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Finally, we pay tribute to an Atlanta legend: the late Sam Massell, the city’s groundbreaking first Jewish mayor.

From his far-reaching work on MARTA to his deep love of the city and its people, Massell was more than a politician. We report on his star-studded funeral at The Temple and Marcia Jaffe recalls Massell’s lighter side, which emerged in the interviews he gave to the AJT over the years.

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NEWS Sam Massell Laid to Rest as Leaders Extol His Jewish Values

By Marcia Caller Jaffe On March 16, The Temple’s Rabbi Peter Berg welcomed “governors, mayors and City Council members” to the funeral service of former Atlanta mayor Sam Massell, who died at 94. A member of The Temple, Massell served one term in office as the city’s first Jewish mayor, from 1970-74. Berg spoke of Massell’s irreplaceability to his family and his legacy as a “mayor’s mayor,” serving as a bridge between the city’s past and the future.

“Sam will be judged by the city he made better,” Berg said. “His life and deeds will never depart. … Sam lived not to amass, but to give, utterly unselfishly.

Perhaps his greatest gift in an anxious world was to convey that ‘everything will be ok.’”

Recalling Psalm 23, which speaks of walking through “the valley of the shadow of death,” Berg noted that a valley has open sides to provide a way out of mourning. “Sam would have wanted us to see the sunshine,” he said. Rabbi Emeritus Alvin Sugarman joined virtually to

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Rabbi Peter Berg praised Massell’s gift of telling an anxious world that “‘everything will be ok.’” // Kimberly Evans Photography

Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young spoke of Massell’s decades of service, well beyond his term in office.

Massell’s daughter, Melanie, performed “Keeper of the Stars” by Tracy Byrd.

recall how Massell’s Jewish faith inspired his high ideals and love of the city.

Massell’s cousin, real estate magnate Steve Selig, joked, “Sam may have been the ‘poorer’ Massell, but if measured by his friends and family, he was the richest.” As a young man, Selig had followed Massell to UGA, then started in the real estate industry, watching him as a “whirling dervish, always on the go.” He remembered Massell for running the Buckhead Coalition of “150 Type A personalities, which he appeased for decades,” and concluded with his best imitation of his cousin’s jocular and abrupt way of end-

ing meetings with a bunch of rules that he never intended to execute and then banging the gavel. In closing, Selig recited a poem from his own father’s funeral in 1986, “I follow a famous father ... never a stain attached to him, he gave the pride of an honest game. Sam left a lifetime of good memories.”

Massell’s biographer, Charles McNair, spoke about his work on “Play It Again, Sam: The Notable Life of Sam Massell, Atlanta’s First Minority Mayor,” during which he realized, after weeks of research, that Massell wanted to be remembered not as a realtor or leader, but as a “champion of peace.” McNair spoke about his own recent trip from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on MARTA, another part of Massell’s legacy, to his Buckhead hotel, “in a very few minutes, not using any gas and nodding at Tower Place and other landmarks as part of Sam’s legacy.”

Another part of the former mayor’s legacy, McNair said, was leaving office with 40 percent of city government composed of African Americans, compared to 20 percent when he took office. He said he pictured Massell in heaven, “now with a bullhorn directing and making everything better.”

Atlanta’s current mayor, Andre Dickens, said that, as a child, he kept statistics about mayors along with sports rosters, and that Massell became a source of inspiration. In his own Baptist church, he had learned that “Love should look like something. … Sam drew circles not just lines,” Dickens said. He also touched on the recent political controversy surrounding the proposed City of Buckhead’s split from Atlanta and how Massell had “remained true to the value of the whole city.”

Having recently celebrated his 90th birthday, former Atlanta Mayor and current United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young recalled the suffering experienced

by The Temple in a South that was not prepared for Black or Jewish leadership.

“Then we decided we would be a city ‘too

busy to hate’ starting in the 1940s. Sam brought the visions together of what the city ought to be. Note that neither Hartsfield, nor Ivan Allen nor Massell ever got the majority white vote,” he said.

Young gave credit to Massell for using a mass transit sales tax to fund MARTA and launch a “coalition of kindness.”

“Not another city voted for that besides Atlanta,” he said, noting that Massell was not just a politician or a “term” mayor, but continued to serve the city with “humility, rough decisions, vision and courage.”

Peter Yarrow — of Peter, Paul and Mary — joined virtually to perform “Blowing in the Wind” with audience participation. Yarrow recalled knowing Massell in the “times of Maddox and Calloway,” concluding: “Sam was a mensch among mensches.”

Cantor Deborah Hartman chanted the “El Malei Rachamim” prayer as mourners exited the chapel to a piano rendition of “My Way.” Earlier, Massell’s daughter, Melanie Massell, had performed “Keeper of the Stars” while gazing skyward.

Following the service, the motorcade proceeded to Oakland Cemetery for a graveside burial. ì

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The Lighter Side of the Late Sam Massell (z"l)

By Marcia Caller Jaffe The recent death of Sam Massell brought back memories of my half centurylong relationship with him. National and local newspapers reported on the former mayor’s many accomplishments, but the Atlanta Jewish Times revealed his assessments of himself, his home, as well as his fun side.

As evidenced by his 1973 appearance at the Omni Hotel alongside comedian Flip Wilson — who was dressed as his female alter-ego, Geraldine — Massell had an affinity for the lighter side. He was free with very respectful comments for attractive women, relating once that Dorothy Lamour was his real crush until he realized that Atlanta had just as many attractive women.

I met Massell in the early 1970s in the elevator at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Throughout the decades, he mentored me as a Vice President of the Buckhead Business Association (where he was president

before the Buckhead Coalition). I also served alongside his son, Steve Massell (2001 BBA president) and managed Buckhead City Life (1979), in which Sam took a keen interest. We posed for dozens of photos at every possible event. When I sang “You Make Me Feel So Young,” he would echo, “Standing by you, I look young.” When politics got divisive, we agreed to share a column in the AJT in which he’d take one side, and I’d take the other: “He Said, She Said.” Sam was eager to do it, but we never picked a topic.

In 2016, Massell invited the AJT into his home for an intimate and sentimental tour of the things he treasured — mostly his late wife, Doris’s, artwork and memorabilia, along with a basketball signed by Hawks star “Pistol” Pete Maravich at the opening of the Omni in 1972. In 2018, he agreed to a lighthearted Lowdown interview with some spicy off-the-cuff remarks. One was his admission that his guilty pleasure was “sex, but people don’t like to talk about it. Never have gotten over calories in ice cream, not any calories in sex though.”

Another glimpse of Massell comes from Gail Solomon, who was his personal assistant for three years, until his retirement.

“Sam’s most memorable lesson required that I always use a title (Mr., Mrs.) when addressing a letter,” she recalled, “explaining that people be treated equally, that there was a time when certain people weren’t allowed to have a title.” Solomon recalls that, during elections, almost every candidate running for office would come to meet with Sam and get his advice. He took every call.

When Massell’s biography “Play It Again, Sam” was

Gail Solomon invited Massell to autograph his biography at Ahavath Achim Synagogue in 2019.

Jaffe with Massell in 2020 at the Buckhead Business Association Annual lunch, perhaps his last public appearance.

published, Solomon invited him to speak at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Extra chairs had to be set up to accommodate the crowd.

Massell was delighted to be sought after, and it was just like him to stay long after the program to take questions.

The following are some excerpts from those interviews. As you can tell, I was not afraid to ask the “unaskable.”

Massell: The fact that the MARTA referendum, promulgated by my predecessor, Ivan Allen, had failed and I was able to successfully restructure the funding (sales tax and subsidized fare) … we became the envy of urban America. Then, appointing the first woman to the City Council in Atlanta’s 125-year history was a breakthrough for minorities. My most everlasting effect was my responsibility to steer Atlanta through the peaceful transformation from an all-white power structure to a Black city government.

My low point was appointing a police chief who did not get along with the African American community.

AJT: Tom Wolfe’s Book about Atlanta, “Man in Full” — were you one of the characters?

Massell: I know Wolfe is a good writer, but I was disappointed in the book, as I thought it was going to be a favorable report on Buckhead’s real estate success stories. As such, in fact, I invited him to be the keynoter at the Coalition’s Annual Meeting (where I would have distributed copies). When I discovered it was a negative treatise, I withdrew the invitation. I didn’t see me in the book, but there were several Coalition members who had personalities similar to his characters.

AJT: What are your early recollections of Jewish Atlanta in the 1930s?

Massell: The Jewish population was very small, but we were homogeneous: Reform members of The Temple and the Standard Club (then on Ponce de Leon).

We weren’t invited into membership into social clubs, so we had our own, “Top Hat” for boys and “Lucky 13” for girls.

AJT: As mayor, what do you consider your acme and low point?

AJT: If you could have another talent …

Massell: Playing snare drums. I got kicked out of the band in high school.

AJT: The best advice I gave my kids …

Massell: “Two heads are better than one, even if one is a cabbage head,” which was told to me by my grandfather Sol Rubin.

AJT: If they made a movie of my life, I would choose … to play the lead.

Massell: Martin Sheen knows how to play a politician and has charisma.

AJT: My wife would say I am too …

Massell: My Jewish genes push me into “help mode” all the time, even when not needed.

AJT: My favorite cocktail …

Massell: Chopin vodka martini, olive on the side … hard to come by. Purely deluxe.

AJT: Looking back, the best real estate deal I ever did was …

Massell: Selling a dead tree for $10,000 to an outdoor sign company where the Sheppard Center is now. They paid me instead of me paying them. ì

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Lipstadt Nomination Clears Committee

By Dave Schechter The nomination of Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt to be the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat AntiSemitism cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday by a 13-9 vote.

All 11 of the committee’s Democrats voted in favor of Lipstadt’s nomination, along with two Republicans, Mitt Romney of Utah and Marco Rubio of Florida.

The nomination now goes to the full Senate, which is expected to vote in the coming weeks.

If confirmed, the 75-year-old Lipstadt would take a leave of absence from Emory, where she is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies in Emory’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and religion department.

Numerous Jewish groups had called on the committee to approve Lipstadt’s nomination and move it to the Senate floor.

A confirmation hearing and committee vote were required because the position now carries the rank of ambassador. Lipstadt was nominated by President Joe Biden

on July 30, 2021, but did not receive a confirmation hearing until Feb. 8.

The delay was due in large measure to Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson, a committee member, who placed a “hold” on the nomination because of Lipstadt’s Twitter post about him. On March 14, 2021, she posted an article about a statement by Johnson, that he would have been more concerned about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol if the mob had been made up of “Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters” rather than supporters of then-Present Donald Trump.

Lipstadt’s comment said of Johnson’s statement, “This is white supremacy/nationalism. Pure and simple.”

Johnson accepted an apology Lipstadt offered during the Feb. 8 confirmation hearing, but declared her unfit for the job.

The Jewish Insider reported that before Tuesday’s committee vote, Johnson said that “A vote for her acknowledges that you’re okay with malicious poison.”

Before casting his vote, Texas Republican Ted Cruz called Lipstadt “a serious and intelligent person,” but added, “I was initially inclined to support this nomination

Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin said Deobrah Lipstadt “is recognized as the leader in this country as fighting against antisemitism.”

but I am troubled by her public advocacy,” referring to her social media posts, and that “undermines the effectiveness of this job.”

In supporting the nomination, Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin said, “I can tell you that Deborah Lipstadt is the leader in this country on antisemitism.”

Reacting to the vote, Nevada Democrat Jacky Rosen, co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, said in a statement that “Lipstadt is a highly qualified nominee who will call out antisemitism no matter where it comes from.” ì

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Donors, Heroes and Actors ‘Celebrate Chutzpah’

Carol Breman Nemo chatted with David Sarnat about his father’s gift to establish the museum.

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

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Watching the Oscars at home played second fiddle to the local stars gathered on Spring St. to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Breman Museum on Mar. 27. The event co-chair Lois Blonder, summed it up, “As with everything in life, some things are worth waiting for. Because of COVID’s postponement, third time’s a winner.” Greeting guests was David Schendowich, The Breman’s director of marketing and communications. “200 supporters are gathered under our outdoor tent,” he said. ”The weather is amazing. Bring your chutzpah! Get ready for theatrical performers acting out stories of Southern Jewish history.”

The Chutzpah exhibition portrays how courage and strength can make a difference in the lives of others. The premier level “History with Chutzpah” exhibit donor was The Walter and Frances Bunzl Family Foundation. From 1733 to present, stories of inspir-

for 18 years of service honoring mothers and fathers, residents, clients, families and volunteers.

Lizzie Lack reported on the $1.6 million raised for the 25th anniversary.

ing Jews from Alabama and Georgia were selected from the museum’s archives to result in 250 exhibits.

Chatting during the cocktail hour, supporter Judith Taylor commented, “25 years is so exciting. It’s like watching a child grow up before your very eyes.” Co-chairs Lois Blonder, Joyce Shlesinger, and Spring Asher admired the work in getting to this place in time. Asher said, “This all about getting back together after a long while and of course, the Breman.” Shlesinger echoed, “This represents 25 years of building a wonderful Jewish Museum centered around the Holocaust.” Artsy doyenne Elaine Gutenstein said, “It’s my privilege to serve as a docent here. The stories depicted inside documents that we have to learn, grow and follow-up is our generation’s responsibility to speak up.”

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Billie Feinman, Lois Blonder and Marlene Schwartz enjoy the perfect weather.

A Kosher Touch presented a bountiful deli spread.

Costumed actors performed 12 theatrical vignettes.

minaries featured in the exhibition were enacted in theatrical vignettes on an elevated stage. Cecil Alexander, Asher Benator, Erwin Zaban, Irving and Marvin Goldstein, Sam Greenblatt, Ben Hirsch, Evelyn Howren, Dr. Samuel Nunez, Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, Dr. Nanette Wenger, Dr. Perry Brickman

and Janice Rothschild Blumberg, were portrayed by seven rotating actors in costume.

The latter three were present, while others, like Drs. Ron and Ken Goldstein represented their deceased family honorees.

The formal part of the program began with the Breman’s Board Chairman, Adam

Koplan, extolling how the first Jews in Georgia were part of the new world order with their mind-blowing stories, and laughed, “I bet they never saw food that looked like this display tonight.” The museum’s director of development, Lizzie Lack boasted about the 1.6 million raised for the anniversary cam-

paign. A five-minute video was shown about the eponymous Bill Breman and his willingness to contribute to greater visions.

Later, his daughter, Carol Breman Nemo, chatted privately with the AJT and former Jew-ish Federation Executive Director David Sarnat about his lunch at the now defunct Coach ‘N Six restaurant, where the latter asked William Breman for the donation to build the museum initially planned atop the former Federation Building on Peachtree. Sarnat glowed and immediately said, “Yes. He was just like that in his generosity.”

The Breman's Executive Director, Leslie Gordon, recounted to the crowd how the museum had to adapt alongside the pandemic. “We found ourselves in this new space using new tools,“ she said.

“We had 21,000 virtual visitors and thousands of YouTube postings all engaged.

But there are more exciting changes coming. Watch for our new look, and new logo. We’ve had an amazing 25 years.

Now we focus on the next 25 years. Look for a bigger, bolder, brighter Breman Museum in the future!”

Go to www.thebreman.org/ to make plans to see the exhibit. ì

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Atlanta Jews Support Refugee Relief in Poland

By Jan Jaben-Eilon

According to Ryan Kaplan, an Atlanta native and former Jewish Federation of While most national news organiza- Greater Atlanta employee who now directs tions continue to focus on the death and English-language communications at the destruction in Ukraine, the Jewish world is Kraków JCC, Marcia Miller visited the JCC a shifting its attention to the millions of Ukrai- few years ago and was impressed with the nian refugees who have fled the warzone. staff and volunteers there. “We are devastatMost have escaped to Poland, where they’ve ed by the events in the Ukraine, and so gratebeen embraced and assisted by the small ful the JCC in Kraków is able to help Ukraiand sometimes fractured Jewnian refugees,” she told Kaplan. ish community there. Thanks The Miller family isn’t the to pre-existing relationships, the only big benefactor from AtlanAtlanta Jewish community has ta. Until COVID, the Frank Famtaken the lead in supporting the ily Foundation had been reguPolish Jewish community in their larly sending missions to Poland humanitarian efforts. This is esand Israel. The Polish part of the pecially true in Kraków. trip always included a visit to the During his most recent Kraków JCC, usually including weekly Facebook Live feed, Jonaa Shabbat meal. According to than Ornstein, the founder and Isaac Frank said the Isaac Frank, his family — led by JCC’s work to help executive director of the Jewish parents Larry and Lois — have Ukrainian refugees Community Centre of Kraków, long “pumped big dollars into “started organically highlighted the generosity of the the JCC. What the JCC built is and then it took on a life of its own.”

Atlanta Jewish community. In quite beautiful.” an email to the AJT, he noted the “six-figure” The Kraków JCC was opened 14 years donation from Atlantans Marcia and Mark ago this April, by Prince Charles of Great BritMiller, who have also offered to match any ain. Its goal was to support the resurgence contributions their friends make to the JCC. of Jewish life in Krakow, which had been

decimated by the Holocaust and decades of Communist rule. According to its website, the “JCC Kraków works to change both the world’s perception of Poland and Poland’s perception of Jews.”

The invasion of Ukraine has certainly furthered those goals. Prior to the conflict, the JCC provided social and educational services to Kraków’s Jewish community, including daycare and support for local Holocaust survivors. Once Russia invaded, Ornstein said, “it was not even a question that we would” morph into a “humanitarian aid business.”

“We’re all flying blind,” he told the AJT. “We’ve been able to scale up from our normal daily job, helping the community that was decimated and hurt by history, first by the Holocaust and then by Communism. As Jews, we are mindful because of our history.”

Frank said the JCC’s refugee relief efforts “started organically and then it took on a life of its own.” Nearly overnight, the JCC added 10 members to its staff of 30 to assist the hundreds of Ukrainian refugees, Jewish and non-Jewish, who come through their doors.

The JCC “is leveraging the relationships they had developed in Kraków and are cross-pollinating those relationships to help address the

Unlike the capital, Warsaw, the city of Kraków was not destroyed during WWII.

Ukrainian refugee crisis,” said Frank.

According to Kaplan, the JCC has formed a coalition with four other nonprofits that help direct refugees to them.

“We are housing 200 people a day, directly or through our partners,” with the help of hotels, apartments and bed-andbreakfasts, said Ornstein, at a cost of some $8,000 to $10,000 a day — money that hadn’t been earmarked in its $2 million budget.

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NEWS have, while still helping our Holocaust survivors. We don’t have a Federation or a JF&CS in Kraków. There’s no infrastructure. We’re not set up to do this medium- or long-term,” he said, but the JCC is still hoping that the Polish government will do “the heavy lifting” to assist the Jonathan Ornstein, Ukrainian refugees. executive director of the Jewish Community Indeed, about three Center of Kraków. weeks into Russia’s invasion, Poland announced that it would allow refugees to stay in the country for 18 months, with the ability also to work and support their families. Their children would be integrated into local schools.

From the beginning, the Polish community contributed by dropping off food and supplies at the Kraków JCC. “We’ve seen more support in the last two weeks than ever,” Kaplan observed.

“The Poles have been amazing, opening their doors and hearts,” said Ornstein.

“It wasn’t obvious this would happen.” He pointed out that the Ukrainian refugee crisis has “done a lot to unite the Jewish community in Poland, Rachel Rothstein, just like the U.S.” director of the Israel In Warsaw, where the Poland Experience at infighting among Jewish The Weber School. groups is legendary, the Beit Polska Federation of Progressive Jewish Communities in Poland has been working to assist refugees and the Warsaw JCC has opened its doors as well.

In Lublin, only 70 miles from Ukraine’s border, a four-person medical delegation from Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, set up facilities to treat injured refugees, Jewish and non-Jewish.

The Atlanta Jewish community is monitoring all of this, from near and far. Nearly a month into the war, Federation CEO Eric Robbins traveled to Poland’s border with Ukraine to “bear witness to the atrocities happening to so many individuals as a result of this war.”

For those with deep connections to Poland and Ukraine, like Rachel Rothstein, this war is excruciating.

“I’m really struggling hard to see the cities I spent time in” attacked by Russia, said Rothstein, a teacher at The Weber School who also directs the Israel Poland Experience there.

“It’s painful to be an expert,” she acknowledged, noting that she had done academic Ryan Kaplan, an Atlantan now working research in Poland. “It’s very at the Kraków JCC. difficult to control my emotions when I’m talking to people about it. I’ve been to Lviv, Kyiv and Odessa.”

Rothstein recently spoke to students about the war at a school assembly, while also teaching social studies classes. “This is very much a story that the Jewish community identifies with,” she said. ì

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Transcending Political Divides Through Storytelling

By Jan Jaben-Eilon

Launched in 2014, Resetting the Table is a communication skill-building program that In March, when six members of Con- facilitates collaborative conversations across gregation Or Hadash shared personal stories political disagreement, including tools and about moments that had shaped their po- exercises that leaders can replicate in their litical viewpoints, Rabbi Lauren Henderson own institutions and communities.

Or Hadash is one of eight religious instiwas hoping those narratives might, in their tutions in the South that have telling, spark a transformagone through special training tion within her diverse Sandy to encourage productive conSprings congregation. versations in their communiHenderson likened toties. The Jewish Community day’s toxic political environRelations Council of Atlanta ment to the “intractable poand the Georgia Interfaith litical conflict” that occurred Public Policy Center are also 2000 years ago between the part of the cohort, bringing Houses of Hillel and Shamtogether faith leaders across mai. In that case, so states “Stories help us be differences of ideology, dethe Talmud, a divine voice known to others,” said Rabbi Melissa nomination and race. finally spoke up, saying both Weintraub, founder of “We are working togethsides were right. But the disResetting the Table. er on bringing clergy from rupute wasn’t settled until one side, the House of Hillel, chose to listen and ral areas of Georgia and urban areas of Georunderstand the opposing viewpoint before gia that have very different political points of view, to engage in a two-part program to deexpressing its own.

Henderson first spoke about the Tal- velop more productive means of communimudic story last Rosh Hashanah, setting cation, networking and maybe even support the scene for a program she wanted to bring over political divides,” said Leslie Anderson, to Or Hadash, called Resetting the Table. executive director of JCRCA.

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“The South has different dynamics the people in the story. Most importantly, about race and religion,” said Resetting the she got me to focus on why I wanted to share this particular story. I thought Table Founder Rabbi Melissa that I had the reason clear in Weintraub. “And faith commy head and that I had made munities are an endangered it clear in my telling, but species in America. There is so Michele was actually right. much ideological siloing. We There was indeed much more have self-sorted by neighborfor me to reflect upon and hood, workplace and school. more for me to share. When Faith-based communities are I later received feedback from one of the last communities a few people in the audience, I with political diversity.”

Congregation Or Hadash's Or Hadash was chosen Rabbi Lauren Henderson. was gratified to learn that my storytelling and my experifor the program’s Southern cohort both because Henderson had partici- ence were appreciated.”

One speaker, who did not want to be pated in one of its programs in 2017 and because “she had described the diversity in her identified, said he was hesitant to share his congregation, especially its political diver- story, but that he appreciated “Rabbi Lauren sity,” said Michele Freed, an Ann Arbor-based wanting to bring people together to listen to trainer with Resetting the Table who helped different points of view. As a conservative, I coach the speakers in preparing their short know I am taking a risk.”

Another, Howard Maziar, said he was stories.

Henderson said she was interested in surprised at how emotional he became when sharing his story of bringing Resetting the Table growing up in Atlanta with to her congregation because racism that strongly affected some of her congregants had him. He shared the story of said that they couldn’t sleep at how he became a doctor afnight due to the political poter being horrified when, as larization in the community. a 16-year-old, he witnessed Some storytellers volunteered his beloved family maid, who while others were personally helped to raise him, be denied asked to contribute. healthcare in an emergency “I wasn’t categorizing Trainer Michele Freed room due to her race. people by red or blue and the “Storytelling is a skill stories all transcended those that can be taught,” he said. “I labels,” Henderson told the AJT. “One spoke about anti-Semitism, one got a glimpse of that. That’s what Resetting about race and one about Communism the Table helped me do. I think this could and all were very moving. When you have have long-term impact. We don’t really structure at an event like this, it’s easier” to know each other’s stories.”

A relative newcomer to Or Hadash, share one’s story. “There’s a tendency for us to dismantle facts, but narratives transcend Joshua Margolis shared a pivotal moment that occurred to him in the wake of 9/11. “I the facts.”

The goal of Resetting the Table, which see how polarized we are today,” he said, adding that he thinks Resetting launched with the storytellthe Table “will bring congreing initiative but will include gants together.” two more programs, one in According to Weintraub, April and one in May, is “to “stories help us be known to build a sense of family conothers.” She sees storytelling nection with each other. A as a way of building scaffoldbondedness as a congregaing, a way into the conversation,” said Henderson. tion. “Storytelling is a gateEach speaker was asked way. It takes time to build a to share a personal epiphany JCRC Executive Director container for people to feel or insight that served to shape Leslie Anderson safe enough to confront their them. They were trained as a differences. It doesn’t happen group and then in one-on-one meetings with a trainer to help them pre- in 15 minutes.”

Although the program started with a fopare their stories.

According to one of the storytellers, cus on diversity in opinions about Israel, afAnne Greenbaum, “Michele Freed was a ter the 2016 election, it broadened to address great coach. She advised me on small but political differences in the U.S. as well. “This significant features in my story: clarifying problem is too urgent to rush,” she suggested. the setting and clearly naming/identifying “We need to slow down to see each other.” ì

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JF&CS Partners with HOD on Indigent Burial Project

By Chana Shapiro Jewish Family and Career Services has partnered with four Atlanta lodges of the Hebrew Order of David (HOD), a fraternal organization that raises funds for local charities and supports Jews in times of difficulty, to launch a major project to identify Jewish individuals buried in unmarked graves in Atlanta’s cemeteries and to place markers at each of these sites.

Most cemeteries likely have unmarked graves, including Jewish ones. This can occur for several reasons, such as family or friends not being able to afford a stone, or if the deceased was estranged from family.

Every cemetery has a map to identify these so-called indigent burial sites.

JF&CS Community Chaplain Rabbi Judith Beiner runs the Indigent Burial Program in partnership with Dressler’s Funeral Care to help families fulfill the obligation of providing a dignified and halachic (lawful Jewish) burial. Beiner maintains a spreadsheet of the unmarked graves, with names, dates of birth and death and their location. Currently, there are 36 unmarked Jewish plots at Greenwood Cemetery and a few at Arlington Cemetery.

HOD and its North American Governing Lodge work together on the indigent graves project, the cost of the first stones being covered by donations. On Sunday, March 13, a large group from the four HOD lodges and JF&CS gathered to remember two of the deceased and unveil their gravestones at Greenwood Cemetery. Rabbi Beiner co-officiated with Congregation Beth Tefillah Rabbi Yossi New, one of 15 rabbis in Atlanta who are members of HOD. HOD and JF&CS have a history of cooperating on community-focused projects.

Over the years, HOD has purchased three handicap vans for the organization. HOD member Les Kraitzik, who was active in the organization while in South Africa, learned about the indigent gravestone project at a Houston HOD chapter and brought the idea to Rabbi Beiner. He invited another member, David Joss, to help establish Lodge Carmel in Atlanta, which became the first HOD lodge in North America. At the unveiling ceremony, Beiner read a poem, “Every Person Has Name,” expressing the significance of placing a memorial at each unmarked grave.

JF&CS, which maintains an indigent burial fund, works in tandem with Edward Dressler of Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care to determine whether an individual is eligible for indigent burial. Dressler explained that he is sometimes approached by rabbis or families with requests for financial help, and that he talks to them to determine their financial situation. He may refer a needy fam-

Members of the JF&CS staff and the HOD listen as Rabbi Yossi New opens the ceremony.

ily to JF&CS and may assist with the costs as well.

“Most families do their best to cover some of the costs, and we want to help JF&CS manage their limited indigent burial funds,” Dressler said. “Our overall purpose is that every Jewish person gets a proper Jewish burial.” The donated burial sites at Greenwood Cemetery are in the Workmen’s Circle section, to which JF&CS was given access. Now known as the Worker’s Circle — the Arbeter Ring in Yiddish — the cultural organization, originally socialist, was launched in New York in 1892 by Jewish immigrants to provide aid and death benefits to fellow members.

Greenwood Cemetery helped by reducing cemetery burial and tombstone-laying fees.

Kraitzik, representing HOD International, said, “Bringing dignity to those who have passed is one of the most important mitzvot we can perform. HOD is honored to work with JF&CS and our brother, Eddie Dressler, to make this happen here. And we’re not going to stop at Atlanta.”

Traditionally, the gravestone is placed by the bereaved family, and HOD attempts to contact family or friends of the deceased for permission to fulfill that mitzvah. The first two markers were placed in honor of William Peca, who died in 2015, and Leon Asner, who died in 2020. Neither have any known relatives in Atlanta.

“I am deeply comforted with the knowledge that those souls will be remembered and honored into eternity,” said Beiner.

JF&CS staff shared memories of Asner, who for years was actively involved with their organization through Holocaust Survivor Services. In 2017, the organization arranged his bar mitzvah at the age of 85 at the Marcus Hillel Center at Emory and fulfilled his final wishes to have an Orthodox funeral and to not die alone. Following the unveiling, Rabbi New led everyone in reciting the Kaddish and in singing “Oseh Shalom.”

“They say that the spirit of a person who has passed away is elevated when people remember them,” noted Joss. “Today we fulfilled the mitzvah of placing gravestones for Leon Asner and William Peca. I am sure they would have been amazed at the large group of men and women who came to unveil their gravestones and remember them in a very

Standing under the Workmen’s Circle Arch (l to r) David Joss of HOD International, Rabbi Judith Beiner, Rabbi Yossi New and Les Kraitzik.

moving ceremony.”

JF&CS CEO Terri Bonoff expressed her thanks to HOD and to all who gathered for the unveiling. “May this important act have ripple effects far and wide,” she said, “bringing peace and blessings to those in harm’s way and to all who have died without recognition." ì

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101 Bagel Cafe Rises to Meet Demand

By Marcia Caller Jaffe There’s an art to the business of making quality bagels. Florida native Robert Miller, who plans to operate and franchise more 101 Bagel Cafes in choice Atlanta neighborhoods, has the recipe for both.

Miller waited tables and bartended during college, but launched his real career with the opening of a coffee shop in Dania Beach, Fla. After a few other successful business ventures of his own, he met his Atlanta “partner-in-dough” and moved to the peach state to operate 101 Bagel Cafe, making New York-style bagels, sweets, sandwiches, melts, omelets and wraps in all sorts of customizable combinations.

101 took over a previous bagel concept location in Akers Mill in 2018, opened in Duluth in 2019, and then COVID hit. Miller went to work strategizing an app-driven delivery and pick up model, resulting in lines out the door. New locations are slated to open in East Cobb, Dunwoody and Crabapple.

Miller says that all of their bagels are boiled and baked daily, never frozen, with any leftovers donated to charities. He outlined the secret steps: Mix, boil, and bake

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a close second. Oh, and don’t forget desserts: black & white cookies and muffins.

Then there’s catering, with egg and tuna salad, nova, whitefish, bagel bites and all the trimmings. Miller has an obvious love of bagels and likes to have fun. “We are now starting back (post-COVID) our special giant sandwiches prepared for a group and requiring a 48-hour advance order. Great for social media posts! Then we will have a Pizza Bagel Eating Contest for 8 to 10 folks at a time, spanning ten minutes,” he said.

According to Miller, all of his 101 staff cross-train at the bakery, back prep, kitchen and register. “It’s all about the experience,” he said. “We want all customers to have a 5-star experience! We offer board games while you dine in for no cost to challenge your friends, family or even a team member.”

To support the community, in some locations, Miller allows artists and musicians to use his space for events in the late afternoon and evening. “We’ve had furniture made from recycled materials, woodworkers, hand soap purveyors and musicians use

our space,” Miller said, “and we take no commissions. In March, watch for Java ‘n Jokes at Duluth (3126 U.S. Hwy 23).”

The cafe is busiest from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and then again during lunch. Weekends are busy also. “We are always looking for qualified franchisees,” Miller says. “We offer 24/7 support and will always have their backs from start to finish. Actually, the first 10 will be grandfathered in at generous rates. We may have five to 10 locations here, maybe 2530. We are not limited to Atlanta. It’s all about finding the right spot, preferably suburban.”

The Dunwoody location is just seven minutes from the MJCC (and their member’s Perk Page has a free bagel and cream cheese offer). East Cobb will be located at 4811 Johnson Ferry Rd. The Crabapple location, which will open later in the summer, will feature the team’s first drive-through. Franchisees in Georgia will buy their bagel dough, muffin mix and cream cheese from 101’s commissary. Out-of-state operators will have their own commissary. All food is prepared fresh at each location. ì

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Beeline Bagels Reinvents Bagels on Wheels

By Bob Bahr Once upon a time, before the Holocaust, you could buy your bagels on the streets of the Jewish towns and cities of Eastern Europe. They were sold from wicker baskets, sometimes hanging from rods attached to the rim of the basket. For only a few pennies, a bagel could make a cheap lunch or an after-school snack. Although you generally had to have a license to sell on the streets, unlicensed orphan children could be seen selling bagels to help their widowed mothers support the family.

When Jews immigrated to America in large numbers before and after the turn of the century, the bagel sellers came with them.

They were a fixture on the Lower East Side in New York, where bagels were hawked on the crowded sidewalks or sold from pushcarts.

Now, more than a century later, a young entrepreneur has brought a modern version of the sidewalk bagel to the BeltLine in east Atlanta. Armed with an Innovation Bloom grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Beeline Bagels founder Niki Hetchkop spent most of last year creating a corporate LLC and researching the city’s food and

business regulations. She found a commercial kitchen to develop her product line and bought a custom refrigerated pushcart for her BeltLine bagel business.

Hetchkop says that the community’s reception has been amazing so far. “First time I sold out all the 200 bagels I’d baked in about an hour or so,” she said. “I’ve been getting a lot of Instagram messages asking where are you, where can I get your bagels again? And I was really honored that people who had tried the bagels when I first launched are coming back for more. That’s really, really very special.”

Hetchkop says that she came up with the concept for Beeline Bagels not by studying old history books about Jewish life, but just by walking around her Inman Park neighborhood with her husband, David, who also has a passion for bagels.

“I was thinking, I want to come up with an alternative way to be able to sell my bagels,” she said. “How do I get these to market?

So, after countless hours of research, I discovered my ideal business was going to be mobile so I could move throughout the community. What I have is like a bagel store on wheels, where the bagels I bake are prepack-

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The initial menu had sesame, poppyseed, salt and cinnamon raisin bagels, but Hetchkop, who has a background in marketing and communications, is open to suggestions.

“I’ve really tried to make this a company that is serving the community,” she said. “It’s kind of like by the community, for the community. So I know that my menu will evolve.”

In the old days, bagels were not only tasty but were supposed to offer protection against demons and evil spirits, warding off the evil eye and bringing good luck. Because of their circular shape, which had no beginning or end, they were served at lifecycle events, when a woman was in labor and even after a funeral, at a shiva.

Now Hetchkop has her eye on the catering market and all those bar and bat mitzvahs where nothing keeps away the evil spirt like a big, tasty, chewy handmade dough bomb.

Niki Hetchkop has built her new business around a strong commitment to the community.

“My bagels are big,” she admits. “I knew from the start that I wanted to make a big, heavily seeded, gluttonous bagel because when you finish one of my bagels I want you to have that I-could-take-a-nap feeling, yeah, that’s exactly what I want.” ì

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Zalik Foundation Grant for IDF Cyber Security

By Bob Bahr The Atlanta-based Zalik Family Foundation, founded by David and Helen Zalik, has announced a $1 million gift to support advanced computer technology training for young women in Israel’s middle and high schools.

The gift, to be spread out over the next five years, will support an Israel Ministry of Defense program called “Mamriot,” Hebrew for “taking off.” As that word would imply, the accelerated pace of learning is part of a new effort to expand the role of women in cyber warfare.

Israel’s Ministry of Defense has appropriated $4.8 million for the initiative and the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) will add another $3.4 million. Part of this funding comes from the Zalik Foundation, which, in a statement it released, wrote: “The need for more talent in the tech sector in Israel is clear and we are inspired by the FIDF’s support of a program that equips young women, many from Israel’s geographic periphery, with

Women make up only about 15 percent of the IDF’s cyber defense force.

The Zalik Family Foundation has made a $1M grant to help create more opportunities for young women in Israel’s elite cyber security units.

The IDF has created the Joint Cyber Defense Division to connect Israel’s computer-based defense technology to every unit of the IDF.

education and tools to make valuable contributions.”

Previous attempts to provide cyber training for school-aged girls produced disappointing results, mainly — according to the IDF — because it was provided in a coed environment in which young women often felt they were competing

against young men. That forced the IDF to redesign the program, said Seth Baron, who runs the FIDF regional office in Atlanta.

“What we saw in a coed situation was the dropout rate among women was twice that of the young men. And, through a number of pilot programs in the IDF and Ministry of Defense, doing their due diligence, realized that we could have much better success with a program geared specifically towards young ladies.”

Last year, a pilot program showed that when young women were taught separately, they were just as successful with the program of study and remained with it just as long as young men did. In light of these positive results, Israel’s government redoubled its efforts to provide cyber training for young women, who are required to serve at least two years in the IDF, alongside men. The national director of the FIDF, retired IDF Major General Nadav Padan, pointed out that the Zalik Foundation’s gift will go a long way toward accomplishing a number of objectives.

“Empowering teen girls with specialized tech education has multiple benefits in Israel,” he said. “It provides an unprecedented opportunity to an audience who might not have otherwise had it, utilizes untapped potential from Israel’s periphery and supports the need for cyber specialists in elite technology units of the IDF.” Israel is considered to have one of the most ambitious and successful cyber warfare units in the world. In 2016, former IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot established the Joint Cyber Defense Division as a separate compo-

nent of the armed forces, equal in its responsibilities to the Army, Navy and Air Force. Its mission is to connect the nation’s computer-based defense technology to every unit of the IDF. The “Mamriot” program is one way of developing what has been described as a feeder network to prepare Israel’s young people to serve in elite cyber warfare forces such as Unit 8200, the largest single component of Israel’s military, comparable to America’s National Security Agency.

According to the FIDF’s Baron, women make up only about 15 percent of the cyber units in the IDF. The goal of the new program is not only to create a pipeline that can staff these units but also to enable female soldiers to continue their careers in Israel’s burgeoning high-tech industries.

“Once they get out of service, they have a skill set that they would not have otherwise had,” he said. “And so, it takes care of a goal of increasing participation of young women within the IDF. And it also helps increase the general working society within a high-tech and cyber security environment in the State of Israel.

So it’s really a great educational component all the way through military service and even afterwards.”

Women are becoming a visible part of the FIDF in Atlanta as well. Helen Zalik, for example, was not only instrumental in facilitating the $1 million grant but has also served as a co-chair of the organization’s annual fundraising event.

The FIDF, a major source of grants for initiatives in Israel, is projected to raise $92 million nationally this year. It’s annual fundraising event in Atlanta is scheduled for May 16. ì

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Ventures ATL Employs Adults with Autism

By Chana Shapiro As the parents of a son on the autism spectrum, Chet Hurwitz and Sara Barron were well aware of the phenomenon known as “falling off the services cliff” — when a person “ages out” of mandatory educational and social support services. They were especially determined to address the void in meaningful employment for the 80 percent who are unemployed or underemployed, which is a concern in communities everywhere.

Hurwitz likens the situation to a relay race, in which the baton of appropriate services moves forward year to year but stops at adulthood. “We wanted to pick up the baton,” he says. Following a successful career as an attorney and business advis or, Hurwitz has dedicated his personal skillset to solving the employment challenges facing the neurodiverse community.

Barron, a former director of marketing for a nonprofit that employed adults with developmental differences, soon joined him.

In 2017, the couple founded Ventures ATL, an Atlanta nonprofit whose mission is to provide meaningful, sustainable employment for adults with autism or related disorders. Their approach is not a placement model — in which clients are placed with an employer — but rather direct employment at Ventures ATL. The organization has two key operating principles. First, there must be a real commercial demand for its services; second, the jobs must maximize the strengths of neurodiverse employees. These strengths include focus, attention to detail, affinity for repetitive tasks and a strong motivation to work — skills highly valued in the workplace.

Ventures ATL operates a portfolio of businesses to provide their employees with a range of opportunities. One of these businesses is a data management service that may require employees to enter raw or unstructured data, clean up existing databases, or compile data in real time to facilitate reports and analytics tools. Their primary clients include a large regional insurance agency, a major telecommunications company, a prominent private equity firm, a commercial real estate firm, a global professional services firm, a large healthcare IT and pharmaceutical distribution company and a statewide nonprofit.

“Our employees have delivered excellent results for our clients — occasionally ‘wowing’ them with outcomes far in excess of their expectations,” Hurwitz says. “Our references are very strong.”

Another business is a product fulfillment service in which employees perform “the pick, pack, label and ship” functions

Chet Hurwitz and Sara Barron founded Ventures ATL to provide meaningful, sustainable employment for adults with autism.

Ventures ATL employees hard at work on data management assignments.

An employee prepares a Dooney & Bourke Autism Awareness handbag for shipment.

for items ordered online. Ventures ATL partnered with Dooney & Bourke to create an exclusive Autism Awareness-themed product line with a special emblem on each handbag, which are sold on the Ventures ATL website.

“The customers love the bags and the personal note from the employees included in each box,” Hurwitz says. The organization also provides product fulfillment for Walmart.com orders of products from FIXD, an Atlanta-based maker of automotive diagnostic devices.

Barron conducts the initial interviews with all job applicants. “We want to ‘screen in’ candidates who have strengths like focus, attention to detail and spreadsheets,” she says. “I encourage them to practice so that they can showcase their strengths!” Having a career path in line with their strengths and interests creates other positive ripple effects in their lives, personally and professionally.

Ventures ATL employees work regular business hours and earn salaries based on an hourly wage commensurate with industry standards for their skills and experience.

Operations manager Jordan Greer organizes employee teams to work on specific projects. For example, some clients utilize Ventures ATL for projects that recur on a monthly basis. Other clients start the relationship by picking a specific project and then expand to other areas as they learn more about the skills of the Ventures ATL team. One client has now worked with them on 16 different projects.

“Our employees’ commitment to success often exceeds expectations,” Greer says with pride.

“While we are organized as a nonprofit, Ventures ATL must deliver at the same high standards as those of any other business,” Hurwitz confirms. “Our commercial clients become repeat clients, which validates our

work model of optimizing the skills and abilities of an historically underemployed group. Currently we have 23 employees, expect to have 30 by the end of the year and we’ll continue expanding from there. We provide a work environment that capitalizes on our employees’ strengths, and we are looking for others with skills and interests in our primary area of growth, data man-

agement.”

When asked about what Ventures ATL employees like best about their jobs, one might expect answers like getting a regular paycheck or working in a professional setting.

Most employees, however, expressed pride and reliability as a motivating factor: “We know our work is important, and businesses like what we do. They depend on us.” ì

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Slingshot Fund’s ‘10 To Watch’ Atlanta Winners

By Bob Bahr Two Atlanta philanthropic startups have been named to the Slingshot Fund’s “10 To Watch” list of American Jewish nonprofits for 2022: the Blue Dove Foundation, launched in 2018 to raise awareness and understanding of mental illness in the Jewish community, and the Jewish Fertility Foundation, which was founded in 2015 to offer Jewish families financial assistance for ferGabby Leon Spratt is the executive Elana Frank’s personal experience tility treatments and other forms of director of the Blue Dove Foundation. with infertility led her to start the support.

Jewish Fertility Foundation.

The selection is designed to encourage charitable entrepreneurship by young Jews in Amer- coming, engaged community around this. Because when we ica and raise awareness of those organizations that are doing have a healthier community, a more open, a more welcoming community, our Jewish life is going to be vibrant and we’re gowork that is particularly noteworthy.

The Blue Dove Foundation was founded by Alysa Ber- ing to thrive. So I think that, if we can provide tools, if we can man, Justin Milrad and Daniel Epstein, of The Berman Center provide an understanding, open heart, we can really create a in Atlanta, which specializes in treating substance abuse and healthier space for individuals.”

The organization offers mental health resources approother mental health issues. The organization offers workpriate to the various Jewish holidays. For example, it has creshops, programs and publications aimed at what they call ated an alternative seder plate for the Passover holiday that “Quieting the Silence” about such issues as addiction and seemphasizes six actions that provide support and care of the vere depression in the Jewish community. self during the year. The seder plate is designed, in the words Executive Director Gabby Spratt, who joined the foundaof the foundation, “to use Passover as a time to stop and retion soon after it was founded four years ago, says, “For us, it flect not only on the Exodus but on our own mental health. was really important from day one to normalize the discusOn those difficult days when we feel stuck in a metaphorical sion around mental illness, to create a strong, educated, wel-

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The JFF offers financial assistance for fertility treatments and other forms of support.

Egypt, the mental health Seder plate can offer us inner peace.”

Both Spratt and Jennifer Greenberg, the organization’s co-president, were attracted to the work of the Blue Dove Foundation after losing family members to suicide.

Meanwhile, the Jewish Fertility Foundation has recently expanded its work to four cities in the United States, including Cincinnati. The Slingshot honor hailed the foundation for the work it does to provide financial assistance and emotional support for Jewish families facing medical fertility difficulties in the city.

Elana Frank, the founder of the JFF, has a personal connection to the organization’s mission. She has experienced fertility issues herself and has three children, two of whom were born in Israel, where she once lived. For those struggling with infertility, Israel offers a comprehensive medical program through its national healthcare service.

But in America, fertility treatments are not covered by medical insurance, which inspired Frank to launch the foundation to provide direct financial grants to couples and individuals. It also encourages a more open discussion of infertility in segments of the community in which it has often been nonexistent.

“One of the first innovation grants we received was from the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, specifically for the Orthodox community here, where nobody really wanted to talk about this,” Frank says. “And so we created a one-on-one program where it was private and we could meet the needs of the more traditional community. I think more people are open to talking about it, but it takes years to break that wall down.”

According to Frank, it is not just the Orthodox community. For so long, she feels, it has been a taboo subject in the Jewish community at large.

“In my mother’s and grandmother’s time, it was a very private matter between a husband and a wife,” Frank says.

“It was like it wasn’t happening. There was a huge stigma attached to talking about it. Times are changing, but it’s still very, very stigmatized and private to talk about these things.”

Both women have been part of the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta “Agents of Change” training program and have been recognized by the Atlanta Jewish Times as part of its “40 Under 40” list. This latest achievement gives both leaders hope that more recognition of their work on the national stage is in store.

“The more we begin and continue to eradicate the shame and stigma that’s there,” Spratt says, “the more the community will welcome and support the open conversations we are encouraging.” ì

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Modern and Modest Fashions for ‘Women Who Do It All’

By Chana Shapiro Just in time for spring, Atlanta Jewish Academy teacher Anna Lefkoff launched a pop-up boutique selling modern and modest clothing and jewelry for “women who do it all” as part of her new clothing line, Miron Jade. The opening Sip and Shop event, on Sunday evening, March 6, invited women of all ages to update their wardrobes, enjoy snacks and catch up with one another after several years of COVID restrictions kept them apart.

A steady stream of visitors flocked to the Toco Hills home of Lefkoff’s friend, Erica Gal, to try on the latest fashions and make new acquaintances. “Women are more than ready to get out while the infection numbers are low, and what better way to get together than to support a woman entrepreneur!” said Elana Frank as she took a break from trying on blouses.

Miron Jade is named after Lefkoff’s son and daughter, who are students at Atlanta Jewish Academy’s elementary school. Lefkoff, a seventh and eighth grade English teacher and editor of Jig-

saw, the school’s online magazine, says, “The idea of women getting together to socialize and shop has long been a dream of mine. I select merchandise that is stylish and at the same time modest enough for religiously observant women. I want to offer fashion for women who do it all.”

The Toco Hills crowd, which included women of all ages — from bubbes to teens — definitely represented Lefkoff’s target clientele. The informal atmosphere of the Miron Jade pop-up was conducive to trying on clothes and elicited candid comments from other customers. Another significant element was the decision to have the shopping take place in the evening, since Lefkoff determined that on-site shopping is less stressful and more enjoyable when young children are home in bed.

Lefkoff, whose products are available on mironjade.com, has an established customer base and offers reasonably priced, fashionable dresses, skirts, blouses and accessories. Her up-to-date inventory includes chic clothing for Shabbat, Jewish holidays and special occasions. Lefkoff showcases some of her

Atlanta Jewish Academy teacher Anna Lefkoff’s new clothing brand, Miron Jade, is named after her son and daughter.

Lefkoff launched Miron Jade at a Sip and Shop event in Toco Hills.

favorite designers, including Wish List, Mable and Easel, with styles that are, in her words, “comfy and flowy.” If the lively

atmosphere at the Sip and Shop was any indication, Miron Jade will find an appreciative niche clientele. ì

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Hungarian Jews welcomed refugees from Ukraine to a Purim ceremony at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre in Budapest. // Credit: Zsolt Demecs

Hungarian Jews Celebrate Purim with Ukrainian Refugees Hundreds of people, mostly refugees from Ukraine, attended the Purim ceremony at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre in Budapest, where they could hear Torah explanations and a reading of the Book of Esther. Prior to the religious program, the EMIH-Hungarian Jewish Alliance held an event called Rattle Peace! in Jászai Mari Square. Chief Rabbi Shlomo Köves drew attention to the fact that Hungarian Jews can fight the war spiritually, if not physically.

A special Russian-language ceremony for Jewish refugees from Ukraine was also organized. Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees listened to the Book of Esther, Torah commentary by Rabbi Oberlander Báruch, the

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

March 31, 1979: Israel wins the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Jerusalem, for the second consecutive year as Gali Atari and Milk & Honey take the title with the song “Hallelujah,” which becomes a huge hit in Europe.

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 newspaper HaMelitz in 1882.

April 2, 1979: Menachem Begin becomes the first Israeli prime minister to visit Egypt when he arrives in Cairo a week after signing the peace treaty with Egypt. A military band welcomes him with “Hatikva.”

April 3, 1994: Maj. Gen. Aharon Remez dies in Jerusalem at 74. A fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force in World War II, he served as the second commander in chief of Israel’s air force from July 1948 to December 1950.

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Hungarian leader of the Chabad-Lubavich movement. At the end of the event, refugees were invited to partake of a festive feast.

“Just as a miracle happened 2,500 years ago and the persecuted survived instead of being destroyed, they were saved, let us hear our voice and ask for peace,” said Rabbi Köves. “With the noise of the clapper, we suppress the voice of war, we try to draw the attention of the people, the decisionmakers to the fact that nothing good can be achieved with war, we try to draw the attention of God to hear our voice.”

The guest of honor was Pinchas Tsinman, a rabbi of Belarusian descent who fled the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. He is also a popular performer in the Jewish community who sings about Jewish life in a reggae style.

Tsinman gave the audience an update on his life and how he and his family fled Ukraine.

Then, he sang the song “Think Good and It Will Be Good,” which was also chosen as the slogan of the occasion.

Representatives of EMIH institutions and celebrities, including actress Mónika Ullmann and photographer Luca Göbölyös, read excerpts from the Book of Esther. The reading of Haman’s name was accompanied by a loud rattle noise from the audience.

Moses’ grave near Jericho, breaks into rioting in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing five Jews and four Arabs over three days.

April 5, 1999: Kfar Saba-based M-Systems applies for a patent for the USB flash drive, which can store 8 megabytes, five times most floppy disks. IBM begins selling the drives after the patent is granted.

April 6, 1999: An Israel Defense Forces medical mission flies to the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) to care for Kosovo refugees. The hospital treats more than 1,560 people in 16 days.

Ilanit was Israel’s first Eurovision representative in 1973 and returned to the contest in 1977.

April 7, 1973: Ilanit, Israel’s first entrant in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, finishes fourth out of 17 with “Ey-sham,” a dramatic ballad featuring “the garden of love.”

Ilanit again represents Israel in 1977.

April 8, 1929: The fourth Palestine and Near East Exhibition opens in Tel Aviv, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, to showcase the commercial and industrial activity of the Jewish area of settlement.

Immigrants fleeing Ukraine arrive at the Israeli Immigration and Absorption Ministry offices at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15. // Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Website Pairs Israeli Hosts with New Ukrainian Immigrants The Israeli government has launched a new initiative to allow Israelis to host refugees from Ukraine for the Passover Seder, the ritual meal held at the start of the weeklong festival.

As of this week, over 10,000 people have immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union since Russia invaded Ukraine last month, sparking a bloody conflict that has created a massive refugee crisis in Eastern Europe. Thousands more are expected to arrive before the start of Passover next month.

In an effort to help ease their integration into Israeli society and in response to many offers of assistance from Israeli citizens, the Immigration and Absorption Ministry, along with the Jewish People Policy Institute think April 9, 1921: president in 1978, is born in Jerusalem to a family that has lived there three centuries. He fights with the Irgun and Haganah and serves in the Knesset. He dies in 2015.

Golda Meir wishes her successor as prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, good luck during her farewell party in Jerusalem on June 4, 1974. // By Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office

April 10, 1974: Prime Minister Gold Meir resigns a month after forming Israel’s 16th government. Israel’s only female prime minister is reacting to the release of a critical report on Israel’s preparedness for the Yom Kippur War. April 11, 1909: Sixty-six families gather on the dunes outside Jaffa to claim lots in the new neighborhood of Ahuzat Bayit (“Homestead”), marking the founding of Tel Aviv.

White and gray seashells connect families to lots.

tank and Army Radio, launched its new initiative, in which Israelis offer to host new immigrants for the Seder meal by filling out an online form.

The program is called “Olim La’Hag” in Hebrew — literally “Going up to the holiday” — which is also a play on the fact that Jewish immigrants to Israel are also called olim in Hebrew. Alongside this initiative, the Immigration and Absorption Ministry also unveiled a new program to allow Israelis to offer various forms of assistance to refugees from Ukraine, as well as those from Russia and Belarus, who have also been arriving in Israel in the wake of Moscow’s war.

“In light of the requests from many Israelis to be brought in and to assist new immigrants, we at the Immigration and Absorption Ministry have launched a new website … the Coming Home portal,” Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata said.

“On the Coming Home portal, all of the rights of new immigrants will be put together, along with a database of people offering employment opportunities to immigrants, volunteers offering to assist immigrants with their medical appointments and families looking to invite immigrants to be hosted for the Seder,” she said. ì

Singer Eyal Golan is seen in 2002, during the long overlap between his soccer and music careers. //

By Rafael Mansour via Wikimedia Commons

April 12, 1971: Eyal Golan, a 17-year pro soccer player who becomes one of Israel’s most successful Mizrahi singers, is born in Rehovot. He releases his first album, “Whisper in the Night,” during his playing career in 1995.

April 13, 1971: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir meets with leaders of the Black Panthers, a Mizrahi activist group protesting social injustice and discrimination. The group is not affiliated with the U.S. Black Panthers.

April 14, 1961: Illana Shoshan, who wins the 1980 Miss Israel title and in 2010 is voted the Miss Israel of All Time, is born in Kfar Saba. She becomes a fashion model, actress, film producer and activist on women’s issues.

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ISRAEL NEWS Legislative Caucus Expands Relationship with Israel

By Jan Jaben-Eilon Ever since the State of Israel was founded in 1948, the State of Georgia has worked to maintain strong relations with the Jewish State. The launch of the Georgia-Israel Legislative Caucus on Mar. 24 is an extension of that relationship.

“The newly established bicameral and bipartisan Georgia-Israel legislative caucus is testament to the strength and extent of the close relations between the State of Israel and the great State of Georgia,” said Anat Sultan-Dadon, Consul General of Israel in Atlanta. “The new caucus will serve as an additional platform for mutual engagement and collaboration, contributing to further strengthening our mutually beneficial bilateral relations in the political, economic, cultural, academic and social realms. The many friends and supporters of Israel and of Georgia-Israel relations within the state legislature will now have an additional opportunity to engage together and learn more about Israel and our relations, as well as explore opportunities for further collaboration.”

At the announcement ceremony at the Capitol, Gov. Brian Kemp stated, “As I said last month at the signing of HB 383, for many decades now, Georgia’s friendship and shared values with Israel have only continued to grow, as both our cultural and economic bonds have strengthened. Israel has maintained a consular presence in Georgia since 1956, and the State of Georgia has had representation in Israel since 1994. The launch of the new caucus is going to be a great addition to our longtime partnership.”

HB 383 updated the existing law that restricts the state from contracting with companies that boycott Israel.

The new Georgia-Israel Legislative Caucus will be co-chaired by six members of the Georgia General Assembly.

The founding co-chairs are Sen. John Albers (R), Sen. Tonya Anderson (D), Rep. Debra Bazemore (D), Rep. John Carson (R), Rep. Micah Gravely (R), and Rep. Mike Wilensky (D).

According to the consul general, “The establishment of the Georgia-Israel Caucus is certainly a clear expression of support for the State of Israel, but it is also much more than that. It is a recognition of the mutually beneficial nature of the relations between Georgia and Israel, and an expression of interest in further strengthening and expanding these relations.”

Referring to the six co-chairs of the

The establishment of the Georgia-Israel Legislative Caucus is “a recognition of the mutually beneficial nature of the relations between Georgia and Israel, and an expression of interest in further strengthening and expanding these relations,” said Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon.

new caucus, Sultan-Dadon said “We are full of appreciation to our friends in the House of Representatives and in the State Senate, Democrats and Republicans, who have joined in supporting this initiative and chosen to be the founding co-chairs of the caucus. As with any legislative caucus, with every election cycle and changes in elected officials, some members will leave the caucus and new members will join. When any of the co-chairs is no longer in the state legislature, a new co-chair will fill the role. I am pleased to say that there are many within the state legislature who are keen to join and play a role in the caucus and in actively supporting the further strengthening of our relations.”

Rep. Wilensky, who is Jewish, has announced that he’s not running for reelection. According to Wilensky, “The establishment of the Georgia-Israel Legislative caucus will allow for more legislators to learn about Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East, and all the benefits the State and their constituents receive through the mutually beneficial relationship.”

On a personal level, Wilensky, told the AJT that even though he had attended a Jewish day school, when he first became a legislator, he was surprised to learn that Israel was one of Georgia’s biggest partners. “If I didn’t know it, I thought it was important that people understand this beneficial relationship.”

Sultan-Dadon added that the initiative was a collaboration between the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast and the legislators. “We are grateful for those representatives and senators who have joined in founding this caucus,

as well as so many who have expressed their support. We were honored that the Governor and the Speaker of the House agreed to participate in the launch event,” she said.

“We look forward to the Georgia-

According to Gov. Brian Kemp, Israel has maintained a consular presence in Georgia since 1956, and the State of Georgia has had representation in Israel since 1994.

Israel Legislative Caucus providing an additional platform for mutual engagement and collaboration, contributing to the further strengthening of our mutually beneficial relations,” Consul General Sultan-Dadon added. ì

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SPORTS Basketball Star Matthew Schner May Say Goodbye to Emory M a t t h ew Schner never expected to be playing college basketball in 2022.

A f t e r graduating from Grandview Prep in David Ostrowsky 2017, the versatile guard from Boca Raton, Fla., embarked on what he presumed to be a fouryear career at Emory.

But, just several weeks into his freshman year, Schner suffered a broken foot during a preseason workout and subsequently had to undergo season-ending surgery. While he was given a medical redshirt (the process by which the NCAA provides an injured athlete with another year of eligibility), having to be a spectator was its own form of pain and suffering.

“Looking back on it, it was one of the bigger challenges I’ve had in my life because at that point, a couple weeks in, you haven’t gotten super close to

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the guys around you yet,” says Schner, whose father played college basketball at Northwestern. “You haven’t been in those locker room settings a whole lot yet, so it’s hard to even rely on people to help you do little things. I came in with a class of seven freshmen, so you see the rest of these guys practicing and playing games and you’re sitting there watching it. In hindsight, it was great for me. It was able to humble me and it pushed me to work harder.”

Already the proverbial gym rat, Schner pushed himself even harder going into the 2018-19 season, one in which he was named a Jewish Sports Review First Team All-American, en route to leading Division III Emory to the first of three consecutive University Athletic Association (UAA) titles.

Of course, the three-peat didn’t occur over three consecutive years. The pandemic truncated the 2019-20 season (there was no NCAA tourney following the completion of the regular season) and wiped out the entire 2020-21 season.

Without the chance to play college hoops, Schner took a gap year and worked full-

Emory’s Matthew Schner capped a stellar 2021-22 season by earning Second Team All-America and First Team All-District honors, as selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. // Credit: Jack Lewis — Emory Athletics

time at an insurance company while finding time for conditioning and playing pick-up games at elementary schools.

Last November, Emory’s basketball teams were finally able to resume competition. But, unlike their Division I counterparts, who were accustomed to playing in empty gyms during the previous season, Schner and his teammates had to adjust to the ubiquitous silence.

“When we got to a certain point this year where we were given the green light to practice and play games, yeah, we would have loved to have had fans in the stands for more than we did, but honestly it was such a joy to be able to get back and be doing that,” acknowledges Schner, whose game-high 26 points during a 9174 win at NYU in February earned him special recognition by the Jewish Sports Heritage Association. “When you haven’t done it for a year and a half, you don’t realize how special it is.”

During Emory’s final three regular season home games and two NCAA tourney tilts — in the latter, they were eliminated by Wabash — sizable crowds turned out to watch Schner, who entered this season as the school’s all-time leader in three-point field goal percentage. Yet, despite averaging 23.5 points per game this past year, in large part because of his lights-out perimeter shooting, Coach Jason Zimmerman is quick to point out that he doesn’t “think that [3-point shooting] is [Schner’s] biggest strength. I think his biggest strength is just his IQ and also how he leads. He is so well-rounded and can score in so many different ways. He’s exceeded all expectations.”

Perhaps even more impressive than the 6’4” junior’s blistering shooting is his

endurance. College basketball games are 40 minutes long and Schner has averaged a whopping 38 minutes per contest.

“We’ve thought about it [the minutes played per game] a lot as a staff,” acknowledges Zimmerman. “Matt was in such good shape because of the work that he has put in. We thought about it, but it was never an issue. I thought he could play 80 minutes a night.”

Schner still has one more year of eligibility left — thanks to the freshman redshirt season and COVID gap year — even though he will be graduating this spring. It is quite possible that he may finish his college basketball career elsewhere, such as at a Division I school.

“He could definitely play at the Division I level and play meaningful minutes,” says Zimmerman. “He could be an effective player on both ends of the court.

“We’re trying to get him back for one more year, but we’ll see how that works.”

Understandably, Schner feels ambivalent. On one hand, he still has hopes of playing professionally overseas (although the number of leagues has diminished due to the pandemic), for which exposure at the D-I level would be invaluable. But he also feels loyal to Emory and the city of Atlanta, his home for the past half-decade.

“The amount of support that I’ve gotten from teammates and people throughout the Emory community and definitely our coaching staff has been really special. That’s what makes it so hard for me to think about leaving. I think I’ve helped elevate what Emory basketball is and I take great pride in that.

“This is my home, wherever I end up.” ì

SPORTS

Rogow Soars Above the Competition

By David Ostrowsky When asked about potentially competing in the Summer Olympics one day, pole vaulter Alon Rogow doesn’t dismiss the question with the classic sports cliche of “taking it one day at a time.” Rather, the Dunwoody senior unhesitatingly responds in the affirmative. “Absolutely. It’s something I look forward to trying to achieve. It’s the main goal.”

It’s hard to blame him for having such a lofty goal.

Earlier this month, Rogow, who will soon compete for the University of Georgia track and field team, ranked number one in the country by virtue of posting a 16’ 7.5” vault, a stunning feat that put him at fifth all-time in the state. (Rogow maintained his number one ranking for a week before eventually getting knocked off.) But he’s not done.

Before graduating from Dunwoody later this spring, Rogow is determined to break the state high school record and ultimately vault 17’ 6”, an achievement that would position him to clear 19’ next year in Athens, Greece.

“I don’t want to say that it [pole vaulting] is the only thing I do and it’s my life, but it kind of is,” says Rogow. “Pole vaulting is something that defines me now.”

That wasn’t always the case. Growing up in the Atlanta suburbs, Rogow played soccer more than anything else, while also dabbling in rock climbing, a rather unconventional, high-risk sport that sparked his interest in similar athletic pursuits. But it wasn’t until his eighth-grade social studies teacher at Davis Academy, Matthew Barry, introduced him to the Olympic sport of pole vaulting that Rogow started getting interested. (Barry, who moonlights as a coach at Pole Vault Atlanta, previously worked with Rogow’s older brother’s best friend.)

It didn’t take long for him to become obsessed. By the time Rogow graduated from Davis Academy, he was committed to pole vaulting full-time and soon emerged as a standout performer on the Dunwoody varsity team. As a freshman, in his very first high school meet, Rogow broke the school record. By season’s end, he was already finishing sixth at state, while looking up at five pole vaulters who were soon-to-be graduating seniors. Of course, sophomore year was disrupted due to COVID (he would have participated in the New Balance Nationals meet had there been one) but before the season was called off, he still broke several personal records en route to the 15’ milestone.

Alon Rogow and Matthew Barry Credit: Matthew Barry

But, as he transitioned to becoming an upperclassman, Rogow experienced his first major setback as a pole vaulter — and it had nothing to do with the pandemic forcing him to practice alone for several long, hot months.

During a fall 2020 practice, at the onset of his junior season, Rogow broke a pole, which sliced open his left hand, forcing him to get 10 stitches. After an eight-week hiatus, he returned in prime form, racking up PRs

and feeling like himself again. He soon broke another pole and, while the mishap didn’t cause any serious bodily harm, it did mess with his psyche.

“The whole entire junior season for high school, I was just struggling with the mental side of pole vaulting,” admits Rogow. “That was the biggest struggle of my life. I was doing something I love and I was really struggling to do well. There were periods of time where it was hard to truly love the sport. In the back of my head, I was worrying that I would break a pole again.”

Such doubts were dispelled when Rogow cleared 16’ heading into his senior year, en route to competing in such prestigious meets as the Texas EXPO Explosion (where he finished third overall) and New York’s Millrose Games this past winter.

At this hour, with the Georgia state high school record in reach and SEC competition awaiting, the Olympics is no longer a pipe dream. While the U.S. team is particularly hard to crack, there is always the possibility of establishing citizenship and representing Israel.

That outcome, says Rogow, who has visited Israel twice already, would be “a dream come true.” ì

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OPINION A Personal Response to a National Crisis The statement atop Bev Saltzman Lewyn’s Facebook page reads: “Don’t kvetch. Create something better instead.”

Lewyn is receiving treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, in her hometown of Houston. Some days, she undergoes multiple rounds Dave Schechter of chemotherapy, even while From Where I Sit sleeping. “With this intense chemo you can barely get out of bed. Picking up a phone seemed like climbing Kilimanjaro,” she said, as we texted back-and-forth.

Lewyn could be excused for kvetching, but that’s not her style.

“I discovered the blood shortage when I was told I needed a transfusion, but the blood bank had denied me the blood because of the shortage,” Lewyn said. “It was horrifying to think that any patient there to get well couldn’t because of a shortage that wasn’t well publicized at all.”

An estimated 18 million transfusions are performed annually in the United States. In January, the Red Cross — which supplies 40 percent of that blood — reported its worst shortage in a decade. Hospitals have been sounding an alarm for months.

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— her phone balanced on the pole holding the intravenous drip — Lewyn was willing. “I am getting a second chemo right now,” she told KRIV. “It’s making me a little sleepy, but otherwise all is well.”

In her texts, Lewyn explained the inspiration that came from her doctor: “Dr. K [Dr. Hagop Kantarjian, chair of the leukemia department at MD Anderson] told me that when he used to be a Bev Saltzman Lewyn, as she talked to Houston televisions station KRIV. doctor in Lebanon, when they had a blood shortage, they would tell a family about it and the next day the fam- now in Houston and people are giving blood elsewhere, too. ily would bring out their 300-person tribe. Problem solved.”

There isn’t a place in the country that doesn’t desperately “I told him I would bring out my tribe,” Lewyn said. need blood.”

And she did, starting with a Facebook post about her condiThere is a particular shortage of type O-negative blood tion that stunned her friends.

(Lewyn’s type, found in 7 percent of the population), prized “I was totally wowed and so moved by the incredible because it can be transfused into patients with other blood response, both in Houston and from my friends around types. the world, using their contacts to try to help,” Lewyn said.

Ironically, the 54-year-old Lewyn was handed her lat“When you are so sick, it is so uplifting to be able to see est medical challenge — “my third rodeo with cancer” — as such positive activity to heal you and heal the world. It is an she prepared to launch a website to help others receiving amazing feeling, and I am so proud of my tribe, my friends, difficult diagnoses, drawing on knowledge and perspective and our broader community. There are lots of blood drives gained during her previous trials with thyroid and breast

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After temporary residence at MD Anderson, she will commute to the hospital for several months from the Houston home where her parents still live.

Bev and Marc Lewyn, the parents of four daughters, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on March 22.

Until she sent Marc home to Atlanta to recover from a cold, the financial advisor had relocated to his wife’s childhood bedroom. “Now how many hubbies get that chance of a lifetime?” Bev asked her Facebook friends.

Marc told KRIV:” It’s just amazing. She just keeps going and going, and after three cancers to be able to do that is very special.”

Bev is co-founder of the Jewish Women’s Connection of Atlanta and co-author of “On the Run in Nazi Berlin” (Chicago Review Press, 2019). The Lewyns are members of Congregation Beth Jacob, Congregation Ohr HaTorah, the New Toco Shul, “and Marc also loves to attend Chabad of Toco Hills,” his wife texted. “Each congregation brings such wonderful inspiration into our lives, each in different ways. We have always been part of multiple shuls and can’t imagine it any other way.”

Lewyn shared this message: “I would actually beg the Jewish community in Atlanta to give blood and publicize the need. It is critical to save the lives of cancer patients. Everyone has been touched by cancer. I would like to see public service campaigns better educate the public about this. I think more people would run to give if they knew cancer patients were being prevented from getting well because of the awful national blood shortage. And I would say to those whose blood type is O-negative, you are angels on earth. G-d gave you the ability to heal any human on the planet. Please, please, please, donate and then sign up to donate again, regularly. You are the only hope for patients like me.” ì

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Letters to the Editor Letter to the editor,

Most of us are horrified by the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia and support economic sanctions against Russia. Despite widespread outrage overRussia, our government continues to work closely with Russia in pursuit of a bad deal with Iran. Disturbingly, the US is begging Iran for an agreement, and the efforts are brokered by Russia. In fact, the Russian ambassador, Mikhail Ulyanov stated “Iran got much more than it could expect. Much more.”

Our continuing pursuit of a bad Iran deal, even when Iran shells our consulate in Iraq, makes a farce of the idea that we are really upset with Russia for invading Ukraine. If our government was serious about Russia, it would not collaborate with Russia in pursuit of an Iran deal. In fact, our administration may be partially to blame for encouraging Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the common knowledge that our State Department is like a junkie pursuing that elusive fix of the Iran deal and will ignore whatever Russia does.

Jack L. Arbiser, M.D., Ph. D Thomas J. Lawley Professor of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute and Atlanta Veterans Administration Health Center

Letter to the editor,

Isn’t it about time?

Isn’t it about time Americans understand how Putin invaded Ukraine so easily?

Russians follow his orders because Putin has his hands on the means of communication (news and education agencies) and on any means of force. When Putin says, “Ukrainians started this,” his political minions put it out as truth and the people believe it. We have many adult children in America today who follow their leaders to the edge of dangerous cliffs every day.

Putin also talked his country into allowing him to stay in power for 22 years. In a real democracy, there are always short-term limits that are enforced like the nation’s life depends on it. Not in Russia or China.

Our Representatives and Senators are not telling this story because they are well along

the path of accumulating corrupt lifetime power themselves. America is already partially Putinized.

True democracies put government into the hands of a constitutional law decided upon by all of the people. The people only know what to put into that law when they have thoroughly versed themselves in their own history and the history of other nations.

We have already disarmed our minds, so our liberties are already quickly melting away.

Kimball Shinkoskey, Woods Cross, Ut

Letter to the editor,

I am a 72-year-old man who already has one foot in the grave, but I am really worried about what the future will be like in our society. Since 1980, I’ve watched the growth of a coldhearted “Survival-of-the-Fittest” Social Darwinist mentality among many conservative-Republicans in the conservative news media, on conservative talk-shows, in conservative “thinktanks” and “policy institutes,” and especially in the U.S. Congress. More and more of these folks want to abolish every single federal government social program that helps the middle-classes and lower classes. I don’t think that most Americans are aware of this. These people are now much more conservative than are our Republican voters.

What also scares the dickens out of me is the growth of an over-the-top extreme and hyper individualism and libertarianism in which so many of us believe that we have no responsibilities to each other, and we are only a concern with “me-me-me” and what I want to do.

And we smugly and defiantly call this selfish and self-absorbed narcissism “personal choice.”

Sincerely, Stewart B. Epstein, Rochester, New York ì

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EDUCATION & CAMP UGA Panel Addresses ‘Deep-Fried Antisemitism’ According to a panel of speakers at the University of Georgia, antisemitism has been around for decades, especially in Jan Jaben-Eilon the South, but has definitely taken on new and more virulent forms.

“Anti-Semitism comes in various shapes and forms,” said Gary D. Grossman, a UGA professor and head of the STEM section of the Academic Engagement Network — a national NGO that fights antisemitism on college and university campuses — to open the “DeepFried Anti-Semitism” panel on March 20.

Grossman was one of several speakers who noted that they had lost family members during the Holocaust. He began by citing several examples of antisemitism on college campuses, including

In the 1950s, Emory University’s dental school failed all four of its Jewish students, Dr. Perry Brickman learned many years later.

UGA graduate student Rebecca Wilson said many Jewish university students feel the need to hide their religion.

Professor Motti Inbari says the U.S. evangelical community is strongest in the South.

academic boycotts of Israeli teachers and a survey of Jewish students that indicated that many feel unsafe because they are Jewish, and are increasingly inclined to hide that identity.

Atlanta dentist Perry Brickman re-

lated that, in previous decades, Jewish students didn’t even have safety in numbers. Although he didn’t experience any antisemitism in Chattanooga when he was a young boy, all that changed when he attended Emory University in 1949.

He recalled that, in those days, the Jewish fraternities were located off campus, unlike the non-Jewish fraternities. His experience only worsened when he graduated and attended Emory’s dental school.

Yet it wasn’t until 2006 that Brick-

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“White Christians are no longer a majority in the U.S. This is a demographic timebomb for white Christians,” said UGA Law Professor John Dayton.

man came face to face with an exhibit on the history of Jewish life at Emory and saw documents that, according to his book, “Extracted: Unmasking Rampant Antisemitism in America’s Higher Education,” strongly suggested “that Brickman and many others had been failed out of Emory’s dental school because they were Jewish.” His subsequent research, during the course of which he interviewed more than 75 people, resulted in a book.

As Brickman noted, he and his fellow Jewish dental students “didn’t have a clue about what would happen” to them.

“I was naïve. The four of us didn’t have a chance.”

Today, UGA graduate Rebecca Wilson said that she’s seen surveys in which 95 percent of Jewish college students and recent graduates “agree that anti-Semitism is a problem on their campuses.

Eighty percent of respondents experienced offensive or threatening anti-Semitic comments,” she said.

Some of those comments, Wilson said, came from professors. She quoted both students and faculty downplaying the Holocaust and comparing it to slavery and suggested that university life could be improved for students if antisemitism was part of the diversity and inclusion orientation for students, faculty and staff. She also recommended that schools do a better job of listening to Jewish students and do more to support Jewish life on campuses.

Participants attending the DeepFried Anti-Semitism panel either in person or virtually also heard from Israeliborn Motti Inbari, a professor of religion at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke. He has surveyed evangelical pastors and studied replacement theology, or “supersessionism,” a view that asserts

that the Christian covenant through Jesus Christ has replaced the Mosaic covenant, and that Christians have therefore replaced Jews as the people of G-d. His research has focused on how Christian antisemitism is manifested in the evangelical community, which, he noted, is strongest in the South.

Inbari was followed by John Dayton, a fellow panelist and UGA professor of education law, who focused on white Christian nationalism, which he said is “increasingly more radical and aggressive.” He defined white Christian nationalism as the “belief that G-d gave the land of the United States to white Christians by divine decree, and the others are, at best, visitors.”

Dayton said that the behavior of those who believe in this doctrine mirrors the behavior of Islamic terrorists.

Both groups support violence and attacks on voting rights, he said. “They are increasingly unhinged.”

Dayton echoed Inbari in speaking of replacement theology, which has gained ground in recent years. He cited perhaps the strongest display of this strain of thought, which occurred in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va., when white extremists and neo-Nazis marched with tiki torches and chanted, “Jews will not replace us.”

Dayton believes that the growth in radicalism can be attributed to the overall decline of Christianity in the U.S. “White Christians are no longer a majority in the U.S.,” he said. “This is a demographic timebomb for white Christians.”

Whites are projected to lose their majority by 2043, Dayton added.

This is a problem, since white Christians believe that democracy is only legitimate for them, as long as they are in the majority, and that they have a duty to “take back their nation,” Dayton said.

They believe that they are being replaced by people of color, and that Jews are responsible for that. “This anti-Semitism is big in the South,” he said.

According to Dayton, one example is the increasing use of Christian symbols and prayers in public schools, despite the fact that it’s illegal for public officials to partake in religious displays.

“Teachers should not be preachers in the classroom,” he said. “In the South, many schools are controlled by white Christian nationalists. These coachled prayers [before games] are not harmless.”

Dayton compared these fanatics to cross-burners. “This becomes a tool of intimidation,” he said. Ultimately, “Jews are only safe in pluralistic democracies.

Democracy and the rule of law is the only thing holding back white Christian nationalism.” ì

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Aurora Day Camp Honors Beth Friedman On Feb. 19, ly around a great cause — to bring joy to at its annual children with cancer and their siblings,” benefit, Auro- he said. “She understands why it is so imra Day Camp portant to help these kids get through a presented the very difficult time in their lives.”

Hill remembers his first meeting Aurora Champion Award to with Friedman and recounted a story board member of how she concluded her visit. UtterBeth Fried- ing just four words — “How can I help?” man. This was — Friedman set in motion a journey Debbie Diamond the second that ultimately has raised thousands of dollars for the camp and gala for the camp, which enlisted the assistance of is Georgia’s only full-time dozens of volunteers over summer day camp for the past four years. children with cancer and Friedman has served their siblings. Friedman in many capacities at Auhas served as a founding rora Day Camp, both as member of the camp’s a board member and volleadership board since unteer. She was the walk 2017. According to Execuchair in 2019, helping to tive Director Gregory Hill, raise more than $80,000. the award recognizes a She continues to play an leader who best represents active role, securing yearand embodies the spirit of Beth Friedman was round donations and volthe camp. honored with the 2022 unteers, creating Aurora “Beth has been a tireAurora Champion Award. gift bags for patients at less community connector who inspires and motivates others to ral- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, re-

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Finding Judaic Education for Interfaith Families One of the main goals for Judaic educational programs is to make this education readily available; but equally important, to make Vickie Carroll the education Guest Contributor and information applicable for all types of households. Whether you are a contemplating marriage or newly married and trying to find a way to honor the beliefs of each person, these programs can be a valuable resource. There are new ways of welcoming and including interfaith households that appear to be growing. Whether you are new to the area and looking for a place to find information for yourself, a partner or spouse, or a place to education your children in the Jewish traditions, there are resources available. These are just a few examples below. Check with your local synagogue to see what they offer for interfaith families.

To help with this challenge, you’ll find many educational programs, classes, and opportunities to connect with others on a similar journey. A good place to start your search is at The Temple’s interfaith programs. The Andrea and Michael Leven Family Jewish Identity Institute has scheduled a comprehensive slate of events and classes especially for those who identify as interfaith couples and families (www.the-temple.org/interfaith).

If you don’t have a temple and synagogue that you attend regularly, check out that is near you or find one that appeals to you most and take advantage of their offerings. For example, at Temple Emanu-El,, Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller describes their approach, “Interfaith families are completely integrated into the life of Temple Emanu-El. Any of our educational programs provide opportunities for interfaith families to deepen their Jewish knowledge and connection to the Jewish community.”

Also, on the north side in Roswell, Temple Beth Tikvah also looks at their program as a dynamic family-centered

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Reflecting on Life as a Campus Conservative In early February 2021, Emory student Jasmine Jaffe appeared on “Meet the Press” with Chuck Todd.

Jaffe (no relation) is no novice to politics, Marcia nor is she shy Caller Jaffe about espousing her ideas in what some conservative critics consider a hostile climate on university campuses.

Jaffe, who previously interned for Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from her home state of Florida, said, “I’m most involved with Emory College Republicans. My freshman year I was secretary of that club and helped recharter the organization after a hiatus. I moved up the ranks and eventually became president junior year, during the 2020 election. Currently, I serve as the state secretary for the Georgia Association of College Republicans, which is the overseeing body of all College Republican chapters in the state of Georgia.”

Out of Emory’s undergraduate student body of about 7,000, Jaffe estimates that some “5 to 8 percent identify as Republicans. … Maybe an additional 15 percent consider themselves apolitical, with right leanings that they don’t vocalize.” She plans to start law school after graduation and is currently sorting out acceptances.

AJT: How did you get interested in politics and how does Judaism fit in?

Jaffe: I grew up in San Diego and moved to Vero Beach at 13. I was raised by my father in a secular household. The extent of my Judaism was going to the JCC and celebrating Channukah. My dad watched cable news, and I became fascinated. In 6th grade, I recited all the Republican presidential candidates (2012) and watched every debate from the primary to the general election. When I came to Emory, I wasn’t expecting to find such a strong Jewish presence. My friends all happened to be Jewish and brought me to Chabad and Hillel. I started to embrace Judaism. Finding a welcoming and strong community, I realized it was something missing from my life.

At first, I was embarrassed because I

Emory senior Jasmine Jaffe spoke at the 2021 Georgia Association of College Republicans convention.

didn’t know prayers or Hebrew. My friends encouraged me to keep going to Shabbat services; I went on Birthright sophomore year. I had my bat mitzvah in Jerusalem, and I will always have a deep connection. I was thrilled when President Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, as the only president to stick to his promise to accomplish it. I am a strong supporter and defender of Israeli sovereignty and have advocated it along with my other activism on campus. I wrote an article here about it: https://emorywhig.com/anti-zionismis-anti-semitism/. I feel that liberal Jews are more inclined to criticize Israel more generally than conservative Jews. I would chalk this up to liberals being fearful of individuals on their left, and they kowtow on Israel to appease those who they find as more progressive.

AJT: Some adults find politics divisive; is that what you are finding?

Jaffe: I actually only have one conservative friend, the rest are liberal. I don’t have difficultly socializing because there is a time and place for politics, and I respect that they don’t like talking about it constantly. I am in Sigma Delta Tau. Statistically, American Jews are quite liberal and that is also reflected in Emory’s Jewish student body.

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AJT: Will you ever run for office? Who are your heroes?

Jaffe: I have no ambition to run for office. I hope to be active in politics as a volunteer. I don’t idolize politicians, but Marco Rubio is most emblematic of my politics (I interned for him, so I’m biased). Being from Florida, I am a huge fan of Governor Ron DeSantis, mostly because he has really hit back against the media and defended his scientifically correct COVID policies. I appreciate Liz Cheney’s strong conservative record, but I think the course she is taking now is hurting the party unnecessarily, and she should be more of a team player.

AJT: How did you find yourself on “Meet the Press”?

Jaffe: A producer reached out to the president of the Emory College Republicans,

Jaffe is currently deciding which law school to attend.

requesting two people to interview.

AJT: Do you get any nasty comments on social media?

Jaffe: I haven’t been directly sent hate mail, but I’ve had hateful comments directed toward me. When we invited Heather MacDonald to campus in 2020, some social media posts tagged me as “a racist and sexist.” I haven’t received any antisemitic hate, but the president of the Young Democrats emailed one of my professors that I was a “white supremacist.” Nothing ever came of it.

AJT: Do you find that professors have a liberal agenda?

Jaffe: The most stereotypical aspect of my college experience has been their extreme liberal bias. They speak without regard for anyone with any different opinions who might be listening, and spew leftist talking points like they are facts. It has been extremely frustrating because I like to speak up, but I’m not only up against the person who controls my grades, but also classmates who are very antagonistic to those with even the slightest opposing views. I have gotten into “tussles” with other students, but nothing dramatic enough to note with a professor. I am a double major in political science and philosophy. I think those departments have more of a left-wing bias than others.

AJT: Would you consider dating a liberal?

Jaffe: My boyfriend isn’t left-wing, but straight down the middle. I am generally opposed to dating someone with progressive policy preferences because we would have diametrically different values. I don’t need my partner to have the exact same politics as long as we share the same value systems, then I am content.

Find Jaffe walking her golden retriever, Brady, or watching the Los Angles Chargers or attending the Braves and Hawks games.

Her full interview: www.nbcnews.com/ meet-the-press/video/georgia-college-gopwe-have-a-good-shot-of-winning-governorsrace-131493957863 ì

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EDUCATION & CAMP

AJT's 2022 Camp Directory Alliance Theatre - Drama Camps

404-733-4600 Multiple Locations Ages 4 - 18 May 31 – August 5 www.alliancetheatre.org/camps Take center stage! Your young actor can spend their summer at the Tony Awardwinning Alliance Theatre.

Atlanta Academy

678-461-6102 Roswell Preschool - Middle School 44713 www.atlantaacademy.com/summer-camp Exciting program offerings for Preschool-8th grade campers, including website design, art, stop motion animation, basketball skills, and more.

Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education Summer Day Programs 404-873-5811 x1316 Multiple Locations Ages 2 and up June 6 - July 23 www.centre.atlantaballet.com Summer day programs offer a variety of dance classes for dancers at beginner and intermediate levels. Students enjoy ballet classes with opportunities to explore other dance styles including pre-pointe/pointe, jazz, tap, modern, hip hop, and musical theatre.

Intown and Sandy Springs

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Kids Camp (Entering K - 5th) | Tween Academy (Entering 6th -8th)

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Atlanta Jewish Academy - Camp Kef

404-843-9900 Atlanta Ages 4 - 10 June 13 - July 15 Fun variety of activities - every day is different at Camp Kef!

Atlanta International School

404-841-3872 Atlanta K - 12th grade June 6 - July 29 www.aischool.org/athletics/sports-camps Nine different youth sports camps will be hosted in the areas of basketball, track & field, volleyball, & soccer. Camps will be conducted by members of the AIS coaching staff and available to the entire community, both students and non-AIS students.

Where kids and tweens form lifelong friendships, create memories, overcome fears, and cultivate a love of Judaism.

EDUCATION & CAMP CREATE & INNOVATE

Atlanta’s Rock ‘N Blues Camp

404-202-6044 Atlanta Middle & High School Students June 13 - July 22 www.rockandbluescamp.com Intense week-long sessions that culminate in thrilling performances on Friday evenings. Each of six bands play a set consisting of music they have chosen and rehearsed during the week.

Camp Barney Medintz

678-812-3844 Cleveland, GA. Grades 2 - 11 June 5 - July 29 www.campbarney.org Camp Barney Medintz overnight campers experience the magic of summer camp and the joy of making lifelong friends while challenging themselves with new activities and gaining self-confidence and independence that will benefit them for a lifetime.

Camp Coleman

770-671-8971 Cleveland, GA. 1st grade - 10th grade June 12 - Aug 4 www.campcoleman.org Overnight URJ Camp - Campers can experience Jewish culture and tradition while in a safe, challenging and fun environment. In a natural setting, campers are given the opportunity to explore their Judaism. Coleman provides a creative setting for Jewish living and learning, through camp programming. At Camp Coleman campers and staff can develop lifelong friendships.

Camp Flix

IN PERSON & ONLINE SUMMER CAMPS FOR AGES 7 - 18 museumofdesign.org/camps

Balancing live instruction with detailed selfguided activities

Minecraft Architecture Coding Robotics Conservation Engineering LEGO Fashion Animation Game Design

Online summer camps for kids who want to change the world

Helping today's young designers become the changemakers of the future

404-863-6778 Emory and Oglethorpe Locations Ages 7 - 17 June 12 - July 15 www.campflix.com Camp Flix, the Southeast’s premier movie camp, introduces teens/tweens to the techniques, language and collaborative process of filmmaking.

Camp Gan Israel North Fulton

770-410-9000 Johns Creek Ages 2 - 11 June 27 - July 29 www.cginf.com Camp Gan Israel is a summer day camp dedicated to enriching the lives of children from diverse Jewish backgrounds and affiliations through a stimulating, fun, and enriching camping experience.

Camp Gan Izzy East Cobb

770-565-4412 Marietta Age 3 - 7th grade June 27 - July 22 www.cgicobb.org Camp Gan Israel is committed to providing a superb day camp experience for Jewish children. We offer outstanding athletic, sports and creative arts programs under the guidance of professional instructors who are all highly qualified in their fields.

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EDUCATION & CAMP Camp H2O - Georgia Aquarium

Camp Kingfisher

404-581- 4080 Atlanta Ages 5 - 13 June 6 - July 29 www.georgiaaquarium.org/booking/camp-h2o Campers will discover interesting facts about our aquatic friends and their habitats, as well as explore the wondrous ocean ecosystem. All Aquarium galleries and presentations are included.

770-992-2055 Roswell Age 4 - 9th grade Call for dates www.chattnaturecenter.org/education/camp Camp Kingfisher’s 7 session themes determine the content of live animal encounters, science exploration activities, and educational hikes.

Camp Judaea

404-872-8668 Atlanta Ages 18 mo - 5 yrs June 6 - July 29 www.the-temple.org/camps In our weekly sessions, we will learn about being different types of scientists, from entomologists to engineers. We will enhance our knowledge and enjoy exploring each location through activities including special in-house field trips, art, music, experiments, games, cooking, and more!

404-634-7883 Hendersonville, NC Ages 7 - 15 June 10 - July 31 www.campjudaea.org Camp Judaea is a small, Jewish, Israel-centered summer camp community located in Hendersonville, NC. We offer a wide variety of fun activities in a loving family atmosphere.

Camp Minimac

CMCH Preschool Mini Camp

404-843-9582 Atlanta Ages 18 mo - 5 yrs May 31 - June 17 www.cmchpreschool.org/camp Our weekly sessions will discover Hashem’s Wonderful World: Earth, Sea and Sky

Courtnay & Rowe In-Home Music Academy

770-690-9968 Atlanta Ages - over 6 years www.courtnayandrowe.com Excellent Music Lessons in piano, voice, guitar, violin, drums, strings, brass and woodwinds in the comfort of your home!

Programs for Every Young Artist INTERLOCHEN ARTS CAMP | Grades 3-12 World-renowned summer arts programs INTERLOCHEN ONLINE | Grades 2-12 Live virtual instruction and master classes with experienced arts educators

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EDUCATION & CAMP Epstein Summer Adventure

The KIVUNIM Institute

404-250-5606 Atlanta Ages 2 - rising 6th graders 4 weeks - call for details www.epsteinatlanta.org/esa With exciting new adventures each week, check out our camp options and register early to ensure you have a spot!

917-930-3092 International Travel Gap year ages 18-19 Oct, 2022 - June, 2023 www.kivunim.org/mission Receive a full year of college credit while traveling to 11 countries based in Israel.

Transformative experience!

High Meadows Camp

McGinnis Woods Country Day School

770-993-7975 Roswell Rising K - 9th graders 3 - Three week Sessions www.highmeadowscamp.org Since 1973, girls and boys (rising kindergarten- ninth grade) have been experiencing our rich, traditional outdoor summer day camp program with unique facilities on more than 40 acres of meadow and woodland. HMC summer day camp fun goes hand-in-hand with education, achievement, and enrichment.

770-664-7764 Alpharetta Ages 4 - 13 May 31 - August 5 www.mcginniswoods.org McGinnis Woods’ Sunsational summer is a fun-filled camp with unique themes, inhouse field trips, STEM activities, water play, and surprises. Specialty camps including cooking, blooming artists, robotics, and more are also available.

High Museum of Art

678-812-4000 Atlanta Pre K - 9th grade Call or go on website for details www.mjccadaycamps.org Kids can soar and explore at more than 100 day camp options in a safe, nurturing community overflowing with warmth, fun, and Jewish values.

404-733-4400 Atlanta Rising 1st - 8th graders June 6 - July 29 www.high.org/camp Dive into art this summer at the High! Young artists will explore the Museum’s galleries and create original artworks. Weekly campers will learn about the Museum’s collection and special exhibitions while honing their skills in drawing, painting, and design.

Interlochen Arts Camp

231-276-7472 Interlochen, MI 3rd grade - 12th grade June 18 - Aug 7 www.interlochen.org/summer-arts-camp We offer a diverse selection of summer camp programming in seven arts disciplines: creative writing, dance, film and new media, interdisciplinary arts, music, theatre, and visual arts. Experience all the fun of summer camp — from cabin games to exploring the outdoors — while practicing, performing, and making art.

In The City Camps

404-698-1134 Atlanta Rising K - 8th grade June 13 - July 29 www.inthecitycamps.org In the City Camps is a Jewish Day camp with two locations in Atlanta that fosters lifelong friendships and connection to the Jewish community and Israel.

MJCCA Summer Day Camps

Morah Carol’s Place

470-659-5484 Atlanta Infant - rising 2nd grade June 7 - July 29 www.morahcarolsplace.com A unique new Jewish preschool that focuses on Torah, academics, and the Hebrew language, while respecting every child’s individual learning style. We boast an outdoor 3000 square foot sports play area, as well as a 2500 square foot free play area.

Pace Academy Summer Programs

404-290-9130 Atlanta Ages 5 - 16 June 6 - July 22 www.paceacademy.org/programs/summer-programs Pace Academy values that some of life’s greatest lessons are learned outside the classroom – register TODAY, because The Adventure Begins Here!

Intown Jewish Preschool - IJP Summer Camp

404-898-0438 Atlanta Ages 18 mo - 6 yrs June 7 - Aug 12 www.intownjewishpreschool.org/ijp-camp Warm and nurturing atmosphere, filled with lots of exciting “hands-on” learning experiences. Summer activities will include enrichment activities in art, music, science, water play and special visitors.

Jewish Kids Group Afterschool

404-913-9554 Atlanta Ages 4- 10 August - May www.jewishkidsgroup.com JKG Afterschool provides the reliable weekday childcare you need with the fun experience your K-5th grader wants. Four Atlanta locations!

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EDUCATION & CAMP Ramah Darom

404-531-0801 Clayton, GA Rising K-- 11th grade June 15- August 8 www.ramahdarom.org Camp Ramah Darom is a place where laughter abounds, friendships are formed, everyone feels welcome and each day brings new opportunities to celebrate Jewish life.

RootOne Teen Israel Trips

646-472-5339 Israel U.S. and Canadian Jewish High Schoolers Summer www.rootone.org RootOne maximizes both the participation in - and the impact of - immersive summer Israel experiences on Jewish teens, including $3,000 subsidies to applicable programs.

Temple Sinai Preschool

404-255-6200 Atlanta Infants -Pre-K June 1- August 3 www.templesinaipreschool.org Join us to explore the world of art, experiment with science, learn sports skills, spend time outside and splash around with friends.

The Goddard School – Hammond Drive The Goddard School – Roswell Road

770-350-9001 470-571-1700 Sandy Springs Ages 3 - 9 May 31 - August 19 www.goddardschool.com Fun, engaging activities inside and outside the classroom that your child will love, with two great Sandy Springs locations. Save $100 with FREE registration before April 30, 2022!

The Walker School - Walker Summer Programs

770-427-2689 Marietta Ages 3 - 14 June 6 - July 29 thewalkerschool.org/summer Over 500 campers agree – Walker Summer Programs are the best way to spend your summer! Located just 2 miles from the Marietta Square, Walker offers a diverse selection of academic, athletic and artistic opportunities in the metro Atlanta community. Half-day and full-day options are available.

Valley View Ranch Equestrian Camp for Girls

706-862-2231 Cloudland, GA Ages 8 - 17 June 12 - August 5 www.valleyviewranch.com Horse lovers’ paradise since 1954! Overnight camp for girls ages 8 - 17. Located on 600 acres offering riding in English, Western, Barrels, Vaulting,and Trails. CHA instructors teach beginner to advanced riders. Spend up to six hours a day riding and caring for your own camp horse. The Jones family are third generation horse lovers, camp administrators and equine educators making girls’ dreams come true!

Woodward Academy Camps

404-765-4401 College Park and Johns Creek Ages 5 - 17 May 31 -July 29 www.woodward.edu/camps Woodward Academy Summer Camps offer enrichment, athletic, academic, and activity camps that are open to the public and accessible through our exceptional bus system.

YMCA Camp Thunderbird

704-716-4100 Lake Wylie, SC Ages 13 - 15 June 5 - August 13 www.campthunderbird.org YMCA Camp Thunderbird has been offering thrills and lasting memories for the past 86 years. The camp is situated on two miles of Lake Wylie shoreline, just a half-hour outside of Charlotte. Known as the “ultimate water playground,” the camp balances fun with honing skills like independence, self-discipline, and empathy. It accomplishes that partly through the wide spectrum of activities there, many taking advantage of the pristine lake just steps away.

Zoo Atlanta - Summer Safari Camp

404-624-5822 Atlanta Ages 5 - 14 May 31 – July 29 www.zooatlanta.org/camp Each week of Summer Safari Camp, campers embark on a different Zoo expedition, exploring wildlife and wild places.

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Alisha Thomas Searcy is Seeking to Lead State’s Schools

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By Maynard Eaton Education experts agree that former Georgia State Representative and school superintendent, Alisha Thomas Searcy, is the quintessential candidate to win election as Georgia’s State Superintendent of Schools in November. Her past track record and history of achievements are unmatched and unassailable. She has excelled at every stage of her exceptional career.

“Much like our Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, I firmly believe that Alisha Thomas Searcy, is overqualified for the role she’s seeking as Georgia’s next State School Superintendent,” opines David Mitchell Founder and CEO, Better Outcomes for OUR Kids. “Her work on policy, her experience with school operations, and her 20-year relationship with parents and communities across the state, will make her unmatched by any other candidate running in this race.”

Searcy, formerly known as Alisha Thomas Morgan, made history at age 23 by becoming the first African American to represent Cobb County in the Georgia General Assembly. She was successfully reelected five times.

Following that, Searcy, a life-long Democrat and proud Spelman College graduate, enhanced her credentials as the former Superintendent of Schools at Ivy Preparatory Academies, a network of allgirls public schools of excellence. While serving as superintendent, Searcy designed and spearheaded the turnaround of the network’s operations, academic achievements, and financial strength. Excellence in education has been her career calling. Her campaign quest is to empower and partner with parents throughout Georgia.

“This campaign is about placing students at the center of our education system,” Searcy says. “It’s about putting parents in the driver’s seat of their children’s education. Parents are too often intimidated by the school system. COVID taught us we no longer just have to accept what the system offers. In the past we’ve been taught to believe they are the experts. But I want parents to feel empowered and know that we are the experts. We know what’s best for our children based on their needs.

I want parents to know the system belongs to us. I also feel, very, very strongly about the need to support and respect teachers.

Nobody’s giving teachers a platform to

talk about what they’ve been through in the last two years, not hearing what they need to be successful in this environment.

I want teachers to know I’ll be their champion, too.”

Searcy is also a concerned parent who is raising three school-age children with her husband, Carlos Searcy, a now retired Georgia State Trooper. Searcy is the only candidate with state level policy making experience, experience leading a school system and extensive experience in the private sector. She has all the requisite tools for the task.

“I am a 12-year policymaker and spent

most of my tenure working on improving public education,” she explains. “So, I understand how the department of education works. I understand the importance of working with the legislature to make sure we have sound public policy in place. I have a master’s degree in education leadership. I’ve been a superintendent, I have run schools, I’ve hired principals, I have redesigned systems to attract and retain teachers, I’ve closed achievement gaps amidst some of the most difficult circumstances — all things that are significant challenges right now in public education. And I’m a mom of three children navigating the education system right now. So, my experience as a parent, education leader, and as a policymaker, make me uniquely qualified and prepared for this moment to lead our schools in this state and re-imagine what education can be.”

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HOLIDAY FLAVORS Recipes for Passover Jurgielewicz Seared Duck Breast with Blackberry Demi-Glace

By Chef Mike Baker, Corporate Chef at Farmers & Fishermen Recipe calls for: 2 ea. Jurgielewicz Duck Breasts ½ cup blackberry brandy or Manischewitz ½ cup fresh blackberries 2 cups water 1/3 cup Knorr Swiss Demi-Glace (Sauce)

Atlanta’s Top Jewish Chefs Shares Passover Recipes When it comes to making Passover delicious, Farmers & Fishermen CEO Kirk Halpern knows just what to do. His family-owned, award-winning Robyn Spizman company, which Gerson he runs with his son, provides customers with the finest fresh fish, meat, poultry and delicacies. Now, he’s assembled a selection of recipes from local Jewish chefs that will make your mouth water and your Passover Seder an occasion to remember.

“The Passover seder is a wonderful opportunity for the Jewish community to gather around our tables together as a family,” Halpern said. “In our business, we have a strong appreciation for every family. We value those treasured recipes from beloved family members, while also enjoying changing it up a little bit. To make Passover even more irresistible, we’ve collected some great Passover recipes from Jewish chefs around Atlanta, including some from Woodstock, which is a fantastic, thriving restaurant community.”

Six chefs from the Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Midtown, Emory and Woodstock areas came up with the recipes, including one for non-beef eaters, a great duck recipe from chef Mike Baker and a delicious Sephardic lamb chop recipe from Stephen Kaplan, director of Operations at Rumi’s Kitchen.

“When you think about what Passover is, it is a new beginning and redemption,” Halpern said. “People know that the restaurant community is the first employer for many people coming from redemption. In a lot of kitchens, whether it’s a server in the front going to trade school or college, it’s their first job; and the other big part is people that 44 | MARCH 31, 2022 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

are coming out of life challenges. The dinner table is communal.”

“Ideally, Passover protein popularity is still focused on brisket and lamb, with brisket being the most popular,” Halpern explained.

“We selected two different lamb dishes that are creative and, for those that want to do an alternative to meat, we’re showing some poultry with duck and chicken. Some folks would use salmon as well. In preparation of the traditional lamb shank bone treasure hunt, which so many people end up searching for at the last minute, I have plenty for the seder plate. Historically, people would buy a lamb shank and take the meat off, so they had the bone. We are prepared with a couple hundred pounds of lamb shank bones, which are ready to go. Some of our customers make gefilte fish from scratch and order carp or raw white fish. I’m a charoset guy and love Grandmother Hattie’s recipe.”

“When it came to preparing these great recipes for the holiday, my mom (Lori) would often task me with the chopping, dicing and slicing when I wasn’t busy taste-testing our family’s charoset,” says Halpern’s son, Ben. “I’ve always loved brisket, and while it was certainly tough watching the brisket while it was slowly braising to perfection, I learned during the holidays the importance of patience. It’s an honor to be a part of the traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation and learn from some of the best chefs and restaurant operators in the community.”

Growing up, Ben recalls his father bringing home the finest cuts of meat and the freshest fish. The recipes were passed down from Ben’s maternal great-grandmother, “often hand-written and laminated for the next generations to also cherish.”

“Along with his sister Erica, her husband Ryan and my girlfriend Carlin and her beautiful family,” he says, “we’re all looking forward to being together and continuing to create special memories during Passover.”

Sauce Preparation In sauce pot add 2 cups warm (not boiling) water Measure 1/3 cup Knorr Swiss demi-glace Turn to medium high heat and whisk till smooth, add ¼ cup blackberry brandy When thickened turn heat down to very low and add ½ cup fresh blackberries Let simmer 10 minutes Duck Preparation Score skin with a knife in a diamond pattern, trim excess skin if desired (be sure not to puncture the meat).

Season both sides of the duck breast with salt and pepper.

Place skin side down on a cold pan (Pro Tip: Heat duck breast in the pan lightly).

Cook skin side down on medium heat for 8-10 minutes.

Flip and cook meat side down for 2 minutes.

Deglaze pan with ¼ cup blackberry brandy, add the finished and fresh blackberries (see below).

Put on a cutting board and let it rest for 7-10 minutes.

Plating With a sharp knife, slice breast on a bias in 1/8th inch slices, not deli thin but not too thick.

Be sure to keep crispy skin intact on each slice Arrange duck slices on plate or platter at angle Ladle warmed blackberry demi-glace over the slices to your desired amount to include blackberries and enjoy!

Sephardic Marinated Double-Bone Lamb Chops

By Stephen Kaplan, Director of Operations at Rumi’s Kitchen in Alpharetta, Sandy Springs and Midtown Recipe calls for: 3ea 26-28oz lamb racks or 6ea 12-14oz lamb racks 2g saffron 24g Kosher Salt 5g ground black pepper 136g lemon juice 32g lime juice 40g garlic cloves 28g rosemary leaves 136g olive oil 136g Extra Virgin Olive Oil Trim the fat cap off the racks.

Butcher each rack into four two-bone segments.

In a large bowl, sprinkle the rack of lamb segments with salt and pepper.

In a blender, blend the saffron water, salt, pepper, lemon juice, lime juice, garlic cloves, rosemary leaves, and olive oil .

HOLIDAY FLAVORS Pour the blended mixture over the rack of lamb segments and mix by hand to ensure all of the meat is coated uniformly.

Cover and let marinate in the fridge for at least 15 minutes and up to 24 hours.

Cook each segment on a hot grill until desired internal temperature is reached (145 degrees for medium), allow to rest for 5-10 minutes, and enjoy!

Slow-Braised Brisket Stew in the Crock Pot

By Chef Ted Kupferman, Executive Chef at Prime 120 in Woodstock 2½ lbs brisket 1tsp Kosher salt, divided 1/2 tsp ground black pepper, divided 1/4 cup corn starch 3 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1 ½ cups dry red wine 1ea large yellow onion 3 ea celery stalks 2 ea garlic cloves 2 tbsp tomato paste 1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce 4 ea large carrots ½ lb red potatoes 1ea bay leaf 3 sprigs fresh thyme, chopped 3-4 cups low-sodium beef broth 1½ cups fresh or frozen peas (no need to thaw) Fresh parsley (optional for serving) Cut the beef brisket into 1-inch cubes, removing any large, tough pieces of fat or gristle. (It may be easiest to cut it into 1-inch-thick large, round slices, then strips, then cubes).

Place the cubes in a large bowl and sprinkle with ½ teaspoon kosher salt and ¼ teaspoon black pepper. Sprinkle on the corn starch, then toss lightly to coat.

Place a large, deep Dutch Oven over medium to high heat. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil.

Heat the oil, add one-third to one-half of the beef. Let the cubes of the brisket cook undisturbed for 4 to 5 minutes until the bottom of the cubes develop a dark-brown crust and come away from the pan easily. Turn and continue searing until dark and golden all over, about 4 to 5 additional minutes.

Transfer the seared meat to a clean bowl or plate. Add another 1 tablespoon olive oil to the pot, and once hot, sear the remaining beef. It may take two or three batches total depending on the size of your pan. If the pan gets too dry, add a bit more oil as needed.

While the meat browns, dice the yellow onion and celery and mince the garlic.

When the last batch of beef has been seared, transfer it to a plate and reduce the heat to medium.

Add the final tablespoon of olive oil to the pan. Add the onions and celery and cook until soft for about 7 minutes.

Add the garlic and cook 30 seconds, until fragrant. Stir in the tomato paste, Worcestershire, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper.

While the onions sauté, peel and dice the carrots. Scrub the potatoes and cut into a rough dice. Set aside.

Increase the pan heat to medium-high heat and add the wine or beer (stand back, as it will sputter). Cook, letting the wine reduce and scraping up all of the brown bits from the pan.

Continue to scrape and stir until the liquid is slightly reduced and thickened, 2 to 3 minutes.

Transfer the sautéed vegetables and any sauce from the pan to a 6-quart or larger slow cooker. Add the beef, carrots, potatoes, bay leaf, thyme, and 3 cups of beef broth. Stir to roughly combine.

Cover and cook on low for 6 ½ to 8 hours or high for 3 ½ to 4 ½ hours, until the beef is cooked through and fall-apart tender. Remove the bay leaf and stir in the peas.

If you’d like the stew thinner, add additional broth until it reaches your desired consistency.

Taste and add additional salt or pepper as desired and enjoy!

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HOLIDAY FLAVORS

Purim Brings Jews and Booze into Focus Rava said: It is one’s duty to make oneself fragrant [with wine] on Purim until one cannot tell the difference between cursed be Haman and blessed be Mordecai. (Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 7b) According to most biblical commentators, this Talmudic injunction — to drink until we are Bob Bahr unable to think straight during Purim — is one of the few times that Jewish tradition encourages drunkenness. At the same time, Rabbi David Golinkin, president of The Schechter Institutes in Israel, points out that the Hebrew scriptures, for the most part, come down solidly on the side of sobriety.

Writing in the Institute’s bulletin, Golinkin cited the disapproval surrounding Noah’s drunkenness in Genesis and Abraham’s nephew, Lot, who drinks too much after the destruction of Sodom. He also points to the sudden deaths, by divine fire, of Aaron’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, after they apparently become drunk and enter the Tabernacle in the wilderness of Sinai. Biblical commentary condemns drunkenness because it leads to forbidden sexual relations, Golinkin writes, as evidenced in the opinion of the Talmud that “there is nothing that causes a person greater lamentation than wine.”

Still, each Friday night we lift our kiddish cups and, on Passover, are instructed to drink four cups of wine, filled to the brim. On Purim, some Jews even lose consciousness after

Russian Jewish immigrant Mike Shurman’s saloon, Atlanta, 1905. // Credit: The Breman Museum

Purim is one of the Jewish holidays in which alcohol plays a major role.

a long night of public revelry.

In “Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition,” Georgia State University history professor Marni Davis recounted the role that alcohol played in the economic life of Jewish immigrants from Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1880s.

In New York, for example, the brewery that produced the popular Rheingold Beer brand was owned by Jews, while thriving liquor industries were established in Cincinnati — birthplace of Reform Judaism in America— and in Louisville, where Jews produced and distributed Kentucky bourbon.

“The number of Jews who are involved in these distribution networks far outnumbers their percentage of the population,” says Davis. “So, in a city like Louisville, where Jews were perhaps two percent of the city’s total population, they would be something like a quarter of the entrepreneurs who

were engaged in whiskey production and distribution.”

In 19th-century Eastern Europe, from which many Jewish immigrants came, brewing beer and hard liquor was big business. In Poland, major landholders among the Polish nobility reasoned that they could make more money selling their grain to alcohol producers than they could selling it to flour millers. Jews added to their reputation as shrew or astute businessman. They developed a leasing system known as propinacja, so-called propination laws, which gave their Jewish partners a monopoly over the liquor trade.

In “Yankel’s Tavern,” a historical study of the 19th-century Polish liquor trade, author Glenn Dynner estimates that some 30 to 40 percent of Poland’s Jews were involved in making or selling liquor.

Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian empire gave the Jewish Herzog family the exclusive right to provide him with wine, while in Germany, Jewish brewers were leaders in the modernization of the beer industry. Economic lessons like these were not lost on Jewish emigrants, who found opportunities in America’s bourgeoning spirits industry.

Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, one of Louisville’s bourbon distillers, created a major brand that is still a big seller today, I. W. Harper. (The initials were said to stand for Isaac Wolfe.)

Bernheim was a prominent supporter of the American Jewish Committee and of the Reform movement in America who underwrote the movement’s first library at Hebrew Union College.

According to Davis, the end of prohibition in 1933 also meant the end of the stigma that had clung to the liquor industry and its Jews. Who was producing alcohol became a question of very little importance in American society.

At the outset of World War II, Alfred Davis established his National Distributing Company in Atlanta, today part of one of the major alcoholic beverage distributors in America.

The Davis Academy, the largest Reform day school in America, is named in honor of Davis and his wife.

Still, controversies surrounding how alcohol is consumed — which kind, in which quantity and setting — linger on. They come into focus especially when, each year, we celebrate the redemption of the Jews of Persia.

Organizations as diverse as Chabad and The Blue Dove Foundation in Atlanta have made it part of their message to drink responsibly during the Purim holiday. In the time she spent writing her history of Jews and alcohol in America, Davis feels that she has learned an important principle.

“It isn’t just about alcohol. It’s about morality,” she says.

“It’s about fears of people behaving in ways that are regarded as outside of proper comportment. And when those understandings of proper comportment are also sort of attached to national identity, that gets even more complicated.” ì

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Boyd’s Guide to Homebrewed Beer Steve’s Condensed Brewing Timeline:

Inna and Steve Boyd enjoy homebrewed beer on tap.

Boyd estimates that it takes him around 4 to 5 hours to prepare a single batch of beer.

Oracle Corporation techie Steve Boyd and wife, Inna, an attorney, are members of Temple Kol Emeth. They’re also budding brewers, with the secrets to making delicious DIY beer at home.

“Homebrewing was outlawed by Prohibition in 1919,” Boyd explained. “Even after repeal, the ban on it remained unMarcia til 1978, when President Carter Caller Jaffe made homebrewing legal again at the federal level. It was then up to the individual states to formally permit it. This happened gradually; the last two, Mississippi and Alabama, legalized in 2013.” Homebrewers are allowed to brew 200 gallons of beer per person per year, but one still has to be 21 years old to drink it. Hard spirits are still illegal to make without a license.

Boyd’s passion for brewing began a decade ago, when he borrowed a coworker’s brewing magazine. Another friend, who was already a homebrewer, invited him over to his house to brew, sample and bottle. He was hooked and began to research brewing equipment.

The actual “brew day” is 4 to 5 hours from the time the water boils to the moment Boyd puts the beer away to ferment. About a month or so later, it will be ready to drink. Boyd recommends waiting to buy a kit. Help a friend with a brew day first, or take a class, he suggests. A good beginner kit will have tools to make beer for years.

“You can use household items to offset cost — my main brew pot is an old 5-gallon stock pot, plus a 7-gallon plastic bucket to ferment — or you can spend literally thousands of dollars on a complete, all-in-one brewing setup where all you do is add ingredients and come back in 3 weeks to beer,” he said.

For cost comparison, “I typically make 5 gallons of beer at a time, or about 40 glasses. I spend about $40 to $50 per batch on ingredients, which means I’m spending just over $1 a glass, not including equipment costs. I’ve been able to make an Irish stout that tastes similar to what we had in Ireland, much better than the U.S. Guinness.”

Boyd owns a kegerator to serve beer on tap, with the foam head that forms naturally from the carbon dioxide produced by the yeast released from the pressurized keg — much like the head that forms when pouring a bottle into a glass.

Boyd is an analytical whiz, but how hard would this process be for the average person? “I’ve been working in computer security for almost 30 years,” he said. “If you can follow a recipe for making soup from a cookbook, you can make wort, and that’s the hard part.”

Boyd’s father-in-law, Lev Mebel, a native of Latvia who knows his way around a good ale, said, “Steve makes light and dark beer. Both have very pleasant tastes. We enjoy comparing his different types at family gatherings. His Guinness beer tastes equal or better than commercial. His light beer tastes equal to commercial German beers.” ì

1. Figure out what kind of beer you want to make to determine the ingredients.

2. Get the sugars out of the grains, so that the yeast can convert them. Soak malted barley and other grains yourself, or you can use canned barley extract.

3. Once grains are “mashed,” drain and store the runoff water in a brew pot to boil. During the boil, add hops. The earlier in the boil hops is added, the more bitter the beer; the later, the “hoppier” it will smell and taste.

4. After boiling, cool it down, transfer the wort into the fermenter, use a hydrometer tool to measure how much sugar is in the wort and record. Add yeast, cover the fermenter and store all in a cool, dark place.

5. After a week, take a sample of the beer every couple of days, using a hydrometer to assess remaining sugar. When that reading stops changing, it’s time to keg or bottle. (Tasting is encouraged.)

6. Clean after each step to avoid bacteria buildup. Equipment must be cleaned before putting away. The fermenter needs to be cleaned after use, then sanitized. Bottles and kegs need to be cleaned out after emptying.

7. Boyd recommends local homebrew stores Schoolhouse Brewing in Marietta (also offers classes) and Brew Depot in Alpharetta.

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Passover Recipes Our Favorite Rolls

1 stick butter 4 large eggs 1½ cups water 1½ tsp. salt 2 cups matzo meal 1 tbsp. + 2 tsp. sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Combine matzo meal, salt and sugar. Bring butter and water to a boil. Add to matzo meal mixture and mix well. Let Carol Nemo cool till just warm. Then, beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. I break each egg into a cup and beat with a fork to make mixing easier. After last egg is added, let mixture stand 15 minutes.

With oil or water on hands, shape into rolls, place on parchment-lined baking sheet.

Turn oven down to 375 degrees and bake for 40 to 50 minutes until nicely golden brown. Eat with your favorite jam!

Cucumber Salad

(This is not only for Pesach, but that’s the only time I seem to make it!)

3 large cucumbers, sliced very thin 3 tsp. Kosher salt 1/3 cup sugar 1/3 cup white vinegar 1/3 cup cold water 1 large onion, sliced thin Mix all together, let sit overnight in frig to blend flavors, and enjoy!

Pesadik Pizza

Dampen about 6 whole matzos & place on a large greased baking sheet, touching each other. Mix together 3-4 different kinds of cheeses, cottage, shredded Jack, shredded Muenster, Ricotta, whatever you like.

Sprinkle on matzo pieces.

Add garlic salt, oregano, Italian seasoning. Can add mushrooms, artichoke hearts, onions, spinach, red pepper, or anything else you like.

Layer sliced tomatoes on top ... remove seeds first so it doesn’t get watery. Drizzle with tiny amount of olive oil.

Sprinkle with tomato sauce or marinara sauce and a generous amount of mozzarella.

Bake at 375 degrees until lightly browned.

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HOLIDAY FLAVORS Barbara’s Extraordinary Macaroon Fudge Bars 6 oz. semi sweet chocolate, melted 1 cup unsalted butter or Passover margarine 1½ cups brown sugar 1 tbsp. Passover vanilla sugar 3 large eggs ¾ cup matzo cake meal ¼ cup potato starch 1½ cup lightly packed quartered or coarsely chopped Passover macaroons (any brand or flavor) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 8 x 10” or 7 x 11” pan (in a pinch, a 9 x 9” will do).

Melt chocolate and butter over low heat, cool to room temperature. Stir in brown sugar, vanilla sugar, eggs, cake meal and potato starch. Then stir in macaroon pieces.

Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake about 40-50 minutes, until top seems set and is beginning to take on a crackled appearance. Do not overbake.

Brownies should be set and seem dry to touch — but there should not be a dry crust around sides.

They are also divine without the macaroons.

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Bubula

A bubula (like the Yiddish word that is a term of endearment) is a matzo meal and egg based pancake.

2 eggs, separated 2 tbsp. matzo meal 1 tbsp. seltzer water Pinch of salt Canola oil Sugar Cinnamon Put egg whites in a medium bowl big enough for whipping them. Place yolks in a similar size bowl.

To the yolks, add 2 tbsp. matzo meal, 1 tbsp. seltzer, and pinch of salt. Combine using a small whisk or fork.

Whip egg whites to stiff peaks and then fold egg whites into the yolk mixture.

Heat a small skillet on medium heat. Once heated, add 1 tbsp. oil, then add matzo meal mixture.

Cook till you see it sizzle around the edges and firm up. Then, depending on your kitchen skills, you can either flip the pancake like a pro or grab a spatula to turn it over. It should be nicely browned.

It only needs to cook briefly on the flip side to brown and finish firming up the interior.

Flip the bubula onto a plate, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Some people like to use powdered sugar – looks very pretty that way.

Note: Much easier to use small skillets so bubulas will turn more easily and not break up.

Enjoy!

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Eat Well and Let Eli Do the Passover Cooking Brafman’s tips for koshering a home kitchen:

Not Your Bubbe’s Brisket is a reliable bestseller.

By Marcia Caller Jaffe As much as we cherish the family time and blessings associated with Passover, many of us are overwhelmed by the mechanics of kashering the kitchen and coordinating the cooking ahead of the first night. This year, the first Seder falls on the Sabbath, April 15, which adds some additional complications.

So many took notice when, in early March, local caterer Eli Brafman offered to provide modern versions of traditional Kosher for Passover fare with the click of a button.

“We saw incredible demand last year for

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“Seder in a Box” includes wine, matzah and the trimmings.

Pesach prepared food,” said Brafman. “With the influx of Jewish families who’ve moved here throughout COVID, we’re hoping to see that continue to rise for 2022.” Seder in a Box, for example, includes wine and matzo, as well as all the seder plate items ($39.99). Since E.B. Catering will be closed during Passover, many items can be frozen.

Brafman’s most popular items are the brisket, potato kugel and apple cranberry crumble. He added meatballs as a new item for 2022, predicting that it will be “a winner.”

Other mouthwatering choices include: Fish course: Honey-glazed salmon

(around 4.5 lbs. for $75), Moroccan gefilte fish balls ($32.49 for 16 pieces), classic gefilte fish roll Soups: Chicken matzo ball, vegetable, or roasted butternut squash ($16.49 per qt.)

Sides: Potato salad, cucumber salad, beet salad, quinoa salad, Moroccan carrots, potato kugel, butternut squash kugel (Salads are $12.50 per pint, kugels vary from $35 to $45) Mains: Saucy meatballs ($38.99 for 2 lbs.), sous vide London broil ($54.89 for 2 lbs.), Not Your Bubbe’s Brisket, pulled beef, herbcrusted pargiot (boneless chicken thighs), crispy chicken breast, tangy chicken leg quarters Desserts: Gooey brownies, warm apple cranberry crumble ($42.89) How is this Passover different from all other Passovers? “We’ll have to see how it goes this year for Shabbos, but we imagine there will be more of a demand since people will be ordering for the Seder meals, as well as a potentially larger Shabbat day meal versus a standard Pesach,” Brafman explains.

On top of these, this pandemic has brought “incredible shortages throughout the world of food products, even more so when it comes to Kosher. We started stocking up at the start of February, and we’re hoping that’ll help us have a smooth operation without any misses. Also note that matzah prices have risen this year, as an example.”

Staffing shortages have also been a challenge. “It’s been incredibly difficult to find staff for short term hires,” Brafman said.

“Our solution has been to hire full-time employees. We currently have a team of 10. The increased salaries, steady pay and job security have helped to ensure that we always have enough staff during the busy times.”

Logistics: Food will be ready for pickup on Thursday, April 14. There is a soft cutoff order of April 1st for guaranteed products.

After that, some items will still be available.

Delivery within the perimeter is $25. There will be two pickup locations: Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive and 1280 Holly (Toco Hills residence). For full price list, please visit www.Ebghostkitchen.com. ì

Brafman sets aside a full week to assure his entire facility is chametzfree and ready for Pesach cooking.

1. Start with the right equipment. Heat proof gloves and a waterproof apron go a long way.

2. Instead of buying a new Kettle to kosher your kitchen, use one that has been cleaned and unused for at least 24 hours.

3. When kashering a sink, an alternative method to hot water is to place two lit sternos in the sink and cover it with tin foil for 45 minutes.

Make sure to leave a corner open for air to check and ensure the sternos remain lit.

4. Self cleaning oven, remove any visible dirt and leave unused for 24 hours. Run a full self-cleaning cycle until complete.

5. The best tip is to find a local rabbi who can get rid of the headache and do it!

Brafman offers a special Passover recipe: “A favorite of mine growing up were my mother’s pickled salmon cubes. It’s a very simple recipe and lasts a while, so make extra.”

3 white onions (cut in half moons) ¾ cup sugar 1 cup wine 1 cup water ½ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice 2 lbs. salmon cut in 1” cubes 1. Boil stock pot of water with salt.

2. Place salmon cubes in boiling water for 4-5 minutes.

3. Mix sugar, wine, water, lemon juice and salt together.

4. Place salmon over sliced onions in a large mason jar or airtight container.

5. Pour the mixture over and let sit in fridge for 3 days before eating.

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DINING Vegan Grab-and-Go Strives to Go Far Imagine a Jackie Mason routine where four people are ordering at a restaurant, “I’m gluten free” “I’m lactose intolerant,” Marcia “Eggs have too Caller Jaffe much cholesterol,” and so on. Chefs are listening. Thus, new Strive Foods is a bountiful “grab-and-go” plantbased shop with an extensive vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free menu in Sandy Springs.

Owner Claudine Molson-Sellers, grew up in a foodie family and declared,” “No matter where I am, the kitchen is where I find peace and happiness. My earliest memories center around food. Eating well is one of life’s greatest pleasures. That idea combined with my love for animals and my love for cooking, both just grew with time.” Strive began in 2014, open-

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Strive team from left to right: Natalya Fisher, Claudine Molson-Sellers, Paige Perkins.

Cauliflower crusted pizza is a favorite colorful and complex menu item.

ing its first brick and mortar location in November 2019 and moving to its current space in October 2021. It has had such a loyal following that Yelp reviewers claim they moved to Sandy Springs “just to be nearby.” Others praise the staff “like they are really into working there.”

Strive has prepared menu items in the fridge up front – both sweet and savory – and may include daily specials based on what’s “farm fresh.” There is also an online menu with even more options that can be ordered each day by 12 p.m. for next day pickup. This pre-order method worked especially well during COVID. Desserts are among the most dazzling creations at Strive. Dream about “guilt-free” Snickers Bites, Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bites, CBD Chocolate Bark, Caramel Sea Salt Bars, Red Wine Truffles and huge cookies and scones.

Herald back to Molson-Seller’s eloping in Nepal at age 22, later enrolling at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts. She then worked at Val d’Isere in Whistler “baking up a storm.” Her first business, “Whistlers Own Bakeshop,” lasted for eight years, while she supplied coffee shops and grocery stores in the Sea-toSky Valley (Canada) daily with fresh baked goods. She packaged her cookies, cookie dough, energy bars and pies which sold across Canada. In 2012, Sellers moved to Atlanta. With two school aged kids and cooking at home, she read blogs on healthy plant-based eating. She said, “A plant-based diet is a win-win.

Why isn’t everyone doing this?”

Cauliflower Crust Pizza is among Strive’s most complex and popular items at $9 a slice. Another is a Braised Tofu and Mushroom dish over their “Roasted Garlic Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes”.

Those are multi-step dishes that take significant time and ingredients to prepare. Creativity and passion go into the ever-changing menu with choices including Mexican Pizza, Sliders, Raw Lasagna,

Chia Pudding, and much more.

Staff member Natalya Fisher moved to Georgia from New York and said, “I am a vegan chef and keep a kosher home.

The moment I tried Strive’s Buffalo Cauliflower Pizza, I applied for a job. That pizza was so fresh and vibrant, loaded with vegetables. Claudine [Molson-Sellers] is open to my needs. She doesn’t work on the Sabbath and promotes Jewish festivities by making traditional “holiday” food.

She gives her staff the ability to express who we are through the food of their culture.”

A fan, Robyn Gerson said, “Strive is a surprising find and a welcomed gluten -free take-out option. I enjoy their pizza and put it in the air fryer to crisp up later.

Their desserts were also interesting and worthy of a taste if you’re a chocolate lover. I’m looking forward to trying their gluten-free soups. Someone gave me a Strive gift card and I’m enjoying experimenting with new options.”

What we sampled: Kieras Tacos were truly better than “the real thing.” Especially with the avocado tomatillo salsa.

Pasta Special with kalamata olives, walnuts and capers. $8 or 16-ounce pickled purple cabbage, stood out among the tempeh bites.

Vegetable Soup hand cut chunks of celery, carrots, zucchini in a tomato base swirled with fresh herbs.

Sweet Potato Coconut Curry Soup stands toe-to-toe with the best Thai restaurant in town.

Kale Caesar is grainy but with tasty dressing, crispy chickpeas, crunchy parm. Don’t expect a traditional Caesar $8 for 16 ounce Buffalo Broccoli also available in cauliflower is $7 Cranberry Orange Poppy Scone is a huge wedge that could last three breakfasts.

Key Lime Cheesecake came in two large slivers with magnificent green swirls, silkier than real cheesecake.

Raw Desserts and Scones costs about $8, cookies were about $7.

Strive caters for groups and events for up to 100 people.

Parking has easy access and is free.

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Chai Style Art

Jody and Cary Goldstein chill with goldendoodle Lacy in front of a colorful Peter Max diptych. // Photography by Howard Mendel

Goldsteins’ Home Reflects Lifetime of Art and Travel American landscape photographer Ansel Adams once said, “There are no rules for good photography, only good photographers.”

Well, Jody and Marcia Cary Goldstein Caller Jaffe have mastered the art of optics, lighting and turning what they see “in their mind’s eye” into a photograph that may one day grace a home or office.

Cary, a dentist, and Jody, travel the globe to create their photos, freezing a moment in time. Jody recalled “passing the Fujifilm GFX back and forth as individual moments of creativity” struck on the couple’s honeymoon.

“It’s in the seemingly common small details that might speak to us,” added Cary, “the sim-

plicity of an ocean or the red of the Krispy Kreme donut building at night.”

The Goldsteins’ work hangs in homes from the Beltline to Buckhead, South Beach to Aspen — even in their rabbi’s abode. Read on to learn more about the couple and the Sandy Springs home in which they raised their three (now grown) children.

Jaffe: How did you both become interested in photography?

Cary: I grew up with a father who was into photography and art. A camera was always nearby. Also, being a cosmetic dentist, there is a detail and aesthetic component to photography. I am known for my street scenes, places and objects. Imagine a harpist in Paris on the Champs-Élysées, a turquoise VW Beetle approaching just as a white, French standard poodle parades by, escorting a blond with a bobbing ponytail, Asian pagodas, Buddhas and umbrellas on Miami Beach.

Jody: Don’t forget our photos of Hilton Head marshes at sunset or the underpinnings of Manhattan bridges. Our street art in Austin and New Mexico is among the most colorful. Aspen, Banff … we interpret beauty and nature from all around us.

Jaffe: How does the process work with your flower photography?

Jody: During COVID, our office was closed and Cary brought the camera home.

Being stuck inside, I conceptualized flowers for their detail and beauty. I actually gazed out the bedroom window to the pool, with its glimmering reflection, and imagined shadows, petals and blooms in almost a tiedye effect that can influence the image of a flower. Think of a field with hundreds of tulips or one hydrangea, orchid or dahlia. As importantly, I visit my client’s home to see just where my art will go. All of my pieces are custom-made, and I love the challenge of unusual flowers and colors. This is all organic,

and I never cut anything out. I have replaced treasured Impressionistic museum-quality masterpieces with one of my flowers, and the client was absolutely thrilled. I can help them decide on which flower they prefer, or they can pick out a flower on my website. I have done around 200 of these, up to 60” x 40”, which range from $600 to $1600. The photograph is then sent to Canada, where it is printed on acrylic glass and shipped back. I can produce about 20 a month.

Cary: Jody is really amazing with what she can do on the computer with shadows and colors to capture just the right image. But wait! The finished product takes an 18-wheeler truck to deliver the art to us. Then I, as a handy dentist with tools and a drill, borrow a truck to install it in the client’s home.

Jaffe: Describe your house.

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The two entrance doors from the 1800s initially drew Cary to select their home. The background art is from Bali.

Above: Jody enjoys time with Kosmo and Lacy as she takes inspiration from the swimming pool’s reflection and brilliance.

Below: Jody shot this intense hydrangea on a trip to Martha’s Vineyard. // Credit: Jody and Cary Goldstein

renovated the kitchen and now the master suite is under construction. Design-wise, I would label it as transitioning from country French to modern. We are taking it room by room.

Jody: Kitchen-wise, Cary is a great cook.

We love to cook together, and our modern kitchen is very easy for entertaining. You

see the grill is in the middle island, which we enjoy for entertaining in a cook “out” format.

Especially during COVID, we were able to entertain in here then eat out on the porch for an easy flow. We used kitchen designers Pedini at ADAC, with Cambria quartz, Italian boat wood and lacquer here. In the neutral-toned kitchen, we have my “Red Poppy” flower to The Goldsteins’ kitchen, by Pedini, has an eat-out grill and waterfall island alongside Jody’s “Red Poppy.”

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CHAI STYLE add a burst of crimson.

Jaffe: How would you summarize the beauty you surround yourself with here?

Cary: The first thing I fell in love with in seeing this house was the double front entrance doors from the 1800s, which were imported from Hong Kong. Then, five years ago, while in Bali, we brought back fourteen pieces of art on the plane, packing everything very carefully. Some of the other large and meaningful pieces are actually from my patients.

Jaffe: Do you have a special charity that is near and dear to your heart?

Jody: As a 9-year breast cancer survivor, in 2014, Jennifer Fink and I co-founded “A Cure in Our Lifetime” to raise over a million dollars for breast cancer research. Our breakfast is on March 30 at the Woodruff Arts Center. I am also the current auxiliary co-president of the Jewish Home Life Group, where I have been a very active volunteer for over ten years.

Jaffe: What’s next for you two?

Jody: We are gearing up to travel to Spain and Portugal to shoot the street scenes of Las Ramblas, costumes and people. We are taking a photography class in Europe and are very excited.

Cary: As experienced travelers, we pack very lightly, considering all of our equipment.

We will be very busy over the coming weeks, selecting and perfecting all this new work.

Above: This photograph of Cary’s street scene hangs in the Goldstein’s front hall. // Credit: Jody and Cary Goldstein Below: A large oil painting by patient Hal Schwartz hangs in the Goldsteins’ great room.

Find the Goldsteins on Instagram @goldsteinartphotography and online at Goldsteinartphotography.com.

Cary poses in front of his photograph, “Series of One,” on the couple’s patio.

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MARCH 31- APRIL 14 SOJOURN’s Drawing from the Well — 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. An inclusive weekly meetup for LGBTQ+ Jews and allies.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 31 2022 Torch of Liberty Award Celebration — 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Join ADL Southeast for the Torch of Liberty Award Celebration honoring Atlanta Hawks CEO Steve Koonin. Presented

by Alston & Bird, City Winery and UPS, this eagerly awaited community gathering reinvents the typical gala into an evening of music, culinary delights and mission moments. For more details and to reserve tickets, visit https://bit.ly/35gfD1C. Registration closes March 24.

Acoustic Shabbat Café at Alon’s Bakery (Dunwoody) — 6 p.m. Join Rabbi Glusman, Drew Cohen and other local musicians for a soulful evening of music, prayer and words of inspiration in celebration of Shabbat. See https://bit. ly/3369vZ1 for more information.

Foolish Music — 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. The Music of Beethoven, W.F. Bach and Mozart’s “Musical Joke.” Note the date and come prepared for some unexpected musical fun. Visit https://bit. ly/35qfklj for more information.

and herbs and makers of all sorts of edible home goods, from yummy desserts and breads to local raw honey and homemade sauces, jellies and soaps. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3D31jq8.

Leonardo Drew: Cycles — 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Every day through May 7. The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation is honored to present this exhibition, curated by Loretta Yarlow, director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass, Amherst. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3rAGOwU/.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Alpharetta Farmers Market — 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the Downtown Alpharetta Farmers Market, you will find farmers with fruits, vegetables and natural meats, gardeners with fresh flowers

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Building Blocks — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Come Grow with Us is the new monthly Sunday School program at Congregation Or VeShalom for children ages 3 to 7. Visit https://bit.ly/3HEgho7 for more information.

Calendar sponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Connector, an initiative of the AJT. In order to be considered for the print edition, please submit events three to four weeks in advance. Contact Administrative Coordinator Kyra Goldman for more information at Kyra@atljewishtimes.com.

How Putin’s Aggression Has Destroyed Ukrainian Jewry — 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

A webinar co-sponsored by the Atlanta Israel Coalition, the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF) and St. Louis Friends of Israel, featuring Sam Sokol, a reporter for Haaretz and author of “Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews.” He was previously a correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Telegraph Agency.

Register at https://bit.ly/SamSokol.

Tot Shabbat and Kiddush Lunch — 11 a.m. Join an interactive Tot Shabbat and sing, play and engage in fun activities, followed by a wonderful Shabbat Kiddush lunch together. https://bit. ly/3rBWd03.

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Kabbalah & Coffee — 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. A weekly study series with Rabbi Ari Sollish. Visit https://bit.ly/3LP4o11 for more information.

Story Time with Rabbi Jordan — 9:15 a.m. Join Rabbi Jordan for story time on Facebook. See https://bit. ly/3HIW8gw for more information.

Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage — 8 p.m. Actor’s Express continues its 34th season with this production by Lynn Nottage, winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle Awards. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3MkV6Kp.

FRIDAY, APRIL 1

utes and both men and women are welcome to lead parts of the service, which is followed by a brief breakfast and a report on what happened at the Western Wall on Rosh Chodesh. For more information, visit https://bit. ly/3Kbvaig.

Yom Rishon — 9:15 a.m. Every Sunday after Rosh Chodesh an Etz Chaim minyan prays in solidarity with Women of the Wall. Services are about 30 min-

OVS Goes Gladiator — 3 p.m. Join Congregation Or VeShalom in cheering on Atlanta’s ice hockey team. Family fun for all ages. $21 per person. For more information, visit https://bit. ly/3NjQG7c.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Zoom to spend some time with Rabbi Jordan and friends from Congregation Dor Tamid. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/33CivFA.

Torah Reading: Tazria Friday, April 1, 2022, light candles at 7:40 p.m.

Saturday, April 2, 2022, Shabbat ends at 8:37 p.m.

Torah Reading: Metzora Friday, April 8, 2022, light candles at 7:46 p.m.

Saturday, April 9, 2022, Shabbat ends at 8:42 p.m.

MONDAY, APRIL 4 Peachy Parsha — 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. A weekly Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Ari Sollish. Visit https://bit.ly/3rD86mh for more information.

Poetry Month: Closing Reception — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. After a reception, enjoy a reading and discussion with renowned poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris at the KSU Legacy Gazebo.

For more information, visit https://bit. ly/3vDxomF.

Knit and Crochet Group — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Join Dor Tamid on Zoom to socialize and crochet and knit beanies for premature babies from home. For more information, visit https://bit. ly/34Ru9wp.

Monday Night Parsha — Join this new class on Zoom by Rabbi Hertz on the weekly Parsha. For more information, see https://bit.ly/34TeGvR.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5

You Be the Judge — 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

This Zoom course is a six-part online series drawn from true crime and civil cases. Step behind the bench of the Jewish court of law. You be the judge! $65. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3sF6YiA.

Bereavement Support Group — 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. This support group aims to foster a safe and healthy environment to process these feeling and support people in mourning. Visit https://bit.ly/3Ls6oMi for more information.

The Brickman-Levin Symposium — 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and The Laney Graduate School at Emory University invite you to The Brickman-Levin Symposium, which highlights current Laney Graduate School students working on Jewish Studies. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3ixk77u.

Virtual Infertility Support Group — 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Join Jewish Fertility Foundation for a free virtual support group, open to any woman currently experiencing infertility. You must RSVP on the website 12 hours prior to receive the private Zoom link. Visit https://bit.ly/3HGWHHw for more information.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Torah Study — 11 a.m. Join Rabbi Jordan for Torah Study at Dor Tamid and on Zoom every Wednesday for an in-depth look at the book of Leviticus. Visit https://bit.ly/3srZsGj to learn more.

Brain Health Bootcamp — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. New virtual Brain Health Bootcamp class every Tuesday on Zoom. $10. Find more information at https:// bit.ly/3sr94RP.

Significant Others of Addicts Support Group — 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Join Sally Anderson, MS, LPC for a weekly free support group for spouses, partners and/or significant others of those struggling with addiction. Visit https:// bit.ly/3B5bABf for more information.

Celeste Headlee, You’re Cute When You’re Mad — 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

A livestreamed Zoom Author Talk & Q+A with internationally recognized journalist and radio host, Celeste Headlee. Visit https://bit.ly/3tpMyt0 for more information.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 PrimeTimers Coffee with Rabbi Jordan — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Head on over to

Nickelodeon The Spongebob Musical — 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Adapted from the beloved animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” this colorful and vibrant musical is an uplifting tale of overcoming the odds and celebrating the joy of life. $20 regular admission and $16 for students. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3IEANoW. Think Different — 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Jewish spiritual text written in the last three centuries with master Tanya teacher Rabbi Ari Sollish, every week on Thursday. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3gExbXC.

Jewish Spirituality and Mysticism — 8 p.m. A weekly class on Jewish spirituality, mysticism and how to apply it to your personal growth in a meaningful way, taught by Rabby Hirshy. Visit https://bit.ly/3suZDkg for more information.

ber Jason Francisco’s book, “Alive and Destroyed: A Meditation on the Holocaust in Time.” Francisco, an associate professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University, will be in conversation with Kevin Karnes, associate dean for the Arts in Emory College.

For more information, visit https://bit. ly/3sTwvoh.

all in a warm and friendly setting.

Open to the entire community. For more information, visit https://bit. ly/34N3xwG.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble — 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

From the world-renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, acclaimed wind players James Burke, clarinet; Julie Price, bassoon; Stephen Stirling, horn and Tom Blomfield, oboe, have joined forces for a new adventure exploring some of the best all-wind and piano classical repertoire. Call the box office at 404-727-5050 for more information.

Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel — 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Nashville-based duo Swearingen & Kelli recreate the music, memories and magic of the most famous folk-rock duo of our time, Simon and Garfunkel. Tickets: Member $24/ Community $32. Visit https://bit. ly/3663ugk for more details.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Etz Chaim Tot Shabbat — 5 p.m. A potluck dinner, followed by services with crafts, songs, dances and fun! For more information, visit https://bit. ly/3IIu8u4.

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April Family Program — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Congregation Or VeShalom presents a special program to touch and learn about 10 different reptiles and take photos. Help OVS get ready for Passover with a Chametz Hunt and enjoy grilled hotdogs for lunch in the tent.

Must RSVP by April 5. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3N98l14.

Matzah, Magic & Cookies: Passover Celebration — 2 p.m. A sweet Passover celebration at Ali’s Cookies (Perimeter). FREE cookies, a Chabad model matzah bakery, face painting, magician, balloon animals and Passover songs with Rabbi G! For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3DkmjJf.

Take Me Out to the Bowl Game — 6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Every Sunday evening you can join a friendly game of bowling and making new friends for $17 per night. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3gwXleU.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Family Estrangement Support Groups — 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Being estranged from loved ones brings mixed and complicated emotions. This group is intended for those experiencing longstanding estrangements from family members. Group meetings will focus on processing and supporting one another. Sessions are via Zoom and cost $35 per person. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3tD7nkY. Poetry Month: Sue Gosin Lecture — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sue Gosin will present a lecture on artist collaborations published by Dieu Donné Press and Paper and will also discuss each artist’s book, featured in the exhibition at the Zuckerman Museum of Arts at Kennesaw State University. Visit https:// bit.ly/35zTufn for more information.

MONDAY, APRIL 11 Judaic Needlework Meetings — 7 to 9 p.m. The Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework is an international organization devoted to needlework traditions through the sharing of handcrafted items for both Jewish ritual and every day cultural use. Members range from novice to experienced quilters, crocheters, fiber artists, weavers, knitters, needlepointers, beaders, cross-stitchers and more. For more details, visit https://bit.ly/3HIxGMk. Holocaust Photography Book Launch — 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Join Emory University’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) in celebrating the publication of TIJS-affiliated faculty mem-

MJCCA Book Festival Presents Garcelle Beauvais — 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Inperson event. The Book Festival of the MJCAA Presents Garcelle Beauvais, author of “Love Me as I Am.” The beloved Black pop culture icon, entrepreneur, Hollywood actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star bares her life in this frank, funny and fearless memoir about life, love and the pursuit of true happiness. Masks required. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://bit. ly/3vQ9fJR.

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Face-painting and candy from Cotton Cravings were two festival highlights.

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entertained the audience, while many of the families arrived in costume, creating an animated, playful atmosphere. There were 20 floats in the parade, led by flagbearers and escorted by members of the DeKalb County police and fire departments, who worked

closely with event organizers, as they do every year, to keep the crowds safe.

Food trucks from Kosher Gourmet, Formaggio Mio and Adamah Foods — in addition to concession stands featuring Ali’s cookies and Cotton Cravings — created an

outdoor food court in front of Beth Jacob, near the rides. The popular train, pony rides and petting zoo for younger children were located in areas on the Beth Jacob campus safely away from the carnival area.

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by Congregation Beth Jacob. The March 13 event brought together Jewish day schools, synagogues, organizations, families, youth groups and local businesses to share the joy of the festival of Purim. Just as significantly, the festivities created opportunities for socializing among Jewish Atlantans of all ages and backgrounds.

The parade route, just short of a mile, began at the Toco Hills shopping center and made its way to Congregation Beth Jacob, where police estimate that around 1,000 people were on hand to enjoy kosher food, carnival rides and entertainment. A stilt-walker, costumed Purim characters and jugglers

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Kids flocked to the petting zoo.

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12:00 Noon City Springs, Sandy Springs A float honored Israeli farmers who observe the Shmita year.

Leah Gerendach, Gail Karas, and Naomi Cohen sold tickets.

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began six months ago, in October 2021.

Co-chairs Sara Davis and Melanie Frank focused on organizing the petting zoo, pony rides, food vendors, ticket sales and recruiting volunteers. Sarah Faigie Berkowitz, Beth Jacob communications and marketing manager, oversaw all aspects of the event.

She initiated grant requests, managed design and marketing, sponsorships and recruiting floats and marching groups. The trio was supported by nearly 100 volunteers of all ages, including a team of 9-year-old students and teens from local high schools who served as ticket sellers, food sellers and event helpers. “It’s an absolutely beautiful mishmash of ages, backgrounds and tasks, and everyone had a great time!” Berkowitz reported.

In contrast to the previous 29 years, this

year’s parade and festival featured new floats and marching groups, more rides and entertainment and thoughtful additions such as complimentary hot drinks to combat the chill, free flower bouquets, coloring sheets and crayons to occupy kids while they waited to have their face painted and stationing all activities outdoors. Beth Jacob partnered with families whose children are members of the special-needs Friendship Circle to provide “no-wait” bracelets that could be used at any of the rides.

Berkowitz, Davis and Frank said they plan to repeat the fully outdoor festival model next year. “It will be tough for us to top this year’s Atlanta Purim Parade and Festival, but that’s the goal! We’ve got the date locked in — Feb. 26 — and twelve months to pray for nice, sunny weather!” ì

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Purim “In the Middle East” at Chabad Israeli Center On March 17, families celebrated Purim with a great and well attended community event at the Chabad Israeli Center in Brookhaven. The “Purim in The Middle East” theme drew over 500 people to the outdoor event. Middle Eastern dishes, including kubeh, jachnun, ashpelah, falafel, shawarma and more were served.

“It was so heartwarming to see so many of our community members come out to celebrate the joyous holiday of Purim after many months of being away due to COVID,” said Rabbi Menachem Gurary of the Chabad Israeli Center. “The holiday of Purim symbolizes Jewish unity and it was a wonderful display of it right here in Atlanta.”

The space was beautifully decorated in lavish Middle Eastern décor to tie the whole event together. Children dressed up in costumes to enjoy face painting, balloon making and photo booths. Following the dinner, DJ Sammy entertained both kids and adults on the dance floor. ì

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Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?

By Chana Shapiro

guilt that you (should) feel when you lie.

So, we should not lie.

And yet, are there times when lying is OK? Every one of us has to consider …

What about when a woman is asked about her age?

What about when your significant other asks, “How does this outfit look on me?”

What about when you are pulled over for speeding and the officer says, “Do you know how fast you were driving?”

What about authorities coming to arrest someone you are hiding? (Nazis) What about being forced to convert to save your life? (Crusades) What about when your child comes home saying, “Am I ugly?” after being bullied?

What about when we really need/ want the job?

We all tell “little white lies” to make people feel better, to make ourselves feel better, to avoid confrontation, or to save someone from death or serious injury.

opinion; however, that can backfire, too.

Most of the time, I prefer a harmless lie that doesn’t end up hurting anyone. If a friend asks me how she looks in a dress that I think is too tight on her, I would not tell her what I really think. I might say something like, “If you like that dress and will enjoy wearing it, that’s what’s important.”

The determining factor is how well I really know and how close I am to the other person. I try to be honest with people in my family (and I’m really only talking about the closest members of my family). I am less comfortable expressing an opinion to a friend because it’s easy to lose friends over something trivial to me but meaningful to them. It’s never worth it. As for close family members, I hope we can be honest with each other all the time!

tion, “is it really the TRUTH?” Within the pause, be honest with yourself, consider how to present the facts and be attentive to their impact on the listener. Speaking sincere, fair, truthful words is honestly the hardest thing you will do today.

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To lie or not to lie? That is the question!

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” (Abraham Lincoln) The Bible tells us that we should not lie. This is a commandment. We are told not to lie so that there can be trust between people and, in that way, society can function peacefully. Telling the truth helps us trust one another and keeps us from trying to overcome and conceal the lies we tell.

If you always tell the truth, your feelings will be calmer, and you avoid the

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Being honest is meant to help, not harm. In general, that’s the reason I don’t think telling the truth is a good idea. Even if your words are intended for the person’s own good, you never know how the person is going to take it. Sometimes you can skirt around the question and figure out a harmless, subtle way of giving your

To tell the truth honestly sounds like the best policy, but the framing of the truth, the words chosen to position the truth are often not honest. When others trust that you are honest persuades them that you are telling them the truth and presenting truth to someone else carries a heavy responsibility. Social bias, religious framing and political agendas can block honest dialogue. Telling the truth requires a pause to push aside your personal agenda. Stepping forward to “tell the truth” should start with a ques-

One of my adult children asked me, “Did you attend synagogue on Shabbat?”

I knew what the next question would be after I replied in the affirmative. “Were you wearing a mask?” The pandemic seems to be winding down, and what’s so bad if I joined the non-masked individuals and told a small lie to my daughter?

Her synagogue in another state still had the mask requirement, and she believes that I should do the same here, even though going maskless is now acceptable. To tell a lie to my daughter was not a possibility for me. Unfortunately, lying can become a habit. It is believed that performing one mitzvah leads to another, and one sin — in this case a lie — will lead to another.

But are all lies the same? In Judaism, one is supposed to distance oneself from falsehood. What about a white lie?

There are times when that is advisable, especially when one could harm or hurt another person. Sometimes a lie can bring about peace between individuals.

Perhaps a lie can protect someone from embarrassment. Therefore, one needs to think carefully before speaking the truth.

When editing a client’s resume that needs help, I ask if I should be polite and non-judgmental or be totally honest. The reply is almost always, “Please be honest.” In this case, my honesty pays off and the resume improves. ì

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OY VEY! HAVE I GOT A PROBLEM... is a strong possibility Dear Rachel, no children. And there th wi ile wh g lon a for extremely depressed I have been married Recently, I have become en. ldr chi ve ha to le ab , some have suggested that we will never be e close family members som to ing fid con er Aft feelings, I am still about our situation. out it. Despite my dark ab ce fen the on am I t e my reality. So, is there that I try therapy, bu therapy will not chang d An . life my of a are functioning in every a point? r thoughts.

Please let me know you Thank you, Dave

Dear Dave, I am so sorry for the pain that you’re going through. We all go into marriage with so many hopes and dreams, among them the blessing of children that seems to come effortlessly to so many yet presents formidable challenges to others.

I’m amazed and awed that you have only recently begun suffering from feelings of depression. How were you able to avoid it until now? Were you submerging your feelings? Did you have a support system of family and friends that is no longer available to you? Did something or someone trigger you?

As you said, therapy cannot change your situation. But there is a possibility that it can change you, your outlook and perspective. You may be able to learn tools that will enable you to rejoice with the life G-d has given you, despite the excruciating pain of infertility. Perhaps you will learn ways to channel your pain. You may be able to support others who are traveling the same journey, and that can give you a deep sense of fulfillment and purpose. There are many organizations dedicated to helping infertile couples that would welcome a warm-hearted volunteer. And here are some other possibilities to consider. Have you thought about adoption? Are there children in your community who would benefit from a father figure? Are there children in your extended family who could be helped by having you around as a mentor and guide? And last, but perhaps most important, can you become a stronger, more loving, and more supportive spouse for your wife as she navigates her own path through this painful situation?

When I lived up north, a loving, warm-hearted childless couple lived in our small, close-nit community. They would have been amazing parents, and they deeply wished that they had been given that opportunity. But they refused to stagnate and sink into self-pity. As a young mother, I watched, awestruck, as they successfully weathered their challenge by helping others. They were both extremely active and reached out to kids who were struggling. They were also a very devoted aunt and uncle to all their nieces and nephews. When the time came for them to move to a different city, many of us came to them with tears rolling down our cheeks.

“You gave birth to hundreds of children,” we told them. “Some people have biological children.

Our children are your children- they grew in your hearts.”

Therapy can help you learn different tools and gain a new perspective as you forge forward.

But it is not the only way for you to access these skills. You can read and research, speak to others, join a support group- there are many avenues for someone who is searching to enrich his life by letting go of the feelings and emotions that hold him back. Your self-awareness is the first step. How you choose to move forward is your choice.

No matter which path you choose to take, you can become a hero in your life story. Just imagine the day, when you reach the last page, you can say with a full heart, “I’ve done my best.” No one can aspire to more than that.

I hope you are blessed with children soon. But whether or not you receive your heartfelt desire, I wish you a deeply satisfying and rich life that you will give you, others, and G-d deep satisfaction.

All the best, Rachel

Atlanta Jewish Times Advice Column Got a problem? Email Rachel Stein, a certified life coach, 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!

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Lottery An old Jew was sitting in shul one Shabbos.

He was praying: “Dear God, let me win the lottery just once. It would make me so very happy.”

The next week he was back again: “Dear God, I’m the guy who last Shabbos asked you to let me win the lottery. I have kept all your commandments and performed all the required mitzvahs. Just this once I would like to win the lottery. Please.”

He was back again the following week: “God, I have to confess, I’m getting a little annoyed. Here I am, a pious and prayerful Jew who goes to shul regularly and does everything he is supposed to do. Why won’t you grant me this one favor and allow me to win the lottery?”

Just then there was a clap of thunder, the roof of the shul rolled back, a bright light descended on the old guy, and a deep voice boomed out: “Abram, Abram, meet me halfway: Buy a ticket!”

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OBITUARIES

Evelyn Alexander

Maurice S. Berger

Evelyn Alexander, 104, passed away Sunday, March 20, at her home in Decatur, Georgia.

She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 23, 1917, the daughter of Russian immigrants Sarah and Nathan Shube. Evelyn married her first love, Frank Alexander, at the age of 19 and they were together 73 years, until his passing in 2009. She was preceded in death by her sister Beatrice Shube, brother Martin Shube and grandson Leon Alexander.

Mrs. Alexander worked at Georgia Power Company from the ages of 60 to 70. “Ms. A” was dearly loved by her loyal Georgia Power friends, who reunited to celebrate her birthday with her every year.

A charter member of the Wildwood Pines Garden Club, she served twice as president and was a member of the Ahavath Achim Sisterhood. She was known as an expert knitter and the family has many cherished baby clothes, sweaters, afghans and needlepoints. Evelyn was playing and winning at mahjongg weekly until the age of 102.

She is survived by her children Kenneth and Glenda and Gary and Sam Alexander, grandsons Scott and Nathan Alexander, great-grandchildren Brandon, Meghan, Caleb, Owen and Benjamin Alexander and great-great-grandson Leon Alexander, sister-in-law Helen Shube, niece Beth Shube Kilthau and nephew Dan Shube and family.

A special message of appreciation goes to her loving caregivers, Cynthia Hayes and Cristina Yaguachi. Thank you for all you did for Mom and our family.

Graveside services were held 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 22 at Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta and were officiated by Rabbi Sam Blustin. Please sign the online guestbook at www.dresslerjewishfunerals.com.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the charity of your choice. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770.451.4999.

Bubba, who was born in Atlanta, Ga., and was a longtime Maryland resident, passed away peacefully in Delray Beach, Fla., on March 26. He was the son of the late Harry and Rose Berger, brother of the late Miriam Glickson, beloved uncle to RayeLynn (Roy) Banks, Alan (LeeAnn Smith) Glickson, Harvey (Ana) Glickson and the late Mark Glickson. Beloved husband of Joan Ellis Berger. Loving father of Harold (Sherri) Berger, Sherri Levy, Shelley (Steve) Rothenberg, Michael (Dana) Friedman, Jill (David) Mattos, Andrew (Cara DiPaolo) Friedman, cherished grandfather to 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Morrie had a love for travel and always lit up the room with his warm smile.

Graveside services were held in Maryland. Shiva was observed at the home of Shelley and Steve Rothenberg on Wednesday and Thursday. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.

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Ben Arogeti 89, Atlanta

Ben Arogeti of Atlanta, Ga., passed away on Tuesday, March 15, at the age of 89.

After several years of declining health, Ben died peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by love and his family.

Ben was born in Atlanta, Ga., on April 5, 1932, to father, Morris Arogeti, and mother, Bolie Arogeti. He was born between his two brothers, Joe and Sam, who preceded him in death. From a young age, he was a hard worker, with his first job being washing dishes in his father’s deli. He later joined the Air Force at age 19. He was stationed in various states around the U.S. as a radar specialist during the Korean War. After Ben had served his time in the Air Force, he returned to Atlanta and began working at Rich’s (now known as Macy’s) shoe department as a senior sales manager for 38 years. During those years he met his wife Betty Dudman and got married in 1973.

Later in 1973, his first and only son, Mitchell, was born. He spent the next few decades of his life with Betty and Mitchell and then eventually he welcomed Mitchell’s wife Debbie into the family. Soon after, he had three beautiful grandchildren, Jordan, Bradley and Lucy, whom he loved immensely.

At his core, Ben was a gentle, yet strong-willed man who cared deeply for his family and those around him. To know him was to love him, and he was loved by all. He will be missed by his wife, son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and everyone who got the pleasure to know him. Services were held at Greenwood Cemetery on March 18. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

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Michael S. Blass 80, Atlanta

Michael S. Blass passed away on March 22, after a brief illness, at the age of 80. He was wonderful in every way, and he will be greatly missed.

The Blass home — first in Atlanta and later in Waleska — was the center of Michael’s life. He was proud that it was a hangout for his children’s high school classmates, the site of large family Thanksgivings and host to hundreds of casual cookouts by the pool for close friends, old and new. He liked nothing more than being surrounded by those he loved dearly, and he was blessed to be loved in return by so many. The biggest love, of course, was “My Eleanor,” his childhood sweetheart, with whom he enjoyed 53 years of marriage in what was described by a friend as “one of the great love stories in Atlanta.”

An Atlanta native, Michael attended Morningside Elementary, Grady High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated from the School of Dentistry at Emory University, where he later served as an associate professor while managing a dental practice with his father, and later with his brother-in-law, for 36 years.

After retiring from dentistry, he pursued his second vocation as a United States Professional Tennis Association-certified coach and enjoyed many years of giving complimentary lessons at BridgeMill Athletic Club in Canton. He also established a foundation to financially support aspiring junior tennis players.

But even tennis did not delight him as much as his children and grandchildren. He loved them unconditionally and bragged of them endlessly — especially if sports were involved. We thank all his friends and family for patiently listening.

Michael was predeceased by his parents, Nathan and Shirley Blass, and his wife, Eleanor Danneman Blass. He is survived by his children and their families: Jared, Karen, Rowan and Whitman Blass; Kimberly Blass and Gray, Fisher and Selia Kelly; and John, Tammi, Griffin, Emma and John Michael “Jack” Fraser. He also leaves behind his sisters and brothers-in-law, Renie and Alan Weinstein and Debbie and Eddie Levin; his sisters-in-law, Cheryl Danneman and Suzy Danneman; numerous cousins, nieces and nephews; his beloved “brother” Joe Becknell; and his dear friend Pearlann Horowitz.

The family wishes to thank Larry Dunbar and all the staff at Daniel Companion for their caregiving these last few weeks. Services were held on Thursday, March 24, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs, with Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal of Congregation Ahavath Achim officiating. Shiva followed at the home of Debbie and Eddie Levin. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Ben Massell Dental Clinic or the charity of one’s choice. Please sign online guestbook at www.dresslerjewishfunerals. com. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

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OBITUARIES

Karen Friedenberg 72, Atlanta

Karen Friedenberg, 72, died peacefully, in Atlanta, Ga., at Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital, on March 14.

She was born in Savannah, Ga., the eldest of Thelma and Manny Rosen’s three children. They lived in Savannah, where Karen’s father was a physician for many years and her mother was a social worker, artist and volunteer. At the age of 18, Karen graduated from Savannah Country Day School.

Karen attended the University of Georgia and was a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. After two years, she enrolled in a summer program at Harvard University and fell in love with Boston. She later transferred and graduated from Emerson College with a degree in mass communications. Karen attended Bauder Fashion College and Katherine Gibbs School.

At the age of 24, Karen married Harry Friedenberg from New Haven, Conn., and moved to Atlanta, Ga. After her marriage, she continued her professional career, working for Rich’s department store as a copy writer, and went on to get her commercial real estate license, working for Trammell Crow Retail and Leasing, Retail Realty Advisors and LGB Realty and Brown Realty.

She is survived by her daughter, Jodi, granddaughter, Hailey, her brother, Fred Rosen, sister, Amy Rosenthal (David), and one niece and six nephews. She was predeceased by both of her parents.

Karen was a pioneer for women in real estate, and as her friend said, “she busted into the boy’s club.”

In the 1980s, she worked in the commercial real estate world alongside many male colleagues. She was very successful in building the companies she was associated with into top producers in the Atlanta area. She was a member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors, the Georgia and National Board of Realtors, the Atlanta Real Estate Million Dollar Club for many years and went on to win the DECA Award several times for her top production in commercial real estate and leasing. In business, she always tried to help people and point them in the right direction, even if she lost the job. She had a heart of gold.

Karen’s hobbies included collecting vintage clothing, fine art and antiques. Karen loved to decorate homes and would fix up and sell mountain cottages in McCaysville, Ga. She was very generous and also tenacious; if she thought something was right, it was right.

She was fun and also loved a good joke.

Her family is grateful for her many years of unwavering love and support.

A graveside funeral service was held Wednesday, March 16, at Bonaventure Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests consideration of modest memorial donations to The Porter Academy, 200 Cox Road, Roswell, GA 30075.

Please share your thoughts about Karen and her life at www.gamblefuneralservice.com. Gamble Funeral Service of Savannah, Ga. is in charge of arrangements.

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Claire Karesh

Rita Moses

Claire Karesh passed away March 8, at the age of 100. Claire is survived by her sons, Jeffrey (Jill) Vantosh and Stuart Karesh; grandchildren, Aaron (Katherine) Vantosh and Beth (Kenny Richards) Vantosh; great-grandson, Max Van Richards; sister, Elaine Turner; niece, Randi (Larry) Rubin; great-niece, Rebecca Rubin and great-nephew Zachary Rubin. Claire passed away peacefully at her studio apartment at the Cohen Home in Johns Creek. The staff at the Cohen Home and Weinstein Hospice treated her with impeccable care. She was known throughout the home as “Claire.” Claire celebrated her 100th birthday at the Cohen Home and it was an extravaganza.

She was born and lived in Newark, N.J., in the Weequahic section, Newark’s predominant Jewish section. Her parents, Herman and Rae Friedenreich, were a stellar couple in the community. Claire made her mark in the modeling and fashion industry in many of Newark’s women’s specialty stores. After World War II, Claire continued her career at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City. In 1952, Saks sent Claire to Miami Beach to help reopen the newly remodeled Saks on Lincoln Road. After two years in Miami Beach, Claire and Jeffrey moved back to Newark and she went back to her beloved Saks Fifth Avenue, waking up at 5:30 every morning and returning home at 10:00 p.m. She never minded the trip from Newark to New York City. Saks and her son Jeffrey were her life. In 1956, she met Dave “Sonny” Karesh from Atlanta and they were married eight months later. Claire worked at Saks, Neiman’s and Tiffany’s in Atlanta for many years. It seemed that there was only one “Claire” in Atlanta. Memorial donations may be made to Weinstein Hospice or the charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Rita L. Moses, 95, died peacefully in her sleep on March 16, of natural causes. Rita was pre-deceased by her husband, William Graham Moses, Jr. of Sumter, S.C. Survivors include her sister, Letty Alexander of Albuquerque, N.M., her sister-in-law, Helen Regenstein of Atlanta, Ga. and children, Robin (Moses) and Marc Pollack of Atlanta, Dana (Moses) and Louis Shepard of New Orleans and William Graham III and Ellen Moses of St. Louis, five grandchildren, Andrew, Adam, Brian, William and Emily.

A memorial service was held Sunday at 11:00 at Temple Sinai, with Rabbi Brad Levenson officiating. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity of your choice.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS Shaindle’s Shpiel Throwback and Update Shaindle’s Shpiel was born in the late 1980s.

Way back then — I like to refer to them as the good ol’ days — we did not have email. Nor did we have a SelecShaindle tric typewriter.

Schmuckler Hence, my upShaindle’s Shpiel date letters to my family and friends were typewritten on an antique (by today’s standards) with a set of keys that would fight back and intentionally cause me embarrassing misspellings. On occasion, I would resort to Wite-Out. But this would look awful on Xerox copies. (We never heard of a fax, nor internet, nor cell phones, nor any of these newfangled inventions.)

Now we FaceTime and Skype and WhatsApp and a slew of other words that make no sense. One Shpiel, as I recall, demanded the heading: UPDATE – UPDATE – UPDATE. This would indicate how busy my life had become. I hadn’t written to anyone in a long

while. My own family of six were the only out-of-towners at the time, everyone else was up north. My Shpiel therefore, required an update headline. Somehow, using the word alleviated my guilt of not staying in touch.

And here it is from way back when: My daughter Raina will be graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism. And upon this auspicious milestone, she of course decided not to pursue the field. She considered physical therapy but was so done with school. Instead, she became the supervisor of the Latch Key Program at the J. She enjoys telling people what to do and when to do it. Of course, had you asked her sisters, they could have told you she likes bossing. Today, she is a highly respected educator.

My daughter Amie will be a senior at UGA, working her way through university as a courtesy clerk (bag girl). She is also working for one of her professors. Between work, study and her sorority, Delta Phi Epsilon, her plate is full. Amie lives in the sorority house.

She followed her dream to help children. Today, she is a respected, beloved school counselor.

My daughter Marla will be a sopho-

more at UGA (are you noticing a pattern here?). She is a very active Bulldog, busy with sports, sorority (occupying the same room as her sister Amie did) and working. Follow her and you might notice a parade of guys in pursuit. Today, Marla is a highly respected school psychologist.

Lisie will be a freshman at — you guessed it — UGA. She will be a legacy at Delta Phi Epsilon, moving into the same room that her sisters had been in. She considered the field of communications (whatever that is) and P.R. Her personality and ability to make and keep friends will lead her to a successful career in whatever field she pursues.

Lisie has not done any modeling this year.

Her time is taken with school activities, yearbook, basketball, social life and weekends visiting her sisters at the University of Georgia. Today she is a highly regarded, beloved educator.

Gene is into some aggressive, groundbreaking and provocative work. He is developing programs in stress management, peer counseling, cultural diversity and equality in the workplace. He works closely with the governor and other key people who are pioneering this work. He is still an avid runner

and biker. We got rid of the motorcycle years ago, but kept the 10-speed, which we shlep to all kinds of bike rides around the state.

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