Atlanta Jewish Times, Vol. XCI No. 10, March 11, 2016

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Wrapped in MitzvotPhotos by Duane Stork

Chabad Intown’s first Big Wrap draws scores of men to the Selig Center in Midtown on Wednesday morning, May 2, to lay tefillin, pray, offer tzedakah, learn some Torah from Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman, gain some

insight into living Jewishly in a non-Jewish world from Doug Ross, and, of course, eat. More, 3

InsIde: Camp speCIal seCtIon, pages 17-24INCLUSIVECamp Ramah Da-rom’s Tikvah pro-gram, entering its second year, fully em-braces special needs campers. Page 18

ATHLETICFor the sports star or wannabe athlete in many kids, 6 Points Sports Academy lights up the Jewish score-board. Page 20

MUSICALJudaic Mosaic is get-ting in tune with ex-pansion and keeping the beat in Baltimore as well as Atlanta this summer. Page 22

RABBI E’S HONORWords, hugs and Oreos pay tribute to the Estreichers at Beth Jacob. Page 4

MILLENNIAL ASKApproaching age 30, the Atlanta Scholars Kollel cel-ebrates learning by a younger generation. Page 14

NAZARETH TECHAlpha Omega’s co-founder dreams of an Israel where her children want to stay. Page 32

ARTISTIC VIEWThe only thing as stunning as the panorama from Donna and Michael Coles’ high-rise is the art inside. Page 34

Four of the 50 most innovative Jew-ish organizations in North America are based in Atlanta, according to

the 2016 Slingshot Guide.Days before the start of its seventh

spring festival, the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival joined two-time honorees Jew-ish Kids Groups, JScreen and SOJOURN, Slingshot revealed Monday, March 7.

In adding the AJMF, the guide cites its expansion into a year-round, regional force working with partners and leading the charge on the South’s Jewish cultural scene. One evaluator wrote that the orga-nization “is truly meeting a population where they are and giving them a posi-tive, creative outlet for expression.”

The four very different Atlanta non-profit groups on the list were selected from more than 230 nominees that were

Atlanta Innovation Honored Nationallyevaluated from June through December.

The Slingshot Foundation began rec-ognizing Jewish innovation and judging organizations’ impact and leadership in 2005 in an effort to help funders add cre-ative, effective recipients to their giving.

“Slingshot is the stamp of approval for innovation in the Jewish world. Jew-ish Kids Groups is honored to be select-ed,” said JKG’s founder and executive di-rector, Ana Robbins.

She, SOJOURN’s Rebecca Stapel-Wax and the AJMF’s Russell Gottschalk were among the 25 nonprofit innovators the AJT recognized in July.

“These organizations and projects are being run by passionate and dedi-cated professionals whose tireless efforts are making the Jewish world a better place for everyone,” Slingshot Executive

Director Stefanie Rhodes wrote.Among Slingshot’s reasons for keep-

ing the three repeat honorees on the list:• JKG’s “disruptive innovation” is

changing Jewish education by making it fun, interactive and relevant for children and parents and in the process is con-necting with interfaith families.

• JScreen has tested more than 4,000 people in less than three years to see whether they carry genetic diseases, us-ing partnerships with organizations old (Hadassah) and new (Moishe House).

• SOJOURN does more work in sui-cide prevention than any other Jewish LGBTQ organization in the United States and has been instrumental in blocking religious liberty legislation so far.

• SOJOURN off Ponce, Page 6• JKG’s UpStart upshot, Page 24

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Shared SpiritBy Rachel [email protected]

OPENING IDEAS

Do you remember loving the seesaw as a child? To be honest, I never enjoyed the feeling

of hovering midair, feet dangling unsteadily. And the moment my feet touched terra firma and I felt that surge of relief, back up I went.

That wavering sensa-tion seems an apt analogy to describe my current emotions. Pondering my dilemma, I sometimes feel up, floating high on the verge of making a deci-sion — a good, honorable, correct decision. Other times I plummet downward, and once my feet are planted on the ground, I realize that the decision isn’t practical, realistic or livable.

So, dear readers, are you ready? Here’s the story, and I hope you will have wisdom to share. My father-in-law is up in years, and my husband and I are considering opening our home for him to move in with our family. He has dropped comments about being lonely, sharing how much he would love to be surrounded by family. Thankfully, he is in good health and would be fairly independent.

Two of our four children still live at home, both of them teenagers, so it is a relatively calm point in our lives to consider this possibility. They’re both easygoing kids, so I think they would be OK with the arrangement. Of course, we will discuss it with them and prepare them as best we can if we decide to follow through. We feel strongly that elderly parents deserve respect, and consigning them to assisted living or nursing homes is tantamount to shirking our filial responsibility. After all, we hope our children will vie for the privilege of hosting us if and when the time comes and not look at us as a burden. (Hear that, kids?)

The advantages are obvious. What an example we would set for our children! The best way to teach is by modeling, right? And I have ideas for how Dad could stay busy. He could get involved in numerous senior citizen groups so he wouldn’t be bored. There are some nice Jewish schools in our area, and Dad could tutor as a volun-teer or for pay — he has always loved kids — and what a win-win that would be. The students would certainly gain from his knowledge and patient man-ner, and he would feel productive. He could even start an after-school chess club — Dad is a master chess player.

But I can’t help wondering and

worrying about how things will be down the road. What if Dad’s health declines and he needs more help? Will we be able to hire someone, or will the responsibility fall on our shoulders? Even though he’s in good health and I pray that it continues, many older

people seem to take up residence in doctors’ offices. Who, pray tell, will take Dad to all of his appointments? You got it: yours truly. Gulp.

And if you tell me not to live in the future, to focus on the here and now, I still have issues weighing on me. What of the invasion to our privacy? That’s pretty major. I like to come home after work and have the house to myself, even for a short period. It’s critical time I use to unwind, enabling me to recharge to take care of the myriad responsibilities involved in running a home.

And if Dad moves in? I will have to greet him and ask whether he needs anything the moment I walk through the door, right? Isn’t that what a good daughter-in-law and hostess should do? I will have to ask about his day, and he will probably want to hear about mine. And before I know it, my quiet time will go up in smoke, and ravenous husband and children will enter, craving supper and attention. I can already feel the tension slithering up my body.

So I know it’s the right thing to do. Can we measure the hours and years Dad put into rearing his children? How about all of the effort he invested in providing for the family’s needs? Don’t we owe this to him for being there for us when we needed him?

Of course we should open our home and hearts and take the plunge; what is the question? I don’t know if I’ll be able to live with myself other-wise; guilt takes up a lot of headspace. But if this move is as hard as I think it might be, I don’t know if I’ll be able to live with myself anyway.

So I’m stuck. It’s your good, old Catch-22. Does anyone have any sage advice so I can dismount this seesaw?

Dear Readers: Your comments are welcome and greatly appreciated. Kindly respond by Monday, March 14, for inclusion in the next column. ■

Riding the Seesaw

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LOCAL NEWS www.atlantajewishtimes.com

By R.M. Grossblatt

About 400 people attended Con-gregation Beth Jacob’s dinner of honor for Rabbi Daniel and

Bluma Estreicher on Sunday, Feb. 28.Rabbi Ilan Feldman welcomed

guests to the Toco Hills synagogue’s Heritage Hall from Atlanta Jewish Academy, many of whom he saw that morning at the groundbreaking for the expansion of AJA’s Sandy Springs cam-pus. He expressed the hope that AJA’s consolidation at one site “will create the kind of people that the Estreichers are.”

Rabbi Feldman described the hon-orees as devoted to HaShem and their home as the Beis Hamikdash (Holy Tem-ple) of Atlanta. “They bring the kiss of heaven to us on Earth.”

Rabbi E’s students from Yeshiva Atlanta (now the AJA Upper School) praised his influence.

Alan Minsk, Class of 1985, told the rabbi, “You’re a huge role model for me; you’ve touched my life.”

Dr. Yosef (Kevin) Rodbell, Class of 1993, talked about the Estreichers’ memorable Friday night onegs, which he compared to a Norman Rockwell painting.

Josh Joel, Class of 2002, shared what it meant to him when Rabbi E, recovering from knee surgery, traveled out of town and danced at his wedding.

Jesse Cann, Class of 2016, present-ed his rebbe with a huge box of cook-ies for his after-school Torah learning sessions.

Beth Jacob Associate Rabbi Ye-chezkel Freundlich said 1,000 to 1,500 students have been taught by Rabbi E, and about 25,000 meals have been served at the Estreicher home. “It’s mind-boggling. And they do it with a smile, warmth, love and a tremendous amount of humility.”

Representing the Estreicher chil-dren, Rabbi Naphtali Estreicher asked, “What motivates our parents?” He answered by referring to the Jewish ancestors, starting with Abraham and Sarah, who were devoted to spreading the word of G-d.

“We can accomplish a lot,” he said, “but we’re not at the center. HaShem is at the center.”

The son said his parents believe in being zealous and humble while al-ways remembering who is in charge. “Every Jew is needed to accomplish this closeness to G-d.”

In his response to the evening, Rabbi E said, “We’re overwhelmed.”

When he recognized his wife by saying, “I could never do this without my soulmate,” the standing ovation lasted several minutes while Bluma sat smiling.

One of the most important mes-sages of the evening came when Rabbi

The Kiss of Heaven at Beth JacobEstreicher shared his view of raising children. “Never give up,” he said. “We must love our children for who they are” and find ways to give them what they need.

He repeated a well-known Torah saying: “Educate the child according to his way.”

“Never does the Torah say, ‘Give up and disregard the child,’ ” he said. At the end of his speech, he praised Beth Jacob for its role in the community, adding his well-known, humorous insights at Gematria (Jewish number mysticism).

Rabbi Akiva Gross started the Birkat Hamazon (the blessing after the meal), then handed the microphone to Rabbi E, his father-in-law. As everyone joined in the singing of the last stanzas, followed by the Yeshiva Atlanta Lions fight song, it was almost like being a student sitting around the Estreichers’ Shabbat table, receiving a kiss from heaven. ■

Photo by Channah GarfinkelSome family members and out-of-town guests attend

the Beth Jacob dinner of honor Feb. 28.

Atlanta Jewish Academy senior Jesse Cann shares what the Estreichers have done for him and presents Rabbi E a large box of Oreos for his after-school learning group.

Rabbi Daniel and Bluma Estreicher are the center of attention at the

Beth Jacob honor dinner.

Photos by R.M. Grossblatt Rabbi Ilan Feldman speaks

about the Estreichers.

(From left) Debbie Derby, Bluma Estreicher, Linda Rabinowitz and Beth Shapiro attend the dinner.

Alan Minsk, a 1985 graduate of Yeshiva Atlanta, talks about his high

school teacher Rabbi Estreicher.

Rabbi Ilan Feldman congratulates Rabbi Daniel Estreicher after

presenting him a challah board as part of the community’s gift.

Rabbi Naphtali Estreicher represents his siblings in paying tribute to their parents.

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10 Years AgoMarch 10, 2006■ More than 900 Atlanta-area Jews skipped Joan Rivers and the Oscars red carpet Sunday night, March 5, so they could attend the Atlanta Scholars Kollel’s Jewish Unity Live at the InterContinental in Buckhead and honor Lynda Walker for her involvement in the Jewish community and for her hosting of one of the longest-running home study groups in Atlanta (17 years with Rabbi Dave Silverman).

■ Harvey and Jacquie Sacks of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy, and Aaron Zeide, son of Boris and Elizabeth Zeide of Monticello, Ark. An August wedding is planned.

25 Years AgoMarch 8, 1991■ Camp Barney Medintz is holding an open house at the Zaban branch of the Atlanta Jewish Community Center for

any family who has a child with special needs and interest in an overnight camp experience. The camp is welcoming such children after a successful two-week experiment last summer with Evan Nodvin, a 12-year-old with Down syn-drome who had never been able to find an overnight camp.

■ The b’nai mitzvah of brothers Yehuda Menachem Spec-tor and Dovid Mordecai Spector will take place at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at Beth Jacob Synagogue.

50 Years AgoMarch 11, 1966■ “The Largest Linen Closet in the World,” that of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusa-lem, will benefit from the Purim Shower being held by the Atlanta Chapter of Hadassah at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, at the Progressive Club. The program will feature fashions designed and executed by the students of Hadassah’s Alice Seligsberg Vocational High School for Girls in Jerusalem.

■ Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Winter of Cumming announce the birth of a daughter, Janet Ellen, on March 3.

Remember When

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Purim off Ponce, the primary annual fundraiser for SOJOURN: Southern Jewish Re-source Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity, was once again a hit Saturday night, March 5. The safari-themed costume party at Le Fais do-do in West Midtown marked 10

years of a celebration that began as Purim on Ponce but grew too big to stay on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The evening’s honoree was Jeff Graham, the executive director of Georgia Equality, who was presented with the Michael Jay Kinsler Rainmaker Award for his longtime support of SOJOURN.

AJT contributor Dave Schechter and his wife, AIB’s Audrey Galex,

are spotted in the crowd.

Purim off Ponce Goes WildSOJOURN celebrates 10 years of Purim parties

Photos by David R. CohenSOJOURN Education Director Robbie Medwed (far right), celebrating the evening’s theme with a cheetah print suit, parties with (from left) David Goldberg, Jessica Goldberg,

Laura Beth Summerfield and Danny Summerfield.

A sign next to a costumed statue joins the campaign against religious liberty bills. Joined by SOJOURN, honoree Jeff Graham has led the fight against such

legislation for potentially justifying discrimination against the LGBT

community, single parents and others.

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival Executive Director Russell Gottschalk

(right) channels his inner Fred Flintstone next to Scott Spencer.

Joined by his mother, Lynie Williams (left), Carla Johnson, and his husband,

Peter Stinner (right), honoree Jeff Graham makes the scene in full safari garb.

Tasty hamantaschen prove popular at the party.

Epstein School Head of School David Abusch-Magder and his wife, Rabbi

Ruth Abusch-Magder, don’t have to stretch to make matching giraffe

costumes fit the wild theme.

Partygoers on the dance floor enjoy the tribal beats provided by the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival.

Rabbis Unite for LearningThe Atlanta Rabbinical Associa-

tion is planning a yom iyun, or day of Torah learning, that is free and open to the community Sunday, March 27, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Weber School in Sandy Springs.

The first-of-its-kind community event is an opportunity for all to come together in festive study. “The yom iyun is a chance to sample some of the best teaching Atlanta has to offer,” Congre-gation B’nai Torah Rabbi Joshua Heller said. “What’s special about it is that it is a collaborative effort of rabbis of differ-ent streams and approaches. It shows that Jews with different points of view can learn with and from each other.”

The topics range from Israel to bioethics to Jewish-Christian relations. Some classes go deep on specific texts, such as Psalm 23, while others tackle broad topics, such as Judaism’s great debates.

Participants can take three classes, choosing among as many as 10 options per time slot. An attendee could start with a class on the Jewish themes in the Amazon series “Transparent,” move on

to an exploration of heaven and hell, and end with a discussion of Torah and parenting.

“Most people have a chance to learn from their own rabbis, but this event will allow them to learn from rab-bis they don’t necessarily know well. And new perspectives can only enrich all of us,” said Temple Sinai Rabbi Brad Levenberg, who is teaching “Music on the Binding of Isaac: Leonard Cohen and More.”

The roster of teachers includes some rabbis who work in organiza-tions, schools or independently rather than in synagogues.

The yom iyun idea came up in Oc-tober at the ARA retreat, sponsored by the Marcus Foundation. After spend-ing three days studying Torah togeth-er, the rabbis wanted to build on that experience communitywide. Reform, Orthodox, Reconstructionist and Con-servative — Sephardi and Ashkenazi — value Jewish text and learning.

Congregation Or Hadash Rabbi Analia Bortz, who is chairing the event, said not only is the yom iyun “a great opportunity to hear the many voices

of Judaism, but it also creates a sacred space and time filled with kedushah under the big umbrella of a living cov-enant.”

Register for the free gathering at atlantayomiyun.eventbrite.com.

JF&CS Set to Break GroundJewish Family & Career Services

plans to break ground on the $5.5 mil-

lion next phase of its Dunwoody head-quarters on Thursday, March 17, short-ly after holding its annual meeting over lunch that day at Congregation B’nai Torah.

The successful capital campaign is enabling the agency to consolidate operations on its Chamblee-Dunwoody Road campus in upgraded facilities that JF&CS CEO Rick Aranson said will equal the level of the services provided.

Food and Fun for JF&CSPhoto courtesy of JF&CS

(From left) Ethan Milrad, Tomer Hakimovitch and Benjamin Kaiser take a snack break during Artscape, which drew more than 300 people and raised more than $23,500 for

Jewish Family & Career Services’ counseling services Sunday, Feb. 21, at Sensations Therafun. Liann Baron and Rabbi Brad Levenberg of Temple Sinai chaired the event.

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Georgia’s presidential primary has come and gone, but the pri-mary election for the U.S. Sen-

ate, congressional districts, the state legislature, judgeships from State Court to Georgia Supreme Court, and various county offices is scheduled for Tuesday, May 24.

Candidate qualifying for all those offices began Monday, March 7, and was due to end Friday, March 11, long after the AJT went to press. You can find who has signed up to run for any office through Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s website at elections.sos.ga.gov/GAElection/CandidateDetails.

A few interesting notes from the first day of qualifying:

• Both of the Jewish members of the General Assembly, Rep. Michele Hen-son and Sen. Renee Unterman, are run-ning for re-election. Henson, a Stone Mountain Democrat, has at least one challenger in the 86th District, Demo-crat Joscelyn O’Neil, whose experience on her website includes serving as president of the Greater Towers Com-munity Association. As of this writing, Unterman, a Buford Republican, was unopposed.

• No new Jewish candidates for the legislature have yet emerged.

• As expected, two Jewish can-didates have filed to replace retiring Judge Wendy Shoob on the Fulton County Superior Court — Andrew Margolis and Gary Alembik. Also filing for that spot on the bench so far is Eric Dunaway. At least two other Superior Court judgeships appear to be open, al-though those races also are contested.

• Among other Jewish judges seek-ing re-election are Mike Jacobs and Dax Lopez on the DeKalb County State Court, J. Stephen Schuster on the Cobb County Superior Court, and Jeryl Deb-ra Rosh of the DeKalb Probate Court.

• U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson faces re-election challenges in the primary and the general election. Republican Der-rick Grayson of Redan and Democrats Cheryl Copeland of Hiram and James Knox, an Air Force veteran, have quali-fied.

• For all the hubbub over Rep. Tom-my Benton’s defense of the Ku Klux Klan, no one has rushed to challenge the Jefferson Republican for the Dis-trict 31 seat. Benton himself didn’t file on Day 1. The picture no doubt will be different by the end of the day Friday. ■

Henson Draws Challenger

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CALENDAR www.atlantajewishtimes.com

THURSDAY, MARCH 10“Annie.” Atlanta Jewish Academy stu-dents perform the musical at 7 p.m. at 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs. Shows also are March 13 at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door; www.atljewishacademy.org/index.php/upcomingevents.

Adult education. Rabbi Rick Harkavy responds to the question “Did the Exo-dus really occur?” at 7 p.m. at Congre-gation B’nai Israel, 1633 Highway 54 East, Fayetteville. Free for members, $18 for nonmembers; bnai-israel.net.

Elder care workshop. The Intown Jew-ish Academy, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown, offers Jewish perspectives and guidance on caring for parents at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $18; 404-898-0434 or www.intownjewishacademy.org.

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. The Ha-dar Noiberg Trio opens the seventh fes-tival with shows at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Steve’s Live Music, 234 Hilder-brand Drive, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $10 to $20; www.steveslivemusic.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. The Ha-dar Noiberg Trio joins the band at Con-gregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, for a 6:30 p.m. jazz service. Free; www.atlantajmf.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Folk singer Joe Buchanan joins local musi-cians at 5 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 1580 Spalding Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; www.atlantajmf.org.

Art auction. Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, holds an art auction with wine and appetizers at 7 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance, $25 at the door; www.bethtikvah.com.

FIDF fundraiser. The Southeast Region of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces holds its young leadership casino night at 8:30 p.m. at the Westside Cultural Arts Center, 760 10th St., West Mid-town. Tickets are $60 in advance or $70 at the door; fidfseylcasino.splashthat.com or 678-250-9027.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13“Israel: A People and a Land.” Rabbi Harvey Winokur discusses historical and current events at 9 a.m. at Temple Kehillat Chaim, 1145 Green St., Roswell. Free; [email protected] or 703-641-8630.

Family Purim experience. Congrega-

tion Ariel, 5237 Tilly Mill Road, Dun-woody, teaches children ages 5 to 12 and their parents about Purim at 11 a.m. Those in costume get prizes. The fee is $15 per family; www.congariel.org or 770-390-9071.

Hunger Walk/Run. The fundraiser for the Atlanta Community Food Bank starts with registration and entertain-ment at noon, followed by the 5K walk and run at 2 p.m., at Turner Field’s Green Lot, 755 Hank Aaron Drive, downtown. The AJMF All-Stars, featur-ing Sammy Rosenbaum, perform along the route. Registration is $25 to walk or $35 to run in advance or $5 more the day of the event; www.acfb.org.

Israeli film screening. Greater Atlanta Hadassah’s Mount Scopus Group opens its 2016 Israel Film Festival at 1:15 p.m. by showing “The Human Resources Manager,” which won five Israeli Acad-emy Awards. The event includes kosher snacks and a sale of Silpada jewelry. Admission is $12; RSVP for the address to Edie Barr at [email protected] or 404-325-0340 by March 10.

Hamantaschen workshop. The Mar-cus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, teaches children the history and making of the Purim treats at 2 p.m. Admission is $20 for JCC members, $30 for nonmembers; register by March 11 at www.atlantajcc.org/hamantashen-workshop-for-kids or 678-812-3971.

Mussar program. “Seeking Everyday Holiness in Recovery” provides a prac-tical introduction to the teachings and practices of Mussar every other Sunday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Temple Kehillat Chaim, 1145 Green St., Roswell, with no Hebrew required. The cost is $45; RSVP to [email protected].

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Klezmer Local 42 performs at Congre-gation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Cha-pel Road, Dunwoody, at 7:30 p.m. Free; www.atlantajmf.org.

Concert for women. Israeli singer In-bar Tabib performs at Congregation Ariel, 5227 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, for Kollel Ner Hamizrach’s Atlanta Jewish Experience at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20; [email protected] or atlan-tajewishexperience.org. MONDAY, MARCH 14Women’s class. The Rosh Chodesh So-ciety, an educational series for women, continues at 7:30 p.m. with a session on “Architecture: Edifice & Environment”

at the Intown Jewish Academy, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown. The cost is $10; www.intownjewishacademy.org or 404-898-0434.

TUESDAY, MARCH 15Holiday class. Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta, focuses on the Purim party at its week-ly Babyccino class for children through age 2½ and their moms at 11:30 a.m. Ad-mission is $12; [email protected].

Mussar series. Steve Chervin leads “The Mussar Salon” at 4:30 p.m. every Tuesday through May 10, except April 26, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. The series is $125 per person or $225 per couple; [email protected] or 678-596-1529.

Fighting terrorism in court. The Jew-ish Women’s Connection of Atlanta hosts Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the founder of Shurat HaDin, at 8 p.m. at Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 North-land Drive, Sandy Springs. Admission is $25 ($10 more for CLE credit); www.jwcatlanta.org/events.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16Grant Park tour. The Breman Museum leads a Jewish history tour of Grant Park, starting at the Atlanta Preserva-tion Center, 327 St. Paul Ave., at 10:30 a.m. as part of the 13th annual Phoenix Flies. Free; www.thebreman.org.

Temple tour. A guided tour of The Tem-ple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown, be-gins at 2 p.m. for the Atlanta Preserva-tion Center’s Phoenix Flies. Free; www.atlantapreservationcenter.com.

Winkler signing. Actor/director Henry Winkler and writing partner Lin Oliver talk about and sign the newest book in their “Here’s Hank” children’s series, “You Can’t Drink a Meatball Through a Straw,” at 7 p.m. at the Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore St. Free; www.littleshop-ofstories.com/events.php.

THURSDAY, MARCH 17Chevra Kadisha dinner. The annual Zayin Adar gathering for members and prospective members of Chevra Kadis-ha societies is at 6:30 p.m. at Congrega-tion Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, with speaker Rabbi Reuven Stein of the Atlanta Kashruth Commission. Free; RSVP to Fred Glus-man at [email protected].

“Book Thief” 10th anniversary. Au-thor Markus Zusak discusses the novel at 7 p.m. at the Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; www.little-shopofstories.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 18Rashi’s yahrzeit. Led by Chabad of North Fulton Rabbi Hirshy Minkow-icz, families travel to New York for the weekend to mark Rashi Minkowicz’s second yahrzeit. The cost is $150 plus airfare; www.chabadnf.org.

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Ruach Shabbat at Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, starts at 6:30 p.m. with the congregation’s musi-cians. Free; www.atlantajmf.org.

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Chant Shabbat, featuring Gayanne Guerin, Will Robertson and Sunmoon Pie, starts at 7:30 p.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. Free; www.atlantajmf.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 19Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Chant Shabbat, featuring Gayanne Guerin, Will Robertson and Sunmoon Pie, starts at 10 a.m. at Congregation Bet Haverim, 2074 LaVista Road, Toco Hills. Free; www.atlantajmf.org.

Jewish gangsters. Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, launches its Kiddush U education series with Rich Walter dis-cussing “Kosher Nostra — History of the Jews in the Mob” at 12:30 p.m. Free; bethshalomatlanta.org/kiddush-u.

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Andrew & Polly perform two children’s con-certs, at 5:30 and 7 p.m., at Venkman’s, 740 Ralph McGill Blvd., downtown. Free; www.atlantajmf.org.

Casino night. Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs, offers games, drinks, music, and live and si-lent auctions at 7 p.m. as it tries to raise the remaining money required to pay off its mortgage. Tickets are $100 ($50 for those 36 and under); www.tem-plesinaiatlanta.org by March 9.

Purim Spiel. Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 University Drive, Morn-ingside, presents “$25,000 PURIMid,” along with Havdalah, drinks and des-serts, at 8 p.m. Free; RSVP to [email protected].

Corrections & ClarificationsThe University of Georgia organization Students Supporting Israel was mis-

identified in an article March 4.

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Send items for the calendar to [email protected]. Find more events at atlantajewishtimes.com/events-calendar.

SUNDAY, MARCH 20Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Andrew & Polly highlight the Purim family concert at 10 a.m. at the Marcus Jew-ish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Free; www.atlanta-jcc.org/family-purim-concert.

Cancer fundraiser. The Ovarian Cycle Ride, raising money for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, starts at 11 a.m. at Life Time Athletic Atlanta, 5580 Ros-well Road, Sandy Springs. Registration is $50 (free for cancer survivors); bit.ly/1QjUC2s.

Family Purim celebration. Temple Si-nai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs, starts with a Megillah reading and sensory-sensitive reading at 10:15 a.m. and continues with a carnival from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is $10 per child 3 and older (food is extra); templesina-iatlanta.org/worship/purim.

Purim parade. Congregation Beth Ja-cob holds the community Purim pa-rade at 11 a.m. from the Toco Hill Shop-ping Center to Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills. Enter a float — which can be a truck, a car or a group walking with a banner — at bit.ly/1QmNYs2. Free; [email protected] or 404-633-0551, ext. 233.

Purim carnival. Congregation Beth Ja-cob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, holds a festival from noon to 3 p.m. Free; www.bethjacobatlanta.org/purim.

Purim carnival. Ahavath Achim Syna-gogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buck-head, holds a carnival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $10 per child or $25 per family for members or $15 per child or $35 per family for nonmembers; aas-ynagogue.org/worship/holidays.html.

Family Purim party. Jewish Kids Groups and Brookhaven Bayit @ OVS hold a Purim party from noon to 1 p.m. at Congregation Or VeShalom, 1681 North Druid Hills Road, Brookhaven. Free; www.jewishkidsgroups.com/pu-rim-party-2016.html.

Open house. Berman Commons, 2026 Womack Road, Dunwoody, celebrates its first anniversary and Purim from 2 to 4 p.m. with a toast, hamantaschen, and music by the Chaverim Klezmer Band and violinist Boris Savchuk. Free; 678-222-7500.

Vegetable cooking. The Marcus Jew-ish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, hosts chefs Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, authors of “Mastering the Art of Southern Veg-etables,” for two Page From the Book Festival events: a master cooking class at 3 p.m. and an author talk and signing at 7:30 p.m. Admission to both events, including a copy of the cookbook, is $65 for JCC members and $80 for non-members. Admission to the talk only is $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers; www.atlantajcc.org or 678-812-4002.

Campus anti-Semitism. Jacob Levkow-icz, the American Jewish Committee’s assistant director of campus affairs, and Emory University professor Ken Stein lead a discussion for high school and college students and their parents and grandparents about issues on college campuses at 4 p.m. at the We-ber School, 6751 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs. Free for students, $10 for par-ents; bit.ly/1U527yX.

“The Lion King Jr.” Students at the Da-vis Academy perform the Disney musi-cal at 1 and 7 p.m., as well as at 6:30 p.m. March 21, at the Davis Middle School, 7901 Roberts Drive, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $15; www.davisacademy.org/lionking.

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Ke-hillaFest with Soulfarm starts at 7 p.m. at Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 North-land Drive, Sandy Springs. Tickets are $18; www.thekehilla.org.

Preschool fundraiser. Intown Jew-ish Preschool holds its Rock the Cas-bah fundraising party at 7:30 p.m. at Chabad at Emory, 1526 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta. Admission is $25; www.intownjewishpreschool.org or 404-898-0438.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMESParshah Pekudei

Friday, March 11, light candles at 6:25 p.m.Saturday, March 12, Shabbat ends at 7:20 p.m.

Daylight saving time starts at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13, so remember to spring forward one hour.Parshah Vayikra

Friday, March 18, light candles at 7:30 p.m.Saturday, March 19, Shabbat ends at 8:26 p.m.

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www.atlantajewishtimes.comOPINION

Editor’s NotebookBy Michael [email protected]

Patrick Chappatte, The International New York Times

Three words strike terror into the Jewish com-munity these days. No, not “President Donald Trump.”

Pew Research Center.The Jewish community hasn’t recovered from

the last time the folks at Pew turned their atten-tion to us: in October 2013 with the release of a comprehensive survey of the U.S. Jewish population. Remember the shock that almost a third of millenni-als considered themselves “Jews of no religion,” no doubt related to the 58 percent of Jews married since 2000 whose spouse was not Jewish?

Little in that survey was news to anyone paying attention. Outside the Orthodox commu-nity, all we had to do was look around the pews on a Saturday morning or pay attention to all the rela-tives of the bride or the groom who were bewildered by kugel to know that we had a problem keeping our youngest adults connected to Judaism.

That wasn’t a new issue in 2013; ever since we toppled college quotas and restrictions at clubs and public accommodations — that is, removed the bar-riers to full assimilation — we’ve seen the negatives (a loss of communal unity) as well as positives (a much lower chance of winding up like Leo Frank).

Which brings us to the latest 200-plus-page report from Pew, this one examining Israeli Jews, based on surveys conducted last year. The report was released just hours before we went to press, so I’m not sure what will be the source of the inevitable gnashing of teeth.

Pew is presenting its findings as reflecting a deep religious split within Israeli society, typified by the fact that 89 percent of the self-identified Haredi in the survey said that halacha should take priority over democratic principles, while 89 percent of the self-identified secular Jews said democratic prin-ciples should take precedence over halacha.

Those appear to be incompatible views, and as Israeli society paradoxically becomes both more Orthodox (largely through birthrate) and more secu-lar (because that’s just the way of the young in this interconnected world), there could be trouble ahead.

The same could be said for disturbing statistics about a growing number of Israeli Jews who want to expel the Arabs or who believe that the law should favor Jews over non-Jews and about the overwhelm-

ing majority who don’t think Muslims face discrimination even while most Arabs — Christian, Druze and Muslim — say otherwise.

But vibrant democracies —Israel’s about as lively as they come — tend to work these things out, even if it’s messy and involves postponing the confrontation over and over again. People will grumble privately and dem-onstrate publicly, and sadly a few crazies will resort to violence. But these are the growing pains of young countries, and the United States is in no position to judge.

The only numbers we Americans have any con-trol over are the ones involving our interactions with Israel, and most of those findings are positive.

For example, similar numbers of Jews have traveled to each other’s country (43 percent of Americans to Israel, 39 percent the other way), and 59 percent of Israeli Jews said U.S. Jews are a good influence on Israel.

More impressive, 69 percent of Israeli Jews agree with me that a thriving Diaspora is essential to the survival of the Jewish people.

If you really need a number to fret about con-cerning our diverging futures, it’s this: 42 percent of U.S. Jews think “having a good sense of humor” is an essential part of being Jewish vs. 9 percent of Israeli Jews. If you can’t laugh at that, you just have to cry. ■

Our Israeli Cousins

One of the few strengths of Georgia’s public ed-ucation is its teaching of the Holocaust, which enters the social studies curriculum in fifth

grade and recurs throughout middle school. But the Department of Education has proposed revisions that would effectively change the Holocaust from fact to legend for middle-schoolers.

Under the current Georgia Performance Stan-dards, sixth-graders “explain the impact of WWII in terms of the Holocaust, the origins of the Cold War, and the rise of Superpowers.” The state wants to re-vise that to “explain the aftermath of WWII in terms of the role of the superpowers in the Cold War.”

There’s something to be said for having a post-war standard that focuses on the Cold War — as long as another standard zeroes in on the Holocaust. In-stead, the Holocaust is gone.

The first examination of the Holocaust in middle school would come during a seventh-grade study of the reasons Israel was re-created in 1948 — as if the modern story of conflict in the Middle East is the only reason to consider the worst genocide in history.

For eighth-graders, the Holocaust again disap-pears under the changes. A requirement to explain the impact of the Holocaust on Georgians is deleted.

Even at the high school level, the curriculum re-garding the Nazis has been dumbed down. A world history standard that now calls for studying the rise of fascism by comparing Hitler, Mussolini and Hi-rohito would become the bland “Describe the rise of authoritarian regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan.” The change is disturbing when combined with the deletion of a requirement to study the differences be-tween totalitarian and authoritarian regimes — es-sentially, the state wants to move Hitler and friends down on the scale of oppressive, evil governments.

Fortunately, it’s not too late to tell the state no.The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust and

Kennesaw State’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education issued a statement saying they “are deeply troubled by the reduction and marginalization of the Holocaust” — not because the changes insult the Jewish community and the memories of the 6 mil-lion, but because “effective Holocaust education can be transformative. Students in Georgia should have the opportunity to learn this important history and reflect on its application in today’s complex world.”

We join the commission and the museum in call-ing for the Education Department to restore the Ho-locaust to middle school and high school social stud-ies and to add this requirement for the eighth grade: “Analyze connections between Georgia and the Holo-caust; include the importance of Georgia as a home to survivors of the Holocaust, the Holocaust survivors who returned to Europe as members of the American military, Georgia servicemen whose participation in the liberation of the concentration camps influenced their lives and service to the state after the war, and the contributions made by Holocaust survivors to Georgia after the war.”

The deadline for public comment is 5 p.m. Mon-day, March 14. Please let your opposition be known by taking the online survey at bit.ly/1PXvB0f or by emailing the state’s social studies coordinator, Shaun Owen, at [email protected]. ■

Our ViewHolocaust Lost

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One Man’s ViewBy Eugen Schoenfeld

Guest ColumnBy Jordan Barkin

Those among you who lived in Atlanta before 1970 may remem-ber a quasi-Jewish deli called Ess

und Fress, best translated as Eat and Devour. Most of those who remember the eatery do so with a smile. The smile arises out of a sense of nostalgia associated with the Yiddish language rather than with the quality of food.

I venture to say no delicatessen in Europe, at least in Yid-dish-speaking Central Europe, would have dared to name itself a place to fress. Devouring food is contrary to Jewish values, for only animals devour their food; we followers of Jewish values consider devouring antithetical to Jewish values.

For Jews, eating is more than the intake of fuel. Eating, I was taught, is not devouring food.

Somewhere in the depth of my memory is a Jewish perspective of eating that I believe came from a comment by Rashi, the great Jewish biblical and Talmudic commentator, who proposed (if my memory is right) that Jews practice decorum in eating. Namely, that we eat like menschen, like human beings. We do not take a bone with meat on it and tear the meat with our teeth. Judaism, our culture, is concerned with the civilizing process so that man becomes pre-eminent above beasts.

Perhaps Ess und Fress is a cute name and apropos for an American

Jewish deli, but it does not reflect, as most likely the owners of the estab-lishment wanted, a joyful Jewish way of eating.

For millennia Jewish values ad-vocated and emphasized that human behavior should separate us from animals, and collective eating should have a civilizing function. Eating, as I was led to believe by my parents, is an important element in this process.

It should be joyful like the Purim seudah but not boisterous. It should be pleasant and a means to historical education like the seder and spiritual like the Shabbat meals, but drinking should never lead to drunkenness.

In my early teens, and this seems to be a universal teenage character-istic, I was always in a hurry. Often I would grab something and eat it on the run. At such occasions my mother would remind me that as a Jew I should practice menschlichkeit — the behavior that makes me a civilized mensch. She would find it abhorrent if I grew up an uncouth and uncivilized grobber Yid or a prostnyak and thereby shamed the family.

Of course, many behavioral ele-ments symbolically represented one’s

social class, which to my mother was tantamount to being civilized. The ap-propriate presentation of self was high on her list. She would explain to me that wearing a poor quality of clothes does not detract from the quality of a person’s being, not even if the clothes are patched — they merely reflect a person’s income.

But what was absolutely unac-ceptable to her were dirty, unwashed person and clothes. A significant sym-bol of civilized existence is the practice of etiquette in eating. I was cautioned by my mother that I should eat like a mensch: sitting at a table, using uten-sils and a napkin, and not gobbling up my food — especially not eating while standing or taking my food on the run. (She cautioned me that eating while standing would direct all my food to my legs and feet.) Essentially, to her table manners were a symbol of what differentiates us from animals.

The association between eating and being humanized is also associ-ated with the Torah description of the wild and rebellious son referred to as sorer u’moreh. In Deuteronomy 21:18, the Torah declares that the wayward and rebellious son is an uncivilized person who rejects collective mo-res and is by nature a glutton and a drunkard, a zolel v’soveh. Excessive eating and drinking are expressions of the uncivilized person.

It is also interesting to note the story of Gideon, the commander of the Hebrew army who was ordered to wage war against the Amalekites.

G-d suggested to Gideon that his army was too large and that people would most likely attribute the forthcoming victory to the size of the army and not G-d. So G-d told Gideon to reduce the size of his army to merely 300 people.

The criterion for Gideon to dif-ferentiate between the acceptable and unacceptable soldiers was the man-ner in which they drank water from a creek. The unacceptable soldiers were those who lapped up the water like dogs because they were less civilized.

Judaism seeks to elevate the din-ing experience from merely a physio-logical requirement into a social activ-ity. For instance, the Talmud declares that three people who eat together and do not have a spiritual conversation should be viewed as though they have eaten from sacrifices to dead idols.

Moses Maimonides proposed that the study of Torah while dining brings peace to people and therefore should be central in the dining experience. Collective eating in this view helps to elevate the human spirit and concern for peace, perhaps the most noble of all aspirations.

The civilizing function of a col-lective meal is evident at the Shabbat table, where food is consumed leisure-ly. In my youth it was our custom that at the Shabbat table my father and I had ongoing discourses about various ideals and philosophies in Judaism as well as history in general. The Shabbat table was the time for interaction — in short, for inculcating into me and my siblings humanist ideals. ■

Dining on Civilization

Two gracious figures of the pros-perous 1980s, Nancy Reagan and Pat Conroy, died over the first

weekend of March. Their calm public demeanors and thoughtful approaches will be missed.

On CNN early Sunday afternoon, Larry King told host Wolf Blitzer that Reagan disapproved of the way Donald Trump is running his Republican campaign for president. I can see how the former first lady, who was deliberate and proper, would be offended by Trump’s vulgarity and lack of professionalism.

Trump taps into ’80s nostalgia when he says he wants to make America great again. But he doesn’t realize he is part of the problem.

The ’80s were a period of growth for the economy. It was a decade when baby boomers raised with suburban

values of politeness and decorum came to power. Leaders from both parties were able to set aside their differences and extol the virtues of American capitalism and democracy.

It was not a perfect time: The Cold War was still winding down, and the new scourges of crack and AIDS ar-rived. But politics was still considered

a respectable profession.President Reagan famously had

drinks after work with Tip O’Neill, the feisty Democratic speaker of the House. The atmosphere may have been clubby, but productive meetings were taking place.

Approximately 30 years ago, in January 1986, Ronald Reagan reassured the nation after the space shuttle Challenger disaster.

Schoolchildren (including myself) were reassured by this grandfatherly figure with a soft, slightly gravelly voice and a gentle smile. Reagan was an actor, but at least he knew the role we needed him to play.

If only the Trump campaign would realize this and wake up: Ameri-cans need a calm figure to unite them, not a petulant reality star.

The civics classes of yesteryear may need to return to teach a new gen-eration about our system of govern-ment. It is based on compromise and deliberation, not brash one-liners. There are qualified leaders and decent human beings in both parties.

Nancy Reagan was strong and graceful, with a sense of mission. She was, by all accounts, a loyal and ador-ing spouse.

Like “Prince of Tides” author Con-roy, Nancy Reagan believed that words and hospitality can be used to make a better world.

I hope these two figures, who epitomized 1980s American high cul-ture, rest in peace. ■

Jordan Barkin is a former associate editor of Veranda. He lives in Buckhead.

Nancy Reagan, Pat Conroy Embodied ’80s Dreams

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Guest ColumnBy Amanda Abrams, Rabbi Loren Lapidus,

Meredith Lefkoff, Rabbi Lydia Medwin and

Rachel Wasserman


A woman working in a Jewish organization discovers that she is pregnant. B’shaah tovah (may

it happen in a good hour), she hears from her colleagues, her supervisors, her board members, her donors, her clients.

For all of the enthusiastic good wishes this woman may receive, what she is most likely not going to hear is that she will be granted paid maternity leave.

The United States is the only industrialized nation without guaran-teed paid parental leave, which provides emotional and physical health benefits including longer breastfeeding time, with health benefits to both mother and baby, and greater bonding between parents and children.

Paid parental leave also provides economic benefits to companies. As Business Insider reported Aug. 5, “Without the guarantee of paid leave, many new parents are faced with the choice between economic hardship and returning to work prematurely.”

Paid parental leave provides ben-efits to parents, children, society and companies. While we see headlines about companies such as Netflix and Google offering generous paid paren-tal leave policies, the reality is that in both the for-profit and nonprofit sec-tors, most companies are not offering

significant paid parental leave, instead forcing employees to rely on the Family and Medical Leave Act, which stipulates provisions for employers with over 50 employees and does not provide paid leave; disability; and ac-crued vacation and personal days.

Companies that have instituted these policies have seen economic ben-efit. According to the Business Insider article, “The rate at which new moms left Google fell by 50% when in 2007 it increased paid maternity leave from

12 weeks to 18 weeks. ‘Mothers were able to take the time they needed to bond with their babies and return to their jobs feeling confident and ready. … It’s much better for Google’s bottom line — to avoid costly turnover and to retain the valued expertise, skills and perspective of our employees who are mothers.’ ”

Unfortunately, only 12 percent of American companies offer paid leave, which is a decrease from 17 percent in 2010.

The Jewish community is no dif-ferent, as very few organizations offer what is considered the “gold standard” of three months of paid maternity leave. A study conducted by Advancing Women Professionals, an advocacy or-ganization that initiated much of the conversation in the Jewish community around this issue, showed that in 2008 only 35 percent of Jewish organiza-tions offered any kind of paid parental leave, and only 7 percent provided 12 weeks or more.

A recent eJewishPhilanthropy.com article celebrated 100 organizations that have signed onto AWP’s Better Work, Better Life campaign for paid

Jewish Community Must Lead on Parental Leaveparental leave and flexible work poli-cies, indicating that they are offering some kind of paid parental leave, even if it falls short of the recommended three months. Of the 100 organiza-tions, none is Atlanta-based. Some progress has been made, yet much more is still ahead.

Here in Atlanta, women working as Jewish professionals and clergy have gathered as an action group to raise this question for our commu-nity. Some of us are fortunate to have some paid leave, ranging from six to 12 weeks, as a result of intentional conversations with our organizations and synagogues. Yet it would probably surprise many in the Atlanta Jewish community to discover that most Jew-ish professionals must take some, if not all, of their maternity or paternity leave without pay.

Judaism has always put a focus on family — we celebrate our children and seek to promote shalom bayit, peace in the home. We keenly under-stand the need for refuah (healing) of the body and mind and appreciate the sacred nature of time and precious lifecycle moments.

Our values, unfortunately, have yet to translate into consistent policies for our Jewish professionals. It comes at a cost: Much like the for-profit sector, organizations are less able to attract and retain talented women and their ideas, enthusiasm and loyalty, which are so desperately needed at this moment in Jewish history.

Jewish organizations have taken the long view on initiatives like Jewish education, financial development and trips to Israel, trusting that we will see the return in the months and years that follow. Certainly it is time to get creative and figure out ways to invest in the people who make many of those things possible.

As a community, we need to step forward to say that we value our employees and their families and want our organizations to reflect those values. Change will not come unless lay leaders and professionals are both advocating supportive policies.

So, we simply invite you to con-sider one question: For the institutions you affiliate with and support, do you know what their parental leave policy is? ■

This column was written on behalf of an action group of Jewish communal professionals who are also mothers of young children.

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Doug Ross is the chairman of Birthright Israel’s Atlanta Re-gional Council and serves on

the national board of the Birthright Israel Foundation, and he’s active in AIPAC because he sees the combina-tion of the United States, Israel and the Jewish people as “the greatest force for good in the world.”

But for much of his life, Ross told an audience of Jewish men at Chabad Intown’s first Big Wrap on Wednesday morning, March 2, he has hidden his Judaism.

When he attended an Episcopal boys school in the Boston area, he kept quiet about religion unless asked, then would say his parents were Jewish but he was nothing.

When he was starting as a finan-cial adviser in 1982 and paid a call on a potential first client, he let the native of Scotland believe that he also was Scot-tish.

When Pat Buchanan was running for president in 1992 and drew protests from Holocaust survivors with his op-position to further U.S. efforts to pros-ecute Nazi war criminals, Ross stood to the side and watched instead of join-ing the demonstration — only to have another observer, upon learning that Ross was Jewish, tell him, “You people make me sick, what you’re doing to the Palestinians.”

The lesson Ross has learned: “There are so many opportunities for us to hide and to not take a stand.”

Ross demonstrated some of what he has gained by embracing his Jewish identity and exploring his Jewish roots, from ancestors buried on the Mount of Olives and one who was the court physician to the Austro-Hungarian em-peror to a great-grandfather who as a boy braved the record-setting blizzard of 1888 in New York to find food and medicine for his family and neighbors.

Ross also came to a realization about the oddity of having a different noun (Jew) and adjective (Jewish) for who we are, unlike every other religion. It’s as if saying we’re Jewish somehow softens the wording to help us hide.

“I am a Jew,” Ross said. “That’s my core. That’s my being. That’s my es-sence.”

Chabad Intown Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman, who organized and led the Big Wrap, said earlier that the Jew-ish people are all brothers and sisters and thus have a responsibility to pro-tect one another. “For most of us, our

Big Wrap Message: Live as Proud Jews

job is to help our brothers and sisters through spiritual means.”

Ross urged the others who delayed the start of their workday to attend to

those spiritual means through the Big Wrap — wearing tefillin, praying, of-fering tzedakah, learning, eating and networking — not to take their ability to live as proud Jews for granted but instead to use that essence as the cata-lyst for action. He pointed to Birthright, which he said is “changing the arc of Jewish history” by bringing 500,000 of the world’s 6.5 million non-Israeli Jews to Israel.

“You all have the ability to have a magnificent effect — a huge effect — on the world, even if it’s only one per-son,” Ross said.

Navigating the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds can be tricky, he said, but “in your own heart, you can change the world.” ■

Photos by Michael JacobsDoug Ross shows one of the props from

his speech, a copy of “The Snow Walker,” the story of how his great-grandfather

Milton Daub at age 12 fetched vital food and medicine for his family and

neighbors when New York was snowed in by the great blizzard of 1888.

Alan Lubel gives Jay Zandman a hand with tefillin at the start of the Big Wrap

on March 2 at the Selig Center. Lubel later introduced speaker Doug Ross.

Chabad Intown Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman says the Big Wrap will be an annual event.

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www.atlantajewishtimes.comEDUCATION

By Rena Gray

The Atlanta Scholars Kollel hon-ored millennials Jon Effron, Er-ica and Jordan Tritt, and Helen

Zalik at its Tribute to Jewish Learning on Sunday night, March 6, at the Wes-tin Buckhead Atlanta.

ASK Co-Presidents Eric Bern and Raanon Gal reviewed the history and growth of the kollel since its founding

in 1987, as well as the organization’s role in their lives.

Rosh Kollel Rabbi Doniel Pran-sky said that with a team of 16 rabbis on staff, the kollel now can meet with close to 700 people.

The ceremony included the pre-sentation of the second annual Bernie Marcus Scholarship Award to Gabrielle Bloch, who has shown Jewish initiative at Emory University by instituting its

first Bayit residence for Jewish stu-dents. Bloch will study at the Midresh-et Rachel seminary.

A short video about the millen-nial honorees described them as “the students and builders of ASK who are helping to create a stronger, knowl-edgeable and vibrant Jewish commu-nity.”

Jon Effron, introduced by his fa-ther, Ira Effron, shared the journey of

his bar mitzvah tefillin. Displaying them in the original

white paper bag in which they were given to him by his grandmother, the honoree described the finality of Jew-ish connection he had thought rested in the completion of his bar mitzvah party.

Little did he know that when he met his wife, they would both be ignit-ed with a desire for connection when her family hosted a “bunch of rabbis” at home for learning sessions. With the support of the kollel rabbis, out came the tefillin years later, ready to be put to use again.

Jordan Tritt’s father, Dr. Ramie Tritt, introduced Jordan and Erica and expressed his appreciation for the kol-lel rabbis. The Tritts, having been in-troduced to the kollel in their college years, described their delight at being able to come full circle, involving them-selves with programming for college students and hosting them for Shabbat meals.

Helen Zalik was introduced by her mother-in-law, Raya Zalik. Helen made an analogy between her positive kollel experience and her love for and often territorial relationship with cake. She described how just as her pre-kollel instincts about cake would have been to share only grudgingly with friends, her giving muscle was also waiting to be exercised.

After her encounter with the kol-lel, she said, she has noticed that she has become just as giving of herself as her cake.

“The kollel has taught me that giv-ing is the ultimate pleasure,” she said. ■

Kollel Connects With Younger GenerationThe crowd packs the Westin

Buckhead ballroom.

Photos by Eli GrayAtlanta Scholars Kollel rabbis join in the singing of “Teach Me the ASK Way” to the tune of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way.”

With the current rabbinic staffing, the Atlanta Scholars Kollel can serve about 700 adult learners.

Helen Zalik says she has learned the pleasure of giving from the kollel.

Rabbi Dave Silverman stands between honoree Jon Effron and his father, Ira Effron.

Jordan and Erica Tritt say they have come full circle, from college students first exposed to the kollel to adults who help the ASK with

programming targeting college students.

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North Springs Honors Day School Grads

Five of the Top 10 scholars in North Springs Charter High School’s Class of 2016 are graduates of Jewish day schools. North Springs announced its top scholars, based on numeric grade averages, on Friday, March 4, the day after the Sandy Springs school held a luncheon honoring the 10 students and their parents. The students will have a special role at graduation May 26.

Davis Academy supplied salutato-rian Abi Szabo, as well as eighth-ranked Rachel Kaufman and 10th-ranked Ja-mie Greenberg. Seventh-ranked Alexa Rakusin and No. 9 Sarah Saltzman graduated from the Epstein School.

In addition to being second in the class, Szabo won Best in Show in a jur-ied art show in Roswell for North Ful-ton high school students.

Three of the five have declared col-lege choices: Szabo, University of Penn-sylvania; Rakusin, Washington Univer-sity; and Saltzman, Emory University.

The other students in the Top 10 are valedictorian Sanjay John, Rachel Miller, Luke Muehring, Elizabeth Gil-bert and Alice Ann Lever.

Tech Feels Startup NationGeorgia Tech got a taste of Israel’s

startup nation vibe Monday, Feb. 29, when Israel Ideas and Hasbara Fel-lowships brought the Start Up Nation Technology Fair to the campus.

The tech fair visited Emory Uni-versity, hosted by its TAMID chapter,

the next day.Seniors Zary Peretz and Rivka Ja-

cobs co-chaired the Georgia Tech event with the help of Veronica Beskin, the director of Hillel at Georgia Tech; Fay Goldstein, a Hasbara Fellowships coor-dinator; and Riki Franco, an Israel In-novations mentor. Sponsors included the Scheller College of Business, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Hillel and Conexx.

More than 150 students attended the fair, where Israeli-based startups showed off their innovations and talk-ed to students about internships.

The exhibitors included Zeekit, an app that shows you how clothes in a store would look on you; Diggidi, which helps turn eye contact into last-ing personal contact; and Mobileye, which helps carmakers install systems

that spot and respond to danger.The fair concluded with a “Shark

Tank”-type competition, in which four student startups pitched their ideas to judges Lior Moravtchik, the CEO and founder of Diggidi; John Lanza, a pat-ent lawyer from Boston; and Georgia Tech professor Arn Rubinoff, a Jerusa-lem Economic Conference participant.

True Pani won the $1,000 prize for a copper lotus flower that serves as an

innovative household sanitation solu-tion. The water storage device, shaped like a lotus flower, a symbol of purity in Hinduism and Buddhism, targets the last point of water contamination in underserved areas: the cup.

College Fair March 13Students and parents are invited

to the Atlanta National College Fair (www.nationalcollegefairs.org) from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 13, at the Georgia International Convention Cen-ter in College Park.

The event is free and open to the public. Attendees will get to meet with representatives of two- and four-year colleges and universities.

Students are encouraged to regis-ter at www.gotomyncf.com.

The Top 10 scholars in the North Springs Class of 2016 are (back row, from left) Luke

Muehring, Elizabeth Gilbert, Alice Ann Lever, Sanjay John and Abi Szabo and (front row, from left) Jamie Greenberg,

Rachel Kaufman, Alexa Rakusin, Rachel Miller and Sarah Saltzman.

True Pani team members Naomi Ergun, Sarah Lynn Bowen, Samantha

Becker and Shannon Evanchec hold their “Shark Tank” prize.

Hillel Director Veronica Beskin (left) mentors event co-chairs Rivka

Jacobs (center) and Zary Peretz.

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By Logan C. [email protected]

First there was chatter: An intown Jewish day camp? Then action: an intown day camp centrally locat-

ed in Druid Hills for 200 kids. Finally, there was expansion.

In the City Camp founder and Di-rector Eileen Snow Price is ready to kick off another summer. Early bird pricing has expired, but spots remain.

In the City (www.inthecitycamp.com) joins the Marcus Jewish Com-munity Center (www.atlantajcc.org/camps) and Chabad Intown’s Camp Gan Israel (ages 6 to 11, with a new lo-cation) and Intown Jewish Preschool Camp (ages 2 to 6) (www.cgiintown.org) as Jewish day camp options for intown families. All of them offer bus transpor-tation from multiple locations.

In the City has expanded its buses to cover Candler Park, Inman Park, Toco Hills, Brookhaven and two Sandy Springs stops. In the City also is offer-ing a half-day program for ages 4 to 6.

In the City plans to offer $40,000 in scholarships. “We are pushing for people to apply for scholarships,” com-munications director Allison Boaz said.

For 11 weeks, kids can cook Israeli food, create Jewish music and art, play sports with international counselors, learn about Shabbat, and take field trips throughout Atlanta.

Central to the camp’s model is the idea that kids like choices. Each morn-ing, after bunk meetings, kids choose chugim (electives). Feeling high energy? Try basketball and gaga. Need time in-side? Art and cooking are solid choices.

An expanded schedule for ages 11 to 14 includes service projects and over-night camping. The tweens visit Camp Ramah Darom for a taste of overnight camp; volunteer weekly at food banks, the Ronald McDonald House and ur-ban farms; and learn from speakers, including Holocaust survivors.

Price wrote: “I am inspired every day to make In the City Camp the most impactful, convenient, affordable, safe, welcoming and fun Jewish day camp in Atlanta because I believe wholeheart-edly that a high-quality, authentic Jew-ish day camp experience is the way to connect the diverse next generation with the Jewish community.” ■

In The City Camp Expands Bus Service

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A summer camp for children with neurodevelopmental disorders is gearing up for its second sea-

son in the North Georgia mountains.Camp Ramah Darom, located two

hours north of Atlanta in Clayton, is holding its four-week Tikvah program for 12- to 17-year-olds who have autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, intellectual disability or communica-tion disorder.

Clinical psychologist Audra Ka-plan, the program’s director, said the camp is all about inclusion.

“Our goal is for them to be inte-grated as part of the bigger community, but we break it down so they can learn a skill set and feel really confident, and we’re not just throwing them into a sit-uation that might be overwhelming,” she said. “We really want to give them skills so they can walk in and be part of the community in a meaningful way.”

The program is “fully integrated into a community that is steeped in

Ramah Darom Embraces Special Needs Campers

Jewish celebration, learning, and ritu-al,” according to its website.

“For me, it’s the philosophical idea of including everyone in our commu-nity — people of different ability lev-els,” Kaplan said. “So to me that’s what inclusion means. It’s a way for children with disabilities who otherwise, with-out support, could not attend camp.”

Ramah Darom has other pro-grams for all kinds of children and is a year-round facility. The venue is on 122 acres in the Appalachian Val-ley and can be rented for synagogue retreats, weddings, b’nai mitzvah and school groups. It’s next to a lake and surrounded by wilderness and hik-ing trails that form part of the Chatta-hoochee National Forest.

Kaplan has worked with children and families for more than 20 years and grew up going to Camp Ramah in Wisconsin.

She worked as a psychologist at Jewish Child and Family Services in Chicago, where she helped develop a program specific to kids with autism.

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each child’s special needs, including communication difficulties and sen-sory issues.

“We have counselors who can be with them the whole day if necessary,” Kaplan said. “There’s a definite con-tinuum, and autism looks different for every individual.”

Jewish educators were consulted to determine the right curriculum for campers, she said. “Campers arrive

with various levels of Jewish educa-tion; we have a lot of information be-fore they come, from teachers, parents, therapists.”

Campers can participate in wa-terfront activities and archery and can learn to cook in Hebrew. The kids also have chores to do in their cabins, “which is a great way for them to prac-tice their independent living skills,” she said. ■

Photos courtesy of Camp Ramah DaromTop: Camp Ramah Darom provides full access and all the necessary support staff so that Tikvah campers can take full advantage of the camp’s facilities.

Above left: A staff member is close by while a Tikvah camper swims last summer.Above right: Staffers are trained to address each camper’s particular needs.

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By Logan C. [email protected]

Does your daughter live for ten-nis, soccer or softball? Is your son following spring training?

Do you want to combine that sports ob-session with Jewish sleepaway camp?

Your fit family could have a hit with 6 Points Sports Academy.

The Union for Reform Judaism opened 6 Points in 2010 in response to feedback that kids want camp with more sports and parents want camp with Jewish ethics and community.

Before 6 Points, Camp Director Danny Herz said, Jewish campers were drifting toward college-run and local sports camps.

“The concept exploded. Kids got what they wanted — elite coaching and practice that improved their skills — and parents got the magic of Jewish summer camp,” Herz said.

During the two-week sessions, kids major in one sport for about four hours a day. Between lunch and dinner camp-ers explore other activities, including

rugby, tennis, soccer, water sports, gaga and basketball. As the camp popula-tion gained more girls, 6 Points added dance, cheerleading and softball.

The URJ found that 65 percent of kids would not have attended camp without a sports component.

On track to host more than 700 campers of all denominations from 35 states this summer, 6 Points is housed at boarding school American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, N.C., which provides kosher facilities.

The concept has been successful enough that the URJ is opening a facil-ity this summer in Los Angeles.

Campers are moving all day and are exhausted by evening block. “We know it’s a difficult day,” Herz said. “And it cuts down on conflict. They’re too tired to do anything but shower and go to bed. It really works in our favor. It’s also the reason our youngest campers start as rising fourth-graders.”

With more than 700 kids running around, injuries are inevitable. The camp employs one doctor, two full-time athletic trainers, three nurses and

URJ Sports Camp Scores With Atlantans

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a social worker on site. Herz said parents worry that

their child is not adept enough to play the chosen sport or is too advanced. “Whether you’re a beginner or ad-vanced, our coaches will get you to that next step. We account for diversity in many ways,” he said. “Whether parents say, ‘My kid is pretty good; will he get challenged?’ or ‘My kid isn’t excelling; can he hang with the crowd?’ the an-swer is yes. And in a kind, nurturing, loving, Jewish way.”

Campers return home with new skills and exposure to sports they had never tried. Herz said the attitude at camp is to try what sounds interest-ing. If a camper decides she doesn’t like kayaking, she never has to do it again.

Campers also are exposed to a rab-binic presence. Not only do campers find rabbis delivering values, ethics and discussions on Jewish life, but they also see rabbis on the tennis court.

“Rabbis come from across the country to be with us at camp,” Herz said. “You see a rabbi playing tennis and think, ‘Wow!’ but these are hu-mans. We want to humanize the life of a rabbi. Rabbis are not just in Sunday school and on the bimah.”

Outside the summer, Herz and As-sistant Camp Director David Kaplan travel on weekends to promote the camp. Herz said Atlanta is a frequent stop, including a recent event at a NFTY conference at Temple Sinai.

Atlanta provides so many campers — about 20 percent of the total, many with aid from the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta — that Herz and Ka-plan often pop by campers’ games and practices while visiting.

“The camp business is tied into legacies,” Herz said. “We don’t have that benefit, but we are starting to see campers whose siblings or cousins at-tended in years prior.” ■

Campers at 6 Points major in one sport but sample others.

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By David R. [email protected]

Judaic Mosaic, Atlanta’s only Jewish songwriting and recording camp for teens, will expand this summer

to include a session in Baltimore, in addition to three scheduled sessions in the Atlanta area between June 6 and July 15.

“It was always my plan from the beginning to do this in other cities,” Camp Director Nick Edelstein said. “I realized that Atlanta isn’t the only city with a need for this type of program-ming. There was really no Jewish song-writing and recording camp like this anywhere.”

Edelstein, who started the day camp in 2014 to fill a gap in Atlanta’s Jewish musical education offerings, said he envisions spreading to other cities in the next three to five years.

The camp provides a forum for Jewish teens who otherwise might not meet to learn about Jewish music and interact musically and socially. This summer, the camp will hold three

five-day sessions in Atlanta for rising eighth- to 12th-graders.

The first three days of each session are spent writing and rehearsing mu-sic. The last two days consist of record-ing the songs in some of Atlanta’s top studios.

“Judaic Mosaic is a real-world ex-perience you can take home,” Edelstein said. “Everything you learn you can use when you record your next song with your band. It’s a totally immersive ex-perience that’s unlike any other music camp.”

Open auditions for Judaic Mosaic’s Atlanta sessions will be held Sunday, March 27, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Steve’s Live Music, 234 Hilderbrand Drive, Sandy Springs.

Prospective campers can also au-dition via Skype.

“A lot of times kids might be hesi-tant to audition because they hear ‘Jew-ish music’ and think we’re just going to be doing prayer rock,” Edelstein said. “But the style of the music and the song that the kids produce is really just to-tally up to them.” ■

Judaic Mosaic Expands to Baltimore

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JKG Summer Camp FairCongregation Or VeShalom, 1681

North Druid Hills Road, Brookhaven, is hosting a miniature Jewish summer camp fair from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Sun-day, March 13, thanks to its partnership with Jewish Kids Groups.

The JKG Brookhaven at Or VeSha-lom Parent Association has organized the camp fair to help families decide what to do with their school-age chil-dren this summer.

Camp Barney Medintz, Camp Cole-man, Camp Ramah Darom, Camp Ju-daea, In the City Camp and the Marcus Jewish Community Center’s day camps are scheduled to have representatives there. Camp Barney is offering $400 off its fees to JKG families.

Rabbi Jake at Camp DaromRabbi Jake

Czuper, the children’s en-tertainer and Judaics teacher at Atlanta Jew-ish Academy, has signed on as the new direc-tor of education

for Modern Orthodox Camp Darom in

northeastern Alabama.To celebrate, the camp is offering

$500 off in March for new registra-tions.

The 40-year-old camp, run by Memphis’ Baron Hirsch Congregation (and not be confused with Ramah Da-rom), offers a single four-week session from July 6 to Aug. 1.

Limmud Seeks Young Leaders

Limmud Atlanta + Southeast is accept-ing applications un-til Friday, March 18, from 22- to 30-year-olds who want to join the Limmud Young Adult Development Program.

The YAD Pro-gram provides month-ly leadership training, social events, Jewish networking, a per-sonal mentor, involve-ment in LimmudFest planning and free at-tendance at Limmud-Fest over Labor Day

weekend at Camp Ramah Darom.Participants must commit to at-

tend the training sessions, starting Sunday morning, March 27, as well as social events and LimmudFest.

The program is free because of funding from the Jewish Federation of

Greater Atlanta.Eliana Leader, the executive direc-

tor of Young Israel of Toco Hills, over-sees the YAD Program.

To get more information and ap-ply, visit www.limmudse.org/young-adult-development.html.

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Two of the innovative providers of summer and youth programs in Atlanta are improving their

operations in part by traveling a few times a year to San Francisco.

There, founders Noah Pawliger of Camp Living Wonders and Ana Rob-bins of Jewish Kids Groups interact with the leaders of Jewish Studio Proj-ect and Fuente Latina, as well as the mentors and trainers provided by Up-Start Accelerator.

UpStart selected the four Jewish organizations in June, but Pawliger and Robbins had their doubts about flying across the country for mentoring.

“We were both kind of skeptical at first,” Pawliger said. “After the first im-mersive, our minds were blown.”

Robbins was a veteran of accel-erators, including the one cohort of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s ProtéJ program in 2012-13, and JKG and Living Wonders were at different stages in their development. So she had reasons to fear that JKG would be more advanced than the other organizations.

But she found that UpStart is “awe-some because it’s very personalized and tailored.”

The program came at a good time for JKG, which was completing a strate-gic plan and staffing up, including new Chief Operating Officer Maya Selber.

“They gave us the opportunity to right-size our growth,” Robbins said. “Their approach is design-centered. They’re obsessed with the user. It’s such a good exercise for us to go through so we can know our target market and know what they need.”

UpStart Accelerator provides three years of training, network building and some funding. The curriculum teaches entrepreneurial tools and mindsets guided by Jewish wisdom and connects participants with advisers, experts and alumni for a lifelong support network.

The organization has a good re-cord of finding Jewish innovators. Up-Start has 16 current participants and 13 alumni groups, and seven of those 29 nonprofits are among the 50 most in-novative Jewish organizations in North America, as recognized by this year’s Slingshot Guide. Other UpStart alumni are former Slingshot honorees.

“When you’re in a business that re-quires so much consistent attention — all day, you’re so into it — that kind of

business is always on and always new,” Robbins said. “It was hard if not impos-sible to walk away from the company and think intentionally about how I wanted to grow it and strategically move.”

It’s never a good time to go to San Francisco, she said, but “the benefits are so huge. … We get the extra space to think big.”

Pawliger said UpStart mentoring on budgeting, business infrastructure, grant applications and financial sus-tainability have made a big difference for Living Wonders. He said the orga-nization is still small, but it feels more solid and not like a one-man show.

Part of that feeling comes from the collaboration, resource sharing and feedback among the four organiza-tions in the UpStart cohort, Pawliger said. “It’s just been a really energizing and amazing learning experience.”

A crucial element for UpStart participants is zeroing in on the value proposition they offer to their commu-nities. Pawliger said that work helped one of his board members truly under-stand the camp’s purpose in helping young people with special needs suc-ceed in a world that isn’t designed for them. Robbins said UpStart helped her narrow her audience while also recog-nizing that her twentysomething staff members are part of the target market and among the beneficiaries of the in-dependent Hebrew school system.

Pawliger and Robbins have more than two years left in the program, but they’ve already raised the idea of UpStart opening a regional office in Atlanta. The organization launched a Chicago office last year and has men-tioned “ambitious plans for further growth and expansion.”

Pawliger said Atlanta is a hub of innovation, the “Palo Alto of the South-east,” and the Jewish community is on the cusp of many great things.

Robbins isn’t sure the rigor of UpStart would be right for many At-lanta organizations, but she said the time could be right for a second group of Jewish startup innovators to go through Federation’s ProtéJ, which pro-vided mentoring and peer support and culminated in a “Shark Tank” program. She said Atlanta has a pent-up demand for such a program.

“I am very vocal about the fact that I think Atlanta is an interesting and unique community innovationwise,” Robbins said. ■

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Ice tech to cure organ shortage. It is not possible to freeze organs to pre-serve them for later transplant, but researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have studied ice-binding “antifreeze proteins” that protect fro-zen cells from expansion damage when they thaw out. The research could lead to successful organ preservation.

Cancer before the industrial era. Re-searchers at Tel Aviv University have found evidence of colon cancer in the mummified remains of an 18th century Hungarian. The mutation of the Adeno-matous polyposis coli gene is the earli-est recorded case of colorectal cancer.

The 19-year-old neuroscientist. Amir Goldenthal began his doctorate when he was 16 and just one year into his first degree. Now 19, his doctoral disserta-tion involves breakthroughs in the un-derstanding of neurological diseases such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and Par-kinson’s. Amir won a prize at the Nobel Laureates Conference in Japan for best research paper.

New Sharia judges. President Reuven Rivlin greeted at his residence seven new judges for sharia courts, saying the institution’s viability serves as a testament to Israel’s strength in di-versity. Israeli law recognizes sharia courts’ jurisdiction on personal status issues within the Muslim community, including marriage, divorce, custody of children and inheritance.

World’s eighth power. A report pub-lished by U.S. News & World Report lists Israel as the eighth most powerful country in the world, based on being a leader, being economically and politi-cally influential, having strong inter-national alliances, and maintaining a strong military.

Back to Africa. Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu received an invitation from President Uhuru Kenyatta to visit Kenya this summer in what would mark the first visit by an Israeli leader to Africa in 50 years. He intends to do so around the 40th anniversary of the raid on Entebbe. The announcement coincided with the launch of the Knes-set Caucus for Israel-Africa Relations.

Mobile desalination unit for Papua New Guinea. Hadera-based G.A.L. Wa-ter Technologies, with the Israeli For-

eign Ministry, has donated a mobile de-salination unit to Papua New Guinea. The Galmobile will provide the Pacific islands with clean drinking water from the ocean or any other water source.

U.S. ambassador in driverless car in Jerusalem. Dan Shapiro, the U.S. am-bassador to Israel, tried out Jerusalem-based Mobileye’s driverless car on Jerusalem roads and was impressed. Shapiro said, “It’s probably safer than if a driver was in control of the vehicle because drivers can be distracted, but this vehicle cannot.”

Airport safety system. Hod Hasharon-based Controp has teamed up with American company Pharovision to develop the Interceptor and Sentinel detection systems. They are designed to warn of potential collisions between airplanes and either airborne birds or foreign debris on the ground.

A startup for Cisco. Cisco Systems has acquired 2-year-old, Caesarea-based Leaba Semiconductor for $350 million to $400 million. Leaba is so new that it is still operating in stealth mode. Its website says, “Leaba is a fabless semi-conductor company providing innova-tive solutions for significant infrastruc-ture challenges.”

Clearing the air in more countries. Startup BreezoMeter in Haifa has ex-panded its air quality analysis cover-age from the United States and Israel to China, the United Kingdom, Japan, Fin-land, France, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan and has 50 million daily users.

Rhythmic gymnastics gold. Israeli rhythmic gymnasts won a gold and two silver medals in the first World Cup Series competition of 2016 in Fin-land. They won one silver in the group all-around final and another in the ribbons before winning a gold in the hoops and clubs final.

Under the feet of the British army. The British expelled the Germans from the Schneller orphanage in World War II. The British army base was then re-placed by an Israeli one in 1948. Current excavations of the site have revealed a mikvah, Roman baths and a winery from the Second Temple period.

Compiled courtesy of verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com and other news sources.

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The American Guild of Judaic Art, formed 25 years ago by a small group of New York artists and

those committed to Judaic art, has des-ignated March as Jewish Arts Month to correspond with the reading of the To-rah story of artisan Bezelal’s leadership in the construction of tabernacle.

“Along with music, theater, lit-erature and poetry, visual art is a large and traditional part of Jewish culture,” guild board member and Decatur resi-dent Flora Rosefsky said. “Together, all forms of Jewish art enrich the lives of the Jewish community and beyond. They create a legacy for future genera-tions.”

The Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Art — Peach State Stitchers drew about 25 members and guests

for a January program on Zentangle, which combines yoga-type meditation with drawing.

Susan Big, vice president and pro-gram co-chair of the Peach State Stitch-ers (www.peachstatestitcher.org), ar-ranged the program by contacting Jeannie Mahood, a certified Zentangle teacher in Atlanta.

A past chapter president, Barbara Rucket, gave a thoughtful d’var Torah before the program.

Participants spent an hour in si-lence while creating the Zentangle pat-terns, and, like snowflakes, no two re-sulting squares were exactly alike.

“It reminded me of the infinite ways that patterns are expressed in na-ture — not necessarily what is made by human beings, but how bare branches of trees crisscross with each other in

Besides Rosefsky, a needlework designer and mixed-media collage artist, working AGJA artists in the metro area include Su-san Big of Sandy Springs, a needlework artist and art quilter; Ellen Filreis of Atlanta, who creates storytelling 3D sculptures; Barbara Fisher of Atlanta, who makes applique Torah cov-ers and other Judaic needlework; Meg Fisher of East Cobb, who repurposes and personalizes tallises; Lynette Joel of Sandy Springs, a painter, art quilter and machine embroiderer; and Miriam Karp of Atlanta, a ketubah artist and

calligrapher. The guild’s passion is hiddur

mitzvot — art that beautifies Jewish rituals and celebra-

tions. The group includes calligraphers, woodwork-ers, jewelers, sculptors, painters, illustrators,

glass artists, ceramicists, metalworkers, paper cut-

ters, mixed-media artists and more.

The guild encourages Jewish insti-tutions to make visual art an integral part of their outreach to members. Syn-agogues and community centers can designate a room or create a gallery to

display seasonal exhibitions. They can arrange for visiting artists to present art programs or create longer artist-in-residence programs.

More information about the American Guild of Judaic Art is avail-able at www.jewishart.org. The web-site includes an online exhibition and a teaching artist resource directory. In celebration of the 25th anniversary, the guild is offering 18 months of member-ship for the cost of 12 months for any new member.

Locally, Jewish artists can join the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Art — Peach State Stitchers (www.peachsta-testitcher.org). ■

Jewish Arts Month Marks Silver Anniversary

varying patterns, especially when look-ing at them through a beautiful blue sky or the shapes of clouds that repeat themselves, but no two are really ever alike,” artist Flora Rosefsky said. ■

Weaving Meditative Patterns on Paper

Zentangle instructor Jeannie Mahood presents sample patterns before turning the Peach State Stitchers loose to create their own squares.

These are the 3½-by-3½-inch Zentangle squares created during the Peach State Stitchers event Jan. 11 in Dunwoody.

Annette Easton and Rhoda Margolis concentrate as they create

original Zentangle patterns.

Debbie Taratoot works on her Zentangle patterns.

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By Leah R. Harrison

Building on the success of “Master-ing the Art of Southern Cooking” and “Southern Biscuits,” chefs

Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart are bringing their culinary star power back to Atlanta.

Dupree, formerly of Atlanta and Social Circle and now living in Charles-ton, and Graubart, of Atlanta, will ap-pear at two Page From the Book Festi-val of the Marcus Jewish Community Center events — a master cooking class and an author talk — Sunday, March 20, to introduce their “Mastering the Art of Southern Vegetables.”

I spoke with them about the gene-sis and intention of this collaboration.

Asked how they met, Dupree told of how “this GIRL,” who worked for Georgia Pub-lic Television, had been recommended in the mid-1980s as a producer. Du-pree said Graubart “couldn’t possibly do it; she was just too busy. She wouldn’t even take the time to come see me for three weeks.”

She eventually agreed to take on the project, which became the “New Southern Cooking” series on PBS, with over 300 episodes filmed in Atlanta and Social Circle. Dupree asserted that they must have been around ages 15 and 20 when they first worked together.

Graubart’s writing career began when she stepped back from produc-ing to have children and authored “The One-Armed Cook” for busy women pre-paring meals with a baby on one hip.

In 2012, when Dupree was snowed under by papers and research for “Mas-tering the Art of Southern Cooking” they rejoined forces. Visiting one day, Graubart said: “Nathalie, you are never going to get this done. You need me.”

Dupree agreed, and the writing partnership was born.

Their third cookbook together, “Mastering the Art of Southern Vegeta-bles” is a logical extension of “Southern Cooking.” They said the vegetable chap-ter was the biggest in the first book be-cause of the way Southerners eat, with meat filling a smaller portion of the dinner plate. In addition, with two to three growing seasons, we have a wide array of seasonal vegetables.

Add the growing emphasis on whole and organic foods, and it’s only logical that “people are starting to copy us,” Dupree said.

The chefs endeavored to make the selections “doable; this is not a book for exotic recipes,” said Dupree, refer-ring to it as an accessible handbook

for simple ways to make vegetables you might not know, such as Jeru-salem artichokes, or new methods for old standards.

The easy-to-reference cookbook is in alphabetical order, with basic information and storage and prepa-ration tips at the be-

ginning of each section. It is designed to help home cooks get food on the table and to make new and busy cooks comfortable in doing so. Graubart mentioned the invaluable roasting chart at the back. There is even a sec-tion on vinaigrettes and sauces.

Graubart spoke of Dupree’s amaz-ing if tiny home garden and said cook-ing by the season with fresh herbs can elevate even the simplest recipes.

Dupree encouraged growing and using fresh herbs with vegetables all year. Even if purchased in the store, “experimenting with herbs can be part of what people do to make their meals more interesting,” she said.

Treat yourself March 20 to learn about maximizing taste on the major-ity of that “meat and three” Southern plate and to be entertained by two hu-morous and accomplished chefs. ■

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Who: Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart

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Jennifer Teege has visited Atlanta at least three times since November to talk about her book, “My Grand-

father Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Nazi Past,” but her appearance Tuesday night, March 1, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue had special significance.

Teege, who at 38 learned that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the sa-distic Nazi concentration camp com-mandant in “Schindler’s List,” wasn’t back just to tell her story or sell some books. She was here to promote the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and its $540 million Never Again: What You Do Matters fundraising campaign.

Teege’s personal story and its many moments of beshert (destiny) — the daughter of a German woman and Nigerian man, adopted, visiting Israel on a whim and staying 4½ years be-cause of her love of a man and the land, opening a random book in a library and finding that it was about her birth mother, leading to the discovery of her Nazi ancestry — never cease to amaze and captivate audiences, including well over 100 people March 1.

But two messages particularly connected with the museum’s 2016 At-lanta community event: the actions of ordinary people and our responsibility toward history.

Teege said her grandfather did horrible things, but he was not a mon-ster compelled to act by evil. He chose to inflict pain and death. And his ac-

tions were made possible by the deci-sions of ordinary people to go along.

The impulse to go along is a dan-ger we must resist, Teege said. She also said it’s important to understand the difference between guilt and respon-sibility. She and other descendants of war criminals don’t share their ances-tors’ guilt, but they do bear the respon-sibility to expose those crimes to help ensure they are never repeated.

Similarly, any ordinary person can act to prevent genocide and ensure that the Holocaust not only is never forgot-ten, but also can never be denied.

That’s the overriding goal of the Never Again campaign, which includes a target of $300 million in annual do-nations by 2018 and $200 million for the endowment. The concrete element of the campaign, as well as the focus of appeals at the Ahavath Achim event, is the $40 million Shapell Family Collec-tions and Conservation Center.

The museum’s Memory Now proj-ect is combing the world to find and record Holocaust artifacts while survi-vors remain to authenticate them. The museum projects that its collection will double in size over the next decade, and the Shapell Center is expected to preserve those items and offer access.

Those items will be crucial in the future to prove that the Holocaust happened, said AJT Publisher Michael Morris, a former member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Within two generations, the slaughter of 6 mil-lion Jews will be unbelievable, Morris said; in 10 generations, “it will be un-fathomable.” ■

Holocaust Museum Eyes Future in Preserving Past

Jennifer Teege argues against viewing her

grandfather and other war criminals as

monsters rather than humans who chose to

do horrible things.

Photos by Michael JacobsWithout the preserved artifacts,

AJT Publisher Michael Morris says, the Holocaust

will be impossible for future generations to believe.

The Peachtree String Quartet, directed by violinist Christopher Pulgram, opens the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s event March

1 by playing a tribute to Pulgram’s father, Holocaust survivor William Pulgram.

Erna Martino, the daughter of Holocaust

survivors from Krakow, Poland, discusses the museum’s Memory

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By David R. [email protected]

Holocaust survivor Robert Rato-nyi was just 6 years old when Nazis rounded up the Jews in

his hometown of Budapest on Oct. 10, 1944. He was soon separated from his parents, who were sent to different Austrian concentration camps.

Although he would be reunited with his mother in the summer of 1945, he would never again see his father, who perished at the camp.

Ratonyi, who turned 78 in January, told his story of survival to a group of students at Georgia Tech on Wednes-day, March 2, as part of a program or-ganized by campus Hillel Director Ve-ronica Beskin.

Beskin, who took over the director position for Georgia Tech and Georgia State in July, was looking to present an impactful program in observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remem-brance Day), which is May 4 and 5. But the timing of the holiday conflicts with finals week at Georgia Tech, so Beskin and event chair Rivka Jacobs, in part-nership with the Breman Jewish Heri-

tage Museum, scheduled Ratonyi to speak two months early.

“Yom HaShoah is late this year,” Beskin said, “so this was the best time to have a speaker come. It allows us to have more students attend outside of the Hillel.”

Ratonyi’s moving account of his journey through war-torn Budapest in the winter and spring of 1945 was heard by around 150 Georgia Tech stu-dents and was followed by an extended

question-and-answer session. The survivor told students how he

stayed alive in Budapest’s Jewish ghetto by eating one can of soup per day and living with his grandparents and cous-ins. By the time the ghetto was liber-ated by the Soviet army in 1945, he was too weak to even look out the window to see the soldiers come in through the gates.

Ratonyi said his life after the war included fighting in the Hungarian up-

rising of 1956 and an eventual journey to Canada and then the United States. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1964 and later settled in Atlanta.

“It’s important for me to tell my story,” Ratonyi said. “Twenty years from now there will be articles written saying the Holocaust didn’t exist, but you will have heard from someone who was there.” ■

Survivor Takes Story to Tech Students

Above: Speaking to college students and faculty at Georgia Tech, Robert Ratonyi closes the session with the

famous quotation from German anti-Nazi theologian Martin Niemoller about

not doing anything while others were taken away, until no one was left to help when the Nazis came for him.

Below: Robert Ratonyi fields questions from college students.

Photos by David R. CohenRobert Ratonyi shows event attendees that Budapest is only 250 miles

from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland.

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After nearly 20 years competing in Georgia Independent School Association athletics, the We-

ber School will switch to the Georgia High School Association for the 2016-17 school year.

The Jewish high school in Sandy Springs will join the Atlanta Jewish Academy Upper School and 19 other schools in the newly adjusted GHSA Region 5-A.

“We could not be more excited to make the move to GHSA starting the 2016-17 school year,” Weber Athletic Director David Moore said. “While we have enjoyed our affiliation with GISA and the relationships that we have built, a move to GHSA has always been our goal. As a member of GHSA we will be able to better, more fully support the mission of our school as we will greatly reduce our travel time to away games and our time out of class.”

AJA has competed in GHSA sports since it was formed in 2014 by a merger between Greenfield Hebrew Academy and Yeshiva Atlanta High School. Pre-

viously, Yeshiva Atlanta competed in Region 5-A of the GHSA.

AJA and Weber can now compete against each other in all sports, includ-ing basketball, which Moore said will help build a friendly athletic rivalry between the schools. The AJA Upper School, now in Doraville, is moving to AJA’s Sandy Springs campus once ex-pansion of the Northland Drive facili-ties is complete.

“The GHSA is a perfect fit for AJA Upper School,” AJA Athletic Director Rick Marcellino said. “We can play ei-ther regional or nonregional, depend-ing on the locale, and we can pick and choose to create the right schedule for our athletes. There’s also less travel time for our students than in some of the other conferences, and there are

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Atlanta Jewish Academy is one of 20 Jewish high school boys teams invited to play in the 25th

annual Red Sarachek Invitational Bas-ketball Tournament from Thursday, March 10, to Monday, March 14.

The tournament, hosted by Ye-shiva University at the Max Stern Ath-letic Center in New York’s Washington Heights, brings together hundreds of student athletes and their fans from across North America for competition and a celebration of Jewish unity.

Established to honor the legacy of former YU Maccabees coach Bernard “Red” Sarachek, the tournament in-cludes a lively Shabbaton and tours of the university’s expanding campus.

Jewish Hall of Fame athlete Tal Brody will attend the tournament to pay tribute to Sarachek, speak to the players and watch from the sidelines. Brody, who turned down a shot at the NBA, led Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Euro-pean Cup championship in 1977.

The tournament will be streamed live in high-definition video by the student-run MacsLive sports network. Visit www.macslive.com/sarachek for

complete tournament coverage.AJA, which is seeded 20th, was

scheduled to open play against Chi-cago’s Ida Crown Jewish Academy, the 13th seed, at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 10, in a Tier II qualifier.

The other schools, in seed order, are Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School of Woodmere, N.Y.; Abraham Joshua Heschel School of New York; Shalhevet High School of Los Angeles; Valley Torah High School of Valley Vil-lage, Calif.; Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles; Yeshiva High School of Boca Raton, Fla.; the Frisch School of Paramus, N.J.; Rabbi Alexan-der S. Gross Hebrew Academy of Mi-ami; Torah Academy of Bergen County of Tea neck, N.J.; Cooper Yeshiva High School of Memphis, Tenn.; Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass.; Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy of New York; Rambam Mesivta of Lawrence, N.Y.; Fuchs Mizrachi School of Cleve-land; Hebrew Academy of Montreal; Kohelet Yeshiva High School of Phila-delphia; Southern California Yeshiva High School of San Diego; and Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston. ■

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The Weber School will compete in Region 5-A with 20 other schools.

Atlanta Classical Academy

Atlanta International School

Atlanta Jewish Academy

Ben Franklin Academy

DeKalb School of the Arts

Drew Charter School

Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy

Elite Scholars Academy

Fulton Leadership Academy

Galloway School

Greenforest McCalep Christian Academic Center

Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School

Landmark Christian School

Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School

Paideia School

Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy

Strong Rock Christian School

W.D. Mohammed School

Wesleyan School

The Weber girls varsity basketball team, celebrating a third-place finish in a November tournament, will play in the GHSA Class A next school year.

opportunities to participate in debate and drama that aren’t available in oth-er conferences.”

More than 75 percent of Weber’s 227 students participate in at least one school sport.

GHSA membership is open to pub-lic and private high schools. Participat-ing private schools must have at least 150 students. Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School and the Wesleyan School joined Weber in switching to GHSA Region 5-A for next school year.

“This change in athletic associa-tions will allow us to compete against virtually any private or public school in metro Atlanta,” Moore said. “Our coaches and student-athletes are ex-cited for this change and the challenge ahead in GHSA.” ■

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Judaica shop ModernTribe, which began online and expanded into brick-and-mortar retail, is return-

ing to an online-only existence.Owner Jennie Rivlin Roberts

closed her Auburn Avenue store to the public Sunday, March 6, and she’ll be out of the space either by the end of March or by the end of April.

“It’s really sad for me,” Rivlin Rob-erts said. “It brought a dimension to our brand and the relationship with our customers we can’t get online.”

The store operated under a lease that gave ModernTribe and the land-lord a termination option by Dec. 31, 2015. If the landlord found a replace-ment tenant willing to pay more than Roberts, she would have the option to pay the higher amount or leave.

That’s what happened, Rivlin Roberts said. She received notice Dec. 29 that she had to pay a 50 percent in-crease in rent or close, and after a hard evaluation of the store’s prospects for profitability, she decided to return to online-only retail.

The boutique, which specializes in fun, quirky approaches to traditional Judaica, thus finds itself in a similar situation to many retailers facing com-petition from online operations such as Amazon, which now offers same-day delivery for many products in the Atlanta area. The pressure has taken a toll not only on small stores, but also on big chains, from Macy’s and Kohl’s, which are closing locations, to the Sports Authority, which is going through bankruptcy reorganization.

Since opening in June 2014, Mod-ernTribe’s brick-and-mortar store has produced a tiny percentage of the busi-ness’s overall sales, Rivlin Roberts said. Comparing June to December 2014 with the same period in 2015, the store’s sales fell 30 percent, while online sales rose 20 percent, she said.

Rivlin Roberts said the store’s lo-cation in the Sweet Auburn district, away from Atlanta’s Jewish population

centers, may have contributed to the slow sales, and she said the excitement about the opening of the nearby street-car line didn’t translate into much of an increase in foot traffic.

But the Candler Park resident said that from a lifestyle perspective, it’s not worth it to open a location in the Dun-woody/Sandy Springs area or in Toco Hills, where Judaica Corner operates.

Even if the store doubled in rev-enue, its sales wouldn’t compare to what ModernTribe does online, she said. Even with the store, locals have shopped through the website, mak-ing Atlanta the No. 3 area for Modern-Tribe’s online customers, behind the much larger communities of New York and Los Angeles.

Rivlin Roberts’ sense is that the era of thriving small gift shops is over, with the exception of a few places across the nation where independent stores are part of the culture. So other than such special events as Chanukah bazaars, she expects to remain online-only “un-less something really strange happens and people become somehow more in-terested in having their local store as opposed to shopping online.”

ModernTribe also has ended its brief experiment as a self-serve syna-gogue gift shop.

A small version of the store with a limited selection of essentials — Kid-dush cups, menorahs, other simcha gifts — opened at the start of Novem-ber in the coffee shop at the entrance to The Temple.

With an iPad-based credit card system, people could make their selec-tions and pay for their purchases any time the synagogue was open except Shabbat.

The idea was to provide Temple members the service of a simple Juda-ica shop with additional convenience, possibly establishing a model Rivlin Roberts could repeat at other syna-gogues. But she said sales were tiny, so she pulled the plug. ■

ModernTribe Ends Old-Fashioned Sales

Photo by Logan C. RitchieModernTribe owner Jennie Rivlin Roberts, shown last summer with intern Norvin Bey Israel, held special events at the Auburn Avenue store, from making chocolate matzah to celebrating Jewish ethnic diversity.

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As an Arab Christian woman op-erating in Israel’s high-tech sec-tor, it would be easy for Reem

Younis to talk about politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instead, the Nazareth native and co-founder of neu-roscience company Alpha Omega is happy to leave the politics to others so she can focus on the three E’s she sees as the keys to the future: education, em-ployment and entrepreneurship.

“I want our children to stay in Is-rael through their choice,” Younis said Wednesday night, March 2, at Congre-gation Bet Haverim in a visit organized by the New Israel Fund, of which she is a new board member. The event was a conversation between her and Central Atlanta Progress President A.J. Robin-son.

Younis and her husband, Imad, founded Alpha Omega in Nazareth in 1993 as an engineering firm on the strength of Imad’s electric engineering degree and Reem’s civil engineering de-gree from the Technion. The business gradually moved into neuroscience

and neurosurgery in areas such as deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s.

“I got into high tech through the back door,” she said. She once thought Alpha Omega would boom to 1,000 em-

ployees within a few years, but instead it is thriving and stable with a staff of about 70.

Her company sells a system that serves as a Global Positioning System for doctors working on the brain, You-nis said, pointing to the United States, Europe and China as Alpha Omega’s primary markets. Exporting a system for poking around in brains made You-nis nervous — she imagined something going wrong with a brain surgery half-way around the world — so the com-pany opened foreign offices, including the U.S. headquarters in Alpharetta. That office helped Alpha Omega win Israel Company of the Year at the Con-exx Eagle Star Awards in 2012.

But her focus is firmly on Naza-reth and the economic development of

the Arab community. Only 30 percent of Israeli Arab women are in the work-force, and Younis recognizes that she is a role model to help improve that labor participation rate and shape Israel’s future.

The Israeli government has ac-knowledged the need to improve its Arab citizens’ lives by boosting their participation in the high-tech startup nation, and it is spending $2.5 billion on Arab economic development proj-ects over five years through 2020. You-nis said her dream is for the Arab com-munity to use that money wisely.

“We have a huge challenge with education. We’re not learning the exact subjects needed to work,” she said, not-ing that Israel faces a shortage of engi-neers but that Arab mothers want their children to be doctors, accountants and lawyers. With one lawyer for every 10 people in the Arab community, how-ever, “we don’t need no lawyers.”

Service professionals such as lawyers and accountants are the easy route, however, because they allow Arabs to stay in their hometowns. Younis wants to see new college gradu-ates work for big high-tech companies in Tel Aviv and other parts of Israel’s thriving center, gain the technical and managerial skills, then return to areas in the periphery such as Nazareth to

become tech entrepreneurs.The goal is for educated, entre-

preneurial people to stay in Israel and “make it a better place for everybody,” she said.

Younis is encouraged by what she has seen the past five years. She said more Arabs are feeling economically secure to launch tech businesses, as-sisted by incubators, and large high-tech companies are bringing jobs to Nazareth, the high-tech capital of Arab Israel.

Arabs and Jews are cooperating because most people on both sides just want to live in peace and make coex-istence work, Younis said. “We don’t have the luxury of despair, so we have to keep dreaming.” ■

Arab Entrepreneur Helps Engineer Israel’s Future

The Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry on Monday, March 7, an-nounced the launch of Hybrid at the 4-year-old Nazareth Business Incu-bator Center to increase the number and quality of Arab startups.

Large companies such as Coca-Cola, SAP and Bank Hapoalim are partners in the program. Ten startups will be chosen to participate, and the program will start in April.

Through Hybrid, the startups will receive workspace, professional support, and guidance from entrepreneurs, investors and others in high tech. The pro-gram is part of a government policy established in 2007 to make Arab inclusion in technology a priority.

Ran Kiviti, the director of the Small and Medium Businesses Agency at the Ministry of Economy and Industry, said any startup can use a boost, but in-frastructure to convert innovative visions into thriving businesses is especially important in Israel’s northern periphery.

“Graduates of this program will be uniquely equipped with the skills and connections required in order to transform their technological ideas into busi-nesses and will serve as role models for other aspiring entrepreneurs in their communities,” Kiviti said.

Fadi Swidan, the director of the incubator center, will lead Hybrid in co-operation with the 8200 Alumni Association, which is involved in advancing Israeli entrepreneurship.

“We are working to shatter the classic image of the entrepreneur in the startup nation,” Swidan said. “Our vision is to create success stories among Arab entrepreneurs so as to increase the number and quality of entrepreneurs operating in the Arab sector all over Israel.” ■

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People say you have to let go and move on in your life,but they don’t tell you what you need to accomplish that.

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$1.25 Million for HuxOnline house-cleaning market-

place Hux has moved closer to founder and CEO Stanley Vergilis’ envisioned expan-sion with a $1.25 million invest-ment from Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim

Draper and the Dau Group.Hux does for house cleaning what

Uber and Lyft do for taxi services, con-necting people who need the service di-rectly with the providers while taking a percentage of the transaction.

Vergilis, a Georgia Tech alumnus and son of Russian Jewish immigrants, told the AJT last year that he wants to expand his Atlanta startup to Char-lotte and other cities and move beyond house cleaning to other informal ser-vices, which include everything from dog walkers and painters to tutors and landscapers. The Atlanta Business Chronicle and Hypepotamus reported that Hux, which is profitable, will use the investment to grow in those ways.

Selig Invests in Manuel’sSelig Enterprises is joining Green

Street Properties as an equity partner and co-developer on the Manuel’s Tav-ern redevelopment in Midtown, the At-lanta Business Chronicle reported.

The project includes the renova-tion of the venerable gathering spot for power brokers and journalists, plus housing, offices and retail space.

“Institutions like Manuel’s Tavern are what make up the fabric of this city,” Selig told the Business Chronicle.

Selig Enterprises is the landlord for the Israeli Consulate in Midtown and the Atlanta Jewish Times in Sandy Springs, among many others.

MyPoochFace.com AwardMyPoochFace.com, an online plat-

form to turn pet photos into art, was one of three winners at the 23rd annual Marketing Awards for Excellence, pre-sented Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Georgia Aquarium.

David Lefkovits, who heads real estate developer and construction company the Lefko Group, founded MyPoochFace.com in June. Dog owners upload photos of their pets, and artists use them to create whimsical portraits on canvas.

The Dunwoody-based company shipped more than 600 dog portraits in its first eight months, and Lefkovits said he expects to triple production the

next six months after launching the full website in late February. The busi-ness had a marketing presence on the Marcus Jewish Community Center’s gym floor during the Book Festival in November and has built a following of more than 57,000 people on Facebook.

The company joined Coca-Cola and Southwire as winners of MAX Awards, presented by Georgia State University and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Morgan & DiSalvo HonoredMorgan & DiSalvo has been

named an Atlanta metro Tier 1 law firm in trust and estates law in the 2016 Best Law Firms rankings from U.S. News & World Report and BestLawyers.com.

To be eligible, a firm must have a lawyer listed in the Best Lawyers in America. The full Best Law Firms list is at bestlawfirms.usnews.com.

“We are passionate about our firm and our practice,” said Richard Mor-gan, partner at Morgan and DiSalvo and a member of Congregation Dor Tamid. “We always strive to provide the highest level of expertise and service. Having our efforts recognized by our peers and clients is an honor that we greatly appreciate.”

Diane Weinberg, who is of counsel at the firm, is a member of Congrega-tion Beth Shalom.

“Our Tier 1 recognition this year was particularly gratifying because we could not have gotten it without the incredible feedback from our clients,” Morgan said.

Wilkins Moves to AltisourceBradford Wilkins, one of Work-

force magazine’s 25 Game Changers last year while serving as a vice presi-dent with Adcap Network Systems, was named vice president, human resourc-es, for Altisource late in 2015.

In his role with the technology company servicing the mortgage and

real estate mar-ketplaces, he over-sees human re-source functions in the United States, Uruguay and Luxembourg and formulates and implements A l t i s o u r c e ’ s

strategy to be an employer of choice. Wilkins is leading efforts to attract the best talent; improve HR services, pro-cesses and support frameworks; and improve employee engagement.

Before joining Altisource, the Con-gregation B’nai Torah member helped Adcap make improvements to be

named the No. 1 small or midsize busi-ness to work for at the Atlanta’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For awards ceremony in 2014 and 2015.

Disaster Aid for NonprofitsThe U.S. Small Business Adminis-

tration has announced that low-inter-est-rate disaster loans are available to some private nonprofit organizations even though they do not provide criti-cal services of a governmental nature.

Such nonprofits as soup kitchens, homeless shelters, museums, libraries, community centers, schools and colleg-

es may apply for the loans if they suf-fered damage from storms and floods between Dec. 22 and Jan. 13. Organiza-tions in Baker, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Dade, Decatur, Douglas, Fan-nin, Fayette, Gilmer, Greene, Haralson, Harris, Jeff Davis, Lamar, Macon, Mari-on, Meriwether, Montgomery, Morgan, Muscogee, Newton, Oglethorpe, Pick-ens, Stewart, Talbot, Taliaferro, Taylor, Towns, Troup, Upson, Webster and Wil-kes counties are eligible.

Apply at disasterloan.sba.gov/ela, call 800-659-2955, or email [email protected].

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Donna and Michael Coles down-sized with the help of interior designer Bill Stewart — if you

call a 5,000-square-foot paradise with a surround view “downsizing.”

“Donna and Michael were fun to work with because they are enthusi-astic and adventurous from the inside out … just like their fondness for the American West,” Stewart said. “When we transitioned from their traditional home, it was like exploring new territory in a high-rise.”

Coles is razor-sharp and has made a reputation for himself in Atlanta as a superkinetic businessman, philanthropist and com-munity leader. A former candidate for the U.S. Senate, Coles eschewed college and, after a career in the clothing business, started The Great American Cookie Co. and never looked back.

In 1994, he and Donna endowed the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University and the Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women’s Movement Archives at Georgia State University.

His current community passion is serving as the president of Hillels of Georgia and planning its major annual fundraiser, “Night With the Stars,” set for Tuesday, March 29, at the Buck-head Theatre.

Coles also was scheduled to speak to the AJT-sponsored Jewish Breakfast Club on Thursday morning, March 10.

The Coleses, who have another home in Montana, took us on a tour of their confident yet serene space, which is captivatingly off-script — just like Coles himself, who sports contrasting cuffed shirts, flamboyant eyeglasses and alligator cowboy boots.

Jaffe: What attracted you to this high-rise?

Michael: The obvious lack of house and yard maintenance. We love the 270-degree view. Stone Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, the king and queen buildings, downtown — even the Appalachians on a clear day. It took us about a year to get settled here. Except for the bed, everything is new.

Donna: The views have the ability to bring the outside in with us.

Jaffe: What drew you to this eclec-tic creature in your entrance?

Donna: It’s “Birth Spirit,” which we bought in Sarasota. I find the crys-tals make it primordial and spiritual

like the phoenix. Michael finds it strong and uplifting. The artist’s face is imbedded in the interior column. It’s a collaborative effort by Susan Gott and Polly Holt. It’s the first piece of glass we acquired.

Jaffe: You have a penchant for glass?

Michael: The Chihuly, “Orange

Persian Set,” in the dining room was created in Seattle at the Pilchuck institute (founded by Chihuly). Our most important Chihuly is “Oxblood Spotted Venetia,” a collaborative piece with Lino Tagliapietra. The tallest piece is pure cobalt blue and faces the north view: “The Watcher III” by Bertil Vallien.

Jaffe: Describe this vignette in your master bedroom.

Donna: The bronze sculpture is “Sara” by Yvonne Randall. The paint-ing is done in wax, of all things, by Ed-ward Lentsch: “Desert Series,” bought at a charity auction in Minneapolis.

Jaffe: The wine hall is quite abun-dant. You are an oenophile?

Michael: When we downsized, I had a 1,000-bottle wine room, which I did not want to relinquish. It meant giving the wine away or drinking a lot (laughing). We created this wine room from the hallway closets. I collect mostly reds — domestic and South American. My favorite is a California cabernet sauvignon, Poetry.

Jaffe: I see Michael has a putting

green in his office. How would you describe yours?

Donna: I surround myself with geological things: quartz, amethysts, opals and rocks. I love trees … thus the sapling wallpaper.

Jaffe: You have some sentimental

objects throughout. I see mezuzahs on every door. What are the most meaningful?

Michael: I have framed my mother’s original immigration docu-ments. My father’s 90-year-old tallis and prayer book are in this Lucite box

from his bar mitzvah. His name was Kolsky before Coles. This black-and-white photograph by Frederic Brenner tells quite a story. In Billings, Mon-tana, a white supremacist shot a bullet through the window of a Jewish couple who were displaying their Chanukah menorah. The local newspaper printed a menorah graphic, and hundreds of residents posted it in their windows as a show of support.

Donna: When we were first dating, Michael was into chess, so I bought this rare set of antique ivory pieces. The delicate carved circles are contiguous, receding inward.

Jaffe: What is the most unusual piece you have?

Michael: We were invited to a friend’s 25th anniversary party where artist Jean Francois astounded us by creating huge paintings with his hands. We all watched, not under-standing what he was painting because it was upside down. He would then flip the painting over to reveal the image: the Statue of Liberty, which has always had a special place in my heart. … When I rode my bicycle across the U.S. and stood at the top of the George Washington Bridge overlooking the river and the statue, I became quite

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Art Hits Heavenly Heights in Buckhead High-Rise

emotional, realizing my team had won the Race Across America, and just five days before we were in Los Angeles.

Jaffe: You are an athlete and art-ist?

Michael: My photography is mostly driven by nature — Montana and scenes from Idaho. I’ve risen be-fore 5 a.m. to capture many a sunrise. In the hall is a colorful photograph I shot of fabric bolts at a Seattle flea market. Adjacent is a MacDonald statue, “Eurydice,” as Orpheus begged to get her out of Hades. He went back on his word to not look back, and she got snatched back to the underworld.

After a near-fatal motorcycle ac-cident in 1977, I was told I would never walk again unaided. I used cycling as part of my rehab. Like most things, I really got into it by setting two world records: solo, from the coast of Savan-nah to San Diego in 11 days, eight hours and 15 minutes; and later, with a four-man team, from Los Angeles to New York, the fastest crossing of America ever and the fastest 3,000 miles ever covered under human power — five days, one hour and eight minutes. The records still stand.

Jaffe: I bet those last eight min-utes were really tough. ■

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Photos by Duane StorkA: The dining room includes a self-portrait in charcoal of

daughter Taryn Coles (left) and a Frederic Brenner photograph of people in Billings, Mont., displaying a chanukiah in support

of a Jewish family terrorized by a white supremacist.B: Donna and Michael Coles pose with Journey on one

of their dark mustard Donghia leather chairs.C: Donna and Michael Coles’ schnauzer, Journey, poses in

front of the bronze “Sara” by Yvonne Randall and wax painting “Desert Series” by Edward Lentsch in the master bedroom.

D: “Birth Spirit,” by Susan Gott and Polly Holt, greets visitors in the front entrance.

E: Richard MacDonald’s bronze of the mythological Eurydice poses next to Michael Coles’ colorful photograph of fabric bolts in a Seattle market.

F: “The Watcher III” by Bertil Vallien is part of the view to the north of the Buckhead high-rise.

G: The living room features Baker couches flanking a cocktail table across the ottoman, while Michael Coles’ nature photography on the wall on the right is next to Dale Chihuly’s “Oxblood Spotted Venetia.”

H: This painting of the Statue of Liberty, which Jean Francois painted upside down with his hands, is sentimental for

Michael Coles because it reminds him of the end of his team’s record-setting run in cycling’s Race Across America.

J: The Coles home includes an extensive wine collection. Michael Coles’ favorite is a California cabernet sauvignon, Poetry.

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Rita Pomerance Damon92, Atlanta

Rita Pomerance Damon of Atlanta died peacefully Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at the age of 92.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Ben Damon, in February 2015. She also lost her second daughter, Carole, in 2012; her older brothers, Leon and Elliott; and many friends and family. She is survived by a daughter, Beth, and a son, David.

Rita was the daughter of Aaron Pomerance and Rose Simowitz Pomerance of blessed memory in Au-gusta, Ga., where she grew up.

Rita and Ben moved to Atlanta from Baltimore af-ter getting married in 1947. They briefly lived in Buck-head before moving to their home in Morningside in

1952. They attended Ahavath Achim Synagogue and were active in their three children’s educations and activities. They — and, for the last year, she — lived independently in their home until her health began to fail.

To know Rita was to love her. She sincerely cared about everyone she met. She had a fantastic green thumb, winning statewide contests for her camellias and planting 100 tomato plants of many varieties every year, started from seed in the house and from cuttings of those. She used a 1950s hand-cranked juicer to make tomato juice that she froze for drinking throughout the winter.

An enthusiastic and skilled “Jeopardy!” fan, she rivaled the champions. She was a prolific reader, jewelry maker and seamstress and was her children’s “busi-ness manager.”

Her advice was indispensable. She worked with her friend of 80-plus years, fellow Augusta native Hilda Ney, selling antiques and collectibles.

Rita was devoted to her family and was Ben’s caretaker for the last 15 years of his life after he became blind from macular degeneration. She was still active and vibrant until his death last year, but losing her 68-year life partner, literally her other half, hit her hard. Together they enjoyed every minute of their long and well-lived lives with a palpable devotion to each other and to family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice or to us.whales.org; opposition to whale and dolphin captivity was one of Rita’s strong passions.

Charles Feder72, Atlanta

Charles Edward Feder, 72, was born in Newark, N.J., on Jan. 12, 1944, and died of lung cancer Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at home in Atlanta, comforted by his lov-ing wife, Carol Wien.

Mr. Feder recently retired from the practice of law, where he focused primarily on commercial real estate and affordable housing. He also worked as a Detroit city planner and assistant professor of sociology at Wilber-force University and Wilmington College. In Detroit, he was an active participant in electoral politics, com-munity organization, urban economic development and affordable housing in furtherance of his interest in

civil and human rights. Among his most treasured experiences was participation in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. He held a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, a master’s from Purdue University and a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School.

Mr. Feder is the son of Joseph, of blessed memory, and Gertrude Feder. Other survivors include his adoring wife, Carol Wien; her children, Sydney (Howard) Katz and Joshua (Nicole) Wien, and grandchildren, Jonah, Madeline, Alex and Caroline; his brothers, Rick, Los Angeles, and Larry (Helen), Bellingham, Wash.; a son, Rob (Alicia), Detroit; niece Megan; nephew Alex (Tanya); and mother-in-law Mary Rosenberg, Boca Raton, Fla. (Charles A. Rosenberg, M.D., of blessed memo-ry).

Charles was a gentle, modest, kind, intelligent, witty and adventurous man. He loved to read; listen to jazz; putter in his workshop, fixing all sorts of things; tromp in the woods; travel; garden; bird-watch; and go to films, concerts, muse-

ums, the theater and book talks. At the time of his death, Mr. Feder was writing a nonfiction book that will be an important contribution to the history of the rural South, a murder mystery still unsolved, and a testament to the South’s Gothic reputation.

Mr. Feder and his wife, Carol, adored each other during their blissful 18 years together. They traveled to England, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovi-na, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Turkey and Canada.

During the last stage of his illness, Mr. Feder fulfilled his wish of owning a mischievous puppy, whose name was Jack Sparrow. Mr. Feder was brave in the face of death and tried to remain cheerful to the end but regretted that he smoked in his younger years, as that deadly addiction robbed him of future years with his beloved wife and family. His family and friends are heartbroken and grieve his untimely loss yet remember him with a blessing and a prayer that his suffering is now over. May he rest in peace among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. The family wishes to extend a special thanks to the wonderful caregivers of Weinstein Hospice.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. A memorial service was held Wednesday, March 9, at Temple Sinai with Rabbi Brad Levenberg officiating. Donations may be made to the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Helen Frushtick79, Atlanta

Helen Frushtick, age 79, of Atlanta peacefully passed away. Survivors include her sons, David (Julie) Frushtick, Atlanta, and Jairon (Jes-

sica) Frushtick, San Francisco; a sister, Connie Williams, Atlanta; and four grand-children.

Helen Frushtick was the president of Helen Frushtick Furs, wholesale furrier in the Atlanta Apparel Mart for over 50 years. The business will continue with her sister, Connie Williams, at the Vinings location.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations to the Rabbis’ Discretionary Fund at The Temple or the William Breman Jewish Home. A graveside service was held Friday, March 4, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park with Rabbi Peter Berg officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Cecelia Pollock Korsen90, Nokomis, Fla.

Dr. Cecelia J. “Cegie” Pollock Korsen of Nokomis, Fla., formerly of Los Angeles and Atlanta, passed away peacefully in her sleep at Tidewell of Venice on Friday, March 4, 2016.

Cegie was born May 22, 1925, in Asheville, N.C., to Benjamin and Helen Pollock. She spent her childhood in Asheville, then moved to Atlanta as a teenager. She was a graduate of the University of Missouri and lived in Atlanta for over 20 years. She moved to Los Angeles and began a decorating business called Cushions Origi-nale.

She then went back to school for her doctorate at a time when most people are beginning retirement. She started her second career as a family therapist and substance abuse counselor. She impacted the lives of so many. She kept a busy pace with clients and social activities right until her final illness. For the last 30 years she had resided in Nokomis, where she had many lov-ing friends. She will be greatly missed by her friends and family.

She is survived by her daughter, Heidi Becker; her son, William Becker, and her daughter-in-law, Sherri LeBolt Becker; her grandchildren, Robyn Becker and Ryan Becker; a sister, Sylvia Becker; nieces Sue Becker Sandalon and Katie Becker McLoughlin and their children; and her loving cousins, Betty Golden and Heidi August.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memo-rial donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice. Graveside services were held Monday, March 7, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park with Rabbi Loren Lapidus officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

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Harry Shartar92, Atlanta

Harry Shartar, known to many simply as “Papa,” one of the greatest of the Greatest Generation, passed away peacefully Friday, March 4, 2016. He was 92 years old.

Harry was born in Atlanta on April 11, 1923, to Saul Loeb and Fanny Maziar Shartar. He was a devoted son and brother to Ruth, Edythe and Buddy. He graduated from Boys’ High School and Georgia Tech, Class of 1949. His college career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Army Air Corps in the China-Burma-India theater. After college, he joined Atlanta Paper Co., which became part of Mead Corp., where he remained as an executive for his entire career of more than 40 years. His work took him to Massachu-

setts and Europe. Harry personified integrity and taught those who knew him what it meant

to be a good person. He was best friend and confidant to many. He had a tower-ing intellect and a keen wit, would have given Ken Jennings a run for his money on “Jeopardy!” and was a Scrabble champion, pun master, trivia king and cross-word puzzle wizard. He loved music, especially the music of the big band era and the Beatles, and even in his final days could “name that tune” in less than three seconds. He loved to travel and was especially proud of visiting every continent. With his English and broken Yiddish, he could communicate with any person in the world and always elicit a smile.

Harry was preceded in death by the love of his life, Sarah Hirsch Shartar, whom he married in 1948. Harry is survived by his children, Thyle (Marty) Shar-tar-Fox of Wiscasset, Maine, Neal (Sheryl) Shartar of Sanbornton, N.H., and Ed-ward (Teresa) Shartar of Atlanta; his sister, Ruth; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law Gladys Hirsch, Herb Spiegel, and Ben and Jacquie Hirsch. As Papa, he was adored by his nine grandchildren, Amy (Jeff), Anna, Esther (Nate), Elin (Brook), Jon (Kim), Joshua of blessed memory, Jeremy (Ana), Ben and Nathan, and eight great-grandchildren, Ruth, Leah, Asa, Georgia, Solomon, Salinger, Hadley and Rory. To know Papa was to love him. He will be missed by the many lives he touched. Knowing him was an honor, a privilege and a blessing.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Graveside funeral services were held Tuesday, March 8, at Crest Lawn Memorial Park with Rabbi Melvin Sirner of Congregation Shearith Israel officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, www.nationalmssociety.org. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Death NoticesAdolf Ageloff of Jacksonville, Fla., father of Temple Sinai member Amy Gate-

ly, Shari Stoff and Evan Ageloff and husband of Peggy Ageloff, on Feb. 20.Jesse Atkins of Marietta, Temple Kol Emeth member, husband of Hannah

Edelstein Atkins, and father of Madison Atkins and Riley Atkins, on March 2.Rachel Capelouto, 85, of Tallahassee, Fla., mother of Temple Sinai member

Carl Capelouto, Grant Capelouto, Raymond Capelouto and Sue Linda Matheu, on Feb. 20.

Charles Feder, stepfather of Temple Sinai member Sydney Katz and Joshua Wien, father of Rob Feder, husband of Carol Wien, and son of Trudy Feder, on Feb. 29.

Saralyne Feinberg of Hollywood, Fla., mother of Temple Sinai member Wendie Fisher, Helene Wack and Lloyd Feinberg, on Feb. 27.

Eleanor Hart, 97, of Atlanta, mother of Temple Sinai member Fran Scher and Jeffrey Hart, on March 2.

Stanley Kahn, 92, of Hot Springs, Ark., father of Congregation Or Hadash member Karen Weinberg, Adrianne Kahn and Beth Kahn, on Feb. 24.

Riva Kanevskaya of Atlanta on Feb. 25.Davoud Mandegar of Atlanta on Feb. 23.Lois Rosenberg, 75, of Sarasota, Fla., mother of Temple Sinai member Josh

Rosenberg and Liza Farachdel and wife of Harold Rosenberg, on Feb. 29.Myron Schultz of Atlanta on Feb. 19.Beatrice Sobel, 94, mother of Congregation Or VeShalom member Kenny

Sobel, on March 3.Phyllis Tanenbaum of Atlanta on Feb. 26.

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Rosh Chodesh Adar II, the 13th month on the Jewish calendar, was due to start Thursday,

March 10, at sundown. In leap years we have Adar I, the extra month, and Adar II, the regular one.

The elements are the same for both Adars. The Zodiac sign is Pisces; Hebrew letter, kuf; rul-ing planet, Jupiter; tribe, Naftali; sense, laughter; and controlling organ, spleen. In Adar II, some prayers are added and others omit-ted. Traditionally, the 12 tribes are assigned to the 12 months; during Adar II, the story of Dinah, Leah and Jacob’s only daughter and youngest of their children, is highlighted.

The account is filled with mixed messages. In one version, Dinah ventures out to visit Hivite women, suggesting her openness to intermingling, and is defiled by Shechem, a Hivite prince. His story paints a passionate picture of falling in love with her, “tak-ing her” as a wife without marrying her, and “lying with her.”

He speaks tenderly to her and wants to bind himself to her, negating any force or physical violence.

Nowhere is Dinah’s perspective re-corded. It’s unknown whether there is consent or simply lust and entitlement to “property” on his part, followed by Shechem’s father, Hamor, getting involved by speaking to Jacob.

Meanwhile, without Jacob’s con-sent, two of Dinah’s outraged brothers, Simeon and Levi, respond to Hamor’s request to let them intermarry with a contrived counterrequest. They say they could not let Dinah marry an un-circumcised man, but perhaps it will be possible if all the men of the village are circumcised.

Hamor complies, and all of the men are circumcised. Three days later, while they are still in pain and physically compromised, Simeon and Levi attack and kill all the males of the village. Jacob tells his sons they have brought trouble by their actions, but they defend themselves, saying their sister should not have been defiled.

The modern-day messages of this story involve judgment — the mean-ing of Dinah’s name — being mindful of the consequences of one’s actions and making sound behavioral choices.

As the brothers judge Shechem’s actions, they also are sensitive to the judgments and blame on their sister, as well as victims of similar crimes.

Jacob, initially quiet when informed about Dinah’s situation,

negotiates her marriage to Shechem. Does he not protect the women of his family? Does he view Dinah as dam-aged goods, or, with no known protest from Dinah, does he recognize the im-pulsivity of youth and his daughter’s love for this man?

The answers are unknown, but the ancient story of force vs. mutual consent is as current as today’s head-lines on college campuses.

Adar II, as in I, is a time to in-crease joy. Dressing up and drinking wine are not the only ways. Tikkun olam offers joyful peace and purpose. Unlike the courageous Queen Esther, who in the Purim story reveals herself as a Jew, many women are still in the shadows, hiding themselves and expe-riencing shame and pain as victims of rape or domestic abuse.

I’m offering a call to action. Each year I donate a portion of the proceeds from my art to Shalom Bayit (A Peace-ful Home) to assist women and chil-dren trying to make their journey to a better life. During Adar II, from March 10 to April 8, I’ll donate 50 percent of my sales at www.etsy.com/shop/Keyto-Enchantment to Shalom Bayit.

Meditation focus: What can you do to increase joy by giving to some-one who needs your help? Can you hold the vision of a healed world? A tiny hole, sewn closed, can prevent a huge, irreparable tear. ■

Time to Increase Joy

Half the proceeds from sales of artwork such as Laila (left) and Esther will go to Shalom Bayit this month.

ACROSS1. Hanging hand, in some homes6. Make like Moses after the Golden Calf was destroyed11. What the pres. on Eric Roth’s “House of Cards” (and in real life) drags on occasion14. Physics for Einstein and biology for Salk (Fields)15. Alternative version of a Gad Elbaz song, e.g.16. Albert Brooks’ unhatched ones in “Finding Nemo”17. Job for a shadchan19. Unclean (night) bird20. How things run at the end of “Blazing Saddles”21. Band with a song about Andy Kaufman22. Nazi ship24. Screen spot for Hebrew National26. (Fictional) Master of the Universe28. Words said many, many times on Yom Kippur31. Sport of 52-Across34. Jewish priest35. Horne in Lumet’s “The Wiz”36. And others (as often seen in crosswords)37. Billy Joel’s “___ to Extremes”38. Job for a beit din41. Echad, to Jose42. Jonah or Joel44. They’re filled before Shabbat45. Director Meyers47. Judges Jerusalem real estate49. Plants the kibbutz field again50. ___ essen51. Son of 54-Down52. Player of Wilpon’s who is now banned for life54. Broke a fast

55. Indiana Jones femme fatale Schneider59. “___ of Adaline” (2015 Harrison Ford film)60. Job for a Baal Koreh64. The Dead Sea compared with everywhere else65. A Coen brother66. Talmud option67. Nissuin needs?68. Busha69. “Night ___” (Winkler/Keaton film)

DOWN1. Result of a Crystal crack?2. Part of Syria in the Torah3. Celine Dion’s “If You Asked ___” (written by Diane Warren)4. ___ quarterback, objective for Kraft’s linebackers5. 8 Av dipping6. Like an on-duty Givati member7. Kirk: “___ me up, Scotty”8. Net fig. for Itzhak Stern9. Tac go with (mint that has a kosher symbol in Israel)10. Make like Moshe to Joseph’s remains11. Job for a cantor12. State where Bernie narrowly lost to Hillary13. Moolah18. What the suspicious smell (that isn’t kosher)23. Movie title character (that isn’t kosher)25. Kvetch, perhaps26. Makes like Haman?27. Uncle of Judah28. Great rabbi killed by the Romans

29. Cats and Giants symbols30. Job for a gabbai31. Cholent part32. “Ivanhoe” weapon33. Name often yelled by Ari Gold35. Davidic instruments39. Deceptive ploy (like David pretending to be crazy)40. Israel news site43. Head in Yiddish (var.)46. Worshipped tree, long ago48. Makes like King Saul to Agag49. Eilat has one51. Actress Yael of “Orange Is the New Black”52. Dan, Gad and Job, e.g.53. Harold (Ramis) in “Ghostbusters”54. See 51-Across56. Half of a feared biblical duo57. Freudian concern58. Opening to the Timna mine61. Biblical verb ending62. “Mazel tov!” (similar cry upon finishing a tough puzzle)63. Employer of Mike Wallace

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