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The Cobb Energy Centre is all dressed up for the opening night of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival on Wednesday night, Jan. 24. Inside, during the party for patrons and sponsors before the screening of documentary “Sammy Davis Jr.: I Gotta Be Me,” AJFF Executive Director Kenny Blank is flanked by Nancy Blank and Dina Gerson.

The festival runs through Thursday night, Feb. 15. See more from opening night on Page 30, and find the full festival schedule, ticketordering details and film reviews at atlantajewishtimes.com.

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The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival returns for its ninth year March 8 to 25 with acts including Yemenite funk, folk rock, a Grammy winner and a robot.

The 2018 festival involves an expanded partnership with City Winery Atlanta, which will hold six AJMF9 shows.

City Winery will host opening night Thursday, March 8, for the second year.

It will feature contemporary Yiddish musical duo Tsvey Brider and klezmer/new acoustic group Beyond the Pale.

Grammy-winning neo-folk rocker Marc Cohn will play shows at City Winery on March 10 and 11, and singersongwriter Joshua Radin is scheduled to perform there March 15. The climax will be March 24 with two City Winery shows re-creating Billy Joel’s “The Stranger,” presented by ATL Collective.

Other highlights of the 18-day festival include a performance by Yemen Blues on March 11 as part of the Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series and the debut of Gil Weinberg’s music-playing Shimon Robot at the opening night of the Atlanta Science Festival on March 9.

“I can’t think of a more interesting 100 hours in AJMF history than this … opening weekend,” AJMF Executive Director Russell Gottschalk said. “We have multiple artists performing Yiddish classics, a new-school Yemenite funk band, a Grammy Award-winning folk singer/ songwriter, two Shabbat services, and one awesome new collaboration with the Atlanta Science Festival.”

AJMF9 will feature 31 shows over three weekends with programming for all ages from such artists as Bint el Funk, Chana Rothman, Zale, Sammy Rosenbaum, Joe Alterman, Sammy K, Prodezra, Nefesh Mountain and Beth Schafer. ■

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Never Forget the Lessons Of My Refugee Family but fully American. After the war, they stayed in the United States. Some served in the military. Some went on to higher education and professional schools. Others opened businesses.

At a recent family simcha, as I

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watched the older generation chatting easily and dancing, I found myself wondering what America had so desperately feared from these people, from my family.

It is not an idle question. While two of my grandfather’s sisters and their children were able to settle in the United States, two others were not permitted to do so. Fear of too many and the wrong kind of refugees broke the family apart.

As it happened, the second branch of my family was fortunate as well, making their way to Brazil.

As we know, most European Jews seeking haven were not able to find new homes. And as a result, 6 million Jews perished.

But for fear, the story of the Henry Gibbins would not be so exceptional. Fear of Jews from “backward countries” whose “foreign customs and beliefs” were at odds with the narrow vision of what America was and should be prevented Jews from escaping the horrors of the Holocaust.

I share this family story because today similar language and policies are common. They are being used to describe other people’s families.

Today it is again common to view refugees with levels of fear and suspicion similar to what my family and so many other Jewish families faced when they needed so much more.

Immigration is by no means as simple as my daughter’s second-grade assignment would have it. Refugees and immigrants are by definition different than we are, coming from different places and circumstances.

The unfamiliar can sometimes make us uncomfortable. But we can learn from the exceptionalism of the Henry Gibbins to fight against the fear because we too were strangers in a strange land. ■

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The simple definition of immigrants that my daughter brought home in second grade disqualified me, an arrival from Canada, from participating in the family project she had been assigned.

“Immigrants are people who came here by boat,” she explained. She was too young then to hear the immigration story that brought some members of our family to the United States on a truly exceptional boat.

Four of my mother’s cousins were among 983 refugees who boarded the Henry Gibbins in Italy and made their way across the Atlantic in 1944. What made the Henry Gibbins so exceptional was that it was the only boat of refugees allowed to land in the United States during World War II. By the time they boarded the ship, my family had been on the run from the Nazis for quite some time.

Even before the active occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941, Nazi sympathizers executed my great-grandfather and one of his sons-in-law, along with other Jews, galvanizing attempts by the family to seek refuge elsewhere.

My grandfather made his way to Palestine, while his sisters and their families fled west. There were nearmisses and difficult moments as the family did their best to avoid capture

by Nazis and their sympathizers.

In 1944, war still raged in the Atlantic. There was no guarantee that the ship would make it. The passengers on the Henry Gibbins were willing to risk their lives because the alternative was nearly certain death.

These were the hunted survivors of brutality and hatred.

And yet, when they arrived in the United States, they were met with suspicion. These people who had lost all were seen as a potential threat.

All the passengers on the Henry Gibbins were interned in a refugee camp in Oswego, N.Y. The children were allowed to attend the local public school but had to return to the camp at night.

The adults were not permitted to work. They were in the United States but not in the United States, their threat to the country deemed too great.

To look at my mother’s cousins and their descendants today, it is hard to imagine this family as anything

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Iraqi exhibit. The Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown, hosts the National Archives exhibit “Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage.” Museum admission is free for members, up to $12 for others; thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.

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Wall activist. Women of the Wall Executive Director Lesley Sachs speaks at Congregation Etz Chaim, 1190 Indian Hills Parkway, East Cobb, at 7:30 p.m.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 2

Shabbat, Me & Rabbi G. Rabbi Brian Glusman and the Weinstein School dinosaur help welcome Shabbat at 5 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free; atlantajcc.org.

Returning rabbis. The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown, continues its sesquicentennial celebration by bringing its past rabbis to join the current clergy in a Shabbat of learning, with a Friday service at 6 p.m. and oneg at 7:30 and a Saturday breakfast at 8:30 a.m., service at 9:15 and lunch at 11:45. Free; www.the-temple.org/bri2018.

Scout Shabbat. Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, invites girls and boys at all levels of Scouting to wear their uniforms and get a special patch at services at 6:30 p.m. Free; www. bethtikvah.com or trosenberg860­ @ gmail.com.

Community Shabbat dinner. Chabad

Yitro Friday, Feb. 2, light candles at 5:51 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 3, Shabbat ends at 6:49 p.m.

Mishpatim Friday, Feb. 9, light candles at 5:58 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 10, Shabbat ends at 6:55 p.m. of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, holds a tropical-dinner at 7 p.m. after services at 6. Dinner is $25 for adults, $18 for children; www. chabadnf.org or 770-410-9000.

Scout Shabbat. Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta, welcomes Boy and Girl Scouts to its annual service celebrating them, with patches for Scouts in uniform, at 7:30 p.m. Free; RSVP to rsvp@ mynertamid.org or 678-264-8575.

SATURDAY, FEB. 3

Scout Shabbat. Boy Scout Troop 73 invites all Scouts and former Scouts for morning services at 8:37 at Congregation Or VeShalom, 1681 North Druid Hills Road, Brookhaven, to mark the 108th anniversary of the Scouts and the 68th anniversary of Josiah Benator’s leadership of the troop. Free; orveshalom­.org or 404-633-1737.

Havdalah and inspiration. Elizabeth Cicerchia, who has Down syndrome, tells her story at a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. at Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta. Free; RSVP to rsvp@mynertamid. org or 678-264-8575.

Torch Gala. The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation honors Steve Morris, Barb Mays, and Sam and Gina Shapiro at 7 p.m. at the InterContinental Buckhead, 3315 Peachtree Road. Tickets are $350 ($175 for those 21 to 35); bit.ly/2nmgyF0 or 404-982-0616.

Tu B’Shevat. The Cohen Brothers Band provides the music for Havdalah as YJP Atlanta samples the fruits of Israel, kosher wine and kosher cheese at 9 p.m. at Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave, Poncey-Highland. Tickets are $5; www.eventbrite.com/e/wine-cheesehavdallah-tickets-41575700038.

SUNDAY, FEB. 4

World Wide Wrap. Men’s clubs at Conservative congregations — including B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, at 9:30 a.m.; Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, at 9:45 a.m.; and Etz Chaim, 1190 Indian Hills Parkway, East Cobb, at 9:15 a.m. — share the mitzvah of laying tefillin on Super Bowl Sunday. Visit synagogue websites for details.

Tu B’Shevat planting. The community tree planting arranged by the Marcus JCC, Trees Atlanta and other Jewish partners begins with a Tu B’Shevat celebration with fruits, nuts and other refreshments at 12:30 p.m. at Gordon White Park, 600 Hopkins St., Southwest Atlanta, near a newly opened section of the BeltLine, followed by the planting at 1 p.m. Free; bit.ly/2n70yG7.

Chagiga show. The Atlanta Jewish Academy Upper School girls perform an original Holocaust play, “The Might of Right,” at 2 p.m. after high tea at 1:15 at the academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $18 in advance or $20 at the door for women, $15 in advance or $18 at the door for girls,

Find more events and submit items for our online and print calendars at the Atlanta Jewish Connector, www.atlantajewishconnector.com.

Remember When

10 Years Ago Feb. 1, 2008 ■ Jewish sociologist and bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe has been hired as the new director of Emory University’s Center for Ethics, effective Aug. 1. The University of Pennsylvania professor also is NASA’s first chief of bioethics.

■ The bar mitzvah ceremony of Joseph Alan Capelouto of Atlanta, son of Carl Capelouto and Valerie Wender, was held Saturday, Oct. 27, at Temple Sinai.

25 Years Ago Jan. 29, 1993 ■ Nineteen Atlanta Jewish Federation donors of at least $25,000 to the annual campaign participated in last week’s Roots Mission to New York for some firsthand analysis

of troubles in national black-Jewish relations. During the two-day visit, they heard about secret efforts to help Jewish communities in crisis and learned about the overall status of the American Jewish community.

■ Debra and Reid Sifen of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Shaina Miriam, on Oct. 1.

50 Years Ago Feb. 2, 1968 ■ A record total of $1,380,150 worth of Israel Bonds were sold during 1967 in the Georgia-Carolina-Eastern Tennessee Region, Chairman A.J. Weinberg reported. He attributed the success to the response to the Six-Day War. ■ Mrs. William Miller of Atlanta announces the engagement of daughter Judith Rae Miller to Edward Allen Cone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Cone of Atlanta. A June wedding is planned.

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Chagiga show. The Atlanta Jewish Academy Upper School girls perform an original Holocaust play, “The Might of Right,” at 7 p.m. after bedtime tea at 6:15 at the academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $18 in advance or $20 at the door for women, $15 in advance or $18 at the door for girls, or $12 for AJA students; chagiga2018.brownpapertickets.com.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7

Babyccino. The program for babies up to 2½ years old and their mothers explores holidays at 10:30 a.m. at Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta. Free; RSVP to hs@ chabadnf.org or 770-410-9000.

Book talk. Shia Elson speaks about his book, “Thoughts of an Aging, Liberal, Agnostic Cardiologist,” at 11 a.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; www.templesinaiatlanta.org or 404-252-3073.

THURSDAY, FEB. 8

Edgewise speaker. Gary McKillips

talks about his experiences as a freelancer sportswriter and broadcaster at 10:30 a.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free for members, $5 for others; www.atlantajcc.org/ knowledgewise or 678-812-4070.

Infertility support group. Therapist Lauren Berman leads a Jewish Fertility Foundation support group at 6:30 p.m. at MACoM, 700-A Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free; www. jewishfertilityfoundation.org/Support or 770-843-7413.

FRIDAY, FEB. 9

Scout Shabbat. Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, invites all Scouts to join Pack 1818 Cub Scouts in a special Friday service at 6:30 p.m. Free; www.or-hadash. org or 404-250-3338.

SATURDAY, FEB. 10

Women’s leadership. Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, honors its rebbetzins, past and present, at the morning service at 9, a grand Kiddush luncheon at noon, and dinner and dancing at 7. Tickets for the nighttime gala are $118; RSVP at www.aasynagogue.org.

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Higher Education Forms Bedrock of Israel’s Success Israeli journalist Abigail Klein Leichman recently reported that “the Technion’s net research budget of roughly $90 million pales in comparison to MIT’s $1.5 billion, yet its income from commercialization of research is similar.”

Israel has become an international powerhouse for exporting its cuttingedge technology, even from its modestly funded university research labs. Having a radical impact on the Israeli economy, this tech phenomenon can be directly linked to Israel’s ever-growing, historically robust institutions of higher education.

The impacts of Israel’s universities, however, go far beyond monetizing research and helping advance tech sectors. They have shaped Israeli society as a whole.

Each charging a current annual tuition of roughly $2,500, five of Israel’s eight universities rank in the world’s top 500, and they play a significant role in making Israel the second most educated country in the world per capita.

An important staple of Zionism since its inception, higher education serves as a bedrock of Israel’s culture, society and economy.

Built in 1912 with strong support from physicist Albert Einstein, the Technion, Israel’s public technical uni-

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versity, has been grooming generations of talented architects, researchers and engineers. The Technion set the stage for one of the most innovative and prolific tech communities in the world.

Similarly, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, founded in 1918, quickly became a bastion of scholarly output and Hebrew intellectualism in the Jewish community in pre-state Palestine.

The only nonscience/non-techfocused Jewish university in the land of Israel until 1955, the Hebrew University laid a foundation for top-notch

scholarship that has become standard among the eight universities and 58 regional colleges in Israel today.

Additionally, Israeli researchers and scholars of all disciplines are disproportionately represented in the world’s most renowned academic institutions.

Eight Israeli academics and researchers have received the Nobel Prize (with 12 Israeli Nobel laureates in total), making Israel 15th in world rankings for countries with the most Nobel laureates.

As Israel’s population grows rapidly, its higher education system has followed suit. In 1990, with a population of 4.7 million, Israel had a total of 20 institutions of higher learning. Today, with a population of more than 8.5 million, there are 66 colleges and universities, 29 of which are governmentfunded.

With a rich history of intellectualism, study and scholarship, Jewish tradition and values are well represented in Israel’s system of tertiary education.

Higher education ensures learning for future Israeli generations. That

Jewish families in Salonica, like this one shown in 1917, were not satisfied with a Jewish curriculum that left out Zionism.

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Today in Israeli History

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

Feb. 2, 1915: Israeli politician, diplomat, historian and writer Abba Eban is born in Cape Town, South Africa.

Raised in England, he moves to Jerusalem during World War II. Feb. 3, 1919: A delegation of the Zionist Organization, led by Chaim Weizmann, presents the case for a Jewish homeland in Palestine to the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. Feb. 4, 1921: In Salonica, Greece, the Conference of Greek Zionists adopts a resolution declaring that Jewish education in the Alliance Israelite Universelle schools does not meet with Jewish national views and aspirations and calling for a new syllabus. Those schools promote Western values and Jewish emancipation but not political Zionism.

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Albert Einstein receives an honorary doctorate from the Technion in 1953.

education system and Israel’s hightech sectors have combined to provide Israel with the tools that make the Israel Defense Forces one of the most innovative and advanced armies in the world. ■ Eli Sperling is the Israel specialist and assistant program coordinator for the Center for Israel Education (www. israeled.org).

Feb. 5, 1890: The custom of planting trees in Israel on Tu B’Shevat begins when Ze’ev Yavetz, an educator in Zichron Ya’akov, takes his students to plant trees on the holiday.

Feb. 6, 2001: For the only time in Israel’s history, a direct election is held for prime minister without a simultaneous election for the Knesset. Ariel Sharon receives 62.4 percent of the vote to defeat incumbent Ehud Barak.

One month later, the Knesset amends the election law to eliminate direct election.

Feb. 7, 1999: Jordan’s King Hussein, who in 1994 became the second leader of an Arab state to make peace with Israel, dies of complications related to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Feb. 8, 1878: Renowned philosopher Martin Buber is born in Vienna.

After his parents’ divorce when he is 3 years old, Buber spends much of his childhood in Lemberg, Ukraine, raised by his grandparents in their religious home. Buber emigrates to Jerusalem in 1933.

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Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home

Generating water in India. Rishon LeZion-based Water-Gen is launching a water generation pilot with Indian engineering and infrastructure company TATA Projects Ltd. A joint entity in India will oversee the manufacture and installation of midsize GEN-350G atmospheric water generators. Founded in 2009, Water-Gen makes generators that can extract safe drinking water from the humidity in the air.

Selfie stick, just in case. Why carry your smartphone in one pocket and a selfie stick in another? That’s what the son of David Sherman, the CEO of Israeli startup Stikbox, thought. The promotion video for Stikbox received nearly 10 million hits on Facebook and over 380,000 on YouTube. Stikbox is the first full-length selfie stick built into a smartphone case. The design allows access to all control buttons and functions of the phone.

Superfast Internet by 2020. A new undersea Internet cable that will connect Israel with Spain in 2020 will have 40 times the capacity of existing Internet cables. The 4,784-mile cable will reach Bilbao, Spain, where an equally powerful cable already connects Spain to the main Internet backbone.

Cracking the Dead Sea Scrolls code.

Researchers at the University of Haifa have decoded two Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in the 1960s. Believed to be written over 2,000 years ago by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes, the scrolls reveal a 364-day calendar and four previously unknown festivals.

Using high-tech images provided by the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, researchers joined the 60 minuscule “puzzle pieces” that now form a comprehensive calendrical scroll.

Out of Africa earlier. A jawbone with teeth that was discovered at the Misliya cave on the western slopes of Mount Carmel has been dated to 177,000 to

194,000 years ago, indicating that modern humans were in the Levant at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. “This finding — that early modern humans were present outside of Africa earlier than commonly believed — completely changes our view on modern human dispersal and the history of modern human evolution,” said Israel Hershkovitz, a professor in the anatomy and anthropology department of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine.

Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University

Compiled courtesy of israel21c.org, timesofisrael.com, verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot. com and other sources.

This adult upper jawbone, found in the Misliya cave on Mount Carmel, is at least 170,000 years old, which makes it at least 50,000 years older than what had been the oldest modern human remains found outside Africa.

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Powerful and innovative. In a survey of the world’s most powerful countries, U.S. News & World Report ranked Israel eighth, based on its military might, alliances, and economic and political influence. In a separate survey, Bloomberg ranked Israel as the world’s 10thmost-innovative country, based on the Start-Up Nation’s spending on research and development and its number of publicly traded high-tech companies.

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6 Years Through the Looking Glass of Aliyah

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This being my maiden article for the Atlanta Jewish Times, I think it best to briefly describe a chip or two from the wall of noise during six years of aliyah.

I wound down after selling our family business in Chicago, then realized I needed a more productive future and adventure. Now I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.

My wife suggested I go visit a new Israel-born granddaughter. “Don’t come home without an apartment,” she coaxed on a Wednesday while I was there. Sunday, I sigⁿed the lease.

During months of waiting for our lift (shipping container) and ulpan (free government classes to learn Hebrew and meet other nervous newcomers), my wife and I were together more than we spent together in 43 years of dating and marriage. On a walk out the door, I ask: “Where are you going?” Her answer: “No matter.

I’m going alone, and you’re not coming with.”

On the second day in Israel, we go to a wedding of grandchildren from

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former Chicagoans. The next morning (Day 3) we take our first public bus ride to view the exhibitions of the 50 most

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talented student artists with works on display in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. “They need an audience,” she cajoles this jet-lagged body. I point to the erogenous bronze sculpture adorning the museum entrance.

“That’s a Henry Moore,” she replies nonchalantly, as if everybody knows that.

Three hours later we trek to the glittering Azrieli Mall. It radiates vitality and defines Israel’s urban joie de vivre. We window-shop, down our first restaurant aliyah meal of Japanese mall food and pray Mincha (afternoon prayers) in the mall.

I don’t have to work in Israel to survive. No rush to take the first low-

It’s a Henry Moore sculpture outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, of course.

paying job offered olim and IDF kids recycling back into society.

I settle in with English-language newspapers and websites that supply my daily news fix. At Shabbat dinners I learn quickly from a kick under the table what to say and when to zip it.

Talk about the cultural discordance of aliyah, religious political domination, politics, shocking poverty, corruption and #MeToo besting the IDF, national, local and rabbinic leaders is off limits.

For example, the #MeToo movement spreading across the world in 2017 might well have started in Israel, sorry to say, a decade sooner, but for the diffidence of Jewish girls bound by the stewpot of macho dominance per-

meating education, religion, cultural institutions and security concerns.

President Moshe Katsav is sentenced to seven years in prison for rape, indecent acts, sexual harassment and obstruction of justice at the cusp of our arrival in Israel. More women go public over the next few years.

Prime ministers, Knesset ministers, mayors, chief rabbis and IDF officers are accused, demoted, forced into retirement or jailed. These topics are the elephant at the dinner table olim avoid but are de rigueur in America.

Israel is a young people’s paradise for Arabs, Jews and Christians, according to the Jewish Virtual Library Project of AICE: 28 percent 14 or younger; only 10 percent are older than 65. The average age is around 29.

The World Health Organization rates Israel sixth of 188 countries in global healthy life expectancy — wars, terrorism and all. Israel enjoys the highest birthrate in the developed world at 3.1 children per woman.

Mexico is a distant runner-up with an average of 2.2 newborns.

The World’s Happiness Report rates Israel the 11th happiest country in the world for the fourth consecutive year. To confirm it, readers in their 20s and 30s are invited to the White City (sobriquet for Tel Aviv) community Friday night meal this week, featuring the Indian Curry Shabbat Feast.

Everything in the Diaspora we learn about Israel is from tour guides and fundraisers. The only reality we know comes from media. Aliyah mimics Snow White and her adventures fleeing into the dark unknown to live the dream of Xanadu. It’s a suspenseful ride here, with lighthearted and frightening moments, with some perils and fireworks.

As Dr. Seuss encourages at the end of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go”: “So … be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O’Shea, you’re off to Great Places!

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So … get on your way!” ■ Dr. Harold Goldmeier is a public speaker and writer teaching business and politics to international university students in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. His book “Healthcare Insights: Better Care, Better Business” is available on Amazon. His articles and reviews appear on investment site Seeking Alpha, American Thinker, Arutz Sheva, Life in Israel, The Jerusalem Post and more. He was a research and teaching fellow at Harvard.

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Thanks to Special in Uniform, Future Looks Bright those who got the added value were the regular soldiers.

Take the female soldier who enlisted at 18 and serves as a techni-

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By IDF Maj. Oren Hefetz

cian or in an educational role or as a dental assistant and works alongside a soldier with special needs. That same enlisted soldier mentors and aids the other, and they eat lunch together.

Or think of the soldiers assigned to the kitchen to ensure we are regularly fed. With them works a soldier whose speech may sound a little strange and who may have a difficult time walking, but together they perform the same tasks.

These soldiers have doubled their responsibility by having the added value of caring for others.

Throughout my training process, when physical conditions were put to

the test, the commanders conveyed a clear message: “You will not succeed alone. Only with teamwork will you succeed. Take care of your peers who are going through difficulties because they’ll save you next time.”

When I now ask soldiers how it is serving alongside someone with disabilities, they look at me strangely, as if they do not understand my ridiculous question. “He is like our brother,” they often answer. “This place would not be the same without him.”

There’s something about this connection that gives me goosebumps every time I think of it. The future looks pretty good. After all, do you think that a soldier who has served with someone with disabilities and later goes on to graduate with a degree in architecture will ever design a swimming pool without adding an accessible component? Or that a future manager would ever deny a job to a candidate with a disability? Not a chance.

The Special in Uniform program, funded by Jewish National Fund-USA, helps hundreds of young men and women with disabilities enlist and serve in the IDF like every other Israeli

Special in Uniform soldiers are recognized in 2017, when Israel awarded the program the Presidential Award for Volunteerism. Atlantan Alan Wolk chairs the board of Special in Uniform USA.

citizen. The program of course helps those young men and women, but, just as much, it changes the enlistment and life forever for the many thousands of “regular” soldiers and officers they serve alongside.

That is the power of this program and the great social change it has brought about. ■ February is Jewish Disability Awareness Inclusion Month, and Jewish National Fund is proud to help ensure that people with special needs are fully included in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 2 ▪ 2018

You know those pictures that tell you to take a look and say what you see, and after you draw a banal answer, they say to you, “Now take a really good look and say what you see”?

You look for a minute or two, then you notice something completely different that is hidden in the picture. This story reminds me of those images.

My name is Oren. I am 41, married to Hila and the father of three. I’ve made a career serving in the Israel Defense Forces and am a pilot.

For 17 years I flew various helicopters, helping Israel’s ground forces, making decisions during combat, rescuing the wounded, and helping families and friends during their darkest times. I have held numerous command positions, and a year ago I was chosen as the deputy commander at the Palmachim Air Force Base, where some 4,500 people live and work.

During my two-week orientation and in between managing budgets, projects and contractors, the outgoing commander, Lt. Col. Moti, informed me one morning that we were visiting a special place. “Special?” I asked.

“You’ll see” was all he answered.

We arrived at a small compound where a group of soldiers with disabilities of varying degrees were mustered, all of whom had dreamed of serving in the Israel Defense Forces like everyone else in the country.

It’s crucial to understand that serving in the army in our small country is a milestone; aside from maturing the person, the experience helps transition young people into adults.

For many hours that day I spoke with these young soldiers, understanding that each could have been classified “exempt from military service,” and I learned the personal journeys that brought them here to attain the status of enlisted members of the IDF. Dozens of wonderful stories.

Recall the picture at the start? In that moment I understood what I was looking at — boys and girls, no different from countless others who all their lives wanted to be like their friends — and now you can understand what it means to serve in the army and understand their motivation.

After a few weeks I witnessed something even more extraordinary unfolding: While the soldiers with disabilities had fulfilled their own dreams working alongside regular soldiers,

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School Too Slow

FEBRUARY 2 ▪ 2018

This week’s article about allegations of a teacher’s improper behavior at Peachtree Charter Middle School (Page 14) is a frustrating reminder of how far we still have to go to ensure that our children, especially our daughters, grow up in safe learning environments that enable them to thrive.

The details of what this teacher is accused of doing are disturbing, involving possible verbal and physical abuse with an element of anti-Semitism.

For now, we don’t know all the details about what happened Dec. 7 and before, so it’s too soon to say what should happen to the teacher or whether the Peachtree Middle administration or the DeKalb County School District missed warning signs about this teacher’s behavior and beliefs.

But we can see pieces of the bigger picture of what happened after a Jewish girl reported being tripped and laughed at by the teacher and students said another child was pulled from a chair, pinned to the ground and yelled at through a megaphone.

This teacher was already facing questions about a graphic class assignment and had been pulled out of the classroom at least once. So we can’t understand why the school choose not to put the teacher on leave while thoroughly investigating the incidents. Why was he simply moved to another classroom until, almost seven weeks later, a TV reporter began asking questions and compelled school action?

Again, we don’t have all the facts, and we are not supporting a rush to judgment. But in any situation where the safety of students is in question, a teacher must accept paid leave during the investigation.

Nothing sexual or systematic is alleged at Peachtree Middle, but the approach of moving an authority figure under a cloud instead of trying to resolve accusations echoes far too many horrific cases in recent history, including Larry Nassar, the Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor who sexually abused hundreds of girls and young women over decades and is set to spend the rest of his life in prison.

All too often, people entrusted with the protection of children worry too much about colleagues or institutions and not enough about the young people who should take priority and who can suffer psychic scars from being ignored and exposed to danger in places where they should be safe.

Essentially, this is where we were almost a year ago when a few Davis Academy moms woke up to the rising threats of various forms of hate and launched the Atlanta Initiative Against Anti-Semitism. AIAAS held a hugely successful community forum last March, then held a meeting attended by hundreds of leaders just about problems in education in early November.

Still, a month after that session and only five miles away, officials at a public school either didn’t know what to do when a girl came forward with a complaint or simply made the wrong choice. That’s unacceptable.

Meanwhile, we as a community can’t be satisfied to have raised issues about student security and support in schools over the past year. With the lead of AIAAS, we have a grasp on the problems. We must be 10 diligent and persistent in finding the solutions. ■

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Jewish Geography’s Heavy Lifting Columnists in the Jewish press will rarely have an immigration system based entirely on perceived an easier target than a noxious piece of Polish legismerit. You don’t know what people will contribute lation that plays politics with Holocaust history. until they’re here.

The lower house of Poland’s parliament chose I recommend seeing “The Mighty Atom” during Friday, Jan. 26, the day before International Holoits second screening Feb. 10, when director Steve caust Memorial Day and the 73rd anniversary of the Greenstein, the Mighty Atom’s grandson, is schedliberation of Auschwitz, to approve a bill that would uled to appear, but the film is not what made a rainy make it a crime to suggest weekend happy. that Poland played any It was the game of part in the Nazi atrociinstant Jewish geography ties on Polish soil during that broke out in the PeEditor’s Notebook World War II. rimeter Pointe theater.

By Michael Jacobs The thing is, there’s Uncle Jeff got to meet mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com not much to say about a a friend of his sister’s (that proposed law so wrong is, my mom’s) when Rabbi that Jews — in Israel, in Joshua Heller arrived to the Diaspora, on the left, on the right — are unified say a few words on behalf of the film’s sponsor, the in outrage.

Congregation B’nai Torah Preschool.

The law is offensive to Holocaust survivors and One of the men in the crowd, a Johns Creek to the memory of the slain 6 million. It’s a rejection resident who, like my uncle, was born in Brooklyn, of reality to pretend that no Poles were complicit in turned out to be an old friend to one of Joe Greenthe Nazi crimes. And it’s crazy to think that banning stein’s sons, Mike, who is shown pulling a car by his certain speech will eliminate the related thoughts. teeth at age 93 on “America’s Got Talent.” “We called Let’s hope the upper house of the Polish parliahim Moishe,” the man said on his way out. ment, if not the president, will do the right thing and But the best surprise was sitting in our row. reject the legislation. Meanwhile, I prefer to dwell on After Uncle Jeff made his introduction, noting a celebration of history the same weekend. that he practiced law in North Carolina, a woman One of my uncles, Jeff Guller (his latest fitness two seats away asked where in North Carolina. He column is on Page 27), made a 4½-hour drive from said he lived near Charlotte, and she said her husLenoir, N.C., then drove back the next day so he band, sitting next to her, was from Gastonia, where could introduce a documentary at the Atlanta Jewish my uncle lived for 52 years.

Film Festival.

The husband’s father gave Uncle Jeff his first job Uncle Jeff is a powerlifter, a record-setter for his in the law, though the now-middle-aged man is too age group, but even he was impressed by the feats young to remember when my uncle knew him as a of strength of Joe Greenstein, the subject of the film preschooler toddling around the courthouse.

“The Mighty Atom.” Not only could he bend horseBut they got to reminisce about someone who shoes, chew through chains and beat up Nazi symmeant a lot to both of them, simply because a film pathizers by the roomful, but he also entertained about a Jewish strongman born in 19th century fellow hospital patients by visiting them and biting Poland drew them to Sandy Springs. through nails minutes before his death at age 83.

That’s too magical a moment to be ruined by His life story is an answer to those calling for nonsense in 21st century Poland. ■

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Georgia Must Memorialize Those Killed in Holocaust “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” — Elie Wiesel This spring marks the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, a historically important milestone for one of the state of Georgia’s dearest friends and America’s greatest allies.

With this landmark occasion just around the corner, it is only fitting that the state of Georgia take action by designing and building a memorial for the millions of lives that were cut short during the Holocaust. The Georgia Holocaust Memorial will stand as a monument to foster further education and understanding of Jewish history and culture. It will serve as an eternal

symbol of resilience.

As we recognize this momentous

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occasion, Georgians must also acknowledge the essential contributions that the Jewish people add to our state.

The first Jewish settlers came to Georgia in 1733, shortly after Gen. James Oglethorpe’s landing. Soon after, Savannah became one of the first cities in America to create a Jewish congregation, and the state of Georgia has continued to welcome Jewish immigrants in cities across our state.

The vibrant Jewish communities in cities from Atlanta to Augusta greatly enhance our state’s history and culture and are an enduring testament to the bonds we share. Today, the city of Atlanta boasts the 10th-largest Jewish community in North America, and there are over 40 Israeli companies with national or regional headquarters in the state of Georgia.

Despite the historic bigotry, violence and marginalization that the Jewish people have endured, Georgia stands today as one of the strongest allies to the Jewish community and the state of Israel. We all take exceptional pride in the religious, intellectual, economic and political contributions of Georgia’s Jewish community.

The alliance between the state of Georgia and the state of Israel has

never been stronger. We must work together to ensure that this dynamic, thriving, moral and economic partnership continues to strengthen in the years to come.

My hope is that by memorializing one of history’s darkest periods, we will continue to unite Georgians of all faiths. Let us never forget that Israel does not stand alone, but shines as a beacon of hope and freedom with the great state of Georgia by its side. ■ Casey Cagle is the lieutenant governor of Georgia and a declared Republican candidate for governor. Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick (R-Cobb County) has introduced Senate Bill 356 to change the legislative oversight of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust and to call for a privately funded Georgia Holocaust Memorial.

We Need to Build Bridges and Stop Burning Them of a Trump presidency and that their resistance is justified. If not elated, Trump’s Jewish supporters are, at least,

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By Dave Schechter dschechter@atljewishtimes.com

relatively satisfied with what their votes have wrought, even if they cringe at some of what he says and tweets.

“American Jews are replacing most of our other ideological commitments with partisan politics as the primary instrument of our ethnic and religious identities as Jews. We may even soon see partisan political identity as a more effective descriptor of Jewish diversity than denominational labels,” Yehuda Kurtzer, the president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, said in the Forward.

As evidence, consider the approval of Trump’s performance among Orthodox Jews, in contrast to the disapproval of Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jews and those identifying as “just Jewish.”

While Americans shoot rhetorical blow darts at each other, the rest of the world wonders what became of E pluribus unum (Out of many, one), which is (at this writing) still the motto of these United States.

In his inaugural, Trump proclaimed, “We, the citizens of America,

are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.”

He added, “We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.”

That Trump said “we” some 50 times surely was intentional. (Because someone will ask, Barack Obama said “we” about a dozen more times in his first inaugural address in 2009.)

The “we” quotient in the American electorate has declined markedly the past four decades, and little suggests that a rebound is in the offing.

Before Trump sat behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, I said the American system of government was about to undergo a stress test.

The popular concern was that

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Trump, a real estate magnate and self-promoter who took office with no experience in — or, it appeared, appreciation for — governance posed a danger to the mechanisms that have served this country for 240 years.

If a president goes off the rails, I told those who asked, Congress and the courts are designed to act like the bumpers on a bowling alley, to prevent the ball from rolling into the gutter.

Some may disagree, but thus far the bumpers (more the courts than Congress) have held, more or less, even if the ball has careened from side to side on occasion.

But no bumpers can restrain the animosity and vitriol, including within the Jewish community, so long as partisans remain more interested in burning than building bridges. ■

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A week after Donald Trump was elected, I wrote that Jewish supporters of Hillary Clinton’s “were sitting a sort of shiva, mourning the death of an ideal, their vision of America.”

A year has passed since Jan. 20, 2017, when the 70 percent-plus of Jews who backed Clinton watched (or chose not to) as Trump took the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States.

The political atmosphere in this country remains toxic. Americans have inoculated themselves against the possibility that someone with whom they disagree might have a viewpoint worthy of consideration.

Partisans have built their silos taller and fortified their walls rather than build bridges across the chasm.

Americans can live, work, study and arrange their information diet “in a way that feeds ideological ghettoization and identity politics,” Arthur C. Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, a D.C. think tank, wrote in The New York Times.

I would add the ability to shun coreligionists with whom you disagree.

“Add to this the toxic anonymity of virtual interaction through social media, and we have the ingredients for a culture polarized by the perception that we are good and virtuous, while they are inhuman and evil,” Brooks wrote.

Jews who voted for Clinton say that events have borne out their fears

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The Four Chaplains: Unified America at Its Best An important 75th anniversary in American Jewish history is approaching. In the early years of the Second World War, an Army transport ship left America for Europe with 900 soldiers on board. These troops were accompanied by four military clergy: John Washington, a Catholic priest; George Fox, a Methodist minister; Clark Poling, a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church; and Rabbi Alexander Goode.

On Feb. 3, 1943, the ship entered an area of the northern Atlantic where German submarines had been sinking ships at a rapid pace. The men were ordered to sleep with their uniforms on, including boots, gloves and life jackets. Their berthing areas were in the lower decks.

At 1 a.m. the ship was torpedoed.

The order to abandon ship was quickly given. The men who had been asleep realized they had mere moments to make it to the top deck of the listing ship and into the few lifeboats.

In their panic, the men came to the lifeboats without much of their personal equipment. Over the course of the night, that had discarded their boots, gloves and life vests for comfort.

Without these items, they would not survive in the frigid ocean.

Into this maelstrom, which occurred within moments, walked the four chaplains, who had been sleeping closer to the top deck. Their official task was to help the men into the

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lifeboats and accompany them as they rowed away.

They did much more than that.

As the desperate men came on deck without various items, the chaplains gave their jackets, boots and life vests to whoever needed them, ensuring that the soldiers had a better chance of survival and rescue. In doing so, they sealed their own fate.

One of the lasting memories of the survivors was the chaplains gathering together, offering final prayers and holding one another as the ship sank beneath the unforgiving waves.

The survivors reported that as the chaplains gave away their personal items, they said: “Take this, my son.

You need it more than I do.”

Only 200 of the 900 soldiers survived, and the event became known as the story of the Four Chaplains. It

gave the country an enormous morale boost in the early years of the war.

We were fighting enemies who envisioned a world based on prejudice, hatred and evil. This story reflected another type of vision: a country based on mutual respect and dignity for all and an amazing nation devoted to its notions of freedom and liberty.

A special postage stamp was made in memory of the Four Chaplains, and places of worship were dedicated to them.

Each of the chaplains had special qualities. George Fox, a Methodist, had served in World War I as a medic and been wounded. When his son enlisted in the Marines in World War II, he signed on with the Army as a chaplain.

Clark Poling came from a prominent religious family. His church told him that his primary responsibility was to family and church. Nonetheless, he volunteered for service. He told the congregation that he felt a religious duty to serve as a military cleric.

John Washington’s lifelong dream had been to become a priest. During the war, he had two brothers who

Pay Attention to Needs Around Us

FEBRUARY 2 ▪ 2018

One of my favorite phrases in Hebrew is sim lev, which translates to “pay attention” but literally means “give your heart.”

For when we truly pay attention, it is important to give our heart to the other.

It is the only way we can truly be aware of the world around us and create holy and meaningful relationships.

As Martin Buber teaches in “I and Thou,” “Relation is reciprocity. My You acts on me as I act on it. Our students teach us, our works form us.”

In other words, when we truly pay attention to those around us, to the other, we can strive for a reciprocal relationship based on understanding, compassion and even love.

But to truly sim lev, to truly pay attention to the world around us, we must not only focus on creating relationships with others. We must be 12 willing to open up and give our hearts

to the world.

The Hebrew language is teaching us that it is also important to pay at-

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By Rabbi Jordan M. Ottenstein

tention to where we give of our hearts.

As the previous year was coming to a close, I, along with many of you, received countless letters and postcards from worthy organizations around the community and around the country, asking for year-end gifts.

My wife and I took these letters, sat down and discussed which ones we would support and by how much.

And yet, if we truly think about the needs of our community, we know that they do not only exist from Thanksgiving until Jan. 1. There are needs in our community year-round;

we only need to sim lev, to pay attention, and to give our hearts.

Whether it is your synagogue, other institutions in the Jewish community, or charities and service organizations around Atlanta and the country, it is important to remember that, as we open our hearts to the world around us, we can find ways to create a culture of giving: the giving of our money and time, to be sure, but also the giving of our hearts.

For when we create this culture of giving, we can help eliminate the problems our friends, neighbors, synagogues, institutions and community are facing. We can pay attention to the needs of others around us and work in this new year of 2018 to give our hearts to the tasks of pursuing justice, making sure our community is taken care of and paying attention to those around us. ■ Rabbi Jordan M. Ottenstein is the senior rabbi at Congregation Dor Tamid.

joined the armed forces in defense of America. During his last visit home, he asked everyone to say prayers for him. He sensed that he was going into a new, dangerous reality.

Alexander Goode was a rabbi and scholar. He had earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and was a successful pulpit spiritual leader. Before entering the chaplaincy, he wrote, “The new world, held together by the bonds of religious idealism, is the goal of democracy through the ages.”

He left behind a wife and young daughter.

As we note this event, we humbly recognize the bravery of men and women who have served and those who still do in the armed forces, police and fire departments, and other firstresponder services. They daily put their lives at risk for our freedom.

This story reminds us of the value of selflessness that these people of G-d exhibited. In a moment of supreme personal sacrifice and dedication, they placed the lives of others over their own. This was America at her best. ■ Rabbi Albert I. Slomovitz is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University, a retired military chaplain, and the author of “The Fighting Rabbis” and “America’s Other Clan: The United States Supreme Court.”

Letter To The Editor A Beautiful Story

We want to thank the Atlanta Jewish Times for bringing attention to the beautiful artistry of Sirod X and her unique personal history (“The Art and Spiritual Journey of Sirod X,” Jan. 19).

Sirod is but one of many truly special individuals at Berman Commons, and we kvell regularly over each and every one. The response to your piece from our residents, family members, staff and the greater Atlanta Jewish community has been heartwarming.

In keeping with the guiding principles of our memory support program, I’m Still Here, this tribute to Sirod X further emphasizes how important it is to recognize the accomplishments, hard work and intrinsic beauty of every individual, no matter the person’s age or life circumstances.

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A Tel Aviv-based company that creates software robots to save time and money is bringing its North American headquarters to Atlanta.

Kryon Systems, which has a U.S. office in Franklin Lakes, N.J., announced Thursday, Jan. 18, that it is opening offices in New York and Atlanta. The intention, CEO Harel Tayeb said, is for the Atlanta office to grow into Kryon’s main North American base.

Kryon is hiring 15 people in sales, marketing, business development and support roles to staff an office that will open by mid-February, likely in Buckhead, “an exciting tech hub,” Tayeb said in answers to emailed questions.

That office is supposed to double in size within a year.

“There are numerous reasons why Atlanta jumped to the top of the list when searching for a new U.S. home base,” Tayeb said, including institutions such as Emory University, Georgia Tech and Spelman College that can supply talent. “Atlanta is also known for its programming community, which we are eager to tap into.”

Kryon joins more than 40 Israeli companies with U.S. or regional headquarters in Georgia. Conexx President Guy Tessler said, “We were not involved in their decision to locate here but are very happy they did.”

Kryon provides intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) solutions.

Using its system, called Leo, companies can move repetitive tasks such as data entry from humans to software.

The software robots can, for example, analyze and compile information from résumés for human resources, perform fiscal analysis, fill out forms, and transfer data.

Kryon in October announced that two venture capital firms were investing $12 million to help it expand to meet the needs of a market it projects to be worth $5 billion by 2024.

Consulting firm Quadrant Knowledge Solutions named Kryon its 2017 Company of the Year in the RPA market in late December.

Business Insider included Kryon on a list of 50 startup companies likely to boom in 2018, with Yoav Tzruya of venture capital firm JVP saying, “Kryon offers a truly unique solution that makes the interaction between the human and virtual workforces seamless and efficient.” ■

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DeKalb Teacher Accused Of Abuse, Anti-Semitism

FEBRUARY 2 ▪ 2018

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com

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The school did not disclose the investigation’s findings to Robinovitz.

But she said she was on a phone call A teacher has been removed from during which the principal and superthe classroom at Peachtree Charter intendent were told that the graphic Middle School more than a month af- video had not been shown and that her ter students reported viewing a graphic daughter had lied — until the mother video in class and accused him of phys- pulled up the teacher’s electronic list of ical abuse and anti-Semitic comments homework assignments, which included, “Finish this video from today and to Jewish students. we will discuss it again tomorrow.” The “There are systemic assignment included a and cultural problems at “I think schools link to the online video. the middle school stem“It was a mix beming from the leaderalways need to tween total shock and ship over there,” said create clear avenues just wanting to get my Stan Jester, who reprefor their students daughter out of the sents Dunwoody on the school,” Robinovitz said DeKalb County Board to communicate about the incidents with of Education. “Peachtree and air grievances the teachers. “We have Charter Middle School against teachers, and never had a problem, but has a history of bullying I’m not sure if that this just kept escalating, and abuse by teachers that has gone unchecked was happening here and the administration has been so ineffective for years. It’s sad that or not.”

— Allison and so dismissive.” parents can’t get tracShe said her daughPadilla-Goodman tion with their issues at ter did have issues with the middle school unless the teacher before the tripping. For exthey go to the media.” ample, Robinovitz said, the teacher told The teacher in question was her daughter, “I would have known you switched to a different classroom after were a Jew just by looking at you.” incidents were reported Dec. 7, but he Robinovitz said the DeKalb County was not placed on leave until a WSBSchool District needs to be transparent TV reporter began asking questions about the investigation process, should Wednesday, Jan. 24.

The teacher was standing between be held accountable and must put the two curtains in the wings of the stage students first.

“I think the message here is that in the lunchroom when he stuck out a foot and tripped Michelle Robino- we have to stand up for our kids and vitz’s daughter Dec. 7, Robinovitz said. that we can’t be silent when these The girl’s lunch flew everywhere, and teachers are taking advantage of their when she looked up, she noticed that position,” she said.

She added, “Not once did someone the teacher did not offer to help and call me and say, ‘I am sorry this hapinstead laughed at her.

“She was so upset, and this kid pened to you. We are going to make this does not get upset easily. … But she just right, and you are safe in this school.’”

Robinovitz said she appreciates couldn’t even sit down and had to leave the Jewish community’s support and the room,” Robinovitz said. the immediate response after the iniHer daughter reported the incitial reports about what happened at dent to a vice principal. By the end of Peachtree Middle. the day, another student reported that Andre Riley, DeKalb County the teacher had pushed a small boy out schools’ director of strategic commuof his seat, held him down and yelled in nications and marketing, said, “When his face with a megaphone. there is an allegation of this sort, the Robinovitz sent an email to the employee is removed from the classprincipal and vice principal the day room while it is investigated, and then, she learned about the tripping, and the following the investigation, the emvice principal responded at the end of ployee is either returned to service, or the following day that the school would further action is taken.” conduct an investigation and that the There were two separate investigateacher would be removed from the tions, Riley said, one at the school level classroom. But the teacher was not and one by DeKalb County’s legal sersuspended or put on leave during the vices department. inquiry.

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The Atlanta Initiative Against Anti-Semitism held a forum with more than 200 teachers, administrators, parents and community leaders called Tackling Anti-Semitism for Our Kids a month before the Peachtree Middle incidents. That meeting, at which Padilla-Goodman delivered the opening remarks, included representatives of DeKalb schools.

Speaking after the Peachtree Middle allegations came to light, AIAAS founding partner Danielle Cohen focused on prevention at least as much as the response.

“We hope that the school and the district take this extremely seriously and provide additional training for all personnel but also increase their vetting and interviewing process to ensure that they are not hiring teachers who have biases against any particular classification or human being,” Cohen said.

“There is no unifying protocol or procedure in each district, as they each have their own set of rules, but I think that making the process more transparent for families would be beneficial. … There really needs to be a more stringent vetting process to understand the belief system, behaviors and the history of who they are hiring.” ■

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This is the second time the teacher has been removed from the classroom, Riley said.

He said the DeKalb school system does not tolerate incidents in which teachers inappropriately make contact with students.

But the teacher continued working in a classroom with students while the accusations were investigated.

The Anti-Defamation League is speaking with Peachtree Middle to learn more about what happened, but Southeast Regional Director Allison Padilla-Goodman declined to comment about the proper process for a school to follow when such accusations are made against a teacher.

“I think schools always need to create clear avenues for their students to communicate and air grievances against teachers, and I’m not sure if that was happening here or not,” Padilla-Goodman said.

The allegation of anti-Semitic comments used in the classroom comes amid a surge in anti-Semitic incidents cited by the ADL in the Southeast and nationally. It also is the latest in a series of incidents involving public and non-Jewish private schools the past few years in which Jewish students reported religious-based harassment.

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Preschoolers and the men important to them work on service projects on MLK Day.

MLK Day of Service The Intown Jewish Preschool celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 15, with a day on rather than a day off. Fathers, uncles and other important men were invited to the classrooms for Guys’ Day of service and family bonding.

The 3- and 4-year-olds had learned that King was from Atlanta and taught about respect and love.

They also had received an important lesson by studying two eggs, one brown and one white, and finding that although they are different outside, they are the same inside.

The day of service included collecting toiletries, making sandwiches and creating keychains for people at the Mercy Mission on Ponce de Leon Avenue and the women at Rebecca’s Tent in Morningside. Pots were decorated and had plants put in them for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. ■

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Flu Season Is Hitting Georgia Hard

By David R. Cohen david@atljewishtimes.com

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The 2018 flu season is the most widespread on record since health officials started keeping track of the course of the virus in 2004.

Since the flu season began in October, 37 children have died in the United States, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s possible we haven’t seen the peak of flu activity.

“Flu is still happening all over the United States,” Dan Jernigan, the director of the Influenza Division at the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a news briefing Friday, Jan. 26.

As of Jan. 20, the total of laboratory-confirmed U.S. cases of the flu was 86,527, but the actual number could be much higher because not everyone goes to the doctor with symptoms, and doctors don’t test every patient.

Influenza activity started early this season and remains widespread in almost every state. Jernigan said we could be only halfway through the season, which typically runs from late

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Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the levels of influenza-type illnesses for the week ending Jan. 20.

October until May. Jernigan said this year has seen the highest level of activity recorded since the 2009 H1N1 epidemic, which forced several Jewish summer camps, including Camp Coleman in Cleveland, to

cancel sessions because of outbreaks.

This flu season has been dominated by the H3N2 strain, which has been linked to more severe illnesses and is perhaps the most dangerous of the four common strains of influenza.

Typically, the two age groups hardest hit by the flu are adults over age 65 and children younger than 5. That’s true this year, but another group is getting hit harder than normal: baby boomers.

The hospitalization rate for flu in adults ages 50 to 64 is 44.2 per 100,000 people, second only to the rate for adults over the age of 65.

“Baby boomers have higher rates than their grandchildren right now,” Jernigan said.

The devastating effects of the flu are being felt in Georgia.

Physician Mitchell Blass of Georgia Infectious Diseases in Sandy Springs said the H3N2 strain of the flu is not as well covered by the flu vaccine. In Georgia, the number of hospitalizations for the flu exceeded 670 in the first three weeks of 2018, and there have been 25 deaths associated with the influenza virus in the state.

Of those deaths, 20 have been people 65 and older, and five have been people 51 to 64.

“We generally would expect to see far fewer influenza hospitalizations

and deaths than we have thus far,” Blass said. “So we’re seeing increasing flu activity, we’re seeing more severe illness in individuals that acquire influenza, and we’re seeing more postinfluenza complications right now.”

Flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by viruses that infect the nose, the throat and sometimes the lungs. Deadly flu complications can occur weeks after the initial symptoms.

“One of the big things people have to remember is that complications of influenza generally occur within two to four weeks after experiencing the symptoms,” Blass said. “So if an individual experiences influenza like symptoms, then feels well for a period of days and becomes ill again, that is a very important time to visit a physician because that is when a secondary bacterial infection can complicate influenza and sometimes result in death.”

Blass, an Atlanta native, said you still can take steps to protect yourself against the flu this year, including: • Get a flu vaccination.

• Be aware that influenza activity in Georgia is widespread.

• Avoid contact with infected people.

• Practice cough hygiene (don’t cough in the open, and use a tissue).

• Wash your hands often with soap and water.

• Stay away from people who are frail or ill if you’re feeling sick.

“If you have flulike symptoms, it’s not the time to visit your bubbe,” Blass said.

Although the flu vaccine is not as effective as in past seasons, health officials said it is still the best protection against the virus.

The CDC recommends the flu shot for everyone 6 months of age and older.

The vaccination reduces the chance of illness and can lessen the severity of the symptoms if you do get sick.

“It’s still not too late to get vaccinated,” said Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the CDC. “If you think you have flu or if you are at a high risk for complications from flu, it is important to seek care early.”

This years appears on track to be at least as severe as the 2014-15 flu season, when the main strain was also H3N2. That year, 34 million Americans came down with the flu, about 710,000 were hospitalized, and 56,000 died.

Most Americans are not at serious risk from the flu, and antiviral drugs can help those who get the sickest.

“It’s not a time to panic,” Blass said.

“Be aware that there are medicines out there to treat influenza symptoms as well as the illness itself.” ■

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Whether you opted for a flu shot or not, you probably should consider ways to build a strong immune system, a pillar of holistic health. And just where is your immune system located?

A study at Johns Hopkins Medicine found a lot of interaction between the bacteria in the gut and the body’s immune system.

Your immune system is your gatekeeper of good health, and keeping it strong means experiencing fewer illnesses and benefiting from a quick recovery if you become ill.

Just as you eat healthful foods and wash your hands to keep germs away, the following tips are a proven immune-building practices you can easily implement to improve gut health and increase stamina: • Tea. Dandelion, holy basil and green teas are among the types that can help you relax and restore your immunity.

Dandelions, those pesky yellow flower weeds that grow abundantly in your spring garden, can help fight off a cold. Researchers found that chemical

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compounds in dandelions can flush toxins from your system. In Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, dandelion supports the liver and kidneys. If you are on medication, check with your doctor because dandelion be a diuretic.

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Holy basil, also known as tulsi, is different from the basil you cook with.

It is loaded with antioxidants that fight viruses, bacteria and fungi.

Green tea is rich in polyphenols called catechins. Research found that green tea is 25 times more potent than vitamins C and E. Three cups per day can fight infection, according to a study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for the National Academy of Sciences.

Any of those teas can be purchased at natural food stores.

• Aromatherapy. Did you know that essential oils are the immuneprotecting ingredients of plants and

flowers? They are synergistic with the human body and work in the same way to provide protection and destroy viruses and bacteria. They have the highest vibrational frequency of any substance on the planet, meaning that they are immune powerhouses.

Not all oils are created equal (like different grades of gasoline for your car), so it’s best to choose therapeuticgrade or organic essential oils. Essential oils can easily be applied to your body with a carrier oil, such as sesame, coconut or jojoba.

For adult gut health, try fennel, ginger or peppermint. Apply two drops to the feet or abdomen mixed with jojoba, sesame or coconut oil. This amount is not suitable for children under 12.

Check with your holistic professional, and avoid these oils if you’re pregnant.

• Garlic. Garlic contains several compounds, including allicin, with antiviral, antifungal and antibacterial properties. Together, they rev up your immune system throughout the cold and flu season.

Try roasting garlic cloves in olive oil and eating the garlic during the day, or cook it in olive oil and add it to vegetables. Garlic is a key ingredient in the Mediterranean diet, and research suggests it supports heart health and can reduce cholesterol.

Try this great ginger-garlic immune booster: Combine one crushed clove of garlic, one 1-inch piece of fresh ginger, half an organic lemon and 1 to 2 teaspoons of honey (raw and unpasteurized if possible), and steep the ingredients in hot water for five minutes. Then drink the liquid.

• Laughter. Yes, belly laughing is a proven remedy for your immune system. No wonder that my Aunt Rose lived until 95 — she always smiled and laughed. “Tell me something funny,”

she often said.

Studies show that laughter can trigger the release of endorphins, which reduce stress and thus improve your resistance to disease. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can temporarily relieve pain.

Perhaps this is why laughter yoga has gained popularity.

• Immune-boosting foods. Apples (my grandmothers’ favorite cooked fruit) support the immune system because they contain antioxidants and both insoluble and soluble fiber, which cleanses the bowel. All sweet, juicy fruits — pears, peaches, plums, sweet pineapple, mangos — enhance immunity because they transform quickly into what Ayurvedic medicine calls “ojas,” which is vitality. I like to cook apples in a slow cooker with a stick of cinnamon for fresh applesauce.

Cooked leafy greens such as Swiss chard, kale, mustard greens and spinach are great immunity boosters because they provide iron, calcium and other nutrients while cleansing the bowel.

Broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower contain antioxidants, flavonoids and other immune-enhancing nutrients.

Flu shot or not, give yourself the self-care you are worthy of and know that, just as your body can build muscles, it can get stronger with simple daily practices designed by nature. ■ Gedalia Genin practices holistic health and healing at CentreSpring MD in Brookhaven, sparking new pathways for women to vitality and inner peace.

She is the author of the book “Enough Drugs! I Am a Woman and Can Heal Naturally,” a practical guide to feeling your best. Visit www.gedaliahealingarts. com to get more info, learn about book signings and sign up for her weekly blog.

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Gastroenterologist Guides Patients to Resources

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While data on gut dysfunction are available from many online sources, Sandy Springs gastroenterologist Eric Steinberg recommends using Wikipedia or the Mayo Clinic for research.

Steinberg said patients can get misinformation from anecdotes posted online. When patients use Google to search symptoms, they often become frustrated by bad information.

Gastrointestinal dysfunction is personal; one patient with Crohn’s disease is vastly different from another.

“The first place to start is with your doctor. Even sites like WebMD can be too broad. Do some research, write down your questions and come into the office to talk to me,” he said.

“If it’s a serious problem, I want to see you face to face. We will discuss symptoms and make a plan of action.

For more minor issues like prescription drugs, I use the phone or patient portal. I use every avenue to get a patient what he needs,” Steinberg added.

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fied by Burrill Crohn in 1932 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His colleagues Leon Ginzburg and Gordon Oppenheimer discovered Eric Steinberg that 14 patients with says that being this gastrointestinal part of a larger disease were all Ashoffice should help his patients kenazi Jews.

Since the discovget the resources they need. ery by Crohn, studies have linked a range of genetic disorders to Ashkenazi Jews and others to Sephardi Jews; JScreen checks for more than 200 diseases.

Inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatic cancer and Crohn’s disease are caused by genetic predisposition or environmental factors.

Steinberg’s gastroenterology training at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn and Emory University School of Medicine affords him expertise in colorectal screening, IBD, reflux, upper GI dyspepsia, microscopic colitis, Crohn’s, gallbladder cancer, stomach cancer and Barrett’s esophagus.

Steinberg is closing his solo practice and joining Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates. After nearly 20 years of practicing alone, he is aware of frustrations surrounding paperwork, Medicare and health insurance.

“A bigger group allows for resources that focus on getting patients what they need,” he said.

Steinberg said patients are savvy.

While they like a mom-and-pop shop — talking to a person and not a ma-

chine when calling the office — the medical world is changing.

“It’s hard to maintain administrative activities and give my full attention to patients. In a perfect world, when a patient calls the office, they get a doc on the phone, but it doesn’t always happen that way,” he said.

Doing rounds in Sandy Springs at Northside Hospital and Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital, Steinberg was due to start his new venture Thursday, Feb. 1. ■

Do You Need a Gastroenterologist?

Eric Steinberg of Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates says you might need to see a gastroenterologist if you’re experiencing: • Unexpected weight loss.

• Abdominal pain.

• Indigestion.

• A change in bowel habits.

• Esophageal pain.

At your first appointment, express concerns and provide a history so the doctor can collect data to give a diagnosis.

Blood tests might be ordered to look for inflammatory markers, gallbladder and liver function, and vitamin deficiencies. Procedures including a colonoscopy and endoscopy provide information needed to diagnose and treat problems.

At the first appointment, Steinberg said, “feel me out. Make sure I am compatible with your idea of medical care.”

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CERT instructor Austin Harris explains techniques to respond to head trauma, spinal damage, burns and bleeding at Congregation Beth Jacob on Jan. 28.

CERT training is no challah bake — these women have learned a range of emergency techniques in first aid and triage that can save lives.

From tying a sling to support a broken arm to using a tourniquet to save a life threatened by heavy bleeding, CERT trainees are put through their paces.

CERT participants practice head-to-toe assessments of injured people so they can triage acute victims for immediate medical attention and provide proper first aid.

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The Community Emergency Response Team training at Congregation Beth Jacob in Toco Hills is teaching about 60 people to serve as civilian first responders to a wide range of emergencies before police officers or firefighters get there — from a broken leg to a gas main break, tornado to terrorist attack, first aid to mass medical triage.

CERT participants understand that they are “the help until help arrives.” They could save a life or property in an emergency by taking simple actions immediately.

The CERT training frees police and fire teams to focus on the most complex tasks.

On Sunday, Jan. 28, the trainees learned such emergency skills as how to tie slings and tourniquets, put on splints, and treat burns and bleeding.

They previously learned how to organize and manage the actions of teams,

understand disaster psychology, create disaster preparedness kits, put out small fires, and handle many other tasks.

The DeKalb Emergency Management Agency is presenting the training and has customized it to meet the needs of the community, including synagogue and church members in Toco Hills and communities such as Sandy Springs and Stone Mountain.

The intensive program, delivered in five double sessions, has customized content, including “verbal judo,” autism awareness and fire drills with real fire.

Anyone interested in bringing this free training to a school or synagogue should visit www.marketpoweronline. com/cert-tocohills. The training’s organizers are ready to offer guidance in making the program successful at other locations. ■

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Two national Jewish responses to addiction and mental health issues are coming to Jewish Atlanta.

The Jewish Addiction Awareness Network, established about 18 months ago to help provide a Jewish path to recovery, and Jewish wilderness therapy program BaMidbar will offer information about healing through wilderness therapy and community engagement during “Jews Are Not Immune.”

The presentation will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, at Temple Kehillat Chaim, 1145 Green St., Roswell. Also scheduled to speak are Sally Anderson from Jewish Family & Career Services’ HAMSA program and Alyza Berman Milrad of The Berman Center.

Although that program is the only JAAN/BaMidbar presentation open to the public in the Atlanta area, those organizations also will meet with postb’nai mitzvah students at Temple Beth Tikvah in Roswell on Monday night, Feb. 5, and with the Atlanta Rabbinical Association the next morning at Congregation Etz Chaim.

nominated him.

Light joined DeKalb-Peachtree Airport-based Angel Flight Soars in 1999 and serves on the organization’s board of directors as chairman emeritus. He frequently volunteers to fly missions.

ECi donated $5,000 to Angel Flight Soars as part of the volunteer award.

Hadassah Celebrates Medical Centennials

Hadassah in 2018 is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Hadassah Medical Organization and its nursing school and ophthalmology department, as well as the 70th birthday of the state of Israel.

Early-bird registration has opened for two major centennial events: the Hadassah Women’s Health and Advocacy Conference from May 15 to 17 in

Washington ($575) and From Dream to Innovation: Israel Milestone Mission from Oct. 7 to 15 ($2,900).

For more information, visit www. hadassah.org/celebration-2018.

Rocking City Springs Dale DeSena’s Food That Rocks will be the first festival at the City Springs mixed-use development, Sandy Springs announced Tuesday, Jan. 23.

“Food that Rocks is a celebration of Sandy Springs, bringing together our restaurateurs with those who love great food, fun and community, which makes this event a perfect fit as we begin to unveil the many opportunities” at City Springs, Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul said.

The festival will be held from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 9. Tickets are

$55 in advance and $65 at the gate.

The charitable beneficiaries of the third annual Food That Rocks haven’t been announced yet, but two cancer nonprofits were among the three recipients of proceeds last year: Ian’s Friends Foundation, which pays for research into pediatric brain tumors, and the Georgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance.

The third was food rescue organization Second Helpings Atlanta.

“Sandy Springs is my home, so there is a special connection for me.

In addition, as a businesswoman, the growth of interesting dining in the city is exciting, and our past success with Food That Rocks demonstrates that fact,” DeSena said. “Moving the event to City Springs gives us an opportunity to grow the event and remain one of the city’s signature happenings.”

Medical Marijuana Talk

Hadassah Greater Atlanta is looking at the issue of medical marijuana at its health professionals event Sunday, Feb. 18.

Decatur physician Zachary Cohen will present “Medical Marijuana — Get the Facts!” at 1 p.m. that day at Adult Day of Dunwoody, 1 Dunwoody Park South, Suite 123, Dunwoody.

Cohen is board-certified in family and integrative medicine and has an integrative primary care practice.

Get details at www.hadassah.org/ atlanta. Register by emailing viviang. hadassah@gmail. Hadassah requests a $7 donation from each attendee.

Artlite’s Bert Light received the ECi Solutions Everyday Hero Award for 2017 for his work with Angel Flight Soars, a volunteer organization that provides free air transportation to get people to lifesaving medical care.

ECi Solutions provides information and technology software for many industries, and Artlite, an office supply company in Atlanta, operates on the ECi platform, qualifying Light for consideration for the award. His wife

Bert Light has volunteered with Angel Flight Soars since 1999.

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‘ICU Grandpa’ Comforts Babies at Scottish Rite

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com When you first hear David Deutchman’s voice, you feel a sense of warmth and kindness. The tone matches his personality and is perhaps why babies embrace him when he volunteers as a “baby buddy” at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.

Deutchman is one of 12 baby buddies who provide comfort to premature or ill babies for parents who may have used up their leave from work.

While undergoing rehab for a knee injury at a medical office near Scottish Rite, Deutchman decided to walk into the hospital and ask about volunteer opportunities. Days later, he began spending time at Scottish Rite’s school that assists long-term patients.

But Deutchman, now in his early 80s, did not feel the position was the right fit for him until two events within five minutes changed everything.

After he escorted to a room a child who was to undergo surgery that morning, the child’s mother began disclosing every detail of the patient’s illness to Deutchman. Another mother

David Deutchman has comforted more than 1,200 babies at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s neonatal intensive care unit at Scottish Rite.

soon fell into his arms, crying, while she shared her child’s condition.

“I said, ‘OK, I got a message coming to me,’ ” Deutchman said. “I want to volunteer somewhere where I can be in contact with the children and the parents.”

Soon after, Deutchman began volunteering in the pediatric intensive care unit. “I would sometimes speak to parents for an hour, hold their hand or look after their children while they went to eat breakfast,” he said. “No mat-

ter what it took, I was there for them, and that was tremendous for me.”

Deutchman’s fame began after a nurse asked him to hold a premature baby in the neonatal intensive care unit. “The mother walked in and said, ‘I’m so happy you’re holding my baby,’ and when she asked who I was, I said, ‘I’m the ICU grandpa.’ ” The mother took Deutchman’s photo, which appeared on the Children’s Healthcare Facebook page and went viral.

Deutchman estimates that he has held 1,200 to 1,500 babies at Scottish Rite and believes that each one has left an impression on him. Since his story appeared on Great Big Story, he has garnered attention through social media, YouTube and publications such as People magazine.

Some say the video of his story has attracted 1 billion views. Deutchman said it’s closer to 700 million, but he is not one to brag about it.

“It’s been a merry-go-round and an adventure,” he said.

Deutchman has collected countless stories the past 12 years while volunteering at Scottish Rite’s NICU. He

recalled one baby with multiple health problems and his close relationship with the family.

“There were some scary moments, and it was a long five-to-six-month experience. … But I just put my hand on their shoulder and tried to be there for them because it was so emotionally draining,” he said.

Deutchman remains in contact with the family and holds a reunion every year.

While many people spend retirement traveling or playing golf, Deutchman sought to give back by volunteering after retiring as a Maidenform executive in 2000. He initially delivered guest lectures at universities, but when he discovered that he had extra time, he looked for additional opportunities.

“My friends in the beginning said, ‘What do you do there?’ And I said, ‘Well, sometimes I hold babies, get puked on and vomited on.’ You know, it’s terrific. … But I think for guys my age, getting off your butt and doing something is important, if for no other reason than to give back for all the things you have enjoyed in life,” he said. “I can’t imagine not doing this.” ■

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Legendary Atlanta Dentist Always Good as Gold The Goldstein dental hegemony finds Ronald Goldstein in the middle of the generations.

He took the baton from father Irving Goldstein and ran with it to become co-founder of the American and international academies of esthetic dentistry. He is also referred to as the father of modern cosmetic dentistry.

An octogenarian with a steady hand and artistic eye, the much-published Goldstein has announced his retirement from speaking engagements, which required 80-hour workweeks.

Meanwhile, he’s as busy and motivated as ever — writing, painting and working to improve people’s dental health and appearance, as well as working out in the gym and spa adjoining his master bedroom.

Join wife Judy and Ron on a tour of their sprawling Sandy Springs home alongside their three endearing dogs and a rocking chair from the original Georgian Terrace porch.

Jaffe: How would you describe your home’s style?

Ron: The house was built in 1962 by Bob Hodges and designed by architects Jay Goldberg and, later, Bill Harrison. Since then, we’ve had six additions. … A more modern, screened porch and my art studio sunroom expansion (with ultrahigh ceilings), which incorporated the original stone.

Mike Clagett did the last expansion.

That’s the serious response. The real answer is: We can’t agree on the style. Judy likes French provincial, and I lean toward modern décor. Judy has a penchant for rabbit art, which you see hopping around (laughing).

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Jaffe: Throughout decades of dental practice, you’ve collected some very eclectic things.

Ron: We have a huge self-portrait painting done for me by patient Phyllis Diller, an Andy Warhol print depicting Apollonia, the goddess of dentistry, and memorabilia from Erma Bombeck. With over 100 Coca-Cola artifacts, I have donated most of that to the Ronald E. Goldstein Learning Center at the University of Georgia dental school in Augusta. We have the British Coke bottle from the wedding of Charles and Diana, for example.

I do treasure the old-fashioned drill that my father, Irving, used in his 28 office. Once when the power went out,

I had to actually use it.

Jaffe: Someone once described the ideal dentist as a cross between a plumber and artist. How do you envision yourself in the art world?

Ron: I started painting 50 years ago but had to stop because of my busy lecture schedule and restarted it

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when I had much more time at home.

I was first inspired by Comer Jennings and classes I took at the High Museum of Art. I use oils to express a variety of subjects. Note that my paintings have a blue dot … not necessarily a signature. I like color and nature. I painted two of our dogs from a photo while we were on a cruise. Judy was very touched with the likeness and emotion in it.

Jaffe: Who are some of the artists you collect?

Judy: We were very close to local artist Paul Chelko and have several of his pieces. Also, a colorful Puerto Rican artist, Roberto Moya (who is in many hotels, museums and private residences), and Comer Jennings, who was a well-known Atlanta portrait artist.

Alongside the swimming pool, we commissioned sculptress Marci Weisgold to create life-sized versions of our first two granddaughters. She measured each one of them down to the finger bones. We also collect Lalique, Daum and art glass, most of which is on display at Ron’s dental office.

Jaffe: Judy, you have a reputation for being quite the hostess in this kitchen.

Judy: I might have 30 to 40 for Thanksgiving here. My salmon mousse and noodle kugel were featured in the “Neiman Marcus Cookbook.” My other specialties are veal marsala with mushrooms and shortbread cookies.

Between our two families (the Mendels and Goldsteins), we may have more than 250 for family reunions at different locations.

We do like to eat out — Bones, Ray’s on the River and all Buckhead Life restaurants are our favorites.

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Judy: It’s 85 inches by 110 inches, and we enjoy spending our weekends watching movies.

Jaffe: Your lower-level office is expansive, technical and astounding.

Ron: A lot goes on down here. I have a videoconference boardroom, photography studio and a movable library for the books I have published, plus a large collection of books on beauty in addition to dental reference material. My consumer book “Change Your Smile” is in 12 translations and the best-selling book ever in the history of dentistry.

The main room where much happens is an area with three horizontal tables with separate, organized stacks of the 30 to 40 projects I am working on concurrently. Note in the conference room, I strive for fairness. Thus, the two opposing portraits: Grant and Sherman.

I am very proud of mentoring dental students, especially Japanese

C dentists, because all of my books have been translated into Japanese, plus always staying ahead of the curve in my field.

Jaffe: Describe your children’s wing.

Judy: Can you believe we reared four children off this hallway in three bedrooms with one bathroom? Along with cats, dogs, hamsters and gerbils, who might still be reproducing in our walls.

Jaffe: They seemed to turn out OK. What’s your secret recipe for raising such a successful brood?

Ron: We are fortunate to have three dentists, Drs. Cary and Ken Goldstein and Dr. Cathy Schwartz, and one medical doctor, Dr. Rick Goldstein.

I never suggested that any one of them choose a specific career. As a matter of fact, I did the opposite by begging someone to be an attorney so we could barter services with each other.

Jaffe: With all your critters, you’d do well to have a veterinarian in the family. ■

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A: Ron Goldstein works long hours in his lower-level office, which includes a boardroom, movable library, photography studio and organized stacks of his ongoing projects.

B: The Goldsteins commissioned Marci Weisgold to create life-size bronzes of their first two granddaughters playing poolside.

C: Patient Phyllis Diller made this self-portrait for the Goldsteins, which hangs near the manual drill used by Ron’s father, dentist Irving Goldstein.

D: The chandelier in the great room was Ron Goldstein’s mother’s from about 1940. The foliage oil on the left is by Patty Hansen. The oil to the right is Titianesque, hanging alongside art glass and a silver tea pot wedding gift.

E: Puerto Rican artist Roberto Moya caught the Goldsteins’ interest during one of their frequent visits to Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico.

F: An Italian chess set sits below Comer Jennings’ “Tulip.”

G: Ron and Judy Goldstein relax in the art studio/sunroom with treasured pups Kirby, a puggle, Carly, a rescue of unknown lineage, and Ella (Judy’s name for her) or Della (Ron’s name), a Doberman rescue.

H: Ron Goldstein donated most of his Coca-Cola memorabilia to the Dental College of Georgia in Augusta for its Ronald E. Goldstein Learning Center. The palm trees above the Coke bottles represent windy Cape Town, South Africa.

I: Dogs are welcome everywhere in the Goldstein house.

An adjoining room houses the spa and gym.

J: Atlanta artist Paul Chelko did two pieces for the Goldsteins, including “There’s Nothing Personal About Peace … It Takes Two of Us” from 1998.

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Jerry and Martha Jo Katz, the gala chair, head first to the Israeli food from Ouzeria.

Model talent agents Kelly Nehmen and Jason Lockhart use tickets from Nehmen’s grandmother to learn about the legacy of Sammy Davis Jr.

Aria’s Sally and Gerry Klaskala, expressing his love of food and wine aligned with the arts, serve Moroccan spiced lamb, warmed hummus and crisped chickpeas.

Il Giallo chef/owner Jamie Adams, serving butternut squash risotto, says many Jewish customers have followed him from his former Midtown spot to Sandy Springs.

Gail and Louis Adler, freshly arrived from Houston, join son Marc Adler and Veronika Federiko at opening night.

Brennen Dicker and Ron Heidt have a list of movie favorites for the festival.

White balloons cascade over the center bar while food vendors line the walls of the ballroom, providing a good flow and minimizing lines.

Desserts were just outside the room.

Journalist David Lewis wears his customary Converse Chuck Taylors for style and comfort.

Film Fest Patrons Walk Into Red-Carpet Glamour

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Patrons and sponsors of the 18th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival walked the red carpet and were welcomed by a life-size cutout of Sammy Davis Jr. at the opening night gala before the screening of documentary “Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

Beyond the opportunity for photos with Davis

by Button It Up, the starthemed reception featured food by local and Israeli chefs.

“The most fulfilling part of this job is working with Executive Director Kenny Blank, newly appointed Lori Zelony, development director, and the rest of the very professional team,” said Martha Jo Katz, the gala chair and one of Atlanta’s most admired former professional models.

Ever elegant, Katz wore a flowing aqua silk tunic floral by Johnny Was, Ellen Tracy velvet leggings and coordinated rose-toned jewelry she acquired on a trip to Mayan ruins. She said the movie she most eagerly anticipated was “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.”

Film selection committee members Ronni and Gary Landau made a dapper pair. His orange print Garcia ties provided a contrast with his black 30 suit, while she wore a three-piece

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“A Bag of Marbles” was Gary’s must-see movie.

Film producer and journalist David Lewis wore his standard Converse

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Chuck Taylor shoes with his more serious suit. “I’ve been wearing these Converses for 25 years,” Lewis said.

His favorite chef table was Nakato with its Kiss of Death roll: tuna, masago, sesame oil, sriracha and scallions garnished with spicy tempura flakes.

Marc Adler, a producer-level sponsor who provides his Macquarium building’s 75-person auditorium in Midtown for AJFF film screenings throughout the year, accompanied his parents, Gail and Louis, who flew in from Houston for the event. Gail won my “best dressed” vote in an Alexander McQueen black-and-white dove dress.

“I get to watch the lineup of movies as we extract the pearls out of the oysters,” Marc Adler said. His pick of the pearls was “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas,” a playful Canadian

documentary about the Jewish songwriters who composed the holiday soundtrack.

Movie devotees and spiffy dressers Brennen Dicker and Ron Heidt, an in-kind media sponsor, included “GI Jew,” “Bombshell,” “1945,” “Budapest Noir” and “Bye Bye Germany” on their priority list.

The food was easily accessible, an improvement from the long lines of past opening galas. This fare was heavily weighted toward red meat, where twists on tuna and salmon were more common in past years.

Among the Buckhead Diner’s grilled cheese sandwich with roasted tomato soup, Imperial Fez’s quinoa and chia seeds with basil seed tabouli, b’stella and eggplant Zaalook, Ouzeria’s Jerusalem artichoke soup, and Il Giallo’s butternut squash risotto, there were ample vegetarian choices.

The sole kosher vendor was For All Occasions and More with orange ginger duck, scallion risotto cakes and cucumber salad.

Moving onto the theater stage, AJFF President Steve Labovitz and Executive Director Kenny Blank greeted moviegoers with jovial repartee. Blank extended “chai” good wishes in the festival’s 18th year.

The AJFF is the largest film festival in Atlanta and the second-largest

Jewish film festival in the world, behind San Francisco.

The movie was a top-notch education in race relations spanning the decades, Davis’ megawatt talent and his desire to be liked — to the chagrin of the black community.

We saw contradictions as he tried to do the right thing, from marching in Selma to hugging Richard Nixon.

He raised money for the NAACP and entertained troops in Vietnam but was criticized for supporting the war.

He said he wanted to lift the soldiers’ spirits without making political statements.

All he wanted was to be himself (“gotta be me”) and a great performer, even if that meant skits with the white Rat Pack guys in Ku Klux Klan sheets.

Maybe this documentary will provide Davis the props he deserves for paving many paths, including sleeping in the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom. Today’s shamers could take a lesson from this “Candy Man,” who didn’t deserve the Uncle Tom labels for his sense of humor and conviviality.

Exiting the movie, Lynne and Tom Greenfield said, “We loved this movie and have always admired Sammy. We chose to spend our honeymoon in Vegas so we could see him perform at the Sands. He was the greatest performer of our time.” ■

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Unlock ‘The Mystery Of Love and Sex’ A unexpected love story is at the heart of “The Mystery of Love and Sex” at the Out Front Theatre Company in West Midtown.

The dramatic comedy, written by English playwright Bathsheba Doran and set in Atlanta, explores the friendship between Charlotte and Jonny, who have been best friends since they were 9. She’s Jewish; he’s Christian. He’s black; she’s white. Their differences intensify their connection until desire complicates everything in a surprising way.

The play, which contains full nudity, is making its Southeastern premiere with its run Feb. 1 to 18. Director Amber Bradshaw spoke to the AJT about the show.

AJT: What is the significance of setting this play in Atlanta?

Bradshaw: I love the specificity of placing the story in Atlanta, and I think it’s really interesting because the playwright is English, and she set a play in a city that she’s never lived in and maybe has never been to. I imagine that the characters are in Decatur. There’s a black family that’s been living in this house for four generations, and there’s a Jewish family that moves in next door. The Jewish family isn’t religious, but they are very Jewish in life.

AJT: What made you so interested in this play?

Bradshaw: The casual nature of the prejudice in this play and how familiar it was to me. If there is anything that people need to understand right now, it’s that. There is nothing simple or uncomplicated about prejudice or bias. We all have to look at it in order to change it.

AJT: What would you say this play is really about?

Bradshaw: The play is really about different ways we love and different ways we connect with people. There’s a lot about the parents and their struggle as well. The wife is not Jewish, and the father is. The father is from New York, and the wife is from Atlanta. So you have a lot of cultural distinctions there as well. It hits on casual racism, sexism and homophobia in a way I’ve never seen a play do. It also hits on antiSemitism in a way I’ve never seen.

AJT: What role does the family being Jewish play in this story?

Bradshaw: Well, Bathsheba Doran is Jewish, so I think that’s important, but also I think she’s really trying to home in on the nature of religion vs. culture and how they are different. For her, the complication of how to connect when you are Jewish and Christian is a big abyss. The fact that this is a Christian country in which people of all ethnicities, cultures and religions live is something that I think Americans need to be reminded of.

AJT: Was it difficult to cast this play?

Bradshaw: When I was casting, it was hard to find actors who understood the nuances of the cultural references. It was very difficult. I spent a long time finding the right people, and what I mean by that is people who had some sort of experience with Jewish culture in some way. I wanted to find people who would be truthful to the script and not play a Jew or play a gay character. In the theater world, we call that gay face or Jew face.

AJT: This play was written with full nudity. Why was it important to keep that in your version?

Bradshaw: I can’t totally reveal why it’s there because that’s part of the mystery of the play. But I think when there is full nudity in a play, it’s kind of an example of what it means to be vulnerable. That is the ultimate vulnerability.

AJT: What would you say to someone who is considering coming to the play?

Bradshaw: It’s a great date play.

It’s a great friends play. Don’t bring your teenagers ’cause it’s a little R-rated, but it’s a fun and funny play, and it’s beautifully touching. It should be an entertaining and fun night out. ■

What: “The Mystery of Love and Sex” When: Thursdays to Sundays, through Feb. 18 Where: Out Front Theatre Company, 999 Brady Ave., West Midtown Tickets: Students $20, adults $25; outfronttheatre.com

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‘The Jewish Elvis’ Has Left the Building After more than 50 years of performing, legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond announced his retirement from touring Jan. 22 because of a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.

The son of Jewish immigrants, Diamond earned the nickname “the Jewish Elvis” for his high-energy performance style. The Brooklyn-born singer has had 10 No. 1 singles and received a 2018 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

I first encountered Diamond in the 2001 comedy “Saving Silverman,” a film about three buddies who have a Neil Diamond cover band called Diamonds in the Rough. It has an 18 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the scenes with Diamond songs (and his strange cameo) were enough to get me to look up more about his music and career.

Diamond, who dropped out of New York University to take a songwriting job in the early 1960s, broke out in 1966 by writing songs for The Monkees, including “I’m a Believer.”

That jump-started Diamond’s solo career, and a multitude of hits followed, including “Cherry, Cherry,” “Solitary Man,” “Sweet Caroline,” “Cracklin’ Rosie” and “Song Sung Blue.”

In 1980, Diamond starred in a remake of the Al Jolson classic “The Jazz Singer.” Though the movie received less-than-stellar reviews, the soundtrack contained three top 10 singles: “Love on the Rocks,” “Hello Again” and “America.”

Diamond would later say, “Who else but this Jewish Elvis could go multiplatinum with an album that featured a version of Kol Nidre?”

In 2011, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and received a lifetime achievement award at the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2012, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Here’s to you, Neil. The good times never seem so good.

Schafer ‘Renewed’ Temple Sinai Bunzl Family Cantorial Chair Beth Schafer is recording an album of Jewish music to celebrate her 50th birthday, but she needs help.

She embarked on a Kickstarter campaign for her first album since 2009. Schafer, who has worked at Temple Sinai since 2015, needs to reach her

goal of $23,000 by Feb. 26 to be funded.

As of Jan. 30, she had raised $13,119.

“Renewed. That is how I feel after a long journey of divorce, depression and lots of questioning,” Schafer writes on her Kickstarter campaign. “I turned 50 this week and am writing a profoundly new chapter in my life.”

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Schafer says the rest of the songs were inspired “both by liturgy and life.”

To contribute, visit bethschafer. com/renewed.

Concert Calendar Sunday, Feb. 11 Art Garfunkel. The iconic singer performs Feb. 10 and 11 at City Winery Atlanta, but the first show is sold out.

Best known from Simon & Garfunkel, he also found success as a solo artist and an actor. Tickets start at $90; www.citywinery.com/atlanta/tickets/ art-garfunkel-2-11.html.

Friday, Feb. 16 Y-Studs A Cappella. The Yeshiva University group performs at a Congregation Ariel Shabbaton on Feb. 16 and 17. The Y-Studs (Yeshiva Students) are an all-male a cappella group known for bright harmonies and youthful energy. Sponsorships are available for $180; www.congariel.org.

Saturday, Feb. 17 Noa. The Israeli singer-songwriter and activist (full name Achinoam Nini) has shared the stage with Sting, Stevie Wonder and Andrea Bocelli. On Feb. 17, Noa performs at the Marcus JCC. Tickets are $40 to $55; atlantajcc.org/ pldb-live/noa-37564.

Monday, March 5 Matisyahu. The singer-songwriter performs a stripped-down, melodic show at City Winery Atlanta on March 5 to support his most recent release, “Undercurrent,” called his most musically courageous album. Tickets start at $40; www.citywinery.com/atlanta/ tickets/matisyahu-3-5-18.html. ■ Email david@atljewishtimes.com with music news and concert listings.

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‘History of Oppression’ Inspired DACA Protest

By Kevin C. Madigan kmadigan@atljewishtimes.com Abbie Fuksman carried her inspiration from Atlanta to Washington for a demonstration in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Jan. 17.

During the sit-in at the Russell Senate Office Building, Fuksman held up a photograph of her father taken at Bergen-Belsen.

“In that picture he is protesting with a sign that read, ‘We will not allow ourselves to be imprisoned in camp.’

I carried their personal history of oppression,” she said of her parents, both Holocaust survivors. “I did what I did in Washington because no one sat in for them. How could I not sit in (for DACA participants) today when I am all too aware of those before me?”

Fuksman and fellow Jewish Atlantan Leah Fuhr were among more than 100 participants in the demonstration, organized by Bend the Arc Jewish Action, the Anti-Defamation League and the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, to support legislation

Abbie Fuksman holds a photo of her father, a Holocaust survivor, during the Capitol Hill protest Jan. 17.

protecting illegal immigrants known as dreamers, who were brought to the United States as children.

“I deeply believe in the rights of those who grew up here; they are basically Americans just like any other kids,” Fuhr said about her motivation for joining the demonstration. “They are productive citizens and amazing people who have a right to be here, and we as Jews need to stand up for them.

Other groups throughout history have been there when we needed them, and now it’s our turn to support populations that are being targeted.”

Fuhr and Fuksman were among more than 80 protesters who were ar-

rested, fined and released.

Fuhr is active with Bend the Arc in Atlanta and worked for Jon Ossoff’s congressional campaign last years as manager of political affairs.

“Our goal wasn’t necessarily to get arrested. It was to galvanize the Jewish community around this issue, which we did,” Fuhr said. “I was very proud and honored to participate.”

She said a local demonstration is being planned.

Fuksman, a member of SOJOURN (Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity), said she was “inspired by our tradition of liberation” to join the protest.

“The arrest was done with respect for all. We were treated every step of the way as people with a just cause,” Fuksman said. “It moved all of us: the Jews that were involved and the dreamers.”

Fuhr agreed. “It was a privileged arrest in that it was very calm and polite and respectful. It was pre-negotiated. The police made us comfortable.

Nobody got thrown around or mistreated.”

But she said the irony of the situation weighed heavily on her mind. “I was thinking the whole time that the people we were there to support and protect, the dreamers, would not be able to have an arrest like this. We were able to do this and bring attention to their issue, but we didn’t experience the criminal justice system like they would have done.”

Fuksman said the dreamers “are more than a DACA acronym; they are 800,000 people who are unable to put themselves at risk. Not everyone would feel comfortable getting arrested, but I feel all Jews must find an effective way to advocate for them. I would do it again in a heartbeat.” ■

Nathan Brodsky is the new family impact manager at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

Before his promotion after 2½ years with Federation, Brodsky worked as the PJ Library and engagement associate and focused on partnership programing, fundraising and marketing.

“I would say that anything that has the PJ Library logo on it has my reach on it,” he said.

He views his new position from the strategic viewpoint of supporting the Jewish community through familyfriendly programing.

“I think in my new role I really have to learn from the community,” Brodsky said. “I don’t have all the answers, but in talking with families and in talking with Jewish professionals and in talking with parents and grandparents, I am learning what I view as a collection of thoughts are the needs of the Jewish community, where we need to start doing programing, how the connectors have really impacted families, and bringing them together and where we can go.”

He added: “Jewish Atlanta is changing. … What we were two years ago is very different from what we were five years ago and very different from where we are right now.” ■

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‘Chopped’ Fundraiser More Than Almost Succeeds

By Marcia Caller Jaffe mjaffe@atljewishtimes.com

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Four teams of chef-testants and four judges combined to create a lively, circuslike Hadassah competition, “Almost Chopped,” to raise money for research into neurological diseases Sunday, Jan. 21, at Spring Hall.

Most of us are touched by friends who have suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. Jewish rock icon Neil Diamond, for example, just announced that he is retiring from touring because of a Parkinson’s diagnosis.

“Almost Chopped” was a first-time endeavor thought up by Hadassah member Ellen Sichel’s sister in Nassau County, N.Y., with inspiration from the Food Network show “Chopped.”

The Spring Hall ballroom had four cooking areas with a pantry of spices and other items any team could use in the middle. Over 250 guests sat theater-style on three sides of the room.

Screens showed the action while MC Michelle Venter presided. Each cheftestant had the help of a sous chef and a runner.

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Cheryl Gordon (left) poses with event co-chair Holly Strelzik amid 40 food-related raffle items.

The Jersey Tomatoes — (from left) Michele Vernon, Barbara Flexner and Judi Schnitzer — are avid home cooks.

Twice, the teams were given 30 minutes to prepare a course (appetizer and entrée) using identical baskets of mystery ingredients.

The appetizer allotment consisted of eggplant, popcorn, beets, anchovies and apples. For the entrée, the teams worked with halibut, fennel, barbecue sauce and maraschino cherries.

Judges and chefs Pano Karatassos of Kyma, Mimmo Alboumeh of Red Pepper Taqueria and Vince Scafiti of The Farmhouse at Persimmon Creek made insightful comments about texture, presentation and creative use of the ingredients.

Chef Suzanne Vizethann of Butter-

milk Kitchen had a death in the family and was replaced as a judge at the last minute by Micah Serwitz of Instead of Flowers.

Earlier in the afternoon, Karatassos, with his movie-star silver hair, said, “I think Hadassah chose an excellent charity to support, and I hope we raise a lot of money today toward finding cures.”

The teams — Sugar and Spice, Hash Slingers, Samantha Lives Next Door and Jersey Tomatoes — shared their humor and love of cooking in an intro video.

One woman said she rolled cabbage before she formed sentences as a

MC Michelle Venter stands with judges (from left) Mimmo Alboumeh, Pano Karatassos and Vincent Scafiti.

Hash Slingers members Glen Caruso, Tristan Stenmark and Andy Stenmark surround event co-chair Barbara Lang.

toddler. Another combines clean cooking with fitness and the culinary talent passed down from her father. Hash Slingers sous chef Andy Stenmark said his son, team runner Tristan Bjorn Stenmark, was actually the best chef and their secret weapon.

Some took inspiration from the Food Network and celebrity cooks such as Ina Garten.

Samantha Ellis’ Samantha Lives Next Door team, with Rebecca Carey as sous chef, won the competition.

The spirited Jersey Tomatoes team of chef-testant Barbara Flexner, sous chef Michele Vernon and runner Judi Schnitzer revealed as a sidebar that Vernon will be commuting between New York and Atlanta, where she is executing Aurora, a free summer camp at the Davis Academy for children with cancer and their siblings. Schnitzer is best known for her Passover gefilte fish terrine.

Barbara Lang, who chaired the event with Holly Strelzik, said: “We were thrilled to see this project through from start to finish. The community has come together to help Hadassah combat these debilitating neurological diseases. Thank you to everyone who has participated. It does take a village.”

Hadassah women are well known for their grit and hard work in moving the needle forward for good causes like this one. ■

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OBITUARIES

Joy Diamond 62, Atlanta

Joy Elaine Diamond, age 62, of Atlanta and Austin, Texas, died peacefully in her sleep Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018.

Joy was born in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 1955. She grew up in Atlanta, where she graduated from Briarcliff High School. She won the Math Award at Emory at Oxford in 1975, then completed her B.S. in mathematics at Emory University in 1977. She then moved to Austin, where she earned a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Texas and developed a passion for international folk dancing that continued throughout her life. She was also an awardwinning Irish dancer. Joy spent a 30-year career working at IBM in Austin. Joy loved sci-fi, old movies, Girl Scouting, book collecting and traveling the world.

She is survived by her parents, Sarah and Max Diamond of Atlanta; sisters and brothers-in-law Sandra Diamond and David Tissue of New South Wales, Australia, and Carole and Jerry Hossom of Atlanta; nieces Avalon and Teo Tissue and Katie and Kylie Hossom; and nephews Matthew and Alex Hossom. Special thanks to her caregivers, Angie Harris, Bobbie Traore, Bernadette and Jamilla Higgins, and LaTisha Hines.

Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals.com. A memorial service took place Sunday, Jan. 28, at Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care in Chamblee.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Michael Gordon 60, Atlanta

Michael Lance Gordon, age 60, of Atlanta died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018.

Mr. Gordon was the first child born at Forsyth County Hospital in Cumming and was the son of the late Bob and Rebeca Gordon. He grew up playing Little League Baseball and graduated from Briarcliff High School. In addition to English, he could speak Spanish, Hebrew and German. Michael enjoyed his visits to the library. He loved playing the piano and listening to music and in his earlier years enjoyed rock ’n’ roll music. Another hobby of his was painting.

Michael is survived by sister Victoria Gordon Olson (Paul); brother Anthony Kent Gordon, M.D. (Irina); sister Miriam Gordon Burgess; nieces and nephews David Olson (Jonah), Lindsay Olson (Travis), Dora Gordon Zuckerman (David), Leslie Gordon, David Gordon, Mia Gordon, Louisa Sushansky, Erica Los, Erica Burgess and Steven Burgess; and brother-in-law Wylie Burgess.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Jewish Family & Career Services. Graveside services were held Tuesday, Jan. 30, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Daniel Dorsch officiating. Arrangements by H.M. Patterson and Son, Arlington Chapel, 404-851-9900.

asked him to stay and be her protégé. He showed every summer in the Piedmont Park Arts Festival. He had several one-man art shows and a number of commissioned art pieces, including a mosaic called “The Kabuki” for the Montag family and a mosaic called “Scheherazade” for the Meyer family of State Wholesalers.

He also had a commissioned sculpture of a candelabra hanging on the wall in a funeral home in Decatur.

His hobbies included traveling the world with Estelle, collecting Sumida pottery (prompting a successfully authored book), sharing a love of gourmet dining with four other couples for 41 years, and gardening.

Herbert is survived by his loving wife, Estelle, of 70 wonderful years; his children, Sharon (Bob) Levi and Lauri (Steve) Lavine; grandchildren Audra (Jason) Priluck, Traci (Jeff) Wilensky and Chad (Julia) Lavine; and great-grandchildren Justin and Garrett Priluck, Ava and Dylan Wilensky, and Olivia Lavine.

Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals.com. The funeral was held at Greenwood Cemetery on Tuesday, Jan. 23. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Dorothy Krakow 97, Johns Creek

Dorothy Elaine Krakow, 97, of Johns Creek died Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018.

Dorothy Goldman was born in Detroit to loving parents Sadie (Siegel) and Sam Goldman. They moved to Chicago, where she graduated from Hyde Park High School. Attendance at the University of Michigan was cut short when World War II broke out. Dorothy met her beloved husband, George, on a blind date, orchestrated by both of their fathers, in October 1940. She came home that night and announced, “This is the man I am going to marry!” The war interrupted their courtship, and she was forced to endure 3½ anguished years of waiting for his return from the Pacific (Gilbert Islands, Hawaii and Iwo Jima), where he served in the Army Air Forces. They were married six days after his return on Nov. 30, 1945, in Boston.

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Herbert Ray Karp 94, Atlanta

Herbert Ray Karp died Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, at the age of

He was born in Atlanta on Dec. 28, 1923, and lived here his entire life. He attended Boys’ High, then Emory University. He joined the Army, serving in France during World War II. It was love at first sight on a weekend pass at the JCC in Kansas City, Mo., when he spotted his soon-to-be sweetheart, Estelle, singing as the soloist onstage. In their almost 71 years of marriage, he ran a successful automotive parts business. In addition to his business, he was an accomplished professional artist, including designing costumes and sets for many Ahavath Achim Sisterhood productions, and he even created the chuppahs for his two daughters’ weddings — later donated to the synagogue for others to enjoy.

After he served in France, he stayed in Paris to study art. His art teacher Obituaries in the AJT are written and paid for by the families; contact Associate Publisher Kaylene Ladinsky at kaylene@atljewishtimes.com or 404-883-2130, ext.

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OBITUARIES Dorothy worked for the American-Christian Palestine Committee in Boston before the birth of son Richard in 1947. She continued as a homemaker, raising Richard, followed by Joyce and Joannie. The family relocated to North Miami Beach, Fla., in 1957 and then, in 1965, moved to Atlanta, where the family has continued to reside since then. As members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue and later The Temple, Dorothy and George were active in chavurahs and Club 50. Dorothy worked as an executive secretary at the Atlanta Jewish Federation until her retirement after 23 years.

An avid bridge player, Dorothy was a people person. She made a friend with everyone she met. She adored each and every member of her family and always wanted to know all the details about everyone’s life.

Feisty and outspoken, she will be sorely missed by all who have known and loved her.

Survivors include daughter Joyce Forgoston (Bernie Bogrow), daughter Joannie (David) Glazer and son Richard (Donna) Krakow; grandchildren Nicole Forgoston, David (Judith) Forgoston, Ali Glazer, Emily (Christopher) Ettere, Paul (Melissa) Krakow and Jana (Chip) Vinson; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, George Krakow, of blessed memory.

Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals.com. A memorial service to celebrate her life was held Tuesday, Jan. 23, with Cantor Barbara Margulis officiating at the Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care chapel in Chamblee.

Death Notices

Deborah Beiner, sister of Stan Beiner, Eudice Benor and Hannah Vogelman, on Jan. 25.

Shirley Brooks, 92, of Alpharetta, mother of Larry Dratch, Marlene Merrill and Alan Dratch, on Dec. 16.

Arthur Geduldig, 81, of Atlanta, father of Paul Geduldig and Monique Davidson, on Jan. 19.

Khaim Glodener, 81, of Cumming on Jan. 21.

Lawrence Krieger, 78, of Marietta, husband of Ellen Krieger and mother of Marci Greenberg and Jeffrey Krieger, on Jan. 16.

Frances Kuniansky, 91, of Atlanta, mother of Carol Cleveland, Alan Kuniansky and Laura Kuniansky, on Jan. 16.

Tracy Kurzweil, 47, of Alpharetta on Jan. 25.

Gary Laden, 65, of Roswell, husband of Susan Laden, father of Autumn Conyers and Brandon Kretchman, and brother of Scott Laden, on Jan. 26.

Leslie Lessner, 55, on Jan. 23.

Warren Safter, 72, of Atlanta, husband of Tammy Safter and father of Michelle Epstein and Sheri Magram, on Jan. 27.

Michael Spector, 79, of New York, brother of Temple Sinai member Bobby Spector, husband of Joan Spector, and father of Scott, Marc and Jolie, on Jan. 22.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS

Belief in Aiding Others

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I read a book written over 50 years ago titled “This I Believe,” edited

by Edward R. Murrow. In two pages, each writer laid out the principles that shaped his or her life.

This is what they wrote about helping others. (See my Jan. 5 column for what they wrote about themselves.)

• Dr. Samuel Best: I found that to be happy, to be successful, to live a truly successful life, I had to share myself with others, including my material gain.

• Dr. Edmund Brasset: Every man, woman and child should be treated with respect, as befits the essential dignity of man.

I cannot say I liked every person I met, but liking has nothing to do with respect.

• Lee Hastings Bristol: I believe in G-d and an orderly universe. Happiness is never achieved by selfish materialism — I can only have depth and real satisfaction if it is bound up with unselfishness — a consideration for others. Service is the rent we pay for our place on earth.

• Carroll Carroll: I follow the words of Hillel, “Do not do unto others that which you would not have others do unto you. This is the whole law.

Now go study.”

• Bobby Doerr: Doing a good turn for a neighbor, a friend or even a stranger gives me much more satisfaction than doing something that helps only myself. I am only as good as my actual performance proves that I am.

If I cannot deliver, then my name and reputation don’t mean a thing.

• Herbert Lehman: I am convinced that what we get out of life is in direct proportion to what we put into it. I must respect the opinion of others even if I disagree with them. He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. Life is not a one-way street. What I do, what I say, even what I think, inevitably has a direct effect on my relationship with others.

• Mrs. Marty Mann: I believe that trying to help my fellow men is one of the straightest roads to spiritual growth. It is a road everyone can take.

One doesn’t have to be beautiful, or gifted, or rich or powerful, in order to offer a helping hand to one’s fellow sufferers. And I believe that one can walk with G-d by doing just that.

• Bonaro W. Overstreet: Selfrespect and respect for others go 38 together. I do not believe it is possible,

except superficially, to think well of ourselves and ill of our human fellows, or to think well of them and ill of ourselves. Our attitude toward ourselves and toward others is one: It is our attitude toward human nature.

• Virginia Sale: Anybody knows a sure cure for the blues is to get out and do something nice for someone else.

• Louis B. Seltzer: I carry three

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And the third says, “Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.”

• Dr. Harold Taylor: I believe in listening to what people have to say, in helping them to achieve the things which they want and the things which they need.

• Alice Thompson: Any real marriage is a constant understanding and acceptance, coupled with mutual responsibility for one another’s happiness.

• Constance Warren: Happiness is the byproduct of service. If I trust people, they will live up to my trust.

• Rebecca West: I believe in liberty.

I feel it is necessary for the health of the world that every man shall be able to say and do what he wishes and what is within his power. When it interferes with the liberty of others, it becomes a balancing of competitive freedom.

• Darryl F. Zanuck: Two of the fundamental virtues that have been a great comfort to me in life are loyalty and charity. Loyalty has been a way of life for me. Charity is something you must learn, and one should never expect any other reward from charity than the satisfaction it gives.

My bottom line: Respect begets respect, suspicion begets suspicion, hate begets hate, and love begets love. ■

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59. Last pasta, 6. Southern Jerusalem alphabetically neighborhood 60. Parsha after Kedoshim 7. “Voice of Israel” author and before BeHar Abba 8. Black gunk no good for 61. Actor McKellen who played a Nazi in “Apt Pupil” lighting Shabbat candles 62. Her 9. Streaming app for 63. Restroom, for short Simon’s “The Wire” 65. Drink in Jerusalem?

10. Short NFL kick 67. “Able was I ___” 11. Note after fa 12. El Al announcement, for 68. Adam Silver’s sports org. short 69. RBI fly by Green or 13. “Shalom” Greenberg 21. Peninsula in 2014 70. Tel Aviv to Tzfat dir. headlines with Russia 23. Prefix before -pathic 24. Larry David’s show, initially 25. ___ HaSharon, Israel LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 26. Where E M E T S W E A T H A M S Trump is the V I L E M I L N E E L A L leader E R I C E L I D E L A R A 27. Weather H O W F A R I L L S O W ___ M O T I F E N O S O S 28. Hairy chin O N C E U P O N A G L E A N M E M S O S O B D S look L E T I T G R O W 29. Hellenistic S S E T S A R S I D Jewish scribe T H A T S H O W Y O U H O E 30. Initials of L A A Y A O N S Y N C Jewish schools U N D E R T H E T R E E in Jerusalem, S L I T M O V I E F I R E T E N T A H A R D U N I T Miami and S E G A R O S E S L A B S Denver member 73. Outfitters clothing brand 74. ___ Shalom 75. Shalom ___ Tower 76. Shalom

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