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Incumbent Karen Handel Awaits the Winner of the Democratic Primary The 6th Congressional District went to the polls twice in 2017 to elect a replacement for Tom Price, and twice Jon Ossoff received 48.1 percent of the votes cast.

In the 18-person, all-party primary in April, that percentage gave the Jewish Democrat more than twice as many votes as runner-up Karen Handel. But in the two-person runoff in June, that percentage meant Republican Handel became Georgia’s first congresswoman since Cynthia McKinney left office in 2007.

Less than a year after the most expensive congressional election in U.S. history ($60 million) ended where it began, with a Republican holding the seat, four Democrats are running in the May 22 primary to challenge Handel in the fall and try to take the district from the GOP for the first time since Newt Gingrich won in 1978.

Kevin Abel, Steven Knight Griffin, Bobby Kaple and Lucy McBath each have personal connections to issues that have flared under President Donald Trump, from immigration to LGBTQ rights and from gun control to health care. And all four live in the district. Read all about them on Pages 16 to 19. ■

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Tug of War Resolved

Don’t Be a Martyr

The answer is so obvious. Ms. Teacher needs to, as her last act as secretary and office manager, hire her replacement herself.

I wonder if maybe being a martyr and blaming her husband are appealing to her on some level.

— Samara Alexander

Family First

A woman’s priority is her family’s well-being. When we lived in Cuba, I worked as a pharmacist. But when we arrived in America, my responsibility became clear: I had to support my husband and children in our new country.

I never returned to my old career, and I never looked back. Building and nurturing my family became my profession.

The results — my beautiful children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren — speak for themselves.

— Zhenia Greszes

Communication Key

Rob sounds like the kind of guy you can reason with. If you have an open discussion and tell him that you’ve tried your best, but this work is draining you, won’t he encourage you to follow your heart?

If he remains obstinate, would he be willing to consult with someone he respects? If he is unwilling, you need to sit down with someone you respect and explain your feelings.

I believe there are two doorways open to you. One will lead you back to full-time teaching. The other may have you continue to work for Rob, full or part time, and allow you to teach or tutor in your spare time, such as Sundays and evenings.

— F. Klein

Give Up ‘I’

When you married, you agreed that Rob would be the most significant person in your world. If he needs you and the family would be best served by

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having you remain the business secretary, I believe you signed up for this.

I know I’m old-fashioned, but marriage equals giving to the other.

If we would all wake up in the morning and ask what we could do for our spouses, rather than what our spouses could do for us, divorce would be much less rampant, and marriages would be the wholesome, unifying entities they are meant to be.

In a Jewish wedding, the bride circles her husband seven times, effectively agreeing to make him the center of her universe. What does that mean?

Becoming one means giving up “I” and becoming “we.” No one said it’s easy. But it can become the most rewarding and fulfilling relationship.

— Hencha Ostreicher (married more than 50 years)

A Two-Way Street

What are the underpinnings of a good marriage? Mutual understanding, respect and communication.

Lisa, Rob must understand that you can’t be stifled. You devoted years to your family, caring for them while putting your career on the back burner. As you rejoin the workforce, you will continue giving to them with an open heart, including contributing your salary to their welfare.

To this end, there is no reason you can’t pursue a career that will use your talents and aspirations. It’s nice that your husband wants you to work at his side in the family business, but you tried, and it’s not working for you.

It’s time for him to bend and realize that as your husband, he needs to care about your needs, just as you do for him and the children. Marriage is a two-way street.

— D. Green All dilemmas are submitted by friends, relatives or AJT readers. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Recap: Lisa worked as a schoolteacher for years and loved her job.

She took time off to care for her young children, planning to return once they were in school full time.

At that point, her husband, Rob, suggested she join him in the family business to save money. “It will be great to work together as a husband-wife team, just like my parents did.”

As secretary, Lisa found herself feeling frustrated, empty and unfulfilled. Is she shirking her familial duty by insisting on returning to teaching?

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FRIDAY, MAY 11

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Behar-Bechukotai Friday, May 11, light candles at 8:11 p.m.

Saturday, May 12, Shabbat ends at 9:11 p.m.

Bamidbar Friday, May 18, light candles at 8:16 p.m.

Saturday, May 19, Shabbat ends at 9:17 p.m.

Shavuot Saturday, May 19, light candles after 9:17 p.m.

Sunday, May 20, light candles after 9:18 p.m.

Monday, May 21, holiday ends at 9:18 p.m.

Special service. Members of First Presbyterian Church present a sesquicentennial gift and participate in the Lynne and Howard Halpern Reform Heritage Shabbat at 6 p.m. at The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown. Free; www.the-temple.org.

Scholar in residence. Avraham Infeld spends Shabbat at Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Morningside, including a presentation on Israel at 8 p.m. Friday, a drash during 9 a.m. Saturday services, and text study at 1 p.m. Saturday. Free except for dinner at 7 p.m.

Friday, which is $20; shearithisrael. com or 404-873-1743.

SUNDAY, MAY 13

Baseball exhibit. “Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American” opens at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Museum admission ranges up to $12; 678-222-3700 or www.thebreman.org.

Camp Barney open house. Camp Barney Medintz, 4165 Highway 129 North, Cleveland, holds an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Free; RSVP at www.campbarney.org/open-houses.

MONDAY, MAY 14

Senior Day. People 60 and older have their choice of three activities and lunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Registration is $5 in advance, $10 at the door; www.atlantajcc.org/seniorday.

FIDF gala. Friends of the IDF honors Israel’s soldiers with a reception at 5:30 p.m. and a dinner program at 7 at the InterContinental Buckhead, 3315 Peachtree Road. Admission is $250 ($118 for 35 and under); fidfse. wixsite.com/atl70/event-details.

Infertility support. The Jewish Fertility Foundation provides support at 7:30 p.m. for Toco Hills women dealing with infertility. Free (RSVP for location); 678-744-7018 or www.jewishfertilityfoundation.org/support.

Flower arranging. The Kehilla Sisterhood, 5075 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, celebrates Rosh Chodesh Sivan with a flower arranging class at 8 p.m. Registration is $24 by May 11; www.thekehilla.org/rosh-chodesh.

TUESDAY, MAY 15

Tenth anniversary. The Chabad Israeli Center Atlanta, 4276 ChambleeDunwoody Road, Brookhaven, holds a gala and honors Shlomi and Jennifer Ruth Oknin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $75 ($140 per couple); 404-252-9508 or www.cicatlanta.com.

Remember When

10 Years Ago May 9, 2008 ■ Tribe Three-Sixty, the agency formed less than a year ago to provide Jewish educational and identity-building programs for Atlanta teens, will be shut down at the end of June, according to a memo Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Chairman Marty Kogon and President Steve Rakitt sent to trustees April 25. Tribe’s quick demise continues Atlanta’s struggle to provide communitywide programming for post-b’nai mitzvah teens.

■ The bar mitzvah ceremony of Joshua Bernard Jacobs of Marietta, son of Michael and Chris Jacobs, was held Saturday, Oct. 27, at Temple Kol Emeth.

25 Years Ago May 7, 1993 ■ Greenfield Hebrew Academy Headmaster Rabbi Jay Neufeld got a pleasant surprise this week when he was notified that the academy had won the Jerusalem Prize for Torah Education in the category of outstanding school. A department of the World Zionist Organization considers schools worldwide in selecting award winners. “I applied in September of last year, but I didn’t think we had a great

Israel in the media. Bob Bahr leads a weekly discussion on public perceptions of Israel at 7 p.m. each Tuesday through June 5 at Temple Emanu-El, 1580 Spalding Drive, Sandy Springs.

Free; templeemanuelatlanta.org.

Rebecca’s Tent benefit. The shelter’s annual event is the premiere of the play “Citizens Market” at 8 p.m. at the Horizon Theatre, 1083 Austin Ave., Little Five Points. Tickets start at $36; rebeccastent.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Booze and Jews. The Marcus JCC invites Jewish singles 35 and older to a Brown-Forman whiskey tasting at 7 p.m. at Crema, 2458 Mount Vernon Road, Dunwoody. Free; www.facebook.com/events/2091550814206551.

THURSDAY, MAY 17

The Tasting. The JF&CS Independent Living Program benefit starts at 7 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt, 3300 Peachtree Road, Buckhead. Tickets are $100 in advance, $125 at the door; 501auctions.com/thetasting2018.

chance of winning,” Rabbi Neufeld said.

■ Jennifer and Mark Benveniste of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Alexis Pearl, on March 29.

50 Years Ago May 10, 1968 ■ Israel must have “5 million Jews before the end Photo courtesy of Israeli of this century,” former Government Press Office Prime Minister David David Ben-Gurion in 1968 Ben-Gurion said in an expressed the need for Israel to have 5 million Jews by the interview published in the end of 2000. In fact, Israel had Paris weekly newspaper 4.96 million Jews in 2000.

L’Express. The reason is civilization, not security, he said. “I think that the Jews can develop a civilization that will bring new principles to humanity.”

■ Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Joseph Shavin of Atlanta announce the engagement of daughter Elissa Toni to Gary Frank Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Howard of Atlanta.

A June wedding is planned.

SHAVUOT HAPPENINGS

MAY 15-MAY 21 Torah study. Rabbi Ari Kaiman and

Shavuot, marking the revelation at Mount Sinai, starts Saturday night, May 19, as Shabbat ends around 9:17 and continues until about 9:18 Monday night, May 21. The holiday traditionally includes all-night study and dairy foods. Yizkor is recited Monday morning at many congregations. The following are among the Atlanta options.

TUESDAY, MAY 15

Women’s study. Miriam Feldman leads a Bena learning session at 8:15 p.m. in the conference room at Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills. Free; bit.ly/2KLo72e or 404-321-4085.

FRIDAY, MAY 18

Ice cream socials. The Marcus JCC hold two events to help families start Shabbat and get in the Shavuot spirit. Bring a picnic meal and splash into Shabbat at the Old Fourth Ward Splash Pad, 800 Dallas St., from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., or participate in crafts while eating dairy treats at Menchie’s, 4475 Roswell Road, No. 205, East Cobb, from 5 to 6 p.m. Free; www.atlantajcc.org.

Dinner and learning. The Kehilla,

rabbinical student Ariel Root Wolpe lead a night of experiencing Torah through sound, sight, taste and feel at Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Morningside, starting with seudah shlishit at 7:45 p.m.

Free; shearithisrael.com.

5075 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, studies from about 9:17 p.m. until 5 a.m., with a dairy dinner at 10:15 p.m.

Dinner is $24 for adult members, $29 for adult nonmembers and $18 for children ages 3 to 10; RSVP by May 11 at www.thekehilla.org/shavuot.

Israel@70. Congregation Etz Chaim,

Scholars in residence. Young Israel

1190 Indian Hills Parkway, East Cobb, focuses on Israel, including an Israeli-themed dairy dinner and a study of the story of Israel through Israeli texts, starting at 8 p.m. Free; etzchaim.net/tikkun.

Study time. Rabbi Lou Feldstein leads a fast-paced night of Torah learning at the home of Congregation Beth Shalom Rabbi Mark Zimmerman and his wife, Linda, starting at 8 p.m.

Snacks include sundaes. Call Beth Shalom at 770-399-5300 for details.

Dinner and study. Anshi Rabbi Mayer Freedman and his wife, Shani, hold a Shavuot dinner at their home, 1113 University Drive, Morningside, followed by study. Free; 404-969-6763 or www.anshisfard.org for details.

of Toco Hills, 2056 LaVista Road, starts Shavuot at 9:30 p.m. with a dairy dinner honoring Rabbi Jeremy Wieder and Dr. Chaviva Levin, who then lead all-night learning. Dinner is $25 for members, $30 for others (study is free); www.yith.org.

All-night study. Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, spends the night in Torah learning.

Free; www.bethjacobatlanta.org.

All-night learning. New Toco Shul, 2003 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, holds study sessions all night. Free; 770765-7485 or newtocoshul.com.

Late-night study. Rabbi Yossi Lew leads learning until you drop, starting at 11:15 p.m., at Chabad of Peachtree City, 632 Dogwood Trail, Tyrone. Free; www.chabadsouthside. com for details, and RSVP to rabbi@ chabadsouthside.com.

MONDAY, MAY 21

Broyde lunch. New Toco Shul, 2003 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, honors Rabbi Michael and Channah Broyde before they leave for a year in Israel.

Visit newtocoshul.com or call 770765-7485 for details.

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SATURDAY, MAY 19

Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, in partnership with The Temple and Limmud Atlanta + Southeast, hosts a night of study, including an all-night intensive on community in the age of radical individualism. It starts with Mincha at 7 p.m. and seudah shlishit (third meal with learning) at 7:30, and the study sessions begin on the half-hour at 9:30 p.m. after Havdalah at 9:15, leading to an outdoor prayer service at 6 a.m. Free; RSVP at www.facebook. com/events/182283889088604, or email lrosenthal@aasynagogue.org.

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Rocky Road Delayed Work on Declaration In the months before the U.N. vote to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states in November 1947, the Jewish Agency leadership had to overcome a series of foreign policy obstacles. Thus, little time was devoted to writing Israel’s Declaration of Independence. Evolving a declaration was put off until a month before the state was declared May 15, 1948.

Pressing political and strategic matters prevailed.

At the United Nations before the partition vote, Jewish Agency diplomats lobbied feverishly to obtain first the U.N. proposal to suggest a twostate solution, then again the necessary two-thirds majority (33-13 with 10 abstentions) in favor of partition.

Almost immediately, the British and Americans colluded to try to reverse the partition vote, seeking to maintain control of Palestine through a trusteeship. Having either the British or Americans take control in some form of trusteeship would have reversed the partition’s vote for a Jewish state.

Zionists in America worked as hard to have a majority vote on partition taken as they did to keep it from being reversed.

In late spring 1948, Britain took the view that its troops could not be expected to enforce the partition

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(From left) David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Shertok and Eliezer Kaplan participate in the signing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.

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resolution against the will of its Arab allies or the Arabs in Palestine. London told its military leaders in Palestine to hand over bases, equipment and road crossings to Arab irregulars. Some of the fiercest fighting in the coming war took place where the British turned over strategic assets to Arab fighters.

In early 1948, the U.S. State Department actively sought to delay the creation of the Jewish state, believing that the small Jewish armies would go down to quick defeat at the hands of hostile Arab neighbors.

The highest-ranking State Department officials feared that a massive Jewish defeat would mean having to send as many as 50,000 American troops to rescue the Jewish population, and that in turn could spawn a Soviet intrusion into the Middle East. That would put Washington and Moscow on an inevitable collision course.

Though Truman recognized Israel within minutes of its statehood declaration, it took the State Department until the end of June 1948 to come to the realization that the Jewish state would succeed.

Zionist efforts to engage in some sort of diplomatic compromise with Arab leaders failed.

Today in Israeli History

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Abba Eban (left) and Moshe Sharett hold Israel’s newly approved nameplate at the United Nations in 1949.

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May 11, 1949: The U.N. General Assembly votes 37-12, with nine abstentions, to admit Israel as the 59th member of the United Nations.

May 12, 1965: Just two decades after the end of the Holocaust, Israel and West Germany begin formal diplomatic relations after a period of increasing economic and social ties that began with reparations in 1952.

May 13, 1975: A wide-ranging agreement on expanded economic cooperation with the United States provides short-term relief to Israel’s struggling economy. The deal is signed after a two-day economic summit in Washington led by U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon and Israeli Finance

In September 1947, two months before the partition resolution passed, Azzam Pasha, the head of the Arab League, said no to members of the Jewish Agency who were seeking a two-state compromise.

He said: “Nations never concede; they fight. You won’t get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can perhaps get something, but only by the force of arms. We shall try to defeat you. I’m not sure we’ll succeed, but we’ll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand, we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it’s too late to talk of peaceful solutions.”

Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz.

May 14, 1947: Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations Andrei Gromyko proposes a unitary state for Palestine during an address to the United Nations but vows to support partition if it is deemed the only workable solution.

May 15, 1941: The Palmach, an elite strike force of the Yishuv’s military organization, the Haganah, is founded to defend Jewish settlements from a possible Axis attack and from Arab aggression in case of a British retreat. The Palmach has six units: three ground forces and aerial, naval and intelligence units.

It goes on to play a significant role in the War of Independence.

May 16, 1916: The secret SykesPicot Agreement is negotiated to divide the former Ottoman territories in the Middle East captured during World War I between Britain and France.

May 17, 1977: Bolstered by Jews from North Africa and the Middle East, Likud wins a landslide electoral victory, ending 30 years of Labor hegemony over Israeli politics and earning Menachem Begin the job of prime minister.

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By January 1948, the newly formed Arab Liberation Army attacked northern Jewish settlements at Dan and Kfar Szold.

Golda Myerson (Meir), a key member of the Jewish Agency’s foreign affairs team, tried to persuade Jordan’s King Abdullah not to join the fight with Israel. Brutal clashes between Jewish and Arab forces continued until 1949 when armistice agreements were signed between Israel and four neighboring Arab states.

No agreement was signed with a Palestinian delegation, in part because the Arab League would not allow them to be represented in talks with Israel.

The reasons for Palestinian losses and flight from Palestine, as well as those for Zionist successes, are well documented by authoritative Palestinian writers and reputable Israeli observers, including Yigal Allon.

Diplomatic and military issues preoccupied Jewish leaders in the halfyear before statehood. Final decisions about the state’s name, the capital and the wording of the declaration were put off until April and May. Ten members of the provisional government, led by David Ben-Gurion, decided May 12 to go forward with the decision made a month earlier by the Zionist Executive Council, the highest body of the Zionist Organization, to declare independence as of May 15.

Moshe Shertok (Sharett), the head of the political section of the Jewish

abuses. Both proAgency, was the claim the imporprimary author of tance of liberty and the declaration’s freedom, stating first draft. It rethem as basic hucounted Jewish and man and natural Zionist history and rights. Both promrelied on the Amerise safeguards for ican Declaration the individual and of Independence state the objective and Constitution to foster economic for conceptual and well-being. Both language guidance. say nothing about Ben-Gurion national borders. reportedly secured Unlike the a safe deposit box American declaraat a bank in Tel tion, the Israeli Aviv before reading version contains the declaration a list of historical at 4 p.m. Friday, benchmarks linkMay 14, so that the ing the people to document could This map illustrates the United the land. American be placed there for Nations’ 1947 partition plan. colonists at most safekeeping during had a century and a half linking them the expected Egyptian air force bombor their ancestors to the land where ing of the city. they wanted a state. The Jewish link to The Israeli Declaration of IndeEretz Yisrael was a re-establishment of pendence is divided into four parts, Jewish kingdoms. The Israeli declaraexplaining the historical and internation also includes centuries of survival tional legal case for the existence of a against those who sought Jewish physiJewish state in the land of Israel; the cal annihilation. self-evident right of the Jewish people Unlike the American document, to statehood; the actual declaration; the Israeli declaration proclaims legitiand statements about how the state macy to sovereignty from actions by inwould operate with citizen rights.

Comparisons of the American and ternational organizations, namely the League of Nations and the U.N. General Israeli declarations are instructive.

Assembly vote in November 1947. No Both assert the right to control such organizations existed in 1776. their destinies and be free of despotic

While there were skirmishes between Americans and the British when the American Declaration of Independence was signed, Israel declared its independence in the midst of a full-fledged war for survival with the local Arab population and surrounding Arab countries.

The Israeli declaration includes a statement offering “peace and amity” to its neighbors and a request “to return to the ways of peace.”

Both declarations make reference to a higher authority. The Israeli declaration does not mention religion, but it closes “with trust in the Rock of Israel” (Tzur Yisrael), a reference to G-d in II Samuel 23:3. The American declaration appeals to the “Supreme Judge” and “protection of the Divine.”

The Israeli declaration appeals to Diaspora Jews for support and encourages immigration to Israel. Later, when a constitution was not ratified, the phrase “guaranteeing freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture” became the foundation for civil liberties. Civil rights were later stipulated in Israel’s Basic Laws.

Eight hours after Ben-Gurion read the declaration, Egyptian planes dropped their first bombs on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

In the 50 years after Theodor Herzl published “Jewish State,” Zionists with considerable difficulty built the physical and demographic infrastructure for a state. ■

U.S. Quits ‘Horrible, One-Sided’ Iran Deal But while the White House issued a long list of criticisms of Iran’s actions and bad faith before and after 2015, Trump did not cite any Iranian violations of the JCPOA. Instead, his administration focused on the failures of the deal itself, including providing an eventual path to a nuclear-armed Iran.

The United States also issued a list of fresh demands on Iran to win the suspension of the sanctions on its energy and financial sectors. Among them: • Stop developing ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear devices.

• Stop spreading ballistic missiles to others.

• Stop supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, and other “terrorists, extremists and regional proxies.”

• Stop declaring a desire to destroy Israel.

• Stop cyberattacks against the United States and its allies, including Israel.

• Stop abusing human rights.

• Stop detaining U.S. citizens.

The White House said its actions are aimed at the Iranian regime, not Iran’s long-suffering people.

Netanyahu said Israel “fully supports President Trump’s bold decision today to reject the disastrous nuclear deal with the terrorist regime in Tehran.”

He added: “The removal of sanctions under the deal has already produced disastrous results. The deal didn’t push war further away; it actually brought it closer. The deal didn’t reduce Iran’s aggression, it dramatically increased it, and we see this across the entire Middle East.”

J Street, which led American Jewish lobbying in support of the Iran deal, called Trump’s decision “an unprovoked and unjustified assault on international peace and security.”

The J Street statement said allies and international nuclear experts agreed that Iran was following its commitments under the agreement, and it cited former Israeli commanders who

last month warned that U.S. withdrawal would undermine Israel’s security.

“This reckless move risks leading us down the path to a costly and bloody war of choice against Iran, a country nearly four times Iraq’s size with more than twice its population,” J Street said. “We call on Congress to act urgently to avert the most dire potential consequences of the president’s action. Lawmakers should move to bring the United States back into compliance with the agreement by suspending the necessary sanctions legislatively.”

Among other reactions: • Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said the announcement is “an important and significant step in ensuring the security of the state of Israel, the security of the region and the security of the entire free world.”

• The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, which opposed the deal in 2015, commended Trump, citing Iran’s ongoing “nefarious and violent activities.” ■ 7

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President Donald Trump did the expected Tuesday, May 8, and announced the United States’ withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, as well as the restoration of sanctions targeting Iran’s economy.

In a White House announcement Trump called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — negotiated by the Obama administration, Iran, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union — a “horrible, one-sided deal that should never ever have been made.”

The nuclear deal was President Barack Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement, and it resulted in the suspension of crippling economic sanctions maintained by the United States and its European allies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aggressively opposed the deal before and after it was reached and in April used new revelations about Iran’s nuclear weapons program as evidence that the JCPOA was a sham.

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Chief Rabbis Battle to Keep Kosher Control

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On a recent trip to America, I witnessed a new challenge to the kosher consumer. There is no central or puissant authority defining and enforcing the term “kosher.”

Concomitantly, Israel’s kosher consumers are in a dither with Orthodox rabbis challenging the monopoly of the chief rabbis, who alone define and are authorized by law to apply “kosher” in the marketplace.

It is clear who owns the legal rights to words such as Google and Xerox, but who owns kosher, as in “Whoever wants to eat kosher shouldn’t eat at Jerusalem’s Pasta Bar”?

In America, civil laws define the term kosher. Definitions vary from one jurisdiction to another.

In Israel, only the chief rabbis have the legal right to declare a restaurant, a food or any other product kosher. The power to label something kosher is the latest challenge to the authority of the chief rabbis, tearing at their tightfisted control of Israel’s civil society.

Hotam, a nongovernmental organization linked to the chief rabbis, declared the expanding restaurant chain Pasta Bar not kosher and called on kosher consumers to boycott it.

Pasta Bar was under the kosher supervision of the chief rabbis but switched to the independent Tzohar association for kosher supervision. But Tzohar cannot openly declare a restaurant kosher, nor can the restaurant advertise itself as kosher because only the chief rabbis have the legal authority to make such a call.

Peggy Cidor of The Jerusalem Post describes the fight for control of the term as a “street war” that has “many of the components of a real war — threats, shaming, and stories in the press and on social media.”

The competing claims to control “kosher” are among the many challenges to the monopolistic authority enjoyed by the chief rabbis. The kerfuffle over who is a Jew, conversions,

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Here are samples of U.S. kosher agencies’ logos.

marriages, divorces, control of public mikvahs, compliance with Shabbat laws by retail stores and other issues are gaining traction.

A Matter of Trust

Kosher in America is the essence of capitalism. It is a free-for-all.

Anyone may start a kosher certifying agency and promote it any way he wishes. It is an industry in which consumers exercise freedom of choice and agencies practice freedom of speech.

For-profit and nonprofit kosher certifying agencies are big business.

Agencies succeed by building brands with recognizable logos. Kosher symbols are as impactful to consumers as are logos on sportswear.

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Greater recognition of a kosher logo translates to more sales and revenue. Restaurants, food sellers, produce and vegetable purveyors, candy and chewing gum makers, and medicine and vitamin manufacturers choose one certifying agency over others based on local acceptance and recognition.

Manufactured products, including refrigerators, dishwashing and laundry soaps, aluminum foil, paper plates, and toothpaste are also certified as kosher by agencies. It’s all about driving customers to buy products.

The competition in Israel is becoming as fierce as in the United States.

I received a threatening letter from a local rabbi in the South when I was asked to broach a negotiation between the rabbi and a national kosher certifying organization. The local rabbi was building a business by persuading alcohol distillers to come under his kosher agency, and the bulk of the family’s income depends on the cooperation of the distillers.

He sent the national agency and me a churlish response, threatening to take us to a religious court if we approached any of his clients or potential clients.

Financial statements are seldom if ever made public by for-profit or nonprofit kosher agencies in the

Here is one example of a faux kosher symbol found at a national supermarket chain in Chicago.

United States and Israel. Information about money, who’s making it and how much, is the most closely guarded secret in the annual $12.5 billion world of U.S. kosher certification. Estimates are that the industry is growing annually at 11.5 percent.

The Atlanta Kosher Commission certifies “over 150 companies and thousands of products in the Southeast. And beyond.”

Lurking in the shadows, waiting to see whether the power in Israel is ripped from the chief rabbis, are the U.S. agencies. They fear the nearabsolute power of the chief rabbis will extend overseas in determining which kosher certifications are valid and which to avoid.

Such a move to consolidate power worldwide by the chief rabbis would cause financial hardship for the U.S. certifying agencies.

And there is cause for worry. The chief rabbis have purportedly assembled a blacklist of American rabbis whose marriages, divorces and conversions are rejected by the rabbinate in Israel.

Moreover, the challenge to kosher labeling emanates from the Orthodox Tzohar organization, not the Reform and Conservative movements. Tzohar boasts nearly 1,000 Orthodox Zionist rabbis. This internecine and objurgating brawl delegitimizes the chief rabbis and the status of “kosher.”

Follow the Money

American kosher consumers live with chicanery when it comes to kosher designations. Entrepreneurs coined the term “kosher style.” A kosher pickle means it tastes like a pickle made to Jewish taste but not kosher standards. “Kosher style” is anathema to kosher consumers.

Manufacturers and purveyors not wanting to pay the fees or meet the standards for certification are deftly attracting kosher consumers with lookalike “kosher” logos on their labels.

The small print reveals that the food is made with kosher or koshercertified ingredients. The “kosher” symbols they use do not represent any established certifying agency. Maybe the design is to trick consumers.

In my marketing classes, students discuss the power of symbols. Logos transmit a brand and standards to consumers, replacing the need for wordy explanations. A feckless or mendacious cake manufacturer with a package design including a symbol made to appear as a kosher symbol is overreaching.

The purpose of reliable kosher symbols is to fulfill the bon mot that independent parties trust but verify everything to which they affix their logos.

A Frightful Ending?

Challenges to the chief rabbis are founded in verified stories about no-show inspectors, inspectors demanding “gifts” from businesses they inspect, and assignments based on nepotism and favoritism rather than seniority and qualifications.

The corruption and venality that allegedly riddle kashrut administration in Israel amplify all other disputes, adding to the vulnerability of the chief rabbis.

The media and satraps are all over this war in Israel. It is up to the chief rabbis to erase all doubts about kosher quality, effectiveness and efficiency in the minds of consumers.

To paraphrase Shel Silverstein, oh, how I loved tradition and practiced everything tried and true. I relied on rabbis to tell me what to do. My passion waned and practices, too, when I heard what the rabbis do, never caring for the consumer’s point of view. ■ Businesses and community organizations interested in scheduling speaking engagements this summer with Harold Goldmeier can contact him at harold. goldmeier@gmail.com.

ISRAEL NEWS

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home

Rolling along. Giro d’Italia, second only to the Tour de France in professional cycling’s multistage tours, had its Big Start in Israel from May 4 to 6, marking the first time that the race had been run outside Europe. The race began in Jerusalem, moved to Haifa, then headed to Eilat. Among the 175 riders and 22 teams were teams from Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Israel, making the race a “great vehicle to build bridges,” said Sylvan Adams, the honorary president of the Big Start.

Round and round. Even as professional cyclists were preparing to descend on Israel for Giro d’Italia, Tel Aviv was unveiling the first Olympicstandard velodrome in the Middle East on Wednesday May 2. The indoor, 250-meter cycling track, which features turns banked at 45 degrees, represents an investment of nearly $20 million by the Tel Aviv-Yaffo municipality.

Birthright’s big influence. The Jerusalem Post recognized Birthright Israel as the most influential Jewish organization at the newspaper’s annual conference in New York on Sunday, April 29. It’s the first time The Jerusalem Post has presented such an award. “We recognize Birthright Israel’s immense contribution to forging and maintaining ties between the Jewish Diaspora and its homeland and to fostering Jewish leadership in Israel and abroad,” Jerusalem Post CEO Ronit Hassin-Hochman said. “We are already seeing the impact of Birthright Israel’s nearly 20 years of operation as its alumni take their place in the world.”

More than 600,000 Jewish young adults from 67 countries have gone on Birthright Israel since 2000.

Protection from sunscreen. Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the United States provided enough evidence that the sunscreen ingredient oxybenzone causes

Looking eastward. The Foreign Ministry launched a Facebook page targeting the Iraqi public Sunday, May 6. The Arabic-language page is meant to serve as a digital bridge by providing content of interest to Iraqis, such as stories about the large Jewish population that used to live in Iraq. “We believe this Facebook page will promote a positive, fruitful dialogue that will lead to a closer acquaintance between Israeli society and Iraqi society in all its components — Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds and other populations,” said Yuval Rotem, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s director general.

Photo by Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority

New infrared imaging reveals letters hidden on a Dead Sea Scrolls fragment from Qumran Cave 11.

More cave secrets. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the Qumran area more than 70 years ago, but they continue to reveal and create mysteries. An Israel Antiquities Authority researcher, Oren Ableman, used imaging technology developed for NASA to reveal text on scroll scraps from Cave 11 that appeared blank to the naked eye. One such fragment could be from a previously unknown manuscript.

Direct to Dracula. Hungarian airline Wizz Air is launching a direct route between Sibiu, Romania, and Ben Gurion Airport, starting July 14.

The route, supported by a half-milliondollar Israeli grant, will be the sixth between Romania and Israel. Sibiu is in Transylvania, legendary home of Vlad the Impaler. Tourism from Romania increased 70 percent in the first quarter of 2018 compared with 2017.

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Israel makes Giro d’Italia feel at home.

coral bleaching that the Hawaii Legislature recently enacted a ban on the ingredient, effective in 2021. A single drop of the substance can contribute to coral bleaching, according to research conducted in Hawaii, the Caribbean and Eilat, Israel. The researchers estimate that at least 10 percent of Earth’s coral reefs are at risk of high exposure.

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Gaza Violence

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The weekly Palestinian marches on the GazaIsrael border should be seen as disastrous for Hamas and others who dream of toppling Israel by force.

Israel Defense Forces troops have prevented a mass infiltration. No one in Israel has been hurt, despite the best efforts of militants flinging Molotov cocktails and flying incendiary kites.

The protesters have done far more damage to Gaza’s infrastructure than to Israel’s, despite an obvious desire to unleash devastating wildfires. The violence Friday, May 4, disrupted the Kerem Shalom crossing, where humanitarian goods enter Gaza from Israel, and torched pipes that carry fuel into the strip.

Despite fears that the death toll would climb each week after the Great March of Return campaign began March 30, the total of Palestinian dead is 47, including 19 that first Friday, and none died May 4. Palestinians have gotten the message about the danger of attacking the fence, and after 30,000 or so marched the first day, the total has been closer to 10,000 each Friday since.

The lie that these are peaceful demonstrations has been exposed over and over again, from swastikas on kites to calls for the destruction of the Jews (not just the establishment of a Palestinian state or the overthrow of Israel). Pallywood — the Palestinian propaganda game of faking casualties — has likewise been revealed repeatedly, as when a grievously wounded young man being carried off a smoky battlefield by stretcher suddenly stood and walked away.

It requires astounding cynicism and hypocrisy to exercise an imaginary right to “return” to a place you have never been, while denying hostages such as Avera Mengistu, an Israeli who wandered into Gaza in September 2014 and has been held captive ever since, the chance to go home.

It all should be a slam-dunk: The Palestinians are creating violent clashes driven by hate, while Israel is keeping its citizens safe and showing restraint by not sending the IDF across the border.

But still Israel is losing the public opinion battle.

Amnesty International said that condemning Israel is not enough and called for an international arms embargo to punish Israel for illegal conduct and human rights violations. The Palestinians, in Amnesty’s eyes, “are merely protesting their unbearable conditions and demanding the right to return to their homes and towns in what is now Israel.”

That statement implies an eternal right of Palestinian descendants to “return” to Israel and includes the sense that Israel is a temporary nuisance — “what is now Israel” need not remain Israel once those poor, oppressed Palestinians tear down the fence.

The armed Palestinian charges against the border continue to be depicted as nonviolent, while Israel’s “disproportionate” response is condemned — though no one suggests how Israel should respond, short of welcoming people who identify with Nazis.

Israel should try to do more to alleviate the suffering in Gaza, but no one should believe that Israel could do anything that would make Palestinian suffering end. Just as Israel needs a partner for peace, it needs Palestinian leaders more interestd in lifting up 10 their own people than destroying the Jews. ■

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Don’t Point That Gun at Me Georgia has a primary election May 22, with Every election cycle, we seem to have at least early voting going on now. one article that causes an uproar when people I hope that isn’t news to you. Not only are the online — some reading the article, others just readTV commercials coming fast and furious — most ing about it on social media — mistakenly believe famously with Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s that we’re endorsing a candidate or a position they shotgun-and-suitor ad — but the AJT has been writdespise. ing about one aspect or another since early March.

We try to learn from these episodes. For Some readers, at least online, didn’t seem to example, when a guest columnist makes a political notice that we were paying any attention to the endorsement, we put the writer’s name at the start election until we shared of the headline online. We on our Facebook page an won’t again fail to put all interview with Kemp. Sudthe links to comparable Editor’s Notebook denly, we were enveloped political profiles into each

By Michael Jacobs in outrage. online article.

The initial fury was But I also hope you, mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com directed at Kemp, who our readers, will learn has been at the center of from each of these epicontroversies over voter ID sodes. and registration laws, voting machines, and protecFirst, we won’t try to sneak an endorsement tion (or lack thereof) of voter records. That TV ad, in past you. We run a staff editorial representing the which he uses a shotgun to intimidate a boy interview of the newspaper every week, and we clearly ested in one of his daughters, fueled the anger. label it “Our View.”

(I suspect Kemp was trolling gun control advoIf an article doesn’t indicate it’s an opinion cates with that ad. Needing something to stand out piece, it’s not supposed to be. from a tough Republican field, he wanted the attenSecond, when we interview candidates for govtion and news stories, and he succeeded.) ernor or Congress, we’re not going to address every Inevitably, the wrath turned on the AJT. Why issue with them. We leave the comprehensive politididn’t we ask him about the gun ad or the voting cal coverage to those who do it well at The Atlanta questions? Why did we give a platform to a candiJournal-Constitution. date who is so unworthy, offensive, idiotic (choose Instead, we focus on the issues of most imporyour favorite negative adjective)? How could we sink tance to the Jewish community, and we’re going to so low as to endorse him? address the same issues with all the candidates for Except that we didn’t endorse Kemp or anyone the same office. else.

These aren’t hard-hitting investigative pieces, We published similar articles in the May 4 issue but I hope they provide information you won’t get on the five leading Republican candidates, having from a general-interest publication, even if they published an extensive article on the two Democrats don’t ask all the questions you want answered.

March 30.

It’s OK if such articles are not to your taste, Online, we packaged the stories together so that and it’s fair if you don’t think we should waste time a visitor to our home page would see all of them. But talking to gubernatorial candidates about Israel.

I failed to put links to all the related profiles within All I ask is that when you criticize us, you base that each article, and that oversight (belatedly corrected) criticism on what we’re actually doing and give us allowed people who followed the link directly to the the benefit of the doubt that we mean well and aren’t Kemp story to think it stood alone. trying to trick you. ■

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Vote Lindy Miller for Georgia PSC Lindy Miller, who is running for Lindy is an entrepreneur and an open seat on the Georgia Public community organizer with an impresService Commission, is an exemplary sive résumé, excellent analytical skills product of our Jewish community. and decades of experience. She was While we are proud of Lindy and her born and raised in Sandy Springs and early and continuing leadership, there attended Atlanta Jewish Academy are more important reasons why you (then Greenfield Hebrew Academy). should vote for her May 22.

Lindy has bachelor’s in economics We urge you to vote for and othand philosophy from the University of erwise support Lindy because she has the experiGuest Column ence, education

By Sherry Frank (left) and and character to Jack Halpern (right) bring a fresh, reasoned voice to the PSC. That body regulates the utility industry, so its issues affect us all.

Pennsylvania, where she received the When you’re voting for a PSC can- Jewish Renaissance Fellowship. didate, you’re voting for someone who Lindy was a visiting student at can affect the rates, reliability and the University of Oxford and holds a choices of telecommunications, elecmaster’s in public administration from tric and natural gas service providers Harvard’s Kennedy School. She spent in our state. PSC decisions shape our 13 years at Deloitte, leading public energy policies, which have a direct policy globally in her last three years. impact on our state’s economy and She co-founded Cherry Street Energy, environment — and on the quality of a renewable energy company. life of everyone who lives here.

Lindy is also a busy mom. She

lives in Decatur with her rabbi husband, Jonathan Crane, an Emory bioethics professor, and their three boys.

In her youth, Lindy was active at B’nai Torah, including serving as the youngest member of the choir, and was a leader in BBYO. As an adult, she was named by the Atlanta Jewish Times to its 2017 list of 40 Under 40.

She is on the board of Shearith Israel and has served on the boards of the Decatur Education Foundation and GiveWell. Lindy was recently selected for the Wexner Heritage Program.

We need independent leaders like Lindy to bring a clear vision for new opportunities to our state.

She wants to change the fact that citizens across Georgia are paying more to meet their energy needs than almost anyone else in the country. She puts it plainly: No one should have to choose between keeping the lights on and putting food on the table.

Lindy pledges to put an end to ever-higher utility bills and bad politics, and she recognizes that we have the opportunity to invest in tens of thousands of advanced energy jobs. Lindy

Lindy Miller

will help to accomplish these goals and will ensure that we’re all treated fairly by the utility providers who serve us.

We also believe it’s time to bring more diversity to our state offices.

Lindy would be the first Democratic woman elected to the PSC and the first Jewish woman ever elected statewide.

On May 22, we hope that you’ll help Lindy to help Georgia by voting for her to represent you on the PSC. Please join us on Team Lindy. ■ Sherry Frank is former head of American Jewish Committee Atlanta.

Jack Halpern is the chairman of Halpern Enterprises Inc.

Letters to the Editor

I reserved judgment when Deborah Silcox assumed elected office for the first time, but she has proved herself to be bright, responsive and careful about the wording of bills (“Silcox Stands by Legislative Record,” April 27).

She has offered tireless support for updated adoption legislation, for stronger consequences for buying children for sex and for the anti-BDS legislation. She has earned the respect of her colleagues, and I see no reason to replace an honest, intelligent, hardworking legislator.

— Linda Lippitt, Atlanta

ALS and MDA

Thank you for the article on the wife of the rabbi with ALS (“Rabbi’s ALS Leads Rebbetzin to Laugh, Cry, Inspire,” May 4). All the awareness possible for this horrible disease is a benefit.

I lost my dear sister to it 10 years ago, and the main thing that helped us through her final year was the support of her friends. One came from across the country monthly to help. So did some cousins who could.

We had meals donated on a schedule that a friend organized for us. At lunchtime, people brought enough

food for us for lunch and dinner. Usually they stayed to visit, but if they weren’t able to, they still brought the food and just checked in with us to see how we were and whether we needed anything. It was such a mitzvah.

Also, the Muscular Dystrophy Association brought us the equipment she needed from its lending closet. We didn’t have to buy much; we just called them and had whatever assistive device or chair we needed right away.

Not many people know that about MDA, Jerry Lewis’ organization. Even when we traveled for a second medical opinion, we called the MDA group in that city and had a wheelchair and other equipment delivered to the home where we were staying.

I cannot thank you enough for this story.

— Barbara Cohen Ross, Atlanta

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Democrats Wrong to Double Down on Legal Fight leadership of the campaign knowingly and maliciously conspired with the other accused parties to steal or receive the ill-gotten information is a difficult hill to climb.

The specifics of the lawsuit are not as bad as what its existence reveals. It suggests mismanagement of resources, poor strategic sense and

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a fundamental absence of learned lessons from a Democratic Party that bungled its way through 2016.

There is no doubt the DNC was significantly wronged over the course of the campaign. The illicit seizure and publication of its internal information deserves to, and must, be punished.

However, the belief that such an elaborate web of conspiracy can be proved in court, even at the lower level of a civil trial instead of a criminal case’s reasonable-doubt standard, is an act of pure prospecting.

The DNC is trying to publicly litigate what special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is investigating in private, wagering that the latter will deliver evidence enough to keep the former afloat without trying the patience of a federal judge. That is one long-shot wager.

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The Democratic National Committee on Friday, April 20, announced a catchall lawsuit attempting to tie together all opposing actors in the 2016 presidential campaign.

The suit claims damages caused by the Trump campaign, notably its former chairman Paul Manafort; Russia, primarily through its clandestine secret service, the FSB; and, by proxy, WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

The plaintiffs allege that those parties cooperated to steal, launder and disseminate DNC emails.

It is notable that the DNC launched a similar effort after the Watergate break-in in 1972. The eventual result was a $75 million settlement reached with the Republican National Committee the same day that President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.

But the cases are quite different.

In the Watergate case, all the perpetrators were domestic and subject to subpoena. In the Wikileaks dump, among the alleged perpetrators are a foreign government and a foreign-based website whose head has taken diplomatic shelter in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy for years. Neither could be compelled to testify, nor do they have any incentive to do so.

Thus, the only parties that could be forced by a U.S. court to provide any sort of testimony, much less recompense, are the Trump campaign and the RNC itself. And proving that the

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With the midterm elections less than six months away, maybe the Democrats should concentrate on winning at the polls.

The lawsuit’s complete reliance on Mueller makes this an effort in profound speculation.

The very existence of the Democratic lawsuit throws the security of the Mueller investigation further into doubt.

It would be one thing if the DNC case could be isolated from the rest of the political landscape within which it exists, but obviously nothing a political organization does can be free of partisan motives. Thus, by venturing into the legal realm, the Democrats could taint all efforts toward criminal justice with the stench of their partisan aims.

The Mueller team is working to keep itself quarantined from that partisan scent. The appearance of this lawsuit makes that daunting task all the more difficult.

The DNC lawsuit can function only off what Mr. Mueller makes public, so the Democratic Party now directly benefits from the revelation of more information. Mueller, on the other hand, jeopardizes the security of his role every time a part of the investigation is made public, as his choices are subject to the highest scrutiny of motive, as, to a reasonable extent, they ought to be.

The DNC’s lawsuit puts Mueller in the precarious position of politicization by association.

That is what the most craven Republicans and conservative pundits are already attempting to do. Their main effort is to cast all the legal pursuits as nothing but political witch hunts. What better way for the Democrats to prove their point than to launch a legitimate political witch hunt?

There is no reason that this lawsuit could not be pursued in the future. In fact, far in the future, years after Mueller has completed his investigation, supposing that he has discovered evidence that would prove the Democratic claims, the case would be just as salient.

Delaying civil legal action would make the prosecution’s work much easier and thus make the later lawsuit

much stronger.

So why is the DNC prioritizing this effort?

The motive is hard to discern, but with the effort so expensive in political and regular capital, the return, even with success, not that great, and the consequences so large, justification can’t be found.

The reasonable conclusion is that the Democratic priorities are misplaced and misguided.

An all-out war is being waged for public opinion, and whoever wins will define the next generation of American politics. The DNC seems intent to fight with one hand behind its back by insisting that the battle remain within the realm of the law.

The Republican National Committee, by contrast, sees this fight as existential and knows the real battle is in the court of public opinion. In this way, the battle over the president’s actions is crucially asymmetric.

As the Democrats were launching their lawsuit, the Republicans continued their relentless and effective drive to forward their narrative, punctuated by an RNC website dedicated to “Lyin’ Comey.”

Recent Quinnipiac polling suggests that public sentiment is shifting against the special counsel’s investigation, evidence of Republican success in messaging.

In the face of increased wariness that Mueller may be overstepping his bounds, waning belief in the impartiality of the FBI and the rogue former director of that organization embarking on a one-man crusade of moral sanctimony, the answer is not to double down on the legal front, especially not by revealing the most brazenly partisan set of accusations yet made.

It is incumbent upon the Democrats to make the case for the necessity of Mueller’s probe to continue unimpeded. The investigation need not uncover any provable criminality, though, because President Donald Trump has shown through his legal actions how brazenly unfit he is for the highest office in the land.

The Democrats must constantly illuminate how fundamentally unbecoming this president is of the office he holds, his unrepentant moral bankruptcy, and the craven depravity of all those who choose to aid and abet him. This recent legal posturing shows a stupefying ignorance to the centrality of both. ■

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Big, Beautiful Mishpacha

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The play-mat map of Israel at the Israel@70 celebration is symbolic of Israel’s role to support the Jewish people.

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games and Israeli culture. What’s not to love?

Writing about the event, Atlanta Jewish Times Editor Michael Jacobs suggested that Israel@70 heralded the start of the “Front Porch Era,” referring to our nearly yearlong community initiative to reimagine Jewish Atlanta.

It’s a great compliment to the work we’ve been doing.

Israel@70 was all about collaboration. More than 70 agencies and organizations were involved in the planning and execution, and the collective impact, to use a strategic term from the Front Porch initiative, was a WOW. I am grateful to the Atlanta Jewish Times for being the presenting sponsor of the event and to all our sponsors, partners and volunteers who made Israel@70 run smoothly.

Let’s go forward into 5779 — which is only four months away — as one big beautiful Atlanta mishpacha. ■ Eric M. Robbins is the president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

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I am thrilled to report that nearly 4,000 people came to Park Tavern on Sunday, April 29, for the Israel@70 celebration, far above expectations. What a tremendous tribute to the power of our community and our collective love for Israel!

The Atlanta Jewish community has always held big rallies when Israel was under threat, and we always stand together in commemoration of the Holocaust, but it was a profound change in our script to come together for a happy occasion.

Israel@70 was far and away the biggest event Jewish Atlanta has ever seen, and it points to an important shift in how we think about ourselves.

Not as victims — and certainly not without controversy — but as resilient people who have survived, thrived and completely reinvented ourselves in the modern state of Israel.

My friend and teacher Avraham Infeld, who served as the president of Hillel International and was among the founding fathers of Birthright Israel, will be speaking at Congregation Shearith Israel this Friday evening, May 11.

(The community is invited, so don’t miss it!) Infeld likes to emphasize the power of Jewish peoplehood and the idea that no matter what our politics or our level of observance, we are all mishpacha — family.

Jews are not a religion and not a nation, Avraham Infeld always says, but a people — an extension of a tribe, which in turn is an extension of a family.

This definition, he says, is critical to understanding the role of the modern state of Israel. It’s not that the Jewish people are here to ensure the future of Israel, as some may think, but rather that we built a state to ensure the future of the Jewish people.

This is what excited me most about Israel@70. The whole mishpacha was there. And most of them were people I didn’t know! We had an incredible mix of ages, a huge turnout from Atlanta’s Israeli community, from ITP and OTP, and from every organization in town.

Best of all, thousands of people who had never been to a Jewish community event before showed up, happy to be part of a joyful celebration where Jewish pride, not politics, was on display, along with great food, music,

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Black-Jewish Coalition, ACCESS Accelerate Advocacy The group focused on human trafficking talked about how participants can convene conversations about human exploitation by raising awareness in different spaces, including schools, workplaces and homes. They also discussed legislation to expunge criminal records and ban prostitution charges for minors as ways to help sex trafficking victims.

The event was powerful and productive.

The black and Jewish communities can be influential in repairing our world, and we were honored to accelerate this process by providing the tools to do so. ■

By Jeff Fisher, Charisse Price, Adam Rabinowitz and Chris Walker ACCESS and the Atlanta BlackJewish Coalition broke new ground in the world of local advocacy with our inaugural Advocacy Accelerator on Monday, April 23.

ACCESS, American Jewish Committee’s young professionals division, and the coalition brought together a diverse group of young professionals at the Metro Atlanta Chamber to learn about criminal justice reform and human trafficking and to work toward actionable solutions.

We envisioned a program where we could accelerate the process from learning to doing, and that is what we created. We were joined by two expert speakers on criminal justice reform, Fulton County State Court Judge Eric Richardson and Atlanta Corrections Deputy Chief Vance Williams, and two experts on human trafficking, Wellspring Living philanthropic adviser Sarah Richardson and Street Grace President and CEO Bob Rodgers.

Each speaker gave a brief overview

(From left) Jeff Fisher, Charisse Price, Bob Rodgers, Sarah Richardson, Judge Eric Richardson, Chris Walker, Deputy Chief Vance Williams and Adam Rabinowitz lead the ACCESS/Black-Jewish Coalition advocacy event.

before we divided the room in half, giving participants the option to learn more about one subject and to work with the experts and one another to brainstorm advocacy actions.

At the end, the groups reconvened to share what they learned and what they plan.

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The criminal justice reform session covered programs being implemented to help people transition back into society after jail or prison and discussed the importance of researching and voting for judges who believe in reform and ending the school-to-prison pipeline.

Judge Eric Richardson (left) and Deputy Chief Vance Williams discuss criminal justice reform with half the attendees at the Advocacy Accelerator.

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Jewish Teens Thrive in AJC Leadership Program What thoughts come to mind when you think about the future of the Jewish people?

Are you optimistic? Worried? Do you wonder whether and how our children will carry on the Jewish legacy?

Whether we will have supporters of Israel and outspoken activists against anti-Semitism and hatred?

As this past year’s co-chairs of the Leaders for Tomorrow program sponsored by American Jewish Committee, we have often asked ourselves these questions.

LFT is an Israel advocacy and leadership training course that educates students about issues facing Israel and the Jewish people. Our students learn about past and current Israeli affairs and the challenges and opportunities facing world Jewry.

More important, they move beyond memorizing facts to acquiring skills.

They come to recognize nuance, to present thoughtful, organized points, and to build strategic advocacy networks.

Leaders for Tomorrow 2017-18 members (from left) Max Ripans, Olivia Frank, Tate Foster, Rayna Fladell, Lian Kleinman, Jack Tresh and Nathan Posner visit Capitol Hill.

LFT teaches how to build relationships that will enable students to be effective Jewish advocates by eliciting the support of the non-Jewish community.

A few weeks ago, a delegation of LFT students traveled to Washington to meet with the congressional staffs of Reps. Karen Handel and Barry Loudermilk. A few days later, when AJC Atlanta Director Dov Wilker, AJC’s national director of black-Jewish relations, met with Handel, her staffer remarked that the LFT students “weren’t wellcoached; they were well-prepared.”

We do not create automatons in LFT. We do not drill students with simplistic talking points, wind them up and point them toward a target. We introduce them to complex subjects,

equip them with the advocacy tools they need, and empower them to stand up for the Jewish values they believe in.

For the last session, our students met with the consul general of Mexico, and they ran the meeting.

They discussed issues such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, human rights violations in Venezuela and Iran, anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, global anti-Semitism, and immigration policy. They displayed poise and thoughtfulness that could rival that of most adults. It was an incredibly powerful display to witness.

Afterward, our students remarked that learning the difference between Jewish and Israeli issues made them better advocates, that it was both com-

forting and inspiring to be in the room with other Jewish students who cared about these issues, and that experiencing the power of relationship building will help them immensely.

So what can we expect from our Jewish youth? Intelligence, strength and passion for the Jewish people and all humanity.

After seeing the remarkable capabilities of our LFT students, when we think about the future of the Jewish people, we can say with certainty that we’re in good hands.

If you know of a rising high school sophomore or junior who might be interested in participating in the 2018-19 LFT program, please send the student the LFT application. Applications are due May 31.

You can direct questions about the LFT program to AJC Atlanta Assistant Director Julie Katz at katzj@ajc.org or 404-233-5501, ext. 5032. ■ Elissa Fladell and Dawn Tresh are AJC Atlanta’s 2017-2018 LFT co-chairs and serve on the AJC Atlanta board of trustees.

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4 Trying to Flip the 6th

Kevin Abel answers an audience question at a Jewish Democratic Women’s Salon forum April 9 while Stephen Knight Griffin and Bobby Kaple (right) listen. Lucy McBath did not attend the event.

By Michael Jacobs mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com

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Democratic hopes to capture the 6th Congressional District for the first time since the 1970s produced the most expensive congressional election in U.S. history less than 11 months ago, but the result was the same as it had been in every election since Newt Gingrich won the seat in 1978: a Republican in office.

After defeating novice candidate Jon Ossoff last June, Rep. Karen Handel has no opposition within her party as she seeks re-election this year, but four more Democrats without a political campaign in their combined history are competing in the May 22 primary to challenge her in November.

Kevin Abel, Bobby Kaple, Steven Knight Griffin and Lucy McBath — all of whom, unlike Ossoff last year, live within the 6th District — each have stories that have compelled them to seek office in the second year of the Trump administration, and each has personal involvement in some aspect of the policy issues that are part of this campaign.

All four sat down for interviews with the AJT. Abel (kevinabelforcongress.com), a member of Temple Sinai, immigrated to the United States from South Africa in 1979 when he was 14. In addition to having what he called “an immigrant’s love for this country,” he has been active in refugee resettlement as a board member of New American Pathways and led Sinai’s efforts to sponsor a refugee family last year — until Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugees got in the way.

Abel would be Georgia’s first Jewish congressman in more than 30 years.

Abel also is a cancer survivor, and 16 he said health care policy joins im-

migration as the issues he talks most about during campaign appearances.

Kaple (bobbykaple.com) emphasizes that health care was the motivating factor in his decision to quit his job as the morning news anchor on CBS 46 to run for Congress. His wife, Rebecca, a sports broadcaster for Fox Sports South, gave birth to premature twins weighing 3 pounds each 2½ years ago, and they spent 17 days in the neonatal intensive care unit at Piedmont Hospital.

The resulting medical bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars — “the kinds of bills that can bankrupt a family” — led him to switch from reporting on the news to making it after he watched President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress spend 2017 trying to undo the Affordable Care Act. Griffin (stevenknightgriffin.com), who left “the most humbling and meaningful job I’ve held” with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to enter the race, said he couldn’t sit quietly while Trump caused new things to go wrong in the country every day.

After 2½ years in a committed gay relationship, he said, he wondered what kind of country he would have to raise a family. “I felt it was my duty, as someone who has essentially dedicated their life to public service and to the civil service, to shift that trajectory in a more positive direction.”

While Kaple might have the most familiar face locally, McBath (lucyforcongress.com) is the only one of the four with a national profile — one she earned the most difficult way possible.

Her son, Jordan Davis, was fatally shot at age 17 while sitting as a passenger in a car at a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla., when a man decided the music

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from the car was too loud.

McBath, a two-time breast cancer survivor who worked as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines for 30 years, became a crusader against gun violence and traveled the nation with Everytown for Gun Safety and, in support of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, with Mothers of the Movement.

An initial plan to run for the Georgia General Assembly took a federal turn when she got off a plane in Colorado on Feb. 14 and learned about the school massacre in Parkland, Fla. The deaths of teenagers in Florida hit close to home for McBath.

“I was heartbroken, and I was angry at the same time because I felt like ‘What do our legislators not get? What do they not understand?’” she said.

McBath: Finding a Mission

It was McBath’s knowledge of gun issues that led Rep. Renitta Shannon (D-Decatur) to recruit her as a legislative candidate last year.

After a year of campaigning for Clinton and experiencing her shocking loss, McBath retreated to her Marietta home for a hip replacement and a longplanned three months of self-care. During that time, the Trinity Chapel member said she prayed for guidance on what to do next: “What do I do? Where do I go from here? How do I expand the message? How do I do the work? …

“Whatever door You open, I’ll go.”

She didn’t have any desire to run for office, but people kept urging her to run, and groups such as Emily’s List and the Georgia Democratic Party honored her and pushed her toward that path, preparing her for Shannon’s pitch.

“I’m not a politician. I am not,”

McBath said. “But my reality is everything I’ve been talking about to people around the country and specifically my district. I’ve lived that reality.”

She said people around the 6th are afraid “because they don’t know from day to day what’s coming out of Washington. They’re concerned that there’s no consistency. They’re concerned with, you know, how are we going to make ends meet? … They’re concerned about education. They’re concerned about health care.”

And they want and deserve representatives who will work across the aisle to find solutions to this country’s problems, including gun violence.

Her priority is to apply common sense to reduce gun violence “because we’ve got to do something.” But she insisted that she has no desire to infringe on the Second Amendment.

“I’m absolutely for making sure that we’re keeping people’s ability to own guns,” McBath said. “But, with that, you’ve got to have some responsibility about how you use your guns and where you use your guns.”

She opposes concealed-carry reciprocity, which she called the National Rifle Association’s No. 1 priority, because it would undermine state and local gun controls.

She said Congress can take actions that should be nonpartisan, such as applying background checks to all gun sales and instituting red-flag laws, enabling loved ones to get temporary restraining orders against gun owners at risk of hurting themselves or others.

“When we put in those commonsense solutions, justifiable-homicide and murder rates drop,” she said. “Research and data back it up.”

But McBath is not just the gun control candidate.

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Griffin: Being There

Griffin grew up in the 6th District, graduating from Lassiter High School in East Cobb before getting a history degree from the University of Georgia.

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He vows to hold monthly town halls with his constituents and to listen to their concerns, whereas he said Handel is only concerned with the 51 percent of voters who elected her and answers other district residents with silence or form letters.

At age 30, he’s from the same generation as Ossoff, but he has spent his career in government work. He was a consultant with Deloitte, working on budget justifications for the CDC, then went to work with the agency, helping translate its science into policy in the areas of autism, early childhood development, and the prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome and birth defects such as spina bifida.

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His prescription for the health care system starts with putting an end to trying to repeal and otherwise undermine the Affordable Care Act. He wants the government to make the promised payments to insurers to cover the sickest people, to restore the individual mandate and to stop pushing cheap, noncompliant plans, which draw healthy young people away from the exchanges and lead to higher premiums for everyone else and a destabilized system.

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She has strong, biblically based feelings for Israel, which is why she named her son Jordan after many years of trying to become pregnant.

“I also understand the importance of the close U.S. alliance with Israel to our national security, as well as peace in the Middle East and around the world,” McBath said. “We also must remember the critical role Israel plays as the Middle East’s only true democracy and as a refuge for people fleeing antiSemitism around the world.”

She made a point of noting her opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

On health care, she said it’s important to build on the Affordable Care Act to ensure access to care for all, not dismantle the law and start over. The solutions should include a public option and possibly a lower eligibility age for Medicare.

She saw the effects of failing schools in her son’s life, first in Douglas County, where she opted to homeschool Jordan to escape a failing school, then in Jacksonville, where few of the graduates of his high school pursued anything other than community college.

What she saw convinced her of the need to improve funding of public education, which she said is vital in each community.

She started the Champion in the Making Legacy Foundation to help kids go to college in the 6th District. It has supported students at Kennesaw State and Georgia State and last year gave out almost $5,000 in academic scholarships. It includes a mentorship program with an emphasis on STEM skills.

She said young people are the key to the country and her campaign.

“They’re the demographic we’ve needed to stand up and go to the polls.

This is their civil rights movement,” McBath said. “I am so grateful and so thankful that they are being engaged for their futures. We’ve needed them to stand up.”

A decade ago, McBath thought she’d still be flying three days a week and moving toward retirement at age 62. “But this matters because I have had these experiences,” she said. “This has been my reality. … That’s why I feel it’s so important for me to step up.”

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price competition.

Also like McBath, Griffin advocates broad-consensus gun safety measures, including gun violence restraining orders and a more thorough universal background check system that eliminates the loophole for private sales and covers sales of ammunition.

“I’m a gun owner myself,” he said.

“It’s incumbent upon us as responsible gun owners to listen to concerns and take actions that protect rights and protect children in schools.”

A member of the Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Griffin expressed strong support for Israel. “I’m actually surprised that we need to have this conversation,” he said, detailing Israel’s right to defend itself and the many reasons the United States should stand with the one representative democracy in the Middle East.

Speaking weeks before President Donald Trump’s decision to drop out of the Iran nuclear deal, he said the agreement isn’t perfect but should be improved, not eliminated.

Griffin, who used a Pell Grant at UGA, wants that federal need-based scholarship program expanded to cover the full need of any student in STEM courses at a public university — with the possibility of moving to nontechnical courses in the future.

On immigration, he wants a path to citizenship for people brought here illegally as children, although they shouldn’t be able to sponsor legal immigration for their parents.

“In my mind, it is incredibly inhumane and contrary to the spirit and values that we hold dear to throw these children out of the country right now,” he said, and he feels the same way about any mass deportation efforts.

He is against a border wall, which he said would be a waste of money that would harm the environment and 18 would do nothing for the many people

who enter the country on legal visas, then don’t leave as required.

Despite a lot of angry rhetoric, he said the broad contours of a bipartisan approach to comprehensive immigration reform are visible. It should include a one-time amnesty, he said, and a legal system that is easier to navigate.

Those things and more could be accomplished if more people put country ahead of party, he said. “It is a nonpartisan thing to make sure that we have a functioning government.”

Ultimately, Griffin said he stands out from his Democratic opponents because of his experience with a federal agency, including dealing with Congress and federal appropriations.

“There’s a lot we need to do and change, and we can’t waste time,” Griffin said.

He said his knowledge of public policy makes him an ideal candidate against Handel “because I know what I’m talking about.”

He’s also the kind of person America needs more of in elected office, someone who isn’t rich and isn’t a celebrity, he said. “I am an everyday person who has stood up, and I want to make sure that we have representation that actually represents us.”

Kaple: Getting Healthy

Kaple said health care is “a big area of disagreement with me and Representative Handel,” stemming from his experience with his twin children.

Like the other Democrats, he wants Congress to stop undermining the Affordable Care Act and instead commit to stabilizing the health care market, where the chaos caused by the repeated attempts to repeal the law have helped drive up premiums.

The law should ensure coverage for pre-existing conditions without lifetime caps, and Medicare should be freed to negotiate drug prices. A 15 per-

cent cut in Medicare drug costs could save $600 billion over 10 years, money that could help keep insurance costs down.

“The first thing that has to happen is that Congress has to want to stabilize the marketplace and not want the market to fail,” Kaple said.

He draws inspiration from the Republican failure to repeal the ACA, aside from removing the individual mandate as part of the tax overhaul.

He said he and his wife would watch C-SPAN late into the night every time a vote came up to kill the law, which survived because that’s what the American people wanted.

“When you’re calling for your own life or you’re calling for your twins’ lives and you know that your lawmaker doesn’t hear you, you can no longer sit in a newsroom anymore and simply report on the story, in our case.

I just felt like we’re better than this as a country,” Kaple said in explaining how the health care fight led to his campaign, which has received endorsements from the likes of Andrew Young and Roy Barnes.

“It impacts everybody, and it’s lifechanging stuff,” he said. “It is the issue that is moving voters. … We’re seeing it across the country.”

Kaple was less willing than his opponents to dive deep into the weeds on specific policies, though he laid out broad visions.

For example, Griffin and Abel said it’s time for the Democrats to replace Nancy Pelosi as their leader in the House. Kaple said he would support the leadership candidate who is best for the district, without specifying what that means or who that might be.

He said the United States has no greater friend in the Middle East than Israel and should stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish state. “It should be crystal-clear that is the case.

This is too important to mess around with.”

He called BDS a big problem. “I do not support it. I think it is not helpful to have anti-Semitism spread through the world like that, and I just think anything we can do to shut that down is positive.”

Kaple said nothing should be off the table when it comes to school safety. “We need to figure out how to keep our children safe. … This should be an issue both parties care about. It’s certainly something I care about.”

He said college finances must be addressed so that people who qualify for college can attend without a crushing debt burden. But he said the prob-

lem needs to be studied, with the possibility of a multiprong solution.

He would not commit on the question of free public college education, but he did talk about the importance of millennials to his campaign.

“We’ve been really honored to have the support of so many young people from high school and college,” he said.

Many members of his army of young people, clad in Kaple T-shirts, attended a candidate forum held in Sandy Springs in April by the Jewish Democratic Women’s Salon.

He said he’s against a border wall and thinks that’s an issue on which lawmakers could act if they would listen “to people who know what they’re talking about,” something he said Trump doesn’t do very often.

He made clear that while Handel is his campaign target, she “is a member of the Trump army.”

“I don’t think we can ignore the elephant in the room that is President Trump,” he said.

He said the key to beating Handel and flipping the 6th District is to be a fighter.

He told of his first efforts to get into radio broadcasting as a 17-year-old in high school. He recorded himself doing play-by-play announcing and took the tape to the local station, only to be told he had to line up sponsors if he wanted a show. He pounded the pavement until he had the backing, and that launched him on a career that led him to Atlanta and CBS 46.

Abel: Meeting in the Middle

Abel — who has an electrical engineering degree but never worked as an engineer, instead starting in technology consulting and eventually launching, running and selling a tech company — said he always thought he would end up in the public sector in some form.

But he never thought about running for Congress because he has lived in the 6th District for a quarter-century. Then Ossoff almost won, and the day after the June runoff, Abel wrote a letter to the editor in which he described the Democrat who could succeed: a businessman who had created jobs and balanced budgets, a district resident deeply involved in the community, “and maybe a Democrat who’s not so tied to the establishment of the Democratic Party. You know, someone who’s more interested in what’s good for America but comes at political philosophy from a Democratic point of view.”

He was describing himself, and by

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late October he was committed to the race.

But although he is determined to win the primary and the general election, Abel rejects talk of “flipping the 6th.”

It’s “a term that sets Republicans on edge and makes them think this is just another Democrat trying to win a seat,” the Sandy Springs resident said.

“This is not about another Democrat trying to add another D to the column.

This is about someone who thinks he can best represent the 6th and more broadly represent what’s better or ideal for America. So I want Republican votes. I can win Republican votes.”

While all four Democrats spoke of bipartisan measures and appealing to independents and Republicans unhappy with Trump, Abel has made his crossover appeal a core part of his campaign.

“I believe that central path is the right way to go, and we need a candidate who fits there,” he said, estimating that the $40 million spent for the Ossoff campaign probably brought out most of the Democrats in the district.

“That’s the right type of candidate to win, and I fit that model.”

He cited the two Republicans he ran with three days a week when he lived in Alpharetta and with whom he still runs in Sandy Springs. “I always felt that we had more in common than separated us.”

Abel has the big picture in mind.

He said most Americans hold views that put them between the 30-yard lines on a football field, while the Fox and MSNBC and the commentators they highlight prefer to play in the red zones (inside the 20-yard lines, at the political extremes).

Abel hopes that over a few elections Americans will send 40 to 45 centrists to the House, and they will hold the key to any legislation.

The legislation he would like to see includes improvements to the Affordable Care Act, which was never going to be perfect from the start when it was addressing 17 percent of the U.S. economy. The improved health care system would include the individual mandate, would expand Medicaid in all 50 states and would enable Medicare to negotiate drug prices.

It also would make use of accountable care organizations, an approach to health care delivery that rewards providers for the quality of outcomes rather than the quantity of care.

“This idea that private enterprise will take care of it is silly,” he said. “It’s not working. It hasn’t worked.”

He said the principles for an effective immigration bill were demonstrated in a 2013 compromise that passed the Senate but never got a House vote.

It doesn’t include a wall, which “just appeals to a hateful, nativist instinct and the ugliest part of the American soul,” Abel said. “It’s something that’s a very sad reflection of who we really are as Americans.”

He is a strong supporter of Israel who backs the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and badly wants to see a two-state solution but doesn’t think the United States should set preconditions for negotiations.

His Judaism is a primary driver for who he is and what he believes, starting with tikkun olam (repairing the world) “It’s my favorite, favorite expression,” he said. “Everything you do, no matter how small or how large, that makes the world a better place is a mitzvah. It’s the right thing to do. It makes you human. It validates your humanity.” ■ You can find more about the candidates’ views on other specific issues, such as the federal response to rising anti-Semitism, at atlantajewishtimes.com.

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MOTHER'S DAY

My Mother Deserves the Best Because ...

The AJT wanted to do something special for Mother’s Day, so we made you an offer we hoped you wouldn’t refuse: Tell us, in 200 or fewer words, why your mom deserves a special treat — candy, flowers or a day at the spa — and we would make it happen for several of the special women in our community.

Your submissions, from sons, daughters and one daughter-in-law, start on this page and continue through Page 24.

Some of you celebrate the obstacles these wonderful women have overcome, either before or during motherhood. One, for example, survived the Holocaust as a child, then had to raise three children alone after her husband died of cancer. Another has taken her children on multiple moves to ensure that a son with special needs gets the best care possible.

One of these moms has Alzheimer’s; another provided care as long as she could for a husband with dementia.

You celebrate mothers who care, who cook, who bake challah and who have come through the immigrant experience to become Americans while conveying their cultural heritage to their children.

In short, these are stories of women who have shown endless love for their families.

You’ll find the winners, chosen by random drawing, on Page 25.

KAT KELCHNER Submitted by Kaylene Ladinsky My mother is the most beautiful and sweetest woman I have ever known.

She is always there for her family when we need her. I believe that she especially deserves flowers and a day at the spa this year for Mother’s Day because in the past few months she has suffered a heart attack, recovered from surgery and had to close her business.

Those changes have been a hard pill for her to swallow as a successful and independent entrepreneur.

It means so much to me that she is happy and healthy every day. Thank you, Mom, for everything you do.

SHEILA FREED Submitted by Shari Alhadell

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My dad was diagnosed with dementia five years ago. He wasn’t having many issues until this past year, when it got worse. My mother did not want him in assisted living or memory care alone, so she did everything she could to keep him at home.

I went in on weekends around my school schedule, then more frequently as he worsened. He was at home until he got asphyxiation pneumonia and was put into a hospital and then into hospice. He passed away Nov. 16, 2017.

My mother was brave until the end, trying to take care of him herself. They were married 63 years, and she never wanted to be separated.

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PAM ROSENTHAL Submitted by Julia Rosenthal There are millions of moms out there, but there is no one out there like my mom. My mom is my best friend, and it will always stay that way. We have definitely been through our ups and downs through the teenage years, but I am so glad that I am now able to call her my best friend.

She is there for me 100 percent, through thick and thin, when no one else is, and, honestly, sometimes I don’t know how she does it. She is supportive, loving, tough, forgiving and immensely strong. She is my shoulder to cry on and my person to cry laughing with.

There are not enough words of appreciation that I have for this woman, and I do not know if she will ever know how thankful I am for her. Everyone deserves to know a person as amazing as my mom, and I love her with all my heart. Thank you for everything, Mom. Happy Mother’s Day!

CAROLE KATZ Submitted by Jody Goldstein Despite having advanced Alzheimer’s disease and not recognizing friends and family, my mom is always upbeat and has a huge smile on her face. She loves to sing and dance and brighten up the lives of everyone she meets. She would love flowers or a manicure-pedicure for Mother’s Day. She lives in a HUD home on very little money. Thanks so much!

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MOTHER'S DAY BILLI MARCUS Submitted by Michael Morris Mom, you are wonderful. You were there to hug me when I skinned my knee for the first time. You picked me up five days a week from swim practice for years and cheered for me when I won my first swim race. You tearfully dropped me off at college and joyfully attended graduation.

(And remember when you sent me a T-shirt after my first month away? It said, “Phone Home.”)

You bought me shirts for my first real job (OK, you gave me Dad’s, but it’s the thought that counts). You graciously embraced my wife as part of the family when we got married (and put me on notice when we got divorced). You helped me purchase my first house.

You are there, in the shadows, to smooth over disagreements with Dad. Whether they are good, or not so good, you always make my children feel special.

Since I purchased the Atlanta Jewish Times, you have been my most vocal advocate (from all of us at the office — thank you). You are my whole family’s confidante. And it does not go unnoticed that you are there for every special occasion.

“Thank you” falls short. A day at the spa is too fleeting. Flowers, well, everyone knows not to send you flowers. Instead, I offer you my most treasured commodity: more time with my beloved mom.

My mother deserves more than just flowers, candy or a day at the spa. Being a mother, along with being a parent and friend, is a full-time job that often goes underappreciated. Our mothers are our foundation growing up, paving the roads we end up traveling during our journey through life.

We use all their wisdom and experience to grow as loving, caring and giving individuals. They help form our values and morals, which we in turn pass on to our own children.

I am very proud of my mom for her care and love as I progressed from a baby to a child to a teenager and finally an adult (or at least a man-child). We may not agree on everything because things do change from generation to generation. I know how much she just loves the music I listen to, along with the length of my hair.

But another thing I know is that I love her very much. She deserves all that life has to offer and more. I toast to you on your special day.

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RUTH ABUSCH-MAGDER Submitted by Oren Abusch-Magder I remember the first time I made challah with my mother. I was 7. I put in salt instead of sugar, and we had to start over. I burst into tears because I had screwed up. Instead of scolding me, she smiled, laughed it off and started a new batch.

The next week I poured in too much yeast, and we threw out the batch. Once again, she smiled, and this time I smiled too. Every week since then, we have made challah together when we could.

When I am home, we knead the dough, laugh and talk. In college, I have taught my friends how to knead, how to braid and how to make the weekly blessing of the challah. I can make the perfect loaf, but my mother’s attitude taught me more than a recipe ever could.

I still fail all the time, but after years of learning from my mom, I know that failure is a part of life.

Sometimes when I am baking with my less experienced friends, they make a mistake, and we have to start over. They get upset, but I smile at them, laugh it off and start the next batch.

ROCHELLE STARK Submitted by Lloyd Stark

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My mom does it all! She is my best friend. She raised two amazing kids and was always there for me when I needed her. She is the most amazing cook in the world.

She always encouraged me to follow my dreams and never give up. She is the reason I am where I am today.

She is the most beautiful lady in the world! My mom 22 is awesome!

Flowers, candy and a day at the spa all seem like wonderful ways to show my mother why she is the best. They would certainly put a smile on her face and allow her a day of relaxation, which she very much deserves. But, in reality, she deserves so much more.

By emigrating from Iran and settling in America to flee persecution, my mother made the ultimate sacrifice to leave her native country and start anew.

When I was born, she promised herself that she would not allow her only daughter to be raised in a nonsecular country and would provide me with every opportunity. Thirty-one years later, I am living proof that she accomplished that goal and so much more.

She experienced hardship while trying to acclimate into American society and later while trying to raise two kids, work full time and earn her college degree. But through it all she always kept a positive attitude and managed to see the good in everything — traits I am proud to have inherited.

She is more than a best friend and someone I can laugh and talk to. She is a connection to my native roots and my culture.

WENDY BOHN Submitted by Carrie Bohn My mother deserves flowers, candy or a day at the spa on Mother’s Day because she is the best mom ever! She is incredibly selfless and always puts her children first. She has worked so hard to give us the life that we have and continues to put others first.

She gave up her very successful career when my siblings and I were young to take care of us and make sure that we were raised right. Now that we are older, she continues to make sure that we are constantly feeling loved and valued. She has literally driven across states to make sure I am OK and would bend over backward for anyone in our family.

I try my best to make sure she feels loved and appreciated, but I would love for her to be recognized by others for her amazingness!

CHERYL FEINGOLD DORCHINSKY Submitted by Sam Dorchinsky My mom is the best because she tries hard to make everyone happy and safe. She does not eat meat but makes me chicken and fish. She does not play sports but will sometimes play basketball with me and she almost won once. She has even tried to play Xbox with me but is not good so I asked if she can watch instead. She drives me everywhere I need to go and will take me and my friends out. She had my Bar Mitzvah in Israel at Hadassah and I was thanked by people I did not know because of all she does. I love her even when she makes study or clean because she is the best mom. She cares about me.

ANDREA DRESDNER Submitted by Leah Dresdner, age 14 My mom is 50 years old. She is the best mom in the world, and this is why: She works so hard to make my sister and me feel loved. She is a teacher and cares as much about her students as she does about my sister and me. She puts our plans in front of hers. She can help me relax in any situation.

She supports what we want to do and never makes us do something we don’t.

She really deserves to win this spa day because she is always working so hard and never gets a break, especially when my dog always causes a new disaster in the house. Please think of my mom for winning this contest.

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From the beginning, my mother has encouraged and supported me, guiding me toward a bright future filled with love, beauty and opportunity. No words will ever truly convey my gratitude for her affection and inspiration. She has been an unwavering and profound force in my life, without which I would be lost.

SUZAN TIBOR Submitted by Allyson Tibor My mother-in-law had a hard life, growing up in war-torn Europe. Her family left Belgium when she was just 3 years old to escape the Nazis. Their journey brought them to France, where they hid in an abandoned train station near the town of Viq. When the Nazis discovered them, the men were taken to concentration camps. My mother-in-law and her older sister and cousin were placed in the care of the French underground. They were moved from farmhouse to farmhouse.

One night, when the Nazis were closing in, there was an opportunity to save some of the children and move them in the cloak of darkness, my mother-in-law being one of them. When the war finally ended, her older sister and cousin had the opportunity to come to America, but she was young and stayed with her mother after they were reunited.

The two returned to Belgium, where she was placed into a convent while her mother worked. At the age of 14, she immigrated to the United States with her mom, sponsored by an uncle. She attended Grady High School despite knowing no English.

She met and married her husband, Peter. They went on to have three kids, of which the youngest is my husband, Mark. Heartbreakingly, while my mother-inlaw, Suzan, was pregnant with him, her husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died when my husband was just 8 days old. He got to hold his youngest and was buried with his foreskin.

Suzan worked as a secretary at Emory Cancer Center while struggling to raise three children. When my husband was 9, he was diagnosed with leukemia.

During the 1970s, this should have been a death sentence, but he was treated with a new protocol from Memphis. Though he lost all his hair, he survived.

Throughout Suzan’s life of unspeakable hardship, she has never lost her faith, and she still attends Congregation Beth Jacob regularly. This woman has my undying love and admiration.

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MOTHER'S DAY YIFAT KOREN-KATZ Submitted by Shaked Koren-Katz, age 11 My mom deserves to win because she has done so much to contribute to my family’s life. When my older brother, Shoham, was 4 years old, he underwent surgery. Because of the surgeon’s mistake, Shoham came out of the hospital with special needs. He could no longer walk, speak or eat.

My mom was depressed but determined to help him. After two years of therapy and my mom’s push for Shoham to get the best care, he could walk and eat but still could not talk. My mom decided to move us to Israel for more opportunities for Shoham. Because my mom has always fought for Shoham, he has been able to do so many activities that doctors said he would never be able to do.

Two years ago my mom moved alone with Shoham to the United States for a program called Jacob’s Ladder. I came three months later, but my dad had to keep his job in Israel. My mom had to be with me and my brother all by herself. We’ve moved so many times, but thanks to my mom, it has always been successful and fun.

Returning Mom’s Oven-Sent Love For those who don’t know, I am the owner and operator of the three Ali’s Cookies here in Atlanta.

Long before I was in the cookie business, my mother used to ship cookies to my family regularly.

We always had some in the freezer. In fact, I raided the freezer so often, I grew to love them better frozen than defrosted.

The kids loved those cookies, which came to be referred to as Grandma Lois cookies.

In honor of Mother’s Day, I am paying homage to my mom by sharing this beloved recipe from my mother’s recipe box instead of from Ali’s Cookies’ recipes.

Here is the original recipe, with a few notes of explanation from myself. By the way, even at age 88, she still always has these in her freezer.

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Grandma Lois Cookies

2¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt (Salt brings out the sweetness in baked goods. However, if you use salted butter or margarine, leave this out, as it is then redundant.)

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened (You can substi24

tute margarine if you need these to be pareve, and most people can’t tell the difference either way.) ¾ cup granulated sugar ¾ cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs 2 cups chocolate chips (Use the best quality chips you can buy.)

1 cup chopped nuts (These are optional, and I usually leave them out. However, when using nuts, I prefer pecans over walnuts, as walnuts can sometimes have some bitter ones in the batch, and who wants to bite into a bitter piece of walnut?)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 15-by10-inch jelly roll pan. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Beat the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in a large mixer bowl until creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.

Gradually mix in the flour mixture. Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Spread the mixture into the pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.

Cool in the pan on a wire rack. Cut into squares and enjoy. Don’t forget to try them frozen.

If you enjoy these, let me know whether we should add them to our offerings at Ali’s Cookies for when you would rather buy than bake. ■ Jeff Rosengarten, a four-decade Atlanta resident and father of five, is the owner and operator of Ali’s Cookies (www.shipacookie.com), which has baked delicious kosher cookies and cakes for over 10 years.

Grandma Lois cookies are delicious out of the freezer.

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Something Extra For 5 Moms We’d like to think that every mother will be a winner on Sunday, May 13, which is Mother’s Day. But these five mothers are the winners of the AJT’s contest among readers who submitted entries telling us why their mother deserves flowers, candy or a day at the spa.

All who entered, other than AJT employees, were included in a drawing for the prizes. The winners: • Wendy Bohn, entered by daughter Carrie Bohn — Sweet Treats 18-piece cookie pail with custom lid from Ali’s Cookies.

• Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder, entered by son Oren Abusch-Magder — Sweet Treats candy basket from The Spicy Peach.

• Carole Katz, entered by daughter Jody Goldstein — Flower bouquet delivery from Village Green Flowers & Gifts.

• Yifat Koren-Katz, entered by daughter Shaked Koren-Katz — Flower bouquet delivery from Village Green Flowers & Gifts.

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• Pam Rosenthal, entered by daughter Julia Rosenthal — $125 gift card from LaVida Massage.

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FOOD

Montreal Delis Inspire Kirshtein’s Buckhead Cafe

By Patrice Worthy Chef Andrea Kirshtein recently launched the Mourning Dove Cafe at the Shops Buckhead Atlanta.

Inspired by Jewish delis in Montreal, the Mourning Dove Cafe (www. mourningdovecafe.com) features savory favorites such as shakshuka and roasted turkey and brisket sandwiches.

Kirshtein is the wife of chef Eli Kirshtein, known for his time on “Top Chef” as well as his local restaurants.

Life can be hectic with two chefs in the home, but she has managed to find the recipe for a successful career.

Now Kirshtein is stepping into the spotlight with her own venture, and so far, so good. The Mourning Dove is busy, even attracting celebrities such as Porsha Williams of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”

It’s her first time running a restaurant solo, and the pastry chef-turnedrestaurateur calls it an “interesting experience.” Sitting on the cafe patio with her Big Green Egg and colorful tulips, Kirshtein talked to the AJT about the restaurant and her involvement in the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival, happening May 31 to June 3.

AJT: Tell me about the menu at the Mourning Dove. It’s small but unexpected. How did you decide what to offer?

Kirshtein: So I visited Montreal a lot. And they have a big Jewish community. I was inspired by the Jewish delis there. We do bagel sandwiches, and we do a brisket sandwich that’s really awesome. We also do different variations of Jewish deli food, like beet soup. I like doing savory food even though I’m a pastry chef. We did brisket yesterday, and the smell of the brisket brings a lot of people in. We roast our turkeys in the Big Green Egg.

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AJT: What are some of the Jewish or Israeli-inspired foods on the menu?

Kirshtein: I love potatoes, and I love latkes. There is a traditional French technique that makes potatoes crispy on the outside and gooey in the middle. It’s like a latke, so I make it the same sort of way with grated apples, onions and chicken on top. On the weekends we make it with brisket, a runny egg and huge, fat potato pancake. On the menu it’s called chicken poutine, but I think we’re going to call it our breakfast plate.

We make our own sourdough in house.

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guy actually laughed at me about being this little girl working on a big grill.

I’m a very quiet and calm person.

I think it’s kind of funny because most of my staff is male. People will come in and zoom right to them and they have to say, “She’s right here.” It’s interesting.

Chef Andrea Kirshtein likes to do savory dishes despite her background as a pastry chef.

spring Vidalia onions to make harissa, a condiment with roasted onions. It’s spicy like schug. We sweat the onions down with fresh garlic, roast a bunch of jalapenos, steam them, and we add it to the onions. We puree it so it’s like paste on top of the sourdough.

What I’ve noticed is in North Africa and the whole section of the Middle East they use lot of the same ingredients.

AJT: How do you make your shakshuka?

Kirshtein: We use roasted red peppers, roasted carrots, onions roasted, spring garlic, tomatoes, and then traditional spices like cumin, caraway and coriander, so that’s the base. Then we bake an egg into it, and that gets finished with cured egg yolks on top with oil and za’atar.

AJT: Have you had to change the menu since you opened?

Kirshtein: We started with a buttermilk biscuit in the morning with pork sausage, and no one ordered it.

Then we switched to chicken sausage, and people love it. I asked people why, and some of it is religion. We got a lot of Jewish people and Muslims, but mostly people just don’t eat pork anymore.

You see it so much. I get my chicken sausage locally from Pine Street, and it is so delicious. They grind it every single week.

AJT: This was formerly Corso Coffee. They closed down. How will you do things differently?

Kirshtein: It’s a really great location. We get a lot of foot traffic. The marble floors, tiles and the big art

deco light was already there. I ripped out the back bar because it was too busy. I wanted a place where people could come have some lunch, relax and drink a glass of wine without being overwhelmed. There were only 30 seats inside; there was really no place to sit. Now we have 70 seats. I love the chairs because you have a place to rest your arms while you work on your laptop. Everything is super comfortable and super cozy. I wanted a place where people could go sit on the patio, look at some flowers and work on their laptop.

AJT: What do you think makes the Mourning Dove Cafe stand out?

Kirshtein: The Shops take care of all the plants. They’re so pretty. We have an awesome patio, but it’s kind of tucked away and secluded. All our wines are pretty affordable at $60 and under. They’re all natural, biodynamic and organic, so we really pay attention to how the soil is being treated. We have grapefruit mimosas, strawberry mimosas, and use fresh fruits, so it’s whatever is in season. We get everything locally, including our meats, and all the animals are taken care of humanely. All of the bread is made in house, including the bagels.

AJT: How has it been running your own restaurant?

Kirshtein: It’s the first restaurant I’ve had by myself. It’s been really amazing doing stuff on my own. It’s been really interesting being the female running things. We’ve had painters, workers and people always ask for the guy in charge. Even when I’m on the Egg, people will come and ask who’s in charge, and I say, “Me.” Some

AJT: How long have you and Eli been married?

Kirshtein: I’ve been married to Eli for five years, but we’ve been together for 10 years. We met at McCrady’s in the kitchen of chef Sean Brock in Charleston. We’re really focused on our careers. In the restaurant industry we’ve each always had our own paths. I was at a stage where you work for free in the restaurant industry to find out if you want to work in the kitchen and if the management staff wants you. I was staging for Richard Blais in Atlanta, and Eli was one of the chefs working for him. I got the job and came back to Atlanta, where I was working at the restaurant, and Eli was around a lot.

AJT: What will you being doing at the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival?

Kirshtein: I’ve been participating in the Food & Wine Festival since it started. I usually do a private dinner in a restaurant or a private dinner at Loews on Friday or Saturday night. I think I’m doing a private dinner here at Mourning Dove with something on the patio. We’re going to get some wine and grill on the Egg. I’m also doing a class.

AJT: What’s your vision for the cafe as it evolves?

Kirshtein: We’re going to be doing plated desserts and rolling out an ice cream machine. I’m adding a couple more things I’m excited about, like salads. There’s a restaurant I worked at in New York where they did a roasted carrot salad with seeds, avocado and crème fraiche. I like fresh ingredients, spices, and I like to use one herb that’s going to make it pop.

Starting in May, we’re going to host weekly dinners on Fridays. We’re going to break bread, and there’s going to be no cellphones. It’s just about spending time with different people in the community and reflecting on the week. Everything is going to be family style with people passing around plates. The idea is basically the concept of Shabbat. We want to get more people in the community to spend time with different people and have a day of reflection without being on your phones. ■

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Izzy Maternity Goes Beyond Moms-to-Be

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Izzy Maternity expects to receive a lot of bright colors for the summer.

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the style,” he said. “It’s younger. The fabric is softer and may have a little bit more room in the bust, which is a far cry from stereotypical maternity clothes.”

After 33 years in the business, the Israeli native said, he knows what to buy and where to suit his clientele.

“There are many times I purchase clothes which may not be hot sellers but may be in fashion. You have to see what people are wearing and what’s about to become fashionable,” he said.

Yet Vahaba does have a tendency to purchase more expensive items.

He said, “It looks nicer, has a better feel and can be worn multiple times because it has great workmanship.”

Izzy used to provide more custommade clothes, Vahaba said, but people’s tastes have changed.

“Today’s customers are completely different than what they used to be around 1985,” he said. “Back then, people would come in and take their time to try on the clothes and feel the fabric,

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Israel Vahaba has managed Izzy Maternity for 33 years. In that time, he has witnessed a shift in fashion and his customers’ average age, but the one thing that hasn’t changed, he said, is the quality of clothes he sells.

Vahaba began his career in men’s fashion, but after his wife got pregnant, he realized he was getting more

orders for maternity clothes than for men’s fashions.

The Buckhead store, at the intersection of Peachtree Road and Peachtree Battle Avenue, still caters to a special clientele. In addition to attracting customers who are seeking high-end maternity clothes, the boutique also appeals to women who are not pregnant, Vahaba said.

“It’s not because these people are necessarily big but because they like

Israel Vahaba tries to ensure that everyone who enters Izzy Maternity has a positive experience.

but today’s generation tends to purchase more clothes online, and if they could get a baby online, they would do that too.”

He added: “It’s a different ball game. Customers back then had a separate wardrobe for work and the weekend and knew they were going to spend at least $2,400 in maternity clothes for a portion of their pregnancy. But people today are more focused on their budget and where they can find it cheaper as opposed to focusing on the talent of the person who created the piece.”

A typical dress at Izzy Maternity ranges from $88 to $128.

Born in Tel Aviv, Vahaba said his personal style has a lot to do with where he came from. He describes his taste as romantic and sexy; he favors better fabrication with a pop of color.

At one-point, Vahaba said, Izzy’s customers tended to be 19 to 27 years old, but his clientele has gotten older.

“The average age of customers nowadays is between 34 and 44 for the first or second baby,” he said. “It’s a different generation. They are well kept, look after themselves and are more focused on their life. For most of these people, kids are a bonus, but it’s not their main purpose in life.”

Vahaba said some of his best years in retail were around 2007, when his daughter, Hannah, began using social media to promote the business. Sales rocketed from $300,000 to $400,000 a year to $1 million.

“She just brought the business to a different level,” Vahaba said. She wrote a college thesis on Izzy Maternity.

Vahaba described Izzy Maternity as a one-stop shop that carries work-

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Israel Vahaba thinks maternity clothing should coincide with everyday fashion so women feel good about themselves.

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out pants, leggings, dresses and an assortment of lingerie from all over the world, including Australia and Israel.

After working at Izzy for 10 years, Hannah left to start her own family and is now the director of membership and fitness at the Marcus Jewish Community Center.

Vahaba’s son helps with the boutique’s finances and accounting, but Vahaba said he mostly runs the business by himself.

His store will hold a fundraiser and fashion show from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 24, to celebrate 33 years in business.

The proceeds will benefit the Marcus JCC. Izzy customers will participate in a pageant wearing swimsuits, work attire and cocktail dresses. One winner will be announced as Miss Preggo.

Participants will not be judged on their looks, Vahaba said, but based on who draws the most attention from the audience.

In addition to the fashion show, the fundraiser will include music and food catered by Brooklyn Water Bagel.

A raffle will be held, with tickets going for $5 each or three for $10, and the store will hold a special sale. Vahaba said he hopes to raise $750 for the Marcus JCC. “When people think of maternity, I genuinely want them to think of Izzy,” Vahaba said. “We sell more than just experience. We sell stories and moments. The fact is that I can give people my best shot and give them a good experience, and when I hear their feedback, that’s what keeps me motivated to continue doing what I love.” ■

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Differences Set Van Michael a Cut Above

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By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com

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Hairstyles have come and gone, but Van Michael Salon has tried to provide customers a different experience for 34 years.

After opening in 1984 at 39 W. Paces Ferry Road, which remains Van Michael’s biggest and most visited location, the salon now has eight locations across metro Atlanta, including the new Van Michael Men, a barbershop that opened in February at the Battery Atlanta.

“Barbershops are kind of a trend right now in beauty, similar to how blow-dry bars were the trend a few years ago,” Van Michael CEO Susan Dykstra said.

But most people recognize Van Michael by its Buckhead location, which used to cover 1,000 square feet. Today that salon stretches over 10,000 square feet and employs 375 people, 250 of whom are service providers.

“We see on average about 400 clients a day in that location, which includes 100 of our employees,” Dykstra said. “Our Buckhead location is very fast-paced, and people seem to like that.”

They like it enough to have voted Van Michael Salon first in the hair and beauty salon category of the 2018 Best of Jewish Atlanta. More than a quarter of reader votes in the category went to Van Michael.

Dykstra has worked with Van Michael for 21 years and said she has noticed several trends the past 10 years.

“People are getting their hair colored much more than they are getting it cut,” she said. “Whether it’s baby boomers with gray hair or the popularity of the different trends, such as ombre, balayage and color melting, we are definitely staffing more colorists.”

Whereas before the salon was offering two cutters for every colorist, it now provides two colorists for every cutter.

What people fail to realize, Dykstra said, is how long a visit to the salon can last.

“People often come in and want the same look duplicated from Instagram or YouTube, which we can do, but the difficult thing about people seeing things online is that it does not give them an indication of how long the process takes,” she said. “Everything is sped up for people’s stories, which looks as if it took two minutes, where it really could take all day.”

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Van Michael Salon offers 14 levels of stylist for customers to choose from, depending on budget.

Each of Van Michael’s eight locations offers modern amenities.

In terms of cuts, people still want to wear their hair long and want the beachy waves that are created using a large curling iron, Dykstra said. “No one is going real short at this time, but Van is trying to bring that back,” she said. “He is on a mission to bring back more of a haircut instead of everybody’s hair looking similar.”

All eight of Van Michael’s locations are driven by customer service and provide a luxury experience, Dykstra said. Each salon introduces new customers to their stylists and makeup artists, and a tour for first-time visitors is included.

“We really want to provide everything for the client from cut, color and makeup,” she said. “Traditionally, most salons offer one person for cut, color and makeup, but we believe people should specialize in one category.”

The salon also offers facials, waxing, brow and lash tinting, false lashes, and hair extensions. Van Michael hires licensed cosmetologists after they have completed their training. The salon mostly hires stylists from the Aveda

A first-time visitor at Van Michael receives a tour of the salon and is introduced to schools or Paul Mitchell, who are reher stylist before the service begins.

quired to go through an additional year of training with Van Michael before they work on clients.

The new stylists go through eight hours of training each Monday and are paired with senior service providers the rest of the week. Once the interns are fully trained in cut and color, they are assigned to the salon’s new talent section or junior division.

A haircut provided by new talent costs $35, $42 or $49, and colors can cost $40 to $100, depending on whether the customer is getting full color, a partial highlight or full foil.

A haircut from a veteran Van Michael employee starts at $55 and can go to $150. Color prices start at $70 and go up to $240 for color from a senior stylist.

Van Michael offers 14 levels of stylists.

“The theory and designing of the pricing is so that anyone can go to a Van Michael Salon, regardless of their budget, but will have to select a stylist that best accommodates their specific

price range,” Dykstra said. “Yet everyone is trained the same. The only difference is that people who have been at Van Michael longer and have a really strong clientele have higher prices.”

When customers leave the salon, Dykstra said, they want to feel great and change their state of emotion.

“When you have an impact on how someone looks and feels about themselves, you are really changing their life. It’s much more than a haircut, color or makeup service,” she said.

“We may be the only person that physically touches that person that day, but we just want them to feel good about themselves when they leave.”

The Van Michael tagline is to experience the difference, which Dykstra said is what the salon is about. “If you have been going to a salon for a long time, you might be happy, but I would really encourage people to try us and experience the difference,” she said.

“My hope and goal is that people will be blown away.” ■

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Doing Good While Getting Great Color Belle de Jour takes time to raise money for cancer research oring or the latest hair color trends, such as the popular balayage and foil highlights, as well as other styling services.

Corrective color, glaze and treatments are also available so that each client leaves Belle de Jour focuses on the perfect color as part of its hairstyling. the salon feeling confident and refreshed.

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Belle de Jour Salon unabashedly specializes in women’s hair color with a commitment to service and quality, selective staffing, dedication, and a laser focus.

Located inside the Perimeter in Sandy Springs at 5290 Roswell Road in the Mount Paran Walk shopping center, convenient to Buckhead, Brookhaven and Dunwoody, Andrea Davis Goldklang’s salon employs experts who are “committed to providing the best hair color and styling services to the women in the Atlanta area,” the salon’s website says.

(Goldklang was unavailable for an interview for this article because she was preparing for the celebration of her daughter’s becoming a bat mitzvah.)

Before opening Belle de Jour, owner, color director and master stylist Goldklang learned the science of formulating color and the art of proper application through immersive training and work with Louis Licari in Manhattan and at Van Michael Salon in Buckhead.

Licari is called New York’s King of Color by fab-beauty.com. With multiple locations in Atlanta and Tokyo and a rigorous training program, Van Michael salons enjoy a world-class reputation and were voted the Best of Jewish Atlanta in the hair and beauty salon category.

Belle de Jour finished third in that category in the voting by AJT readers, despite having only one location to build customer loyalty.

From the moment they enter the salon, Belle de Jour clients are offered lemon water or LaCroix and are overwhelmed with painstaking customer service.

The salon’s talented, highly trained staffers offer traditional col-

chemotherapy and remission since 2012, Goldklang and her staff have raised money for CURE Childhood Cancer each September.

In keeping with the motto “Success without giving is not success,” the salon has raised more than $50,000 for the cause.

In addition, the salon donates services to many schools and organizations throughout the community, as shown on the “Giving” link of its website. A Mother’s Day gift at Belle de Jour can therefore have a positive giving ripple effect. ■

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Pinup Fashion Empowers Women With Nostalgia

By Sarah Moosazadeh sarah@atljewishtimes.com Pinup model Shellie Schmals recalls as a child dancing with her father on weekends while playing 1950s records in the background. The experience is one of many that spurred her affinity for vintage and pinup.

Schmals grew up listening to artists such as Elvis and Chuck Berry and watching television shows such as “Happy Days” and movies such as “American Graffiti.” She said, “I was definitely that that ’70s and ’80s kid who loved everything retro.”

Because Schmals’ parents were antique collectors, she grew up with iconic images her family bought at garage sales.

But it was not until 10 years ago that Schmals discovered a creative community in Atlanta that celebrated pinup and vintage culture.

She belongs to the Georgia Pinup Posse, composed of 35 women who conduct philanthropic events and photo shoots. Schmals also is heavily involved in Pit Bulls and Poodle Skirts,

Pinup model Shellie Schmals says pinup has provided women with more freedom through the decades, but it was pinup star Dita Von Teese who brought the glamour back in the 1980s.

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would not have otherwise met.”

Yet ’50s influences are emerging not just in shows such as the “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” available on Amazon Prime, but also in fashion.

“I think we are always looking to the past to be able to reflect on where we are going in the future, which is why I think we are seeing fashion styles worn again,” Schmals said. “I think every generation has that nostalgic feeling when they see fashion from that era and start to think that ‘this is the dress my mother wore’ or ‘this is the tie my father had.’”

Pinup history includes Jewish actresses such as Hedy Lamarr, one of the most famous pinups of the 1940s.

It was President Woodrow Wilson, Schmals said, who commissioned the first pinups during World War I. “It was that cheeky image of a woman in men’s clothing saying, ‘We need you in war,’ and I think it began to change from objectifying women to where we are today.”

Schmals added, “Pinup is empowering for women, and you see throughout the decades as women became freer, such as the Roaring ’20s with the flappers, as hair got shorter, to the ’40s and ’50s, which was more about the style and aesthetic.”

Schmals noted that pinup models such as Bettie Page in the postwar era rebelled against the modern style, in which women tried to curate a perfect image after men returned from war.

Pinup began to resonate with people again in the late ’80s when models such as Dita Von Teese brought the glamour back, Schmals said.

“If you look at how pinup is presented today, there are a lot more people making their own dresses and a lot of independent fashion designers who are finding their niche in certain styles or themes of pinup. I think that’s really inspiring, to see women creating the styles that they want to see,” she said.

“You can incorporate pieces into your everyday life,” she added. “It doesn’t have to be an entire look. But it can be some saddle shoes, jeans and a T-shirt or a pinup dress and some Converses.

“A lot of what I like about pinup is that it is also very work-friendly. Women can incorporate a vintage aesthetic into their daily life without it feeling like they dressed up like in a costume.

It can be a piece of jewelry or a handbag.”

Today pinup attracts followers on Instagram and YouTube because people have fallen in love with the fashion trend, Schmals said. “If you look at the cuts of the dresses and the creativity and mobility of pinup, it transcends beyond a specific type of person. Pinup

SPA & BEAUTY is beautiful. The clothes are gorgeous, and it’s for everybody. It’s for all shapes and sizes and provides a flattering aesthetic.”

Pinup has influenced the drag world and vice versa, Schmals said.

“You see people like Violet Chachki, a pinup drag model who was recently picked for a lingerie line, which proves that pinup is not just for women; it’s something for everyone,” she said. “I think the aesthetic of pinup influences drag, especially when they are personifying Marilyn Monroe. I think people feel free to embody their character choice and use pinup as a segue into self-discovery.”

When she is not busy serving as the film programming manager for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Schmals enjoys following Atlanta pinup bloggers Sam K Rockwell and ButterCreamBettie, as well as Aido Dapo, Freya Vintage and Amy Roiland, who has over 92,000 followers on Instagram.

Schmals also follows Lady Damfino, who dresses up as Disney characters with a pinup flare, known as Disneybounding.

Yet for some, pinup carries stigmas. “I think people may think that pinup is very much in the past, or just

because you are dressed in the ’50s, your thoughts aren’t contemporary,” Schmals said. “But just because you are wearing a pinup dress does not mean you are embodying ’50s values.”

Schmals said she has always incorporated some form of vintage into her wardrobe, which has made it easy for her to dress up in pinup. But her suggestion to people who are just starting is to take the leap and get a professional photo shoot.

“Even if you don’t do anything with the photos, or even if it’s just for yourself, enjoy the moment,” she said.

“Enjoy shopping for the clothes, which you will be happy wearing because fashion is a lot about the creative aspect of presenting yourself and what makes you feel good.”

The story behind the clothes is part of the reason she enjoys vintage fashion. “I still have sweaters that belonged to my dad from the ’60s, as well as shirts my mom wore in the ’70s.

I guess I am emotionally tied to my clothes because they each represent memories for me — some good, some bad — but that’s what makes pinup so fun for me. It’s being able to recycle clothes but also having a connection to them.” ■

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Sexual Assault Survivor Plans for Women’s Healing

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Marva Zohar is an activist, midwife, poet and founder of the Israeli NGO Ohela (www.ohelaenglish.org).

She recently visited Atlanta as the first stop on the American leg of a five-month fundraising tour through Israel, North America and Europe.

Marva spoke of Ohela’s flagship project, the Land Where Women Heal. Marva spent a long weekend in Atlanta speaking at shuls and visiting the Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah.

I was lucky enough to meet Marva on her first day in Atlanta at Jewish Family & Career Services through its Shalom Bayit program. She shared her experience of healing from sexual assault.

Her moving poetry was born from this trauma. Her journey after this trauma was made more difficult by the post-trauma treatment she received.

Her story and presentation moved almost everyone present to tears.

I encourage you to watch her TED talk (www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TgJlP67x-jg) to get an idea of her strength of character.

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Her story does not end with her attack at age 12. When Marva decided to seek help by calling the women’s crisis line in Israel, she waited three full days before she reached a person.

She then was given some breathing exercises and was told that a support group might start in half a year.

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The waiting lists for therapy stretched one to three years, depending on where you lived. With no options, she checked herself into a psychiatric hospital, where she heard others’ stories of harassment, assault and even rape while hospitalized.

These women not only were unable to overcome their assault, but also were traumatized again through the treatment and lack of treatment.

Seven of these women ultimately committed suicide. From this pain, the seeds of Marva’s project took root.

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Marva Zohar discusses her experience with rape culture during her recent TEDx Oxford presentation.

Marva’s vision is to create a rehabilitative village in Israel for women recovering from trauma. A Land Where Women Heal is to be a sustainable community fostering physical and spiritual wellness and wisdom.

This village is an alternative to hospitalization. The women will live in the village for six to 12 months, at no cost, receiving full-time care. Practitioners trained to treat a range of relevant conditions, including substance abuse, eating disorders and suicidal thoughts, will live on campus.

Once the village is up and run-

ning, income-generating initiatives will include a retreat space, a spa, a natural birthing center, a mikvah and a school to educate medical professionals on the needs of female patients.

Marva arrived in Atlanta after one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns in Israel’s history and right after her TEDx Oxford appearance.

I spoke with her by phone after her Atlanta visit. She said she enjoyed her time here and felt warmly embraced by the Jewish community.

She talked about the tribal aspect of taking care of women and making sure they have a place to heal and celebrate womanhood. In true tribal fashion, she was pleasantly surprised to learn that a social worker in the Shalom Bayit program is her cousin.

She commented on the strong sisterhood of women in Atlanta and was inspired by the social justice orientation of many of the people she met.

Her visit left me pondering next steps. In the wake of the #MeToo campaign, this seems like the perfect time for this project to grow. I hope you will take time to learn more about this initiative and give generously. ■

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Professor From Cobb Is Finalist for Book Prize We welcome them and look forward to nurturing their growth,” said Carolyn Starman Hessel, the director of the Sami Rohr Prize.

Rabin follows the stories of Jews who moved south and west through the 19th century, a movement she argues was pivotal to the development of American Judaism. She presented some of her research during the 2016 conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society in Natchez, Miss.

Rabin, who went to high school locally after moving from Wisconsin, is an assistant professor of Jewish studies at the College of Charleston, where she leads the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture. She got her undergraduate degree from Boston University and her doctorate from Yale.

Released in December, “Jews on the Frontier” is her first book.

The Jewish Book Council will announce the Sami Rohr Prize winner in July during a ceremony in Jerusalem.

In addition to the $100,000 first prize, $18,000 goes to the runner-up, and the other three finalists get $5,000 each. ■

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Former East Cobb resident Shari Rabin is one of five finalists for the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

She is nominated for “Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America,” which was named the winner of the Jewish Book Council’s Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish studies in January.

“So excited about this news!!”

Rabin tweeted.

One fellow finalist for the Celebrate 350 Award, Sara Yael Hirschhorn’s “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement,” also is a Sami Rohr Prize finalist. The others are Ilana Kurshan for “If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir,” Yair Mintzker for “The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew” and Chanan Tigay for “The Lost Book of Moses: The Quest for the World’s Oldest Bible.”

“The five 2018 fellows will join our growing Sami Rohr Prize literary community of authors who are the current and future voices of Jewish literature.

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The Magic of Lag B’Omer

Rabbi Ephraim Silverman shares his insight about giving tzedakah.

A lively crowd from Chabad of Cobb gathered for a Lag B’Omer picnic Thursday, May 3, at East Cobb Park, as similar celebrations were held around metro Atlanta on the afternoon of the 33rd day of the Omer.

Ashkenazim, Israelis and Persians schmoozed at the park’s newest picnic area to nosh on kosher hamburgers and hot dogs as well as an assortment of cookies and watermelon. Rabbi

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Coleslaw, corn on the cob, cookies and watermelon are among the items to eat.

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Ephraim Silverman led a brief prayer and discussion about the art of giving tzedakah, followed by a magic show.

Kids watched in amazement as a magician performed card tricks, ripped and inserted a portion of a dollar bill back into itself, and made a coin retract into his hand.

The warm weather and Israeli music added to the fun atmosphere. ■

A hot dog comes before the magic show for this child.

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A young girl collects tzedakah at the picnic, following through on the rabbi’s lesson.

A magician performs on Lag B’Omer.

Israel Silverman serves as a DJ at the Lag B’Omer celebration at East Cobb Park.

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A Tribute to the Greatest Band in the World

In the closing hours of Atlanta’s 2018 Shaky Knees Music Festival, thousands of fans gathered to see the group many call “the greatest band in the world. Period.”

Co-fronted by Jewish-American actor and musician Jack Black and collaborator Kyle Gass, Tenacious D had not graced the stage in Atlanta since a 2002 performance at the Tabernacle.

Fans greeted the duo with chants of “D! D! D! D! D!” for a set beginning 15 minutes before the scheduled show time Sunday, May 6.

The comedic rockers didn’t disappoint, blowing through “Kielbasa,” the opening track from their 2001 debut album, and launching straight into “Kickapoo,” the opening track from their 2006 album, “The Pick of Destiny.”

Throughout the rollicking performance, Black and Gass, who both brandished bushy gray beards, crossed guitar necks, bared their teeth and melted the audiences’ faces in the way only they can. The set was part pop-metal, part goofy comedy and all entertainment.

At one point, Black and Gass

got into an argument, prompting Gass to briefly quit the band. He was lured back onstage by a powerful performance of “Dude, I Totally Miss You” by Black, aided by Tenacious D’s stellar backing band of guitarist John Konesky, bassist John Spiker and drummer Scott Seiver.

Black also dropped some surprising news on the Atlanta crowd when

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he announced that there will be a follow-up to the band’s 2006 film, “The Pick of Destiny.”

“Part 2’s coming out in October,” he told the crowd midway through the one-hour set. “I don’t know where you’ll be able to see it, but we have decided that it’s happening, and it’s coming out.”

Time will tell whether Black was serious or was hamming it up for the Shaky Knees crowd.

The D wrapped up the set on the

Concert Calendar

Sunday, May 13 Cohen Brothers brunch. Local guitar-mandolin bluegrass duo the Cohen Brothers Band (David and Elie Cohen) performs a Mother’s Day brunch set at the Pullman in Kirkwood, 1992 Hosea L Williams Drive, Kirkwood, at 12:30 p.m. Free; www.facebook.com/ events/150450198999593.

Pussywillows. Atlanta-based indie-acoustic power duo Carly Gibson and Hannah Zale perform a full band set for Mother’s Day at 8 p.m. at Eddie’s Attic, 515-B N. McDonough St., Decatur. Zale performed at the Atlanta

Jewish Music Festival in 2015 and 2018.

Tickets are $8 to $12; eddiesattic.com.

Thursday, May 17 David Bromberg. The multiinstrumentalist, singer and songwriter performs at 8 p.m. at Eddie’s Attic, 515-B N. McDonough St., Decatur.

Bromberg, 72, is known for his unique fingerpicking style. He has performed and recorded with many famous musicians, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan.

Tickets are $37 to $45; eddiesattic.com.

Food Truck Thursday. Weather postponed the Marcus JCC’s Yom HaAtzmaut celebration at Liane Levetan Park at Brook Run, 4770 N. Peachtree Road, Dunwoody, from April to 5 p.m. today. The event features Weber School band performances, Davis Decibelles and Magical Melodies, the Weber School chorus and the J Dance Company. Free; www.facebook.com/ events/210930659662591.

Tuesday, May 22 Adam Klein. The Athens-based singer-songwriter performs at 7 p.m. at Smith’s Olde Bar, 1578 Piedmont Ave., Midtown. Fans of Americana will enjoy Klein’s happy blend of rustic country folk music. You may remember his performance at the 2016 Atlanta Kosher BBQ Competition.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $13 at the door; www.smithsoldebar.com.

Thursday, May 31 Celebration of Amy Winehouse.

Soul singers Brooke Fauver, Kourtney Jackson, Keisha Jackson and Paula Champion are among the featured artists celebrating the late chart-topping Jewish songstress at 8 p.m. at Venkman’s, 740 Ralph McGill Blvd., Old Fourth Ward. Tickets are $10 to $25; venkmans.com. ■

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Tenacious D performs for the large crowd at Shaky Knees on Sunday, May 6

last day of the three-day festival with a number of classic tunes, including “Dio,” “The Road” and crowd favorite “Tribute.”

By the time Black and Gass got to “The Metal,” a few broken strings led to some stalling in the form of Black complimenting the crowd.

“Y’all are looking good out there, probably a little too good. Must be that bike path you have here,” he said, likely referring to the nearby BeltLine.

Black pulled out his vintage sax-a-boom for a funky solo, to the great delight of the crowd, followed by “Roadie,” a song for all the roadies out there.

It was then that Black and Gass realized something wasn’t quite right: Guitarist Konesky had been possessed.

So the duo engaged the devil in a rock-off, which happened to be the tune “Beelzeboss” from “The Pick of Destiny.”

Upon emerging victorious, the band closed out the performance with a “song for the ladies, sung to the fellas,” about being gentle in the bedroom, the title of which cannot be printed in a family newspaper.

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Holocaust Victim Guided Escher to Graphic Arts

By Kevin C. Madigan kmadigan@atljewishtimes.com A new exhibition of works by the late graphic artist M.C. Escher is showing through June 9 in Decatur at the Different Trains Gallery.

Born in the Netherlands in 1898, Escher produced more than 2,000 drawings and sketches during his lifetime, as well as hundreds of woodcuts, engravings and lithographs, many based on mathematical themes.

Though famous as a draftsman, muralist, illustrator and printmaker, Escher’s original intent was to be an architect.

While a student from 1919 to 1922 in North Holland, Escher studied under a Sephardic Jew who became an important influence on him, changing the course of his life and career.

“Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita in his own right was a very fine graphic artist and taught at the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, where Escher was enrolled,” said Doris Schattschneider, a former professor of mathematics at Moravian College and author of the book “M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry.”

“He convinced Escher to switch from architecture to graphic arts and taught him all the techniques of that and of printing,” she said by phone after attending the opening of the Different Trains exhibition.

The two men stayed in touch after college, but World War II changed everything.

“In 1944 Escher went up to visit de Mesquita in his studio (in Watergraafsmeer, reportedly to bring food to the family), and when he got there, the place had been trashed. His family and him had been taken by the Nazis

“Day and Night” is one of the famous M.C. Escher works on display at the Different Trains Gallery through June 9.

to concentration camps and ultimately were killed. De Mesquita had refused to leave because he thought Sephardic Jews were not going to be targeted, but of course I don’t think the Nazis bothered to distinguish between different kinds of Jews,” Schattschneider said.

“Escher collected some of the loose graphic work of de Mesquita’s that was laying around on the floor, and one had a German footprint, a Nazi boot.

He put them all in a folio and took a train back home. If he had been caught with them, it would have been the end

What: M.C. Escher plus works by contemporary math artists Where: Different Trains Gallery, 432 E. Howard Ave., No. 24, Decatur When: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and by appointment, through June 9 Admission: Free; www.differenttrainsgallery.com/mc-escher.html or 404-939-2787

members of the Wertheim family, Jewish friends he had met in Rome. When the war ended, Escher took part in an exhibition of artists who had not acquiesced to the Reich Chamber of Culture, which had demanded an Aryan certificate when applying for membership.

Artists who refused were banned from showing their work.

Gallery Director Escher also took it upon himself to Shawn Vinson promote the works of his dead teacher, brought in Escher de Mesquita, while staying under the expert Doris Schattschneider to radar, Schattschneider said. His true talk about the artist, feelings about the war were made clear who turned from in some graphic prints he sent as New architecture to art Year’s cards to friends but never pubunder the influence of Samuel Jessurun lished.

“This exhibit features 42 original de Mesquita. prints and is the largest Escher show in of him, so he was really very brave, Atlanta in over a decade,” said Shawn Vinson, the director of the Different gathering what he could,” she said.

For the rest of his life, Escher kept Trains Gallery. “In addition, we have a the sketch with the German footprint confectionery tin designed by Escher in 1962, the first time it’s been displayed pinned to a wall in his studio.

De Mesquita’s death affected in public.”

He said the public reception to the Escher deeply, as did the war, and while exhibit “has been fantastic. People get not Jewish himself, “he was obviously excited, especially about the more iconvery anti-Nazi” and nursed a grievance ic works, such as ‘Day and Night,’ which after being prevented from attending they’ve previously only seen in books his mother’s funeral in The Hague beand on posters, and are surprised as cause of the Dutch invasion by Nazi well to discover so many works they’d troops in May 1940. never known about before.”

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Barak Traces His Service To an Endangered Ideal Israel, its members entered the aircraft disguised as mechanics.

Ehud Barak, former commando, Commando missions followed, chief of staff, prime minister and de- including a Beirut raid with Barak and fense minister, says Israel is facing its two others disguised as women. In 1973 deepest crisis — from within. army security insisted he change his The question is “whether the coun- name to enroll at Stanford. Ehud Brog try … can survive as a democracy under became Barak — Hebrew for lightning. the rule of law, true not only to Jewish Recalled for the Yom Kippur War, he history and traditions but to the moral fought in Sinai, crossing into Egypt. code at its core,” he writes in “My CounAfter the war Barak became a full try, My Life.” colonel and armored He blames “the brigade commander. He most right-wing, delibhelped plan the 1976 reserately divisive, narcue at Entebbe. row-minded and mesHe became chief of sianic government we staff in 1991 and emphahave seen in our sevensized mobility and highdecade history,” which tech weaponry. has “sought to redefine Barak ended his 36Zionism as about one year army career in 1995, thing only: ensuring in his early 50s, thinking eternal control over the of joining his brother in whole of biblical Judea business. Yitzhak Rabin and Samaria … even if persuaded him instead doing so leaves us sigto be interior minister.

My Country, My Life: After Rabin’s assassinanificantly less secure.”

That conclusion Fighting for Israel, tion, Shimon Peres made likely will delight Is- Searching for Peace Barak foreign minister. rael’s many critics, yet By Ehud Barak Peres lost the next it comes only in an epi- St. Martin’s, 472 pages, $29.99 election, and Barak belogue, after 439 pages came the Labor Party of readable, interesting autobiography leader in 1996, defeating Netanyahu in acknowledging shortcomings and luck 1999 and controversially pulling out of while largely avoiding self-glorification Israel’s costly Lebanon security zone. (except maybe the 24 pages of photos).

Barak provides a detailed descripHe blames Palestinian leaders tion of Israel’s efforts at Camp David in for rejecting generous offers by him 2000, with Arafat refusing all proposin 2000 and Ehud Olmert in 2008 but als and making none. fears that failure to separate will unBarak lost to Ariel Sharon in 2001. dermine Israel’s democratic Jewish After Sharon’s stroke, Olmert made majority. His criticism, forceful but Barak defense minister. He continued not shrill, goes beyond Prime Minister under Netanyahu from 2009 to 2013.

Benyamin Netanyahu, praised earlier “My Country” includes at least for intellect and performance under two errors, one saying “either of the Barak’s command of Sayeret Matkal, mosques” on the Temple Mount. Atop likened to the U.S. Delta Force. the mount is only one, Al-Aqsa; the Barak was born in 1942 on Kibbutz Dome of the Rock is a shrine. The other Mishmar Hasharon, “a cluster of wood- error is a howler. and-tarpaper huts,” to parents from PoAs defense minister, Barak sought land and Lithuania. They encouraged U.S. bunker-buster bombs and the lease his talent at the piano, which helped of airborne tankers, not mentioning him unwind. their use against Iran. But that purYouthful fascination with locks pose didn’t escape President George W. brought him into Sayeret Matkal, then Bush; Barak writes that Bush said: “I’m a tiny, secret intelligence unit needing a former F-16 pilot. I know how to cona lock picker. Commissioned, he led nect the dots.” squads into enemy states to map and to No, he wasn’t. Bush was a Texas tap communications.

Air National Guard F-102 pilot who Sayeret Matkal became a strike stopped flying in 1972 and quit in 1973. force in 1972, in Barak’s second year as The F-16 entered service in 1979. commander, by coincidence: The closNeither error diminishes an inest unit to a hijacked airliner parked in sightful book. ■

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A Loss for Atlanta in Multiple Ways

Alan Stein joins Sarah Newmark and her children on the Home Run Porch.

The 18th and likely final Kosher Day sponsored by the Atlanta Kosher Commission at an Atlanta Braves game did not have a happy ending.

The weather was good, as was the turnout for baseball and the kosher grilling of Keith’s Corner BBQ on the Home Run Porch of Section 154 at SunTrust Park on Sunday afternoon, May 6. But the San Francisco Giants were inhospitable guests, surviving a ninth-inning Braves rally to win, 4-3,

and complete a three-game sweep of Atlanta.

The Braves still led the National League East through games played Monday, May 7.

As for Kosher Day, unless another organization takes it over from the AKC, which has offered to help, or a benefactor emerges to take some of the financial burden off the nonprofit agency, 2019 will be a season of treif at SunTrust Park. ■

Rena Gray hangs out with Chaya and Ariel Steinberg.

Keith’s Corner BBQ provides kosher food until the third inning of Sunday’s BravesGiants game.

Photos by Eli Gray

Ashley Marks and her daughters enjoy a kosher lunch with Ella Katz.

Sarah Newmark checks out the dining options with kosher vendor Keith’s Corner BBQ.

Keith Marks of Keith’s Corner BBQ serves Brett Cohen.

Gorst Secures Closer Roll in Salem

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Two Jewish Atlanta pitchers who were high school and college teammates are off to very different starts to their third seasons in minor-league baseball on opposite sides of the country.

Matthew Gorst, a relief pitcher in the Boston Red Sox system, was named Jewish Baseball News’ Minor League Pitcher of the Week on Monday, May 7, for the second time this season.

Gorst has become the closer for the High-A Salem Red Sox in the Carolina League. He has an 0-1 record with four saves, 20 strikeouts and only two 40 walks in 14 1/3 innings pitched compil-

ing an ERA of 1.26. He hasn’t given up any runs in his last five appearances.

Meanwhile, Brandon Gold, Gorst’s teammate at Johns Creek High School and Georgia Tech, has struggled through his first six starts of the year with the Lancaster JetHawks, the Colorado Rockies’ High-A farm team in the California League.

While Gold’s 3-1 record looks good, he has an ERA of 5.51 through his Friday, May 4, start, when he got no decision while giving up three earned runs in four innings.

Gold has given up 46 hits, including six home runs, in 32 2/3 innings

pitched while striking out 17 and walking eight. Opposing teams are hitting .341 against the Davis Academy graduate.

Closer to home, the Atlanta Braves keep shuffling left-handed pitcher Max Fried.

Fried, who made a strong late-season debut for Atlanta as a starter and a reliever after skipping AAA, started this season back at AA Mississippi, then moved up to AAA Gwinnett after one start.

He started two games for the Stripers, and the Braves called him up April 24 to provide long relief — a role Atlan-

ta hasn’t needed much during a strong first six weeks of the season by its starting pitchers.

Fried took the loss in his first two appearances, including giving up a 12th-inning two-run home run without recording an out in his season debut against the Cincinnati Reds on April 24.

After two more appearances, he was sent back to Gwinnett on May 5 so the Braves could bring in a fresh arm.

In four games and six innings with Atlanta, he has a 6.00 ERA and an 0-2 record.

As of May 7, he had not pitched for Gwinnett since his return. ■

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Mental Health: When You Wonder Where to Begin Pop quiz: You are walking down Peachtree Street when a man suddenly clutches his arm and falls to the ground. You run over and recognize instantly that he needs help.

What is the first thing you do?

Call 911? Correct.

What about your family member who hasn’t been “acting herself” lately?

She hasn’t been going to spin class, has missed work, or has been sleeping too much or little.

Or your teenage son whose grades have suddenly dropped?

His old good friends haven’t been calling, and his new friends don’t come into the house to say hello before “just going for a drive.”

What do you do? Whom do you call to figure this out?

What would you even ask if you got someone on the line?

These are issues we, as mental health professionals, hear all too often.

People know something is wrong but aren’t sure what to do next. Something needs to be identified or diagnosed.

Something needs to be fixed.

But nothing happens.

The reasons for the inaction vary, from not knowing whom to call to making false assumptions about what is truly going on and what the outcome will be.

Of course, money, insurance,

Briefings From The Berman Center

By Daniel Epstein

work, school and busy schedules all can cross the muddied mind, and let’s not forget about good old anxiety.

Recently, I had a friend who was going through a remarkably difficult few years and whose friends and family were all in agreement: “Yo, you really should go see someone” (an actual quote from an anonymous loved one — OK, it was me).

The reasons for inaction mostly involved a rationale that the solutions were obvious and that she didn’t need a therapist to tell her about the errors in her ways. And, besides, whom

would she even call?

First, if you ever feel someone is in immediate danger, call 911. There are also crisis hotlines, such as 800273-TALK (24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress and crisis resources for you or your loved ones). I used to work at a hotline, and I promise you that it’s perfectly kosher to call and say, “I have no idea what’s wrong but …”

A mental health professional is prepared to help and may simply point you toward a more specialized referral or provider.

There also are always local resources, which are a great place to begin. Atlanta has several good options to start, such as Jewish Family & Career Services’ outpatient counseling services. Or call me directly at The Berman Center (number below). Whatever you do, don’t suffer in silence!

If you’ve read this far, you’re clearly interested in the topics of mental health and/or substance abuse.

I implore you and a group of your closest friends to join several of the local Jewish mental health organizations for the Blue Dove Foundation’s

“Quieting the Silence Education Series: A Night of Jewish Mental Health and Substance Abuse Education.”

We will learn, laugh and cry, and I know in my gut that this event will advance the conversation, eradicate the shame and stigma, and, most important, help those who are suffering choose to seek assistance.

It’s Thursday, May 24, at 7 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. It’s for adults only and is free. ■

In this state of perpetual attention, are you able to harness your inner power to sustain the dark spots and shadows in your life, let alone have the patience and love for others?

Here are three ways to harness your inner power: • Incorporate a daily practice of connecting to the peace within you.

Whether it’s meditating, praying, walking in nature, or looking into your garden at the birds or flowers, make time to unplug from external stimulation. Breathe! Take steps each day on your path to wholeness. Soon, when you are in a challenging situation or emotion, you gain the ability to pause and shift your mind.

• Create healthy boundaries. One of the main benefits is compassion.

Dr. Brene Brown says people who have healthy, strong boundaries are the most compassionate. Isn’t it surprising? Setting boundaries is a way to turn inward to your needs and feelings while finding a place of peace and safety.

• Take an Epsom salt bath. It’s funny but true that it not only calms the nerves, but also supplies magnesium (which 80 percent of the population lacks) and clears negative energy

in the body. One of my clients works as the head nurse in the organ donor department of a hospital, a job that is leading her to adrenal collapse. I recently shared the value of Epsom salt baths mixed with baking soda to help her clean energy from the day’s tumultuous events. I look forward to hearing the results.

There could be many more things on this list — breathwork, yoga, tai chi, energy work, gemstones. But it’s truly the little things you do on a regular basis that will sustain the energy you need to carry on your life and make it a blessing.

Begin where you begin. I also continue to take steps each day toward healing and wholeness and appreciate your taking these steps with me. ■

Daniel Epstein is the program director at The Berman Center (www. bermancenteratl.com). For program or private practice inquires, email daniel@ bermancenteratl.com, or call 770-3367444. The Berman Center offers a path forward for those dealing with addiction and/or mental health issues. Based on the Jewish values of community, healing and wholeness, our spiritually holistic approach helps participants transition from surviving to thriving. For more on how to approach the above types of situations or answers to questions related to mental illness or addiction, call 770-336-7444, or email questions@bermancenteratl.com.

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It’s easy to get bamboozled into the dramas of our time — Trump tweets, #MeToo verdicts, bombings, shootings, nuclear threats, you name it.

This overstimulation can become overwhelming, distracting and often addicting.

The mind is a tricky instrument.

Whatever it focuses on is often what appears. From a holistic perspective, what we see and perceive is based on our conditioning, beliefs and feelings. The same rope can be seen as a shadow or as a snake.

That simple example was given by a great meditation master, Muktananda, who came to the West in the ’60s and started a meditation revolution.

He gave the rope example to describe the nature of the human mind. In the same way, different children from the same family turn out differently, based on their experience and perception.

It’s true that if you think about ice cream, you might notice a new ice cream store. Or have you ever found yourself thinking of someone for a day or week, then the person calls you? Is 42 that synchronicity, or is that energy?

Some would respond, “Weird. Soand-so called me, and I was just thinking of them.” Shows you the power of your thoughts.

While it’s nice to plug into what’s going on in the world and feel up to date, negative energy and drama can interfere with what you strive to achieve: peace, balance, guidance, intuition, creativity, wisdom and happiness.

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By Gedalia Genin

Your perception of the world may be colored by external events moving you far from the values you hold, the things you strive to accomplish, or the energy and strength you need to move forward, leaving you feeling unwhole.

I am not suggesting you detach, numb or turn your back on the ways of the world. My point is that negative energy can leave you feeling weak, hopeless, depleted, depressed and downright overloaded. And it is no different in the workplace.

Gedalia Genin (www.gedaliahealingarts.com) works in Atlanta within nationally known integrative medical office CentreSpring MD as a mind/body therapist empowering women to feel their best naturally. Learn more about simple ways to feel your best in her new book, “Enough Drugs! I Am a Woman and Can Heal Naturally — A Practical Guide to Feeling Your Best.”

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George and Linda Gruskin of Boca Raton, Fla., announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Fayne Gruskin, to Elias Saban, son of Claudia Beatriz Saban of Manhattan, N.Y., and the late Alberto Saban.

Rachel is the granddaughter of Beverly Gruskin of Lake Mary, Fla., and the late Allen Gruskin and the late Bella Singer of Boca Raton and Melvin Scher of Brooklyn, N.Y. Elias is the grandson of Marcos and Renee Prozer of Fort Lee, N.J., and Juanita Saban and the late Elias Saban of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Rachel graduated with a master of fine arts in poetry from the New School and a bachelor’s in writing from the University of Central Florida. She is an adjunct English professor, a writer and a TV host. Elias attended Quinnipiac University. He is vice president of Ametex, his family’s textile company.

A March 2019 wedding is planned at the Atlanta History Center. ■

OBITUARIES

Abraham Alhadeff 98, Atlanta

Abraham Alhadeff, 98, of Atlanta passed away peacefully Sunday, April 22, 2018, at his home.

He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Ruth Alhadeff.

Abe was one of six children of Solomon and Estrea Alhadeff. He was the blessed father of four sons: Barry (Shari), Irvin (Becky), Steve (Kathie) and David (Andrea).

He also had seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Abe was a veteran of the United States Navy, having served during World War II. He was a member of Congregation Or VeShalom. He retired from the Internal Revenue Service after a long and distinguished career. Abe loved golf, his Jewish tradition and his family.

Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals. com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Weinstein Hospice. A graveside service was held Tuesday, April 24, at Greenwood Cemetery with Rabbi Hayyim Kassorla officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Sonia Maziar Michael 91, Atlanta

Sonia Maziar Michael, age 91, passed away peacefully Friday, May 4, 2018.

She was born in the Bronx, N.Y. Sonia (Sonny) was preceded in death by her husbands, Edward Maziar and Will Michael, of blessed memory. She is survived by her daughters, Robyn Haber (Barry), Donna Maziar and Melody Maziar; her grandsons, Ira Haber and Michael (Melissa) Haber; and her great-granddaughter, Cessie.

Sign the online guestbook at dresslerjewishfunerals.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Zaban Tower, the William Breman Jewish Home or a charity of your choice.

A graveside service was held at Crest Lawn Memorial Park on Sunday, May 6. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Death Notices

Edith Bihary, 95, of Atlanta, member of The Temple and mother of Sheila Bihary and Joyce Bihary, on April 29.

Robert Colton, 74, of Norcross, husband of Linda Moffitt and father of Kevin Colton, on April 25.

Lenore Faber, member of The Temple and mother of Susanne Faber Muntzing, Judi Lee Frederick and Charles Faber.

Fredric Fields, 81, of Columbia, S.C., husband of Irene Fields and father of Temple Kol Emeth member Karin Fields and Alison Cassorla, on April 26.

Debbie Glazer, 63, of Atlanta on May 6.

Milton Jacobson, 82, of Atlanta on May 5.

Caryl Launer, 67, of Atlanta, sister of Phyllis Kozarsky, on April 14.

Linda Rosenthal, 84, of Phoenix, wife of Martin Rosenthal and mother of Rabbi Judith Beiner, David Rosenthal and Susan Campbell, on April 26.

Boris Ruvinskiy, 80, of Alpharetta on May 4.

Stephen Smith of Roswell on April 20.

Vyacheslav Veksler of Norcross on April 21.

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Most of all, Sandra missed the swimming pool in which she had maintained her sanity and figure. Both were fading fast.

Sandra’s children and grandchild, who adore their mother and grandmother, refused to complain about her new abode. They listened patiently as Sandra bemoaned her decision but refused to spend hard-earned money on more improvements. Really, Sandra loved the neighborhood. She had done her best, and that was that. Live with it.

Sandra’s not a “live with it” kind of person, and she’d had enough.

There were dozens of unpacked boxes in her basement because she didn’t have room for their contents.

One day she took a good look at those containers, went upstairs and called the Realtor who had found the house she now lived in. Sandra was ready to leave her overpriced neighborhood, overpriced supermarket and overpriced house. There were other good neighborhoods, somewhat farther from work but a lot closer than their big home near Josh’s university.

The time was right. The Realtor found a wonderful house in Sandra’s second-choice, less expensive neighborhood, newly on the market. It had enough bedrooms, a real kitchen and, best of all, a pool.

Sandra met the Realtor there, made a long, careful walkthrough, strolled up and down the streets, and spotted many mezuzot on doors. She Skyped her children and best friend for support and learned that the Realtor had several inquiries about homes where Sandra now lived, because of the location alone, and could sell Sandra’s place for more than she had paid.

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Because he was often in the lab on weekends and in the evening and Sandra’s classes met three times during the week, it made sense for them to live closer to Josh’s lab. The plan allowed Josh ready access to his experiments, and Sandra willingly drove an hour each way to her job.

The arrangement was satisfactory, but, alas, their marriage was not.

They decided to divorce and arranged to sell their large family home (with swimming pool, exercise room, storage rooms, patio, landscaping and many bedrooms).

Splitting the income from the sale, each could buy a smaller place (the kids no longer lived at home).

But why would Sandra choose another house near Josh’s university?

Thus, rationally oriented, she sought a place close to the university where she was a professor. There’d be no more long drives, and she’d have the ability to spend more time on campus helping students and working with other faculty.

Sandra engaged a Realtor, who searched high and low, but in vain, for an acceptable, affordable home in her desired neighborhood.

The big family home sold quickly, and Sandra had to find a place to live.

She hunted, the Realtor explored, but Sandra couldn’t even locate a decent apartment in which to live temporarily.

At the 11th hour, a single residence was found, this one not only smaller and in need of work, but also lacking the bells and whistles that made the other house so charming and comfortable. As if that weren’t enough to give her pause, the house, because of its prime location, was more expensive than she expected.

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