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School Daze It’s not easy being a kid these days.

The ever-pervasive internet demands children keep up with everything, at all times. Texting and chatting, posting and messaging, poking and pinging maybe great for communication and relationship-building, but they can also be used for harassment and intimidation, aka cyberbullying.

In our education issue this week, we take a look at topics like cyberbullying that aren’t discussed much in the Jewish community, including addiction and puberty.

We also tell you about healthy kosher food being offered at Jewish day schools – a little Added Touch to their menu – and how some area students are standing up for Israel on their campuses.

Similarly, The Weber School and the Center for Israel Education have teamed up to provide more Zionist history to seniors in advance of their trip to Israel in two months.

Talking about dynamic duos, powerhouse philanthropies the Arthur Blank

THIS WEEK Foundation and Participant Media, a major Hollywood producer and Academy Award winner, are trying to increase the use of documentaries to encourage grass roots political and social action.

Another important mission we spotlight is the Cairo genizah project. Columnist Dave Schechter details how the sacred writing that had been stored in a room in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo indefinitely awaiting burial became compacted with other materials from heat and decay. His great-grandfather, Solomon Schechter, helped to bring the material to Cambridge University, where the fragments of the ancient texts are being painstakingly separated from other remnants of several hundred years ago, sorted and classified.

On a lighter note, we preview two Halloween fundraisers in the Jewish community that benefit nonprofits. We share the efforts of a basketball star from The Westminster Schools who donates new and gently-used basketball shoes to underprivileged youth. In other sportsrelated news, we highlight a group of local teens who held a basketball tour-

nament to raise money for children in third-world countries with heart defects.

Kids making a difference. With motivated students like these in our midst, isn’t that a comforting sign for the future? ■

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REFLECTIONS Confessions of a Northern/Southern Rabbi Three years ago, in July, I loaded up to enter kindergarten in New Orleans, my Honda CR-V and drove north on I-85 La., in 1963 (two years before the Civil and I-95 to begin the next chapter of my Rights Act was enacted), you either went rabbinic career as associate rabbi of a to a white or black school. That makes large conservative synagogue in Roslyn, me pretty Southern. One of my birthday N.Y. There are many things to like about parties was on a New Orleans streetcar. being in the New York area: the abun- I studied piano with a professor from dance of kosher grocery stores and res- Tulane University and, with our home taurants, Israeli or Jewish only blocks from Tulane, movies at the local theaters, we parked cars on our long and schools are closed on driveway for all of Tulane’s the High Holy Days. With home games at the famous something like half of the Sugar Bowl. Family vacaJews in America living in the tions included trips to MisNew York, New Jersey, Consissippi and Alabama. necticut tri-state area it is In third grade, my facommon to see a Jew wearther accepted the position of ing a kippah, bagel stores assistant director of the Jewdot many small shopping Rabbi Paul D. ish Federation of Rochester, centers, and it is very com- Kerbel N.Y., so we left New Orleans mon to hear Hebrew or Rusfor one of the snowiest citsian being spoken throughout the region. ies in the United States. Rochester was a I loved my years in the Atlanta area. Jewish community known for its many I loved my work at Congregation Etz significant synagogues and its extremely Chaim. I am proud of my efforts to en- high per capita giving to the Federation hance the membership, programming and UJA. I would celebrate my bar mitzand professional development opportu- vah in Rochester with the late Rabbi nities as an officer of the Atlanta Rab- Abraham J. Karp, a noted historian and binical Association. And I worked hard private rare Jewish book collector, and to build bridges and a stronger Atlanta Hazzan Samuel Rosenbaum, the execuJewish community, both internally to tive director of the Cantors Assembly (of strengthen synagogue life, and to build Conservative Judaism) officiating. relationships between synagogues and We loved our life in Rochester. Then rabbis and most of Atlanta’s strong net- we moved to Hollywood, Fla., where I work of Jewish institutions and organiza- became a leader of the Southeast region tions.

USY, helped create a city-wide Jewish So, in addition to the confessions I youth council and enjoyed the Florida made privately on Yom Kippur, I have a life. I will not try to argue that living in public confession to make: I am proud to Hollywood was truly a ‘Southern’ experibe both a Northern and Southern rabbi ence, but will still include it in my Southand Jew. My bona fides include the fol- ern resume! lowing: I lived in New Orleans as a child The end of high school brought me and even have a notarized document to New York City, where I studied at Copublished next to this essay, indicating lumbia University for four years and the that I am ‘white,’ because in order for me Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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for college and rabbinical school, for a grand total of nine years living on the Upper West Side. My first year in rabbinical school found me travelling to Atlanta for the High Holy Days and for Shabbat once a month to serve as the student rabbi of the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation in Fitzgerald, Ga. I loved my year traveling to Fitzgerald.

During this year, congregants suggested that I return when I graduate and become a circuit-riding rabbi, serving the many small congregations in southern Georgia that had student rabbis or no rabbinic leadership. The fact that I do not drive my car on Shabbat would have put a damper on that idea, but it could have worked under certain conditions.

The congregation kept calling me “rabbi,” so I reminded the leaders of the synagogue that I was only in my first year of rabbinical school and had four more to go before they could call me “rabbi.” But they responded: “But you are the only ‘rabbi’ we have.”

By the time I returned from my year in Israel, Rabbi Loren Sykes, who later served as the founding director of Ramah Darom, had replaced me in Fitzgerald, so I was invited to serve as the student rabbi in Roanoke, Va. I love many things about living in the New York area. It is easy to be Jewish here. I have more kosher restaurants that I could try than I have the time and money to explore. I love the fact that the Long Island Rail Road adds cars on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover. I love the fact that the local fish store in Roslyn offered to grind your gefilte fish and the local bagel restaurant was strictly kosher.

But, the honest truth is that I miss the South. I get angry when Jews in New York ask: ‘There are Jews in Georgia?’ I loved my time at Ramah Darom.

I love the SEC! And even though I did not attend any Southern college, I love the fact that the majority of the best football teams are from the South, and I love the Facebook posts of my former congregants as Florida battles Georgia, or Alabama faces Auburn or Tennessee. I love the fact that in the Publix supermarket I was always asked: “Did you find everything?” Or, seeing my kippah, the check-out clerk would say: “Have a blessed day!’

There are so many things I love about Atlanta and the South. I just wanted you all to know – I miss you! I miss my colleagues and congregants. I miss the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and JF&CS and AIPAC and all of the agencies I had the pleasure of working with. I miss all my fellow volunteers and acquaintances. I miss the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and participating in Atlanta’s Yom Hazikaron and Yom Hashoah services.

I am proud to have a ‘split-personality,’ loving my life in New York, but missing so much about the South. Who knows? One day I may return. The Medieval Jewish poet Yehuda Halevi wrote, “My heart is in the East, but I am in the West.” To paraphrase him: “My heart is in the South even though I am in the North.”

Actually, my heart is in both places.

Having moved so many times in my life, it means a lot to me that when I travel to Atlanta, I consider Atlanta to be "home."

And, I am happy to have so many friends and connections in Atlanta even if I currently have a home in New York City, love Zabar’s and eat kosher to my heart’s content. Just be assured that in New York City, there is a Jew who stands up for all that is good and true about the Jewish South and wishes he could visit more often. ■

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LOCAL NEWS

Renee and Charles Evans are active in the medical and Jewish communities.

The Evanses were host chairs of the Kaleidoscope gala last month.

Celebrating 20 Years of Delivering Health

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

MedShare celebrated 20 years of good deeds delivering medical supplies worldwide at its Kaleidoscope gala Sept. 29. Five hundred attended the anniversary celebration at The Fairmont event center.

Charles R. Evans and his wife, Renee, who are very active in the medical and Jewish communities, were host chairs.

Giving the opening remarks was Charles Evans, a past MedShare chairman, president of the International Health Services Group and senior advisor at Jackson Healthcare.

MedShare has impacted more than 20 million people in 100 countries with over 17 million pounds of medical supplies and equipment delivered to communities in need around the world.

Charles worked with MedShare, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health in arranging for the shipment of 70, forty-foot containers with needed medical supplies and equipment over two years.

“MedShare recovers excess medical supplies in this country and gets them to where they are needed in the world. Note that these meet very strict standards as certified and perfectly usable in the U.S.” The JDC works to alleviate hunger and hardship, and to provide immediate relief for victims in the countries they serve.

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North America along with UPS in getting generators to Puerto Rico right after the hurricane.”

The Puerto Rico project was the result of a call from Jewish Federation of Broward County President Michael Balaban.

Renee passionately believes in Tikkun Olam and organized “Hanukkah for Houston” during the area’s recent disaster and devastation. Renee serves on JFNA’s health care committee and overseas board. She is a board member of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (IMPACT! scholarship program), and a Hadassah Foundation national board member.

Charles founded IHSG in 2007 as a social enterprise to support health services development in underserved areas of the world. The group’s mission is to work with established organizations to supplement their skills in healthcare management and development. Current projects are located in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

IHSG also encourages international partnerships between U.S. hospitals and those in economically developing countries.

Charles is noted for his expert opinion and analyses on the factors that have driven up the cost of insurance and health care in America. He is a member of the International Hospital Federation, past chairman of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is a governance fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

The Evanses are members of Congregation Dor Tamid. ■

LOCAL NEWS

Opening Windows on Jewish Life Centuries Ago

By Dave Schechter Think of an enormous jigsaw puzzle with 300,000 very old pieces, some dating as far back as the ninth century C.E. Most of the pieces were created between the 10th-13th century, and are made of paper and vellum, though others are papyrus or cloth.

Some are small enough to fit in your palm, and even the larger ones are so fragile that they must be handled with care.

The writing on them, in Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic – Arabic written in Hebrew letters – and JudeoPersian, ranges from the profound to the mundane.

There are works by Moses Maimonides, including portions of his Mishneh Torah and a draft of “The Guide for the Perplexed.”

And the doodling of a child learning the Hebrew alphabet, proving that Hebrew school has changed little.

There are love letters, bills of sale and pleas for justice.

These are the treasures of the Cairo genizah (“hiding place” in Hebrew).

Religious law required preserving sacred writings, particularly those mentioning G-d’s name, even contracts and letters, until they received a proper burial. These texts, and more secular material, filled the genizah, a room upstairs at the rear of the Ben Ezra Synagogue behind the women’s section, accessible only by ladder through a small door.

The synagogue is located in Fustat, in the old section of Cairo near where, as the story goes, the baby Moses was discovered adrift in a basket on the Nile River.

Why the material was not buried is not clear, but the genizah fragments – preserved in the arid Egyptian climate – are windows into the religious, commercial, political, social, cultural and family life of the Jewish community and its interactions with Christian and Moslem neighbors, over several hundred years.

The 10th to 12th centuries C.E. were the height of the Fatimid Caliphate, and Cairo was the capitol of an Islamic empire stretching throughout North Africa and the Middle East. In that period, as much as 90 percent of the world’s Jews may have lived in these lands.

The genizah’s existence was known in the 18th century, but toward the end of the 19th century a pair of adventurous and learned Scottish twins, Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, made a crucial discovery.

A scrap the sisters purchased at a

Solomon Schechter, at Cambridge University in 1898, surrounded by packing crates and the contents of the genizah from the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.

Cairo curio shop excited their friend Solomon Schechter, a Talmudic scholar at Cambridge University in England.

Schechter (whose great-grandson authored this article) recognized it as a piece of the original Hebrew text of the “Book of Wisdom,” attributed to Ben Sira and dating to the second century B.C.E. Until then, it had been thought lost and available only in a Greek translation and known to Christians as Ecclesiastics.

Schechter traveled to Egypt in 1896 and, after spending several weeks inhaling dust and sifting through piles upon piles of material, was granted permission by the Chief Rabbi of the Ben Ezra Synagogue to remove what he wished, and delivered crates containing 137,000 pieces to Cambridge University.

Schechter described the genizah this way: It is a battlefield of books, and the literary production of many centuries had their share in the battle, and their disjecta membra are now strewn over its area. Some of the belligerents have perished outright, and are literally ground to dust in the terrible struggle for space, whilst others, as if overtaken by a general crush, are squeezed into big unshapely lumps. ... These lumps sometimes afford curiously suggestive combinations; as, for instance, when you find a piece of some rationalistic work, in which the very existence of either angels or devils is denied, clinging for its very life to an amulet in which these same beings (mostly the latter) are bound over to be on their good behaviour and not interfere with Miss Jair’s love for somebody. The development of the romance is obscured by the fact that the last lines of the amulet are mounted on some I.O.U., or lease, and this, in turn, is squeezed between the sheets of an old moralist, who treats all attention to money affairs with scorn and indignation. Again, all these contradictory matters cleave tightly to some sheets from a very old Bible.

Beginning 120 years ago, and for many decades after, the painstaking work of separating, sorting and classify-

A letter hand-written by Moses Maimonides, circa 1172 C.E., discovered

by Solomon Schechter in the genizah.

ing the puzzle pieces was done by hand at Cambridge, which has identified 193,000 individual items, and institutions worldwide with smaller collections. Cambridge has numbered and organized all of the pieces in its collection, and for half of the pieces has determined where the fragment was published, when and by whom.

In the 21st century, as several computer-generated projects around the world make an increasing number of the genizah fragments available online, new avenues of research open for historians and other scholars.

In some cases, puzzle pieces have been reunited digitally. A piece of a Passover haggadah in Cambridge was matched with one from a haggadah in a collection held by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Laura Newman Eckstein, until recently coordinator of Judaica Digital Humanities at University of Pennsylvania, came to Temple Beth Tikvah in Roswell to discuss how “crowdsourcing” online is expanding the pool of people working on the fragments beyond traditional academia.

Eckstein, whose extended family includes Beth Tikvah’s Cantor Nancy Kas-

sel, is now pursuing a doctorate in early Atlanta Jewish history.

Her presentation included images of a 10th century shopping list, which included saffron and salmon, a marriage contract from Italy, and a haggadah written in Judeo-Persian, at the top of which were drawn pictures of goats.

A computer program constructed by a team at Penn, in collaboration with Zooniverse, an online research platform, allows “citizen scholars” to review the fragments. Since Penn’s “Scribes of the Cairo Geniza” project launched in August 2017, more than 3,700 volunteers have helped sort some 30,000 fragments.

Penn’s program endeavors to group the fragments by language, by whether the writing is script or print, by visual characteristics on the fragment, by whether the fragment might once have been bound, and by whether the subject might be formal (such as a contract) or informal (such as the shopping list).

“We wanted to see if people could begin to read these handwriting styles, to create some sort of online group so that people could begin to read these fragments,” Eckstein said.

In one case, Eckstein said, a woman recognized that the lined pattern on a fragment was not a religious symbol, but instead the design of a carpet, which she remembered from her grandfather, a carpet maker in Damascus, Syria.

As the project continues, the fragments “will live in a database, for scholars and non-scholars, alike,” Eckstein said.

The evidence of hundreds of years of Jewish life filled the Cairo Genizah. The inhabitants of that world could not have imagined the technology that is bringing them back to life, and showing how, in some ways, their concerns were not so dissimilar from those of today. ■

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BUSINESS Second Helpings Gets Grant to Expand

Dunwoody Nonprofit Moves to MJCCA

Second Helpings Atlanta, which delivers surplus food to those in need, received a $50,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation. The grant will go towards expanding the organization’s operations and reach in the metro area.

“This significant grant allows us to sustain our growth in accordance with our strategic plan,” Sheri Labovitz, president of Second Helpings Atlanta, said in a release.

“It is both a validation and a challenge for us to keep finding innovative ways to feed the hungry.”

Second Helpings, which also fights food insecurity and waste, is the official food rescue partner of the Atlanta Community Food Bank. It rescues more than 125,000 pounds of surplus fresh, perishable food every month. Started in 2004, the Second Helpings Atlanta network includes more than 80 food donors, 50 partner agencies and more than 470 volunteer drivers. It is expected to pick up more than 1.75 million pounds of healthy food this year.

Since August 2015, Cox has been a major food donor to Second Helpings and donates almost 75,000 pounds of surplus food a year from its corporate campus kitchens, including Cox Enterprises, Cox Communications and Cox Automotive. Cox is the fourth-largest food donor to Second Helpings Atlanta behind large grocery chains.

In January, a rotating group of Team Cox volunteers began delivering food from the Cox campus to a nearby food pantry.

The Packaged Good, a nonprofit that empowers children to give back, has teamed up with the Marcus JCC and will be moving into its building in January.

Started in 2016 by grieving widow-turned-philanthropist Sally Mundell, The Packaged Good provides 30,000 care packages to people in need and hosted more than 7,000 “do-gooders” at its Dunwoody Village store.

The move into the MJCCA is an attempt to broaden its impact and reach, and reduce operating expenses.

The Packaged Good board conducted an agency-wide audit of its operating model and found that community-wide events held in partnership with other established organizations were the most impactful and cost-effective. The board looked for partners and decided on the MJCCA because it aligned with The Packaged Good’s mission of doing good in the community, and because it’s a vibrant community center, Mundell said in a release.

“My family and I are members and active participants of the MJCCA, and I admire their long-standing reputation of service to the community,” she said. “Both organizations share the value of tikkun olam, the idea that we should do what we can to make the world a better place, and by moving our headquarters to the MJCCA, we plan to help more kids and families to do just that.”

The Packaged Good will remain an independent nonprofit and will continue to host large, mobile private events for corporations and organizations. ■

Second Helpings Atlanta received a grant from the Cox Foundation.

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ISRAEL PRIDE

News From Our Jewish Home

Israel Ranks Sixth for Health Care Efficiency Israel is among the world’s six leading countries in health care efficiency, according to Bloomberg’s latest Health Care Efficiency Index.

Israel jumped one place compared to last year’s placement. The index ranks countries with an average life expectancy of at least 70 years, gross domestic product per capita exceeding $5,000 and a minimum population of 5 million.

The five countries ahead of Israel in health care efficiency are Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, Italy and South Korea.

At the bottom of the list are Bulgaria, the U.S., Azerbaijan, Russia, Serbia and Brazil.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates

ranked highest among Middle East economies, with both remaining in the top 10 from last year’s survey.

The Bloomberg index has three components, each of which is assigned a different weight: life expectancy (60 percent), national per capita health care spending as a proportion of GDP (30 percent), and per capita spending on health in dollars (10 percent).

Israel’s weighted rating is 67, while Hong Kong tops the list with 87.3.

Israel’s life expectancy of 82.5 is among the world’s highest.

Israel has a relatively small, concentrated and digitized health system. Israel plans to use this concentration to unify the system and create a voluntary data bank that will draw researchers and industry from around the world.

UK Exports to Israel Soar by 75 Percent in First Half of 2018 As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, its exports to Israel for the first half of 2018 were up 75 percent, according to a statement by the British

Embassy in Israel last month. The figures were based on numbers published by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

U.K. exports to Israel totaled $3.45 billion between January and June 2018, up from $1.97 billion in the first half of 2017. The figure makes the U.K. Israel’s largest trade partner in Europe, and second in the world after the U.S. In June alone, U.K. exports to Israel grew from $335.7 million in 2017 to $606.2 million this year.

Leading export sectors from the U.K. to Israel were mineral products, up by three times to $428.3 million, and machinery and electrical equipment, up 75 percent to $62.4 million in the period from January to June.

According to the Israeli statistics bureau, total UK-Israel trade grew by 17 percent on top of record levels in 2016 and 2017.

Bilateral trade between the U.K. and Israel has grown by 8 percent in the first half of 2018 – from $4 billion in 2017 to $4.33 billion in 2018.

Since Britain voted in June 2016 to

leave the EU, expected to occur March 29, 2019, Israeli investment in Great Britain has boomed. That despite overall fears about the impact that London’s coming exit from the EU will have on the country’s economy. Israeli investment in the U.K. increased by 33 percent since the vote.

Barry Grossman, director of international trade at the British Embassy in Israel, said that “the new figures reflect what we see on the ground: more British companies are interested in the Israeli market, and many Israeli companies realize that the next year presents a huge opportunity to create new business contacts in the world’s fifth largest economy and its biggest financial hub.” ■

Today in Israeli History

Oct. 15, 1894: Moshe Sharett, a signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who is the country’s first foreign minister and succeeds David Ben-Gurion to become Israel’s second prime minister in January 1954, is born Moshe Shertok to Zionist parents in Kherson, Ukraine.

The family settles in Jaffa in 1906.

Oct. 16, 1981: Moshe Dayan — the iconic Israeli military leader who was acclaimed a hero after the 1967 war, faced criticism after the 1973 war and played a key role in the 1978 Camp David peace talks — dies of a heart attack in a Tel Aviv hospital at age 66.

Oct. 17, 1880: Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky, the father of Revisionist Zionism, is born in Odessa, Russia. He is central to the formation of the British army’s Jewish Legion during World War I, helps create the Betar youth movement in 1923 and is a leader in organizing Jewish selfdefense.

Oct. 18, 1991: The Soviet Union and Israel resume full diplomatic relations for the first time since June 1967. The two countries experienced a thaw while Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union and established consular ties in 1987. Israel had to agree to participate in the 1991 Madrid peace conference to gain full relations. ■ Items are provided by the Center for Israel Education, www.israeled.org.

Photo by Saar Yaacov, Government Press Office

The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize Awards

Oct. 12, 1938: Gavriel Salomon, the founder of the Center for Research on Peace Education at Haifa University and the dean of the university’s Faculty of Education from 1993 to 1998, is born. An advocate for coexistence programs and improved Arab education, Salomon wins the Israel Prize in 2001.

Oct. 13, 2011: Composer Daniel Barenboim, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1942 and moved to Israel in 1952, is named the musical director of La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy. In demand as a conductor since his debut in London in the 1960s, he served as the musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 2006.

Oct. 14, 1994: The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres are sharing the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with PLO leader Yasser Arafat for negotiating and signing the Oslo Accords in 1993.

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OPINION Learning and Knowledge in Judaism Some time ago I confessed to my to Buber and other modernists, was also rabbi during a discourse, “I am a Chabad- a committed Zionist. From him I learned to love Jewish history and Jewish moral nik.”

His astonishment brought on by this thought. It was he who, with the help of disclosure lasted no longer than a min- a rabbi whom he selected to be my perute, after which he smiled because he un- sonal teacher, directed my education, and with his help made me read Simon derstood my humorous statement.

Dubnow’s 10-volume hisMost of the people who tory of the Jewish people – in know me are aware that I Hebrew – as well as the four am not classifiable: I am not volumes of the history of Orthodox, nor Conservative Chassidism. nor a Reform Jew. I do not It was my father who claim membership in any instilled in me his view of of these Judaic factions and, Judaism, not only as a reliat the same time, however, gion with its theology and I will accept and internalthe study of the Talmud, but ize what I consider the best also the importance to know in each. I have done this Eugen and be committed to my hisfrom my early youth. I loved Schoenfeld tory and develop an identity many of the ideals held by my maternal grandfather, a devoted Ber- rooted in history – that is, to be an ethnic dichever Chassid. From him I learned the Jew. In a sense he preceded Isaiah Berimportance of both individual and col- lin’s view that a historical identity will lective effervescence. His commitment be more likely to endure than a religious was to all living things and to treat them one.

When I declared to the rabbi that well – and that included his cow.

My paternal grandfather, who was I am a Chabadnik, I sought to indicate a black-hat-and-coat Jew came closer to that I am committed to the three forms being an opponent of Chassidism – a mit- knowledge, the abbreviation of which naged. He was a staunch believer in the makes up the word Chabad.

The first aspect of learning is da’at importance of knowledge and imbued in me the love of learning. In a city filled which is a referent to the accumulation with Chassidic Jews, he was a member of and the acquisition of knowledge – to a small congregation, Chevrey Tenach, have knowledge of the text that all Jews The Association for Bible study, that is, are commanded by the Torah to study. the study of the prophets and the other This consists of rote memorization of books that make up the Bible and the text. I was about five when I learned to Five Books of Moses. The members of his read Hebrew and from then on, I continsynagogue indicated, by their name, that ued with the acquisition of the knowlthey are not Chassidic, whom the sine edge of text. There is an interesting scene qua non of study was limited to the Tal- in the movie, The Chosen. The Chassidic rabbi’s son, who seemed to have a great mud and kabbalah.

My father, an ardent believer in Jew- facility of hitting baseballs, has befriendish Haskalah – enlightenment – devoted ed the son of a Zionist, a professor of

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Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (right) in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Talmud at one of New York’s universities. When the son brought his friend one Shabbat afternoon to visit his father, the latter asked a question and the friend gave the correct answer. The rabbi loudly proclaimed, “He knows!” I was told that we Jews are to acquire knowledge for its own sake, for intrinsic reasons, or as it is stated in Jewish theology, for the sake of heaven.

It was common for yeshiva students to compete and claim status that was based on the number of Talmud pages they committed to memory. Quite often, I, too, fall into this trap of status-seeking by making references to Torah, Talmud and to well-known commentators.

A second aspect of learning is to acquire chochmah, that I translate as the ability to apply knowledge. The word chacham denotes brightness, which in the traditional perspective is the ability to apply deductive reasoning. It is chochmah that was central in the rabbinical discourses and dialectics that constitute the Talmud. Deductive reasoning is a logical process that draws conclusion from an accepted thesis. Rabbi Ishmael summarized the method of deductive reasoning used by the Talmudic rabbis into 13 principles of logical deduction, and a rabbi who mastered them was called a charif, namely the possessor of a sharp mind.

Deductive logic is central to the process chidushim, namely to find explanations for the validity of traditionally accepted beliefs and of revelatory knowledge. At my bar mitzvah 80 years ago, I didn’t give a speech but a chidush, a new way to explain a Torah text. The possessor of this ability earns great social status.

The third type of learning is the acquisition of binoh, insight, wisdom, and understanding, a form of thinking that leads to creativity, unlike chochmah, which is related to productivity. Binoh, the acquisition of knowledge by seeking answers to the why, was traditionally considered dangerous.

As children, we were discouraged

from asking too many questions -- particularly questions about beliefs and associated practices for which my grandparents and my mother had no answers.

For instance, should I have asked why we keep kosher, I would have received the above answer, sternly and angrily.

The mode of questioning leads to understanding that is derived from challenges that normally are brought by cultural diffusion and higher education.

New knowledge, as I said, leads to further questions, and also leads to intellectual creativity, and that was not an accepted mode of learning in Judaism. Such questioning led, for instance to Elisha ben Abouya and Baruch Spinoza’s unauthorized way of thinking to be excommunicated from Israel. There was even a movement to excommunicate Maimonides because he dared to challenge existing perspectives about G-d based on his study of Greek culture. Judaism honors productivity in chidushim to increase paths to legitimate existing explanations, but vehemently rejects creativity. The controllers of religion in Israel, even today, reject all non-Orthodox beliefs as legitimate, and those who follow beliefs that have challenged two millennia-old beliefs are summarily denied their rights as Jews.

It is my fervent belief that Judaism is strong enough to accept new paradigms of religious thought and also strong enough to have a Judaism that encompass variations of beliefs and still maintain a unity with diversity. We just celebrated Sukkot in which the central symbol is “the four species,” the palm branch, the myrtle branches, the willow branches and the citron. These four different species that we hold together during services on Sukkot indicate – at least this is what I was taught – that we accept deviations in Judaism. And holding the four species together, symbolically, shows that we can be a united people, even with diversity.

Let’s reject fear of change and regain our unity as an ethnic-religious people. ■

V’ahavta L’reacha Kamocha:

OPINION

Interaction is Key to Countering Anti-Semitism As a sophomore in high school, I endure many stressful situations throughout the school day that follow me home. Stress can be difficult to alleviate. My main form of stress relief is playing video games.

I began playing online video games in the eighth grade. The main difference with offline games is that online, you can play with anyone around the world at the same time, and talk to them in real time via the internet. You get to meet many different people with diverse backgrounds.

I have met people from all over the world, and I have developed really good friendships with a guy from Brazil, a guy from Denmark, a girl from England, and Gabriel F. several people from the United States.

Weiss Online gaming has enabled me to meet people of different races, ages, national origins, sexes and sexual orientations. Some of my best online friends are African-American, Asian and Middle Eastern. I seem to be the only one in my online groups who is Jewish.

Around the start of Rosh Hashanah, I saw some statistics from the Anti-Defamation League regarding the rise in anti-Semitism. According to the most recent data from the ADL, the number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than in 2016. Overall, there were 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents reported, and at least one incident was reported in all 50 states. These included physical assaults, vandalism and attacks on Jewish institutions. I found these statistics to be very disturbing and wished that there was something that I could do about the problem.

Over the Rosh Hashanah weekend, I was playing online with some friends. The people with whom I was playing were Nick from Brazil, Cameron in college in California, Sabrina from Pennsylvania, Cory from parts unknown, and a few others who I do not know well. We chatted as we played, and I told my friends that I had a four-day weekend. Nick asked why, and I told him that it was a holiday and that I did not have school. Nick asked what holiday I was talking about, because he knew of no holidays that weekend. I then explained that I am Jewish and the holiday was Rosh Hashanah, which is something that I had never considered telling anyone online. After a few minutes, people began telling me their thoughts about me being Jewish. One of the people who I do not know as well said that he had never met anyone who is Jewish. This caught me off guard. The majority of the people with whom I interact on a daily basis are Jewish. I then thought about there being almost 15 million Jews in the world. It seemed so odd that one of the people with whom I play online had never met a Jew. The conversations went on with questions and comments about Jews and Judaism, until we all signed off for one reason or another.

After Rosh Hashanah, I went online to play with my friends, and saw that Cameron was playing. We played and talked. The topics of conversation changed, and we started talking about Jews and Judaism. I asked Cameron if he had ever met anyone who was Jewish because I was surprised that someone had made that comment a few days earlier. Cameron responded that I was the second Jewish person that he knew. I asked him what the

first Jewish person that he met was like, and he said that it was his mother’s boss. Cameron described him as a selfish, greedy jerk who did not care about other people.

Cameron added, “I really hated that guy!” I then realized that this must be the way that he views all people who are Jewish. I started thinking that it did not help his opinion that the type of person who he was describing fits the common negative stereotype for Jews.

The tragic irony, I thought to myself, is that being selfish, rude, greedy, and mean are NOT Jewish traits. Any Jew who follows the teaching and spirit of Judaism would not act like the man that Cameron described.

We talked about Cameron’s mother’s boss further. I told Cameron that the way that his mother’s boss acted is not the Jewish way to treat people. I asked whether knowing that I was Jewish would help Cameron change his mind about Jews and Judaism. Cameron responded, “Yeah, you have,” and went on to explain that “I hated that man, but you are one of my best friends,” and “you are so kind and considerate, and I always get excited to play with you and talk with you.” Cameron went on to say that whenever he thinks of someone who is Jewish, he now thinks about me instead of his mother’s mean, greedy boss. I felt a sense of pride in being able to change someone’s view of Jews and Judaism.

Before this encounter, I thought there was nothing

that I could do about anti-Semitism. I now know that each of us has the power to change how people view Jews.

Once people know we are Jewish, they may judge us based upon preconceived Jewish stereotypes. Our bad acts will further support people’s views of us and the negative stereotypes, but acting with the decency, care and consideration that are taught by Judaism will change those negative stereotypes. Of course, I understand that some Jewish people do not care how Jews are viewed by the rest of the world. However, for those of us who do care, I urge you to consider how you interact with others. We should proudly show ourselves as Jewish, and at the same time, exhibit true Jewish values of treating others how we, ourselves, would like to be treated and make positive contributions to society. So, go online, play some games, and as written in Isaiah 42:6, “be a light unto the nations!” ■

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OPINION

Brett Kavanaugh and Leo Frank

By Bill Rothschild Whatever we may think of Brett Kavanaugh’s views, his temperament or his appointment, we are morally bound to judge every person on the particular facts of his or her case - no matter how just is the cause that looms against that person. The analogy that we may miss is Leo Frank.

First Kavanaugh. His accuser, Dr. Ford, represents all those fighting against, and/or victimized by, the endemic subjugation of one gender by another – a horror historically and routinely punctuated by brute violence upon female bodies. The cause could not be more just. And Kavanaugh fits the opposite profile: a member of the subjugating gender, groomed to power from prep school, through college and law school, into the White House, onto the bench, and so forth.

Echoing Maine’s Senator Collins in her Oct. 5 floor speech, I was “very disturbed by the allegations” against Kavanaugh but found “a lack of corroborating evidence no matter where you looked.” Even those whose memories are

etched by an attack on their bodies may over time transfer some elements – even the identity of the perpetrator.

Now Frank. As Jews, we may miss the underlying issues for several reasons. Once we categorize something as anti-Semitic we tend to stop analyzing.

Sadly, the people we tend to denigrate most, and listen to least, are white Southern Christians, who were Frank’s major antagonists. And our natural focus on the second murder victim, Leo Frank, may distract us from the first, Mary Phagan.

She died in a simmering economic and political cauldron. The United States had long pursued a tariff policy that protected Northern manufacturing at the expense of Southern commodity production. In short, the South sold cotton and other crops low, but had to buy manufactured goods high.

One result endangered girls, in particular: the need to find work wherever you could get it. So, at 13 – the age when our daughters would be attending junior highs – Mary Phagan lived away from her Marietta home, down in Atlanta, to work in a factory. Her murder touched

On Oct. 6, Brett Kavanaugh became the newest associate justice of the Supreme Court.

a raw nerve in all those wanting to eliminate child labor and the economically-forced separation of children from their parents, and to protect girls, in particular, from situations wrought with danger.

The accused was Frank, also with an opposite profile. Today he’d be called a One Percenter: Northern; college-educated (and Ivy, no less); erudite; and rich, at least compared to his employees.

I do not diminish the role in Frank’s conviction and murder of pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism. But the problems that triggered Atlanta’s horror a century ago were real, and the struggle against them was just. As in so many other times and places, we Jews were collateral damage.

Of course, when we weigh the particular, objective facts, Frank probably didn’t do it – and we would be certain, but for the primitive state of forensics back then. Kavanaugh has a stronger case than Leo Frank that he didn’t do it.

What happened after the initial

accusations was similar: inflamed passions; a news media that fanned those flames; and hundreds of people roaming through public and private places needing to shout – or worse – more than to listen. Governor Slaton intervened for Frank – not to put him on the Supreme Court – just to commute a death sentence to life in prison. Slaton was run out of the state, after a mob had marched to the front door of his home demanding more immediate satisfaction. What will be Senator Collins’ fate?

In times like these, we Jews should stand in the forefront. We should let no cause, no matter how sacred, block us from particular facts in particular cases.

As Senator Collins said: “In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill-served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be. We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.”

We are constantly reminded in general to help the powerless, for example, Isaiah 1:17: “… seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.” But in the specific case we are admonished to keep our balance: “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor favor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.” (Leviticus, 19:15). ■ Bill Rothschild is a native Atlantan who practices law, is a visiting Bible teacher at The Westminster Schools, and occasionally leads Torah study locally. He received rabbinic ordination at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is the son of Rabbi Jacob Rothschild and Janice Rothschild Blumberg.

June 21, 1915 cover announcing that Leo M. Frank's death sentence had been commuted.

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OPINION

Letters The AJT welcomes your letters. We want our readers to have an opportunity to engage with our community in constructive dialogue. If you would like your letter to be published, please write 200 words or less, include your name, phone number and email, and send it to editor@ atljewishtimes.com.

Letter to the editor: Response to: What does being Jewish mean to you?

Judaism is in my blood and I am feeling very blessed to live a Jewish life. These are seven main reasons why being Jewish is important to me: 1. Family 2. Education is the key to survive.

3. Desire for self-knowledge, self-evaluation: Counting Omer and counting 60 days till Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan (from Meaningful Life Center). We are to cover our eyes during Shema, in order to find inside happiness.

4. Celebration of Shabbat. Research has proven that one day a week with family and no TV, smart phone, computer, no technology at all will increase productivity and bring more happiness and joy, and this is what Shabbat is about.

5. Eating kosher meat is healthier because the toxins are in the blood.

6. Self-discipline 7. We start to celebrate every holiday late in the evening when it is dark in order to remind us that we need to go through pain, suffering, hard work, difficult times in order to become successful, happy and to live a meaningful life.

Galina Barshay, Atlanta Letter to the editor: Response to: Trump Supports Two-State Solution, published Oct. 5, 2018 President Trump surely shares Prime Minister Netanyahu’s vision of Two States for Two Peoples: a Palestinian state living peacefully beside the nation-state of the Jews, with full civil rights guaranteed to minority groups in each state. Unfortunately, the Palestinian leaders’ idea of two states is a Palestine from which all Jews have been banned and an Israel which has become a Muslim state with Jews being massacred following a military defeat or Jews being reduced to dhimmi status in an Israel forced to absorb millions of people, whose forebears fled Arab-initiated wars and who’ve been taught that their problems started when the hated Jews stole their land.

The chances for real peace would be greatly enhanced if Arab nations seeking Israel’s help against the Iranian threat would rescind their laws barring Palestinians from citizenship in their countries. This would provide a new lease on life for Palestinians who don’t want to live in a Jewish state or under the control of corrupt Palestinian leaders. Muslim states should also help in rebuilding the economies in areas under Palestinian control, with aid being carefully monitored to ensure that the funds aren’t diverted to enrich the Palestinian leaders or used to attack Israel.

Toby F. Block, Atlanta

only 10 percent for inadequate police and fire protection, poor road repair and overall poor services, transferring our money to other parts of the county. One look at the new City Springs center and voter satisfaction with their living surroundings shows how valuable this was. Greenspace has increased exponentially in your local areas after years of Democratic lip service to improvements.

Republican governors have visited Israel twice. Republican governors brought home over a dozen businesses that are now centered in Georgia. If you doubt this, please call Conexx and see how strong our business relationship with Israel has grown in the past 16 years. Check out the joint research and development negotiated by Republicans with Georgia Tech and Emory and Israel. Republicans changed the state rules in 2003, allowing the Georgia pension plan for employees to buy Israel bonds for the first time. Georgia for the past 14 years has owned between $5 million and now $20 million in bonds from Israel. The Democrats in their years of control of the state government never did that. Brian Kemp is already on record to continue buying bonds, to visit Israel within a year, and to continue the legislation passed by Republicans preventing state business with BDS supporting entities. See if Ms. Abrams will continue these pro-Israel and prodevelopment policies.

Lastly, Georgia has ranked for the past five years as either number one or two for pro-business in the entire country. Unemployment for Georgia is at alltime lows, as is employment for African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities at all-time highs. State revenue keeps rising and businesses invest in Georgia.

Through innovation and low taxes for both individuals and corporations, Georgia has become the number one place to produce movies and television. When you see Ozark on Netflix, you are seeing Lake Altoona. The Walking Dead are alive and well in Griffin and south Atlanta.

So why resist? Why change leadership and vision when things are going so well for the Peach State? I am voting for Brian Kemp and I am urging men and women, salons and outdoor people, and people who love Israel to keep the good times rolling and Georgia moving.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Kunkes, Atlanta ■

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COVER STORY Serious About Cyberbullying

By Roni Robbins roni@atljewishtimes.com

Cyberbullying is a actions have meanings and what seems pressing concern, too, like a joke can weigh heavily on an insefor Israel advocates, cure, vulnerable teen.”

“Do not do unto others that which you said Julie Katz, asLeopold draws on Hillel’s message hate done unto yourself – that is the entire sistant director of when advising teens, “Never do anyTorah. The rest is commentary; go ahead the American Jewish thing that you would not want someone and study it.” (Hillel) to do to you and if it feels wrong to do, it Committee Atlanta.

“Depending on the is probably wrong."

In an impulsive moment that she Ben Halpert, founder and president campus environment, will long regret, a teenage girl sends of Savvy Cyber Kids, speaks frequently Zionist leaders may be her boyfriend a sexy picture via the insubjected to harassment, about the issue. ternet. After they break up, a vindictive “Because I have the privilege of threats, shaming and isoboyfriend sends it around the school – discussing cyberbullying and other cy- lation. By providing incora cruel move with far-reaching conseber security and cyber ethics topics at rect, biased and incomplete information about Israel, quences. The damage is permanent and schools in Atlanta and across the coun- then highlighting the Zionist student’s support of the may lead to suicidal thoughts, school Founder and President of Savvy try, I can tell you first-hand that every Jewish state, cyberbullies can isolate pro-Israel students Cyber Kids, Ben Halpert absenteeism, and other dangerous beonline and by extension, as leaders on child has been exposed havior. campus.” to cyberbullying in some form or anothCyberbullying, or online harassment, is a perva- er. Some kids, especially our youngest The Israel advocacy training prosive problem among today’s American teens, including children, don’t even know what they are gram of AJC’s Leaders for Tomorrow those in the Jewish community, whose central methods being exposed to.” gives high school students the tools to of communication and relationship-building are textaddress anti-Israel cyberbullying, Katz Even if they haven’t been the target ing, instant messaging, social media and the like. said. “We not only teach our students of cyberbullying, most kids have seen Most U.S. teens – 59 percent – have experienced someone else being victimized, “whether about Israel’s history and policy, but cyberbulling, according to a recent study by the Pew in a game, social media app, YouTube, or also train them in the most effective Research Center. Name-calling (42 percent) and rumor- through another connected technology.” method of high-level advocacy: straspreading (32 percent) were the most common forms of tegic relationship building. LFT trains harassment the teens reported in the survey conducted Harassment in the Jewish World Israel advocates to build relationships earlier this year. with professors, campus officials and Cyberbullying is a relatively new Teens recognize the issue. The vast majority – 90 subject for the Jewish community. It other student leaders so when these percent – believe online harassment is a problem for comes to the attention of Jewish leaders situations arise, they have allies who Assistant director of people their age and 63 percent say it’s a major problem, most often when it involves anti-Semithe AJC, Julie Katz will support and defend them, as well as the study showed. An equal number of boys and girls tism and anti-Israel harassment. take action to ensure their safety and well-being.” are affected. And most think more can “We are seeing incidents of hatred be done to address the subject. online from young people at alarm- Parental Controls “Cyberbullying includes sending, The key to preventing and addressing cyberbullying rates,” said Erin Beacham, educaposting, or sharing negative, harmful, ing is parental involvement, several interviewed for this tion director for the Anti-Defamation false, or mean content about someone story said.

League Southeast. “Social media has else,” according to stopbullying.com, “Parents need to be aware that their kids are being changed the way people communicate, a website managed by the U.S. Departexposed to cyberbulling in one form or another and talk as it enables users to post hateful rhetoment of Health and Human Services. to their children about the topic,” said Halpert of Savvy ric anonymously, along with quick and “It can include sharing personal Cyber Kids, which offers free digital parenting guides. thoughtless responses. Everyone needs or private information about someone “How a parent addresses the topic of cyberbullying to be thoughtful of their digital footprint else causing embarrassment or humilidepends on their children’s age.” and communities need to address issues ation.” Some cyberbullying even crosses For younger children, parents should ask “if they of cyberhate head-on and proactively.” the line into unlawful or criminal behave ever seen mean words or heard mean talk when Any complaints of discrimination, havior, the sites states. using their technology, which includes all the games discriminatory harassment and retaliaAnd just like other crimes, it tends and apps they may be playing or in comments they see Education director for the tion are taken seriously on Georgia camto involve a victim and a perpetrator, ADL Southeast, Erin Beacham under YouTube videos,” he said. puses, said Russ Shulkes, permanently harming the “online reputations of ev- executive director of Hillels of Georgia.

“Parents should make sure that eryone involved – not just the person being bullied, but their kids know that they can always “Obviously, Hillel takes a strong those doing the bullying or participating in it.” come to them if they see something that stand against such nefarious activity With October being national bullying prevention and would exclude any Hillel particithey do not understand, makes them month, we asked a handful of area social workers, advi- pant from further Hillel experiences if feel funny or scared.” sors, and community leaders who deal with teens and they would take part in such activity.”

For older children, parents should issues of hate to weigh in on how cyberbullying affects try to understand what their child has The ADL has a variety of resources the Jewish community. been exposed to online and how they for parents and teachers to address bulThe problem with the internet is that teens can hide lying and cyberbullying. It also offers inhave responded in the past, he said. behind a computer and feel invincible, said Vicki Leop- teractive workshops for students, teach“Parents should talk to their kids old, a licensed clinical social worker in Fayetteville. about the concepts of respect and emers and parents.

“Anonymity gives some teens license, and kids can pathy towards others to make sure their “In all of our programs, we encoureasily seek revenge on social media for situations that age students to respond to bias and be kids are not the bullies. Next, parents happened in school or at parties,” she said. “Words and allies for each other whether on campus should talk to their kids about what beHillels of Georgia Executive ing a bystander and upstander mean Director Russ Shulkes or online,” Beacham said.

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COVER STORY When I see the kids who have and how they respond when they see been bullied, it is usually too late to someone else being cyberbullied can straighten out the situation. I encourmake all the difference to another age the kids to get back into their child.” lives, hold their heads high, dramas Dan Arnold deals with the issue fade quickly in favor of new dramas, as a licensed clinical social worker and to learn from what has happened and director of clinical services at to them.”

Jewish Family & Career Services.

Teens are growing up in a world “Part of what we talk about with that is changing so fast, it’s almost parents is the need to educate themimpossible to keep up, said Kelly Coselves to the pressures and vulnerhen, director of JumpSpark, which abilities that children experience and provides Jewish teen experiences. “We can be exposed to, both online and in can’t let our discomfort stop us from the real world,” Arnold said.

Director of clinical services Licensed clinical social Director of JumpSpark, having the difficult conversations.

“In most situations, our children at JF&CS, Dan Arnold worker, Vicki Leopold Kelly Cohen Whether it’s about cyberbullying or know more about technology and teen mental health, the time has come social media than we do. It is crucial to make this a community priority.” that we maintain open lines of communication and that gossip can hurt others.”

Hadassah is hosting a community awareness event Leopold said, “I encourage parents to have a heartwe are asking questions about our children’s online activity. We need to be available to kids and be a place to to-heart with their youngsters, … to be involved, ask on bullying and cyberbullying at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, questions, look and see what is happening. I don’t be- at Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Rd. Roswell, Ga. seek support without judgment,” he said.

“Children need to be careful what they share and lieve in total privacy for teens. Parents must be involved.

For more information about cyberbullying: www.adl. understand that they don’t own the information that Kids need supervision and guidance. Parents can spotthey put online.” Sometimes, he advises taking a break check to see what is happening,” she said. “Encourage org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/bullying-anddirect, open and assertive communication to resolve cyberbullying-prevention-strategies. ■ from social media.

“It is important to educate students around the differences."

Logan C. Ritchie contributed to this story.

Incidents should be addressed quickly, she advised. power of rumor and gossip, online and in person. The old “squeezing the toothpaste example – you can squeeze it “Use teachable moments, using empathy by turning the out, but can’t get it back in – is a great metaphor for how situation around and asking them: How would you feel?

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EDUCATION Having 'The Big Talk' with Our Children Recently, I was at breakfast with a few couples, discussing a topic that comes up frequently: bringing up children in today’s society.

It dawned on me, despite all of the openness on social media, there are still certain taboo issues regarding human sexuality that almost never get discussed when it comes Dr. Barry to insular family dynam- Zisholtz ics.

Communicating with our kids about puberty remains a challenging, yet essential conversation. Studies

conducted by the Pediatrics medical journal suggest U.S. children are hitting puberty earlier than ever, some as early as age 7 or 8. Of course, discussing sexuality with such a young child could make the dialogue even more difficult.

As a dad, I know these chats can be tough.

However, it begs the question: Are fathers participating in these talks as much as mothers?

For example, it is very common and perhaps universally accepted to

have the mother-daughter conversation as one’s daughter starts experiencing the outward manifestation of puberty. That chat frequently involves explaining the physical, emotional and psychological changes that will soon occur, including menstruation.

This is an important discussion that prepares the young girl for what is to be a monthly cycle for many years to come.

Without that dialogue, it could be traumatic, frightening, and overwhelming when a young girl experiences menstruation for the first time.

In light of the #MeToo movement – along with the significant physical, emotional, psychological and hormonal

changes that occur to our sons – I am continually surprised that a similar father-son talk rarely occurs.

How frequent is the communication between father and son about physical body changes that will soon take place as puberty progresses?

How serious are the conversations about how men should treat the women they date?

All of these topics are crucial in a young man’s maturation. As a matter of fact, with the awareness surrounding the #MeToo movement, perhaps we could make a case that educating young boys is more important now than ever.

With all the abuse that has occurred, a father should feel comfortable explaining what is acceptable and what is not. When boys do not receive the proper information, the ramifications of future behavior might be significant.

Tackling these topics with our sons as well as our daughters remains extremely important.

It’s time to remove the taboos and address the issues at home instead of allowing our children to receive misinformation from their friends and the internet. I firmly believe this will lead to better growth and development of our children, and more respect between the sexes.

From a urologist and a father’s perspective, I suggest the following when discussing puberty with boys: Start early: It’s best to address puberty before it begins. Dispensing a barrage of information during one sitting can be overwhelming for the child. Consider having the dialogue over the course of a year prior to the onset of puberty. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, boys in the U.S. can begin puberty as early as age 9.

Being open is key: Explain in detail the physical changes your son will experience, making sure there are no surprises. Be compassionate.

Fathers can remind their sons they went through puberty, too, and are there to help, not ridicule.

Explain what’s normal: When a boy experiences puberty, guilt and confusion can be part of the equation. Create an open dialogue about what’s normal and healthy regarding the exploration of one’s physical changes.

Urological conditions: Although rare, certain urological issues can occur during or after puberty. Having a clear channel of communication will help allow your son to be more comfortable revealing a problem. Give him the opportunity to ask questions, and let him know if he ever has pain, immediately share this information with a parent.

Acceptable behavior: Feel comfortable describing acceptable and unacceptable interaction with others, from dating etiquette to contemporary issues such as internet safety and sexting. If a particular subject seems challenging to convey, consult a pediatrician or child psychologist for advice. ■ Dr. Barry M. Zisholtz is a partner at Georgia Urology. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a diplomate of the American Board of Urology.

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From Addiction to Light

By Marcia Caller Jaffe I’ll admit that I was shaken after my conversation with 19-year-old Liv Wolf. If the Wolf name sounds familiar, think of Chuck Wolf’s camera empire and ex-wife, Missi Wolf, the owner of BLAST - Elevate Your Workout studios.

You’d think with such success, everything in their world would be peaches and cream. Not exactly. The Wolfs found themselves dealing with a very young daughter’s addiction, deceitful behavior, ups and downs, rehabs, valiant attempts, fake attempts, and more failures.

Liv could be anyone’s child: a student at The Weber School, Woodward Academy, a “princess” with a Barbie dollhouse, a granddaughter. For that reason, Liv shares her story to help others and as a way to look back over this dark past and turn it into a lasting opportunity for light and meaning. She speaks here with thoughtfulness and without hesitation.

Marcia: Set the stage. Was your parent’s divorce a factor?

Liv: I was 12, a student at The Davis Academy. The divorce may have initially been weird; but it was civil, and I got used to it. So, no.

I remember first feeling alone when I wanted to go to Weber, but was pushed to ninth grade at Woodward. During that winter break, I went to a concert and tried a psychedelic. Then weed and alcohol. I felt somewhat better. I was actually not using at school, just recreational use; but I had a toxic boyfriend.

Marcia: Were you a good student?

Liv: I had a C average, at best. Mother caught me and started drug-testing my hair. I changed to pills to beat the test.

One or two Xanax made me feel the best.

I built up a tolerance then took five at a time.

Marcia: You were still able to function at school?

Liv: My parents knew I was drinking. I smelled like a brewery. I tried OxyContin, but it was too hard to get. In 10th grade the boyfriend broke up with me for my best friend. That made me upset a lot and I got drunk all the time and vomited in class. The dean was called in for my suspension. I expected my parents to yell at me, but they didn’t.

Marcia: There was what action at that point?

Liv: Family members staged an intervention; and I was sent to rehab in Pennsylvania for three months. I basically knew how to lie and faked my way through it.

On my 16th birthday, I declared myself, “fine.” I was sober for 16 months. I wanted my privileges back: car and phone.

I did a nine-month intensive outpatient program at a program called Sober Solutions in Atlanta while attending AA meetings to help me stay on track.

Marcia: Sounds like the road to recovery.

Liv: I wanted to recover, but in all honesty, didn’t truly desire it.

I was scared and ran away. A low point here was doing self-harm and cutting myself. More action taken: I was sent to Utah for more rehab to deal with my emotions. They would not let me continue with my AA program. I was out of control, using anything I could find: Sharpie, glue, Wite-Out, nail polish remover. Up to 40 Benadryl a day! I stole pills and had a two-day blackout. Off I went to a hospital. My parents came and sent me back to Pennsylvania for another three months.

with her permission often.

I share my story of being the parent of a child with a disease that has no cure. I share it because those who shared their stories with me helped me survive, to find a path and to keep going. Like everything in life, the more you know, the deeper you dive into a subject, the better you are at understanding it and finding tools to get through the days, the hours, sometimes the minutes.

Addiction is a family disease.

Parents, if your child is struggling with addiction, get educated. Get support. Nothing in my life has ever brought me to my knees like Liv’s addiction. Nothing has every made me grow more, made me a better version of myself and taught me more lessons than her addiction.

I love my daughter fiercely and completely. She is a force and a light. ■

Liv Wolf and her mother Missi.

For help with addiction, Missi Wolf recommends these resources: Families Anonymous Meetings: Monday 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, 30075 Thursday 7 to 8:00 p.m. at Peachtree Presbyterian Church, 3434 Roswell Road, Atlanta, room 2311.

Caron Parent Support: www.caron.org/support-after-treatment/ support-groups/caron-parent-and-family.

Marcia: This was the turning point?

Liv: Yes, I had a new mindset. I had been sober two years when a few months ago, the “love of my life,” a guy I met in AA, overdosed and died. I didn’t see it coming. This loss was the hardest.

Marcia: So, life now?

Liv: I got my high school degree, work full-time and go to Georgia Perimeter. I go to AA five times a week and am able to go to parties and socialize with my support network of sober friends.

Marcia: What can we learn from you?

Liv: This can happen to anyone – Jewish, sheltered kids. You can’t blame parents. They tried everything. I was very manipulative. Also, my grandfather died of alcoholism. We cannot downplay the effect of this genetic component.

Marcia: Last word?

Liv: I want to make an impact on others. I spoke to 50 Weber students.

Based on their feedback, they found me relatable. That is one definition of success and recovery.

And this from her mom: Missi: My daughter is in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction at 19.

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What We Can Learn from Our Teens If you have been keeping up with the community, you’d likely agree this year’s hot topic has been mental health. If you like to be ahead of the trend, the new focus will undoubtedly be teen mental health.

To help kick off this long-overdue conversation, I wanted to share some key points following an open discussion with two Jewish 20-somethings. These indi- Daniel viduals are currently living Epstein what, by several measures, we will consider a satisfying, healthy life.

A scenario well-earned, after a combined 20 years of struggling with various mental health and substance abuse issues.

Our topic of conversation centered around questions such as: “Do you feel your teen years had an impact on your difficulties?” and “What do you wish was done differently as a teenager?”

The discussions were interesting and full of content, and the following insights are what we considered to be critical points to share with the community.

But first, allow me to introduce today’s contestants.

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The female contributor is a single, full-time student, in her mid-20s, has a robust, healthy social life and has chosen to remain sober from drugs and alcohol after dealing with addiction. She reports, “Alcohol was never my thing, but I don’t drink. Alcohol is not the feeling my brain wants,” referring to historical preference for opioids. “If drinking increases my chances [of relapsing on opioids/heroin] by 1 percent ... not worth it.”

She grew up in the Atlanta suburbs, maintained “yeah, pretty good grades,” was accepted to college out of high school and reported, “the worst of it was in college, I had to take some time off [for treatment], but I’m a much better student now.”

Our male counterpart is later in his 20s, has a full-time job, an active social life, committed girlfriend and participates in recreational sports. He holds a college degree and insists I share he maintains a close relationship within his tight-knit family and is the favorite grandchild, even though “it is not a com-

petition.” He acknowledges having used cannabis and alcohol “socially,” but “never had a problem” with them, independent of having worsened his depression and anxiety. (Quick note: cannabis and alcohol frequently exacerbate psychiatric symptoms and can have negative interactions with medications.)

He had required inpatient treatment for his mental health symptoms as they reached a crisis level where he had suicidal ideation and a history of panic attacks.

Upon discussing whether their teenage years had an impact on their histories, both answers were clear yeses.

Self-esteem, self-image, a dependence on validation from others, cannabis use, anxiety and a lack of healthy coping skills were mutually-agreed-upon culprits. In addition, body image, bullying, traumatic experiences, grief and feeling “unbelievable pressure and expectations” from school, parents and social circles were reported contributing factors.

We moved on to discuss what they believed would have been helpful in reducing the severity of their problems and if anything could have been done to avoid the reported worst parts, specifically the opioid, later heroin, addiction and the crisis resulting in hospitalization. The initial response from both parties was a silent pensiveness, a smile and a little head-shaking. While both experiences were varied in home life, socio-economic status, major life events (such as trauma, bullying, divorce, etc.), substance abuse, social experiences and a few other key points, the main take-aways, which we would like to share with the community are: • Having open and honest communication with adults. Family boundaries and openness were a common thread.

Having a therapist, mentor or a thirdparty adult was the unanimous winner. One participant stated, “If you asked me then, I knew everything. I was an expert on life at 15. But I had no clue. I was a little kid.” Having help, guidance, support and “some way to just love myself and care about

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Become or remain involved in activities. Especially sports, temple youth group or clubs. One participant reported, “When I think about me at my happiest then, it was when I was busy and involved” in organized activities.

“I remember when I dropped out of [youth group], it’s like ‘Why are you listening to me? Just make me go.’”

Structure, connectedness to peers and achievement are all essential elements to teen wellness.

Have an established relationship with a therapist. Not that every teen needs one, but it can be difficult to tell when certain behaviors are symptoms of a mental health condition or just “being a typical teenager;” only a licensed mental health professional is qualified to make that call. Also, having a pre-existing relationship with a therapist can reduce the barrier to getting help in the event it is needed.

Coping skills. Healthy coping skills are easier to engage when used regularly. Everyone experiences stressors, and everyone will, for better or worse, find a release. Not all methods of relaxation are created equal.

While there are enough topics to fill a bookshelf on this subject, the most interesting insight (and the scientific literature agrees) is that teens who are engaged and feel connected to one another do better with the ups and downs of life. They learn and practice healthy coping skills, maintain structure and thus are better prepared to handle life’s challenges. Connection and life skills are game changers. ■

Daniel Epstein is a licensed professional counselor, licensed mental health counselor and licensed psychotherapist. He is also program director of The Berman Center, an intensive outpatient program for mental health and substance abuse. The Berman Center now has an adolescent program and teen groups.

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Fellow Exchange Brings Israeli Culture to Epstein

By Rachel Fayne Israeli college students are in Atlanta this semester to study at Kennesaw University and student teach at The Epstein School. It’s the fourth year of the foreign partnership between Epstein and Haifa University in Israel in which students attend classes at Kennesaw and intern at Epstein twice a week to engage in teacher training and professional development with middle school students. The Israeli students arrived in early August and will finish their studies in December.

Officially named Ruach Hacarmel, meaning "The Spirit of Carmel," this year’s program brought seven students between the ages of 25 and 30 to Atlanta, all native Israelis who have completed service in the Israel Defense Forces.

As the only schools in the state to partner with Haifa University, Kennesaw and Epstein began the initiative based out of the belief that the Jewish education field suffers from a lack of qualified Judaic studies professionals. Aside from the cultural and educational benefits for the Epstein students, the program also aims to invest in young, capable teachers with the knowledge and cultural background to inspire students. Each of the Israeli student interns has a mentor with whom they shadow and observe pedagogy such as lesson plans and the developmental needs of the Epstein students.

Hadas Sadero is Epstein’s Hebrew and Bible department chair and the coordinator of the program. “It’s absolutely a goal to recruit teachers who are already pre-

Students from Haifa University pose with the Hadas Sadero, program coordinator, far right. From left, Diana Davtian, Ehud Kotliar, Noya Bejerano, Ofek Ravid, Tal Almog, Yossi Yeger, Hadas Mizrachi, Hadas Sadero.

pared through Epstein and educated in Jewish studies from living in Israel back to our school,” she said. “Aside from that though, the program allows us to bring in other young people who speak Hebrew to show our students that the language is alive and well. Here’s a group of young Israeli students who develop personal relationships with our kids. Last year, for example, we had an Israeli young lady here who worked with us. When she left, she and our kids stayed in touch via social media.

They all follow her on Instagram. Now our class is vis-

iting Israel in May, and they’ve made arrangements to meet up with her. It’s wonderful.”

The college students currently visiting from Israel are reaping the benefits as well. Becoming familiar with the American system of education and how Judaic studies are taught in the states are specifically enriching for many Israelis, and the Epstein and Kennesaw communities have welcomed them.

“In our country, everyone is Jewish, so you don’t necessarily feel that warmth of a smaller community like we did when we first arrived in Georgia,” explained current exchange student Diana Davtian. “It was a pleasant surprise when I arrived.”

Fellow student Yossi Yeger said, “It’s also very challenging to be teaching and learning in a different language. But that’s what makes the program even better because we’re able to practice our English. In every sense, we’re adapting to a whole new system we’re not accustomed to. Everything is different, and we welcome it.”

The program is made possible by donors Stan Sunshine, Michael Merlin, Norman Radow and Ramie Tritt.

“Stan has welcomed us at several parties and really made us feel at home,” Yeger said. “We’re so grateful for him, the rest of the donors, and the schools involved for making it possible for everyone involved to get a better education. We really learn from each other.” ■

Stan Sunshine, a major program donor, speaks with students as they visit his sukkah.

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Opening day assembly with everyone wearing their new t-shirts for each eidah (unit).

Athletic Training Chug (circle): How does taking care of our bodies relate to resting on Shabbat?

Sinai Upends Education Program for Cultural Shift

By Logan C. Ritchie Sundays at Temple Sinai are more interactive and family-centered since the synagogue rolled out a new program last month for children in kindergarten to sixth grade. Developed in-house, Noar Sunday offers multi-age classes, electives and tefillah. The program is just one part of the congregation’s overhaul to its educational philosophy.

According to Marisa Kaiser, Sinai underwent a full review of Jewish education during the last three years. “Out of this revision, we created a holistic approach to lifelong learning for learners of any age.

There’s a common thread in everything we offer,” said Kaiser, director of the Center for Learning and Engagement.

When Sinai opened the center last year, it developed a four-part approach to families with young children, youth, teens and adults.

“We are changing the way we think about education and giving children personal choice, community building, handson learning and authentic Jewish content,” she said.

Kaiser and Emily Cohen, director of youth education, determined core priorities and learned about models across the country. The pair engaged curriculum writers and experts, and Noar Sunday was created.

The traditional Hebrew school program centers on children going to syna-

gogue on Sunday morning, in a classroom, to learn Hebrew. “This is not just about content,” said Kaiser. “We are building community, connecting kids and families, asking what they want to learn and how.”

Noar Sunday offers electives, including cooking, yoga and science, so that children have the autonomy to decide how they learn material. For example, while studying the science of Shabbat, students experiment with yeast and sugar to make challah; later they learn the science behind other Shabbat items including grape juice and fire.

Sinai encourages parents to stay and play. A coffee shop vibe allows for work and catching up with friends. Committee meetings, adult education and programming are all offered on Sundays through the learning and engagement center.

On Sundays in October, dads are invited to paint pumpkins with their toddlers, special needs parents connect, a meeting is held on Atlanta’s immigrant community and the brotherhood hosts Dan Corso, president of the Atlanta Sports Council.

“We are making a full cultural shift.

Sunday morning used to be a place to drop off the kids and run errands. We are shifting to make Sunday an intentional family destination. Kids need to see you as part of their Jewish experience,” she said. “We are building community and forming a positive Jewish identity – and we are helping parents be a part of that.” ■

Making a friendship fruit salad in cooking: How our chaverim (friends) unit learns about friendship.

SparkTank! Working together as chaverim to create solutions.

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Take the Yearly College Quiz Each year The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes an almanac.

The facts in this article are taken from information in the 2018-19 issue.

While many readers follow the college football rankings on a weekly basis, there is far more Dr. Mark to know about colleges around the country. The Fisher following quiz has the correct answers at the end. But don’t look at the answers until you’ve complete the quiz.

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1. Which four-year private, nonprofit institution has the highest percentage of full professors on the faculty? a. Davidson, b. Rice, c. Curry, d.

Brown.

New York U., c. Harvard, d. Columbia U.

2. The public college with the largest enrollment is: a. Rutgers, b. U. of Central Florida, c. U. of Florida, d.

U. of Texas.

5. Among four-year private colleges, which drew the highest percentage of first-time students from out of state? A. Yale, b. Wesleyan (Conn.), c.

Vanderbilt, d. American U.

3. A private nonprofit institution with the largest enrollment (and a doctoral program) is: a. Boston U., b.

6. Which public university drew the highest percentage of first-time students from out-of-state? A. Vermont,

4. Among universities, which was the fastest-growing? a. Rutgers U., b. U. of Alabama c. Georgia Tech, d. Florida International U.

b. Rhode Island, c. Alabama, d. U. of Mississippi.

7. In the Middle East and North Africa, which country had the most study-abroad students from the U.S.? a. Jordan, b. Egypt, c. Israel, d.

United Arab Emirates.

8 .Of the more than 10,000 open online courses, which course area has the most students? a. engineering, b. science, c. technology, d. business.

9. The field of study that produced the most bachelor’s degrees was: a. business, management, marketing and related areas, b. health professions and related programs, c. psychology, d. engineering.

10. Which public institution has the best fouryear graduation rate? a. U. of Connecticut, b.

Binghamton, c. Michigan, d. Virginia.

11. Among these four-year private colleges, who has the best four-year graduation rate? a. Princeton, b. Pomona, c. U. of Chicago, d. Washington and Lee. 12. The university that granted the most research doctorates in engineering was: a. MIT b.

Purdue, c. Stanford, d. Georgia Tech.

13. Which four-year private nonprofit institution was most expensive among these choices? a. Barnard, b. U. of Pennsylvania, c. Franklin & Marshall, d. Washington U. in St. Louis 14. Which public institution cost the most for in-state students? a. U. of Colorado, b. U. of Pittsburgh, c. U. of Massachusetts, d. U. of Illinois.

15. For out-of state students, which public university is most expensive? a. Rutgers, b. Texas, c.

Arizona, d. Michigan.

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16. Among the following colleges, which has the largest endowment? a. Syracuse, b. U. of Rochester, c. Ohio State, d. Emory.

17. Which of these colleges raised the most in private donations? a. Duke, b. Northwestern, C. Princeton, d. Johns Hopkins.

18. How many four-year public colleges are in the state of Georgia? a. 33, b. 28, c. 25, d. 20.

19. The number of two-year public colleges in the state of Georgia are? a. 15, b. 20, c. 23, d. 26.

20. Which university granted the most research doctorates in education? a. U. of Georgia, b.

Teachers College, Columbia U., c. Michigan State, d. U. of Minnesota. ■ Dr. Mark Fisher is a college and career consultant at Fisher Educational Consultants (www.fishereducationalconsultants.com) and a consultant for the College Planning Institute (www.GotoCPI.com).

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CIE Builds Better Model of Israel Education The Atlanta-based Center for Israel Education, established in 2008, has influenced hundreds of thousands of Jewish students, adults and a large Spanishreading audience. It draws 7,500 people a week to its website, israeled.org.

CIE, fully sustained by foundation and donation support, began with a simple request 20 years ago. Ken Stein, professor of Middle Eastern history and Israel studies, founded the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel (ismi.emory.edu) at Emory University in 1998 (the 20th anniversary is being celebrated Nov. 9-11).

The following year, teachers at Greenfield Hebrew Academy (now Atlanta Jewish Academy) sought his help to create a course on Zionism for seventh-graders.

After another school also expressed interest, Stein launched a two-day workshop for a dozen teachers, then offered it again and drew 25 educators. With funding from the parent of a former student, then from The AVI CHAI Foundation, the Israel enrichment workshop became a weeklong fixture for Jewish educators each summer and the core offering around which the nonprofit CIE grew.

“I believe it would be fair to say we built it, and they came,” said Stein, CIE’s president.

The center has an international reach, but its impact is particularly strong in its hometown. CIE led teen programs for BBYO and NFTY events, held pre-Israeltrip seminars for seniors of The Weber School, conducted sessions at The Epstein School and AJA, saw 10 local schools use its Israel curriculum for second- to seventhgraders, provided speakers at the Atlanta Jewish Film

Festival and Book Festival of the MJCCA, and partnered with such organizations as Hadassah, American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

“The focus of CIE has always been content, context and perspective,” with an emphasis on primary sources, Stein said.

The educator workshop has taught 993 educators from 36 states and six foreign countries since 2000.

Those educators represent 417 day schools, synagogue schools, teen programs and other organizations with a combined 375,000 Jewish students. Five day schools, 14 synagogues and three non-Jewish schools in metro Atlanta have participated.

Hope Chernak, the MJCCA’s chief program officer, said she “drank the Kool-Aid” on CIE’s approach while regularly attending the June educator workshop. She worked for Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York at that time and was part of the first group to complete CIE’s yearlong certificate program in Israel education in 2016.

“Educators sometimes get trapped where they’re responding to the news or responding to the politics of the day. The CIE model helps us move away from that,” Chernak said. “It’s just showing the different frameworks, the different lenses, the different ways to teach about Israel beyond the politics.”

AJA teacher Lisa Marks said, “As a history teacher, sometimes we give kids the pieces of the puzzle, but we never put the puzzle together for them. That’s what I think CIE does.”

She praised the way CIE makes connections to

Photos courtesy of CIE // With Ken Stein’s help, educators get a feel for Israel’s geography at the 2011 summer workshop.

Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser (left) guides a 2016 educator workshop as a session participant speaks.

CIE Vice President Rich Walter is not above dressing up as Theodor Herzl to teach about the Zionist Congress.

sources going back to Scripture and is always available to answer questions and provide support. For example, CIE Vice President Rich Walter came to AJA dressed as Theodor Herzl to talk about Zionism.

“CIE is this incredible resource that is there for you in so many ways,” Chernak said.

Rabbi Peter Berg, the senior rabbi of The Temple and a CIE board member, said Atlanta benefits from being home to CIE. For example, last year the center helped prepare high school juniors and seniors for the criticisms of Israel they might face in college.

“There’s a lot of misinformation about Israel. Different news outlets cover Israel in different ways, and there’s a lot of general lack of knowledge. One of the things CIE does is to teach the facts and to teach the truth,” he said. “It’s not a sermon.”

Dov Wilker, AJC Atlanta’s regional director, said his agency has maintained a close relationship with CIE. Most recently, the AJC turned to the center to strengthen its Leaders for Tomorrow program for high school sophomores and juniors.

“Through their extensive knowledge and work in education, CIE has helped to shape our program through primary source materials, which has helped all of the students,” Wilker said.

CIE makes primary sources, course materials, additional historical information, and links to other scholarship and analysis available on its website, whose traffic has grown the past two years from 400 to 7,500 visitors a week.

Because many people want to view videos rather than read sources, CIE has developed online learning units, short videos and YouTube offerings. It also provides monthly webinars.

“We’ve shown people that you can gain excellent access to informed materials about Israel, do so at your pace and come back for more,” Stein said. ■ Provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org).

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Weber Delves into Zionist History The Weber School is trying to reinvigorate the traditional senior class trip to Israel with help from the Center for Israel Education.

The 53 Weber seniors going to Israel during winter break in December are meeting four times with educators and experts from CIE — three times before the trip and once after — to maximize the enduring educational value of the experience, which is coordinated with Jewish National Fund’s Alexander Muss High School in Israel.

“The greatest risk facing our community today is a certain passivity and an ignorance, a wholesale ignorance, on the part of North American Jews about what Israel is about and where it came from,” Rabbi Ed Harwitz, Weber’s head of school, said during the first of the three programs Aug. 31. “We’re going to provide the opportunity but also the challenge to be able to do what 95 percent of all North American Jews cannot do: to articulate what their relationship to Israel is with some meaning and purpose in an elevated way.”

A key element, Rabbi Harwitz said, is to transform the Israel trip, which includes a week in Poland, into something much more than a graduation reward.

To that end, nearly three dozen seniors had a catered falafel lunch and spent a couple of hours delving into the history of Zionism with Weber Hebrew teacher Michal Ilai and CIE Vice President Rich Walter.

Ilai led the students through an exploration of their feelings about Israel and Zionism. Students were asked to read and affix comments to Israel-related statements taped to the walls of the cafeteria, such as: • “I am not sure I understand my connection to Israel, but I am ready to explore it.” (The responses included “I’m very excited for my first trip to Israel,” “I already am connected” and “I’ve NEVER been so ready for anything before. My connection to Israel runs deep, but there is still more to be uncovered.”)

• “I don’t want to criticize Israel. As a Jew I must always stand by its side.” (“I will call them out if need be” was one of a half-dozen replies.)

• “I love that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. I love that it is a place that is dedicated to equality, fairness and inclusion — even though sometimes the government may do things that I don’t agree with.” (“I like this quote,” “I agree” and “Is this true?” were among the responses.)

• “The reason we can be comfortable around the world as Jews is because Israel is here.” (“It is nice to know there will always be a place for Jews,” “Israel is a safe place,” “Gives us a safe haven to be whatever Jews want” and “FACTS,” students wrote.)

Having delved into their individual feelings about modern Israel, the students broke into groups to study what has been written about the Jewish homeland through the millennia, from the Torah and the Passover haggadah to current Knesset member Yair Lapid, the head of the Yesh Atid party.

Those discussions produced four student definitions of Zionism: • “The belief that Jews will have their own home … by any means necessary.”

• “Supporting the existence of a Jewish state (Israel) that is peaceful no matter what.”

• “To support a Jewish state in the land of Israel.”

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A Center for Israel Education chart shows Jewish immigration to Palestine and the United States from 1881 to 1928.

Weber seniors use documents from the late 19th and early 20th century to answer two questions: What can we learn about Jewish life at the time?

What are they calling on Jews to do?

• “Being connected to our homeland in some way by culture, values, history, etc.”

Walter emphasized that even David Ben-Gurion, speaking in April 1950, didn’t try to define Zionism. Instead, Israel’s first prime minister explained the essential background for Zionism: love of Israel.

“Love of Israel means love of the state of Israel as a mother loves her child, even if it is naughty, even if at times it does something that is not right,” Ben-Gurion said.

“You really can be furious with Israel at certain times,” Walter said. But that fury “has to come from a point of at least having a love.”

Ilai asked what can be learned about the Jewish connection to the land from written yearnings for Israel stretching over more than 3,000 years. “That it’s always been there,” one student said.

“It’s always been there,” Ilai said. “That’s beautiful.”

Walter guided the seniors through the history of how nearly two millennia of exile led to the modern Zionist movement and the birth of the state of Israel. He noted that the First Zionist Congress concluded exactly 121 years earlier by adopting a declaration that Zionism sought a legally assured home in Palestine.

Zionist yearning did not produce a political movement until the late 19th century for reasons including the Muslim Ottoman Empire’s control of the land of Israel and the religious belief, fueled by the slaughter of Jews in revolts against the Roman Empire, that only the Messiah could lead the return to Israel.

Documents such as newspaper articles and an editorial cartoon demonstrated that the Jewish Enlightenment in Europe, pogroms in the Russian Empire, and

Photos courtesy of CIE // Rabbi Ed Harwitz (left) and CIE Vice President Rich Walter help with the study of documents from early in the modern Zionist movement.

political anti-Semitism in Western Europe inspired Jews to strive for change.

Walter said Jews realized that “we don’t have to live in exile anymore.”

Through research and exploration of these sources, the students found that 19th century Jews in Europe had three major options: Go to Palestine; leave for another overseas destination, usually the United States; or stay and try to improve their circumstances.

The toll of the Holocaust shows that most stayed.

More than 2.3 million immigrated to the United States from 1881 to 1928, a period when 167,000 Jews made aliyah. Only in the last four years of that period, after the United States enacted tight restrictions on immigration from Eastern Europe, did more Jews go to the land of Israel (67,000) than the United States (43,681), according to a chart Walter shared with the students.

For the most part, Walter told the students, those who made “the choice of self-determination and Zionism were young people like yourselves. … So never underestimate the power you guys can have.”

Walter noted that CIE President Ken Stein, set to lead the second session with the Weber seniors Oct. 10, likes to say Zionism “was about Jews becoming the subject of their own sentence and to stop being the object of someone else’s.”

“Being the subject of your own sentence,” Walter said, “means sometimes making decisions that are difficult and that not everyone agrees with.” ■ Provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details.

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A Kosher Touch for Day Schools

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Sandra and Clive Bank, owners of Added Touch and A Kosher Touch catering, have made hospitality headlines for being the exclusive kosher caterer at the new Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center in City Springs.

In yet another meaningful venture, Jewish day schools approached the catering company to fill the void of feeding children healthy, delicious and mindful meals with a newly created branch called A Healthy Touch.

Clive Bank is vice president and charmingly refers to himself as second in command, co-owner or Sandra’s husband. “We go beyond typical school fare like hot dogs. We use proper china and get the students involved in meal planning and hopefully soon, growing food.”

A Healthy Touch provides Atlanta Kosher Commission-approved meals for The Weber School, the Marcus JCC preschool, and Atlanta Jewish Academy. About 450 meals a week are prepared in the schools’ kitchens. All except the MJCCA have their own on-site mashgiach, who is authorized to provide strict kashrut compliance.

During the five-day school week, A Healthy Touch alternates between dairy and meat meals with some weeks being heavier on one than the other, Bank said.

The older students also have a fresh salad bar with fruit options. Bank is working with student representatives to have input into their meals.

“Pizza, tacos, lasagna are always favorites, and ours are really good quality. Our tuna salad is also a very popular choice. I love visiting the toddlers and seeing beans and rice, or spaghetti strewn all over amid their eating enjoyment.”

Bank is very forward-thinking with his goal of involving children in food preparation like making latkes and paninis, and learning safe knife skills. By using melamine plates in most venues, thousands of items are saved from the landfill. A Healthy Touch is also mindful of children’s’ allergies: gluten free and peanut free are especially noteworthy.

When asked about the bottom line – profitability – Bank said, “Consider it our tzedakah donation, putting in a good deed for the children of our community.” ■ Clive Bank, vice president of Added Touch and A Kosher Touch catering, likes watching students get excited about the nutritious and wholesome food of his new division, A Healthy Touch.

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Students Spread Love of Israel

By Roni Robbins Soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces will tour Atlanta schools Oct. 19-23 as part of the StandWithUs program. The first stop, a public event Oct. 21 at The Weber School, kicks off the efforts of the new SWU Teen Leadership Council and includes Jewish high school interns: Shani Kadosh of the Atlanta Jewish Academy, Elye Robinovitz of Weber, and Sydney Siegel of Northview High School.

SWU is an international nonprofit Israel education organization that fights hate and anti-Semitism and gives students a pro-Israel voice

on campus. We interviewed an SWU intern and three Emerson fellows from Atlanta area colleges. They were trained in August in such areas as countering Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns and how to know when Israel criticism is antiSemitism.

“Many of us first got involved with StandWithUs because we faced anti-Semitism. … I heard stories of classmates drawing swastikas on Israeli flags, coins being thrown at the Jewish students, or being told the Israel Defense Forces kills babies. Unfortunately, these real stories are not as uncommon as one would think. I have never been more motivated to make a

difference,” said Siegel, a senior at Northview.

We hear from Emerson fellows Melissa Harari, vice president of Eagles for Israel at Emory University; Josh Cohen, education vice president of Dawgs for Israel at the University of Georgia; and Shira Solomon, Georgia State University Hillel vice president and religious events chair of Chabad at GSU. AJT: Why are you involved with SWU? Shira: It’s important that on a politically neutral campus like GSU, the attitude toward Israel steers in a positive direction. People tend to make judgments about confusing situations like Israel based on hearsay rather than facts and research.

een, B e ’v e W e r e h W : 0 IS M I@ 2 W h e r e W e ’r e G o in g Join Professor Ken Stein and Emory’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel as we celebrate 20 years of ISMI’s work to promote education and scholarship on Israeli culture, history, society, policy and politics. The 20th anniversary weekend Nov. 10 and 11 will explore Israel’s past, present and future, discuss how to sustain the study of Israel at Emory in the decades to come, and include a gala dinner featuring Israeli food and Ethiopian-Israeli singer/songwriter Aveva Dese.

• Israeli Music • Panel Discussions • Saturday Night Gala • Israeli Food • Guest Speakers • Alumni Gathering • Awards/Honors • Intern Presentations • Previous Visiting Professors • ISMI Open House • The Future of ISMI

Get details and tickets for all or part of the celebration at ismi.emory.edu.

Speakers include: Lois Frank • Joshua Newton • Allison Padilla-Goodman • Dana Pearl Stacey Popovsky • Jay Schaefer • Jonathan Schanzer • Joel Singer • Eli Sperling Todd Stein • Asher Susser • Mitchell Tanzman • Rich Walter • Dov Wilker ISMI’s core mission is to enhance the knowledge and scholarship of Israel and the Middle East on the Emory campus and beyond.

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Georgia’s SWU Emerson college fellows squeeze lemons representing their challenges. From front left: Shira Solomon, Josh Cohen, Talia Lerner, Melissa Harari and Mariana Ortiz, GSU Hispanic fellow, joined by SWU Hispanic outreach coordinator Sebastian Parra, back left.

Melissa: I’m involved in SWU because I want to empower other students to actively support Israel on their college campuses. I want to stand up for Israel because I don’t believe it gets recognized for all of the contributions it makes to the world.

AJT: Why is this work important to you personally?

Shira: I grew up with an Israel-can-do-nowrong mentality. As I got older and actually lived in Israel, I realized this idea was not true. However, whether or not you agree, there are reasons the country makes its decisions. So it’s important to see both sides – both for and against Israel – and make an independent conclusion.

Josh: Israel is my second home and I don’t appreciate when my home is attacked, on any level. I want people to know the whole truth, but provide them what they need to make that determination for themselves.

Melissa: My family has been religiously persecuted in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust, and in the Middle East during anti-Semitic political movements. Many of them found a home in Israel and I now have several family members that hope to make aliyah there due to its values, culture, innovative spirit and their historical connection to the land. I want to advocate for peace, coexistence, strategic collaboration, and education. I want to give Israel a voice on college campuses and to defend its right to exist for my family, my ancestors, and for the generations to come.

AJT: Have you ever been confronted with anti-Israel propaganda?

Josh: I’ve witnessed it on campus from Students for Justice in Palestine. Personally, I have encountered it in conversations with my peers who are misinformed and either want to criticize or to genuinely ask for more information.

Melissa: Aside from the Apartheid Wall being put up by our SJP chapter during Pesach, I experienced ignorance and disrespectful commentary from students who clearly had not been to Israel or Palestine, but were quick to protest our pro-Israel group’s Humanitarian Aid event by calling it propaganda.

I intervened when I saw several people yelling at a Jewish student and not giving him a voice. Interestingly, I engaged in constructive and diplomatic conversation with the only Palestinian student at the event, and we ended the conversation on a positive note hoping for peace.

Photos by Laurie Sermos // The Goldschmidt backyard is lush and layered for maximum play space.

Chai Style Homes

Debra and David Goldschmidt created a house that is streamlined and, at the same time, breathtaking.

Seamless, Lean, Inspired with Children in Mind Along a modest street in Toco Hills it blooms like "He would narrow things down to a few options. I an oasis. Lush green levels – even the roof – cantilevers had opinions and definitely influenced some decisions; and asymmetrical rectangles swing out of the sides. but I trusted him to do most of the project.”

Architect David Goldschmidt and wife, Debra, set out The house was featured on the MA! Architecture to create a “split box” modern minimalist Tour 2018. The 40-by-20-foot great room 4,900-square-foot house. “Split” because breathes in light with its 18-foot ceiling. the private family quarters are separated The baby grand piano entrance fronts a from public shared living spaces. The house stairwell with thin painted steel surfaces is anchored by a 22-foot outdoor breezeway for a startling illusion. It is nothing short of connecting the fully equipped in-law and “ahead of the curve” design.

Shabbat guest house.

David works at a large, mixed-use arMarcia: How does an architect go chitecture firm and heads his own DiG about designing his own home?

Architects boutique firm. “After we deDavid: This is the first house I have molished the old house, it took 18 months Marcia designed for myself. I approached it like for Post+Beam Builders to complete. Our Caller Jaffe any other project, starting with developdetails are all about precision because it’s ing the program. How many bedrooms, hard to hide mistakes in a minimalist house.” bathrooms, etc. Next, I looked critically at the "idea" of Debra, who is CNN Health’s supervising editor, said a house. What interests me and what bothers me about she was basically a client when it came to the house. “He current house design and construction. Other factors suggested we do the project democratically. I got one that come into play are the orientation of the house, the vote, and he would get one vote. The architect got to be site placement, views, materiality and sustainability. the tie breaker!

Marcia: What are some unique features?

David: The green roof. Plants serve to reduce storm water runoff, mitigate energy consumption, improve air quality and complement the architecture.

One side of the house has a complete wall (61 feet) of cabinets that serve as storage, [place for] TV, fireplace, dining room buffet, refrigerator and freezer. It’s practical and allows us to hide things to maintain the minimalist interior.

The outdoor breezeway is a space to hang out and doubles as the entrance to the house and the guesthouse.

The exterior cladding is a rain screen, which means there is an air space between it and the waterproofing.

This capillary break allows any moisture behind the wall to drain and dry out. It’s a better way to build walls.

Marcia: Define minimalist style.

David: Having a simple and clear form with the focus on using fewer elements. It’s about subtraction, leaving only what is necessary. The exterior cladding and interiors are devoid of extra decoration … no unnecessary trim or molding. The rooms focus on being clean, ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES OCTOBER 12, 2018 | 31

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The exterior, asymmetrically-designed rectangles and cantilevers allow maximum indoor light.

uncluttered and light-filled. This leads to an unarticulated, uncomplicated plan with attention to the detailing for a calm environment that is about the space itself and the views. The walls are all Benjamin Moore Super White.

Marcia: What art do you collect?

David: I admire Richard Serra sculptures. He takes a singular material and creates an experience that’s not about the artist’s personal feelings or some artificial reference but about one’s relationship to the object and how we interact with it. It’s very architectural. My favorite architect is Yoshio Taniguchi, a minimalist who is best known for his addition to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Debra: We have photographs from John Richter, who we discovered while

skiing in Vail. He is a landscape photographer, but we like his more abstract images.

Marcia: How did you design the house to be child-friendly?

David: There are a few areas designed with them in mind. The basement is really the area for the kids to hang out.

It’s a big open space with a TV and sofa and large closets for toys.

We also regraded the backyard to add additional play space.

Our kids are getting older, so we weren’t worried about steps and railings and those sorts of things. I didn’t change the level of finish or alter anything just to be child-friendly.

The hallway adjoining their rooms has built-in study desks. The bedrooms have Stem beds and nightstands and

Architect David Goldschmidt achieved minimalism with his incredible knowledge of details. The purple chair is by Soho Concept.

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The light-drenched living room has 44 feet of built-in cabinets and a ceiling height of 18 feet. The dining room table is

by Sovet and seats 14 in Panton chairs by Vitra.

The brown Magis Voido rocking chair in the playroom is by Israeli designer Ron Arad.

The Goldschmidts look out onto their dramatic front entrance that features a baby grand piano and specially cut thin steel staircase. Light fixtures by Lighting Loft.

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Photos by Laurie Sermos // The boy’s room touts his Lego creations.

The bed and nightstand are by Stem; the shelf by IKEA. All of the children’s rooms have a magnetic board wall.

The 22-foot breezeway with Vondom furniture connects the Shabbat guest house. The wood is Brazilian walnut, otherwise known as Ipe.

IKEA cubbies. The closets have builtin dressers. Their walls have magnetic white boards, so we can be organized and make lists, doodle and use for school work.

Debra: The true favorite space for the kids is an unfinished portion of the basement, “the hockey room,” because it is exactly for this purpose. All three of our children play ice hockey, as does David. So, I can actually hear sticks clanking and pucks flying down there!

Debra hears the children and David clanking the puck around the hockey rink room.

Inset: A Warner Bros. cartoon of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky with his signature.

Marcia: What are the specifics you installed for a kosher kitchen?

Debra: We have two sinks, two dishwashers, a double oven; and our refrigerators have a Shabbos mode. They are actually Thermador even though all of our other appliances are Miele. (The Miele version did not have a Shabbos mode).

The kitchen is set up so the basics on one side are meat and the other side is dairy.

We have loads of cabinet space to keep everything separate.

The counters are Caesarstone quartz. In addition to the dining table, we have six stools from CB2, where the kids often sit as overflow for Shabbos meals.

Marcia: Leave us with some really cool design “gimmicks.”

David: We used hidden door hinges for a sleek look.

All of the light switches on the main floor are hidden on a single wall. They are programmable through a Lutron system.

And the fireplace is liquid ethanol, so it burns clean and you don’t need a chimney.

Debra: One thing that’s sentimental (and not minimalist) is that David gave me a one-of-a-kind Frabel glass heart. On the other hand, the hockey rink is not so sentimental! ■

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ARTS Blank Foundation Unveils Educational Film Program Two important philanthropies, both created by prominent members of the American Jewish community, joined forces in Atlanta last week to boost the use of documentary film to educate and inspire new audiences.

The initiative brings together the Atlanta-based Arthur Blank Family Foundation, chaired by the cofounder of The Home Depot, and Participant Media, a major Hollywood producer and Academy Award win- Bob ner started by Jeff Skoll. He Bahr was also the first president of eBay Inc. The innovative project was introduced by Kenny Blank, Arthur Blank’s son and a Blank foundation board member, who is the executive director of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. Inspired by the ideas of Blank and Skoll, the initiative will encourage and train a select group of nonprofit organizations to use documentary films to encourage grass roots political and social action.

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“We are rising to a challenge first posed by my dad who was attending a national conference a few years ago and heard Jeff Skoll speak on how documentary film can effect change,” Blank said.

“We hope to see more funders and nonprofits deploy documentary to educate and advocate.”

The program is a partnership between the Blank Foundation and Working Films, which is based in North Carolina and has had the support of such bluechip organizations as the Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

This is the second initiative that the Blank Foundation has announced in the past month to broaden the reach of documentary film.

Early in September, the Foundation debuted an extensive educational website based on the documentary, “King In The Wilderness,” which premiered on HBO in April. It tells the story of the final

Kenny Blank, a board member of the Arthur Blank Family Foundation, announces a new documentary film initiative.

tumultuous three years of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of the surviving members of his inner circle.

The website makes use of the 35 hours of interviews that were recorded for the documentary, the vast majority of which was not used in the production. In partnership with Kunhardt Films in New York, the producer of the program, and the Kunhardt Film Foundation, a series of teaching modules have been created on the website to help students understand the difficulties that King encountered as he sought to expand his vision of nonviolent social change.

The educational components of the project were created by a team led by Fran Sterling, whose firm, Blueshift, was founded to leverage the resources created by social impact documentary. Earlier this week, Sterling led the first Blank Family Foundation-funded teaching training program for the Atlanta Public Schools.

She sees Dr. King’s struggle in the 60s as still very relevant to our own time.

“I think the challenge is for people not to see this as another story about Dr. King and put that in a box. This is an American story that is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago, when the country was divided by the Vietnam War. And that’s critical as we face a real division in our country now.”

Sterling has an advanced degree in Jewish Studies from The Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford and spent nearly two decades in research and teaching. She credits her understanding of Jewish thought as an important resource for interpreting King’s legacy.

The Blank Foundation funds a new Atlanta educational project based on the documentary, “King in the Wilderness.”

“What I gained from working on this project,” she points out, “is an understanding of Dr. King’s connection to the prophetic teachings of the Talmud, and the Old Testament, and the New Testament and how they guided his moral compass. I think it allowed him to frame the struggle he was going through.”

The rise of documentary films has been one of the most significant entertainment phenomena in recent years.

Where once documentaries were relegated to public television and marginal viewing times on broadcast networks’ schedule, today they are big business.

This summer, the three most successful documentaries had a combined box office profit of more than $50 million.

Two of the three had a significant Jewish angle. “RBG” was about the 83-year-old Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg. “Three Identical Strangers” was about the plight of triplet brothers, who were separated as infants as part of an infamous program run by psychiatrist Peter Neubauer, an Austrian Jew, at New York’s Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services.

What motivates the Blank Foundation and its partners, though, is the belief that documentary films can be more than just a way to spend a few hours in a darkened theater; documentaries believe they can help change the way we live. ■ Bob Bahr will discuss the work of Martin Luther King, Jr., in his course, “1968 Movies, Music and Memory At A Turning Point In History” beginning Oct. 30 at The Temple.

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The 3x3 event raised $22,000 for Save a Child’s Heart, for children with congenital heart disease.

The new SACH Atlanta chapter teaches public speaking and other life skills.

Giving from The Heart

By Roni Robbins roni@atljewishtimes.com

Brad Rosen is using his own big heart to save children’s hearts in third-world countries.

After visiting Israel two years ago, the father of two decided he wanted to give back to the Jewish state and Jewish community. So, he started the Georgia chapter of an international nonprofit that provides life-saving cardiac care to children in developing countries, and raised money through adult and children’s events.

Those include an annual basketball game organized by area Jewish students, including his sons.

“I didn’t want to lose the feeling,” he said of the Zionism he gained from his Israeli trip with the Frank Family Foundation in Atlanta.

The annual Israel "Frank Mission" is geared toward Atlantans with a “Jewish heart” and leadership ability. A requirement of the trip is for participants to become involved in Jewish life upon their return.

Rosen consulted with his rabbi, Spike Anderson of Temple Emanu-El, who started a chapter in Los Angeles of the Save A Child’s Heart with his wife, Marita, and has been a continual supporter.

Based in Israel, one of the country’s largest humanitarian organizations tries to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children in poorer countries – half of the patients are from Arab lands – who suffer from heart defects.

Inspired by Rabbi Anderson, Rosen started a Georgia chapter of SACH and enlisted friends, those who had visited SACH in Israel, his own sons and their peers.

In August, the boys raised $22,000 at a 3x3 basketball event, after having raised about the same amount the year before.

The “Play Your Heart Out” tournament at All Saints Church met the group’s goal, Rosen said.

A SACH dinner last year at Spring Hall event center attracted 200 adults and raised $35,000. Every $15,000 raised saves a child’s heart, he said. The majority of the adult planning committee members are also Jewish and include a few pediatric cardiologists.

Of the 14 to 15 boys on the basketball tournament organizing committee, the majority are Jewish. Most of them know each other through sports at the Marcus JCC, other teams, Jewish youth groups, camps, and Creating Connected Communities volunteer programs.

Rosen said his goal for involving children in the fundraising is not only to help them give back, but to teach them life skills such as cold calling, soliciting donations, making presentations, advertising, and public speaking.

This year the boys also had to raise money just to play in the tournament instead of paying a flat $30 fee. The minimum was $50 for every participant. About 90 children participated each year with about double that many spectators, Rosen said. A few of the boys raised almost $1,000 and one raised more than that. “This is not just Mom and Dad” telling them to participate, Rosen said. “It’s not just showing up, raising money and leaving. They work hard.”

Andrew Altmann, a sophomore at The Weber School, said his cousin had heart problems when she was born. So, fundraising for SACH allows him to help others like her. “I love helping kids from third-world countries,” he said. “I hope to get more kids to volunteer with us.”

He said it was a challenge cold-calling for raffle prizes. “I learned to talk to people.

I was probably shy before and now I can have a conversation” with business people.

Rosen’s son, Cooper, an eighth-grader at Saint Francis School, said he likes helping save the lives of children who need heart surgery. “We are helping other children succeed and make them feel better and always be happy.”

His older brother, Reese, a sophomore at Dunwoody High School, said his grandfather had heart surgery when he was in his 50s. Reese recalled asking a manager to make a donation and bystanders who heard his pitch gave him $20.

He believes starting a basketball tournament, advertising on social media and knowing how to raise money is more impressive than other involvements he might include on a resume. ■ For more about the Georgia chapter of SACH, visit www.facebook.com/sachgeorgia.

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Celebrations Get Spooky Around Atlanta

By Logan C. Ritchie Jewish adults celebrate the spookiest holiday of the year next week for good, not evil.

Benefitting Marcus Autism Center, Monster Mash: Rock Star Bash is a night of adults-only fun at Wild Heaven Beer in Decatur. Last year, the event raised $30,000.

The founders of Monster Mash are Julie Bunkley, owner and creative director of Invision Events, and host Brittany Schwartzwald. With a different theme each year, the party originated in 2015 with Monster Mash: Wedding Bash. That year attracted colorful costumes including zombie brides and grooms, Brides of Frankenstein and ghoulish wedding guests.

Schwartzwald was inspired to create Monster Mash after her son, Mack, graduated from the Marcus Autism Center preschool program. It is a collaboration of Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University, operating as a school and a place of research on preschool education.

“We used to do the walk for autism

Mack, Brittany, Mimi and Alan Schwartzwald dressed up for Halloween.

awareness and raise money for the walk, but you can’t control where funds go. We wanted to direct funds toward services for children, not just research,” she said.

At 18 months old, Mack’s speech seemed delayed. His preschool had a psychologist observe him in the classroom and he was identified as problematic. After completing the M-CHAT test, a screening for autism, Mack hit three red flags: he had poor eye contact, he appeared to be potentially deaf and he didn’t respond to his name.

Mack could not function as a typical child would in class. Marcus Autism Center confirmed his diagnosis, Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS).

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At age 2, Mack was non-verbal and did not respond to voice commands.

He had a hard time being flexible in his schedule and play. Marcus Autism Center integrated therapies into a typical classroom setting and taught students classroom skills like how to walk in a line, wait for a turn and hang up their jackets.

When Mack graduated at age 4, the instructors at the Marcus center helped with his transition to a typical preschool.

“At 4, Mack was verbal, but recently verbal. That summer he learned to read and swim. He was able to synthesize things he knew but couldn’t express, and it was a newfound freedom. His tantrums stopped. He was processing the world closer to a typical child, plus he could use verbal expression,” Schwartzwald said.

“Anyone who follows me on Facebook might not recognize the transformative experience. Mack was not typical when we entered Marcus, but today he is quite typical – even extraordinary. He doesn’t experience challenges anymore.

He’s social like everyone else. To meet him today you would have no idea there was a time when he was socially challenged.”

Marcus was a nest, she said. “If you meet Mack now you’ll see a kid who likes

chess, swim team, run club, birthday parties, books and video games. He’s curious and memorable. Meet a million kids and you’re not going to forget Mack.”

Why Halloween? “I like merrymaking. It’s fun to have fun and you have to know how,” she said. ■ For tickets to Monster Mash 2018, visit www.monstermashatl.com.

Craig and Emily Moore, with their kids.

Halloween was Emily’s favorite holiday.

Emily’s Trick-or-Treat for a Cure is back for the second annual Halloween celebration. On Saturday, Oct. 20 from 3 to 5 p.m. children and adults in costume will celebrate the life of Emily Moore, who died at age 35 after losing a battle with cancer. Proceeds benefit the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.

For tickets, visit www. emilyshalloweenparty.com.

Meet GT Hillel’s New Team Member Hillel at Georgia Tech added a third employee to its programmatic team, joining Director Lauren Blazofsky and Israel fellow Omer Zimmerman. Eliza Duberstein joins Hillel at GT as the Springboard Fellowship innovation program. The Springboard Fellowship is a twoyear Hillel fellowship that places recent college graduates on campuses across North America for their first post-college job.

This year, Springboard offered two “tracks” or foci.

The Ezra fellows concentrate on Jewish texts and teaching, while the innovation fellows explore “design thinking” and student engagement. A week-long institute training taught Duberstein the methodology of “design thinking.” Duberstein describes her experience at the institute: “I learned a process of thinking creatively and critically, a method in which I consider my desired outcomes and radical empathy. Now when deciding what ideas I want to implement at Tech, I consider what needs Tech students face and what is the best - perhaps unprecedented - way to meet those needs.”

For now, Duberstein is focusing on her engagement work. She wants to fully understand the students before creating new programs or ideas. Her goal is to reach out to every freshman, and hopefully every Jewish person on campus. Her favorite part of the job so far is taking students out on “coffee dates,” a national Hillel initiative to increase engagement by emphasizing the importance of one-on-one interactions. Duberstein loves the meetings because “every student at Tech is so intelligent and unique. I leave each coffee date having learned something new or contemplating an interesting question.” Duberstein will also be co-facilitating the Jewish learning fellowship, which encourages college students to “ask big questions” and analyze ethical issues within the context of Jewish texts.

Duberstein studied political science at Emory University and was a board member and engagement intern with Emory Hillel. After Emory, she participated for four months in a Jewish Studies program in Prague. She hopes her position at Georgia Tech will positively influence the Jewish community there, and increase the reach Hillel has on campus.

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Jewish Girl Scouts

By Roni Robbins roni@atljewishtimes.com For years, Orli Slack begged her mother to be a Girl Scout every time she saw girls in uniform hawking their signature cookies. She was never old enough to join a Daisy troop. Until now. At 5 years old, Orli is a new member of the recently formed Decatur Jewish Girl Scout Troop 19747.

About 10 girls are members of the new troop that met for the first time Sept. 23 in Orli’s sukkah, and again Oct. 7 at the Buford Corn Maze for a hay ride and other autumn activities.

Orli said about her longtime desire to be in such a group, “I want to be a Girl Scout because I like having friends and earning badges.” In addition to making new pals, she said her favorite part of Girl Scouts is “just having fun. Jewish things happen in the troop and if you’re Jewish, you can come! Girls should join Girl Scouts because they might be interested and might want to hang out with some other Jewish girls.”

Her mother, Laurie Slack, is the troop leader and organizer. She said the girls come from different synagogues and schools. “I’m super excited these girls came together whose paths may not have crossed otherwise.”

The troop began with seven members and has grown through word of mouth.

Slack said she started the troop after trying to get her daughter into another local group, which happened to be meeting on Rosh Hashanah. “It’s an ongoing problem. Stuff is always taking place on holidays.” So, she decided to start the Jewish troop.

Involvement in the Jewish community is nothing new for Slack, who is a Hebrew School teacher at Congregation Shearith Israel. An Atlanta native, she was a Jewish program director for the Jewish Community Center in Columbia, S.C. before moving back to Atlanta last year.

In the future, the troop plans to earn badges and participate in other events. For instance, they plan to send Chanukah cards to U.S. soldiers, participate in Girl Scout Shabbat and hold a campout in the sukkah when the holiday rolls around again. “Wouldn’t that be a fun way to earn the camping badge?”

Orli is already looking forward to a particular event. “We can have a Shabbat celebration with my troop", she said, "That would be awesome!” ■

Enjoying the Buford Corn Maze are, from top left: Orli Slack, Sammy Mayer, Alex Krakow, Talia Callen, Sejal Avutu, Elyse Callen, Charley Mayer, Viola Benshushan, Aviva Hoffner-Martin.

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CALENDAR CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12

Acoustic Shabbat Café – San Francisco Coffee Roasting Co., 1192 North Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta, from 7 to 9 p.m. Join Rabbi Glusman, Drew Cohen and teen musicians from The Weber School for an evening of music and Shabbat prayers. Food and wine available for purchase. This interactive Shabbat-themed experience is sponsored by Atlanta Jewish Music Festival and The Weber School. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2nVTxbJ.

Noach Friday, October 12, 2018, light candles at 6:49 p.m.

Saturday, October 13, 2018, Shabbat ends at 7:43 p.m.

Lecha-Lecha Friday, October 19, 2018, light candles at 6:41 p.m.

Saturday, October 20, 2018, Shabbat ends at 7:35 p.m.

Academy Middle School, 7901 Roberts Drive, Atlanta, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Sing, explore and nosh. For preschoolers and their families. Free. For more information, www.davisacademy.org/.

Congregation Children of Israel Presents Holocaust Education Series – 3005 Walton Way, Augusta, from 7 to 9 p.m. Panel discussion with German/Atlantan attorney Christoph Rueckel, who prosecutes aging Nazi war criminals. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2ycCas3.

MJCCA Arts and Culture Presents Avi Liberman – Marcus JCC, 5342 Til-

The Epstein School Alumni Young Families Playdate – The Epstein School, 335 Colewood Way NW, Sandy Springs, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. 2nd annual Playdate on the Playground. Program is geared for alumni with kids ages 0-6. For more information, www. epsteinatlanta.org/.

Mill Road, Atlanta, from 8 to 10 p.m.

Mitch Albom will discuss his book, “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven.” $30 for members, $35 for non-members. For more information and to purchase tickets, www.bit.ly/2NKwpfA.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14

Zumbini®: No Way Jose! – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 38 | OCTOBER 12, 2018 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

ly Mill Road, Atlanta, with two shows, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. and from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Avi Liberman’s quirky style has made him a favorite in comedy clubs from Los Angeles to New York. $20 for members, $28 for nonmembers. For tickets and more information, www. bit.ly/2P3luKB.

L’dor V’dor Food Tour – Grant Park, Atlanta from 1 to 4 p.m. Teens and grandparents are invited to connect over a delicious tour of Grant Park’s unique food scene and Atlanta history.

Try 12 modern and Southern fusion tastings from five locally owned food stops on this three-hour small group tour by Atlanta Food Walks. For more information, grantpark.org/.

Atlanta Bar & Bat Mitzvah EXPO – The Westin Atlanta Perimeter

MJCCA Book Festival Prologue with Mitch Albom – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly

Street NW, Atlanta, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. A “train the trainer” workshop.

Those trained will commit to training an additional 300 to 500 volunteers in advance of the Super Bowl. Free.

For more information and to register, www.jwfatlanta.org/events/.

10 to 11 a.m. Created by Zumba® and BabyFirst for children through age 4.

This six-week program combines music, dance and educational tools for bonding and learning. $115 for members, $140 for nonmembers. For more information, www.bit.ly/2OvywUj

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13

Cub Club’s Li’l Shabbat in the Garden – The Alfred and Adele Davis

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16

Jewish Fund of Atlanta Presents, Human Trafficking Awareness and Action Training – 1440 Spring

North, 7 Concourse Parkway NE, Atlanta, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Plan your celebration in just one afternoon.

Meet and get ideas from dozens of vendors, win fantastic door prizes, sample food and drinks and interactive activities for kids. Admission is free. To pre-register and for more information, www.bit.ly/2IkxyEG.

Beth Shalom Mini Movie Festival – Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, from 7 to 9 p.m. Beth Shalom Mini Movie Festival returns for its fourth season with the “Hedy Lamarr Story”. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2P9z8fy.

JAA Synagogue Inclusion Think Tank – Temple Emanu-El, 1580 Spalding Drive, Atlanta, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Join Jewish Abilities Alliance for their second synagogue inclusion think tank as they gather like-minded people interested in starting or advancing their synagogue’s inclusion committee. Free. For more information, jaa@jewishatlanta.org.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

Drop In Jewish Mindful Meditation – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, AtAtlanta Premiere of “Operation Wedding” – Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 Lavista Road, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. A film about the Soviet Jewry being trapped behind the Iron Curtain, where a group of young Russian Jews come up with an outrageous plan to get out. $5 per person. For more information, www.bit.ly/2xUDwbn.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15

JumpSpark’s Creativity & Collaboration Workshop – elementATL, 691 John Wesley Dobbs Ave. NE, Unit F, Atlanta, from 9 to 11 a.m. Led by theater professionals from Dad’s Garage, this program focuses on active listening, sharing the spotlight and accepting and building on ideas. $12 per person.

For more information and to register, www.bit.ly/2IxdUFR.

lanta, from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Instructors are Jewish leaders Rabbi Josh Lesser, Rabbi Analia Bortz, Marita Anderson and Michael Levine, who will take you on a journey and dive deeper into your Jewish roots. Free for members, $5 for the community. For more information, www.atlantajcc.org/.

JELF Networking Event – Congregation Beth Tefillah, 5065 High Point Road NE, Atlanta, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A young professionals networking event to learn about the organization that made it possible for many Jewish students to earn their degrees. Free. RSVP to info@jelf.org.

Infertility Support Group – Intown – Jewish Fertility Foundation, 60 Lenox Point NE, Atlanta, from 7 to 8 p.m. Facilitated by licensed therapist Ashley Marx. Free. RSVP to JewishFertilityFoundation.org or call Elana Frank, 770-843-7413.

OCTOBER 12-21 Marcus JCC’s Blessing of the Pets – Brook Run Dog Park, 4770 North Peachtree Road, Dunwoody, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. For people and pets of all faiths and backgrounds. The event will feature private and public pet blessings with local rabbis and pastors, local vendors, pet adoptions, low-cost vaccinations, micro-chipping and more.

Sponsored by the MJCCA, Dunwoody United Methodist Church and Brook Run Dog Park. Free and open to the public. For more information, www.bit. ly/2zM40gM.

6th Annual

Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival Presented by the Hebrew Order of David & the Atlanta Jewish Times

SAVE THE DATE Sunday, Oct 21 11 AM - 3:30 PM City Springs in Sandy Springs

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20

FRI., OCT. 19–SAT., OCT. 20

Shabbaton Featuring Musical Artist Joe Buchanan – Unity of Gainesville, 3415 Stancil Road, Gainesville, from Friday at 7:30 p.m. to Saturday at 8 p.m.

Shalom b’Harim is hosting a weekend Shabbaton featuring the Goldring/ Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life’s artist-in-residence, Americana musician Joe Buchanan. For tickets and more information, shalombharim. brownpapertickets.com.

A Joyful Destination: A CBH Chorus Concert – Ahavath Achim Synagogue,

Kosher food vendors! Live Music!

Our famous Kosher BBQ Competition!

600 Peachtree Battle Ave. NW, Atlanta, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Join the Congregation Bet Haverim Chorus, Band and String Ensemble for an evening celebration of joyful ruach and a deep dive into the rich depth of Jewish music and song. $25 per person. For tickets and more information, www.bit.ly/2E1qpLl.

Participate in the Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival

FRI., OCT. 19–SUN., OCT. 21

Book it to Shabbat – Ramah Darom, 70 Camp Darom, Clayton, from Friday at 3 p.m. to Sunday at 2 p.m. PJ Library and Ramah Darom invite you to join them for a family weekend full of building community, meeting new friends and playing in the North Georgia Mountains. This special Shabbat is designed for families with children ages 2 to 10. For prices, more information and to register, www.bit.ly/2QpD1Nl.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

6th Annual Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival – City Green at City Springs, 1

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Galambos Way, Sandy Springs, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Barbeque teams will smoke brisket, ribs, chicken and chili for the community to taste. Enjoy food, music and the Kidz Zone area. All the food is kosher. The event is free to the community; “taste tickets” may be purchased in advance, www.theatlantakosherbbq. com. ■

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COMMUNITY

Westminster Basketball Star Gives Kicks to Kids

By Roni Robbins roni@atljewishtimes.com When she was only a year old, Hallie Schiff was already trying to shoot hoops.

She started playing basketball three years later.

Now a high school sophomore, Hallie is a point guard for her second year on The Westminster Schools girls' basketball team who, last season, made the all-region team selected by area coaches – a big feat for a freshman. She also played on the Marcus JCC’s basketball Team Atlanta in the JCC Maccabi Games the past two years.

So, to say Hallie gets her kicks from basketball is an understatement.

Because she believes all children should have the opportunity to play their favorite sport, Hallie has been collecting new and gently-used basketball shoes and donating them to underprivileged children for the past few years.

“I wanted to do something other people don’t think about doing,” she said. “I know a lot of kids play basketball. There

are a lot of courts where they can play outside.” She decided to collect sneakers because she knows children who don’t wear the right shoes or ones with rips and tears can get hurt. And she wanted to connect with those benefiting from her donations.

“I wanted to feel a part of it.”

It started as a project for her bat mitzvah through The Epstein School. She put collection bins in front of Epstein and gathered through her Amateur Athletic Union travel basketball team. Children grow out of shoes so quickly that many of those donated were in good condition, said her mother, Cathy. She cleaned them and got them ready to be reused by others.

This past year, a chance encounter led to a connection with Under Armour, which donated 50 pairs of new basketball shoes to her drive. She donated them this summer, along with other sneakers she had collected, to the East Lake YMCA Youth and Teen Center. And this year, instead of just dropping off the sneakers, the YMCA let her help the children pick out a new pair and play basketball with them.

SIMCHA SPOTLIGHT

Mazel Tov for your Recent B’nai Mitzvah September 2018

David Strauss, son of Honey and Steven Strauss.

Eden Foster, daughter of Vicky Strull and Randy Foster.

Ellie Siskin, daughter of Wendy and Jonathan Siskin.

Gabrielle Mautner, daughter of Becky and Ken Mautner.

Max Sard, son of Karen and Jonathan Sard.

Rian Gordon, daughter of Lauren and Todd Gordon.

October 2018

Benjamin Kaplan, son of Nicole and Paul Kaplan on Oct. 6.

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Brooke Katz, daughter of Jen and Adam Katz on Oct. 6.

Robert Michael Liberman, the son of Julie and Eric Liberman on Oct. 6. ■

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A collage of East Lake Family YMCA and its new Under Armour kicks.

Hallie Schiff is a star basketball player at The Westminster Schools.

Hallie Schiff collects basketball shoes for underprivileged students.

“Some of them had their shoes a long time. I could tell they were really excited" about the new sneakers, she said. Hallie said she enjoyed playing with them and many offered some true competition. “A lot of them were really good at basketball.”

Her Westminster varsity coach, Katie Argall, said

two of Hallie’s “most indelible qualities are her focus and humility. She attacks things she cares about, such as her education, philanthropy, teams and faith with a quiet, yet tenacious, drive to improve herself and others.

In the face of her successes, she remains modest and humble, often deflecting earned praise in the hopes she

can always find one more thing at which to excel.”

Offering further praise is Vanessa Toussiant, who was Hallie’s longtime coach from Epstein and has been her trainer since she was in the fourth grade.

“Even then I knew there was something special about that kid. As a coach, she’s the example of the type of player you want on your team. She’s selfless and works endlessly at perfecting her craft. She’s the first in the gym, last one out. Modest and humble. Always seeking ways to get better. Respected by her peers and teachers. There’s been nothing more gratifying than watching her grow up, and I’m only excited to see the future she creates.” ■

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Rabbi Rachel Cowan Leaves a Legacy

By Bob Bahr Rabbi Rachel Cowan, arguably one of the most influential voices in progressive Judaism, died last month in New York at the age of 77.

She left a personal legacy that not only brought spiritual comfort to many, but touched the lives of an entire generation of Jewish communal leaders, rabbis and scholars – many of them women. A number of Jewish Atlantans remember her.

Descended from a family that came to America on the Mayflower in the 17th century, Cowan converted to Judaism in midlife. As the program director for Jewish life at The Nathan Cummings Foundation for 14 years, she encouraged innovation in a wide range of areas.

She wrote a number of books and lectured widely, but Rabbi Judith Beiner of Atlanta believes that Rabbi Cowan’s influence is not just as an educator and progressive thinker.

“Her influence was not just cerebral but was very much felt in one’s heart and soul,” said Beiner, who is community chaplain for Jewish Family & Career Services and serves the Rodeph Sholom Congregation in Rome, Ga. Rabbi Cowan’s work, before she became ill almost two years ago, was as director of the well-respected Institute for Jewish Spirituality in Manhattan, which not only fostered learning among a broad cross section of American Judaism, but provided training in contemplative mindfulness practices.

Beiner, who has been part of several programs run

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by the institute, credits her training in meditation and mindfulness with transforming a chaplaincy that often works with individuals who are ill and in physical pain.

“The mindfulness practices are tremendous,” she recalled, “and I feel that those practices come out of my mouth all of the time when I am talking to people who are experiencing difficult situations.

It is as if I have a whole ‘nother tool bag because I can talk about gratitude, about patience, about resilience, about forbearance. From a skill point of view, those have been really wonderful.”

Cowan’s early work, beginning in the 1960s and 70s, was aimed at helping those, like herself, who had developed an interest in Judaism after marrying Jewish spouses, but who often felt unwelcome or experienced hostility in the Jewish world.

She and her late husband, Paul Cowan, who also developed an intense interest in Judaism as an adult, organized workshops and discussion groups to explore the difficulties that intermarried couples encountered.

Their book, “Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage,” first published in 1987, was among the first serious attempts to grapple with an issue that many believe will reshape the Jewish future.

It became an important resource for a generation of American Jews who married non-Jewish partners. Today these interfaith relationships represent as much as

Rabbi Cowan was an influential voice in American Judaism. “Mixed Blessings” (below) was a fresh look at interfaith marriage.

Rabbi Rachel Cowan in a 1988 photo with Miranda Lewis after her baby naming.

70 percent or more of all Jewish marriages.

Rabbi Beiner credits the Cowans with helping the Jewish community to accommodate this major shift.

“What she did with her husband, Paul, opened the door for the Jewish community to enjoy this interfaith cohort that we now have. She did some of the groundwork for that and that was really transformative.”

Former CNN journalist David Lewis, whose wife is not Jewish, credits Rabbi Cowan with welcoming his two young daughters into the Jewish faith three decades ago.

Although Lewis and his wife now live in Atlanta, he describes how Rabbi Cowan used a pond near his family’s former home on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts to create a makeshift mikvah to facilitate the conversion process.

“She was there as a kind of spiritual therapist in helping people through these big life questions for which there are no easy answers. In a very non-judgmental, very gentle way, she took you on a journey and led you through the answers that you eventually found.

She was an incredible coach along that journey.”

Rabbi Joshua Lesser, himself a pioneer in opening Judaism to those who have not been readily accepted in the community, believes that Rabbi Cowan’s work was, in many ways, revolutionary.

Lesser is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bet Haverim, founded in 1986 to welcome gay, lesbian and transgender Jews.

“She demonstrated that a Jew by choice could become an authentic rabbi, that they could have a voice in our tradition. She really blew out of the water this idea that a traditional Jew has to be born a Jew or has to look a particular way, and so, I think she became a role model for many people.”

Rabbi Beiner, likewise, has no hesitation summing up Rabbi Cowan’s contribution to contemporary Jewish thinking, “This is a woman who will be immortal. This is a woman who will have eternal life for what she did.” ■

OBITUARIES

Morris Gerald (Gerry) Panovka 91, Atlanta

Morris Gerald (Gerry) Panovka, 91, of Atlanta, beloved husband, father, father-in-law and grandfather, passed away Oct. 2. Gerry was born in Springs, South Africa, on Dec. 29, 1926, the son of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, Rachel and Meyer Panovka. He grew up in Brakpan, South Africa. Gerry, called “the professor” by his teachers at a young age, and unable to afford a traditional law school education, learned the law through a correspondence course and became a practicing lawyer by age 20.

He quickly became one of South Africa’s leading lawyers and went on to practice law in Israel and later the United States. In 1961, he married the love of his life, Hilly Panovka (nee Zulman). Soon after, they emigrated to Herzliya Pituach, Israel, where they lived for 11 years before returning to South Africa. They emigrated in 1979 to Atlanta, where Gerry practiced law and ran an investment business. He became a U.S. citizen in 1985. Known for his wit, wisdom and kindness, Gerry was beloved by many. He always had a joke at the tip of his tongue, laced with wisdom appropriate for the occasion. Many sought his advice and guidance. He was a hardworking, brilliant, funny, warm, loving and caring family man who will be sorely missed. Gerry continued to practice law, his mind sharp as ever, until the end. The week before he died, he went to work, stopped for a workout and then went to the symphony. He lived life to the absolute fullest. He was extraordinary.

In addition to his heartbroken wife, Gerry is survived by his three adoring children and their spouses, Alon and his wife Sheri; Robin and his wife, Alexandra Korry; and Tamar and her husband, Mark Stern; and seven loving grandchildren, Rebecca, Ariel, Julia, Sarah, Daniel, Alexander and Oren.

Shiva was held at Hilly and Gerry’s home at 7 p.m. Oct. 4. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to ORT America or any other charity of your choice. The funeral was held on Oct. 3 at Arlington Memorial Park. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

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Roslyn Silverman, 88, of Memphis, Tenn., died Oct. 4, 2018. She was born April 8, 1930 to Isadore and Lena Leevine, of blessed memory. Rose was an active volunteer in Jewish organizations and enjoyed playing mahjong and knitting with her numerous friends. Rose excelled as a businesswoman and was often the saleswoman of the year.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Elaine and Larry Benuck, Atlanta; daughter and son-in-law, Marilyn and Leon Schwartz, Pomona, N.Y.; daughter and son-inlaw, Brenda and Alan Pritzker, Hollywood, Fla.; son and daughter-in-law, Ivan and Vicky Silverman, Woodmere, N.Y.; sister, Miriam Alabaster, Memphis, Tenn.; 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel Silverman.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Chabad.org; Anshei Sphard Beth El Emeth Congregation, Memphis; Baron Hirsch Congregation, Memphis; or Weinstein Hospice. A graveside service was held Oct. 5, 2018 at Anshe Sphard Cemetery in Memphis. Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

Death Notice:

Barry Charles Lewis, brother of Temple Sinai Member Ellyse (Warren) Zindler, uncle of Dean (Karen) Zindler, and great-uncle of Levi Zindler. Barry passed away after a long battle with leukemia on Oct. 1, 2018. The funeral and shiva service took place on Oct. 4 in Austin, Texas. ■

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15 Years Ago // October 10, 2003 ■ Atlanta rabbi Ilan Feldman was among 15 rabbis who met with President Bush at the White House on Sept. 29 in honor of the High Holidays. Feldman is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Jacob in Toco Hills. Two of the rabbis, including Feldman, broached the subject of Jonathan Pollard, the former Navy intelligence analyst who, at the time, was serving a life sentence for spying on behalf of Israel.

■ The bar mitzvah ceremony of Ari Edlin was held Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003 at Congregation Or Hadash. Ari is the son of Shiel and Margo Edlin.

25 Years Ago // October 8, 1993 ■ More than 7,000 Atlanta Jews and others turned out for The

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Atlanta Jewish Festival. The event was held at Atlanta Jewish Community Center’s Zaban Park in Dunwoody and was sponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Times and the AJCC. The event is believed to be the largest in the community’s history.

■ Andi and Gordie Morse of Stamford, Conn., announce the birth of a daughter, Jessica Sidney on Oct. 9.

50 Years Ago // October 11, 1968 ■ The Memorial Arts Center, now called the Woodruff, was dedicated on Oct. 5, 1968. The new center for the performing arts cost $13 million to build. The leader of the project was Richard C. Rich, who served as general chairman of the enabling organization, which created the facility and brought it to the special program of community involvement and challenge.

■ Leslie Levitas and Jill Leslie Levy had their b’not mitzvah at 8:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. They are the daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Ted Levitas and Mr. and Mrs. Neilan Levy respectively.

Latest Kosher Alerts From the Atlanta Kosher Commission:

Streit’s Egg Noodles (all sizes): Due to improper handling after the product was manufactured, a number of bags have been found to be infested. Any bag with a best buy date of December 2019 or earlier should be returned to stores for a refund.

Fiber One and Nature Valley Fiber One brownies and Nature Valley Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares listed below are no longer certified by the OU because of changes in production procedures: Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Mint Fudge Brownie, Chocolate Chip Brownie, Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Lemon Bar, Orange Cranberry Bar, Birthday Cake Bar, Pumpkin Bar, Strawberries & Cream Bar, Peanut Butter Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares, Banana Dark Chocolate Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares, Blueberry Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares, Cinnamon Brown Sugar SoftBaked Oatmeal Squares.

Circle-V Kosher Symbol: The Circle-V symbol is nearly identical to the symbol used to indicate that a product is vegan. This has caused much confusion, so The Vaad Hoeir of St. Louis is modifying its kosher symbol. The new logo will be an OVK in an oval.

The Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival will be under AKC supervision: Sunday, Oct. 21 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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KEEPING IT KOSHER Yiddish Word of the Week a shéyne pónem A shéyne pónem (various English spellings), Yiddish: ‫ א שײנע ָפנִ ים‬or a shéyn pónem ‫א שײן ָפנִ ים‬, “pretty face.” Mixed German (Schön, beautiful, pretty) and Hebrew (paním ‫פנים‬, face) origin. Originally, this is a compliment to the physical appearance of a young girl or a woman: “This shayne ponem is my granddaughter Reyzele.”

A second use of the term refers to demeanor. To treat someone with a sheyne ponim means “cordially” or “pleasantly.” This use is derived from rabbinic Hebrew (Mishnah, Avot, 1:15): ‫ ֱאמֹר ְמ ַעט וַ ֲע ֵשה‬.‫תֹור ְתָך ֶק ַבע‬ ָ ‫ ֲע ֵשה‬,‫אֹומר‬ ֵ ‫ַש ַמאי‬ ‫ וֶ ֱהוֵ י ְמ ַק ֵבל ֶאת כָ ל ָה ָא ָדם ְב ֵס ֶבר ָפנִ ים יָ פֹות‬,‫ ַה ְר ֵבה‬- Shammai used to say, "Study Torah regularly, talk little and do much, and receive every person with a pleasant countenance." The last part in Yiddish: ‫זאלסט אויפנעמען יעדער מענטש מיט‬ ‫א שיינע פנים‬.

A contemporary use equates a pretty face with public relations. A recent posting in a Yiddish political blog says of the North Korean president:

‫און נאכדערצו האט ער זיך איינגעהאנדעלט א שיינע פנים ביי די אלימפיק שפילן אלס‬ ‫“ – אפיציעלע נארמאלע לאנד‬and subsequently, he created for himself a good image (literally, ‘a pretty face’) at the Olympic Games.”

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

Jewish Joke of the Week All in a Day’s Work Three bubbes were sitting around and bragging about their grandchildren.

Freda says, "Benny graduated with a first-class honors degree from Oxford and he's now a doctor making $250,000 a year on Harley Street."

Kitty says, "Sidney graduated with a first-class honors degree from Cambridge and he's now a lawyer making half-a-million dollars a year and he lives in the city."

Ethel says, "Abe never did well in school, never went to university but he now makes one million dollars a year working as a sports repairman."

The other two women ask, "So what's a sports repairman?"

Ethel replies, "He fixes football matches, rugby matches, cricket matches ..."

Joke provided by David Minkoff www.awordinyoureye.com

Fuego Mundo has kosher food options at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport bearing the AKC symbol. Fuego Mundo’s grab and go lunch boxes are now available at Concourse A kiosks.

2018 kosher guides & kosher symbols cards are now available at the AKC office, 1855 LaVista Road, Atlanta, Ga. 30329, 404-634-4063, fax, 404-634-4254, akc@kosheratlanta.org. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES OCTOBER 12, 2018 | 45

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seats up front. Green ticket seats were way in the back, not as valuable.

As soon as tickets were checked by the 100-year-old My family walked to our shul on Tremont Avenue guard, grownups disposed of said tickets, tossing them in the Bronx. hither, thither and yon.

Dad (z”l) carried his blue velvet, goldThose who were neat freaks placed trimmed tallit bag, wearing his matching their tickets on an empty seat. We would kippah under his hat. politely whisper “excuse me” as we silently Papa (z”l) and the male cousins and unwormed our way in and out of those very cles always left before us. The womenfolk same seats; first upstairs in the women’s and kinder followed. I accepted this parade section and then downstairs in the men’s formation as part of a religious practice of section, deftly pocketing those precious some sort. It never occurred to me, womyom tov (holiday) tickets. enfolk had to clean up after the menfolk, A grown up’s trash is a child’s precious hence we were relegated to the back of the treasure. parade.

Shaindle If, G-d forbid, we were disrespectful of Mom, the fashionista, wore her little Schmuckler those in deep prayer – pushing, fighting, not round, beige lace head-covering with its Shaindle’s Shpiel being polite – we could feel "the look" emasweet little grosgrain bow on top, and her black Persian lamb coat or her mink stole, a sign of suc- nating from our moms, burning a hole in our psyche.

Our family was so large, we were our own "neighcess among the working class.

White Mary Janes with lacy white socks, for the borhood," celebrating all the Jewish holidays together. little girls. When we reached elementary school, it was Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, our pretend cousins, aunt and uncle, and their grandparents. black patent leather Mary Janes, with white lacy socks.

Although I went to Yiddisheh shul (Jewish afterRichly colored velvet or sateen dresses with enough fabric to twirl until we got so dizzy we looked drunk, or school) we did not study prayer. Whatever we knew until one of our moms walked into the lobby of the shul was what we heard and repeated phonetically from our where we were performing for each other and gave us elders. Therefore, I had no idea on earth what was going on. "the look."

However, watching the men on the bimah in the The mommy looks: Our secret weapon. Mr. Presimiddle of the shul facing the ark, in which the sacred dent are you listening?

Most important on the High Holidays for us kids Torah we kept, davening with such grace and fervor, always gave me the chills and made me feel proud to were those colored cardboard tickets.

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Kol Nidre, a prayer signaling the start of Yom Kippur, is hypnotic.

Today our immediate family of 20 recreated our own "neighborhood," albeit a bit larger geographically, and also celebrate with delicious meals. We still dress in special shul outfits. I wear my beloved black Mary Janes for grownups, with four-inch heels. No socks!

Some things, however, are different.

Today some of us are at the Chabad center. Not a colored ticket in sight. Some of us are at [congregations] Gesher L’Torah and Dor Tamid.

Curiosity led me to study; I have a clearer insight to the need for prayers. When I am asking for forgiveness, I understand with all my heart, our world needs our help, our forgiveness.

I pray today’s children, in their special richly colored outfits, some with Mary Janes, most not, all playing outside or experiencing the holidays together in their own ways, will one day be able to say, “we understand.”

Of one thing I am certain; no one ever forgets that "look." Truth to power; I have developed excellent "look" skills.

Thank you (a sheynem dank) to all my elders who have already passed, for their strong shoulders, carrying me to adulthood. I am eternally grateful and blessed by my four girls, all women of valor, for their constant support and unconditional love as I travel along life’s highway experiencing all its twists, turns and recalculations. ■

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