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Medad Lytton of Atlanta and Lillian Glushka of Athens are among 26 rising high school seniors awarded the Bronf­ man Fellowship on Thursday, June 7.

Chosen out of more than 220 applicants across North America, they will participate in a five-week program in Israel, then rigorous programming during their senior year related to pluralism, social responsibility and Jewish texts.

Medad is a Young Israel of Toco Hills member who has attended Atlanta Jewish Academy since moving to Atlanta three years ago from Albany, N.Y. He plays trumpet in Georgia State University’s Rialto Youth Jazz Orchestra.

The son of Rachel Anisfeld and Georgia State law professor Timothy Lytton said he applied for the Bronfman Fellowship at the urging of a cousin who participated three years ago, Tali Anisfeld.

“I’m hoping, No. 1, to find an intellectual community of my peers interested in ideas about Jewish thought, Israel policy, stuff like that,” Medad said.

Lillian has attended Athens Academy since the fifth grade. Her family is affiliated with Congregation Children of Israel and the Ma’ayan Re’ut chavurah at University of Georgia Hillel.

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On Sacred Ground its stead. So far, only one marker has been claimed out of 800.

Jews, whose mission is to honor our dead and to educate the living, know the significance of reckoning with the past. We know the broken places do not heal until we tend to the

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wounds. We know it takes generations to reclaim the narrative of trauma and lift the voices of the voiceless.

We know the significance of making records and standing up to deniers.

If you care about the rise of white supremacy in America, you have to be willing to go back in history to see the ideological legacy of slavery and its aftermath. If the neo-Nazi marches in Charlottesville, Va., kept you up at night, worrying about our country’s future, you have to be willing to see it not as a nascent movement, but as an age-old American problem.

If you follow the statistics from the Anti-Defamation League about the rise of anti-Semitism, you have to be willing to look closely at the deadly reality of racial profiling by law enforcement and all forms of discrimination.

If you worry about the survey by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany that revealed a fifth of American millennials have no knowledge of the Holocaust, you must ask yourself how much you know about the practice of extrajudicial killings and public lynchings of AfricanAmericans in this country.

If all this makes you uncomfortable, it is probably not an unfamiliar feeling, as Jews have plenty of experience with owning and safeguarding painful history. We know the damage of having our history denied. It feels suffocating to face other people’s doubt, negligence and apathy. So let us not be deterred by discomfort.

As we walked away, my son said, “We have a choice. We either live in a world of graveyards or in a world of gardens.”

Let us ensure our counties claim their memorial markers and the history that belongs to all of us. Let us know our country’s history so that we can protest the injustices of our present and demand a different future. ■

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With my 9-year-old son, I recently visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. The Equal Justice Initiative erected this powerful memorial to honor the victims of racially driven hatred and terror by lynchings, and it is worthy of pilgrimage.

We went because we know that to understand our country’s future, to have any hope of not repeating our mistakes, we have to know the foundation on which we stand.

We walked onto the grassy path of the memorial, immediately feeling the shift in energy and the power of standing on sacred ground.

At first, the memorial markers seemed simple enough: rust-covered, rectangular columns etched with names. As we walked deeper into the memorial, my son began taking notice of the counties listed.

We began looking for Fulton County, where we live. More than 30 names were etched into the marker, making it one of the deadliest counties of the 800 where lynchings took place.

Allow this to sink in: Between 1877 and 1950, over 4,300 lynchings of African-American men, women and children were committed, mostly in the Southern states. Many were carried out by mobs in public squares in counties with justice systems that offered no protection to the victims.

The farther into the memorial we got, the more gravitational pull we could feel as the columns’ orientation began to shift upward. At the center of the memorial, we found ourselves below the columns, looking up.

Gravity never felt so heavy. Here we bore witness to the tragedy of it all.

Here we stood in silence.

I felt grateful when a young man named William, a docent from the Equal Justice Initiative, came up to my son to check in with him and get him to talk. He thanked us for coming and explained that the memorial has a dual purpose: to honor the dead and to educate the living. He pointed out what looked like a graveyard adjacent to the memorial.

Columns, identical to those hanging in the memorial, were laid flat on a grassy knoll. The hope is that the listed counties will claim each of the marker columns and display them in their public spaces. As each county claims a column, a garden will be planted in

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Only three weeks after Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and his wife, Patricia, were dinner guests of Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu in Jerusalem, an Israeli medical team was on its way to Guatemala.

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A Friend in Need In May, days after the United States moved its embassy to Jerusalem, Guatemala did the same thing with President Jimmy Morales in attendance.

When the Fuego volcano erupted in Guatemala on Sunday, June 3, then had additional eruptions in the following days, Israel had a medical team on the ground by June 7. The team of 10 specialists brought an enzyme developed at Soroka University Medical Center in Be’er Sheva to speed up recovery from burns and reduce the need for surgery.

“They are showing Israel at its best and are really rendering assistance and saving lives,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee also activated its emergency response network, coordinating its efforts with Israel, the Guatemalan Jewish community and other organizations. Fuego’s death toll has topped 100.

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Up, Up and Away Israel’s tourism industry kept flying along in May, when the 395,900 foreign tourists who arrived represented a 14 percent increase from May 2017.

Israel has recorded higher year-overyear figures for 19 consecutive months.

Despite a dip of about 12,000 visitors from April, Israel welcomed 1.75 million tourists from January to May, up 22 percent from the same five months of 2017. Tourism pumped an estimated $2.6 billion into the Israeli economy in that period, the Tourism Ministry said.

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It appears that even sperm can suffer post-traumatic stress.

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War-Weary Sperm Prolonged stress can hurt sperm quality, according to a study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. The study, presented at the International Summit on Assisted Reproduction and Genetics in Israel in late May, indicated that 37 percent of the sperm samples taken during a stressful period had low sperm motility, making fertilization less likely.

The findings have implications for birthrates during times of conflict. The study involved samples donated during stress-free periods from 2009 to 2017 and others taken during and up to two months after conflicts between Israel and Gaza in 2012 and 2014. “Our reasoning was that even men who heard incoming rocket warning sirens during a conflict experienced stress throughout the day over a longer period,” said Eliahu Levitas, who leads Soroka’s invitro fertilization unit. He added, “We were surprised to discover that there is a connection between the security situation and the sperm counts.”

Predicting Engine Trouble The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has signed a three-year agreement with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to research the use of advanced diagnostic and prognostic algorithms to monitor the health of aircraft engines and predict deterioration. The goal is to improve U.S. Air Force safety while reducing maintenance costs.

Leading the effort on the Israeli side is Jacob Bortman, who heads the university’s Prognostics and Health Management Lab while continuing work he began with the Israel Air Force’s materiel command.

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The burial cave is being sealed for further investigation by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

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Roman Luxury in Death A Roman-era burial cave was discovered this month in Tiberias during work to build a new neighborhood on the north side of the municipality. The rock-hewn cave contains an entrance hall decorated with colored plaster, a central room with several burial niches, decorated ceramic and stone ossuaries, and a small inner chamber.

Carved stone doors stood at room entrances. Greek inscriptions included the names of the dead. Yair Amitsur, the Israel Antiquities Authority inspector for Tiberias and the eastern Lower Galilee, said the cave served a wealthy family living in Tiberias or a nearby village. Tiberias is marking its 2,000th birthday this year.

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Innovation All Around The Israel Innovation Authority isn’t resting on the success of the StartUp Nation. In the days after signing a technology R&D agreement with Georgia on Thursday, June 7 (see Page 23), the agency unveiled a partnership with PULSE@MassChallenge, a Bostonbased public-private digital health initiative, to connect Israeli startups with Massachusetts health care providers and businesses. Then the Israel-Italy Joint Innovation Council for Industrial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation in R&D, which involves the IIA and Israel’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, announced that eight academic and six industrial projects will share $4.2 million a year for two years, jointly financed by Israel and Italy. The projects include marine biology, cybersecurity and transportation.

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June 15, 1949: In an address to the Knesset, Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett reconfirms Israel’s willingness to negotiate agreeable and sustainable terms of peace with its neighbors, including borders.

June 16, 1947: Known as one of the most cherished violinists of his generation and one of the greatest Jewish musicians of all time, Bronislaw Huberman dies at his home in Switzerland at the age of 64.

June 17, 1939: The SS St. Louis, a ship that left Hamburg, Germany, on May 13 with 938 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression, returns to Europe after being refused entry into Cuba and the United States. Of the 909 refugees who return to Europe after 28 are admitted to Cuba and one commits suicide, 254 are killed in the Holocaust.

June 18, 1890: Avraham (Granot) Granovsky, a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence and director-general of the Jewish National Fund, is born in what is now Moldova.

June 19, 1967: Speaking to a group of 800 educators at the State Department, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers an important foreign policy address in which he outlines five principles for peace in the Middle East: the right of all nations in the region to live in peace; justice for refugees; the preservation of maritime rights; the end of the regional arms race; and the need for recognizable borders.

June 20, 1914: Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, known simply as Zelda, one of the most widely acclaimed and beloved Israeli poets, is born in Russia.

June 21, 1990: After a career in the service of Zionism and Israel, Eliahu Eilat dies in Jerusalem at the age of 86.

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Shinshinim Feel Love After Opening Hearts to Israel

Or Shaham stands next to Davis Academy students who completed an assignment in which they bid on historical places and people with fake shekels, then made presentations about them.

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Shinshinim, Lior Bar and Or Shaham, expected to spend the past year educating people in Georgia about their love for Israel but didn’t know they would receive the community’s love in return.

The AJT spoke with the two young Israelis in mid-August about their hopes and expectations for their year in the Jewish Agency for Israel program before their military service. They have since worked with community organizations, synagogues and students to spread appreciation for Israel and strengthen ties between Atlanta and the Jewish state.

“The experience has been amazing,” Shaham said.

“I got to spend a year doing what I love while living far away from home in a new community, which gave me a whole new perspective of who I am and what I believe in,” Bar said.

Shaham and Bar worked with 10 Jewish organizations and programs in Atlanta, including day schools, Hebrew schools and high school programs spanning the denominations. They led activities that covered the Israel National Trail, celebrated the High Holidays and paid tribute to the 70th anniversary of Nov. 29, 1947, the day the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution to partition British Mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.

Bar and Shaham used flashlights to play “red light, green light” in the 6 dark and symbolize how refugees

Or Shaham peers over a student’s work on an assignment from the Shinshinim.

Lior Bar and Or Shaham spent a lot of time teaching children of all ages the history and geography of Israel.

slipped past the British to enter the land of Israel in 1947.

They spoke about the different geographies in Israel and the people who live there. Shaham, for example, described the arid Arava in the south, where she is from, while Bar described the Kinneret in the north and a cemetery there where her family is buried.

One event that the women said stood out to them was Simchat Torah at Congregation Or Hadash. Community members unrolled the entire Torah while dancing and singing, a celebration Bar and Shaham said they had not experienced.

Yet the Shinshinim said they were most surprised by the connections they made with so many people and families by working with institutions.

Shaham said, “To say hi to so many people and to see how much the community cares for Israel is amazing and not something we can take for granted.”

The two faced difficulties beyond a busy work schedule, such as being adults on their own for the first time.

“It was little challenges like going to the doctor’s office or maintaining our car. Being an adult is tough,” Bar said.

Shaham said the program is a great way to prepare young adults before they enter the Israel Defense Forces. “We had to quickly become adults, and even though we were independent in Israel, our parents were not here.”

Keeping up with all the organizations in Jewish Atlanta also was daunting.

“We had to work with so many people and remember their names, and

because we only met with the different institutions once a week, we had to be amazing each time,” Shaham said.

Shaham and Bar’s time as Shinshinim will end in mid-August, and Federation will welcome eight new Israelis into the program. The two women said they are glad to have participated as Atlanta’s first Shinshinim and are grateful for the experience.

“I hope I have imparted my love for Israel, how much I appreciate it and how many facets it possesses,” Bar said.

“It’s such a complex country, but the community loves Israel, and watching them discover other points of view was incredible.”

Both said they would recommend the program to their peers in Israel. “I think this program made me a better person,” Bar said. “I felt that I was exposed to so many people that I would not have otherwise met in any other place in the world, and I think coming to a different community makes you

appreciate who you are and where you come from.”

She said her most memorable time in Atlanta was the Israel@70 event Sunday, April 29, at Park Tavern.

“I just remember how many people I hugged, how many people were happy, and how many people recognized me and what I do,” she said. “I think that was one of the happiest events we attended, and I really felt a part of the community.”

Shaham said one memory she will take home is the day she and Bar returned from Israel after taking two weeks off in February. “Just coming back to Atlanta and seeing how everyone just missed us and noticed that we were gone was the moment I felt we were actually a part of something.”

The women said the experience helped them learn what it means to be Jewish outside Israel. “I definitely understand the connection between Israel and the Diaspora much better now,” Shaham said. “We love Atlanta and want to thank everyone involved in this program.” ■

Or Shaham shares her love for Israel through an activity at a day school.

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CIE’s Educator Workshop Enhances Local Ties

Seventy Israel educators from across North America will gather in Atlanta on June 24 for an intensive week of learning about modern Israel.

In its 17th year, the annual educator workshop of the Center for Israel Education and Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel focuses on sharpening participants’ personal knowledge of Israel while guiding them in the creation of educational frameworks and activities to impart their knowledge to diverse groups of learners.

Participants represent 13 states, three Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia and Mexico City.

The structure of the workshop has evolved in recent years to better address the multiple settings in which learning about Israel takes place.

This year, in addition to our participants from Jewish day and congregational schools, a cohort of five American Jewish Committee staff members will join the workshop. The AJC cohort, which represents Atlanta and three other communities, is focused on enriching the experience of the teens who participate in the Leaders for Tomorrow program.

Leah Gross, AJC Atlanta’s assistant director of development, and Julie Katz, AJC Atlanta’s assistant director, will be participating. Gross shared her goals for the workshop.

“This past year was our first year instituting the Leaders for Tomorrow program in Atlanta, which is AJC’s education and advocacy program

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Israel in a wide variety of educational settings. Flom wants to participate in the workshop “to learn more about Israel’s history and society so that I can best guide our Shinshinim in their work as they help to create deep, longlasting relationships between Israelis and Atlantans.”

Also new this year: We will live-stream several sessions on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ centerforisraeleducation). Members of the community are invited to join us online for these sessions, featuring CIE President Ken Stein, CIE Israel specialist Eli Sperling, Emory religion professor Rabbi Michael Berger and Earlham College emeritus politics professor Greg Mahler.

A schedule is on our website.

For more information about the summer workshop, including additional options for local participation, contact me at rich.walter@israeled. org. ■ Rich Walter is the associate director for Israel education at the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org).

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People who don’t attend the workshop can watch Ken Stein and others make half a dozen presentations streaming live on Facebook from June 24 to 28.

for teens, empowering young Jews to speak up for Israel and the Jewish people. The basis of the advocacy training is teaching the history and other major aspects of Israeli society,” Gross said. “By attending this workshop, I believe I will leave more equipped to teach about Israel and enhance these teens’ learning experience in the program.”

In addition to the AJC cohort, Atlanta-area participants include Michal Ilai, a teacher and the Israel program coordinator at the Weber School, Rachel Jenks, an educator at Congregation Or Hadash, and Ezra Flom, who will be coordinating the community’s Shinshinim program.

The Shinshinim program, supported by the Jewish Agency for Israel in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, will bring eight young Israelis to the community next fall to share their love and passion for

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David Moss Works His Magic in Jerusalem

A downtown group project creates an intergenerational Atlanta connection

Aaron Butler (left) participates in David Moss’ Davidka Square installation.

Aaron Butler and Rabbi David Geffen meet the harp-bearing character of Davidka (Lauren Kirshenbaum), there to invite people to help paint pathways in the park.

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“The Geffen family is in debt to your great-great-grandfather Jacob Butler because in 1957 he filmed the community dinner in honor of my grandfather and grandmother, Rabbi and Sara Hene Geffen. We have that film, and it was digitized by our grandson, Ori Burg.”

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Well-known Jewish artist David Moss, who has taught and spoken in Atlanta on numerous occasions, possesses the ability to innovate in a multitude of fields. By accident, his most recent project provided me with a meaningful Atlanta experience.

I went to view Moss’ project in downtown Jerusalem, where he was working with a small group of young people from Yeshivat Torah V’Avodah, a gap-year program for students between high school and college from the United States and Canada.

Last year under his supervision, the students cleaned and weeded an overgrown site in Jerusalem and helped transform it into a wonderful community park for the neighbors, complete with lovely, symbolic sculptures and sitting and meeting spaces based on carved biblical verses about brotherhood and community.

This year their project consisted of a three-day happening in Davidka Square in downtown Jerusalem.

I spoke to one of the participants, Aaron Butler, who asked where I was from in the United States.

When I said Atlanta, he told me his father was from Atlanta and his grandparents still live there. I asked whether Eleanor Jean Butler and Joel Butler were his grandparents, and he said yes and asked if I knew them.

I told him, “Your great-grandfather was Henry Leff, who played the harmonica and was at the Breakfast 8 and Davening Club at Ahavath Achim

Many hands volunteer to paint the pathways to personal connections around the park.

way stop built by the company Alstom Israel, of which our son Avie Geffen is the CEO. What a series of coincidences.

But in a way, creating such connections is exactly what this project was meant to do.

I asked Moss what the group was doing.

“Our group this year was given access to the bustling central Davidka Square in downtown Jerusalem. It’s at a major axis of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, with a busy stop for the light rail,” he said. “Our group analyzed the park and was struck by two things that became the focus of our work.”

He said the diversity of the passers-by was “astonishing — from every community in Israel, every religion and religious persuasion, and tourists from all over the world.”

The large, bustling Abraham Hostel is on the square.

“But then we were struck by the fact that they all seemed to be living in their own, separate, isolated shells,” Moss said.

The creative challenge was how to encourage people to meet, to interact, to talk and to learn from one another.

Quite a task, Moss pointed out, but he made it doable.

During the intense multiday intervention/happening, the students painted colorful paths in ecologically friendly earth paints across the whole park. The paints were provided by project co-sponsor Muslala, a perceptive group of urban artists.

Moss stressed “how these paths of

intersection helped the visitors meet and interact. We created a character, Davidka, little King David, who exchanged her cannon for a harp and invited folks to help paint and talk to each other. Stickers with questions helped to motivate passers-by to speak deeply, frankly and heartfully.”

The questions — such as “Who was the most influential person in your life?” and “What life lesson can you share?” — prompted reactions.

Like all of Moss’ group projects, this one inspired the students to learn how real art happens. They started with a real challenge and imagined, conceived and designed a work of meaning and beauty.

The group had its share of real-life challenges along the way. In the Moss approach, the unexpected is an essential part of design and creation.

Moss created a world-renowned illuminated haggadah and visited Atlanta to speak about what he had done to craft this ancient book with a unique approach. In his younger years, he revived the art of the illuminated ketubah. I personally know that is not enough for him.

He was on the design team for the award-winning Yavneh Academy in Dallas. He helped design the Hillel building at UCLA and the UJA-Federation building in New York.

He believes his mission is to devise fresh, creative means to give Jewish ideas, texts and values expression through art. With this current program, David has done it again. ■

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Food Rocks Despite Storm

The third annual Food That Rocks from Taste of Atlanta on Saturday evening, June 9, was the first event on the City Green at City Springs, the new city center in Sandy Springs. Although a lightning scare delayed things a bit, the food from Sandy Springs eateries was creative and pleased the crowd, which also enjoyed live music. The event raised money for Second Helpings Atlanta, the Community Assistance Center and the Drake House.

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11 Young Adult Leaders Get Limmud Experience

Eleven budding Atlanta Jewish leaders are participating in the sixmonth Young Adult Development program of Limmud Atlanta + Southeast.

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JCC Installs New Chair

Ken Winkler was installed as the chair of the Marcus Jewish Community Center’s board of directors, succeeding Joel Arogeti, at the JCC’s 72nd annual meeting March 27.

Winkler, a shareholder at law firm of Berman Fink Van Horn, will serve a two-year term. The meeting, chaired

by Jeff Brickman, also featured the presentation of awards to staff and others: • Harvey Rubin Scholarship Award

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tion to Hadassah during Best Strokes: Hadassah Bares All for Art, Awareness and Treatment on Sunday, March 18.

The Hadassah Greater Atlanta event raised money for breast and ovarian cancers and genetic research programs at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, as well as for education, advocacy and prevention in the United States.

The Marcus JCC’s new board chair, Ken Winkler, is flanked by his predecessor, Joel Arogeti (left), and CEO Jared Powers.

to a high school senior who shows outstanding leadership — Brandon Rubin.

• Volunteers of the Year Award — Steve Peltier, Jennifer Checkner and Brian Mand.

• Phillip Bush Award for Leadership — Karl Hydrick.

• Team Player Award — Frances Raffield.

• Customer Service Award — Stephanie McCormick.

• Raye Lynn Banks Teachers of the Year Award — Sierra Jamison at the Weinstein School and Rachel Parker at the Sunshine School.

• Best New Program Award — Intown Outreach, funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and led

by Lauren Chekanow.

Erwin Zaban Leadership Development Program co-chairs Brian Mand and Margo Marks recognized the 2018 graduates: Allison Beldick, Mara Berman, Dana Bernath, Lisa Freedman, Staci Libowsky, Andy Lipman, Roger Panitch, Robert Rothberg, Brian Seitz, Lindsey Shoob, Jana Tessler, Arin Tritt, Deena Weintraub, Craig Wolpert and Bobby Zuckman.

Hadassah Gets $10,000 From MDRT Foundation

Northwestern Mutual financial adviser Bill Loventhal presented a $10,000 grant from the MDRT Founda-

Bill Loventhal (left) presents a $10,000 MDRT Foundation check to Hadassah Greater Atlanta President Sheila Dalmat (right) while Best Strokes honorary chair Tamar Peretz and honoree Dale Bearman watch.

“We are honored to be recognized

by MDRT Foundation for their grant, which will transform lives and continue our medical work in service to humanity,” said Sheila Dalmat, Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s president.

Through its global grants programs, the MDRT Foundation is committed to building stronger families and communities worldwide. This year the foundation will award more than $1 million in Million Dollar Round Table member-endorsed grants to more than 200 charitable organizations.

Hadassah’s initiatives for women’s health education and advocacy in the Atlanta area include Check-It-Out, which teaches high-schoolers about body awareness, breast cancer and healthy lifestyles; the Gender Equity in Medicine advocacy program; and the Planning Medical Seminar for health care and public health professionals.

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Attending Food That Rocks are (from left) Alan Byner, festival founder and Taste of Atlanta CEO Dale DeSena, Second Helpings volunteer Myron Smith, Merle Smith, Eric Smith and Jessica Smith.

program for 22- to 30-year-olds supports the exploration of Atlanta’s Jewish community and involvement in LimmudFest at Ramah Darom on Labor Day weekend.

YADs connect with and learn from local, national and international Jewish professionals.

“We are looking to empower young adults to become the next generation of Jewish leaders,” said Gabrielle Adler, the YAD program coordinator.

The cohort includes four Atlanta natives, four Jewish professionals, three Moishe House residents, two grad students and one “American Ninja Warrior” contestant. The 11 YADs are Aviva Abelson, Deborah Abrams, Daniel Arnon, Jillian Berfield, Samantha Berinsky, Elie Cohen, Jeremy Katz, Neshama Littman, Gabe Monett, Sarah Queen and Hanna Rosenfeld.

The YAD program is supported by the Something for Everyone grant from Limmud International. Participants were selected based on recommendations by lay leaders and Jewish communal professionals in Atlanta.

The YADs will join hundreds of Jews from Aug. 31 to Sept. 3 for LimmudFest, a festival of Jewish thought, culture, life, learning and teaching. Registration is open at www.limmudse.org.

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The lines between politics and sports have been blurry as long as those two primary human pastimes have existed, but President Donald Trump’s disinviting of the Philadelphia Eagles and Argentina’s canceling of a soccer game in Jerusalem provide fresh evidence that we need some separation.

The tradition of White House visits for championship sports teams is believed to go back to the 1924 Washington Senators and President Calvin Coolidge, but it wasn’t until the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XIV in 1980 that a president, Jimmy Carter, welcomed the Super Bowl champions.

The White House visit for college and professional champions never has meant anything — neither presidential fandom for the team nor player support for the president. It’s just a photo opportunity, a chance for the president to associate himself with winners and for the players to get their Forrest Gump moment, no matter whom they voted for.

Any president bringing in athletes is trying to score political points, and some athletes choose not to be used in that way. Republican and Democratic presidents have seen the likes of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Tom Brady skip the White House ceremony; usually, any uproar comes and goes quickly.

Trump’s harping on the NFL’s national anthem controversy has ratcheted up the athletic politics, leading more players and even teams to reject his invitation. Facing an embarrassingly low turnout from the Eagles on Tuesday, June 5, the president rescinded the invitation and instead held a patriotic rally.

No one looked good as a result — not Trump, who appeared to flub the words to “G-d Bless America,” and not those Eagles players who couldn’t put respect for the office of the president and the chance to visit the White House above their dislike for the man.

The same day that the White House held its non-Eagles rally, Argentina’s national soccer team canceled a World Cup tune-up game planned for Saturday, June 9, in Jerusalem. It was the politics-sports overlap on an international level, flavored by the dueling narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement declared victory. Israeli Sports and Culture Minister Miri Regev accused the game’s opponents of terror tactics, including a display of bloody jerseys.

Regev was blamed for moving the game from Haifa to Jerusalem, ramping up the politics so soon after the U.S. Embassy moved and after Israel faced misplaced international condemnation about Gaza.

Palestinians were blamed for politicizing a game, albeit one whose scheduling had more to do with making a diplomatic and political statement than preparing Lionel Messi and teammates for Russia.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government should stay out of sports scheduling and thus give Israel’s sports federations a stronger basis to argue that soccer games and other competitions are and ought to be apolitical — just as Trump and his successors should drop the spectacle of White House visits for sports champions.

We get more than enough politics in our lives.

10 Sports should be an escape. ■

Cartoon by Pavel Constantin, Romania

Maybe the newspaper industry wasn’t the best career choice.

So Long, Farewell, Shalom focusing on people’s renewed interest in the AJT and There’s an old saying about newspapers that desire to be a part of it, best demonstrated by all the you should never pick a fight with anyone who buys synagogues and other community organizations ink by the barrel. Note that the reference is to the contributing to our Rosh Hashanah issue. person paying for the ink, not the person using it.

But the hard numbers say we’ve hit a plateau, Almost exactly 10 years ago, around Memorial and Michael believes that someone with a fresh perDay in 2008, I conceded defeat in such a battle and spective will be better able to break through to the left my job as managing editor of the AJT. 2018 newspaper version of the Super Bowl: financial The Detroit company that owned the paper had sustainability. repeatedly cut our budget, pages, staff and control, I don’t agree, but Michael signs the checks. It is and when management told me to lay off another his call, as it should be, and I hope he’s right that the reporter, I chose to lay myself off instead. next editor can lead the AJT to sustainable success.

The most valuable elements of any newspaper So, for the second time in a decade, I find that are the reporters. Laying myself off saved more I am leaving my dream job, the one I thought I was money and maximized the AJT boots on the ground, destined to spend the rest of my career doing. I gathering news. Besides, Detroit was making so always tell people I’m a lousy prognosticator. many decisions that while I was editing, I wasn’t doI leave the AJT with ing much managing. many regrets, not the least I moved into a freeof which is my failure to lance role as a contributsecure the newspaper’s ing editor, an arrangement Editor’s Notebook future as the vital connecthat lasted only three

By Michael Jacobs tive tissue for a wonderful months. Detroit sold the mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com Jewish community. We AJT the following April. can achieve greatness if It was my decision to only we can break through leave the AJT then, but I the barriers of geography, politics, denominations didn’t feel I had a choice. and observance to build on the more important When Michael Morris bought the newspaper things we share: Israel, Torah, belief in justice, faith at the end of 2014 and hired me back as editor, it in the potential for a better world and our role and was a dream come true: a chance to do the job for responsibility in creating it, and pride in our Jewish which I’d moved to Atlanta, but for a local owner identity. whose motivation was the community’s need for the I have begun far more stories than I have resource, not just personal financial gain. finished since January 2015, and I apologize if I interUnfortunately, we eventually wake up from viewed you, responded positively to your pitch or dreams, and after 3½ years, my dream is over. attended your event and failed to produce an article.

This is my final issue as editor of the AJT. MiI too often took on more than I could complete in chael Morris, the guy who buys those barrels of ink, the futile hope that eventually I would catch up. real and virtual, has decided to let me go.

My only excuse is that I had a hard time I believe that we share a vision of what the Atlanta Jewish Times should be and what role it should acknowledging my limits and saying no to stories when faced with so many worthy issues, people and play, but it seems we disagree on how to get there. events in Jewish Atlanta. I’m sad that I won’t be tellThink of the AJT as the Atlanta Falcons and Miing any more of those stories, but I look forward to chael Morris as Arthur Blank. I’m Mike Smith, who enjoying them for years to come in the print AJT and was hired when the team was horrible and turned at atlantajewishtimes.com. the Falcons into a perennial playoff contender.

I don’t know what’s next for me. I’m not leaving But Smith couldn’t get the Falcons to the Super Atlanta, but it might be time to walk away from Bowl. So Blank, despite appreciating Smith’s work, this abusive relationship with journalism. Working fired him and brought in Dan Quinn, who took the at the AJT was above all a way to apply my skills team closer to a Super Bowl title than ever before. to serve the Jewish community; perhaps I can find Likewise, the AJT improved dramatically after another way to do that. If you have suggestions, Michael made me editor. You can judge our success find me on LinkedIn, or email me at mjacobs2097@

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Letters to the Editor Sadat’s Own Words

How true it is that how events “are taught or reported by subsequent generations depends on who writes their histories and what sources are used” (“It’s Time to Reassess Sadat, Begin and Carter,” June 8).

Here are excerpts from Anwar Sadat’s “Peace With Justice” speech before the Knesset in 1977. Of interest is what he meant by “justice” and “right of return”: “How can we achieve a durable peace based on justice? … For there is no peace that could be built on the occupation of the land of others; otherwise, it would not be a serious peace. … If you have found the moral and legal justification to set up a national home on a land that did not all belong to you, it is incumbent upon you to show understanding of the insistence of the people of Palestine for establishment once again of a state on their land. … Here I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that it is no use to refrain from recognizing the Palestinian people and their right to statehood as their right of return.”

Also of interest is the world’s dis-

regard of Egypt’s ongoing violation of Article 5 of Annex 3 of the Israel-Egypt treaty: “The Parties shall seek to foster mutual understanding and tolerance and will, accordingly, abstain from hostile propaganda against each other.”

Then there is this from Sadat: “Poor Menachem, he has his problems. … After all, I got back … the Sinai and the Alma oil fields, and what has Menachem got? A piece of paper” (quoted in a New York Times article on Sol Linowitz on Oct. 19, 1980).

Lastly, from an interview with Sadat in the newspaper al-Anwar on June 22, 1975, cited in Steve Posner’s book “Inside Israel”: “The Zionist conquest to which we are being subjected will not be terminated by the return of the occupied territories. … The effort of our generation is to return to the 1967 borders. Afterward the next generation will carry the responsibility.”

Perhaps this clarifies what Sadat meant by “a durable peace based on justice.” Using the above sources certainly gives one pause, doesn’t it?

— Julia Lutch, Davis, Calif.

Kosher Slaughter in EU

We should not stand quietly while activists and politicians in Europe try to impose their values on the Jews who live there. Just as it bothers us when countries such as Iceland discuss criminalizing brit milah, so too should we feel sad and angry when European governments try to forbid the slaughter of animals in accordance with Jewish law.

While there may be alternative methods for Jews in Europe to obtain kosher meat, we should not accept it when governments chip away at Jewish tradition, as is happening in many European Union countries. It’s about much more than local brisket; it’s about protecting the Jewish way of life.

Shechitah (ritual slaughter) has been in the news too much in Europe.

Switzerland, Norway and Sweden have long required that animals be stunned before slaughter, a process that renders the animals nonkosher.

Religious slaughter is not prohibited in Belgium at the federal level, but two of three regions require preslaughter stunning. The Dutch seem to be next in line to outlaw shechitah.

Just before World War II, the Netherlands was home to around 107,000

Jews. Amsterdam was around 10 percent Jewish. But less than 25 percent of Dutch Jewry survived the Holocaust.

My grandfather and his parents survived the war, then helped rebuild Jewish Amsterdam. One of the key roles my grandfather played (and still advises on) was shechitah.

The Germans failed to exterminate us from the Netherlands; now the Animal Rights Party is trying to see what damage it can do to what’s left of us. The Netherlands carries out kosher slaughter on only a few head of cattle a week; chickens come from Belgium.

In the past, Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau of Israel and the late Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits of the British Commonwealth implored my grandfather to preserve shechitah in the Netherlands.

You can’t have a Jewish community without a shochet, and the Dutch precedent could affect other countries.

You may feel that Jews don’t belong in Europe anymore. You may feel that frozen meat can be easily imported. You may be a vegetarian. But when people are trying to erase a part of the Jewish people in any part of the world, it should hurt us. We must take notice.

— Jonathan Safier, Bergenfield, N.J.

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Getting My Kicks From the World Cup Please excuse me if I appear a bit distracted for the next month.

My attention will be on Russia and the men’s World Cup finals, the greatest spectacle that soccer, “the beautiful game,” has to offer.

The World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world, with a potential viewing audience estimated at 500 million.

From the first game June 14 to the championship July 15, emotions in the 32 competing nations will rise and fall on the outcomes of the 64 games.

Soccer is ingrained in the culture in much of the world, with loyalties passed through the generations. In some countries, the national team is a balm that eases, however briefly, issues of government strife, economic turmoil and ethnic divisions.

Having traveled to Germany in 2006, I can attest that, for soccer’s most devoted fans, the World Cup is akin to a pilgrimage. The camaraderie among fans of various nations is a tonic for what ails the world.

Supporters of the U.S. men’s team remain distressed over its ignominious failure to qualify for Russia, ending a streak of seven appearances in the World Cup finals that began in 1990.

(The defending and three-time world champion U.S. women’s team,

meanwhile, is expected to qualify for its World Cup next year in France.)

The U.S. absence in Russia will, however, spare us hyperbolic tweets and soccer-ignorant punditry that would have accompanied an American presence and any potential matchup against the host country or Iran.

Israel’s absence from Russia is

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less surprising.

Israel has qualified for the World Cup finals just once, in 1970, when the then-16-team tournament was played in Mexico. Israel fell 2-0 to Uruguay, then drew 1-1 with Sweden and 0-0 with Italy and failed to advance out of the group stage.

In the years since, the blue-andwhite have teased their fans with inconsistent performances in qualifying.

Soccer is hardly immune from Middle East politics; witness Israel’s recent “own goal” embarrassment over a canceled friendly match with World Cup-bound Argentina.

In recent years, Palestinian soccer officials have complained to FIFA — the international governing body of

“football” — about lower-level professional teams operating out of West Bank settlements and have alleged that Israel interferes in the operation of the Palestinian national team.

FIFA, mind you, has spent recent years in the dock — literally, as the subject of criminal investigations and, figuratively, in the court of public opinion.

Going back in time, beginning in 1954, Israel played in Asian regional competitions. But in 1974, as Arab nations refused to play Israel, FIFA moved Israel out of Asia, eventually relocating it to Oceania — a collection of Pacific island nations. Israel moved into the European region in 1991.

In the group stage of qualifying for this year’s World Cup, Israel finished fourth of six teams — behind Spain and Italy (both of which advanced to a second round) and Albania, ahead of Macedonia and Liechtenstein.

Interest in the World Cup is particularly strong this year in the Arab world, as Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Saudi Arabia all qualified.

Indeed, one of the marquee players in the run-up to the World Cup is Mohamed Salah of Egypt, who had a remarkable season in England’s top professional league.

Qatar, meanwhile, is preparing to host the 2022 World Cup, deflecting controversies about the bidding

Cartoon by Marian Kamensky, Austria

Off-field controversy related to the World Cup in Russia could be just a warm-up for Qatar in 2022.

process by which it earned that right and its treatment of foreign construction workers.

It’s worth rooting for Israel to qualify in 2022, if only to see how FIFA would twist itself in knots, particularly if Israel were drawn to play against politically unfriendly nations.

For now, though, my attention is focused on Russia. I am hoping for exciting play on the field and an absence of locally inspired hooliganism and racism in the stands.

Even for someone who watches a lot of soccer, the World Cup is special.

So please excuse me if I appear a bit distracted. ■

Israel Must Reflect After Argentina’s Cancellation

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The announcement that Argentina’s soccer team was pulling out of a visit to Israel and a friendly game with Israel’s national team was made Tuesday night, June 5.

I went to sleep believing that the visit was still on. I had a rude awakening when I heard at 6:45 a.m. what Argentina had decided.

For a moment, I was upset, but then I recalled how a Major League Baseball team, due to play an exhibition game with the Atlanta Crackers, my favorites until today, pulled out because there were no decent hotel rooms for the African-American players to stay in — only the black hotels.

That team canceled its visit to Atlanta.

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icans have risen to the top of many of the major sports. They won, hotels or not.

Today’s problem is an international one. Argentina, never a big friend to Israel except for Israeli weaponry, bowed to BDS, the Palestinian boycott,

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the Arab countries’ “hatred” of Israel, and the lack of support from American and European countries.

Boldly, it is asked, “Why should Israel be permitted to participate in a game when the other team has the outstanding player in the world, Messi? Palestinians are being killed in

great numbers; why should Israelis be cheerful?”

Israel’s sports minister, Miri Regev, a populist figure, believed all would go well.

She moved the game from Haifa to Jerusalem; strike one. She told the crew doing the filming that she should be in every major shot; strike two.

With all of this, she made sure that all her buddies had tickets; strike three.

Most Israeli fans stood in line for hours, only to discover no tickets were available.

Regev went on TV, the Internet and all the social media to assure Israelis how great the game would be.

A close friend, an Israeli and noted writer in English from South Africa, told me today: “David, there are secret contacts between Israel and some Arab countries. However, those links cannot be public now, nor does anyone know what they mean. The

only way the Arabs can act publicly is punch Israel in every possible way.”

He continued: “Anti-Semitism is still rife throughout the world. It continues to blossom time after time.

Argentina has to stay in line because the country needs the Arab oil and the Arab purchases. They cannot stop because these countries need the money.

Without it, they might go under. Israel has only brain power to offer, no natural resources.”

The African-American spiritual redone a bit sounds like this: Dry bones, dry bones, Israel is good enough for me.

The bones rise again as they are connected — Ben-Gurion, Begin, bone onward.

But soccer bones or not — soccer Israel’s favorite sport.

Israel thankfully will keep rising As long as Minister Miri Regev keeps her mouth shut. ■

SPORTS AMSSL Standings, Week 2 A Division

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Sinai A

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Chabad

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Ahavath Achim

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B’nai Torah 2

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A Division: Dor Tamid 1 def. Beth Tefillah, 8-7; Dor Tamid 1 def. Chabad, 24-1; Ahavath Achim tied Or VeShalom, 3-3; Or VeShalom def. Temple 1, 131; Sinai A def. Beth Tefillah, 11-6; B’nai Torah def. Ahavath Achim, 12-3 B Division: Sinai B def. Or Hadash, 5-4; Young Israel def. Or Hadash, 17-6; Ariel def. Gesher L’Torah, 5-0; Beth Tikvah 1 def. Etz Chaim, 19-2; Beth Tikvah 1 def. Sinai B, 15-10 C Division: Emanu-El def. Temple Z, 14-12; Temple Z def. B’nai Torah 2, 18-12; Dor Tamid 2 def. Kol Emeth, 1514; Kol Emeth def. Beth Tikvah 2, 19-11; Beth Jacob def. Sinai C, 13-8; Beth Jacob def. Beth Shalom 1, 23-8; Beth Shalom 1 def. Beth Shalom 2, 28-1; Sinai C def.

Beth Shalom 2, 11-7; B’nai Torah 2 def.

Beth Tikvah 2, 14-5 Ocee Park: 9 a.m. — Beth Shalom 1 vs. Kol Emeth, Emanu-El vs. B’nai Torah 2; 10:15 a.m. — Dor Tamid 2 vs.

Beth Jacob, Beth Tikvah 2 vs. Sinai C; 11:30 a.m. — Temple Z vs. Beth Shalom 2, Temple 1 vs. Dor Tamid 1; 12:45 p.m.

— Beth Tikvah 1 vs. Ariel. Marcus JCC: 1 p.m. — Gesher L’Torah vs. Etz Chaim, Ahavath Achim vs. Beth Tefillah; 2:15 p.m. — Young Israel vs. Or Hadash, Chabad vs. B’nai Torah 1; 3:30 p.m. — Young Israel vs. Sinai B, Or VeShalom vs. Sinai A.

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‘The Hero Dad’ Pushes Fatherhood Forward

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As an adult Jewish man, I feel it is my responsibility to use my gifts to help make our world a healthier place by teaching what I know.

One of the gifts I received from my parents was the experience of growing up in a home with two mature adults who shared respect, love and intimacy.

My exposure to this type of parental relationship helped me know that these qualities are real and palpable.

Knowing they exist and creating these experiences are two different things. I have spent the better part of 18 years of marriage and 11 years as the full-time at-home parent to four children figuring out how to create a home in which two mature adults respect and love each other while enjoying ever-elusive intimacy.

While there is no perfect, I have figured out principles, systems and skills that work when combined with the unified goal of creating a respectful, healthy, intimate marriage. This

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family dynamic is totally within reach.

I have been learning, studying and practicing the skills and behaviors

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to be the best husband, father and man possible. I have become sensitive to the epidemic of fatherlessness and the real effects that the lack of an emotionally and physically engaged, mature, responsible man at home has on our committed partners, our children and our communities.

This is why I created “The Hero Dad” classes and “The Hero Dad’s Infant Manual”: to create healthier families and to empower my fellow man, who may not have been exposed to the behaviors and skills it takes to be successful at the job of fatherhood and husbandhood with a baby.

“The Hero Dad’s Infant Manual”

is for men of all backgrounds, married or unmarried, gay or straight, adoptive or birth parent, looking to learn relevant skills in terms of their changing roles and responsibilities.

Men transitioning into fatherhood can learn my systems at my classes in Atlanta at Piedmont Hospital and other venues.

Over the past 15 years I have had the privilege of guiding more than 1,000 men through the beginning of fatherhood. When we talk in class about the relationships we had and have with our fathers, the most common desire is that our father figures would have been better at communicating and better at understanding us on a deeper level.

The foundational principle I teach new dads is that relevant behaviors earn us the respect we are looking for and enable us to co-create the relaxed home we desire, where love and intimacy can exist.

One of the systems I teach in “The Hero Husband” class, which is the next level offered after “The Hero Dad,” is my Listening to Understand System.

The oldest stereotype about men is that we do not listen, but that is not a funny joke. I believe it is the main roadblock for our growth as men, husbands and fathers.

This is a touchy subject, and when we look back, it is easy to understand why many men have difficulty. In the past we did not have to listen. Our roles were just different. We earned respect by working hard, bringing home the pay, going off to war, and that was enough. We sacrificed our time at home and our lives to provide a better future for our wives and children.

As times have changed, many of us are holding on to the old ways — the “man code” — and it is wreaking havoc on our families and society.

What if we men took responsibility for not practicing the listening skill in the past and decided to become better listeners? What if we were better able to understand our children and partners on a deeper heart level?

Listening and understanding may seem wimpy, but if you ask a modern woman or a child who is spending days glued to a screen instead of having meaningful interactions with a husband/father, you will get disagreement about that wimpiness.

There may not be a more relevant, masculine behavior we could learn and demonstrate to modern families

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than understanding on a deeper level.

Fatherhood is not all figured out with one book or in one day. “The Hero Dad” classes offer a progression of growth and learning for those men open to improvement in this area. My shorter, basic class prepares men to be relevant when the baby arrives by knowing how to manage an infant confidently and how to support a partner through the postpartum period.

I invite a female expert on postpartum depression and anxiety, Amber Koter of Beyond Birth Atlanta, into class when we discuss postpartum depression and related disorders.

An amazing postpartum doula and expert on supporting women with perinatal mood disorders, Amber helps me give new fathers the most relevant toolkit from the male and female perspectives to be as prepared as possible to support our partners in the vulnerable days and weeks after birth.

The motto of “The Hero Husband” class is “Prepare Rather Than Repair.”

We learn skills and systems to understand our roles and responsibilities in creating the intimacy 85 percent of folks report to be missing.

This class also has a partner component. We bring our partners in to practice our understanding skills and create our goals for continued intimacy and connection.

The best gift we can give our children is the experience of growing up in a home with two mature adults who share respect, love and intimacy. ■ Learn more about “The Hero Dad” by emailing Dr.Nogin@TheHeroDad. com or visiting www.TheHeroDad.com.

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Dad, Daughter Bring Peachy Innovation to Podcast

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Jeff and Julia Levy celebrate Atlanta entrepreneurs and small businesses on their “Peach and Prosperity” podcast.

The subject of Julia and Jeff Levy’s fourth episode, “Batter Up: The Atlanta Start-Up Farm,” is Burunda PrinceJones, the managing director of The Farm, which, like a baseball farm system, cultivates Atlanta startups.

Each episode takes five to 10 hours to edit, and Julia said she and her father are “firm believers in narrative storytelling.”

They launched “Peach and Prosperity” in February and had published four episodes by June 10.

To celebrate their own entrepreneurial effort, the father and daughter are hosting a launch party at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 20, at co-working

space WeWork at Colony Square in Midtown. The party will include clips of podcasts, podcast bingo and a raffle for tickets to the Alliance Theatre.

Past and future podcast subjects are expected to attend, as may “anyone who wants to celebrate Atlanta, the state of Georgia and the awesome innovation that is happening here,” Julia said.

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Jeff and Julia Levy feature local entrepreneurs on “Peach and Prosperity.”

“We’ve always liked talking to people and finding out their stories. Now we have a way to document that, and it’s been really fun,” Julia said.

Podcasts are digital recordings people can listen to online, through phone apps or with downloads. Most, like the Levys’ podcast, are conversations. As Julia said, they’re an old-fashioned way to get content, like a radio show, but with a modern twist.

Julia and Jeff meet entrepreneurs at Ponce City Market, visit vendors at the Marietta Square Farmers Market and go to pitch night at Switchyards Downtown Club. They also attend meet-ups and networking events.

The two found bread baker Thomas Sergio, the founder of Olde World Artisan Bread Co., at the Marietta Square Farmers Market and featured him on their first episode, “Bread and Atlanta.”

Sergio is German and Italian, and bread was a staple in his home. At 10, he became his family’s onion chopper.

At 14, he woke up early to knead dough.

He now makes 60 European breads from scratch.

“We as a family have fallen in love with his bread,” Julia said.

Jeff and Julia genuinely want people to know about these inspired entrepreneurs and their unique products.

The podcasts are a form of publicity to these entrepreneurs, an aid to “help expand their business,” Jeff said.

The Levys also met Lauren “Big Mama” Janis, the founder of Big Daddy Biscuits, at the Marietta Square Farmers Market. Janis meets her regular customers — dogs — at her booth. She offered 8-year-old Dexter to do a taste test of a biscuit, and he crunched into the microphone.

Janis also offers Furtune cookies to celebrate the year of the dog. Owners can see that the fortunes pertain to the dogs, one of them being “the cat did it.”

The Levys’ podcasts are strategically edited. Jeff and Julia do not publish just audio from an interview, but instead weave in company information and musical interludes, Julia said.

The podcasts must “sound good to the ear,” Jeff said.

party are due to include NOLA Girl Brownies, Big Daddy Biscuits, Savannah Bee Co., SweeTricia’s granola, Just Add Honey Tea Co., kombucha brewer Mighty Bucha, cardboard furniture company Built out of Paper and peanut butter maker Georgia Grinders.

The free “Peach and Prosperity” podcast is hosted by Anchor, an independent podcast platform, and can be listened to on iTunes, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, RadioPublic and Castbox.

Julia said she grew up listening to NPR in the car with her dad. She said she and her dad are the perfect duo, and starting the podcast has been special because it is “really awesome to do it with my dad.” ■

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additional performances June 16 and 17. Tickets start at $35; www.atlantaopera.org/performance/sweeneytodd-demon-barber-fleet-street.

Baseball exhibit. “Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American” is at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Museum admission is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6 for students and educators, $4 for ages 3 to 6, and free for museum members and children under 3; www.thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Korach Friday, June 15, light candles at 8:32 p.m.

Saturday, June 16, Shabbat ends at 9:34 p.m.

Chukkat Friday, June 22, light candles at 8:34 p.m.

Saturday, June 23, Shabbat ends at 9:36 p.m.

THURSDAY, JUNE 14 Free; www.thebreman.org/Events/ Lunchtime-Culture-From-Script-toStage.

Frankly Speaking. Atlanta activist

Bringing a script to life. The Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown, continues the Lunchtime Culture series with excerpts from two Alliance Theatre plays, “Sheltered” and “Goodnight, Tyler,” and a discussion

by Celise Kalke about how scripts are transformed for the stage at noon.

Sherry Frank leads a women’s discussion group on current events for NCJW Atlanta, 6303 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, at noon (bring your own lunch and NCJW provides the beverages). Free; RSVP to christineh@ncjwatlanta.org or 404-8439600.

Expecting after infertility. Jenny Barwick facilitates a Jewish Fertility Foundation support group for pregnant women who dealt with fertility

issues at 6:45 p.m. at MACoM, 700A Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free; www.jewishfertilityfoundation.org/expecting-after-infertility.html or 678-744-7018.

Graduation. Temima: The Richard & Jean Katz High School for Girls holds its graduation at 7:30 p.m. at Heritage Hall at Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills. Free; www. temima.org/news/graduation-savethe-date8808753 or 404-315-0507.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 16

Divorce boot camp. Financial adviser Debbie Dorman and experts in law, investigations and counseling offer guidance for women considering or getting divorces at 10 a.m. at the East Roswell Library, 2301 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell. Free; RSVP to 770-377-4941.

Rockin’ art show. Kiss frontman Paul Stanley presents a show of his painting at 5 p.m. at the Wentworth Gallery at Phipps Plaza, 3500 Peachtree Road, Buckhead. Free; RSVP to 404233-0903.

SUNDAY, JUNE 17

Camp Barney tour. Camp Barney Medintz, 4165 Highway 129 North, Cleveland, offers the chance for prospective families to tour the camp in session at 10:30 a.m. Free; RSVP required at www.campbarney.org/ open-houses.

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Dive into Shabbat. The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, holds a pool party at 5 p.m. and Shabbat songs and blessings with Rabbi Brian Glusman at 6 p.m. Free to all; bit.ly/2IQsOJV or 678-812-4011.

Shabbat Alive. Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, holds a tot service at 5:30 p.m., followed by a service filled with music and soul at 6:30, then a dairy potluck dinner. Free; www.bethshalom.net or 770-399-5300.

Eugen Schoenfeld presents a retrospective show of 36 images selected from thousands of photos he has taken over the decades from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free; tuli09@ hotmail.com or www.atlantajcc.org.

Atlanta Jewish Bowling League.

The coed league bowls at 6:45 p.m. each Sunday at Bowlero, 6345 Spalding Drive, Norcross. Call Alex Schulman at 404-667-7752 or Pauline Weiss at 404-514-9036 for more information.

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Chaim hosts families for swimming, pizza, and Shabbat blessings and songs led by Rabbi Daniel Dorsch and Heather Blake at 5:30 p.m. at the Post Oak Recreation Area pool, 2515 Tritt Springs Trace, East Cobb. Admission is $5; RSVP at etzchaim.net/ shabbatswim.

“Sweeney Todd.” The Atlanta Opera presents the Stephen Sondheim musical about a murderous London barber at 8 p.m. at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Cumberland, with

MONDAY, JUNE 18

Cybersecurity. Eden Doniger, Jonathan Grant and Doug Isenberg discuss “Is Your Data Safe?” over a kosher lunch held by the Atlanta Jewish Foundation at noon at the Selig Center, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; register at jewishatlanta.org/cybersecurity-luncheon.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20

Film screening. Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs, shows “Rachel, Rachel” at 11 a.m. Free; www. templesinaiatlanta.org/event/1968summer-film-series.html or 404-2523073.

JUNE 14-JULY 8 Graduation Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael holds its high school graduation at 7 p.m. at Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills.

Free; www.ohryisrael.org.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21

Bulloch Hall tour. Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Ketura Group tours the antebellum mansion at 180 Bulloch Ave., Roswell, at 11 a.m., followed by lunch at the Mill Kitchen and Bar (not included in the price). Admission is $10 by June 14 or $12 at the door; call Beth Mintz at 770-231-7416 or Esther Low at 404-405-9596 for registration.

FRIDAY, JUNE 22

Pride Shabbat. Congregation Bet Haverim, 2074 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, commemorates the 49th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising at 6:30 p.m. with a discussion of the “Prayer for the End of Hiding” and a dinner of salads prepared by a Syrian refugee. Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for 11- to 17-year-olds, $5 for 3- to 10-year-olds and free for younger children; www.congregationbethaverim.org/event/prideshabbat-event.html.

IDF golf tournament. The Helping Israel Fund holds a fundraiser for Israel Defense Forces soldiers, with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and golf at 9:30, at the Standard Club, 5230 Abbotts Bridge Road, Johns Creek. Registration is $375; helpingisraelfund. com/registration or 561-869-4606.

Honeymoon Israel. Learn about next year’s trips for couples, for which the application period opens June 20, at 7 p.m. at 5 Seasons Brewing, 5600 Roswell Road, No. 21, Sandy Springs. Free; cloud4good.tfaforms. net/385523.

ing snacks and your first drink, at 7 p.m. at Fado Irish Pub, 273 Buckhead Ave., Buckhead. Admission is $18; ortamerica­.org/Schmooze.

THURSDAY, JUNE 28 Book launch.

Emily Giffin discusses her latest novel, the Nashvilleset “All We Ever Wanted,” at 7:30 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Tickets, including a presigned book, are $30 for JCC members, $35 for others; www.atlantajcc. org/bookfestival.

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Dive into Shabbat. The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, holds a pool party at 5 p.m. and Shabbat songs and blessings with Rabbi Brian Glusman at 6 p.m. Free to all; bit.ly/2IQsOJV or 678-812-4011.

Shabbat Together. Temple EmanuEl Rabbis Max and Rachael Miller organize a dinner at a private home for young adults at 7 p.m. Free; rkmiller@templeemanuelatlanta.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 8

Volunteer. Jewish Family & Career Services’ VIA young-adult volunteer corps assists at North Fulton Community Charities, 11270 Elkins Road, Roswell, at 1 p.m. Free; sign up via bfeldser@jfcsatl.org.

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Poetry reading. Tarece Johnson performs her poems and premieres new writing at 7 p.m. at MACoM, 700A Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Admission is a suggested donation of $5; info@atlantamikvah. org or 404-549-9679.

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

Peter without Paul or Mary. Peter

SATURDAY, JUNE 23

Yarrow performs at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth David, 1885 McGee Road, Snellville. Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for children or $50 for VIPs; bit. ly/2J2PTsG.

Cinebash. The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival celebrates art, film and Saul Bass with food, music and more at 7 p.m. at Atlanta Contemporary, 535 Means St., West Midtown. Tickets are $35; www.ajff.org/programs/ cinebash.

SUNDAY, JUNE 24

kicks off its Summer Series of family get-togethers at parks in Brookhaven, Decatur, Virginia-Highland, Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Fayetteville, East Cobb and Smyrna at 10 a.m.

Free; RSVP at www.facebook.com/ pg/pjlibraryatlanta/events and contact Nathan Brodsky at nbrodsky@ jewishatlanta.org or 404-870-1870 for details.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Film

screening. Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs, shows “Romeo and Juliet” at 11 a.m.

Free; www.templesinaiatlanta.org/ event/1968-summer-film-series.html or 404-252-3073.

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Happy hour. ORT Next Gen hosts a young-adult happy hour, includ-

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Paul Stanley’s Art Was Made for Lovin’

You can judge when the Kiss frontman brings his paintings to Buckhead

Artwork by Paul Stanley

Paul Stanley took up painting 16 or 17 years ago.

Who: Paul Stanley What: Art showcase Where: Wentworth Gallery, Phipps Plaza, 3500 Peachtree Road, Buckhead When: 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 16 Admission: Free; RSVP to phipps@ wentworthgallery.com or 404-2330903

Paul Stanley doesn’t shy away from bold colors in his guitar paintings and other artwork.

By Kevin C. Madigan kmadigan@atljewishtimes.com Rock musicians who paint are plentiful. Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Wood, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr are some of the more accomplished ones.

Paul Stanley, 66, the driving force behind Kiss, is getting respect as an artist and commands hefty sums for his artwork. He is on a showcase tour

Paul Stanley’s flag paintings reflect his advocacy for military veterans.

coming to the Wentworth Gallery on Saturday, June 16. He spoke to the AJT from his home in California.

AJT: How is your art tour so far?

Stanley: It’s amazing. It’s humbling to see the success I’ve had, and it’s far beyond anything I anticipated. It’s terrific, validating and very gratifying.

AJT: You had some training early on, didn’t you?

Stanley: I went to the High School of Music & Art (in New York) and had the dubious distinction of failing art.

I’m not a very good follower, and I don’t take well to instruction. We certainly never painted much, and I didn’t really delve into painting until 16, 17 years ago, and that was all on my initiative and without any guidance.

AJT: You said in an interview that you’re fearless of color.

Stanley: I can’t imagine what there is to be afraid of. For me, it’s about celebrating life. Life should be vibrant, and I paint vibrantly, which is the way I feel. Doesn’t mean that life is not difficult. It just means the rewards for the difficulties make it worthwhile.

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AJT: You’ve been called a punk impressionist.

Stanley: I should live up to that — a great combination of terminology. I won’t argue with it and will accept it.

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AJT: You were raised Jewish, right?

Your mother’s family escaped Germany?

Stanley: Yes. They fled Berlin to Amsterdam and left everything behind, as many did if they were lucky enough to get out. They had the same situation repeat itself in Amsterdam and made it out to America.

A blues guitarist is depicted in this Paul Stanley work.

AJT: You wrote an autobiography.

Stanley: That was three or four years ago. A New York Times best seller translated into six languages. My second book is nearly complete. It’s an extension of the first and almost serves as a manual of how I applied certain principles in my life and how other people can also. I’m not here to preach, but I can provide some insight into how I succeeded, and that’s really the premise of the book. Also, it seems that I didn’t drop dead after the first book, so there’s more to tell.

AJT: Can you explain your advocacy of wounded veterans?

Stanley: We sometimes forget that freedom is only free for those who don’t have to pay the price. We tend to take for granted that this is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but it’s the brave who keep us free. So I think it’s very important for all of us in any capacity to support our military. Politicians come and go; it’s the military that historically has not only saved us, but saved other countries.

AJT: What do you want to achieve with your art show?

Stanley: I just enjoy the idea that my shows are incredibly successful not just because of the familiarity with Kiss, but beyond that, it’s serious collectors who may not even like or know my band but are acquiring serious pieces.

It’s all a treat. Someone might come into the gallery who has been too intimidated to experience art, and I want to reassure them that their likes and dislikes don’t need to be qualified by an education in art. You like what you like, and that’s what makes it valid. ■

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Israeli’s Puppetry Transports Adults Across Time

Yael Rasooly says the 1940s and ’50s and Hollywood glamour influenced “Paper Cut.”

Yael Rasooly’s “Paper Cut” runs from June 21 to 24 at the Center for Puppetry Arts.

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com Contemporary adult puppetry may be a mystery to many, but for Israeli puppeteer Yael Rasooly, the art form opens a magical door to emotions.

Atlanta audiences can experience those feelings at “Paper Cut,” her solo show at the Center for Puppetry Arts.

Contemporary adult puppetry is different from theater because the point of departure comes from a material rather than a text, Rasooly said.

“The minute people discover this genre, there is no going back. People just want to see more and more of it.”

Rasooly was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Toronto. She spent her life traveling between the cities, a situation that influenced her art.

She was born into a family of musicians, and her parents gave her every opportunity to immerse herself in the arts. She began training as a classical pianist at age 4 and was singing at 7.

Her talents landed her on tour with an all-girl choir by the time she was 10. But she said one of the hardest decisions she ever had to make was

choosing what she wanted to do in life.

“I have a very competitive side, which began at a very young age, and I think part of me never wanted to be put into a box,” she said.

Rasooly thought of becoming an opera singer or a doctor, but then considered theater design.

“Castings and auditions were a big part of my life and something I didn’t want to wait by the phone for. I wanted to create my own part,” she said.

Rasooly saw her first adult puppetry performance in London. “I thought, ‘What is that? And whatever it is, I want to find out more about it and do it.’ ” After she visited the CharlevilleMézierès Festival in France — the largest puppetry festival in the world, held every three years — Rasooly’s passion for puppetry grew. She saw 60 to 70 performances in 10 days, from big shows to small performances in cabarets.

“The real magic I found there was that people were constructing their own individual universes and stories and that all disciplines of the arts came together,” she said. “I was completely amazed, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s what I want to do.’ ” Shortly after, Rasooly began a global search for a school that not only taught traditional string and rod puppetry, but also promoted creativity. She

discovered the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem.

There Rasooly learned how to create her own form of expression and began touring to promote her first show, “How Lovely.”

In her current solo show, “Paper Cut,” for 15-year-olds and older, Rasooly plays a secretary in the 1940s and ’50s who falls in love with her boss even though he is unattainable. Through her fantasies, she begins to create an imaginary world where her dreams come true, but they turn into a Hitchcockian nightmare.

Rasooly said she draws inspiration from the language of cinema and music and from French singers such as Édith Piaf.

It takes Rasooly anywhere from a few months to years to create and perfect a puppet show.

When she is not doing puppet shows, she has a parallel career in which she sings 1920s to 1940s jazz with orchestras and performs musical cabaret duos with artists such as accordionist Iliya Magalnyk.

The Center for Puppetry Arts show is Rasooly’s first time performing in Atlanta. She invites audiences on an unexpected journey in “Paper Cut,” which touches on different subjects in a way that only puppetry can.

“It’s what we call existential disbelief. You see a performance and know that what is in front of you is a puppet and not a living being, but you feel it if something happens to the characters and are transported back to your childhood,” she said. “I think that is what I love most about being onstage and this art form. It’s the feeling I get when I realize the audience is just letting go and being transported on a journey.” ■ Who: Yael Rasooly What: “Paper Cut” Where: Center for Puppetry Arts, 1404 Spring St., Midtown When: 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, June 21 to 23; 5 p.m. Sunday, June 24 Tickets: $30 to $35; puppet.org/buytickets/2018-19/paper-cut or 404-8733391

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Saul Bass has been dead over 22 years, but the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is making a mighty effort to bring the famed Jewish motion picture graphic designer and filmmaker back to life for one night only.

On Saturday night, June 23, the festival is producing Cinebash, with a focus on Bass and his wife and design partner, Elaine. The event will be built around Bass’ work as one of the most influential designers in film history.

It’s a high-profile, ambitious event for the festival, which increasingly is emphasizing year-round programming.

“It’s something Atlanta has never seen before,” AJFF Executive Director Kenny Blank said in introducing the event at a VIP preview Thursday, June 7. “It’s a truly unique party, a celebration of the screen arts, and something very cool and awesome that if I tried to describe it, I would just diminish it.”

Festival board member Max Leventhal said: “We are ambitious and want to grow, and to that end we are reaching out to new audiences with artistically interesting people who are going to find their way to the film festival through alternate paths.”

The festival has lined up two dozen partners for Cinebash, including Fulton County Arts & Culture, the Alliance Theatre and the Atlanta Film Festival.

Leading a trio of presenting sponsors is Taste of Atlanta, which will feature tasty bites from notable restaurants.

The event’s creative director is Danny Davis, who has a decade of experience producing cutting-edge artistic projects. His job is to make the most of Cinebash’s large venue, the 35,000-square-foot Contemporary Art Center just west of Georgia Tech.

“We are going to play with Saul Bass’ work as light, as structure, as objects, as installations surrounding you.

We are going to do that through line and direct movement of text as well as shapes. We are going to play with structures in big ways, in ways that may not be expected,” Davis said.

Bass, the son of Jewish immigrants, got his break with the title sequence for “The Man With the Golden Arm,” a 1955 film that featured one of Frank Sinatra’s best dramatic performances.

The film’s success launched Bass on a 40-year career that redefined the importance of graphics in motion pic-

Saul Bass What: Cinebash Where: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 535 Means St., West Midtown When: 7 p.m. Saturday, June 23 Tickets: $35 in advance, $40 at the door; www.ajff.org/programs/ cinebash

tures and film advertising.

He created title sequences for such films as Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” in 1959 and “Psycho” in 1960, and his career stretched into the 1990s with a quartet of Scorsese films.

His title sequences often were little films themselves, with an unspoken story line that helped to define the movies in the public mind. Sometimes Bass’ short titles were more memorable than the films they introduced.

Atlanta audiences may remember his work in 1960’s “Exodus,” which many consider the most influential film about Israel ever made.

Bass’ two-minute title sequence over Ernest Gold’s stirring theme music is simplicity itself with a strong yet almost subliminal message. An orange flame licks at the bottom of a deep-blue screen, where the titles appear in sequence until the final moments, when the screen itself is engulfed in flame — an allusion, perhaps, to the violent but heroic birth of the modern Jewish state.

Deanna Clark is a young designer on the board of the American Institute of Graphic Artists in Atlanta, a Cinebash sponsor. She works for Victory World Church, a megachurch in Norcross with a multiracial community, and attended the preview. She is typical of those the festival would like to attract to its programs on a regular basis.

She spoke of Bass’ influence on her every day. “His poignant work inspires creatives globally. His style and forms allow people from different walks of life to have similar responses of memory. When art brings people together, it creates an environment of inclusion and discussion.”

Leventhal was more succinct: “This is our response to being year-around.

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Canadian band Busty and the Bass perform at the Candler Park Music & Food Festival.

rapin Beer. The festival has become a tradition for Candler Park, providing a variety of fun summer music and delicious food truck experiences.

On the Town with Jen & Michal

By Jen Evans and Michal Bonell jen@atljewishtimes.com The music was fantastic. We particularly were drawn to the free-form cover-band style of Webster, a local band that kicked off Saturday.

We also enjoyed Busty and the Bass from Montreal, who incorporated two vocalists, a horn section and a diverse range of musical genres. It was fun music to dance to.

There were many other great bands, and we met folks who came all the way from Tennessee just to see Lettuce and Government Mule.

The only downside was the small event space. There were a few art vendors and some food trucks with one stage and a large field to fill with music enthusiasts. Tickets started at $40, which we thought to be quite high.

There is a free Candler Park Fall Fest, which welcomes residents and visitors alike, showcases the neighborhood in all its diversity, and serves as the Candler Park Neighborhood Organization’s major annual fundraiser.

It will be held for the 18th time, rain or shine, on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30. It will feature a 5K and fun run, an artist market, food trucks, live music, a home tour, and yoga.

We’re not sure where the next adventure will take us, but the Aug. 23 “Grease” sing-along at the Fox Theatre is enticing. Summer days, drifting away to ahh, oh those summer nights. #Greaseistheword. ■

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It seems that too often we look toward other places for family fun and entertainment and overlook all that is available for us right here in our beautiful city of Atlanta.

After celebrating our sons’ high school graduations with family and friends — yay, Morgan and Nicholas — we set off to delight in one of the country’s largest free jazz festivals, the 41st Atlanta Jazz Festival.

The festival celebrates jazz legends and up-and-coming jazz stars in venues across metro Atlanta throughout the month of May. This annual celebration of art, culture and jazz concludes each Memorial Day weekend with a melodic outdoor event that takes over most of Piedmont Park.

The festival finale features three stages, allowing for continual music that follows you as you explore the art stations and food trucks along the park’s walkway while strolling from one stage to the next.

It’s an event that fosters harmonious community with friends and family. The stages are in a picturesque setting with Midtown high-rises as the backdrop. Unique art and a vast selection of food are available.

Luckily, the rain held off, and spectators of all ages could fully enjoy the musical experience in a free-spirited manner. We arrived with a blanket to sit on, but others came with tents and grills. Some came with full bars.

We had a glorious time and look forward to enjoying the Atlanta Jazz Festival again next Memorial Day weekend. We hope you can too.

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Mikvah Opens Art Show Photo by Marcia Caller Jaffe

Sisters Judy Robkin (left) and Anita Stein display their contrasting art styles in a new exhibit at MACoM in Sandy Springs.

By Marcia Caller Jaffe mjaffe@atljewishtimes.com

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Sister artists Judy Robkin and Anita Stein opened an exhibit of their work Thursday, June 7, at the Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah, a nondenominational sacred space for ritual immersion for the Jewish community.

The sisters are donating 25 percent of the proceeds of the artwork to MACoM. Robkin, who visited Yugoslavia and was inspired by an older lady’s expression, dress and posture, set about creating intriguing clay figures ranging from around 13 to 25 inches tall.

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The figures have names such as Pearl, Ruth and Lila, and Robkin said people are often moved that a figure and its name match a late relative.

“Life is like rings on a tree. My figures all have their stories to tell,” she said.

Stein paints pastels of landscapes and water elements. Mostly in blue and green hues, the water scenes tie in naturally with mikvah immersion.

“Since waves are constantly in motion, I have to work from photos. I can’t do stop-action,” Stein said.

Guitarist Kyra Goldman entertained the group with an original song about Israel, “Lion Waking Up.” ■

In addition to a celebration of MACoM and the synagogue heroes, Mitzvah for the Mikvah was a finale for Caryn Hanrahan, who is ending her two-year term as president. She was presented a clock to track all the free time she’ll have.

Photos by Michael Jacobs

Lorna Sherwinter says MACoM helped her connect with her then-unborn son, Adam.

Heroes Lead Communal Dip Into Mikvah Benefits More than 200 people helped beautify the mitzvah of mikvah by celebrating 13 synagogues’ community heroes Thursday, May 3.

The second annual Mitzvah for the Mikvah, held at Congregation B’nai Torah to benefit the Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah, was built on the three pillars that Rabbi Simon the Just some 2,300 years ago said would sustain the world: Torah study, avodah (worship and ritual) and gemilut chasadim (acts of kindness).

B’nai Torah Rabbi Joshua Heller said MACoM, although it might seem “very Leviticus-y,” is not just a place of ritual. It incorporates study and kindness as well.

“Each piece of our lives has the seed, has the capacity, to form and to create an entire world. Every good deed has within it the seeds of every good deed,” said Rabbi Heller, who helped launch MACoM as an independent, pluralistic community organization more than three years ago and who Rabbi Loren Filson Lapidus said “will always be the pool boy of MACoM.” “The mikvah has within it the seeds of all that Judaism has to offer,” Rabbi Heller said.

Video tributes at the dinner broke the community heroes into groups based on the three pillars: Devorah Lowenstein, Linda Bressler, Annette Marcus and Rebecca Stapel-Wax, Torah; Karen Baron, Bonnie and Alan Silverman, Jeff Willard, and Lori Carling, worship and ritual; and Samra and Ronald Robbins, Ronnie van Gelder, Arlene Exelbert, Robin Mayer, and Gillian Gansler, acts of kindness.

“I hope these heroes inspire all of you to get involved in the Jewish community or elsewhere to do your part,” emcee Brian Mand said.

While the purpose of the evening was fundraising, the spiritual and emotional benefits of the mikvah were highlighted.

Benefactor Ramie Tritt, for example, said immersion is a special spiritual experience, and each plate at the dinner had a written testimonial about the power of immersion.

Lorna Sherwinter said she first visited MACoM a year earlier, three weeks before she was due to give birth after fertility struggles. Mikvah hero Lowenstein suggested she go to the mikvah near the end of a difficult pregnancy, and Sherwinter said that floating alone in a quiet pool of warm water sounded appealing.

“I went to the mikvah looking for temporary relief, and what I came away with was a permanent fixture of my self-care routine,” she said, adding that she sees that mikvah visit as her first memory of her son, Adam.

“The mikvah welcomes us as we are. It doesn’t ask us to change, but rather it asks us to remove the things we change about ourselves in order to fit in this world around us: our clothes, our makeup, our nail polish,” Sherwinter said.

“The mikvah takes us back to our purest form and encourages us to experience the privilege of human existence, no matter what physical or emotional stress lingers for us outside of the pool. That is what draws me back time and time again.” ■

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Israel, Georgia Sign Tech R&D Partnership Israel and Georgia signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday, June 7, to promote research-and-development projects pairing companies from both states.

The document clears the way for grant-funded efforts to develop or improve products or processes in: • Vehicle automation, electrification, safety systems and related areas.

• Advanced materials.

• Sustainable energy, water and agriculture systems.

• Public safety and homeland security.

• Smart homes, energy efficiency and aging in place.

• Data collection and analytics.

• Systems to improve utility operations and maintenance.

• Distributed energy resource management.

• Marketing and customer relations systems.

Georgia Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson and Israeli Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer, the consul general to the Southeast, signed

the agreement at the Midtown offices of the Economic Development Department, a few blocks from the Israeli Consulate. Among those attending the signing ceremony were former Attorney General Sam Olens, now with Dentons; Conexx President Guy Tessler and Vice President Barry Swartz; American Jewish Committee ACCESS associate Jeffrey Silverstein; and Technology Association of Georgia CEO and President Larry Williams.

Under the deal, Georgia companies seeking research partners will issue requests for proposals with the Israel Innovation Authority. The Georgia company will provide funding, and the IIA will match it.

“This is a tremendous day not only for the state of Georgia, but for our partners: the Southern Co. and any number of businesses that are going to be able to take advantage of this,” Wilson said, adding that the agreement enhances “a long-term relationship that means a lot to us.”

He said Georgia has maintained a presence in Israel for a quarter-centu-

ry, producing a range of benefits. More than 40 Israeli businesses operate in Georgia.

The program is a partnership between the IIA and the Georgia Centers of Innovation, a division of Wilson’s department. It is starting with the Southern Co., which liked what it saw during a Conexx mission to Israel that included meeting with the IIA last year, said Michael E. Britt, the vice president of the Southern Co.’s Energy Innovation Center.

He said the Southern Co. has identified a potential Israeli partner for innovation in electric vehicles, which would help the energy company’s customers and its own fleet of vehicles.

Southern Co. Chairman Thomas Fanning and the IIA will sign the RFP in Israel in a couple of weeks, said Oded Shorer, the Israeli Consulate’s economy and trade director.

The Atlanta-based company and the Israeli agency each will put up $1 million for the first year of the program. Oded Shorer said the hope is to increase the grant funding in future

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Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson and Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer sign the memo of understanding June 7.

years.

While the Southern Co. is the first Georgia business operating under the agreement, Wilson expects other companies to take advantage of the structure now that it is in place.

The Southern Co. has a database of Georgia companies in the technology areas covered by the RFP and is prepared to help them find Israeli partners, while the IIA has a database of Israeli companies and provides immediate matching.

Israeli tech innovation and the IIA are impressive, Britt said. “We’re excited.” ■

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AJA eighth-graders sing “Hatikvah” at the conclusion of their recognition ceremony June 6.

Eliana Leubitz, the daughter of Head of School Rabbi Ari Leubitz, receives her certificate for completing the eighth grade.

(From left) Devorah Addess, Shayna Leibowitz, Josh Alhadeff and Mikayla AvdarRubin watch as Binny Frenkel returns to his seat after receiving his certificate.

Leah Houben receives her eighthgrade certificate from Debbie Bornstein (left) and Missy Rivner.

Yered Wittenberg receives the Kesser Shem Tov Award from Rabbi Ari Leubitz.

Noah Kalnitz and Daliya Wallenstein draw lessons from the week’s Torah portion, Shelach.

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Kiki Starr speaks about the Jaguar Jems, the eighth-grade community service group at AJA.

AJA Middle School Class Of 2018 Margalit Lytton accepts the Ephraim Frankel Award from Rabbi Ari Leubitz.

The class laughs about faculty comments made during the certificate presentation to Cece Robison.

Watched by Jaron Brenner, Shmuel Gimpelevich steps up to receive his eighth-grade certificate.

AJA 8th-Graders Armed for Next Level

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Atlanta Jewish Academy sent 30 eighth-graders on to high school Wednesday, June 6, with confidence that they have the tools to be “A” human beings as well as “A” students.

“You have all of the tools. You have the wisdom. You have the Torah. You have community, and you have values,” AJA Head of School Rabbi Ari Leubitz said at the class recognition ceremony after recounting a midrash about making something of your gifts. “You have to take the skills, the knowledge, the Torah and wrestle with it, knead it, sift it, argue with it, make it relevant, fight about it, keep it alive and make it your own.”

The ceremony — the equivalent of a middle school graduation for AJA, which runs from preschool through high school — was more personal than usual for Rabbi Leubitz because it included his daughter Eliana.

“I can really say us this time,” he 24 told his fellow eighth-grade parents

about the emotions they felt about their children’s growing independence.

“It’s empowering. It’s age-appropriate.

It’s normal. And it’s scary.”

Members of the class demonstrated their readiness for high school.

Kiki Starr spoke of the success of the eighth-graders’ Jaguar Jems, which raised more than $830 for CURE Childhood Cancer and more than $200 for the Weiss Family Foundation, which helps people overcome poverty.

Noah Kalnitz and Daliya Wallenstein drew lessons from Joshua and Caleb’s refusal to agree with the negative, fearful report the other 10 scouts brought back from the land of Israel in the week’s Torah portion, Shelach.

“Standing up for what you believe is right will ultimately be rewarded. It is important that we act as leaders and that we speak up when no one else is willing to,” even amid the increased pressures of high school, Daliya said.

Noah said their AJA education will help them do it.

He was one of half a dozen class

members honored during the awards portion of the ceremony. Rabbi Leubitz named him the Davening Man of the Year among the eighth-grade boys.

The Kesser Shem Tov (Crown of a Good Name) Award went to Yered Wittenberg, the class gabbai, and Ella Goldstein. Jonah Gordon and Daliya Wallenstein got the Head of School Award. And Margalit Lytton received the Ephraim Frankel Award.

Rabbi Leubitz also recognized class members on the MAAC championship boys soccer and basketball teams and Margalit Lytton and Shiraz Agichtein for their science fair success.

He told parents that their children have learned what it means to be human beings and proud Jews. “They didn’t always get it right, and neither did we. But we got here together, and we could not be prouder of this class.”

He added: “May they always see in our face and hear in our language our unconditional love and support for them as they move forward and continue the next stage of their growth.” ■

The following are the 30 Atlanta Jewish Academy eighth-graders who were recognized for completing Middle School on Wednesday, June 6.

Devorah Addess Shiraz Agichtein Josh Alhadeff Josh Asherian Mikayla Avdar-Rubin Jaron Brenner Binny Frenkel Shami Frenkel Ari Gabay Danny Gadelov Shmuel Gimpelevich Manny Goldin Ella Goldstein Jonah Gordon Leah Houben Noah Kalnitz Shayna Leibowitz Eliana Leubitz Jacob Lewis Miriam Lynn Margalit Lytton Noah Meltzer Ezra Miller Cece Robison Max Schorvitz Racheli Seeman Elliot Sokol Kiki Starr Daliya Wallenstein Yered Wittenberg

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Law Grad Embraces Tolerance, Emory, Atlanta

By Breanna West

With law school behind him, David Zev Rosenberg’s focus is on passing the bar exam.

nity and very friendly place.”

Rosenberg has since moved back to New York to take the bar exam, the mandatory state test whose passage is required to get a license to practice law.

The daunting exam requires constant study, and he said he is spending more time in the library now than he did throughout law school.

Until he takes the New York bar exam in two months, his future is in the books right in front of his face while he is “just trying to pass the bar.”

Rosenberg said he sees a shift in himself out of law school. “I try to think of things a bit more methodically, and I am a little more patient.”

He described himself in three words: “funny, serious, dedicated.”

After the bar exam, Rosenberg plans to take a welcome leave from the books and travel to Vietnam and Thailand for two weeks. He will teach English in Vietnam, though he does not know for which age group.

Traveling to immerse yourself in new cultures, Rosenberg said, is “getting out of your element. It is important to relate and talk to other people from other surroundings.”

Rosenberg is interested in practicing real estate law.

He said it is “important to make sure contracts are written well … (and) fight for the client.” ■

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New Emory University School of Law graduate David Zev Rosenberg has a worldly awareness of the importance of tolerance.

The discussions at law school might seem as if they should be straightforward and by the book, but in a lecture hall of 100-plus law students, Rosenberg said, “every single person has an opinion.”

That can be overwhelming, but the 26-year-old said Emory helped him value and “understand other people’s perspectives, which translates into the law. It’s not always black and white.”

Understanding different perspectives supported his work as the president of the Emory chapter of the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which launched on campus three years ago to counter anti-Semitism at the college.

The center investigates incidents, provides free research and advocacy for victims of discrimination, and files legal complaints.

The purpose, Rosenberg said, is “fighting discrimination on campus.”

Coming from Long Island, N.Y., Rosenberg searched for his Jewish community the minute he arrived in Atlanta. He was a part of Emory Hillel but found that it consisted mostly of undergraduates; he was looking for people his age.

As an Orthodox Jew, he found his stride when he connected with Chabad of Toco Hills and “enjoyed Jewish life for the first time,” Rosenberg said.

He said Atlanta’s Jewish community is smaller and easier to break into than New York’s, and the Jewish population is “more welcoming in Atlanta.

You could be who you wanted to be.”

He chose Emory for law school because he “wanted to go to a good school, close to a Jewish community.” He said the school “cares for their students.”

Still, he offered a warning to anyone considering law school that it is “quite difficult, but you shouldn’t give up.”

The people in Atlanta made his three years here better, Rosenberg said.

“I love the way people are happy. I love the weather. It’s a very young commu-

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(From left) Daniel Bland, Aaron Blanks, Aaron Linder and Dovi Lipskier listen to a classmate during the graduation ceremony.

Pediatrician Leslie Rubin advises the graduates to use the spark of divine creativity in all of them.

Noson Sollish has some fun with wordplay, wondering whether fish get thirsty, what they call fancy plates in China, and, if he tries to fail and succeeds, does he fail or succeed?

(From left) Miriam Farkas, Sivan Livnat and Rachel Zeiger mark their graduation by flipping their tassels to the left.

Head of School Rabbi Michoel Druin and school founder Dassie New present the first diploma in the history of the Chaya Mushka Children’s House Elementary & Middle School to Miriam Farkas.

The mortarboards fly as (from left) Daniel Bland, Aaron Blanks, Aaron Linder, Dovi Lipskier and Noson Sollish celebrate graduation.

Chaya Mushka Celebrates First 8 Graduates

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The Chaya Mushka Children’s House Elementary & Middle School and eight students shared a milestone Thursday, June 7, that marked the transition from one phase of their lives to another.

For the students, it was the end of eighth grade, marking the time to leave the school some had attended since preschool. For the school itself, it was the first middle school graduation, coming as the Chabad of Georgiaaffiliated Montessori school prepares to move its first- to eighth-graders to a larger campus.

It was a bittersweet moment for the five boys and three girls, said Noson Sollish, the last of the eight to speak during the ceremony at Congregation Beth Tefillah and one of those who grew up with the school as it started with first grade in 2010 and added a grade each year: sweet because they are moving on to high school but bitter because they are leaving just before the school upgrades its space.

The graduation audience, which far exceeded the 100 seats set up in the social hall, could relate to the experience of the school, which has outgrown its 100-student capacity in rented space 26 in Sandy Springs.

The students, each of whom spoke during the ceremony, received their diplomas from the two people who were there at both ends of their school journey: Dassie New, who founded the school, and Rabbi Michoel Druin, the head of school since 2015.

“What was important in preschool is the same in the eighth grade — except, of course, at a higher level. So here it is: Keep your curiosity alive. Keep asking the why questions,” said Sara Carter, a member of the CMCH board who taught some of the graduates in preschool.

The job of an educator is to go beyond information to transformation, Rabbi Druin said. “It’s about taking these young men and women over here and making them into adults, thinking adults, Jewishly proud adults, adults who are grounded in their Jewish values and tradition.”

He said Chaya Mushka’s first graduating class reflects that process and will lead the school’s climb.

The climb was physical and metaphorical for graduate Rachel Zeiger, who said that her personal growth and confidence in trying new things led her to embrace mountain hiking. You need a strong support system to get through life’s mountains, she said, and you must look ahead.

“You always have to remember to keep looking up at what you can achieve rather than always looking down at what has already happened,” she said. “You can’t change the past, only plan the future.”

Taking a cue from the week’s Torah portion, Shelach, Rabbi Yossi New advised the graduates to be involved in the outside world, just as the scouts Moses sent into the land of Israel were tasked to find a single tree.

“The ultimate goal is to become like a tree: to go out into the world, to influence the world, to impact the world, to provide spiritual sustenance to everyone you come in contact with,” said Rabbi New, the Chabad of Georgia director.

Commencement speaker Leslie

Rubin said the graduates should learn from Joshua and Caleb, the two of Moses’ 12 scouts who expressed optimism about conquering Canaan, and go forth with courage and determination. “As long as you have Hashem in your heart, you can make anything happen.”

He also urged them to use the divine spark of creativity inside everyone, just as people ranging from polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk to Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster have done.

“When you think, dream, imagine, have a vision of what you want to be and what you want to do,” Rubin said.

“Have the courage and have the spirit of Hashem in you, and just remember that spark of creativity.” ■

CMCH Middle School Class of 2018 The following are the eight eighth-graders who graduated from the Chaya Mushka Children’s House Elementary and Middle School on Thursday, June 7.

Daniel Bland Aaron Blanks Miriam Farkas Aaron Linder

Dovi Lipskier Sivan Livnat Noson Sollish Rachel Zeiger

OBITUARIES

Alfred Haber 93, Atlanta

Alfred Haber, age 93, of Atlanta died Sunday, June 3, 2018.

He was born Oct. 16, 1924, in Auschwitz, Poland, to Menachem and Luba Haber, of blessed memory. Alfred was the second of six children. When he was a young teenager, Alfred and his family were forcibly removed from their home and sent to the neighboring town of Sosnowiec, where, along with thousands of other Jews, they were placed in the infamous Sosnowiec ghetto. From there, Alfred was sent to forced-labor and then concentration camps. Somehow he survived for five years. After the war, Alfred was reunited with his younger sister Lilli, and together they immigrated to America, settling in Buffalo, N.Y. No other family member survived. Soon after arriving in Buffalo, Alfred enrolled in school and, despite not knowing the language or customs of his new country and having no support system, he was able to graduate from Lafayette High School in two years at the top of his class. He even went to the prom! Next, he started the Alfred Wallpaper and Paint Store, which he operated for over 30 years. He met the love of his life, Rachel Luftman, and in 1956 they married. The loving couple enjoyed entertaining and, with friends, traveled extensively. In time, they retired to south Florida, where Alfred took up bridge, eventually earning the title of life master.

For more information on Alfred Haber, you can view the video testimonial of his Holocaust experience at collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511788.

Alfred is survived by his wife, Rachel Luftman Haber; son and daughter-inlaw Dr. Mark and Marlene Haber of Sandy Springs; daughter and son-in-law Linda and Arthur Waters of Portland, Ore.; grandchildren Alexis (Amitabh), Jordan Kohn, and Jamie, Andrew and Katie Haber.

Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum at www.give.ushmm.org/tribute, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126. A graveside service was held Tuesday, June 5, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Gertrude Krick 102, Silver Spring, Md.

Davee Kuniansky 96, Atlanta

Davora (Davee) Polier Kuniansky passed away Thursday, June 7, 2018, at the age of 96 from the same cause that claimed her beloved husband, Mickey, after a long life well lived.

She was the daughter of Ben Polier and Lena Zaban Polier and the sister of Adele Bragar, all of whom died before her. She is survived by her sons, Harry S. Kuniansky (Jody Wilson) and Richard B. Kuniansky; her daughter, Judy Kuniansky; her grandchildren, Jesse Kuniansky-Altman, David Kuniansky-Altman, Aaron Kuniansky-Altman, Sarah Kuniansky and Hallie Neal McLeroy; and a greatgrandchild, Annaliese Kuniansky, as well as her niece, Judith Bragar, great-nieces Lorien Silverleaf and Arwyn Koltuniak, and great-great-niece Nina Silverleaf.

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Gertrude Krick, age 102, died Sunday, June 3, 2018, in Silver Spring, Md. For 28 years she was a force for Jewish education and was intimately involved with life at the Hebrew Academy in Atlanta.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Rosalyn and Ted Kram of Rockville, Md.; her son, Elliott Krick of Chicago; grandchildren Joel Morris and Rachel Regan; three step-grandsons; and 13 great-grandchildren.

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Shearith Israel Welcomes Ethiopian Refugee Family

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com After months of planning with New American Pathways, Congregation Shearith Israel welcomed a refugee family from Ethiopia on April 24.

The family — a single mother with an adult son, a 15-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son from the Afar people, an minority group in Ethiopia — now lives in Stone Mountain.

Rabbi Ari Kaiman said every year he pushes the congregation to make the world a better place. “It is a timely issue in our country and in the world, and the response from the congrega-

tion has been incredibly enthusiastic,” he said. “I hope that every year we find work that excites and engages the congregation’s hands in mitzvot as much as this project is.”

The congregation is providing household items as needed. Volunteers have spent four to five hours a day turoring the family in English. The family also is receiving help from New American Pathways to find jobs and to enroll the children in summer camp.

More than 70 volunteers have stepped up at Shearith to help make the lives of the family and the process of assimilating into Atlanta as easy as possible, Rabbi Kaiman said.

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“It is a true honor to help welcome those who have had to leave their homes and are newcomers to our city,” Congregation Shearith Israel President Richard Kaplan said in a statement.

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“All of our congregants and community members are bringing their whole selves into this project, and I am so proud of the work everyone is doing,” Rabbi Kaiman said.

He said the refugees’ story parallels Jewish narratives of oppression and immigration. “In a time where there are more refugees in the world than perhaps there have ever been,” he said, “we feel that it’s imperative that the Jewish community and Shearith Israel help refugee families feel at home when they arrive to the unknown.” ■

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10 Years Ago // June 13, 2008 ■ Graduating senior Max Goldman of North Springs Charter School heads to Emory University in the fall as the reigning Mr. North Springs, a recognition voted by his peers to recognize Max as the senior who has best led the student body. In addition to being in the top 10 in his class academically and serving as an officer in several clubs, he has led the team of teaching assistants at Temple Emanu-El. Max Goldman, 10 years later ■ The bar mitzvah ceremony of Allen Aaron Grau of Dunwoody, son of Theodore and Jacqueline Grau, was held Saturday, March 22, at Chabad of Cobb.

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Baroff of Temple Beth David in Snellville, says he wants the ARA to be a more active voice in the community, addressing the dual problems of Jews not being religious enough and rabbis not being strong enough religious leaders. He wants fellow rabbis to promote Jewish identity in secular Jewish organizations, such as the JCC and Jewish Family Services.

■ Morris and Amy Maslia of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Aaron David, on May 7.

50 Years Ago // June 14, 1968 ■ Mohelim representing six Southeastern states met in Atlanta on May 19 to form an organization that will meet regularly during the year to raise the standards of brit milah. Rabbi Pincus Aloof of Atlanta was elected the president and coordinator. Three Atlanta physicians, Larry Bregman, Milton Friedman and Harvey Merlin, discussed new medical developments related to modern ritual circumcision.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Singer of Atlanta announce the engagement of daughter Nancy Ann Singer to Samuel Hillel Silver, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Silver of Augusta. A September wedding is planned.

Gifts of Love Are in Hand Of Beholder I am not a germaphobe. No way, no how. Growing up in the Bronx, playing outside, riding buses, trains and the occasional Yellow Cab, did not allow the luxury of having germaphobia.

My goodness, we Bronxites held great respect for germs.

So much so that if a child in the neighborhood came down with the measles, the mumps or any of a myriad of other childhood diseases, neighborhood moms would purposefully plan play dates with the sick child.

Share and share alike was the motto the Bronx parents lived by and instilled in us.

Sometimes that motto was spoken in hushed tones, supporting the madness. The sooner their own children could get it over with, the better.

My sisters and I were not afraid of getting dirty. We played hard and loved it.

My mom (z”l) believed in and set in motion a perfect plan for the sharing of diseases: If one of us girls (me or my sisters) got sick, we must all get sick together.

It was so much easier for her.

Mom had other important things to take care of: mah-jongg, canasta, shopping, the beauty parlor, discussing and comparing, just to name a few.

One of the reasons my sisters and I were potty-trained early — I was the earliest at less than 1 year old — was to make Mommy’s life more pleasant.

I mean, really, who wants to change poopy diapers longer than necessary?

Lest we forget, disposable diapers were an item of the future.

Remember the above statement; it will come in handy at the end of my shpiel.

The other day a sweet, adorable, blond-haired, blue-eyed beauty held out her little hand to give me her gift of love.

Whatever possessed me in that moment to look before I accepted my little gift, I will never know. However, I was so happy I did.

One of the highlights of my workday is experiencing the preschool children. These sweet, mischievous, clever, free spirits keep my own spirit from becoming tired and stale.

Nominate Jewish Atlanta’s 18 Under 18!

We invite members of the community to nominate those under the age of 18 who they believe are Jewish Atlanta’s rising leaders in academics, religious and family life, as well as community action.

Disposable diapers don’t solve every problem.

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Their curiosity knows no bounds, allowing me to feel freer to be curious.

They are not concerned with asking questions. They aren’t concerned with making a mistake or spinning and falling or giggling until they can no longer stand on their feet.

When I open the door to a classroom, the children run to greet me, ready to share, ready to explain, ready to learn. I could write a best seller with all the secrets I hear.

Each class has its own culture. In one class, the moment I arrive, some children have taken to removing their little shoes, just so I can put them back on.

Some will rip the bows out of the hair carefully crafted by Mommy or Daddy so I can create a new look.

Faces look up at me with smiles to melt my heart.

I have never quite figured out how these children discovered my mom’s perfect plan of sharing and fighting off diseases.

Every year around Sukkot, and again around Shavuot, my mom’s plan is set in motion as I cough and sneeze my way through the week.

Let’s get back to my gift of love.

On this particular morning, this beautiful creature held out her hand with her gift of love.

In that nanosecond of hesitation, I quickly realized the aroma emanating from her gift was not the sweet smell of chocolate.

Pampers, take me away! ■

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A nominee must be Jewish, at least 10 years old and must not have turned 18 before July 25, 2018. You can nominate yourself, a friend, student or your child - anyone who meets the criteria. Nominees are judged on their academic and community achievements as an active member of Jewish Atlanta.

The deadline for nominations is Sunday, July 1, 2018.

Please visit atlantajewishtimes.com/18-under-18/ for more information

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