Atlanta Jewish Times, XCIV No. 21, May 24, 2019

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VOL. XCIV NO. 21 | SUMMER FUN & TRAVEL

Bernie Marcus’ 90th BIRTHDAY BASH RAISES MILLIONS

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CHLOE LEVITAS Contributors This Week ALLEN LIPIS BOB BAHR DAVE SCHECHTER FLORA ROSEFSKY JAN JABEN-EILON MARCIA CALLER JAFFE PATRICE WORTHY RABBI JOAB EICHENBERG-EILON RACHEL FAYNE RACHEL STEIN ROBYN SPIZMAN GERSON SUSANNE KATZ

Fun in the Sun Just Begun The warmth of summer is upon us, a good time to unwind from winter’s chill, pack up and explore. Whether the kids are off from school for a couple of months, you’ve got a week’s vacation or just a few long holiday weekends, we’ve got just the ticket for your getaway plans in our Travel & Summer Fun issue.

Take your pick of travels near and far. You don’t even have to stray a distance to find summer fun. The Georgia Aquarium is always a swimming place to visit for locals and visitors alike, but it recently became the focus of a new series on the Animal Planet. “The Aquarium” takes TV viewers behind the scenes of the aquatic wildlife displays.

Talk about summer fun, the birthday bash of the year will be for the 90th of Bernie Marcus, the benefactor behind the Western Hemisphere’s biggest aquarium. In honor of the occasion, friends and supporters of Marcus are pledging $90 million to four of his philanthropies, which include the aquarium and health care programs.

Preparations are also well underway for the 2019 JCC Maccabi Games this summer at the Marcus JCC, where more than 1,500 athletes from around the world will compete.

Away from Atlanta, we take you to Jewish New York, Israel, Australia and New Zealand.

Aside from summer travel, you’ll find reviews and previews of various communal events, including those involving women: National Council of Jewish Women's “Sheroes” honors and Little PINK Book’s Spring Empowerment Luncheon.

In this issue, we also explore Nazis and the arts. We preview the one-manshow “Wiesenthal” coming to Marietta next week based on the life of the famous Nazi hunter. How the media, radio and cinema responded to Nazi Europe was the focus of discussion last week at a program we covered at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown, sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

THIS WEEK Weighty subjects to balance our lighter suggestions for summer fun and travel. And next week we continue the airiness that goes along with warmer weather. Get ready for a very fluffy pet issue. It’s all bark and maybe just a little bite, enough to keep you chomping at the bit for more. ■

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Keynote speaker Maj. Gen. Michael Edelstein with honoree Garry Sobel and Brig. Gen. Yehuda Fox.

Seth Baron, executive director, FIDF Southeast Region, with Garry Sobel, chairman emeritus and gala honoree.

IDF Maj. Barak Ganot, grandson of an Auschwitz Holocaust survivor.

A Night of Heroes at FIDF Gala Friends of the Israel Defense Forces delivered a riveting program to a crowd of more than 550 supporters at its annual gala, “A Night of Heroes,” May 13 at the newly renovated Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia.

The evening honored Garry Sobel, chairman of FIDF Southeast Region and

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member of the national board of directors, and raised more than $865,000.

Among the speakers was keynote Maj. Gen. Michael Edelstein.

In the VIP reception before dinner, current IDF forces, including lone soldiers, and retired IDF military mingled with the crowd. FIDF Southeast Executive Director

Seth Baron thanked the audience for ful- from a kibbutz called Ashdot Ya’akov in filling their call to support the soldiers. U.S. Northern Israel, close to the border. … All Congressman Doug Collins, currently a I could think of was, ‘What would’ve haplieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve, pened to my family?’”

To honor Holocaust survivors, Maj. spoke of his commitment to Israel.

The evening underscored the personal Barak Ganot led ten soldiers in tribute to relationships Atlantans have built with the the two tables of Atlanta survivors in atsoldiers, and highlighted FIDF programs. tendance. Barak shared the story of his The dinner program began with a musi- grandmother’s experience in Auschwitz, cal performance by the IDF Ensemble. At- and his pride when he returned to the lantan Eran Mordel, former lone soldier death camp as an IDF soldier in uniform, and veteran of Operation Protective Edge marching with an Israeli flag past what in 2014, then introduced the many sol- had been his grandmother’s barracks. diers and dignitaries in attendance. “Israel Ganot noted, “People sometimes call us, IDF soldiers, heroes. We not only stands for our merely fulfill our missafety, but she also represion at our shift. I invite sents that same hope to the Holocaust survivors, the world over. And, she the real heroes here in is able to do so because the audience, to stand up. her soldiers give her We, as IDF soldiers, stand strength.” proud with the message Several soldiers of ‘never again.’” returned to Atlanta to The night culminated honor Sobel, including with the honoree and Jerusalem native, Ortal keynote speaker. Baron Halff. She recalled that thanked Sobel for his partshe spoke at the FIDF nership and friendship as gala five years ago as an they increased support for IDF soldier for combat the humanitarian needs intelligence. The Southof Israel’s soldiers. east Region of FIDF has Garry Sobel, chairman Baron announced adopted the combat intelemeritus and gala honoree. that in 2018, FIDF Southligence brigade stationed east Region raised a record $2.7 million, throughout Israel.

A video about a thwarted attack at and under Sobel’s guidance, the rethe Syrian border introduced Sgt. Sa’ar, gion has raised close to $15 million. “He a 20-year-old combat intelligence soldier. worked so hard; people mistook him for In 2018, Sa’ar identified seven ISIS ter- a paid professional. Under Garry’s leadrorists trying to cross into Israel from ership, the Southeast Region has been Syria and immediately notified troops on transformed,” he said.

Sobel, called to the stage by his the ground, saving thousands of lives. “If I had I missed those terrorists, the out- daughter Jessica, was greeted by a rouscome could have been catastrophic. I am ing ovation. Before presenting his award,

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Garry Sobel with daughter Jessica and Mariya Kol Yakov, IDF soldier and Sobel’s sponsored IMPACT! scholarship recipient.

Baron surprised Sobel by introducing his IMPACT! scholar, whom FIDF had flown in from Israel. In a touching moment, Mariya Kol Yakov presented Sobel with her two college diplomas, which she explained would not have been possible without the FIDF IMPACT! scholarship he had sponsored.

In his moving acceptance, Sobel shared his experience with soldiers like Sgt. Asaf, an IDF lone soldier from Birmingham, Ala., who serves as “first man,” the one tasked with being the first into a room or out of a vehicle during combat.

Sobel hugged Asaf goodbye the night he flew back to Israel to enter combat. He also described sitting with parents of Atlanta lone soldiers during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014.

Sobel explained the scope of FIDF support. “During 2018, FIDF touched 105,000 soldiers’ lives.” He detailed some flagship programs, including 4,580 IMPACT! scholarships, and support for 3,500 lone soldiers – 40 of whom are from Atlanta. Sobel continued, “As chairman, I had two primary goals: first, to take the Southeast Region to new heights, and

second, to find my successor.”

“Mission accomplished!” he proclaimed, as he announced the transition of leadership to FIDF’s new Regional Chair Karen Shulman, and incoming President Itai Tsur.

Prior to introducing Edelstein, Shulman declared, “We are not here to support the IDF, we are here BECAUSE of the IDF.” Edelstein, who is stationed in Washington, D.C., as Israel’s attaché to the Pentagon, presented a sober picture of the past year’s challenges on the Lebanese border, Hezbollah, newly emboldened direct confrontations with Iran, and the 130,000 rockets currently poised near Israel’s border. He noted the skill and readiness of Israel’s military, describing a 4 a.m. incoming missile strike that Israel repelled to the enemy’s amazement. “The U.S. is our strongest ally, with clear cooperation at the Pentagon, but we know in Israel that we have to ultimately stand for ourselves.”

“The bottom line,” he noted, “is the technology and intelligence that the young men and women of the IDF have is our true source of strength.” ■

IDF Sgt. Sa’ar of the Combat Intelligence Corps, FIDF Southeast Region’s adopted brigade.

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The play was written by Tom Dugan, who also stars in the oneman show.

Dugan reveals a little-known fact: Wiesenthal was a stand up-comedian before the war and was known for his sense of humor.

Tom Dugan talks to friend and attorney of Simon Wiesenthal, Marty Rosen, after a performance in Boca Raton, Fla.

Wiesenthal Brings Passion Project to Marietta

By Rachel Fayne Los Angeles-based actor and writer Tom Dugan is the brainchild behind “Wiesenthal,” the successful one-man show based on the famous Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. After the end of World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to bringing more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice, even aiding in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief orchestrators of the Holocaust. So inspired by Wiesenthal’s legacy and in part out of a desire to educate the upcoming generations, Tom Dugan wrote and now stars in “Wiesenthal,” appearing at the Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre in Marietta May 29 to June 2.

During Dugan’s decade-long run

with the show, he’s met one of Wiesenthal’s closest friends and confidantes and even came face-to-face with Eichmann’s great-granddaughter. We sat down with him to talk more about the show and a few of those more unusual encounters.

AJT: What’s your background and how did the idea to do a play about Simon Wiesenthal surface?

Dugan: Well I’ve been an actor for 35 years in Hollywood. I’m actually Irish Catholic. I’ve been married for 27 years and my wife is Jewish. My two boys are Jewish, and tolerance plays a big part in our house.

My dad was a decorated World War II veteran and he received the purple heart and the bronze battle star. He

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helped to liberate a concentration camp called Langenstein in Germany when he was 19. His service impressed me, and I wanted to honor it. I had so many questions, common questions for my generation and for my kid’s generation. How in the world could this have happened?

How could one small group dominate and almost completely destroy a much larger group like this? I began studying Wiesenthal’s life. I wanted to help educate the coming generations on how this could have happened. … I was fascinated with Wiesenthal’s ability to break it down. It’s the absolute essential lesson that must be learned. We all have inside of us what he called a human savage.

For that to be awakened and nourished, it starts out with a hunger. We’re only animals, and we’re only capable of what every animal is capable of. Desperation is what will wake up that part of each of us.

AJT: It’s a one-man show and you play Wiesenthal. How’s that experience been for you?

Dugan: When I first began the show, I was a 45-year-old Irish Catholic actor playing a 95-year-old Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor. It was quite a stretch.

I’m also a pretty slim guy, and he was about 70 pounds heavier. It still takes about an hour to finish in makeup. I used to shave the top of my head, but then it started to thin, so now Wiesenthal has hair in the play. I also wear a fat suit.

AJT: Are there any elements of Wiesenthal’s life that stand out in your mind?

Dugan: There are so many good scenes; it’s like choosing a favorite child.

But one thing I want to say is that I don’t shortchange the horrors of the Holocaust. However, I don’t go so far into detail that I shock people into no longer listening. The most surprising thing is that before the war, Wiesenthal was a standup comedian. A lot of people don’t know that. He was a very funny guy. The audience is often surprised that they laugh in this play just as much as they cry.

AJT: Have you had any memorable audience reactions or encounters?

Dugan: So many. There are two instances, in particular, that are almost unbelievable. I was doing the show in Florida, and there’s a story in the play about how Wiesenthal caught Franz Stangl, a commander of two of the more horrific concentration camps. Wiesenthal paid an informant in the form of a $7,000 check to get his location. I was doing a question-and-answer session after the play, and a man raised his hand. He said he liked the story about the check. It was an odd part of the play to pinpoint, and I asked him why. “I’m the guy who wrote the check,” he said. It was Marty Rosen, Wiesenthal’s best friend and attorney.

Apparently, Marty had seen the show many times. When he’d heard there was a play about Wiesenthal, he was immediately skeptical about how anyone could possibly get it right. He’d assumed it would probably be terrible and he’d have to file a lawsuit to shut it down. He actually became a champion of the show though.

And then I’ll never forget it. It was at another talk after the show. A young girl sat right in the front, and I noticed she was very emotional. She said she had no idea the Holocaust was ever this bad because she’d always been taught that it was an exaggeration. The audience was so angry at her comments; I thought they were ready to throw her out. She really didn’t seem to know though. It wasn’t anti-Semitism – just complete ignorance.

Then she told me her name. It was Sammy Eichmann. Adolf Eichmann was her great-grandfather. Her family had obviously always downplayed the horrors of the Holocaust, and she just didn’t know.

AJT: So what would you say to people on the fence about seeing the show?

Dugan: When I started out with the show, I’d meet husband and wife survivors. A couple years later, it was just the female survivors. Now if I ever meet survivors, it’s people who were very young children in the camps. Most have passed away. People need to know what happened to them. ■ Tickets to “Wiesenthal” start at $45.

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Emory Panel Calls Flyers ‘Protected Political Speech’

By Dave Schechter A committee of the Emory University Senate has concluded that aside from the improper posting of mock eviction notices by pro-Palestinian students, “the rest of the flyer is fully protected political speech under the Open Expression Policy.”

The chair of the Standing Committee for Open Expression, Emory Law professor Alexander “Sasha” Volokh, said that contrary to some published accounts, its April 15 report did not judge whether the content of the notices was anti-Semitic.

“Anyone saying that this committee determined that the flyers were not anti-Semitic, they are saying this with no basis, in our opinion,” Volokh told the Atlanta Jewish Times. “We concluded that there was no aspect of the content of the flyers that violated any section of the policy.”

The committee did acknowledge that, “It is true that some definitions of anti-Semitism encompass more than explicit expression of animus toward Jews.”

The Open Expression Policy makes no specific reference to anti-Semitism.

As to whether there is reason to impose “harsh penalties” sought by some in the Jewish community against the Emory Students for Justice in Palestine, whose members posted the flyers, the committee said, “We think there is not.”

The 11-member committee, whose role is advisory, is comprised of university students, faculty and staff. The committee “exists to promote and protect the rights to open expression, dissent and protest among Emory Community members.”

The flyers were posted April 2 on dormitory doors and at an off-campus residence as part of Israel Apartheid Week, which coincided with Emory Israel Week. The flyers warned that the premises were scheduled for demolition in three days and referred to the forced evictions of Palestinians as part of a campaign of “Judaization” in territories controlled by Israel since the June 1967 war.

A disclaimer at the bottom advised that the notices were not real and were “intended to draw attention to the reality that Palestinians confront on a regular basis.”

The committee expressed concern that “some residents (for instance, students with limited English skills) might have been legitimately confused about whether the flyer was an actual eviction notice.”

In addition, the committee cited reporting from various sources, including

Alexander “Sasha” Volokh is assistant professor of law at Emory University.

Nancy Seideman is Emory University’s vice president of academic communications.

the AJT, that Jewish students alone were not targeted. According to Hillel International, 17 percent of Emory’s undergraduate students and 10 percent of its graduate students are Jewish.

“We do not know whether the motives of those who wrote or distributed the flyers were anti-Semitic; clearly, different readers’ perceptions differ on this point. In any event, it is the objective content of the flyers that matters, not the speakers’ or distributors’ subjective motives,” the committee said.

That the notices bore the stamp of the Emory Residence Life office “should not be interpreted as endorsement of the particular message, but it is possible that such a stamp might have inadvertently contributed to some residents’ confusion,” the committee said. The flyers were ordered removed because university policy bars placing them on dormitory doors without the residents’ permission.

“But it is exceedingly unlikely that the members of ESJP who posted the flyers intended to make anyone believe that their apartments would actually be destroyed: not only is there the disclaimer at the bottom, but the effectiveness of their political message depends on people realizing that the message is really about Palestine,” the committee said.

In a reply to the committee, the Southeast regional office of the AntiDefamation League said, “We disagree on this point. In the context of criminal and tort law, motive, intent, knowledge or foreseeability are in most cases relevant to the severity of punishment or culpability.”

“So for example, according to the opinion’s rationale posting flyers on residence doors based on a motive to solicit student attendance at a free, campus performance of “Dear Evan Hansen” should receive the same punishment as posting flyers with the motive or intent to do some form of harm, or done with the knowledge or foreseeability that such a

result would occur,” the ADL said.

As a private institution, Emory University is not bound by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but uses “First Amendment-like” standards as the basis of its Open Expression Policy, said Volokh, who teaches constitutional law.

Both the Hillel chapter on Emory’s campus and a coalition of Jewish communal organizations in Atlanta had urged punishment for the ESJP. While not recommending sanctions,

the committee said that any punishment should relate to violation of the rules on posting flyers, not their content.

“If we condoned punishing ESJP because of the content of the flyers, the next, inevitable step would be calls to punish some pro-Israel organization because of its speech. … The content-neutrality that allows ESJP to sharply criticize Israeli government policy is the same contentneutrality that allows Emory’s pro-Israel organizations to sharply criticize the Palestinian Authority and Hamas,” the committee said.

“The recent events on our campus, as difficult as they have been, have given rise to important new dialogue and to concrete planning for next steps on our part, including community education, conversations, and the involvement of experts from within and outside Emory,” said Nancy Seideman, vice president of academic communications.

Those conversations began before the academic year ended. On April 24, students representing pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian viewpoints discussed the mockeviction notices and wider issues before an audience of about 120 students. ■

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Co-chairs Nancy Baron and Lori Lewis, also incoming president, announce that a new butterfly garden at The William Breman Jewish Home would be dedicated to Stephen Berman, center.

Fran Scher and Ann Kay, board chairs’ appointees, handed out wonderful raffle prizes.

Volunteer of the Year Joan Massre strives to set an example for the next generation.

Ardent supporters Sylvia Friedman and Carol Breman Nemo enjoy the annual program and camaraderie.

Nancy Banks and Sherry Habif were recognized as The Going the Extra Mile Reward recipients for the room decor and special event planning.

Auxiliary Brings New Awards and Prizes

By Marcia Caller Jaffe May 13 was a splendid, sunny day for 185 women who gathered at The Inter-Continental Buckhead Atlanta to celebrate the Auxiliary of the William Breman Jewish Home.

Event co-chair Sherry Habif kicked off the event by announcing that “in keeping with times,” the personalized table favors were disposable straws.

Habif, who is always busy making things happen behind the scenes, worked with Nancy Banks, both of whom received The Going Extra Mile Reward, to assure that the wide-open room was decorated

with tie-dyed linens and an innovative menu beginning with minted cantaloupe shooters and edamame hummus.

The two other luncheon co-chairs, Ann Kay and Fran Scher, delighted the audience with a megawatt list of door and raffle prizes acquired by Sandy Abrams: a bounty of jewelry, dining certificates, car washes, resume writing services, department store gifts, Boxwoods, Veronica’s Attic gift certificates and tons of other dining certificates were donated by popular places such as Marlow’s Tavern.

“This is a great time for us to celebrate in this lively room with huge balloons, tangerine and emerald colors,” Kay

said. “We love dealing with the Breman residents to make their lives better. It fills my heart with joy to give them pleasure.”

Auxiliary co-chairs Nancy Baron and Lori Lewis, also incoming president, thrilled the audience with their announcement that the years of dedication

by Stephen Berman will be recognized with a new butterfly garden and birding area at the Howell Mill campus for the enjoyment of residents and visitors. Berman, who made his traditional Hamotzi blessing over bread, spoke of the 25-year history of this annual luncheon.

Lewis said, “We are doing such good work because our volunteers and execu-

tive board know exactly what to do. We work so well as a team. We all love working with the residents for Purim, Bingo, Valentine’s party and various sing-alongs and special events.”

Stephanie Wyatt, the new chief development officer for Jewish Home Life Communities, surprised the crowd by clicking together her glittery red “Wizard of Oz” pumps reciting, “Anything is possible!”

Meanwhile, the Volunteer of the Year was awarded to Joan Massre, who said her goal was to set an example for future generations to volunteer, as volunteering was her own way of giving back to the community while having fun doing it. ■

Shepherd Center salutes Bernie Marcus for all that he continues to do for our nation’s heroes and for the City of Atlanta. On behalf of our SHARE Military Initiative clients, and all of Shepherd Center’s patients and their families,

Happy Birthday Bernie!

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Cynthia Good poses with event planner Martha Jo Katz.

The pink décor was coordinated by Martha Jo Katz. Here 220 applaud Good for her efforts in empowering women.

Legal panelist Linda Klein poses with moderator Nadia Bilchik, a CNN personality and author.

Good Hits Home Run for Women at PINK

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Now in its 15th year, PINK or Little PINK Book, is one of America’s top digital platforms for professional women based in Atlanta. Its Spring Empowerment Luncheon was held May 10 in keeping with its biannual world-class events that develop, inspire and celebrate the nation’s 75 million working women.

CEO Cynthia Good, recognizable from her stint as a local news anchor, has

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been a multi-year winner of national design and editorial awards, including the gold Stevie Award for best website and Female Entrepreneur of the Year. PINK strives to shift workplace culture on behalf of women and has a track record of advancing women at work.

At SunTrust Park’s third base event space, Good compiled a powerhouse and varied panel composed of Juliette Pryor, senior vice president and general counsel for Cox Enterprises; Beatriz Ro-

driguez, chief diversity officer of Home Depot; Linda Klein, senior managing shareholder of Baker Donelson; and sole male, Rohit Verma, global COO of Crawford & Company.

Good began with two statistics.

“With only 38 percent of companies setting targets for gender representation and 20 percent of employees saying their ‘company’s commitment to gender diversity feels like lip service,’ from a recent McKinsey report, the perspective of these leaders matters. This sort of dialogue is essential.”

Upbeat and glamorous, star moderator Nadia Bilchik, editorial producer at CNN and subject of a recent AJT feature showcasing her South African art collection, kept the conversation laser-focused and peppered with practical advice on Good’s “Playbook for Success” agenda.

The panel shared tools, tactics and well-thought-through strategies they used to achieve objectives along with personal career success secrets.

Klein, a past president of the American Bar Association and the first female president of the State Bar of Georgia, described her “indefatigable grit to stay focused and get things done.”

Coming from New York to Atlanta where she knew no one, she got involved in bar and community activities to make friends. As a candidate for bar office, she set out to canvass the state in her Oldsmobile as an underdog.

“Worse than being a woman, I was a Yankee,” she joked. Klein said she feels that the legal profession lacks much in the way of diversity. “It used to be that dentists were the ‘white-ist’ profession.

Now they are more diverse, and the legal profession takes a top spot.”

Pryor was among the boldest, saying, “I took risks. I stuck with a bankrupt company until the end. I moved my family three times for my career advancement.” In contrast, Verma lamented that,

so as not to uproot his family, they remain in Chicago, where he flies on weekends. “Everyone has to calculate what’s best for them.”

Pryor said she was “demoted” from a position, which could have caused a public shaming, and at that moment, she had to choose her reaction: Anger? Upset? Instead she took the high road and decided “If this is what you need me to do, I will do it.” Perhaps that was a test because a short time later she was offered the very top job.

Rodriguez stated that she was so weary of being told what to do by Ph.D.s, she proceeded to get her own Ph.D. Bilchik is an author and international TV personality who has interviewed high-profile figures from Nelson Mandela to Meryl Streep. She interspersed her own relatable tips: “There are shades of gray. No one views you in the microscopic lens that you view yourself, as they are too busy making their own movie.”

She also offered: “Don’t fake it until you make it; fake it until you believe it.”

To get the crowd motivated, she said, “The number one question I am asked is not ‘How sexy is George Clooney?’ … but ‘How do you deal with speaking nerves?’”

Thus, she had the group stand and perform her breathing and “UGGGH” reciting exercise.

Event planner Marta Jo Katz decorated the tables for 220 with hot pink linens, strawberry sprinkled cupcakes, jammed pack swag bags, and pink-accented floral arrangements. The triplicate salad bar kept everyone moving with farm fresh trimmings from hearts of palm to heirloom cherry tomatoes, succulent artichokes, and goat cheese.

PINK’s nonprofit drawing contributed all raffle proceeds to Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities. PINK has raised more than $100,000 for nonprofits that benefit women and/or girls. The hottest raffle prize was Botox injections! ■

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Elana Bekerman Frank will be honored for creating the Jewish Fertility Foundation.

Lois Frank will moderate the Sheroes event May 30.

Dr. Mimi Zieman is an advocate for women’s reproductive health rights.

Joanie Shubin and Valerie Habif co-founded the Jewish Democratic Women’s Salon.

Elizabeth Finn Johnson was senior counsel at The Coca-Cola Co.

NCJW to Celebrate Six ‘Sheroes’

By Jan Jaben-Eilon Sherry Z. Frank gives credit where credit is due. The repeat president of the Atlanta section of the National Council of Jewish Women explains how she came up with the title for the group’s first annual fundraising luncheon, “Women Who Dare: Celebrating our Sheroes,” scheduled for May 30.

The first part of that title headlined a panel at a recent NCJW national meeting in Washington, D.C. “When we began to talk about a fundraiser, the national idea

of ‘women who dared’ came up,” Frank recalled.

Years ago, Frank was a member of a black-Jewish women’s group that included six Jewish women and six black women. “I love words that lift up women,” she said. Johnnetta Cole, the president of Spelman College from 1987 to 1997 “used to talk about sheroes.”

Coming up with the catchy title for the fundraiser was much easier than choosing which “sheroes” to honor. “I sent out emails to ask people to nominate women and we received 29 names,”

Frank explained. “We created criteria such as determining that it didn’t matter whether the women leaders were lay or professional, but they needed to be women who reflect our values.”

The plan had been to choose five honorees. Instead, NCJW is honoring six women because it couldn’t separate Valerie Habif and Joanie Shubin. The two are co-founders of the Jewish Democratic Women’s Salon. From a small group in 2012, JDWS has grown to more than 1,100 members. Its mission is to educate, empower and involve progressive women on social justice issues, including reproductive rights, voting rights, gun safety, hate crimes, and refugee and immigration policy.

Separately, Shubin held several leadership positions in the Jewish community, including as an NCJW activist. Habif is a retired clinical psychologist, and a lifelong member of ORT, Hadassah, Brandeis and NCJW. Both have served as leaders in the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

A third honoree is Elana Bekerman Frank, who created the Jewish Fertility Foundation and serves as its executive director. After facing her own difficulties with fertility, she founded JFF to provide financial assistance, educational awareness and emotional support to Atlanta’s Jewish families who face medical fertility challenges.

Elizabeth Finn Johnson, now retired from The Coca-Cola Co. as senior counsel, employee relations, is a past president and has served as counsel of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation since 2013.

She serves on several nonprofit boards and has received several awards for her pro bono community service work.

Dr. Mimi Zieman has advocated for women’s reproductive health rights in Georgia since she became director of family planning at Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital. Most recently, she fought the new “heartbeat” anti-abortion legislation in Georgia.

Frank hopes the group’s first fundraiser will attract 200 people and add some $10,000 to $20,000 to the NCJW’s coffer. And she’s already planning next year’s fundraiser which will be the 125th anniversary of NCJW. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for us to tell NCJW’s story,” she said. “Our focus is innovation and honoring women who have not been recognized.”

Longtime Jewish community activist Lois Frank will moderate the program that will be held at noon May 30 at The Temple on Peachtree Street, with registration starting at 11:30 a.m. Reservations, due May 23, can be made by calling 404843-9600, or by emailing christineh@ ncjwatlanta.org. ■

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Little Help From American Jews During the Holocaust

By Bob Bahr American public opinion before World War II was deeply divided about what to do about Nazi Germany, and even less interested in the fate of German Jews under the Nazi regime.

Those are two of the conclusions that emerge from recent examinations of the period, which were highlighted last week at a program in Atlanta, “What Were We Watching? American’s Responses through Cinema, Radio and Media.” It was presented at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The program featured Daniel Greene, a distinguished historian and curator of a major new exhibit at the Holocaust museum in Washington, “Americans and The Holocaust,” which opened last year. The exhibit details how many of the issues that America wrestled with in the Depression years of the 1930s shaped the response to the rise of Nazis. Issues such as how to cope with isolationism, racism and extremism on the left and right made it difficult for Americans to come to terms with anti-Semitism in

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German film market led America, much less what was many of the important Jewhappening in Europe. ish producers and studio Greene spoke about Amerheads to avoid any direct ica’s response to Kristallnacht, criticism or even the use of the German attack on Jews in the term, Nazi, in films of November of 1938. While Roothe period. sevelt condemned the attack Americans could hear and recalled America’s ambassuch famous American adsador to Germany, he kept a Eddie Cantor, the mirers of Adolf Hitler as firm lid on Jewish immigration popular Jewish-American Charles Lindbergh and Hento America, Greene said. entertainer, lost his ry Ford blame the Jews for “There was no political radio program’s sponsor the world ills, but opposing will to liberalize the immigrawhen he spoke out voices were often muted. tion system.” about the Nazis in 1939.

Jewish American comeIn a 1939 poll, two-thirds of Americans were even against taking in dian and entertainer Eddie Cantor was any refugee children threatened with an- an exception. In last week’s program in Atlanta, David Weinstein discussed his nihilation.

“It was Southern Democrats led by book “The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Sen. Robert Reynolds of North Carolina, Life in Performance and Politics.”

Cantor was an early and outspoken who argued that American children had their own problems and we needed to voice against the Nazi persecution of the Jews and was a frequent participant in take care of American children.”

Nor was there much interest in criti- philanthropic efforts to aid Jews in Amercizing the racial policies of Germany. The ica and in Europe.

“Of all the major radio stars of the major film studios in Hollywood, with the exception of Warner Brothers, avoid- 1930s, he was the most outspoken both ed any direct criticism of Nazi Germany on and off the air, speaking about antithrough the 1930s. Economic concerns Semitism, opposing Nazism at a time about the possible loss of the lucrative when it was very difficult to do that,”

Weinstein said. “Really, in a number of areas, but especially for celebrities.”

Because of his fervid opposition to the Nazis, the sponsor of Cantor’s successful network radio program, Camel cigarettes, dropped him in 1939, which was a serious personal blow.

The event last week is part of a newly energized program by the Holocaust museum in Washington to cultivate new audiences and donors in the Southeast. The same presentation was seen in Miami in November.

A full-time office has been set up in Atlanta to bring programs like the one last week to audiences here. Next month they are sponsoring a program at the Atlanta History Center and have hired a professional public relations firm to spread the word.

The event last week at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights was cosponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the Georgia Commission On the Holocaust and Eternal Life-Hemshech. ■ Bob Bahr is teaching a six-week course at Temple Sinai and Congregation Or Hadash entitled “Anything For A Laugh – American Comedy and The American Jewish Soul” beginning June 4.

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Jill Biden on ‘Where the Light Enters’

By Leah R. Harrison “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi In a room buzzing with anticipation, former second lady Jill Biden appeared before a crowd of 600 at A Page From the Book Festival event at the Marcus JCC May 15. The crowd was equal parts interested in hearing about her journey and in supporting, by proxy, her husband’s bid for the White House as frontrunner in the largest field of Democratic presidential primary candidates in our nation’s history. Ticketholders were treated to a window to her personality as well as a better understanding of her life with the Biden family and “their” decision to run.

The evening was moderated by Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, dean and sixth president of Morehouse School of Medicine, who delighted all with her insightful thoughts and purposeful questions.

In a bright yellow dress, Dr. Biden explained how she met Joe Biden on a blind date arranged by his brother, saying she was then a 23-year-old college senior accustomed to guys in cutoffs and

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice discusses “Where the Light Enters” with Jill Biden.

Dr. Jill Biden cheerfully poses for photos at the MJCCA event.

bell bottoms, and he was a senator who arrived for their first date in a suit. “I had no idea what a senator did,” she said, but the couple saw each other every night after that.

Joe’s decision to propose was cemented one day when his sons, Beau and Hunter, interrupted his morning shave, saying, “Daddy, we think we should marry Jill.” Very cautious in the aftermath of her early divorce and his loss of his wife and infant daughter in a tragic accident in 1972, Jill finally agreed to marry him on his insistent fifth ask.

She spoke of “marrying Joe and the boys,” and of the “stop and go” in their lives, times when she decided to take a hiatus from her career to be home “when the family needed us.” That included the adjustment period when they first married in 1977, and when she gave birth to their daughter, Ashley, in 1981. She went back to work as an English professor at a Northern Virginia community college one week after the inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in January of 2009.

Upon her return to campus, she

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warned her new secret service detail to dress down, “you know, with backpacks that really didn’t have books in them.”

She spoke of her love of being an educator and of her hopes to decrease or even eliminate tuition at community colleges.

Of “this next journey,” she said, to big applause, “if things happen as I hope they happen, education is going to be a top priority.”

Although not a political event, Biden provided just enough detail about the “political adventure I never expected,” even after her husband, Senator Biden, had assured her, “Jill, your life will never change.” “Well, I don’t want to spoil the book for you,” she said, “but he was wrong.”

Amid the challenges of weaving together their blended family, enduring a very public life and persevering through the searing loss of Beau to brain cancer in 2015, the common denominator in their now 42-year marriage is love, she said.

“We lean on one another. That’s how we heal.” Speaking of the friends and family that get you through, she said, “We are not alone. During the darkest times, that’s where the light enters.” ■

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Donald and Joan Brown, both Tasting originators, surround son Mark, libations chair who arranged for the wine and spirit distributor contributions.

New JF&CS CEO Terri Bonoff, second from left, with her husband Matthew Knopf, far left, pose with Amy Fingerhut, event restaurant chair, her husband Kevin Blate and Robin Feldman, JF&CS vice president of resource development.

Delicious Records Set at ‘The Tasting’

By Marcia Caller Jaffe The Tasting for the Zimmerman Horowitz Independent Living Program May 17 attracted more than 700 and raised over $200,000. The nonsectarian program of Jewish Family & Career Services serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as their families and caregivers, so they can work, live and thrive in their communities.

This is the 19th year of the event, having returned to where it all started at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead where Joan and Donald Brown began with a low-key wine tasting for 130 folks.

“We hope to allow others the opportunity to be self-sufficient and experience a better quality of life,” said JF&CS board president Michael Levy, an accountant at Aprio.

Hilly Blondheim of High Roller Sushi sponsored the pre-event hour as well

Local Three’s cucumber gazpacho with cured salmon was a crowd pleaser.

Sushi chef Liam Sang, High Roller Sushi owners Les Retter and Hilly Blondheim, serve innovative hightorched sugarencrusted salmon nigiri alongside cowboy caviar corn and black bean sushi roles.

as a colorful sushi display in the ballroom.

The venue was spacious enough to fit the crowd with minimal line-waiting.

The food this year was especially innovative: 23 vendors served fabulous and creative dishes from wild mushroom gnocchi with truffle oil (Davio’s) to fresh spring pea salad with watermelon radish (Lure). Cibo e Beve made a clever state-

ment with matzoh ball soup. First year restaurateur Peter Kaiser, with son Christian of Kaiser’s Chophouse, served up a vivid purple yellowfin tuna with avocado and leche de tigre on tortilla chips. He was impressed with the program, learning about it from his customers in the Horowitz family.

Stuart Fierman, serving an English pea salad from the Fifth Group’s Lure,

Aria’s Gerry Klaskala, a loyal event chef contributor served gravlox on pumpernickel with scallions, cucumbers and dill mustard sauce.

Independent Living Program participants created artwork for auction as part of The Artist Collective. Shown here is Todd Besmertnik with his “Shalom,” a fluid acrylic polymer on deep profile canvas.

Honorary event chairs Pearlann and Michelle Horowitz thanked and challenged the crowd to bid on auction items to support the Zimmerman Horowitz Independent Living Program.

had a similar connection. “Gerry Horowitz (whose daughter Michelle is a participant in the program) introduced me to this great organization. I wouldn’t miss it for anything.”

More importantly, the warm crowd conveyed well-wishes for those participants in the independent living program who mingled dressed in their snazziest outfits.

Rachael Rosenberg, mother of independent living resident Marla Rosenberg, said, “We trust this program where Marla has thrived over the past 16 years.

I know they will always take care of her and look out for her well-being.”

No one left hungry. The desserts were all fluffy and gooey in the exiting lobby.

Event coordinator Caryn Kroll said, “This year was a tremendous success: more sponsors, more vendors, more funds raised. We are right on track!” ■

The east side of The Stave Room was a popular nonalcoholic bar run by HAMSA (Helping Atlantans Manage Substance Abuse).

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News From Our Jewish Home few months and came up with a solution that’s been highly appreciated by construction designers and architects.”

TreeTube provides plants a path for roots to grow without breaking through sidewalks and roadways.

TreeTube Lets Roots Grow Without Harming Sidewalks

Trees and sidewalks don’t tend to make good friends, but Israeli startup Frizweed is aiming to change that. The Ramat Gan company recently introduced its newest product, TreeTube, which lets trees grow large, healthy roots without breaking the pavement.

A lightweight steel and plastic tube system, TreeTube provides a modular, safe tunnel through which roots can grow. The tube is also packed with soil substrates and aeration and watering systems that keep trees growing strong.

The idea was born after meetings with landscapers and architects who were looking for ways to prevent trees and sidewalks from competing for space.

“We decided to give it a shot. We did market research and brought in a top landscape architect who deals with trees in Israel and the Netherlands, and a leading agronomist focusing on tree wellness,” says Jonathan Antebi, cofounder of Frizweed. “We researched a

Today in Israeli History May 24, 1948: Inexperienced Israeli soldiers, including many newly arrived Holocaust survivors, launch an attack on the Jordanian-held hilltop fortress at Latrun, 10 miles west of Jerusalem, in an effort to relieve the siege of Jerusalem.

Ordered by David Ben-Gurion against the advice of military leaders, the attack uses outdated tactics without air support and fails. About 75 Israeli soldiers are killed.

Three subsequent attacks also fail, and Israel does not capture Latrun until the Six-Day War in June 1967.

May 25, 2010: Jazz artist John Zorn hosts opening night of New York’s first Israeli Jazz Festival at The Stone, his venue.

The five-day festival celebrates the many Israelis who have risen to the top of the global jazz scene, including bass and oud player Omer Avital and clarinet and saxophone player Anat Cohen. According to Jazz Times, “When it comes to jazz, Israel is the source of an almost miraculous out18 | MAY 24, 2019 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

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Oltiboev, in white, competes against Iran’s Javad Mahjoub during their men’s judo bronze medal match at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, last August.

Iran Will No Longer Boycott Israeli Judo

In one of the bigger headlines surrounding team Israel at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an Iranian judoka forfeited his match rather than face an Israeli competitor. The event was just one in a long history of Iranian forfeits to Israelis at national competitions.

In February, Iranian Saeid Mollaei threw a match in the “Paris Grand Slam,” to avoid facing Israeli Sagi Muki next, ending any shot he had at capturing gold.

While Mollaei did win bronze, he feigned an injury to avoid sharing the award stage with an Israeli athlete.

On May 12, however, Iranian judo officials announced in a letter to the International Judo Federation that it would end the practice, which has been widely

pouring of talent, a tidal surge that seemed to break over the New York scene.”

May 26, 1924: Congress passes the 1924 Immigration Act, which restricts immigration from any country to 2% of that country’s U.S. residents in the 1890 census. As a result, the law greatly limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, the areas from which millions of Jews had emigrated from 1880 to 1920. Cutting off the United States as a destination for Jews spurs increased immigration to Palestine, where 82,000 Jews arrive from 1924 to 1929, the period known as the Fourth Aliyah.

May 27, 1911: Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem’s mayor from 1965 to 1993, is born in a Budapest suburb. His parents name him Tivadar after Theodor Herzl, the father of the Zionist movement. After growing up in Vienna, he moves to Palestine with his family in 1934 to escape Nazism. He is sent to Britain in 1938 and gains 3,000 visas for Jews in concentration camps. He

criticized in the world of sports.

The letter said that Iran’s Olympic Committee and Judo Federation had jointly agreed to, “fully respect the Olympic Charter and its non-discrimination principle,” according to The Times of Israel.

While the letter didn’t explicitly mention Israel or its athletes, it is a promising sign for the future of athletic competition between the two countries.

Smart Glasses Provide Cyclists Instant Data

Multitasking while cycling can be very dangerous. Luckily, Israeli company Everysight has changed the game when it comes to safety. It develops smart glasses that offer easily accessible, yet non-intrusive information for cyclists when they bike.

These special glasses are called Raptor and present similar features to those available on an Apple Watch, but instead of looking down at your wrist, the data is in the visor of the glasses. The glasses provide information such as heart rate, navigation, speed and distance.

The lightweight glasses feature rugged resistance against water and dust, allowing the average cyclist to bike in any conditions.

With built in Bluetooth and speakers, Raptor enables the rider to listen to music or pick up calls en route. Cyclists can use voice commands to control brightness and volume, and to alter their view.

Allowing the rider to take pictures

helps smuggle Holocaust survivors into Palestine from 1940 to 1947. Mentored by David Ben-Gurion, Kollek works in the Prime Minister’s Office for 13 years before running for mayor at Ben-Gurion’s behest.

May 28, 1964: A 400-delegate Palestinian National Council convened by King Hussein of Jordan in Jerusalem’s Old City establishes the Palestine Liberation Organization. Ahmad Shuqayri, a former lawyer from Acre and a one-time Syrian representative to the United Nations, is elected the chairman. He holds the position until being forced to resign in December 1967. The PLO’s National Covenant calls it the “mobilizing leadership of the forces of the Palestine Arab people to wage the battle of liberation.”

May 29, 1979: During an address to the Knesset, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan speaks about the events of the past two years that culminated in the peace treaty Israel and Egypt signed March 26, 1979. Dayan emphasizes Israel’s commit-

in high definition with just the sound of their voice and having a battery life lasting up to eight hours, Raptor is redefining what cycling can be in the 21st century.

Israeli Scientists Print a Heart

Researchers at Tel Aviv University successfully 3-D-printed a heart using human tissue and blood vessels. The heart that was produced was only the size of a rabbit’s, The Times of Israel reported.

“Using the patient’s own tissue was important to eliminate the risk of an implant provoking an immune response and being rejected,” said Tal Dvir, who conducted the project.

There are still many challenges before fully developed and functioning 3-D-printed hearts would be available for transplant into patients, according to scientists and doctors.

Researchers are currently trying to teach the artificial heart to mirror real heart functions. The printed heart is currently able to develop cells, but, as of yet, unable to pump blood.

“Maybe in 10 years there will be organ printers in the finest hospitals around the world, and these procedures will be conducted routinely,” Dvir said.

He speculated that hospitals would likely start by printing smaller organs before moving on to larger ones. The technology has jump-started breakthroughs in the medical field, as well as in home building and product design. ■ Compiled by AJT Staff

ment to the peace process and its strong relationship with the United States. He praises Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and expresses optimism that the threeyear process to achieve normalization between Israel and Egypt will succeed.

May 30, 2009: Ephraim Katzir, Israel’s fourth president, dies at age 93 in Rehovot. Born in Kiev, Katzir and his family made aliyah when he was 9. He earned a doctorate in biochemistry from Hebrew University, was the founding head of the biophysics department at the Weizmann Institute, received the Israel Prize and served as the Israel Defense Forces’ chief scientist. He took office as president in May 1973 and served during the Yom Kippur War that year and during Anwar Sadat’s visit to Israel in 1977. ■ Items are provided by the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org), where you can find more details.

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When I entered college, I have never delivered this nation was embroiled a commencement address, in a war several thousand but if offered that honor, miles away, a conflict that here are a few things I might cost tens of thousands of say: young American lives and Congratulations. When sent tens of thousands to the we’re done here, thank all of barricades in protest. those who invested in your As you graduate college, exploration of knowledge the country is embroiled and self. in a war several thousand Fear not, graduates. I Dave miles away, but because of will speak briefly, sharing Schechter From Where I Sit the divide between the civilsome of what I’ve learned ian world and the military, since sitting where you sit now, and in a year’s time you’ll remember that conflict is out-of-sight and out-ofmind for most people. little, if any, of what I say.

There is a line in the 1967 film “Guess You will never be smarter than you are today. From here on out, you will be Who’s Coming to Dinner” in which a confronted by – and, hopefully, appreci- priest, a friend of parents whose daughate – the magnitude of what you do not ter plans to marry someone of a different race, tells her father, “They are this counknow.

By the way, after “I love you,” per- try. They’ll change this stinking world.” haps the three most important words in The father replies, “Yeah sure. Fifty years, maybe, or a hundred years.” the English language are “I don’t know.”

Fifty years later, I look at the diverThe world you live in today is a known quantity. You cannot imagine the sity of my children’s friends and the ease with which they relate to each other, not world a few decades from now.

Growing up at a time when human- as if there are no differences, but apprecikind began to extend its reach beyond ating those differences while minimizing earth’s grasp, the promise of space flight them as obstacles.

We feed our children on our dreams for average Americans fueled our imaginations. Sometimes things take longer and notice the pieces of us that they adopt as their own. Our children feed than you expect.

You won’t recognize some changes us on their dreams and notice the pieces as they happen. That awareness comes that most excite us.

I told you that I would speak briefly with time.

When your elders say that life seems and I am nearly done.

Some of you took longer than othto pass in the blink of an eye, understand that they are trying to make sense of all ers to reach this day. Take pride in having they have experienced, as they see fewer overcome obstacles that once may have tomorrows than yesterdays and seek to appeared insurmountable.

For all of you, for all of us, the most make the most of today.

You will marvel at the speed of tech- valuable lesson is that the journey is less nological changes and lament that the important than what you learn about human condition improves at a slower yourself along the way.

The following is no less true just bepace.

When I was in college, the campus cause it is quoted on wall hangings and computer was a bulky machine that used throw pillows: “Life is not measured by punch cards. Today I carry a device that the breaths we take, but by the moments gives me access to an astonishing and that take our breath away.”

I leave you with this advice: ever-expanding variety of information.

Value friends who believe in your Technology to your generation, as it was to those who came before you, is dreams, and believe in theirs.

If it is your path, find a partner who a tool, with the capability to build or to inspires you to be the best version of tear down.

Today you can offer your opinion to yourself.

Work is a means to an end, not an the universe and receive nearly instantaneous recognition, praise or condemna- end in itself. tion. Maybe there was something better Find a life outside of work that enabout a past without the ability to share riches you. every thought, every impulse, but that’s Find a corner of life’s garden and not the world we live in. make it your own. ■

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SUMMER FUN

Bernie Marcus co-founded The Home Depot 40 years ago in 1979.

Married for over 40 years, Bernie and Billi Marcus are leaders in philanthropy in the Atlanta community.

Bernie’s 90th Birthday Bash is Raising Millions

By Dave Schechter The last thing Bernie Marcus wanted for his 90th birthday was people making a fuss and holding a party. But that’s exactly what the billionaire businessman and philanthropist will get – and then some.

“He didn’t want it to happen,” said Mike Leven, Marcus’ friend and chairman and chief executive officer of the Georgia Aquarium, which will host the June 9 bash. “We wanted the city of Atlanta to honor him for what he’s done for the city of Atlanta.”

His friends and admirers will fete the nonagenarian (whose birthday was May 12) by pledging $90 million to benefit four Atlanta-centered projects among Marcus’ wide-ranging philanthropies.

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“None of the four – the Georgia Aquarium, the Grady Health System’s Marcus Stroke & Neuroscience Center, the Marcus Autism Center, and the SHARE Military Initiative at the Shepherd Center – would exist without Marcus,” Leven said.

“He’s started a lot of things from scratch or he’s changed a lot of things from scratch,” Leven said. “In these cases, and many of the other things he’s done in his life, they are entrepreneurial gifts, gifts that start things. That’s a very unique characteristic of a philanthropist.”

Planning for the event began last September. “We didn’t want to do it without his permission. We asked. At first, he didn’t want to do it,” Leven said.

Once he relented, Marcus selected

Mexico. Marcus was the company’s first the recipients of the birthday donations.

For his part, Marcus (father of At- CEO and held that position for 19 years, lanta Jewish Times publisher Michael also serving as chairman of the board unMorris) told the AJT, “I have had nothing til his retirement in 2002.

The other honorary co-chairs are Atto do with my birthday party. It’s wonderful. My job is to show up and enjoy. I lanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Georam looking forward to it. I appreciate my gia Gov. Brian Kemp, and Ken Langone, friends and partners creating this event who arranged the original financing for for me and for the causes that are so close Home Depot and became a co-founder along with Marcus and Blank. to my heart.”

The Marcus Leven will serve Foundation, Inc. has as master-of-cerebeen the primary monies for the event, vehicle through whose co-chairs are which Marcus and Frank Blake, chairhis wife of 45 years, man of the Grady Billi, have given Memorial Hospital $2 billion to more Corporation board; than 400 nonprofits Doug Hertz, CEO over three decades. and chairman of Their priorities have United Distribubeen Jewish causes, tors, Inc., and Craig healthcare and Menear, chairman, medical research, president, and chief children and youth executive officer of development, free Home Depot Inc. enterprise and vetArthur Blank, erans’ services, and with whom Marcus Piedmont Heart is one of Marcus' community support. created Home Demany philanthropic endeavors.

Marcus started pot, is an honorary co-chair. Marcus was 49 years old when life with little but learned the lessons of he and Blank were fired the same day philanthropy at a young age. The child of from the Handy Dan home improvement Russian Jewish immigrants grew up on store chain, dismissals that led to the cre- the fourth floor of a tenement in a tough ation of Home Depot. The first two Home neighborhood in Newark, N.J. His father Depot stores opened June 22, 1979, in the was a carpenter, “strong as an ox, a great Atlanta area. Today there are more than craftsman but a terrible businessman,” 2,200 stores, employing about 400,000 Marcus told Philanthropy magazine in people in the United States, Canada and 2012.

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Mike Leven and Bernie Marcus celebrate 10 years of the Georgia Aquarium in 2015.

Marcus poses alongside the Waddlesworths, two Atlanta celebrities in their own right, as well as their caretakers.

“We lived in a tenement,” he told the came to Atlanta broke — broke! If the magazine. “We had no money. Five cents Home Depot didn’t make it, I was going was a major issue in our lives.” Marcus to go into bankruptcy. We decided that recalled that a nickel for ice cream was we wanted to do something for the state a special treat, though his mother would of Georgia. We remembered the people sometimes say, “‘We can’t have the ice that came and saved our lives.”

Marcus discussed his religious idencream today, we’re planting a tree in Israel instead,’ and the nickel would be sent tity with Philanthropy magazine, saying, off, if not to Israel, then to one charitable “I’m proud of the fact that I’m Jewish and cause or another. I grew up knowing that what happened with the Holocaust is not going to happen again if I can do anythis is what you do. It’s bred into me.” thing about it.”

Marcus had Marcus and hoped to become a his wife have been doctor, but the evenmembers of The tual cost of medical Temple since arrivschool was prohibiing in Atlanta more tive. He earned a than 40 years ago. bachelor’s degree in Rabbi Peter pharmacy from RutBerg will speak at gers University and the June 9 event on worked as a pharvideo from Israel, macist before enwhere he will be tering the discount leading a congregastore business. tion trip. Berg was “My parents, an effusive in his comimmigrant couple ments about Marcus struggling to make to the AJT: ends meet in NewGrady's Marcus Trauma Center is “Bernie is a ark, taught me that named for Bernie and Billi Marcus. mentor and friend generosity was a universal imperative no matter one’s station to me and The Temple. He is my favorite in life. You gave – if not from your wallet person in Atlanta to bounce ideas around then your time and talent. It’s why I was with and to problem-solve. Bernie always serving on boards of nonprofits when I has the right approach – always people couldn’t find two nickels to rub together,” centered.

“I especially admire his commitment he said in an article published April 16 by to Judaism and Israel. Perhaps more than the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Marcus began to expand his reach almost any Jewish philanthropist, Bernie when the life of a young Home Depot really believes in the synagogue as the employee was saved by the City of Hope singular place to help build a strong Jewcancer center. “I went to [City of Hope] ish identity. Over the years, he has supand said, ‘I want to join your board.’ I had ported so many of our forward-thinking never done anything with philanthropy initiatives. In recent years, The Marcus before … and I didn’t have any money, Foundation helped us to create the first but I worked diligently on that board,” congregational department of engageMarcus said in a 2013 interview with The ment – dramatically changing the way Bridgespan Group, an adviser on philan- we operate – with a focus on the relational experience. This model has now been thropic issues.

In that interview Marcus said, “We replicated in numerous synagogues in

A painting depicts The Home Depot cofounders, Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus.

North America,” Berg said.

“Bernie has always been there for us.

I also deeply admire his commitment to both medicine and free enterprise. The entire city of Atlanta reaps the benefits of Bernie’s generosity, every single day. In Jewish tradition, we focus our time and energy on the heart, the head, and the hand. In all three areas, Bernie stands head and shoulders above the rest. He is brilliant, compassionate, and works every day to make this world a better place for our children and our children’s children. There are not enough words in the English language to share my gratitude with Bernie as he reaches this precious milestone birthday.”

In Israel, Marcus donated $25 million to aid construction of the Marcus National Blood Services Center, the world’s first underground blood processing, testing, storage, and distribution facility. The grant was the largest-ever benefiting Magen David Adom, Israel’s national ambulance, blood-services and disaster-relief agency.

Last year, Marcus told the AJT, “Having it in a safe and secure underground facility protects the blood transfusion supply from harm during missile attacks and

earthquakes, ensuring availability of the blood Israelis need, when they need it.”

He also co-founded the Israel Democracy Institute, which bills itself as “an independent center of research and action dedicated to strengthening the foundations of Israeli democracy.”

Further proving their commitment to charity, Bernie and Billi Marcus were early signatories to The Giving Pledge, in which many of the world’s wealthiest people have pledged to donate their riches to philanthropies. The initiative was created by Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda.

In a 2010 letter to Buffett, Marcus said that “it has always been my belief that leaving enormous wealth for our children does nothing to stimulate their ability to make it on their own.

“To make quarterly profits is one thing, but changing just one life is so much better. … I hope you convince many others to enhance their own lives by sharing with others in a smart and business-like way. It truly is the secret to longevity of their health and state of mind,” Marcus said. ■

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Tropical Diver is home of the blue-spotted stingray who gave birth in the first episode, among many other animals.

Photo via Animal Planet // Tank, the green sea turtle, was one of the animals featured who might enjoy a new installation to the Ocean Voyager tank, a segment in the Animal Planet series.

Animal Planet's Behind-the-Scenes Look at Aquarium

By Eddie Samuels It’s easy to be amazed by the scope and size of the Georgia Aquarium as a guest, but to see behind the glass of the enclosures is another thing entirely.

That close-up view is exactly the aim of Animal Planet’s “The Aquarium,” which allows viewers a firsthand look at the goings-on of Atlanta’s amazing aquatic venue and its caretakers.

“We are thrilled to be a part of Animal Planet’s programming and its new show, ‘The Aquarium,’” Georgia Aquar-

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ium President and COO Joe Handy said.

“Animal Planet and Georgia Aquarium have a long history of educating our audiences about our one world ocean and its animals.”

Erin Wanner, Animal Planet’s senior vice president of production, explained that the series provides a look behind the curtain at what goes on every day at the aquarium.

“It’s a backstage pass to spend time with the people who’ve dedicated their lives to animals and to furthering wildlife conservation efforts around the globe,”

she said. “And through these remarkable ing much more about otters, seals and people you too will fall in love with the others.

Handy explained that the show ofanimals in their care.”

Just in time to plan a summer visit to fered a chance to share the aquarium’s the biggest aquarium in the U.S., the first mission with viewers beyond the Atlanta episode premiered Sunday and offered area.

“We know viewers will take away unmatched access to the inner workings a greater appreciation for the ocean of one of Atlanta’s best attractions.

In particular, the first episode fol- that will turn into action on behalf of lowed three plot points. First, feeding our planet,” he said. “‘The Aquarium’ Tank, the green sea turtle, and the in- will showcase many of the animals we care for at Georgia stallation of a new Aquarium but will shipwreck display also take audiences in the aquarium’s behind the scenes over 6-million-gallon of what it takes to Ocean Voyager excare for the Western hibit. The episode Hemisphere’s largest offered a look at the aquarium – somecare and safety prething we are so honcautions that must ored to bring into be taken when jumpthe world’s living ing into the water rooms.” with sharks and rays Paige Hale, the galore. aquarium’s commuNext, the miranications manager, cle of stingray birth, echoed Handy’s foas for the first time cus on the aquariin the aquarium’s um’s mission, partichistory a blue-spotted ribbontail sting- African penguins, like these at the Georgia ularly when it came ray gave birth to two Aquarium, were rehabilitated and released to ocean preservaback into the wild in South Africa. tion. offspring. Watching “Animal Planet is the perfect home, the journey from pregnancy and ultrasound to tracking down the young pups … because we share the same mission to for monitoring and their first feedings inspire and educate about not just aquatin the new habitat, the show captures a ic animals, but the environments they completely unique experience for every- inhabit,” she said. “We are so proud to be one involved. a part of this series and cannot wait to Not to leave out some of the aquar- show all of the hard work and dedication ium’s cutest inhabitants, penguins were that goes not only into caring for thoualso on full display, as some of the staff- sands of animals, but also the animals ers traveled to Cape Town, South Africa in the ocean that desperately need our to aid in the rehabilitation and release of help.” ■ African penguins back into the wild.

“The Aquarium,” produced by Left/ With the first episode now in the Right and Copper Pot Pictures, airs 8 p.m. books, the future looks even more var- Sundays on Animal Planet. For more inforied in terms of which of the aquarium’s mation, visit www.animalplanet.com or the diverse animals are on display. In the fu- Georgia Aquarium, www.georgiaaquariture, viewers can look forward to learn- um.org.

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Team Atlanta ultimate Frisbee team will be participating in a sport making its JCC Maccabi Games debut in Atlanta.

The volunteer coaches of Team Atlanta. The record size of the host delegation, 600 boys and girls ages 12 to 16, necessitated bringing on more than 100 coaches.

Let the Maccabi Games Begin

By Dave Schechter Atlanta has a deserved reputation for boosterism.

Only by blowing its horn loud and long did the railroad town called Terminus – from Latin, literally the “end of the line” – become the self-proclaimed capitol of the “New South.”

So, when Atlanta throws a party, the locals aim to impress out-of-town guests.

Think the 1939 premiere of the film “Gone with the Wind.”

Think the 1996 Centennial Olympic games.

Think the 2019 JCC Maccabi Games?

That’s what Stacie Francombe has in mind when she says that the Jewish youth sports festival “will be above and beyond what they’re used to from a Maccabi standpoint. Atlanta has elevated the JCC Maccabi experience in every way, shape and form.”

Francombe, director of the July 28Aug. 2 Atlanta games, offered that assertion in early May, when the countdown calendar showed 86 days remaining until the July 28 opening ceremony at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta.

The JCC Maccabi games, which debuted in Memphis in 1982, are returning to Atlanta for the first time since 2001.

The Marcus JCC withdrew as host in 2007 because of financial problems.

The host, Team Atlanta, has set a JCC Maccabi games record for delegation size, with 600 boys and girls, including 13 from the Atlanta Jewish community’s Israeli sister city of Yokneam. “The turnout for tryouts was amazing,” Francombe said, and the number of Atlanta teams has meant bringing in 108 coaches, all volunteers.

Joining Team Atlanta will be about 1,100 other athletes, ages 12 to 16, from 35 visiting delegations, among them Israel, Mexico, Panama, and the Canadian cities of Toronto and Winnipeg.

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The Team Atlanta track and field team that will compete in this summer’s JCC Maccabi Games.

leyball, swimming, dance, golf, tennis, bowling, table tennis, track and field, and - for the first time - ultimate Frisbee. A program called “star reporter” will engage teens in gathering news and photographs.

The games’ hubs will be the MJCCA and the Marist School. For security reasons, the AJT was asked not to publish the location of other venues. That request also covered details about evening social outings, the opening ceremony entertainment, and plans for the closing night party.

“Logistically it’s a lot of moving pieces but everything is coming together nicely,” Francombe said.

The visiting boys and girls will stay in the homes of Jewish families. Many will come from the ranks of Team Atlanta, but Francombe said organizers were about halfway to meeting their goal of lining up about 550 homes that will be needed.

Among the host families will be Haim and Miriam Haviv of Sandy Springs. With two daughters on Team Atlanta, “I wanted to do it all the way. I want

to be a host. I want to volunteer. I want to be there,” Miriam said.

Amalia Haviv, 15, a freshman at Pace Academy, is a volleyball player on both school and club teams. Gabby, who turns 12 before the games – the minimum age to participate – attends The Davis Academy, and is a dancer.

“I’m close to the JCC and it will elevate the whole experience if I have two extra girls” Miriam Haviv said of the guests the family will host. “I love sports for my girls, so this is the perfect combination.”

That this is a Jewish event adds to the experience, she said. The Havivs are members of Congregation B’nai Torah.

Also hosting will be Bill Mahle and Debbie Sumner, who live in Dunwoody and are members of Congregation Beth Shalom. In the past they hosted Israeli counselors working at the JCC and this year they hosted Israeli shinshinim emissaries.

Their oldest son, Sam Mahle, now 18, was a member of Team Atlanta twice.

Ezra Mahle, a 15-year-old student at Dun-

The heads of the visiting delegations who came to visit Atlanta in advance of this summer’s JCC Maccabi Games, returning to the city for the first time since 2001.

woody High School, will play flag football in his first JCC Maccabi games. Caleb Mahle, a 14-year-old graduating from The Davis Academy and bound for Dunwoody High, will compete on the inaugural ultimate Frisbee team.

“We’re just looking forward to helping out the community and for our kids to get to know Jewish kids from other parts of the country, seeing commonalities and differences,” Sumner said.

The ranks of other volunteers are open beyond the Jewish community.

Francombe said that only about onethird of the 1,500 volunteers needed had been registered. Volunteers, who must be age 18 or older, will work at the competition hubs and venues, ride on the fleet of buses that will transport athletes and coaches, and handle other duties.

The JCC Maccabi Games also promote community involvement and pride in being Jewish. Emphasis is placed on two values: rachmanus (compassion) and tikkun olam (repairing the world).

During a community service day, the boys and girls will create art to be displayed at the Shepherd Center brain and spinal cord rehabilitation facility in Atlanta and the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled, in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan. JCC Maccabi competitors also will attend an exhibition by wheelchair athletes.

Ensuring the security of competitors, coaches, and spectators will be law enforcement from local, state and federal agencies. While specifics about the security operation are not being released, “Rest assured that we have the team in place to make sure that the kids will be safe, that the spectators will be safe,” Francombe said.

Other important services will be provided by corporate sponsors.

Atlanta’s summer swelter is a concern. The average high temperature in late July and early August in Atlanta is 88

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Top: Members of the Team Atlanta girls’ basketball team. Center: Members of the Team Atlanta golf team who will compete in the games this summer.

Bottom: Haim and Miriam Haviv are the parents of athletes Gabby, second from left, and Amalia, right, members of Team Atlanta, and will host visiting athletes during the JCC Maccabi Games.

and the chance of rain averages about 40 percent. Coca-Cola, a national sponsor of the JCC Maccabi Games, is providing its Dasani waters and Powerade drinks at all of the venues.

Premier Sports Medicine, a JCC Maccabi games sponsor, is providing trainers at the hubs and at the venues of high-impact sports.

The medical committee is arranging for the presence of volunteer doctors at the hubs, along with nurses and nurse practitioners.

Feeding the 1,600 boys and girls will be handled by Added Touch Catering.

Woodward Academy is making available its fleet of 55 buses to ferry athletes and coaches between the competition hubs and venues. The use of two hubs is unusual but was deemed necessary because of Atlanta’s traffic.

An estimated $1.5 million was the projected cost to host the JCC Maccabi games. Francombe said that while the fundraising is done, organizers continue to seek in-kind contributions and partnerships.

If anything has surprised her, it has been “the level of support and commitment from our lay leaders, especially our steering committee.

It’s amazing to me the amount of time and energy and devotion and passion they devote to this and making sure it’s the best experience for the kids and the coaches and the host families.”

There are two JCC Maccabi summer events annually. Detroit will host both a JCC Maccabi athletic competition and the JCC Maccabi ArtsFest Aug. 4-9. ArtsFest includes acting/improv, culinary arts, dance, musical theater, rock band, social media squad, visual arts and vocal music. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES MAY 24, 2019 | 27

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Photos by Dark Rush // More than 25 vendors

will have treats to sample.

Food That Rocks is on for June 8 on the City Green at City Springs.

Live music will make for a festive night.

Food That Rocks Reprises at City Springs

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Tickets are now on sale for the fourth edition of Food That Rocks: A Celebration of Sandy Springs, set to return to the City Green at City Springs on June 8. The event is a celebration of the community’s bustling dining scene.

“Just as the city’s dining scene has grown over the past several years, Food That Rocks has quickly become a muchanticipated event where food lovers can mix, mingle, nosh and schmooze,” said

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Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul.

Bringing together both community and entertainment for a cause, this year’s expanded footprint features an evening of more than 25 of the area’s best chefs and cocktails, plus live music from The Biffs and DJ Jimmy, supporting Sandy Springs-based charities Community Assistance Center, Ian’s Friends Foundation and Second Helpings Atlanta.

“Through Food That Rocks, we’re shining a spotlight on the Sandy Springs area and its evolving, diverse collection

of chefs and restaurants,” said Dale DeSena, who is queen of food festivals as CEO of Taste of Atlanta and founder of this event. “The evening is a celebration of local food, live music and the community.”

Among the first-time participants are Jewish chef and owner Bruce and Scott Bogartz of Bogartz Food Artz.

General admission ticket prices start at $55 per person and include access to all-you-can-eat food tasteings, bottomless beverages and live entertainment.

VIP “First Taster” tickets are $75 per

person and include early entry into the event at 6:30 p.m. All participating restaurants will publish their individual promotional codes on social media.

Tickets to the event can be purchased at www.foodthatrocks.org. For group ticket discounts, contact katie@tasteofatlanta. com. ■ Food That Rocks: A Celebration of Sandy Springs will be on the City Green at City Springs 7:30 to 11 p.m. June 8, with VIP early access at 6:30.

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East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation

The Tasman Sea

Fred Katz and Miles Brett join Ed Gerson in New Zealand while island hopping.

Robyn Spizman at the harbor and famous Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

Jewish Geography in Australia and New Zealand “Welcome to Australia.

It’s worth the shlep!” This was the phrase on a colorful refrigerator magnet at a Jewish gift store in Australia.

When you think of Australia, perhaps images of kangaroos, koalas, nature and underwater snorkeling come to mind. If so, you are “spot on” as the Aussies or Robyn Kiwis would say. However, Spizman after a month-long journey through Australia and New Zealand, we now envision a vibrant Jewish community, dozens of synagogues and a world down under with dedicated Jewish roots.

In search of the Jewish connection as all our travels are centered, it’s almost impossible to do justice to this engaging Jewish life that spans an enormous, magnificent country. Join me as I scratch the surface and highlight the heimishe happenings and interesting standouts of spectacular and beautiful Australia and New Zealand.

Atlanta to Port Douglas Our monthlong trip began with a flight through Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, and a short flight to the city of Cairns and its seaside nearby Port Douglas. Sounds like a quick trip, but hold it right there. Around 25 hours and three flights later, we arrived at the tropical north part of Australia. This coastal Australian resort area is best known for the World Heritage Site of the Great Barrier Reef and the wet tropical rainforests surrounded by a vast amount of adventure activities. It is also Australia’s largest beachside city.

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rier Reef’s scope, it’s the combined area total of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Hundreds of coral types, fish species and underwater sea creatures inhabit the ocean.

A Quicksilver reef cruise took us to a diving opportunity for my scuba-certified husband Ed, who reassured me after diving and spotGerson ting the popular clownfish, Nemo is alive and well and is definitely not missing. The next excursion included the World Heritage Site, Daintree National Park, and a treat touring the terrain in the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway cable car cascading for 4 miles over the rainforest. A highlight was the Kuranda Scenic Railway through the mountainous area with skyscraping views of the spectacular gorges.

Melbourne Here We Come From Port Douglas, we headed to Melbourne (be sure to pronounce the name with a silent R) and began our significant Jewish connection with a wonderful Shabbat dinner with the extended family of our niece Shira Levine (daughter of Esther and Mike Levine). Shira and her Australian-born husband Dan Halperin and two sons recently relocated there for a career opportunity.

A vibrant, insular, active Jewish community of 60,000-plus is heavily located in and around Shira’s intown suburb, called Caulfield. This suburb and nearby St. Kilda are referred to as the “Bagel Belt” or “The Shetl.” With 53 synagogues for such a small population, there is a shul for roughly every 1,000 residents.

Melbourne’s tight-knit Jewish neighbor-

hoods remind me of Atlanta’s early 1960s with an identifiable Jewish population in specific Jewish areas.

As I searched for the Jewish connection in Melbourne, Shelley Cohney, one of the most well-respected and knowledgeable veteran travel guides of Amazing Melbourne Tours was highly recommended.

Shelley is a highly credentialed leading specialist in Jewish Melbourne tours.

She and her business partner Michelle Brown provided two days of in-depth highlights into the beautiful world of Jewish Melbourne. We experienced firsthand the Jewish-lined streets of St Kilda, the Jewish Museum of Australia, and the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, called the “split off” synagogue from the earliest days of Melbourne.

Add endless street-lined kosher bakeries, butchers, Judaica gift stores to alleys owned primarily by Jewish merchants and it’s easy to see why Melbourne is so popular.

Melbourne also offers recreation that includes every imaginable interest, from hiking to biking, to beachcombing and hang gliding. A tourist delight is on Phillip Island, a few hours away if time allows, featuring the Penguin Parade as the penguins arrive each evening at dusk in the thousands and then return to the sea as part of their natural habitat.

Off to Hobart, Tasmania From Melbourne we journeyed to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, which we learned is home to the Hobart Synagogue www.hobartsynagogue.org, known as the oldest synagogue still in use in Australia, and the oldest in the Southern Hemisphere since 1845.

Hobart is also home to magnificent fjords, rock formations, seals and the Tasmanian devil, a less than attractive animal you’ve probably referred to. (You handsome little Tasmanian Devil!)

While the Jewish community there is far smaller than the larger cities, the most spectacular attraction in Hobart, not to be missed, is the magnificent MONA [Museum of Old and New Art] built into the cliffs of rock and surrounded by the sea.

Today, 60 percent of the visitors to Hobart come to see this outstanding museum filled with radical art exhibitions and works that are clearly far from the traditional museum experience. In addition, don’t leave Hobart without a boat tour of the nearby islands, which magnificently boast stunning rock formations, energetic seals and exotic birds.

Visiting Sydney Next, we headed to Sydney, another mecca for Jewish residents, with synagogues and an active Jewish community often called the city of the views. As Australia’s largest city, Sydney embraces its stunning harbor, and we were captivated by the sea and natural waterways and the grand style of the Sydney Opera House regally sitting in the harbor. It is one of the most famous iconic landmarks in the world, with instant recognition for this architectural masterpiece. With some 4 million people, Sydney continues to be a paradise for surfers, swimmers, yachtsmen, fishermen and golfers.

Sydney has more than 60,000 Jews, though the community is more spread out than Melbourne.

Well-known and experienced tour guide Darryl Shlosberg, who owns Real

TRAVEL Sydney Tours and does outstanding Jewish journeys and Sydney landmark trips, is a wonderful authority and easily found online. A highlight to which Darryl took us was Our Big Kitchen, a working kosher kitchen that was the dream of a local rabbi’s wife. The goal of the kitchen is to feed anyone in need, while also giving training to cooks, chefs and an endless array of people whose lives are changed while volunteering there as they also make a difference to those they feed.

More than 70,000 meals are cooked and delivered yearly and the entire community came together to build this million-dollar kitchen at no cost to this viable nonprofit endeavor.

Sydney is also home to more than 30 synagogues, a Jewish museum, Holocaust memorial, nearby Bondi Beach and more. The Jewish community is vibrant and, thanks to Darryl, we had an insider’s view into its heartbeat and that of all things Sydney.

Cruising in New Zealand Following our stay in the Sydney harbor, we boarded a cruise headed for New Zealand. When time allows, many trips to Australia are paired with New Zealand since it’s so close.

New Zealanders are known as “ki-

Wildlife in Australia and New Zealand is up close and beautiful!

wis,” and our southern “ya’ll this” and “ya’ll that” definitely stood out.

Our entire trip was planned by Fran Penn of Easy Travel, who joined us with husband Bob, related to Fred Katz, who was also on the trip with Marcy Aronow and Perla and Miles Brett. We booked a Celebrity Cruise ship tour to New Zealand and the second two weeks of our adventure began onboard with the wellorganized Celebrity Solstice.

Ironically, Rabbi Jeffery Feinstein and his wife Marcy from Marietta were aboard, leading services since it was the first night of Chanukah. Latkes and some festive song-singing added just the right touch, also allowing for Jewish networking on board.

The ship catered to travelers’ every

whim, with amenities like Canyon Ranch Spa, an around-the-clock casino, indoor and outdoor pools, hot tubs, dance clubs, outstanding entertainment and the food, skillfully presented at each meal, leaving nothing to be desired. After a few sea days on board, including a spectacular cruise through Milford Sound that was quite relaxing, we were off to Wellington, Bay of Islands, Dunedin, Akaroa (don’t miss The Giants House, featuring the imaginative and whimsical world of amazing artist Jose Martin) and Napier, and we ended in Auckland. Each port had its own indigenous highlights, which included wineries, dramatic jet boat rides to see volcanic rock formations, waterfalls, natural habitat and even a glow worm cave experience led in the dark with lanterns to visit the

phenomenal species in a stalagmite cave.

Of course, what would a trip be without a little Jewish geography, three degrees of separation? And I was no exception. Our tour guide while in Melbourne thought a long-lost cousin of mine who relocated to Sydney decades ago from South Africa was a friend of her friend’s.

Excited with this family tree discovery, I contacted him by email only to find an unrelated Jewish gentleman who kindly thanked me for my email, which he called lovely and wished me a good life, but recalled no relation.

Still, there were other connections.

Fellow cruise ship guests ranged from other Sandy Springs residents to Perla’s cousins in Florida, to Jacksonville friends of the family. Add more friends of friends and at every turn our travels gave meaning to “it’s a small, small world, especially when you’re Jewish.”

Overall this trip involved a great deal of traveling, endless flights, miles down under, and certainly was a memorable journey. ■ Robyn Spizman Gerson is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 books and a well-known media personality appearing often on local and national television.

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Take in a musically memorable Shabbat service at the Central Synagogue in Midtown.

Photo by Victor Nechay/ProperPix // The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production of “Fiddler on the Roof” recently moved Off Broadway to Stage 42, where it runs through Dec. 30.

Temple Emanu-El is known as the flagship temple for Reform Judaism in the world.

A Jewish Tourist in New York City

By Flora Rosefsky Traveling to the Big Apple from Atlanta, with numerous reasonably-priced fares and flights of less than two hours means getting to New York City becomes a doable destination for a few days or a long weekend.

Read about a few Jewish destinations to extend your itinerary if you’re planning to attend a family simcha or other occasion, a business conference, a convention or perhaps to vacation in “the city that never sleeps.”

A place with year-round vibrant Jewish cultural offerings, lectures and concerts is the YIVO Institute for Jewish Re-

search, 15 W. 16th St. The current exhibit is “The Door Slams Shut: Jews and Immigration in the Face of American Reaction.”

Sung and spoken in Yiddish with English subtitles, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the beloved Jewish folk tale inspired by Sholem Aleichem, recently moved to Off Broadway to Stage 42, formerly the Little Shubert Theatre, 422 W. 42nd St. and runs through December 30.

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St. at the corner of Delancey Street. Experience immigration real-life stories between 1863 and 2011 from more than 20 nations. Purchase tickets from $20 to $25 in advance to reserve a specific tour led by a museum educator. Daily tour schedules posted online six weeks in advance.

A magnificent hidden treasure is the Museum at Eldridge Street, housed in the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue at 12 Eldridge Street. Check out the “2019 Egg Rolls, Egg Creams and Empanadas Festival Sunday, June 16, from 12-4 p.m. Celebrate three Lower East Side cultures spilling out from the synagogue into the street with “Jewish, Chinese and Puerto Rican tastes, traditions, sights and sounds.”

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to The Holocaust in Lower Manhattan presents, “Auschwitz.

Not long ago. Not far away.” Exhibiting more than 700 artifacts and 400 photographs. On view through January 3, 2020; timed tickets are available. The museum is located at Edmond J. Safra Place at 36 Battery Place.

Near New York University in Greenwich Village, visit the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion, at One West Fourth Street, where TERRA inFIRMA, an art exhibition with 65 international artists focusing on “climate change and global warming is seen through the lens of Jewish values and contemporary social action.” Through June 28. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and some Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Enjoy the musically talented clergy, led by Senior Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, at Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan during Friday evening Shabbat services at this Reform synagogue. This Moorish style rendition of Budapest’s Dohany Street Synagogue with its two blue domes make it easy to find on Lexington Avenue at the corner of 55th Street.

Tour Temple Emanu-El, called the “flagship temple for Reform Judaism in the world.” In 2017, CNN named Temple Emanu-El as one of “eight religious won-

ders to see in the U.S.” Free admission for tours. Visiting hours: Sunday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Visitor entrance at 1 East 65th Street.

The Jewish Museum at 1109 Fifth Avenue and E. 92nd Street is “where visitors can journey through 4,000 years of Jewish culture from around the world.” It is currently showing selections from the museum’s permanent collection of art, Judaica and antiquities. There’s also a kosher café, Russ and Daughters.

These are just a few of the ways to add a Jewish twist to your next visit to NYC. Stay tuned for future stories about where to find the best Jewish food or bakeries, or who has the best sturgeon, corned beef sandwich, or chopped liver in NYC. ■

Photo by Ellen Cohen // Flora Rosefsky, right, with husband and grandson, Jake, taking a walking tour of the Lower East Side neighborhood, where Jake lives in a renovated tenement, close to where Rosefsky’s paternal grandparents and their nine children once lived.

Here are some resources when touring Jewish New York: www.yivo.org/events www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/ fiddler-on-the-roof-in-yiddish www.tenement.org/plan-a-visit www.eldridgestreet.org www.mjhnyc.org/exhibitions/auschwitz www.huc.edu/news/2018/07/30/drbernard-heller-museum-hebrew-unioncollege-jewish-institute-religion-huc-jirin-new-york-presents-"terra-infirma" www.centralsynagogue.org www.emanuelnyc.org/about-us/tourour-temple www.thejewishmuseum.org

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Raffle-Winning Trip is Exploration of Israeli Art

By Susanne Katz I didn’t really believe what I heard…

You won the raffle! You won a trip to Israel!

I have never won any raffle or lottery. On the other hand, I have never attended a Conexx [America Israel Business Connector] gala.

Mark Spiegel, a wealth advisor with UBS, was going to the 2018 Conexx meeting at the Atlanta History Center. Based on his invitation, I decided to attend to view a popup exhibition in the lobby and to learn how Conexx connects Israel and the Southeast through business.

I was greeted in the lobby of the history center by Shai Robkin, who asked me to purchase a raffle ticket for a chance to stay in his apartment in Jerusalem. As I agreed and took out my wallet, Shai upgraded his request. “You will never ever have better odds of winning a trip for two to Israel!” So now I was purchasing two tickets. It was the second ticket that won the raffle.

At breakfast one morning with Conexx vice president Barry Swartz, I learned just what this 2018 grand prize Israel trip included: • Complimentary three-night stay at the Carlton Tel Aviv • One week in Shai and Judy Robkin’s private Jerusalem apartment • Round trip airfare for two So, the day came when my husband, Philip Karlick, and I boarded a plane for Israel with our own choices of museum sites, meetings with curators, and a selection of random wandering. The next day we arrived at the hotel. This was an epicurean adventure, from the nonstop buffet breakfast overlooking the ocean to the gourmet dinner on the roof. It seemed that life could not be any better in Tel Aviv.

Yet, from the day of our arrival, there was a level of angst and fear. The gift shop manager reported that a rocket had landed in Tel Aviv because of tension in Gaza. Ynetnews.com was playing on the lobby television screen, with daily updates: IDF attacks two Hamas positions in Gaza in response to border violence.

Palestinian killed by IDF fire during Gaza border clashes. Vehicle explodes outside Eilat hotel.

Despite the unsettling news, we continued our trip as planned. Our visits provided a glimpse of the country’s unique art and culture.

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Udi Edelman, curator and director of the Institute of Public Presence at the Israeli Center for Digital Art. Also known as the Digital Art Lab, this was an educational center with a library and film collection, new age, digital and video exhibitions. As Philip wandered the center, looking through a virtual reality viewer, Udi explained what visitors experienced through this virtual reality.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art The next day included a visit to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which was hosting Gil Yefman’s exhibition, “Kibbutz Buchenwald.” Curator Adi Dahan and Shahar Molcho, assistant to the director, introduced us to this contemporary exhibition, which connected Jewish history, culture and art, and focused on a Holocaust theme and transgender conversations. This was an amazing new discussion, including personal experiences, emotions and a well-chosen selection of artworks and intimate moments.

on Hebron Street in Germantown. Kosher, clean, well-furnished and easy to navigate, the apartment was in convenient proximity to restaurants, grocery stores and gas stations.

It was an aha moment when I realized that Judy and I had traded places.

I was living in her apartment while she was substituting for me teaching my Senior University class that Wednesday.

The class had a wonderful experience learning from Judy. She introduced her amazing dolls as I was enthralled with the incredible campus of the Israel Museum, the largest cultural institution in the country.

Inside the apartment complex, our neighbor had organized a group of local students who were praying and singing with voices and filling the complex with Shabbos joy.

Model adjacent to the Shrine of the Book.

Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot On the campus of the Tel Aviv University in Ramat Aviv is the home of this diverse, content-rich and upbeat museum. Dedicated to telling the unique and ongoing story of the Jewish people, it is renewing and expanding, and offering a family-friendly Jewish experience.

Delightful exhibitions focused on Jewish comedians and Jewish humor.

Leonard Cohen sang “Hineni, hineni.

I’m ready, my Lord,” in one video, and Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews explored their differences in another.

Orit Shaham Gover, the museum’s chief curator, introduced us to an outstanding permanent exhibition in the Alfred Moses and Family Synagogue Hall, “Hallelujah, Assemble, Pray, Study – Synagogues Past and Present” including models of synagogues from different countries. There’s also the special exhibition, “Let There Be Laughter –Jewish Humor Around the World,” and a few traveling exhibitions.

As we said goodbye to the Carlton hotel, we began our journey to Jerusalem and to the Robkins’ apartment, located

Aish HaTorah World Center at the Western Wall Aish Hatorah World Center, a nonprofit organization and learning center, is located at One Western Wall Plaza, Old City, Jerusalem. A Chihuly glass sculpture hangs in the atrium, and a theater is dedicated by Kirk Douglas, who wanted to share his spiritual experience with visitors.

Bradley Martin, director of programs and group services, was an informative guide who introduced the Aish campus and the upcoming museum visitors’ experience, known as the Western Wall Experience.

In partnership with the state of Israel and the Ministry of Tourism, the Western Wall Experience, with panoramic films and interactive technology, will take visitors on a virtual trip through the time of Abraham to the modern era.

Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, located in the Shrine of the Book, a Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period, and the Billy Rose Art Garden with contemporary sculptures. Exhibitions in the galleries included European, modern and Israeli art, and collections focusing on material culture and history. A museum visit could take many hours or even a few days. The galleries are large, and the exhibitions offer both contemporary and traditional insights.

Atlanta Artist in Jerusalem Atlanta native Andi Arnovitz, who is married to David Arnovitz, is a wellknown artist living in Jerusalem. A visit to her home and studio reveals her work as a fabric artist, a printmaker, a bookmaker and an assemblage artist. Andi introduces feminist themes, political conversations, and thought-provoking ideas focusing on religion, gender and today’s politics. Andi was included in the Israel21c list of 10 talented artists making their mark on the world’s canvas.

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The studio of Andi Arnovitz

Winery and Bullet Factory Our journey took us to Flam Winery, which became kosher in 2010. There we enjoyed a wine tasting on the outdoor patio. My personal favorite is the dry 2018 Flam Rose.

At the Ayalon Institute Museum on Kibbutz Hill in Rehovot, we joined a tour of the former ammunition manufacturing site, an underground bullet factory from 1945 to 1948.

This had been disguised as a laundry service and is now a museum and national historical site.

Ayalon Institute Museum courtesy of goisrael.com.

Conexx Gala and Raffle In 2019, Conexx again offered a gala raffle ticket, with a round trip for two in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The Conexx Gala was just on May 21 at the Atlanta History Center.

What a memorable raffle, and what an opportunity this was to visit and connect with a selection of the best arts and culture experiences Israel has to offer. Can’t wait to hear who the next winner is! ■Susanne Katz is the director of exhibitions at The Breman Museum.

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Those on the trip included, from left: Zoe Sokol, Noa Dan, Bryan White, Eitan Linsider, Gabi Gadelov and Oron Porat.

Zoe Socol (left), a 17-year-old senior at AJA, looks on as Tal Zeltzer, lead scientist at Phytolon, speaks to the students.

Women Can Lead in Science Too

By Patrice Worthy

it takes to form a successful startup, Shaul Avidov, head of Openvalley AcadWhen Zoe Socol, a 17-year-old senior emy for Entrepreneurship and Innovaat Atlanta Jewish Academy, talks about tion, asked them to look at a slide of highworking as a biomedical engineer, her tech CEOs including Bill Gates and Steve face lights up. During a recent trip to Jobs. He asked them “What’s missing?”

Yokneam Illit, Israel, sister city to Atlan- After each student guessed, he pointed ta, Socol got glimpse of what it’s like to be out “women.” Avidov said women are a woman who leads in science. Socol’s fa- leaders in the tech industry, but many vorite subject is AP biology and she said people overlook their presence.

“People think that it’s a man’s world it was cool to see the type of environment and it isn’t,” Avidov said. “It only seems where she could possibly work.

“I walked in and said, ‘This is a lab!’” like it’s a man’s world and I’m trying to she said describing her thoughts after explain to companies that it’s not.”

For Zeltzer, it’s important that men entering Phytolon, a company that creates natural food coloring to make food acknowledge women can be successful in appealing while still healthy, without ar- a traditionally male-dominated field, and even more so at home. tificial flavors.

She said the support of Phytolon is headed her husband, who is an

by Tal Zeltzer, senior engineer at Intel, is esscientist, who explained sential when it comes to to the group why it’s estaking care of her home, sential girls see positive daughters and working female representation in in the lab. Zeltzer demale-dominated fields scribes the environment and know that they can as “collaborative and dybe fulfilled working in a namic” and also brings demanding industry.

Hi Tech Village is home to her children to work “I can’t even say how Biosense Webster, a Johnson with her, which she said important it is for me to & Johnson company. makes it easier to spend see women in science and managing positions in companies long hours in the lab.

“Men need to learn to be feminists because women tend to be apologetic when submitting their CVs to compa- and support the family because it’s his nies,” Zeltzer said. “Women have to be de- responsibility,” she said. “My husband is voted and focused. You can’t let anyone happy and satisfied. We are modern parents who support each other and the kids.” tell you that you can’t do it.”

Many people say that they don’t see Zeltzer spends an average of nine hours a day working, but when she is women as scientists, Socol said. But she’s in the research phase of a product, the had her sights on becoming a scientist hours are much longer. She is a wife and for so long, that for her it’s not shocking. the mother of two children and said the She is aware that a job in science can be best thing for her two young daughters, tough for a woman who wants it all, but ages 2 and 3 1/2, is to see their mother after listening to Zeltzer, she’s convinced it can be done. fulfilled.

“Now that women are more inno“I come home happy after spending nine hours doing what I love. I love the vative and prominent in the field, it’s deadlines and the edge,” she said. “When almost normality,” Socol said. Research I pick up my girls, I close the phone and can be really tough with a family because don’t open it up until 7:30 or 8. Young you spend long hours in the lab and don’t women need to see a good example of necessarily get the results you want. But if you love it like Tal loves it, anything is women who lead.”

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Students get acquainted with the cows at Kibbutz Ein HaShofet.

The students learn the history of the kibbutz.

Oron Porat and Zoe Sokol at breakfast.

AJA Students Explore Yokneam Illit Tech Boom

By Patrice Worthy While on a trip to Israel, five students from the Atlanta Jewish Academy visited Yokneam Illit, sister city to Atlanta’s Jewish community. Through the Partnership2gether Yokneam Megiddo of The Jewish Agency for Israel program, the students learned about the booming tech industry that is luring high-tech workers from Tel Aviv to the small Israeli town.

The high school students toured Openvalley Academy for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a collaborative tech co-working facility that “specializes in helping startups get through the valley of death,” said Shaul Avidov, head of Openvalley.

Avidov told the group what makes Israel the No. 5 country for innovation in the world, according to the Bloomberg Innovation Index, and the country with the most startups per capita. Avidov said the secret to the successful startup culture is the Israeli personality.

“We think we know better,” Avidav said. “Everyone is Israel wants to be a CEO; they want to lead something. It’s known in the world as chutzpah. … That’s the kind of people that have great ideas.”

Israel doesn’t build cars, but is leading in car technology. There is no water, but the country is leading in agriculture technology Avidov said, following up with, “We never accept things as they are.”

The Yokneam Hi-Tech Park is home to more than 140 tech firms and Mellanox, a chip design firm acquired by NVIDIA in April for $6.9 billion. The acquisition was the largest in NVIDIA’s history. During his presentation, Avidav explained the key to success at Openvalley is collaboration. Avidov said that at Openvalley every startup can feel free to talk to other startups or seek advice.

Oron Porat, a 17-year-old junior at AJA, said he believes the culture of sharing there is very different than in the United States, where companies aren’t as open and collaborative. He believes it’s best to build idea incubators with other people.

“It’s important to trust other people and realize you don’t know everything,”

Porat said. “Sometimes other people can help you refine your ideas. You can have the simplest idea and develop it into something bigger. Sometimes the biggest problem is missing a key component that only someone else can see.”

It is the type of open-mindedness found among young people that is driving Openvalley to recruit youth. Up until now, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta worked with Yokneam to fund projects through the Partnership2gether, most of which contributed to the Ethiopian Jewish community, said Yaron Yavelberg, the Federation representative in Yokneam. But now Yokneam has something to give back.

“The modern Israel changes the relationship,” Yavelberg said. “Yokneam is not just on the receiving end anymore. It serves the will of all sides and reflects the move from the old philanthropy to the new philanthropy.”

The new model will be more balanced, Yavelberg said. The Federation is now allocating a small amount to make technology a part of the partnership.

Yavelberg said that means the Federation will have to tighten its funding to the Ethiopian community in Yokneam.

“Now we can say you’re not just giving. Your kids are getting exposure to technology that they wouldn’t have without the partnership.” Yavelberg said. “We are developing relationships with high-tech firms that will allow groups of students to come and learn. We will also be including the Ethiopian children and creating a high-level, high-tech entrepreneurship program.”

Creating a model for the Jewish children across the pond is at the top of Dani Ben Ishai’s list. Ben Ishai is a former software engineer from Silicon Valley who developed consumer electronic products and then changed his career to teach computer science in high schools. Now, he is the STEM teacher at ORT Alon High School and head of the STEM Twinning Initiative. He said that after touring the United States, he only came across one school where the students were as technologically advanced as his students in Yokneam. Some of Ben Ishai’s students are already working four to 10 hours

a week in tech companies. He said he wants to give students from Atlanta the same opportunities by designing a summer program in which they can come to Yokneam and intern at a tech firm.

“Yokneam got a lot of funds from the Jewish community in Atlanta and I think we have a lot to share,” Ben Ishai said.

“The transfer of funds from U.S. to Israel should be balanced. We don’t want students to learn about high-tech from TV, we want them to see it with their own eyes.”

Ben Ishai is developing a knowledge sharing program with Yokneam’s American counterparts. So far he’s shared new teaching techniques with faculty from The Weber School in Atlanta and taken kids from Atlanta to visit Biosense Web-

ster, a Johnson & Johnson company, located in the Hi-Tech Park.

Ben Ishai said recruiting teens is a great solution for firms looking for someone who thinks differently. Avidov agrees that tech firms are always searching for creatives and industry disruptors and that Openvalley is perfect because it is teaching children as young as elementary school the art of entrepreneurship.

“What’s exciting is the children because we teach sixth-graders,” Avidov said. “What we do know is that everyone should have the skill of entrepreneurship because we don’t know what the world will look like in 10 years. Openvalley is for anyone who wants to learn new methods of thinking.” ■

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CALENDAR FRIDAY, MAY 24

Walton High School Graduation – KSU Convocation Center, 590

Cobb Ave., Kennesaw, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For tickets and more information, www.waltonhigh.org.

Friday Night Live – Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Shearith Israel’s monthly, spirited, song-filled Friday evening service followed by a lovely oneg and socializing. It’s a wonderful way to welcome Shabbat.

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/2Gp5SRI

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Behar Friday, May 24, 2019, light candles at 8:20 p.m.

Saturday, May 25, 2019, Shabbat ends at 9:21 p.m.

Bechukotai Friday, May 31, 2019, light candles at 8:24 p.m.

Saturday, June 1, 2019, Shabbat ends at 9:26 p.m.

emy, 5200 Northland Drive, Atlanta, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. For tickets and more information, www.bit.ly/2vWoDEo.

The Weber School Graduation – The Weber School, 6751 Roswell Road, Atlanta. For tickets, time and more information, www.weberschool.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 26

An Interview with Holocaust Survivor Werner Reich – William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Werner Reich was captured and imprisoned when he was 15 years old and spent time in three different concentration camps. Werner joins magician, author and entrepreneur Joshua Jay onstage for an interview about his unbelievable and harrowing time at Auschwitz, and the magic that helped him get through and past it. Free for members, $12 for nonmembers. For more information, www.bit.ly/2GRco1O.

The Hiding Place: Story of Corrie Ten Boom – Vision Baptist Church, 355 Windy Hill Drive, Alpharetta, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thrust into a secret world of spies and espionage, two spinster sisters and their elderly father heroically hide Jews from the Nazis during WWII. This inspiring musical brings to life the powerful testimony of Corrie ten Boom, which has changed countless lives. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2H1MjMF.

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TUESDAY, MAY 28

JLI: With All My Heart – Chabad Intown on the BeltLine, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays through June 18 and from 12 to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays through June 20. Whether you’re seeking relief from stress; hoping for focus, clarity and connection to a raw and vulnerable place deep within you; or just want to start each day from a positive, humble and grateful frame of mind, this course is for you. To register and for more information, www.bit. ly/2V3TUyY.

survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. After the end of World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to bringing more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice, including aiding in the capture Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief orchestrators of the Holocaust. $45 per person. For more information, www. wiesenthaltheshow.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 30

“Women Who Dared: Celebrating our Sheroes” fundraiser – The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Please join the NCJW at The Temple for its fundraising luncheon to honor fantastic women. $90. For more information, christineh@ncjwatlanta.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29

Open Play Games – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open play tables are set up every week on MJCCA’s Main Street on Mondays and Wednesdays for you to enjoy popular strategy and skill games while making new friends. Free for members, $5 for the community. For more information, www.bit.ly/2H6mYRt.

London, Cornwall and Eastern Europe. $32 for members and the community, which includes a paperback copy of the book. For more information, www. bit.ly/2H6oWRR.

FRIDAY, MAY 31

Mental Health Awareness Shabbat Dinners – Various locations around Atlanta. Mental Health Doesn’t Rest on Shabbat. One in five U.S. adults experience a mental health condition over the course of a year. This is the last one in the month of May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month.

Host or attend a Shabbat dinner to connect and show that mental health education and support is a priority in the Jewish community. Learn more, share your Shabbat dinner details and access Shabbat and mental health resources on The Blue Dove Foundation website at www.mentalhealthshabbat. org. #QuietingTheSilence.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2

ORT My School – Woodson Park Academy, 20 Evelyn Way, Atlanta, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join ORT Next Gen, Repair the World, and The Sixth Point for a day of polishing up a local elementary school with other Jewish Young Professionals. Breakfast will be provided.

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/2vW5vGl.

A Page from the Book Festival presents Teri Turner – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 1 to 3 p.m. In Conversation with Myleik Teele, founder and creator of curlBOX. One of the toughest things about the Whole30 meal plan is knowing what to eat the other 335 days of the year.

Teri Turner, creator of the blog, www.

NoCrumbsLeft.com, has healthful and great tasting answers. $36 for general admission ticket with a hardcover copy of book, $56 for two general admission tickets and a book. For more information, www.bit.ly/2H8PaEV.

Dunwoody High School Graduation– Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young International Blvd. NW, Atlanta. For tickets, time and more information, www.dunwoodyhs. dekalb.k12.ga.us.

MAY 29 – JUNE 2

Wiesenthal, A Play about Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal – Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre, 117 N. Park Square NE, Marietta, at 2 p.m. This sensational off-Broadway play captures the extraordinary life of Holocaust

A Page From the Book Festival presents E L James – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. E L James, whose “Fifty Shades of Grey” series has broken sales records for adult publishing (150 million copies sold worldwide), is back with “The Mister,” a contemporary romance set in

Beth Jacob Annual Dinner of Honor – Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 Lavista

MAY 24-JUNE 8 Road, Atlanta, from 6 to 8 p.m. Join Beth Jacob as it celebrates more than 75 years of community service, and honors its dedicated members and supporters! Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a gourmet dinner. $118 per person. For tickets and more information, www.bethjacobatlanta.org/dinner.

MONDAY, JUNE 3

Torah Study with Rabbi Dorsch at Huntcliff I – Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit I, 8592 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Join Rabbi Dorsch for an informal Torah study class. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2J5zRim.

and a Village Caught in Between – Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Featuring Michael Dobbs, author and researcher, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in conversation with Rick Folbaum, anchor, CNN International. Join Dobbs as he describes the individual stories of escape and tragedy and explores the human impact of Americans’ responses to the refugee crisis in the 1930s and 1940s.

“The Unwanted” will be available for purchase during the event. The book is part of a groundbreaking educational initiative at the museum that includes the new Americans and the Holocaust exhibition. Tickets: $10 per person, $5 per person with the coupon code: LEC34. For more information and to purchase tickets, www.bit.ly/1NNvgdT.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6

Atlanta Jewish Academy – 8th Grade Recognition Ceremony – At-

lanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Atlanta, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m..

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/2vYpDrj.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7

Friday Night Live – Congregation Magical Mondays – William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

For children ages 6 to 12 years old and their families. Do you want to learn some magic? This summer at The Breman, you’ll have your chance. Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. By summer’s end you’ll be a regular Houdini. Free for members, regular admission for non-members. For more information, www.bit.ly/2FRA3yP.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz,

Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Shearith Israel’s monthly, spirited, song-filled Friday evening service followed by a lovely oneg and socializing. It’s a wonderful way to welcome Shabbat.

Free. For more information, www.bit. ly/2Gp5SRI.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8

Tikkun Leil Shavuot – Congregation Etz Chaim, 1190 Indian Hills Parkway NE, Marietta, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.

The theme is “The People Who Choose.”

Join Etz Chaim as it hears stories from congregants who converted to Judaism along with a complimentary Torah study led by Rabbi Dorsch. Dairy desserts will be provided. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2Vp1gxe.

Find more events and submit items for our online and print calendars at:

www.atlantajewishconnector.com

Calendar sponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Connector, an initiative of the AJT. In order to be considered for the print edition, please submit events two weeks in advance. Contact community relations director, Jen Evans, for more information at jen@atljewishtimes.com.

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COMMUNITY SIMCHA SPOTLIGHT

Mazel Tov

Maxwell Greenbaum

Birth Announcement Jonah Shai Wilkins

Marissa and Brad Wilkins are overjoyed to announce the birth of their son, Jonah Shai Wilkins, April 9, 2019.

The proud grandparents are Amanda and Al Shams of Sandy Springs and Ilene and Ron Wilkins of Orlando. The greatgrandparents are Anita Reiter of Atlanta and Geraldine and Milton Kilberg of Orlando. Proud aunties and uncles are Samantha Shams and Brie, Jake, Ray, Shawn, Mark and Truman Wilkins.

Jonah is named in memory of his late great-grandfathers Joseph Reiter (Marissa’s maternal grandfather) and Solomon Shams (Marissa’s paternal grandfather).

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Ben Franklin Academy rising senior Maxwell Greenbaum is the junior assistant scoutmaster for Troop 631. At a court of honor recently, he was awarded the William T. Hornaday Award patch for work in conservation in the field of invasive species. He is one of only 85 scouts nationally to receive this award.

He also was awarded both the Dr. Bernard Harris bronze medal and the Thomas Alva Edison silver medal for his work in STEM by completing many tasks and programs in technology, math, agriculture and engineering, and for administering STEM programs to Cub Scouts. He is the first scout in his troop to be presented with any of these, let alone all three.

In addition, he received the Paul Bunyan Woodsman award for conservation, a second Eagle silver palm for earning 30 additional merit badges and the National Outdoor Award for riding.

His family and Ben Franklin Academy are very proud of him.

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COMMUNITY

Meet the Press

Multicultural Student of Architecture Designs AJT Pages

By Roni Robbins Worldly, multicultural experience and an education in architecture give artistic depth to the creative and media director behind the weekly layout of the AJT. Joining the staff just over a year ago, Deborah Herr Richter brings a breadth of knowledge to the paper far beyond her 29 years. It was partly gained from teaching, in English and Spanish, to low-income fifth-graders in the Bronx and East Harlem, having a mother from Colombia, and losing her father when she was 11. Not to mention living in several countries and speaking a handful of languages.

Originally from Baltimore, she attended Jewish day school and lived in Israel for a bit, where she mastered Hebrew while also speaking fluent Spanish and English. In addition to traveling around Europe, she studied abroad in Florence, Italy.

Of all the languages she speaks, she said, “Italian is probably my favorite language because it’s so emotive and sounds almost like music.”

Talk about a creative background broader than what meets the eye. “I’ve been singing since I could talk,” she said.

From a young age, she sang with the Peabody Children’s Chorus in Baltimore, performing classical and folk music. And in college, she joined an all-female a cappella group, the Washington University Greenleafs, “where I sang, beat-boxed and got to help record our ‘50 Shades of Green’ album. The whole album is available on Spotify, but my song, ‘The Fear’ is marked explicit for language!”

Her initial goal after college was to “save the world one classroom at a time.

I saw a need and I wanted to help,” she said of her position at Teach for America.

But she became too disenchanted with New York public schools to continue teaching. “They needed superstar teachers and not fresh-faced, hopeful college kids who aren’t experienced.”

After living in New York, Herr Richter and her husband decided to come to Atlanta with his company. “It’s a happening city with a great food, arts and culture scene, but not on a New York budget. The weather also drew us. I retired my snow boots when we moved here.”

At the AJT, she combines her love for the written word with a passion for décor and graphics.

Knowing how to assemble the pieces that make up the polished visuals is a skill that may stem from her early desires

Deborah Herr Richter, second from left, with her family in Tel Aviv.

Among Herr Richter’s talents is singing. She leads a capella here with the Wash U Greenleafs.

Herr Richter enjoys a carnival-themed party in Barranquilla, Colombia.

to be a graphic designer and her studies at Wash U to become an architect. “I always loved design. At the time, I felt like it was cheating to go into graphic design.

Architecture seemed more serious and a better career path.”

Herr Richter remembered scribbling and doodling as a child the interiors of rooms, such as a living room perspective drawing of a couch below a painting. “A lot of fashion too.”

She believes she uses all the skills she learned in college every day at the AJT. It’s “design on a scale that’s more enjoyable to me. To design on the scale of a building feels less personal.”

Having minored in English, Herr Richter started a local women’s book club in Atlanta. She also writes occasionally for the paper. One artistically detailed article was about decorating, so I had to ask whether she thought her Chamblee townhome might be the subject of a future Chai Style Homes? Maybe, on her modest budget, though, she said. “I love seeing new trends in interior design.”

To peek into the innovative psyche of the talented designer, I asked Herr Richter about her favorite AJT covers. The Passover design was the first that came to mind, with its modern interpretation of the parting of the Red Sea. A young male with a backpack walks on a dry passageway with waters rising on either side, revealing the Atlanta skyline stretched before him. As he steps, you can see the footprints he leaves behind in the moist sand.

“It was a little bit of challenge,” Herr Richter recalled about the April 19 cover.

“It was actually the combination of four different graphics.”

She disclosed that her first instinct for the cover was actually to re-create the traditional seder plate or a Judaica graphic. Instead, she produced a modern and local take on the classic Exodus story.

Another fave was the Rosh Hashanah cover. It combined traditional holi-

day symbols with a photo of a beekeeper, illustrating the cover story about a Dunwoody woman who raises the buzzing pollinators in her backyard to produce honey. The story included bee graphics dispersed within the content.

Herr Richter admits she consults with the managing publisher on every cover and it's often that collaboration that produces the final design. Otherwise, it’s “cerebral and what feels right, like assembling a puzzle.”

The AJT’s Chai Style spreads are

good examples. “There is a lot of arranging and rearranging. I try to look at the order of things … and place it on the page in a way that makes sense.”

Beyond the layouts and creations, Herr Richter said she is “acutely aware of my life’s opportunities.” As much as her experience is an accident of birth and circumstance, she also believes her background colors her thinking. It certainly shades, tones and embellishes our pages.

And that’s a good thing for the AJT and our readers. ■

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COMMUNITY OY VEY! HAVE I GOT A PROBLEM...

I stepped to my dilemma.

Dear Rachel, you might relate ed ur . fig I an , er cle e rit how to com As a fellow w d I’m wondering an , rs te the edim wa t fro es re ki lines, pressu ad de right into the mur is, it w ho d you know ok that will I wrote a book, an llected inside a bo co s rd wo ur yo vise, the thrill of tor to rewrite, re ive to finish … them culled eyes, the inner dr of s nd sa ou th stories, some of h e tru reac of n io at er a conglom , I was caresecret.) Naturally Well, my book is de tra a ’s at th h, agonist is all periences. (Shh ry where the prot sto from my own ex e on is e er th only that, but ils. However, his privacy. Not t ec ful to change deta ot pr to rts fo tity to anyone despite my ef revealed his iden ly too recognizable, ar cle at th ils a part of his personal deta that I uncovered is rt I exposed certain pa t rs wo te And the absolu who knows him. imentary. d my tracks, s not very compl wa at th ity al on ought I had covere rs th pe y stl ne ho I , lo writer’s ha a sinking feelImmersed in my the stories. With d se ru pe d an s ed a friendship. ok in my arm d I had just burn until I held the bo ize al re d an ry k and erupt I read that sto e through the mas se t ing in my chest, no d ul wo d y that my frien There was no wa steer clear of . d his desire is to an in justifiable fury l, ua ct lle te in end is an rely intellectual However, this fri time reading pu re su lei s hi ds pically spen across his story. will never come this genre. He ty he at th ce an ch smothered in e is a strong ll him what I did, te literature, so ther I ld ou sh , ht ig that he m But considering two? tells me a thing or he re apologies – befo Sincerely, er A Conflicted Writ

Dear Conflicted, I wonder if many authors stumble in this arena until we become more proficient, or until the repercussions explode in our faces. Perhaps that is why editing is an integral part of the literary process, way before our work lands in the experienced hands of the editor.

It is an art to tell a nonfictional story in a way that leaves readers guessing as to the characters’ identities.

My gut feeling is that if there is a reasonable risk that your friend will discover himself in your book, you must be forthright. As difficult as this confrontation will be, it would be that much more cataclysmic if he approached you after discovering your “treachery” on his own.

Chances are that he will feel betrayed. You took a slice of his private life, without his permission, and exposed it to the world. Not only that, but you demeaned him, revealing a negative side of his persona that had hitherto remained under cover. And he thought you were his friend.

What more can you do than apologize? You can’t take back thousands of books that are comfortably ensconced in stores across the globe. You can offer that if there is a second printing, you will certainly retract that particular story.

Remember, my friend, an apology isn’t satisfying when accompanied by justifications. Simply speak from your heart.

“I never meant to hurt you. I am so terribly sorry. You are worth much more to me than a book. …”

Perhaps he’ll forgive you. He may need time, and wisdom dictates stepping back and giving him that space. In the ideal scenario, he will come back to you and say, “Yep, you goofed alright. But you are worth so much more to me than a book. …”

We’re all human, and we all goof – some times worse than others. I wish you the best of luck in this sticky confrontation and share your hope for a happy ending.

All the best, Rachel Stein Atlanta Jewish Times Advice Column Got a problem? Email Rachel Stein at oyvey@atljewishtimes. com, describing your problem in 250 words or less. We want to hear from you and get helpful suggestions for your situation at the same time!

Jewish Joke of the Week Yiddish Word of the Week góylem Góylem ‫גולם‬, in Yiddish, an idiot, a slob, a bum; from the Hebrew gólem ‫גולם‬, originally meaning “unformed substance,” as in Psalms 139:16 ‫“ ּגָ לְ ִמי ָראּו ֵעינֶ יָך‬your eyes saw my unformed substance,” expressing the psalmist’s humility before his shaper. Rabbinic Hebrew (Mishnah and later) extended the term to non-tangible qualities, contrasting the gólem with the wise.

The Million-Dollar Question for G-d A poor man walking in the forest feels close enough to G-d to ask, “G-d, what is a million years to you?”

G-d replies, “My son, a million years to you is like a second to me.”

The man asks, “G-d, what is a million dollars to you?”

G-d replies, “My son, a million dollars to you is less than a penny to me. It means almost nothing to me.”

The man asks, “So G-d, can I have a million dollars?”

And G-d replies, “In a second.”

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In Jewish folk tradition, a gólem is an imperfect but super-powered man-made living creature, mentioned in several sources over the centuries, including the Talmud. The most famous gólem story involves a 16th century rabbi known as the Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel), who is said to have shaped a super-sized and powerful anthropomorphic figure from clay and given it life using the sacred name of the Almighty and other Hebrew words and incantations, for the purpose of defending the Jews from anti-Semitic attacks. Several stories deal with deactivating the gólem for Shabbat and reactivating it after Shabbat and about what happened to it eventually. Golem became a Pokémon character, and it has been suggested that The Hulk was inspired by the gólem stories.

The crude shape, unrefined manners and dormant state when not activated of the gólem must have inspired the use of his name in Yiddish and Hebrew as a derogatory or poking term for socially awkward, clueless, passive or irresponsible boys or men. Examples: “Moishe, stop being a góylem. Go greet aunt Pesya, and don’t forget to smile!” “Óylem góylem ‫( עולם גולם‬crazy world), they have raised taxes again!”

Rabbi Joab Eichenberg-Eilon, PhD, teaches Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic at the Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, eTeacher Group Ltd.

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Rabbi Philip N. Kranz Learning Center in honor of its spiritual leader, who donated his book collection.

15 Years Ago// May 28, 2004

25 Years Ago// May 20, 1994

■ Two Jewish building projects won awards. Holden Construction Co. won Best Interior Project of the Build Georgia Awards presented by the Association for General Contractors for its work on the Anne Frank Museum at Kennesaw State University. Also, the Atlanta Urban Design Commission cited the restoration of the historic sanctuary of The Temple for an award of excellence. Mayor Shirley Franklin presented the certificate to The Temple president Jay Schwartz, Stanley Daniels of Jova/Daniels/Busby, and Brent Reid of Winter Construction Co. on May 18.

■ Congregation Or VeShalom Hebrew School Graduation was held Sunday, May 22.

Graduates included: Ryan Benator, Isaac Burns, Jared Degnan, Daniel Kalamaro, Lindsey Light and Julie Soriano. Special recognition was awarded to Leeor Ben-Moshe.

50 Years Ago// May 23, 1969 As part of its renovation, Temple Sinai is building a Rabbi Philip Kranz Learning Center.

■ To create more spiritual and inviting sanctuaries, local synagogues began construction projects that continued through the summer. Reform Temple Kehillat Chaim renovated its sanctuary to contain flexible seating, a 9-by-9-foot stained glass window behind the new arc, a new bimah and Torah table. Temple Sinai in Sandy Springs renovations included expanding the sanctuary, a two-story school wing, an upgraded social hall and more parking spots. Temple Sinai also began building the

■ Weather caused the postponement of the groundbreaking at the new Jewish Home facilities on Howell Mill Road. William Breman, president of Central Board, and Elliott L. Haas, chairman of the groundbreaking committee, announced that the event would be held on June 8. Officials hoped that the weather would clear and permit more progress on the grounds during the intervening weeks as little or none was possible the six weeks prior because of rain.

■ The Mr. and Mrs. Club of the Ahavath Achim Synagogue sponsored a picnic that was held at Zaban Park Sunday, May 25. Father and Son contests and games were held, and the highlight of the day was the baseball game between the board of directors of the synagogue and the young men of USY. Members of the Hawks basketball team were the umpires of the game.

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OBITUARIES

Ruby Saks 103

Ruby Saks passed away May 9, 2019 at age 103. She was the daughter of Fannie and Isaac Macarov, born on September 8, 1915, in Savannah. At an early age she and her mother returned to Atlanta where she attended school and graduated from Commercial High School. Shortly after graduation she moved to New York City where she worked for the Joint Distribution Committee.

At the end of World War II, she donned khakis and served as a case worker in a Displaced Persons camp near Vienna, helping Holocaust survivors resettle, where she met her husband to be, J. Benson Saks.

On July 18, 1948, they were married in Baltimore. Following her husband’s employment, they lived in Philadelphia; Youngstown, Ohio; Miami and Nashville and very much enjoyed their beach home in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Both had a great love for animals and owned two Saint Bernard dogs and two special cats named Tippecanoe and Tyler Too. Ruby was an avid bridge player and loved watching derbies and dog shows on TV. Following the death of her husband, she went on several cruises per year on the Crystal cruise line and always had one or more guests accompany her as she saw the world.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband J. Benson Saks, and her brother David Macarov. She is survived by her sister-in-law Frieda Macarov, her foster brother Henry Birnbrey, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. The funeral took place May 13, 2019 at the Arlington Cemetery in Baltimore.

Shelley Kaplan Wiseley 58, Columbus, Ga.

Shelley Kaplan Wiseley of Columbus, Ga., passed away May 14, 2019, at age 58 after a long illness. The youngest daughter of Frances and Arthur Kaplan of Atlanta, Shelley was a 1978 graduate of Briarcliff High School and a 1982 graduate of Georgia State University with a degree in mathematics.

She began her teaching career at Lithonia High School as a mathematics teacher. She left teaching in 1984 to begin her family, but returned to teaching at the Yeshiva High School in Atlanta, until the birth of her third child.

As her children entered school she returned to teaching, first at Blessed Trinity High School in Roswell, and then Brookstone School when the family moved to Columbus, Ga., in 2007.

She continued to teach high school mathematics until 2018. The greatest joys in her life were her children, grandchildren, students, and summers spent at the beach.

She is survived by her husband, Oscar Lee Wiseley, Jr., to whom she was married for 35 years; daughters Rachel and Abigail; son Michael (Danielle); and two grandchildren, Banks and Olivia.

Shelley is also survived by her sister Judge Debra (Nelson) Turner; sister-in-law Sarah Wiseley (Phillip) Elie, and seven nieces and nephews.

A celebration of Shelley’s life will be held at 2:30 p.m. June 9, at Brookstone School in Columbus. In lieu of flowers, donations in Shelley’s memory may be made to Columbus Hospice of Georgia & Alabama, www.columbushospice.com, and Brookstone School. Fond memories and condolences may be shared for the Wiseley family at www.shcolumbus.com. ■

‫זיכרונה לברכה‬ Obituaries in the AJT are written and paid for by the families; contact Managing Publisher Kaylene Ladinsky at kaylene@atljewishtimes.com or 404-883-2130, ext. 100, for details about submission, rates and payments. Death notices, which provide basic details, are free and run as space is available; send submissions to editor@atljewishtimes.com.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS

Treating Children Equally I used to be bothered by he was thought to be dead, Jathe way in which our patricob then favored his youngarchs treated their children. est son, Benjamin, unwilling Abraham had two children, at first to send him to Egypt first Ishmael and then Isaac. because he so favored him.

When Ishmael laughed deI asked this question to risively at a celebration for Rabbi Emanuel Feldman [rabIsaac, Sarah, Abraham’s bi emeritus of Congregation wife, insisted that Ishmael Beth Jacob] and he responded be cast out from the family that our patriarchs treated and Abraham agreed. Abra- Allen H. their children correctly beham sent Ishmael away with Lipis cause they were prophetic his mother, giving them only The Bottom Line and could visualize what the bread and a bottle of water. future would bring. “Treat Isaac and Rebekah had twin sons. your children equally,” the rabbi said.

When Rebekah heard that Isaac wanted In my family, I always believed that to first bless his son, Esau, she dressed up my parents loved me with my sister, and Jacob to appear to be Esau, because she fa- I followed that practice with my children. vored Jacob over Esau. Rebekah managed I saw this also to be the case with my to get Jacob to steal Esau’s blessing from uncles and aunts, who loved all of their Isaac. Isaac favored Esau, while Rebekah children. Indeed, I came to believe that favored Jacob. the morally correct practice was to avoid And then we have Jacob, who had 12 favoring one child over another. As a resons, but favored Joseph above them all, sult, we always had a gift for each child because he was the son of his old age. Ja- of a similar amount, and we took special cob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, a care when they were young to avoid facoat no other brother had. His brothers voring one child over another.

However, treating my children resented Joseph for being the favorite so much that they decided to kill him. When equally got harder and harder to do as

they grew. I have three children and two graduated from the [Greenfield] Hebrew Academy, and the third graduated from a different school. She had a different early education. In high school, they went to the same school, but then they parted in how they educated themselves in college.

One child lives here in Atlanta, another lives in Texas, and a third lives in Europe. And now with nine grandchildren, my wife and I want to treat all of them equally, but it is impossible. We can’t see our grandchildren equally, we don’t support them equally, and we don’t have the same relationship with them, partly because of the geographic distance, but mostly because they are different.

The issue in treating our children and grandchildren equally differs depending on whether it is loving them and having a relationship with them, or helping them financially and in other ways.

Each of them have different needs and wants. Each of them are at different stages in their lives, and each of them may want our help in different ways.

For one child, my wife and I can help in growing her business, while another child doesn’t need that kind of

help. Some of our grandchildren have specific needs, while other grandchildren do not. Some of our grandchildren want more of our time, and some need more of our money. In the end, my wife and I decided that we would not keep track of what we do for any child or any grandchild. We wouldn’t keep track of the time we devoted to any of them to make it equal or keep track of whatever we gave each of them. We would continue to love all of them, but we would provide for each according to their needs, and that meant not equally.

And so, in thinking more deeply about why our patriarchs favored one child over another, I have concluded that it isn’t possible to treat each child equally in every way. Children have different needs, not just financially, but also in relationships. Yes, we love them, but when that love translates to spending time with them or spending money on them, it is not equal. It is not for lack of love; it is because their needs are different.

The Bottom Line: For children and grandchildren, love them all, but recognize that their needs for relationships and finances are different. ■

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