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$2.5M Cohen Home Renovation Shouts ‘L’Chaim!’ The Cohen Home was rededicated in a celebration of life after a $2.5 million renovation Sunday, June 4. The Jewish Home Life Communities assisted living facility’s new look, featuring open spaces, large windows and lots of light, fits its integration into the Hearthstone Institute’s I’m Still Here approach to memory care. Staffers across JHLC’s residential facilities are being trained in the program to provide a continuum of care and establish the nonprofit as the only I’m Still Here center of excellence in Georgia. By emphasizing opportunities to experience life instead of what is lost as memory declines, the program reduces the apathy, anxiety, agitation and aggression of dementia. “What we see here is just short of amazing. If you look around, you see a community of comfort, a community of caring and just a community of love,” said Deborah Maslia, the chairwoman of the JHLC board. She said the Cohen Home is well placed to aid the growing, aging Jewish population in the North Metro area, a need noted in the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s recent market study. Maslia said a Federation committee is studying the needs over the next five years. Federation President and CEO Eric Robbins attended Sunday’s event. “We cherish each of the lives of the

Congregation Gesher L’Torah Rabbi Michael Bernstein places and blesses one of two mezuzot around the dining room with the help of Cohen family members Lynda and Joel Schaffer. Rabbi Chaim Lindenblatt, in one of his first actions after officially assuming the role of Jewish Home Life Communities’ director of Jewish life June 1, offers a variation on the priestly benediction to bless the rededicated Cohen Home.

people who live here,” JHLC President and CEO Harley Tabak said. Rabbi Chaim Lindenblatt, JHLC’s new director of Jewish life, said the new dining area where the rededication was held enables the residents to enjoy one another in a more haimish (friendly and homey) way. The Cohen Home is named for philanthropist Philip Cohen. His niece Lynda Schaffer and her husband, Joel, renewed

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Speaking in the new farm-style dining hall, Jewish Home Life Communities board Chairwoman Deborah Maslia says the upgraded facility matches quality of the Cohen Home’s care and service.

With Deborah Maslia watching, Jewish Home Life Communities President and CEO Harley Tabak thanks construction professionals, board members, staffers and volunteers who helped complete the Cohen Home’s $2.5 million renovation.

the family’s commitment to the home by helping Congregation Gesher L’Torah Rabbi Michael Bernstein and Rabbi Lindenblatt post two mezuzot on doorways leading out of the dining room. A mezuzah goes where life happens, Rabbi Bernstein said. He noted that the Hebrew word for life, chaim, has a plural form, reflecting the way we live among others and give one another life. In much the same way, Gesher

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Executive Director Melissa Hyatt “pushed and pushed” to beautify the Cohen Home and make it more livable, JHLC President and CEO Harley Tabak says.

L’Torah, Congregation Dor Tamid and Chabad of North Fulton form a community that supports and is supported by the Cohen Home, Rabbi Bernstein said. Maslia summed up the celebration by quoting Mel Brooks from a June 2 New York Times article: “If we die, then we can’t do much. But as long as we’re alive, we can still tap-dance, we can still crack a joke, we can still sing a song, we can still tell a story.” ■

CUMMING HOME

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My son’s fifth birthday party clearly see what they need, whether was this past weekend. It followed it’s academic or social or emotional. on the heels of his graduation from So, like Moshe, we need to ask outpreschool, during which he donned a siders for help — friends, relatives, little white cap and gown along with professionals. his classmates. And Moshe teaches us that we He is the youngest of my four need to do that before the big chalchildren — my oldest is 13 — and lately I have been feeling some sadness. That Hand of Hashem I rushed things, didn’t pay By Mindy Rubenstein enough attention, didn’t mindy.rubenstein@yahoo.com soak up the little things in life. That I hadn’t met their needs fully and hadn’t really, really “seen” them. lenges arise. Granted, they are still relatively As Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich, young, but I now get a sense of how who previously served as associate quickly it all passes. rabbi at Congregation Beth Jacob in Little moments all piled atop one Toco Hills and now serves as a rabbi in another, all interconnected but so easy Montreal, says on Aish.com: If Moshe to miss. I struggle to recall their baby can recognize that he will need help, faces, now maturing. as parents we should also recognize My husband showed me a picture recently that was startling: lying in my that we don’t have all the answers. That our perspective may be skewed. hospital bed smiling broadly, holding Create a relationmy youngest just born, Reach out to those ship, he says. Reach out while my three older children surrounded you trust and let to those you trust and let them know that their us, looking at their new them know their opinion is valued. Then baby brother. I stared at the photo, opinion is valued. when issues arise, an outsider will be comfortnot really remembering Then when issues able sharing his perspecthe moment itself. Like I was looking at someone arise, an outsider tive. Our children will else’s life. As I look at my chil- will be comfortable. benefit from having parents who are open to the dren’s faces in photos, advice of others, who recognize that I wonder: Did I give them what they we don’t have all the answers and that needed at the time? Am I giving them our approach may be skewed. what they need now? For my rising kindergartner, as This is something I usually don’t well as my older children, looking at think about as I’m immersed in the their photos from years past helped moment of an anxious teen or a me see them and myself from a difcranky kiddo. Sometimes we are too ferent perspective. Sometimes, I can’t close, too involved with people and trust my own eyes because I might be situations, and we can’t see the big too close to them. picture. Going forward, G-d willing, I will As the Torah records in this make sure to keep closer contact with week’s Torah portion, Behalotecha, teachers and tell them I value their Moshe asks his father-in-law, Yisro input, to reach out to friends and rela(Jethro), who was an outsider to the Jewish people, for help. tives and let them know we may seek “You will be for us as eyes,” Moshe their insight with our children. This tells him in Hebrew. Things may be will involve getting closer to people, hidden to us, but you will enlighten building relationships, something that our eyes, he says. Be our eyes to help as a mom hasn’t always come easy us see. amid the chaos of daily life. Outsiders can see things differBut it really does take a village to ently when we are blinded to reality. raise a child. We know our children As parents, we are so close physibest, but they will benefit from parents cally and emotionally to our children. who seek the wisdom of those around When we are so close, we might not us. ■

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Spiritual recovery. Working with HAMSA and InterfaithFamily/Atlanta, SOJOURN, 1530 DeKalb Ave., Suite A, Atlanta, hosts a discussion on spiritual tools to help LGBTQ people and their allies in recovery at 7 p.m. Free; www.facebook.com/events/836653689819612.

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Sushi, song and spirit. Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Roswell Road, East Cobb, holds its monthly Carlebach Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7 p.m. Free; www. chabadofcobb.com or 770-565-4412. Recovery Shabbat. Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of “Recovery: The Sacred Act,” starts a weekend in residence at Congregation Bet Haverim, 2074 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, with the d’var Torah at 7:30 p.m. services. He also leads a workshop from 3 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, including dinner, and a study session with brunch at 9 a.m. Sunday. Free for Friday, $36 for Saturday, $18 for Sunday or $50 for the weekend; 404-315-6446 or www.congregationbethaverim.org.

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“Atlanta Collects.” The second part of the exhibit of privately held art closes at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Admission is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6 for students and educators, and $4 for children 3 to 6; thebreman.org or 678-222-3700. School beautification. ORT Atlanta, Federation Under 40 and Jewish Family & Career Services’ Volunteers in Action lead beautification activities at Forrest Hills Academy, 2930 Forrest Hills Drive, Atlanta, at 10 a.m. Free; www.facebook. com/events/1592188147472750, atlanta@ortamerica.org or 404-327-5266. Splash time. Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Health Professionals Group holds

Behalotecha Friday, June 9, light candles at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10, Shabbat ends at 9:32 p.m. Shelach Friday, June 16, light candles at 8:33 p.m. Saturday, June 17, Shabbat ends at 9:35 p.m.

Corrections & Clarifications

• The USS Liberty did not sink after being attacked by the Israeli military June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. Its fate was misreported in a timeline of war events June 2. • Two Israelis have played in the NBA. Gal Mekel, who played in 35 games for the Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans, was excluded from an article that mentioned Omri Casspi in the June 2 issue. • A column about the Six-Day War on June 2 indicated former Hebrew Academy teacher Gertrude Krick had died, but she is alive and well and recently celebrated another birthday. a pool party at 1 p.m. at the home of Janette Berne, 7900 Saddle Ridge Drive, Sandy Springs. The conribution is $7, plus a dairy or vegetarian dish; RSVP to event.pingg.com/poolpartybbq. Eizenstat Family Lecture. CNN political anchor Wolf Blitzer delivers the annual lecture at 7 p.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. Free; www.aasynagogue.org or acohen@aasynagogue.org.

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Holocaust education. The Breman Museum holds its Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust through Friday, with full scholarships available after a $25 application fee. Register at bit. ly/2kOn2fC; questions to 404-870-1872 or summerinstitute@thebreman.org. Six-Day War commemoration. Paratroopers Yitzhak Yifat, Zion Karasanti and Haim Oshri appear at a Friends of the IDF event at 6 p.m. at The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown. Tickets are $36; fidf.org/SixDayAtl.

Anne Frank. The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust’s Emma Ellingson speaks on the 88th anniversary of Frank’s birth about the importance of her diary as a witness to history at 6 p.m. at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Roswell Branch, 115 Norcross St. Free; www.afpls.org or 770-640-3078.

TUESDAY, JUNE 13

Amish time. Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Metulla Group, starting at 11 a.m., explores the Amish-style framed structure at 1169 Canton St., Roswell, built in 1995 by Judie Raiford, who shares her workshop and shows how jewelry is crafted. Email sandyecharlop@gmail. com (Sandye Charlop Geller) or call 678-443-2961 for details.

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Jewish Breakfast Club. Ken Stein, the president of the Center for Israel Education, speaks about the Six-Day War over lunch at 11:45 a.m. at Greenberg Traurig, 3333 Piedmont Road, Suite 2500. The cost is $18, paid by June 9; atlantajewishtimes.com/jbc-kenstein.

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25 Years Ago June 5, 1992 ■ The Atlanta Jewish Federation has hired the executive director for a new agency targeting Jews 18 to 30 years old. Rabbi Louis Feldstein, 35, will arrive in Atlanta in August to lead Young Adult Services. The rabbi, who has directed the Hillel center at the University of Miami the past five years, calls the new agency’s target audience the “lost generation” because of its low level of Jewish affiliation and high level of interfaith marriages. ■ The bar mitzvah of Jared Adam Reisman of Atlanta, son of Linda and Howard Reisman, took place Saturday, May 16, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. ■ Carolyn and Michael Shapiro of Stone Mountain announce the birth of a son, Sean Michael, on April 22.

50 Years Ago June 9, 1967 ■ Some 200 people attended a special meeting Tuesday, June 6, called by the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund in response to the breakout of war in Israel. More than $1 million has been pledged so far to aid Israel. Speakers at the meeting outlined the critical financial problems facing Israel even before the attack by the Arab nations made the situation worse. ■ Dr. Ed Reisman, an Atlanta surgeon, was among the first group of doctors to volunteer their services to Israel during the current war. The American contingent, believed at press time to be en route to Israel, will staff the civilian hospitals to replace Israeli doctors who have been called to military service. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shemo of Tampa, Fla., announce the engagement of their daughter, Ann, to Jerrold Dickman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Dickman of Buffalo, N.Y.

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App and Website Answer BDS and Online Hate Photos by Alexi Rosenfeld

Israel supporters turn New York’s Fifth Avenue blue and white Sunday, June 4.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo leads the Celebrate Israel Parade.

Israel Festival, and 4,000 members of the Jewish and Israeli communities completed the first task of the campaign, dedicated to the city of Jerusalem. Erdan presented 4IL to the next generation of pro-Israel activists during the IAC Dor Chadash Rooftop Party for Young Professionals.

The campaign launched simultaneously in the United States and Israel and soon will spread to Europe and other countries. The intention is to create an online community to combat online lies, boycott calls and delegitimization efforts targeting Israel. “We believe that this will be a

game-changer in defending Israel online and around the world,” Erdan said. Leading the public diplomacy campaign are former beauty queen Titi Aynaw and “Greenhouse” actress Ariel Mortman. A video featuring the two women will encourage people in the United States and Israel to join the movement. ■

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Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy has launched a global campaign to counter the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and other efforts at anti-Israel propaganda and delegitimization. “The state of Israel is under constant attack by de-legitimizers working to demonize Israel online and undermine our legitimacy as the nation-state of the Jewish people,” Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said. “For this reason, I am initiating an international effort to unite Israel’s supporters around the globe and provide them with a platform that strengthens their activities, with tools that will help all of us fight hatred together and with resources to spread the truth.” The Israeli government began its 4IL campaign by going live Sunday, June 4, with the website www.4il.org. il/eng, which offers videos, graphics, articles and other corrective content because “every two minutes, a new lie about Israel is spread online.” At the same time, the Israeli American Council and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya launched the Act.il app and website, which provide simple but effective online tasks for anyone who wishes to stand up for Israel. These tasks take less than two minutes a day to complete, but their impact is wide-ranging. The free Act.il app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The 4IL campaign was kicked off in New York with a series of events, beginning with the Celebrate Israel Parade along Fifth Avenue, an annual event that began in 1965. The parade, hosted by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, drew more than 40,000 people while marking the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. About 100 people representing organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow demonstrated against and attempted to disrupt the parade, arguing that it showed support for occupation. Some protesters targeted exchange programs between American and Israeli police; others accused Israel of apartheid. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Erdan led the parade, which included Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, as many as nine Knesset members, members of Congress and other elected officials. A ceremony launching 4IL took place during the afternoon’s Celebrate

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A Look Into the Success of Israeli Tech By Eli Sperling The Israeli technology sector has already had a landmark year in 2017. Breaking all acquisition records, Israeli autonomous driving technology company Mobileye was sold to Intel for $15.3 billion in March. Likewise, in the first quarter of 2017, Israeli tech companies raised over $1 billion of investment capital in 155 transactions. Israel is widely referred to as the “Start-Up Nation,” with more Nasdaqlisted companies than any other country aside from the United States and China. Israel’s robust tech sector finds its roots in numerous factors within Israeli society, institutions, geography and geology. One significant source for grooming Israeli tech talent is the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF’s cyber tech unit, 8200, which is credited with some of the world’s most creative and impactful cybersecurity and cyber warfare tactics, often scouts Israelis with a high aptitude for computer technology as

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SOSA (South of Salameh Street) is a co-working space in southern Tel Aviv that serves as a conduit between Israeli startups and global investors and corporations.

early as high school. Those who make it into the elite unit receive high-level tech training, experience developing cutting-edge software and a network of similarly advanced tech pioneers. Accordingly, Unit 8200, founded in the 1950s, has produced leaders of some of Israel’s most successful tech companies, including ICQ, Imperva, EZchip and Elbit. Israel’s education system is similarly an important component of the Start-Up Nation. With more than 90

percent of its students graduating from high school and the world’s secondhighest number of four-year degrees per capita, Israel has the highest number of scientists and engineers per capita in the world. In addition, beyond the infrastructure in place to develop the skills necessary for high-tech innovation, Israel’s unique circumstances as a tiny country with limited natural resources and constant existential security threats have bred a culture of ingenuity as a

means of survival. Just a few examples are the highly advanced Iron Dome missile defense system, which has proved to be 90 percent effective in intercepting all-toocommon barrages of enemy rockets; desalination technology, which has carried Israel from being in constant danger of running out of water to having a water surplus that is sold to neighboring countries; and numerous agricultural technologies that have allowed arid regions in Israel with limited nutrients to flourish as centers of food production. Developing a successful piece of technology or a startup company requires training, vision, the ability to adapt to changing conditions, a network of talent and investors, and the capacity to produce significant results in a short period of time with limited resources. Israel’s unique circumstances have produced institutions and mentalities among its tech minds that have made the Jewish state a perfect storm for leading the world in technological advancement. ■

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Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home Ready to invest. Bill McDermott, the CEO of SAP, the world’s third-largest software company, tells business newspaper Globes that it’s time for SAP to dramatically boost its investment in Israeli technology. “The market here, relative to the population size, is almost certainly the most exciting technology market in the world,” he said.

6, marking the second time that crews from the Israeli and Emirates air forces have flown side by side. Israel maintains broad cooperation with the Greek air force and has participated in several military exercises of air, sea and ground forces with Greece, especially after Israel downgraded ties with Greece’s chief adversary, Turkey.

Preventing blindness. Thirty percent of adults over 75 suffer retinal degeneration, with 6 to 8 percent going blind. Researchers at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital transplanted retinal pigment cells from embryonic stem cells into five patients with retinal degeneration, and the new cells were absorbed into the retina, preventing vision loss.

Israeli victory at the U.N. Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, on May 31 was elected vice president of the 72nd session of the U.N. General Assembly. Danon will chair meetings of the assembly, take part in setting the agenda, and oversee the rules and decorum during the sessions. Danon was elected as a representative of the Western Europe and Others regional group. He will begin his term with the opening of the General Assembly session in September.

Avoiding chemo. NewStem, a biotech company founded by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Nissim Benvenisty, has developed a test to verify whether a tumor will be susceptible to chemotherapy. It prevents a patient having to endure needless treatment with the associated side effects.

Friends in the air. Pilots from Israel, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Italy conducted a joint 6 drill in Greece from March 27 to April

Helping Manchester trauma victims. Jerusalem Rabbi Dov Benyaacov-Kurtzman set up the United Kingdom’s National Emergency Response, Resilience and Treatment Program for Stress and Trauma. Its first task is to help the victims of the Manchester bombing. Also involved are Israelis Yori Gidronn and Moshe Farchi. No word at press time on

whether the organization also is active after the latest London terrorist attack. Longest underwater gas pipeline. Italy, Israel, Greece and Cyprus have pledged to move ahead with the world’s longest undersea natural gas pipeline from the eastern Mediterranean to southern Europe, with support from the European Union. The $6.2 billion pipeline will take Israeli and Cypriot gas to Europe. Directions to doughnuts. Israelifounded Waze now enables drivers to order ahead and purchase coffee and other items from Dunkin’ Donuts. If all goes well, Waze plans to team up with other merchants to order pizza, reserve parking spaces, fill prescriptions and even buy groceries from the same phone app. SUP paradise. Stand-up paddle surfing, known as SUP, has been growing steadily in Israel from year to year. Today there are hundreds of stand-up paddle surfing fans in Israel — locals and tourists alike. Stand-up paddle surfing or boarding is an offshoot of surfing. A SUP board is a big surfboard with an adapted paddle that meshes elements of surfing with kayaking. It is

considered one of the fastest-growing sports in the world. Israelis have lots of options for SUP, from the Red Sea to the Sea of Galilee, the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Porsche investing in auto tech. German carmaker Porsche, owned by Volkswagen, has announced that it will invest tens of millions of dollars in smart-car technology startups in Israel. Porsche said, “Israel is a key main market for IT engineers and specialists.” The way to the wall. The Israeli Cabinet has approved a $56 million plan to construct a cable car from West Jerusalem to the Western Wall. The trip of slightly less than a mile from the First Station complex to the Dung Gate will take just four minutes, improving accessibility by avoiding the Old City’s narrow streets. Meeting in the Kotel tunnels. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification, the Israeli Cabinet held its weekly meeting in the Western Wall Tunnels on May 28. Compiled courtesy of verygoodnewsisrael. blogspot.com, Israel21c.org and other sources.

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Photo by Assaf Kutin, Israeli Government Press Office

Israeli tanks advance through the Golan Heights on June 10, 1967.

Items provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details. June 9, 1967: Pressing the advantage gained since war began four days earlier, Israeli forces under the command of Maj. Gen. David Elazar launch an offensive into the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights, a location Syria has long used for occasional artillery attacks on northern Israeli farmers. June 10, 1930: Arab leaders have refused to work with the British Mandatory authorities because of official support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. But in a diary entry, Frederick Kisch, the head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, notes that most Arab leaders “recognize that the policy of non-cooperation with the Government has been a failure.” June 11, 1947: Emma Gottheil, one of the first and most important women among Zionist leaders, dies at her New York home at the age of 85. June 12, 1948: As many North African Arabs pass through Tripoli on their way to join Arab armies in the war against Israel, a mob of rioters attacks the Jewish Quarter in Tripoli. Fourteen Jews are killed, and 300 lose their homes over two days of violence. June 13, 1950: After more than a year of debate, the first Knesset adopts the Harari Resolution, which stipulates that the “constitution” of Israel will be composed of a series of Basic Laws approved by the Knesset. Israel has never enacted an actual constitution. June 14, 2009: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a 30-minute speech at Bar-Ilan University in which he details a proposal for a completely demilitarized Palestinian state. June 15, 1949: In an address to the Knesset, Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett reconfirms Israel’s willingness to negotiate agreeable and sustainable terms of peace with its neighbors.

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The Southern Israelite’s Adolph Rosenberg found himself under fire in 1967 By Dave Schechter dschechter@atljewishtimes.com A small item on the front page of the May 19, 1967, edition of The Southern Israelite (known today as the Atlanta Jewish Times) reported that Editor and Publisher Adolph Rosenberg would lead a delegation of “fifty Jewish newspapermen and their wives” to Israel as guests of the Israeli government. That item mentioned that Associate Editor Vida Goldgar and her husband were in Europe and would connect with the American Jewish Press Association delegation in Israel. There, the Americans were to hear from government officials, including Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, and tour the country. The AJPA was gathering in Israel after months of increasing threats, failed U.N. talks and occasional border skirmishes on the path to war. “Newsmen Go To Israel Despite Mounting Tension” declared a frontpage headline in the May 26 Southern Israelite, despite the State Department’s

At the age of 55, Adolph Rosenberg found himself playing the impromptu role of war correspondent.

urging that Americans leave Israel. As president of the AJPA, Rosenberg had scheduled the Israel meeting a year in advance. He could not have envisioned the adventure he would experience. “While there is growing danger, it seems more significant than ever that Jewish newsmen make this trip to indicate their confidence and abiding in-

terest in the Jewish State, that they see with their own eyes how the survivors of the most monumental persecution in man’s history have still to live in the shadow of the threat of death. What a travesty of international justice that Israelis have to eke out their existence literally within sign of undisciplined, savage and maniacal people, sworn to their extinction,” Rosenberg said in an article written before he left but published May 26, after he arrived in Israel. There seemed an anticipation of the coming conflict during the AJPA delegation’s visit. In an article published on the front page of the June 2 edition of The Southern Israelite, Goldgar wrote: “Israel in crisis is an Israel every American Jew can be proud of. Wherever I have been during the last five days here, I have observed an esprit de corps, a unity and strength. Whether riding in a half track with the army in the Negev … in the streets of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv … in the Alhambra Theater. Everywhere I went — the same impression.” After a briefing, Goldgar wrote:

“The Government’s position was explained with admirable clarity by a high official in the office of foreign affairs. We are not at liberty to reveal details of his briefing, which was made off the record.” “I was amazed at the thoroughness of the mobilization in Israel,” she said, marveling that when the hourly news report was broadcast on the radio, people stopped whatever they were doing to listen. She concluded the lengthy article by saying, “Although the situation is grave, with the help of all right-thinking people and fellow Jews throughout the world, there is no doubt in my mind, after my personal observations and the talks I have had, that the State of Israel will emerge stronger and more unified than ever.” The AJPA meeting ended, and the delegation returned to the United States. Except Rosenberg, who had a personal reason to delay his return. Then the war began. And there was no contact from Rosenberg.

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Adolph Rosenberg returned to tell his tale in the June 16 Southern Israelite.

“Adolph stayed. The war broke out. He could not get back. … He was stuck. … He had a bullet hole in his room, came through his window. I don’t recall whether he was in the room or not. But he proceeded as a true newsman. He hooked up with a unit, whatever, went down into where the fighting was or had just been,” Goldgar recalled in an oral history video archived at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. “I tried desperately to get a call through, unsuccessfully. We didn’t hear anything from him. He couldn’t get to us. Not knowing really what was going on over there, we didn’t know if he was dead or alive or what had happened. At some point we got this thick airmail letter, and he started sending stories back. … He couldn’t get through on wire or anything like that.” The war ended June 10. Rosenberg was able to fly out of Israel and make his way home June 11. On June 12, the Atlanta District of the Zionist Organization of America held an emergency meeting at the Jewish Community Center (then located on Peachtree Street). Rosenberg “was given a standing ovation by those present, who expressed admiration for his courage in remaining in the field of battle even though the State Department had requested all American citizens to return home immediately,” The Southern Israelite reported in its June 23 edition. Rosenberg told his tale in the June 16 edition. “Middle-age is a bit late to become an active war correspondent. But I did.

I am a bit too old to skip through the streets of Jerusalem dodging bullets. But I had to. The mid-fifties is a time for comfort and not for spending a night in a shelter to escape falling bombs. But it was necessary,” he wrote. Rosenberg explained how he came to be in this position. “I was marooned in Jerusalem the day the war broke out. The Jewish newspaper convention I had come to Israel to preside over was finished. All the delegates except myself had gone home. I wanted to leave behind a pint of blood as a gesture of solidarity although I prayed it would never be needed.” By the time that article had been published in The Southern Israelite, portions had appeared in the predecessors of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and had been distributed to newspapers nationally through The Associated Press, such was the interest in Rosenberg’s first-person accounts. Rosenberg was then 55 years old. The Albany native, who grew up at Temple B’nai Israel, entered journalism through his high school newspaper and graduated from the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He worked for the Albany Herald, the United States Daily (in Washington), the Carroll County Free Press, and both the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta Journal (which later merged) before joining the staff of The Southern Israelite in 1940. Rosenberg became the publisher of The Southern Israelite in 1946 and

five years later headed up a corporation that purchased the newspaper. When the war began, Rosenberg did not hole up at his Tel Aviv hotel or Israel’s Government Press Office. He traveled to the front lines. What he saw left an indelible impression on him. “I am not too hardened a newsman to avoid bitterness over such grim realities of war, even if the dead are enemy dead,” he wrote after seeing where Arab troops had fallen. “I am not too old to glory in the courage of this Jewish nation, to be heartened in the turn of battle in favor of this democratic country to understand that ‘somebody up there’ likes them.” Whatever hardships Rosenberg endured, he kept them in perspective. “But no American ever is too old to feel his heart breaking over the sight of a thousand children in the school shelters, courageously keeping up their spirit while outside explode the fearful bombs and mortars from Jordanian fighters and reciprocal Israel positions,” he wrote. Rosenberg wrote prodigiously, articles that carried his byline and others that did not but likely were his work. Some articles he wrote before the war were not published until after it ended.

One example appeared June 16 in The Southern Israelite. On June 4, the day before Israel’s pre-emptive attack on Egypt, Rosenberg wrote, “The Israelis wait. The Israelis wait for what shall be. They await with fatalism. They await heroically with an awesome sense of impending destiny.” Rosenberg shared an extra Southern Israelite credential with a friend, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman of Congregation Beth Jacob, who was teaching that year at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Rabbi Feldman went to Rosenberg’s hotel, and the publisher gave him the press card, which the rabbi then had stamped by the Government Press Office. “And I became, lo and behold, a war correspondent,” Rabbi Feldman said with a laugh 50 years later as he spoke at Beth Jacob in April. Rabbi Feldman, who now lives in Israel, told the 200-plus people in attendance how, by wielding a credential from Atlanta’s Jewish newspaper, he was able to drive through military checkpoints and be among the earliest nonmilitary personnel to enter the Old City and reach the Western Wall the day after it was liberated by Israeli paratroopers. ■

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The world this week marked the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War while trying to make sense of another murderous rampage in England. Unfortunately, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres insisted on drawing a line between those two events. In a statement Monday, June 5, Guterres took a bleak and thus pro-Palestinian view of June 1967. He did not talk about the Arab incitement of the war or Israel’s restraint at not driving farther north or east. Guterres focused on the consequences of the war, but not the positive ones. Not the removal of barriers blocking the followers of any religion from their holy sites in Jerusalem. Not the opening of Israel’s paths to peace with Egypt and Jordan. Not the end of the Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip or the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank — land seized in 1948 but never handed to the stateless Palestinians. Guterres highlighted the negative consequences, but not all of them. Not the Jews driven out of Arab nations, ending millennia-old communities. Not the deaths of thousands of Israelis in terrorist attacks since. Not the infamous three no’s of the Arab League: no negotiations, no peace, no recognition. None of which is surprising. Though Guterres recently acknowledged that denying Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitic, and though he is seen as friendly to Israel, he still heads an organization that is better known for issuing mindless, ahistorical denunciations of Israel than for keeping the peace anywhere. The United Nations has an agency dedicated to nothing but serving the needs — and preserving the status — of Palestinian refugees, so of course the secretary-general is going to think of those Palestinians on the anniversary of the Six-Day War. We wish he would have taken a balanced approach and cited the Palestinians’ refusal to accept peace and security in their own state and their preference for violence. After all, only eight days earlier he announced the withdrawal of U.N. support for a Palestinian women’s center named for a terrorist. But we’re used to elephantine international memories regarding Arab suffering and instant, enduring amnesia about Jewish pain. What we will never get used to are comments such as this from Guterres: “Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will remove a driver of violent extremism and terrorism in the Middle East and open the doors to cooperation, security, prosperity and human rights for all.” The logical extension of such thinking is that if Israel didn’t exist, the Middle East would achieve harmony, and the terrorists slaughtering innocents from Mosul to Istanbul to Paris to London to Manchester to Ottawa to Orlando to San Bernardino would turn in their bombs, automatic weapons, 12-inch knives and car keys and resume peaceful worship. In other words, terrorism is the result of the Israel problem — or, as those who have slaughtered us in the past termed it, the Jewish problem. One lesson the world should take away from the 1967 war is that the era of scapegoating the Jews is over. We don’t know how to stop the killing, whether through Islamist-driven terrorism or supremacistdriven backlash, but we know a long-overdue Israeli10 Palestinian peace isn’t the global solution. ■

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Sleep-Deprived but Learning valuable than online ranting. Tuesday nights are the worst for the AJT staff. The second and best session was a chance for The newspaper goes to press around 5 p.m. most reporters to talk about the stories behind some of Tuesdays, and by the time Walton Press gets the their memorable stories electronic file, I don’t have — how they got them, why a lot of energy or social they did them and what skills left. If I’m still awake Editor’s Notebook made them stand out. The by the time Final Jeopardy By Michael Jacobs lesson: The best stories find rolls around just before mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com you, as long as you’re ready 8 o’clock, it’s probably to run with them. because I needed a glass or The third session was two of bourbon before bed. The point isn’t to explain my poor attendance at supposed to be a panel discussion about the place of Israel in a Jewish community newspaper. I was Tuesday-night events, but to emphasize how much it looking forward to hearing from readers what they meant to myself and other AJT staffers and condo and don’t want to read about Israel in the AJT, but tributors to be a part of the all-night Shavuot study the topic apparently didn’t excite anyone. session and dairy feast Tuesday night and WednesOnly Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal joined the halfday morning, May 30 and 31, at Ahavath Achim dozen AJT representatives, and our conversation Synagogue. focused more on the nuts and bolts of the newspaper After getting little sleep while working on than Israel. The lesson: We at the AJT too often asthe paper Sunday and Monday nights, the idea of sume readers understand the lines we draw between staying awake and trying to be coherent past 5 a.m. objective reporting and subjective opinions, and it’s Wednesday for Shavuot was intimidating. my job to explain those lines and differences better. It also proved impossible: I called it a night at By 2 a.m., when we were supposed to talk about 4 a.m. after sleeping through much of what seemed what makes a story Jewish enough for the Jewish like an entertaining storytelling session. If I can’t Times, the few of us left weren’t capable of high-level keep my eyes open for stories from Chelm, my tank thinking. We started addressing the question of how is empty. to cover a political race between a Jew and a non-Jew But we at the AJT couldn’t pass up the invitation — e.g., Jon Ossoff vs. Karen Handel — and wound up to join AA for the night and to interact with up to talking about what defines tall among Jewish men. 100 readers, potential readers and perhaps former The lesson: Don’t look for deep meaning after 2 a.m. readers on several important topics. AA and the The highlight of the night wasn’t an AJT sesnight’s organizer, Robyn Faintich, let the AJT lead sion, but Emory Center for Ethics Director Paul four sessions. Root Wolpe’s discussion on morality in animals, The first was a discussion about individual and the shortcomings of an ethical code based on pure collective bias and whether the AJT leans left or reason and, most important, why Jews eat Chinese right or neither or both when it comes to politics. food. It’s a brilliant theory — perhaps he’ll publish The questions were great, the dialogue was calm it someday — but it would be unethical to spoil his and genuine, and no one accused me of being either surprise. One hint: Chinese cuisine never mixes milk a fascist or a socialist. The unsurprising lesson: and meat. ■ Face-to-face discussion is more respectful and more

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Black and White Then Give Way to Gray Now Israel became that cool cousin, the one with the swagger, the one who couldn’t be bullied, the Jew who wouldn’t be a victim. That was the Israel whose military exploits allowed American Jews to puff out their chests and express

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a kinship with the mishpacha 6,000 miles away. Now, my brother the (Conservative) rabbi tells me that this is what he hears from the college students whose families are members of his congregation: “Why, after 50 years, has not this conflict (Israel and the Palestinians) been negotiated to a conclusion, when so many other world struggles have been concluded?” Those inclined to believe that these young people are naive and/or ignorant will find confirmation and discomfort in the findings of a 2015 study of what college students know (or don’t) about Israel, done by the Maurice & Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. The oft-cited Pew Research Center 2013 survey of American Jews reported that just 43 percent considered “caring about Israel” to be “essential to what it means to be Jewish” and that this feeling was greater in those older than age 50 than those ages 18 to 29. For many in the Jewish community, Israel has become that cousin you may have visited, the one you want to embrace, but the one who sometimes says and does things that upset and frustrate you, simultaneously drawing you near and pushing you away. A half-century on from those “Israel is we” days, it seems reasonable to ask whether a significant portion (perhaps the majority) of American Jewry now adheres to a “post-Diaspora Judaism” in which Israel is an aspect of, but not central to, Jewish identity. Those six days in June 1967 changed the relationship between American Jews and Israel. But five decades later, what I saw in black and white as a sixth-grader now appears in varying shades of gray. ■

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Monday, June 5, 1967, began my last week as a sixth-grader in a suburb north of Chicago. I probably learned about Israel having gone to war from one of the dinner-hour, 30-minute newscasts, either Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC or Walter Cronkite on CBS. If I read more at the breakfast table Tuesday, it would have been in the Chicago Sun-Times, which we subscribed to, rather than the Chicago Tribune, which, in those years, was not considered friendly toward Jews. We belonged to a Reform congregation and regularly attended Friday night services, but Israel was not a frequent topic of conversation in our home, which was not uncommon for American Jews at the time. Back then, Israel was that cousin you’d never met, the one your parents might have told you about but nonetheless kept at arm’s length, the one whose accent and manners didn’t fit in. I remember looking at the world map in Mrs. Farrell’s sixth-grade homeroom and talking, perhaps boastfully, about Israel, which that week played David to Arab nations’ Goliath. In truth, I knew relatively little about Israel. It was small, Jewish and fighting for its survival — again. My master class came in the mid1980s as Jerusalem bureau producer for an Atlanta-based international news network. Work took me throughout the country, from the “good fence” at Metula, along the Lebanon border, to Eilat, at the Gulf of Aqaba; from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River; inside the Green Line and throughout the “territories.” I talked to politicians and pundits, academics and students, police and protesters, merchants and their customers, residents of settlements and refugee camps, Israelis and Arabs, Jews, Muslims and Christians. I found no easy answers to difficult issues, only shades of gray. In June 1967, though, Israel became a black-and-white issue for American Jews. “Two weeks ago, Israel was they; now Israel is we,” read a letter published by the Village Voice on June 15, 1967, five days after the end of what became known as the Six-Day War.

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On the eve of his first one-on-one debate with Republican Karen Handel, Jon Ossoff faced a friendly crowd in a question-and-answer session Monday, June 5, at Congregation Bet Haverim. “Growing up in this community, I never found it to be a very partisan place. I think Americans and Georgians are less divided than many politicians and many of the press believe us to be,” the Jewish Democratic candidate for Congress said. “In fact, there are core policy objectives, core values and shared commitments that can unite people.” Ossoff’s fiancée, Alisha Kramer, became a bat mitzvah at Bet Haverim, and Rabbi Joshua Lesser thought it was a perfect opportunity for his congregation and others to learn more about the candidate. Though the Toco Hills synagogue is outside the 6th District, it has members who live in the district. “I think, as an LGBTQ-founded congregation, it’s important for us to speak out on a variety of issues, not

just about LGBTQ folks,” Rabbi Lesser said. “The fact that I know Jon Ossoff is someone who supports those issues gives me great comfort.” Handel and Ossoff are in a tight race to succeed Republican Tom Price, who resigned to become President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary. Ossoff nearly flipped the seat to the Democrats in an 18-candidate election April 18. The runoff for the most expensive congressional election ever is June 20, and the first Handel-Ossoff debate was set for Tuesday night, June 6, after the AJT went to press. It’s still not certain how many debates they will have. “I have agreed to six local, live debates, and my invitation to Secretary Handel to join me at those debates remains open,” Ossoff said. “I look forward to representing a positive vision that’s focused on accountability of Washington.” Issues such as fiscal responsibility should be nonpartisan, he said, and eliminating waste, duplication and improper payments would create budget space for priorities like transportation. “I think we know probably better than we ever have that renewal of infrastructure has to be one of the priorities,” Ossoff said, citing the need for rapid transit as well as road and bridge improvements. Ossoff assured the Bet Haverim crowd that he stands with Israel and supports continued military aid. “The overwhelming majority of American Jews want Israel and the Palestinians to be at peace and flourishing in peace. Instead, we spend so much time nitpicking at one another over symbolic divisions. I will be a staunch ally of Israel as a secure homeland for the Jewish people,” Ossoff said. “I will be a staunch proponent for continued U.S. engagement and leadership toward a two-state solution.” Also during the evening, he criticized Trump’s announced withdrawal from the Paris climate-change accords. Addressing national security after the terrorist attack in London, Ossoff said Islamic State is a threat. “We need a strong counterterrorism program that is based on intelligence that identifies threats before they enter the country and stops them from doing so — that polices threats that emerge from within the United States and hunts down and destroys those that inspire terrorism from their hiding places abroad.” ■

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Forsyth County has its first synagogue, a ranch-style house sitting on 5 acres near Ga. 400 south of Cumming. By August, the brick building at 795 Brannon Road will be home to the operations of Chabad of Forsyth, including the Juda religious school and Congregation Beth Israel. But that’s just the start of the vision Rabbi Levi Mentz laid out for the Chabad center he runs with his wife, Chaya, during a celebration of the property’s purchase Friday, June 2. “In time, the structure we see, the trees that are beside us, the grass that we sit on are going to be taking on a very new meaning. The bright future that will come from this location … will be the type of light that will give brightness and warmth not only to the Jewish population here in North Georgia, but will give the type of brightness and warmth to every member of this county, to every individual that lives in this special region,” Rabbi Mentz said. For the area’s Jews, Chabad of Forsyth will be a community center, a synagogue and a house of learning for all ages, he said. For Forsyth as a whole, he pledged that Chabad will work with the wider community to make the county America’s best. And for Israel, he offered his center as a place that will support, stand with and ensure the safety of the Jewish homeland. The head of Chabad of Georgia, Rabbi Yossi New, said the holiday of Shavuot earlier in the week taught an important lesson: The Torah was revealed in the desert, which is no man’s land, because it is relevant everywhere. “The purpose is that it should shine absolutely everywhere, even in the farthest corners of the globe — not

that this is the farthest corners of the globe,” Rabbi New said to laughs. “But it is the very first Jewish house of worship, so you know what I mean.” Rabbi Mentz doesn’t know for sure how many Jews live in Forsyth, Dawson and Lumpkin counties, his target market. He said there are 1,700 households with Jewish-sounding names. But having established a Forsyth presence after Passover last year, he said he is drawing about 20 people for a typical Shabbat and 150 for the major holidays. While the county commissioners, state lawmakers, Cumming mayor and other non-Jewish Forsyth leaders at the ceremony offered a warm welcome to Chabad, members of the Jewish community expressed the most excitement at having a synagogue in the neighborhood. Neurologist Scott Cooper, who serves on Chabad’s building committee with fellow physicians Frank Free, Joel Hoffman and Brian Hudes, said he has loved Forsyth since moving there in 1987, but he and wife Molly always felt the absence of a synagogue. “It felt terrible that I kept going out of county to find a place for me to worship, and it was even more terrible that I never found a place to worship in the Jewish faith that I liked. … We would always leave feeling empty.” He praised Rabbi Mentz as the rare rabbi who combines scholarship and leadership to create a special community connection. “It’s great that we have this physical building, but it’s a building, it’s a shell,” Cooper said. “As we’ve experienced at other temples and synagogues, it’s only as good as the rabbi who’s at the top.” ■

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Jewish Women’s Fund Grants $188K to 20 Groups

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Five Atlanta organizations, two other U.S. groups and 13 programs in Israel are receiving 2017 grants totaling $188,000 from the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta. The grants, announced in late May, go to groups that expand opportunities for Jewish women and girls and that share JWFA’s mission to promote social change through a gender lens. The Jewish Women’s Fund, now composed of more than 120 women applying the power of collective philanthropy, has granted more than half a million dollars the past five years. This year’s Atlanta-based grantees: • Tikkun Olam: Repairing Our Relationship With Food, Body and Ourselves, Eating Disorders Information Network — EDIN will address the problem of eating disorders in the Jewish community by creating and implementing a curriculum that empowers women and girls to develop a sense of worth apart from body shape and size. • Change the Culture: Sexual Assault & Dating Abuse Prevention and Education at Emory University, Jewish Women International — Change the

Culture is a multifaceted, co-ed program that promotes the safety of students through an exploration of campus culture, sexual assault and dating abuse. By partnering with Hillel, ZBT and SDT, the program seeks to change attitudes, support survivors and engage men as allies. • Early Development of Gender Equity Program, SOJOURN — This pilot program will work with kindergartners and first-graders, teachers, and parents throughout Jewish Atlanta to break down gender stereotypes and help children reach their potential. • FOCUS (Finding Occupations, Careers, Universities, Success) Program, Temima — FOCUS provides Jewish high school girls with guidance in choosing post-secondary options suited to their interests, skills, values and abilities through workshops, speakers, testing and college counseling. • Respect My Red/iClub, Weber School — This pilot program will prevent sexual assault, harassment and abuse among students by helping adolescents understand healthy relationships and address disrespectful behav-

iors within their peer groups. Other U.S. projects: • JGirls Magazine, an online publication written by and for Jewish teen girls across all affiliations. • Leadership Development Curriculum, Yeshivat Maharat, the first yeshiva to ordain women as Orthodox clergy. The Israeli projects: • Securing the Rights of Single Mothers, Association for Civil Rights in Israel. • Task Force on Human Trafficking and Prostitution, ATZUM-Justice Works. • Harnessing the Power of the Masses to Advance Civil Action to Safeguard Women’s Rights, Center for Women’s Justice. • Pilot Entrepreneurship Program for Religious Women, Jerusalem College of Technology. • Alma Community Center for Young Women’s Leadership, Jewish Agency for Israel. • Addressing the Needs of Mothers and Women at Work, Jewish Women’s Funding Network. • Cracking the Glass Ceiling, Kol Is-

rael Haverim. • Latet Atid, which offers mentoring and micro-loans to help women from diverse sectors of society break the cycle of poverty by establishing micro-businesses. • Care Leavers Project, Makkom, working with people who have aged out of the foster care system. • Sharsheret, the Society for Advancement of Education. • The Gender Index, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: Center for Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere. • College for Women in Politics, WePower, an organization that addresses the disproportionate distribution of political power in Israel. • Breaking the Bind, Women’s Spirit Financial Independence for Women Victims of Violence, which advocates changes in fundamental Israeli policies and laws that undermine, destabilize and weaken women’s financial security and personal safety, especially survivors of violence. More details about the Israeli and U.S. grantees can be found at www. atlantajewishtimes.com. ■

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EDUCATION

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Rabbi Micah Lapidus delivers the invocation to the Class of 2017 at the Davis Academy.

Students view a video presentation of their time at Davis.

Class of 2003 graduate Max Miller encourages members of the Davis Academy’s Class of 2017 to follow their passions in life.

The Class of 2017 follows tradition by flipping tassels from right to left to mark graduation.

Head of School Amy Shafron welcomes guests to the Davis Academy’s eighth-grade graduation.

Talia Barras accepts her diploma from Associate Head of School and Principal Drew Frank.

The Class of 2017 sings the Shehecheyanu one last time together.

Class of 2017

Madeline Fellner

Jordan Liban

Stephen Rusnak

Andrew Altmann

Lily Fleischmann

Max London

Seth Shapiro

Matthew Aronin

Jacob Frank

Tyler McMahon

Eric Shindell

Isabella Baker

Halli Friedman

Grant Miller

Abigail Shrubstok

Danielle Barnard

Jake Friedman

Samantha Miller

Kura Solovei

Talia Barras

Ashley Glass

Eli Minsk

Logan Spector

Samuel Baylin

Kurt Holland

Jacob Moradi

Adam Spitzler

Ethan Ben-Moshe

Will Hopkins

Caroline Morrison

Lilian Stadler

Jared Berenthal

Ziv Ilan

Zachary Nadel

Jordan Starr

Emma Bernath

Charlie Janko

Felicity Negin

Logan Sucan

Nicole Cobb

Lucas Jannett

Adam Orlow

Paige Swygert

Derek Coffsky

Grace Kirschner

Oren Panovka

Emma Tessler

Rachel Cohen

Peter Klafter

Jake Powers

Evan Tessler

Jordan Crim

Bryan Kopkin

Dorothy Ripps

Nathan West

Elena Dollinger

Alana Kramer

Darren Rosing

Nicholas West

Evan Elster

Halle Kwatnez

Zachary Rosing

Ethan Wolfson

Jordy Elster

Gabriela Lefkovits

Grace Ross

Melanie Zeewy

Rami Fabian

Leora Lewis

Hailey Rubin

Gratitude, Passion Urged for 70 Davis Grads By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com The Davis Academy held its 18th graduation but its first at the Rosenberg Performing Arts Theater on Thursday, June 1, sending 70 eighth-graders to high schools including North Springs, Weber, Riverwood and Dunwoody. Head of School Amy Shafron asked the graduates to reflect on the experiences they shared at the school and to appreciate those who guided them along the way. “You received a special

gift when your parents enrolled you in Davis,” she said, “the gift of an incredible education.” The Class of 2017 pushed Davis’ all-time number of graduates past the 900 mark. The class included three sets of twins: Jordy and Evan Elster, Nicholas and Nathan West, and Emma and Evan Tessler. Five children of faculty also graduated: Derek Coffsky, Halli Friedman, Alana Kramer, Gabriela Lefkovits and Max London. Among families completing their

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me the most throughout your time at Davis.” Alumni speaker Max Miller from the Class of 2003 spoke about the importance of pursuing your passion. “Whether it’s to become an artist, doctor, lawyer, a computer programmer or even a rabbi, the road ahead is filled with opportunity and success,” said Rabbi Miller, recently hired as an assistant rabbi at Temple Emanu-El. “The world needs you to pursue your dreams because of who you are and what you love.” ■

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Fifty years ago you could play sports, be a leader in business and live your life while keeping all three separate. The areas where these three disciplines intersected were minimal. A few great people put them all together. The top three college coaches/leaders of men who come to mind from that era are Dean Smith, Adolph Rupp and, of course, John Wooden. They created men out of boys and leaders from basketball players while winning games. Is such success still possible today? In 2017, communication happens in the blink of an eye. Sports teams have become big businesses. Business takes over people’s lives. The lines separating life, business and sports are being erased. Trying to keep a balance among all three might seem impossible. Instead, we should try to keep all three in the proper perspective. If we take a breath and step back a moment, we can still see how sports, business and life can exist on their own. Once we have a proper perspective, we can

try to blend them together. It takes a person with the right outlook to make that happen. While chatting with the men’s basketball coach at Georgia Tech, Josh Pastner (CJP), I was struck by his ability to blend old-school philosophies with fast-paced, modern societal norms. Together, we compared and contrasted his view of coaching with business, life and leadership lessons.

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Let’s look at what we can all learn from CJP. He begins every day with an “attitude of gratitude.” He reads words of inspiration from Rabbi Abraham Twerski’s book “Wisdom Each Day.” He then preaches to his staff and players that “you lose with entitlement and you win with appreciation.” CJP’s self-declared No. 1 strength is his positive view of people and life.

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His cup runneth over every day with encouragement. Take a moment to think about that concept. Matching positivity with gratitude is a winning formula not just for CJP, but for all of us. A key leadership principle is the ability to communicate to people their worth and potential so clearly that they can see those attributes in themselves. When you can achieve this level of personal motivation, getting your team to work and play together at a high level becomes easier. As a result, in eight years as a head coach, his teams have never lost more than two games in row. Put into easy terms, CJP gets more results with honey than with vinegar. That’s not to say he doesn’t hold people accountable. Learning from his

time at the University of Memphis, CJP has better defined his vision for the organization and has clear roles for everyone. In his view, everyone craves structure and the related discipline. He enforces this in such a positive way that a player may not even realize how much he is growing day to day. This leads us to self-awareness. The top component to a successful person is self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses. You can’t be good at everything. CJP believes that you should hire people who complement you and are in alignment with your vision and goals. If you maximize your strengths and manage your weaknesses (hiring the right people), you create a synergistic energy on your team and set your organization up for success. But what happens when things don’t go as planned? CJP takes failure in stride. It is a part of life. His motto: “Give your best energy, effort, enthusiasm and execution to everything. Then both wins and losses will become learning experiences.” Reflect on what did and didn’t work and try to be better tomorrow. Three decades ago, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner began studying leadership. After hundreds of interviews and surveys (including Smith, Rupp and Wooden), they concluded that exemplary leaders share five practices: • Model the way (set an example for how you want others to act). • Inspire a shared vision (get buyin for a common goal and believe in it passionately). • Challenge the process (see risks as opportunities). • Enable others to act (empower those around you). • Encourage the heart (focus on the humanity of people and make them “feel like heroes”). Do you want to lead an organization like Coach Pastner runs the basketball program at Georgia Tech? It’s easy. Just be humble and grateful, curious and self-aware. Communicate and empower others. When bad things happen, use it as a learning tool. Most of all, create something bigger than yourself. Sometimes, with the right person running your organization, it pays to go back to the timeless principles of a half-century ago. ■ Jason Adler is a John Maxwell-certified executive coach (www.johncmaxwellgroup.com/jasonadler) helping people and their organizations hire and keep quality employees.

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If you’re a lucky pet owner, you’ll never meet David Filer professionally. As a veterinary surgeon, Filer isn’t the doctor you see for a rabies booster shot, flea and tick prevention, or an annual checkup. One of four surgeons at Veterinary Referral Surgical Practice (veterinaryreferralsurgery.com), with offices in Marietta, Roswell and Woodstock, he’s the doctor your regular veterinarian refers you to when your pet has a problem he can’t treat. Sometimes the general practitioner lacks the expertise or the equipment for a diagnosis. For example, a dog could limp because of an orthopedic injury or a neurological problem or both. Filer’s practice can perform digital radiology, CT scans and MRI tests on animals and has one of only 250 or so U.S. veterinary neurologists on staff. Sometimes the regular vet can diagnose the problem but can’t provide the treatment and rehab. VRSP surgeons go through four years of training after four years of veterinary school to take the exam to be surgical specialists, and its rehab tools include acupuncture and an underwater treadmill. “We are absolutely adamant about working very closely with the general practitioner because we really want to have the right hand knowing what the left hand is doing and having coordinated care,” Filer said. “That’s one reason why we’re a referral-based practice: We want to have the background; we need to have that very important part of the puzzle.” Pet medicine has advanced during Filer’s 30 years as a vet, adding surgical techniques such as arthroscopic knee operations and diagnostic procedures such as MRIs and CT scans. Procedures often are tested in animals for use in humans, then expand back to pets, Filer said. One of the latest examples is platelet-rich plasma, which is injected into soft tissue such as a damaged tendon to spur healing. Some cases VSRP treats are memorable because of the pets. For example, the practice’s neurologist recently removed a brain tumor from a dog, and Filer has helped return dogs to walking by operating on their slipped discs. Other times, the pet owner makes a case memorable, as when service dogs with injured cruciate ligaments in their knees get surgical repairs, en-

David Filer spends time with two of his pets, great Pyrenees Max and dachshund Lilly.

abling them to do their jobs helping owners who have disabilities. Filer was in his third year of vet school at Auburn University when he started surgical training and realized that surgery was “really custom-made for me. This is really a great fit.” He has been with VRSP since 1992. “I get tremendous gratification in seeing something that is broken, damaged or diseased and figuring out what is the best course of action to help that patient within the confines of what we can do to help the owner and putting that puzzle together,” Filer said. The puzzle pieces can be dramatically different between patients, from a chihuahua weighing a couple of pounds to an English mastiff weighing 250 pounds. Regardless of the size, dogs are living longer now because of better care, better diets, and better living conditions, from living outside decades ago (putting them at risk of being hit by cars or contracting heartworm) to living inside to often living in beds with their humans. Those improved conditions and longer lives can make decisions about expensive veterinary care even tougher for families. Filer said helping pet owners through those decisions is one of the most important parts of the practice. The surgeons try to present options based on what can extend or improve a pet’s life and what the family can afford, including financing options. “The thing that sets us apart from other groups that do what we do is we are very focused on personalized, compassionate care,” Filer said. “Each patient comes with an owner, and to be able to provide compassionate, personalized care is utmost in our practice.” ■

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Java Cats Adopts Rescue Mission on Caffeine By Rachel Fayne The residents of Java Cats Cafe are making Atlanta history. As the first cat cafe in Atlanta and only the third in the South, Java Cats is adding adoptable cats to the city’s standard stop for coffee. Following the model of other cat cafes in the United States, Java Cats enables visitors not only to visit with the cafe’s cats while having coffee at the shop at 415 Memorial Drive, but also to adopt them. Java Cats founder Hadyn Hilton partnered with PAWS Atlanta, a Georgia no-kill dog and cat shelter, to provide cats that need homes, as well as the screenings to make sure they are people-friendly. Up to 20 PAWS cats at a time stay at the cafe. Customers can make a reservation or walk in. People can visit the cat lounge to spend time with the cats or stay in the separate cafe area and watch everything, from small kittens to older cats to special-needs felines, inside the glass-walled area. Java Cats charges $10 per hour for

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The interior of the cafe is catfree, but patrons can watch the cats through a glass divider.

customers to spend time in the lounge with the cats and for drip coffee, iced coffee or tea to take inside with them. The cafe serves coffee from Ebrik Coffee Room, an independent operation near Georgia State University, and prepackaged snacks and box lunches provided by Gathering Industries, an Atlanta organization that supports the homeless by training them in culinary skills and helping them find restaurant jobs. You can make reservations at www.javacatscafe.com and follow the cafe on Facebook at www.facebook. com/javacatscafe.

The cafe is a dream realized for Hilton. “I absolutely love what I’m doing,” she said. “I feel like I’m making a difference in the lives of these cats, and being able to support the local homeless community is also really cool. I want Java Cats to not only be a feel-good place, but a competitive player in the Atlanta coffee scene as well.” Since its opening March 27, the cafe has adopted out more than 50 cats. Hilton credits the success in part to the cafe’s dedicated social media following and in part to the cats themselves. “They’re family- and kid-friendly cats who just love interaction with people and need attention,” she said. “You see people walk into the lounge, they put their phones away, and they’re talking to each other and really bonding with these cats. It’s also a great form of therapy or stress relief.” Of course, Hilton has favorites. Jupiter is a shy, sweet, needy black cat that often hides and comes out when he hears her voice. Yahtzee and Twister are petite cats and rarely are found without each other.

Founder Hadyn Hilton holds Jupiter, one of her favorite Java Cats residents.

Java Cats visitor Kit Matheny holds one of the newer kittens at Java Cats.

Although it’s easy to get attached, the mission is clear: The cats are being adopted, and the Atlanta community has the opportunity to enjoy them. ■

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Jaffe: As a youngster, did you know you wanted to be a veterinarian? Orenbuch: Although I grew up in Philadelphia, I spent time on my grandmother’s ranch in Arizona — chickens, goats, horses, dogs. … Loved animals. Jaffe: How did you end up in Atlanta? Orenbuch: My husband, a business management professor, had faculty interviews in various cities. We thought Atlanta would be the most open to my type of innovative practice, so he selected Kennesaw State. Jaffe: How did you decide on rehabilitation and pain management? Orenbuch: My original focus in vet school was large animals, which was very time-demanding. So I made a lifestyle choice for more regular office hours and took a job in a small animal practice. Although I was trained in traditional Western medicine, I attended an animal chiropractic course, which opened my eyes to the world of complementary medicine. From there, I added acupuncture and rehabilitation training. After moving to Georgia,

I was able to have my own facility and install underwater treadmills. This tool was developed in the late 1990s after practitioners in Illinois, who were using water treadmills for horses, began to understand that it could work

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for ailing dogs. Jaffe: Modern values elevate pets in family life and the law. Are you riding the wave of this phenomenon? Orenbuch: Yes. A recent study showed that around 60 percent of American dog owners allow pets to sleep in their beds. We care for them as family members. Remember, human medicine changed to be more accepting of physical therapy, acupuncture and other complementary treatments. Veterinary medicine tends to follow the trends in human medicine.

Jaffe: You spent some time in Israel doing what? Orenbuch: I completed my required two-month externship for veterinary college in Israel working with veterinarians in the Haklait, the government-run large animal vet association, who work primarily with cattle on the kibbutzim and moshavim. I returned two years after graduating to spend seven months in Arad with the WUJS (World Union of Jewish Students), studying Judaism, Israeli culture and history, as well as attending ulpan. I returned to WUJS for an additional three months in 1999. Jaffe: Share with us your unusual sports hobby. Orenbuch: I was always athletic, but in 2002 I found the ancient Chinese sport of dragon boating (canoe-shaped boats for 20 people). I was a member of Team USA for 10 years, competing in Australia, China, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic and the U.S. I no longer compete at that level, but I am still an avid paddler, getting on the Hooch weekly.

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Evelyn Orenbuch’s practice includes a pool with two underwater treadmills, a technique adapted for dogs from horses.

Jaffe: Where do you go from here? Orenbuch: We are the largest freestanding rehabilitation facility in Georgia. Next, we need to go inside the Perimeter and fill that void. Jaffe: You are active in Congregation Ner Tamid? Orenbuch: Yes, it’s a warm, active synagogue with about 60 families in Marietta. ■

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I discovered Georgia Veterinary Rehabilitation, Fitness & Pain Management when my beloved 13-year-old rescue dog began limping. Through a series of vet referrals, I landed on Johnson Ferry Road in East Cobb for “in demand” weekly spots for acupuncture and underwater treadmill treatment. I was intrigued to see a mezuzah, which led to owner and veterinarian Evelyn Orenbuch, a leader in rehabilitation for aging and ailing pets, primarily dogs. The topic is hot. One of my favorite author/pundits, Dennis Prager, recently said that when contemporary preteens were asked to choose between saving a drowning family dog and a human stranger, they chose the dog. Orenbuch heads a staff of 14: two other vets, two rehab therapists, veterinary assistants and customer service reps. They specialize in dogs that are recovering from surgery and athletes of all degrees, up to international competitors, having difficulty with mobility from neurological conditions, pain or just a lack of fitness. She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and a former president of the American Association of Rehabilitation Veterinarians.

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Commandments of Compassion Toward Animals

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One of Judaism’s most distinctive features is its emphasis on teaching kindness to animals. My article last June (toi.sr/2kVp22u) described the many biblical passages stressing this, including the Fourth Commandment’s giving animals as well as humans a day of rest on Shabbat. Not only did the Jews practically invent the concept of animal welfare, but also post-biblical Jewish literature is filled with admonitions on cruelty to animals. An entire code of laws (tsa’ar ba’alei hayim, the requirement “to prevent the suffering of living creatures”) mandates that animals be treated with compassion. Jews are not allowed to “pass by” an animal in distress or being mistreated, even on Shabbat. As the authoritative Encyclopedia Judaica observes, “In rabbinic literature … great prominence is given to demonstrating G-d’s mercy to animals, and to the importance of not causing them pain.” Moral and legal rules on the

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The encyclopedia sums up the rabbinical law by saying, “The principle of kindness to animals … is as though G-d’s treatment of man will be according to his treatment of animals.” Similarly, the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia observes that “the Jewish attitude toward animals has always been governed by the consideration that they, too, are G-d’s creatures … (and) the obligation to respect and consider the feelings and needs of lower creatures.”

“The kind treatment of animals was made part of the moral climate of Jewish living,” Nathan Ausubel says in “The Book of Jewish Knowledge.” “The humane regard among Jews for people extended also to encompass animals. But behind it was the all-pervasive feeling of compassion urged upon the righteous.” The Irish historian W.E.H. Lecky (1838-1903) writes in his monumental work “History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne” (1869) that “the rabbinical writers have been remarkable for the great emphasis with which they inculcated the duty of kindness to animals.” He observes that the Jews have the longest tradition of any people and “that tenderness to animals, which is one of the most beautiful features in the Old Testament writings, shows itself, among other ways, in the command not to muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, or to yoke together the ox and the ass.” Two important works from the Middle Ages demonstrate this tradition of compassion. The 12th or 13th century Hebrew work Sefer Hasidim (the Book of the Pious) says: “Be kind and compassionate to all creatures that the Holy One, blessed be He, created in this world. Never beat nor inflict pain on any animal, beast or bird or insect. Do not throw stones at a dog or a cat.” Maimonides (1135-1204) emphatically promoted kindness to animals. Considered by many to be the greatest of all rabbinic scholars and authorities on Jewish law, he writes in his famous “Guide for the Perplexed” that “there is no difference between the worry of a human mother and that of an animal mother for their offspring.” He also writes that “there is a rule laid down by our sages, that it is directly prohibited in the Torah to cause pain to an animal” and that “it should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.” Maimonides also states in the Mishneh Torah: “When a person observes G-d’s works and G-d’s great and marvelous creatures, and they see from them G-d’s wisdom that is without estimate or end, immediately they will love G-d, praise G-d and long with a great desire to know G-d’s Great Name.” The 16th century Shulchan Aruch states: “It is forbidden, according to

the law of the Torah, to inflict pain upon any living creature. On the contrary, it is our duty to relieve the pain of any creature, even if it is ownerless or belongs to a non-Jew.” The renowned 19th century Torah scholar Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch writes in “Horeb: A Philosophy of Jewish Law and Observances” (Chapter 60): “G-d’s teaching … obliges you not only to refrain from inflicting unnecessary pain on any animal, but to help and, when you can, to lessen the pain whenever you see an animal suffering, even through no fault of yours.” Modern-day Jewish prayer books contain numerous references to kindness to animals, such as the High Holidays passage of the Union Prayer Book, “Every living soul shall praise Thee. … Thou rulest the world in kindness and all Thy creatures in mercy.” The Gates of Repentance prayer book service for Yom Kippur states, “The Lord is good to all; His compassion shelters all His creatures.” Observant Jews recite that verse, which is found in all daily prayer books, three times a day. Morning prayers for Shabbat include praise for “the G-d of all creatures; endlessly extolled, You guide the world with kindness, its creatures with compassion.” On Shabbat we chant, “The soul of every living being shall praise G-d’s name” (nishmat kol chai tva’rech et shim’chah). And there is a special blessing Jews say when we see something beautiful in nature, like a bird, an animal or a rainbow. In sum, the many teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and the writings of our sages, rabbis and elders stress this mitzvah of compassion for other creatures and the requirement to exercise respectful, responsible stewardship of G-d’s creation. The Jewish people are charged with the mission of being “a light unto the nations” (Isaiah 42:6, 60:3) and “compassionate children of compassionate ancestors” (Beitza 32b). Jews have been inspired through the ages to provide moral and spiritual leadership. It is a legacy in which we can take enormous pride. ■ Lewis Regenstein leads the Interfaith Council for the Protection of Animals and Nature and wrote the book “Replenish the Earth” and the booklet “Commandments of Compassion.” Additional information can be found at www.jewishveg.com/ schwartz and at www.hsus.org.

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A British Invasion of Movie Stars and Art This column has spanned the globe to feature homes decorated in Asian, Persian, Israeli, Turkish, Italian and Ecuadoran art. Imagine my delight when a friend called to introduce me to Stephanie and Michael Jenkins, who speak the queen’s English and hauled a treasure-trove of British, German and Brazilian art when they left London for Sandy Springs over two years ago. The Jenkinses are enthusiastic and energetic storytellers and art historians. They took delight in my Tennessee twang as I asked these questions.

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Jaffe: Share with us your journey to Atlanta and from where the Jenkins name comes. Michael: America is it — the greatest country. We wanted to be here. Three generations of my family from London were fruit and vegetable traders. Jenkins name? (Laughing) Jews in London are even named Jones and Smith. The rabbi who married us was a Smith. Stephanie: My grandparents came from Poland and Russia. My paternal grandmother was an Anglicized Jewish Irish pianist for the Royal College of Music. My maternal grandfather spoke only Yiddish and was a tailor.

ley Moore, Peter Sellers, Albert Finney. Then an Andy Warhol-signed postcard of Mick Jagger used as an invitation to an exhibition. Stephanie surprised me with it as a birthday gift.

Jaffe: Describe the history behind this wonderful synagogue drawing. Michael: I have great childhood memories of the West London Conservative Synagogue. I was one of the honorary officers, and we wore black morning suits, gray waistcoats, striped pants, shirts with cutaway collars and gray silk ties with Victorian black silk top hats. The women sat upstairs then. Interestingly, bar mitzvahs were done at age 16.

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Jaffe: How do you manifest your fondness for movie stars and music? Michael: Actually, jazz is my favorite. That being said, we love rock ’n’ roll icons. Sculptor John Somerville did these rock star busts. The John Lennon came with changeable eyeglasses. The Ron Wood looks like marble. I think Mick Jagger is the greatest. We also have a poster of Kate Moss by Mario Testino. Stephanie: I am a Marilyn Monroe fan. I like Peter Blake’s interpreta24 tion of her. He always places diamond

Jaffe: Why did you select the photography in the dining room? Michael: We like Brit photographer Terry O’Neill, who is known for unconventional settings and catching subjects being very candid. What history is here in black and white! John Huston with Ava Gardner, Elvis, Dud-

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Jaffe: What’s the dynamic here? Who is the decision-maker? Stephanie: We are lucky to have the same taste on most things. Occasionally there is a debate. We got these five large sketches by German artist Jurgen Gorg when we were first married. Michael had had enough of them and didn’t want them to make the trip over to the U.S. I told him, “If they don’t go, I don’t go” (laughing). Michael had them reframed, and they now look fantastic, so everyone is happy. Michael: She wasn’t stuck on the red “Sunset” by Brazilian artist Mariannita Luzzati, but it works in the TV room. Jaffe: What are some of the most unusual pieces you have? Michael: The giant oil is “Over Old Nice” by Ralph Fleck. He photographs the subject from the air, then paints in oil, finishing in one sitting. In the entrance hall is a chair by Tom Dixon; his original work was a basketwoven piece. In this example, only 12 chairs are in leather. We tried to get the others, but we were too late. The two alloy flowerpots in the living room by Andrew Sevin, another British artist, are just for fun. Stephanie: The life-size “Baboon” made from chicken wire is quite unique, commissioned by us with sculptor Kendra Haste after seeing baboons live at Cape Point in South Africa. We have two sets of metal statues by David Begbie; “Man” and “Woman” are so intense, you can see

A the muscles in the figures with the correct lighting. In between them is a dramatic, enhanced photograph of a beach scene from the north of England by Uta Kogelsberger. You would think it was the Caribbean with such deep indigo water. Jaffe: It sounds like quite a task to ship such large and delicate things over from London. How would you describe your furniture? Stephanie: The dining room table is made by Zanotta — again, a commissioned piece made in France. The dining chairs are B&B Italia. The credenzas in the dining room have a parchment surface. Upstairs, the console is a German Biedermeier. The small black table is an Armani/Casa bought in London. The master bed frame and bedside tables are Fendi.

Basically, we mix it up and buy what we like. Jaffe: Last word — are you done collecting? Stephanie: Absolutely not. We go every year to two London art shows, Frieze and the Chelsea Art Fair, to shop. Michael: I want to build a new house from scratch so I can design every wall space for more art. See here, the spiral staircase is two feet from the wall, blocking the edge of the painting. I would never design that in that way. To display art, you do need double width height so large pieces can show their absolute glory. Jaffe: I’m gob-smacked by your taste. You know your onions when it comes to British art. The queen would be proud of this house. ■

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A: Stephanie and Michael Jenkins sit with royal standard poodle Rocco in front of giant oil “Over Old Nice” by Ralph Fleck, who completed the painting in one sitting from an aerial view. B: Avid photographer Michael Jenkins appreciates the colors in Uta Kogelsberger’s enhanced photograph in the living room of a beach scene in northern England. The living room also features specially lighted David Begbie metal statues on either side of the fireplace and alloy flowerpots by Andrew Sevin on the floor. C: Sculptor Kendra Haste’s life-size, chicken-wire “Baboon” in the foyer was inspired baboons at Cape Point in South Africa. The Marilyn Monroe photograph is by Eve Arnold. D: The artsy antique leather chair in the entrance hall by Tom Dixon is one of only 12 made. The painting is a New York scene by Alicia Dubnyckyj. E: This drawing etched in 18-karat gold depicts Michael Jenkins’ childhood shul, the West London Conservative Congregation, where the honorary officers dress formally and b’nai mitzvah were celebrated at age 16. F: Fendi furniture in the master bedroom accents sketches by Jurgen Gorg. The sketches were the couple’s first purchase together. G: The dining room showcases Terry O’Neill’s photography of movie stars in candid settings, as well as a picture postcard of Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol that was used as an invitation to an exhibition. The table is a Zanotta piece commissioned in France. H: Stephanie Jenkins is a Marilyn Monroe fan and chose this interpretation by Peter Blake accented with diamond dust. I: Rocco guards the stairway leading upstairs to a Biedermeier console and art by Mario Testino, Oenone Acheson and Ornulf Opdahl. J: In the TV room, crimson-streaked painting “Sunset” by Brazilian artist Mariannita Luzzati is above the couch, near a John Lennon bust with changeable eyeglasses by John Somerville.

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Synagogue Softball Back For Summer

After a wet weekend delayed the scheduled June 4 start of the 2017 Atlanta Men’s Synagogue Softball league, play is set to kick off Sunday, June 11, in the A, B and C divisions. The regular season runs through July 30; the playoffs start Aug. 6. Congregation Beth Tefillah, which snapped Congregation B’nai Torah’s nine-year winning streak in the A Division last summer, looks to defend its title against a group that includes Chabad, which moves up a division after defeating Young Israel of Toco Hills in an exciting B Division final last year. Temple Sinai 2 (now B), which won the C Division in 2016 by defeating Temple Kol Emeth in the finals, moves up to the B Division this season, but a third Sinai team is taking its place in the C Division. ■ The Lineup

Etz Chaim

A Division

Gesher L’Torah

Ahavath Achim

Sinai B

Beth Tefillah

Or Hadash

B’nai Torah

Young Israel

Chabad

C Division

Dor Tamid

B’nai Torah 2

Or VeShalom

Emanu-El

Sinai

Beth Shalom

The Temple

Beth Tikvah 2

B Division

Dor Tamid 2

Ariel

Kol Emeth

Beth Tikvah

Sinai C

Beth Jacob

The Temple Z

June 11 Games - East Roswell Park 12:30 — Sinai B vs. Ariel | Beth Tikvah vs. Gesher L’Torah 1:45 — Ariel vs. Beth Jacob | Young Israel vs. Gesher L’Torah 3 — Beth Jacob vs. Etz Chaim | Or Hadash vs. Young Israel 4:15 — Dor Tamid vs. B’nai Torah | Or Hadash vs. Etz Chaim 5:30 — Ahavath Achim vs. Chabad | Temple vs. Beth Tefillah 6:45 — Or VeShalom vs. Sinai

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2:30 — B’nai Torah 2 vs. Kol Emeth | Beth Tikvah 2 vs. Emanu-El 3:45 — B’nai Torah 2 vs. Emanu-El | Beth Tikvah 2 vs. Kol Emeth 5:00 — Temple Z vs. Beth Shalom | Sinai C vs. Dor Tamid 2 6:15 — Temple Z vs. Dor Tamid 2 | Sinai C vs. Beth Shalom

Why Warhol’s 15 Minutes Never End By Patrice Worthy The High Museum of Art recently opened “Andy Warhol: Prints From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation,” the largest exhibition of its kind, showcasing nearly 250 iconic works, including “Marilyn Monroe,” “Campbell’s Soup I” and “Mao.” Each piece is a glimpse into the life and mind of Warhol, from his early work, when he was transitioning from graphic design to fine art, and to his later work, when he was the superstar of New York’s art scene. He was known for breaking from the tradition of pastoral art and using graphic design to illustrate that art exists in even the most benign spaces. The works speak to issues that are just as relevant today as they were when Warhol was creating them, said Jordan Schnitzer, the president of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation in Portland, Ore. “They’re no different than newspaper writers or TV commentators. They’re pushing the envelope on things that are often uncomfortable for us,” said Schnitzer, who is Jewish. “They help us shape our values and ask, ‘Who are we? What’s important to us?’ And perhaps no one has done that better in the last 50 years than Andy Warhol.” The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts had much of Warhol’s early work and contacted Schnitzer about bringing his pieces under the foundation’s protection. Schnitzer bought additional pieces from auctions and built the collection, most of which is now at the High. The famous “Campbell’s Soup I” series is an example of Warhol turning household names into political and social commentary. He came up with the idea after being rejected by the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. Warhol, who grew up poor, ate a lot of Campbell’s soup and as an adult preferred soup for lunch. The series of 32 cans of soup went on exhibition in 1962 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in Warhol’s first show. Each piece sold for $100; more than 30 years later the series was sold for $10 million. The series reflects a movement of the 1960s that Schnitzer said remains at the forefront of politics. “Women’s rights were an issue in the United States in the 1960s. If I were an artist and I wanted to address women’s right in a different way … how

“Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn)” by Andy Warhol

Jordan Schnitzer talks about the creation of Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup” series at the High.

do I do it?” Schnitzer said. “It was something you could leave out of the house and not spend four or five hours in the kitchen cooking, and you could be a more productive member of society. Campbell’s Soup was the beginning of the feminist movement.” Themes of consumerism, media and materialism are at the core of Warhol’s work. He dissects the idea of manufactured fame with images of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, signaling the destruction and fragility of the idyllic Camelot. By addressing how images are a tool in manufacturing fame, graphic design and screen printing suggest any item, even people, can be made into hot commodities. His use of repetition in “Marilyn Monroe” explores the power of onedimensional images in the process of commercialization. “We spend much of our lives seeing and not observing,” reads a Warhol quote used in the exhibit. In 1969, he and British journalist John Wilcock launched Interview Magazine, a platform for in-depth profiles with the world’s pop icons. The publication was Warhol’s way of capitalizing on and resisting the commodification of people. The obsession with fame played out in Warhol’s life. He stood as a titan in the New York art and entertainment world. His own social circle included Madonna, Jane Fonda, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, fashion models, and art darling Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose notoriety Warhol helped manufacture. The High exhibit’s Warhol Factory

A photo of Andy Warhol greets visitors to the High exhibit.

Room is lined with graffiti-covered tinfoil, graphics of Studio 54 VIP tickets, and celebrity portraits, such as Jimmy Carter. To Warhol, fame was based on a formula of exclusivity, embracing the unusual and repetitive imagery. He is quoted as saying, “In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Michael Rooks, the High’s Wieland family curator of modern and contemporary art, organized the exhibit, which runs through Sept. 3. He said Warhol often explored media bombardment, an issue that has only grown with the advent of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Warhol had a gift for looking back while also looking forward, Rooks said. “He foreshadows our culture’s obsession with media and its subtext,” Rooks said. “In the same token, Warhol was looking at 50 years of fashion, sensationalism and political strife.” ■

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Alda Brings Science to Communication Confusion Everyone’s favorite dinner table companion might be New York Times best-selling author, actor and director Alan Alda. Best known for playing Hawkeye Pierce on “M*A*S*H,” Alda continues to re-create himself with the publication of “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating.” Some may not know that Alda is an active member of the science community, having hosted the TV series “Scientific American Frontiers” and founded the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. Alda will talk about the book and science communication at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 27, at the Marcus Jewish Community Center in a Page From the Book Festival event. Jaffe: You’ve been to Atlanta many times. What vibe do you get from our city? Alda: I get the elegance vibe. Jaffe: Your communication theory combines empathy and science — or is it more acting and science? Alda: It’s more the science of

empathy, which I first learned about from acting. Jaffe: In today’s contentious political climate, how can we use your research to have better dialogue with

Jaffe’s Jewish Jive By Marcia Caller Jaffe mjaffe@atljewishtimes.com

those who have disparate views? Alda: As more than one expert in diplomacy has said, you can’t practice diplomacy without being able to see things from the other’s perspective. That’s empathy, and without it, it’s very hard to communicate. The other person becomes wrong, no matter what they say. Jaffe: Describe the “mirror exercise” and what we can glean from it. Alda: Two people face each other, and one becomes the mirror of the other. The mirror partner makes the exact same motions at the exact same moment as the person facing the mirror. One inescapable lesson is that you have responsibility for the person you’re leading. The communicator

Communication is hard without empathy, Alan Alda says.

has to keep the other person in mind, or it’s not going to be real communication. This sounds obvious, but it’s often forgotten. Jaffe: You’re appearing as part of the Jewish Book Festival. Is there anything of a Jewish or spiritual nature that we can take away from the book? Alda: There’s an old and admirable tradition of taking in the stranger. It’s a remarkable experience, through good communication, to take in the stranger who is sometimes the person closest to you.

Jaffe: My internist recently got a portable rolling computer that she types into during the exam, resulting in reduced eye contact. What is your advice to the medical community in terms of communication? Alda: “Please turn around, look up and face me. I’m not just a bag of symptoms.” Jaffe: What’s the one movie role challenge that would be on your bucket list to play? Alda: I don’t have a bucket list. What do you do when you get to the end of your list? Fade out? I’d rather let life surprise me. It usually does anyway. Jaffe: Last word: Complete the sentence. A rabbi, priest and minister walk into a bar … Alda: The bartender says, “What is this, a joke?” ■

Who: Alan Alda What: Page From the Book Festival discussion with Holly Firfer Where: Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?

When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 27 Tickets: $33 for JCC members, $37 for others (includes a signed copy of the book); www.atlantajcc.org/ bookfestival or 678-812-4005

By Alan Alda Random House, 240 pages, $28

2 Views on the Wonder of Gal Gadot’s ‘Woman’

She Said The official-unofficial tagline of “Wonder Woman” has been variations on the cliché of “breaking the mold.” After all, it’s the first film in the DC Extended Universe to have a female lead and the first Wonder Woman film, in addition to being directed by a woman (Patty Jenkins). Yet in many ways, it’s indiscernible from other formulaic superhero films, and therein lies its particular triumph. “Wonder Woman” normalizes female superheroes with its own enthusiasm and style. After DC Comics’ reboot of “Batman” and Marvel’s 15-plus superhero films, seeing Wonder Woman in battle

manages to feel like a rare treat. Gal Gadot defies initial expectations. At nearly 6 feet tall, she uses her build and naturally arresting angles to create a believably lethal Amazon warrior. Surprisingly, Chris Pine as Steve Trevor (Wonder Woman’s love interest) offers one of the film’s most moving scenes. Additionally, Trevor’s band of often merry men provides another unexpected bright spot in today’s world of exceedingly bland background characters. “Wonder Woman” is one of the few recent hero flicks to address race or diversity through dialogue, witnessed via a Native American soldier and a Middle Eastern actor-turned-spy. No performance is lacking. The final villain — although restrained — delivers a worthy climax to Princess Diana of Themyscira’s origin film. “Wonder Woman” allows us to watch as Diana comes to grips with her identity and her powers. Said abilities only become more and more spectacular with each altercation, with wonderful results. It is undoubtedly a

standard-bearer for the DCEU and arguably the genre at large.

He Said It’s insulting to compare “Wonder Woman” with the few previous movies featuring a female superhero, such as 1984’s “Supergirl” and 2004’s “Catwoman.” None of them is in the same class. Gal Gadot’s breakout showcase ranks with the best in the genre. In the DC universe, neither “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” nor “Suicide Squad” can hold a golden lasso to “Wonder Woman.” Only “Batman” with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, Christopher Reeve’s first two times in Superman’s cape, and Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy are as entertaining. But this story of an Amazon princess who has lived her whole life on a hidden island and is astounded by a wristwatch but is fluent in more than 100 languages has far fewer plot holes and far more logical consistency than

any of its DC predecessors. And Gadot delivers the most likable, charming DC hero since Reeve’s Clark Kent first showed up at The Daily Planet in 1978. “Wonder Woman” gets points in this centennial year of the U.S. entry into World War I for setting a superhero origin story in the Great War. It’s fresh territory for Wonder Woman — created in 1941 and shown in World War II and the modern world when played by Lynda Carter on TV. The World War I setting also avoids letting the Nazis off the hook for being under the influence of Ares, the Greek god of war and the sworn enemy of the Amazons. “Wonder Woman” has its flaws, beyond Diana’s confusing mix of knowledge and naivete about the modern world. The superhero special effects are jumpy at times, and Ares in the climactic fight acts and looks just like Magneto from the “X-Men” movies. But “Wonder Woman” offers the best hope yet that the “Justice League” series will be a match for Marvel’s 27 “Avengers” films. ■ JUNE 9 ▪ 2017

“Wonder Woman,” starring Israeli Gal Gadot, is the biggest success ever for a female-led comic-book movie, so the AJT is offering perspectives from a woman (Elizabeth Friedly) and a man (Michael Jacobs) to test whether the sexes see this saga differently.

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Jeri Edelman 67, Peachtree Corners

Mr. and Mrs. David Bronstein of Dunwoody announce the marriage of their daughter, Marni, to Daniel Bekerman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Zvi Bekerman of Dunwoody. The bride is the granddaughter of Barbara Starsky of Boynton Beach, Fla., and the late Alan Starsky and of Marcia Bronstein of Rochester, N.Y., and the late Joseph Bronstein. The groom is the grandson of Rose Sowadsky of Alpharetta and the late Erich Felsberg and of the late Fira and Alexander Bekerman of Hadera, Israel. The ceremony and reception were held Sunday, April 2, 2017, at the Dillard House in the North Georgia mountains. Rabbi Joshua Heller officiated. The bride graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in family and consumer sciences. She is the alumni and special events coordinator at the Epstein School. The groom graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in public policy. He is the BBYO program coordinator at the Marcus Jewish Community Center. After a honeymoon in the Dominican Republic, they live in Dunwoody. ■

Jeri Ileen Edelman, 67, of Peachtree Corners died Saturday, June 3, 2017. Mrs. Edelman was originally from New York and moved to Boca Raton, Fla., before coming to Atlanta to be closer to her children and grandchildren. She was an active member of the Dunwoody Woman’s Club and Rivermont Women’s Association and loved to play mah-jongg and bridge. Jeri always was passionate about her family and above all being actively involved in her grandchildren’s lives. She was preceded in death by a son, Scott Edelman. She is survived by her husband of 47 years, Howard Edelman; son and daughter-in-law Jeffrey and Lee Edelman; son Steven Edelman; grandchildren Joshua, Justin and Shayna Edelman; her mother, Suzanne Goodman; and brothers and sisters-in-law Michael and Gail Goodman and Lowell and Shelly Goodman. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Temple Emanu-El, 1580 Spalding Drive, Sandy Springs, GA 30350. Graveside services were held Tuesday, June 6, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Scott Colbert officiating.

Doris Firestone 93, Atlanta

Doris Firestone (nee Matlas), 93, died Friday, June 2, 2017, surrounded by family. Doris was born in Youngstown, Ohio, to Morris and Yetta Matlas (Silverman). She was predeceased by her husband, Alan Firestone (died Aug. 26, 2016),

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OBITUARIES four beloved older sisters and brothers-in-law: Lillian and Nathan Ginsberg of New Castle, Pa., Jean and Manny Smith of Youngstown, Goldie and Sanford Gurse of Youngstown, and Faye and Al Cook of Toledo, Ohio. She is survived by her three daughters, Shellie (Peter) Moisio of Cleveland, Ohio, Kathy (Richard) Swartz of Smyrna and Jenifer (Lou Benson) Firestone of Atlanta. Shellie, Kathy and Jenifer provided attentive and loving care to Doris and Alan as their health slowly declined the past six years, necessitating their move from Cleveland and Boca Raton, Fla., to Atlanta. Doris also leaves grandchildren Courtney Swartz (Katherine Moskop), Justin (Amy) Moisio, Jaime Moisio, Hannah Firestone and Michael (Stephanie) Moisio, as well as three great-grandchildren, Riley, Maggie and Gabbie Moisio, with a fourth due in October. Doris’ parents immigrated from Romania and Russia to Youngstown, Ohio. At one point, her family was the only Jewish family in their town, just outside Youngstown. She graduated from Ohio State University, where she met Alan. The couple moved to Cleveland, where Doris taught elementary school until her first daughter was born. She and Alan raised their girls in University Heights, Ohio. They were charter members of Temple Emanu El and enthusiastic golfers at Lake Forest Country Club, where they had a wonderful and loving circle of friends. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. The family requests that donations be made to Weinstein Hospice, www.weinsteinhospice.org or 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30327. Doris was buried Tuesday, June 6, at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Bedford Heights, Ohio. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Faye Silverman 83, Peachtree Corners

Faye Silverman, 83, of Peachtree Corners died peacefully Wednesday evening, May 31, 2017, with Bernard, her loving husband of 61 years, at her side. She was born Hannah Faye Lewitt on June 17, 1933, in Boston, Ga., the second

www.atlantajewishtimes.com of three daughters born to Miriam and Ben Lewitt. In 1941, when Miriam and Ben died two weeks apart, Faye, Leatrice and Jean were split up. She was 8 years old when she went to live with her Aunt Reba and Uncle Arthur in Thomasville. She spent the next 75 years trying to rebuild the sense of family she had lost. She met Bernard at the University of Florida, and they married June 12, 1955. She worked as a speech pathologist, first in the Wake County School System in Raleigh, N.C., and later in private practice. Faye loved children and loved to teach, but her family was her passion. Together, she and Bernie raised four children, danced at four weddings and watched proudly as their 13 grandchildren grew to adulthood. Wherever they went, the Silverman family brought the party with them. In addition to Bernie, Faye is survived by daughter Miriam Rosner (Noah); sons Aaron (Laurie), Alan (Lorraine) and Marshall (Suzanne); and grandchildren Kenny (Michelle), Josh, Rachel, Stuart, Tori, Elliot, Greyson, Bailey and Scott Silverman and Casey, Allie, Alec and Eli Rosner. They were her light and life’s work. A graveside service was held Friday, June 2, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs with Rabbi Scott Colbert officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, www.alz.org. Guests are encouraged to sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Betty Sloan 96, Atlanta

Betty Sloan, age 96, of Atlanta died Sunday, June 4, 2017. She is lovingly remembered by her son and daughter-in-law, Stanley and Sarah Sloan of Atlanta; granddaughters Rebecca Sloan LaBanca of Atlanta and Susan Sloan of Washington, D.C.; and great-granddaughter Sloan Olivia LaBanca. She was predeceased by her husband, Jacob Sloan, of blessed memory. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the William Breman Jewish Home, which cared for her during her last two years of life. A graveside service was held Tuesday, June 6, at Har Jehuda Cemetery in Upper Darby, Pa. The family is sitting shiva in Atlanta through Monday morning, June 12, except for Shabbat from sundown Friday, June 9, to sundown Saturday, June 10. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta 770-451-4999.

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85, Atlanta

Goldie Tukel Weinstein, 85, of Atlanta died Monday morning, May 29, 2017. Born in Detroit in 1931, she was proceeded in death by her husband, Harold Morton Weinstein, and her parents, Helen and Charles Tukel. Goldie was an amazing force of nature: loyal, strong, dedicated, generous to all and possessing a great sense of humor. There was no one else you would ever want to have stand at your side. A graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, she taught early childhood education in the Detroit and Los Angeles metro-area school systems before meeting Harold at a wedding in Detroit and marrying three months later. Shortly thereafter, they moved to Atlanta, where they singlehandedly changed the nature of eating lunch in the central business district of downtown Atlanta. She was half of the dynamic duo behind Harold’s Sandwich Shop. In addition to the lives that she touched through the sandwich shop with Harold, she was active in City of Hope and the Congregation Beth Jacob Sisterhood and was an active supporter of the civil rights movement. Central to her life were her children and grandchildren. She is survived by her daughters, Carol Weinstein Karlin and Judith Weinstein Faber (Michael); a son, Steven Weinstein (Chayna); a brother, Irving Tukel (Barbara); and grandchildren Michal and Moshe Karlin, William Faber, and Hana, Aaron and Ilana Weinstein. Contributions may be made to Congregation Beth Jacob, the Atlanta Opera or a charity of your choice. May her memory be a blessing. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Graveside services were held Tuesday, May 30, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park with Rabbi Ilan Feldman officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999.

Death Notices

Betty Camas of Marietta on May 28. Kalman Salpeter, father of Congregation Beth Shalom member Michael Salpeter, on May 24.

Missing on a Mitzvah It was Wednesday at the kosher deli of a local supermarket. I was there to order a sandwich, and even though there were several people ahead of me, I decided to wait. A harried man whom I’ve met a couple of times came up, surveyed the situation and addressed me: “I’m starving, but the line’s too long. I’ll shop and come back later. What are you getting?” I understood his hint and offered to place his order when it was my turn. “I’m getting a turkey combo,” I told him. “What do you want?” “Sounds good. Will you order the same for me?” And he rushed away. Ten minutes later, I ordered both sandwiches, received and paid for mine, and informed the counterman that someone else would pick up and pay for the other one. I then joined my friend Essie at a table. After a leisurely lunch, we headed out. I ran into the man for whom I ordered the sandwich and asked if he enjoyed it. “Oh, I changed my mind,” he said. “I had so much to do all over the shopping center. No time to eat! Gotta run!” And off he went. I found the store manager and explained what had happened. “Don’t worry about it,” he said when I offered to pay for the unclaimed sandwich. I felt bad, and Essie had some advice for me, “That’s what you get for trying to do a favor for somebody who doesn’t need it.” I was thinking about unrequited acts of kindness when groups of men and women from residential facilities in the area entered the supermarket. They were eager to take advantage of the Wednesday senior discounts. It was such a nice day that Essie and I decided to purchase drinks and linger outside, where a number of tables and benches are located. As we sat down, we noticed a solitary, rather frail-looking woman from one of the residences slowly maneuvering her shopping cart toward the outdoor table next to ours. She looked tired; having finished shopping, she selected a seat closest to the van pickup spot. From our table, Essie faced this woman and noticed that she was perspiring and squinting and had one of her arms raised to shield her eyes from

the sun. She was sitting in the hottest, most blinding spot. Essie pointed to the table and benches on the other side of ours, which were completely in the shade, but the woman didn’t respond. Concerned, I approached the woman and offered to help her change tables. She nodded, straightened her

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clothes and reached for her purse. While she was still sitting, I decided to relieve her of dealing with her loaded shopping cart. I pushed it to the shaded table and used a few tissues to wipe it clean. Then, satisfied that I had set the stage for the woman’s move, I returned to sit with Essie. But the woman remained seated in the sun, apparently flustered. Once again, Essie expressed the obvious: “She can’t get to the other table without her cart. Didn’t you realize that she can’t walk without leaning on it?” I got up again, apologized to the woman for removing her support, gingerly linked one of her arms through mine, made sure she had her purse and helped her walk to the shaded table. I apologized a few more times; she blinked and sat. Essie rewarded me with a look that said, “If you’d have done it right at first, you wouldn’t be apologizing now!” Soon, the woman’s van pulled up. I prudently waited for instructions from Essie, who didn’t need to direct me this time. The driver went to help the woman, who had started pushing her shopping cart toward him. “Why were you sitting so far away?” the driver asked. Pointing to me, she answered, “She moved me!” “It was shadier there!” I blurted in self-defense. Twice in a single day I had failed to successfully perform a mitzvah. Now I got it. There are two components: an eager deliverer and an appropriate recipient. There’s nothing to do but keep trying. ■

“I Saw the Sign”

By Yoni Glatt, koshercrosswords@gmail.com Difficulty Level: Manageable

Chana’s Corner

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39. Holy box 41. Yalda, in Glasgow 42. Rental from Hertz or Eldan 43. Sign for one wrapping tefillin around a leg? 45. Film sch. that rejected Spielberg 46. Sharon Osbourne, ___ Levy 49. Colonial workers in Jerusalem today? 52. Higher power? 54. ___-El (Superman’s real name, which means “G-d’s DOWN voice”) 1. Item in Jacob’s dream 2. Pique, like (Eve’s) curiosity 56. Like Solomon, compared to everyone else 3. Product that might soothe aches after a long hike in the 58. Levantine dip 59. Those present at the start Golan of services, e.g. 4. Shanah, in Spain 5. Portman or Wood, for short 60. Grandmas 62. Like many who have 6. Temple figure 7. One might get rid of challah cholent 64. Brother of Asher crumbs 67. Israel’s isn’t very wide 8. Lisa who sings “Feel What 69. Rock genre for David Bowie U Feel” or Marc Bolan 9. Maples or Sokoloff 10. One might be stacked with 71. Kahane’s org. 72. Second Temple ___ sugar packets and kichel 11. Sign for a Shabbat zone? 74. Word before and after “for an” 12. Name with melech or 75. Words not said at many sheva Jewish weddings 13. ___ Einai 18. Gedi preceder 23. Judge Judy’s org. 25. Jared and Ivanka’s previous ’hood LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 27. Treif “Lion L I S A S B R A V E C B S 14 15 16 King” animal A D A R I B E G I N H O T 17 18 19 G A L A X Y Q U E S T I N A 29. Danny on 20 21 22 B D S P D A E V E S “Happy Days” 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 P I G A L S S H E A T H with Henry 30 31 32 33 34 35 E N E M Y E M T O R S Winkler 36 37 38 39 40 41 E D O T M A A R I V R A V 30. Upsherin 42 43 44 K I R A G A D O T P E T E sound 45 46 47 S A G A M I G O S I G O R 32. David to 48 49 50 51 E E L R E P B E A N S Jesse 52 53 54 55 56 57 C A S S P I S H E L E E 59 60 61 62 63 34. 1994 Jeremy 58 A B E L P E E A L E 64 65 66 67 68 69 Piven comedy L O G G A L V A N I Z E R S 70 71 72 37. Jordan to E V A A D L E R E R M A S 73 74 75 Israel, in 1967 P S A L M F A U D A B E L aired a No. 1 hit by 8-Down repeatedly 71. Most Israelis 73. Sign for a fast Torah reader? 76. “Oy!” 77. Game with Simon 78. Para ___ 79. Rival of Lieber’s and Utz 80. Israeli news site 81. Brother of 35-Across

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