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Today is a Gift It’s always a surprise when Chanukah arrives. Sort of like the presents this time of year. If you need some help deciding what to buy your friends and loved ones, we have you covered in our Chanukah gift guide. Whether it’s something healthy or meaningful, personalized, educational or Jewish, we have just the right fit for your holiday shopping. But while Chanukah is still two weeks away, we bring you stories this week revolving around the recent Veterans Day holiday.

On Monday, The Temple hosted a Record Restriction Summit to help veterans and others in Fulton County clear their criminal past. It was the third year of the summit, but the first in the Jewish community, and a good chance for interfaith efforts to help those in our midst who maybe down on their luck, including Jews.

Over the Veterans Day weekend, a memorial in Tybee Island honored Georgians lost in the 1918 sinking of the HMS Otranto during World War I, along with those who survived. They include Sam

Levy, who co-founded the Zeta chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Georgia Tech and once owned part of the Southern Israelite, the predecessor of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

The Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel celebrated its 20th anniversary and Congregation Shearith Israel hosted a security seminar to learn how best to protect houses of worship from an attack like the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting last month.

Even Israel is concerned about the spike in anti-Semitism in America, along with others who voice their opinions in these pages.

Talking about Israel, we take you to Tip Top Kosher Market and grill, offering authentic kosher cuisine from the holy land tucked into the back of an Israeli grocery store in Chamblee. In the arts, we introduce you to Broadway performer turned Emmy Award-winning producer Jordan Brodsky, and our “Jews in the News” spotlight, CNN’s Health Unit editor, Debra Goldschmidt.

THIS WEEK From healthy living to surviving anti-Semitism, from honoring our vets to helping those in need, the AJT is covering the latest from our Jewish community.

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REFLECTIONS Atlanta Leader Honored at World War I Memorial

By Tiffany Parks This month, specifically Nov. 11, marks the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

Although the war is often dubbed “America’s forgotten war,” Chuck Freedman refuses to let his grandfather’s legacy be relegated to the footnotes of history.

“It is so important to not let this important history die,” Freedman said.

For that reason, he planned a memorial service Nov. 10 in Tybee Island to honor those lost in a tragic 1918 sinking there of a ship whose troops his grandfather commanded. A substantial number of dead and survivors were from Georgia, Freedman said.

“I wanted to get the descendants of the HMS Otranto together to celebrate the 100th anniversary. I contacted John Calvert, a member of the Fort Screven American Legion Post 154, to help me plan the event.”

The HMS Otranto Memorial Service was held at Fort Screven Post Theater.

Freedman’s grandfather, Sam Levy, was very active in the Atlanta Jewish community, including helping to start the Southern Israelite, the predecessor of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

Born in 1895 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Levy moved to Atlanta when he was 10 years old. At an early age, Levy showed an unusual grit and toughness that prepared him for the trajectory of his remarkable life. He graduated from Boys High School in Atlanta, which became Henry W. Grady High School, and attended Georgia Tech as a co-op student.

“It was during my grandfather’s early college years that the Leo Frank trial took place. Anti-Semitism reared its ugly head,” Freedman said.

Sam Levy in 1918, the year the Otranto sank.

On the day Frank was hanged, a fellow Georgia Tech classmate screamed, “They finally hanged that goddamn Jew!” Levy graduated in 1917 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. That same year, he married his sweetheart, Annie. She attended Agnes Scott College and later co-founded the Atlanta Hadassah chapter.

Levy’s civilian accomplishments and newlywed life were short-lived.

In 1917, America entered the Great War and Levy was drafted, sent to Fort Screven on Tybee Island and became 2nd lieutenant of the Coastal Artillery Corps.

In his book, “Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto,” R. Neil Scott explains that 2nd Lt. Levy was put in charge of the troops that boarded the ship. Scott described Levy as a nearperfect fit because of his technical expertise and leadership skills, which were essential to the war effort.

“My grandfather had to oversee all of these men. He was very young himself.

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Levy, right, joins other survivors at the 35th reunion of the Otranto sinking around a replica of the ship.

from influenza,” Freedman said. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic. It was the worst outbreak in recorded history, killing about 500 million people worldwide.

Tragically, while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Otranto ran into a horrible sea storm and another ship, the HMS Kashmir, crashed into it. The Otranto drifted and smashed into rocks and cliffs near the Scottish island of Islay.

There were about 1,100 men on board, and about 470 of them drowned or were crushed against the rocks. Levy survived by jumping onto a British rescue destroyer called the HMS Mounsey. There was at least one other Jewish survivor on board, Pvt. Joseph Oppenheim.

“My grandfather spent the rest of the war recuperating. He never forgot about the friends he lost. It was hard for him. He would always suffer from back and neck problems because he hit the deck hard when he landed on the other ship,” Freedman said.

The Otranto tragedy was the single largest loss of troop transport lives during the war. About 130 doughboys from Georgia died. They were mainly from Screven and Berrien counties in South Georgia.

After the war, instead of being consumed by horrible memories, Levy decided to offer his life as a living memorial to his friends and to his community.

Among his claims to fame, he cofounded Georgia Tech’s Zeta chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity in 1920. Last month, Levy was among the original cofounders honored at the dedication of the chapter’s renovated house. He also co-founded Pryor Tire, creating the jingle, “Don’t cuss, phone us.” He started his own company, Sam Levy Tire Company, in downtown Atlanta and three other lo-

cations.

His civic and Jewish involvements included being a member and leader of such organizations as the Jewish War Veterans, American Legion, B’nai B’rith, Masons, Lions Club, Scottish Rite, The Temple, Ahavath Achim Synagogue, and the Jewish Don’t Worry Club, which he founded in Atlanta.

He actively supported Zionism in the 1920s and throughout his life, and served as president and other leadership roles for the United Palestine Appeal, the Jewish National Fund and the Atlanta Jewish Community Council.

In 1951, he joined a group of men who bought the Southern Israelite and became the newspaper’s treasurer.

“He was a visionary and knew how important it was for the Jewish community to have a news outlet to share their thoughts, accomplishments, ideas, and interests in local and international news,” Freedman said.

Levy was active in politics and supported Martin Luther King’s civil rights efforts. He later made a living in real estate.

Following his father’s lead, one of Levy’s three children, Bernie, secretly helped transport Jewish refugees on the ship, Hatikvah, to Israel after World War II. His efforts helped to form the Jewish state of Israel.

Levy’s grandson, son-in-law, and great grandson are also Georgia Tech graduates.

Throughout Levy’s life, he kept in contact with and personally arranged two reunions of Otranto survivors. In 1968, he read a prayer at one of the reunions, the first lines of which were: “O Lord, we bow our heads. To Thee we pray for those who’re here and those away.”

After Levy’s death, Freedman became interested in where his grandfather left off.

Last Saturday, Veterans Day weekend, Freedman; his wife, Kim; his aunt, Nathalie Levy Goodrich; and Pvt. Oppenheim’s grandson were among the 150 people in attendance at the Georgia memorial, including 31 descendants of Otranto survivors and casualties.

“The same prayer that my grandfather wrote and read at the 1968 reunion was read by Mayor Jason Buelterman,” Freedman said. The sentiments are still relevant today. The rest of the program included opening remarks by local historian Jan Will, a dramatic reading of Pvt. Joseph Hewell’s diary, the honor guard, and choral selections, including “You’re A Grand Old Flag.” ■

LOCAL NEWS

Attorney Kevin Fisher (left) helps radio host Jason Pullman sign final orders restricting his criminal record.

The Temple’s Rabbi Peter Berg welcomes hosts and partners of the Record Restriction Summit, including representatives of Ebenezer Baptist Church and Fulton County and its District Attorney and Solicitor General offices.

Temple Summit Gives Record-Holders 2nd Chance

By Roni Robbins

In honor of Veterans Day, The Temple hosted a Records Restriction Summit Monday to help Fulton County vets and others with criminal records achieve clean slates.

In a historic synagogue known for being a champion of social justice and human rights, 300 residents charged with felonies and misdemeanors – but never convicted – got final orders that their records were restricted.

The primary purpose of records restriction is to prevent applicants for jobs, housing and college from being restricted by their criminal past. Representatives from Fulton legal and courts systems were on hand Monday to help those who applied and were approved for records restriction receive their final orders.

One of those was Jason Pullman, the Jewish radio morning show host of 94.9/ The Bull, who came to the event with his lawyer, Kevin Fisher. Pullman, who grew up at The Temple, said he was charged seven years ago with terroristic threats after throwing a half-empty water bottle at a car he thought was trying to run him off the road. The charge was later reduced to simple assault and dismissed, but he wanted it off his record. “It could have impeded me the rest of my career. Thank G-d it was dismissed.”

Earlier, The Temple Rabbi Peter Berg welcomed those who filled the halls of the synagogue for the event. “For over 150 years, we have been at the forefront of community activism and social change,” he said at a media conference before the opening ceremonies, which included patriotic songs and bands.

“Today we gather under the auspices of the Rothschild Social Justice Institute at The Temple, generously named by the Arthur M. Blank family in memory of our rabbi, Jacob M. Rothschild.

“Rabbi Rothschild worked hand-inhand with Dr. King, and I know he would

have been proud to witness the sacred work we are doing today. This Temple was bombed 60 years ago this month because our rabbi was relentless in mobilizing our community to speak truth to power to do the right thing, even when it was not convenient or popular,” Berg said.

“We are here to face the world headon, and to repair that which is broken – our criminal justice system. … Too many people have a criminal history and too many people are incarcerated. To be specific, about 3.8 million people in Georgia have a criminal history. In Fulton County alone, there are 1.5 million outstanding charges that have never gone to trial. These charges mar the records of our neighbors. It prevents them from getting jobs or getting access to colleges, and it disqualifies them from public housing and adoption.”

The Temple is working with Public Square Media to develop a toolkit to help other Jewish congregations host similar events around the country, said Rabbi Lydia Medwin, the synagogue’s director of engagement. “In a country that claims that people are innocent until proven guilty, [some] are being treated as if they’re guilty, even though they were not convicted.” She said the event fits in with The Temple’s commitment to tikkun olam, repairing the world, and was facilitated and funded by Jews.

This was the first year the summit was held at The Temple and on Veterans Day. The past two years it was held at other times at Ebenezer Baptist Church because criminal justice issues were seen as the concern of the African-American community, said John Eaves. He brought the program from Chicago to Atlanta while he was chairman of the Fulton County Commission.

As a member of The Temple and chairman of the Rothschild Institute’s racial justice committee, Eaves believes it an appropriate evolution that a synagogue and Jewish community with a strong history of social justice embrace this cause. ■

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LOCAL NEWS

Experts Salute Stein, Emory and Middle East Studies

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

The 20th anniversary celebration of the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel Nov. 10-11 at the JW Marriott Lenox featured 22 presenters, jampacked remarks and panel discussions.

Founding Director Ken Stein, professor of contemporary Middle Eastern history, political science and Israel studies at Emory University, was the helm and the subject of encomiums touting his impact.

Rooted in the Carter Center, prior to the Emory campus, ISMI was founded in 1988. It evolved out of academic interest and student demand for learning about modern Israel. President Jimmy Carter received negative reaction to the abrupt ending of the center’s Middle East program in 1992, which left a vacuum.

Later, benefactors Arthur Blank, Bernie Marcus and the Seslowe and Klutznick families came through with funding to sustain the program. In a 20-year commemorative booklet, some past students stated that they applied to Emory “because of the exposure to the contemporary Middle East, the understanding of the conflict, but not (done) in polemical tones.”

Randy Gorod, Nancy Gorod and Mitchell Tanzman, former student and current Emory board of trustees member.

Heather Waters, Shlomo Ritz Finklestein, Dana Shemesh, Micheala Rosenblatt and Diane Reigen exchange Emory experiences.

One famous intern was Jake Tapper (1989), a well-known journalist, author and cartoonist.

“The sessions have been phenomenal," said Sabra Yaacov Golan. “‘U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Israel’ was the most enlightening. It explored the deep division of Jews today versus the past, where support of Israel was bipartisan.”

Educator Nancy Gorod said, “Stein’s amazing CIE religious school curriculum is implemented across the country for grades 2 through 7. I currently use it at Congregation Shearith Israel for students who are not in the day school system.”

Proud sons flank Ken Stein: from left, Jason Stein and Todd Stein.

Prior to the Israeli-themed dinner on Saturday night, mingling during the cocktail hour included two of Stein’s sons, Todd and Jason. The former said, “It’s a moment of pride for me when I check into a Jewish event and someone says, ‘You must be Ken’s son.’ He is seen as such an expert.”

Todd Stein said, “My father is a teacher inside and out. He has coached more baseball teams than any professional has ever even played!”

Emory’s Diane Reigen added, “I have worked with Ken since 1986, while he retired three times along the way. He is a wonderful human being; literally, it is

his mitzvah to educate others. He is so energized that to him sleeping is wasted time.”

In the panel “ISMI at Emory, Impact of Emory College, Atlanta and Beyond,” American Jewish Committee’s Southeast Director Dov Wilker commented, “We, as locals, benefit the most from the ISMI resources, the best reports in the world: … perhaps 10 percent university versus 90 percent community. I especially admire their work with Latin-American students ... their Facebook outreach has been especially impressive as a new approach.”

Stein explained that his history-laden motivation stems from his mother’s escape from Germany in 1934, tying in this November’s marking of the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

He also quoted from his father: “Never look in the rearview window.” Following that advice, “Let’s not look back, but go forward, … what’s in the next 10 years?

For me, it’s been a good ride. … We have to continue to separate fact from narrative in the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

After the dinner, Ethiopian Israeli singer Aveva Dese performed songs in a fresh urban Tel Aviv beat and African groove. ■

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24 Teens Immersed in Israel’s Culture, Context Seven high school students from Georgia were among 24 teens who gathered at the Emory University campus in Atlanta from Oct. 26 to 28 for the second Teen Israel Leadership Institute hosted by the Center for Israel Education and the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel.

The weekend featured a mix of activities, discussions and educational games designed to expand students’ knowledge and understanding of Israel and Zionism, and to help them plan learning programs back home.

“Our second teen seminar was a rousing success,” CIE Vice President Rich Walter said.

The 10th-, 11th- and 12th-graders also forged friendships with peers from across the country. The teens came from Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Michigan and California.

Eleventh-grader Eli Roberts and 10th-graders Noam Friedman, Maya Granath, Harris Jacobs, Lilah Presser, Eden Vainer and Rene Walter attended from the Atlanta area. Walter is a Dunwoody High School student; the others go to the Weber School.

“I came to learn more about Israel and how Israel impacts our lives,” Jacobs said. “I was able to learn about how vital Israel is to our lives and the things that made Israel what it is today.”

The institute is part of a national CIE initiative to provide more impactful education on Israel to Jewish teens. A grant from the Legacy Heritage Fund is supporting the program.

After the inaugural teen institute in April, Walter said, “we wanted to put more of an emphasis on helping the participants understand the many different elements that lead to successful programming.”

The institute organizers therefore brought in Kelly Cohen, the director of JumpSpark, the Atlanta Jewish teen initiative, who led a highly interactive session in which teens had to develop a program goal and use a variety of variables to craft a program outline.

“We also put more emphasis on making sessions more engaging and interactive overall,” Walter said. “As a result, we added a Knesset simulation activity, a session on Israeli hip-hop music and several experiential games.”

For example, the students formed a human timeline representing Zionist and Israeli events from 1881 (the start of the First Aliyah) to 2007 (Hamas’ takeover of Gaza), picked out the eight prime ministers among 16 head shots, identified the Israeli locations of cat photos, and played a version of the Food Network show “Chopped” in which six teams made hummus that had to include such ingredients as wheat crackers, hot sauce and orange Gatorade.

“I have a lot of Jewish friends in NFTY. Every one of them supports Israel, but I don’t think a lot of them know about Israel too much,” Roberts said. “I feel like I’m going to be able to teach them and also talk to my friends in Israel.”

CIE and ISMI emphasize context and documentary evidence in the study of Israel’s issues and history but do not advocate specific views, allowing students to reach their own conclusions. To that end, CIE President Ken Stein led two sessions to help the teens own Israel’s story and confront the Israeli-Arab conflict, and the teens got to choose among two or more options several times

Photos courtesy of the Center for Israel Education // Two dozen teens

from seven states attend the Teen Israel Leadership Institute at the Center for Israel Education the weekend of Oct. 26 to 28.

during the weekend. The program included the Abrahamic Reunion, a team of Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze leaders, and explored different perspectives on Israel’s independence in 1948, and diverse elements in modern Israeli culture.

Jacobs said the seminar will help him advocate his beliefs and speak up knowledgeably for Israel and its existence when he goes to college.

“Israel is the embodiment of freedom and the embodiment of Judaism,” Los Angeles 12th-grader Gavi Kollin said. After attending the April and October seminars, “when I talk to other people about Israel, I’m going to try to come from a much more collected point of view.”

Although Israel was the focus of the weekend, it also addressed anti-Semitism, a topic that took on unexpected immediacy when the massacre occurred at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha synagogue while the institute teens were worshiping and studying at Em-

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“It’s just a reminder that there’s always people who are not going to like us, who are not going to like people who are different from them,” Walter said during a brief discussion after Shabbat. “We’ve been living in a time period where it seems like there’s a lot of extreme views on all sides of the political spectrum, and we need to take things we hear very seriously.”

Noa Libchaber, an 11th-grader from New York, said she was amazed when the high-schoolers joined more than 100 Emory students at Hillel for Friday dinner and services. “Seeing that beautiful unification and then the next day hearing about Pittsburgh, it just made me feel really lucky to be a part of a religion that comes together with so much strength and power.”

The next teen seminar in Atlanta is in the planning stages. Follow CIE on Facebook and the web for details on when to apply, and visit CIE’s YouTube channel to see highlights of the teen institute. ■ Provided by the Center for Israel Education

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Congregation Shearith Israel hosted a capacity crowd for the community seminar on how to deal with violent attacks on places of worship.

Shearith Israel Hosts Security Seminar for Community

By Bob Bahr Congregation Shearith Israel in Virginia Highland last Sunday hosted an overflow crowd that crossed racial and religious lines to discuss how Atlanta’s houses of worship can deal with the possibility of an attack on their congregants.

The large crowd was a sign of the current mood of concern that reaches into the very heart of the faith-based community.

In fact, traffic along University Drive that runs past Shearith Israel was temporarily snarled by the large number of people trying to attend the event.

Those who turned out included some of Georgia’s most important officials, including the head of the FBI in Atlanta and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the head of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police and the Georgia Sheriffs’ Association.

Special Agent Clifford Goodwin, head of the community liaison program for the Atlanta FBI office, noted that civil rights violations, like the attack on the synagogue, are among the top priorities of the federal law enforcement agency.

“Hate crimes,” Goodwin pointed out, “go to the very heart of who we are as a country. Because if there is anything more egregious than being a victim of violent crime, it is being a victim simply because of who you are.”

Most synagogues in the Atlanta area have long established plans to deal with security, and many hire armed guards.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta maintains the Secure Community Network (SCN) Alert System, which continuously monitors security situations and links our Jewish community organizations. The Federation employs a retired Secret Service agent with 25 year’s experience as director of community-wide security.

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deal with it.

The head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Vernon Keenan pointed out that, so far this year, his agency has dealt with 192 threats of violence to educational institutions that has made it possible to disrupt many potential attacks. They want to be effective in a similar way with churches and synagogues.

“We have a 24/5 watch unit with trained agents to get the information to where it can be properly handled. It will be acted upon,” Keenan emphasized.

“This is the first line of defense. We have seen success in school violence incidents and we want to see those same sorts of successes in houses of worship so that the GBI and the FBI don’t have to deploy their resources after the fact.”

Although churches and synagogues are statistically less likely to encounter violence than many other institutions and gathering places, the key to safety, everywhere, according to the law enforcement officials at the event, is to remain vigilant.

To make it easier, particularly for those who are frequent cell phone users, Georgia has developed a free app this year called “See Something, Send Something,” which facilitates the reporting of threats and other such incidents.

Sunday’s seminar was hastily arranged by Shearith Israel and the local OneCOP program that seeks to strengthen cooperation between law enforcement and faith-based communities.

Participants requested that ongoing dialogue continue after the event between law enforcement and the churches and synagogues.

As Goodwin put it, “This is really an important time for us to start conversations; each one of us needs to start to think of how we are going to react in a time of crisis.” ■ For more information on hate crimes in America, visit the Anti-Defamation League at www.adl.org.

ISRAEL PRIDE News From Our Jewish Home diplomatic relations with Israel was the Republic of Guinea, which did so after almost five decades of a cessation in relations with the Jewish state.

Netanyahu has made improving relations with African nations a priority.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Ghana Public Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey in Jerusalem Nov. 5.

Ghana Discusses Increased Cooperation with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Nov. 5 met with Ghana Minister of Foreign Affairs Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem.

They discussed economic cooperation between government and the business sector as well as other possibilities for strengthening collaboration between the two countries.

Netanyahu welcomed Ghana’s intention to assist Israel in international forums and invited President Nana Akufo-Addo to visit Israel in 2019.

Ghana was the first country from black Africa to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.

Israel’s renewed and developing relations with Africa began on the heels of Netanyahu’s historic visit to the four African countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya in July 2016, the first such visit by an Israeli premier in decades.

The latest African country to restore

Today in Israeli History

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British soldiers arrest the passengers of the aliyah ship Kadima in Haifa to send them to Cyprus on Nov. 16, 1947.

Nov. 16, 1947: The Kadima, a ship carrying 781 refugees trying to reach the Land of Israel despite a British ban, arrives in Haifa under escort by a British destroyer after being intercepted en route from Palestrina, an island south of Venice. The would-be Jewish immigrants,

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Members of Israel’s crisis response unit met with the Pittsburgh community.

Israeli Team Teaches Crisis Response to Pittsburgh Tragedy United Hatzalah of Israel’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit volunteers returned from Pittsburgh Nov. 2 after spending five days helping the community process the grief following the attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue Oct. 27, wherein an avowed anti-Semite gunned down 11 Jewish worshippers and wounded six others.

Unit Director Miriam Ballin, together with the unit’s deputy director Rabbi Avi Tenenbaum, psychologist Einat Kauffman and social worker Hadas Ruham, helped those affected by the attack.

Ballin and the team trained leaders of the community, both adults and teens who are old enough, to engage the models and tools the unit uses in crisis situa-

including 70 from the Exodus, are arrested and shipped to a camp in Cyprus.

Nov. 17, 2012: Lea Gottlieb, known as the queen of Israeli fashion, dies at age 94 at her Tel Aviv home. A native of Hungary and a Holocaust survivor, she was the co-founder and chief designer of the swimsuit manufacturer Gottex.

Nov. 18, 1958: A reservoir for Jerusalem opens at Bayit Vegan, completing a project that began in 1955 to promote development in and around the city and to prevent a repeat of the water shortage experienced during the War of Independence. The sale of Israel Bonds financed the project.

Nov. 19, 1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives at Ben Gurion Airport, and he is driven to Jerusalem for a historic 36-hour visit. Sadat made a speech Nov. 9 in which he offered to speak about peace to the Knesset, and Israeli Prime

tions, to help those they recognize to be in distress.

“We sat with educators, the staff of schools and the JCC and we’ve trained them to be able to deal with the immediate psychological needs of the people that they are caring for,” Ballin explained.

Team members also held a number of open houses for community members who felt that they wanted advice or help following the incident.

Members of the unit said that the sense of solidarity they felt from the community is beyond what they had expected.

Numerous dignitaries from the community, as well as emergency service personnel, also met with the team members to express their thanks for the work that the unit has done.

Photo courtesy of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs // An Israeli vertical rice field.

Israel Introduces Water Technology to Vietnam Israel recently introduced new water technology in Hanoi, Vietnam, in the hopes of dramatically improving the city’s agricultural sector.

The technology was introduced at the “Exposition of Futuristic Israeli Agro

Minister Menachem Begin replied with an invitation Nov. 15.

Nov. 20, 1977: “I come to you today on solid ground, to shape a new life, to establish peace,” Egyptian President Anwar Sadat begins his speech to the Knesset, where he appears after praying at AlAqsa Mosque, visiting Yad Vashem and laying a wreath at a memorial for Israeli soldiers. Sadat urges the Knesset to join him in making “peace with justice.”

Nov. 21, 1880: Joseph Trumpeldor is born in Pyatigorsk, Russia. He loses an arm while fighting in the Russo-Japanese War and spends two years as a POW in Japan. After settling in Israel in 1912, he is deported to Egypt at the start of World War I and organizes the 700-member Zion Mule Corps to fight with the British. After the war, he is killed defending a Jewish settlement in the Upper Galilee from Arab attack.

and Water Technologies and Cultural Performance” Oct. 27.

The event was part of a series of activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Israel diplomatic relations and to promote the friendship and partnership between the two nations.

One of the technologies, known as the “vertical rice field,” was developed by the Israel-based Vertical Field, a company that pioneers modular, green vertical gardens and fields, the Viet Nam News reported.

A vertical rice field, covering nearly 4 square miles featured at the event, combined novel soil-based technology for water conservation and plant nutrition.

Also showcased was a cutting-edge and patented Israeli technology developed by Watergen that provides a lowcost and renewable source of fresh and clean drinking water by extracting it directly from the atmosphere.

Israeli Ambassador to Vietnam Nadav Eshcar said that the machine can produce about 700 liters of water a day.

Israel is world-renowned for its advanced water technologies, which provide solutions to even the driest and most barren areas on earth. Israel has many years of experience making its southern desert, the Negev, bloom. The country has become a leading force in providing aqua know-how to countries around the planet.

Although Israel has experienced drought in recent years, it is managing an over-capacity of water because of intense water management and desalination production. ■ Nov. 22, 1967: The U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 242, enshrining the principle of Israel’s trading land captured in the Six-Day War for peace with its Arab neighbors. Drafted in English, the resolution calls for withdrawal from “territories occupied in the recent conflict,” omitting “the” and thus leaving up for negotiation exactly which lands Israel should give up. ■

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ISRAEL NEWS

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Neo-Nazis hold a rally in Newnan, Ga.

Photos courtesy of The Israel Project // College students share their experience of anti-Semitism and how it affects their education.

A mother teaches her daughters anti-Semitism at a rally, chanting “Jews are terrorists.”

Knesset Concerned Over Spike in U.S. Anti-Semitism, Demands Action The Knesset’s Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs last week discussed the sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. culminating with the recent attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a gunman shot 11 Jewish worshipers to death and wounded several others.

“Israel must demand that the au-

thorities in the United States eradicate the phenomenon and impose harsher punishment,” said Committee Chairman Member of Knesset (MK) Avraham Neguise.

The U.S. Jewish community is the second-largest in the world and numbers some 6 million people.

Jews in the U.S. have enjoyed full and

equal rights since the 18th century, “but anti-Semitism is not new either. It has always been limited in scope, and most of the population sanctified the values of equality,” Naguise noted.

The Anti-Defamation League in its annual audit found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. rose by 57 percent in 2017, the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since the American non-governmental organization began tracking such data in 1979.

The sharp rise was attributed, in part, to a significant increase in incidents in schools and on college campuses, which nearly doubled for the second year in a row. Anti-Israel activists often serve as catalysts for on-campus antiSemitism.

For the first time since at least 2010, an incident occurred in every U.S. state.

The number of incidents tends to correlate with the size of the local Jewish populations.

In a letter to the committee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said the U.S. government “is fully committed to combating anti-Semitism wherever it exists.”

Friedman noted that the FBI cooperates with foreign governments, including Israeli authorities, to identify and stop anti-Semitism.

“This is just one part of our continued efforts to root out the evil that exists in our society, but much work remains,” he said.

‘Wake-up Call’ for Aliyah MK Nachman Shai, one of the Israeli lawmakers who initiated the meeting, said he was “convinced that the U.S. government is committed and is working to protect minorities, and Jews in partic-

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ular, but the fact that armed guards are positioned outside every synagogue in Pittsburgh shows us that something has happened” to American society.

MK Aliza Lavie said that “recognition of the changing reality must move things. There is a sense that history is repeating itself,” while MK Oded Forer warned that the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre should be a wake-up call. “We must call upon American Jewry to make aliyah [immigrate to Israel].”

More than 57,000 Jews from North America and the United Kingdom have made aliyah since 2002.

In 2018, more than 70 years after the Holocaust, the world’s largest Jewish population lives in Israel. This figure represents 43 percent of world Jewry.

Source: United with Israel

Link Between Rising AntiSemitism in the U.S. and AntiIsrael Activism

Anti-Semitism in the U.S. is being stoked by anti-Israel activists, especially on college campuses, according to The Israel Project, a non-partisan American educational organization dedicated to informing the media and public conversation about Israel and the Middle East.

Anti-Semitic attacks on college campuses rose by 89 percent last year. An alarming 54 percent of religious hate crimes across the country targeted Jews, although Jews consist of only 2 percent of the population.

Wherever you see anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses, chances are you will find anti-Israel activists responsible for it.

This link must be exposed and combated just as all other hate crimes are fought. ■ Source: The Israel Project

ISRAEL NEWS

Newly Revealed Letter Shows a Fearful Einstein Long Before Nazis’ Rise

By Aron Heller

man and greater authenticity to his writings.”

The letter, which JERUSALEM (AP) — bears no return address, More than a decade before is presumed to have been the Nazis seized power in written while he was stayGermany, Albert Einstein ing in the port city of Kiel was on the run and albefore embarking on a ready fearful for his counlengthy speaking tour try’s future, according to a More than a decade before across Asia. newly revealed handwritthe Nazis seized power in “I’m doing pretty well, ten letter.

Germany, renowned physicist Albert Einstein, fled out of despite all the anti-Semites His longtime friend concern for the future. (see among the German coland fellow Jew, German his letter on AJT's website). leagues. I’m very reclusive Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, had just been assassinated here, without noise and without unpleasby right-wing extremists and police had ant feelings, and am earning my money warned the noted physicist that his life mainly independent of the state, so that I’m really a free man,” he wrote. “You see, could be in danger too.

So Einstein fled Berlin and went into I am about to become some kind of itinerhiding in northern Germany. It was during ant preacher. That is, firstly, pleasant and, this hiatus that he penned a handwritten secondly, necessary.”

Addressing his sister’s concerns, Einletter to his beloved younger sister, Maja, warning of the dangers of growing nation- stein writes: “Don’t worry about me, I myalism and anti-Semitism years before the self don’t worry either, even if it’s not quite Nazis ultimately rose to power, forcing Ein- kosher, people are very upset. In Italy, it seems to be at least as bad.” stein to flee his native Germany for good.

Later in 1922, Einstein was awarded “Out here, nobody knows where I am, and I’m believed to be missing,” he wrote in the Nobel Prize in physics.

Ze’ev Rosenkrantz, the assistant direcAugust 1922. “Here are brewing economically and politically dark times, so I’m hap- tor of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, said the letter wasn’t the first time Einstein py to be able to get away from everything.”

The previously unknown letter, warned about German anti-Semitism, but brought forward by an anonymous collec- it captured his state of mind at this importor, was set to go on auction this week in tant junction after Rathenau’s killing and Jerusalem with an opening asking price of the “internal exile” he imposed on himself shortly after it. $12,000.

“Einstein’s initial reaction was one of As the most influential scientist of the 20th century, Einstein’s life and writ- panic and a desire to leave Germany for ings have been thoroughly researched. The good. Within a week, he had changed his Hebrew University in Jerusalem, of which mind,” he said. “The letter reveals a mindEinstein was a founder, houses the world’s set rather typical of Einstein in which he largest collection of Einstein material. To- claims to be impervious to external presgether with the California Institute of Tech- sures. One reason may be to assuage his nology, it runs the Einstein Papers Project. sister’s concerns. Another is that he didn’t Individual auctions of his personal letters like to admit that he was stressed about exhave brought in substantial sums in recent ternal factors.” years.

When the Nazis came to power and beThe 1922 letter shows he was con- gan enacting legislation against Jews, they cerned about Germany’s future a full year also aimed to purge Jewish scientists. The before the Nazis even attempted their first Nazis dismissed Einstein’s groundbreakcoup – the failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch ing work, including his Law of Relativity, as to seize power in Bavaria.

“Jewish Physics.”

“This letter reveals to us the thoughts Einstein renounced his German citithat were running through Einstein’s mind zenship in 1933 after Hitler became chanand heart at a very preliminary stage of cellor. The physicist settled in the United Nazi terror,” said Meron Eren, co-owner States, where he would remain until his of the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem, death in 1955. which obtained the letter and offered The Einstein declined an invitation to Associated Press a glimpse before the pub- serve as the first president of the newly eslic sale. “The relationship between Albert tablished state of Israel, but left behind his and Maja was very special and close, which literary estate and personal papers to the adds another dimension to Einstein the Hebrew University. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES NOVEMBER 16, 2018 | 11

OPINION Thoughts on Anti-Semitism and the Attack in Pittsburgh Hatred of Jews remained a force in EuThe term anti-Semitism was first used by ropean politics during the Renaissance and an anti-Jewish pamphleteer named Wilhelm Reformation, and during the Wars of Religion Marr in 1879. between Catholics and Protestants. Prejudice His pamphlet was called Der Weg zum against Jews crossed the Atlantic and became Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenpart of the culture of the New World, though, thum/The Way to Victory of Germanism over for the most part, without the virulence of the Jewry. In it, Marr saw the struggle between the Old World.

Germans and the Jews as a battle between two Marr helped to put Jew hatred on a false races, not two religions. Previously, and for intellectual foundation – one based on pseumany centuries during the Middle Ages, both Rabbi Richard doscience. His call to destroy the Jewish comunder Christian and Muslim dominion, persemunity of Germany did sadly help set the stage cution of Jews was religious in nature. Oppres- Baroff for the Holocaust. Late in life, Marr repudiated sion of Jews of course preceded medieval times.

In the ancient world, the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, his anti-Semitic writings, but it was too late. The poison had Greeks, Romans, among others, persecuted the Israelites/ entered the bloodstream of German life. There were already other sources of similar poison from Christian forms of Jews over a thousand years.

anti-Semitism.

During the same period as Marr, a different type of hostility towards Jews developed in Czarist Russia. The first wave of pogroms was suffered by the Jewish community in Eastern Europe in 1881 after the assassination of Czar Alexander II. Another wave commenced with the Kishinev pogrom of 1903.

There were other forms of oppression as well, practiced by the Russian authorities.

In France, the Dreyfus Affair split French society in the 1890s. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of espionage by the military.

Even when it became obvious that Dreyfus was innocent, the government would not relent. The ugliness of the eruption of hatred towards Jews even in enlightened France convinced the young journalist Theodor Herzl of the necessity of a Jewish homeland. Political Zionism was born.

The American experience for Jews has been much better. There has always been those who dislike Jews, but never had there been widespread violence here.

Although there was only one gunman in the synagogue shooting, the violence targeting Jews was unprecedented in the history of the United States. The murder spree at Tree of Life synagogue will always stand as a tragic landmark in American Jewish history.

There is no doubt that anti-Semitism rises in response to the increased toxicity of the politics of a nation. This dynamic was evident in the Germany, Russia and France of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hopefully, the United States can work its way out of the severe cultural and political polarization that currently defines American life. The current climate of mutual recrimination fosters various pathological responses, including virulent anti-Semitism.

In a country of hundreds of millions of people, there will always be a few who will lash out with great violence. Therefore, the American Jewish community must remain vigilant.

We should all ask the Holy One for guidance as we navigate this new and unwelcome terrain.

After the events of Oct. 27, 2018, in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, we, American Jews, will never be the same.

As we mourn and honor those who have been murdered and pray for those who have been injured, including four police officers, we join with people of good will within our country and around the world.

Together we can build a better future. ■

‫אם תרצו אין זו אגדה‬

Im tirtzu ein zo aggadah If you will it, it is not a dream.

– Theodor Herzl Rabbi Richard Baroff is president of Guardians of the Torah.

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OPINION Letter to the editor: Faith

Letter to the editor: Response to: Letter to the editor, published Nov. 2, 2018

A morning we rise up like any other day Only to find out 11 were taken away

After reading the Atlanta Jewish Times issue of Nov. 9, I am still grieving with the entire nation regarding the attack on the synagogue in Pittsburgh. I have been reflecting on the shameful and terrible comparison of Jews to Nazi Brown Shirts in the letter to the editor published in the Nov. 2 issue of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

This comparison is an insult to every Jew on either side of the political spectrum, including the writer’s own parents who did survive the Holocaust and those of my own family, along with 6 million other Jews, who did not. Also insulted were the 70,000 mentally and physically challenged of all religions that were murdered. We do not forget the 250,000 Jews who fought in World War I and the 550,000 Jews who fought the Nazis and Brown Shirts in World War II. I know that writer was not alive during World War II, but I was, and for the last 10 years have been leading tours and have studied this period in history. The Brown Shirts (Sturmabteilung, SA Storm Attachment) was a Nazi paramilitary organization that played a large role in Hitler’s rise to power.

To compare fellow Jews who oppose her political views to Nazis Brown Shirts and “thugs” is an unforgivable insult. David Duke, Robert Bowers, Louis Farrakhan, David Irving and the BDS Movement would cheer her on as they continue to fuel more lies and tragedies.

Instead of being a voice for these extremist groups, I recommend that you visit local Jewish museums, Jewish exhibits, talk to your rabbis and join other Jews in our fight against anti-Semitism, rather than degrading fellow Jews and their heritage.

John Karp, Atlanta ■

They had gone to gather, to pray and to sit Yet one’s hatred had to explode, take them away, and that was it Moments of grief, hurt and pain Continue as the endless reports try to make political gain Sure, there are things we can fight and vote to appeal But have you stopped to realize what those with the stars around their necks truly feel?

Weeks have passed, and I still get calls Another anti-Semitic encounter makes them feel like their heads were punched into walls Another friendship lost and another threat created While the ignorant remarks add up and continue to be stated Pain keeps coursing through our veins As we scrape every bit of proudness for our faith that keeps us to sustain The warmth of tears upon our cheeks remains to be fresh But all we want to do is come together as one and mesh Differences make us beautiful and that we should cherish Not the things that tear us apart and make our people perish Don’t let fear take away beliefs and roots that have made you proud Now more than ever you should shout them out loud Here’s to a future of being unapologetically Jewish in every way As we hold our children close and tell them of this day Arielle Berlinsky, Atlanta

The AJT welcomes your letters. We want our readers to have an opportunity to engage with our community in constructive dialogue. If you would like your letter to be published, please write 200 words or less, include your name, phone number and email, and send it to editor@atljewishtimes.com.

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CHANUKAH GIFT GUIDE The Gift-Giver's Guide

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This gorgeous keepsake basket is expertly arranged with the freshest orchard-picked fruit.

With Chanukah around the corner, here’s a little gift-giving SOS. At the heart of gift-giving is a reminder that a gift is more than just a present.

It’s an opportunity to say thank you, I love you and to put a piece of yourself in the thought behind it. No one needs another dust collector, so here are some creative ideas to get you started.

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Suggestions include Kidoozie, ™ a pop-up basketball game that packs into a pocket carrying case, creativity art kits, plus the hottest glam craze of sequined purses, book bags and accessories. Enjoy A universe of gifts for kids at Learning Express. this one-stop toy shop with complimentary gift wrap to make the holidays happy for kids, grandkids, friends and others. www.learningexpress.com/stores/atlanta-buckhead A Purposeful Present: For a gift that keeps on giving, Packed with Purpose is filled with meaning and mission. Some of the kosher offerings include Cooper Street Cookies in partnership with Jewish Vocational Services to employ adults with special needs; brownie and cookie mixes and spices from Women’s Bean Project; granola bars from Lola Granola and This Bar Saves Lives; along with many other choices. Packed with Purpose will also customize kosher gift boxes on request for your gift-giving wishes. www.packedwithpurpose.gifts Boombox Gifts: If you’re a new parent, a photo buff, having a mitzvah, or if you serve as the family historian, ready to preserve the family’s treasured photographs, listen up. You’ll love creating a Boombox memory box, where you and your guests upload up to 150 photos and meaningful messages to a private web page. Then sit back as your photographs are custom-designed and printed on 5-by-7-inch cards and

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L’Chaim: Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits has you covered for Chanukah. Kosher classics such as Rashi or Barkan wines make wonderful additions, as well as kosher vodkas like Absolut and Chopin. Sign up for the Tower Card list for monthly discounts. In a hurry? Order online and pick it up in store at their two locations, on Piedmont Road and Buford Highway. www.TowerWineSpirits.com You Name It: You’ll love Frecklebox.com and the wonderful selection of personalized gifts for kids, from storybooks to puzzles and custom placemats. The personalized coloring and activity books with your child’s name throughout are favorites for creative kids.

Check out my most recent Frecklebox books that can feature your child’s name: “The Hug Book” storybook, “Why I’m Thankful” and the “Colorful Counting Book” coloring books. www.frecklebox.com A Passion for Fashion: Rhinestones colorfully spell out anything you’d like, from names to initials on hoodies, t-shirts and stylish apparel from Just Jen. Teens and all ages love these one-of-a-kind gifts that personalize and share your gift recipient's love of a sport, city or even your very own zip code. Add a child or infant’s name for a onesie and enjoy the endless possibilities for gift-giving online at Just Jen. www. justjen.com 16 | NOVEMBER 16, 2018 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

GIFT GUIDE A Rainy-Day Gift: Rain won’t spoil the day if you have on hand a few designer umbrellas that keep you dry.

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By Marcia Caller Jaffe Open a year ago on Savoy Drive, a stone’s throw from the I-285 and North Shallowford Road exit, Tip Top Kosher Market is the “real deal.” In the rear of its Israeli grocery/ market, behind rows of Bamba peanut butter snacks, refrigerated items, burekas, puff pastry, Zion and Tnuva brands, kreplach, Shabbos candles, and yummy babkas, stand a dozenish tables.

The grill kitchen is off to the side where all the magic takes place. Suffice it to say, the dining area is clean, but basic. If you don’t expect a lot of atmosphere, the food is tasty and authentic. Actually, the atmosphere is the TV playing Hebrew music videos and the buzz of crisp Hebrew chatter.

Our server told us that lunches had more Israeli customers, while the Americans tend to come for dinner. She relayed that Sunday, Monday and Thursday are their busiest days.

The staff is attentive, but it’s catch as catch can while negotiating the menu.

Some specials are “in” or not, some sides are substituted. The bottom line is, what’s served is quite “yofi” (great): “No roasted potatoes tonight, but we have green beans.”

And the green beans were spot on. No complaints there.

Each table is served complimentary appetizers. Ours was purple cabbage slaw, hummus and pita. The chef peeked out of the grill to take on inquiries. “I make the hummus from scratch, but the recipe is top security.” Rabbi Mark Kunis, who was at the adjacent table, said, “It used to be that the best American hummus was worse than the worst Israeli hummus, but no longer so. Here at Tip Top, they use a real chickpea, that’s the secret. The falafel is ter-

rific also, … fresh as can be.” The traditional chopped tomato and cucumber salad was a bit bland, but healthy folks can add salt if desired. The best salad was the green cabbage with olive oil and lemon.

Other dishes we sampled were traditional Israeli shakshuka: two eggs with a rich homemade tomato base. The beef/ lamb kebob meat was “mouth melting” – crispy on the outside, soft on the inside.

The server recommended pargiot (chicken thighs), which was appropriately spiced.

We also had a chicken breast sandwich, heavy on the tahini, a hint of schug, and well-packed with pickle slices.

Neighboring tables recommended the ribeye salad: mixed lettuce, arugula, tomatoes, grilled onions, sweet potato, with green tahini, $18; Moroccan fish: tomato based with rice, $22; merguez (spicy lamb sausage) with egg salad, eggplant and pickled lemon, $16. A kid’s meal is available for $10.

The chef showed the Atlanta Kashrut Commission certificate on the wall and shared that the mashgiach left at 6 p.m., thus the camera was constantly surveying the prep area. Tip Top is closest to Congregation Ariel, Congregation Beth Shalom and the Marcus JCC. Owners are Israelis, David Malka and Yehonatan Hazot.

Atlanta magazine generously reviewed Tip Top on Aug. 16: “Chamblee’s Tip Top Kosher Market/ Restaurant … However imperfect, Tip Top has its merits. I would go back for the crunchy and juicy schnitzel …”

Moderate your expectations and imagine you are on a side street in Tel Aviv.

The market alone is worth the trip!

Tip Top is at 2211 Savoy Drive. It’s a bit hard to find, adjacent to Mad Italian and a dental office. P.S. No need to dress up! ■

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DINING

Excerpted from "Everyday Dorie" © 2018 by Dorie Greenspan.

Everyday Dorie Perfect for Your Everyday Kitchen

By Logan C. Ritchie Donning a pixie haircut and an allblack ensemble from her neckline to her toes, Dorie Greenspan charmed an audience of foodies at the Book Festival of the MJCCA on Nov. 5. Joined by New York Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Kim Severson, she talked about gougères (cheese puffs) taking over her freezer, four-course dinner parties in Paris and “coming home” for dinner.

Her new cookbook, “Everyday Dorie,” features colorful pictures of simple food.

Greenspan described her new love for pimento cheese. When her recipe tester, Mary Dodd, returned from a trip to North Carolina with a can of pimentos, Greenspan was immediately smitten. Her recipe for the Southern staple uses sharp and extra-sharp cheddar, though the audience had varying opinions on what type of cheese is best.

A Brooklyn native, Greenspan described her first cooking experience – one that ended in disaster. She came home from school with a few friends, all of whom were hungry, so she dug through the freezer and pulled out French fries. Instead of baking them in the oven, she poured oil into a pot and put the lid on it. Within minutes the oil had burst into flames and the kitchen was on fire.

“And I didn’t cook again until I was married,” she said with a smile.

Married at 19, Greenspan gave up pursuing her doctorate in gerontology to bake cookies in a restaurant she was fired from for what she dubbed “creative insubordination.”

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Photography © 2018 by Ellen Silverstein. Reproduced by permission of Rux Martin Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Now the New York Times “On Dessert” columnist, Greenspan has 13 cookbooks. “Everyday Dorie” is the most accessible cookbook to date, she said. It contains recipes for home cooks, not gourmands. A regular at the Greenspan dinner table is the Subtly Spicy, Softly Hot, Slightly Sweet Beef Stew.

When she made the dish for her Parisian friends – Greenspan bounces between her homes in New York City, Westbrook, Conn., and Paris, France – they anticipated a classic Boeuf Bourguignon (Beef Burgundy). But the spicy gochujang sauce and sweet cranberries pleasantly surprised the crowd.

Here is Greenspan’s current favorite recipe (edited for length):

DINING Subtly Spicy, Softly Hot, Slightly Sweet Beef Stew

By Dorie Greenspan, "Everyday Dorie" For the marinade: 1 bottle (750 milliliters) red wine, preferably fruity but dry ¼ cup soy sauce 3 tablespoons gochujang 5 quarter-sized slices of peeled fresh ginger 3 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled Scallion greens, reserved from the gremolata Cilantro stems, reserved from the gremolata 3 pounds beef stew meat For the stew: 3 tablespoons canola oil Fine sea salt and freshly ground pepper 1 large onion, trimmed, cut into 8 pieces, rinsed and patted dry 6 carrots, trimmed, peeled and cut into 4 pieces each 3 garlic cloves, slivered One 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and slivered ½ cup fresh cranberries 1/3 cup water 2 cups beef broth 1 tablespoon honey 2 points, star anise Pinch of black peppercorns A small sliver of a cinnamon stick 1 bay leaf A strip of orange peel (save orange for gremolata) To marinate the beef:

Marinate overnight, or up to three days, in a dutch oven or plastic zipper-lock bag. When you’re ready to cook, transfer the beef to a plate lined with thick paper towels. Pat dry. Strain the marinade into a bowl; discard the solids.

To make the stew:

Warm 2 tablespoons oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the beef in batches, turning to brown all sides, for about 8 minutes. As the pieces brown, transfer them to a bowl and season with salt and pepper.

Pour off the fat from the pot and add remaining 1 tablespoon oil. When it’s hot, add the onion and carrots, season with salt and pepper, and cook over high heat. Turn as needed to brown the vegetables. Add the vegetables to the beef. Lower the heat and toss in the garlic, ginger and cranberries. When the mixture is fragrant and the cranberries have popped, scrape over the beef and vegetables and stir.

Return the pot to high heat, pour in the water and cook, scraping the bottom, until all the brown bits are up and the liquid has almost evaporated. Return the beef and vegetables to the Dutch oven, stir in the broth and remaining ingredients, including the marinade.

Bring to a boil, reduce to low, and cook for 2.5 to 3 hours until beef is fork-tender.

For the gremolata: 3 scallions, white and green parts only, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro 1 teaspoon finely grated ginger 1 teaspoon finely grated garlic Finely grated zest of 1 orange Fleur de sel or fine sea salt Cooked rice, quinoa or egg noodles for serving To make the gremolata:

Stir all the ingredients together.

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ARTS Jordan

Brodsky shines after winning the Emmy this year for Outstanding Structured Reality Series.

Local child actor Brodsky switched to the other side of the camera for producing.

Brodsky Produces Reality

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Prepubescent Jordan Brodsky danced and sang his way through Broadway national tours and local Fox productions such as “The Music Man” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” A student of the Pebblebrook High School Performing Arts program in Mableton, Brodsky knew he had the “show biz bug,” but didn’t want the crazy, irregular life of an actor. While pursuing a degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, he interned at such lively companies as Howard Stern’s agency Don Buchwald & Associates, MTV and CBS. “It takes creative intelligence to make a show. It can be tough to stay afloat in an expensive city like New York, but so far, I’ve managed to be part of the film community – with only a flop or two,” said Brodsky, who now produces and originates ideas for TV shows.

Share in the fun as Brodsky talks about his colorful career.

Jaffe: How did you make the decision to exit acting for producing?

Brodsky: I love to tell stories, stir the pot and pull the drama out of nowhere. Reality TV is where it’s at today. It’s certainly cheap to produce. So yes, I have the TV bug.

My first show was the MTV show, “MADE,” where I helped turn a puny kid into a hunky football player.

Jaffe: You’ve had some failures?

Brodsky: Oh yes. … One was a recent docuseries about babies. Sometimes low budget shows have small crews we call “Run and Gun.” I have even been sent on location to Mississippi, where the drinking water was brown. A behind-the-scenes altercation with a drag queen for one primetime series was especially memorable.

Jaffe: Your successes outnumber that.

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we recently won the Emmy. I’ve produced on “Undercover Boss,” and am now supervising producer on the TLC series, “Long Island Medium” starring Theresa Caputo, who communicates with the “other side.”

She drives huge viewership numbers.

Jaffe: Who are some of the famous people with whom you have come into contact?

Brodsky: “I’ve worked with Alec Baldwin and Michael Strahan on a number of ABC game shows.” Last week, I attended an event where Amal Clooney spoke.

Lady Gaga was in my dorm at NYU. I admittedly chided her when she told me she was leaving NYU to pursue her music career. Of course, my Jewish parents urged me not to leave school before graduation!

Jaffe: You commute between Atlanta and NYC? Brodsky: My parents (Jay and Robin Brodsky) are here. I know the TV industry in Atlanta is very hot; for me New York is Mecca. Many of the shows filmed here fly the producers down from NYC or LA. Jaffe: What’s your philosophy?

Brodsky: I try to be nice and empathetic to everyone. I feel like a conduit who gives people a voice while entertaining and educating.

Jaffe: What “hip” travel tips would you give visitors to NYC? Brodsky: Second Avenue Deli – I must add is NOT as good as Bagelicious here – has a new upstairs that’s a happening scene with Jewish cocktails like a borscht martini.

I loved “Dear Evan Hanson” and “Hello Dolly” with Bernadette Peters. I crave Bleecker Street Pizza, Chirping Chicken, and the reliable Shun Lee near Columbus Circle. I live near Zabar’s, and the old Jewish ladies all want to confide in me!

Jaffe: Last word.

Brodsky: I intend to start my own production company one day. Go big or go home! ■

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Writing Whiz Goes from Sinatra to Ebola Debra Goldschmidt built a strong foundation in journalism, freelancing, field logistics and writing scripts before landing in 2014 as a supervising editor for CNN’s Health Unit, bringing her back to her start CNN's Debra Goldschmidt covers nursing as an intern. She is described on LinkedIn home deaths after Hurricane Irma. as an “all utility player.” She spent much of her career in 24-hour cable news working Jaffe: When watching “on air” news in the medical unit and in bureaus, and on anchors, we wonder if they write their own the national desk, show teams, and docu- material or you do it for them? mentary teams.

Goldschmidt: That depends. Some anShe left the newsroom briefly to earn chors read scripts while others ad-lib. Ofher master’s degree from top-ranked Co- ten, we suggest questions, prepare screen lumbia University Graduate School of Jour- graphics to show the results of scientific nalism and completed a distinstudy, and select video used in guished fellowship in public a segment. Preproduced stohealth journalism at the Cenries are sometimes written by ters for Disease Control and producers or correspondents.

Prevention. A wife and mother of three, Debra is a member Jaffe: What are the health and executive board member crises we should be concerned of Young Israel of Toco Hills. with today?

Hear about her mission as Goldschmidt: There are a journalist. infectious disease outbreaks Jaffe: What does being an Marcia such as flu, E. coli, salmonella editing supervisor entail? and Ebola, and the increase Caller Jaffe Goldschmidt: I am conin this polio-like illness, AFM, stantly assessing the news to decide on our [acute flaccid myelitis] that is striking coverage plans, what to assign to which mostly young children. The ongoing opiwriters, who will handle it on TV, what spot oid crisis, which isn’t being solved quickly, news to cover, and what stories go on the and as opioids are more difficult to obtain, website. other drugs such as meth and cocaine show increases.

Jaffe: What are some of the most definOther concerns: drug prices, access to ing stories you have broken? health care, and the impact social media Goldschmidt: I covered many catas- has on society. trophes: September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, Ebola. Early in my career, there was Jaffe: Are you affected by the CNN the mapping of the human genome. drumming as “fake news”?

I also produced a documentary about Goldschmidt: It certainly does not feel women who marry prisoners. That’s al- good, but our job is to report the news acways a conversation starter. curately, which is what we strive to do. Part of my job is to make sure our reporting upJaffe: What are some of the “hot” sto- holds the standards of CNN and adheres to ries you have covered? journalistic integrity, and that’s what I do Goldschmidt: When I was on the na- each day. tional assignment desk I worked overnight.

When celebrities died, we had to call family Jaffe: So what’s your bottom line mismembers to confirm. The first big celebrity sion as a journalist? death on my watch was Frank Sinatra, as Goldschmidt: I reflect on a 2002 story was the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya.

I produced for Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s This was before the internet and pa- chief medical correspondent, where we pers being posted online. Hard copies of the followed triplets who had cerebral palsy newspapers were delivered at 4 a.m. and I’d and were treated with a cutting-edge proread them and flag the stories we needed to cedure clipping spinal nerves. A mother in act upon.

Jamaica saw the piece and arranged for her In 1997, I worked with Elizabeth Co- son to have the surgery. That’s journalism hen, CNN’s senior medical correspondent, that matters. People let us into their lives to uncover the dangers of the diet drug when they are most vulnerable and give us combination, fen-phen, which was later the privilege of sharing their story, … and it pulled from the market. helps others. ■

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Jewish Life in Small Towns

Home For the Holidays It’s not unusual for Atlantans from small Georgia towns to support and, sometimes, visit their former hometowns and congregations. But Fitzgerald in south central Georgia is different.

“Feed them and they will come” appears to be the motto of Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation, a Conservative shul that for generations has attracted Jews from surrounding towns such as Cordele, Tifton and Ocilla – wherever there were Jews in an 80-mile radius. In fact, in 1968, the congregation’s 14 board members came from 10 different towns.

For Rosh Hashanah, 150 current Fitzgerald-area Jews, plus former residents living in Atlanta, Savannah, Macon Bar mitzvah picture from February 1978: and as far away as Toronto, New Jersey, David Perlis with Pauline and Louis Perlis.

New York and California, gathered for To view a collage of community members from the High Holidays, please visit AJT's website. services with their guests.

“They want to come and visit people they haven’t seen in years. It’s more like a Congregants don’t pay dues. It’s all volfamily reunion,” says Phil Perlis, 59, who untary. Or, as her brother David Perstill lives in Tifton and runs the remain- lis states, “If the building or synagogue ing Jewish-owned store in the area, The needs something, a family member just buys it.”

Big Store.

“But everyone is treated “We do things a little equally,” Ellin says. “If you differently here. It’s special. are a first-timer or have been On the eve of Rosh Hashathere 1,000 times, you are as nah, we have an open bar likely to get an aliyah as anyand serve a wonderful, koone else.” sher, catered dinner before The town of Fitzgerald services. Then a lunch after was founded in 1896 for forservices on Rosh Hashanah. mer Union and Confederate On Yom Kippur, we serve a veterans. Downtown streets meal before Kol Nidre and a were named for renowned break fast at the end of the Jan generals from both sides. holiday. Where else can a Jaben-Eilon Fitzgerald has also been family get together and not have to cook one meal, and stay as long heralded as the smallest town in the as you want? I’ve been putting together country to have its own synagogue. Prior these meals (plus Passover seders) for to buying a former Methodist church to house the congregation in 1942, the Jewyears; it’s a big undertaking.”

Alice Singer Shapiro has been in At- ish community met in people’s homes, lanta for about 40 years, but she still re- or above the Masonic lodge. Five years turns to Fitzgerald for the High Holidays. later, the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congrega“It’s like a homecoming. It’s like going to tion hired its only full-time rabbi, Nathan camp for adults.” As a child, the Colum- Kohen, who served the synagogue for 28 bus native spent weekends in Fitzgerald years until his death in 1975. Student rabwhere her mother grew up. “I loved it,” bis from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York have been assigned to says the current member of B’nai Torah.

A former president of B’nai Torah serve the congregation once a month and and cousin of Phil Perlis’, Janice Perlis for holidays.

Perlis is the nominal president of the Ellin still returns to Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation for Rosh Hashanah. “I’ve congregation. “We lead it by committee,” never spent Rosh Hashanah anywhere he told the AJT. “I don’t like to be called else,” says the Cordele native. “The entire president. We used to have elections,” but over the last 10 years, “it’s been the same board are relatives of mine.”

While everyone who returns to five folks.”

Fitzgerald Hebrew doesn’t attract Fitzgerald for the High Holidays mentions the uniqueness of the meals, for large crowds for its Shabbat services, which they pay a charge, Ellin points to although homemade treats are provided other exceptional aspects of the shul. at the onegs. There are also study ses-

Janice Perlis Ellin, a former president of B’nai Torah.

Marvin Perlis, Louis Perlis and Lamar Perlis.

sions and Havdalah services “to keep the sense of community,” he says. “We’re not a growing congregation,” Perlis says. But as Penson Kaminsky – who was born in Fitzgerald in 1940 – says, “We’re vibrant.”

Noah Levine of the Jewish Com-

munity Legacy Project has been helping Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation with its long-range planning. Shapiro, who calls the congregation “the little shul that could,” says some day it should be made into a museum. For now, “Penson Kaminsky and his wife are keeping the shul alive.”

Meanwhile, the “small town within a small town,” as Ellin calls Fitzgerald Hebrew, continues to attract generations of congregants for the High Holidays, as well as bragging rights for one of its most notable residents. Morris B. Abram, son of a former Fitzgerald Jewish merchant, is being lauded for his career as a civil and human rights activist. A former national president of the American Jewish Committee as well as president of Brandeis University, Abram’s centennial is being commemorated at Emory University later this month. ■ This ongoing series about Jewish life in small towns is sponsored by the Atlantabased Jewish Community Legacy Project.

Visit www.jclproject.org to learn more about the initiative to help such communities as they navigate the present and prepare for the future.

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NOVEMBER 16-22

CALENDAR CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Vayeitzei Friday, November 16, 2018, light candles at 5:16 p.m.

Saturday, November 17, 2018, Shabbat ends at 6:12 p.m.

Vayishlach Friday, November 23, 2018, light candles at 5:12 p.m.

Saturday, November 24, 2018, Shabbat ends at 6:10 p.m.

Morris B. Abram Show and Tell – Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, from 12 to 2 p.m. As part of the commemoration of the Abram centennial, the Rose Library will present a “show and tell” of several items from the Morris B. Abram Papers on the day following the Rothschild Lecture. Free. For complete information, visit the Tam Institute website at www.js.emory.edu.

MJCCA Book Festival: Michael Solo-

monov & Steven Cook, “Israeli Soul” – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, at noon. In Conversation with Ligaya Figueras, senior editor, Food and Dining, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A kosher lunch will be served featuring recipes from “Israeli Soul.” $25 for members and the community.

For more information, www.bit. ly/2yW8i4k.

Musical Shabbat-Broadway – Congregation Dor Tamid, 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Enjoy cantor soloist Mike Zuspan sing classic Broadway hits. Doors are open to the public. For more information, www.dortamid.org.

from New York City and in Atlanta for just one show. Tex Mex tapas bar from The Spicy Peach. $20 per person. For more information, www.chabadtoco. com.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17

CBI’s 36th Anniversary Celebration – Congregation B’nai Israel, 1633 GA-54, Jonesboro, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Torah study with Rabbi Feldstein and service. A kiddush luncheon will be served immediately following the service. Free. For more information, www. bnai-israel.net.

MJCCA Book Festival: Jon Meacham,

“The Soul of America” – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 8 to 10 p.m. In Conversation with Gail Evans, former executive vice president, CNN and bestselling author. $33 for members, $38 for the community. For more information, www.bit. ly/2AUWIb1.

Motzei Shabbat Comedy with Eli Lebowicz – Chabad of Toco Hills, 1985 Lavista Road, Atlanta, from 8 to 10 p.m.

A night of hilarious kosher comedy featuring comedian Eli Lebowicz, live

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Knowledge is Power – Congregation Dor Tamid, 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. CDT’s Lifelong Learning Committee hosts numerous educational chats. The next seminar is Dec. 9. For more information, www.dortamid.org.

book that tells the story of the Maccabees. Enjoy Chanukah art, dreidels and gelt. Free and open to all. For more information, email bracha@chaidecatur.com.

MJCCA Book Festival: Steve Israel,

“Big Guns: A Novel” – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. In Conversation with Melissa Long, former anchor and reporter, WXIATV. $10 for members, $15 for the community.

For more information, www.bit.ly/2QpAUtr.

MJCCA Book Festival: Peter Sagal,

“The Incomplete Book of Running” – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. In Conversation with Lois Reitzes, WABE’s director of arts and cultural programming and host of “City Lights.” $18 for members, $25 for the community. For more information, www.bit.ly/2QsSRY8.

Zumbini®: No Way Jose! – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 10 to 11 a.m. Created by Zumba® and BabyFirst for children through age 4.

This six-week program combines music, dance and educational tools for bonding and learning. $115 for members, $140 for nonmembers. For more information, www.bit.ly/2OvywUj.

Chabad of Decatur Presents Chanukah Story Time @ – Little Shop of Stories, 133 E. Court Square, Decatur, from 2 to 3 p.m. Kick off the Chanukah season with Chanukah storytime, “If the Candles Could Speak,” a 2-foot-long

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Turbo Turkey Workout – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Get ready for your Thanksgiving feast with a turbo-charged interval workout. Join us Thanksgiving morning an intense 90-minute circuit class.

Out-of-town guests welcome. Free and open to the community. For more information, www.bit.ly/2PPpPom.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Café Chabad: Shari’ah – Chabad Intown On The Beltline, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 8 to 10 p.m. Using the concepts, ethos, and language of Jewish law familiar to Jews, we explore the sources, methods, and dynamics of Islamic law. This is a compelling primer on Shari’ah law through the lens of Judaism. Featuring a gourmet kosher-by-candlelight dinner. $18 per ticket. For more information, www.chabadintown.org.

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DECEMBER 2-9

CHANUKAH EVENTS

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9

Grand Menorah Lighting – Virginia

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2

Annual OVS Hanukkah Bazaar – Congregation Or VeShalom, 1681 North Druid Hills Road NE, Brookhaven, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sisterhood’s annual Hanukkah Bazaar featuring authentic Sephardic burekas and sweets, and numerous vendors to grab some great last-minute Hanukkah gifts! $3 per person. For more information, www.orveshalom.org.

Highlands – Virginia Highlands, 1017 North Highland Avenue, Atlanta, from 6 to 8 p.m. Join Chabad Intown for a Chanukah celebration with music, balloons, dreidels, doughnuts, hot latkes and more. Free. For more information, www.chabadintown.org.

Sparks of Light – Ahavath Achim Syna-

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6

Scream’N Nuts and CDT celebrate the 5th night of Chanukah – Scream’N Nuts, 5950 North Point Parkway, Alpharetta, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Scream’n Nuts gives 20 percent back to CDT all day. Stop by and say you are from CDT. Enjoy lighting the fifth light of Chanukah at 7 p.m. with Rabbi Jordan at Congregation Dor Tamid. For more information, www.dortamid.org.

Menorah Car Parade – Chabad Intown

MON., DEC. 3–WED., DEC. 5

JCC Menorah Lighting – Marcus JCC, “From Darkness to Light” – William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, from 2 to 4 p.m. Join Conductor Juan Ramirez and Cantor Lauren Adesnik as members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Emanu-El Youth Choir perform a very special Vedem-inspired Chanukah concert, “From Darkness to Light.” This concert highlights inspiring music from the Holocaust, melodic Sephardic tunes and uplifting Chanukah favorites. $18 per person. For more information, www.thebreman.org.

5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, each day from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. Three days of Hanukah fun and celebration at the JCC. Each night will feature Hanukah songs with Rabbi Glusman, a performance and the lighting of the Chanukah menorah. Complimentary sufganiyot (jelly donuts) and hot chocolate will be served. This event is free and open to people of all faiths and backgrounds.

For more information, www.bit. ly/2STCIfU.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5

Grand Menorah Lighting – Ponce Tamid, 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Crafts, food, bazaar and lighting of the candles for the first night. Free. For more information, www.dortamid.org.

Chanukah at the Governor’s Mansion – 1580 Spalding Drive, in Sandy Springs, from 3 to 4 p.m. For the ninth consecutive year, Atlanta’s Temple Emanu-El has been asked to represent Georgia’s Jewish citizens at this annual event. After a short celebration program and refreshments at Temple Emanu-El, buses will provide round trips from the temple to the Governor’s Mansion. Open to 100 participants.

Registration closes on Dec. 7 at 12 p.m.

To register and for more information, www.templeemanuelatlanta.org. ■

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

www.atlantajewishconnector.com

Calendar sponsored by the Atlanta Jewish Connector, an initiative of the AJT. Please contact community liaison, Jen Evans, for more information at jen@atljewishtimes.com.

Grand Menorah Lighting – Atlantic Station – Atlantic Station, 1380 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Join Chabad Intown for a Chanukah celebration with music, balloons, dreidels, doughnuts, hot latkes and more. Free. For more information, www.chabadintown.org.

Chanukah Party – Congregation Dor

On The Beltline, 730 Ponce De Leon Place NE, Atlanta, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Meet at Chabad on the Beltline to get a menorah on your car and join us for an exciting ride around Atlanta.

For more information, www.chabadintown.org.

gogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave. NW, Atlanta, from 5 to 7 p.m. Light up the night on the seventh night of Chanukah. Celebrate the “festival of lights” with music, arts and crafts, a glow game room and food. Free. For more information, Marc Silberstein, msilberstein@aasynagogue.org or 404603-5748.

City Market – Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Join Chabad Intown for a Chanukah celebration with music, balloons, dreidels, doughnuts, hot latkes and more. Free. For more information, www.chabadintown.org.

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ALEH Negev includes an interactive animal farm, with horses and other wildlife for children with special needs to experience.

The LOTEM accessible parks allow children to use olive presses to make oil.

Israel Becoming More Accessible to Those with Disabilities

By Roni Robbins You may be surprised to learn Golda Meir had a granddaughter with Down syndrome. Special needs were not openly discussed when Meir was Israel’s prime minister.

She’d be pleased with the progress Jewish National Fund has made for people with disabilities in Israel. In recent years, JNF-USA has built and supported residential services for the severely disabled, invested in mak-

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ing Israel accessible to all, and expanded a program incorporating 350 youth with disabilities into the Israel Defense Forces.

Just a few months ago, Yair Lapid, chairman of the Yesh Atid party, who some believe will be the next prime minister, spoke proudly about his autistic daughter having served in the IDF Special in Uniform program in Israel that JNF supports.

“It builds their self-esteem and gives them a feeling of belonging. It gives them hope that they will be able to

get a paycheck and be a part of society,” said Yossi Kahana, director of JNF’s Task Force on Disabilities in New York, visiting Atlanta last week to meet with donors and strengthen ties with Israel.

The JNF-funded LOTEM-Making Nature Accessible is on an ecological farm next to the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s sister city of Yokneam-Megiddo in the Emek HaShalom Nature Park.

People with special needs can grind seeds into wheat to make pita bread or use an olive press designed

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Israeli firefighters get a tour of a trail in LOTEM to understand how the parks have become more inclusive of people with disabilities.

for them to turn olives into oil or grapes into juice, said Kahana, who is originally from Israel and recently returned to celebrate his 13-year-old autistic son’s bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.

Aligning with JNF’s mission to build affordable homes in the Negev, the first phase of a housing and rehabilitation facility for disabled youth that began in 2003 and opened four years later is now fully operational, Kahana said.

The ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran Rehabilitation Village is a 25-acre facility designed for children and young adults with a variety of acute cognitive and physical impairments and brain injuries. The rehabilitation facility, designed to foster independence, houses more than 150 residents and provides outpatient therapy to another 1,000, he said. It is a major employer and a resource for the surrounding community.

A rehab hospital is being built and should be complete in three years to serve the entire region, Kahana said.

About 420 caregivers, nurses, doctors, therapists, chefs and other service staff work in the village, along with 400 volunteers. Close to 1,000 employees will work there once the hospital is complete, he said.

In the past, a home for people with disabilities wouldn’t be surrounded by a larger, able-bodied community, Kahana said. “The government decided to build nearby. It shows Israel society is more inclusive and does not ignore people with disabilities. They accept and move next door.”

Two of the JNF disability programs in Israel have Atlanta connections. Roni Wolk is chair of LOTEM’s task force, and her husband, Alan, is U.S. chair of the board of governors of Special in Uniform. “Alan and I believe strongly in the statement that: ‘Society is measured by how it treats the weakest among us,’” Roni Wolk said.

Several Atlanta Jewish donors also have invested in the JNF disabilities programs in Israel.

There’s an Atlanta Forest in LOTEM and an Atlanta Garden that hopes to strengthen a connection with Yokneam-Maggido. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES NOVEMBER 16, 2018 | 29

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COMMUNITY

Chanukah

Bridging Israeli and Jewish Americans in Atlanta IAC Atlanta is delighted to be a fastrising addition to the Israeli-American Council's coast-to-coast community and is looking forward to bringing Atlanta’s largest-ever delegation to the IAC National Conference from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 in South Florida.

Earlier this year in Atlanta, a group of young professionals gathered at the home of Israeli food blogger and IAC lay leader, Hagar Sides, for a unique celebration of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Drawing on the customs for Shavuot in Israel, guests sampled a menu of dairy foods including quiche, burekas, blintzes with mascarpone, lasagna, and a handful of other Mediterranean foods central to Israel’s culinary scene.

The evening, hosted in partnership with IAC Atlanta, brought together Jewish Americans, non-Jewish Americans and Israeli-Americans for an event inspired by the traditions Shaked Angel and flavors of Israel.

The IAC’s Atlanta region – which will mark its one-year anniversary in November – has earned a unique reputation for bringing together the local Jewish American and Israeli-American communities, building partnerships, and initiating innovative programs that bring the spirit of Israeli life to Georgia.

Around the time of IAC Atlanta’s launch in November 2017, we would read headlines like the Atlanta Jewish Times’ report, “Israelis Divided From Rest of Jewish Atlanta.”

I’m pleased to say that, a year later, the IAC has made tremendous progress in closing the gaps between Greater Atlanta’s JewishAmerican and Israeli-American populations. The Shavuot event, for instance, used the love of food and “Israeliness” to energize Atlanta’s young Jewish professional community and unite Israeli-Americans and Jewish Americans in an exciting new way.

The work of 15 lay leaders involved with IAC Shishi Israeli, which brings together Israeli-American and Jewish-American families for communal experiences that combine Jewish traditions and Israeli culture on Shabbat and Jewish holidays, resulted in a Shabbat dinner for Tu B’Shevat that was attended by 330 people. Local partners saw the value of this initiative and collaborated with our lay leaders on this incredible Shabbat event.

A first-year organization likely cannot achieve all the growth it is seeking by operating in isolation. In Atlanta, the IAC’s rapid success in under a year has been driven by

IAC Atlanta engaging the next generation and connecting them to Israel and their Jewish heritage.

its close partnerships with existing institutions.

This was best illustrated by Zikaron BaSalon (Memories in the Living Room), an event on Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day that takes place in community members’ homes and seeks to offer a new and meaningful way to commemorate the Shoah and address its implications through intimate discussions.

Partnering with the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeastern United States, Hillel, JCCs, Moishe House, and Tzofim (Israel Scouts), IAC Atlanta brought this international project to nine different locations in the city. As guests sat in living rooms across Atlanta, they were visibly moved by the stories of the last remaining Holocaust survivors. IAC Atlanta was proud to be present in these living rooms, and to have given more individuals than ever before the opportunity to take part in this unique experience.

The IAC Atlanta’s Shinshinim program partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Jewish Agency for Israel is providing a platform for further strengthening the Atlanta Jewish community – both its American-born and Israeliborn members. Israelis serving as emissaries through Shinshinim share their passion for and knowledge of Israel with young Americans through Jewish day schools, synagogues and other organizations. The Atlanta Shinshinim program is bridging Israelis and Americans in a remarkable way.

The IAC National Conference at the end of this month will be a time for Atlanta’s Jewish-American and Israeli-American communities to come together with thousands of other like-minded individuals, share best practices with their peers from across the country, and engage in conversations on some of the most pressing issues facing the future of the Jewish people and Israel. We cannot think of a better way to celebrate just how far IAC Atlanta has come in a single year. ■ Shaked Angel is the regional director of IAC Atlanta and former IAC Beyachad national director and educational director of IAC New York.

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COMMUNITY COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Wilker Responds to Pittsburgh Tragedy

Dov Wilker has been regional director of AJC in Atlanta since 2011, and he sits on the board of a number of important community organizations. The events of the last two weeks have been a testing time for the organization, generally, and Wilker, in particular. We asked him how he would summarize how the Atlanta community responded in the aftermath of the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

and leaders from other organizations to talk about the community response and the immediate actions that they can take.

What are the things we need to discuss for the long term?

And you know that meeting only takes place because of the work that we’re doing all year round. The second thing that we’ve been doing is to encourage everyone to go to synagogue, whether they’re Jewish or not. That has really been a remarkable effort. We’ve reached out to all of the diplomats, elected officials, and non-Jewish clergy, and invited them to attend synagogues. We’ve gotten a great response from that. Congressman Hank Johnson attended a synagogue, consul generals from Ireland, Germany and Japan all went, and a number of Atlanta City Council members participated. It’s really been a remarkable effort that we’ve seen as a show of support.

Wilker: The way that we have galvanized and Bob brought people together has Bahr been really wonderful. On the morning of Oct. 30, we helped to convene a meeting of nearly 100 people that included the rabbis, non-Jewish clergy

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Dov Wilker, regional director of AJC Atlanta, spoke at the organization’s National Human Relations Award dinner Oct. 30.

AJT: So, what would you say is the takeaway from last week?

Wilker: I learned a few things. People really are standing with the Jewish community and for unity in society. I almost want to say that we’ve sort of reached a turning point for understanding of how we need to work together to combat hatred, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in our country.

I think there’s this understanding that we do need to be continuing to develop relationships. It’s really about the long-term relationships that we’ve created, the e-mails, phone calls, text messages, and social media postings that show the importance of developing these relations. People understand that you don’t have to be Jewish to understand what anti-Semitism is.

I think it’s been an eye-opening understanding for everyone. There’s been an increased awareness about attacks against others and what responsibility we have to our community.

AJT: The AJC’s National Human Relation Award dinner in Atlanta last week honoring David Abney, the chairman and CEO of UPS, appeared to be a great success, and it came at an important time. How would you summarize your thoughts about that event?

Wilker: I’m not sure that I have a single adjective to describe how important it was. We’ve been doing the dinner for 44 years and it’s always wonderful to see that corporate citizens of Atlanta attend a Jewish event.

They all understood the heightened importance of being with us last Tuesday night. They realized that they were involved in standing up with the Jewish community in solidarity. We needed them, and they were there for it. And frankly, how fortunate we were to be able to have that. This year’s dinner was about unity. And I thought that was really important.

AJT: You announced at the dinner that it raised $500,000 for your organization. You must be very happy with that.

Wilker: It’s one of the highest totals ever. It’s important for people to hear, but it’s actually less important than the participation number. You know, this year, we have one of the largest numbers of supporter sponsors ever. I think that sort of support made a difference. I think the number of people in the room is really what it was about. We had about 480 people.

AJT: Finally, how do you think Pittsburgh has influenced the work of the AJC? Wilker: The AJC is over 110 years old.

We’ve always done this work of building bridges, building relationships with non-Jewish leaders and diplomats. It just shows that we need to continue that work, and that we need to broaden our reach to make sure that people understand the Jewish community that much more. ■

COMMUNITY SIMCHA SPOTLIGHT

Birth Announcements Miriam Isabella Zandel

Mazel tov to parents Zina and Moses Sandel and their family on the birth of their new daughter, Miriam “Mimi” Isabella Sandel on Nov. 5. Grandparents are Alexandr and Bella Aranbayev and Sholem and Chaya Sandel.

Nash Steven Tarica

Mazel Tov

Congratulations to the Tarica family on the birth of Nash Steven Tarica on Oct. 26. Nash is the first-born son of Ashley and Josh Tarica. Grandparents are Emily Sanders and Jon Margolis; Joaquim Sanders; Marianne and Mark Tarica; and Paula Chalef and Jere Clayman.

Meyer-Hirsh Engagement Mazel Tov to Brian Meyer and Sarah Hirsch on their engagement. Brian is the son of Elise and Gary Meyer and the grandson of Lucy (Albert D. z”l) Maslia and Barbara (Martin z”l) Meyer.

Sarah is the daughter of Judy and Greg Hirsch and the granddaughter of Sarah (Dan z”l) Duwell and Marcia (Bernard z”l) Hirsch.

Happy Birthday

Dr. Eugen Schoenfeld turned 93 years old on Nov. 8, 2018. He was born in Munkacs in the Carpathian Mountains of what was then Czechoslovakia.

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COMMUNITY Dear Disillusioned, From your description, it seems to me the school mishandled the situation. If I were in charge, I hope I would have taken away recess from the entire class; that seems justified after hearing what took place. They took recess during class, so they already used up their free time. An extra assignment would be another option. But to single out two girls when everyone was guilty isn’t appropriate. Why should only they miss out on a special ent. So, when ud st od go , ed Dear Rachel, av trip? So, the school goofed. Now what? Your question is significant, especially in our days ira, is a well-beh e day because on ol ho sc My daughter, Sh om fr e when respect and morality have disintegrated. to bring her hom concerned. d an t se up I was summoned ly ab Can you tell Shira that even though you feel the consequence was too harsh, she acI I was understand ped up the second m ju e sh of an infraction, d an , ed cepted it and took it in stride, and you’re proud of her for being strong enough to handle ere tear-streak Shira’s cheeks w it in such a mature fashion? e. came into the offic spered urgently.

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Jewish Joke of the Week What’s in a name?

Sam is a nice young man who has fallen in love with a girl he has just met.

When Sam tells his father about her, his father just wants to know her family name. When Sam tells him that the girl’s name is Ford, his father says that Ford is not a good Jewish name and he must forget her and go find a Jewish girl.

Time passes, and Sam finds another girl. Her name is Smith so his father tells him to find a nice Jewish girl with a nice Jewish name.

More time passes, and Sam finds another girl, but this time he is sure that he has solved the problem because the girl’s name is Goldberg. “Goldberg,” exclaims his father, “this makes me very happy because it’s a real good Jewish name, and from a good established family.”

Then his father asks, “Is her first name one of my favorite names, like Rachael, or Rebecca?”

“No Father,” Sam replies, “It’s Whoopi.”

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

Yiddish Word of the Week ‘a mecháyye ‘A mecháyyeh! ‫ !א מחיה‬- exclamation of relief or pleasure: ‘Es iz ‘a mecháyeh ‫עס‬ ‫ – איז א מחיה‬how delightful! What a pleasure! Possibly from the Hebrew ‫ְמ ַחיֶ ה‬ ‫“ ֵמ ִתים‬who revives the dead,” found in one of the blessings of praise (Gevurot) before the traditional ‘amidah (standing) prayer. Example:

“We came back from the hike sweaty and covered with dust. ‘A mecháyyeh!’ we exclaimed as we opened the door.

‘Blessed be He who has given us AC!’”

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

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■ The bar mitzvah ceremony of Joshua Kalman Kirsch of Marietta was held Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003, at Temple Beth Tikvah. Joshua is the son of Stuart and Sharon Kirsch. He is the grandson of Joe-Henry and Joan Barton of Atlanta, and Irving and Thelma Kirsch of Boynton Beach, Fla.

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■ Philip M. and Elise Bowen Goldstein of Marietta announce the birth of a son, Joseph Reese, on Nov. 13. Grandparents are Herbert and Mary Goldstein and Jack and Delores Bowen, all of Marietta.

The American Jewish Committee nominated Shirley Franklin for its Institute of Human Relations Award.

50 Years Ago // November 15, 1968 ■ Four Jewish athletes collected medals at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska of Poland won the 200-meter dash, Mark Spitz of the U.S. won four swimming medals, the Soviet Union’s Boris Gurevich took a gold medal in freestyle wrestling, and Hungary’s Ildiko Uslaky-Rejito gained a bronze in women’s individual foil.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Marshall E. Bloom of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Jeffrey Richman Bloom, on Nov. 13. Mrs. Bloom is the former Bitsy Ellen Wexler of Atlanta and Chattanooga.

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OBITUARIES

Ruth Hillman Lazarus Arnovitz 101, Atlanta

Ruth Hillman Lazarus Arnovitz, 101, of Atlanta, died Nov. 3, 2018.

She was preceded in death by Jake Lazarus and Morris Arnovitz, of blessed memory.

The family includes her son, Wayne (late wife Phyllis) Lazarus; daughters, Janet (Joel) Greenhill and Myra (Steve)Pressman; stepson, Eliot (Phyllis) Arnovitz; stepdaughters, the late Susan Arnovitz Saltz, Ellen Faye Arnovitz, and Judy (James) Rotenstreich; grandchildren, Jeremy Lazarus, Zachary(Lisa) Lazarus, Joanna(Josh)Rothstein, Shannon Greenhill, Paula Burk, Jaclyn Greenhill, Andy Pressman, Daniel Robinson and Elise (David) Schwarz.

She’s also survived by stepgrandchildren, Kevin Arnovitz, Eric Schwartzel, Staci Arnovitz, Sam Finkelstein, Pearl Ann Arnovitz, Andrew Rosenzweig, Shauna (Steven) Grosswald, Dara (Andy) Grant, Jessica (Jeff) Sacks, Jeff (Julie) Rotenstreich, Kennith (Amanda) Rotenstreich and N. Andrew (Susan) Rotenstreich.

Great-grandchildren are: Jordan, Parker and Pace Lazarus, Paige Rothstein, Leo Pressman, Charlie and Elliott Schwartz; step great-grandchildren, Maya and Cameron Finklestein, Marley and Benjamin Rosenzwieg, Raina, Natalie and Zane Grosswald, Matthew, Sari and Naomi Grant, Daniel, Lyla and Sam Sacks, Matthew (Dana, fiancé) Rotenstreich, Abby Rotenstreich, Josh Rotenstreich, Alexandra Rotenstreich, Samuel Rotenstreich, and Annie Rotenstreich.

Memorial donations may be made to Weinstein Hospice. A graveside service was held, Nov. 5, 2018, at Arlington Memorial Park, with Rabbi Neil Sandler officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

Muriel “Mimi” Bernice August 84, Atlanta

Muriel “Mimi” Bernice August passed away peacefully in her sleep Nov. 8, 2018, at the age of 84, after a courageous fight with multiple illnesses. Born Sept. 7, 1934 to Hilma and Sam August, of blessed memory, she is survived by her loving and devoted husband, William (Bill) Shamblen; sister, Connie Margolies; four sons, Joe (Pat) Masarek, Mike (Betsy) Masarek, Alan (Patti) Masarek, and Jeff (Lee) Masarek; and three stepchildren, Scott, Wendy (Jamie) Scott, and David (Sophie).

She is also survived by 11 grandchildren, Craig (Kristen), Jeff (Casey), Adam (Eva), Jason, Jordan (Eric), Alex, Jared, Cory, Barbara, Stephanie and Lauren; as well as 10 great-grandchildren, Ari, Elliot, Reuben, Dylan, Max, Astrid, Otto, Stanton, Savannah and Jackson.

She is also survived by her beloved cat, Stella, who lovingly cuddled with her throughout her illness, barely ever leaving her side. Our mom was a fighter who combined great intellect with strong opinion. A practicing attorney for more than 30 years, she graduated from Emory Law School in 1976 after entering law school at the age of 39. Her spirit for lifelong learning was intense; she was a voracious reader with a wanderlust to experience the world. In her 70s, she and Bill embarked on a two-year camping trip across the U.S. that they both considered the “time of their lives.” Mom made an impact on all who knew her, and she will be missed by her entire loving family. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to In Jacob’s Shoes (www.injacobs.org). A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 at Congregation Or VeShalom. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

Dr. Manuel Isadore Weisman 92, Augusta

Dr. Manuel Isadore Weisman of Augusta died peacefully in his home Nov. 7, 2018.

He was born to the late Rose and Joel Weisman in Chicago, Ill., Feb. 26, 1926.

Dr. Weisman was a devoted son, husband, father and grandfather. He was predeceased by his wife of over 66 years, Shirley Aronoff Weisman; his son, Gary Weisman; and sister, Ruth W. Berg. He is survived by his daughter, Dr. Carol W. Beck of Beachwood, Ohio; and by his grandchildren, Brian J. Beck (Amanda) of Morton Grove, Ill., and Jessica R. Daley (John Robert “JR”) of Parker, Colo.

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OBITUARIES Navy Hospital Corps during World War II. While at Lakeview High School, he received the Bausch & Lomb award for outstanding science scholarship.

He married Shirley Aronoff of Rome, Ga., on June 19, 1950. They met while attending Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago and worked together in his dental office for over 60 years.

Dr. Weisman graduated from Northwestern University School of Dentistry in 1951 and moved to Augusta, where he practiced general dentistry until 1965. He became a diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and was the first dentist in Augusta to specialize in endodontics.

Following solo private practice for 60 years, Dr. Weisman practiced endodontics at the veterans’ hospitals in Augusta, where he served as chief of endodontics. He retired from the VA at age 87.

Dr. Weisman was a fellow of the American College of Dentists, a fellow of the International College of Dentists, and a fellow of the American College of Stomatologic Surgeons. He was a member of Alpha Omega dental fraternity. He has served as president of the Georgia section of the American College of Dentists, president of the Eastern District Dental Society, president of the Aiken County Dental Society, president of the CSRA (Central Savannah River Area) chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. He founded the Augusta Endodontic Study Club, where he was past chairman. Dr. Weisman was a life member of the American Dental Association, the Georgia Dental Association and the American Association of Endodontics, where he served on the research committee.

He was clinical professor of endodontics at the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry. He published over 120 articles and papers, including a chapter on neutron radiography in the textbook, Biology of the Human Dental Pulp (1971). Dr. Weisman lectured before general and specialty dental groups throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia on clinical aspects of endodontic care.

Dr. Weisman was an avid tennis player and enjoyed fishing in his spare time. He was a member of the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue in Augusta, where he served on the board of directors.

The family wishes to thank Jenny Freeman for her devoted care of Dr. Weisman during the last years of his life. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in memory of Dr. Weisman be sent to the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue.

A graveside service was held Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in the Magnolia Cemetery in Augusta with Rabbi David Sirull officiating. â– Obituaries in the AJT are written and paid for by the families; contact Managing Publisher Kaylene Ladinsky at kaylene@atljewishtimes. com or 404-883-2130, ext. 100, for details about submission, rates and payments. Death notices, which provide basic details, are free and run as space is available; send submissions to editor@ atljewishtimes.com.

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CLOSING THOUGHTS Kislev’s Light of Hope

for many. Sadly, there’s always a background vigilance as we scan our world to try to disRosh Chodesh Kislev began at suncern who wishes to cause harm and who down Wednesday, Nov. 7. This is the doesn’t. Safety and security can no longer month of miracles, rainbows, dreams and dreamers, and a time to light the darkness be presumed. as winter approaches. In the wake of the I’ve been flooded with clients discusshate crime at the Tree of Life synagogue in ing their fears. Some are Jewish, many Pittsburgh, however, many are still feeling are not, but the fears are the same. People shaken, depleted and hopeless. We mourn, blame the president, Democrats, Republiyet again, grieving the loss of innocent viccans, the media, and even technology for tims who, this time, were attending a Shabthe violence in our world. bat service in their community.

It seems that the filters have changed Like every Shabbat, that morning I Dr. Terry through which individuals try to gauge did yoga for an hour. I felt peaceful, hope- Segal their level of safety. It used to be, if they ful and full of love in anticipation of our New Moon Meditations aligned with a specific group that had been daughter’s upcoming wedding this month. targeted, they felt threatened. If not, they Upon hearing the news, all of that joy shattered like the felt less so. Now people report not feeling safe. There glass set to be under her groom’s foot. I tried to hold the have been shootings at schools, malls, movie theaters, peaceful intent of Shabbat, but failed. The heavy-heart- nightclubs, churches and synagogues. Vans have mowed ed pressure in my chest wouldn’t lift, even after releas- down crowds of people in the U.K., Spain and France, as ing a deluge of tears. I asked myself, “How can we expe- violence continues all over the world, changing targets rience a month of miracles and light when our collective on any given day. hearts are broken and there’s pervasive fear?”

People are wrestling with succumbing to their A few days prior, two African-Americans were also fears. We don’t know the intentions of someone sitting shot and killed by a white man at a Kentucky Kroger. behind us, walking down the street or shopping in a groHe had attempted to do harm at an African American cery store. Hate is hate, and we have no way of knowing church, but when that failed, he went to the grocery what cracks of light might suddenly be filled with darkstore. Also in the news were the intercepted mail bombs ness. Most of us are not equipped to battle with evil, so sent to prominent Democrats. all we can do is light the world with the power of love, No one seems exempt from fear. Daylight Savings while protecting ourselves as best we can. It’s prudent to Time ended, extending the hours of physical darkness take precautions to ensure safety, but the rest is out of and increasing feelings of vulnerability and depression our domain. These may not be more violent times, just

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It’s time to change our view that a love-filled world is an immature, Pollyanna vision, and that war equals strength and power. Gandhi’s words, “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” have been paraphrased from the more complete quote: “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.

As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.”

The energy of Kislev was embodied at the recent memorial and healing services that took place at synagogues across our nation. Religious leaders of all faiths prayed in unity with us for peace. In these darkest of times, we need Kislev’s light of hope. We’ll also accept miracles.

Meditation Focus: What thoughts and actions of yours, even in small ways, fuel hatred and create separation? Stop them and run every thought and action through the filter of love and choose those that promote peace. ■

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