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VOL. XCII NO. 42
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OCTOBER 27, 2017 | 7 CHESHVAN 5778
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Celebration Of Education
The long-awaited day arrived for Atlanta Jewish Academy on Oct. 17: move-in for the new Upper School building. “I walked from my office and headed down to what used to be the ‘hard hat zone.’ All that covered my head this Tuesday was my kippah,” AJA’s head of school, Rabbi Ari Leubitz, wrote in his weekly message to the school. “As I approached the Upper School, I almost expected to hear the sounds of hammers, drills, saws and machines — but they were now thankfully replaced with an (equally as noisy, but much more pleasant!) orchestra of voices in our Student Commons.” You can see the joy of the students and staff at the academy’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/AtlJewishAcademy. AJA is dedicating the building at its L’Chaim event Sunday, Oct. 29, at 6 p.m.; tickets are $100 at bit.ly/2xjENXo. If you miss that chance, the school is holding a ribbon-cutting at noon Sunday, Nov. 12, at the start of its Jaguar Games. Read more about education in this week’s special section, Pages 17-30: • Former Consul General Reda Mansour is back to teach at Emory, Page 17. • Protests are supposed to spark anger, a 1960s Freedom Rider tells Weber School students, Page 22. • Opening the Boy Scouts to girls draws criticism, Page 28. ■
Top photo by Eric Bern
Jewish Atlanta’s BBQ Paradise
The fifth annual Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival drew more than 5,500 people to Dunwoody’s Liane Levetan Park at Brook Run on Sunday, Oct. 22, to enjoy some of the finest kosher barbecue the South has to offer. Twenty-three teams fired up the grills to see who could make the best brisket, ribs, chicken and beans at the Hebrew Order of David-organized event. Shiksa Q & Stu was declared the grand champion with a first-place score in brisket and fourth in ribs. Blue Crew BBQ, the team from the Cobb County Police Department, took first in ribs and won the Servicemen’s Cup, a prize for the top team among fire and police teams. Oseh Shalow & Slow captured first place in beans, and the BBQ’N Hebrew Hillbillies got first in chicken, team name and booth. Chick-Oy-Vey won the Marvin Rembo People’s Choice Award. Although the AJT’s Meat the Press team did not finish first in any category, AJT Publisher Michael Morris was awarded the Enoch Goodfriend Mensch of the Meat Award. Visit atlantajewishtimes.com for more BBQ photos.
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FOR ALL AGES
What do a 79-year-old Supreme Court justice and a 9-year-old schoolgirl have in common? Both are Jewish authors speaking at the Book Festival, and both talked to us first. Pages 32-34