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Mind Your Biz When it comes to taking care of business, Atlanta Jews are represented in nearly every industry, from law and retail shopping to the growing of legal cannabis. This week we spotlight a crosssection of Atlanta’s Jewish business community from a mother-daughter legal team to the entrepreneur inventor on our cover capitalizing on a “blooming” trade. In between, we profile a native Atlanta lawyer advising about estate planning and a women’s business coach, plus, a rabbi taking on larger responsibilities and a former French professor turned small business owner of a jewelry boutique and fine art gallery.

Speaking about arts, we interview a young Jewish actor in a controversial play about coming out at the peak of the 1980s HIV epidemic. We also wrap up the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival with a historical perspective on the impact of American Jews in the music industry.

Members of the local Jewish community also lend their voices to current events. A few Atlanta rabbis join others

at a vigil for the victims of the New Zealand mosque massacres. And Atlanta Jews from Israel and those interested in the upcoming election share their views about the contentious race for Knesset seats.

Our Israel correspondent Rabbi David Geffen reports on a panel discussion by those running for office and about the latest missiles that hit a West Bank home, injuring seven.

In further Israel coverage, we interview Garry Sobel, the volunteer chair of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in the Southeast, about the successful fundraising organization supporting the country’s soldiers.

Also fighting for freedom is Emory University historian Deborah Lipstadt, who urges colleges to promote free speech in light of rising anti-Semitism on campus.

We write about the husband-wife team trying to preserve the memory and dignity of Holocaust survivors by taking their photos and helping provide for their basic needs.

From hardship to festivity, we post

THIS WEEK photos from two recent Purim events and preview the City Winery Downtown Seder with its political and artistic interpretations of the classic story of perseverance and survival. Achieving success despite the obstacles, a few of the Jewish businesspeople in this issue probably have accounts of their own to share. ■

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John Pregulman photographing Holocaust survivors in Tucson, Ariz., in February.

Dignity Can be Photographed and Nourished

By Dave Schechter At the root of their barbarism, the Nazis sought to strip Jews of their dignity.

Decades later, poverty has done the same to many Holocaust survivors.

John and Amy Israel Pregulman have merged their professional skills, and their lives, to affirm the dignity of these witnesses to humanity’s inhumanity. In the past five years, John has photographed 830 survivors in 39 U.S. cities, and in Krakow, Prague, and Tokyo.

Amy is executive director of KAVOD (Hebrew for “dignity”), the nonprofit the Pregulmans created to help indigent survivors purchase groceries and medicines.

While in Atlanta from March 30 to April 2, John will photograph local Holocaust survivors and the couple will attend a national meeting of agencies that assist survivors.

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“My feeling is, that’s a Jewish perspective. You’re taught to take care of each other,” Amy said, speaking from their home in Memphis. “We’re responsible for each other as Jews. We’re responsible for each other as people.”

Most survivors are in their 80s and older. As their numbers decline, the Pregulmans feel a sense of urgency. “That is without question,” Amy said. “We get invited and have to come.”

For the photographs, John wields a small digital camera, relies on the available light, and foregoes a backdrop. “I found in the beginning that big cameras and fancy setups intimidate them,” he said.

He avoids words and phrases, such as “rounding up,” that might prompt unpleasant memories. “We don’t say ‘shooting’ pictures. I used to say this and some of the ladies got big eyes and started to

cry,” he said.

John sends each survivor several of the photographs, along with a handwritten note, “and with their permission only, we put them on our website.”

The photographs are not displayed in galleries. “We would exhibit the photos elsewhere if the opportunity arises,” as it did at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, (a city with a significant survivor population), and The Jewish Museum in Memphis, Amy said.

In the course of this work, the Pregulmans learned that perhaps onethird of an estimated 100,000 survivors in the United States live below the government-established poverty line. “We found that unconscionable,” Amy said.

John often tells the story of the Holocaust survivor in Orlando who offered him something to eat, but her refrigerator was almost empty. An air conditioner repair had left her without sufficient funds to buy food.

“In relationship to need, it’s such a massive problem. There is more need than there are dollars, right now,” Amy said.

Since its founding in November 2015, KAVOD has raised $310,000 – 95 percent donated by individuals – and every penny is earmarked to the survivors.

A grant covers administrative costs and Amy’s salary as the only employee.

She purchases gift cards online from Kroger, Publix, Walmart, Target and other stores and pharmacies. Funneled through local Jewish organizations, KAVOD has assisted more than 1,200 survivors.

“They know their survivors and they know their resources,” Amy said,

explaining that to meet an emergency need, local agencies will contact KAVOD. “We fill the gap.”

Sometimes the recipient knows that the gift has come through KAVOD; often, they do not. “We don’t always know if they know. Sometimes the agency will let them know. We sometimes receive these beautiful notes from them,” Amy said.

“We tend to make connections with the survivors who are more open to that than others. There probably are 40 or more that we stay in touch with and talk to. It’s inspirational to us and really gives us the passion to do what we’re doing,” John said.

Neither Amy nor John has Holocaust survivors in their families.

John, a native of Chattanooga, leads the photography and fundraising efforts.

Amy, a Memphis native, takes care of KAVOD’s social media networking and grant writing.

Amy’s professional background is in nonprofit management. Indeed, the subject of her master’s thesis in strategic planning at the University of Memphis was KAVOD. John attended the Parsons School of Design in New York and worked as a professional photographer for four years.

“What I liked to do the most was always portraits,” he said.

Returning home to Chattanooga, he served as president of Siskin Steel, a century-old family business, and later became managing partner of Robmer Partners, a real estate company started by his father. Today, he works as a financial advisor and in the commercial real estate and investment banking fields.

“We actually met because of this

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Amy Israel Pregulman with one of the Holocaust survivors photographed in Denver, Colo., in February.

project,” Amy said. Five years ago, a an organization of more than 140 agenfriend asked John to photograph 65 survi- cies in the United States, Canada, and vors for the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Israel.

Last year, the Pregulmans had a an experience that he felt was a calling.

That friend also invited John to visit booth at the meeting. This year they will Memphis, where Amy Israel was cultural lead a session on KAVOD as a resource.

John said that the emotional chalarts director at the Memphis Jewish Comlenge of photographing Holocaust surmunity Center.

“I reached out to him and asked if he vivors comes not in the moment, but would do a gallery show” of his survivor later, “although there have been a few photographs, Amy said. John declined cases when the ladies have told you their story for the first the gallery show time they’ve told request, but not anyone. They cry long after sent Amy and get upset, rea Facebook friend membering their request. A converfamilies. Both of sation began and, us start to get emoin January 2015, the tional. What these couple met. KAVOD people have been was formed in Nothrough.” vember 2015.

The work John, 61, and has had a lasting Amy, 49, married impact. “And I dein September 2016. cided, when I go to They have six chilminyan, and I try to dren between them go as often as I can, from previous marI always stand for riages.

Kaddish, for those The number of who didn’t survive. agencies contactJohn Pregulman and Amy Israel I’m only reading ing KAVOD spiked Pregulman, founders of KAVOD: Ensuring books by survivors after a December Dignity for Holocaust Survivors. that we’ve met. It’s 2018 public radio report that aired nationally. “We are get- not just emotional, but inspirational. ting calls, emails, and Facebook messag- Look at what they’ve done and what es from all over the country,” Amy said. they’ve overcome. What greater story is “Any time we travel, it’s no one’s expense there? They’re the ‘greatest generation’ but ours. We don’t charge for our time. squared,” John said.

“They are the toughest, the most We don’t charge for the photos. We don’t incredible people. We find them incharge for speaking,” she said.

The Pregulmans are coming to At- spiring” he said. “Their stories, they’re lanta for the annual meeting of the Net- mind boggling. We cannot begin to work of Jewish Human Service Agencies, comprehend.” ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES MARCH 29, 2019 | 5

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Students learn about C-SPAN and test their knowledge through interactive experiences on the C-SPAN bus.

Students and faculty dressed in their Purim costumes watch a screening of Pinsker’s film.

Caitlyn Pinsker thanks C-SPAN for the award and discusses her film.

C-SPAN representative Joel Bacon, left, alongside Pinsker and her advisor Kendrick Phillips, right.

Davis Student Wins C-SPAN Honor

By Eddie Samuels Healthcare isn’t a big, flashy topic that attracts many middle schoolers' attention, but it caught Caitlyn Pinsker’s eye. She decided to create a documentary for C-SPAN’s annual StudentCam competition in which she discussed the topic with experts.

Her documentary was chosen as one of 150 from a field of more than 2,923 throughout 48 states and Washington

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D.C., and Pinsker’s achievement was celebrated March 22 in a ceremony at The Davis Academy middle school.

The morning kicked off with students checking out C-SPAN’s interactive bus, which has toured the country since 1993. The experience included touchscreen displays with quizzes and information, and face-to-face interaction with C-SPAN representatives who answered questions and discussed the purpose of the network’s coverage of public affairs.

The ceremony, which coincided with Davis’ Purim celebrations, lending a festive air, opened with remarks from Rabbi Micah Lapidus.

Kendrick Phillips, Davis’ director of visual and performing arts and Pinsker’s faculty advisor, discussed the process of making the film in class and how important opportunities like this were for students.

“C-Span’s national documentary competition StudentCam is the perfect vehicle for my film production class to create, write and produce documentaries that empower their voices as young filmmakers exploring their interests and topics in civics, and affecting their lives as Americans,” Phillips told the AJT. At Davis for the second year in a row to recognize a student’s film, C-SPAN representative Joel Bacon discussed the network's role as an unbiased, gavel-to-gavel news source.

Pinsker’s film, “Healthcare and America’s Well Being: Being American and its Effect on Americans’ Health,” was screened in front of hundreds of students, teachers and family.

She spoke to a number of experts in creating the film, including William Custer, Georgia State University professor and director of the Center for Health Services Research, and Dr. Von Nguyen from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At the Davis ceremony, Bacon presented Pinsker with her award. He later discussed the competition with the AJT. “The most important part is to be able to go in depth into an issue,” he said.

“It really is about doing the research, showing all sides of the issue and telling a narrative, which is an important part of a documentary.”

He explained what stood out about Pinsker’s film, saying, “The way Caitlyn talked about healthcare in a very serious manner and how it related to being

American, and that’s important to us.”

During a few brief remarks at the ceremony, Pinsker thanked Phillips for her help with the film and everyone involved in the selection process at C-SPAN. “I learned so much from working on this project. I not only learned how to make a documentary, but I also learned so much about healthcare and America,” Pinsker told the AJT. “I am so grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in this competition. I would not have been able to win without working hard and the mentoring of my faculty advisor, Ms. Phillips.”

Pinsker added that she had discussed fighting homelessness at her TED Talk — a program through which eighth-graders conduct research and present their findings within a theme — and that she would be donating the $250 prize from StudentCam to a local homeless shelter.

Following the Davis event, the C-SPAN bus traveled to Walton High School, where three students were honored for their winning film.

Phillips said that the importance of the competition is in its ability to reach beyond what is ordinarily possible in a classroom, teaching skills such as interviewing, writing and production, as well as how to interact with experts and conduct polls, and filming and editing original content.

“Caitlyn worked tirelessly, passionately and was open to mentoring throughout her entire experience. I am deeply proud of her,” Phillips said.

In her final thoughts to the AJT, Pinsker’s message was very simple. “Working hard and thinking big pays off,” she said. ■ For more information and to see the winning films, visit the AJT’s website. For more information on the competition and to see previous winners, visit www.studentcam.org.

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Jewish Music Festival Closes with Salute to the Past

By Bob Bahr Wrapping up its series of programs, the 2019 Atlanta Jewish Music Festival took a look back at both the roots of popular music in America and the contributions American Jews have made to its growth.

During the closing week of the festival, Executive Director Joe Alterman brought in two authorities on the subject and paid tribute on closing night to the Chess brothers from Chicago, who left a rich legacy in recorded music of the rock ’n’ roll era.

Rabbi Neil Sandler, the senior rabbi at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, launched the final three days of events that began March 14. He noted that Jewish music has a relationship with the holy, the kedushah of scripture. In its biblical origins, he pointed out, Jewish music is holy through its separateness.

“It’s separateness in some regards because it is ours, not just in distance, but in a kind of holiness for us to discover,” he said.

Leading the night’s program of discovery at the synagogue was musician and musical historian Ben Sidran, whose acclaimed 2012 book, “There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and The American Dream, ” is an examination, in one respect, of how Jews explored their separation from American society to form a bond with another important group of "outsiders," African-Americans.

Sidran’s talk at the AA synagogue echoed his remarks in his book, that “On the one hand, Jews wanted to be Americans totally. On the other hand, they also needed to be the ‘other’ in order to exist as Jews. By identifying with blacks, they were able to accomplish both.

Jews were guaranteed to be connected to the true American outsider experience.”

In the process, they were pioneers in both the popularization of black culture in America while at the same time putting their own distinctive stamp on the creation of America’s great cultural export – popular music.

Yet, as Sidran reminded his audience, the immortals of America song, men such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Bob Dylan, were the first to say that being Jewish had absolutely nothing to do with their creative work. But as Sidran pointed out, “There is nothing more Jewish than saying that being Jewish had nothing to do with your music. Because, we are talking about something that is hiding in plain sight.”

The Jewish commitment to social justice and societal change is reflected in one of the first American songs about social consciousness, “Brother Can You Spare A Dime?” which was composed by Yip Harburg in 1932. It was the first of hundreds of such songs that followed, such as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in the 1960s and 1970s and beyond.

That commitment to Jewish values and tradition was reflected in comments by the writer and music critic, Alan Light, who was Temple Sinai’s scholar in residence and a guest of the AJMF during the Shabbat weekend March 15-16.

In his series of four talks, Light explored the work of Jewish song writers such as Bob Dylan and the influence of Israel in the work of non-Jewish composers such as Johnny Cash. But it was the work of Leonard Cohen, the Canadian born singer and songwriter, who died in 2016 at the age of 81, that Light found particularly inspirational.

Music scholar Ben Sidran, left, and Joe Alterman, executive director of AJMF, discuss American music at AA synagogue.

Final night of the AJMF featured a tribute to Chess Records at Venkman’s in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward.

He praised Cohen for his “ability to encapsulate multiple ideas, multiple emotions. This is where you see the discipline, the seriousness of someone who was a poet first,” Light pointed out.

This was most apparent in Cohen’s famous work, “Hallelujah,” his epic song that he worked on during the last 30 years of his life, adding at least 80 verses to the song’s lyrics. In its opening lines, it reminds us of the moral descent of King David as told in the biblical book of Samuel.

“The notion of being attached to history, of art, of creativity,” is at the heart of Cohen’s significant and long-lasting body of work,” according to Light.

This year’s festival concluded with a tribute to the legacy of Chess Records, the recording company founded in 1950 by two Jewish immigrants from what is now Belarus, Fiszel and Lejzor Czyż, who changed their names in America to Phil and Leonard Chess.

They brought to Americans at the beginning of the

rock ’n’ roll era such stars as Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley and Etta James. During the 25 years the Chesses owned the company, they made their building at 2127 S. Michigan Avenue one of the centers of popular music.

The festival ended with two sold out performances by the ATL Collective that re-created some of the label’s best-known hits.

The extended weekend was a fitting and wide-ranging acknowledgment of the role that Jews have played in creating the world of American popular music. And it was a rousing climax to the change in direction that Alterman emphasized in his first year as the festival head.

This includes being more welcoming, expanding the audience and making the experience deeper and more meaningful. He is already looking to the future and how music can expand our understanding of one another.

“I have this idea that I love, that the festival is a gift.

It’s a gift that brings people in to share music with others and ultimately, to bring people together around music.” ■

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Rabbi Joshua Lesser, left, and Rabbi Muslim attendees with names and Laurence Rosenthal, right, with other photos of Christchurch victims. speakers at the Clarkston vigil.

A young mourner and her mother view photographs of the victims.

Rabbi Lesser helped to organize the vigil.

Rabbi Rosenthal spoke at the March 21 vigil in Clarkston for the victims of a terrorist attack on New Zealand mosques.

Local Jews Honor New Zealand Mosque Victims

By Kevin C. Madigan A vigil in Clarkston March 21 drew hundreds to honor the 50 lives lost in terrorist attacks at two mosques in New Zealand. The event, held at Refuge Coffee, a nonprofit that provides refugees with job training and mentorship, was partly arranged by Rabbi Joshua Lesser of Congregation Bet Haverim.

“I would have been here regardless,” Rabbi Lesser told the AJT. “After Pittsburgh I felt just overwhelmed by the interfaith support we got. That’s why I helped organize it, and because a good Muslim friend of mine, Dr. Heval Kelli, asked me to. I wanted to respond with the same kindness that we received after the Tree of Life shooting.”

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His fellow congregant, Alisa Bouer, agreed. “We are very sad, but more than anything, Muslims really stepped up and gave a lot when we had the shootings in Pittsburgh. When we had our vigil at CBH, it was packed, and a lot of folks from the Muslim community were there,” she said. “We are all brothers and sisters and support each other.”

Rabbi Lesser described the Clarkston gathering as a chance for leaders and representatives from different faith communities around Atlanta to offer words of mourning, of healing, of unity, and of action.

He told the crowd, “We stand for the Muslim community in solace and solidarity and support. Our neighbor, our friend, and our faith family is hurt and our

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We stand together. We grieve and respond as a human family.”

The attacks in Christchurch on March 15 targeted the Al Noor Mosque, where 43 people were killed, and the Linwood Mosque, where another seven died; many were also injured in both places. The country’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, who is banning the type of automatic weapon used in the massacres, has received praise for her handling of the crisis.

“She led with her heart and with love,” said Atlanta’s Honorary Consul for New Zealand Ian Latham, who came to the Clarkston vigil.

Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal of Ahavath Achim Synagogue spoke as well: “Our goodness doesn’t come from our similarities. Rather, (it) comes from our differences.

We are not made good by being superior over others. …

Only when we are able to embrace and cherish our differences are we truly acting in G-d’s ways,” he said. “Our gathering here right now, thousands of miles away from the crime, is proof that 50 souls still matter and are considered part of G-d’s goodness in the world.”

Amina Osman, a Muslim, told the AJT: “They want to kill us, but we are here to forgive them and keep loving because we are not here for revenge. We are here to love.”

Asked if Jews elsewhere in Atlanta were honoring the Christchurch victims, Rabbi Lesser said, “A number of rabbis and leaders were at the 14th Street mosque (AlFarooq Masjid) on Sunday.” There was also a vigil held March 19 at the Istanbul Cultural Center attended by members of Congregation Etz Chaim.

Marsha Shrago was one of them. “I would say there were more than 100 people there. There were a number of speakers from different organizations: three rabbis including Rabbi [Albert] Slomovitz, a Baptist minister from Cartersville, a woman from a Catholic organization. And all the talks were about how we are in this together, how we have to remain solid and say ‘no’ to hate.”

Among those responding to the tragedy was Dov Wilker, regional director of AJC Atlanta. “American Jewish Committee is deeply saddened by the tragic events in New Zealand. As partners with the Muslim community for well over a decade, we know that only through education and people-to-people interactions will we be able to work together in hope of preventing future incidents.

Our deepest sympathies go out to the Muslim community in Atlanta and around the world.” ■

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Lipstadt Issues Call to Action on Campuses Bob Bahr Amid a rising tide of anti-Semitic incidents on the nation’s campuses, Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt has issued an energetic call to action to protect freedom of expression. She told an Emory conference on “Academic Freedom and Free Speech On Campus” March 22 that universities must take a more active role in encouraging the free exchange of ideas.

“Nothing should trump free speech,” she said.

“Some of what we are currently seeing on campus, like shouting down speakers or faculty invitations only to speakers who make students feel comfortable, and even physical attacks on speakers, are examples of a failure to understand what a university truly is.”

The Anti-Defamation League has noted in recent years a sharp rise in racial and religious intimidation. In 2017, the ADL reported more than 200 incidents of anti-Semitism at colleges and universities, an increase of 89 percent over the previous year. The ADL’s Center on Extremism last year pointed out that white supremacists had targeted college campuses for the distribution of hate literature.

There has been an increase of hate on both the left and the right. In an op-ed in The Washington Post in October, ADL Executive Director Jonathan Greenblatt pointed out that “anti-Israel campaigns that demonize the Jewish state and its supporters have gained momentum. Dozens of campuses have held ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ events, and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement, which promotes policies that would end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, has spread widely over the past decade.”

Lipstadt’s strident condemnation of what is happening in higher learning today also comes amid a surge in anti-Semitic incidents at colleges and universities around the country. Just weeks after the murder of 11 congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue in October in Pittsburgh, a Jewish psychology professor at New York’s Columbia University found her office vandalized with red spray-painted Nazi swastikas and the word “yid” scrawled on her wall. The same sort of attack followed a vigil at the University of Tennessee for the murdered congregants, and at Duke University in North Carolina, where a mural in memory of the Pittsburgh victims was defaced with Nazi symbols.

Lipstadt, who published a book on contemporary anti-Semitism earlier this year, is not just concerned about attacks on free speech in America, she also sees the rise of nationalist political movements in Eastern and Western Europe as a warning sign.

“I’m very disturbed,” she told her audience at Emory. “What I see happening in this country, what I see happening in other authoritarian countries. There is a rise of authoritarianism and anti-Democracy populism, whether you’re looking at Hungary or the AFD, the Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany, or in Italy.

They are antithetical to freedom of speech, antithetical to freedom of the press, antithetical to this freedom of ideas. And I think it’s a dangerous, dangerous trend.

And the more I study contemporary anti-Semitism, the more I saw this trend as a real threat.”

Lipstadt has been an unwavering voice in contem-

tion to the pipe bomber and the Pittsburgh murderer was the fact a few days earlier in Kentucky two African-Americans were murdered outside a supermarket by an alleged white nationalist.”

But while Lipstadt argued at the Emory conference that injustice had no place in the academic environment, she urged that the fight against extremism be strategic.

“We must remember that it’s in the free exchange of ideas that extremists are revealed to be the extremists that they are. And it’s in the free exchange of ideas that truth is brought to light and prejudice and intolerance are revealed for what they are.”

What is going on in our society, she concluded in her Time magazine essay, has the potential to teach all of us something, whether on a college Emory professor Deborah Lipstadt was the keynote speaker at campus or not. the Emory conference on Academic Freedom and Free Speech On Campus. Her book on anti-Semitism was published in January.

“In Jewish tradition, upon mourning the dead, we say: May their memory be for a blessing. Today we porary media against the increase in hate speech and should say: May the memory of all those killed and the violence. Her warning in Time magazine last year after suffering of those who have been wounded be for a blessthe Pittsburgh massacre was typical of what she sees as ing and for a lesson.” ■ a threat to all Americans.

Bob Bahr will be teaching a five-week course at Temple “Do not think that this attack is only about Jews.

It may start with the Jews, but it never ends there. And Sinai, starting Tuesday, April 2, based in part on Deborah conversely, it may start with others – Muslims, African Lipstadt’s recently published writings. For more informaAmericans, LGBTQ identifying folks – but it will ulti- tion about the course, “Books Into Film - Deborah Lipstadt mately reach Jews. Lost in the legitimate media atten- and Antisemitism,” www.templesinaiatlanta.org.

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tween right and center.”

At the end of a Passover The left, Klein Halevi seder, those still at the table said, is a ghost, albeit one declare “Next Year in Jeruthat makes a convenient tarsalem!” usually with little get for Netanyahu. He faces intention of fulfilling that his toughest political chalpledge. In this way, Israel lenge in years while corrupremains as much or more an tion indictments await him ideal than a place. post-election.

Indeed, most American The tone of the Israeli Jews have never stepped foot campaign, with allegations in Eretz Yisrael, that “land of Dave of corruption and moral turmilk and honey” or “the only Schechter pitude, countered by accusademocracy in the Middle From Where I Sit tions of a biased judiciary, East,” or, in the words of storyteller Noa Baum, “a land twice prom- leftist traitors and fake news, may sound vaguely familiar to Americans. ised.”

American Jews are familiar with the Israel is a nation birthed in the aftermath of the worst of humanity’s inhu- complaint by Israelis (not all of them, to manity, a country founded by Ashkenazi be fair) who say: You don’t live here, you Jews that now moves to a Mizrachi beat, don’t pay taxes here, you don’t serve in and a headline that cannot but fail to the IDF, you don’t understand the presconvey the complexity of the news that sures of life here, so don’t preach to us about what we should or should not do. follows.

When it comes specifically to the The desire of many American Jews that Israel be “a light unto the nations” Knesset election, they are right.

Israelis – citizens of a sovereign naoften runs into the reality of Israel as a nerve-wracking high-wire act without tion, including the 21 percent who are a net. Spend enough time there and you Arab – will decide the future course of can almost hear the tension humming in their country. American Jews may care, even care deeply about what happens in that wire.

Security threats are an unceasing Israel, but as Americans, they must be source of stress. (As I write this, Israel is spectators as Israelis go to the polls.

I say “specifically to the Knesset retaliating against targets in Gaza after rockets fired from Gaza struck populated election” because if American Jews are areas in Israel.) Added to that in recent expected to maintain an emotional conmonths has been the divisive and polariz- nection to Israel, to donate money to Ising campaign in advance of Israel’s April raeli causes and lobby elected officials in 9 election of a new Knesset, and in turn, support of U.S. aid, they have every right to voice their concerns about religious the selection of a prime minister.

Only a fraction of American Jews pluralism, democratic institutions, and probably can name a living Israeli politi- relations with the Palestinian Arabs, cian other than Prime Minister Benjamin among the issues – and have them taken Netanyahu. Considering that Netanyahu seriously.

I’ve told this story before: After rehas been prime minister since 2009 (and also from 1996 to 1999), that would not be turning from living in Israel for a couple of years in the mid-1980s, we were invitsurprising.

It suggests, however, that American ed to speak at a Jewish Federation event Jews – whatever their degree of attach- in my wife’s Midwest hometown. My ment to the “Jewish homeland” – are ill- suggestion that those who had not been equipped to discuss the players and poli- to Israel skip writing a check to Federatics behind this election. tion and take themselves to Israel, “to see Even for those who follow Israeli what the fuss is all about,” did not go over politics from afar, keeping track of the well with our hosts. game is difficult. Teams merge and break For American Jews who care about apart as alliances shift in the name of po- Israel but have not been there, at this litical expediency. year’s seder, when you say “next year in Israeli journalist and author Yossi Jerusalem,” know that there is much to be Klein Halevi, a favorite of this column, gained by seeing the geography behind recently explained in The Atlantic maga- the headlines, by meeting and talking zine that, “Israeli politics is no longer a with the people who walk that high wire, contest between right and left, but be- navigating between ideals and reality. ■

OPINION

AJC’s Leaders for Tomorrow: Not Your Typical Jewish Education Program Like many Jewish kids, I attended Jewish sleepaway camp for several summers.

At camp, I was exposed to Israel and a few other topics related to world Jewry, but only in small doses. I knew those subjects were important and I wanted to continue learning, but I wasn’t Jereme sure where or how.

When American Jew- Weiner ish Committee’s Leaders for Tomorrow program started in Atlanta, I knew it would be the perfect place to continue learning about issues affecting Israel and the Jewish people.

At our first meeting, I quickly learned that LFT was not your typical Jewish education program. They were not teaching us prayers, stories from the Torah, or giving sermons. Instead, we were taught about identifying and addressing anti-Semitism, advocating for human rights, and understanding Israeli history and society. These are just a few of the topics we discussed that are critically important for American Jewish teens to understand, especially those of us who will be heading to college campuses soon.

At our sessions, I was exposed to multiple perspectives on complex issues facing Jews around the world. At each session, we had open group discussions where my peers voiced different opinions, and I felt confident enough to share my own. I always found it impressive that we, as teens, were given the freedom to form independent views about such complex topics, and to share them candidly with each other.

The session that was most impactful to me was when we were exposed to

the stories of declining Jewish communities around the country and world. We watched a documentary that followed several families who had moved to cities with larger Jewish populations and more opportunities for engagement. Before this, I had never considered what it was like to be a Jew outside of Atlanta or another large city. This session helped me realize that not all Jews are as lucky as we are in Atlanta to be surrounded by opportunities to express our Judaism, and that it is our responsibility to protect vulnerable Jewish communities here in the U.S., France, Argentina, and around the world.

Another highlight of my LFT experience was having conversations with leaders with whom I would not normally have access. In our final session, we met with Consul General of Mexico Javier Díaz de León. We discussed various issues that were important to us such as immigration reform, advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace, and Iran and the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action]. It was amazing to speak with an international leader and hear about how his country protects its Jewish community and maintains strong ties with Israel.

My LFT experience was only the beginning of my education surrounding Israel and Jewish issues. After participating in LFT, I am more aware and prepared to partake in conversations I may encounter on college campuses around BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] or antiSemitism. Additionally, LFT helped me realize that I would like to study politi-

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REFLECTIONS The Booms Were Thunder Plus D.C. for Trump and AIPAC, I was trying to write on when alerted, was on the Sunday night after attendphone with the commanding a panel discussion in er-in-chief and other memEnglish conducted by candibers of the defense staff of dates from eight or nine parthe country. There was no ties running in the election. defense minister in Israel The countdown to April 9 because the PM wears the is only 15 days away so this hat of the minister of deis “money-time” here in our fense, another piece of his “Big Leagues.” From about 10 cabinet responsibilities. p.m. until 1 a.m. there were Rabbi David Sometime in the early hours constant sounds of thunder, Geffen of the morning, his staff which could have been rockets exploding as they landed in Jerusa- announced that Netanyahu was returnlem. However, with the night filled with ing to Israel: Trump meeting, yes; AIPAC these extreme sounds, the results were speech, no.

Israelis, clearly, are awaiting with hard rain, not fires.

However, I realized when I woke bated breath to see what our retaliation up on Monday morning why the words will be. Netanyahu and his defense staff hesitated to enter my computer for the will react carefully since the PM does Atlanta Jewish Times. This morning has not want war, only a strong message to been filled, minute by minute, for several Hamas. I have no predictions; perhaps hours, with reports of the missile attacks you will have when the news reaches you on a community, Shimrien in the Shom- on your Monday.

The panel discussion I attended ron sector of the West Bank. A building was hit directly. It was a home and seven made me proud. The participants were very civil, even those whose English was people were injured.

The prime minister, in Washington, not perfect. This goes against the con-

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The Israeli Air Force retaliated against Hamas' recent missile attacks with various strategic targets in the Gaza Strip.

stant debates of a virtual nature, on the air, TV, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms.

Have you ever heard the term “blood libel”? I always thought it was directed at the Jews for whatever we were supposed to have done to the Christians. Not here in Israel; one of the leading candidates to be the next PM filled the air with that explosive term over Purim and Shabbat directed at his opponent. I still am not sure of the issue, but TV and all the newspapers have made it the most important label for an opponent.

If Jews visited here from aboard during this past week and in the next two weeks, he or she would have been appalled by the vitriol spouted. We Israelis have been waiting for hatred to be spewed as the elections near. Winning an Israeli election in 2019 is based on how many despicable labels can be attached to the opponent. No discussion of issues, only the “worst” spits out hour by hour, day by day. We here recognize our type of “fake news,” created mostly to influence the 3 or 4 percent of the electorate who have not made up their minds yet which party, not person, to give their vote. No electoral college, no voting for one of the main candidates for PM, just placing the party’s Hebrew letter or letters in an envelope, sealing it, and making do with putting your envelope in the ballot box.

The issues of our Jewish nation mentioned by the panel were the security of Israel, the two-state or bi-national possibility, the continuing housing crisis, the fate of the elderly (Holocaust survivors not mentioned). One party representative stated clearly that because of the overflowing numbers of the patients in the hospitals, his party will build a new one in the Galilee and a new hospital be-

tween Beersheba and Eilat. He added that it takes six years to construct a new hospital. More specialists will be assigned throughout Israel because waiting six months to a year to see a specialist is unacceptable. The rich pay and they see private physicians in a week or two.

There was some discussion of state religious domination. Israelis can only be wed, legally, via the offices of the religious ministry. A lesbian member of the Labor party said that her sister could not marry a Kohen legitimately, but her brother was married in a civil ceremony in New York City and his marriage is accepted by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior. What an upside-down situation. The panel discussion lasted only 1 ½ hours, but it could have continued into the wee hours of the morning.

My grandsons did not ask me for whom I was voting, but I asked them and was a bit surprised by their choices. It’s a secret. I have not been able to speak to any of my 20 cousins eligible to vote, all descendants of Rabbi and Mrs. Geffen.

However, I know where they live on both sides of the “Green Line” [1949 armistice line between Israel and Arab neighbors], so I can make a guess.

As I finish this piece, the retaliation by the Israeli Air Force on various strategic targets in the Gaza Strip has begun. The innocent Palestinians will pay the price, not the Hamas leaders who planned the attack on an Israeli locale.

I am not discussing the possible indictments of Netanyahu because I, an average Israeli with Atlanta roots, do not believe they will make any difference on April 9. (David Geffen, you could be very wrong). ■ David Geffen is a native Atlantan and Conservative rabbi who lives in Jerusalem.

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New research from Harvard University on changes in babies during their first week of life may lead to more targeted vaccines and fewer shots as they get older.

Israeli professor Ofer Levy leads the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and was a member of the research team that discovered a method of checking newborns’ blood to learn useful information about immune systems.

“There are a lot of questions now and if we can begin answering them with this information to build immunizations that are even more effective, immunizations might require only one injection and not three or four injections,” Levy told Israel’s Channel 13.

Made up of 700 babies from different countries, the research hopes to match vaccines to populations and individual children to correspond with more specific needs. The research also shows that it may be possible to preempt specific infections children are susceptible to with targeted vaccinations.

“Two-thirds of all deaths in early life are due to infection,” the laboratory web-

site stated. “The risk to die from infection is a function of age; the younger you are, the higher the risk.”

Jewish and Muslim students prepare gift bags for those in need as part of the campus’ Purim festivities.

March 30, 1135: Moses Ben Maimon, known as Maimonides and the Rambam, is born in Cordoba, Spain. (Some sources say the year is 1138.) His family in 1160 moves to Fez, Morocco, where he begins writing commentaries on the Talmud. After a time in Palestine, the family settles in 1166 in Fustat, Egypt, where Maimonides becomes a prominent doctor (serving as the court physician to the Muslim ruler), a rabbi, a philosopher and one of the most influential writers ever on Jewish law and ethics.

An overhead photo of the newly discovered mosaic and winepress in Korazim.

Bar-Ilan Students Prepare Winepress from Talmudic Gift Baskets for Those in Need Times Discovered Jewish and Muslim students at BarIlan University worked together to prepare gift packages for Arab and Jewish families in need as part of Purim celebrations at the school last week.

The students are part of the university’s Jewish-Arab Inter-Religious Dialogue course, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The course’s goal is to foster dialogue between Jews, Muslims and Christians and it promotes respect among all three faiths.

Students share their own stories.

For example, Muslim students have dis-

Today in Israeli History March 29, 2002: Israel calls up 30,000 military reservists and announces Operation Defensive Shield in response to a particularly brutal month of terrorist attacks a year and a half into the Second Intifada. One of the worst attacks came two days earlier when 30 people were killed in the Hamas bombing of a Passover seder in Netanya. During the 19-day campaign, Israel controls most West Bank cities, kills or captures many terrorist leaders, collects computers and documents tying Yasser Arafat and other PLO leaders to the terror campaign, and isolates Arafat with a siege of his Palestinian Authority compound in Ramallah.

cussed their pilgrimages to Mecca, and Jewish students, to Jerusalem for holidays, and they learn about the histories and practices of the religions.

Those preparing bags snacked on hamantashen while using the opportunity to reflect on how they can give back to Israeli communities more broadly.

An ancient winepress was discovered at the site of a 1,500-year-old Jewish village in northern Israel. Located inside Israel’s Korazim National Park north of the Sea of Galilee, the dig-site in the Talmudic-era town of Korazim was first mentioned as one of the towns condemned by Jesus in the New Testament for rejecting his teachings.

The town remains a pilgrimage site for Christian tourists in Israel, and it was mentioned in the Talmud as a producer of fine wheat.

authorizes the university, and Arthur Ruppin purchases the land the next year. With British approval, construction begins in 1918, and the first classes in chemistry and Jewish studies are held in 1924.

Gali Atari and Milk & Honey perform “Hallelujah” at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest.

March 31, 1979: Israel wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the second consecutive year as Gali Atari and Milk & Honey take the title with the song “Hallelujah.” The contest is held in Jerusalem because Israel’s entry in 1978, “A-Ba-ni-bi”

by Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta, won the Europe-wide event in Paris for the first time. “Hallelujah” becomes a huge hit on the European pop music charts. Israel declines its right to Eurovision in 1980 because the Israel Broadcasting Authority is focused on converting to color television.

April 1, 1925: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem officially opens on Mount Scopus, fulfilling a dream first expressed in a letter from Heidelberg University professor Herman Schapira to the Hebrewlanguage newspaper HaMelitz in 1882, at the dawn of the modern Zionist movement. The 11th Zionist Congress in 1913

April 2, 1979: Menachem Begin becomes the first Israeli prime minister to visit Egypt when he arrives in Cairo a week after signing the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. He is greeted by an Egyptian military band playing the Israeli anthem, “Hatikva,” then enjoys a day of sightseeing, including the pyramids at Giza, war memorials and Cairo’s Gates of Heaven Synagogue. The next day, Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat discuss opening their borders to encourage tourism between the nations.

Photo by Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office // Aharon Remez, serving as

Israel’s ambassador to the U.K., welcomes Prime Minister Golda Meir to London.

April 3, 1994: Maj. Gen. Aharon Remez, one of the founders of the Israel Air

Archaeologists at work uncovering groundbreaking artifacts in northern Israel.

The edge of a mosaic was uncovered by a conservation team, and immediately reported to site manager Dekel Segev.

“We were determined to complete the excavation since this is the only mosaic in the ancient Jewish village that was in Korazim during the Talmudic era,” Segev told The Times of Israel.

Only later did the team learn that the mosaic was part of a winepress, adding a new layer to what was known about the town. The winemakers would step on the grapes atop the mosaic, and then press them with a millstone to release the remaining juices, according to archaeolgist Ahiya Cohen-Tavor, who leads the excavation at Korazim.

The excavation will continue to uncover more of the winepress and surrounding area, The Times of Israel reported. ■ Compiled by AJT Staff Force, dies in Jerusalem at age 74. A native of Tel Aviv, he serves as a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force in World War II. He smuggles Holocaust survivors into Palestine after the war, then obtains equipment and prepares bases for the new IAF. He becomes the second commander in chief of the IAF in July 1948 and serves in that role until December 1950. He serves as a Mapai member of the Knesset in the 1950s and as the ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1965 to 1970.

April 4, 1920: The Nebi Musa festival, a pilgrimage to the site Muslims believe to be Moses’ grave near Jericho, breaks into rioting in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing five Jews and four Arabs over three days. Hundreds of others, most of them Jews, are injured in the fighting, which begins on the second day of Passover. Speeches by Arab leaders spark the violence, which occurs at a time of rising Arab-Jewish tensions and attacks on Jewish settlements in the Galilee. The violence inspires the formation of the Haganah defense force in June. ■ Items are provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details.

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ISRAELI POLITICS

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement after a meeting of his ruling Likud party in Ramat Gan on February 21, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

From left: Blue and White party leaders Moshe Ya’alon, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi pose for a picture after announcing their electoral alliance in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israeli Election Scorecard

By Dave Schechter Balagan is a word Israelis use to describe something chaotic, confusing, or messy. The run-up to the April 9 election of a new Knesset has been a balagan.

A record 47 parties are contesting for the 120 Knesset seats.

When Israelis vote, they choose a slip of paper marked with a letter representing the party of their choice, place that slip into an envelope, and the envelope into a box.

The Times of Israel reported that to cover every possible vote by 6,339,279 eligible voters, at 10,720 polling stations, election officials have printed 400 million slips of paper (enough for every vote, plus extras).

Maybe a dozen parties will receive enough votes – at least 3.25 percent, by law – to win seats in the parliament.

Israel’s president will ask the party seen as having the best chance of creating a majority bloc in the Knesset to form a government. Which party is given that task may depend on whether their smaller allies attain that 3.25 percent threshold.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is seeking to maintain the current right-wing government. If successful, Netanyahu would surpass David Ben-Gurion in July as Israel’s longestserving premier.

The election has become a referendum on Netanyahu, as a person and as a politician.

Israel’s attorney general has said that after the election, he intends to indict Netanyahu in connection with three corruption cases.

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Netanyahu has dismissed the allegations as small potatoes whipped up by a legal system that can’t be trusted, leftists who would endanger Israel, and a media that hates him.

Meanwhile, say his supporters, “Bibi” has expanded Israel’s relations with various Arab nations, fostered a friendship with U.S. President Donald Trump, maintained the status quo with the Palestinian Arabs, and presided over a healthy economy.

“Because Netanyahu has dominated politics for so long, there isn’t a clear process of a successor. Neither Likud nor the opposition parties have been able to nurture a successor from within their ranks,” journalist Anshel Pfeffer recently wrote in the Israeli security journal, Fathom.

Likud’s chief challenger is a new center-right party whose name, Kachol v’Lavan, means Blue and White, the colors of Israel’s flag.

Blue and White was formed by merging: the new Israeli Resilience party, led

by Benny Gantz, former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces; with Yesh Atid, a current centrist party in the Knesset led

by Yair Lapid; and Telem, another new party led by Moshe Ya’alon, also a former IDF chief. The fourth notable in Blue and White is Gabi Ashkenazi, another former chief of staff.

Gantz and Lapid are the party’s primary public faces.

The presence of former IDF chiefs may make Netanyahu’s claim that Blue and White is soft on security a more difficult sell.

Gantz has said that he will repair the

strains between Israel and the majority of American Jews, which he blames on Netanyahu, stemming from such issues as pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall and disrespect for non-Orthodox Judaism, in general, and government policies in the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria.

No single party has ever won a Knesset majority outright, so either Likud or Blue and White will turn to smaller parties to create a Knesset majority. Polls have shown several parties hovering above or below the critical 3.25 percent threshold.

Neither Likud nor Blue and White has an easy route to forming a government.

In 2015, Likud won 30 seats and allied with smaller rightist, nationalist, and religious parties. This year, that would include the New Right party, created when Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked bolted from Likud. (Shaked’s “Facism” perfume commercial is a must-see.)

Religious Jews from the Ashkenazi community back United Torah Judaism, which favors Orthodox control of all matters religious and opposes young ultra-Orthodox men being forced to serve in the IDF. Netanyahu potentially could add Shas, representing religious Jews from the Sephardic community; Yisrael Beytenu, led by former defense minister Avigdor Liberman; Kulanu, led by former finance minister Moshe Kahlon; and Zehut, a libertarian party led by Moshe Feiglin, former deputy speaker of the Knesset.

Controversy surrounds the merger

Netanyahu engineered between the Jewish Home and Jewish Power parties, the latter led by followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose own Kach party was banned nearly 30 years ago because of racism and incitement to violence. Israel’s Supreme Court banned one of Jewish Power’s leaders from this year’s ballot.

Blue and White would need to align with what remains of the once-vaunted Labor party (think Meir, Rabin, and Peres); Meretz, a left-wing Zionist party; and possibly Gesher, led by former Yisrael Beytenu member Orly Levy-Abekasis.

To reach a “blocking majority” against the Likud, Blue and White might turn to parties representing the 21 percent of Israeli citizens who are Arab.

There are two such tickets in this election: Hadash (a Jewish-Arab party) is running jointly with the Taal party, backing statehood for the Palestinian Arabs, while the combined Balad-Raam favors Israel as a secular state for all its citizens.

Whether Blue and White would meet conditions that the Arab parties might set, including repeal of the NationState Law and resumption of serious negotiations with the Palestinians, remains to be put to a test.

Netanyahu has employed the slogan “Bibi not Tibi," referring to Ahmad Tibi, an Arab member of the Knesset from the Taal party.

Blue and White also must deal with what Pfeffer termed a “poison pill clause” stemming from its creation, under which 2 1/2 years into a four-year term, the premiership would rotate from Gantz to Lapid.

Chaotic, confusing, messy? Such is the balagan that is Israeli politics. ■

ISRAELI POLITICS

Israeli Elections Get Attention of Confused Atlantans

By Jan Jaben-Eilon

the more avid Israel watchers in Atlanta, skimming two Israeli newspapers every For years, Congregation Or Hadash day. She reads not only about the conRabbi Mario Karpuj has been holding stant political crises there, but also the weekly sessions on “What’s Hot & What’s religious-secular friction.

Cook also expresses the conundrum Not in Israel.” Until the last few weeks, often experienced by dual citizens living interested congregants met in his office.

Now, because of all the controversies in Atlanta. “I say that when I’m with Issurrounding the upcoming April 9 Israeli raelis, I feel more American, and when I’m with Americans, elections, interest I feel more Israeli.” has skyrocketed, Part of the reaand the group has son for that dualmoved to a larger ity, Cook says, is her room. “I promise frustration with to talk about what Americans who are Israelis are reading “big Israeli supportin the Israeli press,” ers and anti-Palessays Rabbi Karpuj. tinian, whatever the One of the reguhard line is. They say, lars who attends the ‘this is our land,’ and weekly conversadon’t really undertions about Israel is stand the broader Robin Lewis. Speakscope. They only lising about the Knesten to one side.” But set elections, she Cook also has dissays, “To me, the Robin Lewis stands in front of agreements with her parliamentary systhe Knesset in Jerusalem. friends still in Israel. tem in which you vote for parties, not people, is so confus- “We argue about whether American Jews ing. Who is in what party? I don’t know can have an opinion about Israel, and I which party is what. It’s not my country, say ‘yes.’ We give Israel a lot of money.”

Long-time Atlanta Jewish leader Lois so I can’t say how Israel runs its elections, but I will say that I’ll take anybody but Frank doesn’t hold Israeli citizenship, but [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu. she and her husband are often found at a home they own in I didn’t want [PresiJerusalem. Frank bedent Donald] Trump lieves that there are and we got him.”

Atlanta Jews “who Lewis isn’t the care about Israel, only Atlantan who care about the eleclooks at Israeli polition, even those who tics and sometimes don’t follow it closely. feels she’s viewThe young people esing a mirror of the pecially hear about U.S. politics. “I see a the policies of the shadow of what’s goIsraeli government ing on in this country,” says retired and find it hard educator Harriet to support. I think Litzky. Referring to we’re losing (the supNetanyahu’s move to port of) a lot of young include a KahanistJews because of the Bonnie Cook lived in Israel inspired party in his politics in Israel. I for a couple of decades. electoral coalition, don’t want to advoLitzky adds, “I thought we were past this, cate against the government of Israel, but with Trump dredging up racism in this I would love to see a more progressive govcountry.” ernment in place. It would help the AmeriAtlantans drew parallels between can Jewish community.” the leaders of the two countries. “I read Still, Frank was encouraged that about Netanyahu like I read about “American Jewry across the philosophiTrump,” says Bonnie Cook, who holds cal lines” came out against the inclusion both U.S. and Israeli citizenship, and who of the Kahanists in a far-right party that lived in Israel for a couple of decades. “I will enable members who are disciples of struggle when I feel like things Netanya- the late Rabbi Meir Kahane to be seated hu does are shooting Israel in the foot.” in the Israeli Knesset. “It’s good we can But Cook, a retired educator, is one of stand together,” says Frank. “We have dif-

ferent political views, but we don’t have different moral views.”

Atlanta is home to an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Israelis. No matter their political views or how long they’ve lived in this country, they are still attached to their homeland and pay close attention to the politics there. Like many Israelis, retired inventor Nadav Sivan is not shy about vocalizing his opinions. “Jews need Israel to be strong,” he says. “It’s someplace to go if there are (anti-Semitic) troubles. So Jews should be involved much more. They don’t put their mind into it.”

Sivan’s friend Arie Kohn, a Roswell

architect, describes himself as “very involved in what’s happening in Israel,” despite the fact that he has lived in the United States four decades. “Every night I watch live news from Israel.” He says he’s center-right on the political scale and alarmed by the Kahanists. “In my opinion, Likud (Netanyahu’s party) was hijacked by the right wing. The Netanyahu government is the most divisive regime ever.”

It’s that divisiveness that can turn American Jews away from Israeli politics.

“Politics is exhausting,” complains Cook.

“Sometimes I don’t want to know what’s going on in Israel.” ■

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Issues of Importance to American Jews in Israeli Election

By Richard Walter Israelis head to the polls to elect the 21st Knesset on April 9.

There is much to be fascinated about regarding this election, including whether Benjamin Netanyahu will again be tapped to serve as the prime minister, thereby becoming the country’s longest-serving premier.

Because the eventual prime minister must form a coalition of at least 61 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, this could happen even if Netanyahu’s Likud party finishes second to the new Kahol V’Lavan (Blue and White) party.

For all the differences between American and Israeli Jews over Israel’s direction, several issues should have American Jews paying attention to the election. While few Israelis believe that the results will lead to any significant changes in the country’s policies toward the Palestinians, other domestic issues

could affect us in the Diaspora.

Much has been written about Netanyahu’s embrace of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) party, composed of followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Kahane’s Kach party was banned in Israel for espousing racist views and engaging in terrorism in 1994 after the massacre of Muslim worshippers in Hebron. The prime minister was widely condemned among mainstream American Jewish groups, with few exceptions, for this decision.

Less covered, but equally of interest to the American Jewish community, is the status in Israel of progressive Jewish movements, such as Reform and Conservative Judaism, and whether the election will lead to the agreement over an egalitarian space at the Western Wall being implemented. The outgoing government, which included the ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism, decided in June 2017 not to implement that

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agreement, which had been reached in January 2016.

Among the parties most likely to produce the next prime minister, Kahol V’Lavan has included implementing the agreement for an egalitarian prayer space as part of its official platform. The party also advocates reforming the country’s conversion system, removing barriers for immigrants to prove their Jewishness and increasing opportunities for diaspora rabbis in the country.

Likud, likely to depend on the religious parties to form a coalition, prefers to maintain the status quo in regard to the Kotel and other issues of religious practice.

The Center for Israel Education’s

election resources, www.israeled.org/ blog/elections, include an activity featuring the platform outlines of those parties expected to be at or near the electoral threshold of 3.25 percent to win seats in the Knesset. ■

Richard Walter is the vice president of curriculum and outreach of the Center for Israel Education at Emory University.

Integrity a Key in Israeli Election

By Margo Gold I am not a one-issue voter. As an American and a Jew, there are many issues that concern me.

Support for Israel and its security is always important. But so, too, are protections that uphold separation of religion and state, assure access to reproductive rights, support fair immigration policy and many more. So ‘is it good for the Jews?’ isn’t really the question I ask.

Rather, is it good for those who seek to live Jewish values and uphold the responsibility we have for one another, as a nation and as a people? And do we, and the leaders we select, reflect these qualities?

So as I look to the political drama in Israel, I’m chagrined that the question posed by many Israelis and American Jews is ‘Who else can lead us?’ No one person is irreplaceable, nor should they be. Even Moses embraced the wisdom of Jethro, his father-in-law, that leadership responsibility can and should be shared.

From my personal experience as a leader within the Conservative movement and other institutions, my ultimate responsibility was to assure a successor to whom to pass the torch.

But no matter the issue, in all aspects of leadership, integrity matters. Israel’s form of coalition government is challenging; it’s a democracy with lopsided influence from the ultra-religious right.

I’m painfully aware that a signed agreement forged through two years of face-to-face negotiation in the prime minister’s office to support egalitarian prayer at the Kotel, including equal access and dignity, was quickly put aside by the government due to political expediency. In its place are threatening behaviors and violent confrontations at the Kotel toward Masorti and Reform Jews and clergy. This is unconscionable. Perhaps most distressing to me is the communal leadership that advocates intolerance toward any expression of pluralism within a democratic state.

Politicians make many choices, but sacrificing integrity and embracing fear and intimidation is not what citizens deserve from their leaders.

As this election nears, I hope voters will act to preserve the values and ideals at Israel’s heart and for which it has fought and sacrificed. This is our beloved Israel, embraced by Jews throughout the world. Yes, I’m an American and a Jew. I’m one of six million Jews living in the diaspora. I, too, have a lifelong stake in Israel’s success and in its future, just as it’s had in me. And I believe integrity is the issue that matters. ■ Margo Gold is the immediate past president of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

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The Elections in Israel Matter for Us All

By Rabbi Peter S. Berg We in Atlanta should pay close attention to Israel’s election, as it will affect us in Atlanta just as it affects us in Jerusalem.

Elections in Israel Affect All Jews American Zionists should track this election as carefully as our Israeli brothers and sisters, as these issues are important to us all: security, safety net, religious equality, a two-state solution, egalitarian worship at the Western Wall, a strong U.S.-Israel partnership, and the list goes on.

Israeli elections are unique in that the political parties disagree on the fundamental status, character and future of the Jewish state. Within mainstream, secular, and ultra-religious parties, there are significant differences on what it means to be a Jew. Ultra-Orthodox parties have used coalition politics to demand draft deferments, large sums of money for their schools, and control over religious matters, including marriage, conversion, and public prayer space. Religious freedom should matter to us all.

Election Reform is Necessary Israel’s political scene is volatile, and its electoral system only worsens its divisions. Election reform is desperately needed. The goal should be to increase the electoral threshold and thus increase the government’s ability to function.

Additionally, it is high time for Israel

to adopt a “district based” electoral system. A constituency system would curb the power of certain blocs. This would reduce the influence of established parties and favor local representation.

Currently, voters in Eilat receive the same ballots as voters in Mea She’arim. Reform would bolster parties with strong support across the entire country.

Zionism and Democracy Win in All Elections The importance of Israel’s elections lies in the fact that no matter the results, Israelis are free to vote as Jews and as a nation. Sometimes it’s hard to see that in the midst of the electoral rhetoric – negotiating for peace, corruption, policy details.

Voting (in Israel) and paying attention to the election (in the U.S.) are how we work every day on the ideals of Zionism.

Zionism matures; it doesn’t remain static. The election for us in the diaspora is a reminder that we have a home, not just today but for the future. When Israelis vote, we celebrate our democratic process in action as Jews, Arabs, Druze, Muslims, Bahai, and Christians will all be voting. The religious and the secular, women and men, gay and straight, left and right – all will vote. The political process is a messy one, but the day after the election we will still chant Am Yisrael Chai! ■ Rabbi Peter S. Berg is the senior rabbi of The Temple.

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Co-founder and CEO Brett Gelfand stands with his partner and cofounder Cody Ziering at a cannabis trade show.

PAQ Case is the first childproof multipack for pre-rolls.

Gelfand Capitalizes on a Growing Industry

By Eddie Samuels Growing up with an entrepreneurial spirit, Brett Gelfand’s path was straightforward as he finished his senior year at University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He followed all the typical career steps, completed the internships and had a job offer lined up in finance consulting.

“I just kept pushing that offer further and further back. I wasn’t sure I wanted to work in that corporate setting,” he said.

Then on a trip with his father to Colorado, it all seemed to fall into place.

“We were staying with one of his friends and we found out that he was buying into a dispensary and was planning on building out a fully integrated cannabis company,” Gelfand said. “When I got home, he called me and asked if I wanted to be his assistant.”

Gelfand packed up the life he had known in Georgia, helped to raise more than $15 million from investment groups, and within six months, they had a 44,000 square-foot grow facility and produced a variety of cannabis products at Colorado Product Services.

“Certainly, being in Georgia, where there’re a lot of more conservative views, I got a lot of weird looks,” he said about moving to Colorado. “People were asking why I would turn down a finance consulting job for this, but I knew it was a long-term play and that the opportunity would be great.”

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“They were only selling pre-rolls in fastest growing industries in the world.”

The family friend who had recruited single tubes,” he said. “I was like: ‘Why him later came down with an illness and don’t they sell them in multiples and could no longer manage the business. have them packaged and preserved and With more than 60 employees, CPS need- presented really well?’”

Among the most important features ed someone to take the helm.

“The investment partners ended up of PAQ Case is its gasket seal, which promoting me to CEO of that company,” preserves the product inside, a popular feature with both Gelfand said. “I was consumers and in that position for growers. about six months, Now working but I decided that with the top producbecause I had no ers in Canada and ownership in the the U.S., PAQ Case company and I has expanded to missed my friends cover wide swaths and family, I would of a growing market. come back to AtlanJumping headta to start my own first into the world business.” of manufacturing Not satisfied was a challenge for with just one new Gelfand, who noted venture in the conthat the time bestantly expanding tween an invention industry, Gelfand first being created launched two new and when manufacbusinesses when he turing begins was a returned home in March 2017, PAQ Brett Gelfand is co-founder/CEO of PAQ Ltd. shock for him.

“I was selfLtd. and CannaBIZ and managing partner of CannaBIZ Collects.

Collects, trying to fill needs in a newly employed and without a ton of income, and I had to figure out how to balance it growing field.

“I felt the greatest opportunity was all,” he said. “But today we’re fully operain ancillary cannabis companies,” he tional, ... Everything is managed through said. “I like the phrase, ‘don’t mine for third-party contractors and I have a cergold when you can sell the shovels.’” tain freedom that comes along with it.”

Seeing a future in pre-rolled cannaPAQ Case has been featured in High bis, both in the medical and recreational Times magazine, as one of the hot proddispensary markets, Gelfand invented ucts for “cannabis consumers.” the first childproof multi-pack container Within its first quarter of sales, PAQ for pre-rolled cannabis products, PAQ is on pace to exceed $1 million, and is on Case.

track for $5 million in sales by the end of 2019. It has clients in seven states and Canada. His other venture, CannaBIZ Collects, started with an unlikely partner.

His father was a retired attorney at the time. “My dad knew I was in the industry and he was supportive of it,” Gelfand said. “But when I called him and said I think there’s an opportunity here for you, he totally shut it down. Within about two months, he realized that there’s a big opportunity here.”

Because banking is such a problem in the industry as a result of federal and state laws, a common solution is for dispensaries to extend trade credit to each other, which can lead to some awkward phone calls down the road.

“People were not familiar with the idea of hiring a certain partner to call if you were owed money,” he said. “Relationships are a huge deal in this community and industry. Everyone knows everybody and so people were afraid to use a collections agency.”

Unlike other collections agencies, CannaBIZ Collects cannot accept payment, and in many cases the companies they work with do not have banks or virtual payment.

Since its inception in 2017, CannaBIZ Collects has recouped more than $1.5 million on behalf of more than 300 clients, including some major industry figures.

In terms of a future for the industry, Gelfand says he expects continued growth as has been seen year after year, and his businesses seem to have carved out key roles in that ever-expanding market. ■

Disclaimer: Brett Gelfand is the son of Brenda Gelfand, AJT Senior Account Manager.

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Deljou Takes Coaching to a New Level

By Marcia Caller Jaffe From The Epstein School to Woodward Academy, Tallia Deljou went on to American University followed by graduate school at California’s Claremont Graduate University. Today, she is a speaker, career coach, and the cofounder of Mavenly + Co., a content and community platform that supports women in pursuing work they love.

“I empower women to align with their purpose so they can show up more fully in their work and life, defining success on their own terms.” Her passion is helping women break through limiting beliefs about what is possible, overcome selfdoubt, and step into what they truly desire.

Deljou’s website highlights and encourages the importance of no longer playing small and realizing that we’re all meant for more. Her soon-to-launch podcast, Sincerely Me, is about self-discovery and inner work, and she offers website visitors a free guide and meditation to overcome fear.

Jaffe: The term “coaching” seems overused these days. What makes you different?

Deljou: What distinguishes my

line? coaching is that it’s a mix Deljou: Yes! both in perof self-development, mindson and virtually, one-on-one set, and life design rooted and in groups. in positive psychology research. The goal of coaching Jaffe: Do you charge as a is to feel more in control and package or by session? intentional about your deciDeljou: I typically work sions so that you can thrive with women in a three-month and flourish. According to program; the momentum, acmany studies in the field, a countability, and ongoing reflourishing life is rooted in lationship is key for achieving five core components: posiTallia Deljou results. tive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplish ment. As such, much of my coaching is Jaffe: What are the biggest challengrooted in a model that allows you to rede- es your clients’ face? sign your work and life in ways that lead Deljou: Most are stuck in a place of to a greater sense of meaning, responsibil- doubt and fear – fear of failure, of sucity, and overall positive impact. cess, of money (or lack thereof). They get caught up in their thoughts without realJaffe: How did you choose the busi- izing how much judgment they are living ness name using the Jewish term “maven?” with. Another big challenge is how hard Deljou: A maven is someone who it is for people to dream, speak up for seeks to pass knowledge on to others, what they want, and take action on their and that’s exactly what we do with our goals. Coaching helps create the plan and platform and in coaching itself! We aim motivation to finally move forward. to share stories about success from real women to show others what is possible.

Jaffe: What do people want most in their careers?

Jaffe: Women are being coached onDeljou: Financial freedom, flexibili-

ty of time, and a way to make a difference and do work that matters to them.

Jaffe: Positive organizational psychology sounds like psychobabble. What does it mean in real terms? Why shouldn’t a person go to a traditional therapist to face what’s holding them back?

Deljou: Positive organizational psychology is the science of the strengths that enable us to thrive in our work and life. If we want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, one approach is to cultivate our natural talents to enhance our experiences. I always encourage clients to be clear about their needs so they can find the right professionals to support them and, in fact, many of my coaching clients do go to traditional therapists. Coaching is not meant to be a replacement for therapy and the goals are quite different.

Jaffe: What’s the bottom line?

Deljou: Women have to learn how to stop playing small, get out of their own way, and realize that what they want is possible. Coaching equips them with the mindset and tools to take ownership over their choices and make authentic decisions for themselves so that work becomes a source of joy. ■

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By Eddie Samuels

their vision for a divorce process, their goals and their priorities. If they don’t know that coming in, I want to help deMore than 30 years into the family velop that framework.” law practice started by Arlene Koslow, She elaborated, saying that while she and her daughter Pia, now running divorce can certainly feel like an adverthe firm, spoke to the AJT, reflecting on sarial, antagonistic process, setting a the past, discussing the present and lookcooperative tone on one side can often ing to the future. cause the other party to respond in-kind, When Arlene first moved to Atlanta and avoid a lot of the hostility involved. to attend Emory University Law School, it wasn’t the straightforward route it is There are, of course, cases that have today. Not knowing anyone in the city no option but to be resolved by a judge, is daunting enough, and to add to it, her but Pia explained that such a case is rare, first interaction with faculty wasn’t necand that close to 95 percent of her cases essarily a good one. are resolved outside the courtroom.

“I sat down for an interview and Just as her mother was for years, Pia they said to me, ‘We don’t give many inhas now been in a solo practice since her terviews to women.' They asked, ‘Do you mother stepped back in 2016. Arlene still want to get married? Because the women takes on cases selectively. who graduate here are full-time students Arlene Koslow and daughter, Pia Koslow Frank "then" “The daughter of one of my first clipartnered together in a family law practice. and aren’t interested in marriage,’” she ents, whom I met at juvenile court, called said. me,” Arlene said. “We remained friends She met her husband Harold shortly first office in 1985 in Peachtree Center. Law class of more than 50 percent women all the way through the years and, of after at an Atlanta Jewish Community She can still remember the small office and spending two years in labor law, Pia course I’m going to help her; I’m not goCenter pottery class and the couple had and the pride she felt putting her name joined her mother’s practice. ing to turn her away.”

“The labor and two daughters, putting Arlene’s biggest foon the door. her legal aspirations on cus in her retirement is “I’d been practic- employment area was hold. volunteerism through ing about a month and my firs introduction “When they were Congregation Shearith my husband gave me a to the world of law five and three, I did deIsrael, and she’s jumpcall saying two of his and I quickly realized cide to go for it, but Eming in with all the pasworkers were at the I wanted to work more ory had stopped their sion that first launched Hyatt Regency working directly with clients,” evening law school her practice. on an elevator and that Pia said. “I saw my class by that time,” she Pia has four chilit had fallen from the mom and her indepensaid, explaining that dren of her own on 27th floor to the 11th,” dence in working in a she was working as a top of being a board she said. “They knew variety of areas and I dental hygienist at the member at Atlanta JewI was an attorney and decided that I wanted time. ish Academy and coasked if I could help, to give that a shot.”

While Arlene is She attended chair of the strategic so I went over to the Woodrow Wilson Colplanning committee library and read up on basically retired, she lege of Law and graduat Shearith Israel. She workman’s compensa- remembers the days of their partnership ated at the top of her has learned from her tion and said, ‘Sure!’” class. mother about the imIn 2004, after grad- fondly.

“It was the best Koslow Frank retains a solo practice. portance of passion in Arlene opened her uating from an Emory The mother-daughter duo "now." time of my life, workher work as well. ing side-by-side with her. Youth and ex“I grew up watching my own mother perience are great teammates and so are do it, so I knew it was possible,” she said.

Pia and I,” she said.

“I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older that if Working with family can be chal- I do things that I’m passionate about, lenging, but watching her mother build they’re less burdensome. If you care, it’s the firm when she was a child, Pia knew never a struggle.” how much work she’d put in.

She added that while people can of“My mom was an amazing mentor ten react negatively to hearing that somein a field where mentorship can be really one is a family law attorney handling lacking,” she said. “She is exceedingly divorces, she takes pride in her specialty tough and has very high expectations, area. and she is a tremendous thinker.”

“It’s not a happy topic and people Shortly after joining the practice, Pia look at me like, ‘oh that’s awful,’ but I began to specialize in family law, which really feel like I’m helping people get she’s done for 15 years. through a time that’s difficult for them,” “My philosophy is that your begin- she said. “The marriage may not be a ning sets the tone for your end,” Pia said. success, but you can be intentional and “When I sit with someone initially for make meaningful decisions that help you a consultation, I want to get a sense of move forward in life.” ■ 20 | MARCH 29, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

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income is below $315,000.

The deduction can be substantial for Atlanta native Walter Cohen never small business owners, but more restricstrayed far from his roots. The same tive for those in service professions, such goes for the law practice he’s built over as doctors, lawyers and accountants. “In the past 21 years. Changes in federal tax general, I thought it was a windfall to laws haven’t caused him to dramatically many taxpayers.”

Another change in the tax law that change the way his firm guides clients, he affects his clients is the increase of the told the AJT: “Estate planning is as important as standard tax deduction, which many feared would diminish ever. We used to do a lot charitable contributions. of tax planning. You take “With the increase of taxes out of the equation the standard deduction because of the large exto $12,000 per person emptions, but you still and $24,000 per couple, have estate planning.” people may decide to Growing up in Atlandecrease their gifts to ta, Cohen attended Northcharity since they won’t side High School, and receive a tax benefit.” his family has belonged One way to preserve to Ahavath Achim Synathe benefits of a charigogue since the 1920s. table donation may be to Although he went off to Walter Cohen says with new use a donor-advised fund the University of North Carolina to obtain a bach- federal tax law, estate planning in which a large deductis as important as ever. ible charitable contribuelor’s in economics, he returned to the University of Georgia for tion can be made in the first year and law school before receiving a master’s in doled out over a three-year period. He cited the Jewish Federation of Greater Attax law from New York University.

After practicing with a law firm lanta as an example of a charity with a in St. Louis, Cohen returned to Georgia DAF. “This may be useful for individuals again to practice with a large, then a mid- who plan to make annual charitable consized firm before starting his own prac- tributions of more than a couple thoutice in 1986. A little more than a decade sand dollars.”

Another investment he highly reclater he started Cohen & Caproni with Albert Caproni. Cohen is the only Jewish ommends is a 529 tax-free savings plan, which was historically only for college lawyer in his firm of four attorneys.

Half of his practice is dedicated to expenses but can now be used for elestate planning and the other half, busi- ementary and secondary school education, he said. In the Jewish community, ness and tax planning.

In the 1970s, when Cohen began that means private day school tuition practicing law, the estate tax exemption can be paid through the 529 fund. “The was $60,000. Today it’s $11.4 million for benefits are that the 529 grows income an individual, and double that for a cou- tax-free.”

The ALEF Fund also helps private ple. “We filed one or two estate returns in the last year. In the old days we might schools. It allows taxpayers to direct state income tax dollars to scholarships have prepared 10 to 20.”

The firm probably has five or 10 cli- for children to attend Jewish preschools ents with estates greater than $22 mil- and day schools. “I have contributed to it for years,” he said. lion, he said.

With the elimination of the federal They mostly work with small, closely-held companies, which can include charitable deduction for contributions family businesses. In such cases, estate to such a fund, though, the incentive to planning is crucial to make sure the invest in it has diminished. This is an excompany’s assets are passed down as ef- ample of how charitable contributions ficiently as possible. are being impacted by the tax law changFor the self-employed and those in es, he said. a partnership or limited liability compaIt still doesn’t hurt to direct tax ny, Cohen advises clients about the new money to a worthy cause. “You are gopass-through deduction. Married people ing to pay $2,500 to the state anyway, so can receive a 20 percent deduction on you might as well pick where you want to qualified business income if their taxable send the money.” ■

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Temple Sinai’s Ron Segal to Lead Nation’s Reform Rabbis

By Bob Bahr AJT: What would you say about the progress that the CCAR has made in making a place for women in the rabbinate?

Segal: I don’t think that there is any question that there’s good progress in terms of making a place for women and the recognition of women as our equals in every way, shape and form. We are really trying to do concentrated work in CCAR on how we change culture and address the issues which have alienated or subjugated or injured or objectified our women colleagues for decades.

It’s something I’m speaking about in my installation sermon, and I think it will remain important work for many years to come.

On Monday, Temple Sinai’s Senior Rabbi Ron Segal will be installed as president of the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis. His two-year term as leader of the nation’s oldest and largest rabbinic organization caps an extraordinary career as leader of the Sandy Springs congregation.

During its 50th anniversary celebration, Temple Sinai is completing a successful $12 million fundraising drive, has designed an expanded pre-school facility that will provide a full day of care, and is about to embark on an extensive renovation of its front entry plaza.

Segal, who has been especially active in nurturing interfaith relationships in the community, has spent his entire 23-year professional career at Temple Sinai, becoming its senior rabbi in 2006. He credits what he describes as Temple Sinai’s “phenomenal clergy team and our lay leadership” for his ability to accept the challenging responsibilities of national leadership.

We caught up with Segal to learn about his new leadership role.

AJT: What have you learned at Temple Sinai as the senior rabbi that might help you in your new job?

Segal: Trying to remain above the fray is a really important lesson that I have continued to learn. There is in the world of synagogue life no shortage of noise, which can be distracting, and which can easily pull you in. Learning to discern when it’s essential to dive into

Temple Sinai’s Senior Rabbi Ron Segal has spent his entire professional career at the Sandy Springs congregation.

the morass of an issue and when it’s critical to try and remain above the fray has been something that I’ve really tried to learn.

AJT: And what else are you talking about in your installation speech?

Segal: Well, I’m raising some questions about how we work collaboratively and more effectively with our other Reform partners. I think there is room for growth there. How we can better serve a much more diverse rabbinate than ever before. Today, one-third of the members of the CCAR are not in congregational roles. That’s a substantial number.

AJT: As you know, the idea of a temple or synagogue is changing. And how does the rabbi address those changes and how do you address the issue of innovation?

Segal: I would say that places like IKAR in Los Angeles, Romemu in New York, The Kitchen in San Francisco, Sixth and I in Washington and all of these other really successful non-denominational communities that have sprung up and been so successful is because they have all broken the mold of what traditional synagogue is. In my estimation, not enough synagogues are changing quickly enough. What does membership mean and what does it mean to be affiliated with a community?

I think that by and large, lay leaders look to rabbinic leadership to help shape and understand what those opportunities for change are. How do we continue to engage a population that is less and less interested in affiliation according, at least, to the old standards and old norms?

AJT: If you were to look ahead at this, the beginning of your term to the end of your term, what would you like people to have said about how you were as a leader nationally?

Segal: I hope in two years’ time that people will say that I was successful at helping our new chief executive transition to her new role. People will say in two years’ time that they sense progress and continuing forward momentum on the way in which our conference is working for things like pay equity and the fighting of gender bias and trying to advance those causes for women.

I hope that people will say that during these next two years there was more of a spirit of accessibility and engagement. And that there’s a re-enfranchisement, if you will, of those who might be feeling disconnected, at present, from the work of the CCAR. ■

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Amy Elfersy, right, and the artist Daniella Willett-Rabin in front of two of her paintings, “Shabbat Shalom” (left) and “Jerusalem.”

Willett-Rabin's painting "Jerusalem" is part of the exhibition, “Traditions,” at Aimee Jewelry and Fine Art Gallery.

Amy Elfersy with artists Galina Herndon and Christopher Sherry doing some “plein air” painting outside her gallery.

Aimee Jewelry and Fine Art Gallery is a Decatur Gem

By Chana Shapiro There’s a charming gallery in Decatur you don’t want to miss. Aimee Jewelry and Fine Art Gallery is a jewel box of a shop, reminiscent of New York or European boutiques, featuring original fine art and one-of-a kind jewelry.

The owner, Amy Elfersy, combines style with warmth, reminding a visitor of the legendary women who ran soirees in their comfortable salons. And that’s part of the charm of the boutique. Every few weeks, the place presents performances by musicians, artists and poets.

On March 19, to celebrate the festival of Purim and to welcome spring, the gallery opened an exhibit of five well-known women artists: Barbara Fisher, Lynette Joel, Miriam Karp, Shoshana Rosenthal and Daniella WillettRabin. Catered by The Spicy Peach, the event brought together a cross-section of Jewish and non-Jewish Atlanta to socialize, enjoy and purchase the multi-genre art and exquisite jewelry. The exhibition runs through May 26, coinciding with the Decatur Arts Festival.

Aimee gallery is the result of a series of serendipitous events.

Several years ago, Elfersy and her husband, Jacques, were in New York visiting her parents. They were dining in posh Locust Valley on Long Island, where Amy noticed a “For Rent” sign on a popular shop. She turned to her husband and suggested, “Open a boutique in Atlanta for me!” She had done a number of exciting and meaningful things in her life but owning a gallery of her own had been an unrealized dream.

Elfersy succeeded in diverse fields. She taught French at two Jewish schools in Montreal, worked as an employment counselor at the Jewish Vocational Services in the same city, then entered the corporate world of training and development.

In 1985, she and her husband and their young son, Adrian, moved to Atlanta, just in time for Purim. It was a lush, young, dynamic city, and they were ready to leave the cold weather and political friction of Montreal.

Elfersy became an adjunct French professor at several of Atlanta’s universities, and then was invited to become the public relations director of the Atlanta Boy Choir. Meanwhile, she started to think seriously about owning an art and jewelry gallery. A seasoned risk-taker, she was about to plunge into unknown waters again,

this time to make her dream come true.

She had shopped at a beautiful Asian boutique, Zen, in Toco Hills, which was closing and liquidating its stock. The shop and its inventory became Elfersy’s first step. Soon afterwards she learned that Alexia Gallery in Decatur was closing.

About 4 ½ years ago, on Chol HaMoed Sukkot, it became Elfersy’s current gallery.

But the new location lacked the ambience she envisioned. Through a series of connections, she found interior designer/decorator Dennis Adams and enlisted the help of Tal Moran, who, as an unexpected bonus, ex-

pertly repairs and designs jewelry.

After attending an exhibit of Jewish artists at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, Elfersy decided to have one of her own, and chose those who are featured in her current exhibition.

The mellow aura, original art, jewelry and cultural events of Elfersy’s gallery make it popular with a broad spectrum of visitors. It is a welcoming spot, with a Jewish soul. ■ Aimee Jewelry and Fine Art Gallery is located at 335 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite B, in Decatur.

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ARTS

Photo by Casey Gardner Photography

Actors Craig Waldrip, Jordan Dell Harris, Ben Thorpe and Alex Newberg.

Photo by Kevin Harry // Actors in “Falsettos,” including Alex

Newberg (center) dressed in a kippah and tallit.

Casey Gardner Photography // Actors Ben Thorpe,

Jessica De Maria, Jordan Dell Harris, Kandice Arrington, Kylie Brown and Craig Waldrip.

Growing up Jewish at the Center of ‘Falsettos’

By Patrice Worthy

duction are usually reserved for mature audiences, but when a young boy is inA young Jewish boy named Jason, volved, extra care is taken to ensure he played by Alex Newberg, is at the center can handle the content, says director of a new Atlanta production about a mar- Freddie Ashley. Newberg is one of two ried man who comes out as gay in 1980s young actors alternately playing the role New York at the height of the HIV/AIDS of Jason, the son of main character Marepidemic. Jason is the son of the main vin.

“I think that it’s character in “Falsettos,” something they don’t the latest production at have a lot of frame of Actor’s Express, which reference for, not havbegan March 23 and ing grown up in a time runs through April 28. when the AIDS epidemic The musical won was prevalent or on the two Tony Awards for front pages of the newsBest Book of a Musical papers,” Ashley says. “I and Best Original Score. think it was about makAs the musical proing sure we were there gresses, Jason goes from to answer any questions being insecure about his they had and break own sexuality to embracthings down in a way ing a full-fledged love of that was easy to digest girls and preparing for a and make it a safe space bar mitzvah. Newburg, for them.” who is 15, acclimated Newberg attends well to the role, which he This is Alex Newberg’s Holy Innocents’ Episcosays pulled from his Jewfirst non-ensemble pal School after spendish background. professional theater role. ing many years at the “I can actually relate to the role because two years ago I Davis Academy, where he learned the was prepping for my bar mitzvah and I majority of his Hebrew. He brought his can relate to the stress and anxiety that skills to the role during scenes in which a family goes through when preparing he practices a prayer in Hebrew and for a bar mitzvah,” Newberg says. “I can’t chants his Torah portion at the bar mitzrelate to someone coming out in my fam- vah. During rehearsals, Ashley says Newily, but I can relate to preparing for a bar berg was the go-to person for portraying an authentic bar mitzvah scene. mitzvah.’’

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was a great resource in having been bar cious young boy who is a kind of smart mitzvahed, in going through the steps aleck.” and how to work with the prayer shawl, Jennifer Gelder, Newberg’s mother, the ritual and process of putting it on, says she didn’t have an issue with the and he really helped Vinny [the other Ja- content because of Newberg’s maturity, son] with his Hebrew pronunciations,” stating, “He’s handled it beautifully.” In Ashley says. “He was really eager and gra- general, she says her family is open and cious about helping.” accepting of all kinds of people and she This is Newberg’s spoke with her son first non-ensemble probefore the audition to fessional role, and Ashley make sure he knew described him as very what “Falsettos” was skilled and mature. about and that he was Newberg, who maincomfortable with the tains a regular class subject matter. schedule while perform“He’s an old soul; ing in “Falsettos,” also he’s very mature and I moonlights as a part-time knew that Actor’s Exmagician. He sparked an press would handle it interest in magic at the in a professional way, age of four and developed and it wouldn’t be too his skills from there. Now, controversial in the he performs at various way they portrayed b’nai mitzvah and parit,” Gelder says. “Even ties. though some find the He says he reshow controversial, it’s Newberg plays the son searched the role of Jason still about family, love, of the main character in and eventually chose to family occasions, and the controversial play. audition because of the being there for each complex character. other. I’m Reform, so I can only speak for “I really enjoyed the role because me, but we’re pretty accepting of the LGhe’s a very profound character in the sto- BTQ community, which I like and I think ry. Not only does he have a lot of humor- that’s a great thing about Judaism.” ■ “Falsettos” is at Actor’s Express 8 p.m. ous songs and lines, but he also builds very deep, special connections with a lot Wednesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. of the other characters,” Newberg says. Sundays through April 28. Actor’s Express “It’s a very fun role to play, … being both is located in the King Plow Arts Center on young and innocent, but also this preco- Atlanta’s West side, 887 West Marietta St.

ARTS

Stein's work, "Getting in Shape #2" also measures 12 inches square.

Above: "Echoes" by Stein is 18 by 24 inches.

Below: "Shape-Shifting" is 12 inches square.

Hitzig's "Star of David" with flowers that were from duplicated antique scarves.

Outgoing ACS president Ellen Stein (left) shows off her collage alongside incoming president Terri Hitzig and her work.

Hitzig's series of Victorian Fashion Plate Butterfly Ladies features papers from her own paintings.

Jewish Women Pass the Collage Torch

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Collage artist Ellen Stein, outgoing president of the Atlanta Collage Society, mentored Terri Hitzig, the new president.

Founded in 2006, the ACS has about 60 members and a regional presence. In addition to membership meetings, the group has four educational exhibits, a collage workshop, and an outreach project each year.

To understand collage, consider this quote by a mentor of the ACS, John Morse: “The one element consistent in every collage is glue: something is glued to something else. After that, all bets are off.” Collage is the gluing of elements like paper or found objects on a substrate. Picasso and Braque introduced collage as a formal art element more than 100 years ago.

We asked Stein and Hitzig to share their fascination with the art form.

Stein considers herself a “mixed media” artist creating soft geometric abstracts, which means that she uses a variety of techniques to create lines, shapes, patterns, and textures. “It’s a gratifying

way to construct and edit several layers of visual information.”

Stein uses papers that are paintings and drawings she has made. “First I create something on paper, then I cut or tear it up, and reassemble it. Not only does this system loosen me up, but also creates a fun jigsaw sequence to resolve,” she explained.

Walking through the High Museum of Art in 2007, she saw Romare Bearden’s painting “Noah’s Third Day.” “It was an epiphany for me, the precise moment that I decided to start taking art classes at age 60. The impact I felt was Bearden’s expressive simplification of shapes," Stein said.

“I like the grid structure as an expression of order and organization, stability and clarity. My challenge has been to loosen my grids – to warp the framework, to energize edges, and to allow ambiguity.”

Akin to mahjong, I asked Stein if there was anything about collage that particularly appeals to the Jewish population. “Because artists tend to work in isolation, getting together as a group reconnects us through support and col-

laboration. The benefits are both educational and playful.

“Within our membership, I think there’s a representative percentage of Jewish artists.” She continued, “Making a collage is an intuitive conversation between the artist and the materials. What does my collage need? How can I make that happen? And, ultimately, a collage is finished when this unspoken dialogue stops. That process has an erratic rhythm of its own that can take hours or days.”

While Stein started collage late in life, Hitzig felt the pull to the art form in her early years.

As a young child, Hitzig started gluing and painting objects. Only in the last three years has she felt that her art has become more refined, leading to showing her pieces and learning the entire process, ending in framing. “I graduated from home craft to fine art. Collage can be expressed in as many forms as there are personalities. I work on 14-inch circles with strips of papers. Some cut, and some torn.”

She recently completed a self-imposed 30-day challenge, compelling her-

self to create one collage a day for a full month. “I made at least one collage a day and sometimes two or three.”

It was progression from simplicity to being freer and less regimented away from so much structure, explained the Art Institute of Atlanta graduate. “Before this, I would make myself crazy doing a grid and laying everything out.”

Much of the papers she uses are from her own abstract watercolor painting. “I use all the colors in the rainbow with a flourish of birds, butterflies, hearts (which can be secretly imbedded). Sometimes I have an idea in my head and start gluing spontaneously with Mod Podge onto a big white paper. I’m attracted to combinations of colors by going through fashion magazines and interpreting patterns.”

Recently she re-created several shades of scarlet and crimson then pasted down these tiny squares, topping off with paper doilies, which created texture and allowed the doilies to morph into layers.

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CALENDAR FRI., MAR. 29-SUN., MAR. 31

2nd Annual Shearith Israel Retreat – Camp Ramah Darom, 70 Camp Darom, Clayton, from 3 p.m. Friday through 11 a.m. Sunday. There will be indoor and outdoor activities, structured time, down time and programming for children. For pricing, reservations and more information, www.bit. ly/2U9gpmt.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

The Maggid: Divine Sparks and Tales of the Baal Shem Tov – Congregation Bet Haverim, 2074 Lavista Road, Atlanta, from 8 to 9 p.m. Baal Shem Tov lived more than three centuries ago and his stories and their lessons are still reverberating to this day.

Suggested donation: $18 per adult, $9 for seniors, students and children. To register, www.bit.ly/2UezeVv.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Shemini Friday, March 29, 2019, light candles at 7:38 p.m.

Saturday, March 30, 2019, Shabbat ends at 8:34 p.m.

Tazria Friday, April 5, 2019, light candles at 7:43 p.m.

Saturday, April 6, 2019, Shabbat ends at 8:39 p.m.

film, “The Last Suit.” Guest speakers will introduce each film and provide additional historical context. $5 to $35.

For more information and pricing, www.or-hadash.org.

SUN., MAR. 31-TUES., APR. 2

Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Conference – Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, 3300 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, from 8 a.m. Sunday to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Jewish Family & Career Services presents this year’s theme: Achieve! Excellence in Person Centered Care is designed to help Jewish human service agencies achieve their highest potential by providing the unique forum that connects colleagues from all over North America and Israel. Conference goers will learn best and groundbreaking practices on program development, find innovative ways to build organizational capacity, explore management and lay leadership issues, discover ways to collaborate with The Network. For more information, www.bit.ly/2Tebtvt.

Callanwolde Concert Band at Congregation Beth Jacob – Congrega-

SUNDAY, MARCH 31

The Daffodil Dash – Brook Run Park, 4770 North Peachtree Road, Dunwoody, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. A 1 mile and 5K run/walk in memory of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust and in support of children suffering in the face of genocide and other humanitarian crises in the world today. $30 per adult, $15 per child. For more information and to register, www.bit.ly/2HqipU5.

Gimme Please! – Presented by the Alliance Theatre – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 SUN., MAR. 31-SAT., APR. 6

Jewish-Latino Film Series – Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. The series is open to the general public, showcases five fantastic films from Latin America, and concludes with last year’s AJFF’s closing night acclaimed 26 | MARCH 29, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Mill Road, Atlanta, with shows at 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. The story of two children growing up together. This show is presented by the Alliance Theatre’s Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young and is ideal for children ages 1 to 5. $12 for member child, $14 for member adult, $14 for community child and $16 for community adult. For more information, www.bit. ly/2UIPMVQ.

tion Beth Jacob, 1855 Lavista Road, Atlanta, from 3 to 5 p.m. The program theme is “A musical Passport to Europe.” Among the works featured are: “The Italian Girl in Algiers” by Rossini; “British Eighth” by Elliott; “An American in Paris” by Gershwin; “Water Music Suite,” by Handel; “Irish Tune from County Derry” by Grainger and more.

Free. For more information, www.calcb.org.

Tunes for TDSA and Congregation Ariel – Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Atlanta, from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Charity concert benefiting Torah Day School and Congregation Ariel with the sound of Mrs. Junko Horvath accompanied by piano. Additional performances by singer/composer Franciska and Onoe School of Dance. $18 in advance per person, $25 at the door, $9 for students ages 8 to 18. To register at www.TorahDay.Org/Tunes.

The Cyber Revolution and the Next Steps – Byers Theatre at City Springs, 1 Galambos Way, Sandy Springs, from 8 to 10 p.m. Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, retired major general, will discuss his work in cybersecurity and the science of battling cyber threats. Throughout his many years of service to his country, he has become one of the most influential people in Israel in the field of national security and cybersecurity. $20 to $35 per reserved seat. For tickets, www.citysprings.com.

Passover and Easter: Exploring Our Stories Together – Industrious Atlanta Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE, Suite 8500, Atlanta, from 5 to 7 p.m. This year, both Easter and Good Friday fall during the week of Passover. These holidays come with differences in observance, worship and food. In this discussion, Interfaith Family Atlanta invites interfaith couples to share stories and ideas for navigating this rare occurrence. During the second half of our program, Rabbi Malka Packer-Monroe will provide resources for couples who want to learn more about Passover and how to lead a seder. $5 per person, refreshments provided. For more information, www.bit. ly/2uflfmV.

MONDAY, APRIL 1

Torah Study with Rabbi Dorsch at Huntcliff I – Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit I, 8592 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Join Congregation Etz Chaim and Rabbi Daniel Dorsch for an informal Torah study class at Huntcliff Summit. Free.

For more information, www.etzchaim. net/calendar.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2

Anti-Hate Roundtable – Roam Innovative Workplace: Dunwoody, 1155 Mount Vernon Highway NE, Suite 800, Atlanta, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Join JumpSpark Professional for an AntiHate Roundtable to gather those working in the anti-hate field, support what is going on in our vibrant community, and think about how we could collaborate to create the highest quality, most impactful anti-hate programming for teens. Anyone who is engaged or interested in teen anti-hate work is invited to participate in this conversation and speak about what your community is doing and a vision for the future. Free.

To register, www.bit.ly/2VTt1iq.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3

Author Talks: Margery Diamond, Torah and Trails – Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Blue Stone Road, Sandy Springs, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mar-

MARCH 29-APRIL 7 gery Diamond presents Torah and Trails, a photographic trail guide for integrating Judaism and Jewish history with environmental awareness and an appreciation of nature. A visual artist, Diamond uses her passion for natural beauty to produce photographic images that capture the rich stillness and timeless scope of nature. Free. Refreshments provided. For more information, www.bit.ly/2JmGJcd.

the Israel Defense Forces. For more information and to register, www.bit. ly/2HtAPUW.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6

Feliza & Rabbi Or Zohar – Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feliza and Rabbi Or Zohar are composers and performers of sacred music. Rabbi Zohar has served the Atlanta sister city region of Yokneam-Megiddo as spiritual leader for the growing Reform movement in Israel. The couple tours internationally, sharing their music, teachings and life experiences. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2CqIxee.

Camp Barney Medintz Info Session– Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, at 1 p.m. Discover the magic of CBM for summer 2019. Prospective families will meet the directors and have all questions answered at these Atlanta info sessions or register for two-week and four-week sessions. Free. For more information, www.campbarney.org/ open-houses.

Downtown Seder – City Winery, 650 North Ave. NE, Atlanta, from 7 to 10 p.m. City Winery welcomes Speech from Arrested Development, David Broza and Ricky McKinnie from Blind Boys of Alabama. More performers to be announced. The 2019 Downtown Seder will feature guests seated at elegant, long family-style tables, each set with the traditional accoutrements, including seder plate and matzah. A limited number of tickets for the City Winery seder are available, priced at $70, $110 and $145. Vegetarian and kosher-style meals are included, with a glatt kosher option available for an additional $25 per person. For tickets and more information, www.bit. ly/2IMmPqv.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7

FIDF Hoops for the Troops – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. $180 per team of up to five players, which includes FIDF jerseys. All proceeds go to the humanitarian needs of the soldiers serving in

Achieving Better Sleep: London Family AgeSmart Lecture – The William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 4 p.m. Join Laureate Medical Group’s board-certified sleep specialist, Dr. Scott Leibowitz, for an in-depth look at how good sleep happens, the difference between what is normal and what is common, and myths versus facts about what keeps us up at night.

To register, www.conta.cc/2FcBx58.

Model Seder – Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The community is welcome to attend the annual model seder for special needs adults and their caregivers held at Congregation Shearith Israel. Free. To RSVP, www. bit.ly/2ucLevd. ■

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PURIM HIGHLIGHTS

Atlanta Purim Parade and Festival The 28th-annual Purim Parade, organized by Congregation Beth Jacob, took over Lavista Road once again, with fun floats from dozens of groups on March 17. The parade was dedicated to law enforcement and was led by Jack Lumpkin, Dekalb County public health chief, and included special police vehicles. Then it was festival time, with activities for all ages, including face painting, slides, swings, photo booths and more.

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PURIM HIGHLIGHTS

Etz Chaim’s Got Talent Etz Chaim’s Got Talent was the theme of the Marietta synagogue’s Purim celebration March 20 that attracted 175 people, complete with a “green room” of dairy appetizers for adults and another holding station – the library – with pizza for families with children. Talented children and adults performed in the library, including a magician and adult brothers with their record-setting talent of flipping M&Ms from one’s ear to the other’s mouth. Members acted as the celebrity judges of “America’s Got Talent” and a Purim spoof of “The Greatest Showman” became “The Greatest Shul.”

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COMMUNITY Experience a Global Shabbat at ACCESS the World

By Patrice Worthy The American Jewish Committee ACCESS Atlanta steering committee is taking a new approach to this year’s signature event. The young professionals’ division of the AJC is hosting ACCESS the World, a Shabbat experience taking guests around the world through international cuisines and signature cocktails. The April 5 event is open to the Atlanta community as way to introduce ACCESS Atlanta and the global Jewish advocacy work done by the group. It’s also a new way of thinking about Shabbat, an evening on which Jewish organizations traditionally shied away from holding events, said Adam Hirsch, ACCESS Atlanta co-chair.

“Shabbat is in,” Hirsch said. “The truth is a lot of people come to Atlanta that are new and they don’t have any family and they’re trying to meet new people. The point of Shabbat is to be with friends and family, so hopefully this is a good way to find both.”

The dinner is traditional with Shabbat candle lighting, Kiddush and prayers.

Hirsch said ACCESS wanted the

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event to have a fun atmosphere, so it has also partnered with various community organizations and invited several consulates from the metro Atlanta area. Hirsch is excited that people will see a different side of AJC. “People tend to think of big events, and they think of a Saturday night, and we felt like Shabbat was a great way to engage. We felt like this event is a great opportunity to bring people together on Shabbat in way that you learn, mix, mingle and have music,” Hirsch said. “It’s early enough to come, have a few drinks

and continue on with their other plans.”

ACCESS is expecting 150 people to attend ACCESS the World. The cuisine includes dishes from India, Mexico, Japan and several other countries. As part of the event theme, “passports” will be given for specialty drinks from each country, and guests can speak with consulates to find out more about their work. Hirsch described the event as being “social with substance” and hopes people will leave interested in ACCESS. “ACCESS the World hopes to bring all those elements into an unforgettable

evening highlighting American Jewish Committee’s relationship with 100-plus countries. Those who join us will not only enjoy themselves but will walk out knowing that AJC focuses on local and global issues,” Hirsch said.

ACCESS leaders advocate about domestic and international issues and establish inter-ethnic and interfaith relationships. They travel internationally to meet with high-level decisionmakers about global policy as it relates to the Jewish community. ACCESS trains young professionals to speak on behalf of Jews around the world. ACCESS co-chair Brandon Goldberg said the event aims to be a direct reflection of the relationships and work of ACCESS Atlanta.

“The scope of it is intended to be large, and looking at the scope of the Jewish community in various countries around the world and the presence of our organization around the world has an extensive nature to it, and the event should match what we do,” Goldberg said. ■ ACCESS the World is 7:30 to 10 p.m.

April 5. RSVP at www.AJC.org/atlanta/Accesstheworld.

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City Winery Instills Seder with New Meaning

By Roni Robbins Ma Nishtana... Why is this night different from all other nights? It’s easy to understand why the City Winery Atlanta’s 2nd Downtown Seder at 7 p.m. April 6 is different than all other seders. If only about the four cups of wine ritual.

The non-traditional nature of the readings and songs led by stars are also a good clue. Performers include Speech, the lead singer of hip-hop group Arrested Development; Rickie McKinnie of the Blind Boys of Alabama Grammy-award winning gospel group; and Israeli singersongwriter David Broza.

A video of Congressman Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asking the Four Questions will be shown for the first time during the Atlanta seder. It begins a five-city seder tour at City Winery’s other locations: Washington D.C., New York, Boston and Chicago. Nadler will talk about political issues, including the southern border wall debate, citing the translation of the Liberty Bell inscription, which is based on the Old Testament.

Past seder participants have includ-

Michael Dorf began the Downtown Seder 19 years ago at City Winery in New York.

The Downtown Seder combines tradition and artistic interpretation.

ed Lou Reed, Dr. Ruth, Judy Gold and others.

“Every year is different and yet every year is taking the classic haggadah and the seder order and the retelling of the story and doing it in a little different way,” said City Winery CEO and founder Michael Dorf. He began the Downtown Seder tradition 19 years ago at the Knitting Factory in New York.

City Winery at Ponce City Market is known for its concerts, private events, restaurant, bar and a fully functioning urban winery.

Two years ago, Atlanta’s Downtown Seder was held in a rented room of Ponce

City Market, but this year it will be at City Winery, with long, community tables set up with a vegetarian meal (kosher available upon request) prepared by Executive Chef Mario Manzini, and abundant glasses of the winery’s primary beverage.

The two-hour seder incorporates community leaders, activists, artists, politicians and comedians of diverse faiths and experiences to share the “wisdom and underlying message of hope in the classic story of Jews being led out of slavery,” City Winery reported. Remaining relevant today are the seder themes: liberation, struggles, bigotry, racial injustice, and tyrants harboring hatred.

The two-hour program tends to be more interpretive than most traditional seders, Dorf said. The Downtown Seder is told in a language that resonates with most participants. “My audience understands the language of the arts, music, comedy, poetry. They think intellectually and are socially active.”

With the shooting last year at the Pittsburgh synagogue and more recently at New Zealand mosques, “current issues tie precisely with the messages of Passover,” he said. Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are subjects “that should be talked about.”

The seder combines serious messages that connect with the audience, perhaps with a gospel song sung poignantly by a performer or told in a lighthearted way by a comedian, Dorf said. Certainly not your run-of-the-mill family seder. ■ Tickets are $70, $110 and $145 plus applicable fees, with a glatt kosher option available for an additional $25 per person.

City Winery is located at 650 North Ave., Suite 201 in Ponce City Market. For more information, call 404-946-3791 or visit www. citywinery.com/atlanta.

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COMMUNITY SIMCHA SPOTLIGHT

Mazel Tov Jackie Miron

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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Garry Sobel Leads the Charge at the FIDF

By Bob Bahr The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces has created an extraordinary fundraising machine. Last year, the organization that provides humanitarian aid to Israel soldiers raised $139 million, up from $122 million in 2017, which puts it near the top of the Jewish philanthropic world in America.

Despite its fundraising muscle, many American Jews can’t tell you what the initials of the organization, FIDF, stand for, much less what its programs and purposes are. There are only about 1,400 members of the organization in Atlanta and the several Southeastern states the office here serves.

For the last seven years, Garry Sobel has been the volunteer chair of the FIDF in the Southeast and a member of the organization’s national board. He’s the senior vice president of Kaufman Capital Partners, and has had a lengthy career as a real estate investment advisor. But when he became the FIDF chair, it was something totally new for him.

AJT: What was your background in Jewish organizational work?

Sobel: In 2013, when I was asked to take over as chair, I had never led an organization. I had no experience doing this. But I was all in. My interest became a passion. We were raising a little over $300,000 when I started as chair. In the last five years, we’ve raised over a million dollars each year. We’ve raised about $7.5 million since 2013. We are forever embedded in this community as an organization, and as long as the soldiers are serving in Israel, we will support them.

AJT: One of your major programs is in support of Americans who leave their family here and volunteer with the IDF. What do you think motivates them?

Sobel: We have over 40 serving right now in the IDF from Atlanta. I’m blown away by what we call our “lone soldiers,” who make the decision to leave Atlanta and their families, bypass college or put it off for now and go and serve in Israel’s army. They’re willing to put their lives on the line, and at the end of the day, no one’s asked them. It’s something inside, deep inside, that motivates them. They will all tell you that they need to do this.

I’m doing everything I can to support them.

AJT: Why do you think you’ve been so successful in such a short time?

Sobel: We have made a personal connection in our community. When we

Sobel welcomes guests, including Gov. Nathan Deal, at last year’s FIDF gala.

bring these soldiers here from Israel and introduce them and hear their stories, it’s something tangible. You see who you’re supporting. You understand what they’re doing, and you understand the importance of safety and security, not just for the state of Israel, but for Jews everywhere.

If you come to an event that we have throughout the year or you come to the gala in May, you realize that it’s an emotional connection we’ve made here. I think that we positioned ourselves the right way in our community. Everybody feels like they’re doing something. For me it’s a great feeling to see that.

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces 2019 Gala honors Southeast Board Chair Garry Sobel.

to my daughter and to our community.

AJT: What do you see as the future of the FIDF here?

Sobel: We’ve got a long way to go. I think in Atlanta we could do a lot more. I think we’re just getting a solid footing on the ground, but we’re here for good. But it’s not just due to me. I helped lead the charge, but we’ve built a very passion-

ate board. We’ve built a grassroots effort that continues to grow. We had over 500 attending last year’s gala; I’ll be happy when we have a thousand people. And I think that’s doable. ■ Garry Sobel is the honoree of this year’s FIDF Gala Dinner, “A Night of Heroes,” Monday, May 13, at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia in Dunwoody.

Tickets are now on sale.

AJT: If you were asking someone for a contribution to the FIDF, what would you say to them?

Sobel: I would basically say that, without the IDF, there is no state of Israel.

And if there’s no state of Israel, there’s no homeland. We’re just supporting those who are willing to sacrifice themselves out of a sense of responsibility and obligation. And from my perspective, we all share that responsibility and obligation.

We may be 6,000 miles away, but we’re one family.

AJT: Well, you’ve been a part of the FIDF for more than 12 years. What are you most proud of?

Sobel: For me, the greatest pride I have comes from my 12-year-old daughter. Her entire life she has known one constant, and that’s my work with the FIDF. My daughter is so proud of what we do. She effectively asked to continue exploring her connection to Judaism and recently enrolled in a Jewish day school.

She’s thriving. It’s working. For me, it all comes back to how I followed an interest that became a passion that ultimately became personal, and I’ve handed that down ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES MARCH 29, 2019 | 33

COMMUNITY OY VEY! HAVE I GOT A PROBLEM... event, big life-changing but as with any , ng ni inor an m pl e Dear Rachel, d or m an ent is happy, the ock full of excitem ng as the couple lo As y: sa Weddings are ch s ay ht? I alw d to go wrong, rig had a something is boun happen … ey their older sister, th since the bride, ved away. Until wa ng gi be ld or n len al ca go d ch ils an ta be de ed to her black o daughters prov combination of eit a ar we have n to d he Outfitting our tw “T ha e right size? d. Everyone r scheme in min uldn’t find it in th lo co co c we d so, ifi if ec An at sp y. wh , pp ry ve lowed. Well keep her ha to try my best to – no exceptions al ed ite in et. wh rm d dg te an bu de k d s ac ite bl of a lim ned but wa ing to be mindful she insisted. I groa try e!” ile ly ad wh on -m rs m w, lo no sto co d e cu it ughter, an ng out thos fit our younger da gown hunt, sniffi a at a th on ct en nt th rfe we d pe we An ng f ). of methi intended able to borrow so materializing (pun s wa at g th in n th w Eureka! We were go no , ite and wh as we tried r. She had a black be outfitted. Hard made me an offe one remained to d) en this gown custom fri ve d’s ha en to fri aintance (a e paid $600 qu Sh ac h. ld tc ce to ca I an t a ist s bu -d , wa ng 00 e lo d for $3 ver, ther . Initially she aske r daughter. Howe altry” sum of $200 could work for ou “p e th r fo t ou it illing to rent ownmade and was w e same city as the ndle $200. n, who lived in th ha re ly ild on ch d wn.” d ul go rie e co ar I th r m e y he e of m really “mad ought to us by on corative belt that de , ul tif au The gown was br be a over. me with , and then it was er was happy. It ca the a beautiful dream e er, and my daught lik , it up. We placed joy of ed ze ck pa ha ed in a we carefully d an sa n, wa w e go er The wedding pass ed Th rrow g the gown. ged out of her bo larger bag holdin e th e sid in .

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Jewish Joke of the Week The Israeli Archaeologist An archaeologist was digging in the Negev desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy, a rather rare occurrence in Israel, to say the least. After examining it, he called Abe, the curator of the Israel museum in Jerusalem.

“I’ve just discovered a 3,000-year-old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!” the excited scientist exclaimed.

Abe replied, “Bring him in. We’ll check it out.”

A week later, the amazed Abe called the archaeologist. “You were right about both the mummy’s age and cause of death.

How in the world did you know?”

“Easy.

There was a piece of paper in his hand that said, ‘10,000 shekels on Goliath.’

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Dear Responsible Borrower, What a frustrating experience! You did everything right, yet somehow, the belt went poof and disappeared. How do you handle such an interaction?

I think you have several options. You can simply cross your arms and say, “I did my part, and this is not my fault. Not only that, but I paid you a hefty sum of money already!”

I leave it to your imagination to conjure up her response.

You can go beyond the call of duty and offer to pay what she feels the belt is worth.

If she asks for an unreasonable amount, can you compromise or perhaps split the cost between the two of you?

If the two of you cannot achieve a peaceful resolution, our rabbis are very familiar with the Torah laws governing borrowing and resultant damages and are equipped to guide you towards the proper course of action. Can you mutually agree to abide by one rabbi’s directive?

Last, prayer helps! You did yours; ask G-d to do His! If you want my vote, I would probably opt to pay the amount she wants – if it seems reasonable. Peaceful relations are so important. We often spend a great deal on physical amenities. But who can put a value on peace?

Good luck! I hope the belt shows up in a magical moment, making your whole dilemma disappear.

Warm regards, Rachel Stein Atlanta Jewish Times Advice Column Got a problem? Email Rachel Stein at oyvey@atljewishtimes.com, describing your problem in 250 words or less. We want to hear from you and get helpful suggestions for your situation at the same time!

Yiddish Word of the Week méntsch Méntsch ‫מענטש‬, “good guy, decent human being;” similar to the German Mensch, “man,” but always as a compliment for someone who goes over and above the call of duty for the sake of others. The compliment can be augmented with the emphatic a-yéner ‫א יענער‬, “what a…”

Example: “Shleimele is a-yéner méntsch, he left everything and rushed to help us out when our basement was flooded.”

The term can be reversed to criticism in other compounds, such as kláine méntchelekh ‫קליינע מענטשעלעך‬, “little people” in the sense of petty, self-centered individuals.

Example: “The board wants to cut the rabbi’s travel fund; what a band of kláine méntchelekh they are!” However, that compound can also be literal and non-judgmental, i.e. little people as children, young people or simple people.

An 1880 story by the famous Yiddish author Shalom Aleichem ‫שלום עליכם‬ (Yiddish pronunciation: Shólem Aléikhem), entitled Di gróise behóla fun di kláine méntchelekh ‫די גרויסע בהלה פון די קליינע מענטשעלעך‬, “The Great Scare of the Little People,” describing the life of simple Jews in Eastern Europe, has inspired many of the current notions of Jewish life in pre-modern Europe.

Rabbi Joab Eichenberg-Eilon, PhD, teaches Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic at the Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, eTeacher Group Ltd.

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Meet the Press

Reporter Eddie Samuels Gets Thrill from Deadline Rush

By Roni Robbins It’s the adrenaline rush that comes from chasing down a controversial story on a tight deadline that convinces most cub reporters that the career is a calling and not just a job.

This was certainly the case for Eddie Samuels, an Atlanta native who joined the AJT in December after graduating from Tufts University. While pursuing a degree in English with legal aspirations, Samuels worked his way up the ranks of the college newspaper from sports reporter as a freshman to managing editor in his senior year.

During his time in that latter role, The Tufts Daily became the center of national attention when former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci threatened to sue the paper for publishing an unflattering opinion piece about him written by a graduate student. The op-ed questioned why Scaramucci, “a man who makes his Twitter accessible to friends interested in giving comfort to Holocaust deniers”

school student, he certainly should be allowed to sit on has some personal expethe board of Tufts’ school of rience with the subject. law and diplomacy. He later Samuels was one of the few resigned.

Jewish students at Holy In“It was a crazy week,” nocents’ Episcopal School, Samuels recalled about the where his mother taught, incident that helped ceand he attended through ment his career path. “That seventh grade. played a big part.”

He described the Jews at The recent college Eddie Samuels on the Christian school as very graduate who grew up in the Birthright Israel in January 2018. “close-knit” and several still Brookhaven area, where he still lives, recaptured that breaking news celebrate Passover together. The plan was excitement when he reported on dead- always for Samuels to attend a Jewish day line recently about the controversial map school, and he made that switch to The of Palestine on display at an Alpharetta Davis Academy in eighth grade. That year school’s multicultural event. The March a tough, but influential English teacher in8 article, “Jewish Leaders Respond to An- stilled a love of the language in Samuels. “I ti-Israel Incident at Autrey Mill Middle had a string of very good English teachers” School” is the AJT’s top performing story through high school at The Weber School.

He says his favorite books and movies over the past few weeks, with more than tend to be classics. “I love Hitchcock.” He 5,000 online views – and growing.

Since joining the AJT as a staff re- also cited “Citizen Kane” and “The Shawporter, Samuels has also written a few of shank Redemption” among his favorites.

For fun outside of school, Samuels our cover stories, including one exploring whether Jewish day school students was a member of NFTY (North American have an advantage. As a former private Federation of Temple Youth) at Temple

Sinai, and he served on the regional board as programming vice president his senior year.

Writing a number of camp stories recently, Samuels was brought back to his years as a camper and counselor at High Meadows Camp in Roswell.

“I had a very good time. I still love camp.”

But his favorite stories for the AJT so far have been about the Autrey Mill controversy. “It was definitely the shortest turnaround.”

He explained that writing such a contentious story requires a careful balance of facts. “You have to contact everyone involved and people redirect you to a million different places. It was an exciting struggle to figure out what the story was. A lot of people were outraged on all sides. It was just a complicated story.”

And as the story continues, Samuels will be following it for the AJT every step of the way, along with other news fit to print. Stay tuned for more of what this budding journalist will uncover in Jewish Atlanta. ■

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relics in Poland. Including previously unavailable or unknown information, the survey describes the current condition and status of more than 1,000 Jewish sites throughout Poland.

15 Years Ago // March 26, 2004

■ Elana Sauer was recently selected as one of the top two mathematics students at Dunwoody High School to participate in the “Engineer for a Day” program at Georgia Tech, sponsored by the Georgia Society of Women Engineers. Elana was also chosen as a delegate of B’nai B’rith Youth Organization to attend the March of the Living, a two-week experience visiting the concentration camps in Poland during Holocaust Remembrance Day and visiting Israel during Israeli Independence Day.

■ The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta has hired Harvey Linder to become director of human services and general counsel as part of its growing executive staff.

■ The finale of Hillels of Georgia’s Campus Superstar competition, scheduled for April 1, is sold out. More than 1,000 tickets have been sold, according to Hillels of Georgia Executive Director Jacob Schreiber. The winner of the American Idol-style competition will receive $5,000 and the opportunity to sing at Music Midtown.

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50 Years Ago // March 28, 1969

25 Years Ago // March 25, 1994

■ The Atlanta Sigma Delta Tau Alumnae Association will honor five National Supreme Council members: Patsy Jackson Linderman, national president; Janet Siegel Klein, national vice president; and three former national presidents, Lorraine Spiner Orner, Ruth Metzer Katz, and Ray Sommer.

■ A New York-based monuments preservation organization has published a survey of historic Jewish monuments in Poland, the first full-scale survey of existing Jewish

■ The Atlanta B’nai B’rith Youth Organization will hold its convention for the first time at Camp Barney Medintz April 18-20.

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Lily Liberman

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96, Atlanta

Lily Liberman, 96, died March 24, 2019, in Atlanta. Born in Benoni, South Africa, on June 9, 1922, she quickly became a hardworking, independent woman at a young age. With little formal education after high school, she rose from an administrative position at A&D Spitz Department Store in Johannesburg, eventually becoming a senior bookkeeper. She maintained that career until the day before she emigrated to Atlanta, in 2001.

Lily was an avid baker, a national champion lawn bowler, and, in her later life, a potter, knitter and jewelry maker. Simply put, Lily did not sit still.

Survivors include: her daughters, Charlene (Norman) Brett of Johannesburg and Marilyn (Dennis) Kodesh of Sandy Springs; grandchildren, Bradley, Neil, Gregory, Ruthie, Dani, Gabi, Leora, Akiva, Gila, and Pnina; as well as 32 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman Liberman, of blessed memory.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Congregation Beth Tefillah. A graveside service was held March 25, 2019, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Yossi New officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

Fred David Sachs 81, Denver, Colorado

Fred Davis of Denver passed away on Feb. 14, 2019. Fred was preceded in death by his parents, Helen and Joseph Sachs of Atlanta and Susan Yuen of Los Angeles, California, and is survived by grandchildren Eli and Sydney Sachs of Atlanta and Ellie and Mason Yuen of Los Angeles; brother Howard (Kathy) Sachs of Atlanta; nephews David (Jamie) Sachs of Atlanta, Jonathan (Susan) Sachs of St. Louis, Missouri, and Marc (Paige) Sachs of Dallas, Texas.

Donations in memory of Fred may be made to Chabad of Georgia, MD Anderson Center in Houston and Texas Medical Center, or National Conference on Soviet Jewry.

Matthew Wallack 79, Atlanta

It is with great sadness that the family of Matthew Wallack announces his passing on March 19, 2019, at the age of 79. Matthew, a retired tax agent, was born in the Bronx, New York, and had lived in Atlanta for almost 40 years. More than anything else, Matthew lived for his family. He was also a beloved supporter of Israel and enjoyed going for walks outside when his health allowed.

Matthew is survived by his children, Richard Wallack, Sandy and his wife, Rachel Alterman Wallack, and Sara and her husband, Brandon Friedman; grandchildren, Dov, Isaac, Ella, Joanna, and Avery; and his sister, Carole and her husband, Nathan Metzger. Memorial donations may be made to the Jewish Educational Loan Fund (JELF.org). A graveside service was held on March 21, 2019, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com. ■

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CLOSING THOUGHTS Leadership The skills for leadership in priority every boss I had. Over time I gradually came order are: believing in yourself, being pasto understand what made them leaders, or sionate about your ability, knowledge of not leaders. Eventually, I worked at trying the issue, communicating what needs to be to imitate their best leadership traits. done, storytelling to persuade, sociability Knowledge of the situation can come to be a good listener, and picking the right by applying what you already know. Study people. the present situation to understand it in You must have confidence in yourself. simple terms. It is not easy to define the You have to trust your judgment and beproblem simply in terms that others can lieve that you are capable to take on an asunderstand. What is the problem? What signment when asked, or even when no one Allen H. is missing? What can be done? What can asks, but there is a need. Doing it yourself is Lipis you do personally? Simple examples can one thing, finding helpers is a step higher, The Bottom Line explain the issue for they tell a good stoleading a group is a lot bigger, and leading ry. Find a good example that explains the a company or a government is on a grand scale. problem. Once you grasp the problem, you will know Having confidence to be a leader is generated in- more about the situation than most people. ternally based on how you were raised, what you were Leadership also requires being a good listener. You taught, and what you know about yourself. You must can start by reading about the issue, but it is better to have passion for your ideas, and you move forward, talk to people. They will inform you. In my career, I beeven after failure. Failure is an excellent teacher. came involved in electronic banking when it was just Whatever the situation, you have to know the ter- beginning. I had the luxury to study the issues with 17 ritory, whatever it is. Knowledge comes from study or other smart people for almost a year and became a leadbeing mentored by others. It is, of course, useful to have er from the knowledge I gained. I remained a leader by native intelligence, a good memory, a gregarious nature, continuing to stay abreast of what was happening over and a fundamental curiosity about lots of things. Work several decades. Keeping informed required speaking with people who can teach you what they know. The to other leaders in the field so that I knew as much as best people will always improve your leadership skills. possible about new developments, and from reading the Ask for help. latest published work.

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The times do produce leadership. The more stress, the more leadership that is required. Worry and problems produce leaders. In the end, it’s the ability to communicate the problem and the solution that makes you a leader, regardless of the issue.

In business, it’s knowing your product, being aware of the competition and the market for your products, and selecting an outstanding staff. I am a firm believer that leaders are not born, they can be made. Leadership comes from a desire to serve others and a belief that you can make a difference.

In the end, leadership comes from having the freedom to be your own boss, to test yourself, to experiment, to challenge the world, to learn on your own, and to feel that you are in charge. That’s why small companies produce leaders – they have to survive on their own wits.

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