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Health and Wellness KOSHER IS HOT AGAIN

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We also interview two Atlanta gastroenterologists about food intolerance and report on new Israeli research showing a link between a food preservative

and diabetes. Talking about Israel, we explain why the country is known for its vegan and vegetarian diet. We offer tips for staying motivated nearly halfway through the year, which may have started with New Year’s resolutions for healthier eating, exercise and other changes.

We spotlight a survivor of cystic fibrosis whose new book comes out this week with the personal triumph stories of 65 others beating the odds against the genetic disease in big ways.

In other news, we cover some recent celebrations and commemorations around Jewish Atlanta honoring Israel and the leaders of a few communal organizations. We provide the latest in the effort to exonerate Leo Frank for his 1913 murder conviction and offer a peek at the products and innovations being featured at an upcoming Israeli Tech Village.

Less than a week after Mother’s Day, we also chat with a mother-daughter duo about the condo inherited from a home decorating mogul, which offers a glimpse into Atlanta Jewish history.

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YOM HAZIKARON

Memorial candles arranged to spell the Hebrew word Yizkor, to remember, outside the sanctuary at Ahavath Achim.

Students from The Weber School sing the song “Peace” during the annual community Yom Hazikaron commemoration.

Israel Scouts carry Israeli flags into the sanctuary at Ahavath Achim.

The singing of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah” concluded the annual community Yom Hazikaron ceremony.

Israel’s Fallen Honored in Yom Hazikaron Ceremony

By Dave Schechter As a siren sounded, several hundred men, women and children gathered in the sanctuary at the Ahavath Achim Synagogue, standing silent in memory of Israel’s war dead and civilian victims of terror attacks.

The vast majority of those gathered May 7 to observe Yom Hazikaron (Day of Remembrance) were from Atlanta’s Is-

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raeli community.

On the eve of the commemoration, Israel’s Defense Ministry listed 23,741 casualties of war and the National Insurance Institute of Israel reported 3,146 civilian victims of terrorism, counted since 1860, when Jewish settlers began establishing neighborhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem, according to The Times of Israel.

“We bow our heads in eternal grati-

tude” for the sacrifice of those lives lost, Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer, Israel’s Consul General for the Southeastern U.S., said in English at the ceremony sponsored by the Israeli consulate. A video by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also in English, was shown. And family members of fallen soldiers recited prayers.

Students from The Davis Academy, Atlanta Jewish Academy, The Epstein

School and The Weber School participated in the event, along with rabbis and representatives of Jewish communal organizations.

Also taking part were members of the Israel Scouts, including in the procession of Israeli flags throughout the sanctuary that preceded the singing of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikah” at the close of the event. ■

YOM HA'ATZMAUT Rabbi Ari Leubitz, AJA’s head of school, discussed the importance of Yom HaShoah, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut, all within a week of one another.

Students of all ages put on skits, sang songs and danced at AJA’s Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremony.

Students did a choreographed routine for the daglanut, the flag dance.

AJA Recognizes Yom Hazikaron; Celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut

By Eddie Samuels In what is an emotional two days for Jews in Israel and abroad, Atlanta Jewish Academy hosted events commemorating Yom Hazikaron, Israel memorial day, and celebrating Yom Ha'atzmaut, marking 71 years of the state of Israel.

Head of School Rabbi Ari Leubitz explained that proximity between these two holidays last week and Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance day a week earlier, is an important cycle.

“You don’t fully appreciate something until you have to work for it. Things that are happenstance aren’t truly meaningful,” he said.

He explained that the transition between the holidays was a significant journey.

“To go through the experience of understanding what people who gave up their lives in the Shoah and people who were victims of terror and in the Army, and then to be brought all together to celebrate a country that is a democratic country, that can value differences of opinion, that can have multiple religions, that’s everything that we stand for, it’s the heartbeat of a Jew.” For Yom Hazikaron, the eighth grade led a program for parents, faculty and students grades three through 12. In that ceremony, those with family and friends

serving in the Israel Defense Forces lit memorial candles for those who have fallen.

The program concluded with the singing of “Hatikvah,” and a ceremonial lowering of the Israeli flag outside the school.

For Yom Ha’atzmaut, programming was an all-day event, something that was especially important to Leubitz.

“We believe that for students to connect to the land of Israel, we want immersive experiences,” he said. “Throughout the year they have programming, but this is a day that is different and that you remember for the rest of your life.”

Kicking off first thing in the morning, students in first through sixth grades learned about Israeli innovation and athletes, and there was a particular focus on the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft, which crash-landed on the moon April 11.

Their learning took any number of interactive forms, including Olympicthemed obstacle courses, building model irrigation systems and launching rockets with vinegar and baking soda.

Younger students took a “trip” to Israel, hopping on a simulated plane and experiencing some of the many sites. For example, in Jerusalem they visited the Kotel, and in Karmiel—a northern city known for its dance festival—students tried folk dancing.

Meanwhile the upper school celebrated with a special lunch put together

by students and had various activities all day, including a scavenger hunt.

The day concluded by uniting AJA’s many students, with faculty and Atlanta Jewish community leaders in an assembly, during which students showed off their litany of talents, performing songs, dances and skits, all focused on Israel’s diverse identity.

The seventh grade led the way with the daglanut, the flag dance, accompanied by participants from the first, second, third and fifth grades as well as upper-schoolers.

Some of the school’s oldest students filmed a mock newscast complete with live correspondence, in which the ques-

tion was posed: Who is the ultimate Israeli?

Speaking to fellow students representing some of Israel’s many citizens, from kibbutz workers to innovators, religious leaders to new immigrants, the conclusion was that each and every one was central to Israel’s complex identity.

Leubitz wrapped up the Yom Ha’azmaut ceremony by again harkening back to three weeks of varied holidays.

“We have been on a roller coaster of emotions,” he said. “We put together a program for Yom HaShoah. We hugged, we cried and we reflected together, … and it all culminated here today with Yom Ha’atzmaut.” ■

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Amanda Berman, Zioness founder and executive director, has a background as a civil rights attorney.

Atlantans Eager to Launch Atlanta Zioness Chapter

By Jan Jaben-Eilon Just over two years ago, three women attempted to participate in an annual LGBTQ demonstration against sexual violence in Chicago, carrying LGBTQ pride flags adorned with the Star of David.

They were ejected from the march. The Dyke March organizers said the women were advocating for Israel at an anti-Zionist event.

Five months later, a new national organization was launched to provide space for those who are both Zionists and who uphold progressive ideals.

More than 100 Atlantans have already expressed interest in establishing a chapter in this new Zioness Movement.

The first national board meeting was held last month, according to Amanda Berman, Zioness founder and executive director. “We have an actively involved board,” she told the AJT, and there are already 26 chapters linked on the organization’s website. No chapter guidelines have yet been established and Berman remains the only staff person so far. But that hasn’t deterred some enthusiastic Atlanta activists.

One of those is Michal Ilai, an Israeli who coordinates Israel clubs in Atlantaarea high schools. She told the AJT that she has been recruiting people and reaching out to rabbis to talk about a potential chapter in Atlanta. “A lot of us have a deep kesher, connection, to Israel, but we are liberal and progressive and we don’t feel like we have a place in the tent anymore,” she said, referring to comments

made by a couple of new Democratic Congresswomen that many describe as anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.

“About five years ago, I published an article about reclaiming the word Zionism. I’m a Zionist and a woman, so someone came up to me last year and asked if I was interested in Zioness,” said Ilai, who added that a meeting was already held earlier this year in Atlanta.

According to its website, Zioness is an initiative to empower and activate Zionists on the progressive left to “stand proudly in social justice spaces as Jews and Zionists.” Berman says the new movement allows Zionist women “a chance to show up without having to check their Zionism at the door.”

With a background as a civil rights attorney, New York-based Berman spearheaded international action against Kuwait Airways for its discrimination against Israeli nationals and fought cases against San Francisco State University for its constitutional and civil rights violations against Jewish and Israeli students and community members. Now she’s focusing exclusively on building the Zioness community. She complains that too often criticism of Israel has become a litmus test among many progressive organizations.

Berman, who launched Zioness with friends across the country, said in August 2017 that her goal was to “turn this into something that can empower Jewish activists in the future in every variety of social justice movement.” ■

LOCAL NEWS

Shelley Rose, deputy director of the AntiDefamation League regional office in Atlanta, chats with Rabbi Steve Lebow of Temple Kol Emeth before the press conference, while former Gov. Roy Barnes checks his phone.

Fulton County D.A.Paul L. Howard, Jr., speaks about the Conviction Integrity Unit. He is flanked by former Gov. Roy Barnes and Melissa D. Redmon, director of the University of Georgia Law School.

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Leo Frank Gets Second Look

By Dave Schechter Speaking to reporters at the Fulton County Courthouse, former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes credited Rabbi Steve Lebow of Temple Kol Emeth with telling him, “There is no statute of limitations on doing the right thing.”

Throughout his 33 years at the Marietta synagogue, Lebow has been a leading voice in the effort to exonerate Leo Frank for his 1913 murder conviction. And in Barnes, he has an influential ally, who persuaded Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr., to bring Frank’s case before a newly created Conviction Integrity Unit.

Barnes, who will be an adviser to the unit, stood to Howard’s right on May 7 as the district attorney explained that the Frank case fit the fourth of four criteria for re-examination – cases that are in the “interest of justice.”

Among the other cases to be studied is that of Wayne Williams, who was convicted in 1982 of killing two men and is serving life sentences in the state prison but was suspected by police in nearly two dozen of the 1979-81 “missing and murdered children” cases.

“The CIU will review cases in which there is new factual, physical, or forensic evidence. The unit will also review cases in which there is relevant evidence that went untested at the time of trial or some other new evidence that a person was wrongly convicted,” Howard said.

He also mentioned that his office has record of the 37 people who, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, were lynched in Fulton County between 1877 and 1950.

Frank, an Ivy League-educated Jew from New York, was convicted and sentenced to death for the April 26, 1913, strangling death of 13-year-old Mary Phagan at the downtown Atlanta factory of the National Pencil Company, where he was the director. Frank was found guilty in large measure based on testimony by Jim Conley, an African American janitor at the factory, who, according to a former factory employee who came forward in 1982, was seen carrying Phagan’s body.

Barnes recalled newspaper reports that as jurors walked to the courthouse from the Kimball House, where they were sequestered, a mob chanted “Hang the Jew or we’ll hang you.”

The Supreme Court of the United States rejected Frank’s appeals, but on June 21, 1915, Gov. John Slaton, who had developed doubts about Frank’s guilt, commuted the sentence to life in prison.

On the night of Aug. 16, members of an enraged confederacy of Cobb County men, including the grandfather of Barnes’ wife, kidnapped Frank from the state prison in Milledgeville and drove him to the woods near Frey’s Gin Road in Marietta, where he was hung from a tree in the pre-dawn of Aug. 17.

The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles posthumously pardoned Frank in 1986 but did not exonerate him.

A monument to Frank, funded by Jerry Klinger, president of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, now sits on Roswell Road near Interstate 75, the woods having been cleared and built on many years ago.

“There is no doubt in my mind, and we’ll prove it at the appropriate time, that Leo Frank was not guilty,” Barnes said.

“We can’t right all wrongs. However, I think it’s a bad thing if we can never admit we’re wrong. This gives us a good view of history to make sure we’ve got it right.”

There is no timetable for the CIU’s re-examination of the Frank case, in large measure because a director for the unit has not yet been hired and funding from the county must be arranged.

Nonetheless, as he left the courthouse after the press conference, Lebow found reason for optimism.

“This is the most confident anybody could be in the last 100 years that the Frank case will be treated fairly. Justice delayed is justice denied and it’s been delayed for over 100 years for this guy,” Lebow said. “If you want to make the future good, you have to make the past right, and this is an opportunity to make the past right and to heal a bad part of Georgia’s history.” ■

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Current AJC president Melanie Nelkin along with Allan Nelkin and Lenny Silverstein, past AJC president, chat during the reception.

Past leaders Arnie and Tobyanne Sidman, Phillis and Lew Kravitz reminisce about their roles in the AJC.

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AJC Celebrates 75 Years of History and Hope

By Marcia Caller Jaffe The Atlanta regional office of the American Jewish Committee honored its past presidents at the 75th Anniversary Legacy Dinner May 9 at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead.

The evening was a celebration of AJC Atlanta’s past, present and future. Since

its founding in 1944, the Atlanta chapter has grown from the 12 signers of the original charter to more than 2,000 members today, and includes several innovations, such as the creation of the Atlanta BlackJewish Coalition, the ACCESS young professionals’ organization, and the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.

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director, energetically guided the crowd through vignettes with some of Atlanta’s most illustrious leaders sharing the historic and socially significant events in our city’s history.

“We are thrilled to recognize our past presidents, whose lives, leadership and work in the Atlanta Jewish and civic communities reflect AJC’s global mission,” Wilker said.

Elaine Alexander, Beth Paradies, and Sherry Frank, among others, marched us through Selma and The Temple bombing, and concluded with Riverwood High School student Jaren Linowes as a symbol of the future.

Sheri and Steve Labovitz were the most extemporaneous and entertaining relating their role in the AJFF. Miles Alexander joked about being “decades later with the same law firm and the same wife.” His wife spoke of gender equality in the 1970s and attaching her wagon to civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young.

“We {the AJC} didn’t settle for any “wannabes.’”

Wilker introduced a live taping of AJC Passport, AJC’s podcast on global affairs, a conversation with Hannah Rosenthal, former U.S. State Department Envoy

to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

She spoke of dealing with an anti-Semitic mayor in a Swedish town whom she chose to “use diplomatic tools to have removed.” She also relayed an emotional trip taking eight imams to Auschwitz, two of whmo were Holocaust deniers.

During the prefunction reception, past AJC presidents Paradies and Lauren Grien chatted about their roles in representing interethnic and interreligious communities and building important bridges. Lew Kravitz and Arnie Sidman spoke of getting back tenfold what they put into their terms as leaders.

The 75th anniversary is a year-long celebration, co-chaired by Stephen M. Berman, Debbie Neese, Colby Schwartz and Mamie Dayan Vogel. The dinner was co-chaired by AJC Atlanta regional president Melanie Nelkin and first vice president Ilene Engel. ■ Founded in 1944, AJC Atlanta connects the community to AJC’s global advocacy work. Local access to diplomats, elected officials and ethnic and religious leaders advances AJC’s broader global priorities: combating anti-Semitism, promoting Israel’s place in the world, and countering the spread of radicalism and extremism.

Gregg Paradies and past Presidents Lauren Grien and past President Beth Paradies feel the importance of AJC building community and interethnic bridges.

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Atlanta JNF Executive Director Beth Gluck enjoyed the top level of the Chastain Horse Park.

Attendance at the luncheon was free for 120 donors who came to celebrate JNF Israel’s 71st birthday.

JNF supporters Lesley Glazer, Eugene Cohn, and Kathie Kline mingled in the pre-function reception.

Speaker Donna Rosenthal, honoree Roni Wolk, and event chair Carole Salzberg made a mighty team in women’s efforts.

JNF Women Gather for Yom Ha’atzmaut Luncheon

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, was joyously marked May 9 at the Jewish National Fund’s annual Women for Israel luncheon. The event at Chastain Horse Park in Buckhead commemorating Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence was free for 120 women donors who have given or expect to give at least $360 to JNF’s 2019 campaign.

Guest speaker was Donna Rosenthal, an award-winning journalist and author of “The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land.”

Luncheon chairperson Carole Salzberg, a member of JNF’s board of trustees and the WFI steering committee, said “Celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut in Israel is always unique, but celebrating and supporting Israel here with JNF and such a great group of women, is also very special!”

At the event, volunteer Roni Wolk was recognized for her advocacy in providing services for people with special needs and disabilities in Israel. Greater Atlanta JNF Executive Director Beth Gluck introduced Wolk.

“Eight years ago, Roni knocked on my door to get involved. Since then, she has helped groom a generation of community leaders to connect with and maintain a strong Israel. Today, these women are stepping forward to join me in honoring her dedication at our annual Israel Independence Day event.”

Wolk serves as co-chair of JNF-USA’s Women for Israel and is a member of the group’s national board. She serves as a spokeswoman for the impact women have on creating positive changes for the land and people of Israel. Wolk found her own passion by chairing a national committee that helps provide more universally accessible paths, walkways and trails

for people with disabilities, especially in Israel’s northern and southern regions, where fewer services are available.

Her focus includes not only children and adults with physical disabilities, but those with intellectual and emotional challenges. In accepting her award, she said, “What I give, I get back tenfold. I am especially proud of getting to know and help IDF soldiers with special needs.” Her husband and son stood in the back hallway to express their support and pride.

Roni and Alan Wolk also announced a matching challenge for Atlanta JNFers in which they will match new donations leading to new Chai Society ($1,800) members up to $9,000.

The couple’s decision to stimulate giving to JNF was offered in honor of Roni’s award and as an expression of their commitment to Women for Israel.

Guest speaker Rosenthal has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post, served as a reporter for The Jerusalem Post and Israel TV, and is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox and NPR. In a national survey, Publishers Weekly named Rosenthal one of the top 10 speakers on Israel (the only female author). She began her speech by surveying Israeli audience members, gauging their age by the type of rifle they carried in their service, including Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer, Israel’s consul general to the Southeast U.S., and JNF Atlanta board member Aviva Postelnik.

Rosenthal spoke of Israelis’ universal love for JNF because it is “non-political.” She shared some amazing statistics such as 80 percent of U.S. Jews have never been to Israel; and the wealthiest Israelis per capita are Christian Arabs. The latter fact she shared at Harvard University with Arab students, whom she described as a polite and enrapt audience.

Rosenthal’s book was eventually published in China “after a year of seeking approval and making sure it did not insult Iran.” She also noted the knowledge gap of many who queried how Israel ranked in size compared to China. More than anything, she wanted her book to serve as a guide for journalists to understand the real Israeli people: “from black

hats to glamorous female soldiers to the influx of Sephardim.” She mused, “If it’s not about Palestinian children getting hurt, it doesn’t get much press coverage these days.”

JNF supporter Eugene Cohn summed it up, “JNF takes care of building a modern Israel.”

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By Eddie Samuels While American consumers interact with cutting-edge Israeli products and innovations on a daily basis without even knowing it, they don’t often speak with the people behind the newest creations.

But that will change when Conexx, the America Israel Business Connector, holds its annual gala 6 to 9 p.m. May 21, this year featuring its first ever “Israeli Tech Village.”

“It is one thing to read and watch videos about all the good that comes out of Israel. It is a totally different experience to actually interact with them,” Conexx President Guy Tessler said. “We hope gala attendees will not only meet these companies, but also develop with them and others long-term relationships and continue to support the ‘Start-Up Nation’ through Conexx.”

With the gala just a few days away, the AJT is spotlighting a few of the innovations that will be on display at the tech village.

search and development, ensuring its products continue to innovate and future generations have access to exceptional technological education.

Calling Atlanta home for its U.S. headquarters, Gevasol will be an important part of the tech village, presenting its Israeli parts, technology and solutions.

Cyber 2.0 After hosting its first American $100,000 hacker’s challenge at Georgia Tech Research Institute earlier this year, Cyber 2.0 will be showing off its software in Atlanta again.

The cybersecurity company that uses mathematical chaos theory to make breaching its defenses practically impossible is the only cybersecurity system that blocks 100 percent of attacks. That’s hard to doubt after watching it hold off nearly 2 million attacks from students, professionals and hackers in February. In the future, the challenge will go on nonstop, worldwide, with an increasing reward, truly putting Cyber 2.0 to the test.

Heralded for its use in business, government and military operations, the software has repeatedly demonstrated its security capabilities.

Gevasol The company develops and manufactures custom-made components and subsystems for machine builders. The products may not sound flashy, but they are vital cores of machines across the globe.

With a focus on research and development, Gevasol unites industry experts and entrepreneurs with young up-and-comers through its Idan Technology center for re-

Highcon Founded in 2009 by Aviv Ratzman and Michael Zimmer, Highcon is an innovator in the world of printing, cutting and creasing, streamlining prepress and printing workflow. Since its first Euclid machine was installed in 2013, Highcon has been around the world, installing machines on five continents. The company has seen success filling a void in the world of e-commerce with its expertise in personalized print and packaging preparation. And while packaging is one aspect of Highcon’s work, it also appeals to designers.

Working with design schools Shenkar in Ramat Gan, Israel, and Savannah College of Art and Design, Highcon has asked students to test its products’ limitations by producing innovative and challenging designs that demonstrate the utility and artistry of Highcon’s cutting and creasing tech.

Now returning to Georgia to highlight its products, Highcon has carved a place in an ever-expanding market.

Smart Eye Tech Founded in 2018, Smart Eye Technology began because of Dexter Caffey’s recognition of a hole in the cybersecurity market. While in Israel in 2017, Caffey was having a conversation with a cybersecurity professional and realized he could see each and every application on that professional’s phone.

Thus, the idea behind Smart Eye Technology was born. By using biometric identification — the patterns in an eye — the software ensures the security of confidential information. It also verifies that it is a live person, as opposed to an image, logging in and continuously checking to make sure the authorized person is the only one read10 | MAY 17, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

BUSINESS ing the document or screen.

With Israeli biometric technology at its core, Smart Eye Technology is one of many cybersecurity startups calling Georgia home and making sure its industries are keeping up with 21st century demands.

Yvel Founded by Isaac Levy and Orna Eliav, who met at a pool party at the Hilton Hotel in Jerusalem, Yvel developed from their partnership in both life and business. In 1982, when Levy proposed to Eliav, he bucked tradition, surprising her with a pair of diamond earrings.

When the young married couple were unemployed and in need of money, it was that same courage that led the duo to jump headfirst into the jewelry business.

That was more than 30 years ago, but ever since, Yvel has been an important player in the jewelry business. In 2010, the company took on a greater role in the social climate of Israel by opening the Megemeria School of Jewelry & Art. Megemeria, which means new beginnings in the Ethiopian language of Amharic, helps create opportunities for immigrants from Ethiopia to find professional training and employment.

The Megemeria collection, one of Yvel’s most iconic, shows off a new blending of Israeli and Ethiopian cultures through jewelry.

Yvel’s first U.S. store opened in Miami in 2015, but the company has been steadily increasing its presence in the United States and will be in Atlanta displaying its unusual designs at the gala. ■

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ISRAEL PRIDE

News From Our Jewish Home Scientists Transform Cells, Whole Embryo Creation Possible Researchers in Israel have made a breakthrough development in stem cell growth, potentially leading to whole embryo growth outside the body without the need for sperm or eggs.

Dr. Yossi Buganim at Hebrew University in Jerusalem led the team responsible for these groundbreaking discoveries. Their findings were published in Cell Stem Cell, among the most well-respected journals in the field.

The method works by “transforming” skin cells into three types of stem cells, which make up early-stage embryos, according to a HU summary of the findings.

The team behind the research reports that it unlocks the possibility to create whole embryos from skin cells outside of a human body in the future. The research also has the potential to provide further knowledge of diseases and other complications that occur during pregnancy.

Lions, Tigers and Kitties, Oh My! Not a shock to anyone who has ever walked the streets of Jerusalem, the city has quite a few stray cats that call it home.

According to The Times of Israel, 15 cats a

Today in Israeli History

Menachem Begin casts his ballot in the 1977 Knesset election, won by his Likud party.

May 17, 1977: The right-leaning Likud coalition claims an upset victory in the Knesset election, putting Menachem Begin in a position to become prime minister and end three decades of leadership by Mapai (the predecessor of Labor) and its allies on the left. Created by Ariel Sharon in 1973 and descended from the Revisionist Zionist movement of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Likud rides support from Mizrachi and Sephardi Jews to win 43 of the 120 Knesset seats.

May 18, 1973: Avraham Shlonsky, a renowned Israeli poet, editor and translator, dies in Tel Aviv at age 73. Born in Kharkov in what is now Ukraine, Shlonsky was sent to study in Hebrew at the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv when he was 13. After returning to Russia during World War I, he published his first 12 | MAY 17, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Menahem Kahana/AFP // A Jerusalem municipal

veterinary center employee attempts to lure stray cats into a cage with food so that they can be sterilized, March 7.

day are sterilized at the municipal veterinary center in the city, but experts say it is far too few to make an impact.

Those same experts expressed concern about environmental, ecological and sustainability impacts on the region.

Estimates place the total number of cats in Jerusalem at 240,000 or about 770 per square mile.

While it would take 25 centers sterilizing 500 cats a day to make a real dent in the population, another method of controlling it would be to reduce their main food source, trash, according to TOI. The city has been moving toward more modern, underground trash collection, which prevents overflow and accessibility for the feline feasters.

“Ultimately, underground rubbish bins that reduce the availability of food for cats are the only solution to control the size of the population,” said Amir Balaban of The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion has attempted to address some concerns with feeding stations, as a temporary compromise, but many residents are concerned what other wildlife those stations might attract, notably rodents and jackals.

Seemingly the only effective solution would be a large-scale sterilization effort, but some, including then-agriculture minister Uri Ariel, object. He refused to use $4.5 million set aside for the effort in 2015 because he called the castration of cats contrary to Jewish law.

Rare Photos to be Auctioned off in Jerusalem Photos from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence were recently unearthed and are set to be auctioned off this week, according to Israel’s Kedem Auction House.

The photos, which were originally intended to be printed by newspapers during the war, were found at the beginning of May, but no additional details

poem at 19, then made aliyah in 1922 and worked as a road builder until publishing poetry in Israel. He featured colloquial Hebrew in his writing and developed phrases for translations from Russian and English, helping Hebrew develop as a modern language.

May 19, 1950: Two planes carrying 175 Jews leave Iraq for Israel via Cyprus, marking the start of the airlift aliyah of Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, also known as Operation Ali Baba. Iraq, already a place of harassment and occasional violence against Jews, becomes unlivable for most after the founding of Israel in 1948. Despite difficulties in providing airplanes and other resources at the same time as heavy immigration to Israel from Eastern Europe, the operation brings nearly 120,000 of Iraq’s 135,000 Jews to Israel by its end in January 1952.

May 20, 2011: Arieh Handler dies in Jerusalem a week shy of his 96th birthday. Born in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, Handler moved to Berlin to become the director of religious aliyah after attending the 1935 Zionist Congress.

He settled in London in 1939 and helped found the B’nei Akiva youth movement.

He helped prepare youths to make aliyah before moving to Israel himself in 1948.

He was a leader in the forerunner of the

Jewish Chronicle photo // B’nei Akiva

youths from England visit Arieh Handler at his home in Jerusalem.

National Religious Party and spent 50 years back in England, working for Jewish and Zionist causes, before returning to Israel for good in 2006 at age 90.

May 21, 1963: Zalman Shazar, a former Knesset member from the governing Mapai party, is elected Israel’s third president, succeeding Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, who died a month earlier during his third term in office. Shazar, born Shneor Zalman Rubashov into a family of Chabad rabbis in Belarus in 1889, made aliyah in 1924. He was one of the writers of the Declaration of Independence and served as Israel’s first education minister. He quit the Knesset in 1956 to join the Jewish Agency leadership, where he remained until his election as president. He serves 10 years in office and is the first to live in the official President’s Residence.

May 22, 1975: Responding to President Gerald Ford’s decision to suspend

Courtesy of Kedem Auction House // One of many photos to be auctioned off in May in Jerusalem. This depicts Israeli soldiers examining a crashed Egyptian plane on a Tel Aviv beach during the 1948 Independence War.

were shared as to how they were found, or to whom they currently belong.

The photos are unique because they feature both the Israeli and Arab forces from their own perspectives, including photos of Jordanian King Abdullah and Iraqi Regent Abd al-Ilah in Oman wearing military uniforms just weeks before the conflict began, according to TOI. Maron Eran, co-owner of the auction house, shared his hopes for the photos, explaining that he would love to see the buyer, “put the photographs on exhibit in one of the many memorials or libraries documenting the history and achievements of the State of Israel in the years leading up to her independence.” ■ economic assistance and reduce arms shipments to Israel over its attitude in negotiations related to Israel and the Sinai, 76 U.S. senators sign a letter opposing the Ford reassessment of Middle East policy.

The senators stress the need for Israel to receive enough aid to deter attacks by its enemies. Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson (DWashington) then adds an amendment favorable to Israel to a defense appropriations bill.

May 23, 1420: Archduke Albert V issues the Wiener Gesera (Viennese Decree), ordering all Austrian Jews to be imprisoned and their possessions to be confiscated. Albert is inspired by religious fanaticism sweeping through Austria during the Hussite Wars and acts after a wealthy Vienna Jew confesses under torture to purchasing consecrated hosts for desecration by Jews. Poor Jews are sent down the Danube on boats. Children are taken from their parents and forcibly converted at monasteries. Many Jews commit suicide. On March 12, 1421, 200 to 300 Jews remaining in Austria are burned at the stake. ■ Items are provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details.

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OPINION Letter to the editor: The purpose of this letter is to respond to the opinion piece by Lewis Regenstein (my fraternity brother) that appeared in the Passover issue of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

In addition to Israel’s welfare, I care about the well-being of the country in which I am a citizen. I care about our positions on abortion rights, climate change, immigration reform, our ballooning debt and gun control, among other important issues.

Every time I hear lies uttered by our president (which is multiple times a day), I am concerned that we are moving closer and closer to becoming a fascist country.

I have personally heard Trump state that we should consider having a president for life, that judges who impede his lawlessness should be removed from office and that journalists who expose his lies are the enemy of the people. All of these things were proposed by Adolph Hitler, and, remember, Hitler was elected by his supporters.

He did not take over Germany in a coup d’état.

It is irrefutable that Trump has a clear preference for dictators and strongmen with the exception of Nicolas Maduro. It concerns me that he staunchly supports his good friend Vladimir Putin, whose government backs Israel’s arch enemies such as Syria and Iran. There’s no question in my mind that Trump would jump at the chance to muzzle his perceived enemies if given half the chance.

Trump’s “dog whistles” to the alt-right are well known and documented. They love him and have been emboldened by what they rightly read as his accommodative support for their beliefs. The result has been an exponential rise in hate crimes since his election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

I come from a small, Southern town and can personally attest to the fact that the KKK hates Jews every bit as much as blacks. I remember watching Trump squirm and refuse to distance himself from David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK and noted Holocaust denier, when Duke heartily endorsed him during the campaign.

As Daniel Patrick Moynihan very astutely observed, “Everybody is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” I think there is ample evidence to state that while neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have a legitimate claim to be without their share of hypocrisy and warts, the Democrats are far from the bogey man Regenstein

describes when it comes to their institutional position vis-a-vis Israel and the Jewish people. I consider myself both a satisfied Democrat and supporter of Israel even though I don’t agree with the positions of every member of the party.

Les Fuchs, Atlanta

Letter to the editor: In the past two weeks Hamas at the behest of Iran rained rockets on Israel and in turn received a fierce retaliation. Democrats receive nearly 25 percent of their funds from American Jews. Who would you expect to condemn Hamas? Saudi Arabia or Congressional Democrats? If you chose choice 1, congratulate yourselves. The Congressional Democrats, including the 6th District backbencher and Congressional observer, Lucy McBath, and not one of 22 Democratic candidates for the presidency, said a word about this. But Saudi Arabia and several other countries condemned Hamas.

To our delight, not one U.N. resolution condemning Israel or one Obama /Biden comment on measured response or moral equivalency.

Which party’s Congressional representatives condemned Israel in tweets? If you guessed Cortes, Omar and Tlaib of the Democrats, you would be right. Nancy Pelosi could not get a simple resolution condemning anti-Semitism through the House due to the reaction of progressive Democratic candidates for president and the Congressional Black Caucus. Instead we got a ridiculous resolution of ‘we hate all hate’ and in a list of every group claiming to be victim, someone hastily inserted anti-Semitism.

Jews are being shot in their synagogues as a reaction to Donald Trump’s pro-Israel agenda. Has our local representative Lucy McBath, who claimed she wanted to represent everyone in the district, still not condemned Louis Farrakhan or his supporters in Congress?

Maybe instead of a knee-jerk vote and donation to Democrats, you may want to consider the anti-Semitism we are all witnessing and check out who will be courageous and stand with American Jews and Israel.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Kunkes, Atlanta

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

The Orthodox Union estimates that as much as 60 percent of all the food sold in the nation’s supermarkets has its kosher symbols.

The growth of the kosher food and kosher certification industry is seen at Kosherfest, the trade show which is held each fall in New Jersey.

Kosher Is Hot Again For years, if you wanted to buy kosher you were mostly limited to a handful of products from familiar family-owned firms such as Manischewitz, Goodman’s and Mrs. Adler’s. But that began to change in the early 1970s when one of the most popular kosher food companies, Hebrew National, start- Bob ed running commercials on Bahr national television for its hot dogs featuring Uncle Sam. In what is now a television classic, that iconic symbol of all things American is caught eating a hot dog containing fillers, additives and meat by-products, not a kosher Hebrew National, which “answers to a higher authority.”

Hebrew National now operates under the Triangle K certification.

Suddenly the laws of kashrut, once known only to observant Jews, became part of a vast industry that today has filled the American supermarket with thousands of products proudly displaying kosher certification.

Current giants of the food business, such as Coca-Cola, General Foods and Kraft Foods have transformed the business of kosher food from the manufacture of products primarily for the Jewish consumer to a marketing tool that appeals to a broad cross section of the American food-buying public.

The Orthodox Union estimates that more than 60 percent of all the items in a modern supermarket are kosher certified by them.

One estimate by Persistence Market Research, a market research firm, has kosher certified products growing at 16 | MAY 17, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

an annual rate of about 12 even in the Atlanta Jewish Times.

The Streit’s plant, where Matzolah percent. By 2024 the kosher products business is expect- was manufactured, was just one of many certified by the Orthodox Union, which ed to be worth $60 billion.

“Any of your big compa- OKs more than a million food chemicals nies can’t afford to not have and products as kosher. Its kosher sutheir products have a kosher pervisors, or mashgiachs, work in 8,500 certification,” said Wayne plants in more than 100 countries.

China, for example, produces many Silverman, an entrepreneur and one-time kosher innova- of the chemicals and additives that go into food with the kosher symbol. More tor who lives in Decatur.

In 2012 he left his job than half of the food products shipped to as executive director of the the U.S. from factories in China are koHillels of Georgia to jump into the kosher sher, according to online reports.

When a kosher symbol is affixed to a food business. His Matzolah, a kosher for Passover substitute for granola, became finished product, whether in cans, bottles one of the big hits at Kosherfest, the na- or cardboard boxes, like the ones for Mattion’s largest showcase of kosher foods zolah, all the raw materials, including the many flavoring ingredients, must be cerheld each year in New Jersey.

A whole-wheat version was distrib- tified as kosher as well.

“Food production uted to every Whole has been globalized. A Foods supermarket in can of kosher chicken the country. With the soup might have 23 inhelp of Streit’s, the big matzah bakers, Matzogredients made around lah was in just about evthe world which need ery major supermarket kosher supervision,” chain in America. Some according to Sue Fishcarried it year-round. koff, who wrote “Kosher “In addition to Nation: Why More and their matzah bakery More of America’s Food on the Lower East Side Wayne Silverman with Matzolah, his Answers to a Higher Aukosher granola substitute for Passover. of Manhattan, Streit’s thority,” a fascinating had a bakery across the Hudson River study of the kosher food industry. where they made macaroons for themFor a product like Matzolah, certified selves and then they also made Matzolah kosher for Passover, all the ingredients under the direction of my partner, who had to be kosher for Passover use too. That was there almost every day. I would fly in pushed up the price of everything that and help oversee it as well.” went into the product, Silverman said.

Seemingly overnight Silverman’s “We used maple syrup, for example, new product became a big kosher suc- but we had to find a maple syrup that cess story, with stories in The New York would be approved as kosher for PassTimes, on National Public Radio and over, and vanilla extract. Vanilla extract

is extremely expensive and it’s a difficult product. But once again the companies that do kosher for Passover vanilla only do their runs once a year because you have to totally clean all your equipment and it has to be supervised for the whole time of that run.”

In a processing plant like the one that International Flavors & Fragrances runs in New Jersey for the food industry, more than 18,000 products that are used there must be certified as kosher.

Kosher certification keeps a small army of kosher religious technicians gainfully employed. At the same time, it has provided most of the budget the Orthodox Union uses to run its programs for children, adults and the many congregations in the movement.

The extra cost of certification can pay off for many large food processors that stock the shelves of the nation’s supermarkets.

The Orthodox Union estimates that a product with a kosher symbol can increase sales by 20 percent over a product that doesn’t have one. Part of the reason is because the food-buying public sees the kosher symbol as a plus.

Timothy Lytton, who teaches product law at Georgia State University’s College of Law in Atlanta, maintains that consumers see kosher food as safe food.

“Many consumers view kosher certification as a proxy for strict food safety standards, a view that kosher certifiers and food companies have embraced.”

Lytton wrote “Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food,” published in 2013 by the Harvard University Press. He sees kosher food as part of a broader trend in America.

“The growing popularity of kosher

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Matzolah was once a high flyer in the kosher food industry.

food in America is a response to a more general cultural anxiety about industrialization of the food supply. Like the movements to eat organic, local or ethically produced foods, the turn toward kosher is, for many consumers, a way to personalize food production.”

He concludes that kosher standards are also an ideal way to enforce food safety standards.

“In the end,” he writes, “kosher certification is not so much a means to food safety reform, as it is a model for it.”

Which is perhaps why a marketing study

by Mintel research firm found that 62 percent of those who buy kosher food are non-Jews, because they believe kosher means better, healthier and safer.

Even among Jews, kashrut has taken on a new luster, particularly, for those who aren’t observant.

Sue Fishkoff’s book on the “Kosher Nation” points out that in the last 25 years there has been renewed interest in Jewish dietary laws. Even Reform Judaism has, as she points out, “been mining these practices for their spiritual potential.”

“Keeping kashrut as a form of moral, spiritual, and ethnic identity is something that is looked up to, rather than looked down upon,” Fishkoff maintains.

But while the success of kosher certification has been hugely rewarding for many food companies, it has created a marketplace where family-owned businesses, like Streit’s, have come under pressure from all the new players in the kosher market.

Sales of Matzolah peaked at 150,000 cans a year before Streit’s decided to get out of the snack food business, which left Silverman and his Matzolah back where he started.

Today he’s working as a fundraiser at Emory University while he looks for an investor in the fast-moving kosher market. He has high hopes that the boom in kashrut will rescue his Matzolah from kosher oblivion “I think we could get back into it. You bet.” ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES MAY 17, 2019 | 17

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Eating Kosher Keeps Getting Easier

By Sonia Field Imagine telling our great-greatgrandparents that Jews today are able to waltz into a local Trader Joe’s and leave with an overflowing cart of kosher foods?

It is incredible that our innovative society has evolved since life in the shtetl and has made eating kosher foods as easy as it should be.

An awesome tool for the kosher food shopper is the Kosher GPS, an app with a database compiled with a listing of kosher places to eat all over the USA, Canada, Panama, France, and numerous other countries. And more places are constantly being added. The database currently includes 2,000 kosher locations. All you do is open the app on your phone and it will show you where Jews eat in the area.

Kosher food today seems to fit in with a growing dietary trend in the U.S. known as intuitive eating. If any of your family members or friends are vegetarians, vegans, pescatarians, gluten-free, dairy-free, lactose-intolerant, on the keto diet, or doing the Whole-30, chances are you know who has chosen which path and all of the reasons why they think it’s so easy to do.

Kosher GPS app showing the kosher restaurants in the Atlanta area.

Is It Kosher? app showing a list of kosher items sold at Trader Joe’s.

Of all the diet fads, intuitive eating has consistently ranked highly on the charts this year. Built on the foundation of being in tune with your body, intuitive eating encourages a lifestyle improvement rather than a restrictive “diet.” The truth behind the saying “you are what you eat” serves as a call to action.

Food you eat becomes part of your body’s composition and helps all bodily functions needed to live.

Not only is food necessary for survival, it’s a huge part of Jewish culture.

We’ve been baking challahs and babkas

and making matzah ball soup and latkes for generations.

Just as you wouldn’t tell Olympic athletes to eat a diet of only ice cream and cookies for the full month leading up to the opening ceremonies, G-d didn’t prescribe a diet for us that would prevent us from living our most efficient lives.

The discussion of kashrut is extensive. In short, the basics are as follows: 1. Pork and shellfish are never kosher. 2.

Meat and milk are never eaten together.

3. Kosher meat comes from mammals that have both split hooves and chew

their cud, if they are slaughtered in a specific and painless manner. 4. Kosher fish have fins and scales. 5. Fruits, vegetables and grains are basically always kosher if they are bug-free. Sounds pretty easy right? No one wants to eat bugs with their vegetables.

Kashrut may not fully make sense to us. If you’ve ever been to a kosher Shabbat meal, you can’t argue that when you left, you felt amazing in a way that you couldn’t easily explain in words. Kosher food to a Jew is like premium gas to a highly tuned sports car. The sports car has an engine that can run with regular gasoline; however, drivers can get clearly higher performance using premium gas.

Basically, there are so many choices Jews have when considering where and what to eat. If you focus on all the options, rather than all the restrictions, it is much more enjoyable and allows you to more easily see the many perks of keeping kosher.

Don’t knock it until you try it. ■ For more information about keeping kosher: www.oukosher.org/kosher-overview/ kosher-certification-terms, www.crcweb.org/ agency_list.php

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Dr. Wikoff is the founder and Director of Audiology at Peachtree Hearing, an audiology practice in Marietta. “Your doctors, regardless of specialty, should be asking you if you’ve had your hearing checked recently,” Dr. Wikoff concludes.

Part of the reason audiologists feel an annual hearing test is so important is how prevalent hearing loss is. Right off the bat at least 20% of Americans some degree of hearing loss. At the age of 65 that increases to 1 out of 3 people. Other factors as well may influence hearing loss. More than 50% of the 29 million people diagnosed with diabetes suffer from significant hear loss for instance.

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Another reason for effects. For instance, an annual hearing exam untreated hearing loss is that your hearing may is proven to cause fabe a good indicator of tigue, irritability, deother potential health pression, impaired problems. “Your ears can memory, and overall be the window to other diminished psychoissues in your body,” exlogical health. In fact, a plains Dr. Wikoff. “We study from Johns Hopcheck the health of your kins in 2013 showed eardrum, look at acousthat hearing loss acceltic reflexes in response erates brain function to different sound fredecline in older adults.

Dr. Melissa Wikoff quencies and verify the Older adults with hearsymmetry of your hearing. We address ing loss were more likely to develop probsymptoms like vertigo and tinnitus, that lems thinking and remembering than oldshould not be ignored.” One serious ex- er adults whose hearing is normal. ample would be an acoustic neuroma “I think it’s particularly important for (a low-growing tumor that develops on seniors to have their hearing checked ofthe nerve leading from your inner ear to ten,” explains Dr. Wikoff. “Preserving one’s your brain). One of the first indicators hearing is one of the most important ways of an acoustic neuroma is often a sudden that seniors make sure they stay active, hearing loss and/or asymmetrical hear- healthy, and connected to the world. We ing loss, something that would be found know that hearing loss in seniors leads to with an ordinary hearing test. isolation and ultimately cognitive decline.

Outside of being just an indicator The good thing is that we can typically of health, quality of hearing has a direct treat hearing loss very easily.” effect on one’s health. Living with hearDr. Wikoff is a board certified Audiing loss untreated is proven to have many ologist. She received her Doctor Audiolnegative and potentially life threatening ogy (Au.D.) from Washington Univer-

sity in St Louis School of Medicine. She owns and operates Peachtree Hearing, a full service, private Audiology clinic.

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Doctors Dish on Food Intolerance

By Eddie Samuels Between allergies, diseases and intolerances, just the prospect of sitting down for a nice meal can be daunting.

Fortunately, two of Atlanta’s Jewish experts on all things intestinal, Dr. Marc Sonenshine and Dr. Brett Mendel of Atlanta Gastroenterology, spoke to the AJT about the misunderstandings that exist surrounding food intolerances.

“A food intolerance is something that you’ll know about when you eat it,” Sonenshine said. “You’ll get some pain, some discomfort, some abdominal bloating, maybe some diarrhea.”

Intolerances are completely difDr. Marc Sonenshine said ferent than allergies, and even though intolerances shouldn’t be they’re often thought of in the same vein, confused with food allergies.

Sonenshine was careful to draw a distinction between the two. covered either by primary care physi“An allergy is a reaction in the body cians or by patients themselves. in which it develops hives, difficulty “A lot of patients will use trial and erbreathing. Very few people have true ror,” Mendel said. “Part of it is certainly food allergies,” he said. “When someone a mind-body question: is it because they has a reaction, we know, not because they got rid of gluten or because they know don’t feel well, but because they develop a they got rid of gluten?” rash, they have difficulty breathing, and Mendel explained that another inrequire Benadryl or epinephrine.” tolerance is to FODMAPs, or “fermentOne of the most common food al- able oligo-, di-, mono-saccharides and lergies is a reaction to nuts. But the most polyols,” which requires a very restrictive common intolerance, particularly in the diet.

Jewish community, is to lactose or dairy “It gets rid of wheat and lactose as products, Mendel said. And while it may well as many fruits and vegetables. As be the most common, there isn’t an ef- limiting as it is, some people swear by it,” fective, concrete way to test for it, un- Mendel said. like most food intolerOne of the most ances. commonly referenced “There’s a breath intolerances is gluten, test that is very inacnot to be confused curate and tends to not with celiac disease. be used often because “There is non-ceit’s not a reliable test,” liac gluten sensitivity, he said. “The best way which is technically to test for it is to eliminot a medical diagnonate the products and sis, but there is a consee how the patient tingency of people feels.” pushing for it to be one.

Between allergies, diseases and In terms of diIt is what it sounds like intolerances, just the prospect agnosing an intoler— someone who tests having a meal can be daunting. ance, that can also be a negative for Celiac districky prospect for gastroenterologists as ease but eats gluten, and that causes any they are most concerned with ruling out number of symptoms.” a more serious diagnosis, such as celiac Common signs for food intolerances disease, Crohn’s or inflammatory bowel include gaseousness, bloating, diarrhea disease, Sonenshine said. In comparison, and discomfort, Sonenshine said. an intolerance hasn’t been found to carry “There really aren’t many signs for any long-term health effects, he said. an intolerance except how you feel,” “If they haven’t tried cutting out Sonenshine said. “If you eat something foods, that’s often one of the first things you’re intolerant of, you may rush off to we do, but if they still have symptoms, the bathroom and have diarrhea.” that’s when it becomes time to put them He also said that those same symptoms, coupled with other more serious through tests,” he said.

Much of the intolerance diagnoses ones, could be signs of a more significant aren’t made at their offices but are dis- issue at play.

Dr. Brett Mendel explained that lactose intolerance is the most common food intolerance.

“Intolerances should not cause symptoms like weight loss, blood in the stool, keep you from sleeping at night,” Sonenshine said. “Your bloodwork should not be abnormal. Those are symptoms of a real disease going on.”

While there have been all kinds of theories that float around the internet about why there is a perceived increase

in food sensitivities and intolerances, both doctors agreed they hadn’t yet seen anything leading them to believe there was an uptick.

“I think it’s more that people talk about it and now people have multiple options to eat and are more conscious about their health,” Sonenshine said.

“I’m not sure that there’s anything genetically that has changed; I think marketing has changed more than anything else.”

Mendel agreed that increased awareness likely led to more concerned people who otherwise may never have questioned a little bloating or discomfort.

“These sorts of food sensitivities have nothing that would be causative,” he said. “There doesn’t seem to be anything environmental that is contributing to an increase.”

As for what he tells patients dealing with an intolerance, Mendel’s message is quite clear.

“If you want to eat that cheese pizza, then go for it, but do it knowing that you’re going to suffer for it,” he said.

“You’ll find yourself on the toilet more than you’d like to be.” ■

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Scientists from Sheba Medical Center were a key part of the team behind the study of preservatives and diabetes.

Possible Link Between Preservative and Diabetes Every week new suggestions seem to pop up with possible connections between everyday objects, activities and foods and some horrific condition. Some of these have a semblance of scientific research behind them, and many are absolute bunk, but when scientists at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard’s school of public health publish their research, it’s probably worth reviewing.

According to The Jerusalem Post, diabetes currently affects more than 400 million people worldwide, and has been on the rise. That number is expected to surpass 640 million by 2040, so a focus on factors contributing to diabetes has become the subject of scientific research worldwide.

Recently, the aforementioned researchers announced they had discovered a connection between the preservative propionate and diabetes. Their study, published in Science Translational Medicine journal, was based on observing mice and humans.

“The short-chain fatty acid propionate is a potent inhibitor of molds that is widely used as a food preservative and endogenously produced by gut microbiota,” the study’s abstract reads.

Propionate is used to slow mold growth, particularly in breads, baked goods and cheeses, to extend their shelf life.

“Although generally recognized as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the metabolic effects of propionate consumption in humans are unclear.”

The researchers administered propionate to mice first to gain information on its possible effects on some of mankind’s closest genetic relatives.

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diabetes.

When given a proportional amount of propionate to what might be found in food, the mice developed a resistance to insulin and began gaining weight. Overall, the studies involving mice seemed to have all the key indicators leading scientists to continue with the theory.

When observing human subjects, the researchers examined 14 people in good health — notably, a small sample size — in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Those who ingested propionate showed higher levels of specific hormones leading to higher blood sugar.

The findings indicated that propionate may be one factor contributing to rising levels of obesity and diabetes, and even though it has been approved by the FDA, the researchers suggested it may be worth investigating other methods of preserving foods.

Dr. Amir Tirosh, director of the Institute of Endocrinology at Sheba Medical Center, told the Post that the study aimed to shed more light on increased obesity.

“The dramatic increase in the incidence of obesity and diabetes over the past 50 years cannot be attributed to genetic changes, and involves contributing environmental and dietary factors,” he said.

He added that chemicals such as food preservatives are among those factors requiring additional scrutiny.

“One such factor that warrants attention is the extensive use of chemicals in the processing, preservation and packaging of foods,” Tirosh said. “We are exposed to hundreds of these chemicals on a daily basis, and most have never been tested for their long-term metabolic effects.”

Overall, the study is not conclusive evidence that propionate is a cause of diabetes, but certainly indicates that more research is needed. ■ Compiled by AJT Staff

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Photo by Rob Spaugh // Rows of pomegranates are

sold at the Shuk Ha’Carmel outdoor market.

Photo by Mollie Spaugh // A wide variety of spices greet visitors

to the Shuk Ha’Carmel in Jaffa, the restored city in Tel Aviv.

Israel + Vegetarian Food = Good Health

By Flora Rosefsky One of the highlights of my recent trip to Israel is the country’s passion for fresh vegetarian cooking.

Dishes that are 100 percent vegetarian in Israel are not only delicious but are presented beautifully in restaurants or food markets, where you can see the mix of textures, colors and compositions. Bowls filled with olives, carrots, chickpeas and beets become a form of art.

Freshly picked vegetables and fruits harvested from Israel kibbutzim arrive by trucks to cities and outdoor markets. Juicy tomatoes ripe from their vines along with crisp cucumbers, when chopped, make “Israeli salad,” a great staple to go with all meals. Luscious fruits such as oranges, apples and the biblical iconic pomegranate are picked off trees lined up in neat rows in the North Galilee on the shores of Lake Kinneret.

And it’s no surprise that Tel Aviv has become known as the vegan capital of the world.

As a tourist or visitor, how easy is it to find great vegetarian food in Israel? One doesn’t have to be a gour-

met chef or food critic, or to seek out a five-star restaurant to become an enthusiastic vegetarian “foodie.”

In Israel, salads are so universally popular that any breakfast, lunch or dinner — whether it’s cooked at home or in a restaurant or hotel — will have a wide variety of these healthy choices. About a third of restaurants in Israel are kosher, and a great majority are strictly vegetarian. Eating a great vegetarian salad as a main course is definitely taken more seriously in Israel.

And what would a visit to Israel be without having the ubiquitous falafel, stuffed into a warm oversized pita with room enough for spicy pickled cabbage, hummus, maybe some eggplant and tahini? Here in Atlanta, places such as Pita Grille, Pita Palace, Mediterranean Grill and Café Sababa Mediterranean Grill offer different twists on this Israeli and Middle East delicacy.

At the outdoor street food market of Shuk HaCarmel in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, it was particularly exciting to see the abundance of unique fruits and vegetables, while hearing the whirr of blenders combining pomegranates with pineapple, spinach and other vegetables to make a

Photo by Rob Spaugh // A small portion of the selection of fresh vegetables and vegetarian dishes on the dinner buffet at The Setai Sea of Galilee. a luxurious hotel and spa on the shores of Lake Kinneret in Northern Israel.

refreshing Israeli smoothie.

The Mahane Yehuda Market, nicknamed “Mahane Yuda,” near the Old City of Jerusalem also displayed beautiful foods, especially sweets like halvah, but some vegetables and fruits too.

Su Schaer, owner of Nimble Design Team in Atlanta, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. She often returns to Israel to visit her sister, who lives near Tel Aviv.

“It’s easy to be a vegan or vegetarian in Israel. In the supermarkets there are entire walls of yogurts, cheeses and many bins of all sorts of olives and spices. Eggplant is a staple and so is tahini, a condiment made from crushed sesame seeds.” She continued to tell me that shakshuka, a “comfort food” for her family, made its way into every Israeli kitchen: a delicious stovetop meal of diced onions, peppers and tomatoes with eggs cracked into the mix and cooked together until the eggs are almost firm, then topped with za’atar (a Middle Eastern oregano) and scooped up with fresh pita bread.

Schaer said that labneh, a yogurt-type of cheese, is a tasty accompaniment.

Why should we care about adding more vegetarian foods to our daily meals or perhaps seriously consider becoming a total vegetarian?

The China Study by T. Colin and Thomas Campbell is a comprehensive report on disease and diet that found a connection between nutrition and major diseases. David Aukamp, owner of Springs Yoga Studio, wrote about the study in a May 3 blog post on his site.

“People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest.” Aukamp wrote. “Consider eating more plants for protein and enjoy all the health benefits that go with them, like reduced chance of heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, and some cancers. You will probably notice more energy as well.”

Let us be inspired to increase wellness by learning more about and enjoying delicious Israeli vegetarian foods. L’Chaim, to Life! ■ Here are some common Israeli vegetarian dishes to try: Baba ghanoush – Eggplant with parsley, garlic, lemon, tahini and spices Bourekas – Pastries filled with potato, spinach, cheese or mushrooms Falafel – Chickpeas or fava beans (or both combined), garlic, onion, parsley, flour and spices, fried Hummus – Chickpeas and tahini sauce (from sesame seeds), olive oil, pine nuts and sometimes with onions and/or softened whole chickpeas Quinoa salad – With pistacchios and currants Shakshuka- Cracked eggs cooked in tomato sauce, sprinkled with chopped parsley and crumbled feta cheese

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Cystic Fibrosis Warrior Writes Stories of Survival

By Roni Robbins

Five years after surpassing the 40year life expectancy for Americans with cystic fibrosis, Sandy Springs resident Andy Lipman is celebrating the release this week of his book about survivors of the debilitating disease.

Cystic fibrosis is a progressive genetic disease that damages the lungs and digestive system and makes breathing difficult. In the United States, one in 29 Caucasian Americans carry the CF gene.

More than 30,000 people are living with the disease in the U.S. and about 1,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Lipman says it’s one of the diseases tested as part of Jewish gene screens because it’s also common in the Jewish community.

The release of “The CF Warrior Project: 65 Stories of Triumph against Cystic Fibrosis” coincides with May’s Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month.

The number of warriors included in the book comes from how young children often pronounce the name of their disease: “65 roses.” The spotlighted CF survivors include a woman who scaled

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For his book, Lipman Mount Everest, became said he interviewed 500 a circus acrobat and sepeople from around the cured approval for breakworld. He communicated through CF drugs in her electronically because country, Ireland. people with CF are supAs a “warrior” himposed to be more than six self, Lipman is running his feet apart to lower the risk 23rd Peachtree Road Race of cross-infection. While this summer, having been he chose to highlight 65 a torchbearer for the 2002 people for this book, he Olympics. The father of plans to write another one two healthy children also Major League Baseball to include more of those helped raise more than Hall of Famer and former he interviewed. $4 million for the CysAtlanta Braves star Chipper Jones is among the celebs Lipman said he was tic Fibrosis Foundation endorsing The CF Warrior inspired to write about CF in memory of his sister, Project by Andy Lipman. because of a lack of role who died from the disease models as a child, when he learned that he when she was 16 days old.

“I tell people no one can imagine would not live to see his 25th birthday. He what it’s like to go into space without a wrote his first book at 25.

“Now in my mid-40s, I thought a book space suit,” trying to describe the feeling of breathing difficulties. “It’s like some- about people living longer with cystic fibody trying to breathe through a coffee brosis was necessary and long overdue,” said the 45-year-old author. “I’m not just stirrer.”

Lipman, an Atlanta native, takes 40 talking about people who are living their to 50 pills daily, mostly enzymes to digest lives, but people who are also accomplishfoods. He also does therapy treatments ing amazing things while doing so.”

The book includes endorsements three times a day to help with breathing.

Running about three miles a day also from celebrities such as singer Celine Dion, on the cover stating “CF warriors helps him clear his lungs.

have two things in common. We all have cystic fibrosis … but cystic fibrosis will never have us!”

Among the other celebs providing endorsements are “Transformers” actress Megan Fox, “American Ninja Warrior” winner Isaac Caldiero and Atlanta Braves baseball icon Chipper Jones.

This is Lipman’s fourth book. He has written two memoirs about his battle against the long odds of a CF diagnosis.

He also wrote “A Superhero Needs No Cape,” about a young person who grows up to play Major League Baseball while fighting the disease. Jones, an MLB Hall of Famer, wasn’t Lipman’s model for the novel. But Jones’ endorsement indicates he has been involved with the CFF for more than 20 years, “and the resiliency of each person I have met who is battling this disease amazes and humbles me.”

Lipman’s inspiration for his CF work is his 95-year-old grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. “My grandmother was so strong through surgeries and the Holocaust and she makes me want to be a better Jew and a better fighter.” ■ You can find more information about Lipman, his book and the disease at www.

CFWarriorProject.org.

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Shabbat: A Time for Mindfulness and Family Rituals As I reflect upon my childhood, some of my fondest memories involve celebrating Friday night Shabbat with my family. The thought of a delicious meal in a home filled with joy and gratitude still brings a smile to my face.

The essence of Shabbat lies within the family. In Dr. Matt fact, for my family, Shabbat Levy was a weekly ritual. Following Friday night services, we would head home, light the Shabbat candles, say the blessings, and eat. What made these evenings so memorable was that we were present. No cell phones. No television. No iPads. No video games.

Today, in an increasingly digitalized world, “real life” family dynamics are seemingly pushed to the side. It is ironic that devices intended to connect, in fact, do the opposite. Interpersonal relationships have been confined to a 2-inch by 4-inch screen.

When dining out, it is commonplace for me to observe adults and children glued to cell phone screens. Some families go entire meals without having a meaningful conversation! Regrettably, I am sometimes distracted by digital interruptions as well. In fact, who isn’t? These habits are in stark contrast to the ideals and traditions of Shabbat. Interconnectedness. Positive engagement. Mindfulness.

Mindfulness, a practice that promotes serenity and present-mindedness, has become a hot topic in the psychological community. In a world confined by “what ifs,” “if onlys,” and “should haves,” mindfulness encourages us to take a step back, be present and self-aware, and approach the world non-judgmentally.

Like Shabbat, mindfulness is practiced ritualistically and encourages us to reconnect with ourselves, engage with others and restore our sense of faith.

Let’s take advantage of Shabbat to pro-

cess our days, learn from the teachings of the Torah, and care for others. Mindful practices can be creative and should involve the entire family. Some practical recommendations include inviting friends for Shabbat dinner, having children pick the menu and help cook, or surprising everyone with a fun dessert. It is even acceptable to order in! The possibilities are endless.

Family oriented, ritualistic experiences are not limited to Shabbat. I encourage families to carve out these moments throughout the week. In my family, UGA football is sacred. It has always been a family ritual to watch games together and to cheer for the Bulldogs.

Weekly game nights, weekend ice cream gatherings, or trips to the park might be other experiences to promote connectedness in families.

As we celebrate mental health awareness this month, let’s be mindful in our approach to improve ourselves and our relationships. Let’s turn off our cell phones, disconnect the Wi-Fi, and put our technological lives on pause. Let’s get back to the essence of Shabbat and strive to create mindful and meaningful experiences. Visit www.mentalhealthshabbat.org for a collection of resources curated by The Blue Dove Foundation to host Mental Health Awareness Shabbat Dinners. ■ Dr. Matt Levy is a clinical psychologist with the Sandy Springs Psychological Center. He is also a volunteer and contributor for The Blue Dove Foundation, which promotes awareness, education and outreach about mental illness and substance abuse in the Jewish community. If you or someone you know is struggling with these issues, contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness, www.nami.org, or The Blue Dove’s resources pages, www.thebluedovefoundation.org ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES MAY 17, 2019 | 25

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Re-Evaluate What Matters Broad Range Goals Is this you? January 1st Broad range goals asyou made your vision board pire toward a way of being with goals for the year. You or the development of a planned to lose 10 pounds, quality. For example, this leave work earlier each day, may be the year you practice schedule time for self-care, chesed, loving-kindness. Be and be more patient with mindful of making every act your children. It felt good to self and others loving. as you imagined it. You had some small successes and Love your body. It’s a Dr. Terry were on top of it. But here holy vessel that houses your you are in May, possibly up Segal precious soul. Be kind to it. a pound or two, staying later If you view it this way, you at work because of the new project you’re will feed it healthy food, protect it from in charge of, sad you have no time to pre- the elements, keep it clean and hydrated, pare healthy meals, never mind sched- remove sources of stress that damage it, uling weekly massages, and you’ve lost and allow it to rest deeply each night. track of how many times you’ve raised Set an intention to have loving your voice to your children. thoughts. Negative thoughts can beWhat happened? come words that hurt you and others.

Reality got in the way. According to Listen to your thoughts and observe if U.S. News & World Report, the failure rate you default into negative thinking. Ask for New Year’s resoluyourself, “Is this thought tions is about 80 percent, loving?” Transform your with most losing their thoughts until they’re resolve by mid-February. positive.

The good news is that Acknowledge your you’re not alone. The bad feelings because they news is that you may feel are important. Own ashamed and depressed. them, honor them, but No one needs that. don’t make others reAs Jews, we have sponsible for them.

The majority of New Year’s several opportunities, Connect to nature resolutions fail by midFebruary, according to U.S. all year, for a fresh start and Hashem, which are News & World Report. if we’ve steered off the forces greater than yourmark. The Days of Awe, from Rosh Hasha- self, to keep things in perspective. nah to Yom Kippur, are all about recalibrating, making amends, and cleaning the Specific Goals slate with ourselves, Hashem, and each othSpecific goals focus on the accomer. New Year’s Day on the Gregorian calen- plishment of a task. For example, you dar offers another chance. In the Hebrew may decide to learn 25 useful Hebrew month of Iyar, we elevate our thoughts, phrases before going to Israel in Decemprepare our bodies, and clean our spiritual ber. If you’re planning to learn one a houses in order to purify our souls to re- week, then you’d need to begin in July. ceive the Torah on Shavuot.

But once off, how do we get back on Break it Down track? First, release any guilt or shame • Make a list of your goals for the year and you carry for making mistakes or fall- then choose one or two. ing short of your goals. Life is always • Set actions on a timeline in three-month changing and shame is a heavy burden increments. that doesn’t serve you. You’re not flawed, • Decide what your goal is for the first you’re just human. Counter shame with three months, compassion towards yourself and others. • Your expectation of what achieving it If you worked on nothing else but devel- will bring you, (your why), oping compassion, you’d be helping to • What the small steps are to achieve it. heal the world. When you’re better, the • Consistently take actions that bring you world around you is better. closer to your goal.

Next, consider if your goals move you • Evaluate every three months whether in a direction you want or if they’re moti- or not your steps are realistic and if your vated by what others think you should be goal still matters. doing. Release guilt and view this as learn- • Above all, be kind to yourself. ■ ing about what does and doesn’t work for Terry Segal is a licensed marriage you. Continually re-evaluate what matters and family therapist and author of “The to you and see if your goals, time, energy Enchanted Journey: Finding the Key That and money align with that.

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ARTS Klibanoff Credits His Judaism for Prize Winning Work

By Bob Bahr Hank Klibanoff has come a long way from his childhood, where, as one of the few Jews in Florence, Ala., he delivered newspapers with his bicycle.

He’s been managing editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, won a Pulitzer Prize for History, and this Saturday, May 18, will accept a Peabody Award in New York, the highest award in broadcast journalism.

It is for his series of podcasts on racism that were done for WABE, the National Public Radio station in Atlanta.

The series, called Buried Truths, is about racial tensions in the South after World War II. It is an outgrowth of his work at Emory University. For the past eight years he has been teaching, writing and editing the university’s Civil Rights Cold Cases Project. More than 130 undergraduates have taken the course, which looks at the hows and whys of racially motivated crimes in Georgia.

Klibanoff, who is 70, grew up in Florence at a time when Alabama was at the center of the battle over school desegregation. He started in first grade

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“She was not was killed after he dared to vote in rural just a year after the in sync with most Georgia in 1948.

Supreme Court’s “Listener response has been emoAlabamians, cerdecision in Brown tainly not in sync tional and most of all grateful,” Klibanoff v. Board of Educawith most of the noted at the start of the new season of tion led to the deAlabama women the podcast in February. “We have heard segregation of the she encountered,” from so many people who thanked us for nation’s schools.

Klibanoff pointed bringing attention to a period of history But it was not until out. “But she found that isn’t always taught in school, and for 11 years later, when people with whom giving a voice to a man whose life was cut Klibanoff was a she could vent, and short for no reason other than the color high school junior, Hank Klibanoff won his Peabody she would. She was of his skin.” that Alabama finalAward for his series of podcasts on In the podcast’s second year, outspoken about ly accepted racial WABE, the NPR station in Atlanta. things in Alabama. Klibanoff tells the story of A.C. Hall, an integration.

“I was raised in a family that knew But she also understood that my father African American teen who, in 1962, was that the resistance was wrong. I was had a business in downtown, two busi- shot by police in Macon, Ga., after it was raised to respect all people and to be kind nesses downtown, and that you could thought that he had stolen a gun. Through to all people. It sounds hokey. I mean just only really go so far or you would face a the retelling of Hall’s story, Klibanoff exbecause your parents said it, did it take lot of trouble.” plores the issues of racism and police misKlibanoff, who hold? And the answer is yes.” conduct in the early 60s. to Sunday Both his father and mother were went When Klibanoff acchildren of immigrants from Eastern school at Temple cepts his award Saturday Europe. His father, whose parents came B’nai Israel in Flornight, he intends to give from what is now Belarus and who sold ence and had his bar credit to one of his inspiStride Rite shoes and clothing, hired mitzvah there, credrations, the writer Elie the first African-American salesperson ited the Jewish values Wiesel, who won a Noin Florence. His mother, whose parents he learned growing bel Prize for Literature came from Poland, let people know up in the town for his in 1986 for his writing later work in explorwhere she stood on the question of race. about the Holocaust. ing the civil rights era The words Wiin American life. esel spoke then are on For the past eight years, Klibanoff has been teaching his class on “I’m incredibly Klibanoff’s Emory cold Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases proud to be Jewish, cases website, “For us, to Emory undergraduates. and I am certain that forgetting was never an it is the teachings of Judaism that, wheth- option. Remembering is a noble and necer I am fully aware of it or not, guide me. essary act. The call of memory, the call to And these teachings, whether it was from memory reaches us from the very dawn studying for my bar mitzvah or Sunday of history.” school with the rabbi or from my parKlibanoff’s podcast has received ents, made this indelible impression on more than 1 million downloads and me.” is available on all major podcast playThe series of podcasts for which ers, including Apple Podcasts, Google Klibanoff won his Peabody is about the Play Music, NPR One and Stitcher. It is murder of Isaiah Nixon, an African- also on WABE’s website, wabe.org/burAmerican farmer and father of six, who iedtruths. ■

Julie and Jean share the joy of Mother’s Day with the pillow that reads, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.” Jean needlepointed the pillow.

Photos by Duane Stork // The hand-carved fireplace was transferred from the Sussex Road home.

The portrait (circa 1930) was a gift from the Feldman in-laws. The rug’s tag states “Handmade in China for Harry Dwoskin.” The salmon walls make a vibrant backdrop for antiques.

Chai Style Home Old South Meets Far East and Jewish Country Club Set When home decorating mogul Harry Dwoskin and went after it. Jean, who was human resources manpracticed L’dor V’dor, daughter Jean Dwoskin Lawson ager at Saks Fifth Avenue, enhanced the décor with her took that literally. Today after inheriting her parent’s needlepoint, Parisian Limoges collections and taste for Peachtree Road condo, Jean’s door was transported exotic wallpaper.

Step into historic Jewish Atlanta. from the original Dwoskin manse on Sussex Road in Morningside, but not so easily. After 50 Marcia: What was life like 60 to 80 years, it had to be grandfathered in by the years ago? condo board because of its intricate carvJean: We belonged to all three Jewing, hand rubbing, gold leafing, and 10 layish country clubs. The Dwoskins played ers of lacquer. golf, but it was not my scene. Grandfather Jean’s family tree of Harry Dwoskin’s Dwoskin was an apprentice in gold leafing side and the Hyman Jacobs clan were and was paid 13 cents an hour to craft much among the original co-signers of Ahavath of what still stands at the Swan Coach Achim Synagogue. Father-in-law Bernie House.

Feldman owned Butler Shoes.

When we came to Grand Mary’s Sussex Today, with daughter Julie Feldman Marcia house for brunch, we listened to the phonoRoberts, who has a background in retailing, Caller Jaffe graph. I also remember the first rendition of they reminisce about the “good old days” basking in the sunroom at the Sussex homestead, which “Fiddler on the Roof” some years later. Grand Mary liked to shop at Rich’s where this set of fans originated. We still stands today.

The Peachtree condo combines treasures from the grandchildren were not allowed on this living room sofa Dwoskin showroom on Peachtree Road as well as col- (now here) upholstered with $300-a-yard fabric.

Julie: (laughing) That’s equivalent to $4,000 a yard lections from Asia and circa 1700 Americana pieces.

Harry, who was friends with world famous architect today!

I recall running around the Dwoskins’ store and Philip Shutze, knew what he liked, spared no expense,

playing on the red round sofa on the showroom floor.

We used to swing the panels of fabric in the wall like book pages.

Thus you see the watercolor of the showroom by Leiber Freedenthal.

Marcia: What are the sentimental things you brought over from the Sussex Road house?

Jean: We all had our baby namings at Ahavath Achim and wore this very elaborate lace gown, which I have framed. Many of the chandeliers like the black Waterford were installed here. Some are Dresden.

The carp soup terrine is an Asian omen for having one in a pond for each child.

My master bedroom trash receptacle is their Waterford crystal champagne bucket. The 1760 Plantation desk of Dad’s has secret compartments. Grandma Feldman’s oil over the fireplace is on “permanent loan” to me. The 17th century blackamoor is holding an oar. These European figures of African males are now viewed as culturally insensitive, but many famous people collected them.

My portrait at age 34 by Freedenthal is very special.

He owed Dad money and felt compelled to return the favor.

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ARTS The canvas wallpaper tells the story of a soldier leaving his lover for the Army. Jean thinks it was rehung out of sequence.

Jean’s dining room has the black Waterford chandelier, a carp soup terrine, and the wallpaper brought over from the Sussex home.

Julie: Yes, as a 10-year-old, I remember her sitting for that painting.

The Ionic columns and the ancestral pair in the entrance painted with watercolor on silk were Grandmother’s.

Sherle Wagner fixtures were installed here, which were, at that time, considered precious.

A family secret is the guest room re-created from Grand Mary’s private room, which she established for herself because Grandfather snored.

In addition to the Sussex house, we have a

few pieces bought at auction from New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Marcia: You are “wallpaper royalty.”

Jean: All the closet interiors are done with very fine wallpaper, but the most special is the dining room paper, which is actually canvas and was rehung here from the Sussex house. I do believe the story it tells is out of order (laughing). Notice that since there is no natural light in the dining room, Dad put in these fake window frames.

Grand Mary’s private room to escape Grand Dad’s snoring, is recreated on Peachtree Road. The Schumacher wallpaper and Dresden chandelier are Dwoskin touches. The fans are from the old downtown Rich’s.

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Above center: Julie keeps this watercolor of the Dwoskin showroom at her own home. Below: Jean got special permission from her condo association to bring over the Dwoskin front door – custom designed and crafted in 10 layers.

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Leiber Freedenthal painted this portrait of Jean at age 34 to repay his debt to Harry Dwoskin.

The guest room has a familiar Schumacher toile.

My master bedroom, which is not papered, is painted a vibrant red to match my 1960 Cadillac.

The entrance hall cove behind the Kunian (goddess of love) statue is papered with 50-year-old Asian tea box wallpaper.

Jean inherited this 1750 Plantation desk with secret compartments.

Marcia: How did your parents decide who got what?

Jean: Items were catalogued with a dollar value; then we drew straws.

Antiques, furniture and books, many of which are collectable first editions, could not be split up. They particularly liked collecting Asian paintings on glass and mirrors.

Marcia: Julie, what was it like growing up with a fashion maven? And what do you want to inherit?

Julie: Actually I was the fashion maven (being a personal shopper at Bloomingdale’s) and dressed her.

Mom’s specialty was men’s shirts and ties. I got hooked

Photos by Duane Stork // This is but one

of the glass paintings the Dwoskins collected from the Far East.

This Asian Kunian (goddess of love) is surrounded by 50-year-old tea box wallpaper.

on fashion at 15 when I worked at Saks as a stock girl.

We got a great discount!

And yes, I think Jewish women are into fashion and like to have wardrobe items that no one else has. They also like it uniquely put together.

Today I work for [The] RealReal, a designer resale website which authenticates items like Rolex watches, Chanel handbags, Hermes, Vuitton, which have been authenticated. I go into people’s homes to evaluate the items.

In honor of Mother’s Day, we were joking about our pillow that says, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.” And I’d like to inherit her crocodile Judith Leiber purse, thanks for asking. ■

The original Sussex house in Morningside has new residents these days, but the furnishings made it out with the Dwoskins. Many memories reside there.

This lace baby gown was used for the children’s baby namings at AA Synagogue, including Jean’s.

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CALENDAR CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Emor Friday, May 17, 2019, light candles at 8:15 p.m.

Saturday, May 18, 2019, Shabbat ends at 9:15 p.m.

Behar Friday, May 24, 2019, light candles at 8:20 p.m.

Saturday, May 25, 2019, Shabbat ends at 9:21 p.m.

FRIDAY, MAY 17

Mental Health Awareness Shabbat Dinners – Various locations around Atlanta. Mental health doesn’t rest on Shabbat. One in five U.S. adults experience a mental health condition over the course of a year. During the month of May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, host or attend a Shabbat dinner on any Friday night in May to connect and show that mental health education and support is a priority in the Jewish community. Learn more, share your Shabbat dinner details and access Shabbat and mental health resources on The Blue Dove Foundation website, www.mentalhealthshabbat. org. #QuietingTheSilence.

SUNDAY, MAY 19

Gala and Celebration of Rabbi Shalom Lewis – Westin Atlanta Perimeter North, 7 Concourse Parkway, Atlanta, from 6 to 10 p.m. Black tie optional. $250 to $500. For more information and to register, www.bit.ly/2IRWBlM.

For children ages 6 to 12 years old and their families. Do you want to learn some magic? This summer at The Breman, you’ll have your chance. Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. By summer’s end you’ll be a regular Houdini. Free for members, regular admission for nonmembers. For more information, www.bit.ly/2FRA3yP.

Flags at the Jewish Cemeteries to Remember our Veterans – Crest Lawn

Acoustic Shabbat Café – Virginia Highland – San Francisco Coffee Roasting Co., 1192 North Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta, from 7 to 9 p.m. Join Rabbi Brian Glusman, Drew Cohen and teen musicians from The Weber School for an evening of music and Shabbat prayers.

Food and wine available for purchase.

This interactive Shabbat-themed experience is sponsored by Atlanta Jewish Music Festival and The Weber School.

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/2nVTxbJ.

SATURDAY, MAY 18

Pace Academy Graduation – Pace Academy, 3180 Peachtree Road at 9:30 a.m. For tickets and more information, www.paceacademy.org.

Etz Chaim Young Adults Havdalah, Drinks & Improv Night – The Basement Theatre, 175 W Wieuca Road NE, Atlanta, from 8 to 11 p.m. Meet for drinks and Havdalah and then join for the late-night improv show at The Basement Theatre. $10 per person.

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Memorial Park, 2000 Marietta Blvd.

NW, Atlanta, from 10 to 11 a.m. Fresh flags are being placed on the graves of Jewish veterans. All cemetery visits begin at 10 a.m. and all are invited to join this twice-a-year event. For additional details, Robert Max, 770-403-4278.

MONDAY, MAY 20

Magical Mondays – William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Weber School, 6751 Roswell Road, Atlanta. For tickets, time and more information, www.weberschool.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 26

An Interview with Holocaust Survivor Werner Reich – William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 4 p.m. Werner Reich was captured and imprisoned when he was 15 and spent time in three different concentration camps.

Werner joins magician, author and entrepreneur Joshua Jay onstage for an interview about his unbelievable and harrowing time at Auschwitz, and the magic that helped him get through and past it. Free for members, $12 for nonmembers. For more information, www.bit.ly/2GRco1O.

TUESDAY, MAY 21

Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta, from 6 to 9 p.m. This year, the Conexx Gala will be celebrating its 18th year and will feature the Israeli Tech Village, a showcase of new Israeli technology that is next to impact your life.

For more information and to register, www.conexxgala.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 23

Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 3 p.m. Actor, author, and magician Max Howard explores not just the fundamental elements of theater and magic, but also the period in which Houdini performed and how the theatrical customs of the times informed and influenced his performances. Free for members, $12 per person for nonmembers. For more information, www.thebreman.org.

The Weber School Graduation – The

2019 Conexx Gala – Atlanta History

The Galloway School Graduation – Magic and Theatre in the Time of Houdini – William Breman Jewish

Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Shearith Israel’s monthly, spirited, song-filled Friday evening service followed by a lovely oneg and socializing. It’s a wonderful way to welcome Shabbat.

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/2Gp5SRI

The Galloway School, 215 West Wieuca Road NW, from 6 to 10 p.m. For tickets, time and more information, www.gallowayschool.org.

Riverwood International Charter School Graduation – Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway at 3 p.m. For tickets and more information, www.bit. ly/2H7MKVL.

FRIDAY, MAY 24

Walton High School Graduation– Kennesaw State University Convocation Center, 590 Cobb Ave., Kennesaw, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For tickets and more information, www.waltonhigh.org.

Friday Night Live – Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive,

The Hiding Place: Story of Corrie Ten Boom – Vision Baptist Church, 355 Windy Hill Drive, Alpharetta, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thrust into a secret world of spies and espionage, two spinster sisters and their elderly father heroically hide Jews from the Nazis during World War II. This inspiring musical brings to life the powerful testimony of Corrie ten Boom, which has changed countless lives. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2H1MjMF.

TUESDAY, MAY 28

JLI: With All My Heart – Chabad Intown On the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays through June 18 and from 12 to 1:15 p.m. on Tuesdays through June 20. Whether you’re seeking relief from stress, or are hoping for focus, clarity and connection to a raw and vulnerable place deep within you, or you just want to start each day from a positive, humble and grateful frame of mind, this course is for you. To register and for more information, www. bit.ly/2V3TUyY.

MAY 17-JUNE 4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 29

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

Dunwoody High School Graduation – Georgia World Congress Cen-

founder and creator of Curlbox. Teele is a sought-after inspirational speaker on the topics of business, personal branding and women’s empowerment.

Teri Turner, creator of the blog, www.

NoCrumbsLeft.com, has healthful and great-tasting answers. $36 for general admission ticket with one hardcover copy of the book, $56 for two general admission tickets and one book. For more information, www.bit.ly/2H8PaEV.

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Calendar sponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Connector, an initiative of the AJT. In order to be considered for the print edition, please submit events two weeks in advance. Contact community relations director, Jen Evans, for more information at jen@atljewishtimes.com.

ter, 285 Andrew Young International Blvd. NW, Atlanta. For tickets, time and more information, www.dunwoodyhs. dekalb.k12.ga.us.

Beth Jacob Annual Dinner of Honor – Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 Lav-

MAY 29 – JUNE 2

Wiesenthal, A Play About Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal – Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre, 117 N Park Square NE, Marietta, at 2 p.m.This sensational off-Broadway play captures the extraordinary life of Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. After the end of World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to bringing more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice, including aiding in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief orchestrators of the Holocaust. $45 per person. For more information, www.wiesenthaltheshow.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 30

A Page From the Book Festival presents E L James – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. E L James, whose “Fifty Shades of Grey” series has broken sales records for adult publishing (150 million copies sold worldwide), is back with “The Mister,” a contemporary romance set in London, Cornwall and Eastern Europe. $32 for members and the community, which includes a paperback copy of the book. For more information, www. bit.ly/2H6oWRR.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2

A Page From the Book Festival presents Teri Turner – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 1 to 3 p.m.

In Conversation with Myleik Teele,

ista Road, Atlanta, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Join Beth Jacob as it celebrates more than 75 years of community service, and honors its dedicated members and supporters! Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a gourmet dinner. $118 per person. For tickets and more information, www.bethjacobatlanta.org/dinner.

MONDAY, JUNE 3

Torah Study with Rabbi Dorsch at Huntcliff I – Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit I, 8592 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Join Rabbi Dorsch for an informal Torah study class. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2J5zRim.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz and a Village Caught in Between – Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Featuring Michael Dobbs, author and researcher, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in conversation with Rick Folbaum, anchor, CNN International. Join Dobbs as he describes the individual stories of escape and tragedy and explores the human impact of Americans’ responses to the refugee crisis in the 1930s and ‘40s.

“The Unwanted” will be available for purchase during the event. The book is part of a groundbreaking educational initiative at the museum that includes the new Americans and the Holocaust exhibition. Tickets: $10 per person, $5 per person with the coupon code: LEC34. For more information and to purchase tickets, www.bit.ly/1NNvgdT. ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES MAY 17, 2019 | 33

COMMUNITY SIMCHA SPOTLIGHT

Mazel Tov

Marnie and Steve Harris, and Carolyn and Michael Shapiro for being the recipients of Temple Kol Emeth’s 2019 Avodah Award in honor of their many community contributions.

Bar Mitzvah Beckett Gordon

Beckett Gordon, son of Logan Ritchie and Brian Gordon of Atlanta, will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Saturday, May 18, at Congregation Shearith Israel.

Beckett is in 7th grade at Inman Middle School, where he is a member of the Vex Robotics team and golf team. He writes for the school newspaper, The Eagle News. Beckett loves math and participates in Emory Math Circle.

For his mitzvah project, Beckett tapped into his passion for reading. With the help of family and friends, he collected more than 500 books and helped distribute them to

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underprivileged children through Creating Connected Communities.

Beckett is the grandson of Rebecca and Jerry Ritchie of Atlanta, and Judy and Steve Gordon of Newton, Mass.

B’nai Mitzvah Notices:

Amanda Flug, daughter of Sari and Zachary Flug, in April 2019.

Rachel Katz, daughter of Melinda and Adam Katz, in April 2019.

Shira Lipton, daughter of Ephrat and Jason Lipton, in April 2019.

Alexis Ryan Lubow, daughter of Alicia Starkman and Mark Lubow, on May 4.

Matthew Jackson Colon, son of Loren Keith Colon and Marieli Almodovar Colon, on May 11.

Abigail Paige Goodman, daughter of Cathy and Jonathon Goodman, on May 11.

Abigail Mika Mechlowitz, daughter of Dawn and Lee Walker, and Leslie and Mark Mechlowitz on May 11.

Elisa Kremer, son of Trudy and Douglas Kremer, on May 11.

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Sexually Speaking and Sensationally Eating - Opa! Pláka is an ancient neighWe noticed that a Dr. borhood in Athens, Greece.

Ruth documentary was beOwner and chef Scott Duke ing showcased by the Atgreeted us with open arms, lanta Jewish Film Festival. and Dimitri, our waiter, Being the middle-aged hipwas sure to shower us with sters that we are, a salute of napkins full of love accomrespect and gratitude was in panied by “OPA!” a Greek order as Dr. Ruth was our expression of cheer. generation’s sex educator, Our feast began with our sex approver. She told us several appetizers, one of it was okay and completely Jen Evans & which was hummus, but not normal to have thoughts and Michal Bonell just any hummus. … The indesires without judgment. On the Town gredients were in a mortar She fought for women’s rights to make choices when it comes to and we crushed them with the pestle, just our own bodies, and through these sensi- like they did in ancient times. Dimitri then tive topics she managed to make us laugh brought us their famous flaming saganaki, Kefalograviera cheese in rum, um, with her spunk and energy.

Not only that. Dr. Ruth was a Holo- yum! We savored these treats along with caust survivor and a sniper in the Israeli a beautifully assembled fresh salad with military at less than 5 feet tall. This wom- feta and melt-in-your-mouth spanakopita.

To quench our thirst, Dimitri recoman deserved our time and we were excited mended a light and refreshing bottle of to learn more about her.

A succulent meal was called for to Greek white wine that complimented all kick off our night. And where better than the food. Next came our entrees, a tender Taverna Plaka on Cheshire Bridge Road? whole grilled branzino, a European sea It offers fresh Mediterranean options bass, that was bursting with flavor and and prides itself on offering “kosher Chicken Santorini, baked chicken breast stuffed with tomatoes, onions, peppers, style” entrees by request to its guests.

“Taverna” is Greek for tavern and zucchini and herbs, served with rice pilaf.

Chicken Santorini with grilled branzino.

Kefalograviera cheese in flaming rum.

Everything was cooked to perfection.

We were STUFFED, but when Dimitri asked if we wanted desert … we couldn’t be rude! A light and fluffy tiramisu and sweet and crispy baklava arrived, quickly consumed, and rounded out our meal.

The atmosphere at Taverna Plaka is fun and whimsical, and often includes a beautiful belly dancer to liven up the experience. “Opa” is repeated by the staff as they throw napkins in the air in celebration of pretty much everything. The food was fantastic and worth going back for, and the staff was fun and very attentive to their guests’ dietary needs.

Hugging our hosts goodbye, we headed to UA Tara Cinema for the AJFF Selects screening, “Ask Dr. Ruth,” which we thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend. It

should be available on Hulu June 1.

AJFF Selects screenings are a supplement to the annual film festival. As AJFF Executive Director Kenny Blank explains, “AJFF Selects is part of our year-round mix of program offerings, featuring more of what you love about our annual festival: new international releases, direct from the film festival circuit. This is a wonderful opportunity to not only stay engaged with our regular festival goers, but to introduce AJFF programming to new audiences.” Be on the lookout for the AJFF’s film next month on AJT's Atlanta Jewish Connector: www.bit.ly/2HbfwGc. ■ To have Jen and Michal review your event or restaurant, contact us at 404-8832130 or jen@atljewishtimes.com / michal@ atljewishtimes.com.

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KEEPING IT KOSHER Jewish Joke of the Week

Photo courtesy of Chef Iris Saraf-Reinharts

Zucchini Latkes Submitted by Flora Rosefsky

The (Loving) Jewish Mothers Three Jewish mothers are sitting on a bench, arguing over which one’s son loves her the most. The first one says, “You know, my son sends me flowers every Shabbos.”

“You call that love?” says the second mother. “My son calls me every day!”

“That’s nothing,” says the third woman. “My son is in therapy five days a week. And the whole time, he talks about me!”

Joke provided by David Minkoff www.awordinyoureye.com

Yiddish Word of the Week záftik Záftik ‫זאֿפטיק‬ ַ , juicy. Literally “juicy,” as in the German adjective saftig with the same meaning, from the noun Saft, juice. Figuratively it is a slang word for “curvy,” referring to a woman’s bodily shape. While generally meant as a (not very PC) compliment, it can also be used negatively as a euphemism for “overweight.”

In its original sense, “juicy,” the word has been in use for ages, such as referring to food. For example, the Yiddish periodical Forwerts ‫ֿפארװערטס‬ ָ (Forward) included the following statement in its food section: “Eating fish at a restaurant … I have always wondered how the chef makes it so delicious, with the skin nicely seared, but leaving the flesh váikh ‘un záftik, ‫זאֿפטיק‬ ַ ‫– ווייך און‬ “tender and juicy.” (www.yiddish2.forward.com/node/1662.html) In its figurative sense, “curvy,” the word is known to have been used in Yinglish (English mixed with Yiddish) at least for the past century, becoming a common loan word in English, familiar to most educated readers. Moment Magazine, for example, cites Harvard professor Marjorie Garber’s 2001 book Our Monica, Ourselves, quoting depictions of critics of Monica Lewinsky’s presumed inherently Jewish seductive qualities as pushy, ambitious and záftik, specifying, “She was physically mature for her age. She was sexy and seductive … She led a weak Christian man astray.” (www.momentmag.com/jewish-word-zaftig) Rabbi Joab Eichenberg-Eilon, PhD, teaches Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic at the Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, eTeacher Group Ltd. 36 | MAY 17, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

You don’t have to wait ‘til Chanukah to enjoy a latke. This vegetarian dish was served to 28 of us on a tour of Israel as part of a home hospitality Shabbat dinner prepared and served by an Israeli chef in her home just outside the Old City of Jerusalem.

3 zucchinis 1 egg 2 tablespoons bread or pita crumbs 1 teaspoon fresh oregano (chopped) ½ cup Parmigiano (Parmesan), finely grated ½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon pepper Olive oil spray for baking/sunflower oil for frying.

Yogurt to serve Preheat oven to 345F. Grate the zucchini into a bowl. Add salt, pepper, cheese, eggs, oregano, bread or pita crumbs. Put in a strainer and dry the mixture as much as possible. Make small pancakes, teaspoon size or about one-half inch thick. Place in a baking pan. Lightly spray the olive oil on top and bake for about 30 minutes. Then flip them for 10 minutes more.

If frying, follow above directions, but instead of baking, use just enough sunflower oil to cover the bottom of a heavy 12-inch skillet. Drop the teaspoon-size zucchini batter into the hot oil and fry about 2 to 3 minutes on each side until they are a golden brown.

Two notes: • Don’t touch the latkes until they need to be flipped, so they don’t absorb as much oil, according to the Israeli chef.

• When taking latkes out of the pan to dry, lay them on a brown paper grocery bag, not paper towels, which keeps them crispy, according to a cousin of mine, Terry Ziff, a chef who studied at The Culinary Institute of America in New York.

Serve with yogurt.

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■ The bat mitzvah of Jamie Leigh Schlosser of Marietta took place on Saturday, May 7 at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Jamie is the daughter of Jill and Jay Schlosser. She is the granddaughter of Dave and Elanore Sims of Atlanta, and the late Rose Sims, and of the late Sidney and Leanore Schlosser.

50 Years Ago// May 9, 1969 ■ Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jewish Home were held on the new site, near the junction of Margaret Mitchell Drive and Howell Mill Road on Sunday, May 18.

The program featured Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. as a guest speaker. Other prominent program participants included William Breman, president of the Central Board; Joseph Cuba, vice president and chairman of the building and planning committee; Dan Garson, chairman of the campaign cabinet; Abe Goldstein, president of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation; and Mabel Steinberg, president of the Residents’ Council of the Jewish Home. Prayers were offered by Rabbi Jacob Rothschild of The Temple and Rabbi Harry H. Epstein of Ahavath Achim Synagogue.

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OBITUARIES Karen Sue Finkelstein

Sharon Adele Goldhar

Karen Sue Finkelstein, 77, died on April 30, 2019. Karen is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, John and Marylan Karp; sister and brother-in-law, Beverly and Tom Mahone; daughter and son-in-law Jennifer and Christopher Hall; and grandchildren Jordan and Andrew Hall. She is preceded in death by her husband Marvin David Finkelstein; brother and sister-in-law Sol and Sharon Karp; and parents, Ben and Jeannette Karp.

Karen was born November 29, 1941, in Vincennes, Ind., and graduated in 1963 from Jewish Hospital in St. Louis with a nursing degree. Karen and Marvin were married for 50 years. Karen was a devoted wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend and grandmother.

She was a talented artist, specializing in colored charcoal and pastel paintings.

Karen loved to play tennis, cards and Rummikub. She could always be found in the game room where she lived. At the young age of 48, Karen was hit by a car as a pedestrian in Jamaica and spent close to 30 years as a member of the disabled community. During all those years she advocated for disability rights and teaching nursing students, medical personnel and those around her about the special needs and restrictions of those with spinal cord injuries.

Her family and friends will always remember her as an incredibly strong and courageous woman who always saw the positivity in people and situations.

A memorial service was held May 13 at Congregation Dor Tamid. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to either Congregation Dor Tamid or to One Good Deed, a program of Jewish Family & Career Services which supports people with disabilities.

One Good Deed’s address is 4549 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, 30338. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

It is with shock and sadness that we announce the passing of Sharon Adele Goldhar on April 30, 2019, at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital. She will be deeply missed by her family.

She was the loving daughter of the late Jack and Marilyn Goldman; beloved wife of the late Joel M. Goldhar; loving mother and mother-in-law of Jill and Larry Stoumen and Terri and Howard Binder; dear sister and sister- in-law of Sandra and Irv Lewis, Mel and the late Carol Goldman, Jeanette Goldman and the late Lionel Rumm; sister of Paula Goldman; and the sister-in-law of the late Pearl and Jack Gertzbein.

Sharon was the devoted bubbe of Nikki, Savannah, Adam, Julian, Toby and Lily Rose. The funeral took place at Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel in Toronto, Canada, May 5, 2019. She was laid to rest in the Ivansker section of Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park.

There will be a memorial service for her Atlanta friends and family at Congregation Shearith Israel 11 a.m. May 19, followed by an open house 2 to 6 p.m. at the Stoumen home, 2695 Braffington Court, Atlanta, Ga. 30350. Memorial donations may be made to Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, GA 30306 or to The Epstein School, 335 Colewood Way, Atlanta, GA 30328. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

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Jerrilyn Levetan 64, Atlanta

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

—James M. Barrie After a year-long battle with lung cancer, renowned Atlanta Realtor Jerrilyn Levetan, 64, succumbed to complications of that disease May 6, 2019.

A native Atlantan, born Nov. 11, 1954, Jerrilyn loved her city and knew every inch of it well. She collected clients in her real estate business and kept them as friends.

She was trained as a specialist in the real estate needs of seniors and had a passion for finding starter homes for young folks. As such, she was known for serving clients from two and three generations of the same family. Her clients came from all sides of the city with homes in nearly every neighborhood.

A trip to any restaurant in town with Jerrilyn was a chance to watch her work the room, stopping to meet the many friends and business associates she would inevitably find there. Her acquaintances included everyone from the owner to her favorites among the wait staff whose families she would inquire after. She was an enthusiastic participant in every festival, march, run, bike ride, lantern walk, chili cook-off and fireworks event the city had to offer.

Jerrilyn was always up for any adventure and loved to travel, visiting places as varied as Alaska and Morocco, as far flung as Peru and Hawaii. “Who else but Jerrilyn would put up her hand and say, ‘I’ll go,’” said dear friend Debra Snell, who offered a trip to Miami in the back of an open air tour bus with a friend about to ship the bus to St. Croix for a zipline business. Selfies from that trip amused Jerrilyn’s many Facebook followers.

Jerrilyn took her beloved wife Linda Lazzari (Bhadra Kali) to Hawaii for her 60th birthday. There the pair stayed in tree houses and loved absorbing the special climate, flora and fauna of the islands. For her own 60th – a destination birthday – she gathered friends at the Fryemont Inn in North Carolina.

Even during the past year as she struggled with cancer treatment, zapped energy and strength, Jerrilyn continued ticking off items on her bucket list. She insisted that Linda and a few close friends accompany her on a trip to CHICAGO (she said the city’s name as if it were written in capital letters). She gritted her teeth through fatigue and wobbly walking to get to the riverboat architecture tour, Italian food, hot dogs, pizza and the comedy show she had listed as the “must-dos” of that town. In the last few days of her life, the mere mention of CHICAGO would bring out her signature grin.

One of the most central parts of Jerrilyn’s life was her volunteer work, which she did quietly and with intense focus. Serving for several years on the board of Synchronicity Theatre, she was particularly taken with the theater’s Playmaking for Girls program in which girls at risk in various ways are brought together in teams to compose and perform plays about their lives. Jerrilyn introduced hundreds of friends and associates to Synchronicity, many of whom became supporters in their own right.

Her other passion was seniors. Every Monday, she delivered Meals on Wheels

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to a group of folks she called her “peeps,” often reaching out to help solve problems in their lives beyond food. She worked with Senior Connections as a board member and volunteer up to the start of her illness, after which time she could no longer drive her route.

Jerrilyn also took her remarkable dog Little Bit to hospitals and nursing homes, working with Happy Tails Pet Therapy to bring smiles to people as they petted Bit and threw a ball she would fetch endlessly. Jerrilyn also volunteered with the Dekalb Rape Crisis Center hotline.

No one stayed a stranger long in Jerrilyn’s presence.

In 1996, Jerrilyn became involved with the love of her life, her wife Linda. Their relationship was primary in her life. They were finally able to marry at Emory University Hospital on April 23, 2018, during the first frightening week of Jerrilyn’s illness. Jerrilyn’s aunt, Liane Levetan, former state senator and CEO of Dekalb County, and dear friend Susan Wells moved heaven and earth to get the couple a marriage license at the hospital. The wedding took place in a conference room on the intensive care floor, with Swami Jaya Devi of Kashi Atlanta and beloved honorary niece, Callan Wells, officiating.

Linda has spent the past year tirelessly and lovingly caring for Jerrilyn.

Jerrilyn was lucky to share her city with many relatives, who she’d call on regularly. Her brother Steve Levetan said, “When thinking of my sister, there are three descriptors that stand out: strength, independence and fun-loving. The strength to overcome many difficult times throughout her life, including the strength to prove a hospital full of doctors to be wrong — surviving to celebrate her one-year anniversary with her loving wife Linda. The independence, since childhood, to always do her own thing — and do it well. And always with an emphasis on having fun, whether traveling abroad, paddling a local river, or hanging out at her mountain cabin. All traits I will always admire and try to emulate.”

Her aunt Liane Levetan said of Jerrilyn, “She was more than a niece to me; she was like one of my daughters, always here for me. She was such an optimistic, fun loving individual. Everyone who knew her loved her enthusiasm, kindness and love of life. When she entered the room, it filled with laughter and sunshine.”

“I have never known anyone with such a thirst for life. Such a joy in life.” That’s how Jerrilyn’s dearest friend and longtime business partner Ronnie Preuss described her. Jerrilyn “was kind and always there for all those she loved and those in need. She never made it about herself.”

Jerrilyn was predeceased by her parents, Abraham and Gertrude (Abe and Cookie) Levetan. In addition to her wife Linda and brother Steve, Jerrilyn is survived by her sister-in-law Janice, nephew Joshua (Lauren) and their two children; her aunts, Liane Levetan, Barbara (Bobbie) Zeidman, and Corinne Frank, Uncle Robert (Bob) Levetan, as well as many cousins and friends too numerous to count.

Also surviving are Linda’s family members in New York, Florida and Ohio, including nephew Bradford Nelson, nieces Alexa and Julia Nelson, and mother-in-law Florence Lazzari.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Synchronicity Theatre Playmaking for Girls in honor of Jerrilyn Levetan.

From Synchronicity Theatre about the Jerrilyn Levetan Fund: During the eight years of Jerrilyn Levetan’s involvement with Synchronicity Theatre, she became passionate about the work this local theater company does with at-risk and refugee girls in Atlanta through the Playmaking for Girls program. Her love for this unique program inspired and elevated Synchronicity’s work during her tenure as a board member of the organization.

In honor of her extraordinary service and life, Jerrilyn’s family has established the Jerrilyn Levetan Fund, to endow Playmaking for Girls participants during the summer program each year. During the program, each girl signs a contract and is paid $100 for her work as an actor, which empowers the girls to value their time and teaches real-world skills and responsibility. Each dollar raised by the fund will be used to pay each of the girls during the program, and they each will receive a letter with their pay every year with Jerrilyn’s story and photo.

To make a gift in honor of Jerrilyn and the work she loved so dearly, contact Synchronicity at 404-484-8636 or by email, emma@synchrotheatre.com. You may also make a check out to Synchronicity Theatre with The Jerrilyn Levetan Fund in the memo line and send to 1545 Peachtree St. NE, Suite 102, Atlanta, 30309.

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Death Notices: Estelle Segal, 85, died on May 4, 2019, and Beverly Kaiman died on May 7, 2019.

Estelle is survived by her husband Ira Segal. Estelle and Beverly are survived by Estelle’s daughter and son-in-law and Beverly’s son and daughter-in-law, Natalie and Jay Kaiman; grandchildren Ari (Emily) Kaiman, Shira (David) Hudson and Aliza (Daniel) Epstein; and six great-grandchildren.

The funeral for Estelle Segal was held on May 6, in Pinecrest, Fla. The funeral for Beverly Kaiman was held May 9, in Gainesville, Fla. Shiva was held May 13-14 at the home of Natalie and Jay Kaiman. ■

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Hilary Slavin passed away in the arms of his family on April 30, 2019, after a four-year illness with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of the late Betty and Louis Slavin, and was also preceded in death by his twin sister Michele. He is survived by his wife of 30 years Maria Pico, daughter and sonin-law Lauren and Wesley Ishee, cousins Fred and Joan Schwartz and two siblings.

Growing up, his passions included the New York Yankees, especially Mickey Mantle, playing stickball and basketball on the streets of Brooklyn, chess, stamp collecting, film, rock music and photography.

Hilary graduated early in 1965 from Wingate High School as part of the New York City schools Special Progress Program. He went on to attend college with full scholarships and graduate with honors from Brooklyn College with a bachelor’s; Clark University with a master’s; and Florida Tech, with a Doctor of Psychology degree.

During his undergraduate years and at Clark he became active in the anti-war movement as well as the struggle for social justice. He lived and participated in the epicenter of what was hip, whether in New York City, Cambridge, Mass., Berkeley, Calif., or while visiting Ibiza, Spain, where he would later take his bride on their honeymoon. He missed Woodstock backpacking through Europe but got to see his favorite guitarist/musician Jimi Hendrix live twice at Monterey, Calif., and the Fillmore East, N.Y. Professionally, Dr. Slavin had a 40-year career as both a clinical and neuropsychologist. During his years in Cambridge, he worked for the state as a clinical psychologist before coming in 1981 to Atlanta, where he soon opened a private practice. He was owner and director of Buckhead Psychology Center and Dunwoody Psychology until he retired in 2015.

He was a highly respected member of Georgia Psychological Association, having served as an officer of the American Psychological Association, and the National Academy of Neuropsychology, which he attended annually nationally and internationally. He also conducted forensic evaluations and served as a consultant and expert witness in various high-profile cases including that of the Menéndez brothers and a case against Firestone Tire, which forced a recall.

A service was held May 2, 2019, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs.

Officiating was Rabbi Bradley Levenberg of Temple Sinai, where the Slavins are members. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Community Assistance Center in Sandy Springs, www.ourcac.org or to the American Brain Foundation, www. americanbrainfoundation.org.

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My Accidental Sister I was driving around Decatur last week when I suddenly felt very sick. I needed to immediately get somewhere safe where I could take care of my offending gut, and when I neared a familiar store, I sped into the parking lot. I rushed to the ladies room just in time to throw up. I stayed there for quite a while.

While I was monopolizing the sole women’s bathroom, there was frequent knocking on the door. I could only call out, Chana “I’m sorry! I’m sick!” Then suddenly the Shapiro knocking stopped. Later, I found out that the women who were knocking had been instructed to access the men’s restroom, but, just then, I was dealing with my own condition and at the same time feeling guilty about keeping others out.

When at last I emerged, two women were waiting for me. One of them looked almost exactly like the symbolic “Aunt Jemima” character, (including gingham head scarf); the other resembled a school librarian I once feared. I had seen both of them before in that shop, but I couldn’t remember if they were clerks, stock room workers, or managers. “Aunt J” stopped me and spoke.

I expected to be chastised, but instead, I was comforted.

“We’re women,” Aunt J affirmed. “We saw you run in, and we knew you were in some kind of trouble. So we stood at the door and sent other ladies to the men’s bath-

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room. We didn’t know what was wrong, and it didn’t matter, anyway. We just stayed put until you came out. When one sister is hurting, we’re all hurting.”

I didn’t think of my digestive distress as an opportunity for female bonding, but Aunt J surprised me so much that I had to think about it. “I’m really grateful,” I answered. Then I added, “But I have a feeling that if a man had run in like I did, you’d feel compassion for him, just like you did for me.”

Librarian spoke, “Don’t be too sure about that!” she stated matter-of-factly, turning to walk away.

“She’s had a hard life, a very hard woman’s life,” Aunt J explained, succinctly. That was a powerful explanation, and I didn’t need to ask anything else. I thanked them again and left.

Several weeks later, I was back in that store. I was checking out, and the cashier looked familiar. She wasn’t wearing the head scarf, and she had on eye makeup. Was it Aunt J? “I see you’re feeling better today,” she said, smiling.

“I thought it was you,” I said, “but I wasn’t sure you’d recognize me. You look great. I hope you and your friend are having a good day.”

She knew who I meant. “My friend isn’t.”

I sensed that Aunt J wanted to tell me more, but she was on duty. There was an impatient gentleman behind me, and the line was growing.

As Aunt J checked me out, she saw I was buying a boxed set of three exercise bands. “I’ve been meaning to get one of these,” she told me. “I need to work out, but I can’t get to a gym.”

“Go ahead and take one!” I said, “I don’t need all three.”

“I’m not supposed to open customers’ packages,” Aunt J explained.

This was no time for discussion. I snapped the box open, pulled a band out, and handed it to her. The man behind me was already starting to put his purchases on the counter.

In spite of her ample girth, Aunt J edged up, reached completely across the counter, and hugged me. “I said it to you before,” she affirmed, “we’re women and we help each other!”

As I was getting into my car, the man who had been standing behind me, approached. I was sorry that my little interchange with Aunt J had delayed him. I was ready to apologize, but he stopped me.

“What you just did was pretty cool,” he said. “You women crack me up!”

Fortunately, I didn’t have to fashion a clever or meaningful response because, having expressed his opinion, he got into his car and drove off. ■

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