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Speaking exclusively in Hebrew, Amit Farkas shares memories of her older brother, Thom, an IDF helicopter pilot killed on the Lebanon border in 2006.

N.C. TRAGEDY

Two 22-year-old East Cobb friends hiking in the mountains suffer fatal falls. Page 14

ELECTION PREVIEW

Three nearby congressmen face multiple primary challengers May 24. Pages 17-28

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Jewish Kids Groups’ new middle school program offers an alternative b’nai mitzvah path. Page 34

SPECIAL LENS

Podiatrist Perry Julien captures amazing photos around the world and at nearby concerts. Page 40

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Leaders of Jewish organizations placed wreaths on the bimah during the ceremony.

Israel sets aside a day to remember its lost soldiers and terrorism victims immediately before celebrating its independence.

Night of Remembrance

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efore celebrating Israel’s 68th birthday on Yom HaAtzmaut, Atlanta’s Israeli and Jewish communities gathered at Ahavath Achim Synagogue on Tuesday night, May 10, for the annual observance of Yom HaZikaron, mourning the 23,447 people who have died fighting to ensure Israel’s independence or have been killed in terrorist attacks since 1948.

The ceremony, emceed by the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange’s Robbie Friedmann, featured Israeli Scouts; students from the Epstein School, Atlanta Jewish Academy and Davis Academy; Rabbis Joshua Heller, Adam Starr and Neil Sandler; Israeli Consul

General Judith Varnai Shorer (her first Yom HaZikaron here) and Deputy Consul General Ron Brummer (his last Yom HaZikaron here); and leaders of American Jewish Committee, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, the Marcus Jewish Community Center, the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, Jewish National Fund and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

Israeli actress Amit Farkas, whose older brother, Thom, died flying a helicopter during the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and who gained fame by singing “A Million Stars” at his funeral, delivered the passionate keynote address the night before bringing her story to Atlanta day schools (see Page 30). ■

abbi Rachael Bregman of Temple Beth Tefilloh in Brunswick has been named to the Forward’s 2016 list of America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis.

The annual list includes 32 rabbis from across the country. According to Forward Managing Editor Dan Friedman, the final list is refined from hundreds of reader nominations.

The New York-based Forward cites Rabbi Bregman’s nomination by regular Georgia visitor Gerry Hecht, who wrote: “She has created a community where only a shadow of one existed before. She’s a rabbinic delight. She embodies what an inspirational clergy person should be.”

“We were, of course, excited to see that rabbis are able to transform communities around the country,” Friedman said, “not just in the big urban coastal centers, in communities small and large.”

Brunswick is a small town an hour or so south of Savannah. Temple Beth Tefilloh has been the spiritual home for Jews there since 1886.

Yet when Rabbi Bregman, after her pilot Open Jewish Project at The Temple in Midtown came to an end, was hired for the pulpit at the South Georgia Reform congregation in 2013, she was not only its first female rabbi ever, but also its first resident rabbi in 50 years.

Rabbi Bregman is the only person recognized this year from Georgia.

Although rabbis from Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia also are on this year’s list and Alabama and Mississippi have made appearances in the past, Rabbi Bregman is only the second rabbi from Georgia to be picked by the Forward since the list started in 2013.

Congregation Bet Haverim Rabbi Josh Lesser made the list that first year.

Friedman said the chosen rabbis — presented at forward.com/series/ rabbis/2016 — are champions of Jewish culture who give meaning to Judaism for their communities. ■

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Responses to Showing Your Daughter the Door

Dear Mom, Your story — “Should I Show My Daughter the Door?” — is what my wife and I faced with our two boys.

We provided a textbook Jewish upbringing of our sons, but one converted to Christianity and married a Chinese wife and then a Brazilian. The other is agnostic, though still retaining slight tinges of Judaism.

The first son divorced his Chinese wife, then the Brazilian. The other divorced his Christian wife and married her friend, a flower child (who is very nice).

My wife and I do not curse and regret hearing others do it, but that is their choice. We understand that is their decision regarding how to express the inexpressible.

My wife, a converted Baptist, and I searched our hearts of hearts to see what we did wrong or did not do correctly.

We have resolved our conundrum by realizing that the boys were given tools for making decisions and chose what they felt was in their best interest.

Our sons did not eschew Judaism or G-d but chose different paths. We accept their choices, and they respect ours.

You should feel no remorse or self-incrimination over your daughter’s decision. You are of value by steadfastly following the dictates of your/our faith.

Your other two daughters will profit from your teaching and practices and from you as a role model, but in the end they will make their own lives.

I pray you have found peace within yourself and can continue to be a good Jewish mother.

Anonymous Dear Mom, You have been gifted a child, one of the most exalted gifts a person can receive. Is it possible that a limit exists

on what a parent can and must do for a child?

Dear mother, you have a huge task in front of you. But that is what you accepted from the moment this baby was placed in your arms.

You must try any and all possible

Shared Spirit Moderated By Rachel Stein rachels83@gmail.com

means to keep Shira at home and part of your family.

When a child feels loved and supported, she can succeed in life. Additionally, sometimes the force of love will pull children back to the path that they rejected.

One never knows, but there is always hope.

Perhaps Shira will benefit from additional therapy to help her reform her habits.

Or maybe you can maneuver a conversation leading to a relationship with someone she respects and trusts — a mentor, teacher, rabbi, etc.

How about NCSY? Birthright?

There are so many programs in place now to assist troubled teens.

The question is not whether they exist, but how to navigate the sea of information to find the one that’s best for your child.

Please, Mom, I beg you. Do not close the door on your child. Love her.

Care for her.

Explain to your other daughters that Shira is going through a rough spot, but you’re a family, and families take care of one another. Years from now, I assure you, you won’t have any regrets from following this path.

Good luck, Sarah S. Dear Mom, Yes, this is one of the largest hurdles a parent can face. How can one possibly cast out a child?

Fortified with indomitable strength, resilience and holiness, our righteous ancestors Abraham and Sarah knew they were following G-d’s word when they sent their son Ishmael away.

But how can you, a modern-day devoted parent, possibly find it within

yourself to follow in their footsteps?

You wonder: Must I use tough love on one child for the benefit of my other girls? Your question quivers with poignancy and an incurable ache. The answer, unfortunately, is a resounding yes.

You bear a formidable responsibility to the two other precious souls residing in your household. These young girls need structure, normalcy, consistency. And they have the right to those commodities.

If a fire licked your home, would you hesitate to extinguish it? Even if it was coming from within?

Shira is on fire now. Her flames are dangerous, threatening the very foundation that you and your ex-husband labored to build and establish.

For the good of your other children, Shira must go.

But wait. Simply because Shira is leaving doesn’t mean severing ties with her.

Do keep in contact with her. Be available to help her whenever you can and show an interest in her life and well-being.

While one hand pushes her away, the other one should endeavor to pull her close.

And through the haze of your tears, remember that her exodus doesn’t have to be a permanent solu-

tion. If she chooses to change and live within the parameters of your lifestyle, at least outwardly, which would demonstrate a modicum of respect, she can be welcomed back at any time.

There is a strong chance that Shira will be so consumed by anger at your perceived rejection that she will refuse to allow you entry into her life.

Straighten your shoulders and tough it out.

Most of the time, children come back, though it may take time. But if she doesn’t, you know in your heart that you are doing your utmost to care for your other daughters.

Saving two is better than losing three.

You can send her letters and gifts, be in touch by phone, do whatever you can to show you care.

And talk to her if she is willing to listen. Explain to her that you will always love her: She is your daughter, and nothing will ever change that. But you were advised to walk this route for the sake of your other children.

May you see great joy from every one of your children, Rabbi Daniel Berman ■

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hese are responses to the May 6 Shared Spirit column, in which a mother discussed her struggles with the rebelliousness of her oldest daughter and her fears about the negative influence on her two other daughters.

Shared Spirit is a column in which people write in to share personal dilemmas. Readers are encouraged to assist by 3 offering meaningful advice.

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AIPAC event. Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, hosts an AIPAC program with Foundation for Defense of Democracies research analyst Grant Rumley speaking about the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations at 7 p.m. Free; RSVP at aipac. secure.force.com/event/EV153695.

LGBTQ substance abuse. “What if the G-d of My Understanding Hates Me?” at 7 p.m. at the Rush Center Annex, 1530 DeKalb Ave., Atlanta, is an interfaith discussion of how a crisis of faith can drive LGBTQ people to substance abuse. Free; bit.ly/1sagkAZ.

SATURDAY, MAY 21

Cancer fundraiser. Sandy Springs Music and 5 Seasons Brewing, 5600 Roswell Road, Suite 21, Sandy Springs, hold a concert at 5 p.m. featuring David Szikman & the Parkside Players and the Ian’s Friends Band to raise money for Ian’s Friends Foundation, which funds research into pediatric brain tumors. Admission is $10; bit.ly/1rJS9IQ.

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CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Conexx Women. The group gathers for after-work drinks and networking at 5:30 p.m. at Eclipse di Luna, 764 Miami Circle, Buckhead. Free; www.conexx. org or osharon@conexx.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 22

Talent show auditions. Singers, dancers and musicians ages 6 to 18 are invited to perform a 90-second, family-friendly audition at the Atlanta Workshop Players’ Barefoot Playhouse, 8560 Holcomb Bridge Road, Suite 111, Alpharetta, for the Dec. 4 Tower of Talent benefit for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. By appointment only; Ashlyn@AtlantaWorkshopPlayers.com.

Emor Friday, May 20, light candles at 8:18 p.m.

Saturday, May 21, Shabbat ends at 9:19 p.m.

Behar Friday, May 27, light candles at 8:23 p.m.

Saturday, May 28, Shabbat ends at 9:24 p.m.

Digital teens. The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, and Jewish Family & Career Services present the documentary “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age” at 11 a.m., followed by a panel discussion. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door; YTFL.org/screenagers.

Holocaust remembrance. Reuven Milikovsky, a survivor’s son, tells his family’s story at 1 p.m. at Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta, in partnership with the Kennesaw State University Museum of History & Holocaust Education. Free; www.mynertamid.org, events@mynertamid.org or 678-264-8575.

Icon Award. The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents its first Icon Award to filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan at 7 p.m. at the Woodruff Arts Center’s Rich Auditorium, 1280 Peachtree St., Midtown.

Tickets are $36 ($200 for VIP access, including a reception); ajff.org.

Date night. Congregation Beth Jacob holds a date night at 7:30 at Sips n Strokes, 3019 N. Druid Hills Road, Toco Hills, with painting, wine and light refreshments. Admission is $40 per Beth Jacob member couple, $45 per nonmember couple; bit.ly/1QxwtEp or 404633-0551.

TUESDAY, MAY 24

Babyccino. The mom-and-tot classes at Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, focus on creation each Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. through June 21. This week’s topic is space. The cost is $12 per class or $80 for the series; j1sinasohn@aol.com or www.chabadnf.org.

THURSDAY, MAY 26

Lag B’Omer. Congregation Anshi S’fard, 1324 N. Highland Ave., VirginiaHighland, holds a bonfire and barbecue at 5:30 p.m. Free; info@anshisfard.org.

Lag B’Omer. Chabad of North Fulton holds a cookout and picnic at 5:30 p.m. at Pavilions 1C and 1D at Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek. Free, with a suggested donation of $18 per family; admin@chabadnf. org or 770-410-9000.

Adoption and fostering. Wo/Men’s Infertility Support Havurah and Jewish Family & Career Services’ Cradle of Love present three speakers — adoption consultant and counselor Michelle Lambert and Temple Sinai members and parents Phil and Betty Klein — on these alternative methods of creating a family at 7 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; www.wishatlanta.org.

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Remember When

10 Years Ago May 19, 2006 ■ Greater Atlanta Hadassah was recently named a grant recipient area by the national organization, meaning that the Atlanta chapter is primed to grow and to become a champion fundraiser, according to the chapter’s new president, Ruthanne Warnick, who succeeded Rachel Schonberger. The designation will enable Greater Atlanta Hadassah to add staff and to concentrate on adding to its membership of about 2,500 people.

■ The bat mitzvah ceremony of Erica Hannah Halpern of Atlanta, daughter of Kirk and Lori Halpern, was held Saturday, March 4, at Congregation Or Hadash.

25 Years Ago May 17, 1991 ■ The new executive director of the left-leaning New Jewish Agenda, Irena Klepfisz, brought her anger about the use of the Holocaust to promote the Persian Gulf War to her

appearance last month at Emory University. A child survivor, Klepfisz said the media focus on Saddam Hussein’s targeting of Israel and Israelis’ use of gas masks made the war appear to be about Israel, not about liberating Kuwait, and was a disservice to American Jews.

■ Donna and David Ross of Atlanta announce the birth of their first child, Stephanie Michelle, on March 22.

50 Years Ago May 20, 1966 ■ Anticipating an enrollment next season of more than 100 pupils, Beth Jacob Hebrew School has announced its first graduation for 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 1. Congregation President Lawrence Nager and school PTA President Bennett Ginburg announced those developments while hailing the completion of the school’s second successful year. The school covers first through sixth grades and serves children ages 7 to 14.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Franco of Atlanta announce the marriage of their daughter, Jeanie Eleanor, to Stanford Hallem of Los Angeles and Tucson, son of Phil Hallem of Las Vegas, on Jan. 25. The couple’s plan is to move to Atlanta.

CALENDAR Jewish Heritage Night. The Atlanta Braves celebrate the Jewish community during a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at 7:10 p.m. at Turner Field.

Tickets, including a Chipper Jones replica jersey and a chance to parade before the game, are $26 to $41; 404-6141327 or rick.coller@braves.com.

Escape game. The Sixth Point gathers at the Amazing Escape Room, 5825 Glenridge Drive, Suite 200, Sandy Springs, at 7:30 p.m. as three teams compete. Tickets are $25, with advance sign-up required; thesixthpoint.org/ event/come-with-me-and-escape.

MONDAY, MAY 30

Kosher Day with the Braves. The Atlanta Kashruth Commission sponsors the annual gathering with kosher food for sale at the Atlanta Braves’ game against the San Francisco Giants at 1 p.m. at Turner Field. Tickets are $10 ($8 each for groups of four or more); 404634-4063 or akc@kosheratlanta.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 31

Babyccino. The mom-and-tot class on creation at 10:30 a.m. at Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, turns to fish and birds. The cost is $12 per class or $80 for the series through June 21; j1sinasohn@aol.com or www.chabadnf.org.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2

Eagle Star Awards. Conexx holds its annual gala at 6 p.m. at Twelve Atlantic Station, 361 17th St., Midtown. Tickets are $125; www.eaglestargala.com.

Bachelorette’s wisdom. Andi Dorfman, who starred on “The Bachelorette,” speaks about her book, “It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After,” at 7:30 p.m. at Big Sky Buckhead, 3201 Cains Hill Place, Atlanta. Free; RSVP requested via atlantajcc. org/bookfestival or 678-812-4002.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5

Pool day. The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, invites the community to swim from noon to 2. Free; 678-812-4161 or www.atlantajcc.org.

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MONDAY, JUNE 6

Shared society discussion. Mohammad Darawshe of Givat Haviva, a nonprofit organization working toward a cohesive Israeli society, speaks at a New Israel Fund event at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP to bit.ly/24TUn73, mordy@nif. org or 212-613-4426.

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ISRAEL NEWS

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home “No chance” baby saved. No newborn with a heart defect like that of Cypriot baby Vassilios had survived. But Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center was willing to treat him. Surgeons achieved the impossible, and after 10 days Vassilios and his parents returned to Cyprus.

Eye spy. Two people have regained their eyesight after receiving the corneas of former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who died March 17 after a long battle with cancer. Avraham Gian, 81, and an unnamed 70-year-old woman received the corneas at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital.

Substance-free Woodstock. Jerusalem’s Sobar Music Center is presenting the first alcohol- and smoke-free Community Woodstock festival June 8.

Sobar provides a safe environment for teens and young adults.

Aid to victims of Canadian wildfire.

IsraAID is helping many of the 90,000 evacuees from the wildfire in Alberta, Canada. IsraAID volunteers are providing social and psychological support now, and when the fires have been extinguished, another IsraAID team will help clean up the debris.

Seven Chinese agreements. Israel and China have signed seven academic cooperation agreements. They include the establishment of joint Israeli-Chinese study institutes and investments in student exchange programs.

Chocolate for China. Israeli chocolatier Max Brenner opened its first branch in China. The Beijing shop, in a mall in the city’s financial district, is the latest of 65 worldwide storefronts. The company also recently opened its fifth Japanese branch, near Tokyo Disneyland.

Friends in Brazil. More than 2 million Brazilians have liked the Israeli Ministry of Tourism’s Facebook profiles in Portuguese. The Portuguese outreach is part of the ministry’s strategy to attract pilgrims from Brazil to the Holy Land.

Brazil has the largest Catholic population in the world.

Higher profile at NATO. NATO has upgraded its ties with Israel, which now may open offices at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s headquarters in Brussels and complete a credentialing process for its representatives. The closer ties “will help boost Israeli secu-

Israel Photos of the Week

Bronze Bounty at Caesarea

Photos of artifacts by Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority; photo of divers courtesy of the Old Caesarea Diving Center Divers Ofer Ra’anan (left) and Ran Feinstein show off some of the many bronze treasures, as well as more than 40 pounds of coins, they discovered in the seabed of the ancient port of Caesarea in Israel’s Caesarea National Park before Passover. The bounty came from a merchant ship that sank about 1,600 years ago under the Roman Empire. The Israel Antiquities Authority joined the pair for another dive that found the remains of the ship. The artifacts include a bronze lamp depicting the sun god Sol, a figurine of the moon goddess Luna, a lamp in the image of an African slave and fragments of life-size bronze statues. Jacob Sharvit, the director of the Marine Archaeology Unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Dror Planer, the deputy director of the unit, said the ship apparently hit a storm at the entrance to the harbor, then drifted, despite an effort to drop anchors, until it smashed into the seawall and rocks.

rity,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Water win in Abu Dhabi. Desalitech, founded in Israel and now based in Massachusetts, won the Breakthrough Water Technology Company of the Year award at the 2016 Global Water Awards in Abu Dhabi. Desalitech’s closed-circuit reverse osmosis desalination system counters the slow buildup of salinity in aquifers and waterways.

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School ban on unhealthy food. New Israeli Education Ministry guidelines prohibit selling or serving sweets, snacks, and sugary or fatty foods to kindergartners and other school pupils throughout Israel. Replacements include low-fat spreadable cheeses, avocado, whole-wheat pasta and bread, fruit, and vegetables.

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Planes refurbished with 3D printers.

The Israeli air force’s Aerial Maintenance Unit is using 3D printers to make the parts needed to keep 30-year-old planes flying. The technology has attracted original manufacturers Boeing and Lockheed to see how the upgrades can make the planes perform better than when they were new.

Barrels bubbling up. The latest estimate of the Hatrurim oil reserve, north of the Dead Sea, is 7 million barrels,

worth $321 million at today’s prices.

Salvador Dali’s Zionist works. A selection of 25 paintings from Salvador Dali’s little-known “Aliyah” series has gone on private display in New York.

The biblical and Zionist paintings were commissioned in 1967 for the 20th anniversary of the state of Israel.

Beyonce’s Israeli designer. Israeli fashion designer Inbal Dror is designing a line of dresses for Beyonce’s much-anticipated “Formation” world tour. The award-winning singer fell in love with the dress Dror designed for her for the Grammys this year.

Good start for Israeli golfer. Laetitia Neck, 24, the first golfer from Israel to qualify for the LPGA Tour, surged to a two-shot lead in the opening round of the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic in Prattville, Ala. She ended in a tie for 15th place, winning $17,659.

Bar mitzvah bonanza for Israel. Noah Helfstein from New York has donated all his bar mitzvah money — $76,000 — to bring the first Maker Bus, a mobile technology lab, to children throughout Israel. The 3D printer on the bus allows the production of almost any object.

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ISRAEL NEWS

The Jack Hirsch Memorial Breakfast concludes with the Israeli national anthem, “Hatikvah.”

Alan Wolk, co-president of JNF’s Southeast Region, presents the Cantor Isaac and Betty Goodfriend Community Service Award, as well as a box with personalized messages for members of the Special in Uniform program, to Lt. Col. Tiran Attia.

“By showing up this morning, you fuel JNF’s success,” JNF Southeast Regional Director Beth Gluck says at the Jack Hirsch Memorial Breakfast.

“We, the Southeast, are 4,000 JNF donors strong.

And I look forward to counting each and every one of you amongst our growing numbers.”

As the keynote speaker at the JNF breakfast, Lt. Col. (res.) Tiran Attia talks about his efforts to promote inclusion in the Israel Defense Forces as the director of Special in Uniform, which enables Israelis with disabilities to serve with the IDF and contribute to society.

Atlanta police officers contribute to the tight security around the High Museum.

Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer, Israel’s consul general to the soon-to-be-expanded Southeast, welcomes guests ranging from other nations’ consular officials to local rabbis to Israelis living in Atlanta to the consulate’s independence celebration.

The Epstein School’s choir, accompanied by guitar and by Joshua Sampson on violin, performs Israeli songs for the consulate’s reception at the High Museum.

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ewish Atlanta found ways throughout the day Thursday, May 12, to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday on Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day).

The observances began Wednesday night with a J Street discussion at Ahavath Achim Synagogue on the political realities behind peace prospects (news story, Page 9; editorial, Page 10) and a concert by local Jewish band Paz at Israeli-owned coffee shop Crema in Dunwoody.

The festivities picked up Thursday morning with Jewish National Fund’s 13th annual Jack Hirsch Memorial Breakfast at The Temple, which hon8 ored Lt. Col. Tiran Attia, the director

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of Special in Uniform. The program, which became a JNF beneficiary in 2015, integrates special needs Israelis into the Israel Defense Forces. Attia also appeared at a JNF women’s lunch at Congregation B’nai Torah.

As the workday ended, people had two opportunities to eat, sing and dance in DeKalb County: at the Marcus Jewish Community Center-sponsored Food Truck Thursday at Brook Run Park in Dunwoody and at the Young Israel of Toco Hills-led celebration at Mason Mill Park in Atlanta.

The culmination of the extended birthday party was the Israeli Consulate’s invitation-only reception at the High Museum of Art in Midtown. ■

Above: Weber School students hang out at Brook Run Park.

Top left: Rabbi Ed Harwitz, the Weber School’s head of school, sings with students at the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival stage at Food Truck Thursday at Brook Run Park.

Bottom left: Atlanta Jewish Academy students enjoy popsicles at the Marcus JCC-sponsored celebration, which included 12 food trucks.

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ISRAEL NEWS

J Street Head, Reporter Fear for Israel’s Future

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sraelis and Palestinians need to stop looking back and start focusing on the future if they are ever to reach a lasting peace agreement because no one will ever win or surrender in the fight to own the past, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami said during a Yom HaAtzmaut-related discussion Wednesday night, May 11, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue.

“I prefer to look ahead,” Ben-Ami told the crowd of about 40 people, including incoming Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta CEO Eric Robbins.

“What do we do now?”

He said Israel has a choice between two paths: one that leads to peace and security alongside a Palestinian state and one that leads to the suppression of Arabs between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, sacrificing a commitment to democracy and to Jewish principles and becoming an international pariah.

His partner in the conversation, Jodi Rudoren of The New York Times, said that after her four years as the

newspaper’s Jerusalem bureau chief, she’s frightened by what she sees in Israel’s future. But the question to her is not what kind of nation the 68-yearold state will be when it approaches its 140th birthday but whether it will exist at all.

She noted the nearly fatal strife the United States faced when it was 68 years old in 1844, only 17 years away from the Civil War. Meanwhile, she said, Israel has a real problem with Palestinians who are in their late teens and early 20s — those who don’t remember a time before the Oslo Accords of 1993 — because they don’t want a two-state solution. They believe that eventually all of Israel will be part of their state of Palestine, and they’re willing to wait for Israel’s demise.

The potential Palestinian leaders in their 40s also present a problem, Rudoren said, because they simply aren’t interested in politics or government.

“It should be their problem to solve, their state to build,” Rudoren said, but they’re more interested in conducting business. Besides, she said, they figure they’ll eventually get their

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Jodi Rudoren, who was The New York Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief for four years, and J Street President Jeremy BenAmi discuss the Israeli-Palestinian situation May 11 at Ahavath Achim Synagogue.

own state anyway.

She said the Gaza war in 2014 set the peace process back many steps because each side lost confidence in the other. Most Israelis would happily trade the West Bank for peace, she said, “but they’re absolutely scared of what would happen.”

While Israel would not be in any existential danger from a Palestinian state, friendly or not, the creation of such a state would not end terrorism against Israelis, said Rudoren, who noted that she is not a J Street member and was not at the event in support of the organization.

Ben-Ami agreed that Israeli-Palestinian peace would not end terrorism, but he said he can’t imagine how it would make the problem worse. He also criticized the idea of unilateral action on the part of Israel to pull back and establish what it believes should be its permanent borders.

The fear of land-for-peace moves

by Israel, Ben-Ami said, arose from the failure of unilateral moves, as when Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon and removed all troops and settlers from Gaza. Those actions just created vacuums for Hezbollah and Hamas to fill, he said. ■

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he head of J Street, the left-leaning, pro-Israel, Washington lobbying group, delivered a vision for Israel’s future that was equal parts optimistic and pessimistic during a Yom HaAtzmaut discussion at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, but the overriding impression Jeremy Ben-Ami left Wednesday night, May 11, was straight out of a bad fairy tale.

On the pessimistic side, Ben-Ami sees Israel sinking into racism and isolation, rushing toward an apartheid future — he avoided the word, saying, “We all know what that’s called” — in which Jewish dominance overwhelms Jewish and democratic ideals. Down that path lies modern Israel’s destruction.

He also sees no point in peace talks with the Palestinians as long as Benjamin Netanyahu remains prime minister because Ben-Ami does not believe that Netanyahu wants to change the status quo.

On the optimistic side, Ben-Ami does believe that peace is possible. He has faith in a two-state solution along familiar lines: a Palestinian state composed of Gaza and the West Bank, with some land swaps to accommodate the realities of a half-century of settlements and the requirements for Palestinian viability.

By focusing on the future instead of the past, the two peoples then would live happily ever after.

Ben-Ami didn’t delve into the details on borders, refugees, resources and Jerusalem, but we’ll grant the possibility of a deal that most Israelis, as well as Diaspora Jews, would embrace and that would meet all the needs of the first independent Palestine in history.

Unfortunately, such a deal requires a Palestinian partner that simply doesn’t exist. To get around that reality, Ben-Ami shifted into fantasy.

It doesn’t matter that the old Palestinian leaders are incapable of making a deal, that the next generation of potential leaders (according to The New York Times’ Jodi Rudoren) is more interested in business and profits than politics and power, and that the youngest Palestinians are happy to wait for time, demographics and world criticism to take their toll until they can have a one-state solution free of Jews.

In Ben-Ami’s mind, the other Arabs — the Saudis and the rest of the ruthless oil barons around the Persian Gulf — will be happy to hammer out a deal and guarantee its success. The Palestinians, who supposedly chafe at Israeli occupation only for political reasons, not because they have problems with Jews, then will happily accept the Saudis telling them where to go, what to do, and how to live in peace and harmony.

Those pliable, agreeable, childlike Palestinians aren’t real. The actual human Palestinians, after 68 years of being used and abused by their fellow Arabs, aren’t going to let anyone else determine their political future. We might not agree with their goals and tactics, but we can’t deny that any deal reached without them at the negotiating table has no validity.

It’s sad and ironic that J Street, which presents the strongest mainstream Jewish voice for a fair deal for the Palestinians, must treat those people as cartoon cutouts in the background, having their fates determined by the real power players. It’s a condescending view of some of the most educated people in the Arab world, and it undermines J Street’s desire to be 10 taken seriously by Israel-loving Americans. ■

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ne of the not-so-funny jokes we denizens of (eight pages at a time) and publish even more news. newspaper copy desks had back in the semiAll of which is a long introduction to the good dark ages — when blue pens, hot wax, X-Acto and bad of this week’s newspaper. knives and unionized labor did the work of a single On the positive side, the combination of graducomputer program — involved the elastic page. ation season and the May 24 primaries helped boost That’s the newspaper page that could stretch to the ad count. As a result, we have a 48-page paper, add another story or a couple of additional photos. one of the biggest issues we’ve had without the help Just as important, it could contract when that basof Passover, Rosh Hashanah or Chanukah. ketball game went into overtime The negative or the City Council spent three side: The end of the hours in closed session, leaving a school year, the Editor’s Notebook big hole as deadline arrived. elections, and IsBy Michael Jacobs In many ways, the web is rael’s 68th birthday that mythical elastic page. When mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com produced an even you’re producing news online, greater demand for you don’t have to worry about news space. word counts or deadlines. You So we have a can post as many good photos as you’d like, and you good newspaper this week, including photos from can increase or decrease the number of stories based some Israel events, a look ahead to graduations and solely on how much news is happening. interesting interviews with congressional candiLike other legacy media outlets, the Atlanta dates in the competitive races around North Georgia.

Jewish Times is trying to straddle two worlds, taking But we should have done so much more. We advantage of the flexibility and limitless capacity of weren’t able to cover Yom HaAtzmaut celebrations the online world while operating within the unfororganized by Congregation Or Hadash and Young Isgiving limits of the printed page. rael of Toco Hills, and our election coverage is chockWith breaking news, from the good (Federation full of unfortunate compromises. We didn’t talk to hiring Eric Robbins) to the tragic (the two young all the candidates in the 11th District, for example, men who fell to their deaths), the combination taking an educated guess at who poses the strongest works well. We get the news online as quickly as pos- challenge to Rep. Barry Loudermilk, and despite sible, then develop the story for the next print issue. sending questionnaires to all nine candidates in the The complications come with feature stories 3rd District, we received only one set of answers. and interviews, things that are valuable but not necWe didn’t have time or space for stories involvessarily timely. With the AJT’s sales staff rolling and ing some interesting judicial races, and we haven’t filling more pages with ads, space has gotten tight. yet asked state legislators such as Republican Tom We don’t do fewer than 32 pages, so if we have Taylor of Dunwoody why they voted against the new 10 pages of ads, we have 22 pages of editorial space. law barring companies that boycott Israel from getOur target is a 50-50 split between ads and news. So ting state contracts. if we have 14 pages of ads, we’ll still have a 32-page The bottom line is that I hope you’ll focus on all paper but just 18 pages for news. It’s only when we the good content in this 48-page paper while I worry pass 16 pages of ads that we make the paper bigger about how to do it all better next time. ■

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We’ll Learn, We’ll Bond on Federation Mission

door activities to help disadvantaged youths develop self-empowerment and team building. Later that day, we’ll divide into different tracks on Israel’s food and wine, art and architecture, defense, and high-tech industry.

Our packed agenda also will include our own team building in Tel

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Aviv as we join with Masa participants from various countries in an Amazing Tel Aviv Race, competing to solve historical, geographical, political and cultural riddles across the city.

With each activity — whether it’s one that has us meeting with Israelis or doing something simply for fun — we’ll find ourselves growing closer to one another, creating long-lasting friendships.

More information and registration for the mission July 4 to 10 are available at www.jewishfederations. org/calendar/nyl-summer-missionto-israel-2016. The cost, not including airfare, is $2,599, plus a minimum gift of $500 to your local Federation.

As someone who believes strongly in the concept of Jewish peoplehood and the well-being of Israel, I relish these opportunities to go to Israel and look forward this time to doing so as part of a national group of professionals in their 20s, 30s and 40s. It is up to our generation to ensure that the Jewish Federation movement continues. ■ Lauren Abes is a member of the Jewish Federations of North America’s National Young Leadership Cabinet and is excited to be one of the co-chairs of this summer’s mission to Israel. She is a strong believer in giving back and has deep passion for the state of Israel.

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he director of a program for at-risk youngsters in Sderot, Israel, recalled those days a year earlier when rockets lobbed from Gaza rained down on Israel and alerts to seek shelter were sounded multiple times each day and night.

Earlier that day, we had visited a kibbutz on the Gaza border.

An older resident pointed to a tree — the very tree where a rocket lobbed from Gaza had landed, fatally injuring a friend of his.

I met these two Israelis in October as part of a Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta trip that gave me new insights into Israel and its people. The kibbutz resident’s resolve that Israel and the kibbutz remain his home despite the falling rockets and the director’s dedication to her young charges despite her own fears were salient reminders of why it’s so important for me to visit Israel on Jewish Federation missions.

These missions go well beyond tourist sites and provide an opportunity to meet with Israelis from all walks of life, allowing me to speak directly with people helped by Federation dollars and better understand why our Federation system is so important.

Each time I visit Israel, I become more inspired and fall deeper in love with its amazing beauty and people.

This year I will travel back to Israel as co-chair of the Jewish Federations of North America’s National Young Leadership Summer Mission to Israel.

The July mission will give us opportunities to see Federation-supported Jewish Agency for Israel and Joint Distribution Committee projects, to hear from security experts, to participate in the fun activities that Israel has to offer, and to bond with a peer group while creating amazing memories.

In the Galilee, we’ll meet with participants in the Jewish Agency’s Partnership2gether Peoplehood Platform, which connects 450 North American Jewish and Israeli communities in 46 partnerships.

Overlooking Emek Habacha (known as the valley of tears) in Israel’s north, we’ll have a security briefing with Brig. Gen. Avigdor Kahalani, one of Israel’s most decorated combat officers, and will witness a military drill.

In Tel Aviv we’ll learn about Hagal Sheli (My Wave), a Jewish Agency program that uses water sports and out-

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OPINION

Judaism and Socialism: Understanding Sanders

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ernie Sanders’ run for the presidency under a democratic socialist banner reflects an old, standing commitment of Jews and Judaism to socialism.

In fact, long before Sanders sought the presidency, I proposed that Jews’ propensity to a socialist political and economic perspective reflects both a Torah-based economic ideology and a worldview that has arisen from Jewish experience.

Most Jewish politicos at the start of the 20th century were leaders in the socialist movements in France, Germany and especially Russia, as well as among U.S. labor leaders (especially in the garment industry).

Socialism was central in the rise of the Israeli kibbutzim. Most kibbutzim held to the motto “to each according to his need and from each according to his capability.”

The Jewish socialist movement, particularly toward the end of the 19th century, was a response to the economic restrictions imposed on Jews.

This point of view is well illustrated in a story about the first Jew, a rabbi, elected to the Silesian parliament. Everyone was curious where the rabbi would seat himself.

Those who sat to the right of the middle aisle were politically and economically conservative. The rabbi

seated himself not only to the left of the aisle, but even to the extreme edge of the left wing.

At the end of the session the Catholic priests and the Protestant ministers inquired why a rabbi, like

One Man’s View

By Eugen Schoenfeld

them a man of G-d, chose to sit with the socialists and the atheists. Why not on the right side of the aisle with all G-d’s representatives? The rabbi’s response: “Precisely, because in Silesia, Jews have no rights.”

Although this story is a play on words, it accurately depicts the relationship between political conservatism and anti-Semitism. The political traditionalists, including the men of G-d, legislated anti-Jewish laws. Two conservative institutions, the church and the army, were responsible for the Dreyfus affair in France.

Jews, for moral reasons derived from the Torah, also were opposed to the uncontrolled and crass capitalism that governed the U.S. economic and political world.

Max Weber, a noted German sociologist, in his book “The Protestant

Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” proposes that the early spirit of capitalism was founded on a work ethic that carried with it a moral perspective. Rejecting the idea of work as punishment also reflected the search for a calling with a religious moral perspective. Income was G-d’s reward for asceticism and frugality, based on what G-d wants of us.

Coming to the end of the 19th century, however, capitalism began to shed its former ethical and moral underpinnings. Capitalism no longer sought to reflect humanitarian morals.

The making of money became a game with its own set of sans-humanitarian perspectives. It became a world of specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart, all stripped from ethical and moral meaning.

Weber sees the loss of humanism in robber barons — who see humans merely from a utilitarian perspective as extensions of machinery. This view was beautifully depicted in Charlie Chaplin’s movie “Modern Times.”

This utilitarian view of the human in American capitalism cannot coexist with a biblical perspective of the human being endowed with a holy spirit.

It cannot reflect a desired society that is based on the principle of justice.

Modern America reflects the spirit of Sodom, where justice was absent.

Justice in the biblical sense reflects the sanctity of the human, the right of the

human to be given a chance to live.

This biblical view is in the laws pertaining to shmita (the seventh year) and the Jubilee, as well as the laws protecting the dignity of men and governing when one must borrow money. All of these biblical and rabbinic laws and views stand in diametric opposition to the views of capitalism.

I stand in unison with Sanders regarding his apprehension about what crass capitalism has done to the sanctity of the human. I believe in human rights proclaimed in response to the Torah’s principles of justice, defining the right of the weak and poor to have a chance at life and not to be treated as spiritless implements.

I hope we realized anew, as we sat at the seder table and commemorated the principle of human freedom, the sanctity of the human individual.

I stand, however, in opposition to Sanders for his rejection of Israel.

Unfortunately, the left has become the doctrinaire home of anti-Israel opinions, and this trend is evident in Sanders’ view of the Jewish country.

I reject him not only for the absence of ideas for implementing humanism into our moral sense, but also for shirking the collective Jewish responsibility to the continued existence of the historical Jewish land.

In this way I see him as the “rasha” described in the haggadah and as a danger to Israel and the Jews. ■

Trump Causes Rift in Republican Party

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n Thursday, May 12, Donald Trump met with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and other Republican leaders. The purpose of the meeting was to unify the party as it heads into the Republican National Convention in July.

In the past few presidential elections the Republican Party has been much more unified heading into the convention. The tone this election cycle has been notably crass, and some prominent Republicans have blamed Donald Trump.

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in March of Trump: “I’m far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president. After all, this is an individual who mocked 12 a disabled reporter, who attributed a

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A Fresh View

By Jordan Barkin

who happened to be a woman due to her appearance, who bragged about his marital affairs, and who laces his public speeches with vulgarity.”

Romney’s remarks were bolder than the straitlaced former governor’s usual pronouncements. Trump countered by saying Romney was, in essence, a sore loser.

But two Republicans who have won the presidency — George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush — have also chosen not to endorse Trump. This is a change from past election cycles, in

which the Bushes readily endorsed the Republican nominees.

In February, Jeb Bush said Donald Trump “needs therapy.”

The Bushes and Romney are planning not to attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

John McCain, the presidential nominee in 2008, said in July 2015 of Trump: “He (owes) an apology to every single veteran who was captured and was a prisoner of war.” McCain was referring to derogatory statements Trump had made that month.

Controversy has plagued the Trump campaign from the first day.

When Trump announced his candidacy at Trump Tower on June 16, he called Mexican immigrants rapists. The remark was immediately criticized by commentators and many voters.

In the same speech, Trump said of politicians on Capitol Hill: “We have losers. We have people that are mor-

ally corrupt. We have people that are selling this country down the drain.”

From the first day of his campaign to May, Trump has continued to run a controversial campaign.

The May 12 Republican leadership meeting brought hope, with Trump and Ryan issuing a joint statement afterward calling it the productive first in a series of meetings to bring unity.

Absent from the statement, however, was an endorsement of Trump

by Ryan.

For all the talk the past few years about rampant partisanship in Washington, it seems as though controversy created by Trump has resulted in a diverse swath of politicians and journalists unified in their hesitance to support him. ■ Jordan Barkin, a freelance writer for various Southern publications, is a former associate editor of Veranda, a Hearst magazine. He lives in Buckhead.

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Thanks to Horowitz

We too are delighted with the choice of Eric Robbins to head the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta (“Our View: Good Choice,” May 13). However, we owe his predecessor, Michael Horowitz, a profound thank-you for his five years of service leading Federation.

Michael’s deep commitment to the Jewish community, Israel and the mission of Federation was crucial after the setbacks of a poor economy and reductions in many communitybuilding programs. For this and more, Michael and his wife, Barbara, deserve our warm todah rabbah.

— Lois and Larry Frank, Atlanta

Isakson and Hospice

Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Sen. Johnny Isakson, along with my colleagues Tony Kudner, the vice president of communications, and Anna Evans, a music therapist, to discuss hospice issues in the community.

I want to thank Isakson for meeting with us and being a longtime supporter of advanced care planning. I feel honored to have him as an end-of-life champion in the Atlanta community.

The senator spoke positively about hospice and his interest in policies to strengthen access to better planning for care needs. We also discussed our concerns about hospice and Medicare Advantage and how supportive services such as veteran-specific care, music therapy and bereavement care could be hampered by changes to hospice.

I look forward to continuing to work with Isakson on these hospice issues and bringing awareness of the amazing benefits that hospice offers.

— Rita Isnetto, Acworth, executive director, Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care

Pressure the Palestinians

I was troubled by the headline “Mitchell: Lasting Peace Must Begin in Israel” (May 6). But after reading the article, I realized that City Council President Ceasar Mitchell was simply saying that the United States cannot impose a solution on Israel and the Palestinians.

Nonetheless, I feel it is important to emphasize that Israel began making peace overtures decades ago.

After Britain used 78 percent of its League of Nations mandate for Palestine (a region of the defunct Ottoman Empire) to establish the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, the United

2014, and its stock price languished near the bottom of its recent price range.

But based on her track record and having confidence in her obvious perception of the company’s potential and what she could contribute to it — operating more on blind faith than financial analysis — I bought the stock. (I never talked to Bonnie about the company or my intentions. We did swap a few emails but exchanged only pleasantries.)

That faith in her prescience has paid off. Recently Comcast announced that it is buying DreamWorks Animation. The price? Close to double what I paid for the stock 15 months ago. Thank you for the payback, Bonnie Arnold.

Note to Sunday school teachers: Be nice to your students; someday the quiet one in the back corner could become a heroic star of your next great story.

— Philip Kaplan, Marietta

Vote for School Choice

Since 2008 I have been actively involved in efforts in Georgia to promote school choice. Thank G-d in 2008 the collective efforts of thousands of Georgia residents, including members of our community, secured the passage of legislation that allows Georgia taxpayers to redirect their Georgia tax dollars

to benefit families sending their children to private schools.

This legislation, the student scholarship organization law, has allowed for millions of dollars to assist families who cannot afford the full cost of private school tuition.

On May 24, Georgians who vote in the Republican primary will have the opportunity to demonstrate their support for school choice. The ballot includes this question: “Should Georgia empower parents with the right to use the tax dollars allocated for the education of their children, allowing them the freedom to choose among public, private, virtual and home schools?”

There are no practical implications of voting yes to this question.

However, voting yes will serve as an indication that Republican voters support school choice, and the data will be used to encourage Georgia legislators to expand school choice.

I hope there will be overwhelming support for this effort. Polling of Georgia voters indicates enormous support for school choice among Republicans and Democrats alike.

I encourage you to support this effort. You can learn more at www.gaschoolchoicenow.com.

— Rabbi David Kapenstein, Toco Hills

Teaching Pays Off

Decades ago I taught Sunday school religious classes at Ahavath Achim Synagogue to the toughest audience of all, teenagers. The pay was a pittance, but the gratifying reward came from the satisfaction of imbuing adolescent souls with an appreciation of their cultural, historic and religious traditions and years later kvelling as some of them became leaders in the Jewish community, others financially successful and a few quite famous.

But recently I received a reward.

One of my students, Bonnie Arnold, now co-president of feature animation at DreamWorks Animation, grew up in Atlanta, graduated from the University of Georgia, and found fame and fortune in the movie industry.

I first read about her as an associate producer of “Dances With Wolves.”

I followed her career. She was a producer for “The Last Station,” “Over the Hedge,” “Toy Story,” “Tarzan,” and the Oscar nominees “How to Train Your Dragon” and “How to Train Your Dragon II.” She’s working on “Dragon” No. 3.

Given her success, I found it perplexing when she accepted a position with DreamWorks Animation in January 2015. The company failed in two merger attempts and lost money in

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Nations proposed partitioning the remaining 22 percent into a Jewish state and second Arab state. The Yishuv (the Jewish communities of Palestine) accepted the plan; the Arabs rejected it.

Five Arab nations attacked, resulting in Egypt and Transjordan (now Jordan) beginning illegal occupations of Gaza and the West Bank. No effort was made to declare those areas a Palestinian state, nor was any effort made to rehabilitate the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who had fled the 1948 war.

In contrast, Israel quickly absorbed and uplifted an equal (or greater) number of Jews who had been thrust from their homes in Muslim countries.

In 1967, Israel liberated Gaza and the West Bank in a war launched by Egypt and Syria (and joined by Jordan) to destroy Israel and her people. The Arab League rejected an Israeli offer to withdraw in 1968. The Palestinian leadership later rejected offers of a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 97 percent of the West Bank with shared governance in parts of Jerusalem (2000/2001 and 2008). Israeli withdrawal from Gaza saw thousands of missiles lobbed at Israeli population centers.

Lasting peace will come only when the Palestinians agree to lie peaceably beside the nation-state of the Jews.

— Toby F. Block, Atlanta

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AJC Official: Latinos, Jews See Eye to Eye in Parallel

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hose familiar with Atlanta’s history know that it wasn’t always a welcome place for different kinds of folks. That situation made it fertile ground for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, after which Atlanta emerged as a symbolic champion of cooperation among previously distinct social groups.

According to Dina Siegel Vann, Atlanta thus is uniquely equipped to foster cooperation between the Jewish and Latino communities.

Siegel Vann is the director of American Jewish Committee’s Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs.

In her AJC role she has traveled widely and developed a network of political contacts. She organized the first Latino-Jewish Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., in 2001 and the National Conversation on the State of Latino-Jewish Relations in 2013. A regular contributor to the Spanish daily El Pais, Siegel Vann received the Civil Rights Award from the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in 2014.

She discussed the challenges facing Latin American communities at a luncheon hosted by AJC on Monday, May 9, before also appearing at the Atlanta Chapter’s annual meeting the next day at 103 West in Buckhead.

At the top of the list of issues: immigration policy.

“Immigration is, many times, only seen from a domestic perspective,” Siegel Vann said. “People don’t understand the root causes of immigration.

So, of course, we are also very involved in what’s going on in the countries of origin of those immigrants.”

AJC expressed support for the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle, a 2014 initiative by the governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to limit emigration.

With Rice University’s Baker Institute, AJC organized a panel discussion in Texas among various Latin American ambassadors to address common misconceptions about Latino immigration.

“One of the arguments is ‘They’re taking away money from schools, from hospitals,’ ” Siegel Vann said. “We showed with numbers that that’s not

Dina Siegel Vann joins AJC Atlanta Regional Director Dov Wilker (center) and Assistant Regional Editor Harold Hershberg at a lunch with Latino leaders May 9.

the case. They are producing much more resources than what they’re taking out.”

Recently, Siegel Vann invited Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario to address the Congressional Latino-Jewish Caucus, which was created in 2011 largely through Siegel Vann’s efforts. Nazario spoke about the flow of unaccompanied minors across the U.S.Mexico border.

“Immigration is a topic where Jews and Latinos see eye to eye,” Siegel Vann said, “both in terms of values and of interests. We’re all immigrants.”

In 2011, AJC collaborated with Latino Decisions, a research firm, to conduct a study on the perception of Jewish issues among Latinos and how the Jewish and Latino communities intersected. The study surveyed 2,000 Latinos in five cities.

“What we discovered is that mostly both communities lead parallel lives,” Siegel Vann said. “One of the things that was fascinating that we dis-

covered was that even though Latinos didn’t know anything about the Middle East or the Palestinian issue, they understood very well and they approved of the Jewish connection to Israel, and I think that has to do a lot with [Latinos’] connection to our countries of origin.”

According to Siegel Vann, another central issue facing Latinos in the United States is a lack of political involvement, particularly in matters of foreign policy.

“We don’t even have one organization today that is involved or focused on foreign policy,” Siegel Vann said.

She has invited Mexico’s 50 consuls general to Washington for AJC’s annual Global Forum from June 5 to 7. The foreign minister of Mexico, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, will be one of the main speakers. Because Mexicans make up the largest Latino group in the United States, the presence of those officials is a testament to the opportunities for collaboration between the Latino and Jewish communities. ■

Falls During Hike Kill Two East Cobb Friends

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wo young friends from East Cobb died in a freak accident while starting the summer with a hike near a North Carolina waterfall Tuesday, May 10.

According to multiple media reports, Davis Zinsenheim and Joey Hopkins, both 22, had climbed to the top of a waterfall at Lake Toxaway when Hopkins slipped and fell 40 feet, about a quarter of the way down.

When Zinsenheim tried to climb down to rescue his friend, he slipped and fell to the bottom, about 150 feet below. That fall was fatal.

Hopkins was rescued after a twohour effort by about 30 personnel from various agencies, but he died at Greenville Memorial Hospital, said Chief Deputy Eddie Gunner with the Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office.

Zinsenheim and Hopkins graduated from Pope High School in 2012.

Zinsenheim attended Georgia South-

ern University, and Hopkins went to Georgia Tech. Hopkins became a bar mitzvah at Temple Kol Emeth, and Zinsenheim had his bar mitzvah ceremony at Congregation Etz Chaim.

The two friends were visiting a Lake Toxaway resident and had climbed the waterfall on that person’s property while the homeowner was out.

Funerals for both men were held at Arlington Memorial Park — Zinsenheim’s on Friday, May 13, with Rabbi Mitch Cohen officiating and Hopkins’ two days later with Rabbi Steven Lebow officiating.

Zinsenheim’s survivors include his parents, Penny and Steve Zinsenheim, and a sister, Madison Zinsenheim.

Hopkins is survived by his parents, Gail and Jim Hopkins, and his college sweetheart from Georgia College & State University, Abigail Gardner. ■ • Obituaries, Page 43

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JF&CS lunch raises almost $400,000

By David R. Cohen david@atljewishtimes.com

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ewish Family & Career Services raised nearly $400,000 at its 10th annual Community of Caring luncheon Friday, May 13, at the InterContinental Buckhead.

The event is the organization’s largest annual fundraiser and helps JF&CS offer programs, services and resources to people of all faiths, cultures and ages in metro Atlanta.

“The vision of JF&CS,” CEO Rick Aranson told the crowd of nearly 700 people, “is to build a community of empowered lives. Our mission, how we reach that vision and what we do every day, is making hope and opportunity happen.”

Aranson then introduced some real-life examples of the work of JF&CS, starting with a compelling and emotional account by Eric Miller of his struggle with addiction and recovery.

Miller is the program coordinator for JF&CS’ HAMSA, or Helping Atlantans Manage Substance Abuse, a comprehensive substance abuse program for the Jewish community.

After Miller spoke, five other sto-

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ries of people JF&CS has helped were shown: • Lori and David — Lori Berger and David Bryan are a married couple with developmental disabilities who met in Israel in the late 1990s. JF&CS helps them with transportation and budgeting and recently helped them move into a new apartment in Atlanta.

• Maxine and Roy — Since 1984, Maxine and Roy Stokes have lived in Atlanta. When Roy needed assistance because of a breathing disorder that made it difficult for him to walk, JF&CS donated a mobility scooter and assisted with caregiver services.

• Kesavi — Facing unemployment, Kesavi Miller went to JF&CS for financial assistance and found out that the organization also offers a full-service career counseling and job placement service. She began attending JF&CS interviewing and résumé workshops and was eventually hired by the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

• Elissa and Talli — After Talli Hershkovitz’s parents divorced when she was 6, her mother enrolled her in the JF&CS PAL program, Atlanta’s only Jewish Big Brother/Big Sister program.

She was matched with Elissa Fladell, and the two have remained close ever

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can become aware that an interest-free loan from JIFLA might be available to them.

AJT: What’s the most important thing people should know about JIFLA? Weissmann: That we exist and are eager to help! We are a relatively new organization working on raising our 16 visibility so that potential borrowers

AJT: Where do you hope to lead JIFLA? Weissmann: One of our goals for 2016 is to double the number of loans awarded. So I will definitely be spending a lot of time meeting with vari-

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since. Both have moved on to volunteer in other JF&CS initiatives.

• Merle — After her teeth became badly misaligned because of a crack cocaine habit, Merle Deadwyler visited the JF&CS-run Ben Massell Dental Clinic for a complete dental reconstruction.

After getting her smile back, Merle returned to singing in her church choir for the first time in three years.

After the videos, Merle, brandishing her bright-white smile, sang a song for the crowd and received a standing ovation. ■

With JIFLA Executive Director Nancy Weissmann

ewish Interest Free Loan of Atlanta, which has given out more than $229,000 in interest-free loans since March 2010, has hired Nancy Weissmann as its executive director.

Weissmann was a president of Yeshiva Atlanta High School and was a key figure in that school’s merger with Greenfield Hebrew Academy to create Atlanta Jewish Academy.

She is married to Atlanta native David Weissmann and has three children, Elena, Shira and Josh.

She answered AJT’s Four Questions.

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Photos by David R. Cohen

Above left: Overcome with emotion, JF&CS CEO Rick Aranson gives Merle Deadwyler a long hug.

Above right: Merle Deadwyler sings in front of more than 700 people at the Community of Caring luncheon. Before JF&CS helped her, she was so ashamed of her teeth that she rarely left the house.

Left: JF&CS helps Lori Berger and David Bryan live on their own in Atlanta.

David’s mother, Terrie, says the program has made the couple more independent and has allowed them to “have a life that everybody wishes they could have.”

AJT: Why did you take the position?

Weissmann: This position truly seems tailor-made for me. It is the perfect combination of my business and technical background and my passion for community outreach and interpersonal relationships. I love working with Laura Kahn Travis (JIFLA’s president) and the rest of the board. The energy they bring is infectious!

ous community constituents to raise awareness of JIFLA and the types of interest-free loans we can make. A big part of this process is de-stigmatization: to help people realize an interestfree loan is an opportunity and not an embarrassment. We are here to provide a means toward financial integrity and independence.

AJT: What are some of your strategies to get JIFLA where you want it to go?

Weissmann: I am looking forward to a lot of coffee meetings, outreach activities and engaging conversations such as this one with you. We are eager to collaborate and partner with other organizations such as JF&CS and JAA (Jewish Abilities Alliance).

In order to better track the impact of our program, we are planning

a survey of our borrowers. In addition to the Women in Crisis Fund, we have recently created a new Special Needs Fund. These designated funds allow us to partner with organizations that are well positioned to direct potential borrowers to JIFLA. Also, JIFLA is part of a worldwide network of free loan societies; I have already learned quite a lot from their experiences and best practices. As awareness of JIFLA grows, we will be better positioned to provide interestfree loans to more and more individuals throughout the Jewish community, thereby enabling a greater number of people a higher degree of financial independence, opportunity and integrity.

In turn, this will strengthen our Atlanta Jewish community, making a stronger and more positive environment for all. ■

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Graves: Still Focused on Spending

By Cady Schulman cschulman@atljewishtimes.com

Another issue facing Congress now and in the future is the country’s foreign policy, something that Graves said doesn’t exist right now because of a lack of directive from President Barack Obama’s administration.

“Strengthening our national defense and creating that world leader presence is needed right now,” Graves said.

It’s also important for the United States to continue supporting friends overseas, especially Israel, which he said is one of the United States’ greatest allies. Graves said the United States currently sends Israel the amount of funding requested by the Jewish state.

“We must stand strong with them and support them in their efforts for peace,” said Graves, who has visited Israel several times. “They’re surrounded by many nations here who are not supportive and are their enemies. It’s very important to support them not just from a financial perspective, but from a military perspective. It’s a great journey to be on and see the true conflict that surrounds them, and yet the resilience and determination that the people have is encouraging to me.” ■

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eorgia gained a 14th congressional seat after the 2010 census, and Tom Graves, who previously represented the 9th District, is the only congressman the 14th has seen.

The district is rooted in Georgia’s northwestern corner and approaches Atlanta through Paulding County in the west and Pickens County in the north.

Graves, who has twice been elected by the 14th District, faces two challengers in the Republican primary Tuesday, May 24: Allan Levene of Rome and Mickey Tuck of Silver Creek.

No Democrat is running, so the Republican winner can count on joining the new president in Washington in January.

All three of the candidates touted similar goals, such as cutting out-ofcontrol spending and aiding Israel. ■

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inning another term as the 14th District’s congressman would mean business as usual for Tom Graves, a Ranger resident who has served in the U.S. House since winning a special election to succeed Nathan Deal in mid-2010.

After winning re-election in 2014 with nearly 73 percent of the votes against Democrat Danny Grant, Graves faces two Republican challengers, Allan Levene of Rome and Mickey Tuck of Silver Creek, in the May 24 primary election.

“We’re really excited about the support we have throughout the district,” Graves said. “It’s truly just based upon my representation in the district.

I’m still the same person whom they elected the first time. Our goals are simple.”

For Graves, his unchanged priorities include reining in out-of-control spending. Congress has cut almost $200 billion in discretionary spending and has reduced the nation’s deficit by three-quarters from its post-Great

Recession peak, Graves said.

“We have a history of being able to do that and get that done,” the congressman said.

“There’s clearly a Congressman lot more we have Tom Graves to do and must do.

That’s going to take courage from a lot of members (of Congress) and a new president to move forward and reform the way the government operates.”

While Graves said his votes on bills may not make every member of the 14th District happy, he said he weighs every issue based on his goals of lowering taxes, reducing the size of government and strengthening families.

“My role as a representative is to evaluate the facts and balance that through the decision-making process based on the facts and the truth before me, then cast a vote,” Graves said.

“That’s what I’ve done very consistently. Clearly, that’s not easy for everyone to do. Those are tough decisions, and oftentimes you’re in opposition to your own party.”

General Agreement On Goals In 14th District

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Levene: All About the Economy

By Cady Schulman cschulman@atljewishtimes.com

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or Rome resident Allan Levene, running for Georgia’s 14th District seat in Congress boils down to one thing: fixing the economy.

“I’m all about business,” said Levene, a London native who is Jewish.

“Everybody needs a job. They need to make more than minimum wage. Minimum wage is starvation pay. You can’t live on minimum wage. You were never meant to.”

The path to improving the country’s economy comes down to bringing the manufacturing industry back from China, Levene said.

“China is eating our lunch,” he said. “Their growth is accelerating, and ours is stuck in the mud. We’re in deep trouble. In the very near future, it will be announced that the global leader is China and not the U.S. That’s the key reason I’m running for office. It’s easy to stop.”

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ucts in the United States and providing the benefit to suppliers that manufacture in the United States as well, Levene said.

“Ever ybody in the Allan Levene supply chain, as long as they procure their components in the United States and manufacture in the United States, they won’t be taxed,” Levene said. “That’s an incentive to (work here) and set up new factories.

Suddenly, there will be a tremendous increase in competence. There will be an increase in opening new factories and new jobs. When you have new jobs and more jobs than people, the wages go up. That’s where I’m coming from: to provide a reward for doing the work we want rather than a punishment, which doesn’t work.”

Another issue that is important to Levene is helping Israelis yearning for peace flee the embattled Middle East.

Under Levene’s plan, a portion of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico that’s the same size as Israel would be designated New Israel — with the land purchased or seized by eminent domain — and serve as a peaceful extension of the Middle Eastern country. In exchange, Israel would give up the West Bank and allow the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“Instead of continuing to give millions and millions of dollars to maintain the status quo, which is a train wreck, they could give that money to develop New Israel, and the Israelis who don’t want to deal with the trauma could move to New Israel,” Levene said. “It would create huge job opportunities for the Texans.”

In addition to focusing on the economy and his New Israel plan, Levene wants to lessen the role of the federal government in areas that should be overseen by the state, such as education. Creating rules and benchmarks for K-12 education is each state’s role and something the federal government should stay out of, he said.

“The states provide for the education of the children, and that’s the way

it should be,” Levene said. The federal government “should stay out of it. They get their noses stuck in places they shouldn’t be in all the time. We have enough problems with our inept and mindless politicians than for them to get involved micromanaging the states, which are quite capable of managing themselves.”

The issue of micromanaging also filters down to social issues, such as the controversy over transgender people being allowed to choose their bathrooms based on their gender identification. The U.S. Department of Justice and the state of North Carolina are wrapped up in a civil rights lawsuit over the matter.

“This is one more example of dumb, mindless politicians passing laws under pressure that are not effective,” Levene said. “I haven’t had a problem with anybody doing anything they want to as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else. If men want to marry men or women want to marry women, I don’t have a problem with it. I don’t want to stick my nose in their personal lives.

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Tuck: Focus On Integrity

By Cady Schulman cschulman@atljewishtimes.com

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ntegrity needs to return to Congress, Silver Creek resident Mickey Tuck says, and that’s what he intends to deliver if elected by the 14th District.

“It’s time to elect someone who has integrity, honesty, and Mickey Tuck will actually go to D.C. to serve them and vote as they ask their congressman to vote for them,” Tuck said. “That’s what I can bring.

That’s why I’m running. People have asked me to run because they have the same frustrations. The Republicancontrolled Congress is not fighting for them or voting their will.”

Tuck said he’s not a “Washington insider” or part of the political establishment. “I haven’t been bought by lobbyists and special interests,” he said. “The president won’t elect me. The speaker of the House will not elect me.

Special interests and lobbyists won’t elect me. That’s why (voters) are angry.”

Another of Tuck’s major issues is putting a cap on and balancing the federal budget, which he said is out of control because the Republican-controlled Congress has broken its own caps.

Reforming welfare and encouraging those out of work to find jobs would help cut spending, Tuck said.

“There aren’t a shortage of jobs out there,” he said. “There aren’t jobs that people want, but there are jobs out there. I was raised if you want money in the bank, you do whatever job.”

Tuck also wants to eliminate federal agencies that aren’t needed, such as the Departments of Education and Transportation, and let the states handle those matters.

Social issues also should be left to the states, said Tuck, who was disappointed in Gov. Nathan Deal’s veto of House Bill 757, the religious liberty bill.

“States need to have policies in place to make sure religious liberties are protected,” Tuck said. “Because I’m a Christian, I’m commanded by my Lord to love everyone. I have friends who are homosexual. I have friends who are Muslim. I have friends who are Jewish.

I have friends who don’t go to church at all. I treat everybody the same. Just because we don’t agree with a certain lifestyle, it doesn’t make us bigots.” ■

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Rush to Challenge 11th District Freshman

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uch is made of the power of incumbents in American elections, but that advantage for first-term Congressman Barry Loudermilk doesn’t appear to have deterred many challengers in Georgia’ 11th District.

Loudermilk, who won a seat left vacant two years ago by longtime incumbent Phil Gingrey’s unsuccess-

ful run for the U.S. Senate, faces four challengers in the Republican primary Tuesday, May 24: Billy Davis, Daniel Cowan, Hayden Collins and William Llop.

Collins, a radio personality in Bartow County who has long been seen as a potential political candidate, appears to have the best chance to unseat Loudermilk in the 11th, which includes all of Bartow and Cherokee

Collins: A Common Touch

By Elizabeth Friedly efriedly@atljewishtimes.com

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ayden Collins has established himself as a conservative voice with a sense of humor in Northwest Georgia with his Saturday radio show.

He is an Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War and remains involved with the military through the Georgia Department of Defense. He’s a project manager and facility analyst with consulting firm Intelligent Systems & Engineering Services.

The Cartersville resident and his wife of 24 years, Sandra, fostered 152 children in 15 years and adopted four of them.

AJT: The presidential primaries have revealed a lot of anger at the po-

litical establishment. Why are you the right candidate to respond to that sentiment?

Collins: A considerable amount of voters’ anger toward the political establishment is in response to elected officials devoting their efforts toward the political games of Washington, D.C., instead of the concerns of their constituents, and the ineffective political gridlock of recent years. I will work together with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who are committed to reducing the size and extent of our government and the tax burden that is enabling it. It is not about sustaining the establishment culture; it’s about serving the district.

AJT: What sort of strategies will you use against “establishment cul-

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counties, a large piece of Cobb County, and the northwestern corner of Fulton County.

Whoever survives the Republican primary will face Democrat Don Wilson in November’s general election.

We caught up with Loudermilk and Collins to ask them a few questions about their campaigns. ■

ture”? How does your background support this?

Collins: The Democrat in this race, you should meet him. He’s a heck of a nice guy. He Hayden Collins served in the 82nd Airborne as well. He and I sat and talked over coffee and had a great conversation. We have things in common. We served in the same combat zone. He actually works with kids like I work with kids. I actually work with gang members down at Georgia Youth Challenge and help them out. We have a lot in common. This (gridlock) tends to disappear if you have a lot in common and common goals.

AJT: Why should the Jews in your district support your candidacy?

Collins: Jewish voters in the 11th

Congressional District are likely to share my positions in a number of areas, including my regard for Israel as our most important ally in the Middle East and that our president and elected officials must extend the same respectful welcome to Israel’s prime minister as we do to other heads of state from around the world.

From my Army service in the 1991 Desert Shield and Desert Storm missions, I gained firsthand experience of both the tensions and difficult living conditions resulting from the long-term hostilities in the region and also the need to allow Israel, Palestine and other sovereign entities to make the decisions about the peace process.

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AJT: What do you think is the solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians?

Collins: The U.S. has long provided support for the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Palestinian entities over the control and governance of territory to which both make claims.

While the U.S. and the United Nations desire a peaceful resolution for the disputed land and an end to the decades of violence over it, the United States needs to continue in the role of encouraging and facilitating bilateral negotiations between Israel and Palestinian entities for the resolution of possession of the disputed territory, while maintaining the U.S.’s commitment to establishing and sustaining stability in the region.

AJT: How should we approach smaller government?

Collins: First of all, let’s not go into the polarized mantra of “kill the EPA, kill the Department of Education, kill the IRS.” That’s polarized mantra. Have we got so many bureaucrats doing the EPA stuff that it’s become — instead of helping the people take care of the environment, it’s forcing the people to take care of the environment. It’s become an enemy. Has the Department of Education gotten to the point where they’re trying to justify their own existence by testing everybody to death so the last nine weeks of school is nothing but testing, so they’ve become an enemy instead of helping? Yeah. If you allow government to grow, it’ll grow.

AJT: As you know, Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed H.B. 757, the religious liberty legislation, drawing criticism at Republican district conventions around the state. Do you see religious liberty as being threatened?

Collins: Whatever their personal

convictions, with regard to the recent proposed legislation on religious liberty, I uphold the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of religion in our country and of keeping separate the operations of the church/religious organizations and those of the state. Let’s put it this way: If there was an oppressed church in the United States, would it not be all over CNN and Fox News? There’s no oppressed churches, but hear this as well: We have nine religious bills in the House of Representatives this year alone. You know what that means? That means that the Georgia General Assembly understands that the 0.5 (percent) growth we have in the United States, that’s OK with them. That we had to close up the hospice at the VA? That’s OK with them.

See, those aren’t important issues to them. What’s important to them is that they’ve got to get religious liberty

bills through because that’s more important than anything else in the state of Georgia. Is that focus actually helping the next generation? Is that focus actually helping the economy and the debt like they all claim during their campaigns? No. AJT: Finally, what are your priorities on tax and budget policies?

Collins: As part of a long-term plan for our economy, we need to reduce the federal government’s budget. Cutting established programs and entitlements will take courage and conviction on the part of all our elected representatives.

We can begin reducing our federal budget by cutting back the overreaching extensions of federal government administration and move as much decision and spending authority as possible back to the states — reforming the IRS and

implementing a less complicated and less burdensome form of taxation. We can seek out and eliminate the stifling regulations that are impeding small businesses across the country. Finally, we can work with elected representatives and business leaders to create long-term plans that will last beyond an election cycle.

Instead of putting financial obstacles and requirements in their way, I will fight to reduce the burdens of government regulations and costly government programs and use the savings from these former expenses to bring down our debt — without bringing down the opportunities of American businesses. And I will show no mercy for hiding pet projects in massive funding bills that are brought to a vote at the last minute without thorough review and pruning. ■

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current $3.1 billion a year to $7 billion a year. What level of U.S. financial aid do you feel Israel should receive and why?

Collins: The large majority of U.S. aid to Israel is currently in military assistance. These grants represent the U.S.’s support for establishing and sustaining stability through our alliance with Israel. As a member of Congress, I will support continuing this aid and a renewed MOU with Israel.

I’m not interested in cutting back.

The current level of investment that we’re putting in seems successful without interfering with the economic structure that’s there, and we’re not damaging anything. I think that’s extremely solid. Now considering this, all bets are off if the balloon goes up. If war breaks out, there is no doubt: There is no limit.

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Loudermilk: Defending Israel, Religion

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ormer state legislator Barry Loudermilk’s first term in Congress, representing the 11th District, included a trip to Israel and energetic opposition to the Iran nuclear deal.

The Cassville resident’s eight years in the Air Force included service in the Persian Gulf War. He founded and heads a data networking and information systems company in Marietta, Innovative Network Systems, and founded and was an owner of a flight training business in Rome.

Like challenger Hayden Collins, he is involved with the Civil Air Patrol. He and his wife of 33 years, Desiree, have three grown children.

AJT: Why should the Jews in your district support your candidacy? What do you feel you’ve done for the Jewish community?

Loudermilk: One of the things that I have done in the last year to help me better understand the Jewish community, besides a shared heritage, being a Christian myself, is having a shared heritage as well as our entire form of government. As our founders stated, they went back to the Old Testament and the forms of government that Jethro, James and Moses had in the desert. That was the model we used.

For the past two years I’ve made trips to Israel. I had the opportunity to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu as well as several other members of the government there and other department heads. One trip was on a counterterrorism task force, and the other we were there for 10 days really just getting to learn the culture and the challenges the people in Israel face.

Being a strong supporter of Israel prior to going, it actually firmed up with me. I got to have Shabbat dinner with a family there. Seeing the challenges with the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority showed just how important it is to continue our support.

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AJT: Democratic Congressman David Scott recently advocated increasing the amount of U.S. foreign military financing received by Israel from the current $3.1 billion a year to $7 billion a year. What level of U.S. financial aid do you feel Israel should receive?

Loudermilk: Well, I support everything we’re doing right now but also continue to look at investing in Israel 22 on several fronts. One, military aid is

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very important.

You know, we have helped very much with the Iron Dome, but we also have to look at continuing with David’s Bow, David’s Arrow, David’s Sling, to make sure that there is adCongressman Barry Loudermilk equate anti-missile, anti-aircraft protection, because, as you know, Israel is very vulnerable in its geographical location. They’re surrounded, for the most part, by adversaries, and the defenses that are needed to protect Israel are unique in that sense.

I think we need to continue to invest in technology as well as foreign aid money in defense structures. As I said, with David’s Arrow and David’s Sling, they’re being developed, as well as continuing with the Iron Dome, which has been very successful. So we need to continue to support with military hardware, and I have recently co-sponsored a bill that will allow the U.S. military to help secure Israel energy assets off shore. Because the only stabilizing force in the Middle East is Israel, and if we weren’t investing in Israel and the defense of Israel, then there would be U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in the Middle East, bringing that stability. So every dollar that we invest in foreign aid and military support to Israel is just a fraction of what we would be spending to bring stability to that area of the world. So not only being our closest ally, a shared heritage with the United States as the only really free society in that entire area, it’s economically viable too.

AJT: Could you elaborate on your time in the Homeland Security Committee and how that has informed your opinions?

Loudermilk: It has greatly because I was selected as a freshman to a special counterterrorism task force.

It was only eight members of us on that task force, and we spent several months really deeply investigating the challenges that we face in stopping foreign fighters as well as deterring terrorist activities here in the United States as well as U.S. interests abroad.

We did do an eight-country tour in 10 days a year ago, in May of last year, and the first three days were in Israel.

The reason we chose Israel first is because it’s the first, most successful (nation) in deterring foreign fighter travel,

and we wanted to see how they were doing it. We’ve actually taken a lot of the information that we gained from meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, the counterterrorism specialists there in Israel; we brought it back to craft the direction we’re going here in the United States.

For one instance, what the prime minister is doing is when someone leaves from Israel to fight with ISIS, they’re coming back with solutions.

And so what they’re doing is taking them and their parents and using them by putting them up on television and radio to try and deter the radicalization of others by them telling their story.

I actually traveled over into Oman from Israel with the Palestinian Authority there. Again, that brought to realization that the Palestinian Authority, in my opinion, is not acceptable to the establishment of a Jewish state.

We’re never going to get peace there until the Palestinians agree that the Jewish people have a right to a state and that state is in Israel.

AJT: What do you think is the solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians?

Loudermilk: You know, it’s one of those things: How many thousands of years have we been trying to get peace in the Middle East? I wish there was a silver bullet. This is one of the things that one of the generals in the Air Force told me while we were there: His mantra is that there is no silver bullet. It’s a multitude of solutions. I think the biggest problem is, it isn’t just Israel. A lot of the complaints that we’re hearing now are as the Palestinians call it “Israel settlements” on the West Bank, but it’s just not. It’s Israelis in the West Bank that is part of Israel that are building neighborhoods that are safe neighborhoods.

Here’s what I brought to the attention of the Palestinians authorities when we were in Oman: As we were discussing a resolution to the problems there, and of course they were saying Israel is the problem, I said, “Well, what’s interesting is that I have been all throughout Israel and the strip, and I’ve just been traveling in a bus, a regular bus, but when I came to Ramallah, it had to be in an armored vehicle car.”

One of the other things is, we’re going to have to deal with Iran. Iran is an instigator in that area, supplies Hamas and Hezbollah with the rockets they’re firing into Israel. This is a problem. So quite often we just focus on the Pales-

tinian Authority and Israel. We look at Lebanon, Gaza, but the reality is the radical leadership of Iran is one of the reasons that we have instability there because of it being the largest state supplier of terrorism. They are supplying the money, the means, the ability and the weapons that these terrorists are using against Israel.

AJT: Conversely, what do you see as the primary domestic policy challenges of the next decade?

Loudermilk: Well, they’re numerous. After eight years of this president, of course, we have definite foreign policy challenges that we’re going to have to overcome. But our domestic policy challenges — I would say the most significant that we have is our debt, our growing national debt. But also there are the issues like the cuts to our military have been very devastating, and so it’s going to have to be innovative ideas coming into the new Congress.

The thing I’ve done this year that is the most significant is drafting a balanced budget amendment to require the Congress to operate under a balanced budget. It gives us a 10-year window to get there, but it also reclaims the power of the purse to actually constrain the growth of government.

We’ve got to incentivize the economy, and the way to do that is to get these regulatory agencies off the back of our businesses and individuals. We have to reform these regulatory agencies to get them under control. The EPA, for one, is just out of control.

There are ever-evolving regulations.

The Department of Labor has just put in new regulations that have stifled the growth of small business. We have to deal with Obamacare. It is on a path of destruction, so we’re working on the reforms for that.

So when you package it all together, we get the economy going, and it raises revenue. You pass a balanced budget amendment, and you live within your means. We get back to a surplus, where we can pay the debt off. If we don’t deal with this debt, within five to six years, the interest payment will exceed our entire defense budget.

AJT: As you know, Gov. Deal vetoed H.B. 757, the religious liberty legislation. Do you see religious liberty as being threatened?

Loudermilk: I do think there is a threat because one of the key elements for our founders was the freedom of religion: the freedom of religion, not the

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AJT: Finally, what do you think inspired multiple fellow Republicans to run against you?

Loudermilk: I think it is just opportunity. If you look in any election, when it’s your first re-election, that’s when you’re the most vulnerable, and because what I have done while I’ve been in Washington, D.C., is challenging the status quo. I’ve challenged leadership on many occasions. We’ve brought in new leadership, and we’re actually reforming the culture up here in Washington. So I have been very busy working up here, and I’m not one of these guys that spends most of my time fundraising, and that showed I was vulnerable.

They just have a desire to be in Congress. From what we’ve seen of the campaigning, they’re willing to do or say whatever it takes to get in Congress because most of what they’ve said in ad campaigns is not true. I’ve said many times you shouldn’t get your facts on Facebook. You should look at the paper, and you will see the things they’re accusing me of. They’re false. This is what high-paid consultants tell them they have to do to get elected. ■

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freedom of worship, but the freedom of religion. There are many reports of Judaism’s influence in the founding.

In fact, I was reading a story recently about a Fourth of July parade led by rabbis and led by pastors during the early days of America.

We have always given the freedom of religion in this country. Where we are today is we have empowered the government to the point where the government dictates what morality is, and it forces that definition of morality on the individual. What we’re seeing right now with the bathroom debate is the government is deciding, “All right, this is our new standard of morality, and we’re going to force you into that.”

Whether it’s forcing a baker to do a wedding for a gay couple — it’s not discriminatory if they say: “You know, actually participating in the wedding violates my religious beliefs. I can find them someone else; there’s plenty of bakers around here.” But the real issue is the government enforcing what the government has defined as morality upon the people. That’s where we have to provide the protection. That’s where the Founding Fathers said it’s the job of the government to protect the right of the individual. The government constraint should be to stop the imposition of ideas onto individuals. It’s not discriminatory in the least, and you’re protecting the deeply held religious beliefs of someone.

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Congressman Against Congressman in 9th

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he 9th Congressional District, which covers all of 17 counties and parts of three others in Northeast Georgia, is ranked among the most conservative in the country.

As such, the winner of the May 24 Republican primary can bank on two years’ residence in Washington and an annual paycheck of $174,000.

The district’s 715,000 residents, including a Jewish population estimated at fewer than 1,500, are represented by

Doug Collins, who is seeking re-election to the seat he won in November 2012 and retained two years ago.

Collins’ chief rival also is seeking re-election, in a manner of speaking.

Paul Broun represented Georgia’s 10th Congressional District from 2007 to 2015. He sought the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retirement of Saxby Chambliss but finished fifth out of seven candidates in the 2014 Republican primary, won by now-Sen. David

Perdue.

Georgia was awarded a 14th congressional district after the 2010 census, and part of the 10th District was moved into the 9th District. Though the U.S. Constitution requires only that a House member live in the state he represents, Broun has moved from Watkinsville in Oconee County to Clarksville in Habersham County to be in the 9th.

Three others are running in the

Collins: Rooted in Northeast Georgia

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oug Collins is a 49-year-old native son of Hall County, a homegrown Republican representing Georgia’s 9th Congressional District.

He’s no interloper from another district who knows neither the geography nor the values of the 9th. That’s how Collins’ campaign paints former Congressman Paul Broun, who used to represent the 10th District, his chief rival in the Republican primary Tuesday, May 24.

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“I’m from Northeast Georgia, so I know the issues and the people, which is why I’ve consistently fought for the priorities of Northeast GeorCongressman gians,” Collins Doug Collins said.

“I believe former Congressman Broun has a record to answer to, and I believe it is my responsibility to respectfully draw contrasts between the

two of us. I have a consistent record of fighting for the 9th District, while former Congressman Broun has a record of scandal and corruption,” Collins said.

Collins moved from the state House to the U.S. House with the term that began in 2013. The graduate of the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta sits on the Judiciary and Rules committees.

After two terms on Capitol Hill, Collins said he understands public anger with government.

“The American electorate is tired

Republican primary — Roger Fitzpatrick, Michael Scupin and Bernie Fontaine — but attention has focused on Collins and Broun.

The two have exchanged barbs over Broun’s change of address, their conservative credentials and ethics issues that have dogged Broun. Collins has an enormous advantage in campaign funds over his opponents, according to the latest reports from the Federal Election Commission. ■

of false promises and cheap political talk,” he said. “The legislative process was intentionally designed to be slow, deliberate and methodical so that the body could make sound and logical decisions without the heat of passion.

The American people are simply using the voice of democracy to demand accountability and results from their elected officials.

“I understand their frustration, which I why I believe we need to fix the process to make it more transparent and open to Americans. … I have always said that I am happy to explain

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As for budget issues, Collins said: “We must continue to reign in federal spending and work to reduce our burdensome national debt. This is the first generation that will be left worse off than the previous generation, and I find that entirely unacceptable. … The federal government should not go back on its word and strip benefits from those who have been paying into the system their entire adult life, but we do have an obligation to work with younger generations to develop a system that is both fair and sustainable.”

Collins and his wife, Lisa, have a daughter and two sons. They attend Lakewood Baptist Church in Gainesville. The congressman holds a master’s degree in divinity from the New Orleans Theological Seminary and since 2007 has served as an Air Force Reserve chaplain.

“Unfortunately, many of our Judeo-Christian values are under attack,” Collins said. “It is the responsibility of the government to ensure that each person maintains religious liberty. On a federal level, I co-sponsored the First Amendment Defense Act and have personally defended military chaplains’ right to share their faiths and counsel troops. … As a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve and a pastor, these issues are personal for me. I think we must act to ensure that Americans’ freedoms are protected, and I will continue to do so.”

Being the husband of a fifth-grade teacher informs Collins’ positions on public education.

“We need to return the power of education to the local level — the parents, teachers and local boards of education. Our students are burdened by excessive testing, our teachers are tied down by bureaucratic red tape, and our parents are frustrated by complex Common Core standards.”

He said he voted for the Every Student Succeeds Act because, while it had flaws, “it did seriously rein in the Obama administration’s — and future administrations’ — ability to bully states into adopting Common Core or other federal standards and assessments,” he said. “I also believe we must institute measures that allow school choice. The Every Student Succeeds Act included reforms that expand school choice and are a step in the right direction. Children should not be forced to remain in failing schools, and parents should have the ability to choose the right schools for their children.” ■

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any vote I take, and I mean that. We may not agree on every vote, but I will always answer any question. Too often, people forget who they were elected to serve and what they were elected to do when they get to Washington.”

Collins touts his support for Israel, citing authorship of a bill to require White House reports to Congress on weapons sales in the Middle East. The measure became part of the United States Strategic Partnership Act of 2014.

“I would support raising the level of military aid to Israel,” he said. “We must take every step to help protect Israel and maintain our strong relationship with them. I believe the U.S. should maintain its role as a mediator in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, through close coordination with Israel and a refusal to allow counterproductive efforts aimed at imposing a solution on the parties. I am opposed to one-sided initiatives by the United Nations concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and I have called on President Obama to insist that this conflict be solved at the negotiating table and not by the United Nations.”

Collins opposed last year’s Iran nuclear deal. “We must rein in Iran and prevent them from growing their nuclear program. Iran has continued to act in an aggressive manner, yet the administration has essentially ignored that behavior.”

Collins feels that the primary foreign policy challenge of the next decade will come from the Middle East.

“First and foremost, we must protect our nation from ISIS and other Islamic terrorists. If we do not work diligently to unequivocally defeat ISIS and its followers, we will not continue to have the safety and security to effectively address domestic needs. With that being said, America is not intimidated by these terrorists, and we will continue to solve complex domestic issues at home.”

On the home front, Collins wants to update laws used to combat terrorism. “I believe there is a balance between giving law enforcement the tools they need to protect the public and preserving civil liberties and constitutional protections,” he said.

As an example, he cited the Email Privacy Act, passed by the House in April, which would remove law enforcement’s ability to access email messages more than 180 days old without a warrant. “This is not right,” Collins said. Existing U.S. law “was written before email, cloud storage and other modern modes of communication were widely used. I co-sponsored and

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Broun: Seeking Conservative Revival

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aul Broun’s message to Republican voters in the 9th District is that he is a true conservative, unlike the incumbent Republican congressman, Doug Collins.

“I will stand strong for our conservative values and actually fight back against big-government liberals in Congress,” while Collins “is an establishment politician who has consistently done the opposite,” Broun said in a 250-word news release touting endorsements in which “conservative” appears at least nine times.

Broun repeated that theme in answering questions from the Atlanta Jewish Times.

“People are fed up with Washington politicians because they keep ignoring we the people,” he said. “Conservative grassroots especially are fed up with the Republican leadership and establishment for constantly breaking promises, caving to Obama, and coming up with excuses for why they can’t do anything. I’m fed up too, and that’s why I’m running.”

The challenger, who represented the 10th District in Congress from 2007 to 2015, blames Collins for the tone of the campaign. “I called Former Congressman Congressman ColPaul Broun lins a week before I announced to let him know I’d be running. I told him my campaign would be about comparing my voting record to his voting record. Then I announced, and within 24 hours Congressman Collins had a radio ad up attacking me personally with half-truths and falsehoods. His attacks have only gotten more vitriolic and personal and, honestly, further from the truth,” Broun said. “I won’t get down in the mud. I started this campaign by talking about voting records, and that’s how I’m going to end it.”

Broun, who turned 70 on May 14, was exposed to politics at a young age.

His father, Paul Broun Sr., represented the Athens area in the Georgia Senate as a Democrat for 38 years.

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The son, Dr. Paul Broun Jr., graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in chemistry and earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He has been a family physician for more than 40 years and served as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Broun and his wife, Niki, married in 1985. He has three adult children and two grandchildren.

Broun considers Israel a priority issue. “I’m an ardent supporter of Israel because of a promise G-d made with our father Abraham. G-d promised he’d bless those that bless Israel and curse those that curse Israel. It is imperative that the United States continue to bless Israel.”

That blessing includes foreign aid.

“Before even considering foreign aid to any other country, we must guarantee that we’re providing it to Israel. Foreign aid packages to Israel should be robust and effective for helping Israel stay safe. Additionally, any foreign aid that the United States is sending Arab countries needs to be conditional and based on their efforts to help us combat terrorism and help Israel.

“The United States, and Congress in particular, must also take the lead in being a strong voice in support of Israel on the global stage. This includes encouraging Arab nations and Palestinians to work toward an agreeable two-state solution and to help in combating radical Islamic terrorists. The United States can and should lead the way in promoting, encouraging and aiding moderate Palestinians who will actively work to eliminate radical Islamists in the region.”

Broun expressed concern about government overreach in the name of national security. “Our United States Constitution, as our Founding Fathers intended it, will protect civil liberties and American citizens. The United States government should cease and desist spying on law-abiding citizens and trampling upon our G-d-given, constitutionally protected rights.”

Broun, a member of the Prince Avenue Baptist Church in Bogart, also worries about the trampling of expressions of faith. “Religious liberty must be protected at all costs. Our nation was founded upon Judeo-Christian, biblical principles that allow people to practice their religion, and this must be protected. The First Amendment is one of the guardians of liberty and freedom, and this must be protected as well.”

Summarizing his political philosophy, Broun said: “Our domestic policy

must ensure a strong national defense, national security and a strong economy. The unsustainable national debt and unfunded liabilities are the greatest threats to our national security and to our economy’s future. We must restore fiscal sanity in Washington and go back to constitutionally limited government as our Founding Fathers envisioned it when they constrained the federal government through the enumerated powers.”

He said the government “has a spending problem and not a revenue problem. But, in addition to cutting spending, we need to reform the tax code, which currently stifles job creation. My JOBS Act would change this dramatically and bring manufacturing jobs back to America. Additionally, we need to abolish the IRS and move towards a FairTax.” Broun also favors a reduced federal role in public education. “We’ve got to let teachers teach. Education policy has to recognize that each student is unique and original. Meeting the needs of every child requires a variety of educational choices and options that can only be done at the local level.

Moving towards that requires sending powers back to the states and getting federal bureaucrats out of local education decisions. We need to abolish the Department of Education, fully and finally repeal No Child Left Behind as reauthorized in the Every Student Succeeds Act, and put a complete stop to Common Core,” he said.

Broun continues to face questions about matters dating to his congressional tenure. His congressional chief of staff was indicted in April on charges of misusing taxpayer money to finance campaign activities and obstructing a congressional investigation. “I have cooperated fully with the investigators at every step. Throughout this process, it was made clear that I was not the subject of the investigation. Everything I did was completely above board and the investigation has proven that,” Broun said.

He also has garnered publicity for controversial comments, including videotaped remarks in September 2012 to a church group. “All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell,” Broun, who was then a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, told the audience. “It’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.” ■

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Educator, Insurance Agent Runs as ‘Trump Card’

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rnall “Rod” Thomas is a retired school psychologist and a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War who has worked on a farm, run a day care center, owned restaurants, and sold insurance and cabinet refacing, but his website (www.rodthomasforcongress. org) emphasizes his anti-establishment approach by calling him this election’s Arnall “Rod” Thomas “Trump card” — linking his name to that of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

AJT: Why should Jewish residents of your district support you?

Thomas: Because they are citizens first and Jewish second.

informed enough to answer this question. I will say that I do support Israel with finances and military supplies.

Thomas: Congress should pass a constitutional amendment that would give greater voice to this problem.

AJT: What do you think is the solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians?

Thomas: It is no different than conflict here in the USA in our own race relations struggles. It just requires that we continue to meet and communicate with both sides.

AJT: Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed H.B. 757, the religious liberty legislation, drawing criticism at Republican district conventions around the state.

Do you see religious liberty as being threatened? If so, what should be done?

If not, why do so many people think so?

Thomas: H.B. 757 was a total overreach by extreme conservatives. I sent Gov. Deal an email thanking him for having the common sense and moderate view. The bills that did pass in North Carolina and Mississippi are power reaches by conservatives that promote

AJT: How should the federal government address the balance between protecting the American public and preserving the civil liberties on which the country was founded?

hate and division in our society.

AJT: What can/should government do to make college education less of a financial burden for families?

Thomas: This is one of my issues.

I would be for giving every student support equal to a four-year public college’s cost.

AJT: What are your priorities on tax and budget policies?

Thomas: Raise taxes on the highest 1 percent. I’m going to work for the average teacher’s salary of $48,000.

The salary for Congress is $174,000.

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AJT: The presidential primaries have revealed a lot of anger at the political establishment. Why are you the right candidate to respond to that?

Thomas: Because I feel like they do. For far too long we have put political parties ahead of service and giving back to our communities.

AJT: What level of U.S. financial aid do you feel Israel should receive?

Thomas: As a freshman candidate for Congress, I do not feel I would be

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he 3rd District may be the least predictable congressional race in Georgia for the simple reason that incumbent Republican Lynn Westmoreland is retiring. Nine candidates — Republicans Rod Thomas, Chip Flanegan, Drew Ferguson, Jim Pace, Mike Crane, Richard Mix and Samuel Anders and Democrats Angela Pendley and Tamarkus Cook — are on the ballot Tuesday, May 24, to replace Westmoreland in representing a district south and west of Atlanta.

The district runs from Villa Rica to Columbus and from the Alabama border to McDonough and Forsyth, including the growing Jewish community centered around Peachtree City.

The AJT invited all the candidates to answer a questionnaire. Only Rod Thomas met the submission deadline, but if others get their answers to us before Election Day, we will post them at atlantajewishtimes.com. ■

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2 AA Members Vie For Fulton Judgeship

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hree candidates, two of them Jewish, are vying to replace retiring Judge Wendy Shoob on the Fulton County Superior Court. Andrew Margolis and Gary Alembik, who both attend Ahavath Achim Synagogue, are on the ballot with Eric Dunaway in the nonpartisan primary Tuesday, May 24.

Margolis said he wants the post because presiding over the highest trial court in the state is the best way to help the most people.

“I’ve been on every side of the law. I’ve been a prosecutor. I’ve been a public defender, been a family lawyer. I’ve done civil work. I’ve handled pretty much any type of case you can imagine in a courtroom, and I can appreciate the awesome power of a Supreme Court judge. It’s the potential to directly affect so many people’s lives,” he said.

The owner of an Atlanta law firm, Margolis, 41, is the youngest of the three candidates but said he is the most qualified. “I’m the only candidate who has any experience at all as a judge in criminal and civil cases. It makes me uniquely suited to this position, more so than anybody else who’s running.”

Margolis has served as a magistrate judge in Fulton County since 2012.

“You’re balancing so many different factors: the needs of the victims in the case, the component of punishment for bad behavior, and also the component of compassion and mercy,” he said in describing a magistrate’s challenges. “A lot of these defendants are people who want and need help, so when that’s appropriate, you want to do that too.

That’s why I’m running.”

An avid musician since childhood, Margolis was planning to host a “Judge Jam” in Sandy Springs on Wednesday, May 18, as part of his campaign to meet voters. “We all reach out to the community in different ways. One of the ways I do that is through music; I’ve been musical since before I could talk — been playing piano since I was 3. Mostly what I do is blues and rock. I play piano, keyboard, bass and drums.

I’m a singer also. That’s a lot of what I did in law school and how I supported myself, playing clubs in a blues band.

Music is universal.”

Alembik said Shoob herself told him that running for her seat might be a good idea.

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“She reached out to me, let me know that she was retiring, gave me a nudge and said I should really consider running. She’s been a friend and a mentor and made a contribution to my campaign, which is permissible. She’s not allowed to endorse,” he said.

Asked to describe his experience, Alembik said: “I’ve sat by designation as a Superior Court judge for the last 10 years and served under 10 judges on the (Fulton) court. I serve in the family division and served in the domestic violence section under the umbrella of the family division.”

Alembik, 52, has been a member of the Georgia Bar for 28 years and said he is active in charities such as the Atlanta Community Food Bank. He is a member of the LGBT committee at the “very progressive” Ahavath Achim, where he said he and Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal have “enhanced social awareness on HIV.” Regarding Margolis, Alembik said: “Andrew belongs to my synagogue, which is a bit awkward. He has a peppering of experience all over. He’ll suggest that he’s the most well-rounded, but I think he has a little growing to do in terms of legal experience. I think Andrew is a little early in terms of his ambition to be judge. He’s fairly young and doesn’t have the kind of experience I think one needs. That’s not to say he won’t develop that.”

Alembik’s father, a lawyer of Polish origin who died two years ago, hid on a farm in France with his parents for the duration of World War II. “He was a survivor,” Alembik said.

“He was the one who instilled in me the idea of public service. He came here with the shirt on his back and became very successful. He adopted a significant work ethic, worked to make sure his family had what he didn’t. It was the importance of giving back. That’s how I honor my father; it’s a shame he’s not here to see it.” ■

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hen Binyomin Abrams started studying science as a young man, he discovered he was “completely wrong about everything,” he told an audience at Intown Jewish Academy Tuesday night, May 10.

The subject of his lecture was “Science and Faith,” and Abrams, 35, dissected the myriad dichotomies between the two doctrines, asserting they can and do coexist.

Now a chemistry professor at Boston University, Abrams was raised in Montreal and acknowledged that, despite his Orthodox appearance, his childhood and adolescence were marked by an almost total lack of Jewish instruction.

“I was always led to believe that this Judaism thing was an all-or-nothing relationship. I thought it was just the absence of lobster, the existence of hunger,” he joked.

The intricacies of his religion became somewhat clearer when he attended New York University for his doctorate. “Do one thing to make the world better — that’s all that is really asked of you,” he was told by a fellow Jew, who suggested he visit a neighborhood seder.

Abrams did more than that. “I owed it to myself to figure out what being Jewish actually is. I was trained as a scientist, so why not take a scientific approach to studying Judaism?”

That approach came down to lots of research, he said. “It’s getting your hands dirty, getting confused, flummoxed and flustered. Then you re-evaluate — take the results of that research, see if they jive with what you believe and understand.”

Abrams concluded that the science he loved and the faith he belonged to were not incompatible. “My entire life I had always heard that ‘Science and Torah is like oil and water,’ ” he said. “Given what I’d heard about this conflict between science and religion, I figured there must be no religious scientists.”

It turns out he was wrong, and through his studies he found scholars such as Robert Boyle, an Irish philosopher and inventor in the 1600s who was able to “discern the inevitable subtlety of nature’s curious workmanship,” Abrams said. “He was stricken by the greatness of G-d’s creation.”

Abrams quoted Nobel laureate and physicist Isidor Rabi as saying, “Physics filled me with awe … and brought me closer to G-d.” According Binyomin Adams to Abrams, Rabi’s students would be asked just one question when submitting papers: “ ‘How will this bring you nearer to G-d?’ If they could answer that, it was a worthwhile project.”

Biologist and geneticist Francis Collins, the leader of the Human Genome Project, has written extensively about the synthesis between science and faith. “Few of his books are about biology; most are about G-d,” Abrams said. He quoted Collins as writing, “Belief in G-d is an entirely rational choice, and the principles of faith are complementary with principles of science.”

“For me, that was the end of it.

With this I stopped looking,” Abrams said in his speech.

German theoretical physicist Max Planck said of science and religion that one should not exclude the other; rather, they are integral and mutually interacting. “Man needs science as a tool of perception, but he also needs religion as a guide to action,” Abrams said. Planck “saw this world analogously as a gift. You play around with it and try to learn about it. You don’t sit there and do nothing.”

Abrams said science is all about figuring out how things work — what button to push to make something happen and how a mechanism is working so that you can manipulate it in the best possible way. “But religion is how you should use it and what it can do for you,” he said, “because knowing what something does doesn’t mean you know how to use it. From Planck’s perspective, it wasn’t just that they could interact; he felt that science and religion must interact. If they don’t, you’re not doing either of them properly.”

A degree of incertitude, however, is endemic in any scientific endeavor, Abrams conceded, citing Werner Heisenberg, another Nobel laureate and physicist. Heisenberg gave science the uncertainty principle, postulating that there are things in the physical world “we weren’t capable of measuring or don’t have the right tools to measure or that we fundamentally cannot measure, period,” ■

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Amit Farkash speaks to Atlanta Jewish Academy students about her brother’s death in the Second Lebanon War and the song she sang at his funeral that became a popular Israeli anthem.

Photo by Beth Intro AJA seventh-grader Bobbi Sloan marches in a traditional flag drill.

Photo by Beth Intro AJA first-grader Shira Lowenstein flies through the IDF fitness course.

Photo by Beth Intro AJA third-grader Ariel Birnbaum shops at the shuk’s fruit and vegetable booth, operated by 11th-grader Judah Blanks.

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mit Farkash, the featured speaker at the community Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) observance Tuesday night, May 10, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, made visits to Atlanta day schools while she was in town.

Farkash’s older brother, Israel Defense Forces pilot Thom Farkash, died in a helicopter crash during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, and she gained national attention after singing “Millions of Stars,” written by a friend about her brother, at his funeral.

Davis Academy students honored Farkash by singing the song during her stop at the Reform day school with

Israeli Deputy Consul General Ron Brummer, who was observing his final Yom HaZikaron before the end of his term in Atlanta.

Fifth- to 12th-graders at Atlanta Jewish Academy also met with Farkash, now an actress, who told them about her brother’s life and death and how the song she sang became a national symbol for the Second Lebanon War. AJA students paid tribute to the fallen soldiers of that war against Hezbollah during the school’s Yom HaZikaron observances. After the Israeli flag was lowered to half-staff, third- through eighth-graders attended a Lower School ceremony presented by

the sixth grade that featured the stories of Farkash and two other Israeli soldiers killed in the Second Lebanon War, Ro’ie Klein and Michael Klein.

Gil Saidian, a representative of Israel’s air force, spoke at the Lower School and recognized AJA’s love for Israel. Seth Baron, the Southeast executive director of Friends of the IDF, explained how his organization cares for lone soldiers from Atlanta and around the world who enlist in the IDF. Brummer, an AJA parent, spoke to the Upper School students. He said no family in Israel is untouched by war; all have lost friends or relatives who died to help keep Israel safe. Erez Ezer

Davis Academy sixth-graders Amalia Haviv (left) and Shoshana Katz flank Israeli singer Amit Farkash. Amalia and Shoshana sang “Millions of Stars” during the Davis Yom HaZikaron ceremony on Wednesday, May 11.

of the Israeli air force told the AJA students what a comfort it was to see them blessing Israeli troops.

As it did throughout the Jewish world, the mood lifted the next day for Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day). At AJA, morning events included a whole school assembly with an Israeli flag drill by seventh-graders and a flash mob. AJA Lower School students also enjoyed eight Israeli-themed activities, including shopping at a shuk, writing notes for the Kotel and running through an IDF fitness course. ■

The Multisensory Way to Build a Better Brain

By R.M. Grossblatt

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aculty members at Temima High School had their eyes opened to the opportunities to expand their minds Tuesday, May 3, during a presentation in the Temima Women’s Center

by Allen Broyles, the assistant head of school at the Howard School.

In a workshop titled “The Amazing Minds We May Be Missing: A Crash Course in Differentiation, Neuroscience and Cerebro Diversity,” Broyles brought sense and understanding to neuroscience.

Using a slide presentation, Broyles emphasized a multisensory approach to building a better brain. We faculty members at Temima shared ideas and showed where we stood on an issue by gathering in three areas of the room.

Broyles mentioned past educators, such as Marie Montessori and John Dewey, who paved the way for a multisensory approach to learning. “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn,” Dewey wrote in “Democracy and Education” in 1916, “and the doing 30 is of such a nature to demand thinking;

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learning naturally results.”

Flashing a slide overhead that showed “10%,” Broyles said that is the retention rate of students who did well on a test 30 days earlier.

Allen Broyles He urged us to increase the retention rate by increasing cognitive ability, effectiveness and efficiency.

A first step is to recognize that students’ brains unfold at different rates.

Broyles encouraged teachers to “evaluate everything and grade nothing,” or maybe grade every third quiz. He suggested that after a teaching session, students might give feedback to their teachers on how they’re learning. He said the questions on a “Quick CheckIn” might be: “What piqued my interest? What questions were raised for me? What annoyed me?”

As a teacher, I know it takes confidence to pose these questions, but the answers can help the student as well

as the teacher zero in on the learning strategies that work for that student.

Secondly, Boyles believes that “all students can benefit from a gifted program” and from an enriched environment. This environment would have six major areas of learning: novel, open-ended, challenging experiences; social communication and support; multisensory activities; movement; appropriate stress management; and sufficient time.

This enriched environment has been shown to increase memory, to build larger neurons, a thicker cortex and more branches, and to provide inoculation from stress.

At the Howard School, Broyles encourages the use of fly swatters to hit at vowels on the board, soft Nerf ball activities, and, for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, exercise balls instead of chairs to sit on.

He also gives students breaks to run around the perimeter of the building.

“We are meant to be fit,” he said.

“Intense exercise grows brain cells.”

His view of computers and technology is that they are “tremendously

powerful” and “tremendously dangerous.” He equates giving children free use of the Internet to letting them “walk by themselves at midnight in Piedmont Park.”

Our brains are like rubber bands that can be stretched, and students can increase their IQs, Broyles said. He showed two charts under the title “Ability to Change Brains Decreases Over Time.” The first one, labeled “Normal Brain Plasticity Influenced by Experience,” showed a descending ability to change brain power. But the second chart, labeled “Physiological ‘Effort’ Required to Enhance Neural Connections,” showed that from birth to 70, the ability to grow our brains increases.

That’s good news for everyone.

To find out more about this topic, Broyles recommends the following books: “Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School” by John Medina; “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where and Why It Happens” by Benedict Carey; and “Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence” by David Perkins. ■

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It’s Never Too Early to Prepare for College.

No matter the age of your high school son or daughter, now is the time to investigate the CollegeBridge approach to college preparation, selection, and application.

Our approach will impact your child’s success in college and in life.

Take the time to explore our website.

Visit us at www.collegebridge.net

Contact Steven W. Cook, PhD swc@collegebridge.net or 404.983.4573

Davis Academy Class of 2016

The Davis Academy, the largest Reform Jewish day school in the nation, is set to graduate a class of 59 eighth-graders at a ceremony at 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 2, at the Davis Middle School, 7901 Roberts Drive, Sandy Springs. The following are this year’s graduates, as submitted by the school: Mya Artzi, Abigail Barkan, Simon Ben-Moshe, Evan Bernath, Zoe Bober, Audra Buffington, Lauren Cohen, Tristan Costley, Darcy Denneen, Justin Edelman, Erin Edwards, Alexander Effron, Lindy Feintuch, Samuel Felner, Ethan Goldberg, Caroline Goldman, Isaac Goldman, Ayden Grey, Dara Grocer, Frankie Grossman, Audrey Gruenhut, Madison Kamean, Jack Klafter, Gabriella Kogan, Micah Kornblum, Zachary Leaf, Gabriella Lewis, Chloe Lipton, Gabrielle Louis, Austin Margol, Sarah McMahon, Jonah Medoff, Isabelle Mokotoff, Max Murray, Noa Grace Pollinger, Adam Prass, Ian Quegan, Jennifer Rice, Mary Ella Rinzler, Max Ripans, Gal Rocabado, Sarah Rosenberg, Jordyn Rosenberg, Alec Rosenthal, Joseph Rubanenko, Adam Rubinger, Eric Rubinger, Sarah Schulhof, Benjamin Shapiro, Ansley Sherman, Olivia Sidman, Sarah Stanley, Alisa Steel, Sarah Szabo, Mallory Tessler, Sarah Traub, Arie Voloschin, Phillip Weinstein and Adam Weintraub.

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Epstein School Class of 2016

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Rabbi Brad Levenberg, Temple Sinai

The Epstein School has 41 eighth-graders lined up to graduate at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at the Conservative day school, 335 Colewood Way, Sandy Springs. It is the first graduating class under Head of School David Abusch-Magder. The following are this year’s graduates, as submitted by the school: Shira Alperin, Josh Aronstein, Elaine Berger, Samantha Berke, Yaron Bernstein, Tal Brill, Shira Brown, Chloe Capes, Jackson Cohen, Nadav David, Audrey Dorfman, Hannah Feldstein, Sydney Fialkow, Levi Fineberg, Galya Fischer, Asher Fitterman, Rayna Fladell, Cole Gabbai, Vanessa Greenstein, Sami Hertz, Carly Judenberg, Maya Kahn, Sylvie Kershteyn, Amy Kowalsky, Jordan Lalli, Jeremy Leven, Sadie Levy, Marin Londe, Elijah Medwed, Avi Pearlman, Joshua Peljovich, Micayla Pollak, Zoe Rosenberg, Tiffany Salzberg, Jay Satisky, Brandon Sherman, Alexa Silberman, Jessica Szumstein, Jack Toporek, Eitan Ventura and Avi Young.

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The 2016-17 Atlanta Council BBG executive board consists of (front row, from left) Liana Slomka (mekasheret), Melissa Dunn (gizborit), Alyssa Bruck (sh’licha), Maddie Srochi (mazkirah), Jayme Dinnerstein (morah), Amanda Jackson (s’ganit) and Bari Steel (n’siah). The AZA executive board is (back row, from left) Jonah Weinbach (mekasher), Kenny Janis (gizbor), Zack Cohen (shaliach), Ben Engelman (mazkir), Jason Rothfarb (moreh), Jacob Lewis (s’gan) and Cole Sonshein (godol).

BBYO Installs Boards

Atlanta Council BBYO installed its 88th AZA and 68th BBG executive boards for the 2016-17 programming year April 20.

The 14 teenagers were elected by their peers at an Atlanta Council convention in March. Their summer will include BBYO programs in Bulgaria and Israel, a six-week international BBYO leadership and Jewish identity development program in Pennsylvania, or staff work at Camp Barney Medintz or Camp Ramah Darom.

Citywide BBYO programming will resume Aug. 7 at a kickoff program at the Marcus Jewish Community Center.

For more information, contact Atlanta Council www.atlantajcc.org/bbyo.

education, and each brings a wealth of knowledge to the new roles.

“We could not have envisioned a better outcome,” said Rabbi Steven Rau, the director of lifelong learning at The Temple. “We not only found one, but two of the greatest Jewish educational leaders and mensches.”

Kornblum became interim director of the preschool after 30 years in secular and Jewish education in Jacksonville, Fla. Pincus’ 30-year career as an early childhood and elementary educator includes the directorship of a large Jewish day school in Miami.

Kornblum and Pincus officially will begin their co-directorship during WELC’s summer camp program, but they will be available Friday, May 20,

from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to meet with WELC families and anyone else interested in the school’s programs.

16 Epstein Students Excel in Duke TIP

Sixteen Epstein School seventhgraders scored high enough on the ACT to receive State Level recognition and one also qualified for Grand Level recognition in the Duke University Talent Identification Program.

Max Young received Grand Level recognition. The other top Epstein scorers are Roy Ben-Haim, Lauren Cohn, Rachel Cohn, Ryan Cohen, Ryan Diamond, Hannah Dobkin, Bradley Friedrich, Jonah Glenn, Nolan Goldklang, Isaac Jaye, Maddie Lampert, Rachel Mayer, Jacob Panitch, Hallie Schiff

The Epstein School seventh-graders recognized by the Duke TIP are (back row, from left) Nolan Goldklang, Jonah Glenn, Max Young, Isaac Jaye, Bradley Friedrich and Jacob Panitch, (middle row, from left) Hallie Schiff, Gray Schneider, Maddie Lampert, Ryan Diamond and Ryan Cohen, and (front row, from left) Roy Ben-Haim, Rachel Cohn, Lauren Cohn and Hannah Dobkin. Rachel Mayer (not pictured) also earned State Level recognition.

and Gray Schneider.

Duke’s TIP is the largest middle school academic talent search in the nation.

Dunwoody Tech Grad Wins Fulbright

Temple Preschool Hires Two Heads

The Temple’s Weinberg Early Learning Center has hired Annetta Kornblum and Mindy Pincus as co-directors of the preschool.

Combined, they have more than 60 years of experience in secular, public, private, Jewish and preschool

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Anne Lashinsky of Dunwoody, who just graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in business administration, received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to Germany from the State Department and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Lashinsky will serve as an English Anne Lashinsky teaching assistant in Rostock beginning in September.

She is one of more than 1,900 U.S. citizens who will teach and provide expertise abroad for the 2016-17 academic year through the Fulbright program.

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JKG Personalizes Group B’nai Mitzvah Program

By Marcy J. Levinson

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ome of the best rock bands began in garages. Apple was founded in a Silicon Valley garage by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Similarly, Atlanta’s booming Jewish Kids Groups began with six kids in a garage in 2011. Now the independent “re-imagined, re-invented and ridiculously cool Hebrew school” is more than 200 families strong and is adding a middle school component to its offerings.

Executive Director Ana Robbins, who founded JKG, said the need for the middle school program was identified in 2013 when Erin Chernow joined the nonprofit’s educational team as the director of a middle school program that was in its beta-testing phase, then known as JKG Journey.

The students with whom Chernow had been working came from a more traditional synagogue model, while JKG generally drew families who were not affiliated with a synagogue. (JKG began partnering with Congregation Or VeShalom in 2014.)

“While JKG Journey was of exceptional quality and innovative in many ways, it was based on a synagogue-centric model of being Jewish,” Robbins said.

Instead of tossing the idea for the middle school program, JKG invested time and research to learn the needs of the community, families and students.

Chernow and a team of researchers “conducted surveys, focus groups, an environmental scan and a research review which informed a 60-page research paper,” Robbins said. “Based on this deep dive, the research team made several general and specific recommendations.”

The result is not what people might think of as regular Hebrew

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Personal interest projects will help bring Jewish Kids Groups middleschoolers to a group b’nai mitzvah celebration after two years.

school. Instead, it’s a two-year middle school program that culminates in a group b’nai mitzvah celebration, not a solo Torah reading in a synagogue.

The experiential curriculum covers Hebrew, Jewish values and ethics, holidays, core blessings, and community service projects. It is personalized, including a personal interest project that connects with a Jewish theme.

It all takes place in a once-a-week, 2½-hour-per-session format running for 26 Sundays from August to May to give families plenty of flexibility with the rest of their time.

Registration is open now at the JKG website, JewishKidsGroups.com.

Tuition for the program is $1,300 a year, with no additional fees for special b’nai mitzvah tutoring. Some needbased financial aid is available.

Barrie and Rich Herman of De-

catur have an 11-year-old son in JKG. Barrie Herman said the educational model is accessible for her interfaith family, whom she would like to attend son Xander’s bar mitzvah.

Robbins said JKG is “experiential, action-packed, content-rich and friendship-focused” and features a seasoned leadership team and engaging educators.

JKG teaches subject matter not for “the sake of mastery of facts or progression from one grade to the next,” Robbins said, but to develop identity, “seeking to instill in our kids a sense of commitment to and excitement about Jewish life and peoplehood.”

She said the energetic teachers and the joyful curriculum get kids excited about learning.

From its inception, JKG was designed to meet the needs of families

not affiliated with a synagogue. Herman said there are several reasons a synagogue does not appeal to her family, including finances and geography.

But JKG’s teaching style persuaded the family to sign on for the middle school program.

“Kids can choose their own path.

It’s very different than what Xander has experienced at his cousins’ bar and bat mitzvahs,” she said. “If he wants to study his ancestry, he can. If he wants to learn more Hebrew and read a Torah portion, he can. He is excited about that.”

Any family is welcome to join the Hermans in the program.

“JKG is designed to serve families who do not belong to a synagogue.

Beginning in second grade we help families think through what experience they want,” Robbins said. “For families who want a more traditional synagogue experience or a Torah reading service, we work closely with them and synagogues to liaison them into a shul.”

Robbins and her staff try to keep their fingers on the pulse of the community and respond to the needs and desires of the students.

If the kids want to get dirty, JKG will help them find meaningful projects to dig into. If the desire is to delve into family history, that will become the focus of the program. If a student wants a project involving deep analysis of a Torah portion, the studies will head in that direction.

Personalization of the program is a crucial part of the JKG experience and contributes to one of JKG’s key metrics: fun.

“We measure fun based on parent, student and teacher feedback,” Robbins said. “But don’t take our word for it. Come visit JKG and you’ll see what everyone is so excited about.” ■

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Jewish Emory Ties Still Bind After a Half-Century

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en Jewish women joined me the weekend of May 8 at Emory University to participate in the 2016 Emory graduation. We were among 60 alumni who had come to Atlanta to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our Emory graduation.

On Sunday afternoon we were inducted into Corpus Cordis Aureum (the Golden Corps of the Heart), the distinguished group of alumni from 50 years ago and earlier. To symbolize our acceptance, we each received a golden medallion.

On Monday, May 9, at 6:30 a.m. we met at the Candler Library and were given black caps and gold gowns. We were led down to the quadrangle and marched at the head of the other Emory graduates.

How exciting it was to think that 50 years had gone by. We have become doctors, lawyers, university professors, teachers, and business owners in ballet, printing and party goods. And we are alive and well — a celebration in itself.

The 11 of us were part of a group of

All but one of the women in this photo from Roberta and Alan Sher’s wedding in 1966 made it to the reunion May 8 and 9.

(From left) Simone Wilker joins classmates Gloria Supran and Rhoda Levine 50 years after their Emory graduation.

22 young Jewish women who entered Emory in 1962. We were bound by our Jewish heritage. We were told clearly that we could join only the one Jewish sorority on campus at the time, AEPhi. Many people have asked me if I resented this situation. I personally welcomed being with all the Jewish women. We were a bright, highly motivated group. We won the Greek award for the highest academic grade point average for every quarter during my four years at Emory.

We spent the Jewish holidays together, along with the two Jewish fraternities on campus, AEPi and TEP. The Jewish men were held to the same re-

strictions.

This was heaven for a Jewish girl whose parents preferred that she would meet a nice Jewish boy (preferably a doctor), get married and raise a family. You knew exactly where the fertile fields were to find the perfect match.

In addition, Georgia Tech had two Jewish fraternities, AEPi and PhiEp. Because there were no women at Tech (maybe one or two), that meant even more Jewish boys to look over. It was a dream come true for me.

Special bonds of friendship formed among us, the Jewish women on campus, thrust together in a time

of turbulence. (I remember watching President Kennedy on the only TV in the dorm during the Cuban Missile Crisis and many months later hearing that he was shot.) We were deeply connected because we were Jewish. We were different and special.

We remain good friends 54 years after arriving at Emory. Some have lost spouses. Some live far away. Some have highly regarded careers. Some are mothers and grandmothers.

But no matter what we are to the outside world, inside we cling to those friendships that mean the most. Let us salute our friendships as we enjoy a life that was nurtured through our experiences together at Emory.

And I am thankful every day that I am Jewish.

When I look back at my four years as a Jew at Emory, I would say I took pride in being different. Having 21 friends who were just like me that freshman year, I felt empowered and proud rather than diminished.

I remember the song Kermit sings on “Sesame Street”: “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” No, being Jewish is not always easy, but it makes life interesting. ■

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A person who accidentally ate the priestly gifts must add a fifth and repay it to a priest. All vow and peace offerings must be blemish free. An ox, sheep, or goat cannot be offered until its 8th day and an animal and its offspring cannot be slaughtered on the same day. A Jew is not to desecrate HaShem’s name!!! HaShem details all the times of holiness as well as the mitzvot associated with each time. The Torah details the lighting of the menorah and the lechem hapanim. The parsha ends with a story of a Jew who cursed HaShem’s name and was punished.

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JF&CS Charts gPATH to Career Success

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ewish Family & Career Services is taking applicants for a new program preparing college graduates to pursue the careers of their choice.

Known as gPATH — helping graduates prepare, aim, train and get hired — the program is open to college juniors and seniors and anyone who has graduated the past three years, said coordinator Mandy Wright.

“Ideally, I’d like to do it before graduation” and thus before the real world freaks out young adults.

“I think it’s really one of the most robust programs the agency has put together in the last several years,” said Brenda Fiske, the chief marketing officer of JF&CS. The purpose of gPATH is not to help graduates decide what they want to do with their lives, but instead to provide the professional and personal skills they need to find and win the jobs they want and launch their careers.

Many of those skills, such as making eye contact, have been lost in the smartphone era, Fiske said.

The program has five workshops: • Job search, résumé & cover letter.

• Interview skills, including why certain questions are asked.

• Workplace success and networking.

• LinkedIn. • Financial basics, plus a panel of three to five hiring managers.

GPATH also has some individual elements, such as a résumé review and an offsite mock interview session with volunteers recruited by Wright. She said the interviewers are open to hiring program participants who wow them.

After completing the course, each participant is matched with a career guide, who Wright said is like an informal mentor. That person can advise you about whether to wear the same outfit to a third interview, for example, and who should buy when you meet a hiring manager at a coffee shop.

That relationship with the guide lasts six months, at which point it’s up to the two to decide to continue.

People who complete the program also can get help through JF&CS job placement services, and Wright is reaching out to employers with lots of entry-level positions.

Some of the skills taught in the program might be available at a good university career services center, but Wright said those centers connect with only about 20 percent of undergradu-

ates — in part because of the students themselves.

“Often they don’t come to terms with the fact that they need help until they’re a few months out of school.”

Mandy Wright JF&CS ran a pilot of the program in February with 11 participants, and seven of them had jobs by the beginning of May. Job searches typically take eight to 10 months.

Of the four who hadn’t found jobs as of this writing, one just graduated

from Emory this month, and one still isn’t sure what he wants to do. Another was close to a job placement after overcoming the challenge of how to talk about a four-year period out of school.

“We had an interesting mix of individuals in this first class with very diverse challenges,” Fiske said.

She mentioned one young woman who had a great résumé but had gone through 32 job interviews without a job offer. After going through gPATH and getting extensive one-on-one coaching on the interview process, she was offered a job right away.

Wright said the first group’s extensive feedback led to the expansion of some parts of the program and the re-

duction of others, but the overall structure was a success.

The program is valuable regardless of a graduate’s intended field, Wright said, although liberal arts majors often feel a little more lost. From networking to interviewing to using LinkedIn, she said, “everyone needs some help with some piece of that.”

The second gPATH group runs from June 5 to 16, and JF&CS is accepting applications for 12 to 16 participants at ytfl.org/gpath.

The cost of the program is $250, and some need-based scholarship money is available. For more information, contact Wright at awright@jfcsatlanta.org. ■

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Graduation Season Commences at Day Schools

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hen the Weber School’s Class of 2016 gathers with family and friends at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 22, the ceremony not only will send dozens of new high school graduates into the world, but also will kick off the day school graduation season for Jewish Atlanta.

The highlights of the Weber commencement are scheduled to include faculty speaker Caroline Campbell, a math teacher, and the recognition of salutatorian Jessica Bachner and vale-

dictorian Avi Botwinick.

Epstein School is next in the graduation lineup, with 41 eighth-graders moving to high school after their ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at the Conservative day school.

In its second full year since the merger of Yeshiva Atlanta and Greenfield Hebrew Academy, Atlanta Jewish Academy continues to hold two graduations: one for high school seniors and one for eighth-graders, many of whom will remain AJA Jaguars next year.

Both ceremonies will take place in

Woodward Academy’s Jewish Graduates

The following Jewish students graduated from Woodward Academy’s Upper School on Saturday, May 14: Thomas Coleman Daly, going to Indiana University at Bloomington; Meagan Dillon, Hampton University; Alexander Grant Erdman, Texas Christian University; Benjamin Abram Lalonde Feldman, Indiana University at Bloomington; Samantha Lauren Freedman, University of Florida; Alexi Elle Hecht, Clemson University; Samuel Jacob Lefar, University of Virginia; Kaylie Jordan Lobel, Elon University; Sidney Benjamin Marcus, Elon University; Catherine Lydia Morris, Furman University; Jessica Rochelle Newman, Tufts University; Olivia Reznik, University of Georgia; Talia Maciel Rosenberg, American University; Samuel Holden Salomon, Georgia State University; Brandon Scott Snapperman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Garrett Hunter Snyder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Lauren Alexandra Sobel, New York University.

Avi Botwinick is the Weber School’s 2016 valedictorian.

Jessica Bachner is the Weber School’s 2016 salutatorian.

the auditorium at the Northland Drive campus in Sandy Springs. The Upper School goes first at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 31; the eighth-graders graduate the next day at 6:30 p.m.

The Davis Academy completes the commencement sequence in Sandy Springs when it sends out 59 eighthgraders to get their diplomas at the academy’s Middle School campus at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 2.

The ceremony features 2008 Davis graduate Leah Michalove as the alumni speaker. She just graduated from Emory University and is scheduled to spend the next two years studying toward a master’s degree in social anthropology at the University of Oxford with her Rhodes Scholarship.

The graduation focus then shifts to Toco Hills.

Torah Day School of Atlanta graduates its eighth-graders Monday, June 6. Usually, the ceremony is held in Congregation Beth Jacob’s Heritage Hall, which remains open during the construction on the building.

For those who can stand the cuteness, the Torah Day kindergartners have their own graduation ceremony Wednesday, June 8.

Temima, the Richard & Jean Katz High School for Girls, holds its graduation at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at Beth Jacob’s Heritage Hall, immediately after the school’s annual meeting, at which $5,000 will be raffled off (tickets are $100). Jonathan and Ilene Miller will be the honorees at the graduation.

The ad deadline for the tribute book for the Millers is June 6.

The final graduation ceremony of the spring takes place on the first day of summer, Monday, June 20, when boarding school Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael awards diplomas to its high school graduates at 7 p.m.

For any of these events, be sure to confirm details with the school in advance. ■

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Jenny Rice on your Graduation!

We are so proud of you.

Love, Mom, Dad, Aaron & Jerry

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Mazel Tov Tal and all your “peeps”!

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Epstein Class of 2016 and the NEW Class of 2020!

So proud of you!

Lots of love, Mommy and Aba

Sarah we are so proud of you.

Our best wishes for continued success and happiness.

All our love, Mimi and Howie Rothman

Super sweet Adored by us Ruach A top notch friend Hardworking , Humorous & Happy So proud of the young woman you have become! Thank you Davis Academy & off to Weber where great experiences await.

Enjoy the Journey.

We love you!

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Mazel Tov!

Mazel Tov!

From Woodward Academy now on to Furman University. From War Eagle to Paladin.

You have graduated from one the finest Universities in America, Washington University in St. Louis.

Congratulations on working so hard and fulling your dreams.

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We're proud that you're charging ahead.

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Mazel Tov Bradley Rudy!

You made it through Jr. High and on your way to Walton HS.

We are so proud of you!

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DARCY DENNEEN on your graduation from The Davis Academy!

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Mazel Tov! Rachel Nicole LaVictoire

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Foot Doc Steps Into Life’s Adventures

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tlanta’s go-to podiatrist, Perry Julien, knows his foot from his lens.

He has treated decades and generations of toe, ankle, arch, shin, heel and bunion sufferers, to the extent that his name is synonymous with expert care and a warm, gracious attitude. He has been co-medical director for many of Atlanta’s professional sports teams and road races.

While admiring the stunning photography in his office corridors, many may not know that Julien is the master behind the camera. Nature, yoga, underwater, exotic locations and big-name rock stars are in his thrall.

No one ever saw Julien back away from a challenge, which led to his own devastating sports accidents and self re-creation.

Jaffe: How did you get interested as a child in photography to bring you to this point?

Julien: My father, a Holocaust survivor, did what he could to carve out a living in New York City by being a tailor and selling vacuums. When he was inside the home demonstrating vacuums, he pitched the idea of doing family portraits. This led to weddings and bar mitzvah jobs. He took photography lessons from an expert, Joseph Schneider.

Thus, my interest came from assisting my father on his weekend shoots and in the darkroom on Sunday as we developed and printed his images.

I was a teenager when I discovered that my father’s name was originally Julius Zimmerman. My uncle authored the book “Angel by My Side” about their family’s escape from Nazi Germany.

Jaffe: This is sentimental because my 95-year-old mother, who was your patient, used to refer to you as “Julien Perry”; thus, she was on to something authentic by juxtaposing your name.

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Jaffe: Describe your podiatry practice and how your art and medicine intertwine.

Julien: A step beyond sports medicine, I specialize in activity medicine. We help people maintain their mobility. I have treated a 90-year-old who runs the Peachtree Road Race and others who enjoy an adventurous 40 lifestyle.

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In medicine there is an art which is as important as the scientific or book method, and, as in photography, I try to think out of the box in caring for patients. Now today’s photography is more free-form and experiential.

Jaffe: What are some of the exotic places where you have shot photography?

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Julien: Bolivia, Hawaii, India, a ghost town in the Nevada desert and Alaska. I am into unique, compelling places and people. Lately I have been really passionate about photographing models underwater. Many of these practice yoga or are models and love the feeling of being weightless underwater.

Jaffe: You have been out of work for long periods of time with accidents from your extreme ski adventures.

How has that influenced you?

Julien: In Vail (in 2006) my leg was shattered while ski racing. I underwent 25-plus surgeries and was in a wheelchair for six months and on crutches for 18 months. I knew then that my marathon running, long-distance cycling and mountain climbing would no longer be possible. Later (in 2013) while returning to skiing in Park City, Utah, my right arm was crushed when I was struck from behind by another skier.

Photography became my passion and motivation. I put my energy into seeking out unique people and locations.

Jaffe: How did you segue into rock star and concert photography?

Julien: In 1997 I started photographing music. I played guitar and bass (poorly), and this allowed me to combine my love of both. The first band I shot was Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden. I am now the house photographer for events at Music Midtown and the Tabernacle, which I shoot for Live Nation, and also cover events for Creative Loafing.

Some of the shows I have covered recently are U2, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews and Taylor Swift.

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Julien: At a Jesus Lizard concert, the lead singer stage-dived, and I was kicked in the head. At Iggy and the Stooges, the crowd surged, and I was bruised in the abdomen for weeks.

“Anything to get the shot” is my motto.

In trying to get a nature fashion photograph of a moonscape in a dried riverbed, I went down in quicksand.

That cost me a new pair of shoes and jeans. Once while shooting a model in Hawaii, she was swept off by a rogue wave and rescued by a nearby paddleboat.

D Jaffe: What’s left for you to conquer?

Julien: Everything. Photography is not so much about technical ability but what you see. I enjoy the immediacy and spontaneity of photographic images. I’ll go back to deserts, oceans and far-off horizons that provide a compelling backdrop for the people that I photograph. I feel like another trip to India may be in the cards. Or I can just go out on the street and find that moment waiting to be photographed.

Jaffe: If I were you, I’d do anything but ski. ■

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A: Perry Julien seizes an edgy moment with Acoustic/Americana group Nickel Creek.

B: An acrobatic moment is captured on a Maui beach in Hawaii.

C: People bathe at Haridwar in the Ganges River in 2014.

D: Photo by Duane Stork — Perry Julien regularly shoots concert photos for Live Nation.

E: Photo by Duane Stork — Above Buckhead and between rock guitars, podiatrist Perry Julien displays photos from three of his prized concert shoots: Bruno Mars, Led Zeppelin and Dave Matthews.

F: Even at age 5 in New York, Perry Julien was enthusiastic about photography.

G: Perry Julien has a passion for underwater photography, such as this shot in Marietta.

H: The black-and-white approach adds to the mystic drama of an exotic model in Pushkar, India.

I: Perry Julien’s wife, Lisa, a yoga instructor, meditates on Oahu in Hawaii.

J: Photo by Duane Stork — This Rolling Stones concert was Perry Julien’s first big score after a devastating ski accident.

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SPORTS

B’nai Torah Seeks 10th Softball Title in a Row

By David R. Cohen david@atljewishtimes.com

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ummer is right around the corner, and with it comes the return of the Atlanta Men’s Synagogue Softball League, one of the few local spectacles that reach across the entire Jewish community.

Beginning Sunday, May 22, and continuing through August, 18 congregations and around 350 players will hit the field to compete for softball supremacy. In total, 23 teams are entered in the league’s A, B and C divisions.

The most impressive streak on the line this summer is owned by Congregation B’nai Torah, which has won the past nine A Division championships.

Trying to stop B’nai Torah from making it 10 titles in a row are Ahavath Achim, Beth Tefillah, Dor Tamid, Or VeShalom, Sinai, The Temple, and, for the first time, Ariel, which has moved up from the B Division after winning the B title two seasons in a row.

Emanu-El, Etz Chaim, Gesher L’Torah, Beth Tikvah and Young Israel return to the B Division, where they are joined by newcomers Chabad, which has moved down from A, and Or Hadash and Beth Jacob, which have moved up from the C Division.

The C Division consists of Beth Shalom and Kol Emeth as well as the second teams for B’nai Torah, Sinai, Beth Tikvah, The Temple, Etz Chaim and Dor Tamid (the last two playing as one team).

The only congregation not returning for 2016 is Bet Haverim, which won its first-ever playoff game last season but decided to drop out of the C Division after failing to field enough players.

Games will be held on Sunday

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mornings, afternoons and evenings at East Roswell Park, Terrell Mill Park and Ocee Park. In late July, when field renovations at the Marcus Jewish Community Center in Dunwoody are completed, games will also be contested there.

The AJT again will provide weekly coverage of the summer season, including league standings, scores and game recaps. ■

The 2016 Lineup

Here are the congregations competing in this summer’s synagogue softball season. The full schedule can be found at www.atlsynagoguesoftball.org.

A Division Ahavath Achim Beth Tefillah B’nai Torah Ariel Dor Tamid 1 Or VeShalom Sinai 1 Temple 1 B Division Chabad Beth Jacob Emanu-El Etz Chaim Gesher L’Torah Beth Tikvah 1 Or Hadash Young Israel C Division B’nai Torah 2 Beth Shalom Sinai 2 Beth Tikvah 2 Dor Tamid/Etz Chaim 2 Kol Emeth Temple 2

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OBITUARIES

Joseph Hopkins 22, Marietta

Joseph “Joey” Harper Hopkins, age 22, of Marietta, a student of Georgia Institute of Technology, passed away Tuesday, May 10, 2016.

Joey was involved in a tragic accident while hiking on the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina. Joey died doing what he loved, with whom and where he loved.

Survivors include his parents, Gail and Jim Hopkins; his college sweetheart, Abigail Gardner; grandfather Walter Hopkins; aunts and uncles Walt and Della Hopkins, Vic and Allison Fisher, Melissa and Gregg Flatt, John and Kim Fisher, Hedi and George Vinton, Ira Rosenshein, Gary Rosenshein, and Barbara Lincoln.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, 799 Washington St., Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. A graveside service was held Sunday, May 15, at Arlington Memorial Park. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770451-4999.

Davis Zinsenheim 22, Marietta

Davis Zinsenheim, age 22, of Marietta, a student of Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, died Tuesday, May 10, 2016.

Davis loved life and adventure. In the last several years he enjoyed spending time outdoors, hiking in locations around the globe such as Machu Picchu, Peru; Moab, Utah; Twin Falls in Maui; and Masada, Israel. In addition to traveling, Davis was a passionate snowboarder, scuba diver, wakeboarder, hunter and hockey player. He aspired to become a commercial airline pilot and had the fortune of flying his first plane with his family last November. He adored his family, friends, ATO brothers, and dog, Bailey. Survivors include his parents, Penny and Steve Zinsenheim; sister Madison Zinsenheim; grandparents Harriette and Harold Zinsenheim, Dr. William and Carolyn Ragan, Faith and Buck Jones, and James Boyd; aunts and uncles Dr. Joyce Zinsenheim and Dr. Phil Yussen, Shari Zinsenheim Landon, Jackie and Maury White, Dr. Jamie Boyd, and Dr. Bil Ragan and Dr. Anjum Ansari; and cousins Samantha and Hank White, Mallory and Michael Landon, and Ella Boyd.

Davis was preceded in death by an uncle, Wayne Landon of blessed memory.

In lieu of flowers, please plant a tree in Israel in Davis’ memory by going to JNF.org. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. A graveside service was held Friday, May 13, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Mitch Cohen officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Death Notices

Anne Baker-Gold, 101, of Canton, Mass., mother of Temple Sinai member Lawrence Baker and Marsha Baker, on May 14.

Norma Cutler, 88, mother of Congregation Or Hadash member Sandra Cutler, on May 11.

Martin L. Epstein, 82, of Woodstock, Congregation Or Hadash member, husband of Lucille Epstein and father of Anne Jeffres, on May 13.

Maxine Ruth Gold, 82, of Ridgewood, N.J., mother of Temple Sinai member Julie Crow and Dana Fellos, on May 13.

Lindsay Mae Simmons, 17, of Marietta, daughter of Sara and David Simmons and sister of Hannah Simmons, on May 9.

William Witt of Lawrenceville on May 11.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS OBITUARIES – MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE A BLESSING

Oh, Gratitude, Where Art Thou?

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hen our daughter, Rachel, became a bat mitzvah, she received lots of wonderful gifts. After the weekend of synagogue services, festive meals and all kinds of celebrations, it was back-to-real-life time. And that meant that, in addition to schoolwork and after-school activities, Rachel had to write thank-you notes.

Was Rachel the kind of 12-year-old who relished the opportunity to express gratitude through the written word? What do you think?

Every evening for weeks and weeks Rachel worked on those notes, and the ones she wrote were exceptional. I know this is true because 30 years later people still refer to their “maturity” and “personalization.”

Ah, yes, I remember the process well, involving the bossy mother (me) and the dutiful daughter (the virtuous celebrant). Rachel really did appreciate the generosity bestowed on her, but writing thank-you notes was hard work.

My friend “M” had a cunning solution to the situation.

His son, “T,” an otherwise thoroughly delightful young man at the age of 13, was cursed with handwriting so indecipherable that it would take a team of middle school English teachers and several grandmothers to decode it. Not only that, but the fellow couldn’t sit still for more than a minute at a time.

In addition, T’s bar mitzvah handlers had mixed up some of the gift cards, making it impossible to match sender with gift. M knew that the likelihood of successful written gratitude was zero, so he devised a clever plan.

After several false starts and a lot of internecine drama, T successfully produced a single handwritten message: “Thank you for your thoughtful gift. I appreciate your kindness, and my family and I are very happy you shared our simcha with us.”

This was years before people could do their own custom home photocopying, so M brought the single handwritten piece of paper to a print shop and had it sized to fit on T’s personalized cards, and each of the people who gave a gift received a thank-you note that looked exactly like one T would have written himself on his best handwriting day.

Needless to say, his parents did the addressing.

Melissa, the college graduate, was given dozens of checks at the party her parents threw in her honor. Checks have the name of the giver on them, so it would have been a slam-dunk for Melissa to accurately identify and

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thank the people who contributed to the trip she and her roommate took that summer, right?

That was a year ago.

Several of my friends and I finally stopped waiting for — not a written note — an email, a phone message, a “thanks for the check” when we bump into her. Some people are hurt. Others are angry.

Me? I’m writing this column.

Now let me tell you about Larry and Shana. They had a “destination wedding” last summer, and many of the people they invited were unable to attend, but every single one of us sent something to their home in Los Angeles.

After a few months, we givers began contacting one another. We hadn’t received any recognition of our gifts, but those of us who track things we mail knew that they had arrived.

My cousin, whose generosity (matched by her good manners) is legendary, took matters into her own hands and called the groom’s uncle. He, too, was disappointed in Larry and Shana. He decided to call Larry.

“Oh,” Larry said, “I guess you didn’t go on our website after the wedding.”

There on the website was a photo of the happy couple sitting in their living room, surrounded by what looked like hundreds of presents and checks.

The words “We can’t wait to use all these gifts in our new home” streamed across the bottom of the picture.

I made an effort to locate the gift my family had sent, and I’m pretty sure I spotted it. My cousin says she saw hers, but it was upside down.

“At least I know they got it,” she said, her expectations of gratitude waning.

Mine, alas, already waned. ■

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That means school is about complete, and families will be vacationing.

Summer is my favorite season as my passion is traveling.

My wife and I took a cruise on the brand-new Celebrity Infinity to Italy, Greece and Rhodes, where her family is from. It was amazing to see the island where many Jews were killed during World War II. We saw the Kahal Shalom Synagogue, built in 1577, the oldest and only remaining synagogue in Rhodes.

Some of my fondest memories are of traveling with my full family: wife, two children, parents and brother.

There is nothing quite like traveling with three generations. Each has

different wants and needs, along with different sleep schedules, food desires, and, of course, energy levels. This is why I recommend cruising.

Sheri Cohen, a certified travel consultant with Uniglobe in Atlanta

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who specializes in cruises, says last year 32 percent of vacationing U.S. grandparents took their grandchildren along. Cruising provides an impressive vacation value that includes lodging, food, activities and transportation to faraway places for one set price.

For families with younger chil-

dren, Sheri says, Disney is the most popular. It has large state rooms and adult-only pools and “gives a magical experience for all ages.” Families with teens love Norwegian Cruise Line, whose ships offer a “Nickelodeon at Sea” experience with large water parks and water slides over the sea.

Our first cruise with my entire group was to the Caribbean, which I recommend to first-timers. Caribbean cruises give the option of shorter and less costly itineraries, and many of the sailing ports are in driving distance.

We enjoyed visiting the Bahamas and exploring a huge, state-of-the-art ship. A Caribbean voyage was a good way to evaluate whether cruising was right for my entire family; it was.

We decided to book a much longer cruise the following summer to Alaska. We sailed on Princess, out of Seattle, and it was an awesome experi-

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I recommend cruising because it’s easy for multiple generations to have a good time, from on-board activities such as wine tastings, cooking and art shows for the older crowd to moderate and even rigorous excursions such as diving and hiking for teens and younger adults who need a thrill.

Memories are created when the entire family meets back in the dining room, where you can order what you like and eat as much as you like. They even give as many desserts as you can eat, for kids of all ages. ■

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Fayetteville • 1240Pantone 7455 Hwy 54 W, Building 700, Suite 710 • Fayetteville, GA 30214 Stockbridge • 830Pantone 123 Eagles Landing Pkwy, Suite 102 • Stockbridge, GA 30281

www.atlantasnoring.com

MAY 20 ▪ 2016

• Pillar implants Treatment options in the office include: • Office palatoplasty • Base of tongue reductions with radiofrequency • Oral appliances • Pillar implants • Turbinate reductions to relieve nasal obstruction • Office palatoplasty • CPAP

AJT 47

AJT

48

MAY 20 ▪ 2016