

In the past, Jewish donors gave to the causes important to specific movements — Reform, Conservative or Orthodox. But those movements aren’t always relevant to millennials.

“There hasn’t been a change in Jewish ideology for quite some time,” Spokoiny said. “We don’t engage in finding meaningful ways to reach out to millennials even though the nature of the Jewish community has transformed. While lifetime memberships may have helped Jewish organizations in the past, today’s millennials seek more fluidity to come and go as they please. This applies to donating and where they may be in their lifecycle.

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German Envoy: Populism Erodes EU Foundation “Populism is a thought process that pits the people against the elite,” American Jewish Committee Atlanta’s Debbie Neese said at an AJC trustees meeting Thursday, Jan. 12, at 103 West.

Neese was introducing speaker Detlev Ruenger, Germany’s consul general in Atlanta, whose topic was the rise of populism in Europe. Neese said right-wing populists are characterized by resentment toward immigrants, Islamists and other groups.

Citing his own country as an example, Ruenger said Germany for many years maintained a stable political system that could adapt to changing times, always directed toward integration and increasing the number of member states in the European Union.

That solid structure is now under attack by a variety of what he called “political forces,” such as the far-right Alternative for Deutschland party. A Politico article says that the AfD’s rise in recent years “has been fueled by much the same anti-immigrant, antiIslam and anti-establishment elements that elevated Trump to power in the United States” and that his win is seen “as a good omen for their controversial movement to make nationalism popular in Germany again — for the first time since World War II.” Ruenger said the political mainstream in Europe and the United States has come under question by significant portions of the political spectrum.

“This all starts in the postwar years with decolonization and moves through the civil rights movement in the USA, the anti-Vietnam movement, and developments in society that came with it: the miniskirt, the contraceptive pill, women’s lib,” he said.

“Our constitution has been changed time and again, but the core message is still there,” Ruenger said.

“As time went on, society (addressed) pro-feminism, pro-abortion, gender balance, language and minority rights, and same-sex marriage. All this became part of the political mainstream, and it was never seriously contested.”

Part of the current problem is the fallout of the unified euro currency and its economic consequences, Ruenger said, along with the migration issue.

“After the fall of the (Berlin) Wall, the end of nuclear confrontation between the superpowers and the dilution of the Soviet Union, we continued to promote open borders. You can trav-

German Consul General Detlev Ruenger hopes the United Kingdom gets a second chance to vote on whether to leave the European Union.

el anywhere in Central Europe without showing your passport. We are for free trade and fair trade. We’re pro-immigration and multiculturalism, welcoming refugees with no limits, because it’s in the German Constitution,” he said.

“Obviously, we are against racism.

We are against anti-Semitism. We are against hate speech and fake news.

And we are very political towards populism,” Ruenger said.

“Sadly, in Europe you can find populism in the political arena. In Germany they are in 10 out of 16 regional parliaments. They (the AfD) started as a party dealing critically with the euro; it’s now anti-immigration and antiMuslim, first and foremost.”

Who votes for the populists? “The deplorables — old, angry white men left behind by globalization. They come from all corners of society, some actually from the extreme left,” Ruenger said.

The Brexit referendum in the

United Kingdom is proof that a rightwing, anti-European movement can win. Ruenger, appalled by that result, recalled with a grimace that he told an audience in England last June, “Don’t worry; it’s not going to happen.”

He said he hopes there will be another vote on Brexit. “I still can’t believe that this can somehow be the end of the story. Let the British people see the consequences of their decision.”

Ruenger worries that other countries will follow suit. He cited recent opinion polls in France and Italy showing that almost 50 percent of each population wants to abandon the EU. “That scares me,” he said. “This is a trend that has to be reversed.” ■

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Volunteer committee members delivered the biggest and most successful Havinagala ever.

Havinagala Raises $56,000 for PAL Program

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Havinagala, the annual event held

by VIA (Jewish Family & Career Services’ volunteer group for young professionals) to support the PAL Program, raised more than $56,000 for Atlanta’s only Jewish Big Brother/Big Sister program.

More than 630 people attended the event Saturday night, Jan. 21, at Ponce City Market, making it the largest as well as the most successful Havinagala since the fundraiser was launched more than 20 years ago.

The 2016 version raised $41,000.

Attendees enjoyed desserts, drinks, music, a photo booth and a silent auction.

The event chairs were David Fried-

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man, Tamar and Josh Levy, and Allison Thurschwell. The host committee chairs were Emily and Peter Bernstein, Marni Bronstein, and Ilissa Paulen.

Felicia and Ben Gordon and Lauren Lestin chaired the silent auction committee, and Amy Solomon led the decorations committee.

The VIA program provides young Jewish professionals with community service opportunities in the greater Atlanta area. For more information on VIA, visit www.jfcsatl.org/via.

If you know someone who would be interested in being a big PAL or a child who could use a big PAL, contact Carly Sonenshine at csonenshine@ jfcsatl­.org. ■

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(From left) Debbi Chartash, Rina Wolfe and Melody Maziar, wearing their Angels 4 Angels T-shirts, are veterans of the 3-Day 60 Mile Walk for Breast Cancer.

Hadassah’s Big Reveal Will Honor 3 Angels

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com Hadassah Greater Atlanta will honor Debbi Chartash, Melody Maziar and Rina Wolfe at the annual Breast Strokes fundraiser benefiting breast cancer and genetic research Saturday night, Feb. 25.

The three women form the Angels 4 Angels team, raising cancer research money in memory of angels Lori Fierman, Jill Albert and Debbie Sonenshine, all of whom died of breast cancer before age 50. The fourth angel represents all breast cancer survivors.

The event will consist of an auction and the Big Reveal art exhibition

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“We held talks, community meetings, and visited synagogues and companies to raise money; we were eager to help find a cure,” Maziar said.

She was introduced to Breast Strokes through Joanie Shubin, the Big Reveal honoree two years ago. “It was so much more than I ever thought. It was a social, upbeat and overall great experience,” Maziar said. “I am honored to receive this recognition and hope I will always be involved.”

Chartash is a breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed after launching Angels 4 Angels. “I was shocked when I found out, but knew I had 120 angels behind, me and that made me feel good. I was lucky that I caught it early and feel blessed, but also appre-

ciate the treatments other women are going through.”

Her last day of radiation was three days before the walk in 2007.

Over the course of their friendship Maziar and Chartash have done the walk 10 times. Angels 4 Angels has raised over $1 million. “We made so many connections along the way, and that to me is the most important part of walking,” Chartash said. “We have exceptional women in the community and believe the walk has a positive impact.”

Honorary event chair Gary Bodner will receive recognition for his involvement with breast cancer patients.

As a retired OB/GYN, Bodner has over 38 years’ experience treating diagnosed women from Atlanta’s Jewish commu-

nity. “It’s the No. 1 disease women worry about,” he said, “but there are more tests available now, and I enjoy discussing options with my patients.”

Bodner became involved with Breast Strokes after his patients discovered his passion for painting and helping breast cancer survivors.

“It was a perfect fit,” he said. ■ What: Breast Strokes, Hadassah Bares All for A.R.T. When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 Where: The Stave Room at American Spirit Works, 199 Armour Drive, Atlanta Tickets: $54 for people 36 and under, $72 for all others, $85 after Feb. 12; hadassah.org/events/breastrokes2017 or 678-443-2961

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of 35 breast cancer survivors who had their torsos painted and photographed as part of Breast Strokes, Hadassah Bares All for A.R.T. (Awareness, Research and Treatment). The proceeds will go toward raising awareness and supporting genetic research at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem.

Wolfe became a member of Angels 4 Angels after Fierman, her sister, died in 2005. She has participated in the 3-Day 60 Mile Walk for Breast Cancer the past 10 years and has been a member of Hadassah since she was 16.

“When I think of Hadassah, I think of medical and health programs that are important to so many organizations, especially within our own community,” Wolfe said.

She got involved with Breast Strokes while walking with Angels 4 Angels. She met program co-chair Sue Rothstein and became passionate about raising awareness to help find a cure.

“Our goal is to raise money for young women in the community for early detection programs such as Check It Out!, which promotes breast health among young women, and Breast Strokes allows me to do exactly that,” Wolfe said. “I have met so many people along the way and try to volunteer in projects Lori would be proud of.”

Wolfe’s quest has become a family affair. Her two daughters, nieces and grandchildren have also participated in the 3-Day 60 Mile Walk.

Maziar is grateful for being recognized by Hadassah. The Atlanta native has served on the board of Ovarian Cycle the past two years. She is involved with the Susan G. Komen foundation, volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and is a lifetime Hadassah member.

“I believe Hadassah is at the forefront of medical advances, and I enjoy learning about their endeavors in the medical arena,” Maziar said.

She and Chartash began walking after Maziar discovered that a colleague was diagnosed with breast cancer and Chartash lost a friend to the disease.

“We thought it would be a good way to honor the ladies, and after participating in three walks, we thought it was time to quit, but then we heard about Jill Albert’s passing and knew it wasn’t an option,” Maziar said.

At Albert’s memorial, Maziar said, “I looked at Debbi, and we both asked ourselves, ‘How much money could we raise if everyone here participated in the walk?’ ” The women created the Angels 4 Angels team and recruited more than

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Serving on Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s 2017 board are (front row, from left) Joan Solomon, Mindy Goldenberg, Lee Tanenbaum, President Sheila Dalmat, Annie Kohut and Sybil Ginsburg and (back row, from left) Anita Otero, Malka Shulman, Nancy Schwartz, Renée Rosenheck, Cheryl Feingold Dorchinsky, Helene Jacoby, Judy Bart, Phyllis M. Cohen, Marni Hoffman, Michele WeinerMerbaum, Linda Hakerem, Tobah Shraga, Ellen Sichel and Maxine Schein.

Graduates of the first class of the Centennial Leadership Institute (from left) Ellen Sichel, Abi Gross and Anita Otero join outgoing GAH President Paula Zucker and incoming GAH President Sheila Dalmat (right). Graduates not shown are Debra Sharker, Marilyn Scheier, Rochelle Schube and Judith Cohen.

Gerry Taratoot (center front) poses with 2017 Ketura board members Joan Solomon, Sandy Bailey, Fran Redisch, Debra Sharker, Maxine Schein, Sheila Parks, Leora Wollner, Helene Jacoby, Helen Ehrlich, Cindy Tracy and Esther Low. Not shown are Arlene Glass, Suzy Wilner and Carol Schneider.

Sheila Dalmat installs the 2017 Metulla board in Johns Creek in December.

Annie Kohut (left) presents a gift from the 2016 Ketura board to 2016 President Amy Jampol.

Hadassah Officers Installed for 2017

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Hadassah Greater Atlanta convened at Maggiano’s at Perimeter Mall on Jan. 8 for the installation of the 2017 officers and board by Phyllis M. Cohen.

Sheila Dalmat was installed as the president, succeeding Paula Zucker.

Dalmat stressed looking to Hadassah’s second century in Atlanta with a spirit of innovation and collaboration, both within Hadassah and with other community organizations as partners.

Examples of such efforts are the Big Reveal for Breast Strokes on Feb. 25 and a panel discussion on gender equality in medical research March 26.

“We are so much more than our grandmothers’ Hadassah,” Dalmat said.

A highlight was the celebration of the first graduates of Hadassah Atlanta’s Centennial Leadership Institute, initiated in 2016 and headed by Dalmat. CLI classes are forming for 2017.

On Dec. 11, Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Metulla Group installed its 2017 board at the A&S Culinary Institute in Johns Creek. Dalmat was the keynote speaker and led the installation.

Metulla members, she said, “distinguished ourselves as caring, welcoming, dedicated women who embrace the ‘Power of Women Who Do.’ ” Metulla’s 2017 co-presidents are Nancy Schwartz and Anita Otero.

On Jan. 22, Gerry Taratoot, who has held leadership positions in Atlanta and the Southeast, installed the Ketura Group’s 2017 board at Zafron Restaurant in Sandy Springs. Helene Jacoby and Maxine Schein are Ketura’s co-presidents, succeeding Amy Jampol.

For more information about Hadassah Greater Atlanta and its group, visit www.hadassah.org/atlanta, or call 678-443-2961. ■

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Vanessa Leibowitz is now chief financial officer, and Paul Ginburg is chief advancement officer for the Weber School.

Weber Alters Leadership Weber School Associate Head of School Paul Ginburg took on the role of chief advancement officer Feb. 1.

In that position, Ginburg leads the Jewish high school’s development and fundraising efforts, building on relationships he has formed over 18 years with the school. Ginburg, the parent of three Weber alumni, also will launch a program in alumni relations.

“Paul Ginburg has earned the abiding respect and affection of generations of Weber students, parents, faculty and staff and multiple members of our board,” said Rabbi Ed Harwitz, Weber’s head of school. “I deeply appreciate him assuming these new responsibilities at this important time.”

Ginburg said he welcomes the chance to work on the financial support a growing school needs.

The Weber School’s enrollment has reached a record 241 students.

The school also has hired Vanessa Leibowitz as its chief financial officer.

She was the CFO at the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, where she oversaw the financial and administrative operations of Federation, the Community Foundation and the Akiva Day School.

“Ms. Leibowitz’s impressive background in organization, finance and management and deep knowledge of the Jewish day school environment uniquely position her to serve the various needs of the Weber community,” Rabbi Harwitz said.

“Weber’s recent growth, in both enrollment and academic offerings, is truly impressive,” Leibowitz said. “I look forward to helping the high school achieve even greater levels of success.”

AJA Offers $3,600 A donation from an alum is enabling Atlanta Jewish Academy to provide $3,600 to each new child enrolled in first through sixth grades for the 2017-18 school year.

The offer includes incoming pupils whose older siblings attend AJA. Families can apply for AJA’s flex-

ible tuition program, which sets an individualized tuition, then reduce the resulting tuition by $3,600.

The $3,600 gifts will be offered until the grant runs out. AJA expects the money to last at least two years.

More information is available from Erica Gal, AJA’s admissions director up to eighth grade, at 404-520-9296 or egal@atljewishacademy.org.

Epstein Alum Is a STAR North Springs Charter High School in late January announced that Chase McGrath is its 2017 STAR Student as the senior with the highest SAT score (1550) from one sitting.

McGrath, 18, is the son of Kevin and Robin McGrath of Sandy Springs.

He chose North Springs for the dual magnet programs in math and science and visual and performing arts after attending the Epstein School and then taking eighth grade at Sandy Springs Middle School.

In middle school, he participated in national tours for “The Sound of Music” and “The King and I.” McGrath will graduate after completing 13 Advanced Placement courses as a dual magnet student with a focus on vocal music, piano and drama. He

Chase McGrath, North Springs’ STAR student, selected Stephen Bengston as his STAR teacher.

has been selected to the All-State Choir three consecutive years and is the first North Springs student selected for the All-State Sight Reading Choir.

He has not picked a college but is leaning toward majoring in physics with a minor in music.

McGrath chose AP U.S. history teacher Stephen Bengston, the adviser to the philosophy club and a former baseball coach, as his STAR teacher.

“I chose Mr. Bengston because he has been a great influence on how I think about things. He has been very influential, approachable and supportive. He’s a really good teacher in general,” McGrath said.

“Chase is just amazingly openminded,” Bengston said. “He seeks out people who think differently because he wants to understand them. It is incredibly impressive to witness.”

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Fisher Leaves Birthright, Keeps Making Connections

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David Fisher stepped down in December after more than four years as the president of the Birthright Israel Foundation, where he led the fundraising to enable Taglit-Birthright Israel to send young Jews on free group trips to the Jewish homeland.

Fisher, who is originally from Cincinnati, moved with his family to Atlanta, the hometown of his wife, Stacey, in the summer of 2015.

“It was a tremendous experience on so many levels,” Fisher said of his time with the Birthright Israel Foundation. “Like so many experiences in life, it comes down to the people you share them with. My colleagues, our lay leadership and the supporters of Birthright Israel made my time at the foundation one which was challenging and unbelievably fulfilling.”

During his time at the foundation, Birthright sent more than 200,000 18- to 26-year-olds to Israel, and the foundation raised $400 million from donors, Jewish Federations and other foundations.

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the best 50 nonprofits to work in the U.S.,” Fisher said. “By the time I left, more than one-third of the team at BRIF were alumni of the program.

We accomplished a great deal.”

Izzy Tapoohi, the former head of Israel Bonds, has taken the leadership of the Birthright Israel Foundation as president and CEO. The 36 members of the foundation board include Atlantans Doug Ross and Mike Leven.

Fisher said his decision to leave the foundation wasn’t easy, but it David Fisher wants his new consulting firm, was the right choice at Coalesce Advisors, to live up to its name by bringing together people and companies to do good. the right time.

The money raised not only paid for “Like many things, the once-in-a-lifetime trip, but it also determining the right time to leave the enabled the foundation to stabilize its foundation was complicated,” Fisher finances to help Birthright accomplish said. “We were coming upon a lay leadership transition, the commute and its mission for years to come.

“We created a great team and cul- additional travel, and the necessity of ture and were twice the only Jewish keeping a certain pace and intensity all nonprofit to be recognized as one of played a factor.”

Fisher now leads a consulting group he founded in December, Coalesce Advisors. His goal is to use his expertise to bring people and companies together so they can be successful in their endeavors.

“In general, I will be looking for opportunities to help others by doing good,” Fisher said. “One such opportunity that I have already undertaken is to work with a newly launched, Israelbased private equity fund.”

He said he has no plans to leave Atlanta, where the third of his four children is a high school senior and the youngest is in the seventh grade at the Epstein School. The Fishers joined Congregation B’nai Torah when they moved here in 2015.

Fisher said the family has enjoyed the new home.

“The weather is a heck of a lot better here most of the time, and the airport is a bit more robust. Cincinnati is great; Atlanta is great. Like I tell my kids all the time, every experience and every place is what you make of it,” he said. “I work hard at always making my experiences great and the places I am special and meaningful to me.” ■

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Onboarding: New Hire’s First 90 Days Are Crucial path to success. This manager should do Day 1 and Week 1 recaps.

Coach’s Corner

By Jason Adler JasonAdler@johnmaxwellgroup.com

Remember, the stress of an employee’s first few weeks on the job can make or break your hiring decision.

After 30 days, give increasing responsibility to new hires. Make sure their efforts are validated, and show

them how they line up with the purpose of your organization. People work for fulfillment as well as for a paycheck.

Make sure they are clear on their positions and contributions to the team.

As you get closer to the 90-day mark, the manager should review with the employee everything accomplished and the successful career path ahead.

A positive welcoming experience puts new hires’ minds at ease and reinforces that they made the right decision.

But not every hire will be a good one. A few simple missteps can leave the company or the employee secondguessing. The 90-day benchmark is the perfect amount of time. Some compa-

nies hire only on a 90-day probationary basis to ensure a good fit. Regardless, the best situation is when lines of communication are open, and regular one-to-one meetings are held.

What first impression is your organization making? A strong onboarding process can help ensure that your hires succeed from Day 1, build loyalty and shape a productive workforce.

We next will explore a great system for continuous training. ■ Jason Adler is a John Maxwell-certified executive coach (johncmaxwellgroup. com/jasonadler) helping people and organizations hire and keep quality employees.

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When meeting someone new, how quickly do you decide whether you like the person?

Studies show that lasting opinions form within 30 seconds. Everything about you, including your clothes, nails, hair, shoes and smile, will affect another person’s first impression. Regardless of whether it’s a first date, first interview or first day on the job, people are forming critical first impressions about you.

The same process holds true for businesses and organizations. After 90 days, 72 percent of new employees have decided whether they want to stay with a new company long term.

So while you may have 90 days to onboard an employee, I suggest starting the process from the beginning.

When an employee reports for the first day on the job, the feeling is similar to the jitters on the first day of school. While it’s a challenge for an employee to familiarize himself quickly with the office, the job responsibilities, co-workers and more, it’s just as important and stressful for the managers.

As you manage the message on Day 1, it’s important to make the new employee feel welcome. Making a new hire feel comfortable and a part of the team from Day 1 is imperative to make the employee a successful and productive member of your business.

This is where most organizations fall short. The business may go to great extremes to hire the best candidate, but there is no system to cultivate this new pearl into a gem of an employee.

As with all things in business, let’s look at a process and system for onboarding new employees completely.

After hiring, the first step in onboarding is to have the new employee fill out all the necessary paperwork before coming in the first day. Here are a few more small but important tips to help smooth out Day 1 for employees: • Ensure they know where to park.

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• Give them directions to the bathroom and the printer.

• Buy them lunch in house or assign a lunch date with a co-worker, or go one step further and appoint a buddy/mentor for the first few weeks.

The direct manager should schedule one-to-one meetings every week moving forward to help navigate the

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Artist/Architect Delivers Art With a View Carol and Paul Muldawer are as colorful and animated as the objets d’art inside their home.

Paul, an architect since 1962, has specialized in traditional town planning and mixed-use development using the principles of New Urbanism.

He is known for designing Atlanta’s City Hall and Annex, Warner Robbins’ City Hall and Civic Auditorium, President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural reviewing facilities, MARTA’s Arts Center station, and the Savannah Historic Preservation Plan.

Carol is no stranger to local politics, with roots back to Andrew Young, for whom she worked as an administrative assistant and photographically documented his career for 20 years.

On their walls are two anniversary gifts from Young: a significant work by John Riddle for their 32nd and a rare photograph of Young shining Muhammad Ali’s shoes in City Hall for their 60th.

Carol photographed such notables as Carter, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Robert McNamara and Coretta Scott King.

Their 4,100-square-foot, contemporary Buckhead home sits in the woods, where slender, horizontal windows beckon light, branches and serenity.

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Jaffe: As an architect, what did you envision here?

Paul: I designed our home 50 years ago. It is close to Scandinavian Modern with redwood ceilings in the higher spaces, views of the forest, abundance of natural light, and white walls, which form a neutral background to art and human activity.

In concept, I designed two houses: a children’s house (south side) and a parents’ house (north side), with the dining room as the symbolic center heart. There are spaces for family gathering and for our children to grow independently, with each having their own intimate study carrel.

My design was influenced by the theories of early Renaissance architect Leon Alberti, who said, “A house is a little city. A city is a big house.” The house plan is a microcosm of historic European cities.

In Renaissance cities, the piazza is enclosed by buildings. Here the deck (piazza) is enclosed by three wings and the forest. In Europe, pedestrian 24 streets have vistas that terminate

at iconic buildings. Similarly, our hallways provide vistas that terminate at walls on which art is placed; as one moves through the house, surprises and vistas open.

Jaffe: Your folk art is tongue in cheek with a dash of whimsy.

Paul: Not exactly tongue in cheek. Our folk art is serious, honest

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expressions of feelings and images by untrained artists’ life experiences. We have a mix of folk and modern art.

Carol: Our breakfast room walls are lined with well-known folk artists: Howard Finster, Richard Burnside, R.A. Miller, Tubby Brown, all decades old. They contrast well with the midcentury Platner and Bertoia furniture. By the entrance foyer, we have a three-dimensional, wood, redwhite-and-blue collage sculpture of the American flag done eponymously by Ab the Flagman.

One of my living room folk favorites is an aqua table stand by local artist Beth Tarkington titled “Imagine Your Mind as a Garden.

What Thoughts Will You Plant There?”

The outdoor metal benches are by Pat Juneau. We love the rich salmon and turquoise tones.

Also in the dining room is a handmade wire dress created by folk artist Mr. Imagination, who has works in the High Museum of Art.

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as it rotates. He hammered each leaf reminiscent of the tree-lined streets of his North Carolina roots.

Carol: In the entry is a sentimental piece symbolizing our family, a fabric appliqué, “Count Your Blessings” by New Orleans artist Chris Roberts-Antieau, stitched with an oldfashioned sewing machine. The dining room Dresden china piece with three tiers and a baby doll head by Deborah Nail is very eclectic. We spotted that at the St. Philip’s Cathedral art show.

Much of what we have are very collectible artists: Robert Motherwell, George Segal, Yaacov Agam, Ed Moulthrop, Herb Creecy, Josef Albers, and Charles Mitchell, a very accomplished sculptor who taught at our High Museum.

Jaffe: What are some of your most unusual pieces?

Paul: That’s a loaded question. I would say our “Paris Subway” — threedimensional puppets in a subway observing a couple embracing. Note the real hair and cashmere.

The fireplace copper mobile of ginkgo leaves by Jay Jones is quite graceful by reflecting sunlight in moving, abstract patterns on all walls

Jaffe: Which came first — chicken or egg? Are you an artist or an architect at heart?

Paul: I am both and try to continue to live a creative life.

The entire lower level is my studio and workshop. I have taken over 13,000 photographs from travels.

From these, I paint photo realism on recycled wood with watercolor, which allows controllable opacity. Carol has

Jaffe: What other furniture do we see?

a studio on our second level accessed by a metal spiral staircase, where she keeps her collection of celebrity photographs taken over the years using film cameras.

In the den is my 1957 painting “Stuttgart,” done when I was a radio operator in the U.S. Army in Germany.

Later, at the University of Pennsylvania, while studying under Louis Kahn, I entered that painting at the Penn Art Show, which won first prize. In the studio, you will see over 50 works of art: conventional paintings, three-dimensional paintings, photography, and my latest work, kinetic three-dimensional photo montages.

Jaffe: What advice would you give to young couples building their first home?

Paul: Find a young, talented architect who is more interested in design than profit.

Jaffe: Easier said than done. Are you finished collecting? If you could wake up tomorrow and find a new piece here, what would it be?

Paul: Heck, no, I’m not finished.

Carol and I would like a Brancusi sculpture. “Bird in Space” would do. ■

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B: Folk art by Finster, Burnside, Miller and Brown creates a contrast with the midcentury furniture by Platner and Bertoia.

C: An aqua table stand by Beth Tarkington and a copper mobile by Jay Jones enhance the living room fireplace. The furniture is Thayer Coggin (1964) by Milo Baughman.

D: This mahogany sculpture by Charles Mitchell, who taught at the High Museum of Art, is in the living room.

E: Carol and Paul Muldawer enjoy the woodsy view from their deck.

F: Paul Muldawer makes good use of his lower-level workshop, where he stores no fewer than 13,000 photos for future projects.

G: This wire dress is the work of Mr. Imagination.

H: Ab the Flagman goes red, white and blue in this wood sculpture.

I: “Sunset” is an example of Paul Muldawer’s hand-painted photo realism on recycled wood with watercolors, allowing opacity.

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Engagement Swerdlow-Zemah

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Peter and Yael Swerdlow of East Cobb announce the engagement of their son, Avi Swerdlow, to Hadar Zemah, daughter of Yosef Zemah of Jerusalem and Alissa Rose of Cerritos, Calif.

The bride graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and anthropology and a juris doctor degree. She now works as a nonprofit lawyer at Community Legal Services in Compton, Calif.

The groom graduated from Brandeis University with a bachelor’s degree in American studies and film, television and new media studies. He went on to pursue a master’s degree from the University of Southern California in film and television producing. He now works for the Walt Disney Co. as a manager of research and development.

The ceremony and reception will be held Sunday, Feb. 19, at The Pavillion at Olde Towne in East Cobb. After their honeymoon in India, the couple will live in Los Angeles. ■

Robert G. Wittmayer, 92, Atlanta’s premier photographer, passed on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017.

An internationally known photographer with an excellent business mind, Bob was a former president of the American Society of Photographers and a certified master of photography.

Bob began his journey in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he attended Boy’s High School. After graduation, Bob joined the Navy and fought in World War II in the Pacific theater. After the war, Bob joined his father in the photography business. After 35 years in New York, Bob relocated to Atlanta and started Wittmayer Photography Inc. Under Bob’s leadership, the business thrived, and Bob was consistently voted the best wedding photographer in Atlanta by Atlanta magazine. Two of his sons, Eric and Dan, shared the privilege of Bob’s expertise and were professionally trained portrait artists. Bob’s youngest son, Richard, worked for 37 years in the imaging equipment industry.

Bob is survived by his wife and companion, Carolyn, and his three sons, Eric (Wendy), Dan (Geralyn) and Richard (Laine). He is also survived by his two stepdaughters, Susan and Linda. Bob is also survived by the greatest joys of his life, his grandchildren: Natalie, Jared, Davis, Andrew, Casey, Catherine and Carrie.

The service was Sunday, Feb. 5. Sign the online guestbook at www.sandyspringschapel.com.

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Rita Wolfson Rita Atlas Goldstein Wolfson peacefully passed away Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at her home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Rita was the oldest child of her loving parents, Ollie and Bertha Atlas. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Roosevelt High School and Chevy Chase Junior College. Rita was predeceased by her former husband, Marvin C. Goldstein, and her sister, Sonia A. Levin. Rita was a matriarch and an amazing woman of great beauty and stature. A humanitarian, philanthropist, artist, and civic and Jewish leader, she was loved and admired in Washington, Atlanta, Palm Beach, Manhasset and Chapel Hill for her endless devotion to the families and communities where she lived. Together with Marvin for over 40 years, they created a shared life of Jewish values and community leadership. She was a consummate host, whether for the governor at her home, the Israeli prime minister at the Atlanta American Hotel, or the Goldstein family’s Sunday pool parties in her beautiful back yard. Rita was always gracious, intelligent, charming and gorgeous.

A highlight of her life was the invitation from President Carter to her and Marvin for the Camp David Mideast peace signing. Rita met many world leaders, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Israeli prime ministers and American presidents, and she and Marvin were invited to the White House by President Carter. She loved meeting Bill and Hillary Clinton and avidly participated in the 2016 election. Rita was co-chair of the UJA North America World Assembly in Atlanta and was a recipient of the Woman of Valor award from the Friends of the Hebrew University. A passionate flower gardener, Rita was especially proud of her establishment with Marvin of a rooftop garden in Jerusalem at Lifeline for the Aged, Yad LaKashish, which empowers over 300 elderly residents of Jerusalem. Rita established a Community Friendship Garden at the Lerner Jewish Day School in Durham, N.C. Rita’s philanthropic spirit will live on in perpetuity through Jewish Federation Lion of Judah annual campaign endowments in Atlanta, Palm Beach and Durham/Chapel Hill.

Rita was a member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta for over 50 years. As an artist, Rita produced an outstanding collection of dozens of marble sculptures that will grace her family’s homes for generations to come. Later in life, she took up painting again, giving her beautiful canvases away to those lucky enough to come through her doors. There was no one like Rita, who shared her love nonstop with all. This was especially true of the large Goldstein family, the Atlas family, the Wolfson family, and the hundreds of domestic, dental and hotel employees for whom she personally bought and wrapped gifts for every holiday season for 40 years. Rita’s circles of friends and colleagues spanned the globe. She taught, by example, how to be a good person: write letters, make calls, welcome family and strangers, care for each other, do what’s right.

Rita remarried after Marvin’s death and is survived by her husband, Harold Wolfson of Delray Beach, Fla., and his children: Jamie (Phillip, Andrew), Cindy (Larry) and Gary (Fernanda, Ezra). Harold and Rita had a charmed marriage, traveling the world with wonderful friends. They brought together their two families at the beach, in the mountains and on the ocean as they shared their mutual commitment to Judaism, Israel and family. She is survived by her brother, Simon Atlas (Ellen) of Bethesda, Md.; her son Armand Goldstein of Acworth; her daughter Aleta Aaron (Howard) of Atlanta; her son Andrew Goldstein of Occidental, Calif.; her daughter Anne Strickland (Curt) of Stoughton, Mass.; and her son Adam Goldstein (Beth) of Chapel Hill. More than anything, Grandma Rita loved her 10 grandchildren — Alana (Jack), Tonja (Justin), Blair (Matt), Jesse (Laura), Willow, Leah, Jared, Michael, Elianna and Nicotiana — and her three great-grandchildren, Miles, Rune and Lennon. Rita was fortunate to have her wonderful aide, Caroline Fauci, with her for the last several years of her life, as well as Jane Hayes and many other caregivers in Chapel Hill. Rita was blessed to have Adam and Beth nearby, whose ceaseless caring and commitment to Shabbat gave her a sacred place to stay connected with family and make new friends to her last day. All who knew her were blessed to have Rita in their lives.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Funeral services were held Friday, Feb. 3, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta with Rabbi Lawrence Rosenthal and Rabbi Daniel Greyber from Beth El Synagogue in Durham officiating. Graveside services followed in Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs.

Donations in Rita’s memory may be made to Yad LaKashish, www.lifeline.org.il, in honor of Rita Goldstein Wolfson, or to the Rita Goldstein Wolfson Friendship Garden at the Lerner Jewish Day School, www.lernerschool.org. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Home, 770-451-4999.

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By David R. Cohen david@atljewishtimes.com Israeli saxophone player and composer Daniel Zamir is performing Feb. 19 at the Marcus Jewish Community Center. The Hasidic jazz musician, who has toured with Matisyahu, is one of the most in-demand artists in Israel.

He spoke to the AJT from Israel.

AJT: Will this be your first time performing in Atlanta?

Zamir: Well, I played a few years ago with Matisyahu at the University of Georgia. We were on a college tour, and, every campus we visited, I bought a baseball hat and would play the show wearing it. I remember I shouted, “Go, Bulldogs!” into the mic at UGA, and the crowd went crazy for it.

AJT: You’ve actually been on a few

Saxophonist Daniel Zamir brings Hasidicinspired jazz to the Marcus JCC on Feb. 19.

tours with Matisyahu. What was it like touring as two observant Jews?

Zamir: It’s an amazing experience to be able to express such a unique message on a big stage in front of so many people. To be able to bridge so many gaps and overcome so many prejudices and stigmas, it’s really unique.

AJT: You also have the top-selling jazz album of all time in Israel. How does that feel?

Zamir: It’s amazing. I never

thought that something like that could happen. I’ve loved jazz since I started playing the saxophone, but I never thought I could be this successful in it. Also, to be able to connect jazz and Judaism is something I never thought I could do. From what I can tell, I think I’m the only ultra-Orthodox jazz musician in the world.

AJT: How much Jewish or Hasidic influence does your music have?

Zamir: When I write my music, I have no concept in mind. In other words, I never planned to be a Jewish musician; it’s something that happened organically. It actually started before I was religious, and I was calling it world music or ethnic music. Only after (American Jewish composer-saxophonist) John Zorn heard my demo in 1999 and called it Jewish music did I finally accept it.

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Zamir: I remember people were asking me in New York, “What are they putting in your falafel over there?” But the truth is jazz is music of the people, and after the 1950s people in Israel were trying to imitate American jazz.

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‘Temple Bombing’ Brings City Together Again

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com The Temple, Atlanta’s oldest Jewish congregation, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, and it commemorated one of the most important moments in its history Tuesday, Jan. 31, with a preview and discussion of a new Alliance Theatre production, “The Temple Bombing.”

The Rev. Raphael Warnock and congregants of his Ebenezer Baptist Church joined Temple members and community patrons at the event, reminiscent of the way Atlanta came together after the bombing Oct. 12, 1958, in response to Rabbi Jacob Rothschild’s fervent opposition to segregation.

Jimmy Maize, the director and playwright of the show, and author Melissa Fay Greene, whose acclaimed “The Temple Bombing” served as the basis for the play, joined WABE-FM classic music presenter Lois Reitzes for a discussion of the history and the production.

The Temple had the idea to dramatize Greene’s book for its sesquicentennial and reached out to the Alliance, which contacted Maize, a member of the Tectonic Theater Project.

“I knew nothing about the book and felt terrified as an outsider coming in,” Maize said. “I felt a great deal of responsibility, and it weighed on me.

But it was somewhat serendipitous, as I spent 14 months trying to figure out how to condense all that information into an hour-and-thirty-minute play.”

In addition to reviewing interviews, transcripts and letters, Maize reached out to Janice Rothschild Blumberg, Rabbi Rothschild’s widow, to gather information.

“It’s a story about a moment in history that feels very present right

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Janice Rothschild Blumberg, the widow of Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, stands with Todd Weeks, who plays the rabbi in “The Temple Bombing.”

Melissa Fay Greene (left) and Lois Reitzes participate in a discussion of “The Temple Bombing.”

now. What do you do in the wake of great terror? You can either fight back or open your heart and accept that the scope of history is long. That’s what the congregation did, and that’s what the rabbi encouraged,” Maize said.

Audience members Jan. 31 saw snippets of the play performed by actors Todd Weeks, Caitilin O’Connell, Amari Cheatom, Danielle Deadwyler, Ann Marie Gideon and Justin Walker.

“The theater is a place for conver-

sation, if only to understand a glimmer of interpretation. People can come together, have a discussion, and change someone’s heart and mind. The theater is a perfect vessel for that,” Maize said.

“The Temple Bombing” took five years for Greene to complete. Published in 1996, the book recounts the terror attack on The Temple, in which no one was injured, and the outpouring of support for the Jewish community from Atlanta whites and blacks in

its aftermath.

“I think the response to the Temple bombing did not feel like activism. I think it was people reaching out from their congregations. In the 1950s I think there were fewer rabbis and clergy, and their voices were much louder,” Greene said. “When I wrote the book, it was about a different time period.”

Southern Jews often were afraid to speak against Jim Crow laws and for the civil rights movement because of the risk of an anti-Semitic backlash.

The dynamiting of The Temple ended that hesitation to speak out and became known as “the bomb that healed.”

“The community got together after the attack and decided what they were going to stand for and what are you willing to fight for,” Greene said.

The old social hall has been renamed Friendship Hall.

Blumberg, who attended the preview, said: “I am thrilled for what it says about Atlanta. They are doing such a marvelous job, and I think it is very timely.”

Temple Senior Rabbi Peter Berg praised the congregation’s continuing efforts in the community. “The Temple’s actual name is the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, and that benevolence has been maintained in our community for 150 years. Whether it’s helping refugees or standing up to social injustice, we are here to ensure that the lesson of Rabbi Rothschild and rabbis before us will help us make a just society for everyone.” ■ What: “The Temple Bombing” When: Feb. 22 to March 12 Where: Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St., Midtown Tickets: $10 for students, $20 to $72 for adults; alliancetheatre.org

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She is eyeing me up and down as if I were Little Red Riding Hood and she were the Big Bad Wolf.

She is salivating with one thought: Finally, I’ve got me a hot one.

She politely asks whether I would like to do this in private. No, I would not: Who knows what yonder private frisking could bring?

When I was around 11 years old, I announced I would have only girl children. I could just feel it. I never wavered from this insight.

Lo and behold, I birthed four girl children. Not all at once, of course.

I wasn’t in any rush. I wanted some mommy time alone with each baby — one at a time.

I was a particularly easygoing, laid-back, confident mom. After all, I was also a girl.

I do not remember me as an infant, but, seriously, how hard could I have been? We were, after all, a sisterhood.

My first OB/GYN was so sure that my she-baby was a he-baby that he drew pictures (emoji did not exist) on my burgeoning belly, indicating I was to birth a boy.

This unusual yearning to see me have a boy was explained quite simply: My doctor could not wait to attend the brit milah and indulge in the fabulous feast of Jewish food he knew would be served.

Not! I had the first of my four beautiful, magical girls.

My mom (z”l) was so excited about her first grandchild that she did not know what to send me first.

My family was up North; Gene and I were attending Louisiana State University, way down South in Baton Rouge.

The very first package to arrive contained two prayers written in Hebrew and was trimmed in red.

I hung them both over my baby’s crib.

Until my mother-in-law (z”l) visited.

“What are those two prayers for?” she asked me.

I explained that my mom sent

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“Why hang them both?”

Hmmm, I thought it was a tradition for the firstborn child, I replied.

“No, you only need the prayer for a girl; you don’t need the one for a boy.”

Oh, good grief, Charlie Brown!

We moved to New London, Conn., after Gene received his doctorate and a position with General Dynamics. Our second baby girl was born.

We took advantage of a wonderful opportunity with a university and moved to Pensacola, Fla. Our third baby girl was born.

An incredible offer that we could not refuse brought us to Tampa, Fla. Our fourth baby girl was born.

Relocation was dropped from our vocabulary.

Well, not entirely.

We had one more move in us. We felt safe that no new babies were on the horizon.

Hotlanta, here we come, and here we stay.

Let’s get back to the airport security issue and what is discovered with every frisking: nothing.

So what’s with the frisking activity?

The TSA soon discovers I am not a terrorist. Whew!

What exactly do they see in that ominous machine that makes them stop and take notice? I have no clue. Something sets off the alarm.

Something is in my tummy. Perhaps during surgery an instrument was left behind?

Can you guess? No? It can be explained only in this way: I am carrying a baby boy robot.

Nothing else makes sense. Finally, it’s a boy. ■

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41. Haman had one for getting rid of the Jews 42. Bit of Torah 43. 1955 Billy Wilder hit 47. What Adam Sandler did in 58-Across 48. Assi and Ashi 49. Had a few on Purim 52. Abrams genre, generally 54. “The Simpsons” storekeeper voiced by Hank Azaria 57. Menorah filler 58. 2004 Peter Segal hit 61. Stereotypical Jewish deg.

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53. Locale for one healing 9. Period for the first from a bris Temple, and most of the 54. See 32-Down second 10. Home of Shaare Zedeck 55. “Snow in August” writer Hamill in Puerto Rico 11. Former format to watch 56. One on Kveller.com 59. “A ___ Good Men” “E.T.” 12. Avraham, Yitzchak and (Reiner film) 60. ___ G (Sacha Baron Yaakov Cohen) 13. Yaakov or Tzedeck 18. Israeli bassist Simmons 23. Messing or Winger, for LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION short 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 S A N S A K I M 24. Mel Brooks H A M S A 14 15 16 A S O U L U P E N N I T O or the Marx 17 18 19 M A N D E L B R E A D C H I Brothers 20 21 22 O X E S D R A S H A S 25. WWII 23 24 25 26 27 B A B K A S O L E T E C H turning point 28 29 30 L I E U A T E D E L A Y 26. Like Daniel 31 32 33 34 T R E S A L T P E A Day-Lewis 35 36 37 38 P I E C E O F C A K E 27. Jacob’s 13 39 40 41 42 43 R A E M A S H Z V I children, e.g.

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