Atlanta Jewish Times, XCIV No. 26, June 28, 2019

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VOL. XCIV NO. 26 | SUMMER LOVE & SIMCHAS

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THIS WEEK Summer Lovin’, Having a Blast When you’ve been married as long as some of the couples we spotlighted in this week’s Summer Love and Simcha Celebration issue – an average half-century – you maintain a healthy sense of humor and master the give and take of compromise. Those are some of the tips these longtime romantics share with our AJT readers about what makes love last.

We also feature the relationships of two Atlanta rabbis: Cindy and Rabbi Shalom Lewis as they reflect on their courtship and prepare for a new phase of their married lives past the pulpit; and the Chabad of North Fulton newlyweds Devora Leah and Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz.

One more special bond we profile is that of chefs Terri Hitzig and Bruce Bogartz, who met through the Jewish world and bonded over food and their features as chefs in the AJT. In our Love & Simchas section, we take you to a Persian Jewish wedding

rich in ethnic custom, cuisine and symbolism, and bring you wedding trends fit for capturing Instagramable moments.

We also offer a brief review of a memoir about the challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia, and share a tribute to a beloved late rebbetzin.

Plus, we sample the delicacies of Jewish-owned Ray’s on the River, a scenic and versatile venue, and take in the flavor and relaxed feel of Friday nights at Sandy Springs’ City Green.

Talking about culture, we offer a preview of an upcoming course exploring the marriage nearly 63 years ago to the day of Jewish convert Marilyn Monroe, and Jewish playwright Arthur Miller.

The Jewish community certainly opened its arms to our newest account manager, whose story you can read here in Meet the Press. You can also learn what Judaism has to say about expressions of love in Rabbi Richard Baroff’s reflection on Shir Hashirim, Song of Songs, the love poems of King Solomon.

Love makes the world go round, so it’s no surprise we have plenty to fill these pages when it comes to exploring topics of romance, simcha and celebration. ■

The AJT will be closed in observance of the Fourth of July holiday and there will be no July 5, 2019, issue. Enjoy your holiday.

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REFLECTIONS A Gift of Love Song of Songs – Shir Hashirim – means the greatest song/poem of all. This refers to the love poems written mostly by a man to a woman and a woman to a man alternately. The love expressed is literal and sensuous. The Bible states in the very first verse of the book Rabbi that Solomon is the author.

Love songs dominate Baroff this book certainly, but there exists a story line running through the narrative. King Solomon was in love with a young shepherd girl named Shulamit, the girl from Shulam. Shulamit is the feminine form, incidentally, of ShlomoSolomon (both names are closely related to shalom, the Hebrew word for well-being). This was a case of unrequited love.

Solomon loved Shulamit, but the young maiden was alas infatuated with a shepherd boy. The B’not Yerushalayim, the Daughters of Jerusalem, also composed some of the poetry in this sad narrative.

The sages of Israel in Talmudic and medieval times did not see Shir Hashirim as a romantic expression of love. Rath-

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er, the amorous text was thought to be allegorical and spiritual: G-d’s love of Israel.

(There is a legend that Rabbi Akiva himself, in the second century, first proffered this interpretation). In this image, G-d was the bridegroom and Israel was the bride.

Similarly, the Fathers of the Church would interpret the Song of Solomon (Canticles, as they called the book), as symbolic of Christ’s love of the faithful.

Had Canticles not been interpreted allegorically it would not have been part of either the Jewish or the Christian canon.

Fortunately these lovely poems have been incorporated into the biblical text.

They have indeed expressed the Divine love for Israel in such a way as to inspire countless Jews throughout the generations. They have also made many Jewish weddings both spiritual and romantic.

We know from the Book of Kings that Solomon had in his life a great deal of romance, whether for pleasure, politics or both. That the splendid monarch could have been pining for a shepherd girl, irre-

spective of all the other opportunities for amour he had in Jerusalem, is charming to contemplate. The fact that Shulamit would marry for love and not wealth and power says a lot about her character as well.

The rabbis taught that the youthful and exuberant king had penned Song of Songs, the middle-aged and prudent monarch wrote the book of Proverbs, and the aged and jaded Solomon composed Ecclesiastes. All three books are part of the Five Scrolls, the other two being Lamentations and Esther. Many more secular biblical scholars maintain that these books were written hundreds of years after Solomon lived, which was in the 10th century B.C.E. Song of Songs was the first book of the Writings: Ketuvim. The Writings as a collection represented the last of the three parts of the Hebrew Bible. The first five books of the Ketuvim are known as the Five Scrolls, the Hamesh Megillot. All five of these megillot are chanted/read on specific holy days. Song of Songs/ Shir Hashirim, the first of these scrolls, is associated with the festival of Passover/Pesach. As the spring festival/Chag HaAviv, the salient idea is that of growth,

new life and coupling. Song of Songs is associated with the months of spring because that is when love is in the air, and creation of new life is at its most possible.

Indeed, in chapter 2 of Canticles, we read or better yet, recite: Rise my love, my beauty, and come, for look, the cold season has passed, the rains are over, and the budding flowers again appear upon the earth (verses 10-13).

Later, in chapter 6, we find the bride’s declaration: ani l’dodi v’dodi li, I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.

This is spoken at almost all Jewish weddings and is one of the very most salient and compelling statements in all the Hebrew scriptures. Even more, here we have one of human culture’s most evocative declarations of mutual love.

We are lucky that this masterpiece of literature survived. Song of Songs inspires us as the ultimate expression of love between human beings and between people and the Divine. As the flowers bloom here in Georgia, we give thanks for G-d’s providence and for each other.

Rabbi Richard Baroff President, Guardians of the Torah ■

LOCAL NEWS

Photo by Donald Felice // Shellie Schmals, AJFF film programming manager, saw the movie in Toronto last year and had a hunch that it would go over well in Atlanta.

Photos by Vaughn Gittens // The Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center was the ideal venue for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival crowd.

Local film producer David Lewis introduced the film and spoke of its humor.

‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ an Even-Handed Offender?

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Outside the power-packed annual winter Atlanta Jewish Film Festival schedule, AJFF Selects sponsors a handful of films sporadically throughout the year. On June 19, “Tel Aviv on Fire” smoldered and blazed at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center. Like a wheel within a wheel, the film, told from the Palestinian point of view, followed a young Arab filmmaker, entangling his own life with the production of a cheesy soap opera in search of its own ending.

The movie was creative in that characters on both sides use humor to tackle some sensitive topics such as Palestinians speaking of taking back Jerusalem, hair loss during chemo, and portrayal of an IDF officer as a buffoon. Also, do Arabs really kiss with no tongue?

Local filmmaker David Lewis introduced the movie by explaining its use of comedy as an icebreaker.

After the screening, avid moviegoer Larry Pett said, “Loved it. … A great blend of humor and romance without heavy-handed politics. Made me feel that there still might be hope for Middle East accommodation if the leaders can just chill.”

Yes, there was nervous-laugh twittering alongside genuine guffawing. Can one laugh at a wedding scene wherein the bride’s bouquet has a bomb that might blow up the IDF general groom? Well, you can, if it’s framed within the protective coating of a soap opera. There’s something about that green and white flag in the background that causes some teeth clenching. Can you laugh at “the Arabs got lost at Oslo”?

A particularly funny shtick was the use of hummus as a mutual Israeli-Arab food. The young Arab soap opera screenwriter suffers the humiliation of having to pass through Israeli security or being too late to get “over the wall” at the checkpoint. He forms a friendship of sorts with the IDF general guard by bringing him a “luscious” bowl of special hummus. The audience witnesses him dumping a 6-year-old can of the stuff – saved from the Intifada “when Arabs didn’t have access to fresh food” (political dig there) – adding his own herbs and lemon juice to present it as a gourmet “prize.”

Not that the Israelis are so noble. The IDF general takes interest in the soap opera plot over and above his own sense of duty.

The symbolism doesn’t have to be subtle such as

whether the cigarette lighter in the last scene is a real hand grenade or a toy hand grenade.

Shellie Schmals, AJFF’s film programming manager, felt positive about the reaction to the film. “While attending the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, I saw ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ and had a good hunch that our AJFF audience would enjoy it. The film is timely, as it captures the stress of living between the Israeli and Palestinian borders. I appreciated how humor is incorporated throughout the story. We see the world through the eyes of Salam, a 30-something Palestinian slacker whose every move to be more impressive becomes a comedic misstep, including [with] his bosses and love in-

terest. You find yourself rooting for him, even through the chaos he’s creating. The plot also provides an entertaining look behind the scenes on a soap opera with amazing 1960s sets!”

The movie is plucky, the musical score is particularly lively, and true romance blooms. If only this question can be answered, “Is the real food of love figs or tomatoes”?

“The interesting thing about a soap opera is the way the plot twists and turns in unbelievable and unexpected directions,” said audience member Simone Wilker.

“This movie makes you think that it’s not only soap operas that are crazy, but so is real life.” ■

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LOCAL NEWS

Cantors Sing A Different Tune These Days

By Bob Bahr

But it is not just the role of the cantor that has played in America’s civil rights movement, it also served changed in recent years. The music and the way it is to underscore the increasingly important role that canperformed has undergone a dramatic transformation.

When the American Conference of Cantors held its tors are playing in many aspects of Jewish life, particu“Years ago there was less participation, but today annual convention in Atlanta this week, its participants larly in the Reform movement. people want to take responsibility for their worship.

According to Rachel Roth, the executive director had more than just the latest Shabbat melodies on their One way they do that is to join in with of the American Conminds. The theme of the convention more singing” Hartman said. “Everyference of Cantors, that brings together cantors and conthing is about how people join in with cantors today are far gregational musicians from the Reform the music.” more than just a pleasmovement was social justice.

Cantor Hartman’s longtime accomant voice from the During the week, attendees expanist, Judy Cole, a convention co-chair bimah. plored the National Center for Civil and who also teaches music at Kennesaw “Cantors are full Human Rights to examine the history State University, has developed an apclergy partners in their of the civil rights movement, and heard preciation of how the roles of the cancongregations. They’ve Dr. Gregory Ellison from Emory’s Cantor and the rabbi have changed in the really expanded their dler School of Theology discuss how to worship setting. role into all areas of the have “fearless dialogues” about race and “Clergy generally want to be closer congregation.” religion in American life. to their congregations and the congreCantor Deborah They also sang along in an opening gations are looking for participation as Hartman, who has night concert that featured the commuch as they are looking to appreciate worked at The Temple bined choirs of The Temple, Congregamore traditional music.” in Atlanta for 33 years tion Bet Haverim and the Ebenezer Deborah Hartman has Azi Schwartz, a popular New been The Temple’s first York City cantor, performed There was not much traditional and was one of the Baptist Church in a tribute to the diand only cantor for more for the ACC’s community music to be heard during the public chairs of the Atlanta verse traditions of social protest music. than three decades. concert at The Temple. concert June 25, which is a highlight of convention, has had an Finally, they heard from the head of the Reform movement’s influential Religious Action opportunity to observe the changes in her own congre- each year’s convention.

There was the “Kedushah” from Ernest Bloch’s SaCenter in Washington, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, about gation.

“I am busy all week long. We have our musical re- cred Service and a few show pieces from the cantorial how to continue the work of social activism when they sponsibilities, but we also frequently speak to congre- repertoire, but most of the evening’s performance was return to their congregations.

While the theme of the convention was, partially, gants and counsel them. It’s a very full-time job for ev- from Broadway musicals such as “Ragtime,” “1776” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Into The Woods,” among other an acknowledgment of the historic role that Atlanta has ery cantor.” music and popular songs.

The concert was as much a strong nod to the direction that cantorial melodies have taken in a liberal setting as it was an impressive display of contemporary cantorial skills.

“We all try to do a balance of all types of music in our worship,” according to Cantor Hartman, “but, especially, we try to meet where our congregants are. We give our congregants music that is accessible to them, that speaks to them from our time. Judaism is changing and moving forward, so you can’t be stagnant as a cantor.”

According to Cole, keeping up with the cantors is not always easy.

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LOCAL NEWS

Young professionals gather for JNF event at the home of Michael Morris, owner of the AJT.

Jack Halpern talks real estate at the JNF young professionals networking event

Beth Gluck is the executive director of the Jewish National Fund Greater Atlanta.

Young Professionals Receive Real Estate Advice

By Chloe Levitas Jewish National Fund hosted a networking event for young professionals to hear tips from real estate guru Jack Halpern. The event attracted Realtors in commercial and residential real estate, real estate lawyers, and those who deal with real estate finances. The attendees were in their late 30s and 40s.

This was the third time the JNF real estate networking event was held, and Halpern, who is on the board of trustees, used the opportunity to teach the attendees about the importance of giving back to the community. Halpern grew up with the motto of always giving back and he has been fortunate to be successful enough in his career to do so, which he conveyed to those in attendance.

Some advice Halpern gave at the event was “don’t borrow more money than you can afford to pay back,” which is crucial for those who are just starting their own real estate companies in Atlanta. “Build strong relationships and be thankful you are in Atlanta,” Halpern said, explaining that Atlanta is a great place to sell real estate or get involved with it.

JNF was founded in 1901 and its single driving focus has been community development with a strong, secure and prosperous Israel for Jewish people everywhere. JNF originally focused on

real estate as its main platform and wanted to help young Jewish professionals in the field at the event. JNF’s current initiative, Go North, aims to strengthen and grow the Galilee region – vital for the long-term strength and prosperity of Israel. The organization’s goal is to bring 300,000 new residents to the area and support them with critical modern infrastructure, increased tourism, and opportunities for education and employment.

Halpern is CEO and a chairman of Halpern Enterprises. He oversees strategic planning and major investment decisions and is responsible for the company’s overall financial performance.

He began his career at Halpern Enterprises as in-house counsel in 1978, working alongside his father, company founder Bernard Halpern.

Halpern has also served as chairman of the board of trustees of The Epstein School and of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, as co-chair of the board of the Marcus JCC, and on the boards of the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and other nonprofits. This year, Atlanta magazine named him one of the city’s most influential leaders.

At the JNF event, Halpern’s insights allowed guests to network with one another and make future business connections. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES JUNE 28, 2019 | 7

ISRAEL PRIDE

News From Our Jewish Home

Michael Erenburg // The winning team

hard at work at the hackathon.

Female Students Win 44Hour Hackathon

More than 100 religious female students from Jerusalem College of Technology / Machon Tal participated earlier this month in the second annual Hack@Tal, a 44-hour hackathon for the school’s female students. The women range from modern Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox.

The winning team, consisting of five computer science, electronics and business students, won a 3,000-shekel ($834.33) prize for their critical solution to a challenge presented by Intel and Alyn Hospital designed to more comfortably monitor oxygen levels in infants’ bloodstreams.

Instead of the common device, clipped to a finger and attached with wires, the newly developed product allows for wireless monitoring attached to the infant's toe and part of a comfortable sock.

The women taking part in the hackathon, sponsored in part by the Jerusalem Development Authority, were studying engineering and business.

Today in Israeli History June 28, 1919 : The Republic of Poland, reconstituted as an independent nation after World War I, adopts its Minorities Treaty to protect the rights of various minority groups. In addition to general assurances, the treaty specifically mentions cultural and civil liberties for Jews, who make up 10 to 15 percent of the population. The Polish Constitution also offers civil liberties to minorities and promises to protect their national protections. Poland renounces the Minorities Treaty in September 1934.

Children gather to do some planting at Kibbutz Givat Brenner in 1950.

June 29, 1939: Kibbutz Givat Brenner, named for writer Yosef Haim Brenner, is founded 20 miles southeast of Tel Aviv by pioneers from Lithuania, Italy and Germa8 | JUNE 28, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

At the event, many mothers were often tasked with the challenge of trying to code and develop solutions and programming with one hand and holding an infant in the other. Hack@Tal is likely the only hackathon in the world to provide daycare services until 1 a.m.

“As soon as you provide women from these communities with the chance to create and use their brains and their skills, they take the opportunity and run with it, above and beyond all expectations. We will continue to work hard so that this type of engineering and innovation will continue to come from these women and these communities. The women will continue to receive our support to further develop these products and get them to market,” said Orlee Guttman, director of strategic partnerships at JCT / Tal.

Israeli Researchers Receive $834 Million in Grants

The Horizon 2020 program, which promotes collaboration worldwide in research and innovation, has funded 1,062 Israeli projects with 423 grants that are worth €742 million EUR or $834 million U.S. dollars.

An awards ceremony was held June 4 at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa and was attended by the Israel-Europe Research and Innovation Directorate, Israel Innovation Authority ny who had worked as laborers in nearby agricultural communities. Givat Brenner (Brenner Hill) quickly becomes financially stable and self-sustaining through its agricultural and industrial production and grows to become one of the largest kibbutzim in the Yishuv, the pre-state area of Jewish settlement in Palestine.

June 30, 2012: Israel’s seventh prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir, dies at age 96.

Born Yitzhak Yzernitzky in Poland during World War I, he made aliyah in 1935 and enrolled in Hebrew University. He joined the Irgun in 1937, then jumped to the more militant Stern Gang during World War II. He changed his name to Shamir to help hide from the British. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1973 and became prime minister at the head of Likud in 1983.

July 1, 1244: Frederick II, the duke of Austria since 1230, issues a charter extending rights to Jews as a way to boost Austria’s economy. The charter encourages Jewish money lending and Jewish immigration to an outlying area and guarantees protection to Jews. Frederick is the first European ruler to claim Jews as his

and the European Union Delegation to Israel.

“Horizon 2020 is part of the EU’s efforts to boost international cooperation in research and innovation, a strategic priority for the union. It allows for tackling global societal challenges more effectively, creates business opportunities, and makes scientific diplomacy part of Europe’s foreign policy,” The Times of Israel reported.

“Winning a grant in the program is a sign of quality and excellence for both researchers and companies,” said Ami Appelbaum, chief scientist at the Israel Ministry of Economy and Industry and chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority.

The program has allowed Israeli companies, researchers and innovators to gain access to European partners, integrate into an extensive infrastructure of European research, and participate in flagship projects, in such fields as quantum technologies, graphene and brain research.

Futuristic Car Ideas Become A Reality

Visitors attended the Expo Tel Aviv convention center as part of the EcoMotion conference and exhibition earlier this month to see the latest developments in the autotech industry. Giants of the global automotive industry that were represented at the expo were: Toyota, subjects, and his charter serves as a model for such documents across the continent during the Middle Ages. It remains in effect until Austria expels its Jews in 1420.

Yossi Benayoun plays for Chelsea during the 2010-11 season.

July 2, 2010: Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun leaves Liverpool for fellow English Premier League club Chelsea, owned by Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich. Benayoun, born in Dimona in 1980, began his professional soccer career with Hapoel Be’er Sheva at age 16 and won an Israeli championship with Maccabi Haifa at 21. He moved to Spain’s La Liga in 2002, then to England in 2005 to play for West Ham United before moving to Liverpool in 2007. He returns to

YouTube screenshot // New Future Transportation design of their flying car.

Honda, Volkswagen, Ford, Renault, and Nissan.

“The exhibition presented smart transportation solutions, with more than 100 startups exhibiting their technologies to some 4,000 attendees, 1,000 of whom were senior executives from international giants,” EcoMotion said in a statement to The Times of Israel.

New Future Transportation unveiled the design of its flying car at the expo.

The firm created this design to help ease congestion by allowing the car to be flown and driven. The car “will fly and drive autonomously and have the ability to reroute and choose where to land, depending on weather, traffic or preferences,” the firm said.

Silentium Ltd., based in the Rehovot industrial park, is developing what it calls “silence in a chip.” Using software, the company has developed a way to create a sound bubble around individuals sharing the same spaces, so that each person can listen to music from speakers without hearing what the person sitting in close proximity is listening to. ■ the Israeli professional league in 2014.

July 3, 1982: The First International Conference and Festival of Jewish Theater, a five-day gathering, opens in Tel Aviv even though many Israeli participants have been called up for military duty during the Lebanon War, which began June 6 and sparked a German boycott of the festival. The festival includes 20 theatrical works and four workshops, as well as films, seminars and lectures.

July 4, 1976: A team of 200 elite Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos lands at the international airport in Entebbe, Uganda, to rescue 106 hostages held by the Palestinian and German terrorists who hijacked an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris on June 27. In a 35-minute battle, all seven terrorists, 20 Ugandan soldiers, three hostages and one Israeli soldier (Yoni Netanyahu) are killed. The rescued hostages are flown to freedom in Israel. ■ Items are provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details.

ISRAEL NEWS

A model Israeli classroom, like those discussed in OECD’s 2018 report (Flash90).

Violence in Israel’s Schools Israel’s middle schools are up to six times more violent than those in other Western developed nations according to a study by the intergovernmental Office for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to The Times of Israel.

The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey, which was published June 20, questioned thousands of middle school teachers and principals in participating countries about the 2018 school year.

The most recent, 220-page study was comprised of 48 countries, 31 of which are OECD members. In Israel, 184 principals and 2,637 seventh- through ninthgrade teachers were surveyed.

The foreword to the survey explains that “education is no longer just about teaching students something, but about helping them develop a reliable compass and the tools to navigate with confidence through an increasingly complex, volatile and uncertain world.”

Shockingly, 26 percent of Israel’s middle school principals reported “acts of intimidation or bullying,” at least once a week, while other OECD member countries averaged only 14 percent, just above half Israel’s rate.

Meanwhile 13 percent of those same Israeli principals reported “physical harm” as a result of violence between students at least once a week, compared to just two percent in other OECD countries.

That number marks a steep increase in incidents of bullying in Israeli schools over the past five years, according to TOI. The 2013 TALIS showed just 13 percent of Israeli principals reported that same bullying or violence.

The study also uncovered three times as many thefts in Israeli schools as the OECD average. According to Haaretz, Israeli students confirmed many of the report's findings in questionnaires about school atmosphere during achievement exams.

Conducted every five years, TALIS tries to “explore and examine the various dimensions of teacher and school leader professionalism across education systems.”

Unfortunately, these results are not isolated to a single study, but are reflected in a similar Israeli survey on school violence released last year by the Israel Teachers Union. It states that about 87 percent of the 400 teachers surveyed reported violent incidents that year, with 54 percent having witnessed or experienced the violence firsthand.

That same union called a strike in November 2017 after a teacher in southern Israel was attacked by a student with a metal rod.

While legislation has since passed treating assaults on teachers as seriously as those against other public servants, the rate has not dramatically changed, based on the OECD report. That legislation carried a five-year prison sentence for students who attacked their teachers.

Israel did rank impressively on drug and alcohol abuse, with only one percent of principals reporting such issues, and Israel reported a total of zero verbal or physical threats by teachers against students.

Teacher-pupil relations were also painted in a positive light, with more than 90 percent of teachers saying their school provides assistance to pupils in need and that students and teachers get along well.

While the statistics related to bullying in Israeli schools were certainly the most eye-catching part of the TALIS, it also provided a number of recommendations for schools across the globe, offering advice for empowering teachers, reforming education and better preparing students to be successful.

It also reported statistics on teacher preparation, teaching standards and use of technology in classrooms, among dozens of other categories. ■ Compiled by AJT staff

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LOVE & SIMCHAS Couples Know the Secret to Keeping the Spark Alive

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

As an AJT tradition, we spotlight some of the city’s most illustrative, fun-loving and influential couples who still hold hands and talk about how they met, the attraction, and their own secrets to longstanding marriage. By longstanding, the average here is 52 years, with Virginia and Milton Saul marking 69 years of happy union.

Find out why a military uniform was a turn on, who chased whom, and the drama of Carol Nemo’s parents Sylvia and Bill Breman, who had a serious car accident two months prior to Carol’s wedding. Thus, the event took place at home with the Bremans in a wheelchair and arm sling. Sixty years later, Carol and Bob are still “cooking.”

Rachael and Jack Rosenberg recall that the roommate from whom Rachael “stole” Jack still doesn’t speak to her 62 years later. The Rosenbergs got married at the Dinkler Plaza Hotel since Congregation Shearith Israel was damaged by a fire. Rabbi Phil Krantz wasted no time in proposing to Nancy. Attorney Steve Labovitz, always the clever jester, credits their success to a good sex life and fear of a difficult divorce. How many of the photos can you recognize?

62 Years Rachael and Jack Rosenberg Wedding: Atlanta, 1957

69 Years Virginia and Milton Saul Wedding: Atlanta, 1950

How we met …

Milton: I first spotted her during the war when I was 18. She was 15 in a bathing suit.

Virginia: We reunited later at a wedding here, but Milton refused to take me since he was in an older crowd.

Attraction …

I was impressed with his Navy uniform and baby blue eyes.

Secret …

Milton: No formula – confidence, respect, luck.

Virginia: Being good friends first, we let each other have space do his/her own things. He supported me in my organization work while he played golf and cards.

It all worked out.

How we met …

Rachael: The first evening I moved to Atlanta from a small town (Sylva, N.C.) into my roommate’s apartment, Jack, who was dating the roommate, came over to meet us. He called me the next evening for a date! It was bashert, and I knew it. Jack had just returned from the Army.

I began a job at Davison-Paxon (now Macy’s) in the dress department. In the fitting room, one of my clients, who was part of the kosher butcher family here that coincidentally sold to us in Sylva, mentioned that she wanted to introduce me to her cousin “who had just returned from the Army.”

I handed them the pen that Jack gave me with his name engraved on it. (Bashert again!) We were engaged in three months and married three months later.

Attraction …

Jack: I was a 24-year-old Jewish boy looking for a nice Jewish girl – not on Facebook or JDate. Rachael filled the bill: Jewish values, smart and petite. It was meant to be. ... And the romance continues every day.

Secret …

Jack: Sharing responsibilities and making decisions together. Respecting each other’s wishes. Family is very important. We both have large families and share in simchas.

Rachael : HONEY DO! We worked together in business for decades. He taught me everything!

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60 Years Carol and Bob Nemo Wedding: Atlanta, 1959

How we met …

Carol: In a phone booth in a frat house at Ohio State. I was calling a cab to go back to the rooming house – out-ofstate students could not live in the dorm the first year – and Bob stuck his head in and offered to take us home.

Attraction …

Carol: I thought Bob was the cutest guy I had ever seen. … I guess he thought the same about me!

Secret …

Carol: Oh boy! When a couple has been married as long as we have been, there are lots of ups and downs. We were committed and wanted to make it work. Over the years, our love deepened, we learned to respect each other, listen to each other, and in my case, I learned through a lot of therapy that I wasn’t always right. I don’t know how many years it took me to realize that!

Bob: The first and foremost ingredient is a true, strong and undying love. It is the sine qua non [essential condition] of the marriage. There is a deep mutual respect for the partners and a constant desire to be supportive and helpful.

58 Years Sandy and Dave Abrams Wedding: Atlanta, 1961

How we met …

Sandy: At Dave’s sister’s wedding; she was the bride and my first cousin was the groom.

Attraction …

Dave: She was the prettiest Jewish girl I had ever seen and with a “personality!”

Sandy: I fell in love with his good looks and charm.

Secret …

Respecting each other, being able to compromise and supporting each other’s careers.

Dave: Listening to each other and doing what Sandy wants!

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48 Years Nancy and Rabbi Phil Krantz

45 Years Barbara and Ed Mendel

How we met ...

Phil: Nancy and I met the summer before my last year of rabbinical school in Cincinnati and Nancy was in a graduate program in microbiology in Ann Arbor. An acquaintance of both of our mothers gave me Nancy’s name; I called that very evening.

We were engaged only weeks later.

How you met …

Eddie: I went to pick up (Marcia Jaffe) and take her to brunch at Ess & Fress on Buford Highway. I knocked on her door, and Barbara Sherman answered.

Barbara: When opportunity knocks, be there.

Wedding: Cleveland, Ohio, 1971

Attraction …

Neither of us can explain the attraction at the time, but things moved along very quickly. Maybe it was what they call “chemistry.”

Secret …

We celebrate our individual and mutual strengths and try to minimize or simply learn to live with our individual and mutual weaknesses.

It has all worked beautifully for 48 years.

Wedding: Columbus, Ga., 1974

Attraction …

Eddie: Barbara is the sweetest person that I ever met on the inside and outside.

Barbara: I loved his sense of humor. No one made me laugh and smile like Eddie.

Secret …

Eddie: You have two choices when you get married. Be happy or be right. I haven’t been right in 45 years.

Barbara: There is no recipe for a happy marriage but marrying your best friend and realizing that no one in life is perfect, including yourself, is a good start.

Celebrities on Love “The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” – Henny Youngman “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – Billy Crystal Marriage is not just a spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.” – Joyce Brothers “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates “A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.”

– Jessica Simpson “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.” – George Bernard Shaw “When I meet a man, I ask myself, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend every other weekend with?’” – Rita Rudner

38 Years Sheri and Steve Labovitz

38 Years Charlotte and Joel Marks

How we met …

Sheri: We were fixed up by the wife of one of Steve’s law school classmates who I met at a Tupperware party! In fact, on our first date, I pointed out to Steve that we had met before, but, alas, he had no recollection of our initial meeting.

How we met …

Joel: The old-fashioned way … towards the end of our junior year at the University of Florida, Charlotte’s sorority sister (mutual friend) thought we would be a good couple and made the introduction.

Attraction …

Steve: Her smarts, persuasiveness, her directness; Sheri was different from other women I had dated. But most of all, her offer to split the cost of lunch on our first date.

Sheri: Steve was self-assured (cocky) and a great conversationalist who made me laugh. Our mutual attraction also helped (other than the gold chain around his neck).

Attraction …

Joel: Chemistry. Charlotte had it all.

She was a bit of a rebel with a strong sense of adventure, cute, funny and smart. She pursued me, which was, in itself, attractive (she chased me until I caught her).

That chemistry is still working, baruch hashem!

Charlotte: Joel was so easy to talk to and fun; but I also could tell that he had a good head on his shoulders. No matter where we went, he could find something to talk about with just about anyone.

Wedding: Atlanta, 1980

Secret …

Sheri: We are best friends and both lawyers by training, and although we sometimes use those skills to argue with each other, we are each other’s best advocates. It’s amazing how many interests we share: movies, ethnic food to politics.

As our family has grown with kids and grandkids, we’re passing down our common values to the next generation. … And I am still laughing.

Steve: We’ve learned to compromise and have developed enhanced listening skills. As I learned early in my career as a domestic attorney, communication is the key to any successful relationship. A good sex life helps as does a healthy fear of a difficult divorce!

Wedding: Atlanta, 1980

Secret …

Joel: Marry a Gator woman! The truth is that any long-term relationship requires not 50/50 but 100 percent from each partner. While we may not have always been 100 percent, we worked towards that. The ability to laugh at yourself and not take yourself so seriously helps.

Charlotte: There will always be something that one of you doesn’t want to do, yet the other one enjoys, so compromise is essential. In addition, we always had date night with a standing babysitter on Saturday nights so we could go out and “connect”. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES JUNE 28, 2019 | 11

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North Fulton Welcomes New Rebbetzin

By Sonia Field The Jewish community of North Fulton has embraced Devora Leah Minkowicz with open arms and an abundance of southern hospitality following her marriage last month to Chabad Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz. “We received an incredibly warm welcome and have been surrounded by so much love; we are so grateful,” she said.

Devora Leah grew up a middle child among eight brothers and four sisters in a family of Chabad emissaries in Denver, Colo. After high school and seminary, she worked for Chabad houses across the country, dedicating herself to Jewish community involvement.

“The Rebbe’s mission has always been important to me,” she said of her relationship with the last Lubavitcher Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, an influential Chabad leader.

Some of Devora Leah’s work experience includes directing programming, teaching classes, managing Chabad anniversary dinners and an international Chabad conference. She also managed

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the Women’s Campaign at the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado.

Devora Leah enjoys skiing in the Colorado Rockies. “I especially love getting off the ski lift at the top of the mountain and looking out at the mountaintops surrounding me.” She also plays the harp. “I love spending time with family and friends and sharing meaningful moments with them. Over the most recent festival of Shavuot, she prepared her favorite recipe for chocolate pudding pie. “It has become a little holiday tradition.”

As the newest addition to the team of Chabad emissaries, Devora Leah’s overall goal is to “work with the existing team, who is doing a phenomenal job building the Chabad of the North Fulton community.”

Devora Leah noted that her life leading up to now has prepared her in some way for her current role. “It’s hard to pinpoint just one moment or experience,” she said. “Every single experience that I’ve had has prepared me in some way for this experience. I’m excited to be here.” ■

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Cindy and Rabbi Shalom Lewis were married Dec. 22, 2002 at Etz Chaim. Rabbi Albert Lewis, Shalom’s father, officiated.

The couple have celebrated many special events together. Here, they attend a party in 2002.

On one of many trips to Israel, the couple visited Masada.

“I didn’t think people would be so judgmental,” Cindy told the AJT in a subsequent interview. “When I was not the rabbi’s wife, I didn’t judge the rabbi’s wife.”

For instance, a congregant told her she should wear more makeup now that she was a rebbetzin. While she wasn’t the rabbi, she was also surprised congregants would turn to her as if she was. She also became more observant, not able to join friends as freely out in the community on Shabbat or participate in bridge or tennis events if they weren’t in her neighborhood.

One of her favorite dating history stories stems from a little misunderstanding during an ulpan class she was taking at the time. When the instructor said, in Hebrew, she lived in East Cobb, Cindy said she did too.

When the instructor said she lived near the rabbi, Cindy practiced her new language, saying she lived “with the

rabbi.” “Lo, lo, lo,” the instructor corrected, believing Cindy had used the wrong word. “Ken, ken, ken” Cindy confidently replied in the positive.

Rabbi Lewis also recounted their early courtship at his send-off ceremony earlier this month. The two went through painful times when Lewis, who was divorced, comforted Cindy after she lost her husband. When their friendship deepened, he described the day in his office when he decided to take the relationship beyond platonic. “‘I’m going to take a chance here that something is changing, that you are no longer my congregant and I am no longer your rabbi.’ We embraced and agreed to see where it was going to go.”

After a while, he had to set her straight about their cordiality. “It’s gonna be weird if we dated and she kept calling me rabbi.”

Ever proud of his union, he boasted, “The rabbi and the past president of the Sisterhood – pretty slick.”

He said he considered Cindy his “trophy wife and his great wife. ... Thank you for ignoring my mother and my sister.”

If opposites attract, the rabbi and Cindy couldn’t be more different, he said. “You like kale and beet salad and I like anything fried. You like the Food Channel and I like the History Channel.” While she believes in making the bed every day, he finds it a “silly waste of time but I do make the bed.”

And about their future beyond the pulpit, he added, “Do you know what you are getting into?”

The pair expect to spend more time with their children and grandchildren and increase travel. “We will have more flexibility in our private time,” the rabbi said in a follow-up interview.

But they’ll remain part of the synagogue, as most of their friends are members. “We’ll be visible and invisible at the same time. We will still be involved. Being spiritually committed is not necessarily attached to a title.”

Like his father, the now departed Rabbi Albert Lewis, the younger rabbi said he is happy to be able to sit with his wife in his retirement instead of having her look up at him while he’s on the bimah.

“My father after 44 years on the bimah was finally able to sit with my mother.” Rabbi Lewis, in contrast, made it a point over the past five years during his transition to emeritus status to sit with Cindy when he’s not leading services. He’s looking forward to doing that more now.

“We were drawn to each other seeking comfort,” he said at his send-off event. “May we wake up next to each other for years and years to come. I love you.” ■

Courting a Rabbi

By Roni Robbins Cindy Klein was a young widow and past president of the Sisterhood when she and her rabbi, Shalom Lewis, started dating 18 ½ years ago. She had not dated anyone since she was 19, she told a crowded Congregation Etz Chaim sanctuary at the “Shalom, Shalom” ceremony June 2 marking her husband’s transition to emeritus status.

Her son, Hadley, and Lewis’ son, David, were friends.

Lewis’ daughter, Jill, was one of Cindy’s babysitters.

“Do you know what you’re getting into?” Lewis’ mother and sister asked her when they started dating, to which Cindy considered, “He seems so normal.”

She remembers jumping into what seemed like a fishbowl when they started courting. Her grocery cart was examined by passersby, looking for treife, no doubt.

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By Marcia Caller Jaffe

small sparks something significant. We so much enjoy hanging around our mutual Jewish friends. And Terri is a great audience.”

Hitzig added, “When things get messed up in the kitchen, Bruce bursts out ‘Ma Nishtana’ and I bend over in laughter, or he’ll make a Woody Allen joke only I get.”

In December 2018, Terri Hitzig winked at Bruce Bogartz on Jdate. He responded, “Don’t just ‘like’ with a heart, say something!” Things moved quickly as they planned to meet at Jingle Mingle, a charity event to feed the homeless on Christmas. Chef Bogartz made seven gallons of his famous Brunswick stew to How the Chefs Dine They are late-night snackers. Nothdonate. Hitzig was so touched that she decided they wouldn’t join the group ing like kosher hot dogs and peanut later for lox and bagels. Bogartz said, “We butter and jelly sandwiches at 10 p.m. didn’t care about the others in the room. Hitzig’s specialty is a made-from-scratch We had an immediate connection and breakfast: banana pecan pancakes with real maple syrup. were comfortable with just each other.”

Bogartz said, “I work 13-hour days.

Ironically, Hitzig was featured in the September 2018 AJT touting her culinary I’m a big fan of breakfast.” Note that Boskills preparing chopped liver and coco- gartz attended Emory University (before nut flan, while Bruce got rave reviews in heading back to Tennessee) and earned the AJT November dining review of his his kitchen stripes by working at the original Pano’s & Paul’s eponymous Bogand the Atlanta Fish artz Food Artz resMarket when it was in taurant in Sandy Lenox Mall.

Springs.

“When Hitzig helps out at Harry Met Sally” Bogartz when needed has nothing on but is concentrating these two talented on her own Jewish foodie lovebirds’ comfort food busimatch made in Bruce Bogartz and Terri Hitzig met on Jdate and through AJT articles. ness, Terri’s Table, LLC. “matzoh ball brisket” heaven.

Wedding Details Looking forward, the wedding is set Hitzig wants a “playful feel” with for late July. a Dixieland jazz band. She will wear a Read on to reveal their gourmet fuchsia dress, and Bruce plans to wear courtship.

Bermuda shorts and white bucks.

Dating Bogartz felt there was basically no conquest; it just felt right. “On the second date, I sealed the deal.” Hitzig wasn’t feeling well, and Bogartz sent over his special duck soup. She gushed, “No one has ever been that sweet. Feeling better, I was initially intimidated; but decided to reciprocate by cooking a meal for him, a Cuban feast: Tostones (twice-fried plantains), picadillo (hash), sofrito (vegetable sauce), arroz congri (black beans and rice), hibiscus tea topped off with a lemon tart.”

On New Year’s Eve, the couple went to a Jewish singles event at Red Sky. “We were in our own world. I paid $20 to have her favorite music played.

WOW, I must have really cared to do that!”

Hitzig continued. “He told me he loved me; and my friends said ‘it was too soon for that.’ We just knew.”

On Being Jewish Both divorced from non-Jewish spouses, they independently thought Jdate was the best way forward.

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“We asked all the guests to dress in florals … even colorful socks,” Hitzig said.

The wedding will take place on a Sunday afternoon at Bogartz. The staff will be prepared to serve 120. Rabbi Brian Glusman will officiate.

The menu is fun food – pizza, cheeseburgers – to start.

Hitzig will make the elaborate cake in segments: sprinkles with lemon curd, strawberry jam, layers of chocolate brandied cherries, cream cheese frosting, whipped cream.

The honeymoon will also be in parts: Savannah first to just chill, followed by something more exotic like the Bahamas on a private jet.

Why It Was Bashert When the two families first met after the engagement, Hitzig discovered that her father and Bogartz’s father were both from the Bronx. Drilling down, they realized that both Hitzig and Bogartz were toddlers in the same New York apartment building! Hitzig moved to Savannah and Bogartz to Knoxville.

They circled back around to Sandy Springs to tie the knot. ■

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Dad Kamy Deljou walks Tallia Deljou down the aisle on 12 overlapping Persian carpets supplied by Pacific Rugs.

Professional photos by Teale Photography // All 27 attendants are lined up for a group photo.

A rousing horah dance enlivens the crowd.

Magic Carpet Ride Wedding

By Marcia Caller Jaffe An over-the-top romantic Persian wonderland wedding took place in North Georgia over Memorial Day weekend.

Business coach Tallia Deljou and attorney Parsa Garrett tied the knot in a multicultural outdoor ceremony/mélange of Persian and Jewish customs.

Tallia recalled, “There is no place like our venue Barnsley Gardens, a complete hidden oasis surrounded by beautiful trees. Truly magical.” It was an Italian estate of 4,000 acres dating back to 1840

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that reopened in 1999, but was sold in 2004 to Julian Saul, the Jewish owner of Queen Carpet, renamed Shaw Floors.

Although the couple was engaged for 20 months, the planning process spanned a year, using the services of Lindsey Wise Designs, who was seven months pregnant on the wedding night.

There were beaucoup attendants: the bridal party consisted of 12 bridesmaids and 15 groomsmen. The bride had some bridesmen and the groom had a groomswoman. Father of the bride Kamy Deljou said, laughing, “There were

like an authentic expression of the bride and groom; with the help of a lot of loving people, we made it work! It was a unique blend of many traditions, rituals and backgrounds that have contributed to who we are.” A Greek orthodox aunt shared a prayer during the ceremony.

The officiant was an energy healer, makAll in the Details Tallia’s dress was Blush by Hayley ing for a very nontraditional type of wedPaige. “I wanted it to feel whimsical and ding.

Jewish traditions were front and elegant; it was the only one I could picture walking down the aisle in outside center with the chuppah, ketubah, and under that magical tree. Being surround- breaking of the glass. Artist/father Kamy ed by nature helped me pick the dress designed the chuppah, an exquisite white lace fabric on four wooden posts decowith its unique lace patterns.” rated with vines and Florists Chelleaves. Sister of the sea Brittle of Luxe + bride Nadia recited Bloom Flower Design “Shehechiyanu” and provided the earthy, Kiddush wine blesswild and colorful: ings. deep reds and orThe aisle was anges with plenty of comprised of 12 overleaves and greenery lapping layered Perrequested by Tallia sian rugs, and there to mirror the rich was Persian music, hues of the Persian and a traditional Perrugs that decorated sian ceremonial table, the aisle. There were similar to a Passover 150 feet of Persian seder spread, with carpets provided by symbols of sweetPacific Rugs. ness, abundance and Barnsley Garlove for the bride and dens catered on-site, groom. During a poradding a special flair tion of the ceremony, for Persian cuisine the heads of the bride while accommodatTallia’s lacy dress was Blush by Hayley Paige, which she chose and groom were coving dietary restricbecause it was accented by nature. ered by white fabric, tions for vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free guests, meat lov- and guests were invited to rub sugar ers and “kosher keepers.” They created cubes overhead to shower them with the signature Persian wedding rice dish sweetness.

Shirin Polo, Persian jeweled rice, at the rehearsal dinner, which was very special Tallia’s Advice for the families.

• Designate time to take photos beforehand and try to stay as present as Blending the Cultures Tallia said, “It became challenging you can throughout the entire day. We at times to manage cultural expecta- turned down many photos during the tions while assuring the wedding felt reception, and it was the best decision 314 guests. The list started at 550. Due to capacity issues, we reduced it to 348 invitees. Truly the hardest part of the wedding for us was being selective while being extremely mindful when dealing with such a tight-knit community.”

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Photo of the chuppah with the Persian table, Sofreh Aghd. Kamy Deljou designed the lace chuppah. The Persian table, akin to a Passover seder, was meticulously prepared.

we made because it allowed us to fully remember every moment instead of spending it behind the camera posing and smiling.

• You can’t care too much about every single detail; pick your top three priorities and let everything else just be good enough. Our priorities were the way we designed our ceremony, creating a weekend experience for all, and decorations/ flowers.

Parents View Dad Kamy: My “aha” moment was walking Tallia down the isle. When we saw the crowd, both Tallia and I cried. It brought back the memory of the moment that Tallia was born 28 years ago at Northside Hospital.

Mom Roya: I was mesmerized by Tallia’s contentment and the way she handled the wedding, She truly lives the life that she is preaching, and mentoring others on their life’s path. Her sweet smile and open heart were felt by all.”

The Future The couple was off for a honeymoon in Paris, Santorini and Mykonos.

Tallia and Parsa will be sharing more advice and lessons learned from their wedding on an upcoming episode of her podcast, “Sincerely Me,” on iTunes and Spotify. ■ Sofreh Aghd (Wedding Table) Traditions in Persian weddings date back to Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions founded in ancient Iran about 3,500 years ago.

Sofreh Aghd is a table setting composed of symbolic items: Mirror (ayaneh); candelabra (shamdoon); poetry book; matching floral arrangements (laleh); silk cloth (termeh); rose water (golab); rock candy (nabaat); bread, cheese, green herbs (Naan-o-Paneer-o-Sabzi); fruit (miveh); bread with Mobarak Baad (congratulations, in Farsi); seven spices: tea, wild rice, Angelica, Nigella seeds, Frankincense, poppy seeds, and salt; seven colors of esfand (wild rue); gold coins (talla sekkeh); honey (Asal); nuts; white candy (Noghl); eggs (tokhme-morgh); sweets (shirini); and chairs for the couple (Sandely).

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The Molinari family will hold Luca’s bar mitzvah in this historic Orthodox synagogue, built in 1780 in Biella.

Kimmelstiel uses wool and silk to weave tallitot, which she considers a “labor of love.”

The tallit Kimmelstiel made for her then future son-in-law was used as their wedding chuppah.

Kimmelstiel works with her clients to select threads for their custom tallitot. She also makes kippot, tallit bags and matzoh bags.

Custom Made Tallit For Bar Mitzvah in Italy

By Marcia Caller Jaffe I have been to destination b’nai mitzvah from Jerusalem to nearby kosher summer camps, but was intrigued by the Molinari family’s selection of a tiny Or-

thodox synagogue in Biella, Italy.

Next month a few family members will travel there for Luca Molinari’s bar mitzvah. He’ll be wearing a custom-designed tallit.

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in Connecticut, but she has strong Georgia roots as her parents met while living on Buford Highway in the 70s. Mother Ellen Moskowitz Fleisher grew up in LaGrange and Columbus, Ga. Uncles David and Joey Moskowitz live in Atlanta with their families.

An architect and the mother of three sons, Molinari reveals the backstory about the destination and the tallit.

“My husband was raised in Milan, where his parents still reside. They have a colleague who has the key to the historic synagogue of Biella. The old center of Biella no longer has any Jews. The local Jewish population travels to a larger synagogue in Vercelli in the same region.

“Although the Biella shul is not used for weekly religious gatherings, it can be opened for special events. We were very fortunate to gain access to this historical place that has been preserved exactly as it stood in 1887, even surviving World War II, remaining completely hidden from Nazi soldiers who lived across the courtyard. There is room for 35 men, and a small balcony that can hold no more than 10 women. We are keeping the ceremony small, just immediate family, and even so, people may have to take turns participating.”

To mark the momentous occasion, the family enlisted the help of Laurie Kimmelstiel, a custom hand weaver who has particularly Judaic spiritual interests. She is a co-author of “Exquisite Little Knits: Knitting with Luxurious Specialty Yarns,” and many of her knitting and crochet designs and patterns have been featured in books and magazines. Her handwoven Judaic textiles can be found in

Handwoven and Ornament magazines.

She runs a salon in her New York home and offers weekly workshops for knitters of all skill levels. Her designs include tallitot and their bags, challah covers, matzah bags and kippot. A lot of care, time and worthwhile expense go into one of her creations.

Her attention came to me by way of Luca Molinari, a bar mitzvah boy who had photos of himself intensely overlooking Kimmelstiel’s elaborate loom, selecting his threads and color combination for his upcoming bar mitzvah tallit.

So I asked Ronni Molinari what drew the family to this particular weaver.

“Laurie is a distant cousin, but I was close to her mother and father. Laurie’s mother was a jewelry artist, and Laurie, herself, is a brilliant craftswoman. Being that my own interests are in the arts, I always felt closeness to Laurie’s family.

I recall driving to visit Laurie’s mother to craft jewelry in her home studio, bake traditional Jewish recipes from scratch, and to discuss my own art,” Molinari said.

“Laurie knitted special gifts for each of my sons and attended their brit milah.

I was counting down, literally, to the bar mitzvah of my first born to enter this process with Laurie! As a mother, I feel blessed to gift him a tallit made with love by a family member who has known him his whole life.”

She explained how the process unfolded.

“We chose a day when Luca and I could visit Laurie’s studio to discuss the art of the tallis and select his yarns. It allowed Luca to take ownership of a significant item for his bar mitzvah that will

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Kimmelstiel has co-authored a book on knitting and been featured in craft magazines. She maintains a knitting salon in her home.

The tevah (1868), in walnut wood carved with plant motifs, occupies the central position, as was customary at that time.

carry with him for all special events go- lit is to serve as a vehicle or garment to hold the tzitzit, the specially tied ritual ing forward.

“For Luca to see the effort that goes strings which are prescribed in the Shinto the making of the tallit gave him a ema, where we are advised to ‘mark the greater appreciation for the shawl itself four corners of your garments with a and the responsibility he carries to main- cord of blue’ to remind us to observe the tain our Jewish traditions. He particular- commandments.

“The bar or bat mitzvah child is ally enjoyed learning about the engineering of the loom and selecting the colors ways directly involved – choosing size, colors and design and designs for his and taking part in tallit. We look fora serious conversaward to the second tion and discussion meeting at Laurie’s about the meaning studio when Luca and significance can tie the knots of the tallit. Upon with his father and the completion of brothers.” the tallit, I generKimmelstiel ally arrange for the explained her role. family to meet with She said she alme to tie the tzitzit ways wanted to be according to Jewish a weaver, feeling tradition.” that the ancient Laurie wove craft still has value tallitot for each of in modern times.

Luca Molinari looks on intently her children as well She began as a knitas Laurie Kimmelstiel sets up her as for her husband – ter and crocheter Swedish countermarche loom. actually four and sought out a place to learn weaving to enhance her for her husband. She also wove one for fiber skills. Encouraged by her talented her son-in-law, which was used as their mother, she inherited interest in fiber wedding chuppah. Each of her married crafts, although she took a slightly differ- children received a special hand-woven challah cover when they became enent path.

She has been weaving tallitot for gaged.

“I’ve found the young people very more than 20 years. Each tallit takes about 50 hours to complete. She weaves serious about both the design and imporon a very large Swedish countermarche tance of the tallit. It is always a privilege loom and works primarily in wool and and a labor of love to weave a tallit.” ■ The cost of such a tallit is $600 to silk.

“There are no laws or halachah re- $1,300, depending on size and details. You garding the tallit. There are traditions can learn more about Kimmelstiel at http:// and customs only. The purpose of a tal- www.whiteridgecrafts.com/textiles.html.

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Creating Instagramable Wedding Moments

By Shelly Danz Many wedding trends come and go, but with the ever-increasing popularity of social media, one shows no signs of slowing down. To sum it up in two words: Instagramable backdrops. Thoughtfully designed photo backdrops give guests a fun way to share special moments from your wedding day while also conveying your overall wedding vision in a single photo.

We saw this idea come to life with several decor vendors at the most recent Bridal Extravaganza of Atlanta show. Allow these visually compelling hot spots for picture-taking to inspire the most ‘grammed wedding day yet!

Flower Wall We’ve never met a flower wall we didn’t love. This flower wall with orchids

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and paper butterflies was the backdrop of our bridal fashion show, designed by Rhapsody in Blooms. A flower wall can be placed adjacent to or near the chuppah so that guests can take photos in front of it after the ceremony. Or, create a focal point behind the ceremony musicians or live band to ensure every angle of your wedding is perfectly curated.

If you’re looking for more wow and less garden party, an oversized paper flower wall is another way to bring your floral backdrop visions to life. Rent A Flower Wall Atlanta has custom flower walls in a number of colors to match any theme or photo booth.

Wall Signage Laser cut signage with the bride and groom’s names, a social media hashtag or a sweet phrase like “happily ever after” make for simple ways to craft Instagramable moments throughout your event.

Letters by Shop Narwall can be customized to various shapes and sizes that are perfect for hallways, bathrooms or placing over other backdrops.

Balloon Vignette If you’re really looking to up the ante

on your guests’ Instagram feeds, creating a vignette photo setting is a foolproof way to succeed. This photo vignette designed

by Balloonacy and Flowers by Holland at Bridal Extravaganza of Atlanta was whimsical, glamorous and pure fun. The inviting set-up makes it clear that this is a photo stop!

Dance Floor Marquee Of course, you hope your guests will be spending a lot of time on the dance floor. Beyond first dance and horah, don’t

forget about the photo moments that can happen only when everyone is busting a move! We love Amp’d Entertainment’s dance marquee that creates a gorgeous glow mood with a bit of gold-toned lighting and makes a spectacular focal point for the reception.

Whether you choose one or multiple background opportunities for guests, some thoughtfully placed selfie sticks around the reception area is one more way to ensure your best gramming spots get plenty of picture-taking activity.

Looking for more inspiration? Don’t miss the next Bridal Extravaganza of Atlanta Aug. 19 at Southern Exchange. Meet some of the professional vendors mentioned here who bring wedding visions to life, and 100-plus more vendors across every category. ■ Shelly Danz is the founder and chief party officer of Atlanta Party Connection, atlantapartyconnection.com, which links families planning weddings and mitzvahs with vendors and resources. The next Bar & Bat Mitzvah EXPO is Oct. 6.

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Bride and groom holding a custom-made The Wedding Dance Napkin during the horah.

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Anyone who’s ever attended a Jewish wedding is familiar with the tradition of lifting the bride and groom up in chairs during the horah with the couple each holding an edge of a single napkin or handkerchief symbolically representing the mechitzah separation between men and women.

Janet Galanti has been creating embroidered napkins for this special moment since 2011. Her brand is called “The Wedding Dance Napkin” and she makes each piece by hand.

At Jewish weddings, people typically take whatever napkin is on the table to use for the horah. “Instead of grabbing a dirty napkin off a table at the wedding and never seeing that traditional napkin again, the bride and groom can have a keepsake to remember their special day,” Galanti said in a phone interview. “Afterwards, it can be framed or used as a challah cover. A memorable aspect of your wedding, this napkin can be passed from generation to generation.”

Galanti was inspired by one of her friends, who used a piece of her wedding dress to give to her daughter on a basic napkin. “I wanted to create something equally as special with a unique design on a high-quality napkin,” Galanti said.

“Often brides will bring a piece of their mother’s wedding dress to me to incorporate into the napkin.”

The Wedding Dance Napkin busi-

ness took off from one of Galanti’s clients who ordered multiple napkins for various friends and family over the years. “Someone saw the napkin at a wedding that an Atlanta friend had given to a friend in New York and The Wedding Dance Napkin took off from there,” Galanti said.

Galanti uses delicate beaded appliques for a unique design on the napkin.

She gets the couples’ names and the date of their wedding monogrammed on the napkin through a local company. “I do a range of napkins from glitz to simple, depending on what the bride’s preference is,” Galanti said.

She has created napkins for more than 130 people. Galanti will either meet in person with a client or communicate via email. In person she usually goes over different designs with the bride, and they decide together on a specific appliqué for the napkin. Typically, Galanti will need a month or two in advance for an order so it will be ready in time for the special day.

Galanti has a Facebook page for people to contact her for orders or if they want to see pictures of some of her work.

People have heard about The Wedding Dance Napkin through word of mouth around town, Galanti said.

“Part of this Jewish tradition comes from the idea of making the bride happy on her wedding day, entertaining her and ‘lifting’ her to the utmost height to honor her,” which is exactly what Galanti does for her clients. ■

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What will I do when the person whom I love most in the world becomes terminally ill? What can prepare us for this dreadful moment when our worst fears become reality? Who and what will give us strength? A book by Robert “Bob” Fischbach, “Faithful as She Fades: A Memoir of Love and Dementia,” to go on sale July 10, brings us into this world of caretaking and coping in an intimate and honest way.

Promises are easy to make, more often hard to keep. “‘…lastly you have to promise me that you will not put me in a facility,’” Fischbach recalls his wife asking. Once the promise was made, he never thought twice about keeping it.

He states, “I saw my parents take care of their parents and I saw my Mom take care of my Father. L’dor v’dor.”

This book is a love story about his wife Janie, and his kids, whose strength and sweetness sustained him. It’s about going through the worst of life and then figuring out how to live and love again.

In “Faithful as She Fades,” Fischbach shares with us his experiences growing up in a working-class Jewish family in Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y., which at that time had a very small Jewish community. He struggled to compete with the more affluent residents and found athletics an area of common ground. His dad, a hairdresser with his own salon, had opportunities to grow his small business, but these ideas were nixed time and again by Fischbach’s mother. The daughter of immigrant parents having lost her own Mom while very young, she did not take chances. Witnessing this as a child and yearning for more, Fischbach decided that when life gave him opportunities, he would not back down. He would seize them with determination and take chances. And he did.

Working his way through Cincinnati University with a degree in community planning, Fischbach met Janie – beautiful, decisive, intelligent and loving. While Janie’s mother decided that Fischbach had little to offer her daughter, he was not to be deterred. Fischbach explores the events leading to their marriage, their decision to adopt and his successful career in Atlanta with firm roots in the Jewish community.

Happily married and living their dream life in a Sandy Springs home Fischbach designed, Janie, then 60, gets a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, a progressive, terminal illness. “The doctor might as well have taken a hammer and hit me in the gut. I felt all the air go out of me,” remembers Fischbach. He shares the difficulties of acceptance, sadness, anger, and revelation to their sons, as well as the huge job of caretaking and managing caretakers as Janie declines. During this journey, his sons plan a meeting with him to offer support and “out of the box” ways for him to continue living while his wife is fading. He also acknowledges some family members and friends who disappoint and dismiss, and his loss of confidence in a merciful God. Just when things feel like they cannot get any worse and he wonders how he will continue, Fischbach meets Michele. This book is both inspirational and real. How do we cope with serving someone we love and watching them fail? How do we move beyond our own pain and make their last years comfortable while not abandoning our own lives? This book is a must read for anyone who has walked in those shoes, but also for those who fear walking in those shoes.

The author has walked the walk and done so with dignity and truth.

Bob Fischbach’s father had opportunities to grow his business, but his mother was against it, which inspired Bob to take more chances in his life. ■

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Lucky to Have Known Rae

By Rabbi Neil Sandler Rae Goodman, of blessed memory, was one of the most elegant and gracious women I have known.

Atlantans, most especially members of my congregation, Ahavath Achim, knew Rae primarily throughout the 1980s and ’90s. She was elegant and gracious, but she was so much more. She cared about our community and how we lived our Jewish lives. She encouraged us to take kashrut seriously by promoting it through her “Kosher Tastes of Atlanta.” She helped us and many others when, along with Sherry Maziar, she started the Jewish Dating Network and brought together Jewish men and women. Others of us knew Rae from a variety of activities she enriched through her presence and participation in the community.

But I knew Rae (when she was still “Mrs. Goodman” to me) since the mid - 1960s when she, along with Rabbi Goodman and their children, Ari, Daniel and Shira, came to my home congregation in Minneapolis, the Adath Jeshurun Congregation. I saw an elegant Rae every Shabbat morning in services. I experienced her graciousness and hospitality in Shabbat evening dinners with the Goodman family. I appreciated her warm curiosity when I would return to Minneapolis, first from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Like Rabbi Goodman, Rae always wanted to know how I was getting along as I was moving toward a career of service to the Jewish people.

Now the Goodmans - Rabbi Arnold, Ari, Daniel and Shira, along with their spouses and the Goodmans’ grandchildren – have reflected on the fullness of Rae’s life and its lasting meaning two years after her death.

The result, crafted by a skilled individual, Yael Unterman, is a beautiful reflection entitled, “I’m so lucky: A life full of love – Rae Parnes Goodman, 1929 - 2016.”

Rae grew up in Queens, N.Y. Her home was a traditionally observant Jewish home in which Shabbat meant welcoming guests, going to shul and playing various games on Shabbat afternoon. This was also the nature of the welcoming home that Rae would eventually create with Rabbi Goodman.

Few of us knew about Rae’s academic prowess and accomplishment. She was the valedictorian of her graduating Jamaica High School class. She went on to study at City College in New York and, years later, earned an M.A. in special education at the University of Minnesota. Rae did some wonderful things in her special ed classrooms in suburban Minneapolis. She was creative and gave each student the personal attention required.

Rae Goodman was an excellent and engaging professional. But that truth was not the one she chose to emphasize. Why? Because what mattered most to Rae was her family: how her husband was progressing in his pulpit rabbinate career, that her children were achieving to the best of their abilities and becoming fine people and that her grandchildren were reflective of their parents in these ways.

Much of “I’m So Lucky” is the story of Rae’s successes in the manner I just described. The book is full of family members’ reflections and testimonials about Rae’s influence on their lives and on the lives of others. These children and grandchildren (and now even great-grandchildren) serve as Rae’s greatest legacy – a commitment to family, to Jewish life, however it is expressed, and to striving for excellence.

One final word. Rae Goodman developed willpower and discipline that strengthened her as she experienced

physical challenges throughout her life. As she grew older and suffered from severe back problems, Rae’s tolerance for pain and her resilience of body, mind and spirit enabled her to live fully and enjoy the blessings that she and Rabbi Goodman had helped to create.

If you knew Rae Goodman, “I’m so lucky – A life full of love” will not only warm your heart and bring a smile to your face. It will also challenge you to reflect on your own life in light of the life of this extraordinary woman.

May the memory of Rae Parnes Goodman continue to be a source of inspiration to us and to others. ■ “I’m so lucky: A life full of love” is available on Amazon, www.amazon.com.au/Im-lucky-life-full-love/ dp/1090942516.

Rabbi Neil Sandler serves Ahavath Achim Synagogue.

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Enchanted spring trout, pan seared alongside fresh cherry tomato relish is a healthy option.

Literally on the Chattahoochee River, Ray’s is voted among the most romantic dining settings in Atlanta.

In addition to the enclosed pavilion, Ray’s also has private rooms for luncheons, small receptions or rehearsal dinners. All with a view.

Favorite starters were tuna tataki and Fuji apple salad.

Ray’s on the River: Reliable, Resplendent

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Driving by I-285 at the New Northside/Powers Ferry exit, you can’t miss the twinkling lights in the trees reflecting off the water, and the color-lit enclosed pavilion behind the restaurant.

Ray’s on the River, part of the Ray’s on the Creek and Ray’s in the City triumvirate, was the focus of our dinner, not coincidentally on Father’s Day. Part of the charm of Ray’s on the River is its extraordinary scenic beauty combined with its longevity and predictability for food, wine and service for special, or everyday, occasions.

Part of Ray’s reputation as an institution since 1984 is the fact that it services a flow seven days a week. On the Sunday we were there, 1,000 guests had already dined before the 350 for the dinner crowd.

There was neither a wait nor feeling of being with “masses.” Several managers were on the floor with earbuds watching the tables to assure good service that is not rushed but steady. It was also unifying to see one adept experienced server versus mysterious teams that showed up spontaneously with other peoples’ meals.

The scenic beauty of Ray’s is just that spectacular. Inside the restaurant during daylight a light mesh screen covers the win-

dows. At the beginning of sunset, voila, the Bank’s daughter is married to owner Ray “curtain” goes up and the Chattahoochee is Schoenbaum’s son, offering Atlanta Koeven more grand. Come early or stay late sher Commission-approved catering by A and walk the grounds. Comfy benches and Kosher Touch on site.

In terms of dishes, our favorite outdoor furniture invite rambling through starter was a tender, artsy palette of tuna the flowers. tataki with sweet and It’s not unusual spicy cucumbers and to see geese, turtles fresh ginger over musor egrets enjoying the tard vinaigrette and grounds. Off to the ponzu sauce. Saladnorth end are the newwise, the Caesar was ly installed beehives fresh enough with sa(covered of course). It vory croutons, but no is also not unusual to anchovy zing. Some witness an outdoor Ray Schoenbaum has more than restaurants ask if you wedding, arches, chup45 years on the Atlanta restaurant pah and neat rows of dining scene. He is the son of Shoney’s like anchovies and are willing to place them white chairs. There are founder Alex Schoenbaum and earned his experience rising through on the side. In conalso two areas for dinthe ranks in the food business. trast, the Fuji apple ers to eat al fresco.

The Grand Pavilion, connected by salad with farm fresh field greens, canan awning where brunch buffets are of- died pecans, crumbled Statesboro blue ten held, is also available for private par- cheese with champagne vinaigrette was ties. The lighting and dramatic beamed indeed special.

For entrées, the Enchanted Trout ceiling are magnificent, although capacity is limited to about 110 for a seated was a double-sized portion (good leftdinner with a dance floor. Up to 180 overs) which was sautéed. Blackened can work with less formality. Also key was a nice option. As Ray’s specializes in are the chairs and linens that are “de- seafood, they prepare it just about any signer ready,” so little has to be brought way you like it. (Hint: consider adding in other than flowers. Special note: In a “almandine” for trout). This two-week pemerger of “foodies,” Sandra and Clive riod included Copper River salmon.

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The other entrée, Horseradish Crusted Black Grouper over Swiss rainbow chard in aged balsamic vinaigrette, had some real power and worked alongside a flash-fried Brussels sprouts and cauliflower mixture. Again, enough for leftovers. Note that some of the entrees come with sides and others are à la carte.

For dessert, we tried the Key lime pie done in a light chiffon style, which was a generous portion and rocked mostly because of the delish crushed macadamia nut crust.

The Ray’s Signature Praline Basket was overflowing with a juicy bounty of fresh berries. The praline basket was crispy and true to its Southern heritage. In the middle was “burnt sugar ice cream” which was indistinguishable from regular vanilla, … refreshing just the same, with caramel sauce.

Bottom line: Ray’s on the River has earned its reputation for the city’s most scenic venue. The food and service are dependable, but expect to loosen up on the charge card. Lunch is a less expensive option to get your feet wet. For big eaters, the Sunday brunch, 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., could sustain diners for a long while. For another special good time, dance and sip to live music in Ray’s bar area Thursday through Sunday evenings. ■

Photos by Duane Stork // These six original sketches were done by Karl Lagerfeld for

Chanel. Rickles selected couch fabric by Robert Allen “Denim Indigo.”

Chai Style Home Collections Flow Like the River

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

ity. That’s a tall order!

Are we visiting a house on the Seine visualized in a Marcia: What was the grassroots process between Parisian poem or novel? you and Jeanie?

Jeanie Diamond’s home could have been a European Linda: I knew that she had European tastes in movie set or just along the Ramblin’ Raft Race of years clothing and furnishings and combined that with her past. The wide, green and calming Chattimeline and budget. I set out using her tahoochee is the backyard that creates a existing furnishings and added new items breathtaking panorama with intense hues and accessories tailored to the space and of lime, olive, emerald and forest greens. function. It’s my job to maintain the correct Jeanie knows what she likes and how balance, harmony and proportion within to get it, so she sought out interior designer each room.

Linda Rickles to employ the secrets in her fashion vault and combine couture into Marcia: What’s the importance of this natural setting. lighting?

Listen in as Linda and Jeanie recall Linda: To achieve the effect of dratheir design execution, and the fun they Marcia matic lighting, we used the giant arc by had doing it.

George Kovacs to showcase the great room, Caller Jaffe and I hand-leafed an unusual silver design Marcia: What were the initial plans you chose for for the kitchen chandelier. I suggested an Italian sputnik chandelier in the guest powder room and several Linda to implement?

Jeanie: I wanted a chic interior with a contempo- by Angelo Donghia and Baker throughout the house to rary twist. I asked Linda to compose a total visual effect replace the “old fashioned” feel of the original fixtures. throughout the house inclusive of the architecture with few walls, no heavy furniture, no “chopped up” rooms, Marcia: What are some of your professional demodern, comfy, livable, bright and open with personal- signer touches?

Designer Rickles (rear) relaxes in the “Chanel den” she designed for Jeanie Diamond, seated in a Christopher Guy chair.

Linda: I found an 1865 armoire and applied a pearlized glaze to restore it to its original glamour.

I chose the Benjamin Moore paint and brought in pigment powder from Italy to add luminescence to reflect the sparkling changes in the lighting from the Chattahoochee. We combined the new and original hardware to retain authenticity.

Being challenged to create a “Chanel den” was certainly unusual. Even the magazine rack is Chanel. In this room, I chose the built-in furniture’s silver hardware and covered the sofas in Robert Allen “Denim Indigo” – all against a sophisticated, cobalt blue background. I paid special attention to unique pillows by Elitis, and framed six Lagerfeld sketches to command the west wall.

Marcia: Why Chanel? I see you are wearing a Karl Lagerfeld suit today.

Linda: Coco Chanel was reputed to have taken women out of the “corseted” dress into a style that could be both classic and casual. She was considered youthful and liberated since she originally started as a dressmaker in a cabaret. She also designed jewelry and created perfumes. Chanel No.5 is a classic.

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ARTS The great room has a George Kovacs arc lamp (forefront). On the left is the 1895 armoire Rickles had refinished with Italian pigmented pearlized paint. The black bench is Christopher Guy.

The majestic master bedroom has end tables by Kreiss. The silhouette chair on the right is by Christopher Guy. The far wall houses the perfume Factice collection. Chandelier is Savoy House Lighting.

forms from her convent days. She was the first to make sunbathing fashionable, emphasizing a tanned, as opposed to a pale, porcelain complexion. Her mark on fashion is indelible and Harper’s Bazaar (1915) said, “The woman who does not have at least one Chanel is hopelessly void of fashion.” Karl Lagerfeld took over Chanel eventually.

Marcia: What are your go-to furnishings?

Linda: We brought in a good bit of Roche Bobois for the leather sectional, dining chairs, another sofa and love seat. Christopher Guy (Harrison) is a favorite of Jeanie’s. He grew up on the French Riviera and is known

for his international lifestyle designs with names like Le Salon Parisian, New York Penthouse and Country Estate. I especially like his benches and mirrors. In the master bedroom I placed his cream bench “31 Rue Cambon.” Also Kreiss tables are bookended in the master.

Marcia: What are some of your most unusual pieces?

Linda: To surprise her, I commissioned four “Photographs of Jeanie Diamond” in the style of Andy Warhol (1984).

In the master suite, Linda placed the decorative Factice collection of oversized perfume bottles that

The master bedroom seating area has a breathtaking view of the river. That day a baby fawn ambled by. The chair is vintage Roche Bobois re-covered in Architex faux leather.

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The upstairs playroom is centered around a vintage Louis Vuitton poster. Rickles used the glass jacks sculptures to add whimsy.

ARTS The spectacular entrance shows an Italian chandelier and the four Andy Warhol-styled photographs with which Linda surprised Jeanie.

Moon Brothers renovated the kitchen where Diamond likes to look out to bring nature’s views inside.

designers use in department stores to introduce a new fragrance. Names like Givenchy, Dior, Balenciaga, or Guerlain were collected in Palm Beach, Atlanta and Boston. One must pay special attention to what’s etched on the glass to assess its value.

I used some small touches like placing an Elsa Peretti bowl in the kitchen with a Lalique floating goldfish to create a whimsical note. You have to love the custom pillow about finding Prince Charming!

Marcia: You mentioned the house’s harmony; you are an expert in feng shui?

Linda: Way back when it wasn’t part of our vo-

Rickles chose a Benjamin Moore cobalt blue to highlight the display shelves in the den. The hardware was changed to silver for the built-ins by Rickles.

cabulary, I was taking feng shui courses at Harvard. It’s a 3,000-year-old Chinese “science” that affects flow and boosts the energy in a home. The placement of things is very important.

Marcia: Perfection doesn’t just happen. Diamond has her eye on living and dressing well. Last word.

Jeanie: I think folks should know, perhaps young people starting out and hiring a designer, that the process can be a joy. A good designer will help look for ways to pull in things you already own. Through the years, Linda and I have had tons of fun and forged a friendship. ■

The keeping room with a river view has a Missoni rug and Rickles designer pillows, sofa and fabric are from Duralee.

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CALENDAR SUNDAY, JUNE 30

Kabbalah and Coffee – Chabad Intown on the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Discuss, explore and journey through the world of Jewish mystical teaching and learn how to apply these profound teachings to your daily life. This ongoing class probes the esoteric through a unique program of English text-based study. No prior kabbalistic experience required. Free. For more information, www.chabadintown.org

Songs of the Inspired Soul – Chabad Intown on the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 6 to 9 p.m.

An evening marking the 25th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory. The story of the Rebbe’s monumental life work, shared through film and music featuring a live performance by BellaNota Strings quartet. $18 per person. For more information, www.bit.ly/2I56ZEZ.

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Anti-Semitism : The History of AntiSemitism – Chabad Intown on the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 8 to 9:30 p.m., Tuesdays, July 2-16. A new three-part series from the Intown Jewish Academy. We are experiencing an increase in antiSemitic incidents in the United States and around the world. Join us for a timely look at the roots of hate, and what we can do about it. $36 for the course. For more information, www. bit.ly/31qqrUn.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Shlach Friday, June 28, 2019, light candles at 8:34 p.m.

Saturday, June 29, 2019, Shabbat ends at 9:36 p.m.

Korach Friday, July 5, 2019, light candles at 8:34 p.m.

Saturday, July 6, 2019, Shabbat ends at 9:35 p.m.

Atlanta, from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. Join the Sixth Point for a light brunch and a game of kickball. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2Zcla0I.

A Curious Afternoon of Magic with Joe M. Turner – William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 4 p.m. The city’s top magical entertainers deliver an afternoon of exciting mysteries for the eyes and mind. The Atlanta magic clubs have not produced a combined show in years, but to celebrate Houdini at the Breman, they are joining forces for your entertainment pleasure. $12 per person. For more information, www.thebreman.org.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10

Author Talks: Jedwin Smith, I am Israel – Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Blue Stone Road, Sandy Springs, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Join in for an author talk with award-winning author Jedwin Smith. Free. Refreshments provided. For more information, www.bit. ly/2I5xKsY.

A Page from the Book Festival presents Bud Selig – Marcus JCC, 5342

FRIDAY, JULY 5

Splish Splash Shabbat

– Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Geared for kids 6 and younger. Bring a dairy or plant-based picnic. TBT will provide Shabbat music, baby pools, candlelighting, juice, challah and popsicles.

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/31Ci6NL.

SUNDAY, JULY 7

Kickball & Bagel Brunch – Blackburn Park, 3493 Ashford Dunwoody Road, 32 | JUNE 28, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Bud Selig is the former ninth Commissioner of Baseball. His book, “For the Good of the Game,” chronicles his career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the process involved in transforming an American institution. $35 per ticket that includes one hardcover copy of the book. For more information, www. atlantajcc.org.

SUNDAY, JULY 14

est wine regions in the world. Following the movie, taste a variety of kosher wines available for purchase. $10 per person. To register and for more information, www.bit.ly/2ZfwLwf.

Fine Arts Alliance to present local painters creating en plein air art focused on spring and summer blooms.

Visit with the painters and observe them at work. Artist availability may be dependent on weather so please call ahead to determine schedule. Included with general admission to the CNC. $6 per child ages 3-12, $10 per adult, $7 for seniors 65 and up, $7 for students ages 13-18, free CNC members and children 2 and younger. For more information, www.bit.ly/2JnQXba.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

Open Play Games – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open play tables are set up every week on MJCCA’s Main Street on Mondays and Wednesdays for you to enjoy popular strategy and skill games while making new friends. Free for members, $5 for the community. For more information, www.bit.ly/2H6mYRt.

Sweet Summer Series – Locations

B’nai Torah Pool Party – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 10 a.m. to 12 pm. Join the MJCCA for some fun in the sun. The pool party is free and open to all family members. For more information, www.bit. ly/2ZesgSu.

Houdini in Early Cinema – William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 4 p.m. Houdini historian and blogger John Cox has studied the life of Harry Houdini for more than 40 years and consults on Houdini projects for radio, television, stage and film. In this talk, Cox covers areas of Houdini’s life that are not generally known. Stay after this lecture for a Q&A session. Free for members, general admission for nonmembers. For more information, www.bit.ly/2KOmpzc.

around Atlanta from 5 to 6:30 p.m. PJ Library’s Summer Series is back again, with a twist. Sweet Summer Series will run every Wednesday night for nine weeks at a local ice cream shop. Each week they will hold Sweet Summer Series in a different location around Atlanta. For more information and locations, www.bit.ly/2Yq9ozA.

THURSDAY, JULY 18

Metulla Hadassah’s Morning with Milt – From 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Join Hadassah for the third of four informal discussion groups led by Dr. Milt Tambor. Each session will focus on a unique aspect of Jewish life from a historical perspective. $5 per person at the door. For location and to RSVP, waltersanita@charter.net.

JULY 15 – JULY 19

In the City Camp – Congregation Dor Tamid, 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $295 per child per week. For more information, www.bit.ly/2WvH5hZ.

TUESDAY, JULY 16

Movie, Kosher Wine Tasting and Hors d’oeuvres – Congregation Beth

Artists in the Wild – En Plein Air Art–

Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, from 5 to 9 p.m. Join in for an entertaining movie that tells how Napa Valley became one of the great-

Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. every Tuesday through August.

The CNC partners with the Roswell

FRIDAY, JULY 19

Rockin’ Shabbat – Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join CBS for its

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SATURDAY, JULY 13

Peter Yarrow, Live in Concert – Temple Beth David, 1885 McGee Road SW, Snellville, from 8 to 10 p.m. Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, will perform live in concert, with a share of the proceeds going to Operation Respect. $18 per adult, $9 for children under 13 and VIP rows $36 each. For more information, www.bit.ly/2WSemZA. musical “Friday Night Alive Service.”

Join Rabbi Zimmerman, congregants and guests for a night of music, camaraderie and ruach. Musical Kabbalat Shabbat service will be followed by traditional Ma’ariv service for erev Shabbat after the “Barchu.” Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2ZpCRKD.

7:30 p.m. Shabbat in the Park is a casual, fun and family-friendly Friday evening potluck dinner held monthly in a local park. Featuring a Shabbat sing-along led by Rabbi Ari Kaiman.

Enjoy a vegetarian-friendly meal and an evening of socializing with Shearith Israel. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2IaIuGP.

JULY 28 – AUGUST 2

2019 JCC Maccabi Games – The Mac-

JULY 22 – JULY 29

In the City Camp – Congregation Dor Tamid, 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $295 per child per week. For more information, www.bit. ly/2WvH5hZ.

THURSDAY, JULY 25

Brain Health Boot Camp – Jewish Family & Career Services, 4549 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, from 3 to 5 p.m. This can help maintain and enhance your memory and brain function. $25 per class. For more information, www.bit.ly/2Ob6bCB.

FRIDAY, JULY 26

Shabbat in the Park – Grant Park, Cherokee Ave., Atlanta, from 5:45 to

cabi Games are returning to Atlanta for the first time in 18 years. Free. For everyone who wants to be a spectator, volunteer or host family, you must register, www.bit.ly/2MIj1sv. For questions and location, call or email Jody Miller at 678-812-4033 or Jody.Miller@ atlantajcc.org.

MONDAY, JULY 29

Cafe Europa for Holocaust Survivors – Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 Lavista Road, Atlanta, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cafe Europa is a monthly social gathering for Holocaust survivors at Congregation Beth Jacob held the last Monday of the month. This event includes entertainment or a speaker and a kosher catered lunch. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2MEdRxG. ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES JUNE 28, 2019 | 33

COMMUNITY

Cosmic Charlie on the Green.

Jen Evans, Dave Green, partner/general manager of The Select, and Michal Bonell.

Ahi Tuna and an array of salads: Golden Beet, Heirloom Tomato and Quinoa and Wheat Berries.

On the Town With Jen and Michal

City Springs Nights With The Select Bites

By Jen Evans and Michal Bonell Two things that get our attention are free music and free food! We were invited to review City Springs’ new hot and

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trendy restaurant, The Select. To make a night of it, we tied it with City Green Live – City Springs’ new summer concert series – a Friday night “must-do” for music lovers.

This free concert series features lo-

cal, as well as nationally known musicians, on select Friday nights from May until September. Just bring a blanket or a lawn chair. Food and drink are available on site or bring your own. Bands take the stage at 7:30 p.m. We arrived early and were pleasantly surprised to see the expansive space designed for spectators, with tables and seats set up (for purchase), while shaded swings and rocking chairs faced the stage.

After setting our own lawn chairs, we headed for what was to be a magnificent dinner at The Select, one of City Springs’ new restaurants, which boasts elegance and effervescence.

As you step into The Select you take note of its beautiful and inviting design and décor. Two dining room areas have tables of all sizes to accommodate couples or large groups. We were seated in the custom-designed atrium before twostory glass windows that can be opened to allow fresh air when the weather permits, appropriate since the view is of “The Green” where the concerts take place.

The menu is as lovely and impressive as the ambiance. Chef Matthew Rainey’s contemporary continental cuisine featuring a French influence and Mediterranean dishes popular in Spain, the French Riviera, and Italy are carefully designed to delight both taste and sight. Partner and General Manager David Green explained that the concept and name, The Select, was chosen to honor Le Select brasserie in Paris, France, where artists and literary giants such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso once gathered in the 1920s.

In Parisian style, we ordered cocktails, a Junipero gin and tonic and a Bird of Paradise. We started with ahi tuna and three completely different and delicious salads: Golden Beet, Heirloom Tomato and Quinoa and Wheat Berries. For our entrée, we enjoyed the Pan Roasted Select Chicken: chanterelle, cambray onion, sunchoke, honey Provençal, black truffle gastrique; and cauliflower and butternut squash: mango chutney, black garlic, tahini, toasted coconut and cashews.

For dessert, we had a deliciously decadent strawberry shortcake like neither one of us has experienced before. We do not have enough space to describe all the fantastic flavors we were lucky enough to try, but each bite was as unique and delicious as the next.

The Select is open daily from 5 to 10 p.m. with a late-night menu from 10 p.m. to midnight. Brunch will be featured soon with live music. Concerned about parking for dinner and music? No problem. The City Springs underground garage offers two hours free and The Select can extend that to a total of four hours with validation.

We finished our feast and headed out with a glass of wine (open containers allowed) to enjoy the live music by Cosmic Charlie, a Grateful Dead tribute band from Athens, Ga. We were excited to see that the Green was packed with a diverse crowd, from young professionals with children to retirees. It was a perfect summer night, which we highly recommend. ■ To have us review your event or restaurant, contact us at 404-883-2130, Jen@ atljewishtimes.com or michal@atljewishtimes.com

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Sheri Okun and daughter Erin on Tybee Island about five years ago.

Sheri volunteered with The Davis Academy’s annual musicals for the nine years her daughter participated.

Meet the Press

Our Newest Team Player

By Roni Robbins Meet Sheri Okun, the newest account manager at the AJT. Through her work at the paper, she believes she is giving something back to Jewish Atlanta, using her 28 years in media and advertising account management to help fulfill a higher calling.

“The thing I love about my work is that I find people and companies that are a good match for audiences and help come up with creative ways to marry them.”

A single mom, Okun holds a Realtor license and enjoys staging real estate, which she describes as making homes beautiful in a way inspired from the heart.

Okun moved from upstate New York to Atlanta and recalls how she was looking for a feeling of belonging when she found herself a single mom with a toddler, Erin, now 16.

“In 2005, I stumbled across the Marcus JCC in Dunwoody; I didn’t know it existed. When I pulled into the massive, sprawling, beautiful complex, I started crying out of gratitude.”

She joined the MJCCA gym, enrolled Erin in The Weinstein School, where she also became a substitute teacher. Erin continued her education at The Davis Academy and is now attending The Weber School, from which she will graduate next year.

As a breast cancer survivor, Okun beat the disease in 2012. “Everything happens for a reason.” She said her friends and the community provided needed support. “People arranged rides. People

were bringing dinner all the time. They took care of Erin when I wasn’t feeling well. It was unbelievable.” Okun now helps counsel other people recently diagnosed with diseases, primarily breast cancer. She feels especially capable of using her experience to guide the newly diagnosed.

Sheri and her daughter like politics and have volunteered in causes related to Israel-American relations. They write poetry about their lives and experiences, have three dogs and are athletes. Sheri played soccer through high school and college, even coaching leagues at the MJCCA for three years, and Erin plays soccer and volleyball. During the school year, the pair often spend time with Sheri’s parents in South Florida and at their mountain home near Boone, N.C. Erin has performed and volunteered at the William Breman Jewish Home and leads the student ambassadors at Weber, speaking to freshmen and their parents about the school.

“It’s going to be a huge change when she goes to college. I don’t think she wants to stay in Georgia. She wants to see other parts of the country,” Sheri said.

Meanwhile, Sheri started with the AJT earlier this month. Since June 3, she has been building relationships with what she considers a receptive audience.

“I love it. The AJT is received very well by companies I have been calling who I feel want to reach our market. People have been really nice. It’s very easy to get appointments.” It wasn’t always that way when she was working for other publications. Okun has held the same position since 1991 at such media companies as

Creative Loafing, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Z93 radio station and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Since joining the AJT, she said she has enjoyed brainstorming with Jewish organizations to help them become more

known and grow their business. Her job involves bringing in new advertisers.

“You should market to people even if they know you and like you. Coke does not stop its ads because the world already knows who they are.” ■

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Temima President Erica Tritt, left, congratulates Diana Cohen following her tribute.

Temima Graduation Celebrates Jewish Learning Twenty poised and accomplished graduates from Temima, The Richard and Jean Katz High School for girls, lined the stage last week at Congregation Beth Jacob, each holding a single rose at an evening of appreciation for milestones earned.

After the message by Rabbi Doniel Pransky of Atlanta Scholars Kollel and a tribute to dedicated longtime board member Diana Cohen by board member David Jaffe, Cohen gave a moving tribute response on the value of a Temima education.

Then the standing-room-only audience was treated to the graduates sharing their knowledge and insights. With the presentation of diplomas, Principal Miriam Feldman gave an emotional talk about the girls’ vision and accomplishments, with an inspirational message that encapsulated the essence of each girl.

Since Temima High School began, it

has graduated 243 girls: 97 percent pursue a year of study in Israel, 99 percent enroll in college and 86 percent seek advanced degrees.

Graduates include: Batsheva Aminov, Yocheved Boroosan, Adina Esral, Rachelli Fisch, Ora Fischer, Liba Garfinkel, Elisheva Goldberger, Devorah Greenberg, Eliana Herscovici, Ariel Kaminetzky, Simcha Freida Kayser, Miriam Yael Leff, Yael Nurielle Lovett, Miriam Munk, Sarahle Pearlman, Leeba Pransky, Rochel Dina Shteierman, Rivky Stein, Rachel Tress and Ariella Wolf. â– For more information, visit www.temima.org.

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COMMUNITY

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller in happy times.

Marilyn Monroe in a veil and Arthur Miller after their Jewish wedding on July 1, 1956.

Publicity still from “Bus Stop,” the film Marilyn Monroe completed just before her marriage to Arthur Miller.

The Hollywood Goddess and the Jewish Genius

By Bob Bahr

It was 63 years ago almost to the day, on June 29, 1956, that Marilyn Monroe, a Jew by choice, and Arthur Miller, a Jew by birth, were married in a four-minute ceremony by Judge Seymour Rabinowitz at the Westchester County Courthouse in New York. Two days later they were married again in a religious ceremony performed in Connecticut by Rabbi Robert Goldburg of Congregation Mishkan Israel. Goldburg had guided Marilyn through conversion just before the marriage.

The nuptials between the Holly-

wood goddess and the Jewish genius of the Broadway stage was one of the unlikeliest marriages in the history of 20th century show business. It would end in divorce and tragedy. Their relationship is the subject of my upcoming series of classes for the Senior Sages program at The Temple.

Miller was just one of a number of Jewish men and women who played significant and sometimes crucial roles in Monroe’s life. Among them was Paula Strasberg, her acting coach who would lat-

er inherit her estate. But there were many others which, if taken together would make up a sizeable egalitarian minyan.

The five years of marriage between Miller and Monroe is a fascinating story of starmaking and celebrity mischief in a world that was dominated by individuals who had little in

common aside from their Jewish heritage and their relationship to these two towering personalities. ■ My Senior Sages program at The Temple will be on Wednesday mornings beginning July 10. For more information, consult The Temple’s events calendar, www.the-temple.org.

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Tsúris ‫צרות‬, trouble.

Tsúris ‫צרות‬, trouble, is derived from the Hebrew ‫ צָ ָרה‬tsaráh (sing.), ‫ צָ רֹות‬tsarót (pl.), with the same meaning. Related Hebrew notions include “a narrow place,” “an enemy” and (draw your own conclusion…) “a second wife” in a polygamic relationship.

Since the early 20th century, it has entered American English, with quotes available all the way to current political situations. While understandably omitting those, I hope I won’t get into too much tsúris by using a similar, fictional example: “The Mayor’s legal team warned her to expect a lot of tsúris if it were leaked that she had included her husband in consultations about city matters.”

The following story is neither fictional nor funny: After my relatives in Nazi Germany managed to rescue their children by sending them to the USA, those left behind had to use code words to fool the Nazi censorship. Unable to refer explicitly to emigration, they wrote about a travel agency named Tsúris Tours.

Being Jewish, it seems, includes a fair amount of tsúris, but the more you have of them, the better you learn how to cope.

Mazel Tov Stan J. Beiner

The Fulton Academy of Science and Technology Governing Board recently appointed Stan J. Beiner as the next principal for the 2019-2020 school year. Mr. Beiner has 20 years of school leadership experience, including heading The Epstein School during a time in which it gained national recognition. At FAST, he has taught in both elementary and middle school and coordinated a successful inaugural year of eighth-grade Capstone projects.

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60. Alternative title for this puzzle 6. Mezuzah parchment 63. He thrice directed Marlon 10. See 13-Down 64. Exodus locale 14. Scent, to Brits 65. Seymour Skinner's mother 15. "General Hospital" Emmy winner 66. Word with pit or pool Sofer 67. One represented a brother of 16. This-and-that mixture Joseph, in his dream 17. Would be assassins 68. Winter Palace rulers 20. Future examiner 21. "Fine" 22. Baseball's Al, nicknamed "the DOWN Hebrew Hammer" 1. Tabs on key rings 23. The Emerald Isle, to natives 2. Actress Falco 25. Washington ___ (NYC neighbor- 3. Opera-house section hood) 4. Chabad work 26. Wicked rulers 5. Influential lobby gp.

33. Lewis Carroll heroine 6. Its release is jokingly called for, at 34. Suffix with front or cloth times 35. "L'___ del Cairo" (Mozart opera) 7. Horne of the blues 36. Wilderness rebels 8. Murray who won gold in London 41. Wheel of Fortune buy 9. It's OK on the Atkins diet 42. Ofakim to Hebron dir.

10. Gloom-filled 43. Make ___ for 11. Samuel Adams outputs 44. Genocide plotters 12. Get up 49. Stick in the water 13. Jewish 1991 Grammy winner, 50. Early name for Nisan with 10-Across 51. Shabbat that falls before or on 18. "Neither a borrower, ___ lender Tu B'Shvat be"

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Remember When 15 Years Ago // June 25, 2004 ■ Chabad Intown celebrated the shul’s new Torah, dedicated to the late Harvey Siegel. Arn Rubinoff carried the Torah. Chuppah-bearers were Siegel’s daughter, Wendy Clairmont, son, Artie Siegel, and brother-in-law, Jerry Block.

They are the grandsons of Rita and Henry Nussbaum of Atlanta and Anne Medwed of New York, and the late Morris Medwed.

■ State Sen. Ron Slotin of Atlanta was appointed to serve on a special legislative committee that considered plans for the preservation and continued state management of the historic Rhodes Hall of Peachtree Street.

50 Years Ago // June 27 1969 ■ Gavriel and Ester Babadostov of Denver announced the engagement ■ The board of directors and Delegate Assembly of the Atlanta Jewish of their daughter, Janna, and Jason Daniel Steele, son of Jane and ClifWelfare Federation honored Consul General of Israel and Mrs. Zeev State Sen. Ron Slotin ford Steele of Atlanta. The bride is the granddaughter of Yakov Babawas appointed to Boneh at a joint luncheon meeting June 19 at the Progressive Club. serve on a special dostov of Lod, Israel, and the late Dora Babadostov, Zuli Abramov of Mr. Boneh, who served three years as consul general of Israel for the legislative committee.

Holon, Israel, and the late Ruven Ben Tsvi Iphaimov, from Dushanbe, Southeast region, departed Atlanta July 1 for a new government posiTajikstan. The groom is the grandson of Charles and Ruth Edelblum of tion in Jerusalem.

Atlanta, Victor and Anne Steele Levine of Parkland, Fla., and the late David Steele.

■ The Israel Bond Fashion Show was scheduled for the fall of 1969. Mrs. Jacob 25 Years Ago // June 24, 1994 ■ The b’nai mitzvah of Michael and Robert Medwed of Atlanta was June 11 at Congregation B’nai Torah. Robert and Michael are the sons of Butch and Gail Medwed.

Rothschild served as chair and was assisted by the wives of six other Atlanta rabbis: Mrs. Joseph Cohen, Mrs. Harry H. Epstein, Mrs. Emanuel Feldman, Mrs. Richard Lehrman, Mrs. Robert S. Ichay and Mrs. Nissim Wernick.

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OBITUARIES

Mitchell Goodman 65, Atlanta

Mitchell Goodman, 65, passed away June 17, 2019. He was born Dec. 3, 1953, in Utica, N.Y., to Robert Jay Goodman and Florence Frances (Lison) Goodman, of blessed memory. Mitchell shared most of his life with his wife, Wendy Orent-Goodman, to whom he was married for 40 years.

Mitchell, the youngest of three brothers, grew up in Maplewood, N.J., where he attended Columbia High School, and subsequently enrolled at, and obtained a degree in philosophy from, the University of Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he took a Master of Letters degree from the University of Oxford, also in philosophy, during which time he met his wife, who was studying for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Michigan.

After becoming engaged in Cornwall during his time at Oxford, the couple decided to make their home in the U.S., and Mitchell enrolled in law school at Wayne State University in Detroit. Thereafter, the couple, who were married in 1979 at B’nai David Synagogue, moved to Ann Arbor, where Mitchell began practicing corporate law while Wendy finished her doctorate.

Using his extraordinary analytic and creative abilities, Mitchell was instantly successful in the legal world. After rising quickly within a corporate eyewear firm in Michigan, the couple — along with two young children: Eve, who was born in 1984; and Jonathan, born in 1986 — relocated to Atlanta in 1992. Here, Mitchell became general counsel of National Vision, a growing eyewear firm. He spent the rest of his career there and became a widely respected lawyer, in whom people recognized an unusual combination of aptitude, intellectual rigor and morality.

In 2014, just after the firm was sold to a private equity firm, the CEO of National Vision, Reade Fahs, stated that the company would not have existed without Mitchell. He was an avid traveler and spent many vacations in England, Greece, Italy, and France, spending a year in the latter during his undergraduate years and speaking the language fluently.

All who knew him respected his integrity, his outstanding intellectual achievements, and perhaps most importantly, his kindness to everyone with whom he came into contact. He was a loving and nurturing husband and parent, and his memory will be cherished by his family, friends and colleagues forever.

Donations can be made to the American Civil Liberties Union and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. A graveside service was held June 18, 2019 at Crest Lawn Memorial Park with Rabbi Yossi Lew officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

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Aldan Oviter Markson 89, Maplewood, N.J.

Aldan Oviter Markson of Maplewood, N.J., died June 16, 2019, at age 89. He was a loving husband to his wife of 50 years, Patricia, a father, lawyer and judge with a wide-ranging intellect and interests as varied as the game of Go, British parliamentary history and the New York Jets.

Aldan was born in 1929 in Caldwell N.J. Both parents died before his 8th birthday and he was raised by his mother’s sister, Lilly. While a good student, it was his knack for standardized tests that propelled him to be admitted to both Dartmouth College and Columbia Law School. He loved to relate the tone of shock with which his high school principal reported that Aldan had the highest SAT score in his high school.

After law school, Aldan was drafted into the military just as the Korean War ended and he was assigned to what he referred to as the “best job in the army.” Never rising above the rank of corporal, he was assigned a car and driver and provided an office overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge at the Presidio. While there, his job was to represent solders charged with military crimes. As he liked to say, he never again had Obituaries in the AJT are written and paid for by the families; contact Managing Publisher Kaylene Ladinsky at kaylene@atljewishtimes.com or 404-883-2130, ext. 100, for details.

OBITUARIES an office as beautiful as the one he had in the Army at age 25.

After the Army, Aldan returned to New Jersey to start his law practice in the borough of Kenilworth, representing individual clients and small businesses in the ordinary matters of life for over 50 years: taxes, real estate, divorce, probate. Later in his career, it was not uncommon for him to represent the grandchildren of some of his first clients, which he enjoyed immensely. While successful in his professional endeavors by any objective measure, Aldan was not particularly motivated by financial gain. He loved the law and the practice of law. To him a “great” case was not a lucrative or high-profile one; it meant one with an interesting legal angle or challenge. He valued his reputation for integrity, professionalism and legal knowledge.

Aldan served the people of Kenilworth as city attorney and then municipal judge for 15 years, and was known for his fairness, knowledge of the law, professionalism and wit. He would use humor to make a point in a disarming way, but he was always realistic about his sense of humor. After leaving the bench, he loved saying that people (particularly other attorneys) did not find his jokes nearly as funny as when he was judging their cases.

Aldan was born when Herbert Hoover was president and died in the internet age, but never became an old man. He continued to learn, grow and adapt up until his death. Aldan was quick to see the value of new technologies for his law practice and was an early adopter of copy machines, word processors, LexisNexis and the internet.

In his mid-50s, Aldan decided that he would go back to school and completed the challenging master-of-tax program at New York University. When Patricia took a job in Cincinnati and they temporarily moved there, Aldan decided that moving across the country would not hinder him professionally, got admitted to the Ohio Bar, and at age 75, sent out his resume and was hired as a real estate attorney for a local firm. He continued to practice law and assist clients through his late 80s.

He was an avid reader and collector of books and enjoyed a good intellectual debate about history, politics, economics or any other subject. He was a competitive online player of chess and Go and enjoyed chatting and playing with players from around the world. Aldan loved the outdoors, animals in general and his Jack Russells specifically. While professionally dispassionate in most cases, anyone found guilty of animal abuse could expect to receive the maximum allowable penalty in Aldan’s court.

Aldan lived a complete and fulfilling life with few regrets. He is survived by Patricia and his children Carol, John, Jennifer, Stephen and Paul. He was predeceased by his daughter Emily.

Lillian Goldsmith Stone 92, Atlanta

Lillian Goldsmith Stone, 92, died May 12, 2019. She was born in Manhattan, N.Y., to Pauline Kovelmen Goldsmith and Herman Goldsmith, and fostered by Rose and Sydney Schwarz. She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Stone. They were married for 68 years. She is survived by daughters Janice Stone Levetan (Steven) and Nancy Stone; grandson Joshua Levetan (Lauren); great-grandchildren Bailey and Avi Levetan; sisters, Elaine Baum (Bill) and Marion Goldsmith Green; nephew Henry Stone (Maggie); and nieces Jane Stone (Michael), Michelle Stone (Teiji), Robin Stone McNutt (Dennis), Karen Baum (Ed), Joanne Baum (Mike) and Halli Green; and many great-nieces and nephews. Lillian loved her family and friends. She loved to entertain and there was always room at her table. Music brought her great joy. It’s fitting that she left in her favorite season, spring in Atlanta.

Memorial donations may be made to the Lewis Stone Youth Fund at Congregation Shearith Israel, www.shearithisrael.com, 1180 University Drive NE, Atlanta, 30306. A graveside service was held May 15, 2019, at Arlington Memorial Park. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com. ■

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CLOSING THOUGHTS Tammuz – Hashem At Work

By Terry Segal

tions in thoughts and actions. Moses, ignited by the fiery combination of blazing The first day of Rosh temperatures and the interChodesh for Tammuz begins nal heat of his anger, broke July 3 with the second day the tablets. observed July 4. Tammuz The month’s task is always has two days of Rosh reigning in our own fiery Chodesh. Of course, July 4 is emotions that can ignite Independence Day, celebratpeople and situations. Uned with family fun, picnics, controlled anger and pasfood and fireworks. By con- Dr. Terry sion require restraint. trast, this Hebrew month is Segal I’m currently embroiled void of holidays and marks New Moon Meditations in a situation that higha time of mourning, beginning with the fast on the 17th of Tammuz. lights Tammuz energy. Briefly, we made For three weeks following, until the a change to our yard that one neighbor, 9th of Av, no marriages are performed, in particular, doesn’t like. We have no and activities that might be celebrated as homeowner’s association and have lived “firsts” are not experienced. We remem- here for 23 years without incident.

Instead of approaching us, he sought ber the destruction of the first and second holy temples in Jerusalem. It was the out four families whom he believed time of the golden calf, when Moses re- would be like-minded. He set about turned after being away for 40 days, only sparking and fanning their anger. The to find his people believing he would not image of angry villagers in the street return and so decided to build an idol to with lit torches comes to mind.

There was vandalism of a garden worship. The notion is that just because they couldn’t see Hashem at work, they chair, resulting in a police report, and acgave up faith, and gave in to lower vibra- tion to install cameras and sensor lights.

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Then there was a verbal assault, during which this one man screamed in my face at the edge of our yard, his eyes and neck veins bulging out of his red, angry face.

This unacceptable behavior is the energy of Tammuz.

We listened to them, but we weren’t heard. The choice of mulch in question does not breach city ordinances or laws.

They just don’t like it. Although not required, we’ll make some alterations, without using materials that have been chemically sprayed or painted with toxic chemicals. But they don’t care about health issues, only that the lawn looks a way that pleases them.

Peace needs to be restored in our yard and in our world. But the ultimate dilemma for all of us is, how do we keep the haters and bullies from running the show?

I’m literally holding the vision of peace, living and breathing into an immediate future that restores calm for all, while fiercely hanging on to my belief that Hashem is at work in this, even if I don’t know what Hashem has in store as a peaceful resolution. Sometimes all we can do is have faith and pray.

Each zodiac sign is ruled by a planet, with the Sun ruling Cancer, and the Moon ruling Leo next month during Av. Tammuz is a month of contrast in which the extreme light of the sun must illuminate the darkness. The planet Mercury goes retrograde on July 8 until Aug. 1, which brings about the experience of Murphy’s law. There is an expected breakdown of communication (not looking forward to that at this time) and appliances.

This is combined with the twice-yearly eclipse season. The next solar eclipse is July 2 and is the first one since the Great American Eclipse of 2017. The areas that will see it include the Pacific Ocean and most of South America. Eclipses bring up issues that are hidden and then revealed.

They require us to face our truths.

The Cancer moon also represents the Shekinah, divine feminine energies of intuition, feelings, care of self/others and love. It’s the yin to the yang.

Meditation Focus: Consider a fiery area of your life that needs calming. If it’s not readily apparent, see if there’s one you’ve been avoiding. Flood it with peace and observe how Hashem appears. ■

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