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Cultivating Community Roots Photos by Eli Gray

Temperatures that barely climbed into the 40s and more than an inch of rain overnight and into the morning didn’t deter committed Jewish community members and friends from gathering at Gordon White Park near the BeltLine in Southwest Atlanta on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 4, for the annual Tu B’Shevat tree planting coordinated through Trees Atlanta. Ahavath Achim Synagogue member Myrtle Lewin (above right), one of the annual organizers of the event, digs into the muddy soil with the help of Kristina Armstrong, while Trees Atlanta’s Greg Levine (left) points the way. More photos, Page 22.

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The Israeli government has not decided to shut down its consulate in Atlanta, Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer said in an interview Monday, Feb. 5.

The consul general to the Southeast attended a conference of Israeli envoys in mid-January, and she said the Foreign Affairs Ministry was clear that debate had not begun about which diplomatic missions to close under a mandate to cut the budget between 2019 and 2022.

“There is no decision whatsoever,” Shorer said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved a spending plan in early January that called for closing seven of the more than 100 Israeli diplomatic missions. Reports indicated that the consulate in Midtown was targeted.

But the consulate survived a similar budget threat soon after Shorer took her post in August 2015, and there’s almost a year of possible dealing and lobbying before any missions would be closed.

During its just-concluded leadership mission to Israel, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta made the case for the consulate, Shorer said.

Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, who is traveling to Israel at the consulate’s invitation for the 32nd International Mayors Conference from Feb. 11 to 16 and plans to visit his sister city partners in the Western Galilee Cluster, said he hasn’t been officially asked to speak about the possible closure.

“But if asked my opinion about the consulate,” he wrote in an email, “I would underscore its role as a key player in maintaining strong relationships with the Jewish community in the region as well as the deep reservoir of non-Jewish support that exists across the Southeast.” ■

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Aligning Two Parents Traveling Diverse Roads

United We Stand When I got engaged, my best friend’s older, married sister drew me close. “Wanna know the secret for a happy marriage?” she asked, and I nodded eagerly, although I knew, without a doubt, that I would be the paradigm of a great wife and mother.

“Communication,” she said. “That’s it. There you have it: in one word, the key to success and everlasting bliss.”

Of course! I thought. I have succeeded in so many relationships — with my college roommate, parents and siblings. Why she assumed that such a basic concept was a lightning bolt was beyond me, but I sealed my lips and murmured my acquiescence.

Then I got married, and WHAM! I got it. Boy, did I get it.

Raising emotionally healthy children requires a team effort. Sure, one parent is often more of the disciplinarian, and one is often more easygoing. I think G-d does that on purpose; it’s just one hint of His hefty sense of humor.

Presuming the stricter persona tempers his or her interactions with generous doses of love, all should be fine. But it is essential to present a united front in most instances so that your children see balance, caring and shared responsibility. You can disagree respectfully, but always behind closed doors. In front of the kids, it should be “Mommy and I decided.”

So, Dad, you may have to temper your desire to party with the kids, framed within some of Mom’s rules.

And Mom, you may have to slack off a bit, choose your battles, and perhaps select three items that are most important to you and let loose some of the nonessentials.

— C.F.

The Game of Life From reading Carol’s letter, it seems that the answer bounced off the page. You understand that such diverse roles are unhealthy, so you’re left with two alternatives. You can work together and figure out ways to handle issues when conflicts arise. If you can’t figure this out on your own because one or both spouses won’t relent, seek help from a counselor, coach or rabbinic adviser. And don’t forget

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to have yourselves a regular date night to sustain your own relationship. With all this friction, it sounds to me like the two of you need to keep your flame burning strong.

Many couples experience similar issues. You just need to have a game plan and stick to it. It’s the game of life, and in this game, everyone who plays fair is a winner.

— Ira B. I+I=I Marriage equals compromise. If you know something is important to your spouse, try to make it happen. If each of you remains an I, you will always be on opposite ends of the fence.

But if you consider your spouse and his or her needs to be your needs, your relationship will be that much richer and rewarding.

The two of you together should be “I,” two halves of one soul. That way, when one of you is hurting, the other will jump to make the pain go away.

But what happens when you know s/he is wrong? The same thing that happens when you make a mistake. You ever so gently take yourself to task and figure out where you went wrong and how you can do better in the future. Then you continue loving yourself in spite of your flaws.

Your children will thank you for giving them a paradigm of a loving marriage, and they will thrive under the umbrella of unified parenting. Ultimately, you will reap much nachas.

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Recap: Stan and Carol are parenting from opposite sides of the spectrum. Stan wields a soft, gentle approach, wanting nothing more than for his children to love and enjoy home life. Home should be an island, he maintains, a buffer from the outside, cruel world.

Yet Carol feels that routine and structure are optimal for raising productive, independent, well-adjusted kids. She feels like a witch beside her husband and argues that their differences are creating an unhealthy dynamic.

She wants a plan to parent together effectively.

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Edgewise speaker. Gary McKillips talks about his experiences as a freelance 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

Comedy show. Four Jewish comedians perform stand-up in “You’re Funny, but You Don’t Look Jewish” at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, at 7 and 9 p.m. Tickets are $18 for JCC members, $24 for others; atlantajcc.org or 678-812-4002.

Wine tasting and dancing. Sommelier Jeffrey Montaigne leads a wine tasting for the Sisterhood at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, with food, live music and dancing after Havdalah at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $36; www.bethshalom. net/event/sisterhood-wine-tastingevent.html or 404-819-4025.

SUNDAY, FEB. 11

Blood drive. The quarterly Red Cross drive sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans and others runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. Free;

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

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

Saturday, Feb. 10, Shabbat ends at 6:55 p.m.

Terumah Friday, Feb. 16, light candles at 6:05 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 17, Shabbat ends at 7:01 p.m. register at www.redcrossblood.org with sponsor code JWV. Parenting advice. “The Joys & Oys of Parenting” co-author Marilyn Gootman speaks at 10 a.m. during a light breakfast at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody. Free; www.bethshalom.net.

Power of One. More than two dozen organizations join the Greater Atlanta Jewish Abilities Alliance in honoring people who have made an impact on inclusion of people with disabilities at 5:30 p.m. at the Selig Center, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; RSVP at atlanta.jewishabilities.org/powerofone.

MONDAY, FEB. 12

Open house. The Beth Jacob Preschool, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, serving infants through pre-kindergarten, is holding an open house for parents of prospective 2018-19 pupils from 8 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations appreciated at bjpreschool@bethjacobatlanta.org or 678-244-6659.

ple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; www.templesinaiatlanta.org or 404-252-3073.

THURSDAY, FEB. 15

Edgewise speaker. Anti-Defamation League Southeastern Regional Director Allison Padilla-Goodman speaks about anti-Semitism 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.

Closing night. The 18th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival concludes with “The Last Suit” at 7 p.m., followed by a dessert reception, at the Cobb Energy Centre, 288 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Cumberland.

Tickets are $36; ajff.org.

SATURDAY, FEB. 17

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14

Special Friends Havdalah. Congregation B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, holds a special service to mark Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, starting with the creation of spice bags at 7 p.m. Free; www.bnaitorah.org or 678595-4854 (Janice Nodvin).

Book talk. Sari Earl speaks about writing romance novels under the pen name Sari Robins at 11 a.m. at Tem-

Medical marijuana. Family physician Zachary Cohen sets the record straight for a Hadassah Greater Atlanta health professionals event at 1 p.m. at Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs. A $7 donation is requested; viviang.hadassah@gmail or www.hadassah.org/atlanta.

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.

SUNDAY, FEB. 18

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. 8, 2008 ■ The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival ranks as the secondlargest Jewish film festival after selling 15,000 tickets to the eighth annual festival Jan. 16 to 27. The addition of five days and a third location helped boost sales by 67 percent.

■ The b’nai mitzvah ceremony of Atlanta cousins Gil EplanFrankel, son of Craig Frankel and Jana Eplan, and Hannah Marcovitch, daughter of Bob Marcovitch and Elise Eplan, was held Saturday, Oct. 20, at Congregation Shearith Israel.

25 Years Ago Feb. 5, 1993 ■ The brit milah of the fourth child and first son of Atlanta Scholars Kollel Rabbi Binyomin Friedman and wife Dena

may have been the first in Atlanta to be carried live by cellphone. While more than 300 friends and family attended the blessed event for Aryeh Leib Friedman, the paternal grandfather couldn’t make the trip from Minneapolis. Joe Tate’s mobile phone carried the sounds if not the pictures.

50 Years Ago Feb. 9, 1968 ■ Dr. and Mrs. Leon Rozen, long active in Atlanta’s Jewish community, will leave Feb. 12 to take up residence in Israel.

Dr. Rozen has been part of the leadership of Hemshech, which new Chairwoman Lola Lansky says will try “to continue his work to the best of our ability.”

■ Mr. and Mrs. Sampson Garber of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Michelle Eva, on Jan. 2 and invite relatives and friends to the bat mitzvah of daughter Sharon Marie at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, at Shearith Israel Synagogue.

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The Hangar at Peachtree at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport played host Saturday, Jan. 27, to Jewish Family & Career Services’ annual fundraiser for the PAL Program, Havinagala. The event helped raise more than $54,000 for Atlanta’s only Jewish Big Brother/ Big Sister program. In 2017, the event raised $56,000.

Schuchat Leads CDC Again

Anne Schuchat has been named the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the second time in a little more than a year.

Schuchat, a career CDC official and rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service, was put in temporary charge Wednesday, Jan. 31, after CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigned in response to the news that she bought tobacco stocks and traded health care

stocks while leading the health agency.

Schuchat, who is Jewish and spoke to the AJT’s Jewish Breakfast Club last year, served as acting director last year from January to August, filling the gap between Tom Frieden, who resigned at the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, and Fitzgerald, who had been Georgia’s health commissioner.

The Washington Post reported broad support within the CDC and from the leadership of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health for Schuchat to be considered for the permanent post.

“It is an honor to provide leadership for our nation’s premier public health agency, and all of you, in this role. Please know that I take this responsibility very seriously and care tremendously about our continued excellence and strength,” Schuchat wrote in an email to CDC staffers Feb. 1.

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ISRAEL NEWS

Understanding Can Bridge U.S.-Israeli Jewish Chasm Four out of every five Jews in the world live in the United States or Israel: 6.3 million in Israel, 6.7 million in the United States.

According to Pew Research Center studies, seven in 10 American Jews feel attached or very attached to Israel. Over its 70 years, Israel has evolved into being a religion for American Jews. Israel connects Jews into a collective worldwide family.

After three years of listening to scholars and practitioners engage in the Lisa and Michael Leffell Foundation-supported seminars on “Israel’s Impact on American Jewish Identity,” I have no doubt that Israel has had a profound, positive impact on American Jewish cultural, religious, political and intellectual life.

Israel and Israeli topics provide cement for American Jewish identity.

American Jews have taken pride in Israel’s accomplishments. Most American Jewish congregations and national Jewish organizations have Israel components. They include trips and missions, support for educational and social activities in Israel, and a variety of teen and adult Israel educational content.

Expatriate Israelis are deeply involved in teaching Hebrew to our children, while other Israelis in Jewish camps and on American campuses provide exposure to Israel, its people and its problems.

And yet Israel and Israel-related topics often create disagreement within congregations and national Jewish organizations.

Sometimes, if a speaker is invited by the leadership of a national Jewish

organization, its nationwide offices or a congregation to make presentations on Israel-related topics, criticism ensues for the choice of speakers because the “wrong” views are being presented.

If a national Jewish organization

Guest Column

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takes a public position on some issue central to Israel and its leader(ship), it may be criticized for being too strident, too cautious or too silent.

Sometimes Jewish organizations work diligently to change or endorse American policies toward an issue sensitive to Israel. Whether the organization fails or succeeds, its supporters are pleased or disgruntled, as the case may be.

At all costs, congregations and organizations do not want members leaving or withdrawing their support. In August, one rabbi told me in Washington: “It is better for me not to speak about Israel at all from the pulpit. Rather than raise anyone’s ire, I don’t talk about it much. Besides, some people come to services to get away from the noise of American politics.”

Some American Jews fiercely believe that they know how Israel should behave. Some are native Israelis; others have spent extended time or have family there. Most do not vote in Israel, so they use organizational and congregational affiliations to express their views.

Others write blogs, are on Twitter or Facebook, or send endless emails.

Those commenting about Israel want its political leaders to reflect their personal positions. These perspectives stretch across the spectrum from Orthodox to agnostic and from progressive and liberal to conservative to anti-Zionist.

Do American Jews take sufficiently into account that our political and strategic environment is not the one in which Israelis live? Do American Jews know what Israelis want and need?

The two Jewish populations are different in many ways.

Jews in Israel are a majority (80 percent); in the United States, they are just 2 percent of the population.

Jews in Israel express their Jewishness by being Israeli, knowing the country, serving in the army and speaking Hebrew; American Jews, if they show their Jewishness, affiliate with organizations and congregations. Israeli Jews do not identify their Jewishness with synagogues and congregations, and there are more telling differences.

Again, according to Pew Center studies on an Israeli political spectrum, 92 percent of Israeli Jews consider themselves in the center or on the right, while 78 percent of American Jews identify with the center or the political left.

Yawning gaps exist between Israeli Jews and American Jews on what are perceived as Israel’s longterm problems: 66 percent of Israelis and only 38 percent of American Jews put security as Israel’s highest priority, while 39 percent of Israelis and only 1 percent of Americans say economic issues are most important for Israelis.

In a poll undertaken by the Israel Democracy Institute in October,

Israeli Jews revealed their personal priorities: At the top of the list, 26.5 percent noted reducing tensions in Israeli society, followed by 22.6 percent for improving the education system.

Only 11.5 percent said that signing a peace agreement with the Palestinians was a top priority.

While more than half of Israeli Jews polled the past several years would like an agreement with the Palestinians, a great majority have said it is not likely. Among Israeli Jews, 42 percent say settlements help security, while only 17 percent of American Jews believe that is the case.

Stark differences of opinion between American Jews and Israeli Jews exist about who they are and what they want and need. Expressing our opinions about Israel-related issues is highly appropriate, as it is Israelis’ right in this “family” to praise and criticize us.

Regrettably, polarization in American politics has entered Jewish communal life, along with the premise that everything is a zero-sum game.

Sometimes managing an issue is just as important as winning.

As a tiny minority in the United States, where relationships with the majority will always matter, a toxic Jewish communal life is not in our interest as American Jews and/or as Jewish Americans. Patience about and with Israel is required.

At 70, Israel is not perfect. It remains unfinished. And yet, by any measure, it is doing pretty well for itself and for us. ■ Ken Stein is the president of the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled. org).

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Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home Korea-bound. Ten athletes in four sports will seek Israel’s first Winter Olympic medal Fe. 9 to 25 in Pyeong­ chang: short-track speed skater Vladislav Bykanov, Alpine skier Itamar Biran, skeleton racer Adam (AJ) Edelman, and figure skaters Alexei Bychenko, Daniel Samohin, Evgeni Krasnopolsky, Paige Conners, Adel Tankova, Ronald Zilberberg and Aimee Buchanan.

Astronaut honored. NASA recently honored the astronauts killed 15 years ago aboard the shuttle Columbia with 6 a special musical tribute by Tal Ramon,

the son of Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut. Tal recalled how his father’s spaceflight was huge in the United States as well as Israel. Ramon and six others were killed Feb. 1, 2003, when the Columbia shattered over Texas, just minutes before a Florida landing.

Mars in the Negev. A structure simulating Mars’ environment is being built near Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev.

Six Israeli astronauts will experience Martian conditions and communicate with the Rehovot control center via the AMOS 7 satellite. The goal of the project is to put Israel at the forefront of

space exploration.

Self-driving Cadillacs.

General Motors’ development center is testing prototypes of Cadillacs with high-level autonomous driving systems on Israeli public roads. GM’s Super Cruise needs no driver intervention on highways.

Much of the system’s development is believed to be taking place in Herzliya.

High-tech warships. The Israeli navy is getting four state-of-the-art, 300-footlong, German-built Sa’ar 6 warships to defend the country’s territorial waters, an area twice as large as the state itself.

Israel’s natural gas fields and shipping lanes are inviting targets for enemies such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

Wave warnings. A radar-based tsunami warning system is being installed in three locations — Haifa, Ashdod and Hadera— to cover all of Israel’s Mediterranean coast. By placing the system on its territory, Israel joins southern European and Mediterranean countries including Lebanon and Turkey.

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

ISRAEL NEWS Knesset member Yizhar Harari developed the “Harari Resolution,” stipulating that Israel would adopt a series of Basic Laws instead of a single constitution.

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

Feb. 9, 1994: Five months after the signing of the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign an agreement in Cairo.

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

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

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

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

The document contained distinct threats to the geography of the Jewish national home.

Feb. 14, 1896: Theodor Herzl’s “Der Judenstaat” (The Jewish State), subtitled “An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question,” is first published in Vienna. Only 500 copies are originally printed and distributed.

Feb. 15, 1975: Salvator Cicurel dies.

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

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LOCAL NEWS

Vietnam War Veterans Share Their Reality

By Marcia Caller Jaffe mjaffe@atljewishtimes.com Three men who served as military officers in Vietnam marked the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive by arguing that the war was winnable, despite the contrary view of a younger veteran who served as moderator.

Temple Sinai hosted the panel discussion among Vietnam veterans Cary King, Larry Taylor and Roger Soiset with moderator Charles Lutin.

After viewing a condensed version of the Tet episode of the recent Ken Burns documentary on the war, the panel participants took command. The Vietnam veterans agreed that the documentary was inaccurate and could be harmful if used as a teaching tool.

“This Burns piece is a disappointment based on a false premise and wrong moral equivalency assigned to both sides,” Taylor said. “The war labeled as ‘unwinnable’ was indeed winnable … as we had won three times but never exploited our success.”

Soiset said CBS newsman Walter Cronkite’s declaration that America was mired in a stalemate, even though he had spent only a few days abroad, could be called fake news. In a riveting off-the-record phone call, an angry President Lyndon Johnson blasted the president of CBS for spreading slanted opinions at such an important time.

But Lutin, who did not serve in Vietnam, thought the movie “was outstanding and, more importantly, correct. Had we acted on the military professionals’ recommendations, we would still be in Vietnam 50 years later, winning the body count and no closer to concluding the war. Our military strategy was based on attrition of the enemy with massive firepower, but the enemy could and did disappear whenever it suited

them for as long as needed.”

Taylor said people can be misled by myths such as “Vietnam was reunited.”

“Vietnam was never united to begin with,” he said. “There is a wrong implication that this was a civil war. Now the North admits that they invaded the South. Even to this day, only members of the North serve in the government.”

King, an Atlanta native and Grady High grad, explained the sacrifices of those who served. “I am not a politician.

I was there as a soldier. I left an infant daughter at home and waited up to 45 days for any mail from my family.”

He said a rabbi once asked him, “What does it feel like to fight in an immoral war?” King’s retort: “How many moral wars have you fought in?”

King said he chose to wear his uniform despite taunts of “baby killer” and is proud of his service.

Soiset, who taught second- and third-generation Vietnamese-American children, emphasized the importance of speaking out now. “After so many years, vets kept their experiences to themselves. In 1993 I was ‘cracked open’ to spill out this dialogue.”

One question from the audience was an anti-war statement. King said he respected that opinion and fought for the man’s ability to express it.

“Vietnam counted and still counts by maintaining a balance of power against China’s interests,” Taylor said, “and by allowing freedom in countries like Singapore.”

Audience member Susan Feinberg said, “I was impressed with the passion expressed by the panel about their service. When I left I thought, ‘Gee, it’s a shame that my grandchildren probably don’t know anything about the Vietnam War.’ I asked my 10th-grade granddaughter and her friend in car pool, and indeed neither did know.” ■

The Panel

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• Cary King, major, U.S. Army — Now a lawyer in Atlanta and a Temple Sinai member, he served in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968, including the Tet Offensive, in command positions in infantry and artillery and was decorated multiple times.

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• Larry Taylor, major general, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve — A graduate of Georgia Tech (AEPi) and an aviator, he flew for Air America in Laos and Vietnam in 1967 and 1968, then served in various Marine command positions. In civilian life, he was a commercial airline pilot.

• Roger Soiset, first lieutenant, U.S. Army — After graduating from The Citadel in 1968, he was on active duty in the Army and served in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970, receiving multiple decorations. He has a master’s in history and was a senior lecturer at Kennesaw State.

• Charles Lutin (moderator), lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force — A practicing physician in Atlanta with a deep but layman’s interest in history, he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during his active duty from 2007 to 2011.

LOCAL NEWS

Honoring WWII’s GI Jews “There weren’t any good Nazis then, and there ain’t no good Nazis now,” World War II veteran Mort Waitzman said Sunday, Feb. 4, after a screening of the documentary “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II” at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.

Waitzman, who became an ophthalmologist and an Emory University professor after his U.S. Army service, was answering an audience question about his thoughts on contemporary politics and incidents such as the August violence in Charlottesville, Va., after he fought the Nazis and helped liberate concentration camps 70 years ago.

He and Bob Maran represented their fellow Jewish Atlanta war veterans during a discussion moderated by Eric Goldstein, the director of Emory’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, at Atlantic Station.

Both Waitzman and Maran served with the U.S. Army in Europe.

In his role as an artillery spotter, Waitzman was one of the first Americans on the beach during D-Day. He said his friend Hal Baumgarten, featured prominently in “GI Jews,” liked to tell people he was the first Jewish soldier ashore at Omaha Beach, but because Baumgarten died in December 2016, Waitzman said he felt free to

Mort Waitzman (left) and Bob Maran discuss their World War II experiences at Atlantic Station on Feb. 4.

reveal that he arrived about an hour earlier.

Maran missed D-Day but shared details about fighting in the Battle of the Bulge six months later, then marching with Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army across Europe.

He reminded the audience that the German surrender in May 1945 didn’t end the war for Jewish soldiers, half a million of whom fought with the U.S. military. Maran was sent on a threemonth voyage to the Pacific to participate in the planned invasion of Japan but instead became part of the occupation force after the atomic bombs forced Japan to surrender in August.

The final AJFF screening of “GI Jews,” which features interviews with celebrities such as Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Henry Kissinger as well as with lesser-known Jewish veterans such as Baumgarten, is at 1:25 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, at the Regal Tara Cinemas 4 on Cheshire Bridge Road. ■

Two men who served as guards at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp near what is now Gdansk, Poland, are expected to go on trial in Germany this spring, and a German lawyer is looking for co-plaintiffs to join the case.

Prosecutors will try to prove that from their position as guards, the men could see all the crimes and the deadly conditions of Stutthof and thus share the blame for the deaths, said Christoph Rueckel, who helped the successful prosecutions in 2014 and 2015 of two SS soldiers at Auschwitz, Oskar Groening and Reinhold Hanning.

The new trial of two Germans in their 90s on charges of being accessories to murder is likely to be one of the last prosecutions for crimes committed during the Holocaust, but it’s also the first time that survivors are being accepted as co-plaintiffs, Rueckel said.

In the Groening and Hanning cases, relatives of people killed at Ausch­ witz were accepted as co-plaintiffs and allowed to give testimony. But survivors without slain family members

were excluded because they weren’t victims of the crime of murder.

A German court has decided, however, that the conditions at the camps were so horrible that being sent to one represented an attempt at murder, so a survivor can provide evidence of a guard’s guilt of being an accessory to attempted murder, Rueckel said.

“Stutthof was very cruel,” he said.

“Information from witnesses is that if you were two weeks in Stutthof, you were already dead.”

An estimated 65,000 people died at Stutthof, whether gassed, shot, starved, frozen or worked to death.

Rueckel is looking for relatives of people who survived or were killed at Stutthof, as well as anyone who was imprisoned there.

Co-plaintiffs may testify at the trial. Those who can’t travel to Germany can provide depositions for admission in court. Rueckel said co-plaintiffs do not have to pay any legal fees.

He can be reached by email at christoph.rueckel@rueckelcoll.com. ■

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Poland is charging over a cliff with its law criminalizing certain statements about Polish involvement in the Holocaust; unfortunately, many Jews seem determined to jump off the ledge as well.

The Polish legislation, which President Andrzej Duda approved Tuesday, Feb. 6, after easy passage in both parliamentary chambers, would criminalize and punish by up to three years in prison the assignment of blame to Poland or Poles for the Holocaust.

This law would outlaw free speech and bury history and is worthy of the condemnation leveled against it by the Israeli government, Israeli politicians and a broad spectrum of Jewish organizations.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki denied in interviews with Israeli media Monday, Feb. 5, that the measure criminalizes truthful statements about individual complicity or silences academic research into how Polish anti-Semitism helped the Nazis carry out the Final Solution. But the threat of prosecution could be enough to halt discourse and embolden those who would deny history.

Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz and other death and slave-labor camps operated by the Germans on Polish soil, it’s more important than ever to resist soft Holocaust denial, which starts with the questioning of the scale of the slaughter and the details of the horror and often aims to normalize the Nazi killing of Jews as just another example of civilian victims of war and even to separate Hitler from the murders committed in his name.

Phrases such as “Polish death camps” often are used by those who want to celebrate Hitler and his ideology. Poles are justified in their frustration at such comments, not only because the Nazis are guilty of the Holocaust, but also because Poland and the Polish people were major victims of crimes by the Germans and the Soviets during World War II. In addition, thousands of Poles risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis, whether by smuggling food and other necessities into ghettos or sheltering Jewish children in Catholic families and orphanages.

This Polish legislation is as much an insult to those righteous gentiles as to the millions of Jews and others slaughtered by the Nazis and their collaborators in Poland and to the world’s dwindling population of Holocaust survivors, including about 250 in metro Atlanta.

To deny the complicity of any Poles and any Polish institutions is to deny the heroism of others. To soften the brutality of crimes by Germans and their fascist friends against Jews is to obscure the truth about the victimization of millions of Poles and other Eastern Europeans seen as subhuman by the Nazis.

Lambasting Poland for this odious legislation is justified but risks hardening the positions of Polish politicians, who won’t want to appear to buckle to international pressure. The venom unleashed from Israel also risks turning a potential friend into an enemy on the U.N. Security Council, where Poland is one of 15 members through the end of 2019.

We should use the Polish law as an opportunity to emphasize Holocaust education and scholarship, but let’s be careful about feeding the sense of Polish 10 victimization. ■

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The Temple’s Happy Homecoming It’s rare to find 19 pulpit rabbis sharing one Rabbi Cohn said he knew that Rabbi Sugarman used bimah on Shabbat, but to gather 19 pulpit rabbis on WWJD as guidance during his time as senior rabbi. one bimah that each of them has called his or her The Temple has had only five senior rabbis in own? That’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. its century and a half, and it’s awe-inspiring to think Actually, it’s probably a once-in-several-lifetimes that two of them, Rabbis Berg and Sugarman, and event, given that it took the celebration of The the widow of a third not only were together during Temple’s 150th anniversary to bring all those rabbis the “Temple Rabbis Return Home” weekend, but also together for Shabbat on Feb. 2 and 3. are regularly at the synagogue at the same time.

Joining current Rabbis It’s hard to grasp that Peter Berg, David Spinrad, while The Temple has had Loren Filson Lapidus, Lydia such stability in its leaderEditor’s Notebook Medwin and Alvin Sugarship, it also has produced

By Michael Jacobs man for a special Saturday so many rabbinic leaders mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com service were members of for other congregations. the congregation’s large, Rabbi Tam, who is informal rabbinic alumni retired, founded Temple group: Fred Reeves, who was at The Temple from Beth Tikvah in Roswell, near Temple Kehillat Chaim, 2005 to 2013; Donald Tam (1978-79); Harvey Winokur founded by the soon-to-retire Rabbi Winokur. Rabbi (1976-79); Devon Lerner (1979-81); Craig Marantz Beiner also didn’t go far, serving as the community (2000-02); Philip Posner (1968-71); Diana Monheit chaplain for Jewish Family & Career Services and on Gershon (2001-03); Brett Isserow (1992-2002); Debra the MACoM board.

Landsberg (1998-2002); Marty Lawson (1974-76); Ed Rabbi Bregman leads Temple Beth Tefilloh in Cohn (1974-76); Fred Davidow (1979-82); Rachael Brunswick, and Rabbi Cohn is approaching two Bregman (2010-13); and Judith Beiner (2003-08). years of emeritus status after decades on the Temple Rabbi Don Berlin (2007-08) was a late cancellation Sinai bimah in New Orleans. from the festivities.

Rabbi Isserow is wrapping up his time as the The Temple’s education director, Rabbi Steven senior rabbi at Beth El Hebrew Congregation in AlRau, was on the crowded bimah Friday night, which exandria, Va., just in time to hand the reins to Rabbi I missed. Rabbi Bill Rothschild, son of the legendary Spinrad this summer.

Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, joined the festivities with Others have made impacts in places such as his mother, the equally legendary Janice Rothschild New York, Chicago, San Diego and Toronto. It all Blumberg, but was not part of the Torah reading reiterates the national influence of The Temple. with the Temple clergy past and present Saturday.

But you had to be there during Shabbat to see The history in the Temple chapel that morning the real importance of all those rabbis. Years and was overwhelming for a visitor like me; I can only decades later, Temple members still share special imagine the thoughts of longtime members who are memories, like the time Rabbi Lawson lent a frantic living links to events such as the October 1958 bombcongregant his wife’s maternity clothes when life ing and to the inspiration embodied in four letters, and motherhood-to-be seemed overwhelming.

WWJD: “What Would Jack (Rothschild) Do?” At the end of the day, perhaps all you need to During a study session about angels led by Rabknow is that so many former Temple rabbis wanted bis Beiner and Cohn (one of five options for Torah to come home again, and The Temple’s current team learning between the Saturday service and lunch), was happy to have them. ■

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Too Many of Us Lead Lives of Marranos deception is not confined to the days of Torquemada and his torturing minions.

I recall a lovely lady who felt the need to hide her Jewish commitment and observance when dating Jewish

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men. When her suitors discovered that she observed Shabbos and kashrut, they wanted nothing to do with her.

In desperation, she professed being a vegan and was, coincidentally, busy with family matters every Friday night. She was a latter-day Marrano, hiding her authentic identity from shallow co-religionists.

Beyond the schizophrenic trickery of faith, we see the need to Marranoize in our present climate of political polarity and intolerance.

There is apprehension in expressing fidelities or opinions or praise for fear of condemnation or social Siberia.

Respectful, energetic dialogue and robust debate have been stifled as we walk among each other as Marranos, fearful of engagement. An unhealthy dread rattles dissent.

My heart breaks for those who fear coming out and proclaiming with pride whom they love and who they truly are. Instead, they cower and pretend to be what they are not.

They live in the fog, playing a role achingly uncomfortable, needing to explode. Their truth is concealed from friends and family.

On the down low, they tremble, exhausted, ripped in two with a secret they are desperate to reveal. They are Marranos, eager to shed the deception and anxious to dance in the sunlight.

I wonder if the opening letters of marriage and Marrano have an etymological link or bonded history reflecting not pure, marital bliss but caution, even in what should be the ultimate partnership.

The utterance of “I do” should catapult two souls into an unparalleled realm of veracity and intimacy, but for many the honeymoon is the start

of a wary love, a tiptoeing romance and a protective reticence. Husbands and wives become Marranos shuffling past each other in hallways, piling up anniversaries, restricting passion and sublime honesty to wishful dreams.

Purim is a charming festival of triumph. It is marked by groggers, shalach manot, wicked, wicked men, and more. But perhaps the deeper message, the Esther message that eclipses the frivolity of this day, is right before our eyes.

If life is to have serious meaning, relationships any depth and identity any liberation, we dare not wear masks and journey Marronically through our days.

We are to shed our costumes and false identities. We are to gaze, unobstructed, into the eyes of our companions, expose our true essence and celebrate our genuine spirit.

Esther taught us not only how to defy an empire, but also how to conquer self. Her gift is precious. ■ Rabbi Shalom Lewis is part of the leadership at Congregation Etz Chaim.

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As we approach Purim, which starts Feb. 28, there is a thought I’d like to offer. We know the story inside out, but let me suggest a slight spin.

Esther makes it from the Jewish hood to the Persian monarchy without revealing her religious identity. The palace intrigue proceeds, the Hamanic plot unfolds, while all along Esther’s faith is kept secret.

Only when it becomes clear that she must save her people does she confess her Jewish roots to her husband, the king. Esther’s strategic spiritual concealment, I believe, makes her the first Marrano — the first Jew who lives publicly as a gentile and privately as a loyal member of the tribe.

Of course, we are formally introduced to this concept of crypto-Jew during the Spanish Inquisition, when thousands of our mishpacha wore the cross by day and davened Ma’ariv behind curtains at night. It was a strategy of survival that for a time enabled Jews to have their kugel and eat it too.

But this scheme of religious

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What the Atlanta Mission Meant to Me Atlanta, Atlanta, your future we foretell.

We were raised on Coca-Cola, so no wonder we raise hell.

Those words rang in my ears as I joined the Atlanta mission to Israel for Shabbat dinner Friday night, Feb. 2.

The mission members had davened at the Kotel, which was so packed you could not even move. I davened in the Aish HaTorah yeshiva because it was just a little too hard for me to walk from the Kotel to the yeshiva. When everyone was ready, we shared the Kiddush together, and after the Motzi, the meal began.

I was sitting between Rabbi Binyomin Friedman and Rabbi Yossi New, so you could imagine that they filled my ears with Atlanta Torah. Both have been in Atlanta for over 30 years and have made quite an impact on the Jewish community.

They have seen Atlanta Jewry grow from 30,000 to over 130,000. In that time, new synagogue after new synagogue has been founded, and many have constructed their own buildings. Spiritually, these two rabbis have added much to the atmosphere HaYehudi in the Gate City of the South.

My enjoyable experience, and I mean that truly, is that no one, other than Rabbi Ilan Feldman, had ever met me.

They had met my parents, Anna

and Louis Geffen of blessed memory.

As little children they had wished Rabbi Tobias (Tuvia) Geffen a good Shabbos and a good yom tov. They had seen him carefully place his tallit over

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cluding the survivors’ family members.

Because most of the survivors had no idea where the remains of their loved ones were, this memorial also would provide a place to say Kaddish (prayer for the dead) for their loved ones who were among the 6 million victims.

The survivors contributed the money for the construction; they bought the land from Greenwood Cemetery. They wanted the memorial to be publicly accessible and knew the cemetery would remain through the years.

An inscription on the front in Hebrew, English and Yiddish is from Genesis: “The voice of the blood of thy brother crieth out to me from the ground.” Placed inside the monument, where six 19-foot torches soar, are human ashes from the German concentration camp Dachau. More than 100 memorial plaques list the names of the family members who perished.

The members of Hemshech dedicated the Memorial to the Six Million

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The following is a copy of a letter sent to Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.

I just read your Feb. 2 article in the AJT (“Georgia Must Memorialize Holocaust Victims”). Thank you for stating your opinion so positively and with such support of the Jewish community.

You may not be aware that Atlanta has a Holocaust memorial. As the child of two Holocaust survivors, I offer you the following information.

On Sept. 3, 1964, approximately 150 Holocaust survivors living in Atlanta founded Eternal Life-Hemshech/ Organization of Survivors of Nazism.

Hemshech means “continuation.”

The primary goal of Eternal LifeHemshech was to erect a monument in 12 memory of the 6 million murdered, in-

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his head for Shemona Esreah, the silent devotion. I think it was wonderful that, except for the rabbi mentioned, I was just a name.

Let me explain.

All of you who were on the mission and all of your friends who are active in the Jewish community have become the leaders taking over from your parents, grandparents and in some cases great-grandparents.

That is why I felt so good that none of you had ever met me. I knew your parents and grandparents, certainly not all, but I learned from them the lessons of life. I had my own Hebraic-Jewish “professor,” my grandfather Rabbi Geffen, but I can recall what people said to me, how they treated me, and they were not my family.

My father’s seven siblings had moved out of Atlanta, so I was drawn to your parents and grandparents. I learned and enjoyed.

A few things that happened to me in Atlanta when I was young will explain what I was fortunate to experience.

I was at Shearith Israel on Shabbat when Mr. Eizenstat, patriarch of the Eizenstat-Minsk family, recited the haftorah and a few days later made aliyah.

I was a baseball fan, and the Atlanta Crackers were my favorites.

My parents let me go to baseball games at Ponce de Leon Park whenever I could on the weekends and sometimes during the week, attending over 100 games at 50 cents a ticket. As I have written before, I did see Jackie Robinson play — the Dodgers against the Crackers. I was fortunate to shake his hand.

One of the great baseball players Atlanta fostered was Eddie Mathews.

On balls directly hit at him at third base, he blocked them with his chest because he was still learning to field.

Ponce de Leon Park had the deepest center field in minor-league baseball, maybe in all baseball. One Sunday afternoon I saw Mathews hit a baseball so hard on a fly to center field that, even though it could not leave the park, he had crossed home by the time the center-fielder reached the ball.

At the Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem, I was talking with some Shearith Israel stalwarts about Leon Tuck.

Leon and his brother Bobby, of blessed memory, were great basketball stars at Hoke Smith High. Their younger

brother, Albert, was also a star, and he was my best friend.

Their father, Joe Tuck, knew sports as if he had studied all aspects of it for years. My favorite story that I heard from him as we sat on his porch on Washington Street was about the shortest baseball game ever played.

He may have been at the game.

Even if he wasn’t, he knew every detail.

In 1919 a professional nine-inning game between Asheville and WinstonSalem lasted only 31 minutes. Mr. Tuck knew all the players’ names and what happened each inning.

Today, with games as slow as they are, the baseball experts should focus on that game.

Do these events tell the story of Atlanta Jewry? No. But they do help to relate my Atlanta story.

I appreciate that Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta CEO Eric Robbins invited me to attend the dinner.

I was even happier to see that the mantle of leadership has been passed on.

As you know from what I write, the Geffens were fortunate that Rabbi Tobias and Sara Hene, my grandparents, came to Atlanta for 60 years.

Only my parents of the eight children in the family returned to Atlanta after World War II. Born before the war in 1938, I entered life in Piedmont Hospital on Crumley Street, where three decades later the Atlanta Braves began play at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. ■

on April 25, 1965. On April 21, 2008, the memorial was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

For 53 years, the community observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) has been held at the memorial. This year our service will be at 11 a.m. April 15. I invite you to join the Atlanta community at this event.

Sadly, we continue to witness genocides and other atrocities around the globe. Hemshech supports education to teach the lessons of the Holocaust to our youth so that someday “never again” can truly be realized.

— Karen Lansky Edlin, Atlanta, president, Eternal Life-Hemshech

Jan. 26). However, I would like to think that, as a man of great erudition and compassion, he might have wondered why descendants of Arabs who fled Arab-initiated wars against Israel are still living on emergency assistance from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.

Dr. King empathized with workers who were striking for higher wages and better working conditions. I would like to think that he would have praised Jewish businesses that provide much needed employment for Palestinians, at the same levels of pay and benefits earned by Jewish employees, even if those businesses were on land that Israel liberated from illegal Jordanian occupation in the Six-Day War. Dr. King preached nonviolence. I would like to think that he would have advised Mahmoud Abbas to engage in negotiations with Israel rather than incite his people to violence and pay stipends to murderers and their families.

— Toby F. Block, Atlanta

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was tragically cut short by an assassin’s bullet. No one can know with certainty where he would have stood on the issues confronting us today (“Martin Luther King’s Uncertain Jewish Legacy,”

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Find Your Focus Free From Distractions servitude, Moses said, “Remember this very day on which you will go free from Egypt.”

The words “this very day” could easily be applied to the day on which Moses was speaking. But the 11th

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century commentator known as Rashi teaches, “This means remember going out of Egypt each day.”

“Going out of Egypt” is a pretty important moment in the story of the Jewish people and by extension a major theme for many faiths and movements. The holiday of Passover is built around the retelling of this moment as if it were freshly experienced every year; however, the key concept that Rashi points us to is not the timeto-time reliving of this peak moment, but specifically coming back to this moment each day.

Each day is “this very day.” And the Jewish traditions respond to this core idea by including the mention of going out of Egypt twice a day.

No, we do not have a Passover seder twice a day. But embedded in the third paragraph of the Shema, recited both morning and night each day, is the phrase “that you see the fringes and remember … I am G-d who took you out of the land of Egypt.”

As a phrase goes, it is both overwhelming and mundane.

Overwhelming because to plumb the depths of what it would mean to take this idea seriously is a big deal.

That’s what a Passover seder can be for. Even a quick run through the haggadah, let alone a deeper dive, is a once-a-year, twice-a-year-tops kind of endeavor.

But it’s also mundane because just mentioning something from the Bible, let alone at the end of the three-paragraph version of the Shema, doesn’t really make a dent in the day.

And yet the idea of coming back to the same words at least once a day points toward finding a focus that at least for a moment removes the pull of what distracts us.

At Gesher L’ Torah, on Shabbat we do something similar in the prayer before the morning Shema. The blessing recited asks G-d to bring us together from the four corners of the world to one place.

This is ritually symbolized by holding together the fringes of the tallit before our eyes. In our service we add the desire to feel pulled in from all the directions from which we are distracted toward what we know to be important in ourselves.

We bring the fringes together, looking for a focal point, an opening that can be as small as a pinhole, to let the light of G-d’s oneness, the meaning of the Shema, be noticed. In fact, this concept of faith is just as vast and easy to dismiss as the idea of going out of Egypt. The point, however, is the focus itself.

That focus of attention can be as simple as our own heartbeat, our own breath. The drawing in and out of life itself that happens automatically, whether we think of it or not.

Taking a moment, just a moment, to find that focus will not blow away all the distractions, technology-related or otherwise, just as mentioning the

phrase “out of Egypt” won’t grant us deep understanding of the Exodus. But this teaching, deep within the Jewish tradition, is a profound reminder to find a focus each day.

My suggestion is to try this even without the fringes of a tallit and without saying all the words of the longer version of the Shema. Think about drawing away from all the directions that distract you, hold your hand over your eyes, perhaps in the double-u shape of the Hebrew letter shin, and … listen. Shema. ■ Rabbi Michael Bernstein is the spiritual leader of Congregation Gesher L’Torah.

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I was away for a week without devices. Coming back online, I had a strange sensation.

Nothing had changed, and yet I had to catch up on exactly what it was that hadn’t changed. Right?

New headlines every day.

Specific details that are not insignificant because each one points to decisions intended to change particular lives and livelihoods.

But still a feeling of stasis, of nothing changing.

How can we be stuck when the very way of the world is change?

When each moment is, by definition, something different from the last.

When we always have to deal with new eventualities in our own lives, in the lives of our loved ones, in the backdrop we live against, in a place we see on a screen, nearby or far away.

How can things feel stuck when they move so fast that we can’t find the right place to focus?

That may be why. Many of us have it backward. Instead of finding a point of focus that allows us to appreciate change, to understand its possibilities for renewal and engagement, we are bombarded by so much diversion, so much expectation on our time, that what is different in each moment has no significance. We are left with the illusion of being the same.

So what to do? The most obvious answer may seem to be to chuck the devices, to disconnect from the distractions. For some, this could be a fruitful direction.

Personally, though, I believe that the devices, the screens and the oftensterile places they connect to are the symptom, not the cause. Even in their absence, most human beings will be pulled in every direction, partly by the unplanned and random eventualities, but also by the regular, everyday stuff we know is coming.

The deeper question for me is not what takes away my focus, but what might provide a focus in the first place.

And while I was on the airplane back from my conference, I found a source on my own device that, despite being written centuries before the printing press, let alone the Internet, went to the heart of this question.

Truth be told, the line was a commentary on the more ancient words of the Book of Exodus, words to which one of the teachers at my conference had reintroduced me.

In addressing the people Israel on the eve of their release from Egyptian

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Three art studios are available for campers interested in the visual arts.

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The Union for Reform Judaism has unveiled its newest specialty camp and is accepting applications for the summer.

The 18th camp within the URJ umbrella is the 6 Points Creative Arts Academy, which will serve campers from Atlanta and the rest of the country in West Chester, Pa. Like other specialty camps, the Creative Arts Academy will offer campers a range of creative options.

Culinary arts, dance, theater, vocal music, instrumental music and visual arts are majors campers can choose to concentrate on during the summer.

Campers will select one or two of the majors, depending on their age, then spend the rest of the day taking electives and participating in more traditional camp activities, including team and individual sports.

Campers also can participate in farming because the academy has an organic farm on site. The farm will produce about 70 percent of the camp’s produce.

Current third- to 10th-graders are eligible to attend the Creative Arts Academy, which offers three sessions, each just under two weeks long: • June 26 to July 8.

• July 10 to July 22.

• July 24 to Aug. 5.

The Creative Arts Academy commissioned a boarding school, the West-

town School, for the summer, so all rooms are dorm-style.

Campers will have access to the Westtown theater, three art studios, a kitchen for culinary arts, two music rooms for vocal and instrumental instruction, and several individual practice rooms.

Kara Hoffman, the assistant director of the Creative Arts Academy, emphasized campers’ desire to grow in their chosen creative areas.

“At 6 Points Creative Arts Academy, everyone works together to create a living laboratory for learning, performing and growing, informed and inspired by Jewish values and tradition,” she said. “Mentored by the best in their field, young artists are drawn together in a dynamic community to experience camp, explore their passions, and improve their skills in culinary arts, dance, instrumental or vocal music, theater, and visual arts.”

More than 100 campers have registered for the camp’s first year. Many are coming from other URJ specialty camps.

“We’re looking forward to building an identity within Judaism and building a connection to Israel,” Hoffman said. “These short sessions have helped because kids are busy, and to only commit to a two- or four-week session allows children to do multiple things during the summer.

“We’re excited for these campers.

It’s going to be a great summer.” ■

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Upper-level tennis players at one of the two 6 Points Sports Academies get together before warming up for an event under the lights.

Campers celebrate a big color war win by posing for a team picture on the field.

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The Union for Reform Judaism summer camps are among the most popular option for Jewish camping in America, and they’re only expanding.

The URJ is an umbrella organization that supports almost 900 congregations in North America, but its involvement with youth programs is gaining attention.

With its latest, 18th camp, the 6 Points Creative Arts Academy, the URJ is expanding its newer, specialty camping model. Supplementing a lineup of traditional regional overnight camps, the specialty camps are geared toward fostering specific skills and interests while maintaining the spirit of the Jewish sleepaway camp experience.

In a program launched through a grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation through the Foundation for Jewish Camp, the URJ specialty camps receive startup funding for a few years while they find their footing.

Buoyed by the success of the first effort, 2014’s 6 Points Sports Academy in Greensboro, N.C., the URJ added the 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy about an hour north of Boston, a second Sports Academy in Los Angeles, and now the Creative Arts Academy just outside Philadelphia.

A second Sci-Tech Academy is set to open in the Los Angeles area this summer.

“It’s a great way for us as educators to meet kids where they are,” 6 Points Sports Academy Director Danny Herz said. “It’s a wonderful thing to offer a kid their passion within an immersive Jewish environment.”

Although they cater to campers’ specific interests, the specialty camps also maintain many of the traditional camping tenets across three, two-week sessions.

Campers can participate in sports, color wars, Shabbat services, various electives and team-building activities.

Depending on which specialty model campers select, they will participate in more intensive development of skills in certain areas.

As the specialty model becomes more popular with Jewish campers and their parents, more URJ camps are likely to emerge.

“Our camp has grown because the kids who come have so much fun, learn so much about their sport, and grow as people, Jews, and athletes,” Herz said.

“They come back each year because they met their best friends at camp.” ■

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Morah Carol’s Place SUMMER CAMP Week 1 (June 11-15): Animal Adventures: Safari/Jungle Week Week 2 (June 18-22): Classic Children’s Stories: Literary Genuis Week Week 3 (June 25-29): Sports & Dance: Fun & Fitness Week Week 4 (July 2-6*): Rocking in the USA: Music Week Week 5 (July 9-13): Construction & Building: Junior Engineers Weeks Week 6 (July 16-20): Ocean Exploration: Under the Sea Week Week 7 (July 23-27): Science & Nature: Discovery Week Week 8 (July 30-August 3): Under the Big Top: Circus Week

Available Hours:

Monday-Thursday 7:30 am-6:00 pm Friday 7:30 am-4:00 pm *NO CAMP ON JULY 4TH

For more details and to register, contact Morah Carol at 617-275-3021 morahcarolsplace.com

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Ramah Scholarship Honors Crash Victims Camp Ramah Darom has created a scholarship fund in memory of a camp family killed in a plane crash in Costa Rica in late December.

The Weiss Family Scholarship Fund honors the memory of Leslie, 50, and Mitchell Weiss, 52, and their children, Hannah, 19, and Ari, 16, from Belleair, Fla. It was established to help campers “experience the magic of Ramah,” just as Hannah and Ari did, the Ramah website says.

The Weiss children spent 10 summers at the Conservative movement’s overnight camp in Clayton.

Leslie Weiss was a neonatal pediatrician, and her husband was the head of interventional radiology, both at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater.

Hannah was a sophomore at List College of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Ari, a high school student, was a standout musician at Ramah and regularly played guitar, bass and piano at camp concerts.

The family died when the singleengine turboprop in which they were

Photo courtesy of Ramah Darom

Hannah and Ari Weiss

passengers crashed just after takeoff.

Also killed were the Steinbergs, a family of five from Scarsdale, N.Y., as well as an American tour guide and two crew members. It was the deadliest plane crash in Costa Rica since 1990.

“Some members of the Weiss family had asked to create this camp scholarship,” said Ramah Darom’s director of development, Sharon Rosenfeld. “I spoke with the family about setting up the fund, and we are honored to do so.”

Leslie Weiss and her sisters attended Ramah camps growing up.

Donations to the scholarship fund can be made at ramahdarom.org/ weiss-family-scholarship-fund. ■

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In the City Camp Wins $20,000 Covenant Grant

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In the City Camp has been awarded a one-year, $20,000 Ignition Grant from the New York-based Covenant Foundation to support the Atlanta day camp’s efforts to work with preschool camps held by synagogues in the metro area.

The idea is to bring In the City Camp’s curriculum, experiential teaching techniques and marketing knowledge to synagogues to strengthen their early childhood summer programs and to increase collaboration among Jewish education providers.

The project director for the grant is In the City Camp CEO Eileen Snow Price, who founded the organization in 2012. Price was named one of the AJT’s 40 Under 40 in 2014, an AJT nonprofit innovator in 2015 and the winner of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Mary and Max London People Power Award in 2017.

The Covenant Foundation’s Ignition Grants support untested educational approaches. The foundation announced five of the one-year grants Jan. 4, each for the maximum of $20,000.

The other four recipients are in New

York or Boston.

The education-focused Covenant Foundation, whose board is chaired by Atlantan Cheryl Finkel, former head of the Epstein School, also awarded 17 Signature Grants, which are worth up to $150,000 over three years to help proven, innovative programs grow. None of them is in Georgia.

“We continue to be surprised and delighted by the creativity and diversity of ideas that arrive over the transom during our grant application process,” Finkel said in the award announcement. “This year’s grantee cohort brings a fresh batch of exciting initiatives to the Jewish community, and with those initiatives comes the promise to engage, excite and inspire Jewish learners of all ages.”

Foundation Executive Director Harlene Appelman said: “It is our most genuine hope that the dreams represented by these new grantees will inspire educators across the country to keep bringing us their biggest and best ideas. Together, we will continue to grow the rich and varied landscape of Jewish education in North America.” ■

this way to independence At Jewish overnight camp, kids discover who they are—and who they want to become—while having the time of their lives.

They race across ziplines, climb up mountains and sail across lakes.

They make their own adventures, every day. Plus, you might be eligible for up to $1000 off your camper’s first summer.

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There’s a perfect camp for every Jewish camper.

Find yours today at OneHappyCamper.org.

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CAMP GUIDE per session varies from $1,350 to $8,000.

Cook up some fun at Young Chefs Academy!

Join us for spring and summer camps.

Completely hands on, super delicious and most of all lots of fun!

Locations: YOUNG CHEFS ACADEMY ATLANTA MIDTOWN Spring Break Camp April 2- 6 • 9 am - 12 pm (no afternoon camp) Summer Camp weekly registration starting Tuesday May 29th ending August 9th Spring Break Camp $250 full week Summer Camp $250 per week or $75 daily

857 Collier Rd NW #18, Atlanta • (404) 633-2633 atlantamidtownga@youngchefsacademy.com register online: www.youngchefsacademy.com/atlantamidtownga YOUNG CHEFS ACADEMY OF SANDY SPRINGS Spring Break Camp April 2- 6 9 am - 12 pm ~ 12:15 pm- 3:15 pm Summer Camp weekly registration starting Tuesday May 29th ending August 9th Spring Break Camp $225 full week Summer Camp $200 ~4 day camp week

230 Hammond Dr NW Ste. 368, Sandy Springs • (404)255-9263 sandyspringsga@youngchefsacademy.com register online: www.youngchefsacademy.com/sandysprings

Spruill Arts Summer Camps May 30 - August 4 Visual & Drama Camps, Ages 5-10

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Specialty Art Camps, Ages 11-14

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9:30am-3pm Before & After Care Register at spruillarts.org

Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education Virginia-Highland Centre 504 Amsterdam Ave., Atlanta 30306 404-883-2178 Buckhead Centre 4279 Roswell Road, Suite 703, Atlanta 30342 404-303-1501 centre.atlantaballet.com/summer-programs Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education offers summer programs for ages 2 and up from June 4 to Aug. 4. Programs include Creative Movement (ages 2 to 6), Young Dancers Summer Experience (ages 5 to 7), Teen Ballet (ages 12 and up), and day programs for ages 8 and up.

Atlanta Dance and Music Academy 524 Plaster Ave., Atlanta 30324 404-877-0005, atlantadanceandmusic.com Summer camps from June 11 to July 13 Atlanta Hawks Basketball Academy Multiple locations www.basketballacademy.hawks.com/ pages/­summercamps Boys and girls, ages 8 to 16, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Camp includes a jersey, shorts, socks and a drawstring bag; appearances by Atlanta Hawks players, coaches, alumni or the mascot; skill development training, skill competitions and full-court games under top coaches; and a ticket to a Hawks game.

Atlanta International School Language Camp 2890 N. Fulton Drive, Atlanta 30350 404-841-3880, www.aischool.org Sessions are available from June 11 to July 27, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with free drop-off as early as 8 a.m.

Atlanta Workshop Players Acting Studio 8560 Holcomb Bridge Road, Suite 111 Alpharetta 30022 770-998-8111 w w w. a t l a n t a wo r kshopplayers.com For ages 10 to 18, the camp offers residential and day options for the VIP Movie Camp from July 12 to 22, residential and day options for the Performing Arts Intensive from July 16 to 21, and a nonresidential Advanced Musical Theatre from July 23 to 27. Full-day (ages 7 to 16) and half-day (6 to 13) performing arts camps are available July 23 to 27.

June 1 is the deadline for early-bird prices.

Atlanta’s Rock N Blues Camp 1911 Cliff Valley Way, Atlanta 30329 404-202-6044 www.RockNBluesCamp.com The fee is $485 per session or $885 for two.

Camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 9:30 to 2:30 on Friday.

Blue Star Camps 179 Blue Star Way, Hendersonville, NC 28739 828-692-3591, www.bluestarcamps.com First to 11th grades, with one- and two-week sessions between June 3 and July 29. The cost

Break Into Business Camp Alpharetta, Atlanta, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Midtown 404-997-2557, www.breakintobusiness.com The Bush Centre for Ballet 6215 Blackwater Trail, Sandy Springs 30328 404-256-5542, www.bushballetcentre.com Camp Alefbet Preschool at Congregation Beth Shalom 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody 30360 770-399-7622, www.alefbetpreschool.com Nine weeks of summer fun from June 4 to Aug. 3, with a registration fee of $75. Each week, your 1- to 4-year-old will explore our themes in a hands-on, sensory, creative way.

Campers will enjoy water play, art, sports, music and movement, Shabbat celebrations, and more with an experienced, warm, educated staff. Flexible hours, days and weeks.

Camp Barney Medintz 4165 Highway 129 North, Cleveland 30528

706-865-2715 Winter address: 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody 30338 678-812-3844, www.campbarney.org Four-week programs June 3 to 28 and July 1 to 26 for campers completing second to 10th grades. Two-week programs June 3 to 14 and June 17 to 28 for campers completing second to sixth grades, July 1 to 12 and July 15 to 26 for campers completing second to fourth grades. Camp Barney Medintz is the residential summer camp of the Marcus JCC in the Blue Ridge Mountains on 540 acres surrounding two private lakes. Since 1963, Camp Barney has offered the most meaningful and fun Jewish overnight camp experience. Campers enjoy activities they know and love and discover new adventures.

Guided by experienced and certified staffers and guest artists in residence, campers spend their days with friends feeling accomplished and exploring new passions.

Camp Bee Jay Beth Jacob Preschool 1855 LaVista Road, Atlanta 30329 678-244-6659, www.bethjacobatlanta.org/ preschool June 11 to Aug. 2, participate in one week or all eight. Full day is 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m.; half-day is 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Camp Bee Jay provides a fun, safe place for infants through rising kindergartners where creative, out-of-the-box activities are the norm.

Our theme for this summer is “A Summer of World Exploration.” Each week we will delve into our world and all that is in it, including water fun, gardening, weather, animals, science and recycling. Each week features a special dress-up day to coincide with the theme, a festive party and the popular Shabbat party.

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CAMP GUIDE Camp Broadway Mainstage 660 Peachtree St., Atlanta 30308 404-881-2087, www.foxtheatre.org This musical theater camp for ages 10 to 17 runs from June 4 to 8 at the Rialto Center for the Arts. Tuition is $595.

Camp Chatuga 291 Camp Chatuga Road Mountain Rest, SC 29664 864-638-3728, www.campchatuga.com Overnight camp for boys and girls ages 6 to 16. One-week sessions are $895 (June 17 to 23, June 24 to 30, July 1 to 7, July 8 to 14, July 15 to 21, July 22 to 28). Two-week sessions are $1,795 (June 17 to 30, July 1 to 14, July 15 to 28).

A three-week session is $2,850 (July 1 to 21).

A four-week session is $3,750 (July 1 to 28). A $425 mini-camp is July 29 to Aug. 1.

Camp Chaya Mushka 5065 High Point Road, Atlanta 30342 404-843-9582, www.chayamushka.org/2018summer-camp Four one-week sessions: June 4 to 8, June 11 to 15, June 18 to 22, and July 30 to Aug. 3. Tuition is $240 per week.

URJ Camp Coleman 201 Camp Coleman Drive, Cleveland 30528 770-671-8971, campcoleman.org Multiple sessions from June 10 to Aug. 2 URJ Camp Coleman allows children to live a wholly Jewish life while at camp. Campers can experience Jewish culture and tradition in a safe, challenging and fun environment.

In a natural setting, campers can explore their Judaism. Coleman provides a creative setting for Jewish living and learning through camp programming. Campers and staff can develop lifelong friendships.

Camp Gan Israel of Atlanta Chabad Israeli Center 4276 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road Atlanta 30341 404-252-9508, www.ganisraelatl.com June 25 to July 27 Camp Gan Israel combines Jewish values, giving back and a tremendous amount of fun. We have partnered with other chari-

is back for our 11th year in Atlanta

July 16-20, 2018

two weeks are $1,850.

Camp H20 Georgia Aquarium 225 Baker St., Atlanta 30313 404-581-4000, www.georgiaaquarium.org/ experience/learn/camp-h2o Pre-K through eighth grade, June 5 to July 24 Camp H2O is a wonderful opportunity for kids to grow their imagination while exploring the world’s most magical aquarium.

No other day camp is filled with as much amazement and fun. Camp experiences are tailored for each age group and include intimate animal encounters, adventures, behind-the-scenes tours and opportunities to meet aquarium experts.

Camp Kingfisher Chattahoochee Nature Center 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell 30075 770-992-2055, www. chattnaturecenter. org/camp-kingfisher For 4-year-olds to rising fourth-graders, with one- and twoweek options May 29 to Aug. 3. Camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free extended care from 8 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6:15 p.m. Camp Kingfisher is the perfect place for campers to connect with nature, build lasting friendships and have all the fun experiences of a traditional camp. Our well-trained counselors and specialists lead hikes, animal encounters, science exploration activities, canoeing, swimming, arts and crafts, and more. We squish through and explore 127 acres of ponds, trails, meadows and river boardwalk at the Chattahoochee Nature Center.

Camp Invention 3701 Highland Park St. NW North Canton, OH 44720 800-968-4332, www.campinvention.org Camp Izzy Gan Chabad of North Fulton 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta 30022 770-410-9000, www.cginf.com June 25 to July 27, $200 per week Camp Jam 6375 Spalding Drive, Norcross 30092 770-874-4653, www.campjam.com/atlantamusic-camp

Camp Kehillah and Preschool 1145 Green St., Roswell 30075 770-641-8630, www.kehillatchaim.org

Camp Living Wonders 5425 Powers Ferry Road, Atlanta 30327 404-482-2676, www.camplivingwonders.org Session 1 Nitzutzot for campers ages 7 to 10, June 27 to July 10. Tuition is $2,499; scholarships are available.

Camp Twin Lakes 1100 Spring St., Suite 260, Atlanta 30309 404-231-9887, www.camptwinlakes.org Options for campers with serious illnesses, disabilities and other life challenges and for adult campers.

Camp Walkabout 171 Baylor School Road, Chattanooga 37405 423-757-2515, www.baylorschool.org/ summer/­overnight-camps/camp-walkabout Discoverers, ages 8 to 11 (rising third- to sixth-graders). Adventurers, ages 12 to 13 (rising seventh- to eighth-graders). Expeditioners, ages 14 to 16 (rising ninth- to 11thgraders). Register before March 1 for a $50 early-bird discount.

Center for Puppetry Arts 1404 Spring St., Atlanta 30309 404-873-3089, www.puppet.org Chastain Horse Park 4371 Powers Ferry Road, Atlanta 30327 404-252-4244, www.chastainhorsepark.org Chastain Horse Park’s Pony Pals Camp is geared to ages 4 to 8 and offers hands-on activities from horse bathing to bareback riding in a fun-filled atmosphere with team play in which kids develop confidence, leadership and friendships. The well-ventilated covered ring protects riders from the sun.

The new “party barn” is ideal for arts, crafts, lunch, breaks and fun. With over 30 school

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Camp Judaea 48 Camp Judaea Lane Hendersonville, NC 28792 828-685-8841 Winter address: 1440 Spring St., Atlanta 30309 404-634-7883, www.campjudaea.org First session, June 11 to July 5 Second session, July 9 to Aug. 2 Camp Juliette Low 321 Camp Juliette Low Road, Cloudland, GA 30731 770-428-1062, www.CJL.org Girls ages 7 to 17 One- and two-week sessions, June 3 to July 28, on Lookout Mountain. One week is $940;

• Boys and Girls 10-18 will have an opportunity to learn from the Pros • Meet Sports Celebrities • Make Sports Anchor Tapes • Make Play-By-Play Tapes of the Super Bowl & NBA Finals • Make Reporting Tapes from a Pro Stadium • Participate in Sports Talk Radio and Pardon The Interruption (PTI) shows and much more

Day/Overnight options available.

For more info: 800.319.0884 or www.playbyplaycamps.com

facebook.com/sportsbroadcastingcamps and youtube.com/sportsbroadcastcamp

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table organizations to bring children a unique summer experience. With dedicated counselors, exciting trips and activities, and daily swimming, we are preparing to give your children an amazing summer.

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CAMP GUIDE Continued from page 19 horses and ponies, we can accommodate all ages, abilities and personalities, up to 12 campers per session. Having no more than six riders at once ensures safety and proper instruction by our well-trained staff.

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Circus Camp Decatur at the Friends School, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Dunwoody/Sandy Springs at the Davis Academy, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Sandy Springs at the Epstein School, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

404-370-0001, www.circuscamp.org Computer Camp Oglethorpe University 4484 Peachtree Road, Brookhaven 30319 203-710-5771, www.nccamp.com One- and two-week sessions in July with residential and day programs.

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Deer Run Overnight Camps 3845 Perkins Road Thompson’s Station, TN 37179 615-823-8857, www.deerrun.camp One-week camps for those who have completed Grades 6 to 12; two-week camps for ages 12 to 15.

Dunwoody Nature Center 5343 Roberts Drive, Dunwoody 30338 770-394-3322, dunwoodynature.org/ activities/­camps/summer-camp Half-day camp for ages 3 and 4, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Full-day camp for rising kindergartners to fifth-graders, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Camps at Island Ford, ages 9 to 12, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Emory All Sports Academy 26 Eagle Row, Atlanta 30322 404-727-7270, totalsportsacademy.com Five sessions: June 4 to 8; June 11 to 15; June 18 to 22; June 25 to 29; and Aug. 6 to 10. Fullday camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Halfday camp runs from 9 a.m. to noon.

SPECIAL SERVICES, INC. A comprehensive therapy service for children from toddler through teen.

Emory Total Tennis/Bryant Camps Emory University Woodruff PE Center 26 Eagle Row, Atlanta 30322 404-727-6389, clubs.bluesombrero.com Session 1 starts May 29. Session 2 starts June 4. Session 3 starts June 11.

Mention this ad for a $20 discount on Initial screening/ EVALUATION “Offering Sensory handwriting —WIN® Write Incredibly Now® Program and Sensory Social Skills — POP® Personal Options and Preferences ® — with pediatric yoga , music therapy, art and OT all at PACE Academy.

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To register call Beth Singleton AT PACE ACADEMY TO REGISTER OR GO TO THEIR WEBSITE

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www.paceacademy.org • 404-240-7412

For more information: www.childrens-services.com or call 770-394-9791

Susan N. Schriber Orloff , OTR/L, FAOTA

Occupational Therapist, Registered and Licensed CEO/Executive Director

info@childrens-services.com

Individual therapy provided throughout the summer on a 1-1 basis.

Epstein Summer Camp 335 Colewood Way, Sandy Springs 30328 404-250-5606, www.epsteinatlanta.org/ page/our-community/esa-summer-camp Four one-week sessions: June 4 to 8; June 11 to 15; June 18 to 22; and June 25 to 29.

Etgar 36 P.O. Box 2212, Decatur 30031 404-456-6605, www.etgar.org Etgar 36 is June 24 to July 31; $7,850. Etgar 36 West is June 24 to July 15; $5,850.

The Galloway School 215 West Wieuca Road, Atlanta 30342 404-252-8389, ext. 140 www.gallowayschool.org Day camps run May 29 to Aug. 10. Registration is open and ongoing.

Judaic Mosaic 122 N. Avondale Road, Suite 255 Avondale Estates 30002 404-585-8705, www.judaicmosaic.org Songwriting and recording camp, June 4 to 15; $199 per week before March 30, then $350.

JumpSpark Powered by Atlanta Jewish Teen Initiative Music, March 11 to 15; Farm-to-Table, March 12 to 16; Documentary Film, April 2 to 5; eSports­, April 2 to 5; Social Justice, April 2 to 5; Theater Bootcamp, April 2 to 5. info@atlantajewishteens.org 770-648-2918, www.JumpSparkATL.org Registration is $199 (no deadline).

JumpSpark provides Jewish ninth- to 12thgraders with interest-based programming and social opportunities during school breaks using innovative resources in the Atlanta community and beyond. We meet Jewish teens where they are and find ways to turn their passions into realities, connect them with networks surrounding their interests, and offer experiential learning and social opportunities, all in conjunction with furthering Jewish wisdom and culture.

Marist School Summer Camps 3790 Ashford-Dunwoody Road Brookhaven 30319 770-457-7201, www.marist.com/page/ school-life/summer-camps Marist School offers a variety of camps for children ages 5 to 17.

Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University KSU Center 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw 30144 470-578-2083, historymuseum.kennesaw.edu A free summer workshop on World War II and the Holocaust is June 3 to 6. Registration is due by May 18.

Once Upon a Ballet/ Musical Theater Center Dunwoody, Brookhaven and Kennesaw 404-964-0529, www.onceuponaballetatl. com, www.musicaltheatercenteratl.com Ballet, tap, acting, musical theater and performing camps are offered from May 29 to Aug. 3. Costs vary depending on the length of the camp, with no registration fees.

Pace Academy Camp 966 W. Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta 30326 404-262-1345, www.paceacademy.org/ programs/­summer-programs Summer options include Pace Camp, extended day camps, academic camps, athletic camps, art camps, specialty camps and driver’s education.

Ramah Darom 70 Darom Lane, Clayton 30525 Winter address: 6400 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 215 Atlanta 30339 404-531-0801, www.ramahdarom.org Four- and eight-week sessions from June 12

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Robotic Explorers 715 Hembree Place, Suite A, Roswell 30076 770-772-6622, www.RoboticExplorers.com Ages 6 to 13. Sessions are available April 2 to June 29, either 8 a.m. to noon or 1 to 5 p.m.

Spring break camp is $300.

Sports Broadcasting Camps 800-319-0884, www.playbyplaycamps.com The session runs from July 16 to 20 at Emory University. The cost is $1,295 for the overnight camp or $650 for the day camp.

Boys and girls ages 10 to 18 will have opportunities to learn from the pros. Meet sports celebrities; make sports anchor tapes, playby-play tapes of the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals, and reporting tapes from a pro stadium; and participate in sports talk radio.

Spruill Center for the Arts 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road Dunwoody 30338 770-394-3447, www.spruillarts.org The Spruill Center for the Arts Summer Camp Program is a 10-week day camp, beginning May 29, for ages 5 to 14. The camps run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with four creative programs: creative arts, ages 5 to 6; visual arts, ages 7 to 10; performing arts, ages 7 to 10; and studio arts, ages 11 to 14.

Temple Sinai Preschool 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs 30327 404-255-6200, templesinaiatlanta.org/ tsps Summer camp is June 4 to July 27. Join the Temple Sinai Preschool for a summer of fun for children 18 months to 5 years old. Register for individual weeks or all eight weeks. Each week features water play, art, science, sports, music and exciting special guests, all in a safe and caring preschool environment.

Titus Sports Academy Chastain Park 140 West Wieuca Road, Atlanta 30342 404-713-2959, www.titussports.com U.S. Space & Rocket Center 1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35805 800-637-7223, www.spacecamp.com Year-round Space Camp is an internationally acclaimed, immersive educational program in which students experience authentic astronaut training

simulations in an exciting, unique, handson adventure. Students see science, math and technology as something more than just academic exercises. These subjects become tools to develop careers as scientists, engineers, teachers and astronauts. In this ultimate camp experience, students work as a team to confront mission scenarios that require problem solving and critical thinking skills. Space Camp trainees experience living and working in space using simulators like the 1/6th Gravity Chair, Manned Maneuvering Unit and Multi-Axis Trainer.

US Sports Camps Nike Junior Golf Camps, Georgia www.ussportscamps.com/golf/nike/georgia Full-day, half-day and overnight camps are held in June, July and August.

Valley View Ranch Equestrian Camp for Girls 606 Valley Veiw Ranch Road Cloudland 30731 706-862-2231, www.valleyviewranch.com Camp runs for one to nine weeks, with room for 50 girls ages 8 to 17.

Young Chefs Academy Atlanta Midtown 857 Collier Road, No. 18, Atlanta 30318 404-633-2633 Sandy Springs 230 Hammond Drive, Suite 368 Sandy Springs 30328 404-255-9263 www.youngchefsacademy.com Spring break camp is April 2 to 6, 9 a.m. to noon or 12:15 to 3:15 p.m., for $225. Summer camp runs on a we e k- by-we e k basis from May 29 to Aug. 9 at a cost of $200 for a four-day week.

Camp Advisers

Camp Experts and Teen Summers Sharon Wolf, Atlanta adviser 470-440-5801, www.campexperts.com sharon@campexperts.com Free, personalized consultations for sleepaway camps and teen programs.

Camp Scholarships

Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Stephanie Wyatt 404-870-1625, swyatt@jewishatlanta.org 404-873-1661, www.atlantajewishcamp.org The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta believes that Jewish overnight summer camp and other immersive summer experiences deliver superior results toward encouraging Jewish identity, engagement and leadership in our children. Two opportunities could help send your child to camp: One Happy Camper incentive grants and needbased scholarships.

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to Aug. 6, plus 12-day Taste of Ramah sessions. Tikvah support for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. At Camp Ramah Darom, laughter abounds, friendships are formed, and each day brings opportunities to celebrate Jewish life. Together, campers and staff create an inclusive, exceptional Jewish community where children have fun, learn skills, gain independence and build lifelong friendships.

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LOCAL NEWS

Photos by Eli Gray

Greg Levine (right), the coexecutive director and chief program officer of Trees Atlanta, sets an example for the volunteers.

The AJA Jaguars celebrate their MAAC Division 2 middle school basketball championship Jan. 25. See more photos at atlantajewishtimes.com.

AJA Wins MAAC Title

By Eli Gray The Atlanta Jewish Academy Middle School boys won the Metro Atlanta Athletic Conference Division 2 basketball championship with a 42-27 win at home against the Museum School on Thursday, Jan. 25, to complete a 13-1 season.

Playing in front of a packed home crowd, the Jaguars had a sluggish start and were tied at 12 at halftime.

But a scoring barrage from Noah Kalnitz, Elliot Sokol and Jonah Gordan gave the Jaguars a lead they held

throughout the second half.

“The boys never gave up. We were never the tallest or strongest, but we played hard every second and worked as a team. They always believed they could and would win,” Coach Neil Kalnitz said.

Coach Ethan Bagen added, “The guys worked hard and bought into the system, and it paid off.”

In addition to Jonah, Noah and Elliot, the team included Manny Goldin, Josh Asherian, Yered Wittenberg, Ben Goldberg, Ezra Feen, Ian Maman, Lieb Roth and Noah Meltzer. ■

Volunteers of all ages gather for directions on how to plant trees so that they will thrive in Atlanta.

Gabe Monett prepares the rich soil for a young tree.

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Fran Norflus and Terri Hitzig face the midday chill to sign in volunteers.

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Madelyn Segal gets some family help to do her mitzvah project in memory of an aunt, Brenna Segal.

Muddy Birthday Party

(From left) Ariel Simons, Eliza Frankel, Rosie Finglass and Tali Eplan Frankel work together to plant a tree.

Jewish Atlanta’s community tree planting for Tu B’Shevat, the new year or birthday of the trees, went ahead at Gordon White Park in Southwest Atlanta on Sunday, Feb. 4, thanks to dozens of volunteers who refused to let a little mud keep them from doing a mitzvah for the environment. The planting, held four days after the actual holiday, was organized by Trees Atlanta, the Marcus JCC, Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Congregation Bet Haverim and other Jewish organizations that participate in Tu B’Shvat ATL. See more photos at atlantajewishtimes.com. ■

EDUCATION

Emory Lecture Turns To the Ottoman Empire

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com

Aron Rodrigue will focus on Sephardim during the 22nd annual Tenenbaum Lecture.

in the 19th century.

Rodrigue said he wants audience members to gain an appreciation for a subset of the Jewish people that had a significant presence in parts of Europe and the Middle East. “I hope that people have a chance to learn about a culture that has all but disappeared and understand that is an important part of a much larger Jewish world.” ■ What: 22nd annual Tenenbaum Family Lecture in Judaic Studies Who: Stanford history professor Aron Rodrigue Where: Emory’s Carlos Museum, 571 S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12 Admission: Free; www.js.emory.edu

Chaya Mushka’s Star Spellers Leah Linder (left) and Sivan Livnat are recognized as the winners of the Chaya Mushka Children’s House Elementary & Middle School spelling bee Jan. 9. They earned places in the first round of the Georgia Independent School Association Middle School Spelling Bee, which was scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 8, at the Cottage School. The top scorers at the six regional sites that day advance to Rounds 2 and 3 on Tuesday, Feb. 27, in Roswell. The state finals are March 16 in Plains.

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The five-century history of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire is the topic of the 22nd annual Tenenbaum Family Lecture in Judaic Studies on Monday, Feb. 12.

“So much of what we do is focused on the Ashkenazi world, so we wanted to do something focused on the Sephardic world as well,” said Eric Goldstein, the director of Emory University’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies.

“This is something that faculty and students have expressed interest in, and we thought … it would be of particular interest to a lot of people in Atlanta who have that background.”

Aron Rodrigue, a professor of Jewish culture and history at Stanford University, will deliver the lecture, “The Making and Unmaking of Sephardi Jewry: The Ottoman Centuries.”

Rodrigue specializes in Sephardic culture and history. He will discuss who the Sephardim were, their expulsion from Spain and Portugal, and their new communities in Southeast Europe, Turkey and elsewhere.

He will also discuss the community’s major turning points, culture, language, the development of certain traditions and changes that occurred

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Israeli Tech Assists Philips Arena, Atlanta Hawks

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com

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A crowd of young professionals packed Philips Arena’s Comcast Business Zone on Wednesday, Jan. 24, to hear Jason Parker discuss the facility’s use of Israeli technology.

As the vice president of consumer services for the Atlanta Hawks and Philips Arena, Parker handles roles including guest services, ushering and ticket services. He told a Conexx: America Israel Business Connector group about the everyday uses of Israeli-developed tech by the team and the arena.

To manage traffic for events, Philips uses the Google-owned navigation app Waze, which Parker said most people are familiar with. “In this market, of the people who drive, roughly 30 percent of the people who come to our events use Waze.”

Waze offered the arena free input for traffic plans and notifications and data regarding traffic patterns to learn where people were coming from and going to before and after each event.

That information had multiple

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Jason Parker talks to the Conexx young professionals group Jan. 24 about the use of Israeli technology by the Hawks and Philips Arena.

benefits for the organization, Parker said, such as reducing the time fans spend in traffic by 15 percent to 20 percent. Reducing driving time has boosted sales.

“If your traffic experience is bet-

ter, you are more likely to come to the arena and more likely to spend money,” Parker said. “Everyone who comes here earlier, that’s another $6 in our pocket.

It doesn’t seem like much, but when you calculate that across 1.5 or 2 million people over the course of the year, it adds up.”

Philips Arena also uses Mobi, which places counters using Bluetooth technology on street corners. What separates Mobi from Waze is that Mobi tells Parker about issues in the last mile before people arrive at Philips.

Mobi provides real-time data showing exactly how many cars are at an intersection at any moment.

An additional technology the Hawks use is MyPlay. The company installs high-definition cameras on courts to enable coaches to edit and mark up everything recorded during a game.

The Hawks have installed the cameras on 14 courts used by high schools throughout the city of Atlanta.

The technology helps improve player performance and makes it easier for coaches to post highlight reels on You-

Tube to attract college scouts.

Philips is looking at other technologies as part of the arena’s transformation, which is $75 million to $80 million into a $200 million renovation.

“A lot of where we are providing the leverage is from the technology perspective,” Parker said.

The biggest competition the Hawks face is for the audience, Parker said, because people believe that they can get a better view of a game by watching on TV. But Parker said screens can’t offer the human interaction and live environment of the arena.

That live environment involved a 108-93 Hawks loss to the Toronto Raptors after the Conexx networking and Parker presentation Jan. 24.

Parker, who is Jewish, worked as a camp regional director in Albany, N.Y., and later in California, then decided to leave the nonprofit world. He eventually was hired by the NHL’s San Jose Sharks despite a lack of experience in the sports industry.

The program was the first of 2018 and the eighth overall for Conexx’s young professionals group. ■

Conexx to Honor Landa, Mobileye, Gulfstream

Stone and Kalfus Form Civil Defense Firm

Conexx: America Israel Business Connector has announced the award winners for the annual Conexx Gala on March 22, which will kick of Atlanta-area celebrations of Israel’s 70th birthday.

The seven awards: • Tom Glaser Leadership Award — Israeli entrepreneur Benny Landa.

• U.S. Community Partner — Birmingham Jewish Federation.

• Israeli Community Partner — Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce.

• Israel Company of the Year — Sapiens.

• Deal of the Year — Intel’s purchase of Mobileye.

• U.S. Company of the Year — Gulfstream.

• Academic Innovative Partnership — Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research.

Chairing the event is Tally Korman, the first Israeli-born chair of the Conexx Gala.

The event, including a buffet dinner, begins with networking and a showcase of Israeli companies at 6 p.m. at the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead. Tickets are $155 and are available through www.conexxgala.com.

Lawyers Matt Stone and Shawn Kalfus have launched a civil defense law firm, Stone Kalfus, in Buckhead.

Stone Kalfus (www.StoneKalfus. com) represents top-rated insurance companies, Fortune 500 companies and private businesses in the transportation, trucking and automotive industries. The firm focuses on resolving claims against motor carriers, bus lines, motor coaches, crane and lift companies, medical transportation providers, and automobile and truck dealerships.

While the two name partners have practiced law together for nearly a decade at other Atlanta-area firms, this is their first independent venture.

“We decided it was time to control our own destiny, to be able to hire the lawyers and staff we need, when we need them,” Stone said.

Ex-Imax Exec Joins Barstool

Atlanta native Peter Morris, a former executive at Imax and Funny or Die, has joined online Barstool Sports to lead partnerships, distribution and business affairs. The son of Bruce and JacLynn Morris is charged with expanding audiences for podcasts, video and branded content.

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LIFESTYLE

Nurse From California Puts Family First

1. What are you looking for in a partner?

I’m looking for someone kind, intelligent, fun and family-oriented. I think attraction is so important, but a good heart is the most handsome quality.

2. What do you think or have been told are your best qualities?

I am often told that I am warm,

Such a Catch

By Rachel Fayne

kind, sweet and intelligent with a great sense of humor. I am fiercely loyal to my friends and family. The quality that I am most proud of is being an amazing mom.

3. How do you spend your spare time?

I love to listen to live music, play tennis, get lost in a fantastic book, go wine tasting or visit the North Georgia mountains. I am a Disney Cruise junkie and try to go yearly.

4. What is your guilty pleasure?

Any kind of cheesecake!

Carrie Lorman says she’s proudest of being a good mom.

5. What are some things that are most important in your life? Why are they valuable to you?

My son and my family are the most important things in my life.

Although most of my family still lives on the West Coast, I have developed an

amazing group of friends in Atlanta who I consider my Georgia family. ■ If you’re interested in this catch or want to be featured as a catch yourself, email editor@atljewishtimes.com.

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Carrie Lorman, 49, may have traded Southern California palm trees for Atlanta grits in 2003, but she always has been drawn to the South.

Her love for country music, her profession as a registered nurse and her activity with the Marcus Jewish Community Center keep her busy, but everything takes a back seat to family.

You can often find Carrie on the sidelines cheering on her son’s basketball team, and she’s active in the PAL Program of Jewish Family & Career Services. We think Carrie is Such a Catch, so let her tell you a little about herself.

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ARTS

‘Mystery’ Delights After South City Dining

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Like so many of you, we attended the trendy and highly anticipated Atlanta Jewish Film Festival opening gala at the Cobb Energy Centre on Jan. 24. After heading straight to the bar, we proceeded to hit each food station like good fortysomethings who look forward to food as we once did to … hmm … let’s say dating.

We met Jack McGinn, the welcoming, generous and hip chef at the South City Kitchen station, who was kind enough to invite us to dine at our convenience. We were thrilled! Not only because of his kind offer, but also because his bourbon-cured salmon dish was so delicious, we knew the rest of the menu wouldn’t disappoint — and it didn’t.

We took Jack up on his generous offer on the way to Out Front Theatre Company to review “The Mystery of Love & Sex.” We chose the Midtown location, set in a charming 1920s bungalow, and were seated on the heated porch facing Crescent Avenue.

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South City Kitchen is known for its contemporary Southern cuisine, and we were delighted with the menu options. As two good Southern, midaged women, we began with drinks.

On the Town with Jen & Michal

By Jen Evans and Michal Bonell jen@atljewishtimes.com What better way to start a Southern meal than with a drink called Peach Next Door, consisting of house-made peach-cardamom shrub, Old Fourth Ward vodka and prosecco? Yum! We opted for a light dinner and shared an order of fried green tomatoes with goat cheese and red pepper coulis, which was out of this world with flavor, and a light and equally delicious pear salad.

It was fabulous from the drinks to the food to the service, and we look forward to heading back for entrees.

Shout out to chef Jack McGinn and

manager David Bridges. Thank you!

Leaving full and happy, we headed less than two miles to Out Front for a provocative and contemporary play.

“The Mystery of Love & Sex” is a tale of two millennial best friends and their complex relationship. Charlotte is a white, Jewish free spirit, coddled by overbearing parents, while Jonny is a black, Baptist traditional, brought up by a single mother and never knowing his father.

The play opens with an intimate dinner party thrown by Charlotte and Jonny for Charlotte’s parents in her college dorm room.

Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends and next-door neighbors since they were 9. Now both have difficulty coming to terms with who they are.

The “mysteries” of love and sex are revealed over five years, as Charlotte and Jonny’s friendship is tested through honesty, conflict and sexuality.

Charlotte’s parents, Howard and Lucinda, are open-minded, complex liberals. They try desperately to

wrap their heads around Charlotte’s explorations as they face secrets and resentments of their own.

We see only those four characters in the play: Charlotte, Jonny, Howard and Lucinda. All the performances by the four actors are honest. Rachel Wansker gives a heartfelt portrayal as Charlotte, and Terrance Smith’s Jonny is raw and true.

There are a lot of emotional twists and turns in “The Mystery of Love & Sex.” Race, gender, religion, generational/parent-child relationships and sexuality are all explored. This tale about coming of age is open to interpretation and conversation after viewing.

“The Mystery of Love & Sex” is written by Bathsheba Doran, who also wrote for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and Showtime’s “Masters of Sex.” The play is showing Thursday to Sunday through Feb. 18. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students (www.outfronttheatre.com/events). ■ Look for the further adventures of Jen and Michal in the AJT.

ARTS

Among the items recovered from the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters is this Passover haggadah printed in Vienna in 1930. This page is headlined “Eating Matzah.”

Breman Exhibit Preserves Iraqi Jewish Heritage Iraq had a flourishing Jewish community until political regimes forced most Jews to leave. Only a few remain, but people can view their rich culture at the Breman Museum’s latest exhibit, “Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage,” running through April 29.

The collection portrays the recovery and preservation of objects such as books, letters and documents found in a flooded basement in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters in 2003.

Conservators and archivists spent long hours restoring the documents, which are written in Arabic and Hebrew and date as far back as 1524.

The National Archives collection contains some rare pieces, such as a lunar calendar in Hebrew and Arabic from the Jewish year 5732 (1961-62), one of the last examples of Hebrew printing in Baghdad. A haggadah from 1902 is hand-lettered and decorated by an Iraqi Jewish youth.

The exhibit is divided into six sections and recounts the discovery of the documents, the text and heritage of the books, and the communal life of Iraq’s Jews.

The Iraqi government built the collection with items seized as wave after wave of Jews emigrated. A digitized version of the collection is available at www.ija.archives.gov.

In a preview and reception for Breman members Sunday, Jan. 28, conservator Anna Fridley expanded on her work with the collection and the preservation process in general. Fridley, who worked on the collection from 2012 to 2014, is the daughter of Lynn

and Murray Friedman, a longtime docent and a supporter of the Breman.

Fridley said the material was flown from Baghdad to Texas and was commercially freeze-dried, a process that involves a cycle of dehumidification to pull water molecules out of the documents and stabilize any mold before the restoration begins.

She highlighted objects that she found significant, such as school records of Iraqi Jews. “The transcripts and photographs made everything personal,” she said. “The students from the photographs would look like my cousin or my nephew or my sister just staring up at me. … To know that I was part of bringing people’s personal histories back really made that category of records important to me.”

The exhibit has traveled to Washington, New York, Baltimore and California and received exposure from B’nai B’rith International, the World Organization of Iraqi Jewry and the Iraqi Embassy.

Fridley could not comment on whether the materials will be returned to Iraq, but said the National Archives will remain the custodian until it finds another responsible party to take care of them.

Most people don’t even know Baghdad once had a large Jewish population, Fridley said, so the collection is crucial.

“Part of the reason I wanted the Breman to host the exhibit is because there are people who don’t know that Atlanta has a Jewish community,” she said. “So to be able to have this very special, very niche community experience on display, in a community that has its own niche and specific Jewish experience, is very rewarding.” ■

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Weddings Cohen-Edwards

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Norris Cohen of Macon announce the marriage of their daughter, Martha Ann Cohen, to John Slade Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper Edwards of Macon.

Dr. Robert Kilgo Ackerman officiated at the wedding ceremony, held Nov. 12, 2017, at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, S.C. The Cotton Dock at Boone Hall was the site for dinner and dancing after the ceremony.

The bride was given away by her father.

The bride’s attendants included Miss Sarah Tinsley Parker, the maid of honor, as well as Mrs. Katie Skinner Beasley, Miss Barry Elizabeth Blitch, Dr. Caroline Rebecca Clary, Mrs. Molly Meadors Deweese, Mrs. Lacey Gibbons Eason, Mrs. Betsy Schnell Griffith, Miss Isabella Grace Haver, Miss Margaret Ashton Haver, Mrs. Molly Garland Holladay, Mrs. Roos-Maryn Opperman Horne, Miss Lauren Weathersbee Lamb, Miss Kelin Eileen Murphy, Mrs. Mead Boley Reed and Dr. Alyssa Thielman Walden.

The groom’s father served as best man. Groomsmen included Mr. Andrew Gavin Collier, Mr. John Albert Draughn Jr., Mr. Brad Evans, Mr. Josiah Everett Flournoy, Mr. Wesley Austin Griffith, Mr. Franklin Stebin Horne, Mr. Marcus Lafayette Kimsey IV, Mr. John Hardman Knox, Mr. Lawrence Campbell McMinn Laska, Mr. Rhett Lloyd Moody III, Mr. Brian Evan Shaker, Mr. Benjamin Scott Terry, Mr. Christopher William Terry, Mr. Joseph Andrew Vance and Mr. Christopher M. Wilson.

Miss Martha McCaskill Holladay served as the flower girl. Mr. Christopher Shephard Edwards Jr. served as the ringbearer. Mr. Adam Ross Butler and Mr. Robert Michael Haver served as ushers.

The bride, a graduate of Stratford Academy, the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Mercer University School of Medicine, is a third-year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Navicent Health. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority at the University of Georgia and a 2007 Bon Hommes presentee.

The groom, a graduate of Stratford Academy, the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and the Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law, is a partner in Martin Snow’s litigation section. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Georgia. At Mercer University, he was a member of the Moot Court Board and received the award for outstanding achievement in legal writing.

After a honeymoon trip to St. Lucia’s Sugar Beach Resort, the couple lives in Macon.

OBITUARIES

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Shirley Ruth Freedman, 94, of Atlanta passed away Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, from natural causes.

Shirley was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 1923. She pursued a career as a dancer until she met and married Milton Charyn, an Army Air Forces mechanic during the Second World War. Milton tragically died from cancer soon thereafter, and Shirley went on to raise their two children, Terry and Bonnie Charyn, with the help of her mother, Fannie Dreyer, in the Midwood area of Brooklyn during the 1950s. Shirley met Bernard Freedman during that time and married him in 1957. They moved to Atlanta, where they had a daughter, Pam, now Pam Taylor of Charleston, S.C. The marriage was a happy one, cut short when Bernard passed away of Hodgkin’s disease in 1962. Shirley worked for many years in gift and furniture showrooms in the Atlanta Merchandise Mart. She enjoyed mah-jongg and canasta and was also active in ORT. Shirley is survived by her children, Terry Freedman and his wife, Ellen, Bonnie Chapman Baker and her husband, Terry, and Pam Taylor and her husband, Pat; grandchildren Matthew, Lee, Remy, Shay, Brittany and Nicholas; and other

OBITUARIES family and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to Congregation B’nai Torah in Sandy Springs. The family of Shirley Freedman wishes to thank the staff at Budd Terrace at Wesley Woods and Crossroads Hospice for their care and support in her final days and Betty Golden for being a special friend during her last years. Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals.com.

A graveside service was held Wednesday, Jan. 31, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs. Rabbi Hillel Konigsburg of Congregation B’nai Torah officiated.

Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Haskell Frostig 87, Atlanta

Haskell Frostig, 87, of Atlanta died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018.

A Holocaust survivor from Beuthen, Germany, Haskell and his parents, Dora and Meyer Frostig, made the journey to Atlanta in 1946. Mr. Frostig was born Nov. 22, 1930. The Frostig family left Germany in 1936 and traveled to Poland, where they settled in Mosty Wielkie. Mr. Frostig, his parents, and his two sisters, Rivka and Gittel, lived there until the Nazis occupied the town in 1941 and forced the family into the ghetto and eventually a labor camp. Tragically, his two sisters were killed, and the family was forced to run, hiding in the woods and in the barns of local farmers until they were liberated.

Mr. Frostig and his parents came to America on the SS Ernie Pyle, landing in New York City. Having family in Georgia, they settled in Atlanta. The Frostigs started Frostig Supermarket in DeKalb County. Mr. Frostig married Adolfa Kruger of Fitzgerald in 1955. They met on a blind date. They settled in Buckhead and raised three boys, Jerry, Ronnie and Randy. Mr. Frostig owned and ran a package store near Underground Atlanta from the 1960s through the 1990s. Mr. Frostig was a past president of Congregation Anshi S’fard in Virginia-Highland and was a member for over 40 years. He then became a founding member of Chabad Intown. Mr. Frostig recently lived in Berman Commons.

Mr. Frostig was predeceased by his wife of 27 years, Adolfa. He is survived by his sons, Jerry, Ronnie and Randy Frostig, all of Atlanta. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals.com. A graveside service was held at Greenwood Cemetery on Monday, Feb. 5, with Rabbi Steven Chaim Lindenblatt officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

85, Atlanta

Marvin Silver, 85, died peacefully Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, surrounded by his family.

He was born to Isadore and Bertha Silver on Feb. 17, 1932. Marvin was a lifelong Atlanta resident and graduate of Grady High School. He married Temi Bresler on Nov. 25, 1964. They had four children. Marvin was natural athlete, lettering in three sports at Grady and enjoying a brief career in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ farm system. He was a sales representative for Speidel Corp. and later for O&B, an Atlanta wholesale shoe company. He started his own company, Silver Shoes, in the late 1970s. Aside from family, golf was the other great love of his life. A longtime member of the Standard Club and an excellent golfer, he could be found every weekend, a cigar clamped in his teeth, playing in a foursome with his buddies.

After retiring, he devoted himself to playing golf at the North Fulton golf course across from his house. Marvin Silver was a family man, loved and respected for his humor, strength of character, self-discipline and honesty. He will be missed.

Marvin Silver is survived by his wife of 63 years, Temi Silver; children Wendy (Joseph Trachtenberg), Blake (Carol Fulghum) and Jonas (Diana Howard); two grandchildren, Alexander and Maxwell Trachtenberg; and a sister, Rosalind Silver. He was predeceased by his second son, Russell.

A graveside service was held at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs on Monday, Feb. 5. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Russell Silver Fund at Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Atlanta, GA 30342.

Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS

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My extended family members are not a prissy bunch. My sister Nancy and three of her children have “down and dirty” experiences to prove it.

Charles, Nancy’s eldest, lives overseas and travels in the States. For convenience, his mail comes to his mother’s home, and Nancy is authorized to make deposits in his bank account.

Last month an important check for Charles arrived, but when my sister was ready to head to the bank, she couldn’t find it.

She spent hours going through her car and painstakingly examining every inch of her house, squeezing under furniture and dissecting her “overstocked” office.

In desperation, Nancy trudged outside in the snow. She meticulously sorted through two overflowing cans of garbage, then lugged her paper recycling container into the garage and emptied it.

Finally, she found the check, worse for wear but intact. She spent that evening cleaning her fingernails, and in the morning, on her way to the bank, she brought her garbageencrusted coat to the cleaners.

Charles never knew what his mother went through.

Another lost-object/trash-sorting anecdote involves Nancy’s teen son, Joe. He drove some friends to Great Adventure, where he ran into a girl he liked. Joe persuaded her to share a seat on the park’s giant Ferris wheel.

Overcome with ardor, he nervously played with his car keys as the couple spun romantically over the park. During one of the rotations, Joe dropped the keys. Finally, back on the ground, Joe asked his seatmate to wait for him, but, after a few minutes of loyalty, she went her own way, leaving embarrassed Joe crawling all over the Ferris wheel area, which was liberally spotted with wads of gum and fetid remains of partially eaten food.

His friends found him with permanently stained jeans and scraped hands but no keys. While his friends made jokes about the predicament he was in, Joe did what no teen wants to do: He called his mother.

Nancy was angry, but she had to rescue her son. She brought a spare set of keys to Great Adventure, forced his friends into her car to isolate Joe and force him to concentrate on the road,

and followed her son home.

Joe is now a university professor who has dropped or misplaced many items. But his keys? Never again.

Still on garbage, Nancy’s daughter, Cindy, in middle school at the time, was with friends at Skate Land.

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They took a break from the ice to get a snack, but it wasn’t until everyone was ready to go home that Cindy realized she was no longer wearing her retainer. The orthodontist had fitted the expensive device that very week and had insisted that she keep it in her mouth whenever she wasn’t eating.

With the threat of facing both parents and orthodontist, she had to find that retainer.

Cindy ran back to the snack area, understanding that she had thrown the retainer away when she emptied her tray. Unassisted by her squeamish friends, she picked through every garbage can in the place.

Cindy claimed there were at least a dozen of them, and she methodically sifted through each and every one.

More than an hour later, she found it.

Even in the retainer’s near-toxic state, she was able to sanitize it (and herself) when she got home. Upon hearing Cindy’s woeful tale, the orthodontist adjusted it free of charge.

When you meet Cindy today, you can’t miss her perfectly aligned teeth.

Is our family genetically garbagetolerant?

Recently, a Shabbat guest collected the dinnerware to help clear the table but inadvertently scraped pieces of our silverware into the garbage along with the waste from everyone’s plate. Was I concerned? No! As our guilt-stricken guest watched, I plunged both hands into deep mounds of moistness. In less than a minute I accomplished a retrieval. As I lathered up (to the elbow), I thanked Hashem for my hardy DNA. Immediately after Shabbat, I called my sister to add my own chapter to our kindred “down and dirty” series, and we each vowed to purchase a pack of disposable gloves, ready for the next installment. ■

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15. Home to Honolulu 16. First name in cosmetics 17. Book about Eden’s whereabouts?

20. Green of “Casino Royale” 21. Rooftop rooster, e.g.

22. Benet’s “___ to Walt Whitman” 23. One “in distress” 25. Book about a macher?

30. Birthright, e.g.

32. Hebron to Ein Gedi dir.

33. Phrase at a less traditional Jewish wedding 34. Modern-day award Koufax would probably win 37. One often seen swimming around San Francisco 39. Sacha Baron Cohen does it very well live 41. Book about young Solomon?

44. Detractor 45. “There ___ there there” (Gertrude Stein) 46. Gangsters’ guns 47. Possible cry at an IFA match 48. Granola bit 50. Fanning in Abrams’ “Super 8” 52. Book about one the Torah says to be especially nice to (with “The”) 55. AKA yontif 59. No-win situation 60. Disney bird voiced by Gilbert Gottfried

62. Org. for Dershowitz 63. Book about breakfast for one of Noah’s sons?

68. Gaunt guy 69. Alternative to “Slicha b’vakasha” 70. Ceremonial splendor 71. Microwaves, perhaps 72. “And ye shall ___ no longer” (Exodus 9:28) 73. Dead and Red

priestly garb 31. Opposite of plus, at Bloomingdale’s 34. Cultural values 35. Will, biblically 36. Book in the Bible (but not the Torah) 38. Capone and Michaels 40. Mascot of Kellogg’s Honey Smacks 42. Pressings 43. Practice that often led DOWN to family problems in the 1. Given a G, e.g.

Bible 2. Big name in Halva 49. Tommie of the Miracle 3. Clapton band with the Mets album “Disraeli Gears” 51. Meshuganeh 4. “Amen!”

53. First-stringers 5. Adam Levine or David 54. Israel has one to exist Lee Roth, e.g.

56. California/Nevada lake 6. Bring home (inedible) 57. Iran deal participant bacon 58. Anne Rice creatures, 7. Kind of music or lightning for short 8. Young relative of Israelite 61. On the Mediterranean enslavers 63. NBA team owned by Joe 9. Certain orthodontic Lacob, on the scoreboard device 64. Chabad org.

10. Shemoneh ___ 65. Eat the forbidden fruit, 11. “___be an honor” e.g.

12. What Stan Lee’s 66. Petrol Daredevil can’t do 67. MLB rally killers 13. Minyan men 18. Perpetually 19. “Here ___ nothing!”

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 24. Isaac H E L L O B E T H O S E H Mizrahi is E L I A B A B A B N O T E known for it S I E G E K A R O S L A Y 26. Moon of S C A N G H I C H A V E R G O O D B Y E Saturn with a Y O M A I N S O M E E T S Troy-like name E D E N M O H A V E N C A 27. City of a R E P E T I T I O U S famous Gaon A L I R A F A E L F I R M 28. ___ of C A C A O I S E E O R E O Expulsion S H A B B A T S E S A M E (when the Jews L E S Z E T A were thrown I S L A H A I M T E N S E out of England) A H A Z A L T O U R B A N N E V E M E I R P E A C E 29. Some 1

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