Atlanta Jewish Times, Vol. XCIII No. 42, October 26, 2018

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BOOK FESTIVAL PREVIEW PULLOUT

27th Book Festival of the MJCCA

20-PAGE SECTION, PAGES 17-36

NAZI HUNTER TO VISIT ATLANTA WORLD-RENOWNED HUNTER OF NAZIS, DR. EFRAIM ZUROFF, IS COMING TO ATLANTA NOV. 5 & 6 TO DISCUSS HIS EXPERIENCES. PAGE 5

AEPi JEWISH JACKETS RENOVATION GEORGIA TECH AEPi’S NEWLY PRISTINE FRAT HOUSE RIBBON CUTTING, MEZUZAH HANGING AND TAILGATE EVENT. PAGE 7

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INTOWN COUPLE RETAINS MID-CENTURY MODERN DESIGN IN OFFICE & HOME WITH SOUTH BEACH ROOTS. PAGES 37-39

Celebrate the 27th Book Festival of the MJCCA at a champagne & dessert reception hosted by the AJT, following the Ziv Koren & Izzy Ezagui talk on Nov. 4 at 3:30 p.m. sponsored by FIDF.

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Contributors This Week AL SHAMS ALLEN LIPIS ALISA HABER ANNA STREETMAN BOB BAHR CHANA SHAPIRO DAVE SCHECHTER IAN ROBBINS JAN JABEN-EILON JANICE CONVOY-HELLMANN LOGAN C. RITCHIE MARCIA CALLER JAFFE RABBI DAVID GEFFEN RACHEL FAYNE ROBYN SPIZMAN GERSON SUSANNE KATZ STAN SCHNITZER VICKI LEOPOLD

Reading Rainbow We are the people of the book. We study; we learn. We debate and analyze what’s contained in the pages of books.

So, this week, the staff and correspondents of the AJT set out to read over half of the volumes featured in the 27th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA. You will find our preview of those books contained within a 20-page pullout to guide you through the 2018 book festival from Oct. 30 to Nov. 18.

They span the reading rainbow from nonfiction to novel, tragedy to triumph, human rights to political justice. We include interviews with the authors and more traditional analysis.

But it’s not all about the books in Jewish Atlanta this week. We share how a Nazi hunter is coming to the city next month and how Georgia Tech’s AEPi, the only American fraternity with a decidedly Jewish mission, recently dedicated its newly rebuilt frat house. The ribbon cutting and open house, located in prime tailgate position directly across from Bobby Dodd Stadium, coincided with

Homecoming. While Georgia Tech lost that game, AEPi should have plenty of revelry at its renovated house in the future.

One person who is preparing for his next celebration is columnist Rabbi David Geffen, formerly of Atlanta. He shares words of wisdom from Israel as he approaches his 80th birthday next week.

We also feature some highlights from the Annual Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, held this past weekend.

Don’t miss the lowdown with philanthropist Billi Marcus, stylin' in pink for October Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as she is a proud survivor.

You won’t want to miss the new exhibit at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum showing the miraculous resilience of imprisoned teenage boys in the Terezin Ghetto who secretly produced 83 issues of an underground magazine. The publication included poetry, drawings, articles and interviews that gave them hope and purpose. The recovered collection is now a legacy to their creative activism. Also learn about

THIS WEEK the Atlanta Downtown Daffodil Dash, honoring 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust.

Plenty to read about in this week’s AJT. So, cuddle up with a good read from the Book Festival, or better yet, your weekly Atlanta Jewish Times. ■

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REFLECTIONS Atlanta to Jerusalem: 80 Years “Getting old is a fascinating I learned that overdoing thing; the older you get, the is wrong because you fail to older you want to get.” This fulfill other, more important advice I found in a book of obligations. At 80, I still need poetry and it made me realize to learn that lesson over and how my ancestors survived over again. A task fulfilled so long. They never gave patiently does enrich our life, up; on and on they traveled while one pushed and pushed along life’s highway. Only and pushed to fruition demonnow, approaching 80, have I strates how we do not weigh begun to understand what life Rabbi David personally and properly what challenges you excitingly face Geffen we are given to accomplish. as you add up the years and Took me a long time, but I want to add more. did learn that each day of our life is a great I entered life on the evening of Nov. 1, blessing.

1938, in a small Piedmont Hospital in AtlanWhat is a blessing? That word, which ta. I was a gift that day. Perhaps that is why we use so frequently, has numerous meanI continue to give gifts. My mother, Anna, ings. went into labor early on Nov. 1, but by late The writer, Thomas Mann, was very afternoon the labor stopped. My mother interested in the Biblical narratives. His said to the doctor, “I have to have this baby book, “Joseph and His Brothers,” is quoted now. Today is my husband Louis’ birthday, time and again by Dr. Nehama Leibowitz in and I have not been able to buy him a pres- her Biblical studies because of the insight ent. This baby has to be my gift.” So, it was. to the text he provides. I learned much Mark Twain treated us all when he from a modern Midrash he wrote on the wrote: “Age is an issue of mind over matter. second tablets Moses received on Mount If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” That Sinai. instruction is enlightening, but to reach G-d orders Moses to carve two tablets that stage you have to weave the bright from the surrounding rocks and then cut strands of life that you are constantly cre- into them the words of the Ten Commandating. How does one infuse life with daily ments. When Moses is finished, he realizes nutriments so that the basic material will that the letters cannot be read. He slashes be in your hands to use? his finger and covers the unseen words One of my English teachers in college, with his blood. Mann concludes that we Professor Floyd Watkins from Ball Ground, can only live a blessed life if our blood ilGa., inspired me when I thought that I luminates our outer being. would never understand poetry. “Every line Life is the flow of family that enhancof verse,” he said, “reflects that moment es us, raises us up and comforts us. I have when you recognize an aspect of life.” found in the 56 years Rita and I have been He looked me straight in the eye and married that we have always risen to the spoke to me in his deep Southern accent, needs of each other with love, care and by “David, the poetic words we are studying providing direction. Husband and wife repoint out that, in life, the benefactor is the lations are the building blocks of family, beneficiary.” A man of deep understanding, community and nation. he shared with me a bit of his homespun Our children, their spouses and our philosophy. “As we feed, we are fed. As we grandchildren are the generations to come, give, we receive. As we lift, we are raised. As when we are no longer here. They will carry we go out of ourselves into something big- our love and embrace our lives in their beger than ourselves, we become bigger in the ing. That is the future. Now, in these days, process, and we provide the most nourish- they watch over us and make sure our lives ing substance our craving hearts demand.” are as filled as possible. What a blessing!

During the days, months, years of my For me, the number 80 has almost beexistence, I tried to reach each peak to come real, a few days to come as I write this. which I believed that I could ascend. Was I My mind surveys all that has been mine, asking too much of myself? I don’t think so. all that has been enriching, but also all the Always I heard a little voice, “David, should mistakes I have made, but fortunately coryou rest content with only a personal hu- rected as best I could. David, your current man harvest?” Sometimes I have pushed pinnacle has been reached; understand it myself, probably much too much, but I in these poetic words. could not permit what I thought were my “Blooming under a cold moon, we are abilities to be lost. Yes, I have been labeled a like fireworks. Rising, shining and finally workaholic legitimately, and almost every scattering and fading. So, until that motime I succeeded in completing a task, it ment comes when we vanish like fireworks, prompted me to try to do more. let us sparkle brightly.” ■ 4 | OCTOBER 26, 2018 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

Famed Nazi Hunter To Visit Atlanta

By Rachel Fayne Perhaps one of the world’s most recognized Nazi hunters is coming to Atlanta Nov. 5-6 to discuss his latest book and findings. After all this time, Dr. Efraim Zuroff is still on the hunt. He shares with the AJT his accomplishments and challenges in the effort to bring Nazis to justice.

Although born in New York, Zuroff moved to Israel after obtaining a degree in history at Yeshiva University.

He went on to earn a master’s in Holocaust studies as well as a doctorate based on his chronicle of the United States’ response to the Holocaust through the lens of Orthodox Jewry. After landing a research job at Yad Vashem, his interests quickly turned to obsessions, and he was eventually invited to be the first director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

If you ask Dr. Zuroff though, perhaps there’s a more mystical component in his job selection. He was named for a family member who was murdered with his wife and two children at the hands of Nazis in Lithuania. The Nazi hunter would later visit the country for his most recent book to seek and eventually obtain justice for war criminals.

The book title is in Lithuanian, “Mūsiškiai; Kelionė Su Priešu,” which translates to Our People; Journey with an Enemy.

Among Zuroff’s greatest accomplishments was Operation Last Chance, a project developed in 2002 with Aryeh Rubin, founder of the Targum Shlishi Foundation.

The program offered financial rewards for information that would enable the conviction and punishment of Nazi war criminals. So far 14 countries are participating, revealing the names of more than 1,000 suspects.

The project also led to Operation: Last Chance II, which focuses on the capture of death camp guards and those who served in mobile killing units.

Zuroff attributes much of his success in bringing these Nazis to justice to the changing of Germany’s policy on the prosecution of these war criminals about 10 years ago. “Now you don’t have to prove that a person committed a specific crime against a specific person, and that’s been very helpful for us,” Zuroff said.

“Even if we find them, we can’t prosecute these people in America because it didn’t happen here. Two attorneys in Germany realized that since the death camps were made to kill, anyone who worked there should be prosecuted as an accessory to murder. Yes, these people are likely in their 90s, but many have been living well in Germany and Austria where the medical care is good, and there’s an increased life expectancy. They’re old, but they’re still out there.”

Although there has been much to celebrate in Zuroff’s work, he has also seen failure. Quite frustrating for Zuroff was the case of notorious sadist Aribert Heim, known as “Doctor Death.” Serving as a doctor in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Heim was infamous for his torturous and barbaric treatment of inmates. After five years working on the case, Zuroff learned that the judge had decided to disqualify all evidence gathered, and Heim was able to escape capture.

He lived for years in Egypt after the war, and later died there.

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many Holocaust crimes. His Doctor Death may have fourth book, Mūsiškiai; Kelionė slipped through his fingers, Su Priešu, was published in 2016 but Zuroff played a key role in and written with Lithuanian the capture and prosecution of author Rūta Vanagaitė. It had countless Nazi war criminals.

Zuroff and Vanagaitė travelling Take the exposure, arrest and through the country educating prosecution of Dinko Šakić the readers about many of their former commander of Croatian grandparents’ blatant compliciconcentration camp, Jasenoty. “Ninety percent of Lithuanian vac. Having lived more than 50 Jews were murdered in their years in Argentina after the war, homes, many by neighbors,” he Zuroff was instrumental in Sasaid. “My co-author discovered kic’s capture in 1999. He was givher own relatives’ history with en 20 years, the max sentence, their involvement and felt that and he eventually died in prison. she needed to atone. It was very “And there’s more. I’m finddifficult, and I’m maybe the ing more people all the time,” most hated Jew in Lithuania, but Zuroff said. “Just this week I the book needed to come out.” found a new trove of documents Dr. Efraim Zuroff Zuroff will discuss his book that demonstrate how Argentina was offering asylum to these criminals on the run. Even and his experience bringing Nazi war criminals to jusnext month, on Nov. 6, a now 94-year-old former SS tice at several events: Chabad Intown at 7:30 p.m. Monguard from the Stutthof concentration camp will face day, Nov. 5, and the Chabad of North Fulton at 7:30 p.m. a trial for complicity in the murders of several hundred Tuesday, Nov. 6.

He’s also making plans to speak at a Jewish high camp prisoners between 1942 and 1945. Twenty still living survivors, most living in Israel, were a great help in school in the area. “Speaking is important, but speaking his case.” to kids is vital,” he said. “I want to work to strengthen The subject of much of Zuroff’s latest work has Jewish identity and the diaspora around the country been Lithuania, examining Lithuanian complicity in any way I can.” ■

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Terezin Teens Fought Back with Underground Magazine

By Susanne Katz One of the largest attendances of any member exhibit at the William Breman Jewish Hertiage Museum was Oct. 15, highlighting a story of a magazine produced in the Holocaust by teenage boys.

“Vedem Underground: The Secret Magazine of the Terezin Ghetto (19421944),” sheds light on the lives of children of the transport camp, a stop on the way to the death camps.

One of them was Petr Ginz, sent to Terezin alone, while his family stayed behind. An artistic prodigy, he wrote a diary, five novels and stories before turning 14. He was also the creator, editor and driving force behind Vedem, a weekly underground magazine he and other teenage boys who were prisoners in the Nazi camp painstakingly produced.

“Vedem shows the world that we did fight back,” said Leo Lowy, a Vedem writer and one of the few Auschwitz survivors. The word vedem means “in the lead” in Czech, and the magazine was a symbol of protest, rebellion and creative activism.

The exhibition features pop-art graphics, prose and poetry, creating a contemporary version of a magazine unlike what we read today. The display celebrates the artistic and cultural legacy of the boys who ultimately produced 83 issues.

To paint the pictures and write the articles of Vedem, the boys smuggled in supplies from the offices at the ghetto.

They found an abandoned typewriter in an old office in the converted schoolhouse in which they lived and used it to produce their magazine. The boys created the issues in secret throughout the week on the wooden table in the middle of the bunkroom, or while sitting on their bunks. Each boy in the group contributed drawings, articles, poems, thoughts or interviews. They had nicknames to keep their identities from the Nazis. One boy would be on the lookout. If a guard approached, he gave a secret signal to warn the others, and the boys hid everything.

After 30 issues, the typewriter ran out of ink, so the boys wrote the next 53 issues by hand. They never gave up, no matter what obstacles they faced, and

Included in the exhibit are the eerie words of Vedem editor, Petr Ginz, "You probably think you know Terezin well. I want to prove you wrong."

Photos by Ivan Ivanov // At the

members’ preview and reception are Mark Spiegel, Susanne Katz and Robin Spiegel.

Photos, poetry and cartoons line the walls of the Breman.

leaned on each other for support and comfort. Each week, they created only one handmade issue because there were no resources to make copies.

Out of the 92 boys who passed through Home #1, the cellblock where the Vedem boys lived, only 15 survived the Holocaust. Ginz, the magazine creator, was not one of them. He died at 16 in Auschwitz.

Rina Taraseisky’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors. She curated the exhibition.

“It has been an honor to showcase the incredibly courageous and creative work by some of the youngest resistance fighters of the World War era,” she said.

“These teenage boys refused to give up their identity, their humanity and their fighting spirit.”

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co-producer, reiterated how the boys risked their lives to produce the magazine. “Vedem reflected the stark reality of life inside Terezin, but it was also an escape for them. They expressed their opinions with humor, cartoons and poetry. They could forget that they were in prison.”

The magazine collection included one copy each of 800 pages produced.

They were buried in a metal box and later retrieved by a Vedem writer who survived life in the ghetto.

“Vedem Underground: The Secret Magazine of the Terezin Ghetto (19421944)” will be on view at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, through March 10, 2019. ■ Susanne Katz is director of exhibitions at the Breman Museum.

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Jewish Jackets Revel in AEPi Renovation

By Marcia Caller Jaffe Georgia Tech Homecoming wasn’t just about winning football this year for Alpha Epsilon Pi. Hours before the Oct. 13 game against Duke University, the Zeta chapter of Tech’s AEPi celebrated the dedication of its newly rebuilt fraternity house at 714 Techwood Drive with a ribbon cutting, open house, mezuzah hanging and tailgate.

About 300 students and alumni showed off the pristine and functional 12,500-square-foot frat house, which is positioned in a prime spot directly in front of Bobby Dodd Stadium.

In 1920, the Zeta chapter of AEPi became the sixth in the U.S. AEPi is the only fraternity based on Jewish values with a decidedly Jewish mission: to develop future leaders of the world’s Jewish

communities. It was certainly touching to see the mezuzahs on each and every bedroom door.

Local architect and AEPi alum and chapter president Warren Epstein (Class of ’56) was the genius behind the redesign. “The house was in a state of deterioration after a fire and just years of being ‘worn out.’ Talk of renovation began in 2010; but things got more serious in 2016 with a new group of younger alumni. The style concept went from traditional to contemporary. There was a formal interview selection process along with a few other competitive architecture firms,” Epstein said.

“The highlights of the new building are an open dining/meeting area for 80, sleeping accommodations for 40, a suite for the resident advisor, an upstairs ‘founders’ meeting room, and total com-

The AEPi house was designed locally

by Warren Epstein & Associates, Architects, Inc. It sleeps 40 with dining and meeting space for 80 and has ADA-approved handicapped access.

pliance with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) for handicapped use.”

Alumni, dressed in traditional Tech gold, down to the socks, were proud to leave this mark on future generations.

About 220 donors supported the renovation, raising more than $2 million. “My brother, Steve Caller (‘63), a former presi-

dent, flew in from Lexington, Ky., and was active in helping the project come to fruition. He declared, `We old Jackets still have our sting!’”

Despite the positive energy at the ribbon cutting and open house, it was a heartbreaker for Georgia Tech football.

The Yellow Jackets lost to Duke 28-14. ■

The prime location of the AEPi Tech house is a stone’s throw from Bobby Dodd Stadium.

Photo taken from the back patio.

Proud alumni, from left: Richard Krebs (’68), Lenny Rothman (’64), former chapter adviser, and former chapter president Steve Caller (’63).

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Women Stand with FIDF

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

Women, soldiers and vino were the focus of a women’s speaker reception and wine tasting Oct. 15 sponsored by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

“We’re excited to have a room full of women who care passionately about Israel and support the work of FIDF,” said Tracie Bernstein, FIDF Southeast director of development.

FIDF provides for the needs of soldiers, including financial relief, ongoing education, scholarships, construction of exercise and cultural centers, and support of lone soldiers, fallen and wounded and their families.

Karen Shulman, who hosted the event, welcomed the crowd. “I’m honored to host this group of women who are supporting the well-being of IDF soldiers. As mothers, sending a child off to serve really resonates with us.”

The evening started in shades of pink when Samara Kaufman Waldman, sommelier of Cinagro Wine Experience who previously served in the IDF, featured seven varieties of rosé. From sparkling wine to pinot noir, from California to Israel, Waldman explained that white

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A trio of speakers mesmerized the attendees. From left, Brig. Gen. Gila KlifiAmir, Navy IDF Lt. Noa Laks and Inbal Arieli, CEO of Synthesis and senior adviser to StartUp Nation Central.

Karen Shulman (right), who hosted the event at her home, poses with Alana Sonnenshine.

Women passionate about Israel and those serving in the IDF flank uniformed IDF Navy Lt. Noa Laks

grapes can make red wine and that a Tasmanian can taste like an expensive bottle of French Champagne.

In attendance were Seth Baron, executive director of the FIDF Southeast region, and Garry Sobel, national FIDF board member. Sobel said that 31 lone soldiers from Atlanta are currently in the IDF. Leigh Baron Olstein and Sara Meyers were recognized for their sons who are now serving. Both boys were students of Atlanta’s Jewish day schools.

Three speakers headlined the pro-

gram. The first was IDF Navy Lt. Noa Laks, who came from an Israeli Navy family. Laks shared stories about her service with an all-male team in which, as a safety measure, she was required to hide her ponytail when confronting combatants. She spoke of going out to sea on underwater missions in freezing conditions. She sadly told of the death of her boyfriend at 18. On a brighter note, she enjoys using her base’s spin room built by the FIDF. Keynote Inbal Arieli, CEO of Synthe-

sis and senior adviser to Start-Up Nation Central, was named among the 100 most influential people in Israeli hi-tech, and one of the top 100 women hi-tech speakers in the world.

Arieli served in the elite IDF Unit 8200, the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Using lessons of her service, Arieli consults with major corporations such as The Coca-Cola Co. on how businesses can develop leadership that is agile, creative and effective.

She identified IDF policies of seeking “disruptive” ideas, empowering soldiers to make self-informed decisions, encouraging team communication and complex problem-solving as keys to success.

The evening’s final speaker was Brig.

Gen. Gila Klifi-Amir. She will lead an FIDF women’s mission to Israel in March 2019. Klifi-Amir served in the IDF for 30 years, remains in the IDF Reserves, and continues to advise the Israeli government on women’s engagement in the IDF. She noted that while 33 percent of the IDF is female, 51 percent of the officers are women. Klifi-Amir shared a video of female IDF heroes who confronted/eradicated terrorists and one who lost her life protecting others. ■ For more information about FIDF, contact Tracie Bernstein, 678-250-9027.

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Brisketeers were grand champions among the 20 teams.

The nightgown-clad, gray-wigged bubbes of team Bubbe-Q received the fan favorite, and best name votes by attendees. They were also the big winner as the primary beneficiary of the event.

The Sandy Springs fire and police departments made their debuts, as two of four first-responder teams in the competition this year.

Smokin’ Good Time for 3,500 at Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival

By Stan Schnitzer There were winners all around as a perfect fall day and a new venue brought out 3,500 fans of kosher barbeque for the 6th Annual Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival and Competition Sunday at the new City Springs in downtown Sandy Springs.

The Brisketeers of Lodge Carmel, Hebrew Order of David, were grand champions among the 20 teams that spent the previous night smoking brisket, ribs and chicken and cooking chili. We Don’t Give a Ham and Limp Brisket/Griller’s Pride took second and third, respectively, in the overall competition.

“The win for the Brisketeers was very special, and we feel honored to have participated in such a worthy philanthropic event,” said team captain Charles Goldberg. “Our primary goal for participating has always been to raise money

for several amazing charities in Atlanta and to bring Atlanta’s Jewish community together.”

First place winners in the food categories were: • SS PD Blue Smoke for brisket • Limp Brisket/Griller’s Pride for ribs • We Don’t Give a Ham for chicken • Sons of BBQ for chili BBQ’N Hebrew Hillbillies won the celebrity judges’ vote for the best booth, and Bubbe-Q from the Jewish Educational Loan Fund won the best name vote.

The nightgown-clad, gray-wigged bubbes were also voted fan favorites by attendees.

Keith Marks of Keith’s Corner Bar-BQue, a founder of the AKBF, was presented with the Enoch Goodfriend Mensch of Meat Award for his continued outstanding support of the event. The presentation was by Avi Goodfriend, Enoch’s son

and a big supporter of Maccabi Games.

JELF was the big winner as the primary beneficiary of the event, given by the Atlanta lodges of the Hebrew Order of David International with the Atlanta Jewish Times as the presenting sponsor.

Other beneficiaries will be the charities chosen by each of the four lodges, Carmel, Bezalel, Magen David and Shimshon.

“The festival was everything we hoped it would be,” said Jody Pollack, festival executive director. “The teams faced cold, windy conditions while working all night, but the day was beautiful.

Every item in our silent auction sold, and attendees told me they loved the venue and the food. It raised our game a notch, and we hope this was the start of a long

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Pollack was especially heartened by having four first-responder teams in the competition this year. The Sandy Springs fire and police department teams made their debuts, while the Cobb County Police Department and Dekalb County Fire & Rescue returned from last year. ■

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Field Woos with Emotion and Sincerity

By Marcia Caller Jaffe

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Sally Field appeared Sunday evening before more than 1,250 – nearly a packed house – at the Prologue to the Book Festival of the MJCCA to talk about her autobiography, “In Pieces.” The book takes readers behind the scenes of her Hollywood career and private life.

The author’s talk was under the umbrella of the Sharon V. Fagin Joy of Reading Program and in conversation with Melissa Long, former news reporter for WXIA-TV. On a whirlwind media tour, Field has appeared on most of the “hot button” talk shows since her book’s release coincided with two major news events: the death of her paramour Burt Reynolds and the #MeToo movement. Field’s charm and sincerity were front and center in the book that took seven years to write. It is an autobiographical backdrop of her life, hinting at the abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather.

Three events prompted her to move forward with the book: her mother’s illness; her role in the movie, “Lincoln,” for which she had to fight; and undergoing psychotherapy. Her advice is to unravel the threads of the past so we can move forward, and put ourselves on the line, when needed.

Field was generous with her time as she established an intimacy with the audience. When asked why she expends such energy to promote the book, she said, “I

cannot see your face in the audience, but with this conversation, I no longer feel alone.”

When asked about Reynolds being described unflatteringly in the book, she said, “I portrayed him as colorful and human. …

In a way I’m glad he’s not here to read it.”

Audience members asked stimulating questions ranging from the time she spent in Alabama filming "Norma Rae”, what books she herself enjoyed reading, and how her role in “Brothers and Sisters” helped her deal with the homosexuality of her son, Sam. Field left us with her favorite quote: “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” (George Eliot) ■

Sponsor Linda Rosh mingled with Sally Field during the patron reception prior to the evening’s presentation.

Dr. Mike Levine and Esther Levine enjoy the Patrons Dinner. Esther serves on the Book Festival committee that matches interviewers with speakers.

Photo by Brenda Gelfand // Actress Sally Field

on stage at the Book Festival of the MJCCA.

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BUSINESS

ORT America Rebrands Itself ORT America, the leading fundraising organization for World ORT, is launching a major rebrand. Recognized for more than a century of achievement in Jewish education and vocational training, ORT’s scope of work has evolved over time, expanding to include innovative programs and instruction in science, technology, engineering and math, and empowering students with translatable knowledge and transferrable skills that meet the demands of the 21st-century job market, ORT America said in a release.

“Through its global educational network, schools, colleges, and international programs, ORT’s work is advancing to meet the changing needs of students from around the world – it is time our brand reflects that significant evolution,” said ORT America CEO Jeffrey Cooper. “We are delighted to launch an innovative brand that captures the essence of our mission: Reaching underserved students by bridging the gap between aptitude and opportunity, as we work to expand knowledge, build autonomy, and strengthen Jewish identity.”

ORT America recognizes that at the heart of a sustainable future lies its ability to empower a new generation with increased access to quality education, the statement continued. A newly-designed logo emphasizes interconnectivity. The symbolism of the two-toned letter O conveys the concept that education connects generations before with generations to come; students, schools, and educators across the globe; communities near and far; and learning opportunities in the present with prosperity in the future.

ORT America’s tagline – impact through education – mirrors an ongoing commitment to provide disadvantaged students from these communities with the tools they need to forge a brighter future. When students from underserved communities have access to high-quality education rooted in Jewish values, they are better-positioned to enter the job market with marketable skills, become leaders in their own right, and invest back into their communities, ORT America reported.

“We are driven by our passion for Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) as we lift each other up and elevate those around us to expand opportunity and build a brighter future.

As an organization, we are only one-half of the equation. The support of our donors and partners makes our work possible,” said ORT America National President Larry Kadis.

“Together we are breaking ground and breaking through. ORT’s groundbreaking global network of schools and programs pave the path for the technological breakthroughs of tomorrow and the strong Jewish communities of the future.” ■

Inaugural Classes of Flatiron School for Coding Start The first classes of the new Flatiron School, co-founded by Avi Flombaum, started last month, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The New York-based computer coding bootcamp set up shop in August in Atlanta’s Colony Square.

The school is the first Atlanta or Southeastern location and the fifth outside of Manhattan. It also operates in Brooklyn, Houston, Washington, D.C., and London, the Business Chronicle reported. Before the Flatiron School built its campus here, Atlanta students took online classes.

The Flatiron School partnered with Atlanta-based Opportunity Hub to offer annual scholarships of $1 million for students of color across the country.

“Atlanta hosts a budding tech community with a variety of businesses, from thriving startups like Calendly and MailChimp to established companies like Coca-Cola and Delta,” CEO Adam Enbar told the Business Chronicle. ■ ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES OCTOBER 26, 2018 | 11

ISRAEL PRIDE Today in Israeli History Crossing between Eilat and Aqaba. It is Israel’s second such treaty with an Arab neighbor.

Oct. 27, 1978: Forty-one days after signing the Camp David Accords, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat are announced as the winners of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.

Photo by Saar Yaacov, Government Press Office

Attending the signing ceremony for the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty Oct. 26, 1994, are (from left) Jordanian Prime Minister Abdul Salam Majali, Israeli President Ezer Weizman, Jordanian Crown Prince Hassan and King Hussein, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Oct. 26, 1994: More than 4,500 people, including President Bill Clinton, witness Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordanian King Hussein sign a peace treaty at the Wadi Araba Border

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Oct. 28, 1910: A group known as the Hadera Commune arrives at Umm Juni on the banks of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) and forms the first kibbutz, Degania Alef, on land leased from the Jewish National Fund and the head of the Zionist Organization office in Palestine, Arthur Ruppin.

Oct. 29, 1973: After the Yom Kippur War, despite several miscommunications, the first talks between Israeli and Egyptian generals take place at 1 a.m. in Israeli-controlled territory 101 kilometers (63 miles) east of Cairo. The talks last

more than three weeks and go beyond such military matters as the exchange of POWs to address political issues.

Oct. 30, 1991: The Soviet Union and the United States convene a Middle East peace conference in Madrid that uses a two-track approach of bilateral and multilateral talks. The three-day conference includes all Arab states contiguous to Israel, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. It is the first time that Israeli and PLO negotiators come together.

Oct. 31, 1917: The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade surprises the Turkish defenders and captures Beersheba in a single day, breaking the Ottoman defensive line near Gaza and providing the advancing troops under British Gen. Edmund Allenby with needed supplies and water from Beersheba’s wells.

Nov. 1, 1965: In elections for the sixth Knesset, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol retains his office as the Alignment, a leftleaning merger of Eshkol’s Mapai and Ahdut Ha’Avoda, wins 45 of the 120 seats.

Rafi, a Mapai breakaway founded by former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, gains 10 seats. ■

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News From Our Jewish Home

Cybersecurity Company Named Top 10 in China Conference

First Leaf-Targeted Hybrid Fungicide

ITsMine, an Israeli cybersecurity company focused on protecting organizational data, was named the top 10 most innovative cybersecurity startup at China’s Internet Security Conference last month. ITsMine, the only company selected outside of Asia, was recognized for its new approach to data protection and providing what is believed to be the first fully automated DLP solution.

“China’s cybersecurity market is growing very fast – more than 30 percent in 2017. This growth has led to an increase of investments in R&D by large companies, as well as increased investments in startups. It is a great honor to participate in the largest cyber event in Asia, and to be chosen for this prestigious award,” said ITsMine CEO Kfir Kimhi.

ITsMine is part of the OurCrowd Labs/02, Jerusalem’s seed stage incubator that focuses on cutting-edge technology that will shape the future in innovative areas, including AI, deep learning, autonomous transportation and smart cities.

ITsMine’s participation in the ISC conference is part of an increasing interest by key Chinese companies in ITsMine’s technology and Israeli cybersecurity companies overall.

Israeli biotech STK has developed REGEV, believed to be the world’s first leaf-targeted “hybrid” fungicide. It combines tea tree oil and difenoconazole to give a low chemical residue. REGEV is used in 10 countries and has recently been registered for use in Argentina, initially for peanut crops. In the future, the fungicide could be used on potatoes, wine grapes, tomatoes, peppers, blueberries and tobacco, the company in Petach Tikva reported last month.

STK is a leader in bio-ag technologies for sustainable crop protection and aquaculture.

REGEV protects from and heals a variety of diseases, including Cercospora arachidicola (early leaf spot), Cercosporidium personatum (late leaf spot) for peanuts, powdery mildew, rust, Alternaria and Botrytis for other crops.

The product is successful in 10 countries in various regions of the world, with plans for global expansion next year.

The ready-to-use fungicide allows farmers to expand the use of biological products for sustainable agriculture with all the benefits of lower chemical load, reduced chemical residues and having a new tool for resistance management. ■

ISRAEL NEWS Rivlin Calls for Stronger Israel-World Jewry Partnership Israel President Reuven “Ruvi” Rivlin spoke Monday at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America at the Ganei Hata’arucha exhibition grounds in Tel Aviv. More than 1,200 members of Jewish federations from across North America participated in the conference Oct. 22-24.

JFNA represents 147 Jewish federations and more than 300 network communities, which raise and distribute more than $2 billion annually, and through planned giving and endowment programs, support social welfare, social services and educational needs.

Rivlin opened his remarks by welcoming the conference participants: “Good morning to all of you, my friends.

It has been a year since we last met in Los Angeles. Last year, I traveled 8,000 miles to see you; this year it is less than an hour away. The fact that the GA is hosted in Israel every five years is not to be taken for granted. I want to thank the heads of the JFNA for this important statement.

“The title of this GA is ‘We Need to Talk,’ and I cannot agree more. We need to talk, we have to talk, and we need to listen. We are not ‘strategic allies'; we are family. We do not have ‘shared interests’; we have a shared fate, a shared history, and a shared future – a very bright one.

It may not be easy to have a truly honest conversation, but this is, I believe, what needs to happen,” Rivlin continued.

“Just a week ago, in the opening session of the Knesset, I said that our biggest threat is our inner war. I said that victory in the battle between us means losing the war of existence. This is true for Israeli society, and this is true for the Jewish people. We must establish the importance of our relationship as a value that is above debate.

“We cannot escape from returning to the table and re-discussing our disputes. It is our shared responsibility for our children, for the future of the Jewish people. The Blaustein-Ben Gurion agreement of 1950 defined the relationship between Israel and American Jewry. This document cleverly captured the delicate balance between deep mutual responsibility and non-interference. We must cherish this principle out of respect to our peoplehood on the one hand, and to our two democracies on the other. On the same note, it is time to update or formulate a new Blaustein-Ben Gurion agreement, an agreement that meets the current realities and challenges.”

The president said he believes young Israelis should get to know their counterparts around the world. “Dear friends, we

Photo by Mark Neiman (Israel’s Government Press Office) //

President Ruvi Rivlin speaking at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America.

need to create wider circles of awareness here in Israel. For many young Israeli Jews, being a Jew means being Israeli.

We must increase their exposure to your schools, camps and communities. They need to realize and feel that they have a family, a family they must take into account.

“I support the idea of creating a ‘Reverse Taglit’ [Birthright Israel] trip for young Israelis to get to know Jewish communities worldwide. Many such delegations targeted for Israeli opinion leaders are already making a change. My staff at the President’s Residence, together with the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, is developing an active community for graduates of these delegations in order to increase their impact, and to start exploring finding out the important things we can do together – Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.

“Dear friends, we must take upon ourselves joint new missions in order to inspire our relationship. I have been promoting cooperation between the State of Israel and the Jewish people in investing in and creating partnerships in the developing world. The Zionist vision has always strived for Israel to be an essential and inspiring member in the family of nations, rooted in the Jewish notion of ‘Tikkun Olam,’” Rivlin said.

He talked about his goals for Israel in the international arena. “I returned from Ethiopia a few months ago. I was accompanied by a delegation that included senior public figures, businesspeople, academics, doctors and representatives of civil society. For the first time, significant members of the Jewish world took part in the delegation of the president of Israel. We were joined by the chief rabbi of Great Britain, and leaders of large Jewish organizations from around the world.

Together, we deepened our partnership with Ethiopia in promoting development goals.

“I think the time is ripe for a joint

Jewish fund, supporting innovations that promote development goals. We do good, but we can do much better together,” he said.

“Dear friends, in our Declaration of Independence the core identity of the State of Israel was defined as a democratic Jewish state. The declaration says that the State of Israel will be based on the values of liberty, justice and peace, and will ensure total equality for all its citizens. Let us not forget: this declaration was not written when we had safely

returned to our homeland. On the contrary, we committed to these values on the eve of the War of Independence; at a time when we did not know whether the State of Israel would survive. But, even then, in the shadow of catastrophe, we were proud and confident, and we saw in those values the compass that guides us and will guide us in the only democratic Jewish state. Then, as today, we will never compromise, neither on our values nor on the security of our citizens.”

Concluding his remarks, Rivlin said, “In this divided world, I believe that Israel can shine as an example of partnership built on diversity. This is what ‘Israeli Hope’ is about: establishing partnership between the four tribes, ensuring that Israel will continue to thrive as a Jewish Democratic State. We, in Israel, together with you, my dear friends – the fifth tribe – must all work together, as one tribe. I thank you for your great efforts to bring Israeli hope to every child in Israel, to ensure the bright future of our Jewish state.

Thank you all.” ■ Source: Israel’s Government Press Office.

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OPINION Letter to the editor: Medical Marijuana published Oct. 19 In the recent Health and Wellness issue of the AJT, there were articles about medical marijuana, claiming it is beneficial for a wide variety of medical conditions. While there may be a limited amount of scientific study to support the benefits in adults, there is no research demonstrating safety and effectiveness in children other than recent approval of a marijuana component for treatment of seizures in children with specific, rare seizure syndromes. Unfortunately, current Georgia law allows parents to give their children CBD [cannabidiol] oil, a component of marijuana, for a variety of conditions, including autism.

To clarify, pediatricians do not prescribe CBD oil. They do not tell parents how much to give to their child nor how to measure effectiveness or safety. The sole role for the pediatrician is to certify that the child has one of the diagnoses that permits the parents to legally possess CBD oil. Parents cannot legally purchase CBD oil in Georgia, and they cannot purchase it elsewhere and legally bring it into the state.

More importantly, there have been no clinical studies on CBD oil to guide dosing. There is no research to guide parents in evaluating if CBD oil is helping their child and monitoring for side effects. There have been no studies that have evaluated the safety of giving CBD oil along with other medications typically used to treat these qualifying conditions. Since there is no oversight or quality control in the production of CBD oil, parents do not know if the medication they are giving their child actually contains the amount of CBD claimed on the label or if there are other unidentified active ingredients. In short, Georgia law allows parents to experiment on their children in an uncontrolled, unregulated and unmonitored manner.

The American Academy of Pediatrics opposes the use of medical marijuana in children outside of the FDA approval process. As a pediatrician, I support that position and encourage parents to delay giving their child medical marijuana until there is a scientific study to answer these questions about dosing, safety and effectiveness.

Dr. Robert Wiskind, Atlanta

Letter to editor: Medical Marijuana published Oct. 19

The article on medical marijuana in last week’s AJT should best be labeled as advertisement. Just like the snake oil salesmen of the 19th

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century, marijuana is offered as the panacea for everything from Alzheimer’s disease to static cling. While snake oil rarely did harm, the situation is different for marijuana.

Thirty years ago, physicians were advised that people could not get addicted to opiates if used for real pain.

This philosophy, not backed by research, but backed by manufacturers of opiates, caused the current opiate epidemic, which has hit the Atlanta community hard. Of interest, Atlanta is known for the heroin triangle in its affluent northern suburbs, and many of the students who died of opiate over-

doses started on marijuana. Second, the marijuana available today is not your parent’s marijuana. It is up to 20 percent THC [tetrahydrocannabinol], as opposed to the 3 to 5 percent THC of marijuana of the 20th century.

Even the most passionate advocate of marijuana notes that marijuana can exacerbate anxiety and bring on schizophrenia in teenagers who may have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia. There are very few safeguards to make sure that medical marijuana is kept out of reach of children, and medical marijuana is often the initial source of marijuana

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for teenagers. Even magazines such as High Times have noted an increase in daily marijuana use, and reputable studies have shown that exposure to marijuana in teenage years results in permanent IQ loss. While forces with economic interests in medical and recreational marijuana continue to push their drugs for profit, the American public should be aware that they are the subjects of a large study that they have not consented to, just like the opiate experiment of the 1980s. As it is said in Latin, “caveat emptor” – let the buyer beware.

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27TH BOOK FESTIVAL OF THE MJCCA PREVIEW A Tome for Every Taste: From Art and Photos to Cooks and Cookies

By Roni Robbins Considering the titles and subjects featured at the 27th edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA Oct. 30-Nov. 18, there’s a tome for every taste: Holocaust and Israel, politics and philanthropy, history and mystery, women’s rights and fights for life, medical breakthroughs and a celebrity who’s who. To top it all off: What would a Jewish festival be without food?

First, let’s find out what’s new at the Book Festival this year from Festival Director Pam Morton.

Artists: Maira Kalman, who, with her son, Alex, created “Sara Berman’s Closet” (Nov.12). The program will feature a film screening of the book by The New Yorker.

“I’ve been collecting her books since the ‘80s,” Morton said. “They have a Chagall aesthetic.”

The Kalmans will be “In Conversation” with Virginia Shearer, director of education at the High Museum of Art, a new relationship for the Book Festival, Morton said.

“People enjoy ‘In Conversation.’ It’s like listening into a conversation two people are having in a living room. It’s a little more interesting than having someone lecture.”

Author Families: The Kalmans aren’t the only family-duo author teams at the festival this year. In addition to former Senator Joe Lieberman and his son, Matt, on Nov. 3, there are two motherdaughter teams Nov. 8, both supporting nonprofits: Sally Mundell, “Packaging Good,” and Ruby Mundell, “Kindness Come In,” and Susan and Laura Stachler, “The Cookie Cure.”

Books, Cooks & Cookies: Coffee and the Stachlers’ Susansnaps gourmet cookies will be served following the motherdaughter author presentations.

Talking about coffee and cookies, there’s Michael Coles’ “Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life.” The co-founder of the Great American Cookie Company and former CEO of Caribou Coffee will be “In Conversation” with Catherine Lewis, a history professor at Kennesaw State University, on Nov. 15.

Lewis co-authored the book with Coles.

Food paired with books typically draw a crowd, Morton said. This is expected to be the case when Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook team up with the MJCCA’s caterer, A Kosher Touch, to feature some of their “Israeli Soul” recipes Nov. 16.

recounts his adventures as a one-armed Special Forces sharpshooter in “Disarmed.”

Celebs: Of course, the big draw of the two-week festival is the superstars: Tom Hanks with his first work of fiction, “Uncommon Type: Some Stories,” Oct. 30, and Sally Field, who spoke during the Prologue to the Book Festival Sunday about her first book, the autobiographical “In Pieces.”

Two other celebrities bookend the festival lineup: Mitch Albom, formerly of ESPN, kicked off the Festival Oct. 13 with “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven,” a sequel to his best-selling “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” And closing night is Peter Sagal of NPR with “The Incomplete Book of Running.”

You can learn more about the books and authors of the Book Festival in these pages. Read on! ■

Photographers: William Coupon, a portrait photographer who has 20 Time magazine covers and has “shot” most presidents and plenty of other celebrities (“Portraits,” Nov. 6) and Ziv Koren, an Israel Defense Forces photojournalist, (“Snapshot,” Nov. 4). Their photos will be on display in the MJCCA’s Main Street Gallery. “It’s exciting to dive into that genre,” Morton said.

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What to Expect from Book Festival Co-Chairs

By Bob Bahr The annual Book Festival of the MJCCA kicks into high gear next week after a soft opening with the Prologue to the festival that began Oct. 13. But planning for the two-week event for one of the nation’s largest Jewish book festivals, now in its 27th year, began in January and ramps up in the spring. More than 13,000 attendees are expected for the event that features 45 books and authors.

The co-chairs of this year’s festival are Bea Grossman and Susie Hyman, both longtime participants in the various committees that help plan the event each November. Pam Morton is the MJCCA’s festival director. There are more than 200 volunteers. We asked the co-chairs and director to explain the selection process and what attendees can expect at the festival.

promote Jewish authors or authors with books that have Jewish content.

This year I think about 15 people from Atlanta went to New York. We see maybe 250 authors over a three-day period. It’s like speed dating. Each author has only two minutes to talk about their book. There’s also a reception where we can have the opportunity to meet with the authors one-on-one. We narrow down a list of books and bring it back to our author selection committee.

The second way we find books is through local authors who contact us directly or through our author submission form.

And then the third way is that Pam Morton has many established relationships with publishing houses and publicists, and that’s where we get many of our keynote speakers.

AJT: How do you find the books you select?

Grossman: The first way we find books is through the Jewish Book Council Network, which is in New York City every May. That’s an organization that helps

AJT: When you’re discussing a book here in Atlanta, what are the questions you ask yourself?

Grossman: We want to make sure we’re appealing to a wide range of readers and interests. That is foremost in our

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mind, trying to make sure how well we can serve our community.

And so much of it is a committee decision too. Yes, we all have, you know, our personal preferences, but in general, I’m going to fight for what’s going to make great programming and a great lineup.

There are people in New York where we’ve heard them Book Festival Co-chairs Bea Grossman and Susie Hyman. speak for two minutes and AJT: So, let me ask, what’s ahead? they’ve been captivating with a fascinating subject, so, we say, let’s see if we can Anything you can share with me about work this into the schedule. In general, the year to come?

Morton: We’re doing a huge bestI try to have a diverse schedule where selling novelist named Elinor Lipman there’s something for everybody. and her book “Good Riddance” on Feb. 13.

AJT: Susie, are you more of fiction or She’ll be in conversation with Emily Gibnonfiction person personally? son, who’s also a New York Times bestHyman: Well, I would say in the past selling novelist who lives here in Atlanta. that I was more of a fiction reader. But We’re also doing two other novelI have to say from going to these events ists in February that are very popular you learn so much from programming with our book clubs, Alyson Richman non-fiction. For instance, Eli Saslow, who and Pam Jenoff. So, they’re going to have was just here recently. He wrote “Ris- a book club night. And we’ve got a lot of ing Out of Hatred” about a person who irons in the fire that we’re still kind of changes after being a white supremacist. ironing out.

He’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning jourHyman: From going to the book fesnalist from The Washington Post who is tival I’ve gotten to know more of these an outstanding speaker. He was just fas- authors. Alyson Richman and Pam Jencinating. The entire audience was eating off are two of the ones that I didn’t know out of the palm of his hand because he before. I learned about them through the was so knowledgeable and personable. book festival and now I really enjoy readI’m always so giddy when I come away ing their books. So, the book festival gives from our programs because of so much you a way to develop an interest in new you are able to learn and hear about. authors.

AJT: How important is the author’s way of speaking, that way of presenting themselves to keep an audience listening?

Grossman: We take that into consideration. Yet we also have fabulous interviewers for many of our authors. We’ve learned over the years that having that one-on-one conversation brings the audience in and hopefully can eliminate that challenge.

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AJT: I suppose people will get a chance to have their books signed at the festival and have a word or two with the author?

Morton: Tom Hanks and Sally Field will be pre-signing books, but I think absolutely all the other authors are doing signings, and we’ve had many celebrities who have done signings in the past.

Alan Alda has signed for everyone and so have Larry King and Regis Philbin. Jon Meacham this time around will be signing as well as Peter Sagal, Mike Luckovich and Joe Lieberman, among others.

AJT: The book festival is really becoming more of a year-around event, isn’t it?

Morton: Oh, absolutely. I think we did maybe 15 events outside of the festival last year. Our goal is to try to do something once a month. We always try to do kind of a blockbuster, fun summer event that’s our patron kick-off for the next season.

This past year was Emily Gibson.

We’re in conversation now with Jennifer Weiner with her new book. Yes, we really do love to do these year-round events. It just has to be the right program. There’s a lot of things that go on in our community. So, we’re, I think, a little more selective about what we program on our Page From The Book Festival events.

Grossman: There are a lot of great opportunities when authors are on tour and books are being published that are not in November. It’s incredible. It used to be mostly in November and now it has turned into a year-round program and we volunteer year-round. ■

BOOK FESTIVAL

Shooting from The Front Lines

By Roni Robbins Ziv Koren never expected to become a professional photographer when he signed up to serve in the Israel Defense Forces in his youth. Injured in a motorcycle accident in the 12th grade, he couldn’t be a combat soldier. So, using skills he learned while studying art in high school, he signed up as a military photographer.

More than 26 years later, his photos have graced the covers and filled the pages of major Israeli, American and European magazines and newspapers; he’s held about 120 exhibitions; won 30 major awards; and published 18 books of photography.

He will talk about his latest, “Snapshot: The IDF as Never Seen Before” at the Book Festival 3:30 p.m. Nov. 4, in conversation with AJT Owner and Publisher Michael Morris, who is also past president of the Friends of the IDF. Photos from Koren’s book, offering a rare close-up of the inner workings of the IDF and other elite security forces, also are on display on the walls of the MJCCA’s Katz Family Main Street Gallery.

We caught up with Koren while he was leading his latest photo workshops and capturing images in Ghana and Benin in West Africa.

Here’s what he had to say about being Israel’s premier photojournalist with exclusive security clearance to some of IDF’s most perilous missions.

AJT: Just how dangerous is it shooting at the front lines – with a camera?

Koren: Obviously, when you shoot conflict it’s a dangerous situation, as much as for the soldiers who are standing next to you. If you want the photograph, it takes some guts. There have been more than a few times I’ve been in real danger.

I’ve been shot at and bombarded so many times: with the military during the Lebanon War, in Gaza, during night raids and arrests of suspects.

"Brotherhood: The Israel Defense Forces — A Look From Within" by Koren, published in 2009

ing a book is different than shooting for a newspaper or magazine. I showed the IDF from a different, interesting perspective.

Photo by Ziv Koren of IDF soldiers rappelling down a building.

AJT: Did it help that it was also the 70th anniversary of the state of Israel?

Koren: This was an incentive and why me and Yoav Limor [a veteran Israeli military affairs journalist] made the decision to do the book this year. The Hebrew came out on Israel Independence Day in May, and the English version, two months ago.

AJT: Who do you have access and authority to photograph?

Koren: For the last 10 years, I’ve had exclusivity to the most elite units in the IDF and police … Shayetet 13, which is equivalent to the Navy SEALs.

Israeli photographer, Ziv Koren, will speak about his latest book, "Snapshot" (right).

AJT: Is it worth it to risk your life for the photo?

Koren: There’s nothing glorious about being in a dangerous situation. I understand the necessity of telling the story through media, to show what’s really going on in the field. In 2014, I was the only photographer in Gaza [documenting] the underground tunnels of Hamas.

I want to show what Israel is confronted with … to balance the images coming out of the other side, to show that Israel is in a bad war.”

I started about 15 years ago with special events, small exclusivity here and there. You get to be very trusted. Shoot-

AJT: Do you have a favorite photo in the book?

Koren: I don’t have a favorite photo.

I always hope my best photo is the one I will shoot tomorrow. ■

AJT: Do you have any weapons to protect yourself, just in case?

Koren: Guns? No! That’s the IDF mission. I document. I carry everything I need to tell the story. Two [camera] bodies, four lenses, batteries …

AJT: How did you get this exclusive clearance?

Koren: It was kind of natural. Some things take time. I think I proved myself.

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BOOK FESTIVAL

Sequel Delivers Heartbreaking Message to Value Life

By Anna Streetman Fifteen years ago, Mitch Albom captivated the world with the tale of Eddie, a maintenance man working at Ruby Pier amusement park who believed he had done nothing extraordinary with his life.

One day, he dies saving the life of Annie, a young girl, during a ride malfunction. After he dies, he meets five people in heaven that had a major impact on him during his life – and those he impacted, as well.

Now, Albom has revealed what happened to Annie from that day forward.

Twenty years after Eddie saved her life at Ruby Pier, Annie is a 28-year-old nurse getting married to her childhood sweetheart, Paolo. After living a difficult life filled with many hardships and struggles, Annie believes she has finally found happiness. But tragedy strikes the day after their wedding day, and Annie finds herself embarking on her own heavenly journey – and meeting her own five people.

Albom said that out of all his books, readers asked him the most about “The Five People You Meet in Heaven," wanting to know “What’s next?” He also men-

tions that personal losses over the last few years, including his mother and father, prompted him to think deeply about life, loss and heaven. These two factors inspired him to further explore the life of Annie.

Annie is somebody who is extremely hard on herself. She blames herself for everything wrong in her life, calling herself “somebody who makes mistakes.”

Flashbacks in the book named “Annie Makes A Mistake” start as early as 2 years old, and continue throughout different stages of her life.

Albom said he knows many people like Annie, and had them in mind while creating her character. Albom reminds the Annies of the world that it is not only important to be kind to others, but to themselves, as well.

“In ‘Tuesdays With Morrie,’ one of the most popular chapters is the one where I speak to Morrie about forgiveness,” Albom said. “Morrie says, ‘Forgive everybody everything.’ But what always stood out to me personally was his next line, where he tells me ‘And then, forgive yourself.’”

Albom’s new novel also explores the

Mitch Albom, author of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and its sequel, "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven".

hardships we face on earth, and how they impact us.

“You can’t love without losing, and you can’t lose without loving,” Albom said. “The experiences we go through in life make us better and more whole, even

the losses. A broken heart is a full heart.

It’s a heart that has lived.”

“The Next Person You Meet in Heaven” is a beautiful, heartbreaking, and touching tale that reminds the reader to make their time on earth count. ■

Q&A with Michael Coles AJT: Why did you choose to present your book at this Book Festival?

Coles: My wife and I love the MJCCA and the Jewish Book Festival. I was so honored to be invited to present my book.

without knowing the outcome.

AJT: How long are you going on a book tour?

Coles: I have tried over the years to tell my story to business groups, universities, as well as first-grade classes. My AJT: What are your story of struggle and modconnections to the Jewish est success is one that can community and Atlanta? connect to first-graders, to Coles: I have been inMichael Coles, co-author business leaders, as well volved with many Jewish of “Time to Get Tough." as university students. I agencies over the years. I wrote this book not to brag about my acam currently on the board of the Jewish complishments, but to inspire others that Federation of Greater Atlanta, the Amerithey can do the same. I will go tell my can Jewish Committee, and have served story with my book for as many years as as president of Hillels of Georgia for the people want to hear it.

I have multiple enlast six years. gagements already going through March AJT: Are there Jewish values that of next year, and hopefully more to come. guide your writing?

AJT: How many books have you Coles: Over the years, when I have sold? faced adversity, I learned early on that Coles: The book was released on Oct. my strength is very much tied to my Jew1, but pre-sale orders already total over ish heritage. The history of the Jewish 12,000 books. ■ people is about finding the strength to face the challenges before us. The story Michael Coles and Catherine Lewis of David and Goliath, which I referred present their book, “Time to Get Tough: How to in my book, is a great example of that. Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success It is not about conquering the giant; it in Business and Life,” at the Book Festival is about having the courage to face him 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15.

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ZIV KOREN & IZZY EZAGUI

Sunday, November 4, 2018 27th Book Festival of the MJCCA at 3:30 PM Please join the AJT for a champagne & dessert reception following the talk.

Famed Israeli photojournalist Ziv Koren was given exclusive access to the IDF, allowing him to show an unfiltered view of Israel’s real war over its homeland -- from covert attacks in Syria and the battle against terror to defending the borders. His work also reveals the daily struggles for the advancement of women in the military, and to integrate the ultra-Orthodox, immigrants, and disadvantaged youth into special units of the IDF. Snapshot offers an unprecedented insider’s view of some of the most exclusive and secretive IDF units offers us a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the IDF and the other security forces as they have never been viewed before.

On January 8, 2009, Izzy Ezagui, an American who had enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at 19--lost his arm in a mortar attack on the border of the Gaza Strip. In this stirring and wryly humorous memoir, Izzy recounts his tortuous trek through rehabilitation to re-enlistment as a squad commander in the IDF where he became, famously, the world's only one-armed Special Forces sharpshooter. Don’t expect your typical war chronicle because this isn’t it. Izzy wrote this book for everyone facing life's daily battles.

His message is universal: if a self-described "nerd" can accomplish his goals, then anyone can become a hero in his or her own life.

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BOOK FESTIVAL A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good women to speak up and make

By Logan C. Ritchie “A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance” by Emma Gray is the antidote to women’s rights fights in Washington D.C. – and closer to home, in Georgia – aimed at young women ages 14 and up.

Gray, the executive women’s editor for HuffPost, includes quotes and advice from political activists, march organizers and politicians who encourage sustainable action for women’s rights.

In the chapter on women’s voices, Gray quotes well-known women, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and those new to the Resistance, such as high school student Deja Foxx.

As Sen. Warren said: “If not you, then who? If not now, then when? We need more

their voices heard. Young women have valuable experiences and perspectives. We need you in this fight.”

Chapter 7: A Tech Savvy Guide to Staying Accountable is the most relevant information for this tech-driven audience.

Always on your phone? Text ResistBot for ways to contact representatives at the touch of a screen. Gray lines up apps, platforms and text messages to direct activism.

From the reasons why a woman’s vote matters to the ways in which we benefit, A Girl’s Guide is a book every young voter needs on her shelf – whether digital or handheld. ■ Emma Gray will appear at The Book Festival 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7.

Don’t Take “A Very Stable Genius!” Too Seriously

By Marcia Caller Jaffe One need not go far to imagine opportunities for a political cartoonist in today’s political upheaval.

Mike Luckovich is local – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – and has won two Pulitzer prizes. “A Very Stable Genius!” is a compilation of cartoons not autobiographical. He does throw in a few paragraphs about how he despises Fox News and his imagination of Trump “pooping in a punch bowl” and serving it to the Pope.

“My views on Melania are a little more nuanced. There are times I feel sorry for her putting up with that orange cretin, but then I remind myself that she signed up for it.”

There is no middle ground here. Like his views or not, Luckovich is adept at his craft. We asked him a few questions about his inspiration for the book and his political opinions.

AJT: How do you relate to today’s political climate?

Luckovich: There’s so much content with Trump. ... It’s like being married to a nymphomaniac, … fun at first and then it becomes a nightmare.

AJT: Which comes to you first: the words or the drawing?

Luckovich: The words first, but I come up with ideas all day, then go into “panic mode” to decide. It’s like the jigsaw pieces come together.

AJT: Were you talented as a child?

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student – took no notes – but had interesting drawings.

AJT: Now that the AJC has a dual (Conservative) cartoon alongside you, have you ever felt inclined towards the other side’s view?

Luckovich: I have a natural liberal alignment: Fighting climate change, diversity inclusion, a better living wage. I don’t like guns.

AJT: What book has impressed you?

Luckovich: “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Note the most religious people were the cruelest slave owners.

AJT: What is your connection to the Jewish community?

Luckovich: I was one of two non-Jewish members of ZBT frat at the University of Washington. They had the highest GPAs on campus until I came along and I lowered the average. A few years ago, I was the keynote speaker at the ZBT national convention in Atlanta.

AJT: What stands out most about the Jewish community to you?

Luckovich: Jewish readers are so up on the news, so smart. It’s so great to be able to talk with people who know what’s going on … as a political cartoonist. The understanding creates a strong camaraderie and connection.

AJT: You remind me of two movie stars. Ever hear that?

Mike: Yes, Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson! ■ Mike Luckovich appears at the Book Festival 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4.

BOOK FESTIVAL Button Man: Up Against the Mob

By Alisa Haber Andrew Gross hits the mark in “Button Man,” a gritty rags-toriches tale of the 1930s New York garment industry. Stitched together with real-life Jewish mob figures (think Louis Buchalter and Dutch Schultz) and the author’s own family lore, "Button Man" is the story of three brothers, each trying to succeed in his own way. Morris is tough and determined to make it on his own merits without succumbing to the socalled “aid” of the mob-run union. While his brother, Harry, can’t resist the glitzy appeal of the Jewish gangsters. Man-in-themiddle Sol tries to keep the peace, but that is hard to do when all three are up against the likes of Murder, Inc. Gross might be better known for his earlier best sellers, co-authored with James Patterson, but his solo foray into historical fiction is proving to be equally powerful.

"Button Man" is an unexpected primer on how gangsters and racketeers infiltrated

the trade unions in the early 30s.

While combing through microfilm issues of Women’s Wear Daily at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Gross unearthed a sound recording of his own grandfather, a founding figure in the industry.

Gross builds on this ancestry and his own personal experiences in the clothing trade to weave a tale full of Yiddish-isms and depression-era bravado.

But with only glimpses of the few female characters, "Button Man" is largely a blood-and-guts crime novel. As others in the garment industry submit to the violent “protection” of the union, how is it that Morris Raab keeps beating the odds? It seems the only way to stay clear of the mob may be to bring them down. In the words of Gross’ grandfather, “you can do anything you want in life, anything – if you want to do it badly enough.” ■ Andrew Gross and his “Button Man” will appear at the Book Festival 12:30 p.m. Nov. 8.

Disarmed: Unusual First-Person Account of Lessons from War and Aftermath

By Chana Shapiro When 19-year-old American Izzy Ezagui joined the Israel Defense Forces, he wanted to do whatever he could to keep Israel safe and strong, the motivation of many other idealistic young Jewish men and women. When he volunteered, he had no idea how exceptionally life-changing his military experience would be.

Ezagui’s family became religiously observant when he was 8 years old, and it was then that he started learning about Jewish history. His growing identification with the Jewish people and homeland –his people, his homeland – fueled his determination to do whatever he could to make sure that Israel, and by extension the Jewish people, would never again be vulnerable.

Ezagui graphically describes in “Disarmed” the mortar attack on his unit at the Gaza border, causing the amputation of his dominant left arm above the elbow, making a reattachment impossible. We accompany him on long months of grueling rehab, and we share his frustration and anger – and cheer for him – as he struggles back to combat. His acceptance as a one-armed sharpshooter in the elite and dangerous special

forces – believed the only one in the world – are a triumph of tenacity and grit.

That brave struggle would have been a fully satisfying page-turner, delivering a thrilling climax to an inspiring autobiography. However, this is not the expected heartbreaking tale with a typical happy ending.

Ezagui goes deeper, revealing his plaguing phantom physical pain and, at the same time, real emotional struggles. His search for love, his anguish over serious family troubles, his dependence on painkillers, and his fear that his life had already peaked by the time he was 21 years old are some of the issues Ezagui weaves into his story with brutal honesty and wry humor.

“Disarmed” is a first-person rollercoaster ride of challenges, testing Ezagui’s amazing will and resilience. This candid book is perfectly subtitled, “Unconventional lessons from the world’s only one-armed special forces sharpshooter.” It’s unconventional, to be sure, and, on many levels, disarming. ■ Izzy Ezagui presents “Disarmed” at the Book Festival 3:30 p.m. Nov. 4.

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BOOK FESTIVAL DAY BY DAY TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

OPENING NIGHT

10:00 a.m.

SUSAN STACHLER and LAURA STACHLER, The Cookie Cure SALLY MUNDELL, Packaging Good RUBY MUNDELL, Kindness Come In In conversation with Rabbi Brian Glusman, Director of Outreach and Engagement, MJCCA. Coffee and Susansnaps gourmet cookies will be served following the author presentation. Free and open to all

7:30 p.m.

TOM HANKS Uncommon Type: Some Stories A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world.

Mr. Hanks will NOT be signing books.

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MONDAY 12:00 p.m.

DORIE GREENSPAN Everyday Dorie In conversation with Kim Severson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist and Atlanta Bureau Chief for The New York Times. A dessert reception featuring recipes from the book will follow the program. Member: $15/ Community: $20 7:30 p.m.

NORMAN EISEN The Last Palace Europe’s turbulent century in five lives and one legendary house In conversation with Gail Evans, Former Executive Vice President, CNN and bestselling author. Member: $15/ Community: $20

5 10:00 a.m.

JACK BARSKY, Deep Undercover Free and open to all 12:30 p.m.

JENNA BLUM, The Lost Family Member: $10/ Community: $15 7:30 p.m.

MAIRA KALMAN AND ALEX KALMAN, Sara Berman’s Closet In conversation with Virginia Shearer, Eleanor McDonald Storza Director of Education, High Museum of Art. This program will feature a short film screening of "Sara Berman’s Closet"

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12:00 p.m.

MIMI SWARTZ Ticker History of the pioneers and the process of cutting into an organ humans can’t live without.

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12:00 p.m.

YVETTE MANESSIS CORPORON Something Beautiful Happened LAURIE BETH MORALES Bulletproof In conversation with Gail O’Neill, Journalist, ArtsAtl.com. Member: $10/ Community: $15

7:30 p.m.

WILLIAM COUPON Portraits Famed portrait photographer has photographed everyone from Yasser Arafat to Mick Jagger.

In conversation with Susanne Katz, Director of Exhibitions, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. A multi-media presentation of Coupon’s work and a champagne reception will follow the program. Member: $15/ Community: $20

7:30 p.m.

ALLISON YARROW 90s Bitch EMMA GRAY A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance In conversation with Dana Barrett, TV and Radio Host, The Dana Barrett Show on Talk Radio 640 WGST. Member: $15/ Community: $20

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12:00 p.m.

CHLOE BENJAMIN The Immortalists If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?

In conversation with Greg Changnon, Playwright and Former Book Club Columnist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Member: $10/ Community: $15

12:00 p.m.

SUSIE ORMAN SCHNALL The Subway Girls KITTY ZELDIS Not Our Kind In conversation with Adrianne Murchison, Journalist, AJC Northside Living Magazine. Member: $10/ Community: $15

7:30 p.m.

DAVID SANGER The Perfect Weapon War, sabotage and fear in the Cyber Age Member: $15/ Community: $20

7:30 p.m.

SALLY KOHN, The Opposite of Hate A field guide to repairing our humanity from a Fox News and CNN commentator.

In conversation with Nadia Bilchik, CNN Editorial Producer. Member: $15/ Community: $20

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MARTIN FLETCHER Promised Land: A Novel of Israel ANDREW GROSS Button Man In conversation with Alison Law, Publicist and Consultant, Alison Law Communications; Host, Literary Atlanta Podcast. Member: $10/ Community: $15 7:30 p.m.

MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI The Fox Hunt Four strangers, three faiths and one extraordinary escape to freedom In conversation with Daniel Pincus, AJC ACCESS. Member: $15/ Community: $20

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JOCELYN WURZBURG Jocie Memoir of a "southern Jewish American princess" and civil rights activist.

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RONALD H. BALSON The Girl from Berlin STEVEN HARTOV The Soul of a Thief In conversation with John Lemley, Host and Producer of John Lemley’s City Cafe and High Tea, WMLB-AM, 1690. Member: $10/ Community: $15 7:30 p.m.

MICHAEL COLES and CATHERINE LEWIS Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee and a Crash Led to Success in Business and in Life In conversation with Dr. Catherine M. Lewis, Assistant Vice President of Museums, Archives & Rare Books; Director of the Museum of History and Holocaust Education; and History Professor at Kennesaw State University. Member: $18/ Community: $25

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SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN With Liberty and Justice: The 50-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai With his son, MATT LIEBERMAN Lucius Debut novel of the imaginative retelling of “Huckleberry Finn.”

In conversation with David Lewis, David Lewis Productions. Member: $18/ Community: $25

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REBECCA ERBELDING, Rescue Board RICK RICHMAN, Racing Against History In conversation with Catherine Lewis, Professor of History and Executive Director, Museum of History and Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University.

Member: $10/ Community: $15 3:30 p.m.

ZIV KOREN, Snapshot IZZY EZAGUI, Disarmed In conversation with Michael Morris, Owner and Publisher, Atlanta Jewish Times and FIDF Board Member. A dessert and champagne reception will follow. Member: $15/ Community: $20 7:30 p.m.

MIKE LUCKOVICH, A Very Stable Genius!

Political cartoon satire.

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JASON SHEFFIELD Son of a Bitch The defense attorney’s debut novel that is rooted in fact more than fiction.

JAMIE WEISMAN We Are Gathered The story of an interfaith wedding in Atlanta.

In conversation with Gail Cohn, Local Media Personality. Member: $10/ Community: $15

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LIANE MORIARTY Nine Perfect Strangers Nice perfect strangers are about to find out if 10 days in a health resort can change their lives forever.

In conversation with Mara Davis, Local Media Personality. Member: $18/ Community: $25

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EDITH SHEFFER, Asperger’s Children DAWN RAFFEL, The Strange Case of Dr. Couney In conversation with Nadia Bilchik, CNN Editorial Producer. This program will feature a screening at 11:30 a.m. of "That Was Awesome!," a short film produced by the MJCCA in partnership with Dad’s Garage, starring actors with special needs from the MJCCA Spotlight Theatre. Member: $10/ Community: $15 3:30 p.m.

ANNA QUINDLEN, Alternate Side Exploration of what it means to be a mother, wife and woman at a moment of reckoning.

In conversation with Holly Firfer, CNN Journalist. Member: $26/ Community: $32 *Includes a paperback copy of the book.

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STUART EIZENSTAT, President Carter Eizenstat details Carter’s four years in the White House.

In conversation with Greg Bluestein, Political Reporter, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Member: $18/ Community: $25

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MICHAEL SOLOMONOV and STEVEN COOK, Israeli Soul Great dishes that are the soul of Israeli cuisine.

In conversation with Ligaya Figueras, Senior Editor, Food and Wine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Serving a buffet Shabbat lunch featuring recipes from the book. Tickets: $25

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JON MEACHAM The Soul of America Understanding the present moment in American politics by looking back at history.

In conversation with Gail Evans, Former Executive Vice President, CNN. Member: $33/ Community: $38 *Individual tickets include a hardcover copy of the book.

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KENNY LEON, Take You Wherever You Go Inspirational memoir from the Artistic Director of Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta.

In conversation with Holly Firfer, CNN Journalist. Member: $10/ Community: $15 3:30 p.m.

STEVE ISRAEL, Big Guns Comic tale that shows the lines between fiction and non-fiction are often blurred.

Member: $10/ Community: $15 7:30 p.m.

PETER SAGAL, The Incomplete Book of Running Host of NPR’s “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me” shares funny stories about running and life.

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BOOK FESTIVAL Israeli Soul: Is Mouthwatering and Emotional

By Marcia Caller Jaffe It’s a travelogue, a photographic masterpiece, a mouthwatering adventure, all rolled into cookbook, “Israeli Soul: Easy Essential, Delicious,” by famed chef-restaurateurs Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook. The book showcases toothless, tanned faces, bowls, bones, beans, and sparkling views of Israeli seas.

Solomonov’s acclaimed Philadelphia restaurant, Zahav, is standing the test of time as a unique dining destination in a fickle industry.

Israel just turned 70; Zahav turned 10. What’s unique about the chefs’ appearance at the Book Festival of the MJCCA Friday, Nov. 16, is a kosher buffet pre-Shabbat lunch ($25) prepared by local caterer, A Kosher Touch.

On the personal side, Solomonov revealed in The Inquirer in 2014 that his brother was killed on patrol on the Lebanese border about 10 years earlier.

Other articles headline “From Humus to Heroine” or “From Crack to James Beard (Award),” detailing his double life abusing drugs.

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Not one to linger through cookbooks, I found this one an emotional photographic journey. Well-catalogued as falafel (Balls of Gold, Old Akko, page 28), shawarma grilling, soups, sabich, bakery, and ice box barely scratches the surface of the choices and compelling backgrounds. Food is used to bridge heritage. Solomonov dispels the common misconception that Israeli food equals “The Middle East.” The authors have done the research to highlight the best of the best.

If you think you are well-versed in Israeli cuisine, imagine a meal of Soom tahini, kubaneh, jachnun, Libyan squash, Yemenite-style veal osso buco, yeasted rugelach, and Druze mountain bread.

The latter instructs how to invert an everyday wok over a gas burner and spread the mixture over the dome. An exotic segment was devoted to Zalatimo, an Arabic folded sugar dough dessert passed down from King Herod, now served outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

I asked Solomonov about his latest cookbook and community action.

Jaffe: Why is this book different than your earlier ones?

Solomonov: This one is less definitive.

For hummus, instead of boiling and draining chickpeas, we start with a simple can plus a jar of tahini, garlic and seasoning. No measuring, very little clean up.

Jaffe: How does your Tikkun Olam project work?

Solomonov: All the profit from my other restaurant, The Rooster, goes to fund food at the Broad Street Ministry (in Philly), where we serve a hundred quality meals a week on nice linens.

Jaffe: You’ve visited Atlanta before.

How would you describe our vibe?

Solomonov: Atlanta is a cultural blast! It’s a culinary and cultural destination. All the traffic complaints are typical of any city.

Jaffe: You have a special empathy for recovering addicts and the homeless?

Solomonov: I have been honest and outspoken about my own addiction and recovery. I continue to participate in programs that work for me. ■

Jaffe: What was unusual about the production of the book?

Solomonov: Each one of the 100 recipes was tested in my tiny one-bedroom apartment!

For a fascinating 10 minutes, view “CBS Sunday Morning,” (Nov. 12, 2017) for a segment on Solomonov. I’ll never forget it.

Solomonov will share his recipes at the Book Festival 12 p.m. Nov. 16.

BOOK FESTIVAL Not Our Kind: Shines Light on Interfaith Relations

President Carter: Determined to Shake Up Washington

By Alisa Haber

By Bob Bahr

One of my favorite things to do is judge a book by its cover. I’m usually drawn to those that depict an air of nostalgia: a wooden pie shelf, a scuffed pair of Keds or, in this case, a 1940s-era woman in a soft pink A-line dress looking out over a fading New York City skyline. I was immediately captivated, despite being slightly put off by what I initially perceived to be an inflammatory title.

Kitty Zeldis’ novel, “Not Our Kind,” is about two women from different worlds. By fate or accident, Eleanor Moskowitz, a Second Avenue Jew, and Patricia Bellamy, a Park Avenue AngloSaxon Protestant, become “almost” friends. At the outset, Patricia insists that Eleanor take on a less Jewishsounding last name so that she can work as her daughter’s tutor in their restricted building. In an ironic twist, the Jewish Israeli-born author chose to use

a pseudonym for this book because she feels her last name, McDonough, doesn’t sound Jewish enough.

In a recent interview with Curt Schleier of the Jewish Standard, Zeldis says her new book is “about the intersection of Jews in a non-Jewish world.” She says she is not talking about the Orthodox, who she sees as “shielded from the outside world,” but rather those like herself who have assimilated. She clarifies, “I feel what I am doing is expanding the definition of what it means to be Jewish. The way we’ve been doing it hasn’t been so great.

The sense of exclusivity, the sense of us and the other doesn’t speak to my core values.” Indeed, “Not Our Kind” is about finding that we have more in common than the stereotypes that have kept us apart, finding a place in this world that does not leave others out. ■ Kitty Zeldis will appear at the Book Festival 12 p.m. Nov. 14.

Stuart Eizenstat’s magnum opus, his lengthy history of the Carter presidency during the latter half of the 1970s, “President Carter: The White House Years,” is a portrait of the ups and downs of a national leader who came to Washington determined to shake things up.

This comprehensive re-appraisal examines how well Carter succeeded in that task by a consummate political insider whose long record of public service in the nation’s capital, including his celebrated efforts on behalf of Holocaust survivors, began as Carter’s chief domestic policy advisor.

He draws upon 5,000 pages of notes he took during the four years on Carter’s White House staff, and more than 350 interviews, including five with Carter and his intensive experience as a high-ranking official over a quarter century of public service. This helps to give us a close-up view of how American government oper-

ates at the highest levels. Our 39th president, he argues, was much better than his present-day reputation suggests.

He examines with a thoughtful, thorough and generally-objective eye the many successes of those years, including the history-making agreement between Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, describing the Carter presidency as “one of the most consequential in modern history.”

While many may remember the time for its long lines at the gas pump, high inflation, and the lengthy and disheartening Iran hostage crisis, Eizenstat argues that it was a time of history-making programs in energy reform, human rights and international diplomacy that played an important role in shaping history in the last 40 years.

In this well-written and important work, he provides an absorbing portrait of a complex man many Jews have found hard to forgive for his latter-day views on Israel and his characterization of that nation as an apartheid state. ■ The book is the Esther G. Levine Community Read at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11, and is sponsored, in part, by Ahavath Achim Synagogue.

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BOOK FESTIVAL Promised Land: A Novel of Israel

By Dave Schechter “Promised Land: A Novel of Israel,” by Martin Fletcher, blends fictional characters and historical events in Israel’s early years.

In 1950, two years after the modern nation of Israel declared its independence, just 35 percent of its 806,000 citizens were sabras, native born.

Post-Holocaust refugees from Europe and the former residents of Arab nations alike faced the task of reinventing themselves.

The lives of three such people are at the center of “Promised Land,” whose author is among the longestserving foreign correspondents in Israel. He is best known for his more than 30 years reporting for NBC from Israel and the Middle East.

“Promised Land” takes readers on an 18-year trip, as Fletcher blends his fictional characters with familiar Israeli names from the years 1949 to 1967, as their lives dovetail with real events.

Peter, sent to America as a teenager by his German parents to escape the pending destruction of their Jewish world, grows up with a gentile family in the Midwest.

His younger brother, Aren, emerges from Auschwitz without his family and scarred by the experiences that kept him alive when so many others died.

Tamara and her family flee a comfortable life in Egypt, only to find themselves in squalor among the Mizrahi Jews looked down on by the Ashkenazim, particularly the haughty “yekkes,” the Jews of German descent.

When the brothers reunite in Israel, Peter has become a silent defender of their new homeland while Aren, who has taken the more Israeli name of Arie (the lion), is a wheelerdealer looking for his next score.

The brothers have exchanged their family name, Berg, for the more Israeli ben Nesher (the eagle).

The wheels of the story begin turning when Peter, and then Arie, meet Tamara.

Both could be accused of taking advantage of the young Egyptian woman, even though she engages willingly, and over time the benefits of her new relationships accrue not only to her, but to her parents and siblings.

“In this strange new country where everyone was reinventing themselves, all the traditions and niceties of relationships in Egypt were lost. Here you didn’t gain respect with age, but lost it. At the head of the table the virtues and wisdom and knowledge were replaced by money and power, the gentle hand replaced by sharp elbows and a big mouth,” Fletcher writes.

But in his next sentence, the author asks: “How else could it be though, in a nervous, scared nation threatened by annihilation at any moment?”

Peter rises in the ranks of those staving off annihilation, while Arie takes every opportunity to get ahead, no matter whether those close to him are hurt along the way.

Tamara, who has cast her lot with Arie, grows stronger with every episode she endures, though neither she nor Peter lose sight of each other, even while Peter creates a family of his own.

Fletcher’s knowledge of this historical and geo-

graphic landscape, a byproduct of his journalistic experience, is what makes “Promised Land” work.

He leads readers through Israel’s crucial early years, the threats from without that test its security apparatus, and the threats from within, including the boom-and-bust of its economy.

There are twists along the way, some readers may see coming and others that surprise.

“Promised Land” ends soon after the June 1967 sixday war and portends some of the challenges Israel has faced since. I am left wishing that Fletcher had revealed more about the future lives of his protagonists. Perhaps the years that followed in Israel’s history will be worthy of a sequel. ■ Fletcher will discuss “Promised Land” when he speaks at the Book Festival of the MJCCA, at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 8.

Rescue Board: The Untold Story of an Effort to Save the Jews of Europe

By Bob Bahr It seems truly remarkable that it has taken 74 years to write the first history of the important work that President Franklin Roosevelt’s War Refugee Board undertook to save the Jews of Europe in the waning years of World War II. But that is what Rebecca Erbelding has done in her new book.

Erbelding, who works as an archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, spent 10 years writing and researching the book and sifting through an amazing 43,000 documentary sources. In the process she has created a history of how officials in the U.S. Department of Treasury succeeded in doing a better job than they are usually credited with.

The WRB was created by executive order in January 1944, less than 1 ½ years before the end of the war in Europe. During its short history it became a tireless advocate for those Jews who could still be saved. In a thrilling, detailed narrative, Erbelding outlines how a small group of government bureaucrats in Washington used daring, imagination, cunning, ingenuity and a very limited budget to sometimes create miracles.

The WRB was behind the heroic work done by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg on behalf of the Jews in Budapest. It was instrumental in helping escaping Jews from Romania make it safely to Palestine, despite a strong British effort to stop them, and in the final months of the war, it created hundreds of thousands of relief packages that were delivered to prisoners in German concentration camps.

In short, the book chronicles, in greater detail than previously attempted, the effort America made on behalf of Jews during the Holocaust. And while it may be seen by some as too little too late, it is a challenge to those who, in recent decades, have insisted that America’s response to the Holocaust was half-hearted and ineffective. Perhaps, as many have argued, America could have done more, but as Erbelding’s book persuasively argues, the work of the WRB was an important humanitarian effort during a decidedly dark time in human history. ■ Rebecca Erbelding will present “Rescue Board” at the Book Festival 12 p.m. Nov. 4.

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BOOK FESTIVAL Rise and Kill First: Inner Workings of Israel’s Secret Security Revealed

By Vicki Leopold The title of the fast-paced true adventure book, “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations,” comes from the Talmud: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” The author, Ronen Bergman, is senior correspondent for military and intelligence affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest daily newspaper, and contributing writer for The New York Times.

Bergman appears to have done meticulous research into Israel’s top-secret security services. He explores the inner workings and personalities of those employed by Mossad, Shin Bet and Caesarea as well as their policy of targeted assassinations against perceived enemies of Israel.

Bergman explained how he was able to gather such information from top-secret intelligence sources. Many wanted to share their experiences as well as their points of view, moral hubris, internal conflicts and their pride in saving Israelis lives, he said.

They told him that gone were the days of being led to slaughter. Gone was the acceptance that Jewish life was cheap.

“As Rabin put it, ‘There is no immunity for any PLO element anywhere in the world. The long arm of the IDF will be able to reach and punish them.’” Preemptive strikes were the norm and retaliation accepted policy, he said.

Bergman covers many important events in Israel’s history with a written style that is engaging and thrilling. He shares such events as: targeting Nazis; destroying Iraq’s nuclear facility; assassinating Iranian and Iraqi nuclear scientists; implanting viruses into foreign computers to slow nuclear development; gaining release of U.S. intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard who spied for Israel; targeting terrorists; obtaining intelligence; and manipulating the Lebanon War. The secret agencies Bergman studied were condemned before the 911 massacre by various presidents and cabinet members, but then admired afterwards.

“In one swoop, the complaints against us ceased,” said retired Maj. Gen. Giora

Eiland, former head of Israel’s National Security Council.

The author continues, “Decades of Israel trying to explain its drastic measures to the rest of the world were suddenly made unnecessary.” President Ariel Sharon ordered all the intelligence organizations of Israel to give the Americans everything they had, Bergman said.

The Americans were most interested in finding out how the integrated assassination system of all the intelligence arms worked … persistent, ruthless, exacting and efficient.

The author explained that there were many forces, understandably, against his publication of this book.

While “Rise and Kill First” is a fascinating read, one cannot help but wonder the price to the secret agencies and assets of publicly revealing such tactics, methods, strategies and names. One might question the purpose of the author. Was the author trying to give history, challenge the inner workings, moralize or just write a real-life thriller and allow consequences to be what they will? This was a constant worry that I, the reader, had

as more and more was revealed. Is there anything similarly written about the secret underbelly of the United States? One doubts that it would be published in such exacting specificity. Nevertheless, this book is out and is quite astonishing in its detail. ■ Ronen Bergman presents “Rise and Kill First” at Prologue to the Book Festival 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29.

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BOOK FESTIVAL Son of a Bitch: Resembles ATL and Author’s Life

The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America

By Jan Jaben-Eilon

By Janice ConvoyHellmann

Just from the title of the book, “Son of a Bitch,” by criminal defense attorney Jason B. Sheffield, readers know who the two main characters are, and they realize that the relationship between the two is – let’s call it – turbulent and troubled.

Indeed, the relationship between the narrator and his mother – both lawyers – is the centerpiece of this book. But the storyline is just as compelling and could be the makings of a soap opera.

Not surprisingly, Sheffield, a partner at Decatur-based Peters, Rubin & Sheffield, P.A., is already thinking about making this semi-autobiographical story into a movie. And, he’s planning to write more books about the mother character.

Last year, when Sheffield called and told his mother the title of the book, there was a long pause on the phone. Yet his mother – a post-conviction specialist – loves the book, he said.

Atlanta readers will not only enjoy the engaging story, but will feel at

home in its background, much of which occurs in the Atlanta area. Sheffield, after all, is a graduate of Georgia State University College of Law. Attorneys and lawyer-wannabes will particularly appreciate the legal intricacies and the inside look of the courtroom. And feminists will recognize the patronizing, obstructionist behavior of the good ole’ boys.

Some of the dialogue and sexual details may be shocking to some, but Sheffield says that was not accidental.

“I wanted to spark debate. I wanted to tackle old euphemisms and put a new spin on it. Although it was inspired by true events, and there are a lot of emotions and experiences the book captures, it quickly moves into fiction when the criminal defense attorney mother gets involved with her client and asks her son – also a criminal defense attorney – to defend her.” ■ Sheffied, a former actor, will speak about his book at noon, Friday, Nov. 9.

Kenny Leon is no stranger to Broadway. From winning a Tony Award in 2014 for Best Director of a Play for “A Raisin in the Sun” to Broadway credits including “Fences,” “Hairspray Live!” and “The Wiz Live!” Leon has become one of America’s most beloved theater and television directors.

He is artistic director of his eponymous True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta and was artistic director of the Alliance Theatre for 11 years.

Leon’s latest literary accomplishment, “Take You Wherever You Go: A Memoir,” is about the people who shaped him. Today, a far cry from his humble beginnings, he is now a powerhouse of talent and looks forward to returning to Atlanta.

With a foreword by Samuel L. Jackson and endorsements from Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett and Harvey Fierstein, Leon celebrates the wisdom learned from the pillars in his life.

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Mohammed Al Samawi will appear at the Book Festival 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8.

The Girl from Berlin: A Treasure Hunt Through History

Take You Wherever You Go: Kenny Leon Comes Home with Debut Memoir

By Robyn Spizman Gerson

I was drawn to “The Fox Hunt” because one of the four “strangers” in the book, who helped the protagonist escape war-torn Yemen, is not a stranger to me at all. In fact, she’s an Aussie-born, Atlanta-bred woman, who I’ve had the pleasure of knowing since her days at The Weber School, and which, of course, made the story a more compelling read on a personal level. That, coupled with the book’s current relevance and the fact that its author, Mohammed Al Samawi, is a sensitive human-rights activist, not a terrorist as some would have us all believe Muslim refugees are, made for a real page-turner.

Although the first half of the book established the context for the story and was mired with lots of facts about geopolitics in the Middle East in general, and

Yemen in particular, the rather suspenseful second half of the book more than made up for the plodding beginning.

Overall, I would recommend this book; not only is it an inspirational story about how open-mindedness can help us overcome indoctrination and prejudice, but it’s also a story of resilience and how stumbling blocks in our lives – physical disabilities, for example – can empower us. Most of all, however, it’s a story of the power and positivity that social networks, as well as interfaith and cross-cultural alliances, can bring, and the new and creative ways in which social activism is happening. Although a memoir at its core, this book reads like a thriller and has already been optioned for the screen. ■

He credits his Grandma Mamie, who set his life’s purpose towards dreaming large. “She made sure I knew I could do whatever I set my mind to do. The anchors and lessons in my life have been from three sources: my grandmother, my mother and iconic playwright August Wilson,” he said.

“This book is my way of telling you, as my Grandma told me, that you can do whatever you need to do. The only limits are the ones you set yourself. You have all you need in you right now. I grew up poor … I ended up on Broadway. I am interested in how I can help future generations. We’ve all been dealt hands in life, but life is about how you play that hand.”

About appearing at the Book Festival, he added, “I have a strong connection to the Atlanta Jewish community. To me, it’s like coming home.” ■ Kenny Leon appears at 12 p.m. Sun., Nov. 18, In Conversation with CNN’s Holly Firfer.

By Jan Jaben-Eilon If you loved Ronald H. Balson’s thriller, “Once We Were Brothers,” you will certainly enjoy his new novel, “The Girl from Berlin.”

Both have the ability to stick with the readers long after the last page is finished. The characters and the stories are painted so clearly that they are memorable.

Both books are based on situations during the Holocaust, although the gist of the stories occur in the present.

Readers of Balson’s previous books will immediately recognize, in his new novel, the main characters, Chicago attorney Catherine Lockhart and her investigator-husband Liam Taggart. Neither is Jewish, yet their cases always involve the Jewish world.

His book, “Saving Sophie,” took the couple to Israel. “The Girl from Berlin” has the couple solving its case in the Tuscan hills of Italy. The aunt of a Chicago restaurateur – a friend of Lockhart and Taggart’s – is threatened with eviction from her Italian home by a powerful

corporation that seems to yearn for her grape vines.

A treasure hunt for the origin of conflicting land deeds leads to duplicity and death, and eventually to lawyers in Germany who help uncover corporate shenanigans.

The key to helping the aunt, and solving the mystery, lies in a handwritten manuscript from the 1930s that the aunt insists the Chicago couple read to learn the history of the ownership of the villa, as well as the aunt’s connection to the property.

That story-within-a-story was written by a girl from Berlin who moved to Italy during the Nazi regime to continue her career as a violinist. Readers learn about the more lenient lives for Jews in Italy, at least in the beginning. The Berlin girl’s story also shows that not all Nazis were the same. ■ International best-selling author Ronald Balson, a Chicago trial lawyer, will speak about his latest novel, “The Girl From Berlin,” at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15.

BOOK FESTIVAL The Incomplete Runner: May Not Be the Perfect One

By Ian Robbins Peter Sagal and I have something in common.

From what he writes in “The Incomplete Book of Running,” we both started running seriously at 40. I made a goal to run a marathon by that age. I ran two by then and have been running them for 17 years. He’s a successful NPR radio host for “Wait, Wait …. Don’t Tell Me!” and a popular columnist for “Runner’s World,” which I read. I’m married to an AJT editor. That’s where the comparisons stop.

On a scale of one to 10, I’m a two.

He’s an eight. I may have run more marathons; he reported running 14. But he’s a top-tier marathoner for his age in major races.

One of the most powerful parts of this autobiography was his recounting of how he escaped the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, crossing the finish line moments before the explosion. He was

a volunteer for a blind runner, tethered to his charge.

If the runner hadn’t stopped to take a break, Sagal said he would’ve died.

He holds nothing back.

Not about his divorce and how horrible it was. And not about the 2012 incident in which he was labeled a “bandit” for jumping in and out of the Chicago Marathon without registering.

He said he innocently wanted to prepare for his next marathon, but, as a minor celebrity, he was widely criticized.

Sagal also shares how it’s difficult to find time to run in a busy schedule, but how rewarding the stress relief. He’s very realistic about the aches and pains, the wavering diligence. It makes “The Incomplete Book of Running,” a takeoff on “The Complete Book of Running” by James Fixx, very relatable to any runner. ■ Peter Sagal closes the Book Festival 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18.

Heavenly Reunion Teaches About Love and Compassion

By Al Shams

“The Next Person You Meet in Heaven” is a sequel to “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom that takes off where the first ends.

In “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven,” Albom tells the story of a young girl, Annie, who, while visiting an amusement park is saved by a park attendant. The attendant, Eddie, who led a troubled life, loses his life while saving Annie. But Annie did not escape the incident without injury. Her hand was severed, but in a miracle of medicine, it was reattached. The surgery left scars on Annie, both emotional and physical.

Annie has no memory of the incident. As she grows, she must deal with the emotional trauma of the accident, which impacts her teenage years. Her guilt-ridden mother becomes overprotective, which hinders Annie’s personal growth.

Annie struggles with these emotional scars to find happiness. As a young woman, she reconnects with a childhood love who she later marries. The wedding is the high point of her life, but the evening ends in tragedy for her and her husband.

The wedding night events put her on the path to heaven, where she meets five people who have had a profound impact on her life. One of the people she meets is Eddie, the amusement park attendant who lost his life while saving hers.

The book reminds us that often, the most important person in our lives may be someone we never met or may only know briefly. A person has a heart attack, but is saved by a quick-acting EMT. Someone is in a very serious auto accident because of a drunk driver.

One of the thoughts that I gleaned is that many events in our earthly life seem to be random, but when we arrive in heaven their significance becomes apparent.

I found the book to be a difficult read. It did not flow smoothly, and the early chapters seemed disjointed. The final chapters tie the events together in a more coherent fashion. But overall, it’s unique, provocative and interesting.

Readers will learn/relearn life’s lessons of love and compassion. They will be drawn from the daily business of earthly life and be forced to contemplate existence on a broader basis. ■

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

By Bob Bahr In his new book, “The Soul of America,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham gazes across the contentious political divide in America today and pronounces the glass half-full. Right from the start, his subtitle lets us know where he’s going. His search for the Soul of America is really, in his estimation, “The Battle for Our Better Angels.” The well-known quote is taken from Lincoln’s first inaugural address, which implored the rebellious South to respond to “the better angels of our nation.”

Meacham was moved to write the book in the aftermath of last year’s white racist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., and President Trump’s response. The author seeks to soothe his many troubled readers.

He confidently and smoothly reminds us, like the best-selling author and former publishing executive that he is, that these troubled times are not unique.

We have faced discord in our democracy before, particularly in the century that

he examines between president Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson.

His optimistic conclusion, based largely on what he sees as the role of progressive national leaders in the 20th century, is that, despite our difficulties, we often have come out on the side of the angels.

I found that what Meacham largely chooses to ignore is all that came after LBJ, and the disintegration of the liberal coalition in the later years of the 20th century.

In my opinion, it is one thing to say how good things were in 1964 without much of a thought as to how we came through the following 54 years.

Everyone who attends Meacham’s appearance during the final Saturday night climax to the MJCCA Book Festival gets a free copy of his book to reflect on the era for themselves.

Hopefully the conversation at 8 p.m. Nov. 17 between Meacham and Gail Evans, former CNN executive vice president, will explore more of how we got from there to here. ■

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BOOK FESTIVAL The Subway Girls: Shows How Far Women Have Come in Workplace

By Roni Robbins I had just returned from New York when I started reading “The Subway Girls.” Besides recognizing many of the iconic sites realistically described in the novel, it immediately reminded me of how far my generation has come in the workplace versus my mother’s generation.

As it says on the book cover, “The Subway Girls,” is about “two strong women, a generation apart, who find themselves up against the same eternal struggle to find an impossible balance between love, happiness and ambition.” In other words, they, too, search for the work-life balance we all struggle to achieve.

But for me, the story was very personal. As with all good books, the reader – me – inserted herself in the story. It wasn’t too difficult in this case. You might say that the main character, Charlotte, who could only hope to become a typist

in her day, represents my mother, a bookkeeper. She even went to Hunter College, like Charlotte.

Meanwhile, the character, Olivia, an ad rep, is similar to me, the journalist/editor. My mom and I are both native New Yorkers, so the comparisons are uncanny and made the novel very relatable to me.

I’m sure it would be for women of either era.

Despite the generational divide, the parallels between Charlotte and Olivia are as clear as those between me and my mom. We think we are so different, but we aren’t. In essence, some things never change. We still struggle to break through the glass ceiling in many arenas and the #MeToo movement proves that it’s still difficult to be a woman in any generation. ■ Susie Orman Schnall presents “The Subway Girls” at the Book Festival 12 p.m.

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Ticker: Details Breakthroughs in Heart Surgery

By Janice ConvoyHellmann Heart disease, which “kills more people around the world than all the cancers combined,” is the primary threat to human health across the globe.

In “Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart,” Swartz charts the evolution of cardiac technologies. The editor of Texas Monthly magazine who co-authored a book in 2003 about the Enron collapse focuses on the individuals responsible for breakthroughs in artificial heart research. She examines four Texans, in particular, and how their work has radically altered the surgical success and survival rates of heart patients worldwide. These trailblazing physicians demonstrated drive and the creative innovation necessary to revolutionize the way heart patients survived and thrived through the development of new techniques and life-saving devices.

Sadly, the book does not address the ethical limits of innovation, the bioethical dilemmas that naturally occur, or the patients’/ families’ reactions and feelings when their experimental surgeries fail. Although this book is likely to resonate more for cardiac patients and their physicians, even casually-interested readers will be fascinated by Swartz’s vivid depictions of both the daring doctors’ work and some of the more complicated surgeries involved.

Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve a permanent artificial heart, this is not a tale of man’s triumph over nature, yet it does illustrate the leaps and bounds happening in the medical arena and provides hope for those suffering from heart disease. ■ Mimi Swartz will talk about “Ticker” at the Book Festival 12 p.m. Nov. 6.

Time to Get Tough: Michael Coles Gives Keys to Business Success

By Allen Lipis If you want to be successful in business, then read “Time to Get Tough,” by Michael J. Coles and Catherine M. Lewis.

It details Coles’ very varied business career. He did not go to college, but learned through experience. He made his financial success through the Great American Cookie Co., Caribou Coffee, Charter Bank, BrandBank, and the Georgia Film Commission.

Coles distilled his business approach down to four I’s: information, innovation, implementation and improvement.

Get the appropriate information to understand the business, then be innovative to make the changes that will improve it.

Change is never easy, and it is all about executing properly, and once that is done, it isn’t over. Change has to be continual and improvement has to be a constant.

Having been a success in so many endeavors, Coles’ book passes on his wisdom learned over a lifetime. It’s about taking risks, associating with people of integrity, learning from others and building relationships with customers. Also important is having a clear vision about your business and knowing how to deal with failure.

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Coles will inspire you to take on your own challenges, to compete for the last five miles and to prepare for the next five.

He will tell you that real wisdom comes when you realize through victory that the skills you used to finish your race are exactly the same ones you need to conquer the next five miles. ■ Coles and Lewis appear at the Book Festival 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15.

BOOK FESTIVAL Uncommon Type: By Tom Hanks is a Wild Ride

By Marcia Caller Jaffe The biggest buzz for this year’s Book Festival of the MJCCA is actor-director Tom Hanks, whose appearance sold out very quickly. No doubt, he’s a charming guy with a humble demeanor. I was impressed with a segment on “CBS Sunday Morning” last year highlighting his collection of old typewriters and affinity for the written word. “Uncommon Type,” this publication of short stories, is his first collection of fiction.

The book is described as “poignantly playful” (Actress Mindy Kaling), “as charming and all-American as the actor himself" (Time magazine), and “spiked with humor, whimsy and insight” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). I choose to go with “spiked.”

No question Hanks has his way with words. His descriptions beget pictures: “out like a glass jarred boxer,” or the “sphere of a woman’s breast.” He crafts. He cares about what language he chooses. As in all collections, some you like more than others. I found the book frenetic at time keeping a “cray-cray” pace from place to place and a jab to code in proper names (MDash, B15K).

His use of sounds was amusing: the klockklock of typewriter keys, the bleat-bleat mimicking the European phone ring.

Overall, it’s a deft, funny, modern col-

lection of stories. It’s as worldly as geography spanning the globe: Budapest, Vegas, Noo Yawk, Mallorca, Rio, New Orleans. Food details string through many stories.

In my personal favorite, “Three Exhausting Weeks,” the hyperactive girlfriend serves up buckwheat pancakes, vegetable lasagna, avocado on toasted spelt, beets and celery stew while he eats strawberry Pop-Tarts, Portuguese sausage and Cocoa Puffs. This was symptomatic of why they ultimately couldn’t see eye-to-eye. Question: With no one identifying as Jewish, why does he say “Shabbat Shalom” when they have sex?

The bottom line: Hanks has a lot going on in his brain and retains his title as “king of likeability. ■

The 2018 MJCCA Book Festival features Tom Hanks’ volume of short stories that all involve antique typewriters.

We Are Gathered: Put This Book on Your Guest List

By Robyn Spizman Gerson Jamie Weisman’s latest novel, “We Are Gathered,” is a fast-paced read that celebrates her dynamic, creative storytelling ability. Not your everyday wedding, Weisman skillfully details the dysfunctional side of her scandalous and skillfully crafted characters. Their flawed personalities unravel as the story of an interfaith wedding unfolds.

From charming to disarming, the lead roles are not the bride and groom, Elizabeth Gottlieb and Hank Jackson, rather a complex cast of wedding guests.

While a talented novelist, Dr. Weisman, as many know her, is also a nationally recognized board-certified Atlanta dermatologist. What makes this book even more relevant is how Weisman blends her careers and weaves a blemished tale of adoring, envious, even comical guests.

“You can fall in love with doing more than one thing in life. I wanted to be a writer. As a little girl, I would ride my

bike to Ardmore Bookstore in Sandy Springs and pick out books. Throughout high school, my English teacher would feed me books. While writing was my major interest, the medical world also ran deep in my family.”

She adds, “As the writer, I get to make up these characters. I hope readers will find it in their hearts to love them. The thing I love about this book is it’s set at a wedding. It is two people who love each other until death do us part. The question I wanted to raise was not romantic love, but the love also for parents and children. If you look at the characters, life is hard. Joy is hard.”

Weisman’s book tells an untraditional story about flawed individuals, human in their experiences. This book reminds us of the universal hope of the unexpected journey beyond happily ever after. ■ Jamie Weisman appears at the Book Festival 12 p.m. Nov. 9.

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Liz Lapidus poses in her office in front of an original portrait of her done by Bahamian Fahamu Pecou, known for his work in the hiphop world. The Knoll desk is from her father’s law office in Miami.

Photos by Duane Stork // Liz and Jeff relax in their Mid-century modern living room with hamster, Chester, and

dog, Pinkie, nearby. The white figure on the left, “Silhouette,” is by local photographer Harriet Leibowitz.

Chai Style Home

Liz and Jeff Reprise South Beach Roots

Envision a free-wheeling romp visiting Hollywood’s or, and no two days are alike. The 24-hour news cycle, combined with the constant demands of social media, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable.

For the first time, Chai Style photographed a back- make it an exciting time to be in the business. We work to-back shoot on both “studio” lots: Liz Lapidus’ bou- with clients in a range of industries from hospitality to real estate development, retail, health and tique public relations office in Inman Park beauty and nonprofits, and we get to interand her Morningside home, a stone’s throw act with smart and interesting people. It’s a away, shared with husband Jeff Levy. With creative business, which I love. And you get A-list clients, Lapidus authentically carries to have your finger on the pulse of the city. the Mid-century modern design from her office to the couple’s glass-enclosed home.

Jaffe: Jeff, you two dovetailed into this “We have great feng shui here in the home. How does it make you feel? woods, yet we are yards from Virginia Levy: Peaceful, but not stagnant. Our Highlands,” Levy said. collections are very complimentary. It fits The couple seamlessly honors their together well at the end of the day. Over rambunctious energy in a modernized Marcia time we will trade out older pieces to bring historical setting perfected by legendary Caller Jaffe in the new. grandfather Morris Lapidus, the father of Miami Beach’s highly-recognizable and touted architecJaffe: You work and live near the Atlanta BeltLine. ture.

How do you use it?

Lapidus: We love the BeltLine! From its inception Jaffe: You have a rocking PR agency. What’s that as then-architect Ryan Gravel’s proposal that landed on like?

Lapidus: Running a PR firm is a full-time endeav- my friend Cathy Woolard’s desk when she was on City

Council, to what it has become today, which is gamechanging for the city, is nothing short of a miracle. We’ve worked on the BeltLine’s arts initiative and launched a real estate project for it, but mostly I love to walk the block or two from my office and just carve out an hour to explore. I get so much inspiration from it. I also enjoy meeting friends with offices in the neighborhood for a walk meeting instead of, say, a coffee or lunch meeting.

Jaffe: You are known as an avid equestrian. How did that evolve?

Lapidus: I’ve ridden since I was a young child. I was simply born with a passion for horses. I stopped riding when I went to college and picked it up again nearly 20 years ago when I started at Chastain Horse Park. We’re so lucky to have a stable in the heart of Atlanta that provides not just a convenient and excellent facility for folks like me, but also therapeutic riding for people with physical and cognitive disabilities. Watching someone get out of a wheelchair and onto a horse is breathtaking.

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Art consultant Fay Gold found this Israeli sculpture by Boaz Vaadia for the couple. The sketch above is it by Harry Callahan, “Grasses.”

Note that Vaadia also designed the pedestal.

The dining room features the original lighting from the Eden Roc hotel in Miami Beach that Liz’s grandfather, Morris Lapidus, designed. Liz won the large central photograph “Suicide Revenge” in a raffle. The chairs are by Knoll. The chandelier is from Artemide Lighting. The art over the fireplace by Scott Ingram, “Drippers,” is crafted with nail polish.

architect who literally defined Miami Beach’s buildings.

What are your memories of him and what of his did you inherit?

Lapidus: My grandfather was a famous hotel architect the 1950s and 1960s, known for designing the Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana. I used to visit him and my grandmother in their postmodern-designed Miami Beach apartment with mother of pearl walls, Lucite furniture and a winding staircase lined with uplit Venetian glass. It was fabulous.

After a successful career, he retired in relative obscurity. Then, when I graduated from college in the early 1990s, there was a resurgence of his popularity in Europe. Someone had written a book on him and he was to receive an award. My grandmother had just died and, since I didn’t yet have a job, I got to travel with him.

What a gift! We visited London, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and that was the beginning of a great friendship.

For the remaining years of his life, we would spend

hours over dinners, and I got to hear him speak at Yale and join him at a dinner, where he received an American Original award from the Smithsonian. He was a brilliant storyteller and I learned so much from him.

When he died, I inherited some of his original artwork, and of everything in my collections, that’s my favorite.

Jaffe: How would you describe your design style?

What are some of the most unusual pieces you have?

Lapidus: Some of my favorite pieces include my father’s rosewood and marble Knoll desk and credenza, a signed Philippe Starck plastic “Bubble Sofa,” and both the Noguchi coffee table and Knoll Womb chairs that my husband Jeff Levy and I both owned. (Note the expression about great minds running in the same channels.)

Jaffe: You and Jeff combined collections. How did you integrate his photography collection?

Four photographs, “Body Language,” done by Sean Healy speak to Lapidus’ talent in the communication industry.

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Eccentric Acrylic Duo by Tony Hernandez in tomato red tones.

“Spacematic Gun Art” by James Booth in Liz’s office space was from the Mumbo Jumbo restaurant.

Equestrian Lapidus set up this tongue-and-cheek shot of a horse admiring a horse for an ad campaign.

Jeff’s collection includes this stunningly overwhelming photograph of Karl Lagerfeld’s library by Todd Selby.

Lapidus: We combined Jeff’s black and white photography with my contemporary art collection. We both came together with Mid-century modern furniture.

I love collecting vintage and new furniture from the 1950s and 1960s. Now I’ve learned to love his taste and he, mine.

Jaffe: If you could wake up tomorrow and have one new piece, what would it be?

Lapidus: A piece from André Kertész’s “Distortions” series. The work was created at a time when he fled Paris during World War II and settled in New York to a rather cool reception from the art world. He used a fun house mirror to create distorted black and white images of nudes. The work is available at Jackson Fine Art.

Photos by Duane Stork // Morris Lapidus gave Liz this original oil of pianist Arthur Rubinstein in concert performing

for friends and family. An old painting that Grandfather Lapidus chose to repurpose peers through the bottom.

Jaffe: What advice would you give to young folks just starting to collect art?

Lapidus: Jump in and collect what you love. I don’t think I ever intended to collect art, per se. I just bought what I loved. ■

These individual sketches done by Morris Lapidus in Liz’s office were used to create the masterpiece of the large oil painting (above) at home.

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Wedding Announcement Brickman and Freeman

Lori Donna Brickman, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Perry Brickman of Atlanta, married Joseph Maisel Freeman, the son of Alex Freeman and the late Rita Freeman.

Rabbi Daniel Dorsch and Rabbi Shalom Lewis officiated at Congregation Etz Chaim.

Lori is the granddaughter of the late Irving and Rose Berkowitz and the late Paul Meyer and Ida Brickman.

Lori is a community mental health advocate.

Joe is the grandson of the late Joseph and Gussie Maisel and Aaron “Archie” and Ida Freeman. Joe is vice president of employment law at Cox Enterprises, Inc.

Mazel Tov

Jackson Cohen

Jackson, son of Caren and Reese Cohen, for being selected to participate in the 2018-2019 Fulton County Youth Commission.

Ethan Hartz

Ethan, son of Jennifer and Eric Hartz, for being awarded the Etz Chaim emblem from the National Jewish Committee on Scouting.

Rich Katz

On Oct. 11, Rich Katz, a local 1990 graduate in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, was promoted from chief technology officer to president of Elemica.

He has been with the company for more than 16 years and served in many different roles: CTO, senior vice president of product management, and vice president of research and development. Katz's new role focuses on technology strategy and execution.

B’nai Mitzvah

■ Jessie Goldstein, daughter of Debbie Minkin and Bruce Goldstein, on Oct. 20 ■ Toby Zweig, son of Jami Becker and Glen Zweig, on Oct. 20 ■ Sidney Rae Cohen, daughter of Dena and Mark Cohen, on Oct. 20

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2018 Holiday Season at the Cumming Playhouse

An exciting holiday season line-up!

Ticket Information: 770.781.9178 www.playhousecumming.com

Where History and Culture Come to Play 101 School Street, Cumming, GA 30040

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community. For tickets and more information, www.bit.ly/2OXAkFE.

Shabbat, Me & Rabbi G @ the JCC – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 5 to 6 p.m. Activities and crafts followed by songs and blessings with Rabbi Glusman, concluding with a visit from the popular “Weinstein School Shabbat Dinosaur.” Challah and grape juice will be served. Free and open to everyone. For more information and to RSVP, www.bit.ly/2BwiaoZ.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES

Vayeira Friday, October 26, 2018, light candles at 6:33 p.m.

Saturday, October 27, 2018, Shabbat ends at 7:28 p.m.

Chayei Sarah Friday, November 2, 2018, light candles at 6:26 p.m.

Saturday, November 3, 2018, Shabbat ends at 7:21 p.m.

“Little Raindrop Songs” – Marcus

OVS October Shabbat Dinner – Congregation Or VeShalom, 1681 North Druid Hills Road NE, Brookhaven, from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. Experience an array of foods from different countries and conversations with Rabbi Kassorla. No charge for members, $10 for associate members, $20 for nonmembers. Advance RSVP required by Monday, Oct. 22, www.bit.ly/2pLYiWd.

JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, with 3 performances: from 10:30 to 11 a.m.; 12 to 12:30 p.m. and 4 to 4:30 p.m. Combining puppetry, a vibrantly colorful two-dimensional set design, comic performances and catchy pajama-pop, Lullatone, $12 for member child, $14 for member adult, $14 for community child and $16 for community adult. For tickets and more information, www. bit.ly/2xFDqEA.

Congregation Beth Shalom’s Family Fun Day in the Park – Windwood Hollow Park, 4865 Lakeside Drive, Dunwoody, from 12 to 2 p.m. Join Rabbi Zimmerman for an afternoon of fun and games. Bring your favorite kosher dairy dish to share at our pot luck lunch. We will have lots of fun activities for kids of all ages. For more information, www.bethshalom.net.

The Classics Film Club Fall Film Series – “Singing in the Rain”– Mar-

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27

Shabbos Project Community Block Party – Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 Lavista Road, Atlanta, from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join the Toco Hills Jewish community for a mega-Shabbat block party kiddush luncheon. Free. For tickets and more information, www.bit. ly/2CcuiKS.

cus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 1 to 3 p.m. Watch movies from different Jewish directors, and genres, and discuss the techniques and themes that went into producing them. Free for members, $5 for the community.

To register and for more information, www.bit.ly/2AdEotm.

have medical fertility challenges. For tickets and more information, www. bit.ly/2NCn8kS.

Film Screening of “Menashe” – Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. An affirming look at the universal bonds between father and son that also sheds unusual light on a notoriously private community. $10 per ticket. For tickets and more information, www.bit. ly/2PuMpPF.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

2018 AJFF On Campus Film Festival – “Only Human” Film Screening – Emory University, White Hall, Room 208, 301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, from 7 to 10 p.m. This three-day event includes five highly-lauded films from AJFF’s catalog of films previously screened at the annual winter festival. AJFF On Campus will include an Opening Night Spanish cuisine-themed reception, introductory speakers and a select number of post-film Q&A discussions. Free for Emory students, $5 for faculty and $15 for general admission. For more information, https://www.ajff.org/programs/oncampus.

NextGen’s Atlanta’s Nosh to Meet You – From 12 to 1 p.m. Five locations: Your Pie Perimeter, 123 Perimeter Center West, Atlanta; Rising Roll, Wells Fargo Tower, 171 17th St. NW, Atlanta; Newk’s Eatery, 305 Brookhaven Ave., Suite A1100, Atlanta; Panera Bread, 3714 Roswell Road NE, Atlanta; Crema Espresso Gourmet, 2458 Mt Vernon Road, Dunwoody. Meet with fellow young Jewish professionals in your work neighborhood. Free. For more information, www.jewishatlanta.org/.

American Jewish Committee Atlanta’s 2018 National Human Relations Award Dinner Honoring David Abney – Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, 3300 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, with cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner and program at 7 p.m. For tickets and more information, www.bit. ly/2RIOkSc.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29

Book Festival Prologue with Ronen Bergman – “Rise and Kill First” – MarCarnival for a Cause: a JFF FUNdraiser – The Fairmont, 1429 Fair-

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mont Avenue NW, Atlanta, from 6 to 10 p.m. An adult carnival to raise funds for the Jewish Fertility Foundation, which provides financial assistance, educational awareness and emotional support to Atlanta Jewish families who

cus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Ronen Bergman is the senior correspondent for military and intelligence affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest daily paid newspaper, and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he reports on intelligence, national security, terrorism and nuclear issues. $18 for members, $25 for the

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Fran Eizenstat and Eizenstat Family Lecture featuring Mona Golabek’s One Woman’s Journey Through Music – Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Avenue NW, Atlanta, from 7 to 9 p.m. Join world-re-

OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 4 nowned pianist, author and storyteller as she tells the heart-wrenching journey of her mother, Lisa Jura, whose life was saved on the Kindertransport. Free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, Anne Cohen, acohen@aasynagogue.org or 404.603.5754.

9:30 a.m. Twelve fun tournament-style games, catered lunch and more. $36 per person. For more information and to register by Oct. 26, www.bit. ly/2J5dman, or call Carol Helene Urbaitel, 770-399-5300, or Carol Millman, 770-403-0443.

Chavruta Detective – Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Choose a real-life case and work with a study partner to solve it using classical Jewish legal texts and your own detective skills. $36 per person. To register and for more information, www.intownjewishacademy.org/product/detective.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 The New Age of Bullying: What You Need to Know! – Temple Beth Tikvah, 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 non-members. For more information, www.bit.ly/2OvywUj.

Israel Series with Rich Walter –

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Shabbat Yoga – Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, from 10:25 to 11:15 a.m. Join Andrea Jaron, certified yoga instructor, in the Beth Shalom Chapel for an hour of yoga. Bring your yoga mat, a towel and water. All are welcome to join the main service in their yoga attire at 11:15 a.m. Free. For more information, www. bethshalom.net/.

“Growing Pains: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews During Israel’s First Decade” – Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Atlanta, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Join Rich Walter, vice president of Curriculum and Outreach at the Center for Israel Education, for a series of presentations on topics of Israeli life and history this fall. All are welcome. Free. For more information, www.bit.ly/2OxuOtY.

27th Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents Joe Lieberman, “With Liberty and Justice,” with Matt Lieberman, “Lucius” – Sponsored

by Atlanta Jewish Times – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, 8:15 p.m.

Former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman and his son, Matt Lieberman, discuss their books. $18 for members, $25 for the community. For more information and to purchase tickets, www.bit. ly/2yky2ag.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Beth Shalom & ORT Atlanta’s 3rd Annual Mahjong Madness Tournament – Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody,

9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Bullying is a serious topic and affects many of us. Learn the facts. Speak with the experts and community resource organizations. With panel moderator, Mike Petchenik, WSB-TV, North Fulton County bureau chief. $5 suggested donation at door. For more information and to RSVP, www.bit.ly/2vgu7Ji.

27th Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents Izzy Ezagui, “Disarmed,” & Ziv Koren, “Snapshot” – Sponsored by Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces – Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Atlanta, 3:30 p.m.

In Conversation with Michael Morris, owner and publisher, Atlanta Jewish Times and past president, FIDF. $15 for members, $20 for the community. For more information, www.bit. ly/2pZDFpU. ■

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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.

Atlanta Jewish War Veterans Presents: Flags at the Jewish Cemeteries to Remember our Veterans – Crest Lawn Memorial Park, 2000 Marietta Boulevard NW, Atlanta, from 10 to 11 a.m. Flags will be placed on the graves of Jewish veterans in honor of the upcoming Veterans Day weekend.

All are invited to join in this twice-ayear event. Free. For more information, call Robert Max, 770-403-4278, or Barry Benator, 404-395-8065.

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A photo from last year's inaugural Atlanta Downtown Daffodil Dash, which attracts runners and walkers and boosts Holocaust awareness.

Participants in the second annual Downtown Daffodil Dash can bring their dogs on leashes.

Downtown Daffodil Dash Honors Young Holocaust Victims In addition to a traditional race, the second annual Downtown Daffodil Dash 5K in Atlanta Nov. 4 continues the city’s effort to plant daffodils in memory of the children who died in the Holocaust.

The race is part of the worldwide

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Daffodil Project, which aims to plant 1.5 million daffodils, representing the same number of children murdered by the Nazis. The daffodils resemble the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear during that dark period in history. While a

reminder of the past, the flowers return each year as a symbol of hope and resilience, a call to action for the future.

The Daffodil Project also supports children who continue to suffer in humanitarian crises and genocides in the world today.

The Downtown Daffodil Project, is produced annually by the Central Atlanta Progress downtown business association; its nonprofit Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, and Am Yisrael Chai! The latter is a nonprofit that focuses on Holocaust education and genocide awareness.

The downtown Atlanta project began in 2014 with the ceremonial planting of 110,000 daffodil bulbs in Woodruff Park. It has since expanded to 240,000 bulb plantings in city parks, major hotels and land managed by the Georgia Department of Transportation along the Downtown Connector. The daffodils create a “ribbon of consciousness” between the Center for Civil and Human Rights and The King Center.

At the end of the Daffodil Dash this year, participants will receive a daffodil bulb to take home and plant in their own gardens in support of the project.

The race also provides participants with a tour of some of downtown Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods, newest developments, and most iconic landmarks.

“The Downtown Daffodil Project adds meaningful vibrancy to downtown Atlanta each year, and we look forward to producing an event that allows people to experience our neighborhood, Woodruff Park, and the project’s impact,” said A.J. Robinson, president of CAP/ADID. Online registration ends Oct. 31, al-

though walk-up registration can take place the day of the race. Participants have the option to sign up for the timed 5K event for $30 or for a fun run for $25.

Both will follow the same route. Starting at 8:30 a.m., the race will begin at Woodruff Park. Participants are welcome to bring their dogs on leashes to run or walk the route. Strollers are also allowed.

The 2018 Downtown Daffodil Dash is made possible by Delta Air Lines, NCR Corporation and Big Peach Running Co. For more information about the Downtown Daffodil Dash 5K, visit www.DowntownDaffodilDash.com, the Downtown Daffodil Project, www.AtlantaDowntown.com and the Daffodil Project, www. daffodilproject.net. ■

Daffodil Dash participants are welcome to bring strollers on the course.

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Billi Marcus “Behind every great man is a great woman.” The old adage, in this case, applies to Billi Marcus, the young-thinking octogenarian wife of Bernie Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot. Billi steps into our spotlight to explain her passion for animals and winning golf tournaments. Suffice it to say, she’s not in anyone’s shadow.

Get to know her better right here: If you were a 21-year-old young woman today, what career would you choose?

Probably a veterinarian, … definitely a career related to animals.

My favorite creature in the Georgia Aquarium is …

That’s an easy one: belugas. My favorite is Natasha, a female who was traded to San Antonio for a male, who hopefully will mate with her daughter, Marist. Interestingly, I still visit her in Texas.

Billi and Bernie Marcus are credited with donating the major gift that brought the Georgia Aquarium to fruition.

What advice would you give someone learning to play golf?

You have to be determined and put the time in. When I began to play, I put on a golf outfit first thing in the morning to get “into the zone.” I would go to the supermarket and stop at the driving range. I was determined to show my husband that I could raise the low bar he set for me. I shot in the 70s once in a while, then the 80s. Let’s just say I was “hell bent” on playing well!

My comfort food is …

Meat loaf, gravy, mashed potatoes and string beans. A little bit Southern, a little bit Jewish.

Looking back at all your travels, what was your favorite destination?

Italy. … We drove cross country and stopped every two days at a new hotel. My favorite cuisine is hearty Sicilian versus the lighter Milanese dishes.

The last good movie I saw was …

“Three Identical Strangers.” The fact that Jewish therapists separated twins and triplets as a secret experiment was very upsetting and outrageous.

I was last moved to tears when …

I read about a woman running the Freedom Farm, where she trains horses to help rehabilitate veterans.

The most annoying habit my husband has is …

I’ll let you know when I find one!

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As a survivor herself, Billi wears pink for October Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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JNF Golfs for Israel Jewish National Fund-USA’s Southeast region celebrated its 11th annual golf tournament at The Standard Club on Oct. 8. Players came out and discussed Israel, education at the Alexander Muss High School in Israel, and how JNF continues to build the Northern and Southern regions to improve the land and well-being of the people of Israel.

JNF’s next big event is the Jack Hirsch Memorial on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at the Westin Perimeter North Hotel in Atlanta. ■

Board of Trustees member Stan Sunshine, Executive Director Beth Gluck and Board of Trustees member Allan Zachariah enjoyed the day.

en, e B e ’v e W e r e h W : IS M I@ 20 W h e r e W e ’r e G o in g Join Professor Ken Stein and Emory’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel as we celebrate 20 years of ISMI’s work to promote education and scholarship on Israeli culture, history, society, policy and politics. The 20th anniversary weekend Nov. 10 and 11 will explore Israel’s past, present and future, discuss how to sustain the study of Israel at Emory in the decades to come, and include a gala dinner featuring Israeli food and Ethiopian-Israeli singer/songwriter Aveva Dese.

• Israeli Music • Panel Discussions • Saturday Night Gala • Israeli Food • Guest Speakers • Alumni Gathering • Awards/Honors • Intern Presentations • Previous Visiting Professors • ISMI Open House • The Future of ISMI

Get details and tickets for all or part of the celebration at ismi.emory.edu.

All-access pass: $108 ($72 for students) | Saturday gala only: $72 ($36 for students) Saturday discussions: $18 | Sunday discussions (including breakfast and lunch): $36

Everything happens at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead, where rooms are available at a special ISMI group rate.

ISMI’s core mission is to enhance the knowledge and scholarship of Israel and the Middle East on the Emory campus and beyond.

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Executive Director Beth Gluck joined Nolan Siegel, a recent graduate of the Alexander Muss High School in Israel. Siegel shared his experiences from AMHSI-JNF, which he said better prepared him for college and connected him to Israel.

KEEPING IT KOSHER Yiddish Word of the Week balególe Balególe, Yiddish pron. Bah-lay-góo-lay, from the Hebrew ‫ בעל עגלה‬báal ‘agaláh, lit. “cart owner.” Can refer to a coachman transporting people or goods or to a cart-pushing peddler. In its literal meaning, often refers to haulers, movers, cab drivers, etc. The expression can be used with a condescending undertone, implying a simple, unsophisticated or even rough person.

“My sister is marrying Shimele. He’s a good guy, but a bit of a balególe.”

Sweet ‘n Smoky Chicken Legs Cook and prep: 1 hour, 20 minutes Servings: 4 Contains: No Allergens Preference: Meat Difficulty: Easy

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

Jewish Joke of the Week

Although it may sound like a new, hard-to-find, trendy ingredient, silan is just a honey derived from dates and has actually been around for a long time. It has a deeper, more caramel flavor profile than bee honey, much like the taste of dried dates themselves.

Ingredients 6 drumsticks 6 slices smoked meat (Try Montreal-style beef fry) 2 tablespoons Gefen mayonnaise 2 tablespoons Reine de Dijon Dijon mustard 1 1/2 cups bread crumbs 1 cup Galilee’s silan date syrup Preheat oven to 350 F. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise and Dijon mustard.

Pull down the skin on a drumstick, wrap a piece of smoked meat around the chicken, and pull the skin back up to cover.

Spread the mayonnaise-mustard mixture on the chicken skin and then roll the drumstick in bread crumbs.

Place in a baking pan and drizzle generously with silan. Repeat with remaining drumsticks.

Bake covered for 20 minutes, then uncover and bake for another 45 minutes. ■ Source: Family Table of Mishpacha Magazine

Come & Get Me! Isaac and Sarah got married and left on their honeymoon. When they got back, Sarah immediately telephoned her mother, Leah.

“Well,” said Leah, “how was the honeymoon, darling?”

“Oh mum,” Sarah replied, “the honeymoon was fantastic. It was so romantic, and ... and ...”

Then Sarah started to cry. “Oh mum, as soon as we got back, Isaac started using terrible language. He said things I’d never hoped to hear, all those four-letter words. Please mum, get into your car now and come and take me home.”

“Calm down, darling,” Leah said, “tell your mother what could be that awful. Don’t be shy, tell me what four-letter words Isaac used.”

“Please mum, I’m too embarrassed to tell you, they’re terrible words.

Just come and take me away,” Sarah said.

“But bubeleh, you must tell me, you must tell me what the four-letter words were.”

Still crying, Sarah replies, “Oh mum, he used words like WASH, COOK, IRON, DUST, ... “ Joke provided by David Minkoff www.awordinyoureye.com ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES OCTOBER 26, 2018 | 47

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Chabad of Georgia to place a 15-foot-high steel menorah in the Georgia State Capitol rotunda. The 30-page decision overturned a 1991 U.S. District judge’s ruling that the menorah violated the First Amendment separation of religion and state.

The menorah was permitted because the Capitol rotunda is a public forum.

■ Susan N. Schriber Orloff, a senior contract therapist with Advanced Rehabilitation Services in Marietta, was a speaker at the annual Great Southern Occupancy Conference in Charleston, W.V. She spoke on occupational therapy in the schools.

15 Years Ago // October 24, 2003 ■ The AJT featured the East Lake Commons, the “closest thing to a kibbutz in America.” The 20-acre development is home to 67 owners, then the largest co-housing development in the United States. Jews continued to make a marked impact on the community, for example, starting the tradition of building a sukkah on the common land three years ago.

■ The bat mitzvah ceremony of Brittany Reiter of Atlanta was held Oct. 25, 2003 at Congregation B’nai Torah. Brittany is the daughter of Perry and Josie Reiter.

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50 Years Ago // October 25, 1968 ■ The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded last week to 81-year-old Prof. René Cassin, president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris and a well-known figure in world Jewish affairs. Prof. Cassin was chairman of the European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg and a former chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.

■ Mr. and Mrs. Joel J. Alterman of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Lori Francine, on Oct. 25. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Mandel and Mr. and Mrs. William Alterman.

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Irene Bases, 98, of Atlanta, died peacefully Oct. 22, 2018. She was born in 1919 in Krakow, Poland, to Rose and Adolph Spanlang. Irene’s father and brother, Alexander, perished in the Holocaust in 1945. She survived, and after leaving Poland, lived in Israel, France, Belgium and Canada before immigrating to the United States to be near family. Irene was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and will be dearly missed by her family: daughter and son-in-law, Eva and Gary Beldick; grandsons, Jason (Shana) Beldick and Robert (Allison) Beldick; great grandchildren, Jacob, Alyssa, Daron and Joshua.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul, of blessed memory. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum (thebreman.org) or the William Breman Jewish Home (wbjh.org). A graveside service was held Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Joshua Heller officiating.

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Beryl Brown Kramer 93, Atlanta

Beryl Brown Kramer, 93, passed away Oct. 17, 2018, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Born in London, England in 1925, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Ann Brown. She grew up in the West End of London until she met her husband, Milton Kramer, of blessed memory, who was stationed with the U.S. Army in England during World War II. She became a British war bride, arriving in Atlanta in 1946.

She was a loving and wonderful mother, wife and homemaker, known for turning her European recipes into amazing meals, for her love of desserts, and serving three or more on any given Friday night. She was a gracious, lovely and strong woman who preserved her British character and passed it along to her children and grandchildren. She maintained close relationships with her family in England despite living an ocean away and, at the beginning, without the use of long-distance calling.

Beryl was preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Milton, and brother, Kenneth Brown. She leaves behind her daughter, Carol Young; sons, Dr. Gerald (Jan) Kramer and Dr. Russell (Cheryl) Kramer; and grandchildren, Joshua, Matthew, Adam, Paul and Zachary; sister and brother-in-law, Pauline and Tony Israel; as well as many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

The family wishes to thank her four “angel” caregivers: Arlene, Helen, Miatta and Miriam for providing compassionate and wonderful care for the past nine years.

A graveside service was held at Arlington Memorial Park Oct. 21, 2018. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, 770-451-4999. Sign online guest book at www.edressler.com.

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■ Judy Abroms, 88, died Thursday, Oct. 18, after a courageous battle with dementia. She will be missed and lovingly remembered by many Temple Sinai members: daughters Candy (Steve) Berman and Gina (Pete) Genz; grandchildren, Justin (Mara) Berman, Alyza (Justin) Milrad, Lila (Steven) Fair, and Rebecca (Geoff) Ogrin; and great grandchildren, Ella, Avery and Davis Berman, Kayla, Ethan and Talia Milrad, Blakely and Devyn Fair, Michael and Julia Genz, and Mason and Charlotte Ogrin. ■

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Do a Mitzvah, Lose a Friend An unusual action results in unexpected consequences.

I was at work in the synagogue office preparing a board presentation. The office was unusually busy, and the phone was ringing off the hook. Something must have happened, but I was determined to stay focused, finish my task and Chana get home for a quiet dinner Shapiro with my husband.

The receptionist turned to me, “Chana, this call’s for you!”

My friend, Malka, never phoned me at work. “Sorry to bother you,” she apologized. “I had to catch you before you leave. Dave’s back in the hospital, and things look grim.”

“Not again!” I moaned. Dave had been in remission for a while, but this was his third hospitalization. Twice, there had been a massive outpouring of prayer and tzedakah in the hopes that our community could affect the outcome. And whether we were responsible for averting God’s apparent plan or not, it seemed to help before. Now what?

I admired and respected Dave. He

and his wife were great parents, dependable and energetic volunteers at shul and their kids’ schools, and generous supporters of myriad communal efforts. When called to help others, Dave always said “yes.”

In situations like this, it was common for our congregation to gather in prayer and to give tzedakah in an effort to sway God with our group action. We hoped our earnest mitzvot “below” would be rewarded with compassion from “above.”

Malka told me that people were planning to recite psalms at the hospital that evening. She and I wondered if there was something else we could do when Ruth, a new synagogue member, burst into the office. She knew Dave and his wife because they had welcomed and helped her family when they arrived in Atlanta. Now Ruth wanted to organize a mitzvah project from her former synagogue. I put her on speakerphone so Malka could listen.

Neither of us had heard of her idea.

“Everybody knows the damage of gossip, right?” Ruth asked. “What if a

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We’ll contact as many people as we can.

Each person will select two hours of the day during which we will neither speak nor listen to gossip.”

“For how long? Days? Weeks?

Months?” I asked, skeptically.

“However long it takes,” Ruth answered, bluntly.

That evening, while one group was at the hospital, more than 20 of us met at shul. Ruth explained the plan and people readily selected their two hours. I signed up, too. It couldn’t hurt.

I had to be honest. If I really wanted to be part of pumping up the mitzvah power aimed heavenward, I had to pick my major gossip hours: 5 to 7 p.m. This is when I was often in my office and when I had my heaviest phone and email chatting.

My office phone rang the next day, just after 6 p.m. It was Sue, eager to entertain me with a report of an embarrassing situation concerning a mutual friend.

Oy! “Sue, I can’t listen to that,” I said, feeling uncomfortable.

“Why not? It’ll crack you up. She’s such a ditz!”

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“I agreed to refrain from speaking or listening to gossip,” I explained. For some reason I didn’t understand, I didn’t offer to call her back after 7 p.m.

“Is this some kind of woo-woo Orthodox thing?” Sue asked, sarcastically.

“A group of us are doing this because a wonderful man is really sick. Maybe we can change his fate by changing ourselves. I don’t know how this works, but I’m doing it.”

“Chana, what’s happening to you!

What’s wrong with laughing at the nutty people we know?”

“I’m not going to talk about them.

Let’s talk about something else.”

“Like what? Kosher recipes? You know what, Chana? You’re a religious fanatic! When you come back to your senses, call me. In the meantime, I’m giving our friendship a break. Goodbye, former normal person!”

Good grief! I used to love the fact that Sue never hid her feelings.

Dear reader, I’m sure you have questions. No, Sue and I are no longer good friends. Yes, Dave’s still alive; and as for gossip, I’m working on it. ■

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