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NEWS

Jewish Community Walks for Autism Support TEAM AMIT RAISES FUNDS, AWARENESS, HOPE

By Karen Paz

For The Atlanta Jewish Times

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amilies, schools, synagogues, agencies and businesses created teams or joined together under TEAM AMIT as part of the Atlanta Jewish community’s support for the 2012 Autism Speaks Walk. TEAM AMIT has been the top company fundraising team since 2009 thanks to the individual teams who have come together from the community in support of Autism Speaks.

The 1.5-mile walk took place May 20 at Atlantic Station. TEAM AMIT’s booth at the morning’s resource fair provided information about special needs services and programs in the Jewish community including The Amit Program, Jewish Family and Career Services, the Marcus Jewish Community Center, Camp Yofi, Friendship Circle and Camp Living Wonders.

Autism is a complex brain disorder that often inhibits a person’s ability to communicate, respond to their surroundings or form relationships with others. Autism spectrum disorders affect people of all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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The most recent CDC statistics now show that 1 in 88 children in the United States are being diagnosed with autism, making it more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined. Still, the cause of autism is unknown, and there are no specific medical treatments or a cure for autism.

Most people with autism require lifelong supervision and care; only seven percent of children with autism go on to be independent. Recent studies suggest that more than 1 million Americans are living with an autism spectrum disorder, but despite this strikingly high prevalence, autism research remains one of the lowest funded areas of medical research by both public and private sources.

Only through biomedical research will we ever understand what causes autism and develop methods to di2 agnose autism. TEAM AMIT and

the rest of the Autism Speaks Walk participants helped support funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure; raise public awareness and its effects on individuals, families and society; and bring hope to all who deal with the hardships of the disorder.

Top: Susan and Randy Newman formed Team Awareness in honor of their son Asher.

Above Left: The Blumenthal/Rodencal family, whose team Zach’s Zealous Friends walked for their son Zach.

Above Right: Mark Roithmayr, president of Autism Speaks (left) with Karen Paz, Director of Programming and Development at The Amit Program, in front of TEAM AMIT’s booth at the resource fair.

PHOTOS/courtesy Karen Paz

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NEWS

Lions Bring Home The Trophy YESHIVA IS JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL WORLD SERIES CHAMPION

This year’s Invitational, hosted

by The Columbus Torah Academy in Columbus, Ohio, began May 17. For this third iteration of the competition, six Jewish high school teams traveled from different cities to compete for the coveted World Series of Jewish High School baseball.

Beyond Kushner, YA and host Columbus Torah, teams participating included Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael (Atlanta), Ida Crown High School (Chicago) and Ramaz High School (New York). Yeshiva Atlanta pitcher Yondi Kadosh was chosen the MVP of the tournament, and Gary Friedlander and Chad Shapiro, also YA pitchers, received recognition for their outstanding performances. Noah

Frankel received the game ball for his outstanding double play at third base during the championship game.

The Lions together represent a total of five different synagogues around the Atlanta area: Congregation Ariel, Congregation Beth

Jacob, Young Israel of Toco Hills, Congregation Beth Tefillah and Chabad of Alpharetta.

A presentation of the championship trophy to the school was held on Tuesday May 22 in the school Auditorium.

LEFT: Yeshiva Atlanta senior Yondi Kadosh throws a pitch in the championship game.

ABOV E: The champions are (standing, left to right) Coach Steve Strauss, Zev Frankel, Yondi Kadosh, Noah Frankel, Daniel Strauss, Chad Shapiro, Josh Weissmann, Avi Goodfriend, Isaiah Blanks, Coach Harold Schroeder and (kneeling) Myles Ratner, Gary Friedlander, Aaron Siegel and Ari Solomon.

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eshiva High School of Atlanta won 8-5 over Kushner Academy (Livingston, N.J.) in the thrilling threehour-plus extra-inning championship game of the Columbus Baseball Invitational. A hearty mazel tov goes out to the Lions, who went undefeated for the tournament.

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IF YOU ASK ME

The Knesset’s Coalition is Hopeful SHAUL MOFAZ ASIDE

By Noga Gur-Arieh AJT Columnist

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n Israel, everyone and anyone can start their own political party – with any agenda – and run for election.

This announcement came as a surprise, I admit, but it wasn’t like it happened a week before the elections, after other parties spent a lot of money on publicity, advertisement and campaigning. The decision wasn’t made

Livny might have been a little to unwilling to bend at times, and that may have prevented her from becoming the prime minister. But Mofaz created no terms for his deal with Bibi; a chair in the Cabinet, and that’s that.

This makes every Knesset various and colorful, as it is made up of several parties.

The current Knesset, for example, has delegators from no less than 13 parties.

On the one hand, this is a good thing: Having many groups within the Israeli population represented when big decisions are being made is very healthy for the people. On the other hand, having so many parties representing so many agendas is making the Knesset very fragile, which is very unhealthy for the country.

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It is hard for me to remember a Knesset which stuck together for the whole four years of a term. It usually takes between a year-and-ahalf to three years before ministers get fed up, the prime minister can’t please all parties, the coalition falls apart and we go back to elections.

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This time we were this close to complete a full term: only nine more months would have brought us full-circle. That is why I was thrilled to hear that the

two biggest parties represented in the Knesset, Likud and Kadima, decided to stop and think before calling it quits and subsequently made a deal to form a unified government.

“on time,” per se, but it was made before it was too late.

This was a last attempt to save the current Knesset, and for once, make the coalition stable and strong. A coalition this big is supposed to help decisions pass and make the country stronger and more vital.

To me, the real problem here is Shaul Mofaz, who really showed his true self. Unlike his predecessor Tzipi Livny, who refused to give up any of her principles, Mofaz proved he had none.

Mofaz did absolutely nothing for the party he represents and the voters who believed in its agenda. No conditions, no nothing. This is a complete surprise and very, very strange.

Conditions (or concessions, or compromises, depending on how you look at it) are what move decision-making and law-passing in our colorful Knesset: “If you want me to vote ‘pro,’ give our party this and that…”

But this Mofaz-Bibi deal (it certainly couldn’t be called a “Kadima-Bibi” deal) comes off even stranger after one reads Mofaz’s statements from the day

before, when he claimed he would never ever join Bibi and instead stick with his principles, yada yada yada.

This agreement seems out of place and has truly destroyed Mofaz’s public figure, but I look at the bottom line, which is that our Knesset will live to see another day. A unity government is all I could ask for: A strong, solid coalition that may actually do something for Israel and not be based on heads of parties fearing for their seat.

I hope this large coalition will be a powerful one, the kind that truly represents the voting population and work together.

Even if Bibi and Mofaz were thinking only of themselves and didn’t have the public in mind when making their arrangment, I want to believe the outcome will be positive.

I may be naïve – I probably am – but I see this change as a good one in the long term. For the first time in many years, I really hope to see a government stick to the end, proving Israel can unite not only externally – in

the way it represents itself among the other nations of the world – but internally, for itself.

Editor’s note: Noga Gur-Arieh visited the U.S. after finishing her military service, working at Camp Coleman.

She is back in Israel now working as a journalist.

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My family and I are so grateful to the fantastic HJDR committee members, particularly Larry Gordon, who was responsible for making this an annual event. Kudos always to the marvelous MJCCA staff, particularly to DeAnne Jacobson, who spent many hours working on the event, and the many volunteers who once again stepped up to the plate to help.

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CHANA’S CORNER

Preparing Toddlers for College INSTILLING JEWISH IDENTITY

By Chana Shapiro AJT Columnist

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y husband and I spend a lot of time with our grandchildren.

We are not foolishly optimistic elders who open bank accounts at a baby’s birth; it’s possible that the investment may some day pay for a month or two of post-high school learning, but who knows? With university costs escalating hourly, there’s no telling how expensive four, six or eight years of higher education will be.

Knowing that today’s money – accrue though it might – cannot be the answer to the future well-being of the grands, we sought ways to endow them with something as good as a boatload of cash. We had to become useful antecedents, playing our part

in the future ego strength, social consciousness, and yiddishkeit of these young offspring.

I offer the following true-life vignettes for your consideration.

Our little morality tale begins several years ago, in the children’s section of my favorite second-hand emporium, on its weekly half-price day.

Once the grands started wearing real clothes and playing with something other than toilet paper rolls, I blissfully headed toward this area of the store.

There were oodles of toddler-appropriate shirts and pants, which looked to me just like the trendy, high-end ones at the mall. Only these were priced at $.99 and $1.99. And, glory be, it was another half-off!

I bought everything I could find that would fit the kids and which did not have any offensive stains (blood!)

or shocking slogans (“Satan’s Little Helper”). Then I purposefully plowed through the used toy section and filled the rest of my shopping cart. The foray – remember, the shopping cart was full – came to a total of $21.

When I presented the above-mentioned gems to our daughters, who should have been thrilled with the windfall, they scrutinized and critiqued each item.

“Most of these books are missing pages, all the toys that still have their parts need batteries, and how many Captain Kangaroo stretch pants and Partridge Family T-shirts do the kids really need?” they said.

“Do we have to keep everything?” they asked.

“Of course not,” I answered, stoically controlling my true emotions. “I can give these lovely things to pitiful children who do not have loving, frugal grandmothers to clothe, educate and entertain them. Besides, a lot of this stuff is collectible, classic, vintage.”

Our daughters rolled their eyes and sighed deeply, but guilt, when applied judicially, often works. Even today, when I see Miriam or Zelly in something I bought for 50 cents, I celebrate the liberation of a few more dollars for those college funds.

Then there’s the matter of self-control concerning junk food. Ingesting large quantities of artificial flavoring, white flour, saturated fat, salt, sugar and permanently-staining food coloring is heaven to toddlers.

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Stumped, I wondered, what would our Jewish sages do? I remembered that the rebbes of yore welcomed students on the first day of school with candy, placed on the holy books they were about to study; this controlled use of candy subliminally embedded the sweetness of learning.

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So I took a page from their book, so to speak. In order to control our grandchildren’s consumption of candy, cake and other nosherei, I established the rule of “Shabbos treats.”

On that special day, the ingestion of non-nutritional fare would be acceptable, linking sweetness with the day of rest.

On all other days of the week, these victuals would be taboo. Concurrently, the “only-on-Shabbos” principle also taught them the days of the week: “Bubbe, is today Shabbos?”

“No, sweetie, it’s Monday. Five days to go.”

“Bubbe, is it almost Shabbos?”

“No, honey, it’s Tuesday. Four days to go.”

And so forth. I admit that, for now, the love of the Sabbath is still heavily linked to chocolate, but one hopes that the junk-food-loving seeds planted today will mature into full-grown young adults who make sure there is a weekly kiddush on their college campuses; and with the money I’m saving on clothes at the thrift store, we can probably sponsor some of those kiddushim.

Speaking of the Sabbath, one Friday afternoon, our granddaughter, Miriam, started clapping, dancing and singing “Shabbat Shalom.”

“C’mon, Bubbe, sing with me!” she urged. We happened to be in the local Kroger dairy section at the time.

Since she was blessed with excellent pre-school voice projection, her request was noted by many on-lookers. Wanting to capture the moment of positive Jewish identity, yet not provoke the other shoppers, I sang the words along with her in my quietest voice.

“Why are you whispering, Bubbe?” she asked. Why, indeed?

I threw caution to the wind and sang along. I’d like to say that a talent scout for a multi-generational Jewish reality show spotted us and signed us on the spot, but what really happened was that most people purposefully ignored us, shoppers who were my age smiled and nodded in recognition, and little three-year-old Miriam, proud and confident, had a swell time.

Out in the parking lot, a woman came up to me.

“I hope she’ll still do that when she’s in college!” she laughed.

I hope so, too. While she’s preparing kiddush.

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From left to right, past Jewish presidents of NAPO Judith Kolberg, Allison Spitzer Carter and Leslie Walden with (far right) current president Michelle Grey.

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Grey Named NAPO President Michelle Grey, elected in March and active in office as of May 15 as the new president of the National Association of Professional Organizers, becomes the fourth Jewish president of the 17-year-old organization.

Grey, owner of AIP Organizing Solutions, is an active member of the community in Marietta and attends Congregation Etz Chaim. She has been organizing for nearly a decade, specializing in both office organization and organizing students through her partnership with Student Organizers of Atlanta.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Grey attended Carnegie Mellon University and received a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and Business and later attended Columbia University and received a master’s Degree in Organizational Psychology. In 2007, she became a Certified Professional Organizer and was a member of the first group of organizers across the country to pass the exam and qualify for this distinction having had the requisite experience.

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News from Keturah Hadassah NEW BOARD, AWARDS ANNOUNCED

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Rita Loventhal, a former Ketura president, performed the installation of the new board, headed by copresidents Sybil Ginsburg and Annie Kohut.

Other highlights of the evening included a gift from the board presented

by Sybil Ginsburg to outgoing co-president Sheila Dalmat for an outstanding three years of service. Joan Solomon received the 2011-2012 Ketura Hadassah Leadership Award.

Top Teft:The new Ketura Board includes (front row, left to right) Elaine Clein, Arlene Glass, Rita Goldstein, co-presidents Annie Kohut and Sybil Ginsburg, Helene Jacoby, Fran Redisch, Joan Solomon, (back row) Ellen Frank, Dorothy Scherr, Nancy St. Lifer, Ellen Keith and Cindy Tracy. Not pictured are Judy Greenberg, Reba Herzfield, Katie Kloder, Reina Nuernberger, Carol Schneider, Helen Sharfstein and Arlene Winn.

Right: Joan Solomon (left) receives the Ketura Hadassah Leadership Award, presented by Sheila Dalmat. PHOTOS/courtesy Joan Solomon

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n the evening of May 7, members and guests of the Ketura Group of Greater Atlanta Hadassah convened at the Mirage Restaurant to celebrate the installation of officers for the 2012-2013 year. Sheila Parks coordinated the event.

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COMMUNITY

J-Serve Unites Jewish Teens in Tikkun Olam YOUTH VOLUNTEER ACROSS METRO AREA

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ore than 500 Jewish teens in Atlanta grades six to 12 recently joined with thousands of youth the world over as they participated in J-Serve, a national day of community service and improvement projects during the month of April. Across the metro area, the goal was tikkun olam.

J-Serve is the annual community service program for young Jews throughout the world, and since 2005, J-Serve has been part of Youth Service America’s Global Youth Service Initiative. Participating in these community service projects allows teens to see first-hand how their actions have a direct impact on our city’s future.

Some of the Atlanta J-Serve 2012 Projects Included: • Daffodil Dash at Georgia Perimeter College: A one-mile and 5K walk/run in memory of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust.

• AIDS Quilt: Founded in 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial and the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. The quilt continues to grow and reach more communities with its messages of remembrance and hope.

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• The Gatewood Ronald McDonald House: Teens prepared a hearty brunch for people staying at the Ronald McDonald House, which is dedicated to providing temporary housing and support services to families of ill and injured children being treated at local hospitals.

• The Gateway Center: Teens volunteered their time at this center that is designed to serve as the “gateway” to the community, helping individuals move out of homelessness.

• Chastain Park Conservancy: Teens lent a helping hand to beautify the park and learn about conservation 10 efforts.

• Project Open Hand: Teens prepared and packaged food that would be delivered to Atlanta’s homebound and terminally ill.

• Morgan Falls Recycling Center: Teens worked together to beautify and clean up the city.

In an effort to invite all Jewish teens and tweens to participate in Atlanta JServe 2012, the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta partnered with: Am Yisrael Chai, Amy’s Holiday Party, BBYO, BBYO Connect, Club 678, Congregation Or Hadash, JCC Maccabi Team Atlanta, Jewish Student Union, MJCCA’s Teen Community Service, Temple Emanu-El, The Davis Academy, Israeli Scouts, Young Israel of Toco Hills, The Weber School and Congregation Etz Chaim.

“We were so excited to have had the opportunity to participate in this day of education and community awareness.

We hope this will inspire more teens to get involved in community service in Atlanta,” said Amy Helman-Darley, MJCCA teen community outreach and education director.

After the service projects were completed, participants from all of the various sites came together at the MJCCA’s Zaban Park for a closing ceremony to reflect on the day’s physical and spiritual components and how they tied together. Finally, community service certificates were given to conclude the meaningful day.

Top Right: Jewish teens help promote AIDS awareness, acceptance and safe practice with the AIDS Quilt.

Middle: Helping to beautify Atlanta for J-Serve, Jewish teens connect with each other and their city.

Bottom: At the Morgan Falls Recycling Center, Jewish teens volunteering for J-Serve do their part in “repairing the world.”

PHOTOS/courtesy MJCCA

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Hebrew Order of David’s Lodge Carmel and ML4 Foundation MAKING IT HAPPEN

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ndividually, people are presented many opportunities to do something good for another person or cause. It feels good to know you have made a difference.

Collectively, as we see from the plethora of humanitarian organizations around the world, when people come together to make a difference, the impact is usually much greater, and the good done can reach a much larger scope.

And on April 22, after months of preparation, the ML4 Foundation powered by Hebrew Order of David’s Lodge Carmel (HOD) hosted an evening at Congregation B’nai Torah that demonstrated just that.

“It is powerful to recognize the potential when we as individuals come together for the greater good and in support of each other,” said Randy Gold, a community member whose daughter Eden is affected by Mucolipidosis Type IV (ML4), a genetic disease found mostly in Ashkenazi Jews.

It was an event to remember, as more than 400 people filled the hall. The emcee for the event, HOD member David Cohen, afterwards remarked how he had attended many events, of all sizes, but that this one was different.

“From start to finish it took 48 minutes,” he said. “And on top of that, the people were glued to the presentation, and nobody was rushing to go anywhere once it was complete.”

Doug Stein, the current Lodge president, decided to make ML4 the main beneficiary of the year‘s philanthropy and was received with full support of the membership.

Stein spoke about HOD as a unique global fraternity of Jewish men, then presented the 2012 tribute award to Howard Solomon for his participation in Lodge Carmel and HOD globally as well as for his active involvement in the community.

Solomon delivered a very gracious response, praising all his HOD brethren for the many good deeds of charity they accomplish.

“It is quite evident that all of us present this evening are here for a reason,” Solomon said.

“Making a difference is part of our make-up.”

Solomon mentioned that, being in the jewelry business, he is often asked, “Is the price of diamonds and gold going up or down?”

His response: “Diamonds have increased five to 10 percent per annum over the past 10 years; gold, on the other hand, has had about a six-fold increase.

“But there is a human element of gold, that of Eden Gold. Let her be our motivating force for our generosity this evening. Investing in ML4 will prove to be a very safe and gold medal-winning investment.”

HOD members David Cohen, David Bloom, Howard Solomon and Doug Stein flanking Randy Gold. PHOTO/Eric Bern

want is your help to find a cure.”

“We are thrilled to be able to do our part,” Stein said after the conclusion of the event. “People hung around and schmoozed [tonight], and many wanted to meet Eden and her family. That is most unusual at

an event when the audience knows they are being solicited for a donation.”

A huge success, the evening raised nearly $200,000 for the ML4 Foundation. Donations are always accepted at ML4.org/donate.

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Solomon also thanked HOD brother David Bloom, Mrs. Helen Zalik and Mrs. Rifki Freundlich for spearheading event organization and acknowledged the HOD wives for their support.

Randy Gold provided an emotional explanation of ML4 and how it affects little Eden, bringing the story into everyone’s heart.

“Doctors say that children with ML4 will likely never walk, never talk, will have a maximum mental capacity of about 18 months, will go blind by age 12 and will have a limited lifespan. Ever since we received Eden’s diagnosis in August 2009, Caroline and I have prayed for the courage to make our lives a blessing.

“Tonight, I am asking you to have the courage to make your life a blessing by making a donation to help find a cure for Eden and other children like her with ML4,” he said.

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Our industries, our

itive about change by empowering

society and even our planet are in a

your workforce: Reward people who

state of flux as we struggle to come

have good and innovative ideas and

to terms with turbulent economies,

let them have a say in implementing

dwindling resources and a changing

them. Offer both praise and mon-

climate.

etary rewards for innovation.

In “The Sixth Wave,” a book on

So, in this time of transformation,

business and innovation, authors

stay alert and keep well informed.

Moody and Nogrady predict that we

Look out for the winds of change.

are on the cusp of the next great wave

Seek advice. A Business Diagnostic

of change for the future. They also

and Performance Review with your

demonstrate that periods of change

RAN ONE accountant might be a

in history have always been the time

good way to help you scan the exter-

when the greatest opportunities ex-

nal environment for changes in the

ist for the introduction of new tech-

industry that could sooner or later

nologies, products and services and

have an impact on your business, as

for inspired ideas about whole new

well as analyze the internal opera-

ways of doing things.

tional strengths and weaknesses of

If you see change as a threat, you’re taking a “glass-half empty” perspective. You probably say, “I can’t keep up with this constant technological innovation. There’s something new to learn every week. It’s like I never left high school!”

You’ll

be

annoyed

your business as part of the process. you’ll be the first to step in and relieve them of a few customers. You’ll say to yourself, “I’m a small business. team. Adaptability is my middle

You look ahead with anticipation, not with anxiety.

You think, “Well, some of my prod-

You’ll wince whenever you hear of

ucts are nearing

competitors introducing new busi-

the end of their

ness processes. You’ll see change as

life cycle. What’s

the slings and arrows of business

MAY 25 ▪ 2012

change as an opportunity, you’re taking a “glass-half full” perspective.

You are likely to think, “Every time there’s a change, new niches open up for me.”

You know that some of your com12 petitors will be slow to adapt and

they can a CEO of a large corporation – you’re responsive.

there’s a new trend in management.

On the other hand, if you see

can reach you much more easily than

I have a small, flexible and effective

whenever

misfortune.

particular customers, and customers

the next big thing? name. We’re the ‘make it happen’ people!”

How can I surprise and delight my loyal customers with something that they don’t even

While your larger competitors

realize they want?”

need to look ahead a year or more,

If you take this attitude, business

you’ll change focus much more quickly. If you’re a manufacturer, you have smaller production runs, so you can customize to suit the needs of

will become more of a game than a chore. You’ll feel freer to think creatively. And you’ll try to communicate this attitude to your team.

Yes, it may mean major change for your business, but the way to look at that change is to see it as the opportunity for growth and improvement.

Editor’s note: Steven G. Rothschild is a CPA and CFP at Robinson, Rabinowitz & Bernstein, P.C. RRB is a member of Member of Ran One, an international network of consulting and CPA firms; learn more at rrbcpa. com. This article is not altered in any way to give an incorrect impression of the content of the original; copyright 2012, Bullseye Business Systems Pty. Ltd., all rights reserved, reprinted with permission from ranone.com.

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BUSINESS & FINANCE

The Call for Presbyterian Caution ANOTHER THREAT OF DIVESTMENT AJT Columnist

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s I wrote several weeks ago, the United Methodist Church had its national conference in Tampa, Fla., where it considered a recommendation to divest the church’s holdings in three companies that do business with Israel.

The conference turned down that recommendation by a vote of 685246, and for that, we were thankful.

A church official stated: “The decision of United Methodists against divestment rejects simplistic one-sided blame that characterizes so much anti-Israel advocacy…Hopefully, other churches, like the Presbyterian Church (USA), will follow United Methodists in resisting calls to pressure Israel alone into making concessions.”

That second assertion is important, as the Presbyterian Church will vote on similar resolutions to divest from these three companies at its national General Assembly at the end of June. The Atlanta JCRC is working with the national JCPA to convince participants in the Presbyterian conference to reject this proposal.

The impetus for these proposals finds one of its origins in a document entitled “Kairos Palestine,” which is a centerpiece for Palestinian Christians, who make up less than 6 percent of the Palestinian population.

An important provision of this document, which lays out all of the grievances of the Palestinians, is the following: “If there were no occupation, there would be no resistance, no fear and no insecurity…Therefore, we call on the Israelis to end the occupation.

“Then they will see a new world in which there is no fear, no threat but rather security, justice and peace.”

Thus, the Kairos document makes its central point that if the settlements and the accompanying military presence did not exist, there would be no Palestinian resistance and no security issues for Israel. This also makes a crucial mistake; it could even be characterized as a lie.

The resistance to Israel and Israelis began in the Middle East before World War II, whereas settlements did not start – and at first were very modest – until well after the Six-Day War in 1967.

The settlements are not the real issue. However, they continue to be the focus for many groups, including many religious groups.

Even though the Methodists voted down the divestment recommendation, they did approve a recommendation to boycott “products made by companies in Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.” While this action may not be viewed as egregious as the divestment proposal, it is troublesome nonetheless.

The call for boycotts is troublesome because of the continued focus on placing the blame for the lack of peace solely on the Israelis. It is the Palestinians who are holding up the peace process; if the Palestinians renounced violence against Israel and Israelis and accepted that Palestinians must resettle in the West Bank and Gaza Strip rather than in Israel proper, the conflict would be over shortly.

The boycott is also troublesome because of the impact it would have on the ground. The settlement products to be boycotted include those produced by the 15,000 Palestinians who work in various factories in the West Bank; a factory owner in the Barkan Industrial Park states that his Palestinian workers who freely work there are concerned that a boycott will affect their ability to earn a living.

For these reasons, the boycott will not work to put pressure on Israel but will only work to inflame tensions without addressing the central cause of the conflict, and therefore the central cause of Palestinian suffering.

When will the various religious denominations decide to support the appropriate path to peace and call on their Christian and Muslim brothers to stop this 65-year-old confrontation with Israel?

Editor’s note: Harold Kirtz is President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta (JCRC).

Shabbat Candle Lighting Times Friday, May 25, 2012 Light Candles at: 8:21 p.m.

Shabbat, May 26, 2012 Eve of first day of Shavuot Light Candles after: 9:22 p.m. shabbat blessings Blessing for the Candles Baruch Arah A-do-nai,El-o-hei-nu Melech Haolam Asher Kid-shanu b’mitzvotav V’zivanu l’hadlik ner shel Shabbat Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Sovereign of time and space.

You hallow us with Your mitzvot and command us to kindle the lights of Shabbat.

Monday, May 28, 2012 Shavuot Ends: 9:23 p.m.

Blessing for thw Wine Baruch Atah A-do-nai, El-o-hei-nu Meelech Haolam, Borei p’ri hagafen Praise to You, Eternal our God, Sovereign of the Universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine.

Blessing for the Bread (Challah) Baruch Atah A-do-nai, El-o-hei-nu Melech haolam, Hamotzi Lechem min haaretz.

Our Praise to You Eternal our God, Sovereign of the universe, Who brings forth bread from the earth.

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By Harold Kirtz

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ARTS & LIFE

Atlanta-born Designer Among AJWS Contest Winners FEINBERG’S ‘CHANGE’ WINS $2,500 AND TRIP

A

tlanta-born Lily Feinberg

its ultimate function. The dual mean-

Q: What inspired you to enter

is one of three winners

ing of this word prompts tzedakah

this contest?

of the American Jewish

givers to associate more closely the

World Service’s design

act of physically giving money to the

A: A friend of mine told me about the

competition “Where Do You Give?”,

impact it actually can have.

contest and

which challenged artists to create

The following is from an interview

encouraged

a 21st-century icon inspired by the

with Feinberg:

me to sub-

values and imagery of the traditional

A: Art can connect to people through

Q: What is your educational and

I was drawn

Feinberg’s large-scale sculpture,

professional background?

into

“Change,” functions both as a recep-

the

challenge

tacle for tzedakah and as a catalyst

A: I earned my BFA in graphic de-

because

for community engagement in lo-

sign from the University of Georgia. I

prompted

cal causes and reflection on the act

currently work as a graphic designer

me to think

of giving. The structure physically

for the National Building Museum in

about

spells out the word “change,” a word

Washington, D.C. and am also study-

personal

that indicates its contents as well as

ing type design.

tzedakah habits

ANDIE

intellect and emotion and can trans-

mit an idea.

Jewish tzedakah box.

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talk about giving?

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it

my

and

consider what might raise my own

late a complex concept into something

awareness and involvement in giv-

neat and consumable. In this way, it

ing.

can speak on multiple levels to all

The more I thought about the ques-

types of people and hopefully spark

tions this challenge raised and how

reflection, discussion and action.

to effectively make tzedakah a topic of modern American conversation, I

Q: Who is your favorite artist/de-

realized how important this contest

signer?

actually is in reminding people of this important obligation and making it

A: It’s impossible to narrow this down

pertinent to their lives.

to just one person, so to name a handful: Paul Rand, Louise Fili, Paula

Q: Tell us a little bit about the

Scher, Amando Testa, Matteo Bolo-

message you hope to get across

gna and Neil Summerour.

through your design.

As a grand-prize winner, Feinberg will receive $2,500 and a trip to visit

A: The ostensible message of this

AJWS’s grassroots partners in the

sculpture is the play on words: by giv-

Americas, Africa or Asia. Addition-

ing change, you can effect change in

ally, her design and those of the other

your own community.

winners and six finalists will be fea-

But I hope the deeper message

tured in a national mobile tour hosted

– raising the visibility of tzedakah

in galleries, synagogues and various

as an obligation and awareness of

communal spaces.

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ARTS & LIFE

Kosher Movies: A River Runs Through It (1992) DIRECTED BY ROBERT REDFORD

For The Atlanta Jewish Times rabbihjco@msn.com

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one of our children are alike. Over the years, I have understood more and more the wisdom of King Solomon who instructs parents to “educate a child according to his way,” which implies that parenting is not a cookie-cutter skill.

Rather, effective parenting involves understanding the uniqueness of each child and recognizing that success in life can be measured in many different ways. For one, it might be getting an advanced degree; for another, it might be being a very skilled plumber. All we can do is teach children how to navigate life, give them freedom to choose their own path, and pray for the best results.

But, life, like a river, is constantly moving, and we can’t always see what is at the bottom. There is a mystery that we cannot penetrate and unpredictable things can happen after the best parenting efforts.

You can do everything right, and your child may still make bad decisions; your hopes and dreams for that child may never be realized. How do you relate to that child and how do you integrate that outcome into your own life?

“A River Runs Through It” – the autobiography of Norman and Paul, brothers growing up in Missoula, Mont. in the ‘20s – offers suggestions.

The boys’ father, a Presbyterian minister, does his best to parent them while at the same time recognizing their need to follow their own hearts.

Fly-fishing is the activity that bonds

the generations and is the film’s lyrical metaphor for achieving perfection in life.

Norman and his father have an affinity for poetry. When Norman discovers his dad reciting a Wordsworth poem, Norman chimes in and reads alternate verses; thus they achieve a perfect synchronicity of souls.

They truly are on the same wavelength.

While Norman achieves academic success, Paul achieves success as a newspaper reporter and fly fisherman, demonstrating a level of artistic perfection as he catches fish in Blackfoot River.

But Paul hides his addiction to carousing and gambling.

Reverend Maclean, father of Norm and Paul, says it eloquently in a sermon:

“Each one of you will at one time in your lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed?

For it is true we can seldom help those closest to

us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is that those we live with and should know, they still elude us. But we can still love them; we can love completely without complete understanding.”

This is a Jewish sensibility, to be present always in the lives of those we love most, both when they make us proud and when they encounter uncertainty or failure.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Cohen, former principal of Yeshiva Atlanta, now resides in Beit Shemesh, Israel. koshermovies.com.

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Catching a huge fish in the midst of being pulled by a powerful current is a special moment for Paul and his father. For the secret, though, we sense that this brief moment of perfection in the life of father and son will not last.

As Norman narrates the story of his family as an old man, he observes that “life is not a work of art.” He recognizes that in spite of our best efforts, outcomes are beyond our control.

A classic phrase in Jewish prayer is “Our Father, Our King.” When we ask God for help, we appeal to two aspects of the Divine persona: He is our King, the one who makes the rules, and He is also our Father, always there with unconditional love in spite of our shortcomings.

This is the Jewish paradigm for parenting.

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ARTS & LIFE

Berger’s works chosen for airport display STRIKING LANDSCAPE PHOTOS

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loral photographer Hazel Berger has three images

included

in

“Picturing Georgia,” a

show of Georgia landscapes juried

by Amy Miller and Corinne Adams of Atlanta Celebrates Photography at the Hartsfield-Jackson

Hazel Berger

International Airport in Atlanta.

The show, billed as a temporary exhibit and slated for at least one

trip to Barcelona, she decided to start showing and selling her art. She is currently selling

her

photographs

at art festivals across the Southeastern United States.

Navigate

to

hazelberger.

com for the complete list of her works, or view online at magmoment.etsy.com.

Berger lives and works in Marietta with her three children.

year, opened with the new International terminal on May 16 and adorns the walls of the secure area as travelers immigrate into the United States. Berger’s featured images are entitled “Canyon Wall,” The Dance,” and “Providence Canyon.”

In

total,

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work is included; there are 44 images included on three separate hallways of the airport. The photographs are large format images displayed behind Plexiglas pan16

els.

The artists to be showcased were chosen through a closed call for entries. Each photographer was presented

with

an honorarium,

as city ordinance requires one percent of eligible capital construction budgets be dedicated to the arts. More information is available here at acpinfo.org.

Berger has honed her photography skills since taking her first class in 1984. In 2007, after an eye-opening

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LET IT BE READ

“The Horse Adjutant,” by Leon Schagrin and Stephen Shooster BOOK REVIEW

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on, if you survive, tell the story of everything that happened to us. The world must know…you will live longer than any of us.”

These are the last words that Leon Schagrin’s father ever said to him. It was to be the last that Schagrin would ever hear from his family before they were separated. At age 12, he was alone.

The rest of the family died in Belzac, the camp with the single purpose to kill everyone who arrived. Schagrin survived thanks to a miraculous series of twists and turns that would allow him to live to see liberation.

Schagrin’s story is told in “The Horse Adjutant.” A highly personal narrative, the author (with co-author Shooster) tells of his childhood in pre-war Poland – specifically, the small town of Grybow, in which Jews, Christians, Gypsies and Russians lived side-by-side. They went to the same schools, they played together and they went to market day together.

Schagrin was a rambunctious child who would rather wander the hills and forests than go to school.

The narrative of his childhood recalls a peaceful place, a great place, with all kinds of secrets to be discovered. But by the time that he was old enough to become a bar mitzvah, that world is replaced with a hellish limbo filled with unexplained atrocities.

As a boy, Schagrin was always ready to find an excuse to get out of

helping his father, a self-taught veterinarian who had a special gift for treating horses. Ironically, it would be the little that Schagrin did learn about horses that would save him more than once.

As a coach driver for the Schutzstaffel (SS), Schagrin is able to get a little food, and caring for an officer’s prize steed keeps him from the gas chamber. But his ability to handle horses also forces him to witness the extermination of his neighbors; after the Nazis killed people on the street, just to make a point of their cruelty, Schagrin would be ordered to bring a wagon and take the bodies away.

The pages recount Schagrin’s day-to-day struggle to live and his desperate hope to escape Auschwitz.

It is a daily fight to ward off starvation, beatings and selection. While I think many of us who study the Holocaust try to deal with the “big picture,” a story like “The Horse Adjutant” reminds us that it is easy to miss the tree as one tries to understand the forest.

None of us can ever comprehend the death of six million. As we try to comprehend that number, we lose sight of the loss of six million individual lives – the number is just too great and defies our ability to understand.

Accounts like this one remind us that sometimes our greatest understanding is found in the details of a single life. Perhaps the individual stories let us begin the task of recovering the individual faces of a world that was destroyed.

“The Horse Adjutant” is a mustread. It will not teach you about the great battles of the war, it will not explain how human beings could kill

without remorse, and it will not tell you why Schagrin’s world was destroyed.

But it will tell you how one single boy managed to survive to tell us how beautiful his world once was.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Yaakov Thompson is a regular contributor to the South Florida Jewish Journal; more of his writing can be found at yaakovthompson.blogspot.com. More on “The Horse Adjutant” (2011, Shooster Publishing) can be found at thehorseadjutant.com.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Creating a Bar Mitzvah Menu: A falafel is a falafel is a falafel…

WITH APOLOGIES TO GERTRUDE STEIN

By Beverly Levitt For The Atlanta Jewish Times

I

t’s been 20 years since my first trip to Israel, when three generations of my family hopped on El Al to visit my youngest daughter, who was studying at Yeshiva Neve Yerushalayim.

I remember choking up when we stood on that certain hill, looking out over the sacred city, feeling both saddened and giddy as I left a note in a crevice at the Wailing Wall, watching bar mitzvahs praying with their parents; and then later feeling elated as I climbed all the way to the top of the majestic Masada, as I floated on my back in the salty Dead Sea and as I purchased a painting in the magical city of Tsvat.

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It was an historic, memorable bus tour all over the country with my mom, dad and daughters, filled with as much politics as pleasure and a massive dose of enlightenment thrown in. But the funny thing is that, years later, what we reminisce about the most is an unremarkable stop that our driver insisted on making, even though it was 20 kilometers out of his way because he loved it so much and knew we would too.

It still brings an ironic giggle and a sigh when one of us says, “Remember that falafel stand in the middle of the desert, just to the left of nowhere?”

“It was the best! That sesame sauce. And those pickles – I can still taste it.”

“Why can’t we go there again?”

“Because we can’t find it…”

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“Come on, it was right outside of Jerusalem, near Bethlehem.”

“No, it wasn’t. It was on the way to Haifa.”

“No, we were going to the Dead Sea…” And so it goes…

Wherever it was, what we do remember is that the pita was steaming fresh, the falafel had a slight crunch and then melted in your mouth, the pickles had just the right amount of burn, the tomatoes were sweet as the summer, the cucumbers were crunchy for days, and the Tehina dressing…

The bad news is that we were on an organic bus trip, and our kindly driver seems to have disappeared.

On subsequent trips, we’ve tried both in reality and in our minds to retrace our steps to that stand to no avail.

The good news is that because we all fell in love with the ubiquitous street snack, I’ve spent the last 20 years trying to recreate those flavors, and in the process have come to realize that there is no dish that’s as much fun to make. There are umpteen condiments you can pack into a pita, most of which begin with the word “Israeli,” and everybody – from my five-year-old granddaughter to her 95-year-old great-grandparents – loves to eat falafels.

Falafels feel like family. They feel like our homeland, Israel, and when we eat them, we always feel like we’re celebrating. That’s why falafels would make the quintessential main event for a bar mitzvah.

In our speed-swept society, it’s often made with a mix, but that’s why I’ve been experimenting. For your bar mitzvah, imagine a long rectangular falafel bar filled with stacks of steaming pita, crunchy golden brown falafel balls and all those the toppings. And that’s where you can get really creative.

You’ll set out bowls and platters of all the colorful vegan offerings you can stuff into the pita – roasted or fried eggplant; red or green peppers; fried yellow onions; fresh crunchy

red onions and scallions; purple and green crunchy, pickled, or sweetand-sour cabbage; carrots; radishes; kohlrabi; or green peppers. And to drizzle over all of it, the addictive Tehina dressing alongside sauces made of onion, garlic and hot spicy skhug, which contains hot peppers, spices and olive oil.

Then you’ll bring on the Israeli side dishes: the brightly-colored ubiquitous Israeli salad tossed with lemon, olive oil, cumin, coriander, salt and pepper; Israeli Cole slaw; Israeli green cracked olives; Israeli pickles, etc. You can even add a hot station of schwarma, lamb or chicken-andbeef kebabs, which you can stuff into the special Israeli pita bread – which is fluffier and tastier than any of its American counterparts – and to round out the menu, offer goldenbrown bourekas of potato, spinach, mushroom or meat.

The best part about this menu is that it can made totally at home, with a little help from family and friends, or you can pick up part of it – or even all of it – at places such Pita Palace, Falafel King or Café Agora. This satisfying, fun-to-assemble meal costs a fraction of the price of the more expected bar mitzvah meatand-potatoes menus we’re used to, and many of the items are so easy to make, we’ve been cooking them for years.

Although this sensational street food menu might not be new, this delicious-yet-sagacious way of entertaining is just what our times seems to demand. Family and friends of all generations will gather at the same food stations – no need for a kiddy menu – appreciating your warm, familiar offerings all the while.

Ask any member of the family… mine or yours.

Editor’s note: Beverly Levitt is an award winning journalist and screenwriter living in Los Angeles.

Stay tuned over the next few weeks as her recipes for many of the abovementioned dishes are published in the AJT.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Pete and Gerry’s Blue Eggs MAKE OVER-THE-TOP BREAD PUDDING

in. Check out the recipe below from one of Atlanta’s fastest rising chefs.

Chef Ryan Hickey was generous enough to lend his time and skills to help make this wonderful banana bread pudding. He used banana bread from world-famous bakers Holman and Finch along with Pete and Gerry’s heirloom eggs.

The creaminess of the organic eggs brings out the full flavor of the bananas; try it for yourself and let us know what you think.

Ryan’s Over-the-top Banana Bread Pudding Ingredients 12-oz. loaf of H&F banana bread, cut into one-inch cubes 3 medium bananas, peeled, thinly sliced along diagonal into ¼-inch ovals 3 Pete and Gerry’s eggs 1 cup heavy cream 1-½ cups whole milk ¼ cup light brown sugar plus 3 tablespoon for crust 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 tablespoon banana rum (optional) 1 teaspoon fresh-grated ginger (optional) 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted Caramel sauce for drizzling with a small pinch of sea salt (optional) Directions

Position rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 325F (when using glass) or 350F (for metal or nonstick pans).

You’ll need a deep baking or roasting pan to hold the baking dish; in this recipe a large glass coffee mug was used, but any oven-safe glass baking dish can be used.

Butter the baking dish and set aside. Mix caramel sauce and sea salt in small bowl.

Spoon caramel into the bottom of each baking dish and set aside. Whisk eggs, heavy cream, milk, ¼ cup light brown sugar, vanilla, kosher salt, rum and ginger in medium bowl.

To fill baking dish, alternate layers of bananas and bread as many times as possible with the top-most layer being bread. Pour enough milk mixture into dish to reach top.

Let stand until bread absorbs some of the mixture, about 15 to 20 minutes. Reserve any remaining mix. Brush exposed bread pieces with melted butter and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of the brown sugar.

Set dish in large pan. Pour enough hot water into pan to come halfway up the sides of baking dish.

Bake pudding until set and knife inserted into custard comes out clean, about 45 minutes, depending on the size of the baking dish.

Remove from pan; cool. Dish can be made up to eight hours ahead; cover and refrigerate until serving.

Serve at room temperature or warm.

Editor’s note: Jason Apple is an Atlanta native and a lover of food. When he’s not running around town trying everything the Atlanta food scene has to offer, he works at Kitchen Fronts of Georgia, a kitchen refacing company, and writes a local food blog, “The Kitchen Man Can.”

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Journey of a Lifetime

DAVIS STUDENTS EXPERIENCE ISRAEL AS A FAMILY

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n the early morning of May 6, 59 Davis Academy eighth-graders, three Amit Gar’inim students and eight adult chaperones headed for the airport. The group was bound for Israel, where they spent more than two weeks learning, laughing, eating and forging strong bonds with each other.

Meanwhile, the Davis Academy home community eagerly received updates via blog and Twitter. A few tweets:

Davis Academy students tour Jerusalem’s Old City.

The family of the late Major Haggai Bibi, an IDF soldier killed in action, meets with students at the Major’s grave.

• Great morning at the Israel museum! Off to lunch soon, and then a hike at the Sataf Springs! It’s a beautiful (and HOT) day in Jerusalem!

Gathering together in front of a fresco, Davis students soak in the Holy Land.

• On the road again, visited border with Egypt and Jordan. We do an amazing hike at Ain Avdat today and learn about Ben Gurion!

• Great hike. Driving through sandstorm in Negev. Very cool!!

The journey, which is the longawaited capstone to the Davis Academy education, provided students with an amazing tour of Jewish and Israeli history and natural beauty as well as opportunities to meet Israelis, reconnect with old friends (such as the ORT exchange students that visited Davis in February) and challenge themselves physically, mentally and spiritually.

When visiting the Kotel, for example, one student said: “It felt unreal. I couldn’t believe that after 14 years of my life I finally got to be here and put in special letters from me and my family.”

Said another:

“I felt like I was with God.”

The Davis contingent visited the Baha’i Gardens, which overlook the city of Haifa.

Ice cream tastes just as good – if not better – in Israel.

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A highlight of the trip was kayaking down the Jordan River from K’far Blum.

The Ain Avdat hike took students through a magnificent canyon.

Students scuba-dived at a coral reef of the Red Sea near Eilat.

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GHA Marks Milestone With M’silot Celebration PROGRAM PIONEERS HONORED

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n the evening of May 21, the Katherine and Jacob Greenfield Hebrew Academy of Atlanta held the M’silot Celebration to pay tribute to the school’s like-titled and awardwinning kindergarten-througheighth-grade program for students who learn differently.

GHA proudly honored retiring teachers Kathy Eisenband (the program’s original first-grade teacher) and Chris Oertle (developer of the GHA Running Start Kindergarten), both of whom have dedicated years of love and guidance to the Academy’s students.

The Celebration also featured recognition for a family that has been very involved in the success of M’silot from the start: In 1999, Saul and Adele Blumenthal, z”l, donated the seed money in honor of their grandson, Matthew, who died of muscular dystrophy at the age of 24. The couple’s daughter-in-law and son, Elaine and Jerry Blumenthal, rededicated the program in memory of their son, a GHA graduate; this integral part of the Academy will now be known as the Matthew Blumenthal M’silot Program.

The timing of the Celebration could not have been better, as the end of the 2011-’12 school year marks a special milestone for the program: In the coming weeks, the very first class ever to attend M’silot will be graduating from high school.

The eight students who made up the first class will returned to GHA for the Celebration to share the news of their future plans and explain how the program helped them get where they are today.

M’silot began 12 years ago, when director Phyllis Rosenthal identified something that was missing here in Atlanta: Jewish education tailored to those who learn differently. She traveled around the country, observing other programs for children who learn differently, and she and her dedicated staff of teachers searched the United States for the latest methods to best teach these students and developed their own curricula to apply the new styles of education

a school within a school – M’silot students learn in small classes, and there is a focus on teaching strategies to help children compensate for their learning differences – the students are still very much a part of the larger whole. For everything other than their specific classroom lessons, these students are completely integrated with and a full part of the rest of their grade.

“M’silot is the Hebrew word for ‘pathways,’” Rosenthal explained.

“We wanted to stress that, although different children take different pathways to learning, they arrive at the same place in the end.”

Rosenthal stresses that one of the most important benefits of the program is that students are taught to identify their own learning styles, their own strengths and weaknesses, and formulate strategies and techniques to help them achieve their goals. This makes their transitions back into mainstream education much smoother.

“A child who knows what he needs is a child prepared to ask and to become successful,” Rosenthal said.

The former M’silot students, now graduating from local high schools that include Yeshiva Atlanta High School, The Weber School, Woodward Academy and several public schools, all agree. Many visited GHA

had accepted her; she smiled as she said, “Had I not been in a program like M’silot, I might not have made it into schools like this.”

Her father agreed, citing the foundation she had received from the program for making her an organized, efficient learner. Rosenthal proudly reported that all of the students from this original class will be attending college and that all were accepted to more than one university.

“We were like a family,” Rachel Kleiman, another M’silot graduate and part of the Weber School’s Class of 2012, said.

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to Judaic Studies and Hebrew language.

After a year of exhaustive preparation, the program was launched.

“I remember the parents of our first eight students – they were really pioneers!”

Rosenthal said. “The program didn’t exist; there was no one for Chris Oertle Kathy Eisenband them to observe, no experienced parents to prior to the meet. Our first teachers were working with me to invent Celebration to participate in a video shown to the audience; they were dewhole new curricula.

“And I remember, when I was lighted to be back, excited about the developing the program, there was future and happy to share their feelnothing out there like us…so I guess ings about M’silot.

M’silot graduate Risa Hayet ran I was a pioneer, too!” her fingers through her curls as she One of the unique characterisrattled off the names of colleges that tics of M’silot is that although it is

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Sunshine School Happenings THE “SUN SHINES” IN EAST COBB

Preschoolers at the Sunshine School spent two weeks exploring music of all varieties, instruments, notes and how sound is made.

Highlights of this period of discovery were a studentperformed piano and violin recital; Shabbat Sing “spicedup” with percussion and guitar by Bram Bessoff and Robyn Shippel; parent Yelena Nayshtut playing violin with piano accompaniment; sing-alongs to Hava Nagila and Dayenu; and Wendy Bennett from Young Audiences visiting to teach about different kinds of music in her performance, “Sing.”

The exploration culminated in Showtime Shabbat.

Each of the classes at the Sunshine School performed a special song with props and costumes.

LAG B’OMER The pre-K classes at the MJCCA’s East Cobb preschool,

The

Sun-

shine School, had a fun picnic to celebrate Lag B’Omer on the grounds of the Doc Lebow house

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adjacent to Temple Kol

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Emeth. It was a perfect day to celebrate!

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Yeshiva Atlanta’s Gift to Operation Lifeshield

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DRIVE HAS ‘RIPPLE’ EFFECT n May 11, Yeshiva

Yeshiva Atlanta was able to pres-

Atlanta was privi-

ent Rabbi Bowman with nearly

leged to host Rabbi

$3,400 in cash and checks.

Shmuel

Rabbi Bowman was very grate-

Executive Director of Operation Lifeshield, an organization committed to raising needed funds to

ful to receive this donation, and as he shared with the YA student

Rabbi Shmuel Bowman speaks to the Yeshiva Atlanta student body, which as a whole raised $3,400 for Operation Lifeshield. PHOTO/courtesy Michael Davis

build and deliver transportable shelters to areas in Israel most at risk of rocket attacks from Hamas, such as Sderot and other communities in the Negev.

body that their generosity is already having a “ripple” effect.

Two other North American high schools launched similar campaigns after hearing of the Ye-

In anticipation of Rabbi Bow-

shiva Atlanta endeavor, and as a

man’s visit, the Yeshiva Atlanta

result, Operation Lifeshield has

Student Council spearheaded a

received more than $10,000 from

drive to raise money for Opera-

the three schools.

tion Lifeshield and even put up a

Rabbi Bowman said he is sure

matching grant to jump-start the campaign. Thanks to the efforts of Yondi Kadosh and Michael Lor, Student Council co-Presidents,

Columbus State University to honor longtime supporters Henry and Joyce Schwob

“Columbus State University’s contributions to this region are enormous and we’re proud to support its ongoing efforts to provide a world class educational experience.”

— Henry and Joyce Schwob

that this is just a first step in even greater involvement by Jewish high schools throughout North America.

Clarification In reference to your article on “High School House” in the Apr. 13 issue of the AJT, it should be clarified that, while Yeshiva Atlanta is happy for any family choosing Jewish education, Yeshiva Atlanta endorses only those situations and accommodations that allow for halachic Shabbat observance.

Paul Oberman, Interim Head of School, Yeshiva Atlanta

Columbus State University is pleased to announce the conferment of Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degrees upon Henry and Joyce Schwob, longtime supporters of the university and its nationally respected music program at its 104th Commencement Ceremony on Monday, May 7, 2012. Support by the Schwobs is pivotal to the success of the university that now features the family’s name on two important programs: Schwob School of Music Schwob Memorial Library

www.ColumbusState.edu

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Bowman,

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The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy Annual Golf Tournament In Memory of Jon Barkan kwwz

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TDSA Science Fair

14th Annual Golf Tournament • Monday, May 14, 2012

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Ruby Jacobs, Rachel Varon and Avigayil Sawyer and sixth-graders Moshe Gerchikov, Adir Mann, Josh Mermelstein, Yossi Stein and Rina Levitt.

More than 150 parents, community members, students and faculty members came to TDSA on May 15 to see approximately 70 science fair exhibits set up throughout the gymnasium. The students were able to explain and in some cases demonstrate their hypothesis and outcomes.

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orah Day School of Atlanta’s 2012 Sixth- and SeventhGrade Science Fair was a tremendous success thanks to the hard work of the students; the exceptional guidance of middle school science teacher Mrs. Christine Castle; the support of Mrs. Linda Rabinowitz, general studies principal; and head of school Rabbi Naphtali Hoff’s encouragement to all.

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Some of the topics included the effect of a corked baseball bat versus a baseball bat that had not been altered; the hardness of various metals; a flu vaccine survey determining if education level affected the use of the flu vaccine; bending light; magnetic attraction through various substances and more.

Mazel tov to winners Aden Shmuel, Ben Steele, Aharon Wiggins, Rivkah Orah Cohen and Zoie Wittenberg (seventh grade) and Ari Fier, Binyomin Pearlman and Maayan Schoen (sixth grade.

Receiving honorable mention were seventh-graders Daniel Filreis, Levi Yitzchok Globus, Nechama Spotts,

Among the experiments conducted were (top to bottom) the effect of music on heart rate, performance of corked baseball bats versus unaltered bats, the impact of exercise video games and an influenza immunization survey. PHOTOS/courtesy TDSA

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Trucks, Vans and Cars, Oh My! CBT PRESCHOOLERS LEARN ABOUT TRANSPORTATION PHOTOS/courtesy Binnie Edelson

B’nai Torah Preschool held a Truck Day in May. Vehicles including a fire truck, police car, K-9 van, ice cream truck, UPS truck, motorcycle and several more arrived in the parking lot for the children to see.

In their discussion of transportation, the children learned that they can do a mitzvah by walking or riding their bikes and that too many cars and trucks on the road can hurt our environment.

Despite a few raindrops, the children had a great time exploring the vehicles with their teachers.

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Ready to Visit Colleges?

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF TOURS AND INTERVIEWS

By Dr. Mark L. Fisher

about Jewish life on campus. Make an appointment with the Hillel director or one of the Hillel staff. No, the tour guide is not going to be stopping at the Hillel.

AJT Contributor drmarkfisher@bellsouth.net

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hat happens when you are ready to buy a house?

Probably, you look at a picture of the house; maybe you access that photo online.

But would you plunk down $120,000 to $200,000 without ever seeing the house, finding out about the neighborhood, the schools and supermarkets within so many miles?

If the answer is “no” to the above concerns, consider that this is the way some families look at colleges. These families don’t investigate the colleges to any appreciable degree; the name is the game. Granted, there are families who explore colleges in detail.

When should one visit colleges? The summer is a good time because the student is not in school and does not miss class time. For some parents, it is easier to get away in the months from June to August. There is a disadvantage, for the usual undergraduates are not on campus, whereas in the fall and spring, the enrolled students are on campus.

Of course, preliminary visits can be followed up by more intensive visits when one narrows down their acceptances. The student has been admitted, so he or she can visit and be relaxed at that point.

There are two major objectives during a visit: One is an interview, and the other is a tour of the school itself.

Interest in a college is an important factor from the point of view of the admissions office personnel. This writer knows of one school located in a major city where the following might occur:

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A student living in that city doesn’t attend the college’s informational tour of the college during their final two years in high school. The college will note that fact in the student’s folder, and that could seal the verdict not in the student’s favor.

The college’s attitude is that if the student doesn’t express interest when it is easy to do so, the school should not express interest in him or her. If a student from California doesn’t visit a college in New York, no harm done; the college is not next door, the trip far more difficult to make.

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If you keep kosher, take a look at the dining facility. Research the dining plan, including cost and any limited number of meals per week. Is the food fresh, or are the meals like that which would be served on an airplane?

And where are the Sabbath services located that you would desire to attend? How often are there services?

Do all students, regardless of which service they attend, eat together at the Sabbath meal?

alone? With parents? With a friend?

That may be a family decision.

Going with a parent(s) has its advantages; parents may see or note things that the student doesn’t see on a tour. Since the parents will be the ones footing the eventual college costs, they too would like to see what they are buying. And both student and parents can have more of discussion, as both have visited the same institution.

What about a friend? Not a bad idea, but beware. What if the deciding student follows the advice of the friend more often than not? And if the friend has a negative attitude on the visit and points out everything he or she doesn’t like about the college, will the deciding student also put down the college because the friend feels that way?

Perhaps the friend is correct in their assessment – for him- or herself – but that doesn’t mean the college is not good for the student making his or her choice.

Colleges have tours on a regular basis. Student tour guides work for the admissions office, so beware; don’t judge 2,000 to 20,000 students on the basis of one student who you happen not to adore. And while the guide is giving the tour, one can notice some things about the campus not necessarily mentioned: How friendly are the students that walk past you? What notices happen to be on the bulletin boards around campus? In the library, what are the students doing? Taking out books, studying in the stacks, just relaxing?

Pick up the student newspaper as you walk by that spot. Perhaps chat for a moment with a student. If you see a campus police officer, ask about the crime rate on campus or nearby; don’t expect the tour guide to tout burglaries and more. Once while visiting a campus and hearing how safe it was all the time, this writer picked up the student newspaper and read about a recent crime on that campus.

Ask: Are students utilizing the student union? Where are the most popular hangouts? Are you seeing the best dormitory that is there as the “model room”? Or does the school not want to show where freshmen actually may reside?

Are the athletic facilities nearby? Is the campus walkable or do you need to take a bus to get around?

Think of all the things you want to see prior to your visit. After the tour, you can seek out the places you wanted to see but were not pointed out on the tour or where you would want to spend more time.

When walking along the tour, notice the upkeep of the buildings, look for construction, computer availability, classroom size, etc. Keep your eyes open and look around, but don’t lag behind and miss what the guide has to say.

If your prospective major is among the sciences, then visit the buildings that are appropriate; don’t expect the tour to cover every building. And where is the Hillel? Does the Hillel have its own building or just an office? Visit the Hillel or find out more

If a college offers individual interviews, go for it, but be prepared. Know the college, its offerings, its extra-curricular activities and its philosophy; have questions ready for the interviewer, for that person will usually ask if the interviewee for any questions.

Don’t ask how many fraternities and sororities are on campus; that question only proves that you can’t read, for it is easy to find the answer to that question. If you’re curious about Greek life, ask how the fraternities and sororities control social life on campus.

Ask intelligent questions, for that shows the interviewer that they are interviewing an intelligent person. In my educational consulting practice, we prepare for those interviews because there are only a few times one can give a subjective picture of themselves and “sell” themselves. The other time is the essay, and hopefully, your recommenders will not just state extra-curricular activities which the college can read on your application.

When visiting a college, ask if a prospective student can sit in on a class, meet a professor in a field of interest, talk to students and not only walk on the campus but ride or walk around the neighborhood where the college is situated. One site to utilize is goseecampus.com, which can aid you in planning your visits.

Thinking about visiting colleges?

Perhaps you have already started your trips? Or maybe you should start.

Editor’s note: Dr. Mark Fisher is a college and career consultant at Fisher Educational Consultants (fishereducationalconsultants.com) and is the college counselor for Yeshiva Atlanta.

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News from the Melton Mini-School CHANGES IN LEADERSHIP

Dr. Mirvis will continue his position on the faculty of the Hebrew University’s Melton Centre for Jewish Education, where he is the foremost academic specialist in adult education, social entrepreneurship, and strategic social innovation. In addition, he will pursue new initiatives in the field of Jewish education.

Under Dr. Mirvis’s exceptional leadership, the Melton Adult MiniSchool has achieved worldwide recognition as the preeminent leader in Jewish adult learning. Among the many accomplishments and milestones during Mirvis’s tenure were the development of the renowned twoyear curriculum that forms the core of Melton’s contribution to Jewish adult learning, as well as the Rachel Wasserman Scholars Curriculum for graduates, the new Foundations of Jewish Family Living curriculum for parents and the Israel Seminars.

Zacks also announced that Professor Menachem Ben Sasson, the President of The Hebrew University, has accepted the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Directors and has appointed Judy Mars Kupchan to the position of CEO of the international Melton Corporation. Kupchan has been the Director of Melton’s North American Division since 2009, and has served in senior leadership positions in the Melton organization for more than 16 years.

At the same time, Dr. Howie Deitcher, Senior Lecturer of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education, and an internationally renowned author and educator, has been appointed Director of the Florence Melton Institute at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Morey Schwartz, currently

Director of Curriculum and Faculty Development, was appointed Director of Education, maintaining his key role in curriculum research and development at the Institute in Jerusalem as well as his work with faculty, staff, directors, and communities worldwide.

“These extraordinary educators will lead Melton forward with creativity and vigor,” Zacks said in a statement. “Their proven talents and leadership, their strong continuity with Melton’s past and vision for the future, will lead Melton from strength to strength.”

Congratulations Davis Academy Class of 2012!

Samantha Alterman Jamie Antonino Cassidy Aronin Jessica Bachner Samuel Baroff Logan Botnick Max Brandwine Lillian Brown Kadey Burstein Noah Caspi Zachary Chase Abagail Chepenik Julie Covall Danielle Dinberg Leah Elgart

Madeline Fleischmann Jacob Footer Sophie Frostbaum Meredith Galanti Jordan Gold Mallory Goldenberg Shaina Goldfein Anna Goldstein Marlee Gordon Daniel Gothard Jamie Greenberg Rebecca Greenberg Max Harris Samantha Harris Ethan Hertz

Rachel Kaufman Adi Levy Sarah Liess Zoe Light Harrison Lipsky Benjamin Marcus Rebecca Meline Evan Miller Max Miller Michelle Nelkin Rachel Nemeth Samantha Nozick Rafael Oquendo Alyssa Quatela Kyle Rabinowitz

Jansen Redler Anna Rosing Lily Sandler Samantha Schiff Abigail Schwartz Carly Shoulberg Eric Silver Ashley Spector Sara Srochi Ben Stinar Abigail Szabo Blake Teilhaber Nicole Webb Cody Wertheimer Larry Yanovich

In the spirit of community, we are also pleased to celebrate the 2012 graduates of The Amit Gar’inim School, which has been based on the campuses of The Davis Academy since its inception in 2002: Molleah Holder Asher Newman Zach Rodencal Drew Shulman MAY 25 ▪ 2012

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ordon Zacks, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, a project of the Hebrew University, has announced two important developments in the organization. After 21 years of dedicated and dynamic service to Melton, Dr. Yonatan Mirvis, International Director, has tendered his resignation, effective as of Dec. 31, 2012.

Proud Affiliate of:

Where the Journey Begins www.davisacademy.org

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B’nai Mitzvah Max Kamean

The bar mitzvah of Max Kamean of Sandy Springs was held Aug. 13, 2011 at Temple Sinai.

Max is the son of Jeff and Reg Kamean and has a brother, Jake Robert, 12, and sister, Madi, 10. He is the grandson of Carol and the late Robert Kamean of Boynton Beach, Fla. and Louise and the late Clifton Free of Tuscaloosa, Ala.

For his mitzvah project, Max helped raise money for JAM Bowl, an all-day sporting event for boys fifththrough ninth-grade which benefits the Brookhaven Chapter of Boys & Girls Club. He is a seventh-grader at the Alfred and Adele Davis Academy.

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Ryan Mermelstein

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T h e bar mitzvah of Ryan Mermelstein of Alpharetta was held Apr. 28, 2012 at Temple Beth Tikvah in memory of the young man’s m a t e r n a l grandmother, Marjorie Mellon, and greataunt, Deborah Gabry.

Ryan is the son of Evan and Sharon Mermelstein and has a sister, Ilana, 10. He is the grandson of Philip Mellon of Solon, Ohio and Marvin and Dana Jo Mermelstein of Rockville, Md.

For his mitzvah project, Ryan held a canned food drive and raised money for North Fulton Community Charities. He is a seventh-grader at Northwestern Middle School.

Sarah Fay Peljovich

The bat mitzvah of Sarah Fay Peljovich of Sandy Springs was held Mar. 17, 2012 at Temple Sinai.

Sarah is the daughter of Allan and Lori Peljovich and has two brothers, David, 15, and Josh, 10. She is the granddaughter of Dale and Susan Schwartz of Sandy Springs and Benny and Hilda Peljovich of Surfside, Fla. and the great-granddaughter of Florence and Sandy Schwartz of Athens, Ga.

For her mitzvah project, Sarah tie-dyed and donated socks to the Shepherd Center, where her father is a doctor, her dog a therapy dog, and, for six months, her camp director a patient.

She is a seventh-grader at the Epstein School.

Sat., May 26 Graduation Shabbat, for high school and college grads. Sat., May 26. Congregation Beth Tefillah. (404) 843-2464 ext. 104 or bethtefillah.org.

“The Ten Commandments” Shavuot program, food and coffee served. Sat., May 26, after Havdallah services. Congregation Or VeShalom. (404) 633-1737.

All Night Torah Study - Sleepless in East Cobb, followed by Shavuot family program the next morning. Sat., May 26, 11 p.m. and Sun., May 27, 10 a.m. Chabad of Cobb. (770) 565-4412 ext. 300.

Shavuot Study Evening, Tikkun Leil Shvauot; seudah shlishit, Shavuot evening services, Havdallah and progressive tikkun led by Mark Leventhal of The Weber School and Miriam Rosenbaum of The Epstein School with Rabbi Paul Kerbel. Sat., May 26, 8:15 p.m. Two sessions; private residences. (770) 973-0137.

Sun., May 27 Shavuoth Ice Cream Party, starts with children’s program and Ten Commandments reading. Sun., May 27, 10:30 a.m.

Chabad Enrichment Center of Gwinnett.

(678) 595-0196.

Shavuot Dairy Luncheon. Sun., May 27, 12:30 p.m. Before May 21, $8, after $12; assigned seating, RSVP required. Congregation Beth Tefillah. admin@bethtefillah. org or (404) 843-2464 ext. 104.

Nadav Remez/Omer Avital Quintet in concert, part of the 2012 Atlanta Jazz Festival. Sun., May 27, 6:30 p.m. Free, open to the public. Piedmont Park. atlantafestivals.com.

Mon., May 28 Shavuos Luncheon for My Siyum Project Classic & Family Edition participants.

Mon., May 28. Discount for RSVP before May 21. Congregation Ariel’s Social Hall.

(770) 390-9071.

Tues., May 29

open to the community. Zaban Park.

(678) 812-4161.

Sat., June 2 The Return Fundraiser and Concert, an evening of nostalgia, music, food, and fun in support of The Temple. Sat., June 2.

Sun., June 3 CBS Men’s Club Brunch, come for Minyan and stay for brunch. Sun., June 3, Minyan, 9:30 a.m., Brunch 10 a.m. $5/person.

Congregation Beth Shalom.

Temple Sinai Prospective Members Brunch, a family-friendly event to meet the clergy, staff and leaders, and a tour of the synagogue. Sun., June 3, 10 a.m. RSVP requested. Temple Sinai. (404) 252-3073 or bkatinsky@templesinaiatlanta.org.

First-Annual Mt. Scopus Hadassah House Tour, “A Taste of Toco,” the most fabulous houses in Toco Hills. Sun., June 3, 10 a.m. $15/person, benefits the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. RSVP requested by May 21. (404) 325-0340.

Jewish War Veterans Atlanta Bicentennial Post 112 meeting, with guest speaker Ret. Col. Herb Schoenberg. Sun., June 3, 10 a.m. Prepayment required. Landmark Diner. (404) 252-5253 or jwvga.org.

Weber School Graduation, celebrate the Class of 2012 and the 13th Weber commencement. Sun., June 3, 11 a.m. Ferst Center for the Arts. sspanjer@weberschool.org.

Mon., June 4 Driver’s Ed at the MJCCA; 30 hours classroom time, six hours behind-the-wheel, licensed by State of Ga. Dept. of Driver Services, must be 15 years old by 30 days following last class, no permit required for classroom portion. Mon., June 4 through Fri., June 8 OR Mon., June 11 through Fri., June 15; 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Zaban Park. linda.citron@atlantajcc.org.

Tues., June 5

CDT Men’s Club Poker Night - Table Championship. Tues., May 29, 7 p.m. $25 donation buy-in. Congregation Dor Tamid. mensclub@dortamid.com.

Shiva Service Training, one session remains with the CDT Ritual Committee and Rabbi Ron Herstik. Tues., June 5, 7 p.m. Congregation Dor Tamid. ritual@dortamid.com.

Thurs., May 31

Thurs., June 7

Beth Shalom’s Annual Meeting. Thurs., May 31, 7 p.m. Congregation Beth Shalom. (770) 399-5300.

CBT’s Annual General Meeting, come hear the state of the Shul, induct the new CBT board and honor the members of the year. Thurs., June 7. Congregation Beth Tefillah.

Fri., June 1 Playgroup with a Purpose, sing-along with residents of the Breman and Cohen homes and Zaban Tower. Fri., June 22; Zaban: Fri., June 1. All start times 11 a.m.

(404) 351-8410.

Dive into Shabbat, celebrate Shabbat with a pool party. Fri., June 1, 5 p.m. Free,

Sat., June 9 Fifth Annual Take Steps for Crohn’s & Colitis, the nation’s largest walk program dedicated to raising funds and awareness for digestive diseases. Sat., June 9,

4 p.m. Georgia World Congress Center’s International Plaza. www.cctakesteps. org/atlanta.

Sun., June 10 Community Bas Mitzvah Celebration and Brunch for women & girls, the end-of-year celebration for the Bas Mitzvah Club.

Sun., June 10, 10:30 a.m. Sponsorships available, RSVP requested. Congregation Ariel. (404) 991-8295 or rabbimordy@ congariel.org.

Rabbi Lazer and The Garden of Emanua, presentation by Rabbi Lazer Brody, one of leading Rabbis of the Breslev movement in Israel. Sun. June 10, 8 p.m. Free of charge. Congregation Ariel.

Mon., June 11 Yugntruf Yiddish Literature Competition, for writers up to 35 years of age. Deadline Mon., June 11. Submit prose (max 2,500 words) or poem (max 60 lines) in alef-beys (not transliterated) to zhurnal@ yugntruf.org. yugntruf.org.

Tues., June 12 Jesus for Jews: A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament, class with Steve Chervin and the Lisa F. Brill Institute for Jewish Learning. Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. beginning June 12. Congregtion Beth Shalom. (770) 399-5300.

11th-Annual Eagle Star Awards Gala, the flagship event of the AICCSE, this year honoring Robert Deutsch and the Israel Economic Mission to the Southern U.S. and featuring keynote speaker Jonathan Medved. Tues., June 12, 7 p.m. Westin Atlanta Perimeter. 2012.eaglestargala.com or (404) 843-9426.

Sun., June 17 Touch-a-Truck. Sun., June 17, 11 a.m. $10/family. Congregation Ariel.

Tues., June 19 Thriving Beyond Surviving, personal stories of rising above loss in childhood, adulthood and old age, the first in a series of forums presented by the Vi & Milton Weinstein Hospice and the William Breman Jewish Home. Tues., June 19, 7 p.m. Free, open to the community. Breman Home’s Garson Auditorium. (404) 352-4308 or wbjh.org.

Wed., June 20 Travel to Cuba with the MJCCA. Wed., June 20 through Wed., June 27; applications due May 10. shaindle@atlantajcc.org.

Sun., July 15 Pathways in the Park, join the MJCCA and other interfaith families and adults for dinner, hike, crafts and more. Sundays July 15, 23 and 30, 5 p.m. $18/family or $5/individual. Morgan Falls Park. suzanne.hurwitz@atlantajcc.org or (678) 812-4160.

Thurs., July 19 Life Line Screening, a stroke screening.

Pre-registration is required. Thurs., July 19. Congregation Beth Shalom. 1-(800) 324-1851 or (770) 399-5300.

Sun., July 22

Wed., June 13

Essentials for Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond, presentation with guest speakers, Mayim Bialik, PhD, midwife Ina May Gaskin and other parenting specialists. Sun., July 22, 11 a.m. Holiday Inn Atlanta Perimeter. www.belliestobabiesfoundation.org.

MJCCA Beth Shalom Pool Party. Wed., June 13, 6 p.m. RSVP requested by June 6. Zaban Park. (770) 399-5300 or office@ bshalom.net.

CBS Night of Baseball, Gwinnett Braves v.

Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees. Sun., July 22, 5:05 p.m. (770) 804-9721 or office@ bshalom.net.

Chabad of Cobb Women’s Book Discussion Group, focused on contemporary classic “Holy Days.” Wed., June 13, 7:30 p.m. Whole Foods Merchant Walk Community Room. (770) 565-4412.

Tues., July 31

Thurs., June 14

God and the Brain: Mind, Body & Soul, class with Steve Chervin and the Lisa F. Brill Institute for Jewish Learning. Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. beginning July 31. Congregtion Beth Shalom. (770) 399-5300.

American Diabetes Father of the Year Awards Dinner, honoring Craig Kaufman, Randall Kessler, Robert Stargel Jr. and Gary Stokan. Thurs. June 14, 6 p.m. InterContinental Buckhead hotel. (404) 3207100 ext. 3045.

National Jewish Retreat, “Experience Heaven on Earth” with the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Tues., July 31 through Sun., Aug. 5. Hyatt Bonaventure in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (877) 573-8732 or jretreat.com.

Sat., June 16

Ongoing

Meet-the-Artist: David Clayman. Event Sat., June 16 at Gallery 4463 in Acworth; exhibit runs Memorial Day weekend 2012 through May 2013 at the World of CocaCola. davidclaymanart.com or lewitt@bellsouth.net.

Support Through Divorce for 50 and Under, facilitated by Elisheva Funk, LSCW of JF&CS. First and third Tuesdays, 7 p.m. (eight sessions). MJCCA. allison.feldman@atlantajcc.org.

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D’VAR TORAH

Parsha Hashavua – Bamidbar CONTINUING TRADITIONS

By Rabbi Harvey J. Winokur Temple Kehillat Chaim and the Atlanta Rabbinical Association

P

esach

is

our

zman

freedom.” Shavuot is our zman matan torateinu –

“our time of giving the law.” From redemption to liberation to revelation, we relive the journey of the Israelites to Sinai each year.

On Saturday evening, we conclude the Counting of the Omer and begin We also

complete Parashat Bamidbar, the first portion of the Book of Numbers.

tered and the sky seems to hang low above you. The cloud and the fire of the Eternal were easily observed.

As they arrived at the holy mountain, we would have thought they would be prepared to receive the Brit. The challenges of their sojourn should have given them

clarity

thought,

most confounding

that

too

was yet another test along the way.

Committing the ultimate transgression, breaking the

place”) has squeezed the life out the

second command-

Israelites. They are unable to com-

ment before they

prehend the gift of freedom present-

had even received

ed to them on the other side of the

it, tore away the fi-

Sea. Unbeknownst to them, the slave

nal barrier in their

mentality imprinted upon them from

ability to exclaim

more than 400 years of servitude has

in one voice na-aseh v’nishmah (“we

to be gradually stripped away.

will observe and pay attention”).

The journey presents both physi-

They were awakened to a new per-

cal and spiritual obstacles at almost

ception and a new reality.

every turn. In her book “Torah Jour-

Beyond the physical giving of To-

neys, Rabbi Shefa Gold writes of the

rah to the Jewish people, there was a

inner path to the Promised Land:

spiritual bond created between God

“The harsh inner reality of the wil-

and the people when Torah was giv-

answered, ‘We will.’ God said, ‘Give Me surety that you will fulfill its ordinances.’

“They said, ‘Let Abraham, Isaac and Jacob be our surety.’ God answered, ‘Those are not adequate sureties.’

“Then Israel said, ‘Let our prophets be our sureties.’ Again God replied, ‘Those are not adequate sure-

en in to the secular school calendar and held them already. Attendance at Shavuot services experiences a severe drop-off when the holiday occurs after school is out. It places a challenge to our ability to fulfill the midrash above, “Let our children be our sureties.”

of Israel to God and God to the people

wilderness forced them to face their resistance, ambivalence and self-de-

In Jewish tradition, it is believed

lusion…”

that the brit was made not only with

Finding themselves at times hun-

those who were present at Sinai but also with all Jews for all time. A midrash (“A Rabbinic Anthology, p.

On a weekend which concludes with our “American Yom Hazikaron,” Memorial Day, we remember the ultimate sacrifice of the few for the

ties.’

many. The surety of our nation is

“Then Israel said, ‘Let our chil-

linked to the vision of our children to

dren be our sureties.’ God said, ‘Such pledges will I indeed accept.’”

en. This act forever bound the people of Israel in a unique relationship.

ed, they are stripped of their defens-

‘Will you accept My Torah?’ and they

gogues – including mine – have giv-

“Then Israel said, ‘Let our children be our sureties.’

God said, ‘Such pledges will I indeed accept.’”

Egypt (Mitsrayim – “the narrow

gry, thirsty, exhausted and frustrat-

Torah to Israel, God asked them,

the Festival of Shavuot, many syna-

perhaps what is

But

enslavement they still carried. The

“When God was about to give the

and being. That is

count of Exodus, we have not learned

derness purifies whatever traces of

Confirmation services on or around

purpose

of the Golden Calf.

the price for freedom.

Whereas it is traditional to hold

of

are given to the Israelites in the ac-

years. It is in Bamidbar that we learn

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unobstructed, the views are unclut-

about the episode

which is to ultimately last for 40

30

pretense, is most appropriate for The

At the time the Commandments

of the vicissitudes of the journey

519) teaches:

wilderness of Sinai, a place without Revelation; in a desert, the horizon is

heruteinu – “our season of

the Festival of Shavuot.

es. We begin to understand how the

It is a shame that due to the timing of the end of the school year in the South, many families cannot go on one of the Pilgrimage Festivals.

They have already begun their summer vacation, and religious schools have closed for the summer.

remember the price of freedom and cherish the gifts bestowed upon all of us.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Harvey J. Winokur is the founding rabbi of Temple Kehillat Chaim, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and a member of the Atlanta Rabbinical Association.

Atlanta Synagogue Directory CHABAD

Congregation Shearith Israel 1180 University Dr. Atlanta, GA 30306 www.shearithisrael.com 404.873.1743

Non-denominational

Congregation B’nai Torah 1633 Hwy 54 E Jonesboro, GA 30238 www.bnai-israel.net 678.817.7162

Chabad Israel Center 5188 Roswell Rd. Sandy Springs, GA 30324 www.cicatlanta.com 404.252.9508

Atlanta Chevre Minyan Druid Forest Clubhouse North Crossing Dr. Atlanta, GA 30305 www.atlantachevreminya.org

Congregation Dor Tamid 11165 Parsons Rd. Johns Creek, GA 30097 www.dortamid.org 770.623.8860

Chabad Jewish Center 4255 Wade Green Rd. Suite 120 Kennesaw, GA 30144 www.jewishwestcobb.com 678.460.7702

Congregation Shema Yisrael 6065 Roswell Rd., #3018 Atlanta, GA 30328 www.shemaweb.org 404.943.1100

Congregation Ner Tamid 176 West Sandtown Rd. Marietta, GA 30064 www.nertamidonline.com 678.264.8575

Guardians of the Torah P.O. Box 767981 Roswell, GA 30076 www.guardiansofthetorah.org 770.286.3477

Temple Beth David 1885 Mcgee Rd. Snellville, GA 30078 www.gwinnetttemple.com 770.978.3916

Nediv Lev: the Free Synagogue of Atlanta 3791 Mill Creek Ct. Atlanta, GA 30341 My.att.net/p/PWP-NedivLev 770.335.2311

Temple Beth Tikvah 9955 Coleman Rd. Roswell, GA 30075 www.bethtikvah.com 770.642.0434

Chabad of Gwinnett 3855 Holcomb Bridge Rd. Suite 770 Norcross, GA 30092 www.chabadofgwinnett.org 678.595.0196 Chabad of North Fulton 10180 Jones Bridge Rd. Alpharetta, GA 30022 www.chabadnf.org 770.410.9000 Congregation Beth Tefillah 5065 High Point Rd. Atlanta, GA 30342 www.chabadga.com 404.257.9306

Conservative Ahavath Achim Synagogue 600 Peachtree Battle Ave. Atlanta, GA 30327 www.aasynagogue.org 404.355.5222 Congregation Beth Shalom 5303 Winters Chapel Rd. Atlanta, GA 30360 www.bshalom.net 770.399.5300 Congregation B’nai Torah 700 Mount Vernon Hwy. Atlanta, GA 30328 www.bnaitorah.org 404.257.0537 Congregation Etz Chaim 1190 Indian Trails Pkwy.

Marietta, GA 30068 www.etzchaim.net 770.973.0137 Congregation Gesher L’Torah 4320 Kimball Bridge Rd. Alpharetta, GA 30022 www.gltorah.org 770.777.4009 Congregation Or Hadash 6751 Roswell Rd. Atlanta, GA 30328 www.or-hadash.org 404.250.3338

Orthodox Anshi S’Fard Congregation 1324 North Highland Ave. Atlanta, GA 30306 www.anshisfard.com 404.874.4513 Congregation Ariel 5237 Tilly Mill Rd. Dunwoody, GA 30338 www.congariel.org 770.390.9071 Congregation Beth Jacob 1855 Lavista Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.bethjacobatlanta.org 404.633.0551 Congregation Beth Yitzhak 5054 Singleton Rd. Norcross, GA 30093 770.931.8591 Congregation Ner Hamizrach 1858 Lavista Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.ner-hamizrach.org 404.315.9020

Temple Emanu-El 1580 Spalding Dr. Atlanta, GA 30350 www.templeemanuelatlanta.org 770.395.1340 Temple Kehillat Chaim 1145 Green St. Roswell, GA 30075 www.kehillatchaim.org 770.641.8630 Temple Kol Emeth 1415 Old Canton Rd. Marietta, GA 30062 www.kolemeth.net 770.973.3533 Temple Sinai 5645 Dupree Dr. Sandy Springs, GA 30327 www.templesinatlanta.org 404.252.3073 The Temple 1589 Peachtree St. NE Atlanta, GA 30309 www.the-temple.org 404.873.1731

SEPHARDIC

The Kehilla of Sandy Springs 5075 Roswell Rd. Sandy Springs, GA 30342 www.thekehilla.org 404.913.6131

Congregation Or VeShalom 1681 North Druid Hills Rd. Atlanta, GA 30319 www.orveshalom.org 404.633.1737

Young Israel of Toco Hills 2074 Lavista Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.yith.org 404.315.1417

Traditional

Reconstructionist

Congregation Bet Haverim 2676 Clairmont Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.congregationbethaverim.org 404.315.6446

by Kathi Handler (bookssss@aol.com)

Reform

Chabad Intown 928 Ponce De Leon Avenue Atlanta, GA 30306 www.chabadintown.org 404.898.0434

Chabad of Cobb 4450 Lower Roswell Rd. Marietta, GA 30068 www.chabadofcobb.com 770.565.4412

JEWISH PUZZLER

Congregation Shaarei Shamayim 1810 Briarcliff Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.shaareishamayeim.com 404.417.0472

Crossword Clues Across 1. Israeli city 5. Minor Prophet 9. Simon players 13. King of Israel 14. Naomi at times 15. __ Epsilon Pi 17. Anne Frank’s home 19. Like Noah’s animals 20. Silent film femme fatale 21. Wart 23. NY Yankee, _ Blomberg 24. Moabite mountains 26. Meadow 27. Enjoy the seder 28. Cain and Abel 29. Tears at the Seder?

31. Possessed 32. Motion starter 34. Wilderness of __ 35. Taxmen 36. Hee __ 37. Ballet impresario, _ Hurok 38. Auditor 41. Selznick, initially 42. Political humorist 43. Chazzer (Eng) 44. Like Hebrews in Egypt 48. First born killed 49. Breaks the ninth 50. Pierced as sign of bondsman 51. Sukkahs 53. Van Halen’s singer, initially 54. UJA mission 55. Tuches 56. Cohanim?

58. Plagues?

62. Baseball’s “Flip” 63. Singer novel 64. Acted the usurer?

65. Mohel preparation 66. Chazzan’s concern 67. Firstborn twin Down 1. “Lands of the Covenant” 2. Gompers or Davis 3. Fisher and Todd to Liz 4. Bimahs 5. Aaron’s Dad 6. Meshugge 7. Talmud

8. Hannah’s son 9. L’il Abner creator 10. __ Carte 11. Dybbuk 12. Seat for David 16. “Lou Grant” star 18. Son of Gad 22. Pesach mitzva 24. Babylonian Talmud editor 25. “High tref” hubby 27. Bilhah’s boy 29. Tref female 30. Self or free 32. Teva product 33. Mary Hartman actress 37. Shiva mood 38. People of Ur 39. Harris stats 40. “Rock of __” 41. Salk and Sabin 42. Sidney Lumet film 44. Simeon to Gad 45. Seder chair wear 46. Like Pharaoh’s charioteers 47. Spoke, biblically 48. Fireplace shelf 51. Shandeh (Eng) 52. It is, to Ha-Levi 54. House for Avram 57. Tet (Eng) 59. Blessed every 28 yrs.

60. Tay-Sachs carrier 61. Alphabet run

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