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EAGLE SOARS
Temple Sinai member Ethan Hartz makes Eagle Scout with three years to spare. Page 7
RACING FOR 3RD
Republicans Mike Crane and Drew Ferguson discuss the issues before their congressional runoff. Page 8
HONORING WIESEL
Eugen Schoenfeld and Livia Sklar share their thoughts on the Nobel laureate. Page 12
CLEAN SWEEP
Azi and Emily Zimmerman add a personal touch to dry cleaning with free pickup and delivery. Page 22
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Doing Nonprofit Good Photo by Emma Anderson
Matilda (left) and Ruby Mundell help their mother, Sally Mundell, cut the ribbon outside her nonprofit store, the Packaged Good, on July 2. The operation is a way to honor Mundell’s late husband, Grover, by teaching children how to give back to others. Story, Page 15. And check out our directory of Atlanta’s Jewish nonprofits, Pages 16-17.
Two CNN analysts, a best-selling novelist and the daughter of an Israeli legend are among the authors coming to the 25th Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center. The festival runs from Nov. 5 to 20. The Marcus JCC has announced that the festival will include: • Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst, whose latest book is “American Heiress,” about Patty Hearst. • Peter Bergen, a CNN national security analyst and the author of “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists.” • Alice Hoffman, the New York Times best-selling author of such novels as “Here on Earth,” “Practical Magic” and “The Dovekeepers.” Her next novel, “Faithful,” is about a woman overcoming survivor’s guilt from an accident as a teen. • Yael Dayan, an Israeli politician, a women’s rights and peace activist, and the daughter of Six-Day War hero Moshe Dayan. Her memoir, “Transitions,” is coming out in English in the fall, and her appearance gives her a chance to respond to 2015 festival book “An Improbable Friendship,” which features Dayan’s mother, Ruth, and is critical of her father. Dozens of additional authors will be part of the lineup. Tickets go on sale Sept. 1 at www.atlantajcc.org/bookfestival. ■
Black Lives Lead to Palestinian Lies The police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota this month have revived an ugly smear against Israel: that such shootings result from Israeli training of American law enforcement. “We must remember that many US police departments train with the #IsraeliDefenseForces. The same forces behind the genocide of black people in America are behind the genocide of Palestinians,” New York University’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter wrote in a widely shared Facebook post.
After the killings of five police officers in Dallas, the NYU SJP chapter clarified that it did not mean to imply an Israeli conspiracy to kill black Americans, but “the IDF assists the NYPD and other American police departments in their oppression and murder of black people.” Pro-Palestinian groups often seek to tie their cause to groups such as Black Lives Matter. Palestinian activist Nada Elia, for example, declared at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation conference in Atlanta in September that
Israel’s training leads American police to kill unarmed black men. “This constitutes the worst kind of a blood libel in modern history,” said Robbie Friedmann, the founding director of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, whose Israeli training exchanges have graduated more than 1,350 public safety and law enforcement officials worldwide over a quarter-century. He called the SJP statements “ludicrous” and “wrong on all counts.” ■ • Latest GILEE mission, Page 6