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THIS WEEK Lifecycles and Wedded Bliss “The past is never dead,” wrote William Faulkner. “It’s not even past.” As you leaf through these pages, recalling what we all wore and sounded like — then and now — we think you will find Faulkner’s observation all the more apt. Remember Captain Kirk? Well, the AJT got the scoop on how the “Star Trek” hero became our very own Jewish rocketman. Speaking of heroes, we bring you the story of Frank Joseph, for example, who recently found out that his own father was a Jewish hero during WWII and whose past has come into view in a new and poignant way. But the Josephs aren’t the only family taking stock of the past. The Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters network recently featured several Atlanta families in a new documentary about their donations of valuable Holocaust artifacts to institutions, including one of the largest family collections the U.S. Holocaust Museum has acquired. And for Roswell resident Paul Beckman, who has been attempting to reclaim property seized during the Holocaust in Poland, a breakthrough finally came when a legal historian who specializes in “old law” offered to help with his case. How much do you know about Atlanta’s past synagogue presidents? In these pages, Bob Bahr dives deep to bring you the story of how local congregational leaders navigated

turbulent and changing times while keeping traditions alive. Remember the song by The Clash, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” There are many seniors in Jewish Atlanta humming that song when it comes to their home life. This issue contains a wealth of life cycle advice and stories of seniors navigating the challenges of deciding whether to stay in their home or downsize. Are home-sharing options right for you? We spoke to the experts, so you have the latest and best information as you continue to write the next chapter of your life. By now you’ve probably guessed the identities of the couples featured on our cover, representing centuries of wedded bliss, from whom you may want to pick up a few tips on growing older and loving life. And, speaking of tips, you may want to hold off on holiday planning, as our next issue will be chock full of tips on health, wellness and lots of holiday food and gift ideas. Stay tuned! ì Correction and Clarification: The story "What Fuels Teen Addiction" in the October 15 issue contained misinformation. Ruth Hartman does not run Facebook message boards for parents to share addiction stories.

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NEWS Kosher BBQ Festival Breaks Pre-COVID Records By Bob Bahr The Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, organized by the Hebrew Order of David, was back this year, bigger and better than ever. The festival, which has been an annual event since 2012, took last year off due to the pandemic. It returned to Brook Run Park in Dunwoody on Oct. 17 with a huge crowd of hungry barbeque fans. Jody Pollack, who chaired the event, was happy to see the enthusiasm despite last year’s hiatus. “This is probably our biggest year ever. We had somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 people during our four-hour festival. And the food was as good as I’ve ever seen it.” Among those who braved the crowds for samples from the barbecue competition was renowned Atlanta chef Todd Ginsberg, who was attending the event for the first time. His creative work with Jewish corned beef, pastrami and brisket at The General Muir — near Emory University and in Sandy Springs — has been hailed nationally as revitalizing the contemporary American Jewish deli. Ginsberg is also the chef/partner at a new restaurant located at the 200-room Thompson Buckhead hotel, opening in December on East Paces Ferry Road. He was particularly impressed by the kosher barbecue brisket, something he described as being as difficult to perfect as it is delicious to sample. “There is no meat that is less forgiving than brisket. There’s nowhere to hide with brisket. That’s why a great piece of brisket is a work of art. You’ve got to know exactly what you’re doing. You’ve got to develop what I call the bark, the exterior of the brisket, without overcooking that rich marbling of fat and beef underneath. So, to me, and a lot of people that appreciate barbecue, the brisket is as prized as a lovingly prepared and luxurious filet mignon. When it’s done right, it’s better than any filet you’ll ever have, anywhere.” Over a dozen volunteer judges were tasked with deciding whose team would be crowned the champs. John Hale, a volunteer judge from Cartersville, Ga. with 15 years of competitive experience under his belt, sat in the judges tent in front of a neatly organized six-piece array of barbecued chicken. “We’re looking for taste, tenderness and appearance,” he said, “each of those is weighted somewhat differently. You want to get the fat rendered down really well, with nice caramelization, but you have to be careful because you don’t want the chicken to burn. It can have an acrid flavor.” The day before, Hale had been the master of ceremonies at the Royal Oak 6 | OCTOBER 31, 2021ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Kosher BBQ beef ribs were served hot off the grill.

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The BBQ’n Hebrew Hillbillies took home the 2021 Grand Champion trophy.

Atlanta Jewish Times served Beyond Meat burgers and bratwurst to provide a vegan option.

Judges rated BBQ on taste, texture and appearance.

Michael Morris is owner and publisher of the AJT. Photo by Helen Scherrer-Diamond

Invitational Barbecue Championships in Roswell, a national event sponsored by the popular charcoal brand. It attracted professional teams from across the country, with each competing for $46,000 in prize money. Professional competitive barbecues are big business these days. It’s not unusual for mobile grilling rigs to cost upwards of $400,000 and for teams to come from places as far-flung as Australia. The American Royal World Series of Barbecue in Kansas City, for example, draws 50,000 attendees and 500 barbecue teams to the four-day event every summer. In Sunday’s kosher festival in Dunwoody, 19 competitive teams with names like Moshe Ribeinu from Congregation Etz Chaim, and the Masterful Mensches of Meat — from Congregation Beth Shalom — offered their best takes on chili, chicken, beef ribs, and brisket, some of which had been lovingly tended over an open fire throughout the long and chilly night before. Alex Shulman of the Hebrew Order of David managed the extensive logistical support. The “backyard competitors,” as Hale

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calls them, put in long hours over their fires for little more than the love of the sport. “I love these smaller events,” he said. “People here don’t drive from ten states away and have a $500,000 rig. These are families or friends and they get a group together. They are the same guys that could watch a ballgame as they cook on the weekend. And they barbecue with their family for holidays together. So, these events are close to my heart.” After the embers died down and the scores were tallied, the awards ceremony began. Best Chili went to Meat the Press, the AJT team captained by publisher Michael Morris and editor and managing publisher Kaylene Ladinsky. The 2021 Grand Champions were the BBQ’n Hebrew Hillbillies — Jerry Draluck, Rick Litzky, Michael Yoss and Mark Baker — who repeated their victory from 2019. You might catch a glimpse of the champion crew in “No Pork on the Fork,” a docu-

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Jody Pollack, event organizer and BBQ pitmaster presents "Community Partner Award" to Rabbi Joshua Heller of Congregation B'nai Torah.

Hermano E Hermano team.

Atlanta Jewish Times team, Meat the Press, took home the hardware for best chili.

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BBQ’n Hebrew Hillbillies team.

Grand Champion BBQ’n Hebrew Hillbillies Jerry Draluck, Rick Litzky, Michael Yoss, Mark Baker

First Place Winners Brisket – WNBA – Weber School Chili – Meat the Press – Atlanta Jewish Times Chicken – Federation – Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Team War Wagon cooking their ribs.

AKC rabbinical supervisor watching over AJT's rock star Lou Ladinsky as Slash.

mentary about the 2019 festival directed by Adam Hirsch and Jacob Ross. The film took home the Best Jewish American Film Award at this year’s American Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by streaming site Jewzy.com. Next year, however, the Hebrew Hillbillies may want to keep an eye on the competition. Once Chef Ginsberg gets his new restaurant up and running, he’s planning to come back — this time as a competitor. “I just love to see so many people have fun doing barbecue here,” he said. “I’ve gotten a few ideas while I was sampling. I’m going to give it a try next year. I can’t wait.” ì

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Shatner Becomes Our Jewish Rocketman By Bob Bahr At 90, William Shatner, who gained fame and fortune on the TV series “Star Trek,” has come full circle as a real-life rocketeer. On Oct. 13, he was launched as one of four passengers aboard the latest flight of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket. At his advanced age, Shatner became the oldest person to travel to the edge of space. The 11-minute flight, which blasted off at three times the speed of sound, took Shatner to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere, where he floated weightlessly during the short trip and looked out on the blackness of planetary space. The experience left him “overwhelmed” and visibly and deeply touched after landing. “No experience can equal this,” he said. “It would be so important for everybody to have that experience through one means or another.” The actor was born into a Conservative Jewish family in Montreal, with grandparents who were all observant immigrants from Eastern Europe. He played

William Shatner (as Captain Kirk) was among the four passengers on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket, on Oct. 13.

Captain James Kirk, commander of the spaceship USS Enterprise, on the NBC-TV production of “Star Trek” from 1966 to 1969. The 55th anniversary of the series’ debut coincided with the second day of Rosh Hashanah this year. Although it was canceled after three seasons due to poor ratings, the later success of the show in syndication led to a

1979 film featuring the original cast. Shatner was featured in five more “Star Trek” motion pictures over the years. But all of that make-believe was nothing compared to 11

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Bezos tries on space goggles ahead of Shatner’s short rocket ride.

the trips for the well-heeled. Bezos is not alone in the new space race for the wealthy, with competition from Elon Musk’s Space X and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings. Over the years, Shatner maintained a strong friendship with Leonard Nimoy, his Jewish co-star in the “Star Trek” series and films, who singlehandedly introduced America audiences to the open-handed priestly blessing of the Kohanim. The religious custom survives in the priestly blessing offered — depending on custom — during the High Holy Days and at several other holidays throughout the year. Nimoy, who played Tevya in a stage production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” was the voice of a series of Jewish short stories on public radio and also narrated “A World Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Spock with the “Star Trek” Apart” with Sarah Jessica Parker, salute adapted from the ancient priestly blessing. about Chasidism in America. He was an avid photographer and in the suddenness of life and death,” he told 2002 published “Shekhina,” an impressionistic photographic series meant to Bezos after the flight, according to CNN. Shatner has had an active career evoke the Kabbalistic belief in G-d’s mysright up to the present. His latest film, tical feminine presence. Shatner’s relationship with Nimoy “Senior Moment,” was released just four days after his 90th birthday. It’s about an during the latter’s last years was strained, aging former NASA test pilot who loses but his comments at the time of Nimoy’s his driver’s license for speeding but finds death in 2015 were another of Shatner’s love with another senior he meets on reflections on human existence. In its the transit bus he’s forced to take to get tone, it echoed the words he spoke folaround. In real life, Shatner is married to lowing his short trip to the edge of space. At the time of Nimoy’s passing, he his fourth wife, who is 31 years younger opined of life, “it’s all ephemeral. Everythan he is. He makes frequent appearances be- thing dies. Everything turns to dust. The fore fans and is a familiar presence in only thing that remains are our good television commercials. The well-publi- deeds, that’s the legacy.” Watch 90-year-old William Shatner cized Shatner flight on the Blue Origin rocket is a boost for Bezos’ commercial on YouTube during weightlessness on his venture, which is aimed at popularizing rocket journey. ì

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have been heavily impacted by a new retail environment that emphasizes more personalized service based on the ready availability of extensive marketing data and targeted digital ads. With its new financial backing, Spanx is expected to expand its direct-to-consumer strategy and grow more aggressively, both domestically and abroad. The industry-wide shift in strategy has paid off for several other clothing manufacturers, including Nike and Levi Strauss. Blakely told CNBC that expanding her company’s product offerings during a major shift in consumer shopping habits will continue to drive future growth. “We kind of defined a category and revolutionized it, and we’re now doing that in apparel and active. Our consumers have been saying, ‘Put the magic of Spanx in the clothing that I’m wearing.’” Following the recent trend for more informal, comfort-forward clothing, Spanx has expanded from women’s foundation garments to denim, activewear, and even products for men. But it remains committed to the female base that first made it successful. According to the Wall Street Journal, the lawyers who worked on the deal were all female, as were the bankers from JPMorgan Chase & Co. Blakely has repeatedly said that she wants the board of directors to be composed entirely of women. The company began in Blakely’s Virginia-Highland apartment in 2000 with $5,000 she had made selling fax machines door-to-door. She developed the initial Spanx product after finding herself dissatisfied with how she looked in a pair of slacks she had purchased for a party. As the story goes, she cut the feet off a pair of control-top panty hose, put them on under her slacks, and thought she looked sleek and shapely that evening. One of Blakely’s first big breaks came early in the company’s history, with a ring-

ing endorsement from Oprah Winfrey on her nationally syndicated television program. The exposure led to a big order from the Neiman Marcus department store, and Spanx was off and running. By 2012, Blakely was on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in America. The following year, she was featured on the cover of Forbes as the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. In 2015, she and her husband, Jesse Itzler, joined Tony Ressler, a prominent Wall Street figure, as part of a group that purchased the Atlanta Hawks for a reported $850 million. In recent years, through her Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation, Blakely has become an active philanthropist and outspoken advocate for women in business. During the past year and a half, she has contributed $5 million to help female business owners survive the pandemic. The success of Spanx has attracted a growing list of competitors, many of them female entrepreneurs. Among the most prominent is Kim Kardashian West, who in the past couple of years has parlayed her celebrity and huge online following to build Skims, a company now valued in the same billion-dollar category as Blakely’s brand. According to Grandview Research, the intimate apparel industry is worth some $2 billion world-wide, and growing fast. Blakely, who converted to Judaism, is married to Jesse Itzler, a successful entrepreneur who grew up Jewish in Long Island. In 2009, Itzler sold Marquis Jets, an aircraft rental firm, to Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.; Itzler was also an early partner in the Zico beverage brand, which Coca-Cola eventually purchased. Today, he’s also a keynote speaker and bestselling author who often appears at conferences with Blakely. They have four children and reside in Georgia. ì

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Plane Crash Kills Local Jewish Father and Daughter By Jan Jaben-Eilon In his eulogy for Jonathan Rosen, 47, and Allison Rosen, his 14-year-old daughter, Temple Sinai Rabbi Brad Levenberg compared their premature deaths to Franz Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony.” “An unfinished life is, in many ways, like an unfinished symphony,” Levenberg said, standing next to the side-by-side graves for the pair, who were killed in the Oct. 8 crash at Peachtree-DeKalb Airport. Rosen, a financial services executive, his daughter and two other victims — his assistant, Lauren Harrington, 42, and Allison’s friend, Julia Smith, 13 — had been headed to Houston aboard a 1978 Cessna piloted by Rosen. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Daniel Boggs told reporters that the plane was full of fuel, “which is where most of the damage and fire came from.” Boggs said the plane was about 75 feet in the air when it nosed over. The Rosens leave behind wife and mother, Jill, and daughter Gabby. Opening the service at Arlington Cemetery, Levenberg noted, “Though there is every other place we would prefer to be, this

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egies for retirement planning and wealth creation, and subsequently sold it to Synovus Financial Corp. His obituary said he also established the Jonathan D. Rosen Family Foundation, which provides financial literacy classes to teenagers, mentoring many young adults entering the business world. His daughter, Allie, who had just celebrated her 14th birthday two days before the crash, was an Jonathan Rosen, 47, and Allison Rosen, his 14-year-old daugheighth-grade student at ter, were killed in an airplane crash on Oct. 8. Peachtree Middle School. is the place where we know we need to be. She was a rock climber and champion We need to be here, either in person or virweightlifter. tually, for Jill and Gabby.” Nearly 300 people Both father and daughter collected viewed the funeral virtually, in addition to friends throughout the years, according to the scores who attended the Wednesday Levenger’s eulogy. “He adopted people, some morning funeral. of whom are here today, all of whom feel his An avid fisherman, Rosen was also an absence today.” However, “the best of himentrepreneur from an early age. He foundself, he saved for Jill, for Allie and for Gabby.” ed Entaire Global Companies, a financial One of “Allie’s great loves was to make services firm specializing in leveraged stratpeople smile,” said Levenger. The teenager

had “one of those laughs that invited others to smile and laugh.” She was also a good storyteller and wanted to become a pilot, the rabbi related, painting a picture of a young girl full of hope and life. A statement issued by the Jonathan D. Rosen Family Foundation said: “We are so extremely sad to share that Jonathan was taken from this world too soon … together with his daughter, Allie. They both made the world a better place and will be missed by many. We hope that you will help us carry on his legacy.” It was requested that contributions be made to the Jonathan David Rosen Family Foundation Wealthy Habits. According to its tax filing for the year ending in October 2019, the foundation had assets of $2.15 million and 90 percent of its expenses were for charitable disbursements. A preliminary report on the cause of the plane crash is expected within a couple of weeks, NTSB investigator Boggs told reporters. Complete investigations of accidents with fatalities typically take one to two years. ì Dave Schechter contributed to this story.

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POLITICS Crime Tops the List of Atlanta Mayoral Race Issues By Dave Schechter Atlanta’s mayoral election is expected to turn on one issue: crime. The city’s 61st mayor will face numerous challenges — affordable housing, income inequality, traffic congestion, infrastructure, COVID-19, and the future of Buckhead, among them — but talk of crime topped the run-up to election day, Nov. 2. The eventual winner — a Nov. 30 runoff is possible, if not probable — will succeed Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who surprised many in May when she announced that she would not seek a second four-year term. All 15 City Council seats are also on the ballot. Early voting concludes Oct. 29. Absentee ballots must be received by local election offices before polls close. Of the 14 candidates on the nonpartisan ballot, most of the attention has focused on five: former (2010-18) Mayor Kasim Reed, City Council President Felicia Moore, attorney Sharon Gay, Councilman Antonio Brown, and Councilman Andre Dickens. Reid and Moore have led public opinion polls, though in several “undecided” tallied higher than either candidate. A poll conducted Oct. 6-20 by the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs — commissioned by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — asked respondents to identify “the most pressing issue currently facing the City of Atlanta.” Crime led with 47.9 percent, followed by affordable housing, 26.2 percent; income inequality, 8.6 percent; coronavirus, 4.2 percent; corruption, 3.7 percent, and traffic congestion, 3.7 percent. Nearly 70 percent said that the city was headed in the wrong direction in its handling of crime and more than 60 percent said the same about affordable housing. Asked to evaluate the Atlanta Police Department’s performance in dealing with violent crime, 3 percent termed it excellent, 19 percent good, 42 percent fair, and 31 percent poor. As of October, Atlanta had recorded a 14 percent increase in the number of homicides, compared with the same period last year. In 2020, homicides increased 62 percent and aggravated assaults 15 percent, compared with 2019. In the AJC’s October poll, 61 percent said that there were places within a mile of their homes where they were afraid to walk. In a similar poll taken a month earlier, 33 percent identified crime as the leading issue driving the Buckhead secession movement, followed by race with 21 percent and taxes at 14 percent. In that survey, 58 14 | OCTOBER 31, 2021 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

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percent of respondents opposed secession. tion at 47 percent of the city, the first time When the state legislature convenes in Jan- in recent decades that Blacks have not been uary it may decide whether to green-light the majority. a vote by Buckhead residents on formaIncome inequality remains an issue. tion of a new city. Buckhead accounts for According to the census data, the median roughly 20 percent of Atlanta’s population income of white households in the city of and secession would Atlanta exceeded remove about 28 $100,000, while that percent of its propof Black households erty tax revenues. was about $35,000. The 2020 CenProperty values in sus reported a 19 the city have inpercent increase in creased rapidly, the the city’s populaprice of housing tion since 2010, to spiking in some prejust shy of 500,000. viously more affordAfrican American able neighborhoods. population growth “Intown Athas been outpaced lanta has been a by that of whites, much more attracAsian Americans, tive place for young and Hispanics. An people to move to,” analysis by the AJC much of it centered pegged the African along and near the Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms American populaBeltLine, said Jodi

Jodi Mansbach said that the city of Atlanta needs to increase housing density, particularly along transportation corridors.

Glenda Minkin said that “living in a diverse and pluralistic community” is why Jews are moving into the city.

Mansbach, the former chief impact officer for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and now a principal with Living Playgrounds, a firm that designs innovative and creative play spaces. An urban planner by training, Mansbach said that to accommodate this influx, the city needs policies that will increase housing density, particularly along transportation corridors. There is anecdotal, if not statistical, evidence that the Jewish population within the city has increased in recent years. “I think living in a diverse and pluralistic community is why Jews are flocking to intown neighborhoods. We want to live in vital, culturally interesting historic neighborhoods. We want good schools and parks and restaurants and bike lanes and trails and arts — and we want it all in walking distance! And of course, we want it to be safe and clean and welcoming. And we know all of that together is a tough balance,” said civic activist and development consultant Glenda Minkin, who served in multiple positions during the administration of former Mayor Bill Campbell. This will be the most significant election since the Republican-led legislature passed and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the controversial overhaul of the state’s voting laws. A study by Chism Strategies, a political consulting firm, estimated that — thanks to voter registration drives in recent years — there may be as many as 100,000 new voters in the city compared with four years ago. Though their percentage of the city’s population has declined, Chism Strategies reported that African Americans make up 57 percent of registered voters.

POLITICS Atlanta Mayoral Race Leading Candidates

Of the 14 candidates listed on the Atlanta mayoral ballot, five — Kasim Reed, Felicia Moore, Sharon Gay, Andre Dickens, and Antonio Brown — have received the greatest share of media attention.

Kasim Reed

Atlanta’s 59th mayor (2010-2018) wants to return as the 61st. He previously was elected to the Georgia House and Senate. On crime, Reed told the Atlanta Civic Circle and the Saporta Report: “Crime impacts our personal and collective quality of life and the city’s reputation, creating a vicious cycle that undermines everything that makes our city vibrant. The fundamental truth is that until Atlanta feels safe again, nothing else will feel right.” Reed touts that during his mayoral tenure crime was at a 40-year low and the city employed 2,000 police officers (about 400 more than present). Reed wants to hire 750 new officers and require all officers to receive implicit bias and de-escalation training. Reed also touts that as mayor, the city created or retained 40,000 jobs, created a $200 million surplus, and removed a $52 million deficit. His attorneys told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Reed was cleared of wrongdoing in a City Hall corruption probe, but federal prosecutors have not confirmed that claim.

Felicia Moore

The City Council president has run close with Reed in pre-election polling. Moore was elected to the council in 1997, then as council president in 2017. On crime, Moore says that she would “[make] every neighborhood safer, no matter what income bracket or zip code.” An advocate for transparency in city government, Moore has criticized Reed for corruption prosecutions of City Hall figures during his administration. Moore says that she “will bring to the Mayor’s office the principles of ethics, transparency, and accountability.” On housing, Moore told the Atlanta Civic Circle and Saporta Report: “Housing affordability is about keeping people in their homes. Aggressive housing speculators are the cause of rapid gentrification that artificially increases property values and makes it unaffordable for long-term residents, especially our seniors, to stay in their homes. … Affordable housing is about providing new housing opportunities for people in need and to make it possible for our city employees and service workers to live in the city they serve.”

Sharon Gay

A senior counsel in public policy practice at the law firm Dentons, Gay is a board member of numerous civic organizations and served as deputy chief of staff to former Mayor Bill Campbell. She told the Atlanta Civic Circle and Saporta Report: “All Atlantans should feel safe in their homes, at work, and in their neighborhoods. The rise in violence we have experienced in the past year is unacceptable, and reducing crime will be my highest priority as mayor. We need to rebuild trust between the community and law enforcement and make sure that those who commit crimes no longer pose a threat to our citizens.” On education, Gay said: “The performance of our schools is deeply dependent on the conditions within which our children are born and raised, and the City’s primary goal should be to ensure that all of our children are living in healthy neighborhoods. APS [Atlanta Public Schools] cannot be successful without a strong partnership with the City, and the City’s health is deeply dependent on the performance of our schools.”

Andre Dickens

A member of the City Council, holding an at-large post since 2013. Dickens is the chief development officer for Techbridge, a nonprofit using technology to benefit other nonprofits, focusing on hunger relief, homeless support, social justice, and workforce development. His campaign lists as priority issues crime, income inequality, infrastructure and transportation. Dickens wants to increase police ranks by 250 officers during his first year in office, while also training all police department personnel in racial sensitivity and de-escalation techniques. On housing, Dickens told the Atlanta Civic Circle and Saporta Report: “We need to build or preserve 10,000 units of affordable housing in the next four years, and I will hire a Chief Housing Officer to oversee those efforts. They will be tasked with pursuing more affordable options especially around our transit centers, but also with preserving affordable homes through senior property tax freezes and no-cost renovations.”

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POLITICS Antonio Brown

Elected to the City Council in 2019, Brown represents District 3. Brown says he grew up in poverty with his parents frequently incarcerated. He told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “We are literally standing on the precipice of Atlanta becoming this great international city we speak about, or Atlanta becoming a city we don’t recognize anymore.” On crime, his campaign website says: “The modern police force needs to be able to provide a nuanced response to the community and that requires hiring and training a police force that is prepared to do more than simply arrest and incarcerate our community. While arrests for violent criminals are of course necessary, we simply cannot arrest our way out of a crime wave.” Brown has pledged to work with the Atlanta Housing Authority to develop mixed-income housing. His stated goals include greater attention to people with AIDS, and the LGBTQ and trans communities. Brown was indicted in July 2020 on federal charges of wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, and making false statements on a bank loan application. He pleaded not guilty. A trial date has not been set. ì

In alphabetical order, the 14 candidates on the Atlanta mayoral ballot: Antonio Brown Andre Dickens Kirsten Dunn Nolan English Sharon Gay

Mark Hammad Kenneth Darnell Hill Rebecca King Felicia Moore Kasim Reed

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Biden Nominates Atlantan to U.N. Human Rights Council By Dave Schechter Atlantan Michèle Taylor has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council. In announcing the nomination Oct. 21, the White House said: “Michèle Taylor has served in a number of roles advocating for protection of fundamental human and political rights.” The nomination requires confirmation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the full Senate. A committee hearing has not yet been scheduled. Per protocol, Taylor declined to give an interview until the confirmation process is completed. Taylor, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, serves on the board of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and is an alumni member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, to which she was appointed in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama. In the latter, she served on the Committee on Holocaust Denial and State-Sponsored Anti-Semitism. In 2014, Taylor also served as a consultant to the White House on the Violence Against Women Act’s 20th anniversary. In her political life, Taylor formerly served as vice chair of the national finance committee of the Democratic Party, as co-chair and campaign vicechair for Michelle Nunn’s 2014 Senate campaign, and as co-chair of former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s 2013 reelection campaign. An observant Jew, Taylor was a founding board member of Congregation Or Hadash. Taylor also has served as a board member of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and co-chair of the programming committee. [Disclosure: The author has served in the former capacity.] President Biden recently directed that the United States rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council, effective with its 2022 term, reversing the June 2018 withdrawal ordered by then-President Donald Trump. U.S. participation on the Council has followed political lines; active during the administration of former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, but not during that of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush, a Republican. The Council, which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, was created in 2006 18 | OCTOBER 31, 2021ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

2020 AJFF Development Co-chair, Dr. Kenneth Taylor, is a general and interventional cardiologist who specializes in heart failure.

Michèle Taylor has been nominated to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

and is comprised of 47 U.N. member nations. In recent years, the body has been criticized as being anti-Israel. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken referenced that issue on Oct. 14 when he announced the U.S. return, saying: “The Council plays a meaningful role in protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms by documenting atrocities in order to hold wrongdoers accountable. It focuses attention on emergencies and unfolding human rights crises, ensuring that those who are voiceless have a place to be heard. The Council provides a forum where we can have open discussions about ways we and our partners can improve. At the same time, it also suffers from serious flaws, including disproportionate attention on Israel and the membership of several states with egregious human rights records. Together, we must push back against attempts to subvert the ideals upon

Taylor is an active outdoor enthusiast, according to a Steamboat, Colo. neighbor.

which the Human Rights Council was founded, including that each person is endowed with human rights and that states are obliged to protect those rights.” The first U.S. representative to the former U.N. Commission on Human Rights, a precursor of today’s Human Rights Council, was Eleanor Roosevelt, who served from 1947-53. Atlanta attorney Morris Abram, who was Jewish, also served in that role, from 1965-68. Taylor’s mother, Susi H. Nichols (née Trnka), and grandparents escaped from Vienna, Austria in 1939, immigrating to the United States. German troops invaded Austria in March 1938 and declared it a German province. Taylor, 55, is a native of Palo Alto, Calif. She earned her B.A. from Mills College and an M.A. from Boston University. She and her husband, Dr. Kenneth Taylor, a cardiologist, are the parents of two grown children.

An avid outdoor enthusiast — who hikes mountains, skis, runs, and bicycles — Taylor is a former board member of the North Carolina Outward Bound School, as well as a climbing instructor and course director. In addition to Atlanta, the Taylors are part-time residents of Steamboat Springs, Colo. A friend and Colorado neighbor, Paula Salky, told the Steamboat Pilot & Today: “She was always the same person that came here and skied and helped my daughter with her math, but she also took phone calls from the president and vice president’s offices. What I love about Michèle is that she’s truly a normal person.” “When I got a call from the State Department, it was quite an honor to tell them about Michèle and how amazing she is,” Salky told the newspaper. “It’s amazing to see the process, and how truly if you want something like this, it can happen in your life.” ì

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Walker Nixes Fundraiser Over Swastika Graphic By Dave Schechter Herschel Walker’s U.S. Senate campaign canceled a Texas fundraiser because the host’s Twitter profile displayed syringes in the shape of a swastika as a protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The Republican hopeful’s campaign Wednesday initially defended the image displayed by movie producer Bettina Sofia Viviano-Langlais, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that it was “clearly an anti-mandatory vaccination graphic.” After the apparent misstep, the campaign regained its footing and canceled the SatHerschel Walker canceled a fundraiser because the host’s Twitter profile urday event at Viviano-Langlais’ home in included a picture of syringes arranged in the form of a swastika. suburban Dallas. A statement issued by campaign deeply offensive — it’s become a common the event.” She also told the Daily Mail: press secretary Mallory Blount said: and callous tool for political gain. We’re “I specifically chose that symbol as an glad to see the artistic protest against those that seem to “Herschel is a f u n d r a i s e r think it’s okay to violate human rights.” strong friend was canceled, Jewish groups have condemned the of Israel and and the beuse of the Holocaust to express opposition the Jewish haviors of to the public health response to the COcommunity the host were VID-19 pandemic. First-term Republican and opposes denounced as congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, hatred and offensive.” who represents the 14th district in northbigotry of all The Jewwest Georgia, apologized in June for comforms. Despite ish Democratthe fact that ic Women’s the apparent Bettina Sofia Viviano-Langlais told the Atlanta Salon, an Atintent behind Journal-Constitution that the image was “clearly lanta group, the graphic an anti-mandatory vaccination graphic.” posted on was to conTwitter: “Bedemn government vaccine mandates, the symbol used is very offensive and does yond unacceptable. A swastika is a swasnot reflect the values of Herschel Walker tika.” The AJT also reached out to the local or his campaign.” chapter of the Republican Jewish CommitThe AJT has reached out to Walker’s tee for comment. campaign for additional comment. A search Thursday for the Twitter Walker, a former star running back page of Bettina Viviano or Viviano-Lanfor the University of Georgia football glais came up “No Results.” Screenshots team, is seeking the Republican nominaof the apparently deleted page with the tion to challenge incumbent Democratic swastika had listed her as “Film/TV ProSen. Raphael Warnock, who was elected ducer/Literary Manager. Owner Accelerto a two-year term in a January 2021 runate Entertainment. Hollywood Resistance off and will seek a full six-year term in Because We’re Not All Lefties. #MAGA.” November 2022. MAGA (Make American Great Again) was Jewish groups quickly flagged the a slogan used by Trump in his 2016 presiimagery, first reported by the Atlanta Jourdential campaign and throughout his nal-Constitution, as out of bounds. “A swastika is a symbol of hate. term in the White House. The Journal-Constitution reported: Walker may have canceled his fundraiser “In a post on Wednesday, Viviano-Langlais after a sponsor associated with the event said she removed the symbol ‘because of displayed the antisemitic symbol proudly, the left’s need to silence free speech’ and but he must condemn Holocaust and COthat she didn’t intend it to be antisemitic. VID health policies comparisons immedi‘It was a pic showing what happens when ately,” said Dov Wilker, Atlanta regional fascists demand people insert foreign madirector of the American Jewish Committerial into their body they don’t want.’” tee. Viviano-Langlais told the Daily Mail, The Southeast regional office of a British newspaper: “My biggest disapthe Anti-Defamation League posted on pointment is that yet again another ConTwitter: “Comparing vaccine politics to servative has decided to succumb to the the genocide committed by the Nazis is outrage mob, cancel culture, and cancel

paring mask and vaccine requirements to anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Germany. In addition to Walker, candidates for the May 24, 2022, Republican primary include Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, Kelvin King, and Latham Saddler. Walker’s campaign recently announced that it thus far has raised $3.7 million. In 1982, Walker won the Heisman Trophy, awarded by the New York Athletic Club to that season’s premier college football player. He played a major role in the University of Georgia’s undefeated 1980 season, when it was voted the nation’s top college football team. Walker, who has lived in Texas in recent years, was encouraged to enter the race by former Republican President Donald Trump. His association with Trump began when the casino and hotel owner purchased the New Jersey Generals of the now-defunct United States Football League. Walker signed with the team after his junior year at UGA. He later played in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, and New York Giants. ì

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ISRAEL PRIDE

Oct. 31, 1917 — The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade surprises the Turkish defenders and captures Beersheba in one day, breaking the Ottoman defensive line near Gaza and obtaining needed water for advancing British troops.

TODAY IN ISRAELI HISTORY laration, a letter to Zionist leader Lord Rothschild. Nov. 3, 1878 — Religious Jews leave Jerusalem and establish the agricultural settlement of Petah Tikvah (“Gateway of Hope”), now Israel’s fifth-largest city, on 3,400 dunams (roughly 756 acres) bought near the Yarkon River and the Arab village of Mulabbis.

Nov. 8, 1923 — Yisrael Meir Friedman Ben-Shalom, the future Pashkaner Rebbe, is born to a Hasidic and Zionist family in Bohush, Romania. He and his wife, Zipporah, smuggle themselves into Palestine in 1946 and soon found a kibbutz.

Nov. 4, 1995 — Yigal Amir, a law student opposed to the Oslo peace process, fatally shoots Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin after a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Rabin had played a prominent role in most of Israel’s history.

Nov. 9, 1952 — Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, dies at his Rehovot home after a yearlong illness. A native of Poland, he moved to England in 1904. He developed political friendships that contributed to the Balfour Declaration.

Nov. 5, 1990 — Rabbi Meir Kahane, 58, is fatally shot by Egyptian-American El Sayyid Nosair in a New York hotel where Kahane is speaking. Kahane was elected to the Knesset in 1984 as the head of Kach, which later was banned for inciting racism.

Nov. 10, 1975 — The U.N. General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, defining Zionism as racism, on a vote of 72-35 with 32 abstentions. The resolution is revoked in December 1991 in connection with October’s Madrid peace conference.

Nov. 1, 1945 — The Jewish Resistance Movement sets off explosions at over 150 sites along the railway of Mandatory Palestine and blows up three British gunboats in synchronized attacks known as the Night of the Trains.

Nov. 6, 1987 — Zohar Argov, who as one of Israel’s first Mizrahi music stars is known as the “The King” but is haunted by addictions to cocaine and heroin, hangs himself in jail at age 32 after being accused of attempted rape.

Nov. 2, 1917 — British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour reveals his government’s endorsement of “the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish national home” in the Balfour Dec-

Nov. 7, 1944 — Hannah Senesh (formerly Szenes), a poet and Haganah paratrooper, is killed by a Hungarian firing squad in Budapest five months after being captured while

Nov. 11, 1902 — Yisrael Amir is born in Vilna in the Russian Empire. He makes aliyah in 1923 and rises through the Haganah. Despite no aviation experience, David BenGurion names him the first Israeli Air Force commander in May 1948.

Photo by Fritz Cohen, Israeli National Photo Collection

Moshe Sneh, shown as a member of the Knesset in 1961, was one of four leaders of the Jewish Resistance Movement when he was with the Haganah in 1945.

dominant political party, Mapai, in 1965 and is involved in the merger that produces the Labor Party in 1968.

trying to cross the border from Yugoslavia.

Nov. 12, 2009 — Former Knesset member Eliyahu Speiser dies at age 79. A native of Haifa, Speiser begins working for Israel’s

Knesset photo Eliyahu Speiser studied at the University of Paris and served on the embassy staff there before his political career.

Nov. 13, 1893 — Acclaimed Israeli painter Reuven Rubin is born in Galatz, Romania. He sells his bicycle in 1912 to afford to travel to Jerusalem and enroll in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. He

also studies in Paris. Nov. 14, 1956 — Six days after Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces that Israeli troops will withdraw from the Sinai, the Knesset debates the plan amid calls to keep the army in place until Egypt enters peace talks.

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Israel May Finally Open Up to Tourists in November By Jan Jaben-Eilon Unless something drastic or unexpected occurs – such as an outbreak of hostilities with its neighbors or a sudden surge in COVID-19 – Israel will open up for tourists in November. “The tourism industry in Israel has been bombarded with information related to the government protocol for incoming tourists,” said Cheri Levitan, CEO of Israel-based Kenes Tours. However, “the official revised protocol will not be published until November.” From what Atlanta-based Levitan is hearing, significant changes are expected to be announced that will make it easier for U.S. citizens to travel to Israel. For instance, upon landing in Tel Aviv, visitors will no longer be required to undergo serological testing at Ben Gurion Airport. Quarantining will not be required. Anyone who has received a COVID-19 booster will be permitted to enter the country. “Vaccinated tourists [who are] part of a tourist group organized by an authorized Israeli tour operator like Kenes Tours will be permitted to visit Israel no matter when they received their last vaccine,” Levitan said. In general, she added, “for groups whose members all either had a booster or had their last vaccine no more than six months prior to arrival in Israel, the bureaucratic processing will be minimal, and entry will be streamlined.” When it occurs, the easing of requirements for individuals or groups of tourists will be a huge relief to Israel’s tourism industry, which was hit particularly hard by the pandemic. At times, Israel practically closed its borders. In 2020 alone, the number of tourists dropped nearly 100 percent, with a loss of billions of dollars. Just a couple of months ago, Israel started allowing in small groups of organized tours as an experiment, but the constantly changing regulations continued to plague the industry. “So many organizations want to send groups to Israel but have been stymied by the complete lack of clear instructions when the country will open up and under what circumstances,” said Mark Feldman, director of the Jerusalem district for Diesenhaus Unitours, in August. “It’s nothing short of deplorable that our government continues to speak out of both sides of the mouth, leaving potential tourists bewildered by when Israel will allow them in.” This conundrum could be solved soon, and the timing couldn’t be better

“We hope to have more concrete and specific guidelines from the Ministry of Tourism within the next couple of weeks,” said Cheri Levitan.

Potential tourists have been bewildered by Israel’s timeline for letting them in, according to Mark Feldman, Jerusalem district director of Diesenhaus Unitours.

Changes in Israel’s Green Pass program came into effect Oct. 3, notes Alex Gandler, deputy consul general of the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast.

for the industry. Jewish tourists can hopefully start making plans to be in Israel for Chanukah, starting the end of November, and Christians can plan their trips to the Holy Land for the Christmas holiday. “We hope to have more concrete and specific guidelines from the Ministry of Tourism within the next couple of weeks,” said Levitan. Tourists from Europe, however, will have an easier time entering Israel than those from the U.S. The first group of tourists to be allowed in will most likely come from countries with reciprocal agreements that include digitized vaccination records. Since the U.S. doesn’t have a national digitized system, it may be more complicated. At this point, it seems that individual American tourists will be required to fill out the online forms through the Israeli Ministry of Health website, in the same way that first-degree relatives of Israeli citizens have been required to do during the pandemic. Residents of New York and California, which have digital “green passport” systems, may have an easier time than the rest of their countrymen. Once in Israel, tourists will need to follow local mandates, such as wearing masks indoors. To enter public venues such as hotels, restaurants, conferences, bars, tourist attractions, and synagogues holding more than 50 people, Israelis as well as tourists also are required to show a Green Pass. Alex Gandler, deputy consul general of the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast, notes that the changes in that program came into effect in early October. Due to those changes, anyone holding a Green Pass dated prior to Oct. 3 needs to reapply for a new one.

Instructions to obtain the Green Pass can be found at https://corona.health.gov.il/ en/directives/green-pass-info/. Essentially, Green Pass eligibility is for those who have been vaccinated or those who have recovered outside of Israel. The validity of the pass depends on

the number of vaccine doses that person has received, and on the results of COVID testing in Israel. Despite the complexities, Levitan is optimistic. “Let’s hope when the policy is announced, it will be clearer and allinclusive,” she told the AJT. ì

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OPINION From Where I Sit: Rethinking U.S. Aid to Israel If an American Jew — a columnist for a Jewish newspaper, for example — suggested what I am about to quote, Dave Schechter they might be From Where I Sit hauled into the court of Jewish opinion, excoriated in some quarters and lauded in others. But these are the thoughts of Israelis who, while grateful for U.S. aid, find in recent events reasons to reevaluate that pillar of the relationship. Michael Oren is a historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States (2009-13). Yossi Klein Halevi is a journalist, author, and frequent commentator on Israeli affairs for English-language audiences. Donniel Hartman is president of the Israelbased Shalom Hartman Institute. All three have American backgrounds and made aliyah many years ago. On the Israeli political spectrum, they consider themselves to be centrists. This is what prompted their concern: In September, Democratic progressives in the U.S. House forced removal from a spending bill of $1 billion for Israel to restock its Iron Dome anti-missile system. The money was approved days later in a separate, 402-9 vote. (Senate action has been stalled by Kentucky Republican Ron Paul’s insistence that the funds be taken from aid to Afghanistan.) Since 2011, the U.S. has provided $1.6 billion for the Israeli-developed Iron Dome. By way of context, the current 10-year “memorandum of understanding,” which expires in 2028, annually provides Israel $3.3 billion in “Foreign Military Financing” grants (to finance purchase of U.S.-made material) and $500 million for missile defense. Oren’s essay, published Sept. 23 by the online magazine Tablet, was written after the initial setback. Even anticipating eventual approval of the money, “the event must serve as an overdue wakeup call to begin rethinking the nature of American aid, one of the mainstays of our alliance with the United States,” he wrote. “Though generous, U.S. aid to Israel is hardly free. Under its terms, Israel cannot buy whatever it wants from the United States,” Oren said, citing Tomahawk missiles and strategic bombers. “Israel cannot,

moreover, sell what it wants to whomever it desires, most expressly to China,” he said, noting sales nixed by Democratic and Republican presidents. “Behind closed doors, Israelis are questioning why a country as militarily and economically robust as theirs should continue to appear dependent on any foreign power,” Oren wrote. “Isn’t it time . . . to begin asking whether Israel can continue to depend on U.S. military aid, whether its downsides outweigh its benefits, and whether or not more secure and mutually advantageous alternatives exist?” Hartman and Halevi, a senior research fellow at the Hartman Institute, addressed these issues in the Sept. 26 edition of its “For Heaven’s Sake Podcast,” in an episode titled “Is Funding the Iron Dome Really an Israeli Victory?” Yes, the House okayed the $1 billion, but Halevi wondered: “. . . maybe we made a mistake, the pro-Israel community, and the State of Israel, in setting the bar for pro-Israel support too low.” Pro-Israel Democrats, he said, took the position that: “This is a safe weapon. This isn’t even really a weapon at all. So we can give this to Israel. This is purely defensive.” Halevi warned that “they’re setting us up for a very uncomfortable situation . . . the next time a vote comes around for offensive weapons, which we need.” Hartman also had questions: “I apologize for the heresy. Why were we asking them to fund the Iron Dome? What, we don’t have a billion dollars? What is it? Is America my bank? Why would I turn, did I turn to America to ask, ‘Could you please fund buses in Jerusalem? Could you please fund new highways?’ I felt like I was in Israel in the 1950s. It didn’t feel like Israel 2021.” The problem, as Hartman put it: “I, start-up nation, wealthy country, 300-plusbillion-dollar budget, in the midst of this period of like, please help me replenish my missiles. I almost felt as if Israel was forgetting what it means to be a sovereign country . . . When you come and ask somebody for something which you don’t really need, what are you doing? You’re creating a parent-child relationship with America. And I don’t think that’s a healthy relationship for any country . . . You want independence? Well, act independent.” Halevi told me that reaction to the podcast has been “almost all positive.” With so much at stake, American Jews should be no less willing to have this conversation. ì

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Letters to the Editor The AJT welcomes your letters. 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, Responding to “What Fuels Teen Addiction?” In this article, marijuana is presented as a benign social drug. I suggest that this ignores not only clinical experience but also hundreds of scientific studies. Marijuana can have severe negative effects especially among the 6% of high school seniors that smoke every day. Its most significant effect for adolescents is on impairment of cognition. Working memory, which includes short-term memory, is almost always involved. Attention, information processing, judgment and decision making may also be affected. Learning is impaired, and there is a study that shows heavy marijuana use in adolescence correlated with a loss of 5–8 IQ points on followup a few years later. Regular marijuana use in adolescence increases the risk for depression, suicide attempts, anxiety and even psychosis. Smoking marijuana impairs driving, and there has been a marked increase in marijuana-related driving fatalities since the legalization of marijuana in Colorado. Vaping marijuana is now common among teens. While the marijuana in joints may be from 5 to 10% concentrate, the cartridges for vaping contain THC concentrations of 80 to 90%. I have seen many teenagers who begin smoking joints a few times a week progress to vaping high-concentrate marijuana two to three times a day. At this point, they can no longer function in school and smoking marijuana has taken over their lives. At the Atlanta Insight Adolescent and Young Adult Sub-

stance Abuse Program, where I have been clinical director for 20 years, over 20% of the hundred adolescents/young adults that we treat each year are now in treatment for marijuana dependency. Your readers should be made aware that the largest investor in legalizing marijuana is the tobacco industry, and that legislatures can decriminalize marijuana without legalizing its production and sale. Steven L. Jaffe M.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Morehouse School of Medicine Letter to the editor, Is the reaction from Jewish leaders reported in the AJT in the article “Herschel Walker Nixes Fundraiser Over Swastika Graphic,” to the unrelated posting by a supporter on Twitter of an image of syringes in the shape of a swastika purely a response to the offensive use of the antiSemitic symbol? Or is this an attempt to cloud Walker’s campaign with the false implication that he participated, condones, didn’t apologize soon enough, or is himself anti-Semitic? We’ve seen all too often the smearing of Republicans in the name of outrage against an out-of-context reference to Nazis, Brownshirts and the swastika. Since organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League seem to reserve their outrage for those offenses (whether real or imagined) committed by Republicans, I’ll offer a few from Democrats which should also merit

outrage: Nine members of Congress voting against funding for Iron Dome, which only serves to save Israeli lives from rockets aimed at innocent civilians. Reentering the Iran nuclear arms deal (a pathway for Iran’s nuclear aspirations) despite Iran’s support of terrorist groups and stated intent to destroy Israel. Reentering the anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council, which repeatedly and unjustly singles out Israel for violations. Offensive stereotypes from Democrats such as Omar: “It’s about the Benjamins” and Johnson: “Jewish settlements like termites,” which receive lukewarm rebukes but no consequences. Any corporation or political leader who supports BDS, which can only be understood as an attempt to isolate and destroy Israel politically and economically. Any leader that accuses Israel of apartheid and of committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Tlaib: “We cannot be talking only about Israelis’ need

for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system.” Without also hearing loud and clear responses from Jewish leaders to these examples of real threats against Jews and Israel, such “outrage” against the leading Republican opponent to Raphael Warnock’s reelection is both inauthentic and a transparent attempt to exploit the same offensive symbols against Walker’s chances in 2022. Jon Barry, Marietta

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THEN AND NOW Name that Couple's Secret to Wedded Bliss By Marcia Caller Jaffe Following longstanding AJT tradition, we spotlight some of the city’s most illustrious, fun-loving and influential couples who still hold hands, to find out how they met and the secrets to long-lasting marriage. The average span here is 53.5 years, with Judy and Ron Goldstein marking 65 years of coupling and Doris and Marty Goldstein (no relation) following not far behind at 64. Find out why Clive Bank relishes being referred to as “Sandra’s husband,” why Ron cut up Judy’s charge cards, how Germaine and Bruce Weinstein blew out Christmas, and Adrian Grant’s expertise with bananas. Which photos do you recognize?

Judy and Ron Goldstein Years married: 65 Wedding: Standard Club Atlanta

How we met: Ron: “We had a blind date to the Lakewood Southeastern Fair. I was 18 and not aware that Judy was only 14; so I was not going to date her anymore. I thought Judy was really sweet, intelligent and beautiful, plus her mom made great coffee ice cream shakes.” Judy: “Ron was the best-looking boy I had ever seen so I called him for my high school sorority dance.” Secret to a happy marriage: Judy: “Give and take, a great sense of humor.” Ron: “Compromise! We had a difficult first year because Judy felt the more charge cards she had, the better the marriage. I felt if she learned to cook more than one course at a time we could work out the rest. We learned to support each other’s goals and live with each other’s idiosyncrasies.”

Doris and Marty Goldstein Years married: 64 Wedding: Anshe Sfarad Synagogue, New Orleans

How we met: Marty: “Working in a Jewish camp in Sparta, Tenn., a fellow counselor from Miami Beach invited me to spend my winter break with her. She fixed us up on a blind date. We went out several times during the holiday, including New Year’s Eve. We both returned to school and began corresponding ... by U.S. mail of all things. Doris was the first southern girl I met. I was immediately attracted by her looks and personality and realized how much fun it was to spend time with her.” Doris: “He wasn’t an ordinary ‘Yankee.’ He was polite, soft spoken, easy to Doris and Marty talk to and willing to do unusual activiGoldstein. ties like play trivia to see who was smarter.” Secret to a happy marriage: Doris: “Respect each other’s opinions. Support each other’s aspirations. Share values of lifestyle, religious practice and dedication to family.” Marty: “Sharing our goals by supporting each other as we grew and matured and created successful lives and a wonderful extended family.” 24 | OCTOBER 31, 2021ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Arlene and Bruce Turry

Years married: 60 Wedding: Hampshire House, New York City How we met: Bruce: “We grew up in Rockville Center, Long Island. I was a little older, so I never knew Arlene in high school, but when I was 15 my cousin visited from Hattiesburg and my date suggested I fix him up with Arlene. I rectified this mistake by marrying her a few days after I turned 22.” Secret to a happy marriage: Arlene: “Bruce has the unique ability to express his feelings and most importantly, we laugh, share and really enjoy being together. As to separate things we do … our biggest disparity is exercise: ️Bruce walks six miles daily, I walk to the clubhouse to pick up my Amazon orders. I’m a big supporter of our lagging economy.” ️ Bruce: “I have been blessed with being in love with the person I most enjoy being with and who has been the best partner I could’ve chosen to share our lives, adventures and blessings with. I always felt if I only dated beautiful girls, I’d find one who was that and had every-thing else. The best part is the longer we are married, the more we love each other.”

Lynette and Malcolm Joel Years married: 53 Wedding: Johannesburg, South Africa

How we met: Lynette: “Our families moved into a new neighborhood, I was 12 and Malcolm was 15. The minute I saw him, I said, ‘This is it,’ I fell in love. I set my heart on him and chased him for two years before he acquiesced. I was quite determined to win him over and did everything to run into him and make him pay attention to me. Malcolm was super smart, he was very well respected, and good looking.” Malcolm: “Lynette was pretty and had a ‘desirable’ family.” Secret to a happy marriage: Malcolm: “Shalom, peace in the household — respecting one another’s interests and desires even if they differ. Lynette made her own wedding dress!”

THEN AND NOW Miriam and Danny Saul Years married: 45 Wedding: Beth Jacob

Ilene and Adrian Grant

Years married: 50 Wedding: Beth Jacob, Thanksgiving Day How we met: Adrian: “At a party during the first week Ilene moved to Atlanta. She swept me off my feet. I knew she was a gift from heaven and someone I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. She is truly an aishes chayil.” Ilene: “I was immediately attracted because he was outgoing and nice. He wanted to do fun things and push me out of my comfort zone, which was really good for me!” Secret to a happy marriage: Adrian: “Walk away from arguments and show appreciation. It is important to be a good communicator and listener.” Ilene: “Being agreeable to his moving lifestyle has kept us happy. And no one makes better tuna salad or buys the best bananas!”

How we met: Danny: “We met through mutual friends and were kind of challenging each other. I was in the Air Force, stationed at Dobbins and thought I was ‘too cool for school!’ Miriam was not impressed, but finally did go out with me. Since we got married on the day of the bicentennial, we joke that we wanted to hear amazing fireworks on our wedding night and we did! Miriam was a pretty girl from Cuba with a bit of an exotic accent that was very attractive for a ‘good old Southern boy.’ She is bright and relentless and cares deeply about others.” Miriam: “He was three years older than me and part of ‘old’ Atlanta. He had a beautiful extended family. I was a new immigrant. Danny has never met a stranger; he is the friendliest and kindest man I know!” Secret to happy marriage: Miriam: “We both know that family comes first; Danny has always been supportive of my passions. We compromise, take in changes, and reinvent ourselves.” Danny: “Admitting that Miriam may not be right all the time, but she is never wrong! It helps to have a wonderful mother-in-law who always takes my side.”

Germaine and Bruce Weinstein Sandra and Clive Bank

Years married: 45 Wedding: Oxford Road Synagogue, Johannesburg, South Africa How we met: Clive: “I started dating Sandra when she was 16, and I have only had one love.” Secret to a happy marriage: Clive: “With children, both parents need to be actively involved with their upbringing. Share all responsibilities, including finances. Have time to yourself to pursue your own interests: Sandra is talented and has the ability to anticipate what people will do and respond accordingly.” Sandra: “He lost his dad when he met me and loved being a party of my family. That was very important to me. Clive has always pushed me to be my higher self. He was the one encouraging me to go to college. He had a small kitchen built for me in the back of his architec-tural firm when I wanted to start doing small catering jobs. My mom lived with us. Clive took her to art classes and movies while I ‘worked parties.’ That made me love him even more. It takes a special man to be happy to be introduced as ‘Sandra Bank’s husband.’”

Years married: 44 Wedding: Rockaway Jewish Center in New York City How We Met: Germaine: “I was at a friend’s party and I saw him staring, smiling at me from across the room. I was immediately attracted to him. He was handsome and had a great sense of humor. His southern charm and manners really made an impact on me. I knew I wanted to be with him.” Bruce: “I was visiting a fraternity brother in New York City at a party. Germaine immediately caught my eye. We were together the entire evening, and it was like no one else. Germaine was beautiful with an infectious smile. We talked and laughed the entire evening. She even acted as if she liked my jokes. I knew we were made for each other, and we were married a little over three months later. Germaine has a huge family and there were over 500 people at the wedding. I guess we were the only game in town Christmas night.” Secret to a happy marriage: Germaine: “Accepting each other for who they are and all their idiosyncrasies. You have to respect and be kind to each other. I feel our love continues to grow stronger every year.” Bruce: “You have to really work at it every day. This is especially true when kids come along. We always planned date nights so we could have time alone. The real secret however is my just saying, ‘Sure Germaine, I’ll do whatever you want.’” ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES OCTOBER 31, 2021| 25

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Atlanta Families’ Holocaust Artifacts Documentary By Jan Jaben-Eilon “Preserving Holocaust Artifacts,” the latest Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters TV documentary, aims to counter Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. The timing couldn’t have been better. The 26-minute video premiered just after Yom Kippur and only days after the latest anti-Semitic graffiti incidents occurred in various Cobb County schools. Subsequent screenings continue through Oct. 19. It’s also available on Facebook. Months in the making, the documentary focuses on a couple of Atlanta families who discovered troves of letters, photographs and documents their families had saved for more than 75 years. Both families are donating their collections to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. “We had intended to air the piece earlier,” acknowledged Audrey Galex, AIB’s community engagement manager and producer of the documentary. Galex, who also narrates the documentary, said the stories related by Alli Allen and Naomi Liebman really touched her. “I think about my own childhood, carpooling with kids whose par-

Allen’s great-grandparents, Blanka and Max Hartstein, who were killed in the Holocaust.

ents were survivors,” Galex told the AJT. In the film, which is part of a series for "AIB Presents," Atlantan Alli Allen said she knew of her family’s Holocaust history growing up, but it wasn’t until after her grandmother, Paula Hartstein Marx, died in 1999 and her mother, Inge Marx Robbins, found boxes of letters and artifacts in her attic, that the story became clearer. Her

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maternal grandmother, Allen said, never spoke about the fact that her parents and sister died in the Holocaust. But the letters, written almost once a week between 1938 and 1941 on onion-skin paper in German, related how progressively desperate they were to flee Europe. “The letters started within a week of my grandparents leaving,” said Allen, which by chance was in November 1938 — a week before Kristallnacht. “They wrote, ‘I can’t believe you left.’” Then her great-grandparents Blanka and Max Hartstein in Stuttgart and her great aunt in Prague started preparing for their hoped-for journey to America. “They were writing about their efforts to get visas and passage out of Europe. They took English lessons, and my great aunt was learning how to sew” so that she would have employment when she arrived in the U.S. In addition to letters and photographs, the family stuck in Germany sent clothes that they thought would be useful upon their arrival in America. But suddenly the letters stopped. In 1942, the family received a last postcard from the Theresienstadt concentration camp via the Red Cross. Allen learned later that her great-grandparents were at the camp for two years, while her grandmother’s sister was there for six months. “We have their death dates,” she said. “The letters are hard to read because you hope for a good outcome, even when you know there isn’t one,” she added. The documents became a family project, Allen relates. Her mother, now 92, and uncle “worked on getting the letters translated, organized all the business correspondence from my grandfather, and assembled the bound volumes of all the translated letters. My cousin, Renae Marx Popkin, helped assemble and print the books.” The family then reached out to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “We met with a curator

“The letters are hard to read because you hope for a good outcome, even when you know there isn’t one,” said Alli Allen.

Holocaust Museum curator Kyra Schuster said that, before the pandemic, the museum used to receive one or two collections from families every day.

and signed the documents to turn over the collection to the museum,” said Allen. As Robert Tanen, director of the Museum’s Southeast Regional Office, recalled, “Alli Allen was in the process of donating one of the largest family collections that the Museum has acquired from Atlanta when the pandemic struck.” The translated letters are already at the museum, but Allen still has the originals. Pre-pandemic, the museum would receive one or two collections from families every day, said Kyra Schuster, curator at the National Institute for Holocaust Documentation at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. When the pandemic struck in early 2020, the museum closed, and employees only worked virtually. Schuster said she’s now coming into the office a couple of times a week and that they are “starting to make arrangements for receiving collections” from many

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Allen’s mother, Inge Marx Robbins, and her uncle, Albert Marx, as children.

has Holocaust-related artifacts can contact the U.S. Holocaust Museum either by email (curator@ushmm. org) or through a form on its website (www.collections. ushmm.org). “People used to walk in the door” with documents pre-pandemic, she said. Prospective donors should provide a description of the artifacts, she added. “We want to make sure we’re the right repository for the items,” said Schuster. “Sometimes we refer people to othAlli's grandparents, Paula Alli Allen met with a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum curator. er institutions. Once we deHartstein Marx and Hugh Marx. termine we want to acquire different families. helped to explain the Museum’s process the artifacts, we make arrangements for the The collections range from a button for reviewing and acquiring Holocaust ar- shipping.” The museum will then preserve to “an entire storage unit,” said Schuster. tifacts. According to Leslie Gordon, the Bre- and digitize the documents so that they can The Allen family collection includes let- man’s executive director, “Our collections be accessed by researchers or the public. ters that her grandfather sent to Germany policy is limited to Georgia and Alabama, Only about one percent of the muafter the war as he attempted to claim res- and we encourage donors to donate to ei- seum’s collection is on display at any given titution. Her grandfather was born in But- ther or both. Also, the U.S. Holocaust Mu- time. The rest is kept in a special facility in tenhausen and was able to get his mother seum has a loan policy, so that if we wanted Maryland under strict preservation condiand nephew out of Germany. to focus on something they had collected, tions. Schuster said that she thought donaIn May, the U.S. Holocaust Museum we could borrow it easily. We work together tions would “peak in the 1990s, but we’re worked with Atlanta’s Breman Museum because what we do is so important.” busier now than ever. I think we’ll be just as to present a two-part virtual series that Schuster suggested that anyone who busy in 10 years.” ì

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The Synagogue Boards at the Center of Atlanta History By Bob Bahr Just two-and-a-half years ago, in the first months of 2019, the president of what was then called Young Israel of Toco Hills was faced with the question of whether to continue the congregation’s affiliation with the National Young Israel movement. The congregation had grown increasingly dissatisfied with some of the restrictions and some of the actions of the national leadership, and there was talk of divorce. Untangling the congregation from its long affiliation with Young Israel was not just a test for the rabbinic leadership, but also for the board and its president. The relationship with the national organization struck at the heart of the religious community’s financial foundation. Since the synagogue functioned under the national umbrella of the national organization’s 501(c)3, there was concern that the increasingly political partisanship of the National Young Israel Council could run afoul of the IRS. In 2019, ahead of the presidential election, issues at the national level could spell trouble in Toco

Congregation Or VeShalom, on North Druid Hills Road, went through a contentious battle over location in the late 1960s.

Hills. Marc Sokol, an IT consultant and the congregation’s president at the time, said the board thought it was a good time to consider whether it might be time to leave.

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“There was just a lot of noise, like on Facebook and on Twitter, that made us feel like if we’re going to do something, we probably should do it soon. We felt that the Young Israel organization should really be functioning in an apolitical manner, you know, neutral, if you will, or if they were going to delve into politics, at least be nonpartisan. And when we looked at what was going on with the National Council at the time, we couldn’t say that that was the case.” Sokol did what he could to lower the volume at the national level, particularly after at least one leader pointedly insulted the congregation’s longtime rabbi, Adam Starr. And he cautioned others to refrain from public comment, even after well-known Emory professor Deborah Lipstadt quit the congregation in protest over the national organization’s political maneuvering. Despite being in the national spotlight — and with tempers rising — Sokol believed the discussion should be an orderly process, even though it might get heated at times. “It wasn’t like an arbitrary decision that just the president or the rabbi made. We set up an independent committee, one half would come up with the reasons why we should disaffiliate and the other half framed the reasons why we should stay. Then we had a full membership meeting,” he said. The difficulty of creating consensus at a time of change is not a recent phenomenon in Atlanta. It can be traced back to the founding of the first synagogue here, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation — known today as The Temple — in 1867. Those first Jewish families had trou-

Finding a successor to Rabbi Richard Lehrman, right, the founding rabbi of Temple Sinai, was an emotionally trying task.

ble deciding in which direction to go as factional disputes roiled the early Reform movement. A century later, in the late 1960s, the city’s only Sephardic congregation, Or VeShalom, was also locked in a contentious struggle — over the location of a new synagogue building, the first to be built since the congregation was founded in 1914. One faction was strongly in favor of a site on Northside Drive in northwest Atlanta, another favored a location on North Druid Hills Road in northeast Atlanta, closer to Buford Highway, which was nicknamed Jewford Highway after all the singles and young families filling up the new apartment buildings there. The location was, they argued, closer to the Morningside and VirginiaHighland neighborhoods, and nearer to the Grady High School area across from Piedmont Park where many of the older members lived. Grace Benator had been the president of the sisterhood in the '60s, when her husband Asher — who died in 2013 — was vice president of Or VeShalom, soon to become president. The congregation went back and forth, according to Benator. “One prominent doctor said most of our people live around the Morningside neighborhood and in Virginia-Highlands, where the old synagogue was, and why would we want to go so far away. Another important family lived in northwest Atlanta, and they were big givers, but those living closer to North Druid Hills were a larger group and convinced everyone at another meeting that we should be on this nice piece of property we had found there

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Emory professor Deborah Lipstadt — now a diplomat in the Biden administration — resigned from Young Israel of Toco Hills in protest.

Asher Benator in 1970, when he became president of Congregation Or VeShalom.

near Buford Highway.” Long before the age of sophisticated fundraising consultants creating a hightech building fund campaign, Asher and a committee of volunteers appealed directly to members of the congregation. “They would go from house to house,” Grace Benator said. “They had a list and what they thought each family could give, and they would go around to collect money for the synagogue. They told people we would like for you to give this amount and here’s the pledge. And some said yes. Some said, ‘no, I can’t afford it,’ but they got enough to build it. Before it opened in 1971, to save money, everyone came in with mops and brooms and buckets and did a complete clean-up in time for the High Holy Days.” One of the architects of the new building was Warren Epstein, who, in 1968, with his wife, Jan, had helped to organize a new Reform congregation some distance north of the location that Or VeShalom had turned down in northwest Atlanta. The new synagogue, Temple Sinai,

chose as its first rabbi Richard Lehrman, who had been the assistant rabbi at The Temple. But, as Jan Epstein was taking over as president in 1977, Rabbi Lehrman was seriously ill in the hospital. Under the rules of the national Reform movement, the congregation couldn’t even begin to talk about a successor. Two years later, after the High Holy Days, Rabbi Lehrman died. Epstein was among those grieving for the young, beloved rabbi who was gone too soon. “He was in a wheelchair just before he passed away, and it was a very difficult time for the congregation, because they could not handle his being in a wheelchair. After he died, the congregation went through a very tough emotional time. I reached out to a lot of rabbis in this community. And anybody and everybody I asked — or we asked — for assistance during this critical time said yes. But it was rough.” Six months later, the Temple Sinai board led by Epstein engaged Rabbi Philip Kranz, who came from a temple in Chicago. He was succeeded in 1996 by Rabbi Ron Segal, who was the associate rabbi. After her tenure as president, Epstein served for decades on the national board of the Union for Reform Judaism and traveled around the country leading trainings for synagogue leaders. Grace Benator is still active in Or VeShalom, the synagogue she grew up in, and has been a member of, since 1956. Every Tuesday, she volunteers with other women at the synagogue to make burekas, the Sephardic pastry often sold during Chanukah to raise money for the synagogue. But times are changing. Last year, for the first time in its 107-year history, the congregation welcomed a rabbi who had not grown up in a Sephardic family. Young Israel of Toco Hills voted to leave the Young Israel movement and is today affiliated with the Orthodox Union. Deborah Lipstadt resumed her membership and has been appointed special envoy by the Biden administration, tasked with monitoring and combatting antiSemitism. Marc Sokol is still on the board of the synagogue, since renamed Congregation Ohr HaTorah, whose membership is growing, despite the pandemic. He’s grateful, he says, for the opportunity to have helped his synagogue navigate a turbulent and trying time. “I think personally, it was a great experience. I learned a lot about myself. Overall, for the synagogue, it was good. I think, to sit back and do nothing at the time, would have created a schism or a conflict within the shul. We had to do what we needed to do to avoid it.” ì

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Roswell Man Reclaims Family Property in Kraków By Jan Jaben-Eilon

porting heavy machinery using horse-drawn Paul Beckman admits that his situawagons. During the tion was unique, but he is still thankful war, the family was that he was able to reclaim his family’s scattered or killed. home in Kraków, Poland, when he did, a Beckman’s grandparfew years ago. ents were murdered Today, the Roswell resident would in nearby Auschwitzhave probably come up empty-handed. Birkenau, while his In August, the current right-wing father survived after government of Poland adopted a controbeing added to Oskar versial law that restricts potential restituSchindler’s infamous tion claims for property stolen from Jews list. by Nazis during World War II — propAfter the war, erty thereafter nationalized by the postSam married another The family home in Kraków for which Paul Beckman (left) and Artur war communist regime. Both the United Holocaust survivor. Beckman received compensation. Bobrowski in Poland. States and Israel have condemned the Paul, their only child, new law. was born in 1948, the — an immoral, antisemitic law.” The son After Polish President Andrzej Duda of a Holocaust survivor, Lapid further started replacing all its reform judges same year that the Iron Curtain descendenacted the legislation, U.S. Secretary of called Poland “an anti-democratic, nonand government functionaries that ed on Poland. An attempt to flee the counState Antony Blinken said, “… this legisla- liberal country that does not honor the were democratically elected and retry was unsuccessful, forcing the family tion will harm all Polish citizens whose greatest tragedy in human history.” placing them with military people who back to Kraków and their home at 9 św. property was unjustly taken, including didn’t have the same point of view.” Beckman said the new legislation that of Polish Jews who were victims of reflects the continuing rightward trend It was in January 2011 that Beckthe Holocaust.” man and his wife Anne flew to Poland. of the Polish government. “A year after Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid I testified [in Poland], Artur called me Beckman had been subpoenaed to apissued a strong and rare rebuke. “Poland and said, ‘I have bad news. There’s a new pear before the Kraków probate court today approved — not for the first time right-wing government.’ The country judge who was hearing the case brought by Beckman and several Israeli cousStreet sign for św. Wawrzyńca in Kraków. ins. Beckman’s late father, Sam, who died in 2002, had initiated the case to reclaim the family’s apartment at 9 św. Wawrzyńca Ulica. Eventually, however, Wawrzyńca Ulica, but it floundered for they did escape Communist Poland and years due to complications before being lived in Israel for a few years before movpicked up by Kraków resident Artur Boing to the United States. browski, a legal historian who specialBeckman has affectionate memoDance • Pottery • Painting & Drawing • Jewelry Making ized in “old law.” ries of his childhood home in Kraków. Tai Chi • Textiles • Poetry • Photography • and more! In 2004, the city of Kraków had creBecause the building was still in his ated a list of “abandoned property,” ingrandparents’ names in the land register REGISTRATION OPENS NOVEMBER 15TH ON cluding the Beckman home. Bobrowski — instead of being nationalized, it was CALLANWOLDE.ORG told this reporter in 2013 that he had administered by the city of Kraków — it tracked down several Jewish owners of was easier for Beckman to claim ownerthese properties, including Beckman. ship. His plan had been to try to reclaim For these properties, he said, one “must the family’s other Kraków properties. use the law of 1942-43, which is no lon“In the next phase I was going to ger in effect. And if I want to probate open probate on personal property comsomeone who died in the 1930s, I must pensation and then deal with the other use the law of then.” properties,” said Beckman. “My arguBeckman said he hasn’t been in ment was going to be the loss of income touch with Bobrowski in three years, [from the properties] over the years. But but he still gives the Polish “legal historithen the Poles elected a government that an” credit for helping to reclaim and sell would make them feel better and make the family home for about $300,000, them wealthier,” he said, referring to split between himself and six other famthe fact that Poles took over many of the ily members. “Artur found my grandfaproperties that had been owned by their ther’s deeds,” said Beckman, stressing Jewish neighbors before they were dethat his case was “unusual.” ported or killed during the Holocaust. In fact, Beckman’s grandfather, According to Beckman, the monElias Hirsch Beckmann — the fametary gain from his family’s property ily later dropped the final “n” — owned wasn’t the only driving force behind his Photo by Julian Mejia the home in Kraków along with other claim. He said he had “an emotional deproperties, including the site of the famtermination to make it as right as is posCALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS CENTER ily business, which specialized in transsible.” ì 980 BRIARCLIFF ROAD, ATLANTA, GA 30306 • SCOLE@CALLANWOLDE.ORG

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Physician Uncovers True Story of Dad’s Heroism By Marcia Caller Jaffe The CBS program “60 Minutes” recently re-ran a segment on the so-called Ritchie Boys, a U.S. military unit made up of mainly German-speaking immigrants — many of whom were Jews — who heroically served as “secret spies” in World War II, credited for uncovering more than half the intelligence on the Western Front. Imagine local orthopedist Dr. Frank Joseph’s surprise and awe when he recently discovered that his late father Ralph had been a member of this unit. “My father, Rudolph ‘Ralph’ Joseph, and the other Jewish young men that were members of this elite unit played a key role in helping the Allied Forces win the war,” Joseph said. “They trained at a top-secret military intelligence center at Fort Ritchie in Maryland — thus their nickname, the Ritchie Boys.” A childhood friend of Joseph’s from California saw the “60 Minutes” segment and emailed Joseph’s tech savvy son, who found Ralph’s name on the official list, confirming the suspicion that he was indeed part of the program. “I was astonished,” Joseph said. “I had no idea. I really think of my father in a very different light since I found out about his role in WWII.” In June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting immigrants, the children of immigrants, refugees, and others with a knowledge of enemy lands and cultures for a special military intelligence group. Trained in the mountains of northern Maryland, they were then sent to Europe and the Pacific. Ultimately, some 15,000 men and women received this specialized training and went on to make vital contributions to victory in World War II. The army recruited not just those fluent in German, French, Italian, and Polish (approximately a fifth were Jewish refugees from Europe), but also Arabic, Japanese, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, and other languages, including 200 Native Americans and 200 WACs. Training consisted of photo interpretation, terrain analysis, POW interrogation, counterintelligence, espionage, signal intelligence (including pigeons), mapmaking, intelligence gathering, and close combat. The intelligence later gathered by the Ritchie Boys proved vital during the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge. They also helped craft the print and radio propaganda that, by many accounts, wore down German morale. If caught, they could have been executed as spies. After the war, they helped with translation and interrogations at the Nuremberg trials. “Far too often, Jews are portrayed as

Ralph Joseph in the U.S. Army, approximately 28 years old. He was fluent in German, English, Spanish and Italian.

Ralph’s German passport was stamped with an identifying red letter “J” for “Jude.” Jews were required to identify themselves in ways that would permanently separate them from the rest of the German population.

Dr. Frank Joseph is a hand/elbow orthopedic specialist at Resurgens. He was astonished to discover that his father was one of the “Ritchie Boys.”

victims in World War II,” Joseph explained. “But Ralph was born in 1915 and raised in Wurzburg, Germany, in an assimilated German Jewish family. He considered himself ‘German’ first, and his Jewish identity was in many ways an afterthought. As a young man, Ralph heard Hitler deliver a public address. Seeing the writing on the wall, he fled to Italy. Despite having family in the United States, Ralph was repeatedly denied entry here. He ended up living in Cuba for two years, while waiting for permission to enter the United States. He landed in Key West with $20. He joined the Army prior to the start of World War II.” The elder Joseph had a gift for languages, speaking German, English, Spanish and Italian fluently. After the war, he revealed that he had served as a translator in the Army, which was technically true but only scratched the surface. For decades, some Ritchie Boys didn’t want to discuss their roles in the war, even though they had made significant contributions to the battle against Germany. Joseph confirmed that after D-Day, his father went to Germany and fought on the frontlines, including the Battle of The Bulge. When the war ended, Ralph left the Army and tried to put his German identity behind him. Joseph’s mother (also a German immigrant) and father wanted their only son to be American. They didn’t speak German at home, ate American food, and in their ongoing attempt to assimilate, became non-practicing Jews, living modestly in a Queens neighborhood heavily populated by immigrants and Jews. “It would be easy to say that [Ralph] was an accountant — he was not,” Joseph concluded. “He was just a hard-working bookkeeper. My family was very lower-

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on my mother’s accent. I had no idea. (I thought Lawrence Welk had no accent.) My father died in 1999 at the age of 84. He was a secretive and often difficult man. I am extremely proud of his service.” ì

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SENIOR LIVING The Upside of Downsizing for Seniors By Flora Rosefsky For those contemplating a change of one’s home address, Bill Goldstein, long time real estate agent with Harry Norman Realtors, advises: “Move when you want to, rather than when you have to.” As a senior in his 70s, Goldstein empathizes with those who anguish over the thought of selling their large home to downsize or giving up the house they’ve shared with their families. In an interview with Jewish Family & Career Services, Jenny Gay, supportive services manager at the Aviv Older Adult Services Team, told the AJT that “moving is a loss and transition that can resemble a grieving process. Often homes we’ve occupied for significant amounts of time can even feel like they become part of our identity. Transitioning to a smaller, more accessible and age-appropriate living space later in life can be traumatic.” Yet, the move can also be full of positive new beginnings, lower expenses, and a more manageable household that, in some circumstances, can enhance independence

Jenny Gay is the support services manager at Aviv Older Adult Services of JFCS.

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Bill Goldstein is a real estate broker with Harry Norman Realtors.

and overall quality of life. Gay advises seniors to think about the ways in which “decluttering will lighten the burden on your loved ones and on yourself later on. Often a smaller space won’t require as much upkeep and cleaning, giving you more time to do other things that bring you joy.” Goldstein told a story about a couple who lived in a large home for 30 years, where they raised their family, and who wanted fresh surroundings. Goldstein said, “Their wishes were pretty typical — all

over the ballpark. They wanted a cluster home; they wanted a townhouse with elevator; they required a master on main; they wanted easy access to walk their precious dog; they wanted a modern, fully equipped kitchen; they wanted brightness and openness with lots of sun light; and of course, they wanted to stay in Sandy Springs.” However, the search process, Goldstein says, is really an elimination process: you need to see, feel, think, and digest your alternatives, as well as temper your preconceived ideas with your new notions of reality. He said, “People have many reasons for not wanting to move: change, memories, finances, indecision, risk, insecurity, unknowingness, and back to change!” So, what began as a search for a cluster or townhome in Sandy Springs, ultimately ended with a high-rise unit in Buckhead. For other seniors, who may be living alone, downsizing may come with the desire to live closer to members of their family. After her husband died, Arlene Appelrouth decided to sell her 4,600 squarefoot house in the Toco Hills New Brittany neighborhood and temporarily move into her second vacation home at Lake Lanier until she found what she needed. She had already rejected smaller houses in her former neighborhood — built in the 1950s — to downsize to, since that would have required major renovations. But life at her lake house was lonely, especially during the pandemic. So, with her son’s and his family’s encouragement, Appelrouth moved back to the Toco Hills area, renting an apartment for the time being. She looked at several luxurious 55+ assisted living and independent living options in Atlanta and Buckhead, but for what she needed the costs seemed too high. Although several people she knew from the Toco Hills neighborhood were very happy in their new living quarters at Holbrook, she continued her ongoing search. For Appelrouth, living in close prox-

imity to her son Jed and his family in the Decatur area was paramount. A full-page ad for ATTIVA in the AJT caught her eye. This brand-new apartment complex for the 55+ crowd, located in Chamblee, included an outdoor saltwater pool, pickleball court, and grills. What sealed Appelrouth’s decision to move there was meeting three women in the lobby the day she took the tour. She said she felt this would be a “welcoming community of people like myself in a location that was 6/10th of a mile from Jed’s home.” Her new 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom was within her budget, with parking and storage as reasonably priced extra fees. Whole Foods, with prepared meals, was within walking distance and the MARTA station was just a 10-minute walk, making access to the airport easy. “I have no regrets about selling my big house, as living there alone was very stressful,” she said. Because her “toddler granddaughter, Juliette, is the joy of my life … I could not be happier in making this decision to move at the end of October.” Over in Sandy Springs, Marilyn Holzer and her husband Bob decided in April to make the move from their retirement home in Santa Fe to metro Atlanta. They had raised their two daughters in Buckhead’s historic Garden Hills neighborhood for 37 years and belonged to The Temple. As a retired career social worker, Holzer knew how to prioritize what was most important to her. She said the main reasons for making the move back to Atlanta was “to be near family, consisting of my two brothers and their wives and one cousin who is like my sister.” She also wanted to live in a larger metropolitan area like Atlanta that had a good array of medical care, as health issues were becoming more of a factor. Holzer admits to not being hesitant in making the decision to move and find another house. But, after previewing homes on Zillow, instead of actually downsizing, she found a house in Sandy Springs listed

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Arlene Appelrouth has no regrets about selling her big house.

by real estate agent Bill Goldstein. Her two brothers went to the inspection, and without ever seeing the actual house, the Holzers made the purchase. Holzer says “my husband is an audiophile who has his man cave in the finished basement where he can listen to opera or classical music and watch TV.” Having their main bedroom on the first floor was a must. Now in her early 70s, she is looking forward to spending more time with her family again, as well as partaking of newfound activities with her return to metro Atlanta. For those who still find it difficult to make the decision to sell one home for an-

other, Gay says that many people, regardless of age, “face the challenge of indecision. The consequences of a decision can seem overwhelming and suffocating, so postponing the decision-making process can often be a more comfortable place to exist.” She pointed out that, when working with couples, a common challenge is that “one spouse may be ready to downsize and/ or transition to a more age-appropriate environment while the other may want to remain in the familiar home where they have raised a family and feel a sense of comfort and consistency.” This is where JFCS can

that Medicare and insurance do not pay for. Gay also notes that there are affordable senior housing alternatives all over the metro Atlanta area, but that waitlists, lengthy applications, and — for some communities — income eligibility guidelines. Marilyn Holzer with her cousin, Debbie Nelson, and sistersGay pointed in-law Alice and Janet Byrne on Rosh Hashanah. out that aging is highly individual, help older adults understand the advantaglike any life experience. Those who are in es of making a transition to increase safety their 60s or 70s may have extensive health and be closer to family and friends. issues that may require earlier decision “JFCS is not there to tell people what making to make the move. She said, “I’ve to do,” Gay said. “We are there to share the worked with 80 and 90-year-olds who wait realities of the aging process, to empower to make a transition because they have them to plan ahead and to make those aged without medical issues or decline and decisions when they are healthy and have have sustained a safe and secure quality of their highest level of ability. This enables life.” For those seniors, the decision to tranpeople to live their lives and age how they sition can occur later on. want to with the highest quality of life pos“It’s hard to pick an average age of sible.” Typically, she says, downsizing can when people decide to transition,” Gay said, save money, which can help pay for hefty “but as people continue to live longer, the out-of-pocket care costs in the future that age will probably continue to increase.” ì many older adults don’t realize exist, or

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HomeShare ATL Connects Seniors with Housemates By Chana Shapiro Jewish Family & Career Services (JF&CS) of Atlanta recently launched HomeShare ATL, a service that matches older adults with home-sharers in Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties. The program, which is the only one of its kind in Georgia, serves all people regardless of their race, religion, gender or nationality, offering housing options to older adults who may need more home support but do not require assisted living or skilled nursing services. “The need for senior house-sharing is on the rise,” says Jean Cohen, the new program’s manager and matchmaker. “Atlanta is home to one of the fastest growing senior communities in the country, and HomeShare ATL is an innovative solution for many older adults who want to continue to live independently in their own homes.” HomeShare ATL’s primary goal is to go beyond the basics of connecting homeowners and home-sharers with the right location, amenities and price. “Our goal isn’t just to put a roof over people’s

more than 15 years of experience working with the aging community, including the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) located in the Zaban Tower and a large independent senior property in Brookhaven. She explains that flexibility, patience, kindness and adaptability are the key components of a successful match. According to Cohen, there are many reasons and benefits for someone to become a home-provider. These include safety and security, appeasing and relieving worried relatives, and most significantly, companionship. Cohen notes that in many cases both parties develop deep, enduring relationships, often becoming as close as family. HomeShare ATL is one of nearly 50 similar programs in the U.S. and is a member of the National Shared Housheads,” says Cohen. “Our goal is to build relationships, enable older adults to stay at home, and to create affordable housing opportunities for both parties.” Potential matches go through a comprehensive multi-stage process to ensure the best

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While the art of romantic matchmaking has largely disappeared from the lives of the younger generation, matchmaking of a different sort is very much a part of a program that eases the pain of loneliness in the lives of seniors here. For the last 15 years, One Good Deed has matched singles and couples over 65 who are still living in their own homes with a volunteer who provides a friendly voice and presence and, sometimes, even a helping hand. The program, which since 2016 has The manager of One Good Deed, Vivienne been run by the Jewish Family and Career Kurland (right), and Sharon Spiegelman, Services (JF&CS), is managed by Vivienne who founded the program 15 years ago. Kurland, who believes that the old idea of matchmaking is a tion between herself good description of and her matches, what she does. Selma and Abe, even “We consider touched on the more ourselves matchtraditional sort of makers,” she said. matchmaking. “We go out and “The four of us meet all our recipistood outside talking ents in their homes for an hour. Selma to make sure that and Abe were so their home is safe Mira Cohen, left, volunteers friendly and welcomand to see what else with the program and feels ing to my boyfriend, privileged to be a part of it. we might be able to and Selma even asked offer through JF&CS him why he hadn’t services, and also really to get to know proposed yet. Honestly, we all need a friend them. And then we match them, one on like Selma.” one with volunteers out in the community. Writing about her experience for We try to make it easy for the volunteers.” JF&CS, Cohen, who began her relationAccording to Kurland, the program is ship with the couple as a way of making a aimed at providing older people with more meaningful contribution to others, could social contact to help them avoid the feelherself be getting as much as she gives. ing of isolation, so that they can remain in their own home longer. “It’s a privilege to be part of their life in “That is actually one of the things that this small way, but they have no idea how our founding director, Sharon Spiegelman, much they have impacted my life.” wrote into our mission statement. We want She’s come to look forward to their to keep people living independently in the conversations each week, and the couple place that they want to remain.” has even encouraged her to begin calling There have now been about 110 indiher own father more often, which has led vidual matches made through One Good her to develop a better relationship with Deed — or one volunteer dedicated to one him. recipient, as Kurland describes her seniors. That’s not an uncommon experience, But the demand for volunteers to match with seniors in need of a connection re- according to Kurland, who believes that mains. Particularly in recent weeks, when One Good Deed leads to many more good contacts are beginning to be made again, deeds. “Recipients call us and say, I can’t benot by telephone — as they have during lieve it, you guys are angels, the volunteers most of the pandemic — but in person. Just before Rosh Hashanah, one vol- are angels. They’ve changed my life. Or unteer, Mira Cohen, dropped in to visit her when the volunteer says I had the most recipients, a couple who had been married wonderful day and the most wonderful for 69 years, and brought her boyfriend experience. I tell you there’s magic in the along. At one point, the friendly conversa- matchmaking we do.” ì

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Is Long-Term Care Insurance Right for You? By Marcia Caller Jaffe As baby boomers continue to live longer and healthier lives, questions swirl about when, how much, or even, if long-term care insurance (LTC) is the right option. With decades of insurance experience, Bruce Weinstein reveals how gender, age, and wealth are among the top factors in examining policy choices. “Long-term care insurance is one of the most important yet overlooked coverages,” Weinstein said. “It’s a safety net and an estate conservation tool against depleting assets as you age. This is especially true for a couple where one needs LTC services and uses up the assets, while the healthier spouse is left with very little. The latest statistics by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show that 70% of Americans over the age of Bruce Weinstein has been in business for According to Weinstein, better policies are comprehensive and can be used for nursing 65 will need long-term care services. The sad fact is that no over 45 years, and is a principal in Your homes, assisted care facilities, or home care. health insurance, including Medicare and Medicare suppleWealth Partners, which specializes in ments, cover these types of expenses for the long term. The insurance, estate, and retirement planning. only way to make sure you have coverage is by having your policy than if you wait to purchase. son why new policies have gone up in price. own LTC policy.” ■ The two most popular policies are traditional and ■ Time period of coverages have decreased from lifeAccording to Weinstein, better policies are comprehenhybrid life/long-term care. time to where the majority of companies only offer a maxisive and can be used for nursing homes, assisted care facilimum of a five-year benefit to limit their liability. ties, or home care. The costs for these types of care services Traditional: These are comprehensive standalone poli■ Years ago, the rule of thumb was to buy coverage can be anywhere from $75,000 to $125,000 annually. Here is cies that normally start after 90 days. For the short term, in your 50s. Now many are buying in their 40s as coverage his advice: they are the least expensive. Rates for males are much less options are decreasing and prices are increasing. ■ People with older policies that have liberal and exexpensive than females, who have much greater chances of ■ Pricing as well as qualifying for coverage is based tended benefits have seen the rates go up. They have benefits living longer. If a couple purchases together, there is a price on your health and age. The younger and healthier you are, that can’t be purchased anymore. This is also a primary reawill get you a lower price base and probably a better benefit discount. Pick the daily or monthly benefit as well as the time period. Usually, five years is the maximum allowed. Even though costly, most add an inflation rider so the benefits can keep up with the increasing costs. The negatives are that it is a “use it or lose it” benefit. Rates aren’t guaranteed for the future, so premiums can increase. If you pay for several years and want to quit, a few companies will give a reduced paid-up benefit. A few of the companies that currently sell this product are Mutual of Omaha (predominant), New York Life, and Genworth. Hybrid life/long-term care: This is a permanent life insurance policy that covers both death and LTC benefits. If LTC is needed, a percentage can be used, usually 2% monthly. If the person dies before the policy is used up, the balance goes as a tax-free death benefit to the beneficiary. If LTC benefits are never needed, the entire death benefit is paid out. In addition, there is a cash value built up. While the rates start higher than the traditional LTC, they won’t go up and there will be a definite payout at the end. There are options to pay it up early; the rate base for females is very favorable. A few of these companies with this product is Equitable Life, Lincoln, and Nationwide. ■ There are also annuity based LTC products and others that can be paid up using the IRS 1035 Exchange, which is tax-free, he says. So, who doesn’t need LTC? Very, very high liquid net worth individuals, if they have enough assets to pay out of pocket, Weinstein says. He has wealthy clients who still want coverage because insurance premiums are far less than the benefit they could receive, and it provides a sense of security. The hybrid/LTC policy is popular because there is a definite leveraged payout. “I also have clients that have extremely high net worth,” he says, “but aren’t liquid (such as real estate or businesses). Above all, meet with someone knowledgeable to evaluate your situation and design solutions.” ì 36 | OCTOBER 31, 2021ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

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The Talented Mr. Sternberg By Marcia Caller Jaffe

friend Jana Kantor Lane have appeared as dancing At 75, Mike Sternberg can dance cir- extras on Fox’s medical cles around most of us. As an extra and drama “The Resident” and character actor on local movie sets, he Netflix’s “Sweet Magnolias.” has performed alongside Dolly Parton, He recently worked 13 hours Jason Bateman, Sam Rockwell, Jennifer as background actor on an Lawrence, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Stern- upcoming Showtime series, berg maintains that he is not starstruck. “The First Lady,” featuring “I was hired as a background dancer on Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Steven Spielberg’s ‘Amazing Stories,’” he Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer says, “and danced with one of the prin- as Betty Ford and Viola Dacipal actresses in the episode. Spielberg vis as Michelle Obama. came up to them between takes to comSternberg’s first role as pliment on the performance. Now that a background actor was in that was memorable!” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” where he appeared dancing the Viennese waltz. Since then, he’s been an extra in dozens of motion pictures, streaming service productions and television films. During the past four years, Sternberg has been a dance instructor and host at Lenbrook, a senior living community in Atlanta. “It’s been one of the most satisfying jobs I’ve ever had,” he said. “The residents enjoy brushing up on dance steps from days gone by and conClockwise from top left, “Doctor” Sternberg in an episode of Dolly Parton’s “Heartstrings.” versing with me about their Sternberg appears next to Wyatt Langmore in Netflix’s “Ozark.” lives. I also stay after the lesSternberg as a manager of a janitorial service on Tyler Perry’s “Sistas.” sons to dance to live music Sternberg as the medieval servant to a witches’ coven on “Dwight in Shining Armor.” with them.” Sternberg has even tangoed on the high Mike Sternberg and Jana Kantor Lane were featured extras on an episode seas as a dance host aboard began taking ballroom dance lessons. At “Sometimes we were invited to demonof Netflix’s “Sweet Magnolias.” the Crown Princess for a New Year’s Eve the time, he was an advertising director strate salsa to peers in the Spanish classCaribbean cruise. for the local New York Times-owned dai- rooms.” Sternberg, who acts as his own Dancing came easily to Sternberg ly newspaper. Before long, he was giving Besides dance, Sternberg is into kaagent, spends long days on set, comply- during middle and high school. In Henprivate dance lessons and choreograph- raoke and poker. He has participated in ing with constant COVID testing and dersonville, N.C., about 25 years ago, he ing routines for couples who wanted to the senior division of the World Series of costume changes and trials. He and girlshow off in front of the guests at their Poker in Las Vegas, and regional Texas upcoming weddings. Hold ’Em tournaments in California, Retiring early from the newspaper Mississippi and Florida. Though he’s nevindustry, Sternberg returned to Atlanta er secured the brass ring, Sternberg has The in 2002 and began substitute teaching won enough to be considered a threat to at Independence High School in Roswell. other competitors. He can also be found Advancing to paraprofessional — and latFamily Business at Harrah’s in Las Vegas, belting Rat Pack er, to special education teacher — Sterntunes or his favorite song from “Les Misince 1991 berg found his passion at Haynes Bridge sérables,” “Master of the House.” Middle School in Alpharetta. There he Claiming not to have a bucket list, became the eighth grade reading teacher. He also got his teaching certification and Sternberg seizes opportunities to try new things that come his way. Recently, on the taught language arts and social studies. “The students were energetic and set of the Netflix show “Ozark,” he met a anxious about advancing on to high casino consultant who recognized that school. However, most devoured their he understood the game of craps. Next, daily lessons. Others not so much,” he he found himself in a scene assisting othRE/MAX AROUND ATLANTA JON SHAPIRO recalled. Even in his reading classes he er extras. A few weeks later, Sternberg jonshapirorealtor@gmail.com 404-252-7500 introduced students to dancing when it was the featured craps dealer for a char404-735-3855 www.jonshapiro.com related to material they were covering. ity event in Marietta. ì

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Wexler’s Real Estate Research By Marcia Caller Jaffe Hardly a week goes by without octogenarian Alan Wexler being quoted as an expert resource in the columns of the Atlanta Business Chronicle or the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Wexler is the CEO, president and founder of Databank Inc., a commercial real estate research firm that reports on property values, sales, and rental and occupancy rates. Wexler, At 82, Alan Wexler continues to help “machers” robust at 82, started the firm make important Atlanta real estate decisions. in 1970. Clients have included the IRS, HUD, City of Atlanta, Fulton County, DeKalb County, Gwinnett ing that brokers, owners, appraisers, and County, U.S. Justice Department, CB Rich- lenders need. We do their homework for ard-Ellis, Cushman-Wakefield, Trammell them, revealing how to get in touch with Crow, Gables Residential, Post Properties, the movers and shakers behind the scenes. Often that requires getting down deep.” and Pulte Homes. Top-tier businesses like Sprouts, Assessing today’s market, Wexler said, Whole Foods, Kroger and QT have come “Atlanta right now is one of the ‘kings’ of to Databank for insight and instantaneous U.S. real estate. Money is literally flowing in answers. here. Our prices are low compared to what values are in L.A., Texas, or the Northeast. Outside investors have seen their money Jaffe: What about office space vitality comdoubled or tripled here in 2-5 years. Actu- ing out of COVID versus Zoom? ally, this is the hottest market I have ever Wexler: “It’s still alive.” seen, especially multi-family.” One of Wexler’s biggest assignments Jaffe: Why are you always in the newspawas advising the Atlanta Housing Authori- pers? ty what they should charge in various mar- Wexler: The reporters have a hotline to me. kets. He graduated from the University of Some are straight real estate reporters; othGeorgia with a degree in journalism, then ers have general economic questions on earned an MA in political science. While land use. Commenting on a mall as a tearat UGA, he was the editor of the Red and down for example, what values are at their Black newspaper (a “big deal”) and presi- core. dent of the fraternity Tau Epsilon Phi. His professional career began with reporting Jaffe: Brokers need me … for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Wexler: Brokers are prime users and want Gainesville Daily News, Columbus Ledger, to convince buyers that what they are sellCarrollton Times-Free Press and Carroll ing is worth it, what comparables have sold County Georgian. He was also a staff mem- at, so he/she has the best shot at getting the ber of Economic Opportunity Atlanta and asking price. an administrative assistant to former senaWexler is still an advocate for social tor Johnny Johnson, who directed the naaction, chairing that Ahavath Achim Synation’s first Model Cities program. Following gogue committee. He most recently served those experiences, he took a position with as a chairman for Atlanta Hunger Walk the Carroll County Division of Family & and as a board of trustees member of AA. Children Services. He was also instrumental in improving When asked to describe more preciseprograms like Habitat for Humanity and ly what he does, Wexler muses, “Basically the Hunger Walk, one of his first major efI put a lot of thought into the process and forts (started by Helen Cavalier, of blessed keeping the database updated for professionals who value my opinion to do studies memory). Wexler is most proud of his son, that work. I’ve been doing this for 52 years. Adam, who was just named to the Atlanta You don’t have to go to MIT or Georgia Tech Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40” list for to manage an excellent computer system. his fantasy sports marketing company, In addition to keeping the info on sales, and daughter, Kara, a marketing whiz for they do weekly reports and custom reL’Oreal Cosmetics in New York City. ì search. All this helps with selling and tim-

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Photography by Howard Mendel//

Robin Bernat and Jon Ciliberto enjoy time in their study with black lab Winnie. Robin’s large mixed media drawing is based on the Book of Job (left).

Couple Goes Off Script in Collecting and Creating Artist Robin Bernat and attorney/artist Jon Ciliberto met at a friend’s “Grand Unified Holiday Party” and have been Marcia collaborating Caller Jaffe ever since. Bernat, whose gallery, Poem 88, was recently featured in the Oct. 3 Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Sunday Living section, said, “Most of the [gallery’s] artists work in Atlanta — there’s a wealth of talent residing right here! You don’t need to go to New York or Switzerland to find breathtaking, risktaking, provocative and beautiful art. Creative expression makes life worth living.”

The couple’s Peachtree Road condominium is a multilayered treasure trove that is never static and is awash in natural light and filled with much of Bernat’s own artwork. It’s polished and never shies away from making a statement. Jaffe: What was it like growing up in Monroe, La.? Bernat: My family owned the Palace Department Store, as did so many Jewish merchants in the South. I was one of five Jewish kids in my grade. Despite being from such a small town in the South, I never had an experience of antiSemitism. And maybe that speaks more to Louisiana. I come from a family of artists, so that has always been an outlet. My paternal aunts were both painters. The Masur Museum of Art is in the former home of my great-grandparents. Art was important. Our vacations were spent at art museums.

Jaffe: How would you describe your home? Bernat: We live in this fantastic, midcentury modern building right on Peachtree. Atlanta has not been kind to its modern architecture — demolishing most of it. Luckily, many homeowners are keen to preserve the integrity of our building. Our home is a true amalgamation of modern and eclectic. I have furniture from James Mont mixed with English antiques. Most of the art is my own or from artists I work with. There are pieces by my Aunt Fran, Jon’s drawings, and works by his parents! Jaffe: Describe your own work. Bernat: My primary medium is experimental film. My work captures very momentary experiences, the fleeting and provisional. I approach my work like a

documentary filmmaker — I have an idea of the thing/feeling/experience and I set up the conditions for it to occur and have my camera ready. Some works, like “Real Lush: Short Stories” are recreating childhood memories of having grape juice and saltines in nursery school, or capturing something that made a profound impression on me like the French Barbizon painters and Camille Corot. Some are moments with one of my pets! They’re very personal, but also universal. Some of my work is about loss. Life is fleeting — catching that spark before it dissipates into space. In art school, I trained in printmaking, photography, and artist’s books. I write poetry, too. My works at Atlanta’s High Museum are two series of etchings with hand-set text; at the Whitney Museum, a three-channel video titled “Effortless” and at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, another ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES OCTOBER 31, 2021| 41

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Jon’s drawing, “L.P. Grant Mansion, Interior.”

3-channel video installation, “American Pastoral.” Jaffe: Expand on your vision at Poem 88.

The dining room features an antique oak china cupboard, a colorful painting from Robin’s Aunt Fran (right), and Robin’s “Seaside.”

Left, Jon stands in the hallway with some of his drawings. Right, Bertie, the couple’s cat, lounges in the master bedroom. Robin created these two drawings (left) based on a modern translation of the Book of Job. 42 | OCTOBER 31, 2021ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Bernat: Women artists have always been underrepresented, just as they have been in other professional fields. When I first opened, artists with whom I had associated were looking for new representation; but they weren’t getting any traction. I asked if they would entrust me with the job. The emphasis on representing and exhibiting women artists came out of the #metoo movement. I made an effort to add more women and minority women to our roster. After all, I’m a woman who owns a small business. For our 2021 program, the exhibiting artists are split: 55 percent women and 45 percent men. The inspiration for many of the group shows I curate come straight from art history. For instance, “Nymphs and Shepherds Come Away: Women Artists Respond to Secular Themes from the Renaissance;” “Blow-Up!” inspired by the

Michelangelo Antonioni film; “Le Chic,” women artists making Pop-inspired works. “Correspondences,” inspired by the Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, presented a series of exhibitions, talks and performances that address our desire to restore a natural equilibrium to our environment, the body politic, our spirits and sense of fairness. Jaffe: How did you get into the film world? Bernat: First off, I wouldn’t say I’m “in the film world;” I make new media works primarily for galleries and museums. I started making video and experimental film as a natural outgrowth from artist books. My real love is film history, and I teach thematically-organized film history classes for the Atlanta Film Society and most recently for the OLLI program at Emory University. Jaffe: Your work was chosen for the Whitney Biennial Celebration, which

CHAI STYLE you attended. Did you get a “big head”? Bernat: I don’t think so! I was in such distinguished company — it would be hard to feel superior! The first night at the museum was a posh event for curators. The second night was for the artsy public. Jaffe: Jon, you’re an artist. How do you describe Robin’s talent? Ciliberto: Robin has a poetic combination of ability and sensibility. She studied philosophy and is rationally smart. Her work has an expressive quality that’s thoughtful. Jaffe: Define fun. Bernat: I’ve danced Argentine tango since I was 30. I hope to visit Buenos Aires one day! Travel, food, art, and architecture are very important. We love visiting gardens, hiking, being in the landscape. The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of our favorite places, and London! I love cooking and travel shows and entertaining. Jon kept a food blog of meals I prepared during COVID “Pandemic Kitchen Experiments” — for real! Follow Robin @Poem_88 www. poem88.net @robinbernatlifestyle www. robinbernat.com. ì

The living room features a triptych of Robin’s own photography taken in Rome in 2001, a midcentury modern lamp, and cocktail table by James Mont.

Above, “Walkabout” was shot from above by Art Vandenberg. Left, Robin found this woodcut by Leonard Baskin at a flea market on Cheshire Bridge Rd. Right, Robin poses in front of her painting and watercolor.

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CALENDAR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1

B&P Business Casual Breakfast Series — 7 to 9 a.m. A panel of Atlanta-based professionals from the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3akAyzX. Hot Topics — 8 to 9 p.m. Explore the most complex and controversial topics through the brilliant lens of Jewish law and ethics. This new course from Intown Jewish Academy takes on bleeding edge issues related to technology, medicine, gender, and the environment. Join Talmudic scholar and Jewish legal expert Rabbi Mendel Adelman to discover how ancient Jewish wisdom can powerfully inform our modern world. Register at https://bit. ly/3ihwF3b.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Unknown History of Chanukah with Miriam Rosenbaum — 7 to 8 p.m. So, what is the real story behind Chanukah? Is it a military victory holiday or a miracle holiday? How did the holiday change

NOVEMBER 1- NOVEMBER 15 from the time of its beginnings and even more interestingly, why did it change? In this class we will explore the history of the Maccabean Revolt against the Greek Syrian regime; how the Hasmoneans/Maccabees came to power; what the results of that power grab were; and how and why the rabbis of later generations changed the emphasis of the holiday. Congregation Etz Chaim will explore the text of the Book of the Maccabees and have a simulated conference between different groups that had a hand in the making of the Holiday of Light. Register for free at https://bit.ly/3G1hlBI.

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to beat it with purpose, positivity and Jewish pride. A brand new JLI Course taught by Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz from the Chabad of North Fulton. Register at https://bit.ly/39Lh8nw.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Tot Shabbat — 5 to 6:30 p.m. Join Congregation Etz Chaim for a Tot Shabbat on Friday Night. There will be a potluck dinner followed by crafts, songs, dances, and fun. RSVP at https://bit.ly/396ku42.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Michael Bar-Zohar, Author of ‘The Mossad Amazons’ — 7:30 p.m. From one of Israel’s foremost experts on espionage comes the exciting stories of the greatest Mossad Lohamot, the female warriors of the Israeli Secret Service. The stunning feats of these strong, bold women prove that they are equal to men, and often even better. Beside the nation’s enemies, they had to fight a painful solitude, the awkward attitudes of their male colleagues, and often give up their dream of marriage and children. Find out more information at the MJCCA Book Fest at https:// bit.ly/3ah1Irn.

Ben Gurion Society Presents: State of the Community — 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Learn how the Federation strategically supported our community and our overseas partners through the last 18 months. This Zoom call, led by Rich Walter, Chief of Programs & Grant Making, will help you understand how the Federation prioritized funding decisions in a time of tremendous need. This virtual event is free of charge and sponsored by The Ben Gurion Society. Registration is required at https://bit. ly/2Z5kekk. Presented by NextGen.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Outsmarting Antisemitism — 7:30 to 9 p.m. Outsmarting Antisemitism: How

Story Time with Rabbi Jordan — 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. Join Rabbi Jordan from Congregation Dor Tamid for Story Time on Facebook. Visit https://bit.ly/3xfpywO to get the link.

Matthew McConaughey, ‘Greenlights’ — 8 to 9 p.m. Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award-winning actor’s lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. Find out more information at the MJCCA Book Fest at https:// bit.ly/3oVsL3W.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Find more events and submit items for our online and print calendars at:

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

Cub Club: Li’l Shabbat from the Garden (virtual) — 9:30 to 9:50 a.m. Celebrating Shabbat has never been so much fun! Join Rabbi Micah and The Davis Academy for a special sing-along as we get ready to welcome Shabbat. Young children and their families will be introduced to interactive songs and dances to bring in the ruach (spirit) of

Jewish Women’s Getaway — Jewish Women’s Getaway (JWG) at Ramah Darom is an unforgettable experience and an opportunity to explore your unique Jewish journeys through art, music, comedy and culinary creations. Build community and have fun in the North Georgia mountains From Nov. 7 through the 10th. Register at https:// bit.ly/3mSG42K.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES Torah Reading Toldot Friday, November 5, 2021, light candles at 6:23 p.m. Saturday, November 6, 2021, Shabbat ends at 7:19 p.m. Never is Now! — Join the Anti-Defamation League virtually for the world’s largest annual summit on anti-Semitism and hate. We will listen, learn and share alongside thousands of experts, students, community leaders and more — all united to rally our communities in the pursuit of a better tomorrow. Register for this three-day event at https://bit.ly/2YusE4P.

Torah Reading Veyeitzei Friday, November 12, 2021, light candles at 5:18 p.m. Saturday, November 13, 2021, Shabbat ends at 6:14 p.m.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Fall 2021 Gardening Lecture Series — Cool Season Flowers Beyond Pansies — 2 to 3:15 p.m. Winter does not have to be dreary and flowerless. North Fulton Master Gardener Donna Whitesel will teach you all about flowers and plants you can grow through the winter for winter landscaping beauty. RSVP at https://bit.ly/3Art7Bz.

of the Jewish people, Israel, and human rights around the world, and to serve as positive change agents for their peers and community. Graduates of LFT enter college with the knowledge and confidence to engage in dialogue regarding anti-Semitism and Israel. LFT participants will learn about past and current Israeli affairs, challenges and opportunities facing global Jewry, and how to utilize strategic networks in advocacy. Learn more at https://bit. ly/3CTgb95.

Lucy Adlington, Author of ‘The Dressmakers of Auschwitz’ — 3 p.m. “The Dressmakers of Auschwitz” follows the fates of these brave women whose bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution, but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by registering at https://bit. ly/3iLLpr4.

Mark Oppenheimer, Author of ‘Squirrel Hill’ — 7:30 p.m. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill in what is the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. Mark Oppenheimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and instead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, teenagers and seniors, activists and historians. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by purchasing tickets at https://bit. ly/3Ak2DSl.

AJC Leaders for Tomorrow (LFT) Session — 5 to 8 p.m. American Jewish Committee’s LFT enables young Jewish leaders to develop skills to advocate on behalf

Hadassah Ketura Cooking Syrian and Mexican with Margot Alfie — 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Margot Alfie is the granddaughter of Syrian immigrants to Mexico. Her parents are first-generation Syrian Jews born in Mexico. Sometimes the family had a Syrian meal and sometimes a Mexican meal. At other times, there was a fusion of the two, which was absolutely delicious. Visit https://bit.ly/3AAjgJI to register.

Nicole Krauss, Author of ‘To Be a Man: Stories’ — 8 p.m. Nicole Krauss plunges into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss’s stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by purchasing tickets at https://bit. ly/3mzIOBU.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 NCJW Meeting – Panel on Roe v Wade in Jeopardy — 7 to 8:30 p.m. Panelists: Staci Fox, Planned Parenthood; Andrea Young, ACLU of Georgia; Moderator: Dr. Mimi Zieman, NCJW Board of Directors. Learn more by visiting https:// bit.ly/3AoV8tq.

Dorie Greenspan, Author of ‘Baking with Dorie’ — 8 p.m. Every recipe is signature Dorie: easy — beginners can ace every technique in this book — and accessible, made with everyday ingredients. It’s a book of simple yet sophisticated baking. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by purchasing tickets at https://bit.ly/2YAFTRm.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Rachael Ray: ‘This Must Be the Place’ — 8 to 9 p.m. Rachael Ray presents 125+ recipes straight from her home kitchen in upstate New York, with personal stories on loss, gratitude, and the special memories that make a house a home. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by purchasing tickets at https://bit. ly/3lnqZ9y.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11

American Red Cross Blood Drive — 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The American Red Cross and blood banks throughout the country have seen blood supplies significantly dwindle. Your donation of a single pint of blood can save up to three lives. Donate blood at Congregation B’nai Torah. Register at https://bit. ly/2SYONoO.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Story Time with Rabbi Jordan — 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. Join Rabbi Jordan from Congregation Dor Tamid for Story Time on Facebook. Visit https://bit.ly/3xfpywO to get the link. Andrew Lawler, Author of ‘Under Jerusalem’ — 7:30 p.m. In “Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City,” acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler takes us into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City — a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval — and brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by purchasing tickets at https://bit.ly/3mDo8J4. The Demand for Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Jewish Tradition — 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The program will explore the life and jurisprudence of Justice Ginsburg through a Jewish lens, including how her religious upbringing and immigrant background shaped her constitutional worldview and philosophy of what America could and should be. Join Emory University Tam Institute for Jewish Studies virtually by visiting https://bit.ly/3mvg2Cd.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Tot Shabbat — 5:30 p.m. Come join Congregation Dor Tamid for Tot Shabbat. RSVP required to Stacey Jahanfar at https://bit.ly/3AaHRFt.

Shabbat Learners’ Service — 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Tap into the spirit of Shabbat at Intown Jewish Academy’s monthly interactive service. You’ll enjoy engaging discussion, inspirational stories, moving prayer and intelligent commentary, all in a warm and friendly setting. Learn more at https://bit. ly/394LpNO.

became the leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. Of the original 4,978 Rosenwald schools built between 1917 and 1937 across fifteen Southern and border states, only about 500 survive. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by purchasing tickets at https://bit. ly/3AjDl77.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Building Blocks — 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Come Grow with Us is our new monthly Sunday School program at Congregation Or VeShalom for children ages 3 – 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Visit https:// bit.ly/3k2JcIV to register. Steak Night — 6 to 8 p.m. Join Congregation Ariel for Steak Night. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3DpdbBO.

Alice Hoffman, Author of ‘The Book of Magic: A Novel’ – 8 p.m. Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. Join the MJCCA Book Festival by purchasing tickets at https://bit.ly/2YA6myt.

Beth Shalom Movie Night — 7 to 9 p.m. Join Congregation Beth Shalom for “Shoelaces,” which tells the story of a complicated family relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son. “Shoelaces” questions the importance and value of human connection and if life is even possible without it. Visit https://bit.ly/3oYEuPx for more information.

Atlanta Community Food Bank Text for Help SMS Function – The ACFB’s mission to provide nutritious food to the people who need it has reached a major milestone toward access to food for all. The Text for Help is ‘findfood’ (no space). Responses will include a list of three different nearby pantries and their contact information. For more information, www.acfb.org. Israeli American Council – IAC@ Home brings you the most innovative content online while helping build a national community with Israel at heart. With activities for kids, teens, young professionals and adults, you can stay connected to Hebrew, Israeli and Jewish heritage, online activism and to one another. IAC@Home lets you enjoy a coastto-coast community right from your own home. For more information, www.israeliamerican.org/home. JF&CS – Emergency Financial Assistance – JF&CS is here to provide emergency aid for individuals and families. Please call 770-677-9389 to get assistance. For more information, www.bit.ly/2wo5qzj. JF&CS – Telehealth Counseling Services – Now offering telehealth options via phone or videoconference for current and new clients to help our community during this crisis. For more information about our therapy services or to make a telehealth appointment, email us at therapy@jfcsatl.org or call 770-6779474. JF&CS - Telehealth Older Adult Services – Aviv Older Adult staff are there to help provide resources, care plans and support for you and your family. Call AgeWell at 1-866-AGEWELL (1-866-243-9355) to find out how they can help. For more information, www.bit.ly/2wo5qzj.

Acoustic Shabbat Cafe – Alon’s Bakery (Dunwoody) — 6 p.m. Join Rabbi Glusman from MJCCA, Drew Cohen, and other local musicians for a soulful evening of music, prayer, and words of inspiration in celebration of Shabbat. Food and wine available for purchase at Alon’s Bakery and Market. Arrive early to order food and reserve your table. Learn more at https://bit. ly/3FvMGwo.

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Andrew Feiler, Author of ‘A Better Life for Their Children’ — 7:30 p.m. In 1912, Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington launched an ambitious program to partner with communities across the segregated South to build public schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the history of philanthropy, one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans, drove dramatic improvement in educational attainment and fostered the generation who

Community Services: Anti-Defamation League – The Coronavirus Surfaces Fear, Stereotypes and Scapegoating: A blog post from ADL to help provide accurate information, explore emotions and, most importantly, play a role in reducing stereotyping and scapegoating. To read more, www.bit.ly/3dp5a3t.

Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Resources – The unsettling, fast-moving and unpredictable world of life with COVID-19 is upon us. As we’re all discovering, a worldwide pandemic disrupts everyone on an unprecedented scale. For updates and more information, www.bit.ly/3ahrNVM. Please send Community Service Opportunities to diana@atljewishtimes.com. ì

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In conversation with Lori Dreffin, administrative director. How long has your organization been in Atlanta? Temple Kehillat Chaim has a variety of services, programs and events that cater to all ages and interests. Tot and children’s interactive services feature music and crafts, our Little Mensches holds a monthly Sunday program for the littlest ones and their parents/grandparents, and a PreK10th grade religious school. TKC has a full Youth Engagement Program with three youth groups. KLUB345 for 3-5th graders, Junior Youth Group (JYG) for our 6-8th grade students and RAFTY (Roswell Area of Federation Temple Youth). Our youth actively participate in helping to run many of the services and programs at TKC. Where do you see your organization in 10 years? TKC recently participated in the URJ Benchmark Program, which included input from our members, and is now implementing the key aspects that came from that year-long endeavor. A few of the action items that are being implemented now are a review of our mission statement and strengthening our offerings. As part of the financial stability, we are planning for the future with our endowment and a concerted effort to maximize income to come from outside of TKC membership. Temple Kehillat Chaim is looking forward to its next 40 years and continued growth in all aspects of synagogue life. Rabbi Holtz continues to guide us as a partner with the Board of Trustees and the volunteers running our committees to ensure our members are enriched spiritually and socially. How does your organization help the community? TKC actively supports the Zaban Homeless Shelter and is one of the synagogues that regularly provides and serves food to the approximately 60 shelter residents during the winter months. The Drake House provides a lifeline of supportive housing and enrichment programs for homeless mothers and their children in north metro Atlanta. Their vision is to be integral in our community, facilitating financial security and housing stability. Our Racial Justice Task Force formed in 2020 with the twin goals of being part of repairing the world in Roswell, and bringing information and engagement regarding racial justice to our Kehillah. We spent a year reading, watching Zoom presentations, and listening to invited guests. Through this engagement we have started to interact with the Food Pantry at Pleasant Hill Church, a historic Black church very close to TKC. Volunteers help to prepare the bags for distribution to needy people as part of the church’s long-running program.

In conversation with Helen Scherrer-Diamond, licensed life and health insurance agent, community outreach director for two funeral homes, and “Networking Ninja.” How long has your organization been in Atlanta? Inman Travel (Protection) Plan has been in Atlanta since 2014. I can now help with insurance coverage for any U.S. citizen living in the U.S. If you or your travel partner die while traveling (at least 75 miles away from your legal residence) Inman Global Shipping Travel Plan will bring the deceased back (from anywhere in the world) to a funeral home close to their home/current legal residence. How do you cater to the younger members of the community? As the “Networking Ninja” I connect them and their organizations with other organizations in Atlanta. Since young people love to travel, it would be excellent protection for them, for the rest of their life. Parents of Birthright member travelers should be calling me today! I try to educate our younger community members about “avoiding crisis mode” and “planning ahead.” We recognize that youth will travel and have their own seasonal residences over the years. They love to visit family and friends in other countries and other U.S. states. For a one-time $450 insurance protection fee, why wouldn’t they want to protect themself from the hassle of paperwork and other issues? Where do you see your organization in 10 years? I see us globally helping individuals understand the need for facing the inevitable. I see Inman Travel (Protection) Plan coverage as a popular resource to help educate travelers to avoid “crisis mode” by facing the fact that “The Unthinkable” could happen anywhere in the world.

Andretti Indoor Karting & Games (Buford, GA) In conversation with Rachel Gano, senior sales manager. How long has your organization been in Atlanta? Our first location was established in Roswell in 1999. In 2015, Andretti Indoor Karting & Games opened a brand-new facility in Marietta, and our newest location opened in Buford in the spring of 2021. Andretti also opened the doors to several facilities in Texas with our headquarters located in Orlando, Fla. Since 1999, Andretti Indoor Karting & Games has entertained more than 80 million guests!

Where do you see your organization in 10 years? I envision Andretti Indoor Karting & Games becoming a household name nationwide, perhaps even global in 10 years or less. We strive to be a big part of the communities that our locations are based in,

How does your organization help the community? Just recently, we partnered with the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s office for a back-toHow do you cater to the younger members of the community? school event for the community, donating over 500 lunches to students. We are big Not only do we offer attractions and entertainment for all ages, but we also have in- on giving back and supporting our communities with donations and volunteercredible packages for our students. We offer competitive field trip packages, a safe ing throughout the years. place for a Lock-In event, STEM Programs and even Girl/Boy Scout Patch programs!

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How Are Your Retirement Plans Working Out? Following my B’nai Torah presidency, my stepbrother, Michael Greenbaum, asked me to help out at the Tower Piedmont. It was great seeing old friends and customers. In the spring, I ordered Passover wines, dealing with salesmen and wholesalers, and realized I missed the business game. Now, in Act Three, I am a residential realtor with Keller Williams Atlanta Perimeter. I set my own hours, help people find their dream home, and earn a few extra shekels. I am still community-involved, do public speaking, and just joined the Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber of Commerce. I love retirement. Being involved in the Jewish community has been the most rewarding.

avoid the years-long waiting list was to work a late-night shift feeding the fish. I like fish, but I wasn’t ready to walk back to my car at 3:00 a.m. Instead of becoming a devoted volunteer, I became a devoted traveler. In retirement, I’ve been to Italy, Spain, Ireland, England, France, Greece, Croatia, Costa Rica, Alaska, Hawaii, and Tahiti, and enjoyed two Mediterranean cruises. As soon as the pandemic allows, I’ll be on the next plane to New Zealand.

Lydia Schloss looks forward to spending more time in Israel.

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Noah Gurock continues to produce news stories in his retirement.

Noah Gurock Esther Rothstein wanted to volunteer for NASA.

Alan Smirin is enjoying the “Third Act” of his life.

Alan Smirin I’m calling my retirement “Act Three!” Act One was in show business. I spent 18 years doing publicity, promotions and events. Working for major film studios, live shows and sporting events, I traveled throughout the country, enjoying a very exciting, glamorous life. Act Two began when my stepfather, Irwin Greenbaum, of blessed memory, made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. I purchased Tower Wine & Spirits in East Atlanta and owned it for 23 years. At that time, I became involved in the Jewish community. I was president of Lodge Carmel Hebrew Order of David, Lodge Magen David HOD, the Atlanta Scholars Kollel, Congregation B’nai Torah and North America Governing Lodge HOD. (My mom would be proud). I sold my business in August 2015 and retired. It was then that I became president of B’nai Torah. 48 | OCTOBER 31, 2021ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Esther Rothstein I was an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher. When I retired in 2012, I planned to move to Cocoa Beach, Fla., to volunteer for NASA at Cape Canaveral. I hoped that my lifetime of teaching and years of obsessively following the space program would get me a spot; I would have volunteered in any job just to be there. (There was a time when I stayed up all night watching the NASA channel, waiting for a launch, to make sure the capsule or shuttle was OK.) I hoped the folks at NASA would acknowledge my dedication and knowledge and make me an official NASA guide, fulfilling my dream of going to work wearing my own NASA jumpsuit. I planned to sell my Atlanta home and move to a deluxe trailer park near Cape Canaveral, but two coinciding events aborted my mission. The NASA shuttle program was canceled, and big corporations bought the deluxe trail park land for its profit potential. Next, a friend suggested that I use my teaching experience to volunteer at the Georgia Aquarium. The only way to

(any day but Shabbat), and I am not yet ready to hang up my laptop and notepad.

Retirement? What retirement? More than 7 years ago, I retired from writing and producing television news in the New York-New Jersey area, where I was an assignment editor or producer for major TV stations, including WABCTV and WWOR-TV, where I ended my NY-NJ career. Among the stories I produced was the 9/11 attack on New York in 2001, which earned me one of my five Emmy Awards. I also won Emmy Awards for coverage of the World Trade Center explosion in 1992 and for the best single show in 1997. Prior to that I worked for WCBS-TV, where I won a 1987 Emmy for our station’s Boro Park building collapse coverage. I also worked for a while at WABC-TV News. Before entering the TV news field, I began my professional journalism writing for The Jewish Press in New York and The Danbury News-Times in Connecticut. My wife, Peggy, is a school-based occupational therapist. I “retired” to Atlanta to be close to two of our four children and grandchildren. But news was still in my bones. So, when we moved to Atlanta, I looked for freelance TV news work in metro Atlanta, and WSB-TV quickly picked me up. Since that time, I have worked as a freelance news writer, working an average of 3-5 days a week

In 2001, after 17 years as Beth Jacob preschool director, the needs of my aging parents and my own family were great. My husband, Norman, was traveling more and I needed time to unwind. One day I was approached by Atlanta realtor Marc Goldin, who asked if I knew anyone interested in working for him part-time in his nearby office. We worked amicably together for 8 years. By that time, both of my parents required full-time care and we moved them into our home. The sacrifices my Holocaust survivor parents made for my sister and myself could never be repaid, and it was wonderful having them with us, and their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren coming and going all the time. After my parents passed away, I was able to care for myself. Over the next year, I lost over 100 pounds, volunteered at Beth Jacob, and traveled to visit our married kids in New Jersey. Meeting with my daughter, Tzippy Teller, and Jodi Wittenberg resulted in creating The Spicy Peach. Now, 8 years later, Norman and I bought an apartment in Israel near our son and his family. We have more time for our grandkids and travel. I am busy with the store when I’m in Atlanta and hope to continue, but we plan on more traveling and time in Israel, where there are lots of volunteer opportunities and countless classes. In Israel, we found a shul we like very much, made new friends, and reconnected with Atlanta friends who made aliyah. I will probably never truly retire, just try new things, and travel back and forth. I look forward to spending time with our oldest grandchildren during their gap year in Israel! ì

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Birth Announcements Sarah Rose Saidman Nicole and Benjamin Saidman announce the birth of their daughter, Sarah Rose Saidman, on Sept. 13. Sarah is the granddaughter of Vickie and Bruce Reisman and Suzan and Gary Saidman, and the great-granddaughter of Donald Reisman and Mildred Kinbar.

Benjamin Clyde Wellborn Rebecca Schneider and Frederick Wellborn of Atlanta announce the birth of their son, Benjamin Clyde Wellborn, on Oct. 4. The proud grandparents are Peter and Bobbie Schneider of Atlanta, and Clarke and Alice Wellborn of Brevard, N.C. Benjamin is the nephew of Mark Schneider, Colvin and Jill Wellborn, Samuel Wellborn, and Bess and Jonathan Yates. Benjamin’s first name is in honor of his maternal great-grandfather, Samuel Benjamin Schneider, and his middle name Clyde is in honor of his maternal great-grandfather, Clyde Johnson. Benjamin’s Hebrew name, Shmuel, is in honor of both his great-grandfathers, Samuel Schneider and Samuel Wellborn.

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OY VEY! HAVE I GOT A PROBLEM... Dear Rachel, e that? That is my whole . Is there a way to chang , healthy I am not a happy person luding a loving spouse blessings in my life, inc und in a aro ng lki question! I have many her than wa ome. But I find that rat s wrong goe at wh children, and a stable inc -focused on often prickly and hyper g at others kin loo f sel joyful state of mind, I am en find my pletely transparent, I oft ve any ha you Do er. during my day. To be com much happi imagining that they are through a lens of envy, p me to enjoy life? suggestions that can hel Signed, Moody

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Dear Moody, It sounds like you have many blessings that you acknowledge, yet the state of happiness eludes you. I believe this is a common human characteristic. How many of us remember to be thankful that our car got us to work, that we or our children woke up feeling well, that all our appliances are functioning, etc.? And yet, when the car doesn’t start or someone is home sick and our lives are upended, suddenly we are having a terrible day! We don’t usually ask “Why me?” when everything is smooth and running efficiently. Rather, when difficulties strike, we rail and hurl that question heavenward. You also mentioned the tendency to look at others and assume they have it better and easier, which leads you to jealousy. That, too, is a normal human emotion that we can and should try to combat and overcome. Although negativity and envy are integral parts of human nature, it is our task to rise above these tendencies. However, there are also many individuals who struggle more with these emotions than others. We are all different and have our own individual sensitivities and emotions. So, please don’t blame yourself for your feelings. This is your challenge, and I commend you for looking to achieve positive change. So, how can you feel happier? My suggestion would be to start with gratitude. When you remember to be thankful for the myriad gifts you receive throughout every day, that will jumpstart your quest to achieve happiness. Experiencing your own growth, whether from raising children, doing well in a job, or completing a project brings a sense of meaning and purpose. Feeling fulfilled and accomplished leads to inner contentment and happiness. Giving to others is also conducive to happiness. Whether it’s something as small and inexpensive as a smile or a bigger contribution, you will walk away with a warm feeling of inner contentment. Are you connecting with family and friends? As social creatures, people need each other. And there are few gifts that can compare to loving relationships with family and friends. Next time your oven breaks or one of the kids gets sick, take a deep breath, and remember: I had a great day yesterday, and with G-d’s help, I will have many more great days. This is just a small blotch on the magnificent tapestry of my life. And believe it or not, you can often find gifts within the blotches — maybe staying home with that sick child will afford you special time with him or her that would not have happened otherwise. I wish you much success as you attempt to climb the steps leading to happiness. Warmly, Rachel Atlanta Jewish Times Advice Column Got a problem? Email Rachel Stein, a certified life coach, at oyvey@ atljewishtimes.com describing your problem in 250 words or less. We want to hear from you and get helpful suggestions for your situation at the same time! 50 | OCTOBER 31, 2021ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

A buxom blonde at a charity ball was boasting to a friend about her new diamond ring. “It’s the third most valuable diamond in the world!” she said. The first is the Hope Diamond, the second is Kohinoor Diamond and then comes this one – the Finkelstein Diamond! “Unfortunately,” she continued, “the owner of the famous Finkelstein Diamond must also accept the famous Finkelstein Curse.” “What’s the Finkelstein Curse?” asked the friend. “Finkelstein!” the blonde sighed.

YIDDISH WORD OF THE MONTH

shveml n. mushroom “Pineapple is fine, but don’t you dare put that shveml on my pizza!” Ancient Israelites were known to forage for mushrooms following the rains. As the Talmud notes, wild mushrooms aren’t tithed, since they “do not grow by being sown nor does the earth extrude them.” Babylonian rabbis apparently enjoyed them for dessert during Passover Seder. Ashkenazi dishes feature mushrooms prominently, especially those belonging to the genus Boletus, like the porcini (Boletus edulis). Since mushrooms grow from the ground but are not plants, the proper prayer is not the one for vegetables or tree fruits, but the more general she’Hakol prayer.

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OBITUARIES Juliette E. Clayman

Robert Diskin

Juliette (Jere) E. Clayman passed away on Saturday morning, Oct. 23. She was born in Kansas City, Mo. on January 23, 1928, to Emanuel and Sara Entin. Jere grew up in Kansas City, where she met and married her true love, Henry (Hank) Clayman, of blessed memory. Jere was a true fashionista who had a great eye for fashion and decor. Her last career was as store manager at Mondi at Lenox Square. Jere traveled the world and loved meeting people, making new friends along the way. She was an avid mahjong player and known to be a savvy poker player. She loved family, instilling that love in each of her children. She is survived by children Michael Clayman, Terri Matteson, Marianne (Mark) Tarica, and Steve Clayman; grandchildren Robert Clayman (Tammy), Amy Tabb (Harrison), Lori Cahill (Dusty), Jesse Matteson (Hilary), Asa Matteson, Josh Tarica, Max Tarica, Hank Clayman, and Sam Clayman, as well as 8 great-grandchildren. Graveside services were held Oct. 25 at Greenwood Cemetery. Donations in memory to Jere can be made to Or VeShalom Sisterhood, 1681 North Druid Hills Rd. NE, Atlanta 30319. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Robert (Bobby) Diskin passed away on Oct. 21. Bobby was born on December 5, 1930, to Jacob and Rebecca Diskin. He grew up in Glens Falls, N.Y. with his three brothers, Edward, Samuel, and Bernard; his parents and brothers predeceased him. In the early 1950s, Bobby served in the U.S. Navy and worked at the Pentagon. He also spent time on the USS Samuel B. Roberts. In 1995, Bobby and Alice Rich married and shared travels and adventures to places in various parts of the world. His wonderful wife, Alice, passed away in 2006. Bobby was the first of his family to graduate from college. He earned a BBA from Georgia State University. He went on to become a real estate analyst for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He retired in 1985. Alice and Bobby were respected members of Shearith Israel synagogue. They were fixtures there and made the Shearith Israel community part of their family. Bobby is survived by Alice’s three children including Marilyn (Yale) Shure, Elliott (Charlotte) Rich, and Steve (Anita) Rich, as well as a wonderful crowd of grandchildren and cousins. He is also survived by his niece, Marcia (Gregory) Ringo, nephews, Barry Diskin (Nancy), Alan Diskin (Linda), great nephews Brian Ringo (JC), Jonathan Ringo, Cameron Diskin (Amy), and his great niece, Tybee Diskin. His nephew, Mark Diskin, predeceased Bobby in November 2000. Bobby was genuinely committed to improving the lives of his family and friends. His kindness was among his most identifiable attributes. This was demonstrated by his consistent efforts to help anyone in need along with his devotion to caring for members of his family during the final chapters of their lives. Arrangements are being handled by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

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Edna Docterman 87, Baldwin

Edna Docterman, widow of Gert Docterman, passed away on Oct. 14 in Baldwin, Ga. She enjoyed travel, cooking and sewing. Cats and dogs were always a part of her home. She is survived by her son Michael of Manassas, Va., daughter Anna of Clayton, Ga., and son Mark of Atlanta. She was laid to rest next to her husband at Crest Lawn Memorial Park in Atlanta. To sign the online guestbook, please visit www.dresslerjewishfunerals.com. Arrangements by Dressler’s, 770-451-4999.

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Linda Young Haskins 79, Macon, Ga.

Linda Young Haskins, 79, of Macon, Ga., passed away on Oct. 19 in Alpharetta, Ga., where she spent her last 5 months at Village Park to be close to her children and grandchildren. Linda was raised in the small town of Hampton, S.C. She attended the University of Georgia, where she met the love of her life, Melvin Haskins. They moved to Macon in 1964, where they owned The Oxford Shop, a ladies and men’s clothing store downtown, and raised their family. After closing The Oxford Shop, Linda and Melvin started Casino Tours, Inc. in 1978, where Linda worked as the executive secretary. Through the business, Linda and Melvin developed many cherished friendships and traveled worldwide. Linda was an active member of Congregation Sha’arey Israel and a lifetime member of Hadassah. Linda was a devoted daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. She truly cherished her time with family. Linda enjoyed being on the dance floor with her husband and playing mahjong, Rummikub, canasta, and poker. Linda is survived by her daughter, Terri Haskins Steinberg (Barry); son, Richard Haskins (Amy); brothers, Alan Young (Beth) and Dr. Larry Young (Barbi); sister Toby Young Chod (Dr. Steven); grandchildren, Austin Chad Cohen, Taylor Brooke Cohen, Peyton Madison Cohen, Mackenzie Haskins, Danielle Haskins, Zach Sabatini, and Zoe Sabatini; brother-in-law, Burt Haskins (Dorothy); and devoted caregiver, Sharon Suso. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Melvin Haskins, and parents, Morris Young and Ethel Kravitz Young. Graveside service took place on Oct. 20 at Sha’arey Israel Cemetery in Macon. Hart’s Mortuary and Cremation Center handled the arrangements. If desired, memorial contributions may be sent to Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, GA 30075, Congregation Sha’arey Israel, 611 First Street, Macon, GA 31201, or to the Young Family Fund at Congregation Beth Israel, P.O. Box 328, Beaufort, SC 29901.

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Arleen Karlick of Atlanta, Ga. passed away on Oct. 13 at the age of 95. A lifelong resident of Atlanta, she was born to Charles and Dora Smullian on December 11, 1925. She graduated from Girls High in 1944 and then worked as a bookkeeper. She married Joe Karlick in 1947. He passed away in 1995. Her brother Jerome Elson died in 2003. She is survived by her children, Philip (Susanne) Karlick of Atlanta and Joyce (partner Mark Lange) Karlick of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and two grandchildren, Keith (partner Tammy Ten Bruin) Karlick of Seattle, Wash., and Jordan (Michelle) Karlick of Boca Raton, Fla., and Betty Smolen of Charlotte, N.C., her first cousin. She is also survived by nieces and cousins. In her day, Arleen was an avid tennis player and bridge player. She worked at Citizens Jewelry. She was an active longtime leader for the Bremen Jewish Home and the Brandeis University National Women’s Committee, Atlanta chapter. She and Joe relished their roles as grandparents. They loved to travel, both abroad and within the United States. Special and sincere thanks to Cynthia Bell, wonderful aide for over 5 years. Our family will be eternally grateful to her. Funeral services were held on Friday, Oct. 15. Donations may be made to the Jewish Home or Weinstein Hospice or the charity of your choice.

Daniel Ryan Silver 30, Atlanta

Daniel Ryan Silver passed away at the age of 30 from complications during a routine procedure on Oct. 5. Described as somebody who loves people and animals alike, Daniel had an infectious laugh and smile, and made everybody he talked to feel special. He loved good food, traveling, and meeting new people. Daniel served as a civil engineer at Lowe Engineering. He graduated from Southern Polytechnic State University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Technology and Surveying and Mapping. A graduate of South Forsyth High School, Daniel volunteered with Planned Pethood during this time. Daniel had two furry friends of his own, cats Ansley and Hopscotch. He is loved and missed by his family, friends, coworkers, and his brothers at Sigma Pi, and leaves behind a legacy of love and care unmatched by any. Daniel is survived by his parents, Steve and Nancy Silver; his brothers, Paul and twin Marc; grandmother Lil Weinberger, Aunt Pam and Uncle Robert “Bobby” Kaufman, Aunt Barbara Pinhas, and Aunt Shelly and Uncle Dan Toder. Lastly, his girlfriend and love of his life, Rebecca Streetman. Donations in Daniel’s memory can be sent to Planned Pethood of Georgia (https://pethoodga.networkforgood.com/ projects/60688-planned-pethood-of-ga.) Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999. ìì

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CLOSING THOUGHTS Passing the Baton My grandfather came to the U.S. as an immigrant more than a hundred years ago, though only much later did I see him as a man searchAllen H. Lipis ing for a better The Bottom Line life for his family. I didn’t realize that he was carrying forward what he had been taught by his family. I never explored his reasons for immigrating except to recognize that he wanted something better for his family that was not possible in post-World War I Romania. That was my Zeyda, my mother’s father. He carried his life forward as far as he could, raising eight children, half of them born in Europe and half in the U.S. He offered them a new life in a new country with new possibilities, but he could only take his family so far. He had little education and managed to run a small fruit market. It was as far as he could go, so he handed over the

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take the baton as far as they can, and that will be enough. This is not an easy task, for it is a dayin, day-out process, requiring many years of patience, protection and encouragement. Teachers may tell your children they are not the best, friends may be critical, and employers may not promote them. Children will recognize that other people are better in every respect: smarter, faster, stronger, richer, healthier and more capable. As a parent, we must offer guidance if asked, and provide positive encouragement and financial support according to our ability. As a parent or a grandparent, you may feel, secretly in your heart, that your children and grandchildren may not achieve what you desire. Recognize that you have only a limited amount of time to have an impact, for your job will be finished much earlier than you think. Still, you must be their biggest supporter, always — and I mean always! Just enjoy the process when you know you’ve done your best. The bottom line: When you get the baton, take it as far as you can go — and then hand it off to the next generation. ì

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