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MARKING YOM HASHOAH, PAGES 15-22 PIANO MAN HONORED HEROINE SAVING STORIES

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Billy Joel’s path to stardom began with a family piano bought in Berlin. Page 16

A ceremony will recall a Catholic who helped save 2,500 Jewish children. Page 22

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Ossoff Just Misses Flipping the 6th, Faces Handel Next Jewish Democrat Jon Ossoff easily won the special election for suburban Atlanta’s 6th Congressional District but appeared to fall tantalizingly short Tuesday, April 18, of the majority he needed to avoid a runoff, to be held June 20 against Republican Karen Handel.

With 95 percent of the precincts counted, Ossoff had 88,562 votes, 48.6 percent of the total, while Handel had 35,502 votes (19.5 percent).

“We have defied the odds. We have shattered expectations. We are changing the world,” Ossoff said.

Handel, the former secretary of state, finished well ahead of fellow Republicans Bob Gray (10.5 percent), Judson Hill (9 percent) and Dan Moody (8.7 percent) to set up a two-month, heads-up campaign for the seat Tom Price vacated to become President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary.

The result provided a birthday present for Handel, who faced a flurry of attack ads from fellow Republicans.

“It is important for Republicans to come together in unity because now it rises above just one person,” she said. “Two different résumés are being presented with two very different qualifications.”

The outcome also keeps alive the possibility of Georgia’s first Jewish congressman since Democrat Elliott Levitas lost a bid for a sixth term in 1984.

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Jon Ossoff assures his supporters at the Crown Plaza Ravinia in Dunwoody that they will win in June if necessary.

Voters in the 6th, which sweeps from East Cobb through North Fulton into North DeKalb and covers as much as half the population of Jewish Atlanta, are likely to see millions of dollars spent by national interests portraying the election as a referendum on Trump and such Democratic opponents as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

That national focus had a dramatic effect in the initial campaign as 11 Republicans, five Democrats and two independents vied for votes on the same ballot.

With the early endorsement of Rep. John Lewis (D-Atlanta), Ossoff, 30, a former congressional aide to Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Lithonia), emerged as the

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choice of national Democrats dreaming of flipping a district that has voted Republican since 1978. Ossoff raised $8.3 million through the end of March.

The National Republican Congressional Committee spent millions to tie Ossoff to Pelosi, mock his youth and point out that he can’t vote for himself because he lives outside the district.

The relentless advertising for and against Ossoff steamrolled the other four Democrats, including another Jewish candidate, Ron Slotin, a former state senator. Slotin, Richard Keatley, Rebecca Quigg and Ragin Edwards combined to get less than 1 percent of the vote.

A third Jewish candidate, newcomer

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David Abroms, was one of the many Republicans who failed to gain traction against former officeholders Handel, Moody and Hill. Gray, elected to the Johns Creek City Council in 2014, was the closest thing to an outsider to poll well.

Abroms, who finished with about 0.85 percent, endorsed Handel for the runoff, calling her “a friend, a conservative and a woman of principle who will represent the 6th District well.”

Voters in East Cobb and part of Sandy Springs also cast ballots for the state Senate’s 32nd District seat, which Hill resigned to run for Congress. Among five Republicans and three Democrats, including Jewish pediatrician Bob Wiskind, Democrat Christine Triebsch (24 percent) and Republican Kay Kirkpatrick (21.9 percent) advanced to a runoff May 16.

Although little was made of it, the election took place on a Jewish holiday, the eighth day of Passover, forcing observant Jews to vote early or not at all.

“The fact that there is a Democrat this close to 50 percent in a district that went more than 20 points for Tom Price means there are more Democrats ready to turn out, ready to work and ready to get it done,” state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams said about Ossoff. “He presented a thoughtful campaign idea, he understood the breadth of the district, and he brought together holistic voters.” ■

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On the eve of the Atlanta Arab Festival, we look at the similarities between the Jewish and Arab communities, which remain split over Israel, the Palestinians and perhaps an inability to help each other. Page 12

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Is Silence Golden? cabinets.

“When will you take care of me?” the walls seemed to ask. My house echoed with an unanswerable cry.

“Having car trouble,” Steve told me when I called.

A week later he worked a half-day, then disappeared for another week.

“I had the flu,” he wheezed when I finally got him in person. “Trust me,

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you didn’t want me near you.”

The weeks stretched into months.

We had already given Steve $10,000.

What was going on?

After nine months, Steve completed the job. It’s a good thing murder is biblically and morally prohibited.

Inhale calm and serenity, I told myself.

Exhale anger, tension and frustration.

At long last, I could enjoy my “new” home.

A few weeks ago, I noticed an email on our community forum from an acquaintance who attends my synagogue. “Looking for a contractor,” Libby wrote. “Any recommendations?”

Once again, my friends quickly responded with their happy experiences using Steve’s First Impressions. And I was faced with a dilemma.

Do I share my experience with Libby? I could deprive Steve of lucrative employment and destroy his reputation. Perhaps Steve had a good reason for letting our project go awry, similar to that Jiffy Fix repairman.

Do I hold my peace? He did complete our work, although I felt as if I had traveled through a lightless, lengthy tunnel during the process.

My dilemma beats inside me, flapping its wings and depriving me of tranquility.

I am concerned for Steve and his livelihood. Can I take it into my own hands to destroy a person? Although I love and respect all people, there is something special about dealing with our Jewish family.

But my conscience niggles. Do I have an obligation to warn a friend and save her from the aggravation I endured? I am conflicted about the proper course of action.

What would you do? ■ Please send responses to rachels83@ gmail.com by Wednesday, April 26.

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Shared Spirit’s last column hit a nerve. We had a similar experience, giving rise to a moral dilemma.

After years of putting the kids through school, Bob and I were going to treat ourselves to some long-awaited household renovations. Farewell to smudgy walls and worn carpets, peeling paint and nicked cabinets.

My home would get the face lift it had been begging for, tilting my own chin in the process.

It was all so exciting and fresh, like a dip in the pool on a sweltering day. I could hardly wait to debate tiles and textures and eagerly anticipated furrowing my brow while poring through arrays of paint colors, wondering: “Do I go bold or soft?” Regarding floor samples, “Do we want laminate, or is real wood the way to go?”

But before I could embark on this scintillating journey, I realized I had to take the first step and find a contractor. Clicking on the WhatsApp group I had set up with some friends, I typed my question: “Can anyone recommend a good, reasonable contractor?”

First Impressions won hands down. Steve Marks, a fellow Jew, had a sterling reputation. (Names and identifying details of people and companies are always changed in this column.)

“He did a phenomenal job on my playroom,” Shira assured me.

“Completed re-facing my kitchen cabinets in the time slot guaranteed.

Worked quickly and efficiently,” Ellen shared.

“Steve built our in-law suite,” Jenny piped in. “Outstanding job.”

Without hesitation, I called First Impressions.

“Steve here,” he answered.

“Hi, Steve. I’ve heard rave reviews about your company and would like to hire you to do our renovations. Can you come and give me an estimate, please?”

The ball began rolling. Steve nodded and measured, took copious notes, and promised to begin the following morning. He arrived promptly, and I welcomed him cheerfully before running out to work.

“Your job should be finished in one month,” he said, whistling as he lugged in tools and supplies.

“Sounds amazing,” I replied, feeling like a little girl in a candy shop.

But after a few days, Steve stopped coming. My house looked like a war zone: bare floorboards, leprous walls and gaping holes in place of kitchen

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“Strait of Gibraltar.” Synchronicity Theatre, 1545 Peachtree St., No. 102, Midtown, presents a play that’s part sexy romance, part terrorism thriller, involving a Jewish woman and a Muslim man, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets start at $29; www.synchrotheatre.com/ tickets/buy/strait-of-gibraltar.

THROUGH JUNE 11

“Atlanta Collects.” The second part of the exhibit of privately held art, covering contemporary work, is at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Museum admission is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6 for students and educators, and $4 for children 3 to 6; thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.

FRIDAY, APRIL 21

Israeli food film. “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” part of the 2016 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, opens at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, 931 Monroe Drive, Midtown. Tickets ($8.75 for matinees, $11 for evenings) and show times at bit.ly/2oS13Gg. FIDF presentation. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Southeast Executive Director Seth Baron speaks about Israel and support for the IDF after a brief service at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation B’nai Israel, 1633 Highway 54, Fayetteville. Free; bnai-israel.net.

SATURDAY, APRIL 22

Prayer talk. Rabbi Bradley Artson delivers the sermon, then leads a postKiddush discussion on “What Are We Doing When We Pray?” at 11 a.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, as part of his scholar-in-residence weekend. Free; bit.ly/2nDEy5w.

Cancer fundraiser. The Ovarian Can-

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Shemini Friday, April 21, light candles at 7:56 p.m.

Saturday, April 22, Shabbat ends at 8:53 p.m.

Tazria-Metzora Friday, April 28, light candles at 8:01 p.m.

Saturday, April 29, Shabbat ends at 9 p.m. cer Research Fund Alliance’s 2017 Ovarian Cycle Atlanta ride takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. today at CycleBar East Cobb, 4880 Lower Roswell Road, Suite 450, and from 1 to 5 Sunday at CycleBar Dunwoody, 4794 Ashford-Dunwoody Road. Registration is $50 for one day, $80 for two; bit.ly/2pL1BLA.

Fighting hate and bias. The Anti-Defamation League and the Islamic Speakers Bureau co-sponsor a program at Northside Drive Baptist Church, 3100 Northside Drive, Buckhead, on “A Call to Action: Becoming an Upstander” at 2 p.m. Free; RSVP required at atlanta.adl. org/upstander.

SUNDAY, APRIL 23

Yom HaShoah. The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, holds its annual commemoration at the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden at 3:30 p.m. with a speech by “Irena’s Children” author Tilar J. Mazzeo. Free to all; www.atlantajcc.org or 678-812-4161.

Scholar in residence. Rabbi Bradley Artson addresses “A House of Prayer for All: Life Lessons From My Autistic Son” at 9:30 a.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. Free; bit.ly/2nDEy5w.

Yom HaShoah. Eugen Schoenfeld and Bob Bahr discuss memories of Schoenfeld’s shtetl, Muncacs in the Carpathian Mountains, at 10 a.m. in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs.

Free; templesinaiatlanta.org.

Yom HaShoah. The commemoration at the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery, 1173 Cascade Circle, Atlanta, starts at 11 a.m. with French survivor Manuela Bornstein delivering the keynote address. Free; eternallifehemshech.org.

Car show. Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, holds its annual Kosher Kar Show at 11 a.m. Free (car entry fee is $18); www. or-hadash­.org/event/kosher-kar-show. html.

Film screening. Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, shows “Sabena Hijacking: My Version” at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5; cbshalom.wufoo.com/forms/bethshalom-film-festival.

Christmas talk. Rabbi Steven Lebow leads a discussion at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Kol Emeth, 1415 Old Canton Road, East Cobb, on the implementation of Georgia public school standards calling for kindergartners to learn about Christmas as one of the state holidays.

Free; rabbilebow@gmail.com.

Six-Day War event. Rabbis Emanuel and Ilan Feldman share their memories of the 1967 war in the Amram Hillel Feldman Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. at Congregation Beth Jacob’s Heritage Hall, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills. Free; www.bethjacobatlanta.org.

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Remember When

25 Years Ago April 17, 1992 ■ More than a dozen Yom HaShoah programs are planned in Atlanta this year, in part in response to a political climate of increasing vitriol toward Jews and Israel. The Anti-Defamation League’s Stuart Lewengrub said: “Anti-Semitism has gained respectability. ... There are certain political and media figures who spout anti-Semitism in one form or another, and they get a lot of attention.” The annual observance at the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery will feature former Atlanta Journal Editorial Page Editor Durwood McAlister.

■ The bar mitzvah of John Taylor Weitz of Atlanta, son of Debbie and Brad Weitz, will take place at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 25, at The Temple.

■ Kim Goldsmith and Dave Johnson of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Noah Goldsmith Johnson, on March 5.

50 Years Ago April 21, 1967 ■ A delegation of American newspapermen will travel to Israel in late May for the 24th annual convention of the American Jewish Press Association, led by President Adolph Rosenberg of The Southern Israelite in Atlanta. The convention will combine business sessions, sightseeing and investigative reporting on important aspects of Israel in 1967.

■ The Canadian Jewish Congress will again send Passover supplies to the Jews of Cuba, it was announced in Montreal.

In addition to matzah, the shipments will include wine, canned kosher meat, tea, oil and horseradish.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Draisen of Anderson, S.C., announce the engagement of their daughter, Bernice, to Edward Saul Shuman, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David M. Shuman of Atlanta. The wedding will take place June 18.

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India-Israel celebration. The first India Israel US Forum marks 25 years of India-Israel relations at 5:30 p.m. at Arnall Golden Gregory, 171 17th St., Suite 2100, Midtown. Registration is $40; www.khabar.com/events-calendar/ India-Israel-US-Forum-IIUF. Holocaust film. The Intown Jewish Academy, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown, presents “No Place on Earth,” the gripping tale of a cave in Ukraine where Jewish families hid from the Nazis for more than 500 days, at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5; bit.ly/2o1uHJu.

TUESDAY, APRIL 25

Consular talk. Israeli Consul General Judith Varnai Shorer speaks with the Global Atlanta editorial team over lunch at noon at Miller and Martin, 1180 W. Peachtree St., Suite 2100, Midtown. Admission is $15 ($22 with valet parking); bit.ly/2oIxKFH.

JCC’s Kuniansky Family Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, offers stepby-step painting instructions while people eat, drink and be merry at 7 p.m.

Admission is $22 for JCC members, $28 for others, with advanced registration required; bit.ly/2nZJjcV. Film. The Simon Wiesenthal Center presents “The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers” at 7 p.m. at Lefont Sandy Springs, 5920 Ros­well Road, C-103. Tickets are $20; bit.ly/2py1bJ5.

THURSDAY, APRIL 27 Bronx memories. Author Ed Gruber, a Navy combat correspondent during the Korean War, talks about his life at the weekly meeting of the Edgewise group at 10:30 a.m. at the Marcus JCC,

5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free for members, $5 for others; 678-8123861 or matureadults@atlantajcc.org.

Lunch and learn. Temple Kehillat Chaim Rabbi Harvey Winokur leads a discussion at noon (provide your own food) at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free to all; 678-8124161 or rabbi.glusman@atlantajcc­.org.

Yom HaAtzmaut. The Marcus JCC leads a celebration of Israel’s independence at Food Truck Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Brook Run Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Road, Dunwoody. Free; 678-812-4161 or rabbi.glusman@atlantajcc­.org.

Baking for good. Sixth- to 12th-graders can do two hours of community ser-

vice at 7 p.m. by cooking for community nonprofits and discussing hunger at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. The cost is $5 for JCC members, $8 for others; bit.ly/2nWFtBm.

SUNDAY, APRIL 30 Caregiver workshop. “The Mindful Caregiver” author Nancy Kriseman leads a workshop at 10 a.m. at Berman Commons, 2026 Womack Road, Dunwoody. Free; bermancommons.org.

JWV breakfast. American Bar Association President Linda Klein speaks to Jewish War Veterans Post 112, with breakfast at 10 a.m. and the program at 10:30, at the Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Buckhead. Suggested $10 donation; jwvpost112@gmail.com.

Rosh Chodesh program. Rabbi Emily Brenner addresses “A Celebration of Women: What Does Rosh Chodesh Mean?” over dinner at 7:15 p.m. at MACoM, 700-A Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Admission is $18; info@ atlantamikvah.org or 404-549-9679.

Holocaust film. Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Roswell Road, East Cobb, presents at 8 p.m. “No Place on Earth,” the gripping tale of a cave in Ukraine where Jewish families hid from the Nazis for more than 500 days, with an appearance by Hershel Greenblat, a child survivor of the cave. Tickets are $10; www.cobbjewishacademy.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26

Israel discussion. Rabbi Mario Karpuj talks about what is and isn’t hot in Israel at 11:45 a.m. at Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs. Free (lunch is $12 with RSVP

by April 23); bit.ly/2oiGmQP. Drinking and painting. The Marcus

• The runoff to fill the open 32nd District seat in the Georgia Senate is scheduled for May 16, five weeks before the runoff for the 6th Congressional District special election. The date was wrong in an article in the April 14 issue and in our special election voters guide.

• The name of Sherry Frank, the former regional director of American Jewish Committee’s Atlanta Chapter, was incorrect in a photo caption in the April 7 issue.

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ISRAEL NEWS

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home Managing diabetes. GlucoMe in Yarkona has developed a digital diabetes clinic that monitors diabetics and recommends treatments. The platform uses a glucose monitor, an insulin pen monitor, a mobile app and a cloudbased management system. It has completed trials and is approved in Europe.

Fantastic voyage. Scientists at BenGurion University are redesigning their Single Actuator Wave-like robotic snake to carry a camera and squeeze through the human small intestine. It could extend and improve the effectiveness of colonoscopies.

Saving lives on the beach. A volunteer with emergency medical service United Hatzalah has developed a smartphone app to locate swimmers in trouble off Haifa’s beaches and navigate paramedics to them.

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Kicking the habit. Hebrew University and Hadassah, with funding from the Israel Cancer Association and the Health Ministry, have initiated SMS Quit, a free program to help Israeli Arab men quit smoking. Arab men

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have Israel’s highest smoking rate (44 percent) and shortest life expectancy.

sponsored bicycle-sharing and carsharing services.

Common values and vision. Nicos Anastasiades, the president of Cyprus, told the recent Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations conference in Jerusalem that Cyprus and Israel are two countries sharing “the same values and common vision” and are “beacons of stability and natural partners of the West in the Middle East.”

Apple’s No. 2 R&D center. Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple’s facility in Herzliya is the company’s second-largest research and development site in the world. Industry sources said the company may have more than 1,000 engineers in Israel working on a project related to augmented reality.

Helping flood victims in Peru. Israeli emergency teams from IsraAID are in Peru after rains caused floods and mudslides. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless, and thousands are missing. IsraAID is helping in schools and with sanitation facilities.

The world’s seventh-greenest city. Tel Aviv is among the greenest cities in the world, ranking No. 7 on a list compiled

by MIT researchers in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Tel Aviv has 260,000 trees across its 20 square miles, not counting those in parks. Green initiatives include city-

Puppy love. The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, home to 25,000 registered dogs, is launching a suite of digital functions and information called Digi-Dog for dog owners keen to know where the nearest vet is or where they can find the best dog-walking beach.

intends to fly four times a week from Ben Gurion Airport to Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, from where travelers can connect to nine cities in the United States and Canada: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Prices will be around $260 to $280 each way.

Historic whiskey museum. The world’s fifth-largest whiskey museum is in a former Templar wine cellar in Tel Aviv’s Sarona neighborhood. It features hundreds of illuminated whiskey bottles, including one worth $11,000.

The 61-shekel ($17) admission includes four sample shots of whiskey.

Buying American insurance. In an example of an Israeli takeover of a U.S. company, Holon-based Sapiens International has bought Denver-based StoneRiver for about $102 million. Both information technology companies focus on the insurance industry.

Follow the mikvah trail. A new Jerusalem park takes you past many of the capital’s 200 mikvahs (ritual baths) used by pilgrims in the Second Temple era. Jewish travelers purified themselves by immersion before offering sacrifices. Fifty baths have been unearthed near the Temple Mount.

An icy, cheap route to Israel. Starting in June, Iceland’s low-cost airline WOW

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Today in Israeli History

ration of Independence.

April 24, 1950: Jordan formally annexes the West Bank and East Jerusalem, enabling the Palestinian inhabitants there to obtain Jordanian citizenship. The Arab League regards the unilateral move as an illegal land grab.

The annexation more than triples Jordan’s population while creating challenges in security and cultural integration.

April 25, 1982: As stipulated in the 1979 peace agreement between the two countries, Israel completes its evacuation of the Sinai and returns the peninsula to Egypt, two days after destroying the settlement city of Yamit over the opposition of much of the Israeli public.

April 26, 2008: Yossi Harel, the commander of the Aliyah Bet ship Exodus, dies at the age of 90.

April 27, 2009: In a speech in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dismisses a demand from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Items provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details.

April 21, 1984: Romanian-born artist Marcel Janco, one of the founders of the Dada art movement, who made aliyah in 1941, dies at the age of 89. After settling in Tel Aviv, Janco became part of a budding Israeli art scene, and in 1953 Romania honored he proposed de- Marcel Janco with a stamp of his veloping Ein Hod, artwork in 2004. a cluster of homes near Haifa, into what is today Israel’s only artist village.

April 22, 2013: A month after President Barack Obama brokers a reconciliation of Turkish-Israeli relations, a high-level, three-member Israeli delegation opens talks with Turkey in Ankara under the auspices of Secretary of State John Kerry.

April 23, 1963: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel’s second president and a celebrated historian, dies at the age of 78. A native of Ukraine, Ben-Zvi made aliyah in 1907, helped form the Histadrut labor federation and signed the Israeli Decla-

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ISRAEL NEWS

Eichmann Trial Instilled Faith in Survivors only coordinated activities between the Jewish resistance and Polish underground, but also helped organize

Guest Column

By Rich Walter

communication between isolated Polish Jewish communities and planned escape routes to Palestine.

Before the war, he was a leader in He-Halutz, which trained Jewish youths for settlement in the land of Israel.

In December 1943, Hashomer Hatzair members established a kibbutz named after Anielewicz near Ashkelon: Yad Mordechai. The kibbutz would be the sight of a prolonged battle between Egyptian forces and two Palmach units in June 1948. Yad Mordechai fell to the Egyptians but was recaptured during Operation Yoav in October 1948.

Zuckerman made aliyah in 1947 and was among the founders of Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta’ot (the Ghetto

Fighters) near Akko in 1949.

On May 3, 1961, Zuckerman served as a witness during the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. As part of his testimony, Zuckerman read Anielewicz’s letter of April 23, 1943.

The story of the Ghetto uprising and the events of the Eichmann trial significantly shifted Israeli public opinion on the Holocaust and about Shoah survivors in Israel.

In 1951, when Israel was selecting a date for Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, many leaders wanted to anchor the day to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Rather than focus on Jewish victimhood, these Israelis preferred to shine a spotlight on Jews who engaged in resistance.

That is but one example of Israel’s early reluctance to embrace the Holocaust as part of the new nation’s collective memory and experience. Many survivors experienced poor treatment and contempt at the hands of nativeborn Israelis and veterans who had arrived in the early years of the Yishuv.

The day that became Yom Ha­ Shoah was originally Yom Hazikaron la Shoah Ve-Mered Hagetaot (Holocaust

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Yitzhak Zuckerman testifies at the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem on May 3, 1961.

and Ghetto Revolt Memorial Day).

Each year on 27 Nisan, we pause and remember the tragic destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust. These events — the Holocaust and memorialization — draw important connections with the Jewish state.

For Israel, Yom HaShoah and the legacy of the Holocaust are best articulated by a policy of “never again.” In other words, part of the country’s very fabric is to ensure that, by expressing Jewish sovereignty, the Jewish people will never again be forced to rely on others for security and existence. ■ Rich Walter is the associate director for Israel education at the Center for Israel Education.

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On April 23, 1943, Mordechai Anielewicz, the commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, penned his final letter. With other ghetto fighters, he fell to Nazi forces May 8.

Anielewicz addressed the letter to Yitzhak Zuckerman, a clandestine operative on the Polish side of the ghetto. The letter describes the first few days of resistance fighting, expresses the need for weapons and articulates the dire conditions in the ghetto.

Anielewicz concludes: “The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Selfdefense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men and women of battle.”

Anielewicz had been a leader in the Zionist youth group Hashomer Hatzair (the Youth Guard). After Germany invaded Poland, he tried to establish an escape route for Jews to Palestine through the Soviet Union, an effort stymied by Soviet authorities.

Zuckerman, known as Antek, not

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Moishe House Expands to Buckhead

By David R. Cohen david@atljewishtimes.com Moishe House, the international nonprofit organization composed of a collection of homes that serve as hubs for the young adult Jewish community, has opened its third house in Atlanta and 100th overall.

The new location, which is in Buckhead near Phipps Plaza, hosted a small ceremony to hang a mezuzah and officially open the house Thursday, April 6, with help from Chabad Intown Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman.

“We are thrilled to be opening our 100th Moishe House,” said David Cygielman, the founder and CEO of the organization. “This historic milestone shows just how empowered young

adults have changed the face of postcollege Jewish life over the last 10 years.

But even more important than this number are the hundreds of residents and tens of thousands of participants whose Jewish lives have been enriched by opening their homes and creating their own innovative programming.”

Each house is home to three to five Jews ages 22 to 30 who have outreach and networking skills. In exchange for subsidized living in a desirable location with a highly social atmosphere, residents plan, publicize and host monthly religious, social, educational, cultural and community service programs.

The Buckhead house has three residents: Aviva Leigh (the professional name for actress Amy Abelson), Matt Spruchman and Cassidy Artz, all of

Moishe House Buckhead is home to Cassidy Artz (left), Aviva Leigh and Matt Spruchman.

whom are transplants from other cities. The three have agreed to make inclusivity the top priority of their house.

“Buckhead is probably the hottest area in Atlanta right now,” Spruchman said. “A lot of young professionals live here, and it makes sense to have a house in this area. None of us are Atlanta natives, and we came here without knowing many people. So we want to cater programming to people who maybe came here for a job and are looking to make new friends.”

“Especially if you are new to a city and you don’t know anyone,” Artz said.

“Being able to preach this idea of inclusivity is an important value to all of us.”

Atlanta’s other two Moishe Houses are in Toco Hills and VirginiaHighland, the latter of which recently

moved from Inman Park.

“Atlanta is a growing city with tremendous opportunity for young professionals and graduate students,” Cygielman said. “With the city continuing to expand, there are several unique neighborhoods and Jewish demographic populations that serve large numbers of young Jewish adults that we aim to reach.”

Cygielman said there are plans for a fourth house in Atlanta and for a full-time regional manager to support houses in the Southeast.

He said more houses are possible in Atlanta because of Moishe House’s strong partnerships with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Marcus Foundation and with individual supporters. ■

Moishe House residents Aviva Leigh, Matt Spruchman and Cassidy Artz watch as Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman installs a mezuzah at the front door of the Buckhead house April 6.

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Meet the Residents

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Matt Spruchman

Aviva Leigh

Cassidy Artz

Age: 26

Age: 28

Age: 25

From: Dallas, Texas

From: Clearwater, Fla.

From: Cleveland, Ohio

Alma mater: University of Texas, Austin

Alma mater: Indiana University

Alma mater: Northwestern University

Came to Atlanta: For a job in IT

Came to Atlanta: For an acting career in the booming film industry

Came to Atlanta: To study at Emory (candidate for a master of public health degree this year)

Hobbies: Volunteering, getting involved in activism and playing keyboard

Hobbies: Traveling, scuba diving and fly-fishing

Hobbies: Watching sports, playing guitar and binging Netflix “My first few months in Atlanta were hard. I’ve never had to go out of my way to make friends. These young professionals programs like Moishe House are the way I know people, and it’s how I met Cassidy and Aviva.”

“Coming to Atlanta has been the smartest risk I’ve ever taken. I love it here. At Moishe House, it’s so exciting to make a meaningful contribution. Now I feel more satisfied with how I’m impacting the people here and also meeting new people in the Jewish community.”

“I will do almost anything to go anywhere. I love the idea of seeing how different people live their lives, and I gain so much from the fact they see the world differently than me.”

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Jewish Hospitality for 3 Causes at Food That Rocks way for the community to celebrate all the good happening in Sandy Springs,”

Ben Krawiecki of Marlow’s Tavern connects his Jewish roots to his desire to please his guests.

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said Cheryl Yagoda, founder and vice president of Ian’s Friends Foundation.

“Food That Rocks was a great way to meet new neighbors, sample the great food in our area, and find out about charities doing amazing work — all in our back yard.”

Participating chef Ben Krawiecki relishes his role in creating menu items for Marlow’s Tavern. Since joining the Marlow’s team in 2008, Krawiecki has been a key ingredient in recipe development for the diverse dishes that grace the tavern menus.

He credits his passion for food to his Latvian-born grandmother, who involved him as she cooked, and said his Jewish roots support his love of going the extra mile to please his guests, friends and family with his dishes.

Michael Davis of Three Sheets loves the energy and excitement of Jewish festivities.

“There’s nothing I enjoy more than baking a traditional challah with my kids for the Shabbat or just because,” Krawiecki said. “My wife’s request is normally for matzah ball soup, and the key is the broth with lots of chicken bones and the secret ingredient, chicken feet, to give it that extra gelatinous mouth feel. Kasha Varnishkes is the go-to with a slowcooked, braised brisket.” (Note that he is serving different dishes at the festival.)

Michael Davis, the bar manager of Food That Rocks participant Three Sheets, understood the importance of making people feel welcome at a young age. “My parents are avid party hosts, and I grew up loving the energy and excitement of social gatherings, be

it dinner for Passover seder or a festive Rosh Hashanah meal,” said Davis, who is also the craft cocktail creator of Three Sheets. “I get so much joy from making my customers smile and giving them a great experience. My favorite, of course, are the b’nai mitzvot hosted by Three Sheets.”

Food That Rocks involves a partnership with Sandy Springs Hospitality and Tourism, the Sandy Springs Restaurant Council, and the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce.

The festival is set for 6:30 to 11 p.m. and is for people 21 and older.

General admission is $50 in advance, $55 after April 24 and $60 at the door.

First-taster VIP tickets are $65 now, $70 after April 24 and $75 at the door. ■

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More than 20 Sandy Springsbased chefs and restaurants are the culinary neighbors participating in the second annual Food That Rocks: A Celebration of Sandy Springs.

Created by Taste of Atlanta founder Dale DeSena, Food That Rocks 2017 is set for Saturday, May 6, at 6:30 p.m. at Hammond Park, benefiting three Sandy Springs-based charities: Second Helpings Atlanta, Ian’s Friends Foundation and the Georgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance.

The event features gourmet bites from Sandy Springs’ best restaurants, wine, beer and cocktail tastes, and live bands.

“Sandy Springs is currently the ‘it’ community of Atlanta, and Food That Rocks is a great way to showcase our amazing culinary scene here,” DeSena said. “Our Jewish community is also well represented in Sandy Springs, and a fun food and music festival is another opportunity to come together for a great cause.”

“Last year’s event was a wonderful

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OPINION

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Shades of Evil

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Let’s get the obvious out of the way: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made a horrible blunder when he tried to use Adolf Hitler as a point of comparison for the evil of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Assad is a war criminal, a murderous thug and one of the great villains of the early 21st century; Hitler is on the short list for the most evil man in history.

Not only is there no comparison, but there’s no reason for a comparison. Each evil stands on its own.

Assad does not have to reach a certain rank on the Top 20 Villains List to be worthy of a global response, and the deaths of the nearly half-million Syrians killed in a civil war he has insisted on waging to cling to power are just as senseless no matter where he stands on the all-time list of mass murderers.

Spicer insulted the memories of the 6 million Jews and millions of other noncombatants slaughtered by Hitler and the memories of Assad’s victims in his thoughtless effort — during Passover, no less — to make one Syrian chemical attack seem worse than Hitler’s crimes. We can’t comment on Spicer’s intelligence in general, but he was stupid during that press briefing Tuesday, April 11, and in his subsequent efforts to modify and explain his claim that even Hitler hadn’t used chemical weapons on his own people.

We don’t know whether Spicer meant that gas chambers weren’t weapons or that the Jews killed in them, by virtue of being Jewish, weren’t Hitler’s people. Either way, Spicer gave support to a soft form of Holocaust denial — the kind that portrays whatever happened during World War II as just another example of wartime violence against civilians, not significantly worse in scale or unusual in its victims.

We saw it in January when the White House statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day omitted Jews. We saw it again this month when Larry Pittman, a North Carolina legislator representing a Charlotte-area district, wrote that Abraham Lincoln was “the same sort of tyrant” as Hitler, responsible for 800,000 senseless American deaths.

But we’ve also seen it from Donald Trump’s critics, including some who rushed to criticize and mock Spicer for his foolish Hitler-Assad comparison.

Those who have insisted since 2015 that Trump is or has the potential to be another Hitler, who have hammered home the idea that “we have seen this before,” who have refused to acknowledge any difference between a man who was ideologically driven to dehumanize and destroy people of ethnic, religious and political differences and a man who is simply an egomaniac — those people, for political reasons, have helped undermine public understanding and acceptance of the unique horror of the Holocaust.

Trump has given the American people ample reason for wariness. Just to start, he’s loose with the truth. He’s mercurial in foreign relations. He turns his back on people in need at home and abroad. He has a weak grasp on the Constitution. He’s perhaps Islamophobic and misogynistic.

But he’s not a war criminal. He’s not a mass murderer. He’s not Assad, let alone Hitler.

As we prepare to observe Yom HaShoah and remember the victims of the Holocaust, let us all put 10 aside the Hitler hyperbole for good. ■

Cartoon by Marian Kamensky, Austria

Going Out for the First Seder One of the messages of Passover is to remember Elijah or sing about gathering next year in Jerusalem. We missed the end-of-seder singing, especially that we were strangers in a strange land and that we “Chad Gadya” and “Adir therefore should welcome Hu,” although the two of us strangers ourselves. may have raced through a Unfortunately, I can’t Editor’s Notebook quietly boisterous version remember being a stranger of “Who Knows One?” myself at a seder — until

By Michael Jacobs Passover next year this year. With no children mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com starts on a Friday night, around for the first time so instead of opening on a in more than 20 years, my night when the restaurant wife and I decided to try usually is closed, Haven will have to give up a weeksomething different for the first seder. end night of business to hold a seder.

We were among about three dozen people who But if Herman and his partners do opt for a gathered at Haven Restaurant and Bar in Brookhavrepeat in 2018, I can all but guarantee at least two en. Executive chef Stephen Herman, prodded by people who will be there. And if the wine flows as friends, decided to open on Monday night and freely as it did this year, Herman might even have a provide a seder dinner for the first time. He supplied couple of volunteers to lead the after-dinner singing. the haggadahs and led the seder himself.

It all took place on the Haven patio on a perfect spring night.

About a Headline We had never eaten at the Dresden Drive restauSome readers — perhaps most readers — rant, and we knew no one. But it was an interesting were offended by the headline on Patrice Worthy’s crowd, including many non-Jews who were there column in the April 14 issue about her experiences with friends or spouses. It’s fun to experience a seder as a person who is both black and Jewish. To avoid at which people are learning. further offense, I won’t repeat the headline here, but It wasn’t the strictest seder. We did most of it used a form of the N-word. the steps through Shulchan Orech, the festive meal, Patrice suggested the headline, and I thought, including a collective chanting of the Four Questions despite or because of the shock value, it was approand the retelling of the Passover story. We sang parts priate for the content of the column and the upsetof “Dayenu.” We made drops of wine for the plagues, ting experiences that arose from her dual identity. and we ate our Hillel sandwiches.

But before we went to press, Patrice had conWe feasted on a delicious, albeit nonkosher, cerns that the headline might be too much, and I buffet dinner highlighted by melt-in-your-mouth should have listened to her. What she wrote was too brisket, homemade gefilte fish and Brussels sprouts powerful and too important to be overshadowed by latkes. We shared the festivities with a fun famanger and offense at the use of one word. ily, veterans of the legendary Galanti seders, so we The decision to use that headline was mine and learned about various Sephardi traditions in conmine alone, and I regret it. I apologize to our readers. trast to our usual Ashkenazi practices.

You’re never too old to learn, and I will try to The seder petered out after dinner. We didn’t oflearn from this error of judgment and the forceful, ficially get to those last two cups of wine or welcome understandable response. ■

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Hate Crimes Laws Punish Actions, Not Thoughts members of the perpetrators’ community just because of who they are.

Guest Column

By Shelley Rose

One myth about hate crimes laws is that they punish speech and thought, a claim flatly rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. These laws punish conduct: There cannot be a hate crime without an underlying crime like murder, arson, assault or vandalism.

In most criminal prosecutions, the defendant’s mental process accompanying the criminal act — motive or intent — is at issue. Just like any other crime, hate crimes, including the element of bias motive, must be proved at trial with evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury or judge, usually by statements during the crime or graffiti left behind. Because hate crimes prosecutions must meet the same rigorous evidentiary standards as all other crimes, they are hard to prove.

Hate crimes laws reflect the magnitude of the impact of these crimes, which strike fear in victimized groups, including the Jewish community.

The recent wave of bomb threats to 165 Jewish organizations, along with the desecration of three historic Jewish cemeteries, is just the latest example of the terrorizing impact of hate crimes.

They polarize entire communities and tear at our nation’s core values.

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other states and enact a comprehensive hate crimes law to protect persons and property against bias-motivated crimes. I cannot think of a more important or impactful issue to be taken up by the Atlanta Initiative Against Anti-Semitism as a focus of its efforts to combat anti-Semitism. ■ Shelley Rose is the Southeast interim regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.

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In his April 7 column, “Yes, We Are Biased,” Michael Jacobs says he does not see the need for a hate crimes law and believes it is a “distraction.”

In fact, he has bought into the misinformation spread about what these laws do.

Opponents of hate crimes laws continue to dust off the tired arguments that such laws are unnecessary and punish thought — claims that are untrue.

All crime is tragic, but hate crimes, which are criminal acts motivated by bias or bigotry, affect entire communities because they target victims simply for who they are. In these crimes, violence is not used as a means for victim compliance. Rather, inflicting maximum violence is the goal. All that matters to the assailant is that the victim is or is perceived to be of a particular race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

Because hate crimes victims are interchangeable and random, the crimes terrorize an entire community and can lead to similarly terrorizing retaliatory hate crimes against random

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Atlanta’s Arabs, Jews Share So Much

But the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ripples around the world

By Dave Schechter dschechter@atljewishtimes.com Of the Jewish community, it can be said: • Immigrant forebears are spoken of reverently.

• Education and family are prized.

• Parents wish the children knew more about their people’s history.

• Recipes handed down over generations never taste quite the same as when Grandma made them.

• There are neighborhoods where many residents have a shared faith.

• Some are fervently religious; many others, less so.

• The politics are hardly monolithic.

• News out of Israel and the Middle East receives extra attention.

• Threats and vandalism based on religion are a concern.

Much of the above also applies to the local Arab community. With exceptions, though, contact between the Jewish and Arab communities is limited.

An opportunity for interaction is

Angela Khoury (left) and Alta Schwartz work together at ALIF as an example of Arab-Jewish cooperation.

the 12th annual Atlanta Arab Festival, to be held April 22 (11 a.m. to 9 p.m.) and 23 (noon to 6 p.m.) at the ALIF Institute at 3288 Marjan Drive, off Interstate 85 south of Spaghetti Junction.

ALIF (as in the first letter of the Arabic alphabet) focuses on heritage and culture rather than politics and religion.

Alta Schwartz, who is Jewish, is

ALIF’s director of outreach and development. “Culture is an expression of our humanity. Jewish and Arab cultures share much in common, and there are many individual relationships between Jews and Arabs,” Schwartz said. “Some Jews who know about the ALIF Institute come to enjoy these connections.

I love ALIF because I feel so much at home. Everyone is welcome here. The

presents…

The Prime Ministers Soldiers and Peacemakers

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 7:00 PM

Lefont Sandy Springs • Parkside Shopping Center 5920 Roswell Road C-103 • Atlanta, GA 30328

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General Admission: $20 Purchase at: www.Wiesenthal.com/atlantaspecialscreening2017 The film follows the experiences of the late Ambassador Yehuda Avner during the years he worked for Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Menachem Begin. Based on Ambassador Avner’s best-selling book, The Prime Ministers, the film examines Rabin’s election as the country’s first native born Israeli leader in 1974, his negotiating the first bilateral treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1975, the dramatic events surrounding Israel’s rescue of hostages in Entebbe in 1976, the tense relationship between newly elected US President Jimmy Carter and Rabin and Rabin’s subsequent downfall in a financial scandal involving his wife Leah. Starring the voices of Michael Douglas as Yitzhak Rabin and Christoph Waltz as Menachem Begin and introducing Nicola Peltzas the voice of Esther Cailingold, The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers is full of emotion and rich history with rare, never before seen photos and film footage.

ALIF community is so special because of its diversity. I see it as the model for what our world can become if we focus on our common humanity rather than what divides us.”

The festival will feature traditional foods, a souk with goods for sale, Arabic songs and dances, exhibits of crafts, booths from various organizations, and entertainment for children.

One attraction is a traveling exhibit from the Arab American National Museum called “What We Carried: Fragments From the Cradle of Civilization,” the work of a photographer who documented the items brought by immigrants from Iraq and Syria.

“This exhibit is something that all human beings, but especially Jews, can connect with because it explores what we lose when we leave through the lens of what we carry with us,” Schwartz said.

The festival, which began in 2006 as Arab American Family Day, last year attracted more than 5,000 people.

“The Atlanta Arab community is a growing and vibrant community, one that in many ways has been under the radar but that now finds itself very much visible, given the political tenor of the times. That’s why efforts such as the Arab Festival are so important, because they represent a concerted effort to reach out beyond our own circles to our ‘mainstream’ fellow Americans,” said Nidal Ibrahim, a community activist and former executive director of the Arab American Institute.

When an interviewer suggested that the Jewish community knows relatively little about the Arab community, ALIF Executive Director Angela Khoury replied, “And probably it’s true the other way around.”

More common are one-on-one relationships, often between colleagues in professions in which both groups are well represented.

Interfaith activists, primarily Jews, Christians and Muslims, break bread and engage in projects together and worship with each other’s communities along religious lines.

Members of the Arab community suggest that the proverbial elephant in the room, limiting interaction with the Jewish community, may be divergent perspectives on relations between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

The Arab population in Georgia, centered primarily in the Atlanta area, has grown steadily, perhaps by 20 per-

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Lawyer Ibrahim Awad says both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can’t be right, although “it’s also possible that both sides are wrong.”

cent between 2010 and 2015. Estimates now range from 31,000, based on Census Bureau data, to 81,000 or more.

The higher figure, cited by the Arab American Institute, assumes a census undercount, in part because Arabs are considered “white,” though a Middle East/North Africa classification is being considered for the 2020 census.

Based on the available data, sections of the metro area with the highest percentage of Arab residents include the Emory corridor, Clarkston (a refugee resettlement hub), DeKalb County near Perimeter Mall, Avondale Estates and Vinings.

By ancestral ties, the greatest representation in Atlanta is believed to be Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian.

In the past several years, an influx has come from Syria and Iraq. Not all those newcomers are refugees, but they left their homelands because of conditions in both countries.

Arab-Americans, who can trace their lineage to any of 22 countries, can be Christian, Muslim, Druze or another faith (including a small number of Jews).

Estimates are that, by denomination, most Muslims of Arab descent in the United States are Sunnis, about three times as many as are Shias.

Arab Christian denominations include Maronite Catholic, Melkite Catholic, Syrian Catholic, Chaldean Catholic, Roman Catholic, Antiochian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox and various types of Protestants.

Anecdotal estimates put the Arab community in Atlanta at 60 percent Christian and 40 percent Muslim, but the recent arrivals from Syria and Iraq may have narrowed those percentages.

Khoury, who immigrated to the United States with her husband from Lebanon in 1992, studied engineering in Beirut and worked for two decades for an international computer software company. When she left the private sector, she increased her volunteer work for ALIF, becoming the executive director in 2011.

She sees similarities between Jewish and Arab families.

“Family structure is very big” in the Arab community, she said. “To have three or four kids was the norm when I was growing up, and it’s still the norm now.”

The communities also both value academics, Khoury said, along with “being respectful to your elders, being respectful to your clerics, whoever they are, being respectful to your teachers and respect for your parents … for somebody senior in the community.”

Then there are the “special traditions and meals and sweets for religious holidays and maintaining and sharing them,” she said. “All of these, I see a lot of similarities.”

Among new immigrants and their offspring, there may be a greater need to learn English, at the expense of the mother tongue. “But when these kids are adults, they say, ‘I wish my par-

AJC Atlanta’s Dov Wilker says the Jewish community has prioritized work with more influential groups than the Arab community.

ents had forced me to speak Arabic.’

I’ve heard this so many, many times,” Khoury said.

“We feel it’s a great asset to have English and Arabic,” she said, which is why some 80 families send their children to the ALIF Institute on Saturdays for language classes. “A common thread is they want their kids to learn the language and socialize with other

Arab families.”

Khoury said her three children speak Arabic a lot at home. “We want to try to keep it alive. A lot of us complain that the kids understand but reply back in English.”

When she lived in St. Louis, one of her neighbors and close friends was Jewish. Before reaching the stage where their families shared meals and holiday traditions, they had to navigate a discussion of Israel and Middle East politics.

“We tiptoed that relationship,” each wanting to know what the other thought, Khoury said. “Slowly, we found a commonality. Slowly, we avoided the direct conversation. … But we agreed on a lot of things. And agreed that it was very sad.”

Khoury acknowledged the challenge. “It’s very difficult to agree on some aspects and disagree on some other major aspects and maintain a relationship and friendship. It takes a lot of effort and wisdom and understanding and communication to say, you know, ‘We can be friends, even if we disagree on this topic.’ ” As with individuals, politics can keep communities apart.

“Well, these communities are

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minorities to begin with in this country, so I don’t think it’s an intentional avoidance all the time, but one can’t ignore the big elephant in the room when we are in fact present together,” said Asma Elhuni, who emigrated from Libya as a child and is a student in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and a legislative aide to state Rep. Brenda Lopez (D-Norcross). “Though some people avoid talking about Israel, there is a sense of caution when dealing with Jews who actively promote the state of Israel. To many Arabs, when they hear that someone supports Israel, they oftentimes hear they support the mistreatment of Palestinians.”

Nidal Ibrahim is of Palestinian descent and immigrated about 40 years ago. “I think the obstacles to closer Jewish and Arab/Muslim (relations) remain primarily political — in other words, the Israel-Palestine issue and all of its associated complications with regards to Lebanon, Syria, etc. I think that continues to cloud all institutional relationships, and there is a pervasive sense of distrust on both sides,” he said.

“There are plenty of personal and professional relationships. I myself count a few as among my strongest here in Atlanta. But at the same time, with very few exceptions, there is a steering away of any direct conversations on this underlying issue.”

Jamal Awad, a Palestinian immigrant, said: “I’ve been juggling the answer in my head, but the bitterness in my life that this (Arab-Israeli conflict) has caused cannot be sugarcoated.

Many Jews cannot see the disaster that Israel’s creation has caused on my people, family and life.”

He spoke to his son, lawyer Ibra-

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him Awad, who holds degrees from Dalton State College, Kennesaw State University and Georgia State University, when he added, “In reality, I am considered as one of the fortunate and lucky ones since I made it to the U.S. I am ever grateful for making it here, but you will have a better chance of solving this conflict than I ever would.”

For his part, Ibrahim Awad said: “For any progress to be made, both parties have to step out of their comfort zone. This topic is not comfortable. That’s the impediment. It evokes deep passions on both sides. And both sides can’t be right. It’s also possible that both sides are wrong, but there is always one side more wrong than the other. What each side needs to know about the other is that with every person injured or killed, whole families are affected.”

As to organizational contact between the communities, Khoury said, “We want to see the steps come in both ways, but there is zero objection” to ALIF developing closer relationships with Jewish institutions.

Dov Wilker, the regional director

for American Jewish Committee’s Atlanta Chapter, said he doesn’t believe that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is behind the limited contact between the Arab and Jewish communities.

“As the Jewish community has been involved with ethnic, religious and international communities, the priority has been on those communities who have been influential in the advancement of the city to date,” he said. “It’s not to say that we don’t want to engage with the Arab community.

On the contrary, we have had many efforts through the religious angle, to connect with Muslims and even Christians. However, because of limited resources, connecting with the Arab community has not been at the top of the list.

“That being said, I cannot speak for the lack of outreach from the Arab community to the Jewish community.

While the Jewish community often initiates these efforts, we are more than happy to be approached by leaders of the Arab community. Additionally, while it is difficult to engage with the Asian community, because they are so

diverse, the same is true of the Arab community.”

“The Atlanta Arab community is religiously and nationally diverse. Not every Arab is affiliated with a religious institution or cultural institution,” said Ilise Cohen, a scholar whose doctorate is in social and cultural anthropology focused on Mizrahi Jews, whose origins are in the Middle East. “Arabs in the Atlanta community are involved in many personal and professional endeavors,” including cultural preservation, health education, social justice, civil and human rights, and philanthropy.

Cohen heads the Atlanta chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, which advocates “an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem,” with “security and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians.”

Khoury is encouraged by Jews and Arabs who oppose efforts by the Trump administration to restrict immigration and travel to the United States by the residents of several primarily Muslim nations.

“One of the good things that I think can come out of it is for more Jews and Arabs to see how much more in common we have,” she said. “How now we see that the persecution, quoteunquote, is toward Arabs, but this is still very fresh in the memory of the Jewish people.”

Ibrahim echoed that thought. “Divisions tend to, not necessarily disappear, but are temporarily shelved when you’re in the same foxhole as someone, and there is increasingly this feeling that both communities are being targeted and scapegoated by a resurgent, racially motivated political movement.” ■

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Baxter Safeguarded Survivors’ Legacy

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com

A child of survivors, Liliane Baxter spent 13 years leading the Breman’s Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education.

ness, a Breman series in which a survivor speaks after a brief documentary portraying that individual story.

“I thought to myself, ‘How can we preserve survivors’ stories, especially since we are beginning to lose speakers?’ ” After consulting with Yad Vashem, Baxter appreciated the value of film for connecting survivors to audiences.

“The videos followed by the Q&As became an influential aspect of teaching. When audience members get to see a hero, they become more attentive and inevitably learn more,” Baxter said.

The project moved ahead with the support of past President Norman Zoler, funding from the Halpern family and a film committee created with the help of Jodi Cohen.

Bearing Witness programs now routinely fill the auditorium at the Selig Center. Thanks to donations by the Sara Giles Moore Foundation, people can attend the sessions and tour the museum those days at no charge.

“When visitors are asked how many are Jewish, only about half raise their hand. This is a good indication that we need to continue teaching and relay survivors’ stories,” Baxter said.

In retirement, she looks forward to time with her three children and seven grandchildren, and she will teach “Yiddish Through Song” at the Marcus Jewish Community Center’s Lisa Brill Institute in January.

Baxter said she was fortunate to work with the Breman. “Listening to survivors’ stories makes you realize how quickly hate can seep into a community and a nation. The survivors have a responsibility to share their story with the world; it is our responsibility to listen. The Holocaust’s narrative touches on the extremes of life in terms of love, hate, brutality, life and death, which compose the panorama of human behavior. It’s also a continuation of what matters most in life, such as family, one’s identity, foundation and need for relationships.” ■

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Liliane Kshensky Baxter devoted 13 years to preserving Holocaust survivors’ stories at the Breman Museum’s Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education, a legacy she has passed to Rabbi Joseph Prass after retiring in March.

Her emphasis was on the Holocaust’s Jewish perspective. After repeatedly hearing “Why didn’t the Jews do anything?” she focused on four words that capture Jews’ bravery: resource, resistance, rescue and resilience.

Baxter’s family history reveals why her position was important to her.

Born to Polish Holocaust survivors in a displaced persons camp in Sweden, Baxter immigrated to New York at age 9. Yiddish was often spoken at home.

She studied Yiddish at the Jewish Teachers’ Seminary and earned a bachelor’s in English from Hunter College.

After moving to Atlanta to obtain her doctorate, Baxter volunteered at the King Center until she was offered a job by Coretta Scott King as the director of nonviolence studies and research.

“It was a wonderful opportunity, and I really enjoyed working there,” Baxter said. “It was about making a difference in the realm of social activism and nonviolence while keeping in tradition with tikkun olam. I felt the center and the civil rights era mimicked those who were committed to nonviolence after seeing the horrors of World War II.” At Emory, Baxter enrolled in the Candler School of Theology, where she pursued a degree in human development, and took courses in women’s studies. “I was interested in moral development and how to become a better mensch. I wanted to discover what gives people the most meaning in life and promote it within them,” Baxter said. “I was particularly fascinated with heroic individuals such as Gandhi and Dr. King, who were willing and able to extend themselves to help others.”

Working at the Breman since 2004, Baxter helped educate children and adults through survivors’ stories.

“We focused a great deal of our attention based off the Survivors Speakers Bureau and wanted to help survivors share their stories in a clear, effective and engaging manner, which now includes visual presentations through technology, partnerships with the survivors and docents,” Baxter said.

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With over 100 million records sold, Billy Joel is one of America’s most popular music icons, but few of his fans know about his family’s escape from Nazi Germany.

To help bridge the gap, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, in partnership with the AtlantaNuremberg Sister Cities Committee, held an evening of entertainment and dialogue April 6 to highlight the Joel family’s tumultuous past.

The tribute act Billy and the Joels livened the night, with pianist Werner Kandzora and singer Stefan Angele performing classics such as “Piano Man” and “Just the Way You Are.” Nuremberg journalist and author Steffen Radmaier read excerpts from his book about the family history.

Karl Armson, Joel’s grandfather, opened a garment store in Nuremberg, which brought him affluence, Radmaier said. Armson developed a passion for music, which he believed reflected culture and led him to buy his son, Helmut, a piano.

By 1933, however, anti-Semitic propaganda had spread throughout the country, targeting numerous Jewish businesses.

Armson realized it was becoming increasingly dangerous to live in Nuremberg and relocated to Berlin in 1934. Although Germany received recognition during the 1936 Olympics, Armson felt the political climate turn more severely against Jews by 1938. He sent his wife and son to Switzerland while he sought to sell the family business at any price.

“It makes us see how cruel the system was to rip people out from the middle of society,” Radmaier said.

Armson sold the business at a cheap price to Josef Neckermann, who later became a catalog mogul in Germany. Arriving in Switzerland, Armson discovered that Neckermann had placed the family’s money in a separate bank account and cut off access.

With limited resources, Armson was again forced to transplant his family and purchased three tickets from England to Cuba.

The Armsons felt like strangers in Cuba, Radmaier said. They could not do much, and they sold jewelry to sustain a living. Although Armson was persistent in teaching his son music,

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Above: Steffen Radmaier describes the Joel family history and escape from Nazi Germany with a series of images and excerpts from his book “Billy and the Joels: The American Rock Star and His German Family Story.”

Below: Pianist Werner Kandzora and singer Stefan Angele perform Joel classics such as “Movin’ Out” at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

the family could not afford a piano.

Armson tried to bring his brother, Leonel, and his wife and children to Cuba, but they were on the St. Louis, doomed to be turned away from Cuba and the United States and forced to return to Europe.

After living in Cuba for four years, the Armsons moved to the United States and settled in Brooklyn.

Son Helmut Armson enlisted in the U.S. Army and returned to Europe to locate any remaining family members. But Radmaier said he instead discovered a notice indicating that relatives were sent to Auschwitz.

Back from the war, Helmut studied and received an opportunity at General Electric. He then married Rosalind Nyman, and they had their first child, Billy, in 1949.

According to Radmaier, Joel’s music career began as a child when his father left and he was forced to support the family. He became a professional musician at age 14 while living on Long Island and made his first record in 1971.

“Despite his family’s arduous past and volatile music career, Billy continues to perform at sold-out shows in Europe and across America and has also received the Kennedy Honor,” Radmaier said.

Joel is scheduled to perform at the new Braves stadium, SunTrust Park, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 28, with tickets starting at $54 (m.mlb.com/braves/ tickets/concerts/billy-joel). ■

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Losing Our Two Survivors rest of the story out of her father-inlaw. Then the two of them wrote the book together. My wife read one draft and offered her suggestions. With a great deal of effort, Bert and Bev finished the book and had it published.

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When we in the family read it, we were amazed because none of us had heard Bert’s story. His ability to survive, as recorded in the book, has inspired all the family members and, I am sure, many of you.

Our other survivor who left us last year was Professor Dov Levin of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University. Levin published 22 books in various languages and 800 articles. He was relentless in proving that the Jews did fight back against the Nazis.

A native of Kovno, he escaped the ha, and his children, Nitzana, Bastmat ghetto there and was able to join the and Zvika, very well because we spent Lithuanian partimany wonderful sans. Few Jews were times in the Levin permitted in those home. ranks. For several Clearly, the imyears he was one of pact of the Levins the partisans’ most inspired six granddedicated guerrilla children to make fighters. aliyah. Many of us After a career of here were present two decades of being at Dov’s funeral, as a social worker in were professors and Jerusalem, he comformer comrades in pleted his doctorate arms. at the Hebrew UniYom HaShoah versity and began to has truly become a work steadily on the time to reflect on the history of the Jews great losses families in the Baltic counexperienced.

We tries: Lithuania, Lathad many Geffen via and Estonia. The relatives who were books and articles Bert Lewyn’s “On the Run in slaughtered. brilliantly flew from Nazi Berlin,” released in 2001, is For many of available new in paperback and his mind. you, the verse in as an e-book at Amazon.com.

Via our visits Zechariah is most and studies in Israel, important. Thankfully, some of us have the grandchildren of Rabbi and Mrs. “our own brands plucked out of the Geffen came to know Dov, his wife, Bilfire.” ■

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For the Geffen family, this past year had a bittersweet taste. We lost the two Holocaust survivors whom we had all come to know through Rabbi Tuvia Geffen and his wife. Though they both were from Sara Geffen’s family, Rabbi Geffen loved each one dearly and did all he could for them.

The older was Bert Lewyn of Atlanta. The Geffens brought him to Atlanta in 1949 from a displaced persons camp in Germany, where he had been since the war ended. Many of you have read Bert’s story in the book he wrote with daughterin-law Bev Lewyn, whom many of you know.

The book is “On the Run in Nazi Berlin,” written 40 years after he came to Atlanta at the urging of a first cousin, Dov Levin, who also died this past year. One of Levin’s areas of expertise was oral history. He pushed his cousin to record the details of his three years alone in Berlin.

But the book came to be because Bev Lewyn, a CNN veteran, pulled the

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Seven Atlantans traveled to Warsaw to help celebrate the launch of American Jewish Committee’s Central Europe office in the Polish capital.

Jacqueline Morris, Belinda Morris, Melanie Nelkin, Allan Nelkin, Bill Schwartz, Janice Ellin and Richard Ellin represented AJC Atlanta at the opening gala, which drew more than 500 government officials, diplomats, media members and European Jewish leaders to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on Monday, March 27.

AJC’s newest office marks the organization’s expansion of its advocacy and diplomatic outreach in Europe.

AJC has been one of the most active nongovernmental organizations promoting democratic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989.

AJC Central Europe serves Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

AJC opened the office with donations from AJC President John Shapiro and his wife, Shonni Silverberg, as well as AJC Board of Governors Chair Harriet Schleifer, Executive Council member Steven Zelkowitz and Board of Governors member Gail Binderman.

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(From left) Jacqueline and Belinda Morris, Bill Schwartz, Melanie and Allan Nelkin, and Janice and Richard Ellin visit AJC’s new Central Europe office.

“I am glad that you have chosen the capital of Poland as the place from which the activities of AJC will extend all over our region,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said in a letter read

by Polish Undersecretary of State Wojciech Kolarski.

“We still remember with gratitude your support for our aspirations,” Duda said, referring to AJC’s Senate testimony backing the admission of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary to NATO after their Communist regimes fell. “The American Jewish Committee proved to be our valuable ally.”

Atlantans (from left) Jacqueline Morris, Belinda Morris, Melanie Nelkin and Allan Nelkin join the celebration of the AJC Central Europe opening in Warsaw.

Duda addressed the relationship of Poles and Jews. “I consider it meaningful that this gala takes place in the amazing Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

This institution is critically important for preserving the truth about the common history of both our nations.”

He said AJC and Poland are working together to spread knowledge about what the Germans did on Polish soil during World War II. Former Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga delivered the gala’s keynote address. “It is truly moving for me as a former president of one of the sev-

en countries to be here for the opening of the AJC Central Europe office,” VīķeFreiberga said. “I am an old friend of AJC. Thank you, AJC, for what you have done not only for my country’s aspirations, but for all three Baltic states and four Visegrad nations.”

Vīķe-Freiberga spoke about the history of Jews in Central Europe.

“Do not forget that your ancestors who lived in our countries made important contributions that are worth remembering. Countries they loved became part of their heritage,” she said.

“The roots from this part of the world are part of your Jewish heritage. Add to the richness of your heart, notwithstanding the bitterness you might feel toward some because of earlier atrocities committed against your people.”

The gala was the centerpiece of a brief mission to Warsaw by more than 130 U.S. AJC leaders, including the seven Atlantans, to mark the opening of AJC Central Europe.

The AJC delegation met with the U.S. and Israeli ambassadors to Poland, Paul Jones and Anna Azari, both of whom addressed the gala March 27.

Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Shud­ rich delivered the opening invocation, and the leader of Poland’s Catholic bishops, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, offered the closing benediction.

AJC CEO David Harris presented the Jan Karski Award to Andrzej Folwarczny, the founder and president of the Forum for Dialogue, an AJC partner organization. The forum and AJC established an annual exchange program 19 years ago to deepen understanding between Poles and American Jews.

“Andrzej captures the spirit of Jan Karski, a true hero of humanity,” Harris said. “Thanks to Andrzej’s vision to bridge the abyss between Poland and Israel, between Poland and Jews, many have come to understand each other better. Together, they are determined to become authors of history.”

Karski, a member of the Polish underground, let himself be taken to Ausch­ witz, gathered evidence of the atrocities, then escaped and reported his findings to the U.S. government.

“It is a great honor to receive this award. Jan Karski is a role model for us at the Forum for Dialogue. This award is a tribute to our longstanding partnership with AJC,” Folwarczny said. “More than 300 people have participated directly in our Polish-Jewish exchange program. They have created a unique network of people who care about Polish-Jewish relations.” ■

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By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com A scene late in the first hour of “Genius” demonstrates the contradictions of Albert Einstein.

It’s 1932, and the Nazis have done frighteningly well in a parliamentary election. Einstein’s second wife, Elsa, urges him to leave Germany, but he’s dismissive of her fears and walks to his regular tobacco shop for a refill.

On the way home, he comes upon young brownshirts assaulting Jews while a crowd watches silently. Einstein, a pacifist, feebly tries to get his fellow Germans to act, then almost as weakly shouts for the Nazis to stop.

A child who is cheering the beating sees Einstein and chases him around the block so he can ask the worldfamous physicist for his autograph — on a swastika-covered card. An older Hitler Youth type sends the boy away and spits in the Jewish scientist’s face, but only after the child declares that he wants to grow up to be a scientist just like Einstein, punctuated with “Germany, heil!”

It’s all there: the brilliant, famous scientist who once renounced his German citizenship but doesn’t want to leave Germany, is dependent on but dismissive of his wife, and has no interest in Judaism (a ham dinner features prominently in the same episode) but is threatened and hated for being Jewish.

In other words, “Genius,” a 10-part series premiering at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, on the National Geographic cable network, isn’t lacking for conflict. It also has no shortage of star power on both sides of the camera: Geoffrey Rush as Einstein, Emily Watson as Elsa, Johnny Flynn as young Einstein and Michael McElhatton (Tywin Lannister on “Game of Thrones”) as Einstein rival Philipp Lenard, with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard serving as executive producers of a screenplay based on Walter Isaacson’s biography “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”

To support the Hollywood talent, the show boasts movie-quality production values that bring the late 19th and early 20th centuries to life. Just as important, “Genius” shows us the remarkable thought experiments that enabled Einstein to achieve insights into time and space.

The two episodes provided for review make clear that the series is not an exercise in hero worship. Einstein

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Albert Einstein (Geoffrey Rush) tries to ignore the signs of the rising Nazi threat in Germany in 1932 in the first episode of “Genius.”

is disrespectful to his father and potential father figures, takes advantage of friends, and is somewhere between selfish and emotionally abusive in his relationships with women.

But “Genius” is an entertaining, insightful exploration of the development and nurturing of one of modern history’s most original and important minds. ■

Lublin Invites Jews Home Lublin, Poland, is holding a reunion of former Jewish residents and their descendants in July to help celebrate the city’s 700th anniversary.

The Lubliner Reunion is expected to draw at least 100 participants in the first gathering of Lublin’s Jews in 70 years. It comes 75 years after the Nazis liquidated the city’s Jewish ghetto in March 1942.

“The Lubliner Reunion is a way to build a bridge across time,” said Tomasz Pietrasiewicz, the founder and director of the Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center, which is hosting the reunion. “It’s meant as a meeting in which both the people and their stories are important.”

Grodzka Gate is an organization run by non-Jews to preserve the memory of Jewish Lublin, whose history includes Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, the Council of the Four Lands (Vaad Arba Aratzot) and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

The gate itself marked the border between the Jewish and Christian areas of the old city of Lublin.

“We want to preserve what is

left of Lublin’s Jewish community,” Pietrasiewicz said. “The Lubliner Reunion will allow us to share knowledge and fill the blank spaces in the stories about Lublin and its inhabitants.”

On the eve of World War II, Lublin had 43,000 Jewish residents, onethird of the city’s population. The Nazis killed most of them. One death camp, Majdanek, was on the outskirts of Lublin.

The reunion, from July 3 to 7, will include discussions of the history and culture of Jewish Lublin, workshops in genealogy, public commemorations, artistic events, and walks along tourist trails, such as a Holocaust memory trail that opened March 16, the anniversary of the ghetto’s liquidation.

Presentations of Lubliner family stories will be central to the reunion.

“We want to get in touch with and invite all those whose families come from Lublin,” reunion coordinator Monika Tarajko said.

The reunion events within Lublin are free. Visit teatrnn.pl/lubliners/en for details and registration. ■

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In its thousand-year history, one of the centers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe had many names and many rulers. It was Mukachevo, Mukacevo, Munkatsch and Muncacs, depending on which nation claimed it.

For 18 years, Eugen Schoenfeld, born in 1925, called Muncacs home.

Now 91, Schoenfeld, who for many years led the sociology department at Georgia State University and is a regular AJT columnist, still has vivid memories of Jewish life in the tumultuous years between the world wars.

His recollections of life in Muncacs form a rich legacy of an era when Jewish communal living was at its peak in much of Eastern and Central Europe.

“We were lucky in a sense,” he said.

“We were given the political autonomy to organize the Jewish community around the needs of the Jewish people.”

He speaks of the Holocaust from experience, not only of the personal tragedy of the loss of so many friends and family, but also of all that existed in Jewish cultural and religious life.

The Jews of Muncacs were heavily influenced by a thriving Hasidic movement. The chief rabbi was Chaim Elazar Spira, the leader of the Muncaser Hasidic community.

When his only daughter married in 1933, 10,000 guests flooded the town, and the government suspended immigration rules for anyone who wished to attend. A Soviet newsreel camera crew from Moscow covered the event.

FULL Muncacs counted numerous folWARRANTY lowers of the rebbes of other Hasidic families as well. There were sizable numbers of the Belz dynasty, of the Spinka, Zidichov and Vizhnitz families.

There was a well-developed network of cheders for teaching the young about the Torah and simple Jewish law.

For older students, the Tiferes Bechorim provided daily classes in Rashi and Torah studies and the finer points of Jewish law in the Gemara and Tosafot. Community mikvahs not only served a religious function, but provided a bath for many community members each week before Shabbat. A network of Jewish charities provided aid to the poor.

There were printing presses for religious works and for the Yiddish newspapers that were published each Friday. The community had nearly 30 synagogues, open to all any time of the year.

“Unlike contemporary American

practice,” Schoenfeld said, “no one was ever denied entrance to a synagogue on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. It was an unheard-of thing, for a Jew to be denied entrance to a synagogue.”

Schoenfeld received a progressive education at the Muncacs Gymnasium, a strong supporter of the Zionist movement. All its classes were taught in Hebrew, and every student had to pass a comprehensive exam conducted entirely in the language to graduate. The school was considered one of the finest Jewish educational institutions of its kind in Eastern Europe.

It thrived among the more modern residents of the town despite an order from the Hasidic chief rabbi, who initially excommunicated the teachers, staff and parents who sent their children there.

The center of Schoenfeld’s life was the Great Synagogue of Muncacs, built

by Mitnagdim (Orthodox) religious opponents of the Hasidim. It echoed with the voices of magnificent cantorial artists. They included Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, who went on to enormous success in the United States. In 1927 he appeared in Hollywood’s first modern sound film, “The Jazz Singer.”

Despite its size and sophistication, Schoenfeld remembers his hometown more as a shtetl, a closely knit Jewish community with traditional values, than as a thriving, modern center of 20th century Jewish life.

Although half the town’s residents were non-Jews, the Jewish community created a sense of distance and self-sufficiency. Growing up, Schoenfeld didn’t know any non-Jewish residents.

“The shtetl was organized around the social condition of that time,” he said. “It was centered around the duties man had toward G-d, the duties men had toward other men and the duthisMesMoney Mailer ties one had in the faith With that the siah would come one day.Not These validthree with any othe duties were the three most important Expires 2/3/14 duties of life that began in the Middle Ages and continued as the central values of the shtetl.”

Jewish life in Muncacs abruptly ended in the final years of World War II. By the end of May 1944, its 15,000 Jews had been deported to Auschwitz, and the Nazis pronounced the city Judenrein — free of Jews. ■

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Jewish Book Council Preserves Survivor Heritage Vilna, Lithuania, was among the many cities the Nazis looted during World War II because of its rich Jewish heritage and culture. Vilna (now Vilnius) contained religious relics, libraries, synagogues and prominent scholars.

According to Lenore Weitzman’s “A Brief History of the Paper Brigade,” the Nazis ordered the head of the Vilna ghetto library, Herman Kruk, and the director of prewar research institute YIVO, Zelig Kalmanovich, to collect the best Jewish books, museum valuables and artwork for shipment to Germany, where they would be placed in a museum after all the Jews were slain.

Kruk recruited Jewish intelligentsia, however, to rescue thousands of books and documents, which were hidden in the ghetto or sent to friends outside Lithuania. The workers called themselves the Paper Brigade, whose legacy lives in the Vilna Museum of the Jewish People.

In homage to the rescuers, the Jewish Book Council’s annual publication, Paper Brigade, contains stories of Jewish interest from around the world. The AJT talked with JBC Executive Director Naomi Firestone-Teeter.

AJT: Can you describe JBC’s annual literary magazine, Paper Brigade?

Firestone-Teeter: The first publication came around 1942 and reflected modern Jewish happenings at the time. It discussed issues of concern to the Jewish community and served as an access point for readers. The 2017 publication reflects the 21st century aesthetic and mindset of Judaism not just in America, but also abroad, such as Greece, Turkey, Iran and Israel. We aim to preserve Jewish text, memory and history through stories which make up who we are. We see a lot of value in that, especially right now, as they play an important role for community members who are interested in their heritage and history. This edition is particularly special because we were also able to attain the rights to publish some of Abraham Sutzkever’s poems, who was one of the original rescuers. … A separate publication, due in October, will recount the Paper Brigade’s mission in Professor David Fishman’s book “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures From the Nazis.”

AJT: How does the Paper Brigade’s

history intertwine with the Holocaust?

Firestone-Teeter: We have been a very important vehicle in sharing survivors’ stories since the ’40s. Not only sharing their narratives, but also the history, scholarship, biographies and even fiction of what happened during the Holocaust. We have also been instrumental in bringing different kinds of truths to the Holocaust to a very wide audience. I hope that has encouraged people to continue producing and preserving memories of those who perished, especially since we are nearing the last chapter of survivors.

AJT: Why is preserving Holocaust

survivors’ stories important to the JBC? Firestone-Teeter: Text and written word is the foundation of who we are in every possible way. I think at times people are overwhelmed with so much media and false information out there.

However, with an organization such as ours, it’s our job to create a platform for those who truly have a story to tell and have truth on their side. This year we are also giving out the Holocaust Book Award in memory of Ernest W. Michel in response to the events of the Holocaust and preserving Jewish accounts.

AJT: Can you explain the Jewish Book Council’s work?

Firestone-Teeter: The JBC is a nonprofit geared toward promoting Jewish culture. Our goal is to encourage Jewish-interest literature and to make sure Jewish stories are produced, published and reach the hands of countless readers. Each year we work with about 250 to 280 authors who have a book out and wish to participate in Jewish book fairs or JCCs. … Throughout the year we also publish a few hundred book reviews on our website and promote them across our digital channel and social media. In addition to the Paper Brigade, we also have the National Jewish Book Award, which we’ve been giving out since the late ’40s. ■

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Irena Sendler isn’t a household name in the Jewish world, but, despite her 4-foot-11 height, she towers over most righteous gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis.

Sendler was the brains and guts behind a ring of Polish non-Jews and Jews responsible for spiriting 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and saving them from destruction.

Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the remarkable story of Sendler in “Irena’s Children,” the rare Holocaust history that leaves you hopeful about humanity.

Mazzeo, who had a scheduling conflict with the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center in November, will recount the story of Sendler and occupied Warsaw at the JCC’s free Yom HaShoah commemoration Sunday, April 23. She’ll speak that night at 7:30 at Zaban Park; tickets are $10 for members, $15 for others.

Mazzeo covers some less savory aspects of Sendler’s life, specifically her failed marriage and her longtime affair with a married Jewish man.

That messy personal life may have played a part in her determined efforts to slip into and out of the ghetto while smuggling supplies in and people out, and it likely reflected her modern, antitraditionalist attitudes, which helped her see the Jews in the ghetto as fellow people, not subhumans or non-Poles.

Still, “Irena’s Children” reads like a novel, thanks to Mazzeo’s ability to apply vivid writing to her extensive research in archival documents and interviews with survivors of World War II Warsaw and their descendants.

That research enables Mazzeo to get inside the heads of real people as if they were characters she created, so that she can resolve conflicting evidence, re-create conversations, and even project the thoughts of Sendler and others. It’s a technique my college adviser, a professor of ancient history, referred to as “I can’t prove it, but I know it’s true.”

Mazzeo recounts the story of one

group of children Sendler couldn’t save: a couple of hundred children in a makeshift ghetto orphanage run by a friend of hers, Dr. Janusz Korczak. It was August 1942, when the Germans were shipping thousands of Jews a day from the ghetto to the death camps, and the SS marched feeble orphans and the sickness-weakened Korczak more than three miles through the summer heat to get to the railcar that would take them to their deaths at Treblinka.

“That morning his back was straight and he was carrying one of the weary toddlers,” Mazzeo writes. “Am I dreaming? The thought floated through Irena’s mind. Is this possible? What is the possible guilt of these children?”

Mazzeo has Sendler notice a heartbreaking detail: The children, each allowed to bring a single personal possession, carried dolls carved by her former psychology professor, which she had smuggled into the ghetto for them.

Somehow, such horrors strengthened the resolve of Sendler and her friends to work ever harder to rescue Jews rather than try to save themselves.

Naturally, more than a few of Sendler’s circle didn’t survive the Nazi occupation to live instead under Communist oppression. But, as far as Mazzeo could uncover, none of them gave up. None of them stopped fighting. Almost none of them broke under Gestapo torture and betrayed their comrades.

In addition to Mazzeo’s presentation, the JCC ceremony will include readings and prayers for the victims of the Holocaust and the lighting of six torches to represent the 6 million murdered Jews.

Through Sendler’s efforts, however, thousands of Jews survived Warsaw despite the Nazis’ best efforts to snuff them out. ■

What: Yom HaShoah commemoration Where: Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden, Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody When: 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 23 Details: Free; www.atlantajcc.org or 678-812-4161

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Israeli Jazz Singer Learns To Love New York Life Tamuz Nissim grew up in Israel playing the trumpet, but during a school recital she sang, and everyone knew her voice would be the instrument to carry her far. Referred to as the girl with the cat eyes, she is known for her velvety vocals over classic melodies.

The inspiration for her latest album, “Liquid Melodies,” is New York, where she has found a new outlook on life and love.

Nissim will take the Rialto Center for the Arts stage with three other acts at International Jazz Day on Sunday, April 30, as part of the 40 Days of Jazz, a prelude to the Atlanta Jazz Festival on Memorial Day weekend.

AJT: How did you cultivate an interest in jazz?

Nissim: There is a lot of jazz in Israel. I particularly grew up listening to jazz and classical music. Jazz is a familiar sound in Israel. I grew up playing classical piano, and when I sang one song, it was apparent I should use my voice. I was drawn to jazz at a young age.

AJT: What artists most influence your work?

Nissim: I listened to Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Patricia Barber. Also, I like a lot of instrumentals. I was always trying to find my personal voice, so I would take things away that I liked about each of them.

AJT: What did you take away from Sarah Vaughan?

Nissim: She takes a lot of freedom in the way she sings the melodies and improvisation. She knew every detail of the music and the rhythm. The feelings she brings and the way she tells her personal stories through music make her vulnerable.

AJT: How long have you lived in New York? And how do you like it?

Nissim: For about 2½ years I was going back and forth between Israel and New York City and then decided to move. Jazz is definitely the soundtrack of the city, and you can walk down the street and hear music. In Europe you go to a concert or show and see jazz artists; here you meet them casually. It’s inspiring for writers and composers.

You come across more opportunities, and the collaborations really develop a

lot in New York City. I’ve collaborated with Willie Applewhite, an amazing trombone player, and Harvie S, a great bass player.

AJT: How is “Liquid Melodies” different from your last album?

Nissim: It is named after one of the first songs I wrote when I moved to New York. So the last album, I was writing songs from when I was living in Holland. I Tamuz Nissim was affected by the weather and it raining all the time.

“Liquid Melodies” is about finding what’s important in life and loving life.

It’s about love and music and how music can make the world a better place.

AJT: What will you be performing at International Jazz Day? Nissim: It is an hour-long concert, so I will be playing 10 or 11 songs. Some will be from my new and old albums, and I will also be performing other jazz standards that I like.

AJT: You have a classic jazz voice that is blended with contemporary rhythms. Is that purposeful, or does it happen organically?

Nissim: Being a singer, you work on your instrument for years. You work on your own sound. The sound happens organically. I don’t try to color my voice to sound more jazzy or less jazzy.

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Kids’ Clothing Starts Constructive Discussions

By Cady Schulman cschulman@atljewishtimes.com When Mamie Dayan Vogel worked in the public sector, she instantly noticed the gender discrepancy in the workplace. Women were placed in more creative roles, while men worked with data, algorithms and software.

That division wasn’t OK with Dayan Vogel. She decided to do something to help erase traditional gender roles.

“Why were all these women working with the font and the colors and the layouts, and why were the men working on the hard coding?” she said. “This seems bigger than (aptitude). It has nothing to do with gender at all. These were clearly the end result of a society that says these are the kinds of jobs girls do and these are the kinds of jobs boys do. That wasn’t cool in my world.”

Dayan Vogel, a former Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta employee who led Atlanta’s PJ Library efforts, decided to start with the next generation.

She launched Constructive Kidicisms, which designs shirts and body suits for infants and toddlers to show they can be anything, regardless of sex. She said children need to grow up learning that boys can cook and girls can code.

Constructive Kidicisms has three lines: Future Careers, including “Future Madame President,” “Future Mathematician” and “Physician in Training”; I Can, with slogans such as “I CAN Cook & Code” and “I CAN Dance and Design a Business Plan”; and General Business, with such messages as “Citizen of the World” and “I Heart my Roth IRA.” “Everyone’s really excited, not only because of the gender neutrality, but (because) I think it really resonates with people,” she said. “One other big part of the story is that when I was a child, people would say, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ A very exciting, bold question is also huge and a lot of pressure because nobody talks about the options. People say, ‘Oh, I get it. I can be a mathematician or president or a doctor.’ I think it resonates with people because it makes them remember their childhood.”

Dayan Vogel hopes to sell a “My curves are beautiful” shirt, with the words forming a heart, for boys as well as girls because both need to learn that everyone is perfect as is, she said.

“I really wanted to impact that whole body image thing but starting at a young age and having a strong iden-

Above: Mamie Dayan Vogel has developed the idea of Constructive Kidicisms for years.

Left: “Future Madame President” is part of the Future Careers line.

tity early,” she said. “I wanted to begin the conversations of body identity and the way your body is made is natural and perfect. Whether you’re curvy or not curvy, it’s beautiful. I wanted the conversation to begin with positivity and that chunky babies and curvy girls are perfect just the way they are.”

Although Constructive Kidicisms was in the works for four years, the company’s website, www.kidicisms. com, just launched in October.

Dayan Vogel recently joined three other businesses in a “Shark Tank”style Salesforce pitch competition with Atlanta judges and a live audience.

“I had less than a week to prepare,” she said. “I had never done a pitch. … I couldn’t delegate this to somebody else.

I’m the only one. I had to come up with a pitch deck and time myself and make sure it was legible and understandable and practice it with both people I knew and strangers. It was a lot of fun. I’m thrilled that I did it and ripped off that Band-Aid and tried something new, but it was pretty nerve-racking.”

Besides relaunching the website, Dayan Vogel is working on a Kickstarter campaign for the end of May. The company also is co-sponsoring pop-up picnics in Jewish communities: five in May, five in June and five in July.

Dayan Vogel is working with nonprofit organizations to help children understand they can be whatever they want to be no matter what society says.

In response to requests, she is looking at adding adult sizes to her inventory.

“I really want to have a motherson or father-daughter matching pair,” she said. “We need role models.” ■

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Governor, Southern Co. Highlight Conexx Gala Conexx: America Israel Business Connector is hosting its 16th gala and awards reception Wednesday, May 3, at the Twelve Atlantic Station hotel.

Each spring Conexx recognizes businesses and leaders in the Southeast for their cooperation with Israeli companies in multiple categories. This year Conexx is not presenting an award for Innovative Academic Program as in years past.

Conexx will honor five recipients: Southern Co.; Tosaf; Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal; the Atlanta Jewish Times; and the combination of Nexidia and NICE. Based in Atlanta, gas and electric utility Southern Co. is being honored as the U.S. Company of the Year. Southern serves 9 million customers, and its subsidiaries are operating or developing renewable solar, wind and biomass facilities across the United States.

Southern has increased business with Israel in the innovation and energy space. Conexx plans to take a group

Gov. Nathan Deal is being honored with the Tom Glaser Leadership Award.

of executives from Southern on a business mission to Israel this fall.

“Southern Co. is a great partner in working with and looking for Israeli companies to do business with,” said Benjamin Fink, the chairman of the Conexx board.

The Israeli Company of the Year is Tosaf, a global leader in developing and manufacturing high-quality additives, compounds and color for the plastics industry.

A privately owned company, Tosaf employs 800 people worldwide, including 60 in North America. Tosaf North America runs manufacturing plants

in Arlington, Texas, and Bessemer City, N.C. The Tom Glaser Leadership Award is going to the governor, who is a great friend of Israel, Fink said. Deal has encouraged the purchase of Israel Bonds, travel to Israel, and relationships between Georgia and Israel.

The award is meant to honor Deal’s long-term support for the Georgia-Israel relationship.

“It is a humbling experience that the governor has accepted the Tom Glaser Leadership Award,” Conexx President Guy Tessler said. “It says a lot about him, the state of Georgia and the region and how they think about doing business in Israel.”

The Atlanta Jewish Times is being honored with the Community Partner Award for bringing to light Jewish Georgians who make a difference for Israel. In November, Associate Editor David R. Cohen traveled to Israel with a Conexx business mission and covered the trip through articles, photographs and blog posts.

“The AJT is a natural partner because it highlights achievements of the

places where Israel leads and shines in business and technology and how that connects to Atlanta and the Southeast,” Tessler said.

Conexx is recognizing the Deal of the Year as the acquisition of Nexidia, a leader in advanced customer analytics,

by NICE Systems. The purchase created the largest provider of cross-channel interaction analytics, an expanded customer base and multilanguage capabilities.

NICE is based in Ra’anana, Israel, and runs offices throughout the world, including U.S. locations in Atlanta, Denver, Hoboken, N.J., Richardson, Texas, and Redwood Shores, Calif.

The Conexx Gala is the organization’s community flagship event. Two committees of board members and volunteers work to choose the award winners. ■ What: Conexx Gala Where: Twelve Atlantic Station, 361 17th St., Midtown When: 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 Tickets: $125 for admission, $165 for admission and one $50 raffle ticket; www.conexxgala.com

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OBITUARIES

Cara Hanin 47, Atlanta

Cara Hanin, 47, of Atlanta passed away Thursday, April 13, 2017.

She was born Aug. 21, 1969, in West Port, N.Y., to Nancy and Donald Bedford, both of beloved memory. She was a proud graduate of the University of Georgia and enjoyed a successful career as an IT recruiter.

Cara is survived by her husband of 10 years, Matt; their son, Drew; her sister, Alison Weinreb (Seth); stepsiblings Melinda Hershkowitz (Matthew) and Jeff and Brian Milman (Stella); stepfather Marvyn Milman; parents-in-law Suzi and Dr. Larry Heiny; sister-in-law Allison Hellegers (Neil); brother-in-law Dr. Jeff Hanin (Melissa); and many nieces and nephews. In addition to being a wonderful wife and mother, she was a tremendous friend and support to all who knew her.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Graveside services were held Tuesday, April 18, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs with Rabbi Judith Beiner officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Kate’s Club at www.katesclub.org. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Lee Schwartz 76, Atlanta

Lee J. Schwartz, age 76, passed away after a valiant battle with cancer Saturday, April 15, 2017, surrounded by his family.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he worked for many years as a scrap metal buyer in Cleveland and Benton Harbor, Mich., before moving to Atlanta and eventually founding his own company. He was a member of Temple Emanu-El in Sandy Springs for nearly 40 years.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara; a daughter, Lisa Sands, and her husband, Barry; a granddaughter, Julia; a son, Daniel Schwartz, and his fiancée, Lisa; a sister, Marilyn Erlechman; and a brother, Walter Schwartz.

Graveside services were held Sunday, April 16, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Scott Colbert officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Weinstein Hospice, 3510 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30327.

Joseph Saucedo 76, Buford

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He was born January 18, 1941, in Tampico, Mexico, to Maria Luisa and Guillermo Saucedo, both of blessed memory. Joseph enjoyed a successful career as a professional mechanical engineer, working for the Coca-Cola Co. and owning the Kaspi Group International with his wife, Marcy.

He is survived by his wife and partner, Marcy Saucedo; daughter Anna Brester (Christopher); sons Alexander (Flora) and David Saucedo and Jack Lee; sister Maria Luisa Brinker; and grandchildren Taylor, Sydney and Ava Saucedo, Aaron and Annaleesa Kornish, and Owen and Wyatt Brester.

Graveside services were held Thursday, April 13, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs with Rabbi Yossi Lerman officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Chabad of Gwinnett Building Fund. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Eliezer Sotto 93, Dunwoody

Eliezer Sotto, perhaps the most celebrated and beloved barber in recent Atlanta history, who proudly and frequently declared to one and all that “my whole life has been a miracle,” passed away quietly in his sleep at Dogwood Forest in Dunwoody on Thursday, April 13, 2017, two weeks shy of his 94th birthday.

Eliezer, known to all as Eli, operated his own barbershop, The Trim Shop, in Midtown for six decades. Its last location, until 2006, was the Biltmore on West Peachtree Street. New customers getting a shave or haircut could not help but notice, tattooed on Eli’s left forearm, the number “115303.” And they soon came to learn that was his designation as one of the relatively rare survivors of Hit-

OBITUARIES ler’s death camps, starting with Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and followed by Dachau, Buna and three more.

Eliezer Sotto was born in Salonika, Greece, on April 27, 1923. Including Eli, there were nine members of his family: his father, David Sotto; his mother, Victoria; his two brothers, Charlie and Isaac; and his four sisters, Gracia, Bella, Rachel and Sarah. Every one of them, except Eli and Isaac, perished in the gas chambers.

The Germans invaded Greece and occupied Salonika in April 1941. All Jewish males between the ages of 16 and 25 were ordered to stand in the hot sun of the town square, where they were humiliated in a number of ways before being sent to hard labor. Eli, who was then 15, slipped away with his brother Charlie, 17, and returned home, where they were arrested two months later for leaving the field.

In 1943 the Germans announced that all Jews would be sent to one of three ghettos. Three months later the family was put on a cargo train with 2,800 other Greek Jews and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eli, Charlie and Isaac were separated from the rest of the family and later learned that all the others went to the gas chambers. Eli and Charlie were then tattooed with their numbers and sent to Buna, or Auschwitz III. After six months there, Eli was chosen to go to the gas chamber at Birkenau, which, as it happened, was so overwhelmed that he was sent back to work. On another occasion, he slipped out of a line of condemned men into another line that was transferred to work on cleaning up the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto. After this, Eliezer and Isaac were transferred to Dachau, then to Lager 7, where the commander discovered that Eli had learned to be a barber from his father, and he required Eli to shave him each day.

While being transferred to another camp, the brothers jumped off a cargo train into the hands of the Red Cross and were taken to a Catholic hospital in Prague. When the area was liberated from the Germans, the brothers successfully struggled to get back to Salonika. In Salonika, Eliezer opened a fruit stand and met his future wife, Lucy Levy. Like Eli, Lucy had come from a family of nine, all of whom but she and one brother had been gassed. Eventually they made their way to the United States in 1952 and decided to make their lives in Atlanta. At that time Eli spoke six languages but had to learn English to become a citizen.

They had three children, Rachel, Vicki and David. Eliezer became a barber and soon opened his own shop. They belonged to Or VeShalom, a Sephardic synagogue in Brookhaven, and participated in activities at the Jewish Community Center. When Lucy died in 1995, Eli’s life as a barber became his life until his retirement, along with the pleasure of his children and grandchildren. The Atlanta History Center opened last year what it calls a “cornerstone” exhibition, Gatheround: Stories of Atlanta, which now features a reconstruction of Eli’s barbershop.

Eliezer Sotto is survived by his children, Rachel Levi (Haim) of Tampa, Vicki Sotto Flink (Barry) of Atlanta and David Sotto (Diane Abramson; wife Cindy died in 1992) of Atlanta; grandchildren David Flink (Laura) of San Francisco, Denise Morrison (Jeff) of St. Louis and Maurice Happy Levi (Rachel) of Cincinnati; and three great-grandchildren, Emma Flink, Danielle Levi and Sarah Morrison.

Graveside services were held Sunday, April 16, at Greenwood Cemetery with Rabbi Hayyim Kassorla officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Congregation Or VeShalom, the Atlanta History Center or the Breman Museum.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Rivkah Begun, mother of Chabad of Peachtree City’s Shternie Lew, on April 11.

Sidney Cammy, 93, of Monroe, N.J., father of Temple Sinai member Debbie Butterfield and Joseph Cammy, on April 9.

Gerald Galblum of Atlanta on April 4.

Miriam Jacobs of Dunwoody, mother of Congregation Shearith Israel member Marcia Jacobs, on April 6.

Jeremie Krakow of Alpharetta on April 8.

Jeffrey Langfelder, 72, of Sandy Springs, Temple Sinai member, husband of Elizabeth Langfelder, and father of Evan and Rebecca Langfelder, on April 8.

Pearl Levine of Acworth on April 1.

Frances Lewis of Atlanta on April 8.

Loren Pollack, 83, of Clearwater, Fla., father of Congregation Beth Shalom member Edye Nechmad, on April 6.

Roza Revzin of Woodstock on April 1.

Shulim Spektor of Duluth on April 7.

Herbert Sternick, 86, of Brookhaven, member of The Temple, husband of Barbara Sternick and father of Lisa Kilinc, on April 8.

Dorin Sudvarg of Marietta on April 3.

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Two Seders Unite Emanu-El, Baptist Church

By Marita Anderson For the second Passover seder, Temple Emanu-El hosted clergy from Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church, a 5,000-member congregation in Atlanta’s Old 4th Ward.

My husband, Rabbi Spike Anderson, and I were eager to reach beyond Sandy Springs. Our new friends were curious and interested in learning about Jewish traditions and were willing to drive to the suburbs for seder.

The senior pastor, the Rev. William Flippin, and his son, Richard, also a pastor, sat with Emanu-El congregants, chatting about everything from theology to Atlanta’s changing landscape.

The Flippins have been to Israel several times but had never been to a Passover seder and were delighted to join us. Our lay leaders gave the church group a tour of the sanctuary and answered questions about Jewish life.

This was just a warm-up, as Piney Grove was getting ready for its first Passover seder with 175 people. Two days later, Spike and I took MARTA to East Atlanta with our three kids and a roller suitcase full of haggadahs.

Many of Temple Emanu-El’s board members fought after-work traffic, exacerbated by the recent highway collapse, to make it to the church. Everyone agreed it was worth it.

We were greeted at the church by several ministers, fussing over the lastminute details of a beautifully set-up dining room, a seder plate with all the ritual objects, including homemade charoset, on each table and red grape juice in every cup.

Pastor Flippin’s table had a fine seder plate he had recently purchased in Israel, as well as candles from Tzfat that I couldn’t find in Atlanta for my own home a few days before. Also displayed was an impressive shofar that

my oldest son got to blow, to the amusement of everyone.

According to Baptist custom, I was referred to as first lady, which made my children giggle.

First Lady Flippin showed my 5-year-old daughter her favorite part of the church, the sewing and reaping room, where older women make quilts and beginners make pillows and skirts.

My daughter was soon sitting with women she had just met and playing games involving lots of tickles and hugs.

While Spike led the seder and explained its rituals, Pastor Flippin retold the Exodus story, showing a depth of knowledge and preparation.

It was especially meaningful to hear the story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery and their redemption from the perspective of a spiritual leader in the African-American community, whose recent history is still filled with pain.

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Before the seder, the minister of music leafed through the church’s hymnal to find a song similar in translation to Hinei Mah Tov, the opening verse of Psalm 133: “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity!”

He chose a gospel song that captured our common intention: “Welcome into this place, welcome into this broken vessel. You desire to abide in the praises of Your people; so we lift our hands, and we lift our hearts, as we offer up this praise unto Your name.”

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Once upon a time, in a land called the Bronx, on the fourth floor of a sixstory, light-colored-brick apartment building, there lived a family of five: a mommy, a daddy and three adorable daughters.

They were a happy family with a whole lot of superstitions. Many of them seemed silly, some seemed prophetic, and others seemed, well, ridiculous.

Do not step over a person lying on the ground, or he will stop growing.

Although we knew this was crazy, believe me when I say we would shake with guilt, maybe even shame, when we dared the spirits in charge of human growth by stepping over a person lying down. As we continued celebrating birthdays, we realized we were never going to be basketball players.

Could it be we dared those spirits one too many times? Or could it be the DNA factor?

The DNA factor: If my aunts, grandma or mom (z”l) sat back comfortably on a sofa, their feet did not touch the ground.

If, however, they chose to sit at the edge of their seats, they would indeed seem taller.

My cousin Larry took a photo of the aunts with their feet swinging, not touching the floor. A photo for the ages.

Then there was the slap across the face of the girls in the family who reached puberty, a stage our mom called “unwell.”

I still do not know what the slap possibly had to do with becoming a woman. I can only assure you that this practice ended with me.

Oh, my dear readers, you will love this one: If you are attempting to sew an article of clothing you are wearing, such as sewing on a button or tacking a loose hem, you must — yes, I said must — chew some thread. If you don’t chew a small piece of thread — I actually have no idea what could befall you. But I do sew and chew to this very day.

Were you aware that two people must never play with, cut or color your hair at the same time?

I am totally baffled by this superstition, and I never mentioned it to my girls.

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someone plays with my hair.

On road trips when my girls were young, we divided my hair into four equal parts. Each of my girls took one quarter of my head. Each of the girls had a container filled with barrettes, ponytail holders, a comb, a brush, ribbons, etc.

My hair became their palette for creative play.

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we stopped for snack, drink or gas tried so hard not to point as they guffawed.

They had no appreciation for all the hard work that went into the creation called Mommy’s Hair Art. Our apartment in the Bronx had a steam pipe in our bathroom that brought us heat on cold winter days.

The steam pipe traveled through all the apartments, providing heat to everyone in the building. What our family did not have were tooth fairies.

It is important for you to understand the true importance of the steam pipe and the cover for the hole in the floor through which the pipe traveled.

When I was around 5 or 6, I lost my first baby tooth. After starting my career as a student, my first important lifecycle event, losing a tooth came in a close second in importance.

My mom washed the tooth and showed me where to place it so the mice — yes, the mice — would find it and bring me a new tooth.

There was an adage I was taught and had to repeat during this spiritual process. I first recited the sentence in Yiddish, then, in case the mouse did not speak Yiddish, I repeated it in English: “Little mouse, little mouse, I give you this little baby tooth; please bring me a new one.”

Today, of course, the tooth fairies, who somehow reside in a bottle of colored water, arrive while our children are sleeping, exchanging the tooth for money.

Seriously, does this make any more sense than giving a tooth to a mouse down a steam pipe? ■

“After Passover”

By Yoni Glatt, koshercrosswords@gmail.com Difficulty Level: Medium

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ACROSS 1. Hamburg’s river 5. Juda follower 8. Makes like a yente 14. Superman’s mother played by Ayelet (Zurer) 15. Hero in Silver’s “Matrix” films 16. Former congressman with an unfortunate last name (considering his scandals) 17. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman or Dan of the Black Keys 19. ___ messenger (what some misguided terrorists believe they are) 20. Like Moses seeing the Golden Calf 21. Abraham was given 10 of them 23. Start of many Israeli hikes?

25. Homes in Beverly Hills, Calif., e.g.

30. One way to spell “fire” 31. Start of Tu B’Shevat?

33. Hotels for Fido and Rex over Passover vacation 34. Creepy mashugana 36. Tribe 37. What some Jews can’t wait to do the first Friday night after Passover, or a hint to rows 3, 5, 11 and 15 42. Shekel equivalent in Mexico 43. Angelic glows 44. Ring-___ (Nazgûl fighting Sean Astin in “The Lord of the Rings”) 48. “Angie Tribeca” airer 49. “___-ching!”

52. Odds-and-ends category 54. Brother of Moshe 56. Like Prince Jonathan 58. Board that might be used before a simcha 59. Daughter of King Saul 63. “Woopdy doo!”

65. Israel is connected to it 66. Jewish name or video file 67. Rodriguez on Levitan’s

___ at the Dead Sea” (words from one showing vacation pics) 39. Sukkah, e.g.

40. Square root of shesh esrei DOWN 1. Iconic role for Julia (Louis- 41. Applied makot 42. Firm that messed up at Dreyfus) 2. Doctors Schlessinger and the Oscars; abbr.

45. Turkey region that had Berman pogroms in 1934 3. Get by El Al security 46. Jewish cheese brand 4. Israel’s a part of it (like (4-down is a hint) everywhere else) 5. “Barefoot Contessa” host 47. Like Laban (or a fox) 49. Written by Aaron Sorkin, Garten e.g.

6. Essene, e.g.

7. One booked eight days in 50. “___ and Pete,” Louis C.K. web series advance 51. “Regardless” or a 8. Wrap snugly Leonard Cohen title 9. “Simpsons” bully who 53. Steven Bochco legal said: “You wrecked Hitler’s car! What did he ever do to name 55. Arab bigwigs (var.) you?”

57. Israeli kibbutz or 10. Latke liquid Pennsylvania Jewish camp 11. “Livin’ ___ Prayer” 59. Whitman who was 12. Guf opening in “The Perks of Being a 13. Many Fla. Jews Wallflower” with Ezra Miller 18. Michael Jackson’s 60. Possibilities advice for making matzah 61. Old PC component brei?

62. “Maher!” old-style 22. Cinch ___ (Hefty bag) 64. Successful at-bat for Ian 24. Parshat ___ Lecha Kinsler 26. Abraham to Lot 27. Dudi of tennis 28. Valley of ___ (where David beat Goliath) 29. Tax form ID LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 32. Barely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 B F G R A N T F A T C A T manage 14 15 16 L I E E D A H A D W A R E without 17 18 19 T A A N I T A N D A B O V E tzedakah, with 20 21 22 23 P A R T R I T Z S N O W “out” 24 25 26 27 T I L E T H E R A I N B O W 34. Like 28 29 30 31 E S E T S O O B I U N A many a rabbi 32 33 34 35 D P I I Y A R R H I N O under Roman 36 37 38 39 H E A D H E E L S persecution 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 Y A E L U E S A R D O R 35. Mozart’s 48 49 50 51 52 A M I S R I B E D E V E “L’___ del 53 54 55 56 A L E S M I N D M A T T E R Cairo” 57 58 59 C H A I Y O N A N I R O 37. Hill’s 60 61 62 63 H O U L D P A S S O V E R S “Superbad” 64 65 66 O M E R E A T E A R N E R co-star 67 68 69 W I N T R Y L I S A R T S 38. “Here’s “Modern Family” 68. Venerate 69. Woody Allen quality 70. It’s like cholent

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