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Fifty years and five days after photographer David Rubinger captured their dreamy looks after the liberation of the Western Wall, former Israeli paratroopers (from left) Zion Karasanti, Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri were greeted by a sellout crowd at The Temple for a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces celebration Monday night, June 12. Story, Page 6

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Jewish Kids Groups has been recognized for the third time by Slingshot as one of the 50 leading innovative Jewish nonprofits in North America.

JKG is the only Atlanta organization to receive the 2017 recognition, announced Tuesday, June 6. Last year’s guide included JKG, the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, JScreen and SOJOURN. JKG also was honored in 2014.

Ana Robbins’ brainchild, JKG is an independent network of Jewish supplementary schools providing after-school and Sunday programming. It also is a dynamic place to work.

As founder and executive director, Robbins is passionate about making Jewish learning exciting and camplike. She started more than 10 years ago with six students; today JKG has four locations, from Dunwoody to Old Fourth Ward.

Robbins said one innovative practice she uses is rapid experimentation.

When her team identifies an opportunity or challenge, it tests solutions with miniexperiments. Results are tracked, and changes are made based on the results.

She also practices disruptive leadership development, in which top performers are promoted without warning. For example, Maya Selber had mastered her position as after-school director when Robbins made her chief operating officer.

The idea is to guide employees to think and do bigger. “I’m laser-focused on aligning skills, talent and growing systems,” Robbins said.

Organizations apply to Slingshot to win one of the 50 coveted spots. Slingshot distributes a guide with the honorees. ■

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MA TOVU

Family Expectations Like a typical Jewish mother, I worried.

Would she be homesick? Who would take care of her if she got sick? Would she be happy? How would I manage a whole year without seeing her?

Unlike Lisa and Rob, we live on a tight budget, and a trip to Israel midyear wasn’t in the planning.

When Lisa called in December, I ran to check my calendar. No, I hadn’t

Shared Spirit Moderated By Rachel Stein rachels83@gmail.com

slept the entire winter away. What could she want?

“We’re going to Israel for midwinter break,” Lisa said. My eyes rolled.

Was she calling to offer me a ticket? That would be a nice thank-you for three summers with Steve.

“So I wanted Shoshana’s number and address. I’d love to see her while I’m there.”

“That’s so nice,” I said.

I pictured Lisa and Rob treating Shoshana to a nice dinner. Maybe they will even take her shopping for whatever she needs. It’s so nice to have family, even if we have our differences.

On the last day of Lisa and Rob’s trip to Israel, my phone trilled.

“Hi.” Lisa sounded breathless. “I can’t find Shoshana’s number, and I really wanted to see her before I go.

Can you please give it to me again?”

A soundless fury worked its way up my legs, through my stomach and toward my head. After giving her Shoshana’s number, I slammed down the phone without saying goodbye.

Was she for real?

I hosted her son for three years in a row. Selflessly, kindly, lovingly. And now, with the opportunity to show a modicum of kindness to my child, she couldn’t be bothered to reach out until the night before her departure? Had she ever heard of appreciation?

Dear readers, how do I handle this situation? I am so angry, I never want to speak to my dear brother and sister-in-law again. Am I wrong for expecting them to show a little caring for their niece, especially after I went out of my way for their child? Should I confront them or remain silent? ■ To help Debbie, please respond to rachels83@gmail.com by Monday, June 19.

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The first call came in May 2014.

“Hi, Debbie, it’s Lisa.” I rolled my eyes, grateful we weren’t on FaceTime.

“How are you?” I replied.

“All is good. Busy, as usual.” She chuckled, and I nearly choked. What could she be busy with?

Oh, come on, Debbie, I chided myself. You know Lisa’s hectic schedule: manicures, daily gym attendance, the intense responsibility of organizing pictures from her most recent cruise, and, I almost forgot, writing a list for her live-in housekeeper.

Emerging from my reverie, I heard her say, “I was just wondering.”

Uh-oh. What could she want?

“Steve really wants to spend the summer in Miami,” Lisa said. “We found a camp in your area where he could work as a junior counselor.

What do you think?”

Lisa and I don’t see eye to eye on just about anything, but I have a soft spot for my 13-year-old nephew. He’s a sweet, good-natured boy, and it’s not his fault Lisa and Rob are his parents.

My mind whirled as I figured out accommodations. I hope Shoshana won’t mind moving in with Rena so Steve can have his own room. It’s probably good for them — letting them see we go out of our way to help family.

“Sure, why not?” I said.

“Oh, Debbie, you’re the greatest.

Thank you so much. As soon as we have Steve’s itinerary, we’ll send it to you.”

When Steve came, I treated him like one of my children. I did his laundry, served him meals and chauffeured him wherever he needed to go.

It was my pleasure, but an extra kid does amount to, well, an extra kid.

When the day finally came that I took him to the airport, a small measure of relief suffused my being. Life would return to normal again.

The following May, the phone rang again. “Hi, Debbie, how are you?”

And the conversation was repeated, practically verbatim. Once again, I opened my home and heart to my nephew for two months.

In 2016, when the phone rang, I was ready. “It’s no problem, Lisa,” I said, cutting her off midsentence.

“Really. We enjoy having him. And besides, what’s family for?”

Three summers in a row of hosting my nephew.

In September, our Shoshana flew to Israel for seminary. We watched her walk through security to her future.

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CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

On-the-Same-Page Book Club. Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Metulla Group discusses Camille Aubray’s “Cooking for Picasso” in Sandy Springs at 1:30 p.m.

Details from Barbara Shoulberg at 770948-2443 or brsgolf1@bellsouth.net.

SUNDAY, JUNE 18

Day of study. Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown, marks the 23rd anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s death with a morning study program, including breakfast, at 8 and an evening program, including dinner, at 6. Free; RSVP at chabadintown.org/ gimmeltammuz.

Barney tour. Camp Barney Medintz holds a tour of the Cleveland camp in session at 10:30 a.m. Free; RSVP required at www.campbarney.org.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21

Interfaith discussion. Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs, at 7 p.m. presents an interfaith clergy program from New York’s 92nd Street Y, followed by a discussion facilitated by Sinai member Jane Cohen. Free; templesinaiatlanta.org or 404-252-3073.

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

ACCESS signature event. American Jewish Committee’s young professionals group holds ACCESS in the ATL with Jamestown CEO Matt Bronfman at 6:30 p.m. at Industrious at Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 8500, Midtown. Tickets are $25; www. ajcatlanta.org/ACCESSintheATL. Film screening. The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s AJFF Selects series continues with the World War II drama “The Exception” at 7:30 p.m. at Regal Tara Cinemas 4, 2345 Cheshire Bridge Road, Atlanta. Tickets are $13; www. ajff.org/exceptiontix or 678-701-6104.

Shelach Friday, June 16, light candles at 8:33 p.m.

Saturday, June 17, Shabbat ends at 9:35 p.m.

Korach Friday, June 23, light candles at 8:34 p.m.

Saturday, June 24, Shabbat ends at 9:36 p.m.

Corrections & Clarifications

The interim chief financial officer at Ahavath Achim Synagogue is Carl Rosenthal. His first name was incorrect in a news brief June 2.

For Those Without a Father

Father’s Day isn’t easy for those who have lost their dad, but Ruby and Matilda Mundell are trying to ease the pain by holding a free event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, June 18, at the Packaged Good, the nonprofit operation founded a year ago by their mother, Sally Mundell.

The girls, whose father, Grover, died 4½ years ago, are inviting other children who have lost their fathers. The event will include free food, games, a DJ, and activities to remember and honor those fathers.

Donations are appreciated but not required. What is required is advance registration. Sign up at www.signupgenius.com/go/409044caba92ba1f85-grief.

A parent or guardian must attend with each child.

The Packaged Good is at 5517 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

Outdoor Shabbat. Shearith Israel Rabbi Ari Kaiman leads a singalong before a potluck dinner at 5:45 p.m. at Mason Mill Recreation Center, 1340 McConnell Drive, Decatur. Free; 404-875-1743 or www.facebook.com/ events/1352521554842112.

SUNDAY, JUNE 25

JWV meeting. Jewish War Veterans Post 112 holds its monthly breakfast meeting at 10 a.m. at Berman Commons, 2026 Womack Road, Dunwoody, with a speaker at 10:30. A $10 donation for breakfast is requested; www. facebook­.com­/JWVSoutheast.

TUESDAY, JUNE 27

Book event. Actor/author Alan Alda talks about his new book, “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on

My Face?” at 7:30 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody.

Tickets, including a signed copy of the book, are $33 for JCC members and $37 for others; www.atlantajcc.org/ bookfestival­or 678-812-4002.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28

Refugee discussion. Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs, at 7 p.m. presents a program on refugees from New York’s 92nd Street Y, followed by a discussion led by Kevin Abel. Free; templesinaiatlanta.org or 404-252-3073.

SUNDAY, JULY 9

Sanctuary dedication. Israeli Chief Rabbi Meir Lau speaks at the dedication of the renovated Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, at 5 p.m. Free; www.bethjacobatlanta.org or 404-633-0551.

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Remember When

25 Years Ago June 12, 1992 ■ The Ahava Services Foundation is raising money to open a group home that will provide a level of independence for four developmentally disabled Jews in the neighborhood of Shearith Israel Synagogue. “A tremendous number of people are interested in this,” said the foundation’s president, Annette Easton, who has Marshall Duke as her vice president.

Atlanta has an estimated 1,200 Jews with developmental disabilities.

■ The bar mitzvah of Daniel Shertok of Roswell, son of Susan and Joel Shertok, took place Saturday, June 6, at Temple Kehillat Chaim.

■ Susan and Jeffrey Cohen of Stone Mountain announce the birth of a son, Jordan Charles, on March 19.

50 Years Ago June 16, 1967 ■ Funerals were held Sunday, June 11, at Greenwood Cemetery for two Atlanta teenagers killed the day before when their automobile hit a bridge abutment on the Northeast Expressway. Gary Henry Greenberg, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Greenberg, and Marta Lynn Goldberg, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Goldberg, died in the crash. Injured were Michelle Glazer, 15, and Alan Terry Socol, 17.

■ Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who was the U.S. president during Israel’s successful Sinai campaign in 1956, has compared the Israeli soldiers who won a second victory on the same terrain to George Washington’s “patriots who stuck it out through the winter at Valley Forge.”

■ Dr. and Mrs. Milton Smithloff of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter, Linda Kay Smithloff, to Barry Michael Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stone of St. Petersburg.

SPORTS AMSSL Standings — Week 1 A Division

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Dor Tamid

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Or VeShalom

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Ahavath Achim

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B’nai Torah

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Temple

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Sinai

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Ariel

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Or Hadash

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Gesher L’Torah

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Etz Chaim

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Beth Jacob

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Beth Tikvah

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Sinai 2

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Young Israel

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Emanu-El

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Kol Emeth

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ISRAEL NEWS

FIDF, Paratroopers Celebrate Wall’s Liberation

By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com

JUNE 16 ▪ 2017

Eli Regev was one bullet from death during the battle for Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, seeing both soldiers next to him shot down and knowing he was next, only to be spared when the Jordanians ran out of ammunition.

So he was ready when he and fellow Israeli paratroopers were ordered to “run like lions into Jerusalem” despite carrying 110-pound packs on their backs, and when the city was reunited, he leaned against the Western Wall as he wrote a letter home to his wife and 4-month-old daughter.

That infant’s grown daughter, Israel Defense Forces Sgt. Emma Browne, told her grandfather’s story during the Friends of the IDF’s celebration of Israel’s victory 50 years ago.

The event Monday night, June 12, drew a sold-out crowd of 250 people to The Temple to meet the three paratroopers from David Rubinger’s iconic photo taken moments after the IDF’s liberation of the Temple Mount and the wall below: Zion Karasanti, Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri.

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Sgt. Emma Browne, who grew up in England, serves in an IDF unit that guards against terrorists.

Former paratroopers (from left) Zion Karasanti, Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri listen as former lone soldier Eran Mordel tells of two fundamental lessons in Israel’s history: Miracles do happen; they happen only if you will them into existence.

That photo, in which the soldiers gaze upward beside the wall, was not posed, the trio said. Yifat said he had his helmet off, unlike Karasanti and Oshri, because he was excited and emotional and because it was hot.

“Brick by brick, that wall represents everything we are as Jews,” said Garry Sobel, who chairs FIDF Southeast and serves on the national board.

“It’s our wall.”

With the help of Georgia Tech grad and former lone soldier Eran Mordel as moderator and translator, the three soldiers recounted their experiences of 50 years ago, starting with the mobilization a couple of weeks before the fighting.

Yifat, an OB/GYN, said that not only didn’t the Israeli paratroopers have a plan for capturing Jerusalem, but they actually started out June 7 on a mission to break the blockade on the Straits of Tiran.

The troops were diverted to Jerusalem after Jordan began a bombardment of the city, he said.

“We’re not going to fight in Jerusalem,” Karasanti, a director and choreographer, said the troops were told.

“We’re going to win in Jerusalem.”

All three emphasized that they had no time to consider options or consequences; they had to fight to survive.

Oshri, a chemist, recalled that three generals, including Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin, arrived 15 minutes after the Temple Mount was secured, and Dayan put a note in the wall. The two other generals soon took the note down and read it. The translation: “Forever, forever, forever, we’re not going to return Jerusalem. We’re not going to return the Temple Mount. We’re not going to return the Western Wall from our hands.”

Browne’s grandfather didn’t live to see the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s

FIDF Southeast Chairman Garry Sobel tells of visiting the Kotel alone on Shabbat and the emotions involved when he stumbled upon a bar mitzvah ceremony at Wilson’s Arch — none of which could have happened without the success of the Six-Day War.

reunification; he didn’t even make it to the first. He was killed by a Jordanian rocket June 4, 1968, while farming in northern Israel. But his example inspired Browne, who grew up in England, to serve in the IDF as a lone soldier, then stay in Israel.

She spoke at the 2016 FIDF Atlanta gala, when the keynote speaker, British Col. Richard Kemp, called her one of the most impressive soldiers he has known.

FIDF supports 2,800 lone soldiers like Browne each year at a cost of more than $4 million. The organization also helps 14,400 soldiers a year with educational expenses, 8,000 with financial support and 30,000 through its adopta-brigade program (FIDF in Atlanta has adopted the combat intelligence brigade).

FIDF also spends more than $16 million a year building recreational and other support facilities on IDF bases and helps more than 2,000 families of fallen and wounded soldiers.

Seth Baron, the executive director of FIDF Southeast, said he normally ends programs by thanking the organization’s supporters, and he did that Monday night.

But after an “absolutely amazing,” historic program, he also made a point of thanking the three paratroopers and everyone else in the room who serves or previously served in the IDF to help keep “Jerusalem united, Israel safe and secure, so that I, my children, your families and your children and grandchildren can go to the Kotel, can visit the religious sites throughout the state of Israel.” ■

ISRAEL NEWS

The U.S. State Department refused to waive immigration quotas to admit the St. Louis refugees in June 1939.

Today in Israeli History

JUNE 16 â–Ş 2017

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

June 16, 1947: Known as one of the most cherished violinists of his generation and one of the greatest Jewish musicians of all time, Bronislaw Huberman dies at his home in Switzerland at the age of 64.

June 17, 1939: The SS St. Louis, a ship that left Hamburg, Germany, May 13 with 938 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression, returns to Europe after being refused entry into Cuba and the United States. Cuba admitted 28 of the refugees, and one refugee committed suicide on board after Cuba turned away the ship. Of those forced to return to Europe, 254 are killed in the Holocaust.

June 18, 1890: Avraham (Granot) Granovsky, a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence and director-general of the Jewish National Fund, is born in what is now Moldova.

June 19, 1967: Speaking to a group of 800 educators at the State Department, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers an important foreign policy address in which he outlines five principles for peace in the Middle East: the right of all nations in the region to live in peace; justice for refugees; the preservation of maritime rights; the end of the regional arms race; and the need for recognizable borders.

June 20, 1914: Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, known simply as Zelda, one of the most widely acclaimed and beloved Israeli poets, is born in Russia.

June 21, 1990: After a distinguished career in the service of Zionism and Israel, Eliahu Eilat dies in Jerusalem at the age of 86.

June 22, 1939: Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Ada Yonath is born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem.

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ISRAEL NEWS

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home $400 million woman. “Wonder Woman,” starring Israeli Gal Gadot, continues to smash the superhero glass ceiling, with the comic book film nearing $440 million in worldwide box office sales by the end of its second weekend, including more than $205 million domestically. The role has established Gadot as arguably the world’s most famous Israeli and the country’s highestprofile ambassador. In interviews, she often speaks of her military service, making her more beloved at home.

More than 200,000 people from around the world attend the Tel Aviv Pride Parade on June 9. Tel Aviv has been called the world’s “most gay-friendly city.”

Marching for pride. More than 200,000 people from around the world descended on Tel Aviv on Friday, June 9, to march in the largest pride parade in Asia and the Middle East. This year’s theme, “Bisexual Visibility,” highlighted the contributions of bisexual people to Tel Aviv’s thriving LGBTQ community. The parade was the first large-scale pride parade in the world to celebrate the theme of bisexuality. The Tel Aviv Pride Parade is recognized as one of the leading parades in the world. The Boston Globe dubbed Tel Aviv “the world’s gayest city,” and Out Magazine called it “the gay capital of the Middle East.”

Fixing a broken heart. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot report discovering a molecule in newborns that appears to control the process of renewing heart muscle.

When injected into adult mouse hearts injured by heart attacks, this molecule, called Agrin, seems to unlock the renewal process and enable heart muscle repairs — something never seen in a human heart outside the womb. The findings point to new directions for research on restoring the function of damaged hearts. Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.

Another startup buy. Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Hexadite, an Israeli-American company based in Tel Aviv and Boston whose automatic incident investigation and remediation solutions will help commercial Windows 10 customers detect, investigate and respond to advanced attacks on their networks with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection. A Microsoft statement released Thursday, June 8, did not disclose the terms of the agreement. Earlier press reports speculated that the figure was as high as $100 million.

Removing viruses from water. A team of Israeli, German and American researchers has developed novel ultrafiltration membranes that significantly improve the process of removing viruses from treated municipal waste water for use as drinking water by cities suffering water shortages. The new approach for virus pathogen removal was developed by a team from BenGurion University of the Negev, the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Expanding Indian defense ties. As India and Israel celebrate 25 years of their diplomatic relations, Israel has quietly emerged as one of the largest and most trusted suppliers of defense equipment to the Indian armed forces, which rely heavily on imports. After protracted negotiations, the two countries are close to concluding a deal for Spike anti-tank guided missiles. It will be the latest in a series of big-ticket defense deals approved recently.

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A Jerusalem Stroll Steps Through Past and Future homes bought many years ago and had enough to purchase a new, fancy place. The other purchasers are Jews from the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Russia, and, soon I think, China.

The Chinese are putting down roots all over the world.

Guest Column

By Rabbi David Geffen

Many of these apartments will be used only briefly during the year. So a tax is proposed for those who are not in their apartments a certain amount each year. Not sure how that will be determined.

Yesterday was special.

David Moss, the noted artist and illuminator of a widely praised haggadah, is always filled with ideas. In this instance he worked with young Americans here on a gap-year program between high school and college.

The city made available an area with weeds and other kinds of undesirable growth.

There were rocks, trash, cigarette butts and everything else imaginable.

With these youths, Moss was able to create a haven of natural beauty in development.

He used Jewish concepts, Jewish learning and Jewish art to add a fascinating presence to the surroundings, which are being revived.

Large clay monuments at the site display engraved Hebrew statements, suggesting how this space now brings people together. The 36 logs offer another concept of the tzaddikim who hold up the world. In a metal closet that a youth constructed, a video tells the story of what has been done and why.

The neighbors were inspired by the work of the youths, and both young and old came out to assist in the cleaning and reclamation of the land.

Moss will follow this project with work in the cities and countryside of Israel.

Israel would love to welcome all of you this summer. I know many of your children will be here, so you can come as well.

Shalom from Jerusalem. ■

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On one of the hottest days so far this year, I walked around the heart of Jerusalem for two reasons: to mark the actual dates of the Six-Day War 50 years ago and to see for myself all the buildings popping up in the area.

I did not stand at the Kotel, but from where I was perched in the Old City, I could see the Kotel. It was not a Thursday, when they read the Torah, but so many Christian, Chinese and Russian tourists were there that the plaza was overflowing.

From afar I made some prayers for friends and relatives, then wandered into the Mamilla area.

Now Mamilla is filled with a wonderful mall, but 50 years ago it was the area of many garages. In the year we spent as students in Israel from 1963 to 1964, I visited Mamilla many times to care for the motor scooter we owned.

After we made aliyah, I discovered, because I did not heed the signs, that my car was towed and taken to the city impound in Mamilla.

Now the area is blossoming with the beautiful foliage planted there and the fountains spewing our crystalclear water during the day and colored water at night.

I particularly wanted to see all these buildings popping up. Near Mahane Yehuda Market a 26-story building went up a few years ago. An old friend lives there, so I was able to see from his windows on the 21st floor: a panorama of Jerusalem with the Knesset, the Israel Museum and the Hebrew University at Givat Ram clearly in view.

Within a 6-block area, seven 20-story buildings are rising.

They are being constructed on cleared housing areas that contained early 20th century structures. Is that good for the city?

Right now, the Jerusalem dreamers — meaning the mayor and the builders — believe that Jerusalem must be like all capital cities: a combination of the old and the new.

I realize that if I were in Atlanta, I would see the same type of construction. My young Jewish delights on Washington Street are long gone.

Who is purchasing these Israeli apartments, which are expensive?

A small percentage are owned by old-time Jerusalemites who sold

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OPINION

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Our View

Take Your Pick

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This is the last issue of the AJT before Georgia’s 6th District elects a congressman or congresswoman, so if you’re among the roughly 40 percent of Jewish Atlanta living in that district across Cobb, Fulton and DeKalb counties, it’s time to make your choice.

Through the first two debates, the options are clear: a career politician who makes mistakes like a newcomer and a political newcomer who sticks to the script like the old pro he aims to be.

By conventional political wisdom, Karen Handel should win by a comfortable margin. She entered the race in February with a huge lead in name recognition, having won and lost statewide elections. She has experience and a record as an officeholder. She’s a Republican in a district that has elected members of her party for nearly 40 years.

But, much like Hillary Clinton last year, Handel doesn’t elicit much passion or excitement in her party base, nor is she a great campaigner. And she often stumbles in debates, an arena in which she should thrive against an inexperienced opponent.

In debates Tuesday, June 6, and Thursday, June 8, Handel’s gaffes undid her efforts to chip away at Democrat Jon Ossoff’s cool, calm persona and tie him to California liberalism.

In the first debate, she said, “I oppose a livable wage.” She meant that she is against a government mandate for companies to pay a particular wage, but she enabled her foes to mock her and claim that she revealed the true view she and other conservatives hold toward working Americans.

That slip of the lips was at least understandable; she simply left out a word. We have a harder time deciphering what she was going for in the second debate when she declared in her closing remarks, which she presumably prepared in advance, that she has “tremendous tentacles” in the 6th District. Tweets featuring Ursula from “The Little Mermaid” were inevitable, and her success at emphasizing that Planned Parenthood performs no mammograms, contrary to Ossoff’s rhetoric, was forgotten.

Ossoff, as usual, was excellent at sticking to a script packed with promising nuggets, such as his plan to save $600 billion in federal overspending over 10 years, his support for lower corporate taxes and his promise to oppose any income tax increases. He talked tough on Iran, although we fear that he’s mistaken if he believes that violations of the nuclear deal would lead our European allies to snap back sanctions.

We wish he would stop saying “97 percent of scientists” believe in human-caused global warming (there’s no measurement of the opinions of all scientists). It’s strong enough to cite the scientific consensus or an overwhelming majority of climate scientists.

And enough of criticizing Handel for being a career politician. It’s an accurate description, but it also fairly describes the career goal of someone running for Congress at age 30.

In the end, fair or not, we expect the results June 20 to be based as much on D.C. politics as on Handel and Ossoff. What might give Ossoff the edge is the willingness of some conservatives to lose this election in the hope of running a stronger Republican 10 against him next year. ■

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MACoM Expands Sense of Place “This has been a great year,” Metro Atlanta Com- fundamental issue of who may use the facility on munity Mikvah President Caryn Hanrahan said in Congregation B’nai Torah’s Sandy Springs campus. opening MACoM’s second annual meeting Sunday, No Orthodox rabbi is on the MACoM clergy June 11. She wasn’t exagboard. But the mikvah gerating. leadership consults with The first MACoM gala Orthodox rabbis to meet Editor’s Notebook at the Georgia Aquarium the needs of that portion in March ensured that of the community, Rabbi

By Michael Jacobs the year was a financial Heller said. mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com success. Executive Director MACoM, born as a Barbara LeNoble said the partnership of synagogues, celebration of Rabbis Alvin works with groups such Sugarman and Joshua Heller made a profit of almost as the Atlanta Rabbinical Association, HAMSA, In$310,000. terfaithFamily/Atlanta and SOJOURN and co-sponOutgoing Treasurer Michael Weiser said the sored Ahavath Achim Synagogue’s Shavuot study gala not only will enable MACoM to pay off its program at the end of May (along with the AJT). mortgage by June 30, but also will provide a financial Those partnerships enhance MACoM’s educacushion to take the pressure off fundraising for at tional programs, including a Rosh Chodesh group, least a couple of years. The hope, he said, is to keep holiday events, and tours for adult and youth groups. carrying that surplus indefinitely.

Since January 2015, LeNoble said, MACoM has A board of as many as 11 nonvoting advisers, hosted 55 events attracting 857 visitors. each contributing at least $1,000 and led by Mike Its community room serves as a meeting place Leven, will help MACoM keep meeting its financial for outside organizations, from Jewish National goals (even though the average donation of people Fund to the Jewish Fertility Foundation to the dipping in the mikvah is less than projected).

Women of Weber.

But the mikvah isn’t about money; it’s about Now MACoM also serves as a gallery for Jewish service to the community, from Orthodox to secular artists, starting with “Mayim Rabim,” Dunwoody and every variation of Jewish practice in between. photographer Margery Diamond’s exhibit of water“MACoM is all about community,” said related pieces displayed through three rooms. The SOJOURN­Executive Director Rebecca Stapel-Wax, art is for sale, and MACoM gets a donation of a poran outgoing board member. She emphasized the tion of the proceeds. nonprofit organization’s focus on partnerships, reThe community mikvah is another way that Atflected in the range of board members and their role lanta exemplifies Jewish innovation. Board member as ambassadors for the mikvah.

Leah Blum said MACoM is one of five such facilities The mikvah also has a board of clergy repreforming a national network that is sure to grow. All senting 10 synagogues and other organizations. the congregations in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Rabbi Heller said the clergy members’ primary for example, have plans to install a mikvah on the responsibility is ensuring that the waters are kosher grounds of a Conservative synagogue in Metairie. for all uses, but being a community mikvah can MACoM is here to stay, and the whole commucreate complications, from gender questions to the nity is better for it. ■

OPINION

Paris Decision Is Making America Irrelevant Again We should work toward opportunities for families to be employed in other ways, to move to where the jobs or productive activities are, to retrain for other employment or to ensure that they receive compensatory wages if jobs are not available.

Guest Column

By Harold Kirtz

In other words, we need an industrial policy to ensure people have an opportunity to be employed by private industry or to be otherwise assisted.

Others have noted that Trump’s misguided decision will fuel resentment toward the United States. It may also make things more difficult for American business. Businesses want to locate where their markets are. By pulling out of the Paris accord, Trump sends clean energy companies a clear signal that they should look elsewhere.

We will be disadvantaged in the race for clean energy businesses and jobs, which could be the most important economic prize in this century.

China and Europe are already vying for the leadership role on clean energy that the president just ceded.

In another development, California Gov. Jerry Brown is moving forward on developing solutions. He may even coordinate with China on actions for emissions improvement. With the sixth-largest economy in the world if it were a separate country, California has a lot at stake. So do the rest of us.

Crouching on the sidelines is not something America has done since the 1930s. Why go back to a period when the results were so destructive?

Trump is wrong on the science, wrong on public policy, wrong on public opinion (the vast majority of Americans want the environment protected) and wrong on jobs.

Let’s hope his announcement June 1 is a temporary deviation from the American norm, from what is really the world’s norm. Prayerfully, the period in which America is irrelevant will be short. ■ Harold Kirtz serves on the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta’s executive committe.

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When was the last time America was irrelevant?

Perhaps right before the Declaration of Independence. Since then, America has been at the forefront of human rights — setting, but not always living up to, a standard everyone should strive for.

Or perhaps after World War I, when we became an isolationist country. Terrible consequences resulted.

While we cannot be blamed for World War II, the 1930s and 1940s might have been different, or at least less disastrous, if America had been an active force on the world stage.

Now President Donald Trump is making us irrelevant again. He is withdrawing the country from the Paris climate agreement, under which almost every nation committed to actions to reduce the carbon emissions that help warm the climate. He says the Paris deal is bad for the country.

For someone who preached American exceptionalism during the campaign, he is forcing America to take a back seat on a major worldwide problem. Only with American leadership can we hope to have an impact on the world, which is part of what exceptionalism means.

When America is involved in the world, it is generally for the good and for the values Americans support.

When we withdraw from a major agreement, especially one we played a major role in achieving, we diminish ourselves. We show ourselves to be selfish and self-centered. We show ourselves to be small.

That is the problem with this president. He is showing himself to be a small man with small ideas, small values and the tendency to make others around him small.

In Numbers, when Moses sends spies into Canaan to see the lay of the promised land, 10 of the 12 come back with negative reports that the obstacles are too great to succeed. G-d punishes the people by forcing them to live in the wilderness 38 more years.

We do not need to be in the wilderness on this issue any longer.

Supporting the Paris accord does not mean that we should allow our citizens to be disadvantaged. We need to ensure that individuals and families are not left out because of the results of an agreement.

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Letters To The Editor

Business Case for Handel

JUNE 16 ▪ 2017

Gov. Nathan Deal announced June 5 that Georgia tax revenues are up 5 percent in personal and corporate taxes, which is great news because it means business is booming. Using federal and state funds, Interstate 85 was repaired in record time and reopened more than a month before estimated.

More important for our area is that the House has started repealing portions of the 20,000-page Dodd-Frank law, which was written by unnamed bureaucrats in multiple alphabet agencies without oversight or input from the public. This is a relief to community banks (if you do not believe this, ask Georgia Primary Bank in Buckhead and Signature Bank in Sandy Springs) because it will ease lending money to small businesses and homeowners.

Balance all that good news with the special election debates between Karen Handel, who has the support of the Chamber of Commerce and has experience bringing business to Fulton County, and pretty stiff Jon Ossoff,

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who runs a three-person documentary film company that has done work for Al Jazeera, which is funded by Qatar, which also funds terrorism so evil that even Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are isolating it.

If Ossoff is serious about being a moderate voice who will work with both sides of the aisle, he should declare himself an independent à la Bernie Sanders and Angus King, return the 95 percent of his funding that comes from out of state, and declare himself pro-growth, pro-business and pro-jobs.

When you subtract all the noise about the bitterness over Donald Trump being president (though he is not on the ballot), whom do you really want to represent you in Congress?

— Jeffrey Kunkes, Sandy Springs

No Gray for Israel “Why, after 50 years, has not this conflict (Israel and the Palestinians) been negotiated to a conclusion?” is the question students are asking in Dave Schechter’s column (“Black and White Then Give Way to Gray Now,” June 9).

The short answer is that the leaders of the Muslim world aren’t willing to accept a Jewish state in the Middle East. The search for peace doesn’t obli-

gate Israel to commit suicide.

A more detailed answer requires a look at history. No Arabs ever had sovereignty over the area known as “Palestine,” a Roman term intended to celebrate the destruction of the Jews’ Second Temple and the exile of most (not all!) of the area’s indigenous Jews.

In the late 19th century, Palestine was a sparsely populated, largely undeveloped region of the Ottoman Empire.

The Jewish population increased when modern Zionism was born. The Zionists purchased land, increased its productivity, and established schools and hospitals. Many of the people who are today classified by the United Nations as “Palestinian refugees” are descendants of Arabs who entered the area because of the improved living conditions created by the Zionists.

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations granted control over Palestine to Great Britain.

The British used 78 percent of its “Palestine Mandate” to establish Transjordan (now Jordan). In 1947, the United Nations (successor to the League of Nations) proposed that the remainder of the mandate be partitioned into a Jewish state and a second Arab state.

The Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine) accepted the offer, but the Arab League rejected it. Several Arab nations went to war against Israel, saying the Arabs of Palestine were simply “southern Syrians” in no need of a state.

Several hundred thousand Arabs fled the area during the war, and a similar (probably larger) number of Jews were expelled from their homes in the Muslim nations of the Middle East and North Africa shortly after the war.

The Jews were quickly absorbed and uplifted by Israel; their descendants now make up the majority of Israel’s Jewish population. In contrast, the descendants of the fleeing Arabs, now said to number in the millions, have been forced into refugee limbo, denied citizenship and economic opportunity

in most Muslim countries, largely unemployed or underemployed in areas under Palestinian administration, and fed a diet of anti-Jewish invective.

They are the only group, worldwide, that passes refugee status from one generation to the next and has been told (by Palestinian leaders as well as other Muslim leaders) that the end to their homelessness will come only when the “Zionist entity” has been destroyed and the “refugees” have been given the homes their forebears fled.

Frankly, I don’t see much gray here. Israel (in the white hat) has proffered peace plans and ceded land.

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (in the black hats) responded to Israeli withdrawal by increasing the number of missiles lobbed at Israeli population centers and by paying stipends to those who respond to the call to “violently resist the occupation” while the leaders refuse to negotiate.

— Toby F. Block, Atlanta

It’s Black and White

Dave Schechter might wish to reconsider his belief that “shades of gray” is an accurate description of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. In 2015, Mahmoud Abbas asked the U.N. Human Rights Council, “For how long will this protracted Israeli occupation of our land last? After 67 years, how long?”

Abbas and the rest of the Palestinian leadership bemoan the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948 and promote the “liberation of Palestine from the (Jordan) River to the (Mediterranean) Sea.” There has never been and, for the foreseeable future, will not be an end to the conflict — unless Hezbollah’s 100,000 to 150,000 missiles overwhelm Israel. Looks like black and white to those who want Israel to survive long enough for her neighbors to change the pathological hatred at the core of their cultures.

— Julia Lutch, Davis, Calif.

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EDUCATION

Photos by Rachel Fayne

Torah Day graduates run to line up for the ceremony.

The girls are on one side while the boys are on the other during the ceremony.

Torah Day School’s acting head of school, Rabbi Elimelech Gottlieb, stresses the individual treatment students receive.

Torah Day Graduates 36

By Rachel Fayne

JUNE 16 ▪ 2017

Torah Day School of Atlanta honored its 36 graduates and their families as parents and grandparents held signs, cheered, and held their phones high for photos and videos at the eighth-grade graduation Monday night, June 12, at Congregation Beth Jacob.

The ceremony was especially meaningful for the acting head of school, Rabbi Elimelech Gottlieb, who spoke about the school’s unique ability to acknowledge each student. As the opening speaker, Rabbi Gott­ lieb also expressed excitement about the futures of the students, all of whom plan to attend Jewish high schools.

“We know each of our students’ names and recognize the worth and individuality of each. We treat them as they are,” he said. “We are so looking forward to hearing more from and about you through the years so that we may say we knew them when.”

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Beth Jacob Senior Rabbi Ilan Feldman, Torah Day School’s rabbinic adviser, implored the students and families alike not to take the night for granted.

“Tonight is a gift,” Rabbi Feldman said. “Take all the Jewish children around the world your age, and an overwhelming number wouldn’t have the knowledge of Jewish life that you do. Don’t ever forget how special you are. Go out and make the difference the Jewish people tremendously need.”

Before receiving their diplomas, the 36 students stood to share memories from their time at the school and screen a slideshow put together by the graduating class.

“We are so proud of our graduates,” Rabbi Gottlieb said. “In addition to their academic achievements, they show commitment to learning beyond the classroom and exemplify in action and initiative tzedakah, chesed and ahavat Yisrael.” ■

The student-made slideshow flashes photos of the new graduates through the years.

The Class of 2017 Shmuel Yaakov Alterman Yehuda Berendt Nissim Maslia Danneman Rafael Danneman Dovid Fleshel Tzvi Gelbtuch Shmuel Horowitz

Dovid Pearlman

Leah Lipskier

Elijah Pelishev

Hindy Litvin

Ari Tanenbaum

Kira Mermelstein

Moshe Varon Avi Weiden Yehuda Wiggins Eliezer Zeiger Rivca Leah Isaacs Miriam Izenberg

Henya Minkowicz Malka Leah Molokandova Michal Pransky Tehilla Esther Robbins Sara Silverman

Yacov Ingber

Noa Kaminetzky

Avital Rachel Sobel

Moshe Leff

Esther Kayser

Gabrielle Stark

Zalman Lew

Avigayil Rina Landman

Shayna Malka Winick

Mordechai Lindenblatt

Shani Levitt

Avigayil Menucha Wolf

EDUCATION CMCH Celebrates End of School Year

The Chaya Mushka Children’s House held an end-of-year celebration for the preschool and elementary school Thursday night, June 8, at Congregation Beth Tefillah. Each age group put on a performance, and selections from the year’s artwork were displayed. ■

Photos by David R. Cohen First- and second-graders hold up a sign during a song at the CMCH end-of-year event.

CMCH’s first- and secondgrade boys perform.

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Blitzer Opens Up in Ahavath Achim Situation Room

By Dave Schechter dschechter@atljewishtimes.com Speaking to a nearly full sanctuary at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said that he was happy to fulfill Stuart Eizenstat’s request that he deliver the annual Fran Eizenstat and Eizenstat Family Lecture.

“As all of you know, there’s been a very slow news cycle in Washington,” Blitzer deadpanned.

Blitzer’s appearance Sunday, June 11, came three days after former FBI Director James Comey’s Senate testimony about his firing by President Donald Trump, the kind of high-profile event that the 69-year-old Blitzer has fronted often during his 27 years at CNN. (Full disclosure: I worked at CNN for many years.)

Eizenstat, an Atlanta native and former U.S. ambassador to the European Union who served in the administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, established the lecture series in 1987.

Eizenstat’s questions allowed Blitzer to trace his life from his birth in postwar Germany to his “front-row

Photo by Montoya Turner, Made You Look Photography

Stuart Eizenstat (left) turns the tables on Wolf Blitzer and makes the CNN anchor answer questions for a change.

seat to history” as a journalist.

Asked about the Trump administration, Blitzer threw up his hands, looked over the sanctuary for several seconds, then said: “It’s unique. It definitely is.”

Blitzer rejected the suggestion that too much is being made of reported Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“At issue is a very important matter. The U.S. has to learn from what happened, from the Russian intervention in our democracy, in our election. … We’d better make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

On the subject of “fake news,” a frequent Trump barb, Blitzer praised CNN’s fact-checking operation. “We

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won’t put it on the air until we’ve checked it out and we think it’s credible and reliable,” he said. “We are the first draft of history. We’re journalists.

We are to be as responsible, careful and precise as possible.”

To answer the most-asked question, Blitzer said Wolf was the name of his maternal grandfather, who, like much of his mother’s family, died in the Holocaust, as did Blitzer’s paternal grandparents.

Several months after he was born, Blitzer immigrated to Buffalo, N.Y., with his parents and older sister.

He received a bachelor’s in history from the State University of New YorkBuffalo and, while pursuing his master’s in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, also studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“I was a news junkie even as a little boy growing up in Buffalo,” Blitzer said.

“I loved the news, but it never dawned on me that I would go into the journalism profession.”

When he announced his career choice, his father replied, “Journalist?

Can you make a living doing that?”

Blitzer started in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency.

As the Washington correspondent for The Jerusalem Post from 1973 to 1990, Blitzer garnered his share of headlines.

At a news conference during Anwar Sadat’s April 1977 visit to Washington, Blitzer asked the Egyptian president if he might engender good will by promoting exchanges between Israelis and Egyptians.

“He looked at me and he said, ‘I am ready to do that. I have no hesitation to do that, but my people are not yet ready because of all of the wars and violence,’ ” Blitzer recalled.

After announcing in November 1977 that he would travel to Jerusalem and speak to the Knesset, Sadat said he began considering the move after a reporter, later identified as Blitzer, asked that question seven months earlier.

Blitzer made splashes with his jailhouse interviews in late 1986 and early 1987 of Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty in June 1986 to espionage and was in a Virginia prison awaiting sentencing by a federal judge.

“It was an awful moment in U.S.Israeli relations,” Blitzer said. Pollard “felt that the U.S. wasn’t sharing critically important information with the Israelis, so he was going to do it” and was paid for doing so.

When the Israeli censor would not permit Blitzer’s article to appear in the Israeli press, it was published by The Washington Post in February 1987.

Pollard was sentenced to life imprisonment in March 1987. He was released Nov. 20, 2015.

Blitzer said his first major story after joining CNN as military affairs correspondent May 8, 1990, was the most surprising.

In July 1990, as Iraqi troops massed along the Kuwaiti border, Blitzer and other journalists were told privately by the chief of naval operations and a senior CIA official that Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein wanted to intimidate his smaller southern neighbor but would never invade another Arab country.

As he drove home about 10 p.m.

Aug. 1, Blitzer was informed of a wire service report that Iraqi troops had crossed the border.

After learning how wrong that earlier assessment had been — “It was clearly a blunder on the part of the U.S. intelligence community” — Blitzer did a telephone report, then returned to the Pentagon, where he was back on television at midnight.

A highlight of Blitzer’s time as a White House correspondent from 1992 to 1999 was an interview with Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first postapartheid president, during President Bill Clinton’s March 1998 trip.

Blitzer was amazed by Mandela’s attitude, despite 25 years of incarceration on Robben Island. “He had no bitterness. He had no anger. A lot of people would have wanted to kill all those nasty apartheid guards who tormented and tortured him,” but to build a new South Africa, Mandela told Blitzer, the efforts of all races would be needed. “It was such a remarkable moment.”

Blitzer, who today hosts both “Wolf” and “The Situation Room,” has anchored CNN’s coverage of presidential elections since 2004.

Calling the 2008 president election for Barack Obama brought Blitzer unexpected celebrity, he said. “In the weeks and months and years that followed … wherever I go, usually older African-Americans would come up to me, and they would hug me, and they would kiss me, and they would start to cry, … (saying) ‘We never believed we’d see an African-American president in our lifetime. We always thought it would be stolen at the last minute, they would do something. … Until we heard it from you, we really didn’t believe it was going to happen.’ ” ■

LOCAL NEWS 26 Moms Going to Israel

The Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project and the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs have chosen 26 Atlantaarea Jewish mothers for a Momentum trip to Israel from June 27 to July 4.

The highly subsidized Momentum mission “is part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen Israel’s relationship with Diaspora communities around the world,” said Dvir Kahana, the directorgeneral of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, which has partnered with the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project since 2014. “We share the vision of empowering Jewish women worldwide as leaders of the next generation with the ability and drive to raise children who are proud of their identity and strongly connected to Israel.”

The trip stretches from the mystical city of Safed to the ancient mountaintop fortress of Masada while encompassing everything from Jewish values to contemporary Israeli society.

The trip aims to inspire women to connect deeply with their Jewish heritage to transform themselves, their families and their communities.

“I am so excited to finally be visiting Israel,” said Lisa Mirsky, the Davis Academy director of admissions. “It has been a dream of mine to see the Holy Land, but I never had the opportunity until now.”

Also chosen for the trip are Sarah Bernstein, Holly Faraldi, Randi Frank, Batsheva Gelbtuch Moses, Nancy Harris, Korie Kahn, Betsy Levy, Hillary Levy, Marcy Maya, Melissa Miller, Nancy Miller, Debbie Minkin, Alyson Pollack, Ilana Preis, Lee Rakusin, Jodi Rosa, Deborah Sheftel, Juliet Silverman, Viki Stein, Shana Stukalsky, Renee Videlefsky, Lyndsie Viente, Heather Weiner, Julie Weiser and Nicole Weisen.

“Our philosophy from the beginning has always been: Inspire a woman, you inspire a family. Inspire enough families, you can change a community.

Inspire enough communities, you can change the world,” said Lori Palatnik, the JWRP’s founding director.

Registration is open for Limmud Atlanta + Southeast, again being held over Labor Day weekend at Ramah Darom in Clayton.

Early-bird pricing was scheduled to end Thursday, June 15. Regular adult prices for the four days and three nights Sept. 1 to 4 range from $199 for camping to $650 for a cabin. One-day and commuter options also are available for the festival of learning.

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By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com The time has come for the United States to correct a historical wrong and move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro told the 111th annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta on Wednesday, June 7.

The meeting at Ahavath Achim Synagogue occurred on the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification during the Six-Day War and six days after President Donald Trump followed the example of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama in signing a six-month waiver to a U.S. law requiring the embassy’s move.

“I think the waiver has outlived its usefulness, and it’s time to move the embassy to Jerusalem to demonstrate we do not accept the denial of Jewish ties to Jerusalem,” Shapiro said.

The Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed in 1995, called for moving the embassy by May 31, 1999.

Shapiro served as ambassador in Israel for the last 5½ years of the Obama administration without publicly calling for the move.

He said he understands why Trump used the national security waiver despite promising during the campaign to move the embassy: The feat must be accomplished in a smart and strategic way to advance the goal of a two-state solution that offers peace and security to Israelis and Palestinians.

Shapiro said the embassy should be placed on the western side of the Green Line in Jerusalem, leaving the status of the eastern side of the city, including the holy sites in the Old City and the possibility of a Palestinian capital, for negotiations.

Shapiro said Trump’s use of the waiver provides him six months to talk with the Palestinians, Jordanians and other Arabs to address concerns about the implications of the move and reduce the likelihood of a violent response.

“Can we guarantee that there will not be protests and violence? No,” he said. “However, should we ever step back from what we are supposed to do in lieu of threats or violence? No.” Shapiro, who advised Obama during his first presidential campaign before joining the administration as a

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Above: Daniel Shapiro, who served as President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Israel, says the threat of violence should never stop the United States from doing the right thing.

Below: Federation President and CEO Eric Robbins praises the agency’s staff for supporting the process of change.

National Security Council aide, also defended the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the U.S. abstention at the end of December on U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlements.

Shapiro’s question-and-answer session with Michael Rosenzweig wrapped up an annual meeting that marked the midpoint in Joel Mark’s two-year term as chairman of the board and the approval of a resolution reducing the size of the board from 140 to no more than 30 trustees.

It was also the first annual meeting since Eric Robbins became president and CEO on Aug. 1 last year.

“We sought to invigorate Jewish life in Atlanta and have helped build a vibrant community; however, there’s still much to do in the road ahead,” Robbins said.

Among future endeavors, Federation plans to establish Our Front Porch, an effort to understand the preferred direction of the community and its priorities, and intends to invite two young emissaries from Israel in August under the Jewish Agency’s Shinshinim program, which aims to encourage a sense of Israel in day schools, supplemental synagogue religious schools and summer camps.

A Federation mission to Israel in January will gather lay leaders from Jewish organizations across Atlanta to build relationships, develop the community’s vison, and strengthen understanding and connections to Israel. ■

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Frank Honored for Lifetime of Devotion to Israel

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com

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(From left) Isaac, Adam, Joshua and Aaron Frank take the stage to honor their father.

Rabin, who then had them over when the Franks visited Israel.

“In retrospect, I realize how special that was,” Frank said.

He said he has searched for ways to ensure that future Jewish generations love and protect Israel despite not having lived through the Holocaust or Israel’s birth or threats to its survival and perhaps not having experienced anti-Semitism.

It’s vital, Frank said, that Jews are responsible for one another because we can’t count on anyone else.

“If you want to honor me in a way that would immortalize the value for which I received this award tonight,

Larry Frank talks about the childhood influences that led him to be such a strong advocate of Israel and the Jewish people.

Seated beside wife Lois, Larry Frank listens to the tribute from his sons.

you will join me in the support, the understanding, the education, the experience of Israel, and all of us will reap the honor,” Frank said.

The Franks set the example.

Through their family foundation, they send groups of “outstanding, smart, caring Jews” on trips to Auschwitz and Israel.

“Each mission of young leaders to Auschwitz helps put into context the gratitude and importance that the 21st century Jews must acknowledge in order to begin to build a mature relationship with the Jewish state,” Rabbi Frank said.

The youngest Frank son, Isaac, has

Larry Frank receives Federation’s Lifetime of Achievement Award.

shepherded five of those life-changing Frank missions so far.

Larry Frank said he’s proud of “my boys,” and the feeling was mutual.

“I imagine every child believes his father to be a type of superhero. …

However, at some point the curtain of fantasy comes down, and the awe and admiration is replaced with the child’s impatience and criticism,” Rabbi Frank said. “Larry Frank was not an exception to the transformation with his own four sons, who have never had a moment of uncertainty regarding our father’s unwavering commitment, courage and passion toward his family and people.” ■

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The presentation of the Lifetime of Achievement Award to Larry Frank became a timely celebration of fatherhood and of Israel.

“All children not only deserve their parents’ unconditional love, but to actually feel the constant hug of that unconditional love. Our dad gave and continues to give such a gift. … It is this love that has guided him to a lifetime of contributions in the Atlanta Jewish community,” Rabbi Adam Frank, who lives in Israel, said while leading his three brothers in presenting the award to their father on behalf of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta at its annual meeting Wednesday, June 7.

It was the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, when Larry Frank became involved in Federation, and 11 days before Father’s Day. Aaron, Joshua, Adam and Isaac Frank grew up listening to talk of politics, Soviet Jewry, synagogues and Israel at the dinner table while developing a passion for social justice.

“Our home was the opposite of lip service,” said Rabbi Frank, who joked that he was speaking to a crowd at Ahavath Achim Synagogue for the first time since becoming a bar mitzvah. “It was the actualization of seeking out ways to help other Jews.”

Frank learned about anti-Semitism when he was as young as a kindergartner and noticed the difference between himself and the boy next to him in the school bathroom. When he asked his classmate about it later, the boy said, “You Jews killed Christ.”

It’s a story he passed on to his sons.

Frank was a star athlete at Grady High and captained the football team at Vanderbilt to a conference title. He recalls the slurs the Grady team had to withstand while playing some high schools in football and the suggestions to hit the ball with his nose in baseball.

“The backdrop of our dad’s experiences of the world as a Jew was his reality of growing up in the anti-Semitic South, in the shadow of the Holocaust and in a lifetime of seeing the state of Israel attacked on all fronts,” Rabbi Frank said.

Frank’s advocacy of Israel led him and wife Lois to travel to Israel multiple times between the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars while encouraging support for the Jewish state. The couple hosted dignitaries and became friends with people like Yitzhak and Leah

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Give Dad What He Wants: A Booze Tour

By Robbie Medwed The question of what to do for Father’s Day never gets any easier. It’s hard enough finding something affordable to do that Dad will enjoy, but you also have to consider siblings, family members and other parents.

This year, consider skipping the awkward brunches and dinners you’re planning, and don’t bother with the same gift certificate you have been buying every year. Instead of spending all that money and energy on choosing the perfect spot or planning the perfect day, try this instead: Take dad to one of our local breweries or distilleries for a round of drinks and some low-pressure, quality time together.

Here are some of the best and most affordable options for a Father’s Day that’s sure to make everyone happy.

Monday Night Brewing runs $12 tours with tastings four days a week.

Monday Night Brewing

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670 Trabert Ave., West Midtown mondaynightbrewing.com Monday Night Brewing is Atlanta’s only certified kosher brewery. All its year-round brews are hechshered, and Monday Night has some great seasonal drinks. The admission price of $12 gets you six 6-ounce pours of beer, plus a behind-the-scenes tour of the brewing facility.

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m.

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Orpheus Brewing

1440 Dutch Valley Place, Midtown www.orpheusbrewing.com When it comes to new and different flavors, Orpheus leads the pack. If your dad fancies himself a bit of a beer snob, take him here and blow his mind with the tarts and sours. Plus, Orpheus’ tasting room and patio overlook Piedmont Park, which is perfect on a sunny afternoon. Enjoy seven 5-ounce samples and a tour for $14.

Thursday and Friday, 6 to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 12:30 to 5 p.m.

Gate City Brewing Co.

43 Magnolia St., Roswell www.gatecitybrewingcompany.

com Good beer has made it to the suburbs! Gate City is a new kid on the block that has made quite a splash lately. It’s right in the center of historic Roswell and not far from some of the great restaurants in town. Gate City pours six 6-ounce glasses for $15.

Thursday, 5 to 9 p.m.; Friday, 5 to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 1 to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 8 p.m.

SweetWater Brewing Co.

195 Ottley Drive, Atlanta sweetwaterbrew.com The granddaddy brewery that started it all in Atlanta, SweetWater is a crowd-pleaser that always has something interesting on tap. It has a taproom filled with great beers, an expansive patio, and a room called The Woodlands, which has SweetWater’s higher-end and experimental drafts on tap. Get six 6-ounce pours and a tour for $12.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30 to 4:30

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Creature Comforts is worth the drive to Athens for its $14 tour with six samples.

Creature Comforts Brewing Co.

271 W. Hancock Ave., Athens www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com Creature Comforts has been putting out some of Georgia’s best beer lately, and it’s absolutely worth the drive to its Athens tasting room and brewery. These folks have beer that will impress the snobbiest beer aficionados and even persuade nonbeer drinkers to love beer. Get six 6-ounce pours and a tour for $14.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 5 to 9 p.m.; Friday, 5 to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m.

American Spirit Whiskey

199 Armour Drive, Suite C, Atlanta www.americanspiritwhiskey.com American Spirit’s Atlanta facility recently opened, and it has been putting out exciting products ever since, including the first rye distilled within the city limits in over 100 years and an apple brandy made from local apples.

There are seven tour-and-tasting options, ranging from $8 for a simple 3-taste all the way up to $50, which includes a bottle to take home with you.

You can choose multiple levels for multiple people on the same day.

Thursday and Friday, 4:30 to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.

Old Fourth Ward Distillery

487 Edgewood Ave., Atlanta o4d.com Old Fourth Ward Distillery holds the distinction of being the first distillery in the city of Atlanta since before Prohibition. Since opening just over a year ago, it has made quite a name for itself with vodka, gin, and Lawn Dart, a lemon-ginger liqueur. Old Fourth Ward is aging its first batch of bourbon, which will be released in a few years. A regular tasting tour is $10 per person, but $30 will give you a tour and a bottle to take home. Reservations are recommended.

Thursday and Friday, 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 9 p.m.

Tours at Richland Rum are free and include tastings.

Richland Rum

333 E. Broad St., Richland www.richlandrum.com Richland Rum is the United States’ only single-estate rum. That means Richland grows all the sugarcane it uses to distill its rum itself, following the traditions of long ago. Richland is also certified kosher. The distillery is helping revitalize the small town of Richland and is worth the day trip southeast of Columbus. While you’re there, take home a bottle of Richland’s pure sugarcane syrup, Almost Rum. Free tours include tastings and are available every hour on the hour. Richland Rum also has a souvenir shop.

Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on the hour; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., by appointment ■

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3 Ways to Toast Dad

Mint Julep Few drinks come with a history as storied as the Mint Julep. When the cocktail was created in the late 1700s, it was built with lots of fresh fruit on a gin or brandy base. It was a cocktail that signified wealth, as it required imported alcohol, fresh fruit and lots of ice, all of which were expensive. In the 1930s the folks at Churchill Downs co-opted the julep and, with local distilleries, switched the base to bourbon — and a legend was reborn.

Thank Churchill Handful of Downs for turning fresh mint sprigs the Mint Julep into ½ ounce sima bourbon drink. ple syrup (50/50 sugar and water, melted together) 2½ ounces whiskey Crushed ice In a glass (a silver cup is traditional), gently muddle a few mint leaves in the simple syrup. Don’t pulverize them; that will make the drink bitter.

Add crushed ice to fill the glass, then the whiskey. Stir gently. Garnish with a large handful of fresh mint sprigs.

Instructions from the 1800s call for enough mint to tickle your ears when you drink, so don’t be shy.

Gimlet The Gimlet came of age in the 1960s.

It’s a play on the martini but takes advantage of a classic 1960s ingredient: Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice. This version opts for fresh lime juice and simple syrup

Lime juice and a touch of sweetness are keys to a proper Gimlet.

instead of the bottled stuff, but feel free to use the bottle if you want to stay classic.

2 ounces gin 1 ounce fresh lime juice ½ ounce simple syrup (50/50 sugar and water, melted together) Or 2 ounces gin ¾ ounce Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice Combine all the ingredients and shake gently over ice. Strain and serve

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in a stemmed glass with a slice of lime.

Dark ’n’ Stormy The Dark ’n’ Stormy is one of my goto summer cocktails, and it’s the official cocktail of Bermuda. It’s simple, strong and just classy enough to make you feel like you’re drinking something special instead of just having rum and a mixer.

It’s like when your dad told you he was going to take you to a water park, but instead he just brought you to the house of a neighbor who had a pool with a slide.

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by Gosling’s Rum. Technically, a true Dark ’n’ Stormy must be made with Gosling’s Black Seal Rum. I’m sure I’m not the only one who grew up with Dad trying to pass off something store-brand as the original (and being told to like it or I’d get nothing), so you can make your own choices when it comes to which kind of dark rum you’d like to use.

2 ounces dark rum Ginger beer to top Lime Pour the rum and ginger beer into a glass filled with ice (the original recipe also calls for a highball glass, but use what you have). Add a squeeze of lime, and garnish with a lime wedge. ■ Robbie Medwed writes about cocktails and alcohol at koshercocktail.com.

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Father’s Day is about coming together and celebrating the man who taught you everything you know. Let’s hope that’s Dad, but if not, you can celebrate that guy, too. Some folks might say Dad’s old; I prefer to say he’s classic.

To celebrate all things Dad, here are three cocktails to drink in his honor. They’re classics, just like Dad. You’re welcome to drink these with him, or just drink one in Dad’s honor while you give him a call. He’ll appreciate the thought, and you’ll appreciate the nice, cold drink on a hot summer’s day.

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Survivor, Daughter Cover Globe With Collections Two collectors are better than one. John Silva, nee Hans Rolf, and daughter Sharon live only floors apart in a Buckhead condominium building. John goes for clean German lines, while Sharon dramatizes with black walls and an Asian theme.

Jaffe: It’s convenient that you and Dad live in the same building. How does that work? Have you artistically influenced each other?

Sharon: After years in Sandy Springs and turning 50, I was ready for a change. After my mother passed away, living in the same building as my father allowed me to spend daily time with him. Today, at 95, it has come in very handy.

We share similar floor plans but on different floors and with a very different aesthetic. He favors European, modern lines, and I am drawn to Chinese Chippendale. I lean toward Asian, tempered with English and other things that catch my eye. I recently bought a unique metal chair sculpture from 14th Street Antiques & Modern Home.

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Jaffe: How did you end up in the U.S.?

John: At 17, I fled Germany alone shortly after Kristallnacht (1938), boarding an Italian steamer headed to South America, with nothing more than a prized stamp collection. There I suffered through malaria and yellow fever while working in the Bolivian jungle, clearing brush with machetes.

Under the auspices of the International Red Cross, this program was a source of subsistence employment for many young refugees.

Desperate to flee the hardship of the jungle, feigning a toothache, I sought out a dentist in the capital city, La Paz. After menial jobs and savvy card playing, I reached Argentina (in the trunk of an official’s car) and went on to Montevideo, Uruguay. There a kind Frenchman taught me the wool trade. I met my wife, the only child of refugees who fled Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Montevideo, and married in 1944.

In 1947, in a brief window of opportunity for refugees to immigrate to the U.S. under a program designed to help orphaned children of the Holocaust, I found a sponsor from a contact made trading stamps. From 22 New York City, I ran my wool business

brokering raw materials from farms in South America, Australia and New Zealand and selling to carpet mills in the Northeast.

In 1986 we moved to Atlanta to live near Sharon.

Jaffe: How would you describe your style here?

Sharon: I am definitely drawn to

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A Asian furniture and accents. Chinese Chippendale is a good description, as I have ball and claw-foot and English pieces mixed with the Asian aesthetic.

Incidentally, Mandarin Antiques on Cheshire Bridge Road is the foremost Chinese antiques importer in the Southeast.

I am partial to trees. The view from my living room and dining room faces northwest, and I am in a tree canopy.

Jaffe: Your black walls are very dramatic. What are you accomplishing with them? Did you use a designer?

Sharon: No designer. I’ve always heard that you should paint your walls a color that you enjoy. Ninety-five percent of my wardrobe is black, and I wanted to feature the paintings, so, with floor-to-ceiling windows, I went with my gut instinct, painting the foyer, gallery and living room black.

At night it is quite dramatic. Track lighting emphasizes the paintings, and they truly pop. I’ve never had a single regret.

Jaffe: What interests you about cloisonné? Any stories about how you acquired some of the pieces?

Sharon: My first introduction to cloisonné was in 1977. While I was living in the Philippines, I visited Hong Kong and purchased it to bring home as gifts. Once back in the U.S., I lamented that I did not purchase any for myself. Since then, I search flea markets, estate sales and antique stores and, little by little, acquire pieces. I am drawn to color, detail and condition. Cloisonné is an intricate, eight-step process. Designs are created on metal objects (vases, ginger jars, plates, bowls) with colored glass paste filling design enclosures made by hand

B out of copper or bronze wires, bent or hammered into the desired pattern.

My mother’s ashes are in a beautiful cloisonné butterfly jar. Whenever a butterfly circles near me, I feel she is visiting.

Jaffe: Tell us about your mask and ivory collections.

John: Many ages and types of wood. The African masks are more valuable than the South American ones. The most unusual is whalebone.

The ivory, illegal now, was purchased around 1955. Some have scrimshaw carvings done by sailors.

Jaffe: You collect M. Stuart and Ford Smith. What about them appeals to you, and how did you discover them?

Sharon: The paintings I gravitate toward have a similar aesthetic. Michael Stuart Maguire was a featured artist at Opus One Gallery on Bennett Street and later at Taylor Kinzel Gallery in Roswell. I first saw his work (“Red Tree”) in 2003. This was my first significant art purchase. His work also hangs in the Federal Reserve of At-

lanta. He is one of my favorite artists, and I have eight of his paintings.

Ford Smith, whose eponymous gallery is in Roswell, is another favorite. I also met Ford in 2002 at Gallery Sklo on Bennett Street. I currently have three of his paintings. Two very large pieces of his work hang at Hennessy Lexus.

I’m always surprised that while I don’t purposefully search for trees, the paintings I’m drawn to feature them.

My most recent purchase, Ford Smith’s “Twilight Tango,” humanizes two trees and is quite compelling.

Jaffe: Are you done collecting?

Sharon: There comes a point when everything is in its place. I could say that I am done collecting, but I know better: Never say never. When something speaks to me, I listen. If a piece stops you in your tracks, there is a reason. Life has its challenges; when you come home, be surrounded by art you enjoy.

I would love to own works by Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Later in their careers, they painted to relax.

Those would be special. ■

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A: John Silva, who escaped Germany after Kristallnacht, discusses his collection of masks and rare ivory (acquired in eastern Asia in the 1950s).

B: M. Stuart’s “Cattails” duo painting hangs on the dramatic black walls Sharon Silva created with Porter Paints’ Black Onyx, Smoky Olive and Green Gray Mist colors.

C: Sharon Silva’s entrance art gallery includes “Lunar Ambition” (left) by Ford Smith and “Blue Lady 1953” (right) by Angel Oblitas.

D: A 6-foot-wide, crackled-wood, Mandarin-style shelf houses Sharon Silva’s collection of cloisonné. The wood floor features an unusual herringbone pattern.

E: A 1,000-year-old egg vessel rests below M. Stuart’s “Fathomable Abstract” painting.

F: Sharon Silva says she is attracted to art featuring trees and nature, such as “Twilight Tango” by Ford Smith.

G: John Silva, who speaks four languages, says his African masks are more collectible than those he acquired from South America.

H: Sharon Silva’s heavy carved rosewood chairs flank M. Stuart’s “Toccoa Falls.”

I: Sharon Silva’s dining room uses fixtures from Yaakov Golan’s Lighting Loft to frame M. Stuart’s “Through the Trees.”

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Prayers, Cheers Secure Daddy-Daughter Ties

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“Daddy, listen, I need your advice.

And I really need to talk to a man.”

That was me about two weeks ago. My dad and I have always been close, so close that I wouldn’t eat until he came home at night, and I would sit on his lap and eat off his plate. I’m a daddy’s girl, and I am thankful he has always been there.

I remember our father-daughter dates. I couldn’t have been older than 5, and he would take me to get a Squirt because that was my nickname. I would sit in the car, drink my Squirt and smile while kicking my feet.

My dad, a DJ in the ’70s, would do my hair some mornings, and I would listen to music with him. To this day, I know the lyrics to everything from Steely Dan to the Bee Gees to “Secret Lovers”

by Atlantic Starr.

My parents’ divorce wrecked my little world. I am lucky my dad remained a constant in my life.

There was no more perfect time than being with my dad, but as I got older, I became every father’s nightmare. I was wild for my age, a terror with a sweet smile.

My best friend and I were the only black girls at our Catholic school, and we were extremely close. The problem was that she was older. And as soon as my white girlfriends were old enough to drive, it was bananas. At 15, we did things women in their 20s were doing.

I excelled in school, so I never saw a problem with my behavior. I wasn’t doing anything out of the norm for a teenager in my hometown. The difference between a bad teenage girl and a good one was a baby or no baby.

My dad always said he prayed for me, and I know it had to be true.

We grew distant in my teens as every conversation turned into a lecture about G-d. I couldn’t understand why he was so adamant that I change. But he saw something in me that it took years for me to see in myself.

My relationship with my mother was nonexistent. It’s clear now that my father approached his relationship with me in a certain way because he knew what I endured at home.

We became closer when HBO launched “Sex and the City,” which kept me home Sunday nights. That became our date night.

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knew a show full of sex, designer clothes and cosmopolitans interested me and my teenage friends, so he watched it with me every week. He answered any questions about love, sex and life, and I settled down as he dispensed fatherly wisdom.

When it was time for college, he and his best friend drove me to art school, where I majored in fashion de-

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sign. He believed in me, and for a girl, having a cheerleader is important.

I wanted to be just like Carrie Bradshaw, and I ended up writing about fashion and interviewing Candace Bushnell. Through all the changes of my 20s, my dad was there, though he knew I was heading for a crash. The conversations became lectures again, and I couldn’t understand the problem.

He would always say, “Listen, I’ve been your age.” (He still says that.)

Before I moved to Atlanta, he sat me down and said: “Look, you’re going to meet a lot of men who didn’t grow up like you. They didn’t grow up in a two-parent household, and that’s going to make a difference.”

I heard him, but I wasn’t listening.

I just wanted to interview every rapper and singer alive. I wasn’t thinking about men, but Daddy knew I would run into a couple. Now I know what he was trying to tell me.

If I can help it, I won’t have children without a man to help raise them because I know what my father meant to me. I know the effect he had on my life, and I thank G-d he was there.

It’s funny how tables turn. Now I call him just to pray for me. I see my father as a human who makes mistakes and has grand imperfections, but just as he loved me through my ups and downs, I love him. We’re growing together, and sometimes he grants me the privilege of talking him through his heartache and disappointments.

I even get to give him advice about my baby sister: “Daddy, don’t say it like that. You need a softer approach.”

“I’m proud of you,” he’ll say. It’s hard for me to believe, but I understand because I’m proud of him too. ■

My brother had some unexpected alone time in Germany.

A 12-Year-Old, a Train, A Suitcase and Germany The train’s automatic glass doors closed, and my 12-year-old brother was on the other side. As it pulled away from the station, my dad and I could only look on in disbelief.

We had just lost my brother on a German train.

Until now, even my mom doesn’t know the full story of how we almost had to come back to Atlanta without one of her sons.

It was Thanksgiving 2003, and my dad had decided to take the two of us on a trip to visit our former au pairs in Germany. Like most of my dad’s travel plans, this one involved planes, trains, taxis, hikes and a different city every night.

We were on a train from the Frankfurt airport to the central train station when we realized we had left a bag at the airport station. Amid the confusion of getting off the train to go back and get it, my brother hadn’t gotten the message.

So we were at a crossroads.

Should we go back and get the bag, or try to find my younger brother?

With his priorities solidly in line, my dad decided to go for the bag first.

Back in 2003, in a foreign country, we didn’t have cellphones, so getting in contact with my brother on a train headed in the opposite direction was tricky.

Dad and I went back to get the unattended bag, which was somehow sitting right where we left it. Even though this was post-9/11, Europe was still living in a period of relative bliss when it came to security.

Dad told me to stay at the Frank-

furt airport train station with all the bags and wait to see whether my

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brother came back while he searched every stop along the way. I remember watching countless trains roll into the station to see whether my younger brother would come out. An hour went by, and he never did.

Unbeknownst to us, a woman on the train had seen what transpired and called the police. They met my brother and the woman at the next stop and took him to the police office at the Frankfurt central train station.

So when Dad went back to look for him at every stop, he wasn’t there.

Assuming that he had somehow found his way to the central station, Dad rushed back to get me, and we went there together with our bags in tow.

When we arrived, Dad asked security about a lost 12-year-old. This time they told him that my brother was safe and sound in the custody of German police. At the police station, I halfexpected them to cuff my dad for child neglect, but they let us go, and we went on to have a great trip in Deutschland.

Father’s Day often gets lost in the shuffle among Mother’s Day, summer vacation and the Fourth of July, but it’s a great opportunity to sit back and remember the many times that your dad was able to get you out of a sticky situation. And for that we say thanks. ■

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‘Girl,’ Dad Thrive in Endless, Surfless Summer

By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com East Cobb writer Laura Silverman’s debut novel, “Girl out of Water,” is about and for teenagers, which means I’m about three decades older than the target audience. So it’s a tribute to Silverman’s storytelling ability that it passed my simplest quality test: I couldn’t put the book down even when I had more important things to do, such as edit this newspaper.

“Girl” is the story of Anise Sawyer, a 17-year-old girl in Santa Cruz, Calif., ready to spend the summer before her senior year in high school doing the only thing she loves: surfing. But her aunt in Nebraska gets into a nearly fatal car crash, and Anise and her father are forced to move halfway across the country to take care of her three younger cousins during Aunt Jackie’s recovery.

Jackie is a widow with a 12-yearold daughter and twin 9-year-old boys.

Her family lives in the house she grew up in — the same house where Anise’s mother, Jackie’s sister, lived until she left home for good at age 17.

East Cobb author Laura Silverman acknowledges never surfing and trying skateboarding only once.

Anise’s mom is the unseen antagonist of “Girl out of Water.” She abandoned her husband and daughter when Anise was in diapers. She has a habit of popping back into their lives without warning and staying just long enough to get their hopes up before disappearing again.

Needless to say, Anise has abandonment issues, leading to her determination never to leave Santa Cruz.

Also needless to say, because this is a young-adult novel, summer winds up being a time of personal discovery as Anise takes emotional and physical risks to learn about herself and con-

front the hole her wandering mom left in her life.

Silverman took her own risks in breaking the mantra to “write what you know” with her first novel. In a note at the end of the book, she says she has never surfed, and her one attempt at skateboarding — the pastime Anise picks up in Nebraska — ended in “a lot of blood.” She grew up and still lives in metro Atlanta, far from the California coast and Nebraska Plains. She has a disability that limits her mobility and activity; Anise is an athlete who needs the adrenaline rush of riding a big wave or pulling off a risky skateboard trick.

I’m not a surfer, a skateboarder, a Californian or a teenage girl, but as far as I can tell, Silverman is on point with her descriptions: • Catching a wave — “The cold spray is everywhere, consuming and overpowering. I’m riding the wave, a beautiful and terrifying barrel wave that arcs over my head so that I’m parallel to a wall of rushing water.”

• Trying a new skate trick — “I kick the board into the air. It spins perfectly and effortlessly. Then the board and I both fall to the ground, a cocky grin

spreading across my face as I steady my balance with my arms and secure my footing and — WHAM.” • Falling for a boy — “At that exact moment, Lincoln is unbuttoning his sleeveless plaid shirt and stuffing it in his bag, his defined abs on display. I am doing very little to keep from staring at said abs. … There might be the tiniest bit of drool dripping from the corner of my mouth.” (Don’t worry; the book is strictly PG-13.)

It’s not Faulkner, but the writing gets the job done. And Silverman has some fun insights, such as her speculation that hospitals have McDonald’s because fries bring families together.

The main appeal for me, however, is Silverman’s depiction of the relationship between Anise and her single dad.

Their mutual support and understanding and their probably unrealistically open communication provide a moving, powerful reminder of the potential of the father-daughter connection on the eve of Father’s Day. ■ Girl out of Water

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Birthday Lena Sisselman’s 102nd

JUNE 16 ▪ 2017

Born in 1915 in Atlanta, Lena Melnick Sisselman celebrated her 102nd birthday with her extended family over the Memorial Day weekend. She attends Shabbat services with her grandson every Saturday, and she is thrilled to have recently become a great-great-grandmother.

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Stage Dream Brings Actress, ‘Mamma’ to Atlanta ducing shows. I want to get to a point where I can create a show with people I’ve met while working and the people I love. I want to create it with the people I love from the ground up. You want to work with your friends because you know what they’re capable of creatively and intellectually.

By Patrice Worthy “Mamma Mia!” takes the Fox Theatre stage through Sunday, June 18, with a dynamic cast and ensemble performing hits by ABBA. The story follows Sophie on the eve of her wedding in the Greek Isles as she sets out to uncover the identity of her father. The quest brings together three men from her mother’s past and a cast of characters who turn her world upside down.

Yael Reich returns to the “Mamma Mia!” tour for a second year as part of the ensemble and as the understudy for Sophie.

Reich is no stranger to musical theater: Her roles have included Aldonza in “Man of La Mancha,” Anita in “West Side Story” and Lily in “Annie,” to name a few.

The New York native and University of Florida graduate talked to the AJT while hanging out in New Orleans during a previous tour stop.

AJT: This is your second year as a cast member of “Mamma Mia!” Why did you come back to the show?

Reich: I started the journey in 2012 with “Mamma Mia!” and it’s such a highly heartwarming, enthusiastic show that anyone who leaves the show is elated.

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AJT: How has being a member of the ensemble stretched you?

Reich: They gave me the privilege of being a dancer. I never felt more comfortable in my dancing than I do now.

It’s been a humbling experience

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The Fox Theatre hosts “Mamma Mia!” through June 18.

But we saw her perform.

Yael Reich is making her first visit to Atlanta with “Mamma Mia!”

and challenging for me, but I am grateful the director and choreographer trusted me enough to give me that part.

AJT: What’s your favorite song in the musical?

Reich: “I Have Dream” is a huge blast at the end of Act 2; everyone goes wild as the curtain comes down. I love the singing, and there are 28 songs in the show, and we perform all 28 songs.

“Thank You for the Music” is also a fun, singsongy, kumbaya song for the cast.

AJT: Musicals and Broadway are a big part of the American Jewish culture. What are some of the musicals that influenced you growing up?

Reich: Growing up, my grandmother would watch all of the classics with us, like “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Funny Girl,” “My Fair Lady” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” Barbra Streisand was a huge influence. We actually saw her perform in Israel during her last tour, but she says every tour is her last tour.

AJT: What is your favorite “Fiddler on the Roof” song?

Reich: I would have to say “Tradition” because it starts off the show in such a full way. One thing I like is a full chorus and an orchestra because that’s what I grew up with in synagogue at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York. They have an amazing Friday night service, and you get a slice of the community and togetherness and what it means to the Jewish community.

AJT: When did you know you wanted to do musical theater professionally?

Reich: I think I always really knew.

The first show I did was a version of “The Little Mermaid.” It was cool to start my journey with a song I knew, but I really knew when I accepted the manager position in the musical theater at my high school. There was no doubt in my mind once the decision was made.

AJT: How do you see your career evolving?

Reich: I think everyone in the industry has goals of Broadway and pro-

AJT: What’s it like traveling with a full musical cast?

Reich: It’s incredible. Once you’re living, working and traveling with the same group of people, they become family. Our production company put together a good group of people who are just lovely. The traveling can be tough, but everyone handles it pretty well, and they are amazing.

AJT: What has been your favorite place to visit so far?

Reich: I really loved Arizona. …

There was great hiking in Tucson, and Tempe was a great city. New Orleans may hit No. 1. It’s very cool to do some traveling while working and doing the things I love to do.

AJT: Have you ever been to Atlanta?

Reich: We come to Atlanta next.

I’ve actually never been, but I have a bunch of friends that migrated to Atlanta from Florida for the film scene.

I’m excited to see something. ■ What: “Mamma Mia!” Where: Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St., Midtown When: Through Sunday, June 18 Tickets: $30 to $115; foxtheatre.org/ mammamia

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New Israeli Tech Fights Old Cyber Wars

By Patrice Worthy

DarioHealth Chairman and CEO Erez Raphael welcomes Dominique Wilkins as the company’s new brand ambassador.

Israeli Diabetes Device Gives Wilkins an Assist

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com “One out of three individuals across the U.S. suffer from pre-diabetic symptoms or are prone to join the 30 million individuals who already possess the disease if they fail to properly manage their condition,” said Shmuel Hershberg, the director of user engagement at Caesarea-based DarioHealth, which announced a partnership Thursday, June 8, with brand ambassador and nine-time NBA All-Star Dominique Wilkins at a press conference with Chairman and CEO Erez Raphael in downtown Atlanta.

“The statistics are staggering when you talk about one in every two minority children in the U.S. have diabetes or pre-diabetic systems,” said Wilkins, the all-time Atlanta Hawks great, who has diabetes. “It’s becoming an epidemic in which we have to find creative ways to manage through diet and exercise.”

After Wilkins was diagnosed with diabetes, he began looking for alternative and simple ways to manage his health while monitoring his glucose levels. That’s when he came across Dario’s blood glucose monitoring system (mydario.com).

The pocket-size device is an allin-one glucose meter that connects to a smartphone for accurate results in measuring blood sugar levels with test strips.

“It’s on the cusp of wearable technology,” Hershberg said.

Since its launch less than two years ago, the Israeli device has reached tens of thousands of users across the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States. It can be used with an iPhone and soon with Android devices, Raphael said.

Controlling health factors associated with diabetes is particularly

important to Raphael, whose father died from complications with Type 2 diabetes. That experience led him to start DarioHealth in 2011 to help bring awareness about health risks involved with the chronic disease.

“The concept started from the number of users,” Raphael said. “After examining the overall industry regarding glucose monitoring devices, we thought we needed a revolution regarding medical devices for consumers.”

The device is just a foot in the door for Dario, however, as it branches out.

“We believe a highly centric solution that is digitalized can help people manage their health better, live longer and participate in preconditioned activities when they send the right information to the right people at the right time,” Raphael said. “At the end of the day, when we are dealing with chronic conditions, it’s about us. We need to take care of ourselves.”

The partnership between Dario and Wilkins arose after the Hawks player wanted a simple and convenient way to track his health and sought to encourage people to make easy lifestyle changes.

“I’ve been able to use the device for quite a while now and look forward to sharing it with others,” Wilkins said.

“Dario is a launching pad and platform which provides individuals another option, and I’ve always believed that I could find every option to help people’s lives be easier in managing diabetes.”

The company hopes to expand its software to treat additional chronic conditions. “The more users we can get engaged, the better they will be able to take care of themselves in an easy and effective way,” Raphael said. “Treating a chronic condition is like being your own doctor 24/7, but the technology we are building may help individuals cope with their condition accurately.” ■

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Yoav Tzruya, partner and CEO of JVP Cyber Labs, (left) meets with potential clients during the FinTech conference in May.

cluding an exponential increase in the amount of data that organizations are trying to understand.

“The Swift breach caught organizations blindsided. The obvious, traditional methods are not working,” Rissman said. “Organizations are investing millions of dollars on security to predict threats based on threats that happened before.”

The problem is that electronic viruses, like the biological kind, can mutate and become resistant to treatment. Security software is designed to prevent previous threats, which means that most financial institutions are defenseless when attacks evolve.

“The heart of the problem is that there is a lack of balance between perpetrator and defender,” Tzurya said.

“Attacks are easy and low-cost, and defense is high-cost, takes a lot of time and requires knowledge.”

Companies such as Theta Ray are developing technology to detect anomalies with high precision in real time, detect operational risk and detect emerging sources of fraud.

JVP recently acquired a company that works on a strain of the Poison Ivy attack China used to steal plans for the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. Essentially, the security company uses the code within the malware to identify new strains and develop defensive lines.

The technology can predict every possible hack based on software from 2007 to 2013 and thus block hackers from developing strains to attack vulnerabilities in financial systems.

“By using the genetic algorithm, we’re not able to predict each and every future attack, but we’re able to put the sanity back and make it not so easy for hackers. They now have to come up with new ways,” Tzruya said.

The new approach to cybersecurity is making attacks more expensive and pricing some companies out of the 27 market. ■ JUNE 16 ▪ 2017

Dominique Wilkins shows the Dario glucose monitoring device, which he uses to help control his diabetes.

Cyber crimes cost financial companies an estimated $500 billion per year, and the problem is growing.

Yaov Tzurya, a partner and the CEO of JVP Cyber Labs, said 65 percent of adults worldwide have experienced some kind of cybersecurity breach. As a result, the cybersecurity business sector is expected to reach $170 billion in products and services by 2020.

But most of the technology is inefficient, Tzurya said May 22 at the Atlanta-Israel FinTech Innovation Conference. “Banks are repeatedly being hacked, and people are investing more and more in cybersecurity,” Tzurya said. “But everyone wants to know: Why is it still happening?”

He said the problem is a widening gap between the knowledge of hackers and the knowledge of victims. Cyber attacks were faster in 2015 than in 2014, signaling that it’s becoming easier to hack into a bank as the efficiency of cybersecurity decreases.

“The same vulnerabilities and exploits discovered in 1998 are still getting hit,” Tzurya said. “The tactics used in 2007 are still being used.”

Israel receives close to 20 percent of global cybersecurity investments from venture capital groups, U.S. financial groups and angel investors. Eighteen global corporations made cyber acquisitions in Israel in 2015.

Tzurya credited the startup culture, defense industry and government commitment to technology training for the advancements coming out of Israel.

But he said young Israelis are cashing in with their cybersecurity companies instead of improving their technology.

“We need more mature innovations,” Tzurya said. “They should build companies to scale rather than sell.”

Many Israeli cybersecurity companies start with great technology but sell it to foreign corporations for a big price. Ultimately, Tzurya said, “they are just launching new versions of the same defense.”

When young Israelis come out of the military, they want to outdo their predecessors, leading to new technology but the same cycle of quick sales.

Aron Rissman, a special projects analyst at Theta Ray, which provides a big data analytics platform and solutions for advanced cybersecurity, said the threat to the electronic environment is changing dramatically, in-

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$3.7M Grant to Link Success to Child Factors

By David R. Cohen david@atljewishtimes.com Aryeh Stein, a professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, has received a three-year, $3.7 million award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his research into the role childhood development has on a person’s socio-emotional functioning in adulthood.

“The question we are trying to answer is what is it in early life that predicts better functioning on a wide range of dimensions as adults,” Stein said. “For example, what types of activities in childhood predict getting married, staying married, having a good job, having a higher income, having wider networks of friends and being healthier physically? These are the sort of questions we try to answer.”

Stein’s team is focusing mostly on low- and middle-income communities around the world. The past few years his team has followed people born in one of five countries from childhood

Emory public health professor Aryeh Stein is leading a study of people born in Guatemala, South Africa and the Philippines.

into adulthood.

The grant will enable Stein and his team to collect a new wave of data on three of the five groups — those in Guatemala, South Africa and the Philippines.

“Our working hypothesis is that the ways children develop are set pretty early in life,” said Stein, a member of Congregation Shearith Israel, “maybe even during pregnancy but certainly in the first two years of life. Being able

to document that and show how much is predicted by things we know about in early life and may be able to modify provides guidance for policymakers, educators and people who care about early childhood development to plan better for the next generation.”

According to Stein, the factors likely to lead to success as adults if they are improved include early-life nutrition, sanitation and child care. Stein said that even though such factors have

always been perceived as important, they haven’t been looked at from birth to adulthood in the same individuals until now.

Stein, who was born in England and moved to Israel when he was 12, came to Atlanta in 1998 to work at Emory. He said that because around 80 percent of Earth’s population lives in middle-to-low-income countries, what happens in those places is vital for the world.

The overall aims of the project are to describe patterns of cognitive functioning from early childhood to adulthood and to identify factors that predict those patterns, as well as assess the impact of those patterns of cognitive and socio-emotional function in adulthood.

The grant was awarded to Stein after a negotiated process in which he approached the Gates Foundation’s program officer with the idea for the project. Final approval came in early April. ■

Over 200 Diseases Now Part of JScreen

By Kevin Madigan kmadigan@atljewishtimes.com

JUNE 16 ▪ 2017

The leading nonprofit organization screening Jewish couples for genetic diseases has more than doubled its testing capacity.

JScreen, based at the Emory University School of Medicine’s human genetics department, increased its testing panel from 100 to more than 200 disease genes that could affect a couple’s future offspring.

“Many of these conditions happen in families where there’s no known history,” JScreen Executive Director Karen Grinzaid said in a phone interview. “All of a sudden, a child is born, and there’s a genetic problem. There is testing available to give people a headsup about these things before they have kids.”

One in three people of Jewish background unknowingly is a carrier for at least one Jewish genetic disease.

Conditions common in the Jewish population, such as Tay-Sachs, Gaucher disease, thalassemia, mucolipidosis Type IV, spinal muscular atrophy and Fragile X syndrome, are part of the nationwide screening process, and many others are now included.

“Half (the diseases) are common 28 in the Jewish population; the other half

JScreen Executive Director Karen Grinzaid emphasizes the affordability of the genetic testing, including counseling about the results.

are just common in the general population,” Grinzaid said. “Having this broader screening panel is important because, even though I may think I’m 100 percent Ashkenazi, I don’t absolutely know my background. It’s possible there is other ancestry we don’t know about. In addition to that, people have mixed backgrounds or may be in interfaith relationships.”

She added, “What we’re looking for are diseases where both parents seem healthy, but they don’t know they’re carriers, so if they both pass that gene onto a child, that child will have that condition.”

Joining Grinzaid in the interview was Gail Heyman, a member of

JScreen’s advisory board and a carrier of the Fragile X syndrome pre-mutation who unknowingly passed on the condition to her son.

“It’s a gene that has impacted our family greatly,” she said. “Usually when you find a genetic disorder, it’s alarming. You don’t know what to do, but after counseling, you can figure out what to do next.”

That counseling sets the JScreen process apart, Grinzaid said. “There are companies you get a kit from that just mail you results, and you have to figure out on your own what to do and what that all means for you and your family.

People need to understand the results and what their options are. We wanted

to make that support an integral part of our program.”

If families have information, they have choices, Grinzaid said. “You can have a conversation with your spouse about what you would or would not do if you were to have an affected child.

Our goal is to get to people preconception, as much as possible, so they can make decisions on different reproductive options, such as in vitro fertilization or adoption, and maximize their chances of having a healthy family.”

The screening for these diseases is done through DNA found in saliva samples using genetic sequencing technology, and JScreen operates under the direction of a physician who specializes in genetics.

“Another thing,” Grinzaid said.

“People don’t do it because they don’t think it’s affordable, or maybe their insurance doesn’t cover it, or there’s a huge deductible. A lot of what we do is from philanthropic dollars, so even if their insurance covers nothing, it’s the same for everybody. That really helps improve access and encourages people to take advantage of the test, and the expanded screening really opens up the door for more people to participate.”

The cost of the test, including counseling, is $149. ■

OBITUARIES

Harriet Orentlicher 93, Johns Creek

Harriet Cotton Orentlicher, age 93, died Saturday, June 10, 2017.

Harriet was born in Birmingham, Ala., to Bessie and Jacob Cotton. As a young woman, traveling for Hadassah as Southeast president, Harriet met her husband of 64 years, Abbot Orentlicher, of blessed memory, formally of Brockton, Mass. As ardent Zionists married in 1948, they liked to say they and Israel came alive the same year. Harriet and Abbot settled in Atlanta, owned and operated Gershon’s Market for over 30 years, and raised three children: George, Joan and Robert.

Harriet was the quintessential volunteer, particularly for Jewish causes. In addition to her full-time job, she found time to be the president of the Hebrew Academy PTA, hosted soldiers stationed in Atlanta for holiday dinners, traveled to Israel on a mission, volunteered at the Jewish Home and was an active member of Hadassah, to name a few. In the mid-1970s, when Harriet and Abbot sold their business, Harriet was recruited by the Jewish Federation and retired after many years of service. During retirement Harriet was able to fulfill her lifelong dream to support child literacy by recruiting and managing over 80 volunteers to tutor children in the public school system to help build their reading skills. She was honored by the Atlanta Jewish Coalition for Literacy as a Woman of Achievement in 2006 for this accomplishment. Harriet also volunteered her time with Compeer Atlanta, which pairs volunteers and individuals with various disabilities. Harriet was a joyful, extremely friendly and giving person all her life. She loved entertaining people with her jokes and clever poems. She treasured her family and all the nieces, nephews and cousins on her and Abbot’s side of the family as well as many good friends, particularly the Rubin and Young families. She will be missed by many. The family wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary care and love given to Harriet by the Cohen Home and the Weinstein Hospice staff.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Weinstein Hospice, the Cohen Home or a charity of your choice. Graveside services were held Monday, June 12, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Helen Wasserman Spiegel Helen Wasserman Spiegel, age 93, of Atlanta died Thursday, June 8, 2017.

Helen was born in Nuremberg, Germany, on July 19, 1923, the daughter of Hans and Selma Wasserman. After Kristallnacht in November 1938, her family was able to leave Germany in 1939 for Boston, where she finished high school.

After high school, she went to work in Galveston, Texas, for a family friend. There she met the love of her life, a young soldier who was also a German immigrant, Frank. Frank and Helen married in 1946 and moved to Atlanta to raise their family and begin a career in community service that would last 71 years.

Helen, though short in stature, made a large impact on all who met her. Her activities included being an early supporter of the Hebrew Academy, a founding member of a new young synagogue, Beth El, a chapter and regional president of Hadassah, a board member of the Jewish Home, and an organizer and the guiding light of the Shearith Israel women’s night shelter for 25 years. She was a docent and educator on the Holocaust for the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Helen spoke to students around Atlanta, giving them a picture of life as a teenager in Nazi Germany. Helen ran the Olympic torch in 1996 as a tribute to all her services.

She was blessed to see her family grow and thrive.

Helen will be remembered by many and is survived by her husband, Frank; daughter and son-in-law Liz and Bobby Goldstein of Atlanta; sons and daughtersin-law Mark and Robin Spiegel of Atlanta and Walter and Sharon Spiegel of Cincinnati; sister Edith Meyers of New Rochelle, N.Y., and sister-in-law Sylvia Spiegel of Atlanta; grandchildren Adam (Kim) Goldstein, Sherri (James) Nighbert, and Jeremy, Shira, Jacob, Elana and Sophie Spiegel; and great-grandchildren Jordan and Reese Goldstein and Taylor and Bryce Nighbert.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Contributions may be made to Hadassah, 40 Wall St., New York, NY 10268 (www.hadassah.org); the Shearith Israel women’s night shelter, Rebecca’s Tent, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, GA 30306 (www.rebeccastent.org); or Weinstein Hospice, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30327 (www.weinsteinhospice.com). A graveside service was held Sunday, June 11, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park with Rabbi Analia Bortz officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS

Sisters vs. Waze

JUNE 16 ▪ 2017

As we climbed the mountains near Ellijay, with hills the steepest my loyal Honda Pilot has ever maneuvered, we laughed until we cried.

Laughing was so much more fun than concentrating on my terror of falling off the side of a mountain.

Why laughing? Laughing is what my sisters and I do when we are together.

Laughing because we were exhausted from traveling? Yes. Laughing because we were so lost, we were sure we had discovered a new planet? Yes. Laughing because we were starving? Yes. Laughing because we were so happy to be together? Yes indeed.

The drive to Ellijay was easy.

Our conversations started as we left my driveway. Minimal traffic, lovely weather, and, given that we headed out around 7:30 p.m., still light enough to enjoy the scenery.

We had the cabin owner’s directions to guide us. Or so we thought.

I have no clue which turn we missed. We made our first of many Uturns, some of them legal. We thought we were being diligent in following the directions. Heaven help you once you miss a left or a right. The world suddenly looks much bigger and more intimidating. And the sun was setting with lightning speed.

Laughing started in earnest.

My sister turned on Waze, the miracle out of Israel. Waze indicated we were on the wrong road.

We made another U-turn, laughing. How many miles did we have to travel to get on the right road? Too many!

Finally, Waze was much happier with us. Suddenly, one of my sisters started laughing hysterically. We were back where Waze had us make a Uturn. More laughing.

I pulled over and burst out laughing. (It’s too much of a challenge to drive safely with tears rendering you nearly blind.) This upset Waze. I started dreaming up ways to kill Waze and stop it from assaulting me with “recalculating.”

Finally, we were at the entrance to the park with the cabin. The darkness of night was upon us. After all, you don’t find road lights on a mountain. I am pretty much terrified of the dark.

Every time the Honda went up a steep hill, which was almost always, 30 the hood blocked me from seeing the

road ahead. In a state of virtual fear paralysis, I crept ever so slowly until I could see the road ahead. Believe me, no one was laughing. I did hear a few “whews.”

Waze continued to lead us, up and down, up and down. Like little sheep, we followed its lead.

Our scheduled 1½-hour trip had stretched into a 2½-hour adventure,

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but Waze seemed so sure of itself.

We did not turn unless told to do so, thereby missing at least two more turns. Laughing until it hurt.

Suddenly, and without warning, we heard our intuitive leader announce, “You have arrived at your destination.”

We could almost see a virtual extended arm pointing to our alleged destination. (I must stop typing. I am laughing too hard at this memory. Get yourself a cup of coffee or tea; this could take a while.)

I’m b-a-a-a-ack.

All three of us squinted to see what wasn’t there. My two sisters got out of the car with flashlights, looking for our destination.

My sisters were bent over laughing. I could not pick my head up from the steering wheel.

Worst of all we had not been to or even seen a water closet in hours. Can you picture the scene?

Waze had failed us.

We were in the middle of thousands of acres of mountains. It was now 10 o’clock. Should or shouldn’t we call the owner?

After not so gently expressing mean words at Waze, we called the owner.

We were completely out of control. We tried so hard to stop laughing, to no avail. Thank goodness the owner was able to understand my sisters’ plea for help.

Twenty minutes later, and not a moment too soon, we arrived at our destination.

Waze had no idea whom it was dealing with.

These three sisters know from challenges; these three sisters will take you down!

The sisters 1, Waze 0. ■

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29. El Al craft 30. Have to pay back a gemach 31. Kafka and Wiesel have used them (with “The”) 32. Chain returning to Israel (in kosher form), familiarly 34. “___ Now or Never” (Elvis) 35. Performance from Alex Clare 38. Alt. abbr. used in crosswords 39. Haifa to Safed dir.

42. Goliath, compared with the other Philistines 45. Kosher meat that’s tough to come by DOWN 47. B, C or Brooks 1. Trees that were part of an 48. Critic/writer Pauline operation name in the 1982 49. Tower site Lebanon war 50. What to do on Yom Kippur 2. “Hifsik!” to a sailor 3. One who believes Ethiopia is 51. It can distract people praying the promised land 4. Like many a Jewish debate 53. Sendler who rescued Warsaw children 5. Actress Ione 54. Milhouse and Screech, e.g.

6. Hem’s partner 55. Starts of Shabbat and 7. Alternative Drake song?

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8. City directly south of 57. ___ Torah (rabbi’s sermon) Jerusalem 58. Notable Ford role 9. Moses and Aaron, e.g.

60. First Temple ___ 10. Son of Moses 61. U.S. pres. during the Six11. Torquemada, e.g.

Day War 12. “No, I won’t shed ___” 13. What Shabbat does Friday afternoon 18. Item written on Peres on Sept. 30, 2016 LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 22. Tefillin or L A B A N C A L M T R E E 14 15 16 tallit item A R E N A A N O A E E L S 17 18 19 A S I A 24. The Ramban, D O N O T E N T E R 20 21 22 23 D U G S I T B L A T T e.g.

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 E S A U N O W A B R A M S 25. Jamming 31 32 33 34 35 R E Y E S R A P A A R O N (with Gene 36 37 38 39 40 S O F R C A Y E S I Simmons or C 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 L A W N O U T U R N A T P Lanzbom) 48 49 50 51 52 A U R A E S H K E N 27. “Yadda, 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 S T O R K C O W E T H O S yadda, yadda” 61 62 63 64 65 S O N T A G G I G H U N A 66 67 68 69 70 28. What some G I L A S S A G M T V 71 72 73 74 75 believe Asher’s S P E E D L I M I T J E W S daughter Serah 76D R A T 77S A Y S 78A D U M A 79 80 81 never did Y N E T M O S E S L A Y S 59. Make like Ben Stein in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” 60. Haman and Hitler, e.g.

62. Makes Havdalah, e.g.

63. YU dorm authority figures; abbr.

64. Tone of 14-Across 65. “___they be removed from your heart” (Ethics of the Fathers) 66. Last word of a hit by Billy Joel or Bruno Mars 67. “Bridget ___ Diary” (2001 hit for Miramax)

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