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The 2016-17 Atlanta Council BBG executive board consists of (front row, from left) Liana Slomka (mekasheret), Melissa Dunn (gizborit), Alyssa Bruck (sh’licha), Maddie Srochi (mazkirah), Jayme Dinnerstein (morah), Amanda Jackson (s’ganit) and Bari Steel (n’siah). The AZA executive board is (back row, from left) Jonah Weinbach (mekasher), Kenny Janis (gizbor), Zack Cohen (shaliach), Ben Engelman (mazkir), Jason Rothfarb (moreh), Jacob Lewis (s’gan) and Cole Sonshein (godol).
BBYO Installs Boards
Atlanta Council BBYO installed its 88th AZA and 68th BBG executive boards for the 2016-17 programming year April 20. The 14 teenagers were elected by their peers at an Atlanta Council convention in March. Their summer will include BBYO programs in Bulgaria and Israel, a six-week international BBYO leadership and Jewish identity development program in Pennsylvania, or staff work at Camp Barney Medintz or Camp Ramah Darom. Citywide BBYO programming will resume Aug. 7 at a kickoff program at the Marcus Jewish Community Center. For more information, contact Atlanta Council www.atlantajcc.org/bbyo.
education, and each brings a wealth of knowledge to the new roles. “We could not have envisioned a better outcome,” said Rabbi Steven Rau, the director of lifelong learning at The Temple. “We not only found one, but two of the greatest Jewish educational leaders and mensches.” Kornblum became interim director of the preschool after 30 years in secular and Jewish education in Jacksonville, Fla. Pincus’ 30-year career as an early childhood and elementary educator includes the directorship of a large Jewish day school in Miami. Kornblum and Pincus officially will begin their co-directorship during WELC’s summer camp program, but they will be available Friday, May 20,
from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to meet with WELC families and anyone else interested in the school’s programs.
16 Epstein Students Excel in Duke TIP
Sixteen Epstein School seventhgraders scored high enough on the ACT to receive State Level recognition and one also qualified for Grand Level recognition in the Duke University Talent Identification Program. Max Young received Grand Level recognition. The other top Epstein scorers are Roy Ben-Haim, Lauren Cohn, Rachel Cohn, Ryan Cohen, Ryan Diamond, Hannah Dobkin, Bradley Friedrich, Jonah Glenn, Nolan Goldklang, Isaac Jaye, Maddie Lampert, Rachel Mayer, Jacob Panitch, Hallie Schiff
The Epstein School seventh-graders recognized by the Duke TIP are (back row, from left) Nolan Goldklang, Jonah Glenn, Max Young, Isaac Jaye, Bradley Friedrich and Jacob Panitch, (middle row, from left) Hallie Schiff, Gray Schneider, Maddie Lampert, Ryan Diamond and Ryan Cohen, and (front row, from left) Roy Ben-Haim, Rachel Cohn, Lauren Cohn and Hannah Dobkin. Rachel Mayer (not pictured) also earned State Level recognition.
and Gray Schneider. Duke’s TIP is the largest middle school academic talent search in the nation.
Dunwoody Tech Grad Wins Fulbright
Temple Preschool Hires Two Heads
The Temple’s Weinberg Early Learning Center has hired Annetta Kornblum and Mindy Pincus as co-directors of the preschool. Combined, they have more than 60 years of experience in secular, public, private, Jewish and preschool
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Anne Lashinsky of Dunwoody, who just graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in business administration, received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to Germany from the State Department and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Lashinsky will serve as an English Anne Lashinsky teaching assistant in Rostock beginning in September. She is one of more than 1,900 U.S. citizens who will teach and provide expertise abroad for the 2016-17 academic year through the Fulbright program.
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