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Congregation Dor Tamid Brings In First Assistant Rabbi RABBI MICHAEL WEINSTEIN WELCOMED

By Denise Abramow For The Atlanta Jewish Times

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o satisfy the growth of the synagogue, members of Congregation Dor Tamid (CDT) in Johns Creek voted this spring to add an assistant rabbi to the existing clergy team of Rabbi Ron Herstik and Cantorial Soloist Michael Zuspan.

Rabbi Michael Weinstein, originally of Boston, relocated to Johns Creek with his wife, Laurie, and their son, Mose, and began in his new role July 1.

‘Live their Best Jewish Life’ by engaging our youth, providing outreach to North Fulton, South Forsyth and Gwinnett residents, and by bringing more diversified and spiritual programming to CDT.” Rabbi Weinstein explained how Dor Tamid was the top choice of the opportunities presented to him: “When I began to research CDT, it was clear to me that it was much more than a synagogue,” he said. “CDT is a

place where relationships are emphasized and prioritized though a vast array of opportunities to make not only a religious and spiritual connection, but to engage as individuals and with their families socially, through groups, education, giving back to the greater community at large, and even athletic activities.

“Coming to CDT and this community provides contentment that my family will benefit from this caring, close com-

munity similar to the one that I myself grew up in.”

Rabbi Weinstein plans to focus in the future on extending the connections of Dor Tamid to the Johns Creek surrounding areas and Atlanta Jewish community. Versed in both Judaic and Christian knowledge, he will provide outreach to the growing population of interfaith families regarding ways in which to integrate Judaism into their lives.

Rabbi Weinstein, 38, previously served as the rabbi at Temple Shir Hadash in Westford, Mass. He also served as Social Justice Rabbi at the Rashi

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“Not many congregations our size warrant the need for an Assistant Rabbi,” CDT President Howie Rubenstein said. “CDT is unique in that our member base necessitates a large religious school, growing half-day and full-day pre-school and a wide variety of activities to meet the needs of our youth and post-b’nai mitzvah life stages.

“We are confident that Rabbi Weinstein will continue to help our members

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he American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, SE Region (AICC) will present a special seminar, “Exporting to Israel”, on Wed., July 18, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The program will feature the senior leaders of the Tel Aviv-based Federation of Israeli Chambers L to R:Dan Carmely and Uriel Lynn of Commerce, including President Uriel Lynn and General Manager Dan Carmely.

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My daughter is a freshman in high school and has just started dating.

She attends a public school, so although there are some Jewish boys at her school, the vast majority of them are not Jewish.

I prefer that she date Jewish boys, as I believe that will make settling down with a Jewish husband much easier. What can I do and how do I explain this to my daughter?

a wonderful father and husband, and we only argue when he is late taking me or our children to appointments.

But I just can’t take his lateness any more. He is driving me crazy. He does not understand how insensitive, annoying and unfair it is for him to be late or to make other people late.

His tardiness does not seem to affect his business or job duties, just friends and family.

What should I do?

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This problem goes back to even when this Bubbe was a teenager. You can drive yourself meshugge with worry, or you can do some practical things.

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Tom Glaser continues to serve as the Chamber’s president and chief professional officer. Newly joining the Chamber’s Executive Committee are Ralph Jordan (CardioMEMS) and Diane Weiner (Healarium).

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New members of AICC’s Board of Directors include Thad Kodish (Fish & Richardson), Evan Paris (Aarons Grant & Habif), Shai Robkin (Bibliotheca), Ernie Eichenbaum (nexDimension), Raanan Pritzker (Fifth Third Bank), Sheila Dalmat (Key Bridges), Rebecca Chang (novoGI), Sam Chafetz (Baker Donelson), Talli Schechter (Baran Americas), Ken Fox (Soundings Group), John Belew (EVS), Dawn Ely (Global Success Centers), Avi Zibitt (SunTrust Bank) and Adam Shapiro (Sales Reform School).

“We are honored to continue to attract such outstanding individuals to the leadership of our organization,” said Glaser. “Their commitment strengthens our reputation in the area’s business community and with organizations and companies that do major business with Israel.”

Talking to your daughter about how you feel will help a little because what you are saying will register a little in the back of her head. But it won’t keep her from dating non-Jews.

At that age, most of kids hang out in groups, so find out about the local Jewish organizations and summer programs. There are probably some that her friends are in, and with a little encouragement, she might be interested, too.

Zol zayn mit mazel (“good luck”)!

- Bubbe Judy Dear Bubbe, My husband is always late. If he tells me that he will be somewhere in ten minutes, it usually takes a half hour to an hour for him to get there.

He is even late for meetings with me and for picking me up when he is supposed to.

I have tried for the last 20 years to get him to change, but he refuses.

Other than his timeliness issue, he is

I have a relative who is always late like that. We always tell her 30 minutes earlier than we want her to be there!

You can also ask some friends or family to help you with rides or plan on driving more yourself, but don’t fardrai zich dem kop (“drive yourself crazy”). There are plenty of women out there who would love to have a husband that showed up at ANY time.

Take a breath, think of all the things that are wonderful about him, and know that you might just be a little late somewhere but that life will go on. You probably do some things that annoy him too!

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- Bubbe Judy

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t is old news: Ahmadinejad condemns Israel, calling it a “cancer” that must be destroyed.

We have grown so used to anti-Israel rants coming from Iran that maybe we don’t pay attention any more – another day, another call to wipe Israel off the map. Maybe we have even grown weary of hearing about Iran’s “possible” nuclear program, or maybe we have just convinced ourselves that Israel or America will take action before it is too late.

not just an implicit attack on Israel, but an explicit attack on Judaism as a religion.

It moves the question from politics to culture and religion. It means that there can be no doubt that when Iranians call for the destruction of Israel they have another vision in mind as well – the destruction of all Jews.

While Ahmadinejad may talk of destroying Israel, he is really thinking that Iran will succeed in wiping out Judaism, and that should make us think twice. Thus, as Jews, this makes us nervous for Israel but also nervous and alert for ourselves.

We have come to depend on the In the Iranian worldview, Jews are fact that computer viruses and secret to be killed wherever they are because bunker-bombs will somehow avert an they are Jews. We have to understand all out attack on Israel.

We have even come to dismiss Iran’s threats “It moves the question from to attack “the West.”

I understand that we grow weary being in a state of constant alert, but in situations like this it is required.

I bring to your attention the latest version of Iran’s attack on Israel because it should concern us in an entirely different way.

politics to culture and religion.

It means that there can be no doubt that when Iranians call for the destruction of Israel they have another vision in mind as well – the destruction of all Jews.”

At a conference on drug use in Iran (yes, a big problem) Mohammed Reza Rahimi, Iran’s first vice president, offered a reason for worldwide drug use: The Talmud is to blame, he said. He explained that the Talmud teaches that Jews can do anything to make money and so it is obvious that they are behind the international drug trade.

As ridiculous as this sounds, representatives of other countries attending the conference sat there and listened to it. Worse than that, the UN often praises Iran for their “war on drugs.”

No, it does not surprise me that an Iranian official would make such a claim, nor does it surprise me that other people would sit there and listen as if this charge could be serious.

What does get my attention is this: Blaming the Talmud for drug use is

that Iran seeks to fulfill Hitler’s vision, a world without Jews. That may be offensive to some, but it is the simplest statement of the truth.

Don’t ignore the situation. Urge our officials to support Israel; urge our officials to combat Iran on every front possible. As Jews, we have learned that ignoring our enemies does not make them go away.

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Maris Ayin A HOUSE DIVIDED

By Arlene Appelrouth AJT Columnist

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ome Jewish laws bother me. Maris ayin, which means “the vision of the eye,” is one of them. This is how I learned about it.

I was in Jerusalem, visiting my son, who opted to spend his first year after high school at an Israeli yeshiva rather than heading to college.

He agreed to take a morning off from his Torah studies and meet me in the Old City, where we planned to go to the Tower of David museum.

The museum hadn’t opened yet and I was hungry, so I asked my son to come with me into a nearby restaurant so I could get some scrambled eggs and a cup of coffee. He wouldn’t join me.

“I can’t go in there, Mom, because it isn’t a kosher restaurant,” he explained.

“You don’t have to eat,” I said, “Just keep me company. I’m not eating anything that’s not kosher.”

“Mom, it doesn’t matter what you eat,” he objected. “The restaurant isn’t kosher, and if I go in wearing my kippah and tsis-tsis, if an observant Jew notices me, I’ll give him the wrong impression. It’s against Jewish law to do that.”

His wearing tsis-tsis and a kippah was something new. I was still adjusting to that.

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“David,” I said. “Tuck in your tsistsis and take off your kippah. I’ll buy you a baseball cap if you insist on covering your head.”

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He refused. No matter how I presented it – that I preferred to have his company rather than eat alone – he was not coming with me. So I went in, ate my scrambled eggs and drank my coffee.

I wondered how else my son was going to change as a result of this year in Jerusalem. Had anyone told me what the future would bring, I wouldn’t have believed them.

My son, my baby, had always been easy-going and easy to get along with. It never occurred to me that his choices would change our family in unimaginable ways.

Fast forward to a few years ago.

My son is an adult, has been ordained as an Orthodox rabbi and is married with children of his own. He works as an assistant rabbi. His sister has become Orthodox; his father, my husband, is practically Orthodox.

Our family has become “religiously diverse.” We have different belief systems that create family tensions.

My grandchildren are being taught that married women should never wear pants and that they should always cover their hair. When I have visited wearing slacks, my eldest grandson becomes visibly upset and expresses his concern that his friends will make fun of him if they know he has a grandmother who doesn’t follow the same rules that their grandmothers follow.

The world is being presented in black and white to my grandchildren. It is easier for me to wear skirts and hats than engage my grandson in a discussion about the different branches of Judaism, as he is at an age where he doesn’t understand “grey.”

I tell myself there will be time later, when he will become aware that Judaism is a rich, diverse religion.

Hopefully he will be able to understand that, and I will regain my freedom to dress however I please without upsetting anyone.

My intention is to have family vacations in which all three of my adult children participate. I want my grandchildren to know each other

and to know their aunts and uncles.

We have packed a cooler full of kosher food and gone to an amusement area. Everyone agrees to meet at noon at a spot where there are tables and chairs in front of a restaurant; the restaurant isn’t kosher, but we will only be purchasing cold drinks from it.

As soon as we open the cooler, there is an objection.

“We cannot sit here because of maris ayin.”

And back at the cooler, we had a serious problem.

The more religious among us took the cooler elsewhere, while I removed some food from the cooler and made plates for those of us who were comfortable eating in front of the non-kosher restaurant. Clearly, my family is not of one mind anymore.

I wish I could end this column by stating that during the time that has passed, my family has come to an agreement regarding kosher food.

“My family now consists of Orthodox Jews, modern Orthodox Jews, Reform Jews, unaffiliated Jews…and me. I tell everyone I’m a ‘flexidox’ Jew. By that, I mean I’ve become flexible enough to be comfortable no matter whether I worship – in a Reform temple or an Orthodox shul.

We are all Jews. We just worship differently.

We also have different standards regarding what and where we eat.”

I knew exactly what that means, but didn’t believe this law will apply when our cooler was in plain sight.

Anyone passing by could see we were having a family picnic with our own food.

My family now consists of Orthodox Jews, modern Orthodox Jews, Reform Jews, unaffiliated Jews…and me. I tell everyone I’m a “flexidox” Jew. By that, I mean I’ve become flexible enough to be comfortable no matter whether I worship – in a Reform temple or an Orthodox shul.

We are all Jews. We just worship differently. We also have different standards regarding what and where we eat.

But today, the most religious require special certification on their products, and the least religious think a lot of the rules are ludicrous.

Being Jewish is an ongoing challenge.

Editor’s note: Arlene Appelrouth earned a degree in news-editorial journalism from the University of Florida and her career as a writer and journalist spans a 50-year period; she currently studies memoir writing while working on her first book.

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Using What G-d Gave You AND GIVING BACK IN KIND

“What you are is G-d’s gift to you; what you do with yourself is your gift to G-d.”

- Danish proverb

By Janis Cohen AJT Columnist

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mazing, isn’t it, that your greatest gift to yourself is YOU. How you live your life is the gift you give back to Spirit.

While we have all been created in the image of G-d, each of us is unique; harboring unseen and specific talents unlike any other. But how do you find out what gifts you have to give back to others and to Spirit?

In other words, “What is your life purpose and how do you serve and contribute to the world?”

Once the secret was released, a different type of brutality arose: dealing with what happened to her. Feeling utterly powerless, rageful and pained, she slithered through the process of talking to therapists about her experience; her efforts weren’t always honest, and her behavior towards her mother and siblings was disrespectful and defiant.

Many of you believe that you do not have enough insight to figure out what you are supposed to do with your life. I have worked with many clients who have convinced themselves that someone else knows the answer to the question, and therein lies the struggle.

No one knows your strengths better than you, and no one can determine your purpose here on Earth outside of you. The unfolding of insight comes from Spirit’s messages and your ability to coagulate them, ingest them and act upon them.

Life is your school, and you are here to learn from it.

Some of you spend your time attempting to serve the world in ways that really don’t fit for you; being someone who you are not in an attempt to try to find who you really are. Until you have that aha moment, or a “tipping point” as I have mentioned before, many of you really don’t know why you have been put on 8 this planet.

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In extreme circumstances, people have found their higher purpose spurting out from the loss of a loved one or a tragic personal experience: A very dear friend of mine has a 21-year-old daughter who has been struggling with a secret; a secret that she finally shared last year.

She was raped when she was 13.

She kept this secret, along with the shame, pain, anger and humiliation that came with it, buried in her heart. She rebelled in many ways over the years.

It was clear to her family that her pain was intolerable, both emotionally and psychologically. She didn’t know how to deal with her innocence being stolen, and she couldn’t take her power back.

And then, one day, she decided to tell her story…to the world!

She released a silent four-minute video explaining what being 13 meant for her.

It was powerful. It was raw. It was honest. Her pain was evident, but her strength was even more pronounced.

Perhaps, out of this awful experience, she might transform her pain into power and help others who have experienced the same thing or something similar. Perhaps, had she nev-

er experienced this horrific robbery of her innocence, she might never have uncovered how powerful she really is over her life and how she can ultimately give back to the world and G-d in the way that would create the greatest ripples.

We rarely see G-d’s purpose in pain or failure or embarrassment while it is happening. With time, though, lessons become clear and “only in hindsight do we understand how G-d intended a problem for good,” as Rick Warren once said.

It is not necessary to experience something painful to clarify your greater purpose, but oddly enough, it happens this way for many people.

You might be someone who, through a hobby or passion, makes this world a better place simply because you love what you do and you spread the joy of loving something beyond yourself to others; teaching them how to accept love, find love and give love.

Sometimes our life purpose can take its shape in one way and then, as we grow, its shape changes to accommodate new awareness, unearthed talents and divinely-timed learning.

Ask yourself: “In what capacity have I seen other people respond favorably to me?”

You have dozens of hidden abilities and gifts that you don’t even know you have because you haven’t ever tried them out. Would you believe that people in their 70s and 80s find out that they were good at something that they never knew they were good at?

All it takes is the desire to find out; you will never know what you are good at until you try. And in your efforts to find out what you are good at, NEVER compare yourself to others for two reasons:

1. You will always find someone who does a better job than you, knows more than you and has more than you, and you will become discouraged.

2. Or, you will find someone who isn’t capable of what you are capable, and you will find that your ego will take hold of you and make you believe that you are better than they are.

You must remember that even though your talents and gifts are unique and special, you are no better or worse than anyone else. You are you, and there is no judgment around that fact.

You will know that you are on the right path when your mind is clear and concise about your day, when you feel that the decisions and actions that you have feel light, bright and right and when you get that awesome feeling of love and fulfillment that only giving to others brings.

Whatever your gift, it matters.

There is someone out there who needs what you have to offer; someone who hasn’t figured out their next step, until you come along.

You deserve to be your best, and the world deserves to receive your best.

So, what gift do you have to give back and how are you going to give it?

The world is waiting…

Editor’s note: Janis R. Cohen, LCSW, has helped to better the lives of children, adults and families for 21 years, adding a spiritual and strategic touch to her clinical work in private practice. She can be contacted at jrcohen@cohenfamilycounseling.com; find out more at cohenfamilycounseling.com.

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Health & Wellness

Exercising Safely and Effectively

BECAUSE “JUST DOING IT” ISN’T ENOUGH

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n my last column, I explained the benefits of maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle. I also highlighted the wide array of resources we have here in Atlanta that can help us get moving.

After all, that’s really what it takes to get started: movement. Even walking at a moderate pace for 30 minutes a day can be advantageous.

The next step to consider is taking it up a notch, to begin a well-rounded fitness program that includes cardiovascular activity (i.e., walking), flexibility (i.e., stretching) and strength training (i.e., using resistance).

Along with proper nutrition, these are the key components to optimum wellness, and they will also be the focus of the majority of my upcoming columns.

Before getting to all of that, however, I want to emphasize the importance of two elements that are vital to any physical regimen you undertake: safety and effectiveness. Although these may sound obvious, I am often amazed at how much safety and effectiveness are lacking from many exercise routines.

Walk into any health club, and faulty movement patterns, improper technique and dangerous exercises abound. Look right outside your home at people running in the streets, and you will see some folks who are hurting, more than helping, themselves.

If you are going to exercise, it is important that you do it right.

There is a lot of good information out there that can help you, and it can be found in books, videos, and on the web, among other places.

Bad information also exists, so it is highly recommended that you become knowledgeable enough to make the distinction or find someone else who is; this can make the difference between reaching your fitness goals and injury and pain.

I often use an example of an elderly gentleman who I met at a health club a couple of years ago. When I first saw him, I noticed his posture was hunched over, with a forward

head and rounded shoulders, also known as kyphosis; he immediately hopped on a chest press machine, and the forward motion of that exercise only exacerbated his condition.

Keep in mind, the chest press is an essential exercise that I use with many clients. Not every exercise is for everybody, however, and certainly not all of the time.

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In addition, there is a correct way and an incorrect way to use this machine (as well as all others). Simply throwing your arms forward with your head and upper back “along for the ride” can be harmful.

Getting back to this particular gentleman, he continued working out on other pieces of equipment and, as he was using the majority of them incorrectly, he probably should not have been using them at all. By the time he was ready to leave, he was more hunched over than he was when he came in, and the ramifications for that are clearly not good.

Therefore, we talked, and to his credit, he was open to suggestions.

By making some subtle changes to his routine in the gym with exercise and outside through activities of daily living – all of which focused on proper form, better posture and correct breathing – he made significant improvement and, over time, felt a lot better.

Other situations similar to this example are not uncommon. Exercise is one of the best things you can do, but in order to reap the true rewards, it must be done safely and effectively.

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FIDF Atlanta Women’s Brigade at the Shooting Range AN EVENING WITH FRIENDS AND FIREARMS

By Jessie Miller Editorial Intern

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tepping into the shooting range, I’m a little nervous.

I have on “eyes and ears” – plastic goggles and heavy earmuffs – and 10 bullets in my pocket. I loaded up the .22-caliber pistol, took aim at the target and fired off 10 consecutive shots.

It was exhilarating, and I felt empowered with the ability to protect myself.

In fact, the Friends of the Israel Defense Force Women’s Brigade event at the Sandy Springs Shooting Range served two purposes: to support the FIDF Lone Soldier’s Program and bring together Jewish women for a night of shooting and conversation. The guest of honor for the night was Adi Halfon, a former Israel Defense Force combat soldier, who shared her inspirational story.

The event was coordinated by Ginny Adams, Development Associate of FIDF Atlanta region, and cosponsored by Rachel Simon – who developed a love for shooting from her dad and is now married to an Israeli soldier – and Gabby Markowitz, creator of ArmedCandy, a website and product brand that uses social media to educate women about guns.

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Halfon started the night by talking about her experience in the army and how FIDF has influenced her life. The IDF is known for their superior military force and ability to defend its nation, but the funds spent on keeping the military strong lead to less available resources for the soldiers themselves.

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That’s where the FIDF comes in; they strive to provide the soldiers with what the state cannot, such as family support, better quality of life at military bases, scholarships and other social needs. One of these programs is IMPACT!, a scholarship program for disadvantaged soldiers who otherwise would not go to college.

Halfon is one of these scholars and was able to attend college and continue to create a better life for her family because of this opportunity.

She spent the week leading up to this event traveling and speaking to various groups.

Simon followed by sharing her story and interest in guns as well as her support of Israel, all of which was a factor in her support of the Women’s Brigade event. Next, Markowitz – also a range safety officer at the Range – spoke about her company ArmedCandy and her mission to help women not fear guns, instill strength and educate them on gun safety.

Finally, before the ladies stepped into the shooting stalls, Adams spoke passionately about the FIDF and the great things they can do for the soldiers.

“Their job is to look after Israel,” she said. “Our job is to look after them.”

Besides IMPACT!, the FIDF also runs the Legacy Program, which supports family members of fallen soldiers as they rebuild their lives; and a Lone Soldiers Program that helps soldiers who are not from Israel and acts as a support system while they are away, helping provide airfare to visit their families.

At the end of the night, I left feeling proud of my shooting skills and invigorated to support Israel and its soldiers. The allure of guns and a communal love of Israel made the event a huge success.

It was great to see women of all ages come out to honor the soldiers while having fun. Adams also added that she hopes to do more events in the future at the shooting range.

The FIDF Women’s Brigade gathered to learn and let loose a few rounds.

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FIDF in Action “PINKY” SHARES HIS OWN EXPERIENCE After shooting, I sat down with Pinhas “Pinky” Zoaretz, Col. (Ret.), Deputy National Director and Director of Development, of the FIDF. Pinky began by explaining the purpose of the FIDF –to provide for the soldiers – and emphasized that they are not a political, religious or military organization.

“The other thing that we are taking care of is to create a bridge between the community in North America to the Israeli people,” he explained.

The FIDF has a large impact on Israeli society, especially through the programs that build better futures for the soldiers, like the IMPACT! scholarships.

Recently, the FIDF was asked by the Israeli Army to spearhead the construction of a community for the new military base in the Negev.

“We have to bring them services, like food, synagogues, a community, education and libraries, that care for the well being of the soldiers,” Pinky said, adding that moving the bases from Tel Aviv and other cities to the Negev is fulfilling Ben Gurion’s vision to settle the desert.

Pinky comes from a family of Holocaust survivors and understands the purpose of a strong army to implement the saying “Never Again.” As a former colonel, he also understands the needs of Israeli soldiers and how they benefit from the FIDF.

He was first introduced to the organization when members of the Miami Chapter visited him in the hospital after being injured.

“It was exciting,” Pinky said. “Someone was coming who I didn’t know to support me.”

Adi Halfon (second from left) poses with members of the FIDF Women’s Brigade at the Sandy Springs Shooting Range.

He was later invited to be the keynote speaker at their annual gala and continues to believe that every supporter is important to Israel.

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The property, which includes two acres and a house, was donated by Mike Leven, a renowned philanthropist who currently serves as the president and chief operating officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.

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From the JCRC

Divestment Resolutions Voted Down PRESBYTERIANS AND METHODISTS DO THE RIGHT THING (MOSTLY)

By Harold Kirtz AJT Contributor

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he Presbyterians and Methodists have defeated resolutions on divestment related to Israel. The national conferences of each denomination recently considered resolutions to divest church stock holdings in three companies with ties to Israel – Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola – but thankfully, in either case, the resolution was voted down.

The claim was that the products of these three companies were used to assist the IDF in the West Bank, and the push behind these divestment efforts was from elements within the denominations that are convinced that the “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza is the primary reason for Palestinian suffering.

Very little consideration is given to the real reason for the situation in the territories: the failure of the Palestinians to live in peace with a

permanent Jewish state in the Middle East and the failure of the Palestinian leadership to prepare their people for peace with Israel.

To lay the groundwork for these divestment efforts, Palestinian Christians have devised a study document entitled “Kairos Palestine.”

This document is the main tool used in convincing American Christians and others to support the Palestinians and to isolate Israel, and it has led to a similar document entitled “Kairos USA.” The Kairos documents make the following assertion: that “if there were no occupation, there would be no resistance, no fear and no insecurity.” The documents further state: “We call on Israel to give up its injustice towards us, not to twist the truth of reality of the occupation by pretending that it is a battle against terrorism. The roots of ‘terrorism’ are in the human injustice committed and in the evil of the occupation.

These must be removed if there be a

sincere intention to remove ‘terrorism.’”

These sentiments fail to recognize that terrorism and war against Israel came first. The Kairos documents almost seem to have been written in an alternate universe in which terrorism is argued to be the result of the “occupation.”

That some within the Christian community have put on such “blind-

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“A letter in hope was signed by over 1,500 rabbis with the support of the religious streams and over 22,000 members of the community,” he said. “Groups from across the spectrum of our community were a

“That some within the Christian community have put on such “blinders” is without rational explanation. They see the occupation as 99 percent of the problem rather than understand that the terrorism of Palestinian militants and the continuing opposition to Israeli sovereignty by many Arab nations and Arab and Palestinian organizations is the main problem.” ers” is without rational explanation.

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recommendations made to the General Assemblies. Geri Palast, IAN Managing Director, told of many efforts made in the Jewish community:

In a recent statement, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Israel Action Network (IAN) – both associated with the Atlanta JCRC – expressed appreciation to those who stood for peacemaking and against divestment at the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Methodist General Assemblies. They rejected resolutions to divest from the three American companies.

“This was not just a major defeat for the divestment movement,” said JCPA President Rabbi Steve Gutow, speaking of the results from most recent Presbyterian conference. “It was a victory for peace. The church adopted a path of creative peacemaking and investment in positive outcomes.

“Delegates recognized that divestment is a path toward division, not reconciliation. We are gratified even as we recognize that there is still much hard work ahead of us.”

The American Jewish community made great efforts to overcome the

part of a tremendous effort. We are deeply touched to know that Presbyterians from an equally broad spectrum agreed, worked tirelessly and sought positive rather than negative paths forward.”

However, the BDS (boycott/divestment/sanctions) Movement remains the choice of those who ignore Israel’s legitimate security needs and instead blame only Israel for the tragic Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Jewish community must remain vigilant, because these efforts will not stop until there is real peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Despite defeating the divestment recommendation, the Methodist conference did approve a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli companies operating in the West Bank.

It is incumbent upon anyone who has the ear of Christian friends to talk about the desire of Israel for peace and about the issue of intransigence on the part of the Palestinians that must be addressed in a serious way.

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

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Israel

Singing Hatikvah and Finding Hope in Israel STRIKING A CHORD ON A RECENT VFI TRIP For The Atlanta Jewish Times

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here is much still swirling around my noggin as I process the ups and downs of my most recent journey to Israel earlier this year. What lingers about at the moment is a very special happening during the first week of the trip as I transitioned yet again from flabby civilian to Israel Defense Forces volunteer. I’ll explain: On this particular morning in early May, I joined with a group of volunteers from around the world – Australia and New Zealand; Israel, France, Germany, Holland, Russia and Poland; the U.S. and Canada – shuffling about on an asphalt parade ground on a massive IDF base near Tel Aviv. We were all volunteers for Sar-El, an organization that places people on IDF installations in Israel to help out as needed.

Mostly, the work is cosmically menial, but it’s work that needs to be done, and it releases “real” soldiers to handle more important tasks.

Each morning, after rolling out of our bunks in our oh-so spartan quarters, getting cleaned up and dressing in uniforms – yes, we wear IDF-issue outfits; how cool is that – we dine on a hearty breakfast of hard-boiled eggs, cheeses, yogurt and all the tomatoes and cucumbers we can scarf down in 30 minutes. We then join with a company of young solders for morning flag raising.

On this day, our madrichot – that would be Tamara and Eleanor, our guides and commanders – decide to take the morning ritual to a new level. We’ll not just heft the iconic blue and white banner of the Jewish state into the sky over Tel HaShomer, but also sing “Hatikvah,” the Israeli national anthem.

“Hatikvah” manages to be both uplifting and melancholy, an anthem that poetically speaks of hope and the Jewish soul, all wrapped up in a musical score of aching beauty.

For most Jews, certainly those of us raised on the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland, the melody rests

lightly in our hearts and souls, easily recalled whenever the first mournful notes are played.

The problem is that the words are in Hebrew, a remarkably difficult language to learn – especially for foreign volunteers who are often older than Israel itself. It’s one thing to say “hello,” shalom, in Hebrew; it’s a bit more rigorous to recall and recite the sophisticated lyrics of the anthem.

So while a few brave and bilingual volunteers begin singing, the rest of us stumble about, humming the tune and sounding off whenever the word hatikvah (“the hope”) is mentioned.

Meanwhile, the company of regular soldiers nearby, young men and women drafted into the IDF and serving out their time as laborers stare at us in bemused silence, trying to figure out why we’re singing their national anthem.

But like the country itself, there’s something contagious and endearing about “Hatikvah,” both the words and the melody. The silliness of the effort gradually morphed slowly into a grand affair, the mournful tune giving way to the stirring anthem that has sustained and unified the Jewish people for decades now.

Even some of the young troops are caught up in the moment as together we share the words of the poet Tali Herz Imber, “Our hope is not yet lost/ The hope of two thousand years/To be a free people in our land/The land of Zion and Jerusalem.”

I can’t help but think that on this day, if only in a very small way, I’m part of the ancient promise first whispered to Abraham; a vision that is no longer simply a hope, but today a reality.

Editor’s note: Ron Feinberg is a veteran journalist who has worked for daily newspapers across the Southeastern United States. He now specializes on topics of Jewish interest and can be reached at ronfeinberg@bellsouth.net. His blog, This & That, can be found at norgrebnief.blogspot.com

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Their participation relieves IDF soldiers from menial tasks.

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Much More to Mayim BEYOND THE SCREEN: A PARENT, AN AUTHOR, AN ACADEMIC

By Jessie Miller Editorial Intern

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ong before she was a sitcom regular, mother and writer, Mayim Bialik was a young girl acting in school plays and growing up in her Jewish community. Then, she landed a lead role as a young Bette Midler in 1988’s “Beaches”; celebrated her bat mitzvah the same week the movie came out; and soon after, scored her own television show, NBC’s “Blossom.”

Growing up, Bialik never envisioned that her career would have her standing in front of the camera.

In fact, she says she is “very grateful for starting acting at an older age because I had 12 years of normal craziness before the showbiz craziness.”

Today, even though she is bestknown for her uproarious recurring character Amy Farrah Fowler on CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” and appearances in other hit shows like “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” she says her most important role in life is mother to her two young boys.

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Indeed, over the past several years Bialik has become the face of attachment parenting, a style of parenting that incorporates natural practices such as breastfeeding, natural birth and sleeping near your children. Urged by fellow supporters of attachment parenting, she recently wrote “Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way” as part of an effort to break the negative stigmas associated with the term.

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“I was asked to write it because attachment parenting is often seen very judgmentally, and I was told that my voice makes it much more friendly,” Bialik said. “That’s really what we were trying to achieve: that even if natural birth or sleeping with your kids isn’t for you, I wanted to explain the neuroscience on why it makes sense and also how some of the principles can really be incorporated to any style of parenting.”

munities who want to parent holistically and naturally.”

The Science Behind Besides her personal experience as a mother, Bialik also uses her Ph.D. in neuroscience to support her views on attachment parenting.

During a break from acting, she attended undergraduate and graduate school, where she met her husband and eventually filed her thesis on the hormones of human attachment the same week her second son was born.

Her love for science was ignited during her “Blossom” days; it was Bialik’s private on-set science tutor who “really had the patience with me and gave me the confidence to learn about science in a way that made sense to me.” She was also pushed to focus on academics and develop excellent writing skills by her parents, both of whom were English teachers.

Mayim the Mom Another aspect of Bialik’s book, blog and parenting style are holistic principles, many of which tie into attachment parenting. She explains that holistic parenting takes into account chemicals, toxins and types of food that go into a baby’s body and how that affects their development;

In general, Bialik describes herself as strict, hands-on mother who “tries to present a real portrait of what our world looks like to our children.” Her home is kosher, and the entire family – inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” – has maintained a healthy, vegan lifestyle for four years.

A Harmonious Whole

Mayim Bialik (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Blossom”) will be at the Atlanta Perimeter Holiday Inn for an MJCCA-sponsored event on July 22.

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many holistic parents also use, for example, cloth diapers, alternative medicines or baby chiropractors.

Several years ago, Bialik even became the spokesperson of non-profit organization Holistic Moms Network.

“It’s a support and education network,” she said. “We have play dates and resources for people in all com-

Staying Connected BIALIK KNOWS HER ROOTS

Though not directly part of Judaism, Mayim Bialik does find Jewish liturgy on veganism and feel supported as a vegan by her religion. Having been raised in a Reform community, Bialik was instilled with the idea that your own Judaism can become whatever you want it to be.

After finding her own Jewish community in Hillel at University of California Los Angeles, Bialik began to discover for herself what it meant to be Jewish.

“It was really when I started actively learning and studying text that I found comfort and made personality changes that I credit to my observance, really trying to get me closer to the person I want to be,” she said.

Bialik also believes that you can never be done searching for the person you want to be, and that it is more about the journey than where you end up. If anything, Bialik is passionate about what she believes in and lives her life knowing what is truly important in life, her family and faith.

“Being Jewish is my complete identity, my birthright and historical connection,” she said. “It’s a connection to something bigger, a belief in Israel and faith in the Jewish people to be a light among nations.”

One might think that actor, writer and academic require very different skills, but Bialik explains all three are closely associated.

“There are actually a lot of similarities between the world of academia and the world of acting,” she said. “There’s a lot of ego involved with your superiors, jockeying for positions, needing to prove yourself. There’s a lot in common, and even though the academic mind might not be the same as the artist mind, it’s still a very creative undertaking to be a writer.”

Naturally, Bialik loves her time on “BBT” for the opportunity it affords to create a fun, dynamic character while also using her scientific intelligence to entertain the audience.

Meanwhile, she continues to pursue all of her artistic outputs and already has a second book in the works.

Editor’s note: Mayim Bialik will be speaking and signing her book on July 22 at 11 a.m. at the Atlanta Perimeter Holiday Inn for “Essentials for Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting,” hosted by The Bellies to Babies Foundation and the MJCCA’s Family Resource Center. Also set to appear is Ina May Gaskin, who will speak about midwife-assisted homebirth.

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Kosher Movies: Alien (1979) RIDLEY SCOTT’S THRILLER REMINDS US TO BE RESPONSIBLE

By Rabbi Herbert Cohen For The Atlanta Jewish Times rabbihjco@msn.com

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y wife and I have been blessed with In my career as a school principal, parents from time to time would ask me to break a school rule when their child was in trouble.

In one case, the parent told me that enforcement of a particular rule would turn off his child from Judaism and that I would be responsible for his son’s lack of faith.

foreign life form which attaches itself to his head.

Some crew members want to bring Kane back to the ship to see if they can save him, but acting commanding officer Ripley refuses, citing quarantine protocol and the real danger of putting more lives at risk.

When another officer disobeys Ripley and opens the door of the spaceship allowing the contaminated Kane to

ing recklessly is a violation of Jewish law in that it puts the lives of others as risk. In truth, when a Jew drives with courtesy, it is a way of sanctifying the name of God. Although “Alien” deals with a foreign universe, it reminds us of the importance of following the rules and not placing others at risk. We cannot predict the outcomes of our actions.

Therefore, it becomes incumbent upon us to think wisely before making an exception to the rules.

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

Such a comment weighed heavily on me.

Moreover, in my early years, I wanted to be liked, and enforcement of the rule would make me unpopular with a few parents.

Whatever expedient decision you make in the short term may bring you some satisfaction and peace momentarily, but it will eventually bring you havoc; it’s just a matter of time. The consequences of a decision to break a long-standing policy for a short-term benefit, however noble it may seem at the time, is the catalyst for all the mayhem that erupts in “Alien,” a tense and disturbing science-fiction thriller which spells out in grim detail the horrific results of breaking one rule to ameliorate an immediate problem.

The Nostromo, a commercial towing vehicle traveling to Earth with over a million tons of mineral ore, intercepts a signal which the crew perceives as an SOS. When crew member Kane leaves the ship with the captain and investigates the origin of the signal, he is attacked by a

enter, he unknowingly allows the alien to enter the ship as well, and this marks the beginning of the end of most of the crew.

The Ethics of the Fathers tells us that the wise man is he who foresees the consequences of his actions, who does not put others at risk to satisfy his own immediate needs. One rash act can leave in its wake a plethora of tragedy.

It is a Jewish sensibility to do whatever we can to prevent danger and harm to others, to minimize risk to our friends and neighbors. The Torah lists numerous laws that are designed to protect people: When we build a house, we are enjoined to erect a guardrail on a roof; furthermore, we are enjoined not to possess an unstable ladder, not to own a vicious dog or do anything that may create a hazard for anyone who enters our home.

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A Super-Simple Shabbat Shortcut EASY “HOMEMADE” CHALLAH FOR TODAY’S BUSY LIFESTYLE

By Suzi Brozman AJT Contributor suzibrozman@gmail.com

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hat are the universal symbols of a Shabbat meal? Wine and challah.

But these days, finding the time to bake your own challah is often an insurmountable challenge, and dealing with yeast is just frightening to many. Buying challah at the supermarket is certainly an option, but there’s something soul-satisfying about serving bread still warm from the oven.

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aware of this particular shortcut. I knew all about bread machines, and I sometimes make dough in my food processor (I’ll talk about that another time – it cuts the preparation to about three minutes). But back to the diner table…

Immediately, my mind wandered to the mold I’d bought that morning, and after Shabbat, off I went to Kroger to purchase the dough. Thirty-six dough balls for about $3.49, kosher and pareve! Plus some vegetable oil spray to make sure nothing stuck in the mold.

I used 10 balls of dough, but probably needed only seven or eight for the small-size pan (that’s less than $1 for ingredients!).

I let it rise for a bit over an hour, then put the pan into the oven, following the printed instructions on the dough.

The necessary items for “homemade” challah: the mold, the dough and cooking spray.

Top-right, the rolls fit into the challah mold; bottom, the rolls prepared in eight-inch cake pans.

Baked golden-brown, delicious pull-apart yeast bread from frozen dough.

The $1, super-simple, time-saving, fresh-from-the-oven challah.

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Now there’s a simple, innovative way to do it.

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I was browsing in Judaica Corner, the Toco Hills center for all things Jewish, recently when I spied a mold in the shape of a braided challah loaf. Wow, I thought, just the thing for those days when I don’t have time or energy to braid my own dough.

So I bought one. That night, I was a guest at a Shabbat dinner where the hostess served pull-apart bread, which she explained was nothing more than frozen yeast dough balls left to rise in an 8-inch cake pan and then baked to brown, yeasty goodness.

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Ten minutes later, I removed it, flipped the bread out onto a cookie sheet, brushed the top with beaten egg, sprinkled it with seeds, and returned it to the oven for another 15 minutes, until it was brown and delectable-looking (there are easy-to-follow instructions on the mold’s packaging).

And it tasted as good as it looked, with a minimum of effort!

What more could you ask?

What more indeed? I tried dipping the dough balls in melted margarine, brown sugar and chopped nuts before putting seven of them into a sprayed cake pan and had an instant dessert.

Try sprinkling the top of the pan with more brown sugar and nuts, or add raisins, dried cranberries and perhaps a drizzle of honey.

Judaica Corner’s Janet Afrah told me that she’d had a customer who explained that he was on a glutenfree diet, and the mold helped him form loaves that looked like braided challah when the wheat-free recipe he used wouldn’t allow him to make braids. I can see baking other recipes in the mold as well: carrot cake,

chocolate chip bread, whatever your mind can envision.

Like Italian? Use olive oil, sprinkle Italian herbs in the pan before adding the dough, and you’ve got a lovely addition to a spaghetti or lasagna dinner. And chopped olives sprinkled over the loaf could only enhance the flavor.

For a dairy meal, try grating cheddar cheese or sprinkling parmesan on the dough before baking. Seeds, nuts, your favorite spice, there’s no limit; if you try it, send me your success stories!

I never thought I’d be excited by pre-made dough, and – truth be told – I still love working with the

ingredients and forming the braids, watching it rise and feeling a sense of accomplishment when I produce a perfectly-shaped, sublimely-delicious loaf.

But still, when there’s just not time to do it all, this is a versatile and very acceptable substitute. I’m even wondering if you could make cornbread in the mold. It’s worth a try, when the weather cools down enough that I don’t mind turning on the oven!

Editor’s note: Find the mold at Toco Hills’ Judaica Corner, 2185 Briarcliff Road, (404) 636-2473; or at Chosen Treasures in Sandy Springs, 175 Mt. Vernon Highway, (404) 843-1933.

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The restaurant is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner and features a diverse menu and bar. They also have a banquet room, perfect for private parties. According to Yelp, reviews are positive, with comments on the great service, good portion sizes and great food, definitely a place to return.

The menu is substantial, with seven tapas options, six different pastas, seven seafood dishes and 10 meat plates. The meat dishes can be prepared in a variety of ways, and there are also several desserts, including flan, tiramisu, cheesecake and tira dura.

Besides the daily menu, there are also several specials. Past specials include Pollo Carducci, Tilapia Picatta, Penne Margarita and Portuguese Bitoque. The Bisteca ala Piedra is ribeye or filet mignon that is then cooked at the table in an iron skillet.

Besides the food, the décor of Emidio’s creates a warm, relaxed atmosphere that is very much a representation of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish culture. The restaurant is mostly one large dining area with a full-length mirror along one wall, adding depth to the room. There is also a spacious bar with plenty of seating and a well-stocked selection, including the popular Sangria.

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Outreach

Slumdog Tourism or Tikkun Olam?

A PERSPECTIVE-CHANGING TRIP TO LIBERIA WITH AJWS “The opportunity and demand to observe poverty first-hand have never been greater… thanks to ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ the film that started a thousand tours.”

By Lois Frank For The Atlanta Jewish Times

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hus wrote Kennedy Odede in his Aug. 9, 2010 New York Times article about the growing “slum tourism” phenom-

“Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from,” he continued.

The ethical question that arises from such comments was at the center of an animated discussion taking place in a poor community in Liberia in June.

I was visiting the country with Ruth Messinger and 20 or so other travelers as part of an American Jewish World Service (AJWS) study tour.

Our agenda was to learn about ways that our donations are supporting positive social change in the country, but we were all highly cognizant of the thin line between helping and exploiting. To make sure that we were on the right side of this line, we defined our purpose as to witness and to share by seeing the needs on the ground and pledging to urge our own communities to do something about it when we returned home.

During our visit, the fear that we might witness the needs of Liberia as voyeurs and return home having done nothing tangible about it was put to rest. By supporting AJWS, we know we are part of an ongoing effort to effect long-term change and that we were helping to empower women and girls, build peace and contribute to sustainable development, all via communitybased grassroots strategies.

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And we saw evidence that these strategies were working everywhere we went.

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The Uphill Battle Almost 10 years have passed since peace came to Liberia, but the horrors and devastation of the years of civil war and corrupt leadership have left deep scars, both physical and psychic,

on the people and the land.

In May, just one month before our visit, Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 40 years in prison for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. This was an important first step in the healing process, but clearly there is still a long road of reconciliation ahead; a generation of Liberian people has had no education at all, gender-based violence is pervasive and the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world.

Lack of electricity and plumbing remains a barrier in most of the country: Even in Monrovia, the capital, a lucky few of the privileged have a few hours of electricity a day, internet access is sporadic and running water and functioning toilets are a luxury reserved mostly for tourists and expensive restaurants. In the rural areas, there is no inside plumbing, electricity or running water.

But while we witnessed this devastation, we also witnessed hope, service and empowerment and were awed at the progress happening in the name of Jews.

Education in Action American Jewish World Service brings a human rights-based approach to development around the world. It makes small grants (up to $30,000 each) over multiple years to community-based organizations that approach poverty in a holistic way, using participation of the community and principles of equality, accountability and the indivisibility of human rights to effect change.

AJWS goes beyond traditional aid or charity to change the structures that place people in vulnerable positions in the first place, and the evidence of this impact was everywhere in Liberia.

In an open-sided, thatched, mud “peace classroom” in Bensonville – a community served by AJWS grantee Self Help Initiative for Sustainable Development (SHIFD) – a charming, shy young woman came to the chalkboard in her colorful printed lappa

TOP: The AJWS group poses with women from a Liberian village.

LEFT: These literacy students are learning to write with the help of AJWS. BELOW: From L to R Ruth Messinger, head of AJWS, Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize 2011, Letty Cottin Pogrebim, founding editor of Ms. Magazine.

BOTTOM: Article author Lois Frank speaks with Liberian farmers.

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skirt, head covered with matching fabric. She clutched her workbook and showed us her exercises: The alphabet neatly traced on lined sheets.

“My name is Tamia Jabbeh,” she said. “I can write my name.”

She painstakingly wrote it proudly on the chalkboard.

She is 24 and the single mother of four. She hopes to be able to help her children with their schoolwork and perhaps one day have her own business selling flour with the help of a microloan; a loan of just $100 will get her started.

Inside another classroom run by AJWS grantee Imani House, housed in a church adjacent to a bustling Monrovia market, 25 or so women shopkeepers came to tell us of their gratitude for the reading classes they take two evenings a week after their stalls in the market close. Then, out of the shadows a very handsome, macho

young man in wrap-around sunglasses stood up.

“My name is David,” he said. “I am learning to write my name. Next year at this time I will be able to read to you. Thank you, AJWS, for my chance for an education.”

Initiatives that Work In the remote village of Tienii – a three-to-four-hour bumpy van ride out of Monrovia – a young woman spoke of walking just as long as we rode in order to serve as a poll watcher at the recent National democratic elections.

With training from AJWS grantee Mano River Union Peace Network Liberia (MARWOPNET), she had become an election monitor, to ensure that her country’s voting was fair.

In that same village I met three high school boys who were getting ready to broadcast their weekly talk radio show from a tiny, one-room “station” established by MARWOPNET and known as the “Voice of Women of Peace.” The boys’ topics that day included teenage pregnancy and prevention, the importance of education, eliminating sexual violence and good healthcare practices.

The chief of a different village told us about the community’s struggle to defend its land against a large Malaysian palm oil company, which has surrounded the village and claimed its farmland.

“Our children had been eating three meals a day, and now they are eating one,” he said.

The community is being helped in its battle for land rights and survival

by AJWS grantee Sustainable Development Institute, which is helping secure legal representation to negotiate terms for some farmland, and is working with the community to gain new livelihood skills or consider relocation of their entire village.

At one point on this amazing journey, we sat under a big shade tree with members of the local community. Suddenly, I felt a little hand on my hand; I looked down and the arms of a small girl, age two or so, were reaching up for me to lift her into my lap.

As I sat listening to the discussion and she cuddled in my lap, I stroked her hair. When I stopped, she took my hand and put it back where it had been, as if to say, “I need what you are doing. Don’t stop.”

It was her message and also the bigger message of our trip – and I got it.

At that moment, I was so proud to be a witness to the work being done by these many incredible organizations and proud that my contribution makes me part of the healing that is taking place in Liberia.

This is not slum tourism, but tikkun olam – healing the world, in the name of my people.

Editor’s note: Lois Frank is a past National Chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a current national board member of MAZON, the Blaustein Institute for Human Rights and Project Interchange and serves on the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Board.

Belief Confirmed We had the privilege of meeting with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female head of an African state (now democratically elected for a second term) and the winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. During our meeting she identified three major concerns of her administration: jobs, infrastructure, rape.

We also spent time with Leymah Gbowee, an extraordinary activist (and AJWS grantee) who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with President Sirleaf in recognition of her part in bringing about an end to Liberia’s civil war. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the Jewish feminist author who founded Ms. Magazine, was on our trip and interviewed Leymah about her work to empower “women for peace” to insist that the country end its conflicts.

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Rape? On the top-three list? It was a stunning insight into a culture that has diminished women and girls.

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This Week’s Highlighted Events

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Dive Into Shabbat, open swim followed by poolside song and prayer with Rabbi Brian Glusman. Fri., July 13, 5 p.m.

MJCCA’s Zaban Park. brian.glusman@ atlantajcc.org.

Saturday

Ice Cream Social, come and enjoy this family event. Sun., July 15, 4 p.m. All are welcome. Temple Kol Emeth. denisejacobs@ kolemeth.net or (770) 973-3533.

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.

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Wed., July 18

Special Seminar: Exporting to Israel, local exporters interesting in expanding sales to Israel are invited to attend this seminar led by the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce. Registration required. Wed., July 18. $25/person. 8 a.m. Metro Atlanta Chamber.

Burgers, Boeries & Beer with the CBS Men’s Club, plus Texas Hold ‘Em Poker. Sun., July 15. Congregation Beth Shalom. bshalom.

Torah Studies: “Koshering Our Charnet. acter,” join the Intown Jewish Academy Sat., July 14 for a class about shedding unwanted Progressives vs. Conservatives, come American Religion, Society, and Culture: traits. Registration requested. Wed., July A Talk with Dr. Michael Berger, come listen to this politically themed potluck dinner 18, 7:30 p.m. $20 optional textbook fee. to this talk to gain a better understanding for adult singles. Sat., July 14, 7 p.m.

Intown Jewish Academy.

Private Residence. mhorv00@gmail.com of Americans as a whole and the changing landscape of religion in our country. Sun., or (770) 722-3834.

JULY July 15, 3 p.m. $12/adult, $8/senior, $6/ student or teacher. The Breman Museum.

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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: The Importance of Being Educated Prior to a Crisis, this program provides information to help families understand options and make the best choices for long term care. Most families do not think about elder care until they are in a crisis. RSVP requested. Sun., July 15, 10 a.m. Free and open to the public.

The Cohen Home. sbayer@wbjhome.org or (404) 751-2263.

Go Green and Help Our Planet, recycle electronics with Jewish Family and Career Services, A to Z Information Services and ePlanet-eWaste. Sun., July 15. JF&CS on Chamblee Dunwoody Rd. bfiske@jfcsatlanta.org.

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Lessons from the Frightful Fall, an examination of what we can learn from the Thurs., July 19 challenges and accidents of life. Registration Life Line Screening, a stroke screenrequired. $10/class. Sun., July 15, 8 p.m. ing. Pre-registration is required. Thurs., Beth Jacob. (404) 321-4085.

July 19. Congregation Beth Shalom.

1-(800) 324-1851 or (770) 399-5300.

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ORT Honey Drive, wish family & friends a sweet and healthy new year with this gift. Order deadline Tues., July 17. $10/jar, includes shipping & handling. orthoney.com/BTG.

Fri., July 20

“Avenue Jew,” come to this fun and family friendly Shabbat service and watch as puppets take over the bima. Fri., July 20, 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Temple Kehillat Chaim. (770) 641-8630.

Shabbat Under the Stars, join Rabbi Boxt and Mitch Cohen for a picnic in the park and then celebrate Shabbat. Fri., July 20, 6:30 p.m. East Cobb Park.

Men’s Club Poker, join GLT’s men club for a Sat., July 21 friendly game of poker. Please bring snacks “Come Wine with Us,” join CNT Women’s group and or drinks to share. RSVP requested. Tuesday taste wines from around the world. RSVP requested.

July 17, 31, 7:30 p.m. Gesher L’Torah. brad- Sat., July 21, 5:30 p.m. $20/person. Marietta Wine Market. fried@bellsouth.net.

Sun., July 22

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.

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.

Chuldah the Prophetess, come and learn the value of a women’s voice. Registration required. $10/class.

Sun., July 22, 8 p.m. Beth Jacob. (404) 321-4085.

Tues., July 24

The Grandparents Circle, five-session course for Jewish grandparents and grandchildren growing up in interfaith families. Tuesdays July 24, Aug. 21, Oct. 16, Nov. 6 and Dec. 4, 7 p.m. MJCCA. suzanne.hurwitz@ atlantajcc.org.

Wed., July 25

The Great Indoors with PJ, enjoy an afternoon “at camp” indoors. Come for snacks, a fun camp-themed craft to take home, and enjoy playing in the Doodlebugs indoor play center afterwards. Please bring a snack to share. Wed., July 25, 2 p.m. $5/child. Doodlebugs Play.

Torah Studies: “Opportunity in Disguise,” join the Intown Jewish Academy for a class about turning around a difficult situation. Registration requested.

Wed., July 18, 7:30 p.m. $20 optional textbook fee.

Intown Jewish Academy.

Thurs., July 26

Family Fun Night at the J, poolside karaoke, bounce house and food available for purchase. Thurs., July 26, 5 p.m. MJCCA’s Zaban Park. brian.glusman@atlantajcc.org.

Ongoing

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

Parashat Pinchas

WAS MOSES AN ACTIVIST JUDGE?

Congregation Bet Haverim and the Atlanta Rabbinical Association

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ith some of the big decisions being handed down by the Supreme Court, there will likely be accusations of judicial activism.

Though both conservatives and progressives use this accusation to describe decisions they do not like, it seems to be a more common claim by conservatives, who argue there needs to be strict constructionism when ruling from the bench.

Is there room for “the spirit of the times” or the “needs of the nation”?

This is a debate that often happens in Jewish tradition, particularly between movements that are halachic (law observant) and post-halachic.

Growing up with a respect for traditional Jewish law, I often fought with my non-Orthodox parents over issues of kashrut (dietary laws) and Shabbat observance. While my desire for stricter adherence was overtaken by convenience and tugs of high school life, I re-examined my observance in college as president of Hillel.

My rabbi was Orthodox. Our relationship was marked by frequent arguments “for the sake of heaven,” in which I questioned certain rigidities and inflexibilities of Jewish law. As an example, I would ask: “How did chicken become ‘meat’ and fish become parve? Show me where chickens have teats. How do they give milk? Why can’t we all enjoy a good chicken parm?”

He would argue that the Talmud created certain fences to help people avoid making mistakes. I would retort that technology enables chicken to be processed differently today. No longer dried and ground, most people can distinguish the difference; they no longer look the same when they come to the table.

Can’t the halachah change to meet the reality of today?

In this week’s parsha, Pinchas, Moses is faced with a legal dilemma far more important than chicken parm, one that will have great impact upon the Jewish people. Moses is approached by the daughters of

Zelophehad to advocate for the ability to inherit their father’s land, since there were no male heirs.

In the Talmud (Bava Batra 119b), Rabbi Joshua explains that they first petitioned the congregation, then the chieftains, then Eleazar, and then finally Moses. It is as if they finally had come before the Supreme Court.

They pleaded their case: Our father died in the desert. He was not in the assembly that banded together against Adonai in Korah’s assembly, but he died for his own sin, and he had no sons. Why should our father’s name be eliminated from his family because he had no son? Give us a portion along with our father’s brothers (Numbers 27:3).

If Rabbi Joshua’s explanation is correct, then it is likely that with every petition, daughters are denied until they reach Moses. It is likely this scenario had not been considered, nor were there any precedents to turn to in order to change the law that only men are inheritors under the law.

While Moses did consult with G-d (not a luxury our modern-day judges have), by allowing this emendation to the law, he acted within the spirit of the times and the needs of the nation.

Moses and G-d rule: If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter, and if no daughters, then his brothers, and if no brothers, then his next of kin (Numbers 27:8-11).

Furthermore, Rashi’s commentary on this portion sheds light that these women were righteous, intelligent and capable of illuminating the proper issues. Rashi seems to be saying that not just legal precedent was taken into account, but the character and values of the women and their arguments, and that Jewish practice can be dynamic, not static.

Towards the end of Deuteronomy, it is revealed that the Torah is no longer in heaven. The rabbis in the Talmud take that to mean that there is no longer a direct consultation with G-d to determine how to address progress. They use the story of the Oven of Achnai to demonstrate that in an argument of the kashrut of an oven, the majority decision stands even if it appears that G-d is siding with the minority.

Rabbi Hillel, in the Talmud, follows the same kind of judicial activism in changing the lending laws of his time – despite what it says in the Torah – in order to protect the needy and preserve social order near the sabbatical year when loans were erased. His reasoning is just, though it contradicts the established law.

Judaism’s evolution has depended on its adaptation and ability to allow changes of the time to be addressed in each generation with the outlook, technologies and understandings of that generation so that Judaism remains relevant, responsive and dynamic.

To what degree the spirit of the law and the needs of each generation can be consulted and heeded to determine Jewish practice today is one of the things that still separates the

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movements within Judaism, especially the progressive ones.

The caution, though (and perhaps why G-d and Moses were willing to adapt even after the Torah was given), is that the people will move on and reject a strict and unyielding commitment to law. Even halachicbased movements today, like Moses and Hillel, have to balance the needs of the people and the spirit of the law.

The daughters of Zelophehad not only helped change inheritance laws; we also honor them for setting the precedent of recognizing an evolving and living Torah.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Joshua Lesser is the rabbi of Congregation Bet Haverim and a member of the Atlanta Rabbinical Association.

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r. Edith and Alan Pilzer of Sandy Springs are excited to announce the engagement of their son, Max Reuben, and Hilary Anne Lipps, daughter of Jeffery and Mary Lipps of the Cumberland Island area.

The future groom recently graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in quantitative and computational finance and has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Georgia. He is the most recent recipient of the first-place prize for the Revenue Analytics 8th-annual Revenue Optimization Challenge and currently works as a senior financial analyst at Travelport.

After graduating first in her high school class, the future bride went on to the University of Georgia as a Governor’s Honoree and Dolphin Scholar and earned her bachelor’s of business administration in marketing and consumer economics from the Terry School of Business. She is currently pursuing a career as a freelance artist and marketing strategist and enjoys working as a medical assistant at CCDHC alongside her soon-to-be mother-in-law.

The couple met over five years ago during the first week of their freshman year at the University of Georgia and will have their six-year anniversary September 24, 2012, just a few weeks before their October wedding date.

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Atlanta Synagogue Directory CHABAD

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

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Last week’s answers

Parashat Pinchas

LOOKING FOR THE LAWS OF LIFE

By Walt Schultz For The Atlanta Jewish Times

U

sing what I call “mental gymnastics,” stretching the imagination’s muscles, verses in Parashah Pinchas remind me of a problem in physics.

At the risk of oversimplification, the laws of classical or Newtonian physics give us a deterministic, rational view of the physical world.

Quantum theory, on the other hand, has randomness in the fundamental processes that are the basis of our apparently deterministic world.

Finding a way to unify these two disparate sets of laws has been elusive, and a similar situation occurs in this week’s parashah.

It’s been a long grueling journey, and here we are at the border of the Promised Land. We’ve just completed a census of the tribes, and now it’s time to think about how to divide the land once we conquer it.

Not to worry, G-d has a plan.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ‘Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; to each one according to those that were numbered of it shall its inheritance be given. Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.’

- Numbers 26:52-6 Verses 53 and 54 seem to be clear: Specific numbers are obtained by the census and we distribute the land according to those determined numbers. Nothing random here.

But then verses 55 and 56 say, “Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot…”

By lot? That’s a random process.

Which is it: by population, a fairly straight-forward determination, or by lot, a random process?

The Torah indicates that two dif-

ferent dynamics are involved in the apportionment of the land: a rational division, which takes into account empirical data such as population; and a lottery, a random process.

The laws of classical physics are deterministic, rational and intuitive. The laws of quantum theory are counter-intuitive and probabilistic, depending on chance or random observations.

Physicists, however, would like to have one set of laws that govern everything, and they go through all kinds of “mathematical gymnastics” to try to reconcile these two sets of laws – think string theories and many curled-up dimensions.

Distributing the land by population seems to be rational and intuitive. Distributing it by lot seems to be random and counter-intuitive.

The rabbis go through all kinds of “verbal gymnastics” to reconcile the conflicting ideas in verses 53 through 56.

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MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE A BLESSING

Byron Sol Cohen 92, ATLANTA

Byron Sol Cohen, age 92 of Atlanta, died on June 29, 2012 after a life well-lived and loved. He was born in Cordele, Ga. on June 13, 1920 to Louis Cohen and Dora Rubin Cohen, of blessed memory. He is also predeceased by his beloved wife of 56 years, Lou Mae Cohen (who he affectionately called “Lula Bell”); his sisters, Shera Gordon and Pearl Graetz; and his brothers, Marcus (Sonny) Cohen and Harold Cohen, all of blessed memory. He is survived by his devoted daughters and sons-in-law Marilyn and Robby Warden, Carol and Michael Benator and Kathy and Todd Strauss, all of Atlanta; grandchildren Adam and Sari Warden, Rachel Warden and fiancé Rosie Daley, Ryan and Jennifer Benator, Keith Benator and fiancé Melanie Kaufman and Melissa Strauss; great-granddaughter Lily Eden Benator; and numerous nieces and nephews. Since 2004, when Byron was 84 and recovering from leukemia and lymphoma, his three closest high school friends, Harry Seitz, Bobby Ney and Marvin Wender, decided to meet every Wednesday for hot dog day at Byron’s home, where they caught up on their families, reminisced about younger days and their World War II exploits. Byron was known for his and his wife’s many food delicacies – boiled peanuts, homemade dill pickles, homemade fig preserves and many grilled meats.

However, we cannot omit his long-term love affair with “ice cold” watermelon and Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. Byron and his family moved from Cordele to Atlanta in 1935, and he graduated from Boy’s High in 1938, where he lettered in boxing and swimming. In the 1950s, Byron was co-owner of Hank and Jerry’s Restaurant and the Hideaway Nightclub with his brother Harold; they featured popular Dixieland jazz, and Tommy Dorsey, Pete Fountain and Chubby Checker often played. He later sold chemicals for many years for Hill Manufacturing. Often being in the Top 10 Salesmen List, Byron not only sold a lot of chemicals, he developed close personal relationships with his many cherished customers and Hill associates. Mr. Cohen was a member of Congregation Or VeShalom of Atlanta. Graveside services were held at 10:30 a.m., Sun., July 1, 2012 at Crest Lawn Memorial Park, officiated by Rabbi Hayyim Kassorla. An online guestbook is available at edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Emory Winship Cancer Institute, winshipcancer.emory.edu, 1365C Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322 or Congregation Or VeShalom, orveshalom.org, 1681 N. Druid Hills Road, Atlanta, GA 30319. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care.

For example, Rashi says the land was divided into sections of various sizes and that the sections were assigned to the tribes by lot (chance).

Miraculously, the more populous tribes got the larger parcels and the less populous tribes got the smaller parcels.

Nachmanides suggests that the land was divided into 12 equal portions, but the equality was not based only on size; it also reflected the characteristics of the land. Here too, the assignments were made by lot, and again, perhaps miraculously, each tribe was assigned a parcel appropriate for its population and aptitude.

I see these examples from science and scripture as metaphors of the events of our lives. The results of our actions, as well as our actions themselves, are governed by two sets of laws: one based on logic and one based on chance. Living is a process of trying to reconcile these laws so that we can act as menschen.

Although it is difficult and elusive, requiring a lot of interpretive gymnastics, the effort goes on. Rabbi Tarphon said, “Ours is not to complete the task, but neither are we free to desist from working on it.”

Shabbat Shalom.

Editor’s note: Walt Schultz is a member of Temple Beth Tikvah and is the AJT’s Readers D’var Torah author of the week.

JULY 13 ▪ 2012

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