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LIFE OR DEATH Readers react strongly to a woman’s refusal to let an ALS patient die without talking to a rabbi. Page 2

WINNING ASSIST A longtime Marcus JCC employee gets a boost from basketball-playing members after amputation surgery. Page 7

VEGAS HUMOR Standup comic Rita Rudner is bringing fresh material to the Punchline. Page 21

TIME FOR A LEGEND Catch up with former Mayor Sam Massell while touring his Buckhead townhouse. Page 26

Photo by Chuck Robertson Photography

Preparing for Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s gala centennial celebration Oct. 30 are (back row from left) Phyllis M. Cohen, Lois Blonder, Larry Frank, Martha Jo Katz and Linda Hakerem and (front row from left) Renée Rosenheck, Virginia Saul and Lois Frank.

National Party for Hadassah’s Atlanta Century

The 98th Hadassah National Convention is coming to the Atlanta Marriott Marquis downtown Monday to Thursday, July 25 to 28, bringing together as many as 1,000 Jewish women and other Jewish leaders for the biennial event.

It’s a big deal, drawing such celebrities as Gwyneth Paltrow and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and it’s only one part of the yearlong celebration of the centennial of Hadassah in Atlanta, which culminates in a gala Oct. 30. Learn more about the convention and 100 years of Atlanta Hadassah in a four-page pullout section starting on Page 15.

Moskowitz Trades ADL for Jewish Agency A chance to focus on Israel persuaded Mark Moskowitz to leave the Anti-Defamation League for a new position with the Jewish Agency for Israel.

“I missed working day in and day out” on Israel, Moskowitz said. “My beating heart really is in Jerusalem.”

He thus gave up a Buckhead office and the job of ADL’s Southeast Region director in mid-June after two years. He is working from home as vice president for Israel and global philanthropy for the Jewish Agency, where he’ll be part of a redoubled Diaspora fundraising effort.

Moskowitz is one of several people being brought in for similar roles under the Jewish Agency’s new international development CEO, Joshua Fogelson. The

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two have a professional relationship going back to Fogelson’s time with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Nashville, Tenn., Federation while Moskowitz was AIPAC’s Southeast director.

Moskowitz, who is not leaving Atlanta, expects his new territory to include the Southeast, where he’ll work with local Jewish Federations.

His efforts will take two tracks, he

said. First, he’ll try to persuade Federations to increase their allocations to the agency. Second, with Federation approval, he’ll go to individual donors and ask them to give directly to the Jewish Agency, which connects the Diaspora and Israel and oversees social services and aliyah.

“A lot of donors don’t realize that the programs they like are being funded by the Jewish Agency,” which is trying to educate them and raise its profile, he said.

For ADL, the Southeast’s senior associate director, Shelley Rose, is leading the region on an interim basis during the search for Moskowitz’s replacement.

She’s not a candidate for the position.

You can apply for the job at www. idealist.org/view/job/hwPkckgG22Jd. ■

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Pulling the Plug Sparks Intense Reader Reactions Becky, a hospital volunteer, shared her dilemma in the July 1 column about ALS patient Jerry’s plan to pull the plug on his life support.

Becky struggled with his choice and with her decision to call in a rabbi against Jerry’s wishes. Readers had plenty of advice for her.

Faith vs. Intellect

suredly conclude that our life experiences adequately equip us to make moral decisions for others. It takes work, though, to gain perspective outside our comfort window, a prerequi-

Shared Spirit Moderated By Rachel Stein rachels83@gmail.com

The column “Pulling the Plug” provides a forum for Becky, a speech pathologist wrestling with her patient’s election to pull the plug and escape his physical suffering. Becky states that “even if we don’t understand the value of lying in bed, helpless and suffering, there must be a purpose.”

Whoa! If we are not the afflicted, upon what rightful basis do we deny the self-aware afflicted person the moral authority to decide if there is a purpose sufficient for him to elect life?

We often fail to walk in a stranger’s shoes regarding matters of life and death, as well as matters of the mundane.

Little effort is required to self-as-

site to confirm the validity of someone else’s contrary moral resolution.

I am speaking of something greater than empathy. Respect for other people’s decisions, where those decisions do not directly intrude upon others, is a value that is absent from the article.

Becky is unable to see beyond her religious perspective; she is certain that Jerry made the wrong decision.

She assuages her own conscience by summoning rabbinical intervention, which Jerry understandably greets with a “wall of obstinate silence.” She acknowledges that Jerry has been

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given a death sentence but concludes that “it is not within our jurisdiction to decide how to resolve these dilemmas.”

I respectfully disagree, Becky. It is a matter exclusively within Jerry’s moral jurisdiction.

Becky, you ask readers to share what they would have done had they been in your place. I would have consoled Jerry and maybe even entered an inappropriate place by probing whether ending his life is what he really wants to do; after all, his plan followed through is final. But in the end I would respect his decision and the humanity to which he is entitled and wish him a peaceful exit.

Jerry is paralyzed with ALS, able only to move his eyes to direct a computer to speak for him. Not everyone would choose as Stephen Hawking chose. Not everyone would choose life when confronted by such daunting physical challenges.

You believe Jerry’s condition is G-d’s plan. Jerry doesn’t (or he deems that inquiry irrelevant), and your values do not trump Jerry’s. Note that I speak of moral values, not rights, which are determined according to secular law and provide the avenue for Jerry to follow through with his ethical resolution.

You reference two instances in which patients’ organs were shutting down and you conclude, “In a remarkable display of divine providence, both people experienced a full recovery.”

Your implication is clear: Maybe Jerry will make a remarkable “divine providence” recovery if given additional time.

That the biology behind your “full recovery” anecdotes may be unknown does not equate to divine providence.

Faith and belief are clearly the foundation for your thought process, as well as the driving force behind your fight with your conscience concerning Jerry.

To be a person of faith is not a mandate to abandon the brain G-d gave us and the free-choice corridors contained therein. Our brains give us the gift of thought and the commensurate ability to reason in a rational and logical manner. I am confident you would confess that there is no rational or logical basis for your conclusion that divine providence saved the two patients.

For you, faith and belief fill the void. I ask you to consider that our universe contains more unknowns than knowns. As each decade passes, we learn more about what makes us tick.

Maybe we will soon learn the scientific and biologic reasons why dying people sometimes unexpectedly recover and receive the gift of life for a short while longer. Until then, such unknowns are met with declarations of “divine providence.” That is the lazy way out.

Respect Jerry. Let him go peacefully (which you do in the end). Your deep belief in G-d is admirable; just remember that we were created with the power of intellect.

G-d and the power to think are not mutually exclusive concepts. The gift of intellect was not intended to be quietly stored on a shelf, unused and catatonic, alongside our appendix.

— Albert Sacks

Respect Wishes

I think people too often have an opinion of others’ situations when all we really should be doing is listening and being there. Unless we’ve been in someone’s exact situation — and even then nothing is exact — we need to respect the decisions of others.

If they ask for advice or guidance, then offer it. If they share their last wishes, we need to respect those also.

It sounds as if Jerry, being an adult and having lived his life, made a difficult decision for himself. Do we then go around and not listen to what he requested to make ourselves feel better? Perhaps, and that is something we need to reflect on.

As difficult as it may be, we need do the job given and respect the patient and his wishes.

It was his decision to make, his decision to decline a rabbi, his decision to end his life. It is the job of the caregiver to respect that. What a gift that he was able to communicate exactly what he wanted when so many others in similar situations are deprived of that ability.

A caregiver is there to attend to the needs of the patient and to respect his wishes, even though the caregiver may not agree.

To have the rabbi show up when Jerry said he didn’t want to speak to him? That upset the man’s last hours.

Hashem gave us the gift of communication; we need to respect Jerry’s powerful words. In short, I don’t feel that the rabbi should have been called because Jerry requested that he not be called.

I so respect what you do and cannot judge you, as I’m not in your shoes.

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Unethical Choice

I’m a physician, and I would never impose a religious belief system in any medical situation, but especially in this instance.

How dare you refer a rabbi, ostensibly foreign to the patient? That’s not your job or your place; it’s highly unprofessional at the least.

Imagine you were Catholic instead, and you had a priest make a surprise visit to someone who had thought out his life for days or months — no difference. I actually might call the ethics department at the hospital and have a quality-of-care discussion.

— Dan Roth

Failure of Care

I believe it is not up to us to judge others in their end-of-life decisionmaking. However, as a disability rights advocate and a Jew who believes in tikkun olam, I cannot sit by idly and do nothing to help when I am confronted with the suffering of others.

I must ask a question, though, regarding the nature of Jerry’s suffering. Is he suffering because he believes he will soon die or because he has a disability? Or, perhaps more likely, is he suffering because he is stuck doing nothing but lying in a hospital bed, isolated from family and friends?

Indeed, life in a hospital is not much of a quality life at all. Hospitals are not for people with disabilities; they are for sick people who need constant, skilled medical intervention.

People with disabilities and chronic conditions belong in the community with me and you. They have the right to access the medical services they need just as we do, as outpatients or through home care.

You mentioned Jerry’s communication device, but where was his motorized wheelchair and portable ventilator? And environmental control unit? Thanks to technology, people with significant disabilities can live safely and happily in homes or apartments with the right care and support.

I lost a dear friend three years ago. He broke his neck doing gymnastics at age 17 and went on to get his Ph.D. in psychology from the seat of a motorized chair in the 1970s. He married, had a son, got divorced and later remarried.

He developed a cyst in his spinal column and chose to lie on his back in a “wheelbed” rather than risk surgery and lose the remaining function in his

arms and hands for the last 25 years of his life.

He remarried in his wheelbed, traveled and worked at home independently in his wheelbed, survived bladder cancer in his wheelbed, and was transported to the hospital, only when necessary, in his wheelbed.

However, he lived in another state and was given choices and the personal care assistance necessary to make his independent and productive lifestyle possible. Why can’t that be a choice in Georgia too?

I don’t have enough details about Jerry’s life, so I can only wonder, if he had been given more options and more support early on in the progression of his disease, might he have been able to preserve more of his quality of life? Might he have chosen to live at home until the natural progression of his disease took his last breath?

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Becky Responds

Rachel warned me that this would be a volatile topic, and she didn’t mislead me! Thank you for taking the time to respond to my dilemma.

Most of you share the view that I should not have called the rabbi — that by doing so, I wasn’t respecting Jerry and his wishes.

I beg to differ. By calling the rabbi with the hope of getting Jerry to reconsider his decision, I showed the ultimate respect because I believe in the immortality of the soul and that this life in our physical world is not the sum of our existence. I wanted to do what would ultimately be the best for Jerry, not in his last few days, but for eternity.

You say belief in G-d and the use of intellect need not be mutually exclusive, and I agree. We are enjoined to use the mind endowed in us by G-d to the best of our abilities.

But in consideration of the fact that neither I nor any other human is capable of creating a human being, much less an entire universe, I humbly bow my head to the intellect of a supreme Master of the Universe and defer to His wishes. And His wishes are stated unequivocally in our holy Torah, the guidebook for every Jew: Life-and-death decisions are not in our hands.

I, too, hope Jerry found peace, and I wish all of you the best.

— Becky Shared Spirit is a column in which people write in to share personal dilemmas. Readers are encouraged to assist by offering meaningful advice.

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I pray Jerry has found peace.

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CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Pool party. The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, invites the community to welcome Shabbat at the pool and splash park at 5 p.m., with blessings at 6. Free; www.atlantajcc.org or rabbi.glusman@atlantajcc.org.

SUNDAY, JULY 24

Rummage sale. Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta, holds its annual sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., with an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Information at 678264-8575 or mynertamid.info.

Israeli artisans. The Sisterhood at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, holds an exhibition and sale of work by jewelry makers, weavers and others from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Free; bethshalomatlanta.org.

Interfaith workshop. InterfaithFamily/Atlanta Director Rabbi Malka Packer leads “Love and Religion” for couples at 7 p.m. today, July 31, Aug. 7 and Aug. 12. The series is $18; www.interfaithfamily.com/elgg/pg/groups/52068/atlanta or atlanta@interfaithfamily.com.

MONDAY, JULY 25

Monster art. The Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown, welcomes children ages 3 to 6 for a series of openhouse art lessons between 10 a.m. and noon in the “Where the Wild Things Are” exhibit. This week’s lesson is about using crayons to add light and shade and color. Free for Breman members.

For nonmembers, two children are free with each paid $12 adult admission; www.thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.

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THURSDAY, JULY 28 Play premiere. Karen Wurl’s “Dispossessed,” set in a Yiddish theater in New York in 1928, has a preview at 8 p.m. before its premiere at 8 Friday night as part of the Essential Theatre Play Festival at the West End Performing Arts Center, 945 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd., Atlanta. Shows run through Aug. 28. Tickets are $10 to $25; www.essentialtheatre.com/play/dispossessed.

FRIDAY, JULY 29 Community service. Atlanta’s Reform congregations hold their annual joint service at 6:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell. Free.

SUNDAY, JULY 31 Cub Scout kickoff. Pack 1818 invites rising first- to fifth-graders and families to

see Jewish Scouting with rock climbing and pizza at 11 a.m. at LifeTime Fitness Alpharetta, 855 North Point Parkway.

Admission is $15 per climber and $2 for pizza-eating nonclimbers; RSVP to jfsimmerman@gmail.com.

MONDAY, AUG. 1

Monster art. The Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown, continues its art lessons for children ages 3 to 6 between 10 a.m. and noon. Free for members. For nonmembers, two children are free with each $12 adult admission; www.thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.

TUESDAY, AUG. 2

Jewish-Latino dinner. American Jewish Committee, ACCESS and GALEO discuss the elections at 6:30 p.m. at the Selig Center, 1440 Spring St., Midtown.

Registration is $5; www.ajcatlanta.org.

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Remember When

10 years ago July 21, 2006 ■ The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust announced its intention to move its Anne Frank exhibition, housed at Kennesaw State University for three years, to Decatur in the hope of reaching a new audience. The move includes new programming to entice DeKalb County populations, as well as efforts to reach out to those who live in Atlanta.

■ The bat mitzvah ceremony of Alexandra Friedman was held Saturday, May 6, at Congregation Etz Chaim. She is the daughter of Stephen and Annette Friedman.

25 Years Ago July 26, 1991 ■ Atlanta Hawks guard Doc Rivers put on his first basketball camp for 110 children at the Atlanta Jewish Community

Center, a four-day clinic for ages 8 to 17. “Often on television you see a stereotypical Jewish person or black person,” Rivers said. “Here they learn that those things aren’t true.”

■ Alyson and Andy Berke announced the birth of their son, Evan Scott, on June 13. He is the grandson of Gloria and Joel Levine and Gloria and Herb Berke, all of Atlanta. Evan was given the Hebrew name Simcha Levi in memory of his great-grandmothers Sadye Bayowitz and Shirley Levine.

50 Years Ago July 22, 1966 ■ Renowned University of Georgia Medical College professor of endocrinology Robert Greenblatt wrapped up his lecture tour of Europe, where he spoke in front of crowds in England, Italy, Sweden and France.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Ben Loewinsohn of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter, Janet Patricia, to Jerome Martin Sugarman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sugarman, also of Atlanta. The wedding is scheduled for Sept. 4.

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ISRAEL NEWS

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home A cure for motion sickness. Tel Aviv startup Sidis Labs has developed a device that fits around the neck like a travel pillow and sends pulses through nerves at the top of the spine and through the ear. The wearer receives a sense of equilibrium and balance rather than instability. While the purpose is to relieve motion sickness, customers also have reported positive effects on those recovering from chemotherapy and women with morning sickness.

Nearly $3 billion through June. Israeli technology companies raised $1.7 billion in the second quarter of 2016 through 187 financing deals, bringing the total raised by the tech sector to $2.8 billion for the first half of the year. The news comes as a stark contrast to reports of unstable economies throughout the world and projected slowing of economic growth in Israel.

Paying tribute to Munich victims.

The 47 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation, the largest in the nation’s history, stayed at the Kfar Maccabiah complex in Ramat Gan before meeting with President Reuven Rivlin after a ceremony honoring the 11 Israelis killed during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The Rio Games start Aug. 5.

Dramatic directorial debut. The 33rd

annual Jerusalem Film Festival drew such celebrities as Quentin Tarantino and Laurie Anderson. The Haggig award for best Israeli feature film went to Asaph Polonsky’s “One Week and a Day,” which also won for best debut feature and best screenplay.

Young lessons in Arabic. It remains common for Palestinian children to travel to West Jerusalem to provide labor for whatever is required, but one group of children has taken to the streets in an attempt to further peace and understanding by teaching Arabic to those Israeli Jews willing to learn.

Coming Home

Photo by Shahar Azran Nefesh B’Nefesh founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart, Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver, and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund World Chairman Danny Atar welcome a charter flight carrying 218 new immigrants from 17 states and two Canadian provinces to Israel on Tuesday, July 19. Some 2,000 olim (immigrants) are making aliyah through Nefesh B’Nefesh this summer. “As global terrorism raises its head, it is not a given that a person will decide to leave his home and settle somewhere new,” Landver said. “But as Jews, we know that we always have a home waiting for us.” The North American flight landed a day before more than 200 French Jews were due to arrive on a special immigration flight organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Samsung looking to invest. Samsung President Young Sohn recently gave an interview to The Jerusalem Post in which he outlined the advantages and potential pitfalls of Israeli technology startups. He compared Israeli innovation to a country road, emphasizing that what is most needed is a highway, a means by which to get the products to the global economy faster.

sailor on the deck of a ship in the Mediterranean capturing a rare Pokemon.

Gotta catch ’em all. Multiple branches of the Israel Defense Forces have posted photos featuring troops capturing Pokemon in the mobile game “Pokemon Go.” One photo, from the navy, was captioned “There are some Pokemon only we can catch.” It featured a

European chess champions. The Israeli team of Igor Bitensky, Evgeny Zanan, Nitzan Steinberg, Eyal Grinberg and Ariel Erenberg won the gold medal at the European Youth U18 Team Chess Championship, defeating Austria in the final round.

Pride in Jerusalem. In a meeting with the parents of Shira Banki, who was killed during last year’s Jerusalem Pride Parade, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin condemned the incitement of violence against the LGBTQ community, especially from religious leaders.

Compiled from Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, Israel21c.org and other news sources.

How Our Gap Year Changed Us

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When June comes around and the gap-year kids slowly trickle back into life at home, many of the nonparticipants, parents and community members expect a certain change.

Often this means a visible shift in skirt length or blue of the tzitzit.

For the gap-year students, it means the pressure to appear as if the change were as external as would be necessary for community standards.

We desire so badly to share our unique experience with those around us and desperately try to express our transformation through our actions.

However, this method only works to a degree, and I think I speak for all students of this particular year when I say that right now it won’t suffice.

This year was probably one of the most difficult for the young teens in Israel as we suffered a personal loss 6 and were subjected to danger around

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Guest Column

By Shani Weinmann

my friends were not even allowed to approach, I felt that danger as ambulances flew past me and the chaos was witnessed from just outside the gate.

No one took safety for granted.

“This was our year,” a friend said at the closing speeches of Midreshet Harova as she described the situation in which she was asked, “So, besides the loss and danger, how was your year?”

We want so desperately for our loved ones to understand, and yet, how can we explain ourselves without entering a taboo conversation?

People often don’t want to discuss the

personal side of these experiences because it shakes up the peace of mind of our standard of living.

The strongly opinionated on the subject don’t need much prompting to go on an “Arabs are evil” rant. We can’t seem to grasp the hard truth that Israel is a place constantly threatened by internal and external forces, yet we also share the land with other human beings who are not all out to get us.

So how do we share our year?

How can this group of 1,000-plus teenagers begin to comprehend their own year as well as relate it to others?

Simply by being an example.

When we stand up and continue to support Israel and visit and even make aliyah, we are showing what this year meant to us and what we gained from the endless hours of Torah learning.

Yes, we learned new laws and new concepts and made new friends. We separated from the familiar environment of high school to allow ourselves room to grow spiritually. We gained

knowledge and understanding of Torah and its complexity.

However, we also gained a fierce sense of self and our position in this world. We acquired a mission all too important to ignore, and we insisted on holding on to that truth even if our own parents were arguing against our passion.

All we can do is know within ourselves that we must be strong in our purpose and our newfound realization of how to live meaningful lives.

Judaism and our homeland are the top priorities, and if we can make that the lesson of our year, then we have succeeded in building a safer home for the Jewish people. ■ Atlanta native Shani Weinmann grew up in Toco Hills, attended Torah Day School of Atlanta and graduated from the Atlanta Jewish Academy Upper School in 2015. After her gap year at Midreshet Harova, she is joining the Israel Defense Forces in August.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

JCC Players Assist With Amputee’s Recovery “You always think you can just sit on something, and it will get better,” said Carlos Auger, a staffer at the Marcus Jewish Community Center who noticed a blister on his foot one day and didn’t do much about it.

The blister turned out to be the beginning of an infection called Charcot foot syndrome, which can affect those who have diabetes. Auger, who according to 11Alive TV news once weighed 450 pounds, told the Atlanta Jewish Times he came close to death during the ordeal that followed.

“I had to have my leg amputated in February. It was very rough. For three days after the surgery they didn’t know if I was going to live or not. The infection went into the bone itself, and they couldn’t find an antibiotic that was working,” he said. “I went septic; my kidneys shut down. My family thought that was it. They told (my mother), ‘We have two choices: We either get rid of the foot, or he dies.’ She had to make the decision to get rid of my foot.”

Auger’s convalescence is ongoing,

Steve Levin took up the story. “Carlos was always greeting the pickup basketballers at 8 a.m. on the weekend. He became friendly with one of the players’ sons and was very kind to him.

This player heard about the amputation and realized he needed funding. …

Photo courtesy of Jeff Levy Three players decided Aiden Levy shows support for Marcus JCC staffer Carlos Auger to hold a charity event in his recovery from diabetes-related amputation surgery. for him.” and he won’t be back at work until fall The basketball tournament was at the earliest. But his colleagues and held May 22 and featured six teams of members at the JCC have rallied to supfive players each. port him during his long recovery.

“This was organized indepenThe 42-year-old Puerto Rican nadently of the JCC. Great group of guys,” tive has worked as sports desk manager at the center for six years and is a Levin said in an email.

Jeff Levy, Aiden’s father and a lawbig basketball fan. “On Saturday mornings we have all the basketball pickup yer at Deloitte & Touche, said he and games for members, so I got to know Aiden presented Auger with a check them very well,” he said. “Steve Peltier and a basketball over the Fourth of July and Jeff Levy I know well. Jeff has three weekend. In an accompanying letter, sons, and one of them, Aiden, would sit Levy wrote in part: “Our group decided to undertake a private fundraising efwith us at the front desk.”

Longtime Marcus JCC member fort in order to assist with your situa-

tion. Needless to say, the tournament had strong participation and everyone welcomed the opportunity to be associated with a great cause. As a result of the efforts, we’re pleased to present you with proceeds in the amount of $2,518 which you may utilize however you deem necessary to assist in your recovery. We also hope you accept this basketball as a memento and reminder of how appreciative all of us and our children are to have such a warm and loving individual greet us at the front door of the JCC on a daily basis. We truly hope these gestures are helpful and want you to know how much you’ve meant to us.”

Auger said he has learned a crucial lesson: He advised others to pay attention to changes in their health.

“I’m close to being healed. Two more months, and it should be done. I’ve got a guy who is helping me with prostheses, which means I’ll eventually get back to walking again, but it was a real shakeup.”

• Next week read about sepsis, Zika, probiotics, addiction and more in our expanded Health & Wellness section. ■

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Dunwoody Man Running for President

By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com The presumptive major-party candidates for president are setting records for unpopularity, leading many voters to search for a choice not named Trump or Clinton.

Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson has reached a party record 13 percent in the polls. Green Party candidate Jill Stein, an anti-Israel Jewish physician who has offered the top of the ticket to Sen. Bernie Sanders, is getting 5 percent in four-way polling.

Now an observant Jew from Dunwoody has launched a long-shot presidential campaign, hoping to win at least 270 electoral votes as a write-in candidate.

But Marc Urbach is not joking around. He’s not trying to make a statement about the nation’s two-party system, nor is he hoping just to raise certain issues.

Urbach acknowledges that a writein campaign has a tiny chance for success, but he seems sincere in his belief that there is a chance.

“I think I have a shot if I can get Donald Trump in a debate for 30 minutes,” he said in an AJT interview a week after he announced his candidacy during a call-in appearance on a

Protesters Target GILEE

JULY 22 ▪ 2016

At least one of the groups of protesters that met with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Monday, July 18, demanded that the Atlanta police cut ties with a law enforcement training program that sends officers to Israel.

The group, #ATLisReady, issued four demands, the first of which is “The people demand a complete overhaul of Atlanta Police Department’s (APD) training institutions, and instead utilize models based on de-escalation rather than the militarized tactics that aid or perpetuate mass incarceration.”

The first of three points explaining that demand specified that #ATLisReady wants the city police to end all involvement with the Georgia State University-based Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, which “trains our officers in Apartheid Israel.”

GILEE holds workshops and seminars for law enforcement and public safety officials and runs an exchange program that brings officers to Israel for a couple of weeks of training. The 24th annual exchange class, which included 11 officers from the Atlanta area, 8 recently returned from Israel.

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Marc Urbach is passionate about the text of the U.S. Constitution and confident he could win the White House if he could get Donald Trump to debate him.

Denver radio show July 7.

Asked why Trump would ever debate him, Urbach smiled and said, “Well, that’s the thing.”

If you’re looking for a candidate who can claim the middle ground between Trump and Hillary Clinton, Urbach probably isn’t your guy.

“The Tea Party has found their man,” reads a press release about his campaign. Urbach, a former history teacher in Gwinnett County public schools who worships at Congregation Ariel, calls himself a constitutional patriot and aims to win the support of GILEE has graduated more than 1,350 officers, about half of them from outside the United States, from the Israeli training exchanges since Robbie Friedmann founded the program.

The training in Israel teaches officers about counterterrorism combined with respect for the law in a democracy, Friedmann said.

Reed did not accept any of the protest group’s demands.

Fashion Trip to Israel

Atlantan Rachelle Copeland and 34 other Jewish women in the fashion industry are journeying to Israel under the auspices of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project.

Copeland, whose work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle, InStyle, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, is the founder, owner and creative director of Alexis Hudson, a highend contemporary handbag maker.

She has also created and led accessory divisions for retailers and wholesalers in the fashion and beauty industries.

Other fashion experts are traveling from Canada, Australia, Estonia, Greece, Panama and South Africa,

“the biggest party of all, the American Party.”

Urbach is no fan of the current occupant of the Oval Office, whom he blames for causing a 280 percent increase in war deaths and a 350 percent increase in wounded troops in 2009 by changing the rules of engagement in Iraq.

“I don’t believe Barrack Hussein Obama is mentally competent to hold office,” Urbach said.

He said an appearance outside Independence Hall on the Fourth of July persuaded him to launch his quixotic quest. Because of nearby festivities, he spoke to a sparse crowd, but he said the patriots were impressed by his knowledge of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and urged him to run.

Anyone, of course, can issue a statement announcing a write-in candidacy for president. But Urbach said he is devoting 15 hours a day and what money he has to back up his words with action. He is contacting state governments to see what, if anything, he needs to do to have write-in votes for him counted in November — he’s already too late for Georgia — and he has an agent booking him on radio shows to get his name out there.

He’s hoping people will find him

on Facebook (www.facebook.com/ marc.urbach.5) and the web (marcalanurbach.wordpress.com) and buy into his agenda.

The Pittsburgh native and University of Florida graduate, who’ll turn 49 in August, is a critic of open-door immigration, especially from the Muslim world, and wants to fire everyone in the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

In an echo of a longtime Republican threat, he also vows to close the Education Department. He hopes for a test case in court to restore school prayer, and he aims to institute either a flat tax or a simple tax.

But Urbach is no big-business Republican. He said one of this country’s major problems is that top executives are hoarding money and paying their employees oppressive wages, contravening biblical directives.

His belief in a return to the documentary foundations of the United States, including Judeo-Christian principles, inspired him to self-publish a book last August called “Believe: Do We Need a Third Great Awakening?”

His answer is in his campaign slogan: “Return America to righteousness.”

“We’re living in the greatest country in the world,” Urbach said. But “we have pockets of sin all over the place.” ■

as well as the United States. The trip, from July 26 to Aug. 3, includes stops at Safed, the Dead Sea, Masada, the WMN co-working space for female entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv, and jewelry and fashion designers in Tel Aviv.

JWRP has brought more than 8,000 Jewish mothers to Israel since 2009 and is taking a bus of 40 women from Atlanta this fall through Jewish Women’s Connection of Atlanta. But the fashion tour is the first of many planned industry-specific trips.

between Belinda Edwards and Sterling Eaves to fill a Superior Court opening.

Republican voters in House District 80, which includes parts of Brookhaven, Buckhead and Sandy Springs, must choose between Alan Cole and Meagan Hanson to challenge Democrat Taylor Bennett in November. Bennett won the seat in a special election last year after Jewish Republican Mike Jacobs left the legislature to become a judge on the DeKalb County State Court.

The leadership of Cobb County’s Board of Commissioners will be decided in a runoff between Republicans Tim Lee and Mike Boyce. Lee, who has been board chairman since Sam Olens resigned to run for state attorney general in 2010, barely reached the runoff: Boyce won 49.1 percent in the primary.

South of Atlanta, Republicans Mike Crane, a state senator, and Drew Ferguson, the mayor of West Point, are seeking the Republican nomination to succeed Lynn Westmoreland in Congress. Although Democrat Angela Pendley is running in November, the winner of the Republican runoff will be the heavy favorite in the fall.

Runoffs July 26

Jurisdictions around the Atlanta area are holding runoffs Tuesday, July 26, to complete primaries in which no candidate received a majority May 24.

The most prominent election involving a Jewish candidate is the nonpartisan runoff for the Fulton County Superior Court seat being vacated by Judge Wendy Shoob. Gary Alembik, a member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, is running against Eric Dunaway, who finished first May 24. Alembik has emphasized that no Jewish judges will be on the Fulton Superior Court if he loses.

Fulton voters also must choose

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American Jewish Press Association 2016 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism

First Place

The Atlanta Jewish Times’ work in 2015 has earned three first-place awards in the American Jewish Press Association’s annual Rockower Awards, the AJPA has announced.

All three of the awards were earned

by AJT contributor Dave Schechter: • The Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary for a selection of three of his biweekly columns — “Which Israel Are You Talking About?”; “Not in My Lifetime”; and “Have You Lost Your Way?” — dealing with Israel.

• The Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Enterprise or Investigative Reporting for “Bet Big or Fold,” an exploration of possible casino gambling in Georgia. “Rather than simply waiting for the news, this deeply reported story gets way ahead of the news — exploring the Georgia casino issue from every possible angle, culturally, fiscally and morally,” the judges said. “And it issues a provocative challenge to a Jewish community that has traditionally opposed gambling on religious grounds.”

• The Award for Excellence in Feature Writing for “After the Survivors,” an extensive report on how the Holocaust will be remembered and taught when no eyewitnesses remain. The judges wrote: “Dave Schechter dives deeply into a too-little-discussed issue: Who will bear witness when the witnesses are gone, when we’re left with stories told by those who heard them, not those who lived them?”

“I appreciate the recognition by the American Jewish Press Association and thank the management and editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times for the opportunity to write the articles that have been honored,” Schechter said.

He won a fourth first-place Rockower, the Jacob Rader Marcus Award for Journalistic Excellence in American Jewish History, for a piece the Forward published about his great-aunt, “How Solomon Schechter’s Daughter Became a Card-Carrying Communist.” ■

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Naming the Foe

JULY 22 ▪ 2016

Another horrific terrorist attack has struck France after a month of slaughter from Bangladesh to Iraq to Turkey to Israel to the United States.

Other attacks have been prevented. For example, twins in South Africa were arrested this month and charged with plotting to bomb Americans and Jews.

The targets of the violence vary by nationality, wealth and religion, and the murderers use different weapons and tactics, including the brutally effective truck attack that killed at least 85 people in Nice on Bastille Day. The application of a terror method increasingly popular among Palestinians demonstrates that where there is a will to kill, there is a way.

There is an unavoidable commonality among the perpetrators of these vicious operations: their religion. Over and over and over again, we see bloodshed in the name of extreme strains of Islam.

Islam itself is not evil, nor are most Muslims bad.

Muslims form by far the largest group of victims of terrorism. Most people of faith, including Muslims, share a reverence for life and a love of humanity. Appreciation for the common bonds of mankind naturally flows from a faithful study of Scripture.

But a twisted interpretation of Islam motivates and justifies the slaughter of innocents. It’s denying the obvious not to call Islamist terrorism what it is.

We’re told we risk sparking Islamophobia if we connect “Islam” and “terrorism”; people even resist using the name of terrorist group Islamic State.

But there’s no evidence of a rise in Islamophobia.

U.S. polling shows increasing sympathy and appreciation for Muslims. It’s easy to find individual antiMuslim incidents, just as it’s easy to cite examples of anti-Semitism, but those are the actions of sick people who will always find an excuse to express hatred.

President Barack Obama is correct that there’s nothing magical about the words “Islamist terrorism.” Saying them won’t stop the killing.

But what does not saying them accomplish?

Consider two responses to the truck massacre: • “We are in a war that will last, with a threat that is constantly renewing itself. Adapting and continuously strengthening our plan of action against Islamist terrorism remains a top priority.”

• “I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack. … We have offered any assistance that they may need to investigate this attack and bring those responsible to justice.”

The first statement, from former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, acknowledges that we are at war and names the enemy, Islamist terrorism.

The second statement, from Obama, condemns the Nice attack but treats it as a criminal act, requiring investigation to achieve justice, rather than an act of war.

That’s not good enough. Obama is right that Islamic State’s battlefield losses are driving it to more terrorism, but that means, as Sarkozy said, that we must adjust our tactics. We can’t do so if we’re not willing to acknowledge that Islamic extremism is motivating and unifying the enemy — the enemy of hundreds of millions of Muslims as well as Jews, Christians, Hindus and anyone else who just wants 10 to live in peace. ■

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18 Brave Women Put Necks Out My profession is news, but my hobby and my stayed there through U.S. involvement in World War college majors could be classified as olds (history I, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, and classics). Amid so much horrifying (terrorist and didn’t come out until World War II. massacres, ambushes of police) and terrifying news But less than 15 months after Frank was hanged, (anything from the national political conventions), I and less than a week before the nation overwhelmhope you’ll forgive me for peering into the past. ingly re-elected Woodrow Wilson as president This issue offers two chances to examine Atbecause of his promise to turn his back on the rest lanta’s slice of Jewish history: the centennial of Haof the world, 18 women responded to the challenge dassah’s Atlanta chapter and the offered by Hadasopening of the Atlanta History sah’s founding in Center’s “Gatheround” exhibit.

New York 4½ years Editor’s Notebook Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s earlier.

100th anniversary isn’t until They looked beBy Michael Jacobs November, and we would have yond the threats to mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com waited until just after the High their own commuHolidays in October to share the nity from the likes story of how 18 women gathered of hatemongering to launch a century of Zionist-inspired philanthropy newspaper publisher Tom Watson and the resurgent if Hadassah hadn’t decided to bring its 98th annual Klan and focused on the plight of their fellow Jews in National Convention here. But National Convention Palestine, then a dusty, impoverished corner of the opens July 25, and you can read about the gathering crumbling Ottoman Empire. and Hadassah’s first Atlanta century in a four-page That took real bravery, including facing down pullout starting on Page 15. possibly dismissive husbands.

Meanwhile, “Gatheround” opened at the start Five months after Hadassah launched in of July, but the History Center had its media preview Atlanta, the United States entered World War I, and July 13, meaning that this is the first issue in which Palestine was technically enemy territory, albeit we could tell about the interactive exhibit and its soon to fall to the British. With our boys going over extensive Jewish elements. Page 22 has the details. there to fight the Germans in Europe, those foundWhat’s interesting isn’t the chance timing now ing ladies must have faced intense pressure to stop but the moment seized by those chai women in 1916. paying monthly Hadassah dues and put aside their As the AJT extensively, authoritatively explored fundraising for the Jewish National Fund and the last summer — even if the American Jewish Press Jewish children’s milk fund.

Association judges didn’t notice — the murder arrest Again, the Hadassah women refused to take the and conviction of Leo Frank in 1913 and his lynching easy path and go along with the pressures of secular in Marietta in 1915 shattered Jewish Atlanta. society and assimilation. Again, they were brave.

Even though the community didn’t shrink, it did So I guess it’s no surprise that 100 years later retreat from civic leadership and the public spottheir organization is thriving with more than 3,600 light. As the Breman Museum’s “18 Artifacts” exhibit members and seems well positioned for another cenhas shown, Jewish Atlanta essentially hid inside a tury of contributing to women’s rights, education and turtle shell to escape a rise in overt anti-Semitism, medical breakthroughs in Israel and worldwide. ■

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Should I Be Concerned?

said: “This campaign of Donald Trump is terrifying. He is tapping into some legitimate fears and concerns that many Americans hold about their future and the state of the country.

But the root causes and solutions he is presenting are absolutely dangerous.

He is appealing to the worst aspects

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of our country’s history-intense xenophobia, racism and anti-Muslim Islamophobia that is running rampart in this country.”

The Anti-Defamation League responded to the social media attacks by creating a Task Force on Hate Speech and Journalism.

Among the representatives of journalism, law enforcement, academia and nongovernmental groups on the task force is Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Colombia University.

“I have never heard anything like this,” he said of the attacks. “There is a lunatic fringe that has always existed in America that hates Jews and usually other groups as well. Every once in a while, they pop up in public. … What has happened now is that Trump has given these people cover to creep out from under their rocks.”

Asked by CNN what message he had for his fans who had sent such “anti-Semitic death threats,” Trump replied: “I know nothing about it.”

Trump adviser Jason Greenblatt has been quoted as saying, “I do not think Mr. Trump can be responsible for people who are anti-Semitic who support him.”

But Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar at Emory who is writing a book about contemporary anti-Semitism, laid the blame for much of the anti-Semitic vitriol at Trump’s feet.

Wealthy Jewish leaders advocate Trump’s candidacy. They see no problem with casting their ballots with those of Neo-Nazi Jew-haters because “they do not mean us.”

The words of Pastor Martin Niemoller (“First they came for the socialists …”) resonate 70 years later.

Should I be concerned? Yes, I am. ■ Holocaust survivor Norbert Friedman has lived in Atlanta since 2010.

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Ever since the race for the presidency of the United States became a race between Donald Trump and the other contenders and Trump hit the campaign trail promoting his views, I have had this uneasy feeling that I have heard this rhetoric before.

As sentiments with tones expressed in the ’30s filled the pages and airwaves of the media, forerunners of the world tragedy echoed in my head.

Images of young people in nondescript uniforms with armbands reading “Trump Troops,” marching down the streets of Atlanta and chanting the “Horst Wessel Lied,” plagued my sleepless nights. Remembrance of cowering in the cellar to hide from the rummaging mob during the pogrom in my town in Poland in 1937 and of the atrocities of the Holocaust trumped all my arguments with myself: “It can’t happen here; this is America.”

But the words of the song by Mordechai Gebirtig from Yom HaShoah observances — es brent, briderlekh, es brent (it’s burning, brothers, it’s burning) — kept ringing in my ears.

And then on a Sunday morning in May as I turned the pages of The New York Times, a colorful display with the heading “The Nazi Tweets of ‘Trump God Emperor’ ” caught my attention. It was an article by Jonathan Weisman.

Weisman, a native of Atlanta, had tweeted out a piece from The Washington Post by Robert Kagan: “This is how fascism comes to America.”

David Schechter in his inimitable style in his column “You Can’t Escape Your Judaism” (June 24) covered most but not all of what I would like to point out about what happened next.

I would like to mention instances of anti-Semitic messages targeted at Jewish journalists Jake Tapper of CNN, freelancer Julia Joffe, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and others.

The torrent of anti-Semitic messages aimed at Joffe included an image of her wearing a Holocaust-era Jewish star and threats that she would be sent “back to the oven.”

The Jewish Week reports that Bethany Mandel, a political columnist, received such a barrage of anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing Donald Trump, from being called a “slimy Jewess” to being told she “deserves the oven,” that she bought a gun for protection.

Stosh Cotler, the CEO of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice,

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Worship of Guns Is Worship of Idols When it came time for Moses to die, the legends tell us, G-d opened a cave to be his kever, his final resting place. Moses came by himself to his eternal resting place, where he lay down, and G-d extracted his soul with a kiss and closed the cave.

Till this day, no one knows where Moses is buried. The reason for keeping the place an unknowable and eternal secret, Rashi tells us, is that no one should make his kever a shrine and come to worship Moses instead of G-d.

Judaism in principle is opposed to fetishism and idolatry, and this opposition is expressed in the above tale.

Most often people think of idols as man-created statues that are worshipped as though they were G-d.

This is a very narrow perspective of idolatry.

The real meaning of idol worship is stated in the Book of Psalms, and it is the worship of maaseh bnai adam, objects and ideas that are of our own creation. When we create an object or an idea and endow it with tran-

scendental qualities, we become idol worshippers.

Our ancient sages have indeed raised this question: How can we create anything and then treat that object, the creations of our own hand or ideas of our own perception, as objects and ideas that we designated as our rulers? (See Psalm 115.)

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We are cautioned by our sages that we must guard ourselves lest we end up perceiving the law, which of course is a human creation, as a transcendental declaration and endow it with power over us.

This concept is well expressed in a tale regarding the law about the kashrut of a certain oven. At the end of the argumentation, it was declared the law is not in heaven but is of this world.

All laws, as are most of our cre-

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ations, are instituted to serve human needs and solve human problems. But when it comes to the law, we inadvertently seek to crown it and place it above ourselves and make it rule over us. Not only do we endow it with power over us, but we also permit the powerful in our society to co-opt it and use it against us, the powerless, for their own interest.

The writers of our belief system caution us to make sure that the laws are just — that is, that they are not subverted by those in power for their own interest and permitted to become the means by which the powerful justify their rule and become masters of the many. In such conditions the laws become idols, and we end up worshipping false gods.

And yet many of us in this country refuse to become independent of our own creation. As in the case of the Constitution, we declare that it is unchangeable even when its tenets have become old and useless.

When that occurs, we become enslaved by our own creation, leading to a state of futility.

That is, if we continue to deny that laws can and sometimes must be changed, they become hindrances in creating solutions for today’s problems.

This is evident with regard to the inability to find solutions to uncontrolled mass violence. There are those among us who refuse rationality and reject the idea that laws must be utilitarian, must serve our needs and are not Sinai-like eternal declarations.

The framers of this human construct we call the U.S. Constitution recognized that as our technological world changes, so must the moral ideals, and they made such changes possible through constitutional amendments.

Let me reiterate: The Constitution has been created to serve human needs, and such needs are in a constant flux based on technological changes.

The Constitution was created to eliminate dictatorial monarchy and the rule by fiat. The framers of the document did not wish to endow it with eternal power through which hu-

man beings would again be enslaved; they sought to create a living document, just as the Torah should be seen by all as a living, growing and changing teaching that will bring the rule of moral law.

Let us look at the Second Amendment. It begins with the following premise: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.” From this premise follows the conclusion that the bearing of arms should not be abridged.

To fulfill the first need, we must permit gun ownership so that we can have a militia. At that time, in the 18th century, local militias were necessary for defense.

If we accept the premise on which gun ownership is justified, we can also reach other conclusions derived from the same premise: All the people who own guns must be a part of a militia, and it is up to the militia to regulate its members’ use of guns.

It was the same in the time of Moses, when our militia consisted of 600,000 men who swore loyalty to a common defense.

Today the militia is not dependent on individual gun ownership, and therefore the Second Amendment is one of the anachronisms that come with technological changes. Today, unlike in the 18th century, when a state militia is called to service, the members are issued the appropriate weaponry.

The security of this country no longer is dependent on private gun ownership, and the weaponry used by members of the military is in no way dependent on personal gun ownership.

Uncontrolled gun ownership does not solve collective security; it has become the root of insecurity.

The screaming of people about the loss of the privileges accorded in the Second Amendment is merely the cry of selfish individuals who are being supported by the self-interests of the gun business.

We still have a great need for security, but gun ownership has not and cannot solve today’s need to defend a right that is being constantly violated: the right to life. ■

Uncontrolled gun ownership does not solve collective security; it has become the root of insecurity.

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The Making of South Side’s ‘Shamash’ Nadine Winter lends a helping hand wherever she can

By Vicki Leopold

JULY 22 ▪ 2016

Nadine Winter, a retired businesswoman who lives in Newnan, does not think she is anything special, but her goal certainly is. She passionately works to repair the world “in whatever tiny way I can.”

Winter is described by those who know her well as “intense,” a “thunderbolt of energy” and the “Shamash” (the Chanukah candle that lights the others).

Winter credits her passion for tikkun olam — working to make the world a better place — to her Jewish upbringing in Montreal.

She was born in 1949 to a workingclass family. While her family was not observant, she went to services with her Orthodox Russian-Polish grandparents. Her mother enjoyed the Jewish rituals of candle lighting and preparing Shabbat dinner.

Winter remembers her father telling her stories of the Depression and how her paternal grandmother would cook and feed neighbors even though the family didn’t have much but perhaps had a little more than others.

She recalls that her father, whom she describes as a guteh neshomo (a good soul), was always helping neighbors and fixing problems, and he visited sick children in the hospital every Sunday. Sometimes he brought along famous sports figures or showed films and delivered presents.

Her father also was a sympathetic ear and wise problem solver. Neighbors, including the children, sought his counsel and left with solutions and ideas.

Winter tearfully remembers him as someone who always took the time to help.

Her parents imparted in her a sense of importance, value and support. She said her upbringing was not about discipline; her parents encouraged her to find her voice and to feel that she had something of consequence to share.

Living in a closely knit Jewish community where everyone cared about one another fostered an image of community and caring.

Growing up, Winter’s best friend’s mother was a Holocaust survivor and occasionally had bad days that required her daughter to stay home from school. Winter remembers joining her friend on those dark days, and the 14 three of them — Winter, her friend and

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her friend’s mom — would lie in bed together for hours and talk.

When she saw others with so little in their lives and no one to care about them, Winter became sad.

While working on her political science degree at Sir George Williams University in Montreal (now part of Concordia University), she volunteered in a home for children with disabilities and brought the children to the park.

One day she offered to bring the children into the sandbox, but the children said they were not allowed to play in the sandbox because they would get too dirty.

Winter said that response greatly troubled her because she felt that the children deserved a full life; why should they be denied because they would get dirty?

At that moment, her sadness turned into anger; eventually, she channeled her anger into social action.

In the 1960s Winter was involved in the civil rights and feminist movements and encouraged Canadian legislation to help women and protect their rights.

After obtaining her undergraduate degree, she stayed home to begin a family. Five years later Winter returned to school to get her master’s in political science. Her thesis was about the challenges women faced in the workforce.

With that degree, her first job was in a human resources consulting firm, Hay Management Consultants.

She was the only woman in the firm who was not a secretary. She analyzed trends, did research and fostered need-

ed changes in the work world.

Winter became Hay’s first female partner, was instrumental in doubling the business and taught others how to value each employee. She assisted the company in developing an equal pay system for women and fought against sexual harassment.

Several years later Winter left to start her own firm, N. Winter Consulting, again using well-documented research to teach corporations important concepts, such as when employees are treated well, the good feelings filter down to the customers, and when employees feel valued and invested in improving the business, they become an important part of making a company successful.

She managed her own firm for 15 years, working with companies such as Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Citibank, Ontario Hydro, and Sun Oil. Eventually she and her husband, Mark, moved to California, then they came to Georgia in 2010 to retire and be close to her children and grandchildren. This closeness would not last too long: Both sons, one a university professor specializing in race and ethnicity and the other an international equestrian athlete, accepted employment in England and now live there with their families.

To Winter, Judaism is about helping others and fighting for social justice, so after moving to Georgia and joining Congregation B’nai Israel in Fayetteville, Winter promptly became the head of the social action committee.

She offered career counseling to young adults just getting started in the workforce, implemented a Martin Luther King Jr. service with community outreach and organized B’nai Israel members for Atlanta’s annual Hunger Walk.

Winter’s enthusiasm was contagious, and when she got involved in events, others became excited and involved. Turnout for events grew. That is when a friend called her the Shamash.

Three years ago Winter took on a huge challenge: She became a volunteer career counselor at Wellspring, assisting minors who had been involved in sex trafficking.

Atlanta is a major gateway for foreign and domestic sex trafficking. Wellspring and other faith-based groups provide residential and social services, education, and recreation to help girls change their lives.

Winter also worked diligently for legislation that changed the legal view of minors sold for sex from criminals to victims. She said she finds it “breathtakingly gratifying” to help these girls develop work and interview skills and to see their own worth.

Almost two years ago, the Winters joined The Temple in Atlanta, which offered Nadine additional opportunities for social justice. She participates in an organization started by Rabbi Peter Berg with others called OutCry, which works to stop gun violence.

During elections Winter works to get people out to vote and even pays for her own trips to other states to register voters.

She wants people to feel as important as she did growing up. Her passion is for everyone to have a voice.

Although Winter worked long hours over 26 years to build a successful career in human resources, she is not the type of retiree who wants to rest, relax and travel. Helping others makes her want to get up every morning.

“As a Jew, I cannot be indifferent to the problems that confront society,” she said. “I believe it is my duty to take an active part in fixing the world. If I can help one woman, one victim of domestic violence, leave her abuser and learn how to support her children, then my life has meaning.”

She said the happiest day of her life was when her granddaughter Amelia, then 12, said, “Grandma, you always know what to say and how to fix things.” ■

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Hadassah Through 10 Decades

From providing milk for children to preventing human trafficking, Atlanta’s chapter has made a difference in Israel and beyond

By Logan C. Ritchie lritchie@atljewishtimes.com One autumn afternoon in 1916, Becky Jacobs opened her house for a meeting. Seventeen women joined her to discuss the Atlanta charter of a women’s Zionist group called Hadassah.

Local legend has it that Sadye Jacobs, who later served as chapter president, had a sister-in-law who was Hadassah’s national president, leading to Atlanta’s introduction to Hadassah.

The stand-in president, Lil Buch­ man, outlined the organization’s cause. Dr. Hyman Solomon described the work of Hadassah in the Ottoman province of Palestine. A call was made to charter the chapter, elect officers, schedule meetings and collect monthly dues. The first dues collection among the 18 charter members totaled $4.75.

On Nov. 1, 1916, the Alliance Chapter of Hadassah was official.

A century later, more than 3,600 Atlanta-area women are members of Hadassah, an organization known for its dedication to medical advances, political advocacy and research in Israel and throughout the world.

As the chapter thrived that first decade, Hadassah members beautified and improved the city around them.

The women planted trees on Stone Mountain Road. They placed milk fund containers in Davison’s Department Store on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta to ensure a glass of milk each day for each Jewish child in Palestine.

Annie Levy, Ida Levitas and Bert Travis.

Atlanta members were continually recognized for zealous fundraising.

Alliance Chapter women surpassed national goals to the benefit of Hadassah Hospital and Jewish Kicking off the yearlong centennial celebration Nov. 1, 2015, National Fund. The (center from left) centennial chair Phyllis Cohen, Greater chapter received Atlanta Hadassah President Paula Zucker, then-National high praise from President Marcie Natan and exhibition chair Ruthanne the Palestine SupWarnick cut the ribbon on Hadassah Atlanta’s centennial plies Bureau for the exhibit at the Breman Museum. Joining the quartet in the middle are Southeastern Region President Toby Parker (left), expert workmanIsraeli Consul General Judith Varnai Shorer (scheduled to ship, quality and speak at the convention), Breman Executive Director Aaron quantity of supplies Berger and exhibition display designer Dale Brubaker. created by the 135 Sewing circles produced supplies members of the six Hadassah sewing and organized clothing collections to groups, which spanned from brides-toship to the Palestine Supplies Bureau. be to great-grandmothers.

During the late 1920s, the chapter Israel’s War of Independence creminutes noted that despite hard times, ated demands on Hadassah’s resourcquotas for all projects were met, ines, but Atlanta Hadassah celebrated the cluding the local Infant Welfare Fund. declaration of the Jewish state in 1948.

In 1933 Hadassah opened the Sadye Jacobs, the 1931-32 chapter Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospi- president, became Atlanta’s first life tal on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. As member — a term that holds high esWorld War II began in Europe, Hadas- teem in modern Hadassah membersah launched emergency shipments of ship. Jacobs was an indomitable workmedical supplies, drugs and clothing to er in membership and fundraising.

Palestine. Mobilized to support the U.S. From 1945 to 1950, Hadassah war effort, the Alliance Chapter em- bounced between massive losses and braced National Hadassah’s campaign monumental celebrations. Notably, to sell $200 million in U.S. war bonds.

Hadassah founder and visionary HenThe Alliance Chapter movers and rietta Szold died in 1945. Her passing shakers included Rae Rosenberg Frank, was mourned worldwide.

On April 13, Atlanta’s 1948, 78 doctors, 1916 Charter nurses and hos- Members pital personnel Sara Breman were killed when Becky Jacobs their convoy to Lil Buchman Hadassah Mount Mrs. E.A. Joseph Scopus was amLily-Sara Cohen bushed. Dr. Haim Rose Kahanow Yassky, the direcDora Eplan tor of the HadasNahama Koplin sah Medical OrMrs. I. Fineman ganization, was Rebecca Levy among the dead.

Bertie Hellman He had spoken Mrs. H. Mendel at an Atlanta HaMrs. Dave Hirsch dassah luncheon Mrs. Mose Stein a few years prior.

The May 20, Lizzie Jacobs Sara Zaban 1948, meeting of Senior Hadassah Lena Jacobs included both Sara Zion the American and Israeli flags. Local membership totaled 1,556. Fundraising chairs reported $11,532 for the emergency drive and $4,157.13 for JNF. The Southside Grandmothers Sewing Circle produced nearly 2,000 garments for Hadassah Supplies, which shipped out of Beth Jacob Synagogue on Boulevard.

Atlanta members held a letterwriting campaign to urge senators to vote for the 1948 Displaced Persons Bill to protect from persecution the survivors of the Nazi reign of terror.

In 1949, Golda Meir visited Atlanta.

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Generations of Leadership

In this special section, meet some of the women who have kept Hadassah thriving and growing in Atlanta through the decades Hadassah Greater Atlanta president Paula Zucker has an undeniable energy. Originally from New York, Zucker has lived in Atlanta for 35 years and jokes that she is still awaiting her native status.

“I can’t wait for convention. There are new people every time. And I can’t wait to discover a new nugget of inspiration,” she said.

The Hadassah Greater Atlanta president became a life member at 18 when she got married. At 22 she and her husband moved to Charleston, S.C.,

where he was a busy physician. “I wanted to connect with the community,” she said. “Hadassah is wonderful because no matter where you go, they embrace Paula Zucker you. They made my family their family.”

Her best friends — among them Toby Parker, Ruthanne Warnick, Rita Leventhal, Rachel Schonberger and Anita Levy — have laughed, cried and celebrated many phases of Hadassah.

Zucker raised her son and daughter to appreciate the rich history of Hadassah. Her son, an Emmy Awardwinning photographer, contributes to local auctions. Her daughter, a 21-yearold college student, receives advocacy alerts from Hadassah and contacts her congressional leaders.

“Hadassah speaks to us as a family,” Zucker said. “Not only for its love and support of Israel, but for its love of humanity.”

Before achieving her current leadership position, Zucker was employed

by Hadassah Greater Atlanta. She was

inspired by the exuberance of her professional peers as well as volunteers. “I didn’t feel like a paid person. If volunteers were there working, I was there working. There was such passion exhibited by Hadassah volunteers. They always came to a board meeting. In fact, board meetings were often standing room only.”

Along with Parker, Hadassah’s Southeast Region president and daughter of activist Laurel Weiner, Zucker plans to present a comical talk on “How to Survive in a Southern City in Two Minutes or Less” at the convention. ■ 15 JULY 22 ▪ 2016

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HADASSAH 1916-2016 The chapter kept growdedication of the Laurel ing in size and fundraisWeiner Forest in Israel. ing, supporting children, Atlanta’s booming the Hadassah Medical population demanded Organization and JNF. a change in Hadassah’s With Israel estabstructure. The chapter lished, Atlanta’s Alliance created interest groups.

Chapter had a relativeIn 1983 those groups tbely quiet decade in the came five chapters with 1950s. National Hadasindividual presidents. sah pledged to sell $30 Three-time chapter million in Israel Bonds President Phyllis Coand to concentrate on hen lived through the Helen Spiegel carries the fundraising for a new growing pains. She said Olympic torch for the medical center. Bon voygroups were based on lo1996 Atlanta Games. age parties celebrated cation, interests and age. every visit to Israel, a rarity at the time.

“At some point there were so many The 1960s saw the Hadassah Bar- groups it was difficult to deal with progain Store open on Marietta Street gramming and leadership. So we tried downtown, and Camp Judaea came several large chapters with no groups. to fruition through the efforts of Lila But there was one big disadvantage: Reisman, Laurel Weiner and Malcolm There was no single large voice and Minsk of the Atlanta Zionist Council. face of Hadassah,” she said. “It was conIn November 1967, 1,000 Atlanta fusing for the community.”

Hadassah families and friends joined National Hadassah realized the Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. and Israeli Consul potential for growth and leadership in General Zeev Boneh in welcoming Je- the city and the Southeast, and Greater rusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek. As a sou- Atlanta Hadassah emerged as a single venir, Kollek, an archaeology buff, was chapter in 1994. National Hadassah presented with a pottery relic from the financially supported a new office in Etowah burial mounds in Cartersville.

Sandy Springs, professional adminisAtlanta was one of only three U.S. trative staff and outreach measures. cities visited by Kollek.

Atlanta was the first city with staff In 1970, chapter President Hazel in a hub to serve cities across the reKarp led the charge with new Mayor gion. Greater Atlanta Hadassah had Sam Massell, Atlanta’s only Jewish members from Alpharetta to Riverdale. mayor, for a beautification project at Current Greater Atlanta President the Civic Center as a tangible sign of Paula Zucker said: “Like any major orgrowth and development in Atlanta. ganization — and we have watched it When Hurricane Fifi (later named happen with the Federation, the JCC Hurricane Orlene) devastated Hondu- and ORT — as you restructure, change ras in 1974, the Hadassah Bargain Store is hard. Sometimes the organization provided clothing and blankets to the has to shift to survive and thrive. If you victims. The Atlanta chapter was con- never change, you’re going to die.” sistently recognized for fundraising The 1990s were a pivotal decade for and growth, winning awards at confer- Greater Atlanta Hadassah (now known ences and conventions. as Hadassah Greater Atlanta). Three In 1976, JNF honored longtime major programs were established: the Hadassah advocate Weiner with the Chesed Student Awards, an annual

Virginia Saul

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Centennial honoree and 70-year member Native Atlantan Virginia Saul has been a Hadassah member for nearly 70 years. She and her husband have three grown children, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

There is no mistaking the spunky 87-year-old’s Southern drawl.

“Laurel Weiner would knock on your door and tell you to do two things: Join Sisterhood at the synagogue and join Hadassah,” Saul said with a laugh.

“The first day I was home from my honeymoon, Laurel knocked on my door and said, ‘I want you to give me three checks. One for Sisterhood dues, one 16 for Hadassah dues, and give me $36 for

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During the 1950s Hadassah recruited members by taking the show on the road. Women would visit synagogues in the SouthVirginia Saul east and host coffees.

Saul recalled visiting Spartanburg, Columbia and Hilton Head Island, S.C., as well as Macon, Ga. “We traveled all over the Southeast with the Hadassah Caravan. We educated women about water problems in Israel with music, songs and dancing.

We told them the history of Israel. It was board training in a fun way. Usu-

Georgia Gov. Ernest Vandiver presents Hadassah’s Atlanta chapter with the state flag to be flown at the dedication of the new Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

Accepting are Sara Alterman, Sara Levin, Louella Shapiro and Laurel Weiner.

event to recognize exemplary students in Jewish day and religious schools; Check It Out, a breast cancer prevention program for high school girls with Northside Hospital; and Training Wheels, an education program for preschoolers and their families.

Hadassah joined the League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County to sponsor a candidate forum for the U.S. Senate and the 4th and 5th congressional districts and remained vigilant as Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act. Weiner, a fearless and beloved Hadassah leader, died in 1996 from cancer. That year, Hadassah members volunteered for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, including Holocaust survivor Helen Spiegel, who ran with the torch.

The Israeli Paralympic team was honored by Greater Atlanta Hadassah and the Atlanta Jewish Federation.

Greater Atlanta was one of 10 chapters selected in 1998 for the Hadassah Leadership Academy, a pilot of a multiyear program in Jewish women’s history, Zionism, community leader-

ship and social advocacy.

In 1999 Hadassah, along with the Atlanta Jewish community, observed the national organization’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Atlanta received the National Award for Excellence in Women’s Health Education.

Two thousand delegates descended on Washington for the largest Day on the Hill event in Hadassah’s history.

In the first decade of the new millennium, Hadassah’s health professionals group led local forums on women’s health, including genetic disease, heart disease and breast cancer.

Today, Hadassah in Atlanta is a source of continuity and leadership.

Members advocate gender equality in medical research, women’s preventive health care, affordable child care and laws to stop human trafficking.

National President Ellen Hirshkin said: “You don’t have to be Jewish to sign on to our programs and advocacy efforts. Hadassah is for everyone.

We reflect at every level: age, economic stratum, religious observance. We reflect the power of women who do.” ■

ally people who (attended) joined,” she said.

During one trip, Saul’s mother joined her.

“I went to give a speech, and I was speeding on the way home when I got pulled over,” Saul said. “My mother told the officer, ‘You cannot give her a ticket. My daughter just gave an important speech about the Middle East.’ And he said, ‘Ma’am, just go on and tell your daughter not to speed.’ ” In 1964, Saul was president of the Atlanta chapter when she traveled to Los Angeles for National Convention.

She and Dorothy Cohen Levy, past president of the Columbus chapter, went to lunch at the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel.

“The maitre d’ told us we didn’t want to sit in the main dining room, and he led us around to the back. There was Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Michael Wilding, all in the back room of the Beverly Hills Hotel,” Saul said. “Lunch was $18. That was a lot of money back then.”

Beyond the fond memories and fun, Saul wants people to know about the medical advances Hadassah has brought to the world.

People “think it is a little old woman’s organization. But Hadassah took a stand on education, took a stand on civil rights, took a stand on troubled children,” she said. “Hadassah has been my lifeline.” ■

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Hadassah Puts Young Faces Forward

By Logan C. Ritchie lritchie@atljewishtimes.com

Esther Panitch

Renée Rosenheck

Panitch, solicited pledges for the last $25,000 and met the goal.

On her return to Atlanta, Panitch created three events to educate the community about stem cell research.

More than 300 people attended.

Working with Panitch to plan the young women’s reception and #HadassahRocks concert at National Convention is Atlanta native Renée Rosenheck.

Rosenheck and her sisters were given life memberships by their mother. Her family joke is that Hadassah memberships were on sale.

Several years ago Rosenheck was recruited by Holly Strelzik to initiate young Atlanta women. (Full disclosure: I also attended those meetings with young, intown Hadassah members.)

She was asked to apply to the Hadassah Leadership Fellow program and was “catapulted into the leadership of

to meeting in the evenings to get out of the house and meet other like-minded people. Others only have time for an occasional book club or Hadassah meetings with substantive programs where they can make a difference.”

She said younger women “have a disposition of ‘Yes, I want to make a difference, but what’s in it for me?’ Hadassah offers something for everyone.”

Raychel Robbins, 35, spent years working for Hadassah in Florida’s Broward County after college. After remarrying, becoming a stepmother of three teens and relocating to Atlanta, she is ready to jump back into Hadassah.

“The best thing Hadassah did for me was teach me how to talk about Israel. I grew up Zionist, and my parents were involved in synagogue. Hadassah gave me tools to combat anti-Semitism and talk about the medical research and technology,” Robbins said.

“There’s no pressure to do more once you’re at a Hadassah event,” Panitch said. “Come take advantage.

When I was young and going to meetings, the women were some of the brightest women I’ve met. Leadership comes from growing up with Hadassah. We get things done.” ■

Centennial Gala to Honor Past, Present, Future Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s yearlong celebration of 100 years of serving the community culminates in a centennial gala Sunday, Oct. 30, at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead.

The night of nostalgia and friendship, commitment and accomplishment, and pride and fulfillment will include a cocktail hour and a seated dinner. Three honorees will represent Hadassah’s past, present and future in Atlanta: the late Rae Frank (represented by Lois and Larry Frank), a devoted leader and mentor to generations; Virginia Saul, a dedicated and dynamic past president; and Renée Rosenheck,

Phyllis Cohen

Centennial chair Phyllis Cohen, who is chairing the centennial celebration of Hadassah in Atlanta and is a 40-year member of Hadassah Greater Atlanta, was newly married when she was invited to her first Hadassah event by Toby Parker.

“I was invited to a membership coffee to hear about Hadassah. I was not yet a mom, teaching at E.R. Carter Elementary on Ashby Street. We lived in northwest Atlanta on Bolton Road because I grew up in that area at AA

a Hadassah leadership fellow who inspires her contemporaries.

The festivities will show how Hadassah makes an impact not only in Atlanta, but also around the world through medical research conducted by the Hadassah Medical Organization.

Event planner Martha Jo Katz and

Linda Hakerem are serving as the event co-chairs. Lois Blonder is the honorary chair. Phyllis Cohen is the chair of the centennial celebration.

Hadassah Greater Atlanta is the local chapter of the largest women’s volunteer organization in the United States. Hadassah has more than 300,000 members nationwide.

In addition to supporting international projects, Hadassah Greater Atlanta sponsors programs on human trafficking, heart disease and breast cancer and advocates other women’s health and social issues. For over 20 years the Hadassah chapter has worked

with Northside Hospital on Check It Out, teaching cancer awareness and prevention to high school girls. ■

Synagogue. My parents lived nearby, and my husband commuted to downtown,” she said.

“I was looking for something else to get involved in, something meaningPhyllis Cohen ful. I heard about Hadassah and felt it would be my window to the world.

They did good work. I liked the people. That has remained true,” said the

grandmother of six.

Atlanta’s dedicated supporters struck Cohen, who now is deemed an integral part of Hadassah’s history here.

She served as chapter president three times and chaired many political, educational and social events.

Parker was on Cohen’s first trip to Israel. The close friends gave birth to sons at the same time and three years later gave birth to daughters.

Both women stayed active during the ups and downs of Hadassah Great-

er Atlanta.

“I made lifelong friends in Hadassah,” Cohen said.

As she prepares for National Convention in Atlanta, she looks forward to seeing the big picture of Hadassah.

“Meeting women from across the country, standing at the opening ceremony and singing ‘Hatikvah’ with 2,000 women who have the same aspirations, goals and level of excitement — you have chills. It unites us as one strong organization,” she said. “Your 17 voice is heard.” ■

The yearlong centennial celebration kicked off last November with the opening of an exhibit of the Breman Museum featuring informational boards like this, as well as artifacts.

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Esther Panitch’s first Hadassah memory is attending meetings as a little girl with her mother and grandmother. She would eat chocolate chip cookies and be doted on by the ladies.

As she got older, she needed to find out whether Hadassah was right for her. She was living in Miami after law school and became the president of the local young women’s Hadassah group.

In 2004, when her husband was transferred to Atlanta, she was house hunting in the suburbs. “I was looking at this house and saw a Hadassah sticker on the fridge,” she said. “The owner was beautiful young woman. I thought, ‘OK, this will be good.’ ” Panitch, 44, is an energetic partner in her own law firm, a whip-smart legal correspondent for CNN and a busy mother of three. Her involvement in Hadassah is limited, but she attends nearly every Hadassah convention.

In 2007, a group of Atlanta Hadassah women learned that a $1 million collection for stem cell research was short. In the middle of the National Convention gala, five women, led by

Hadassah. I met 22 people from across the nation. We met in New York. We went to Washington, D.C., for advocacy and the Power of Hadassah on the Hill.

We were influencing legislation in the U.S. and Israel.”

In Israel the fellows looked at Hadassah’s work and learned about women’s equality and Israeli demographics.

She recalled meeting female entrepreneurs and the first female speaker of the Knesset, Dalia Itzik.

Rosenheck is an up-and-coming Hadassah leader and maintains a large role in planning National Convention.

She recently started her own global business consulting firm. Yet she remains dedicated to bringing younger women into the fold by social media.

“Hadassah is very focused on engaging younger women. They are doing the best to cater to us in any way they can. Younger women don’t want to go to events for younger women planned by older women,” she said. “A lot of people were given a life membership and don’t know what to do with it. But it’s what you make of it.”

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Style, Celebrity and Atlantans Highlight Convention

By Logan C. Ritchie lritchie@atljewishtimes.com Jewish women from around the world will attend Hadassah’s 98th National Convention in Atlanta from Monday to Thursday, July 25 to 28.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is slated to speak at the opening plenary, The Power of Our Dreams, along with Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens.

While attendees network and mingle for four days at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, they will learn how to advocate for women and become educated on groundbreaking medical research conducted by the Hadassah Medical Organization.

Highly anticipated for the young crowd are the Party at the Pulse reception and #HadassahRocks concert with “Prince of Kosher Gospel” Joshua Nelson the night of July 26. Atlantans who aren’t attending the convention can attend the concert for $36 or the concert and reception for $50.

Organizers Renée Rosenheck and Esther Panitch invite women under 45 to join the festive evening, regardless of whether they are active members. “This is an opportunity to socialize and have fun,” Rosenheck said. “The younger Hadassah members can celebrate with our demographic and our vibe.”

Also on July 26, the executive director of the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta, Rachel Wasserman, will address how young women are engaging in leadership during a panel discussion of women in their 30s who lead Hadassah Foundation-supported programs.

Photo by Mingle Media TV Network

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow brings some national celebrity to the opening-night gala plenary of the convention.

“I spent time in Avodah (Jewish service corps) doing deep dives into Jewish studies and our responsibility to the world. Social change is very important to me,” Wasserman said. “In Atlanta, I have found excitement from older generations for young leadership in both a professional and volunteer capacity.

There is a great excitement and priority on raising up future leaders.”

Piggybacking on that session, political strategist Rabbi Hank Sheinkopf will be on a panel July 27. He and other prominent Jewish leaders will discuss trends in the Jewish communal world.

Located on the hotel’s atrium level, the convention registration desk will be open during the following times: July 25 from 1 to 8 p.m., July 26 from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and July 27 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 to 8 p.m.

Register until Sunday, July 24, at www.hadassah.org/convention. Volunteers can sign up at bit.ly/29Wknvr. ■

$5,000 Grant to Help Dying Children

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The Million Dollar Round Table Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to Hadassah to support the palliative care program of the pediatric hematology-oncology department of the Hadassah Medical Organization.

The program helps children dying of cancer to enjoy the best quality of life possible.

Hadassah provides all patients with quality care, regardless of nationality, race or religion.

The Million Dollar Round Table Foundation is an independent association of nearly 36,000 of the world’s leading life insurance and financial services professionals from more than 78 countries.

Bill Loventhal of Dunwoody, a 40-year member of the round table, a financial adviser at Northwestern Mutual and a Hadassah associate, presented the grant to Paula Zucker, the president of Hadassah Greater Atlanta, who accepted the check on behalf of 18 Hadassah. ■

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Joshua Nelson, known as the “Prince of Kosher Gospel,” is the star of the second-night concert, which targets the under-45 crowd.

Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens, shown at the Jewish Breakfast Club on July 13, is scheduled to welcome the convention to Atlanta at the opening-night plenary session.

Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Convention Contributions

• Providing 100 volunteers from the Southeast — South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Volunteers range from active members to those inspired by the centennial.

• Hosting the Power of Our Dreams plenary with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, followed by a reception to celebrate the Hadassah Greater Atlanta centennial, which falls on Nov. 1. Banners will display the chapter’s history and photographs through the decades.

Surgeon Diane • Hosting a young women’s reception and #HadasAlexander speaks at this sahRocks concert. Like every major organization, Hayear’s Breast Strokes dassah in Atlanta is faced with the challenge of engagBig Reveal event. ing young members. These social events are geared for the 45-and-under crowd.

• Providing local speakers, including women’s cardiac health pioneer Nannette Wanger, Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta Executive Director Rachel Wasserman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, and NASA bioethicist and Emory University scholar Paul Root Wolpe.

• Presenting a session on Breast Strokes — a Hadassah Greater Atlanta event that incorporates breast cancer education, artists and survivors — led by volunteers, honorees and local plastic surgeon Diane Alexander. ■

Rachel Schonberger and Linda Hakerem

Leaders in health and wellness She’s now the chair of the Hadassah Medical Organization, but in 1971 Dr. Rachel Schonberger was simply looking for Jewish friends. A neighbor invited her to a Hadassah meeting.

“It was a natural fit,” Rachel Schonberger Schonberger said. She can count Hadassah members and supporters in her mother, husband and sons, daughter-in-law, and granddaughters.

Linda Hakerem, also part of a four-generation Hadassah family, began with Hadassah in Miami in 1970. She now serves as the national health and wellness team leader.

Together, Schonberger and Hakerem are promoting a heart-healthy program called Every Step Counts at the Hadassah National Con-

vention. Members walk virtually from Hadassah in Jerusalem to the convention in Atlanta.

Participants track exercise on a device like Fitbit. When that information is downloaded to Walker Tracker, members see where they and their friends are on the journey.

Not only is Schonberger tracking her steps around town, but she also Linda Hakerem bikes at the gym and swims.

She joked, “My grandchildren call me Buff Nanny.”

For Hakerem, 69, “Every Step Counts gave me the motivation to change my life. I made a choice to be healthier, and I will be in the best shape of my life by my next birthday.”

Every Step Counts evolved from the research of Emory cardiologist Nanette Wenger, who researches gender differences in heart disease. Wenger, scheduled to speak at the convention, is a pioneer in women’s health. ■

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Laughing With Nice Jewish Mom Rita Rudner World-class Jewish comedian Rita Rudner is performing at the Punchline in Buckhead on Wednesday and Thursday, July 27 and July 28.

The pretty, funny lady usually can be found in places such as Harrah’s in Las Vegas that can pack as many as 2,000 people into the auditorium. Why would she choose a much smaller venue like the Punchline?

“I’ve performed everywhere before,” the 62-year-old said in a telephone interview. “Everywhere except Syria.”

Rudner wanted a smaller audience so she could assess the effectiveness of her new material by looking her audience in the eyes. “It’s more personal in a small auditorium. More relaxing for me. Besides, I was in Atlanta a few times, and I liked it.”

Rudner had a 12-year run at various casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, giving her the longest-running solo comedy show ever in Sin City. She has written books, had televised comedy specials, and made lots of late-night appearances with the likes of Johnny Carson and David Letterman.

But she wasn’t always funny, and she didn’t always aspire to being a comedian. She said she grew up a shy, smart girl in Miami. The daughter of a doctor, she graduated from high school at 15.

Her dream was to become a Broadway dancer, so she headed to New York right after high school.

She made her dream come true and danced in musicals.

By the time the Broadway dancer was 25, she was well aware of the amount of competition among dancers. She wanted success, and she decided that because there weren’t so many female comics, she had a better chance if she went into comedy.

Rudner studied the performances of Jack Benny and Woody Allen and developed her own epigrammatic style.

Her material consists of what she encounters in her daily life and pokes fun at the way she was raised.

“I talk about technology, love, relationships. Everything,” Rudner said.

“My material is about everything that’s going on. But not politics. People don’t have to think what I think.”

If you go to the Punchline for one of her two shows, you’ll hear her talk about the ordinary activities that make up her day.

“I get up, take my daughter to school, do that ellip — elliptical,” she said after a pause to remember the name of the exercise machine she has.

“Then I walk Vegas veteran Rita Rudner will try out fresh the dog, swim material in Atlanta. and make dinner.”

Rudner’s jokes spring from her daily life. People like her style, which is

neither raunchy nor political.

She said being a mother — she has an adopted 14-year-old daughter — is a big part of her life, and she has provided the opportunity for her daughter to appear onstage.

“Mollie is a singer-songwriter,” Rudner said, “and she loves it when I talk about her.”

Mollie actually opens for her.

“She’s really a good kid,” Rudner said.

Some children of comedians, especially teenagers, might be embarrassed if their mother went onstage and made fun of them. But not Rita Rudner’s daughter.

“The first time she heard my act,

she said, ‘Mom, talk more about me.’ ” What did she hope the AJT would write about her before her Atlanta shows? “Write whatever you feel like writing,” Rudner said. “I never read anything anyone writes about me.” ■

Who: Rita Rudner Where: The Punchline, 3652 Roswell Road, Buckhead When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, and Thursday, July 28 Tickets: $30; www.punchline.com/ shows.asp or 404-252-5233

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By Arlene Appelrouth aappelrouth@atljewishtimes.com

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Exhibit curator Calinda Lee stands inside Eli Sotto’s re-created barbershop.

Photos by David R. Cohen

A large photo of Mary Phagan, the 13-year-old Marietta girl Leo Frank was convicted of killing, overlooks the section of the “Gatheround” exhibit devoted to child labor and Frank’s lynching.

The 1958 bombing of The Temple is a prominent part of the religion section of the exhibit.

Calvin Wickham portrays Gov. John Slaton in a live “Meet the Past” performance.

How Jews Shaped Atlanta

History Center exhibit highlights the influences from Leo Frank to Eli Sotto

By David R. Cohen david@atljewishtimes.com

JULY 22 ▪ 2016

The Atlanta History Center’s newest permanent exhibition is full of nods to the impact of Jews on the city’s history.

“Gatheround: Stories of Atlanta,” which opened July 2, focuses on stories of people from a variety of backgrounds who helped create the Atlanta we know today. Included in the 7,700-square-foot exhibit is a section devoted to the 1913 trial and 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a re-creation of Jewish Holocaust survivor Eli Sotto’s barbershop, which closed in 2014 after nearly six decades, and a section detailing the bombing of The Temple in 1958.

“You can’t tell a story about Atlanta and not talk about its Jewish citizens,” said Calinda Lee, the exhibit’s curator. “If we don’t, we won’t do it justice. Hopefully, we get that now.”

Rather than display pieces or artifacts in a chronological order, “Gatheround” is arranged by broad themes 22 relevant to everyday life in Atlanta.

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Sections include Family & Community, Politics & Justice, Urban Growth and Cultural Life.

Among the sections are nearly 750 artifacts, documents, photographs and books specifically chosen by Lee to create a connection between guests and the subjects depicted to show the history of the city at large.

“I want people who see this exhibit to know that you can make a difference,” Lee said. “Your story matters, and you can do big things that actually impact the course of history.”

Special highlights of the exhibit are re-created spaces featuring live “Meet the Past” theater performances that will help visitors understand and appreciate Atlanta’s people, places and events.

Developed by Katie Whitman, the vice president of public programs, and Addae Moon, the director of museum theater, these weekend performances see actors portray notable Atlantans such as John Slaton, the Georgia governor who commuted Frank’s death sentence; Rosalyn Walton of the Atlanta

Nine, one of the first students to desegregate Atlanta Public Schools; and a newsboy who recounts the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906.

Whitman said performances will be added as the exhibit continues.

Two of the “Meet the Past” acts come from Jewish Atlanta’s history.

In the Leo Frank section of the exhibit, Calvin Wickham portrays Slaton as he grapples with the decision to commute Frank’s death sentence and thus kill his own political career.

In Sotto’s re-created barbershop, Wickham plays a young Sotto talking about the civil rights movement with Alonzo Herndon, one of the first African-American millionaires, during a haircut.

Lee said she incorporated Sotto’s shop into the exhibit because he represents an intersection of communities in Atlanta.

“Eli Sotto has a specific story about his life as a concentration camp survivor coming to Atlanta,” Lee said. “But he also is a person who witnessed the counterculture revolution on the front

steps of his barbershop. He had a sensibility as someone who had experienced grave discrimination, and that shaped his response to the civil rights movement. So there are all these connections between different communities that people can connect with in lots of ways.”

The 1958 bombing of The Temple also is prominently featured. A large photo of Rabbi Jacob Rothschild and Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield kneeling in the rubble of the blast sits at the front of a collection of religious artifacts.

A large remnant from the explosion, on loan from the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, also is on display. ■ What: “Gatheround: Stories of Atlanta” Where: Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Road, Buckhead When: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Saturday; noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $11 to $16.50; atlantahistorycenter.com/visit/tickets

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‘Widow’ a Peak For Gabriel Allon Few things in contemporary fiction are more reliable than the exploits of Israeli master spy Gabriel Allon.

At least once a year, Daniel Silva rips Allon away from his preferred life as the world’s leading art restorer and throws him into shadowy battle against the enemies of Israel and Western democracies in general. The stories are always thrilling and well written and always packed with a college course’s worth of details on the history behind the dangers in the modern world.

Through 15 Allon books, along with art history and spy tradecraft, Silva has taught readers about Russian oligarchs, Syrian despotism, Swiss corruption, and, above all else, the workings of Islamist terrorism.

But time has worked against Silva.

His hero was recruited into the spy agency known as the Office to serve as avenging angel after the terrorist massacre of Israelis at the Munich Olympics in 1972. So if Allon had a reliable American alias in his portfolio of fake identities, he would be old enough to retire on Social Security.

Allon’s age and his promised move from the field to the director’s suite at the Office seemed to weigh on Silva and his star creation the past few books. The adventures remained creative, entertaining and educational, but they lacked a bit of edge and flair, as if author and spy alike feared their best days were behind them.

With “The Black Widow,” the 16th Allon novel, Silva is back at the top of his game. It’s as if accepting Allon’s transition to a new phase in his personal and professional life — the father of newborn twins and the head of the Office — has freed Silva to focus on storytelling and stop worrying about the future of the spy and the series.

It doesn’t hurt that this might be the timeliest Allon novel, although Silva regrets how much truth can be found in this work of fiction.

In this election year, after yet another slaughter of innocents in France, it’s hard to argue when Silva writes: “That was the only thing Washington was good at these days — recrimination and apportionment of blame. …

Now the two parties could not agree on what to call the enemy, let alone how to combat it.”

That enemy, for the first time for Allon, is Islamic State.

The Office, like Israel, has largely watched from the sidelines during Islamic State’s emergence. Israel is ultimately in the sights of the terrorist caliphate, but Islamic State’s regional enemies aren’t exactly Israel’s friends.

In the real world, Islamic State attacks on Jews and Jewish targets in France have brought Israel’s intelligence services into play. In “The Black Widow,” the turning point is a 1,000-pound truck bomb in Paris that destroys a center fighting anti-Semitism in France and kills its founding director, a friend of Allon’s who played a key role in the sixth book, “The Messenger.”

Allon is asked to help France find the bombing’s mastermind, an Islamic State leader known as Saladin.

The resulting intelligence operation gives Allon two new allies, the head of Jordan’s intelligence service and the leader of a secret French counterterrorism group, to join his list of friends in high places in the United States, England, the Vatican and elsewhere.

The effort also expands Allon’s usual crack team with a new recruit, an Arabic-speaking French-Israeli doctor who works in the emergency room at Hadassah’s Ein Kerem hospital, Natalie Mizrahi. Allon’s team manages to infiltrate her into Islamic State as the latest young Muslim woman in the West drawn to the vision of an Islamic caliphate and the chance for vengeance for a lost love.

It’s a masterly, intricate intelligence operation that brings Natalie to Saladin’s bedside and provides the opportunity to stop a massive terrorist attack on U.S. soil — one designed to draw the United States and its allies into an apocalyptic land war in Syria.

And, as happens in every Allon book, it all goes terribly wrong.

Which just adds to the anticipation for the 17th Allon book. ■

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HSP Markets Strategy of Customer Support

By Eddie Samuels Known for a hands-on approach to marketing, Henderson Shapiro Peck, founded in 1994, is celebrating one of its best years. Awarded a combined 14 Communicator and Hermes Creative awards this year for ideas and projects in the marketing industry, HSP has come a long way since its early days.

“I was the marketing director at a fast-food chain,” HSP CEO Debbi Shapiro said. Jon Henderson “was one of the sales directors for what became Warner Brothers. We got to know each other and had some ideas about the industry, and we decided to give it a go.”

From the early days, Shapiro said, the company aimed to meet a need for smaller marketing support companies.

“We tried to fill a gap in the market at that time,” she said. “All the big boys were here in Atlanta, just like in New York; they were all down the street from one another. We wanted to be a place where clients, large and small, could go and feel like we were a part of their team.”

The Roswell-based firm has

Jill Peck (left) joined Henderson Shapiro Peck as a partner after meeting Debbi Shapiro when they were picking up their children from day care.

changed some but maintains its identity as a support company first and foremost.

The two-partner enterprise became a trio at the top after Shapiro met Jill Peck while both were picking up children from day care. Peck, according to HSP’s website, “jumped on board, drank the purple stuff and became a partner.”

While growing steadily, HSP also lost a founder to colon cancer: Henderson was diagnosed in 1999 and died in 2008. “It was very hard,” Shapiro said.

“The business took a turn in his absence because he brought a lot of the television, media and consumer talents to the table.”

HSP also set itself apart in its staffing approach early on. Shapiro said they noticed that other agencies tended to hire young, specialized staffers.

“Our concept was to have more senior people that could come in and be more general in what they did.”

The goal from the start was to be different from the standard advertising agency, aiming more to be a part of a business’s marketing team than representatives from an advertising agency. “We’re not an advertising agency,” Shapiro said. “We don’t care what your budget is; we want to work on strategy.”

Shapiro joked that the biggest difference from the early days of HSP is the Internet, but there’s some truth to that statement. She also explained that when HSP started, it was one of the only marketing support companies, but today other companies have integrated a similar spread of services within smaller agencies.

What she is most proud of, Shapiro said, are the relationships HSP maintains with its clients, some of which have been with the company since Day 1.

Shapiro said her Judaism has been a big influence on the environment she tries to create within HSP. The goal is to have fun at work and be a family, both within the HSP offices and with clients, on which HSP relies for referrals.

The past four years HSP has focused on four areas: technology, health care, building and construction, and publishing. The future for HSP is largely centered on those four areas, with the goal of creating initiatives and sometimes joining two clients to make an even bigger project.

HSP also does a lot of work with and for nonprofits. “The way I was raised, we did community service,” Shapiro said. “Whether it was through temple or our parents, it was expected of me, and Jill was the same.”

Henderson wasn’t Jewish but had worked in New York all his life, and he asked Shapiro whether HSP would close on Rosh Hashanah like all the agencies in New York, she said. “The next year when we added Jill, who was Jewish, he said, ‘All right, I guess we’re closed on the holidays. Two out of three partners are Jewish.’ ” ■

A Tweedy Bird Whispers Valuable Insight

JULY 22 ▪ 2016

The name Tweedy Browne will not resonate with many readers.

When I first heard the name, I thought it was a stuffy New England company that made old-fashioned tweed sports coats with leather elbow pads.

Tweedy Browne, in fact, is a highly regarded value investor that closely follows the teachings of Ben Graham, the father of value investing. Graham laid the foundation for the approach that is widely used by most institutional investors in today’s markets.

Warren Buffett, for example, is the best-known value investor of our day.

Tweedy Browne has been in existence since 1920 and manages over $15 billion in various mutual funds and private accounts.

Below are some select comments Tweedy Browne made in its recent reports to fund holders. These comments should be thought-provoking and provide rare insight: • Volatility begets more volatility and benefits the few at the expense of the many.

24 • As disciplined investors with

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strong stomachs, Tweedy Browne believes that volatility will produce good investment opportunities.

• Tweedy Browne’s performance

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has trailed the popular benchmark indexes the past few years largely because of the massive flow of money into index funds. Tweedy Browne believes that the prices of popular growth stocks have far outstripped their growth in earnings. This period for growth stocks is similar to 2000 and 2004 to 2006.

• In 2015, four stocks — Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and Google — accounted for half of the S&P 500’s return. At year’s end, the price/earnings ratios for those four stocks were 82, 544, 402 and 33, respectively.

• Tweedy Browne has found over the years that a precondition to a good, long-term track record is the ability to

withstand long periods of underperformance. It can be very difficult to go through such a period.

• Studies show that the best time to invest with Tweedy Browne is after a period of underperformance. For those with patience and fortitude, the potential for good results is enhanced.

Wisdom of Great Investors

Warren Buffett: • Be patient and think long term.

• The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.

• View a market downturn as an opportunity.

Charles Munger: • Keep your emotions in check.

• A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they are too emotional.

John Kenneth Galbraith: • Disregard the short-term forecast.

• The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Ben Graham: • Make a habit of investing regularly under all market conditions.

• Markets fluctuate, so stay the course.

Shelby Davis: • History has shown that over the long term, equities are a good way to build wealth.

Final Thoughts

As an investment professional, I have learned that even the best investment ideas from the best investors will have periods of sharp price drops. It’s not a question of if, but when. What you do at that point — throw in the towel in disgust and panic or buy more with some fear and trepidation — will have a huge impact on your ultimate returns.

We are all impatient and want good things to happen quickly; in life, rarely is that the case.

Patience in investing, as in much of life, is a real virtue.

Those interested in the value approach should search online for Tweedy Browne. ■ Al Shams is a Sandy Springs resident, a former CPA and an investment professional with over 36 years’ experience.

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THE SONENSHINE TEAM Team Atlanta’s 14-and-under basketball team, coached

by Brian Seitz and Jacob Gluck, won gold last summer in Dallas.

Atlanta’s Favorite Real Estate Team

DEBBIE SONENSHINE STAR NEWMAN KATIE GALLOW Top 1% of Coldwell Banker Internationally Certified Negotiator, Luxury, New Homes and Corporate Relocation Specialist #1 Sales Associate in Sandy Springs Office Voted Favorite Jewish Realtor in AJT, Best of Jewish Atlanta

Atlanta Sending Athletes To Maccabi in Midwest

football, track and field, and dance.

“It takes a village to put together the JCC Maccabi Games, and we could not be more excited to be a part of that,” Team Atlanta delegation heads Jack Vangrofsky and Stacie Graff saod in a statement.

Last summer in Dallas and Milwaukee from Aug. 2 to 7, Team Atlanta brought home 31 medals: 11 gold, 15 silver and 5 bronze.

Atlanta last hosted the JCC Maccabi Games in 2001. ■

Beth Tefillah Clinches A Division Top Seed Regular season play has nearly concluded in the Atlanta Men’s Synagogue Softball league. Only nine makeup games remain before the playoffs begin July 31.

July 17 saw Congregation Beth Tefillah (9-0-1) clinch the top seed in the A Division with victories over Ahavath Achim Synagogue and Congregation Dor Tamid. Nine-time defending A Division champion Congregation B’nai Torah (6-2) faces makeup games against Congregation Or VeShalom and Dor Tamid on July 24 as it seeks the second seed.

Chabad (8-1) will face Temple Emanu-El (3-6) on July 24 for a chance to clinch the B Division top seed. In C, Temple 2 (6-4) will play Temple Sinai 2 (5-3-1) to decide the regular season champion.

July 24 Schedule East Roswell Park

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AMSSL Standings — Week 6 A Division

Wins

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Beth Tefillah *

9

0

B’nai Torah

7

2

Temple

6

4

Dor Tamid

5

4

Or Veshalom

3

4

Sinai

3

6

Ariel

2

7

Ahavath Achim *

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B Division

8 Wins

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Chabad

8

1

Beth Tikvah

8

2

Young Israel

6

4

Gesher L’Torah

4

6

Etz Chaim

4

6

Or Hadash

4

6

Emanu-El

3

6

Beth Jacob

2

8

C Division

Wins

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Temple 2

6

4

Sinai 2 *

5

3

Beth Shalom *

5

3

Kol Emeth

4

5

Beth Tikvah 2

4

5

B’nai Torah 2

3

5

Dor Tamid/ Etz Chaim 2

3

5

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At the end of this month Atlanta will send over 115 athletes and 25 coaches to the 2016 JCC Maccabi Games in Columbus, Ohio, and St. Louis.

The Maccabi Games kick off in Columbus on July 24 and in St. Louis on July 31.

The two events will see around 1,500 Jewish teens from across the United States join in friendly athletic competition.

Team Atlanta will be competing in basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, flag

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Massell’s Still Smiling After All These Years Take a rare look inside native Atlantan Sam Massell’s Buckhead townhouse with a treasure-trove of history, art and nostalgia.

Approaching his 89th birthday in August, Massell, who served as Atlanta’s only Jewish mayor from 1970 to 1974, has endured through the decades as a hero to our city and religion. After careers in real estate, tourism and elected office, he is the president of the nonprofit Buckhead Coalition.

Circa 1973 as a young country girl ingénue in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution elevator, I found myself alone with this cheerful mayor, whom I equated with something akin to the Beatles. Forty-three years later, I am still a “Sam Fan.”

African-American community.

Jaffe: What are some of your early recollections of Atlanta in the 1930s — specifically Jewish Atlanta?

Massell: I lived in Druid Hills on the last block of Oakdale with prominent neighbors like Larry Gellerstedt, Bert Parks and Herman Talmadge.

The Jewish population was very small, but we were homogeneous Reform members of The Temple and the Standard Club (then on Ponce de Leon). We weren’t invited into membership into high school social clubs, so we had our own Top Hat for boys and Lucky 13 for girls. It was a fun time, but you will have to wait until my book is published to learn of the mischief.

Jaffe: What advice would you give to young people today? Are you concerned with the way our world is turning?

Massell: I have faith in the world where we live and people of all ages.

The youngest and the oldest are the most candid. I’ve found that with very little effort I can see some good in everyone. I particularly love the Buckhead community, which is what I now market as president of the Buckhead Coalition. Hard work is the elixir I recommend, and let the chips fall where they may.

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Jaffe: You were mayor from 1970 to ’74 and credited with establishing MARTA, building the Omni and Woodruff Park. What do you think was the high point of your term, and what was the lowest point?

Massell: The fact that the MARTA referendum, promulgated by my predecessor, Ivan Allen, had failed, and I was able to successfully restructure the funding (sales tax and subsidized fare), we became the envy of urban America. Although that certainly touched many lives, appointing the first woman (Panke Bradley) to the City Council in Atlanta’s 125-year history was a real breakthrough for minorities. Overall, that which will have the most everlasting effect was my responsibility to steer Atlanta through the peaceful transformation from an all-white power structure to a black city government. My low point was probably appointing a police 26 chief who did not get along with the

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Jaffe: You were once in the travel business. What are the most exotic locations you enjoyed?

Massell: I found most pleasure in places my clients were not interested in visiting. … Nicaragua, after a volcanic eruption, where I could sense

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the political philosophy, land development and travel business impacts. I visited over 80 countries and enjoyed them all.

Jaffe: Tell us about your late wife Doris’ artwork?

Massell: I was always amazed at the ease with which she appeared to put thoughts on canvas. I tried painting one time to satisfy a request of art curator Fay Gold for a benefit auction, and I was embarrassed at how poorly it came out. My wife was a prolific painter in most every media and would usually give away her work rather than price it. I think her motivation was the magic of simply producing beauty with a brush.

Jaffe: What did you think of Tom Wolfe’s book “Man in Full”? Did you see yourself in it?

Massell: I know Wolfe is a good writer, but I was disappointed in the book as I thought it was going to be a favorable report on Buckhead’s real estate success stories. As such, in fact, I invited him to be the keynoter at the coalition’s annual meeting (where I would have distributed copies of this book to those in attendance). When I

A discovered it was a negative treatise, I withdrew the invitation. I didn’t see me in the book, but there were several coalition members who had personalities similar to characters in this work.

Jaffe: As head of the Buckhead Coalition, you were quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as welcoming the new generation of renters in Buckhead. What about that change do you embrace?

Massell: We predict that the vast majority of the new tenants in rental apartments are expected to be millennials (under 35) who will use fewer automobiles. Their interests generate fresh thinking with high-tech startup businesses. This is exciting and, we predict, will evolve into the profile of power as tomorrow’s leaders.

Jaffe: Who are some of the famous people you’ve met along the way?

Massell: King Juan Carlos of Spain, Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert and Teddy Kennedy, Shirley Chisholm, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne are all

here with me on the wall photos. More recently on the coalition, by managing an organization of 100 chief executive officers of major firms with prominent exposure in Buckhead — some heads of Forbes 500 firms, others on Fortune’s billionaire list, one the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange — it’s obvious I’ve had the opportunity to meet and be inspired by many amazing famous people along the way.

Jaffe: I have known you for decades and never seen you lose your cool. What’s your secret?

Massell: I thank my parents for instilling in me such a persona, which I hope I maintain for life. I think, too, the residents and visitors here exercise a similar attitude, which motivates similar responses. Smiles beget smiles, and you’re an example of this in operation, making me smile with your question.

Jaffe: You did pretty well for an introverted kid who ran a lemonade stand, delivered a newspaper route, and got appointed student body treasurer and never looked back. ■

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A: Sam Massell shows off a straw hat from his campaigning days.

B: “China Town” by David Aronson (1970), a Massell supporter who lived in a castle in France, graces the hallway.

C: Sam Massell’s back yard has an original buck statue by Vicki Cimkentli. The others are scattered around Buckhead.

D: A work by Fay Gold (Doris Massell’s mentor) is on the right. The cartoon on the left ran in the Atlanta Journal in 1970 to contrast President Richard Nixon’s handling of a U.S. postal strike and Mayor Sam Massell’s drama with Atlanta’s garbage strike.

E: Doris Massell’s art studio is just as she left it at her death, including a self-portrait in front.

F: A display case shows the Olympic torch Sam Massell ran with along Peachtree and Piedmont roads in 1996, as well as a torch from the Paralympics.

G: This American flag went to the moon aboard Apollo 17 in 1972.

H: Sam Massell’s daughter Cindy is the artist behind the charcoal piece “At the Beach.” His other children are Steve, a commercial real estate agent, and Melanie, an entertainer.

I: Sam Massell shows the Atlanta Hawks basketball (signed by “Pistol” Pete Maravich) that was used at the opening of the Omni in 1972. Massell brought the arena project to fruition.

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By Arlene Appelrouth aappelrouth@atljewishtimes.com Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But it’s better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

— Phyllis McGinley Seventy is one of those birthdays widely perceived to announce “You’re not young anymore.” As poet Phyllis McGinley implied, positive attributes aren’t associated with that age.

But Jackie Granath, a longtime Dunwoody resident, resisted that perception and invited me and 12 other close friends to a cooking and eating birthday party that demonstrated life

can be an adventure even at 70.

On Sunday, July 10, those 13 friends showed up at the Kuniansky Center at the Marcus Jackie Granath gets Jewish Community Center and chopping during her 70th birthday. were given black aprons and chef and paring knives. They also received recipes for the sugar-free, gluten-free lunch they would prepare and eat.

Bobbi Perlstein, Granath’s former business partner, stood stirring chocolate in a stainless-steel pot. She offered tastes of the ganache to those who

came to see what she was doing.

The friends, most of whom knew one another from Temple EmanuEl, chopped vegetables, laughed Elissa Fladell and tasted. planned the party for her mother.

Elissa Fla­ dell, Granath’s daughter, organized the party and planned the menu. “It was a challenge because my mom is gluten- and sugarfree and doesn’t like fish or avocado.”

She gave a loving tribute to her mom, who shed tears of joy. “No one in my family lived to be 70,” Granath said.

“I realize this is my decade to do what I want, spend what I want, because who knows? In my next decade I might not have the energy or the desire.”

Granath said her 48-year husband, Alan, is “warm and caring and provides unconditional love. He’s incredible.”

Instead of bringing gifts, the guests submitted favorite recipes, which Perlstein compiled into a cookbook with Granath’s photo on the cover, “Best Friend Classics Cook Book.” Each woman took home a copy.

But Granath said the best gift was the validation of her friends. “My friends acknowledged me for always being a giving friend. I was acknowledged for saying the right things and saw people really like to be with me.” ■

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Robert Lessinger, 91, of Atlanta died Saturday, July 16, 2016.

Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Howard and Cindy Lessinger, Atlanta; granddaughters Robyn (Steven) Aussenberg and Karin (Andy) Alhadeff; and great-granddaughter Hayley Alhadeff. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Lessinger, of blessed memory.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Congregation Shearith Israel. A graveside service was held Wednesday, July 20, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park with Rabbis Ari Kaiman and Melvin Sirner officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Arleen S. Nevis Lawrence S. Nevis Canton

Arleen S. Nevis, age 76, of Canton died Thursday, July 7, 2016. On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, her loving husband of 57 years, Lawrence S. Nevis, died.

Survivors include their son and daughter-in-law, Adam and Lisa Nevis of Canton; their daughter, Shari Nevis of Hollywood, Fla.; Arleen’s brother and sister-inlaw, Jay and Rose Hersch; five grandchildren, Samantha, Alexandra, Katrina and Rebecca Nevis and Natalie Wasmund; and a great-granddaughter, Lana Crider.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Georgia Mountains Hospice, 70 Caring Way, Jasper, GA 30143. Graveside services for Arleen and Larry Nevis were held Wednesday, July 13, at Georgia National Cemetery in Canton. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Samuel Pinsky, 85, died Saturday, July 16, 2016, in Atlanta.

He was preceded in death by the love of his life, Joanna New Pinsky, and a brother, Charles Pinsky, (both of blessed memory) and is survived by his daughter, Dana (Paul) Joffe; his son, Daryl (Ronit) Pinsky; grandchildren Ariel and Korin Pinsky; sister Shirley (Bernard) Levine; nephew Alex (Vickie) Pinsky; and nieces Donna (Stuart) Rosen, Debby (Jim) Smith and Penny Levine.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Samuel attended Boys’ High, served in the Army and attended Southern School of Pharmacy. As a career pharmacist, Sam worked for many years for Miami’s Grand Union Supermarket and Orlando’s Liggett’s Drugstore before returning to Atlanta in retirement. Sam valued family most and lived his life in a humble and caring manner. He always took great pleasure in helping others, especially those who sought the benefit of his advice.

Sign the guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, the William Breman Jewish Home, or Hospice Atlanta. A graveside service was held Sunday, July 17, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Death Notices Rae Bleier of Atlanta on July 12.

Jordan Kulick, 82, of Sebastian, Fla., father of Melissa Kulick, Randi Lenahan and Debra Frank, on July 12.

Beatrice “Terry” Sinasohn of Alpharetta on July 10.

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It was 90 degrees in the shade, a perfect day to visit the DeKalb County recycling center, otherwise known as the dump.

My friend Judi had recently moved, and her new place was overrun with excess possessions, including hundreds of tattered paperbacks and hardback textbooks and notebooks from the ’70s and ’80s.

For days another friend and I helped her cram those books and other detritus into gigantic, heavy-duty bags. For want of another area, we piled them in her new living room, leaving no space in which to move. In addition, the passage to bedrooms, kitchen and front door were almost blocked by the mammoth bags.

Clearly, Judi had two choices: (A) dwell amid her own recycling center until trash pickup a full five days hence; or (B) reclaim and liberate her space by transporting the bags someplace else.

Judi knew her sofa was somewhere under those bags, and she was determined to find it. She chose Option B. She called me to report, “The DeKalb County Department of Sanitation said I could bring all my garbage to the landfill — for free!”

“Sounds like fun,” I said. “Take me with you!”

“My pleasure,” Judi answered. “I have the use of a van, and you better come dressed appropriately.” I knew what she meant, and fortunately, I have loads of landfill-appropriate clothing.

We met the next morning. “You’ll be the navigator,” Judi declared, handing me her cellphone, her GPS, a handwritten set of directions and a printout from Google Maps. She’s the kind of woman who likes to be prepared.

“Oh, goodie!” I exclaimed merrily.

I was excited because even though I have spent a fair amount of time in flea markets and junkyards (I have my reasons), I’d never been to a real-life dump before.

When we finally arrived at our destination, we followed signs directing us to a check-in station, which we missed because it was in a valley, largely hidden from view, inaccessible from the road and covered with grime (that should have been a clue). We bypassed that dingy edifice and the weighing ramps on either side of it and followed

a gravel road, trafficked solely by enormous trucks, until we dead-ended at Dumpster central. A uniformed fellow stopped us and asked for our ticket.

“We need a ticket?” we asked redundantly.

He sent us back to register at the gritty place we’d passed in order to get a ticket (a brown piece of cardboard with a number on it) that would en-

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able us to pay $16.50 to dispose of up to 1,000 pounds of garbage. We drove onto the scale to weigh in (keep your comments to yourself, please).

Judi just hates being lied to. She descended into the low-lying office and explained that she had been told there’s no charge for self-dumping.

She learned that she was free to take her garbage home at no charge.

A chorus of truckers waiting to pay their fees at the station window smirked knowingly. Judi stoically accepted a ticket, and back we went.

A different attendant met us and directed us to Dumpster 1. We tried to drag out the huge bags and lift them into the container, but our backs were sending “Stop right now!” signals.

We conferred, after which Judi handed the fellow some money, and we were treated like the senior citizens we are. The attendant effortlessly grabbed two bags at a time and began to toss them into Dumpster 1.

“What’s with all the books?” he asked.

“You want ’em? Take ’em!” we answered. The attendant brought armfuls of them into his stifling shelter, unfazed that they were out of date and grungy. As we returned to our air-conditioned van, he was already paging through one of the psychology textbooks.

On the way out, we got weighed, and Judi paid. We were several hundred pounds, $16.50 and an additional $5 lighter. We bade a silent goodbye to the book-loving attendant and a lush, green mountain in the distance, the foliage-covered result of countless Dumpsters of garbage. It was beautiful.

“That’s the landfill,” Judi explained, having done her part to build it. ■

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