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MARCH 3 ▪ 2017
FRIDAY, MARCH 3
Italian dinner. YJP invites people in their 20s and 30s for a service and meal at 6:30 p.m. at Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown. Admission is $20; www.yjpatlanta.org.
SUNDAY, MARCH 5
Hunger Walk/Run. Various Jewish organizations have teams participating in the Atlanta Community Food Bank fundraiser at Turner Field, 755 Hank Aaron Drive, downtown. On-site registration and entertainment begin at noon; the walk and run start at 2 p.m. Registration is $25 to walk and $35 to run in advance and $5 more at the gate; www.hungerwalkrun.org. Bearing Witness. Holocaust survivor Murray Lynn tells his story at 2 p.m. at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; thebreman.org. Ella Fitzgerald concert. The Cultural Arts Series at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, presents guest vocalist Carmen Bradford performing Fitzgerald music at 3 p.m. Free (donation requested to the AA Cultural Arts Fund); 404-3555222 or ivanmillender@earthlink.net. Kollel tribute. The Atlanta Scholars Kollel honors Abe Levine with its Tribute to Jewish Learning Award at 7:15 p.m. at the Westin Buckhead, 3391 Peachtree Road. Admission is $54; www.atlantakollel.org or 404-321-4085.
MONDAY, MARCH 6
Terumah Friday, March 3, light candles at 6:18 p.m. Saturday, March 4, Shabbat ends at 7:14 p.m. Tetzaveh Friday, March 10, light candles at 6:24 p.m. Saturday, March 11, Shabbat ends at 7:19 p.m. Greater Atlanta, with co-sponsor American Jewish Committee, hosts Israel Action Network Deputy Director Max Chamovitz for a discussion on boycott, divestment and sanctions at 7:45 a.m. at the Selig Center, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; jewishatlanta.org/ service-dialogue-security-series. Women’s leadership. Rabba Devorah Evron draws on biblical and contemporary examples to discuss why more men than women hold leadership positions at a Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta event at noon at the Selig Center, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; jwfatlanta.org/events. Chevra Kadisha dinner. The annual 7th of Adar gathering of the Atlanta-area Chevra Kadisha to mark the yahrzeit of Moses and discuss the funeral societies’ work, with guest speaker Rabbi Dov Foxbrunner, starts at 6:30 p.m. at Congregation B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free to Chevra Kadisha members and their spouses; fredglus@comcast.net. Kabbalah class. Intown Jewish Academy, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown, starts a weekly, four-session class on “Going Kabbalistic: Inside the Mysteries of Life” from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Tuition is $36; www.intownjewishacademy.org/ goingkabbalistic.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8
Olympic speaker. Riverwood Inter-
BDS update. The Jewish Federation of
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25 Years Ago Feb. 28, 1992 ■ While the Atlanta Jewish community has struggled to meet the needs of Jews arriving from the former Soviet Union at the rate of 50 a month, Brookhaven Baptist Church drew 57 former Soviet Jews to a recent session offering English instruction, a Havdalah service and a meal. But the Havdalah service substituted parts of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for the traditional prayers, and Bible study presented the argument that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. ■ The bar mitzvah of Benjamin Joseph Needle of Marietta, son of Karen and Hank Needle, will take place at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at Etz Chaim Synagogue. ■ Joan and Wayne Aronson of Atlanta announce the birth of their daughter Lindsey Michelle on Feb. 6.
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national Charter School, 5900 Raider Drive, Sandy Springs, hosts 1968 Olympian Tommie Smith as a benefit for the high school’s track program at 7 p.m. Admission is $10; 470-535-9665. Kabbalah course. Rabbi Ephraim Silverman leads a three-week course on “Kabbalah to Navigate Your Inner World” at 8 p.m. at Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Roswell Road, East Cobb. The cost is $25; www.chabadofcobb. com.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9
Stem cell ethics. Rabbi Jeffery Feinstein of Kehillat HaShem speaks about stem cell research to Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Metulla Group at 1 p.m. at the Alpharetta Public Library, 10 Park Plaza. Free; sharyn209@yahoo.com or 678-443-2961 (Sharyn Lazarnick). Infertility support. Wo/Men Infertility Support & Help holds its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. at MACoM, 700-A Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP@JewishFertilityFoundation.org or 404-275-9678 (Lynn Goldman). “Why Be Jewish?” Federation CEO Eric Robbins and author Ruth Andrew Ellenson discuss the book by Edgar Bronfman in a Marcus JCC Page From the Book Festival event at 7:30 p.m. at the Selig Center, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; bit.ly/2miuVr4. Jewish security. Attend the 7:30 p.m.
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“The Temple Bombing.” The worldpremiere show based on Melissa Fay Greene’s book appears at the Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St., Midtown. Tickets start at $10; alliancetheatre. org/production/the-temple-bombing.
Remember When
50 Years Ago March 3, 1967 ■ Three major faiths — Catholic, Jewish and Protestant — for the first time have joined to support a measure before the Georgia legislature. The legislation would make it a felony to deface or desecrate any place of worship. The bill has passed the House, where one of its sponsors is Rep. Elliott Levitas of DeKalb County, and is pending before the Senate. Levitas said many such desecrative acts have occurred in the Atlanta area recently. ■ Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said in London that Israel would like the four major world powers — the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union — to support the principle of no territorial change in the Middle East. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Morton Harold Srochi of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter, Darriel Ann Srochi, to Ronald Barry Gerson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gerson of Columbus.