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WWW.ATLANTAJEWISHTIMES.COMINSIDE VOL. XCI NO. 7 FEBRUARY 19, 2016 | 10 ADAR I 5776 Calendar .................................. 2Candle Lighting ......................3Israel Pride ............................. 4Arts ........................................... 8Health & Wellness ................ 9Opinion ..................................10Sports ...................................... 13Education ...............................14Obituaries ............................. 29Crossword ............................. 30Cartoon .................................. 29Marketplace .......................... 31

Photos by Michael Jacobs

Peaceful FeelingsCongregation Beth Shalom

Rabbi Mark Zimmer-man (above right) joins

Israeli singer Noa and her longtime collaborator, Gil Dor, onstage at Kennesaw

State University during Noa’s benefit concert for

the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies

on Sunday night, Feb. 14. The acoustic show was a big hit for the more than 300 people in attendance, but an unknown number

boycotted the performance over allegations Noa denied

about her positions and actions promoting peace

with the Palestinians. More photos and details, Page 8;

column, 0

PROTOTYPICALUF Hillel, Camp Living Wonders and Israeli know-how could ease life for people with dis-abilities. Page 15

NO CHARITYFormer Israeli diplomat Yor-am Ettinger makes the case for changing the perception and reality of the U.S.-Israeli financial relationship. Page 6 AFTER SCALIARandy Kessler looks at some of the court cases whose outcomes could change after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Page 12

DECADES OF PALSPAL, the Big Brother/Big Sister program at JF&CS, is celebrat-ing 30 years of mentoring and the enduring friendships that have resulted. Page 25

INSPIRATIONALMeet the two rabbis coming to lead day schools with a commit-ment to individualized instruction. Pages 16, 17

TECHNOLOGICALFreed from competing on Shabbat, dozens of third- to 12th-graders have won spots in the state Technol-ogy Fair. Page 18

Inside: Education Special Section, Pages 14-24

The Georgia Senate Rules Commit-tee approved a hybrid of two reli-gious liberty bills Tuesday, Feb. 16,

sending what critics derided as a “fran-kenbill” to the full Senate with a recom-mendation for passage.

The resulting legislation — folding Senate Bill 284, the First Amendment De-fense Act, into House Bill 757, the Pastor Protection Act — has advanced further than any of the six other religious liberty bills this General Assembly session.

H.B. 757 passed the House on Thurs-day, Feb. 11. In response to the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage in June, it would protect any member of the clergy from being forced to officiate at a wedding or other religious rite in vio-lation of his or her religious beliefs.

The Anti-Defamation League, among others, has said the First Amendment makes such protection unnecessary.

The amended legislation contains language that could be problematic for Jews. It would protect employees from be-ing forced to work and businesses from being forced to operate on “either of the two rest days (Saturday or Sunday),” thus ignoring Shabbat’s Friday evening start.

Part 2 of the legislation, the former S.B. 284, would protect people and faith-based organizations speaking or acting on a “sincerely held religious belief” that marriage should be between a man and a woman or that sex should occur only between such married couples.

The bill thus protects not only busi-nesses denying service to same-sex cou-ples, but also, for example, those refusing to hire unwed mothers. ■

Full Senate Gets Hybrid Religious Bill

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THURSDAY, FEB. 18Lunch and learn. Rabbis Ellen Nem-hauser and Lauren Cohn lead a class at noon at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Bring a dairy lunch or buy food at Goodfriend’s Grill. Free; www.atlantajcc.org or 678-812-4161.

Romantic twinkle. Dr. Mitzi Rubin discusses how to keep monogamy hot while dealing with fertility issues at the monthly meeting of the Wo/Men’s Infertility Support Havurah at 7 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, San-dy Springs. Free; www.wishatlanta.org.

Book talk. Joel Grey speaks about his memoir, “Master of Ceremonies,” at 7:30 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Tickets are $10 for JCC members, $15 for nonmembers; www.atlantajcc.org or 678-812-4002.

SATURDAY, FEB. 20Cancer fundraiser. Greater Atlanta Ha-dassah holds the Big Reveal for Breast Strokes, Hadassah Bares All for A.R.T. (Awareness, Research & Treatment), at 8 p.m. at the Stave Room at American Spirit Works, 199 Armour Drive, Buck-head. Admission is $36 for those 36 and under, $65 for others; www.hadassah.org/events/breaststrokes.

SUNDAY, FEB. 21Bearing Witness. The Breman Muse-um, 1440 Spring St., Midtown, contin-ues its Holocaust speaker series with Mariella Crea, whose family helped rescue French Jews, at 2 p.m. Free; www.thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.

Artscape. Jewish Family & Career Ser-vices’ annual benefit for JF&CS coun-seling services provides children ages 18 months to 10 years with experiences with visual arts, music and dance from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Sensations Thera-fun, 1704 Chantilly Drive, Atlanta. Ad-mission is $50 per family in advance or $65 at the door; www.artscapeatl.org.

Women-only musical. Students at To-rah Day School of Atlanta, 1985 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, perform “ErevShab-bos,” an original musical about over-coming adversity, at 4 p.m. for women only. Tickets are $14 in advance or $18 at the door for women and $10 for el-ementary school students with a $36 family max; [email protected].

MONDAY, FEB. 22Parenting discussion. The Alefbet Par-enting Program of Congregation Beth Shalom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dunwoody, discusses “The Secret to

Effective Parenting,” including three popular parenting books, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free; RSVP requested to 770-399-7622 or [email protected].

TUESDAY, FEB. 23Moms and tots. Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Al-pharetta, holds its Babyccino class on mitzvot around the house at 11:30 a.m. for moms and tots up to age 2½. This week’s session focuses on the bath-room. The cost is $12; [email protected] or www.chabadnf.org.

Asking why. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s six-session “Jewish Course of Why” begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Chabad Enrichment Center, 3855 Holcomb Bridge Road, Norcross. Registration is $99; www.myjli.com/index.html.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24Jewish film series. Bob Bahr leads “Fit-ting In — A Short History of Jewish Film in America,” a six-week course, be-ginning at 10 a.m. at The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown. Tuition is $49; the-temple.org or 404-873-1731.

Mikvah and pregnancy. Caryn Hanra-han and Mother-Mother Massage & Yoga Therapy Founder Rebecca Leary

Safon lead a session on “Immersion and Meditation: Rituals for Pregnancy and Beyond” at 7 p.m. at the Metro At-lanta Community Mikvah, 700 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs. Free; [email protected].

THURSDAY, FEB. 25Green with song. “Shrek the Musi-cal, Jr.,” the annual show of Jerry’s Habima Theatre, opens at 7:30 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, and continues Feb. 27 and 28 and March 2, 3, 5 and 6. Tickets are $25 for JCC member adults and $10 for children 12 and younger and $35 and $15 for nonmembers; www.atlantajcc.org/boxoffice or 678-812-4002.

SATURDAY, FEB. 27Anniversary. Congregation Beth Sha-lom, 5303 Winters Chapel Road, Dun-woody, celebrates 40 years with “The Tonight Show With Rabbi Zimmer-man” at 8 p.m. Tickets to the show and a buffet at 7 p.m. are $72, while admis-sion to the show only is $36 ($18 for stu-dents and military); bit.ly/1m5JXiW.

SUNDAY, FEB. 28Commandment talk. Rabbi Harvey Winokur leads a discussion on the 613 mitzvot or commandments in the

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

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMESParshah Tetzaveh

Friday, Feb. 19, light candles at 6:07 p.m.Saturday, Feb. 20, Shabbat ends at 7:03 p.m.

Parshah Ki TisaFriday, Feb. 26, light candles at 6:13 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 27, Shabbat ends at 7:09 p.m.

Torah and how to apply them in busi-ness, family and personal relationships at 9 a.m. at Temple Kehillat Chaim, 1145 Green St., Roswell. Free; www.ke-hillatchaim.org or 770-641-8630.

PAL 30th anniversary. Jewish Family & Career Services celebrates 30 years of its Big Brother/Big Sister program, PAL, by honoring Ellen Moore and Ka-ethe Solomon at 1 p.m. at Congregation B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs. Free; YTFL.org/PALcelebration or [email protected].

Court session. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks with Nina Totenberg at 2 p.m. in a broadcast from New York’s 92nd Street Y at The Tem-ple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown. Mag-istrate Judge Andrew Margolis, a candi-date for Fulton County Superior Court, then speaks. Free; the-temple.org.

Beth Jacob honor dinner. Congrega-tion Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, Toco Hills, honors Rabbi Daniel and Bluma Estreicher with a 6 p.m. dinner after a 5 p.m. cocktail hour. Tickets are $100; re-serve your seat by Feb. 15 at www.beth-jacobatlanta.org/annual-dinner-2016.

Shelter fundraiser. Rebecca’s Tent cel-ebrates 32 years of sheltering women with its seventh annual theater gala — heavy hors d’oeuvres and the play “Woman of the Year” — at 5:30 p.m. at Dad’s Garage, 569 Ezzard St., Atlanta. Tickets are $75; www.rebeccastent.org.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1Moms and tots. Chabad of North Ful-ton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharet-ta, at 11:30 a.m. holds its Babyccino class on mitzvot at home for moms and tots up to age 2½. This week focuses on the bedroom. The cost is $12; [email protected] or www.chabadnf.org.

Teege talk. Jennifer Teege, author of “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me,” speaks about discovering her Nazi family legacy at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Atlanta community event at 7:30 p.m. at Aha-vath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. Tickets are $36;

bit.ly/1RSNfEf.

Asking why. The weekly, six-session “Jewish Course of Why” begins at 8 p.m. at the Intown Jewish Academy, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown. Tuition is $99; www.intownjewishacademy.org or 404-898-0434.

THURSDAY, MARCH 3Asking why. The six-session “Jewish Course of Why” begins at noon at the Intown Jewish Academy, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown. Tuition is $99; www.intownjewishacademy.org or 404-898-0434.

ORT dinner. ORT Atlanta honors Goza Tequila’s Adam Hirsch at 7:30 p.m. at Park Tavern, 10th and Monroe streets. Tickets are $25 until Feb. 25, then $36; [email protected] or bit.ly/1lmfmgH.

SATURDAY, MARCH 5Black-Jewish symposium. The DeKalb History Center, 101 East Court Square, Decatur, hosts “Roots of Friendship: African Americans and Jews in Atlanta, 1900-1950” from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with lunch and speakers including Me-lissa Fay Greene, Sandy Berman, David Goldwasser and Herschel Greenblat. Admission is $35 for DHC members and $45 for nonmembers until March 1, then $40 and $50; conta.cc/1Xs4pIs or 404-373-1088, ext. 20.

Mystery night. Young Israel of Toco Hills, 2056 LaVista Road, plays host to a political murder mystery with an open bar, heavy hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction at 9 p.m. Tickets are $60 each or $110 per couple for members and $72 or $130 per couple for nonmem-bers; www.yith.org or 404-315-1417.

Purim off Ponce. Georgia Equality Executive Director Jeff Graham is the honoree at the 10th anniversary of the fundraising party for SOJOURN: Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity from 8 p.m. to midnight at Le Fais do-do, 1611 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd., Atlanta. Tickets start at $75 in advance, $100 at the door; www.sojourngsd.org/purim.

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ISRAEL NEWS www.atlantajewishtimes.com

High on pot. Cannabics Pharmaceuti-cals expects to raise $4 million from in-vestors in Israel, Europe and the United States to help its Israeli scientists com-mercialize a delayed-release marijuana pill for people with late-stage cancer, Globes reports. Cannabics also is work-ing on a system to evaluate biopsies using THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Cannabics estimates the potential U.S. market for medical mari-juana at $3.6 billion and predicts that market will surpass the movie industry within five years.

Reversing Alzheimer’s symptoms. Is-raeli Shira Knafo heads Spain’s Molec-ular Cognition Laboratory at BioCru-ces Health Research Institute. She has discovered a small protein that inhibits the processes normally associated with mental impairment, including depres-sion and Alzheimer’s disease.

Sealing wounds in a new way. Haifa-based Vigor Medical Technologies won the Innovex Disrupt contest at Tel Aviv’s Innovex2016 conference for a medical sealant that replaces stitch-es, tape and bandages. Vigor’s sealant system treats thoracic trauma, a chest injury that can cause the lungs to col-lapse. If treated within one hour, the patient has an 80 percent survival chance. Sensors to monitor the elderly. Yokneam-based startup Kytera has de-veloped innovative sensor technology to keep a close eye on at-risk seniors. It also collects anonymous data that can be used to provide vital research on

specific illnesses or medications.

Portable ultrasound. Yonina Eldar at the Technion is developing an in-novative portable ultrasound system that transmits scans to the treating physician immediately. Scans can be performed in disaster areas, at road accidents, and in developing countries where the medical infrastructure is limited.

Device to shake up a snorer. Yavne-based startup Nexense manufactures a device to treat snoring and sleep apnea. Worn as a chest strap or wristwatch, the device detects snoring or apnea and vibrates to help the patient resume normal breathing or stop snoring with-out waking up the person.

Muslim deputy police commissioner. Israeli Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan has announced the creation of an executive administration to enforce law within the Arab sector. The head will be Muslim Jamal Hakroush, who will be promoted to the rank of deputy commissioner.

Bahraini princess treated in Israel. A secret 2010 visit to Israel of a Bah-raini princess has just been revealed. She received lifesaving treatment at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center. She stayed two months in Israel, including a rehabilitation center in Nesher, near Haifa. She chose Israel rather than a U.S. alternative.

Aid to Taiwan. Israel has sent search-and-rescue teams to Taiwan, where

at least 114 people died after a magni-tude-6.4 earthquake Feb. 6. Taiwan’s new president, Tsai Ing-wen, visited Israel in 2013.

No more zombies. A team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, working with Deutsche Telekom, has tracked the source of botnets — illicit networks that have turned half a bil-lion computers into zombies that try to crash websites, send out spam or run click-fraud scams.

Smartphone security bug. Security ex-perts at BugSec and Cynet, both based in Rishon LeZion, have helped smart-phone manufacturer LG fix a major se-curity flaw in its popular LG G3 device. It is the second time in a month that the team has uncovered a breach in cybersecurity that could have exposed millions to hackers.

Natural pesticides effective. Eden-Shield has completed studies in Italy, Spain and Israel that show the Trend-lines-backed startup’s nontoxic natural pesticides protect crops without dam-age to the environment. The plants don’t need to be sprayed at all: Eden-Shield’s Net product is sprayed on the netting and vents of the greenhouse.

Investing as a soccer fan. Tel Aviv-based startup FBFM (Football Fans Marketplace) is developing an online marketplace to enable soccer fans worldwide to invest in their favorite players and clubs. Fans provide loans to clubs for players, then receive a por-tion of any future proceeds earned

when players transfer between clubs.

How to hack a hacker. That is the mes-sage of the latest New York Times ad from “Israel is on it.” The ad highlights Israel’s dominance of the cybersecuri-ty market and the innovative software from Tel Aviv-based Illusive Networks.

Israeli show for Netflix. Netflix has bought its first Israeli television show, the youth drama “The Greenhouse” (HaKhamama), created by Giora Chamizer. The U.S. version will be set in California but filmed in Israel.

Megadeth going in Israel. Thrash-metal giant Megadeth, which has sold 50 million records worldwide and re-ceived 11 Grammy nominations, will perform at the Rishon Live Park, just south of Tel Aviv, on July 2.

Tame Impala’s first Israeli concert. Australian psychedelic/indie-rock band Tame Impala is heading to Tel Aviv for its first Israeli concert July 11 at Rishon Live Park. Tame Impala’s 2015 album, “Currents,” includes hits “Let It Happen” and “Cause I’m a Man.”

Artistic 110 years. The Bezalel Acade-my of Arts and Design, Israel’s national school of art, was established Jan. 16, 1906, with 30 European art students. Today around 2,000 students are en-rolled at Bezalel. Many of Israel’s best-known artists, designers, filmmakers and sculptors are among its graduates.

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

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home

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10 Years AgoFeb. 17, 2006■ Nearly 600 teens from around the world have registered for the International Convention of BBYO from Feb. 16 to 20 in Georgia. The convention, which will open at the Marcus Jewish Community Center and continue at Camp Ramah Darom, is the first BBYO IC outside the Perlman Camp in Starlight, Pa., in more than 50 years, and the shift from late summer to February has nearly doubled registration.

■ The bar mitzvah ceremony of Moe Jacob Winograd of Alpharetta, son of Harry and Jennifer Winograd, was held Saturday, Jan. 14, at The Temple.

25 Years AgoFeb. 15, 1991■ About 300 Atlantans participated in a nationwide Torah learning vigil last weekend as a response to the Iraqi missile strikes against Israel. The 24-hour vigil, organized

by national Orthodox groups, was in keeping with the traditional concept of focusing on prayer and Torah study during times of crisis. The local vigil, starting at 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, was held at Congregation Beth Jacob.

■ Billy and Sharon Moscow of Roswell announce the birth of a daughter, Michelle Rose, on Jan. 23.

50 Years AgoFeb. 18, 1966■ The afternoon Hebrew school of Congregation Beth Jacob held its annual Chamisha Asar B’Shevat assembly on Sunday, Feb. 6. The main feature of this assembly was the awarding of new Hebrew prayer books to the children of the first grade who have completed their elementary Hebrew readers and are beginning the study of the actual siddur under the tutelage of Mrs. David Warman.

■ The marriage of Miss Elaine Marcia Ehrlich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ehrlich of St. Petersburg, and Freddy White, son of Mr. and Mrs. William White of Atlanta, took place Saturday, Feb. 12, at Shearith Israel Synagogue.

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The U.S.-Israel relationship shouldn’t be seen as foreign relations but as a partnership,

Yoram Ettinger told an audience of At-lanta Jewish Academy students, faculty and staff Thursday, Feb. 4.

The former Israeli diplomat and active observer on U.S.-Israel rela-tions argued that it is a mistake from the American and Israeli perspectives to talk about the $3.1 billion Israel re-ceives each year from the United States as foreign aid.

“Americans don’t like those two words, foreign and aid,” he said, and the term is demeaning to Israel. “It paints us as a supplicant when in fact we are a producer.”

The $3.1 billion is “an American investment in Israel, and the return on that investment is the highest return of any U.S. investment overseas.”

Ettinger cited several examples of how U.S. military aid to Israel benefits the United States, beyond the fact that Israel spends much of that money to buy American-made products, such as

the next-generation F-35 Lightning II, part of which Lockheed Martin builds in Marietta:

• U.S. Special Operations units stop in Israel for three weeks of training on suicide bombers, car bombs and impro-vised explosive devices whenever they deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan. Ettinger said a soldier he talked to in Birming-ham credited that training with his unit’s suffering no fatalities.

• The U.S. military learns tactics from studying Israeli operations. The smashing success against Iraq’s Soviet-made tanks in Operation Desert Storm in 1991 reflected the lessons learned from Israel’s fighting against the same types of tanks in the Sinai.

• Gen. George Keegan, who retired as the Air Force’s intelligence chief in 1977, used to say that whatever intelli-gence he received from the CIA, he got five times as much from Israel.

• A Northrop Grumman robotics factory in Chattanooga sells anti-ex-plosives robots to Israel. Having Israel as a customer has boosted exports to other countries, which assume Israel will buy only the best, and the robots get even better because of weekly tele-conferences in which Israeli experts of-fer feedback on operations, repairs and maintenance. The robot has effectively gained 10 to 20 years of research and development in far less time and at no cost, driving sales and employment.

• Lockheed’s F-16 plant in Fort Worth, Texas, continually receives les-sons learned from Israeli pilots, who push the fighter plane to its limits be-cause every flight they make is within radar and missile range of enemies. A plant manager told Ettinger that rough-ly 700 modifications to the current F-16 resulted from Israeli feedback, including 70 percent of the changes to the fire control system and 50 percent of the improvements to the cockpit.

Those changes have been worth many billions of dollars to Lockheed, and Ettinger said the story is the same for hundreds of U.S. military systems.

“Israel constitutes the largest, most cost-effective and battle-tested laboratory of the American defense in-dustries,” Ettinger said.

He said that despite the personal rift between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu, the U.S.-Israel relationship has never been stronger or more mutually beneficial, and it continues to grow in R&D areas such as high tech, agricul-ture, water and space.

The one concern Ettinger has is the stigma associated with “foreign aid.” His proposed solution is to phase out the $3.1 billion over a decade, each year diverting $310 million from the aid budget into a joint U.S.-Israeli ven-ture fund focused on a particular area of shared interest, such as satellites, nanotechnology and cybersecurity.

After 10 years, the aid budget would be gone, but the two countries would have 10 well-funded founda-tions from which to invest in R&D for decades to come. ■

Ettinger: ‘Foreign Aid’ Is U.S. Investment in Israel

Photo by Michael JacobsYoram Ettinger talks to Atlanta Jewish

Academy students after his speech Feb. 4.

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ADL Criticizes GrahamThe Rev. Franklin Graham brought

almost 7,000 Georgians to the state Capitol’s Liberty Plaza on Wednesday, Feb. 10, with a call for living according to the Christian Bible and with criti-cism of same-sex marriage, transgen-der rights and abortion.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Southeast Region office in Buckhead responded by decrying the remarks by the son of evangelist Billy Graham.

“While Mr. Graham is entitled to express his opinion on same-sex mar-riage and transgender individuals, it is a shame that he uses his bully pulpit to condemn and dehumanize those who are different from him,” ADL South-east Regional Director Mark Moskow-itz said in a statement.

Graham’s Decision America Tour provided support for eight bills in the General Assembly that sponsors say would protect religious freedom but opponents say would legalize discrimi-nation against the LGBT community.

The central issue motivating the legislation is same-sex marriage, legal-ized by the Supreme Court last June and labeled by Graham as a “great sin” on Feb. 10.

Graham also criticized increasing support for transgender people.

After calling for more Christians to run for public office, Graham cited new Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts as an example of who is elected when Christians stay away. He said her focus is “the gay/lesbian agenda, trying to get transgenders into the bathrooms.”

“That’s wicked, and that’s evil,” Graham said. “We don’t need men and predators going into women’s bath-rooms.”

The ADL, however, insisted that Graham was calling transgender peo-ple wicked. Moskowitz criticized that statement, as well as Graham’s support for legislation that purports to protect religious rights already guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

“In America’s public marketplace, we serve everyone regardless of who they are or where they are from. The only reason why one would oppose civil rights safeguards in the religious freedom bill is to ensure that business-es can discriminate against the LGBT community,” Moskowitz said in the ADL statement. “The First Amendment guarantees the right of clergy to marry who they want. And federal and local anti-discrimination laws already al-low religious institutions to limit their services and facilities to people of their faith.”

He compared state-level resistance to LBGT rights to state opposition to the

civil rights movement.“Regrettably, we are seeing history

repeat itself,” Moskowitz said. “During desegregation, certain white-owned businesses made the same religious freedom arguments to refuse service to African-Americans. Those arguments were rejected then, and they should be rejected now.”

Alembik Seeks Shoob SeatAtlanta lawyer Gary Alembik an-

nounced Thursday, Jan. 28, that he will run for a seat being opened on the Ful-ton County Superior Court by Judge Wendy Shoob’s decision not to seek re-election.

“I have been considering seek-ing the post for some time,” Alembik, a Morningside resident, said in his campaign announcement. “When my friend and mentor Judge Shoob let me know that she would not be seeking re-election, it seemed like the perfect time to run for a Superior Court seat.”

Alembik, who serves as a Fulton judicial officer and magistrate, is the second Ahavath Achim Synagogue member running for a Fulton Superior Court opening. Andrew Margolis an-nounced his candidacy Jan. 19.

Qualifying for judicial elections is

March 7 to 11, so others could enter the race. Multiple vacancies on the Fulton court are expected.

Alembik is an At-lanta native with 27 years of experience in private legal practice.

He served on a Fulton County Family Division task force charged with re-vising the rules and procedures to im-prove litigants’ court experience.

“I understand how the court sys-tem works. I have served under 10 Su-perior Court judges for close to a de-cade and have had the opportunity to learn from all of the judges with whom I have been blessed to work,” Alembik said.

“We need someone who under-stands that judges are elected to serve our community, and in doing so, they have an obligation to ensure that jus-tice is administered fairly and effi-ciently.”

He pledged to hear cases assigned to him in a timely and efficient manner. “If I am elected by the voters to serve, I will commit myself to work diligently to ensure that every citizen that passes through the courthouse doors receives due process.”

Birthright for Law OfficersJewish law enforcement officers

ages 22 to 29 are eligible to join Birth-right Israel’s first Law Enforcement Israel Adventure, a free trip to Israel from May 29 to June 9.

Participants’ only financial re-sponsibility is getting to and from New York, the trip departure point.

Jewish National Fund, Shorashim and the National Conference of Shom-rim Societies are co-sponsoring the program, designed to connect law en-forcement officials to their Jewish roots and Israeli counterparts.

“This is a very important mission, and I am extremely pleased that the National Conference of Shomrim Soci-eties can play an active role in it. Mem-bers of law enforcement applaud Birth-right Israel for taking on this task,” said Lawrence Wein, the president of NCSS, an organization dedicated to Jews who work as police, fire and other public safety officers.

NCSS chaplain Rabbi Tzvi Berko-witz came up with the idea for a law en-forcement Birthright trip and pushed to raise the age limit to 29 from Birth-right’s usual 26 to give more officers a chance to participate.

Register at IsraelwithIsraelis.com/lawenforcement.

Gary Alembik

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Noa (Achinoam Nini) drew an of-ficial crowd of 342 people and increased awareness of Israel’s

Arava Institute for Environmental Studies during what is believed to be the Israeli singer’s first Atlanta-area concert Sunday night, Feb. 14, at Ken-nesaw State University.

Noa and her collaborator of 26 years, Gil Dor, waived their appear-ance fee while making time in their American tour to perform the benefit concert, which organizer Shai Robkin said was the first U.S. event to celebrate the Arava Institute’s 20th anniversary.

Robkin called Noa the world’s greatest singer and said he has traveled around the United States and Israel to hear her. But the concert did not sell out Morgan Hall at KSU’s Bailey Per-formance Center even though it was all about support for the Arava Institute, a Jewish National Fund partner, and for the Israel Ride, a five-day, 300-mile bicycle ride benefiting the institute, JNF and environmental organization

Hazon.Controversy over Noa’s pro-peace

statements and left-leaning political views led to talk of a boycott, although no protesters showed up. Those who stayed away missed an outstanding performance showcasing Noa’s vocal range and musical flexibility.

Many prominent members of the Jewish community joined the crowd, including at least five Conservative rabbis: Michael Bernstein of Congre-gation Gesher L’Torah, Neil Sandler of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Analia Bortz and Mario Karpuj of Congrega-tion Or Hadash, and Mark Zimmer-man of Congregation Beth Shalom. Rabbi Zimmerman had the privilege of singing onstage with Noa and Dor dur-ing their encore.

Afterward, Robkin presented the Israeli performers with several Arava-related gifts, including fleece jackets and copies of the only CD issued by the local band Paz, which includes Robkin and Rabbi Zimmerman. ■

Singer Noa Celebrates Sound Environment

Photos by Michael JacobsA: Noa responds to the audience’s cheers.

B: Noa tries on her gift of an Israel Ride fleece jacket after saying she wished she had it to start the show, when she joked about feeling cold because she and Gil Dor are desert people.

C: Gil Dor speaks softly during the show but plays a big guitar.D: Shai Robkin says no visitor to Atlanta should leave without Paz’s CD.

E: Rabbi Mark Zimmerman joins Noa and Gil Dor for their encore.F: Noa talks to the crowd between songs.

G: The crowd of more than 300 people gives Noa a standing ovation.H: Noa spends part of her performance pounding on the drums.

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“Don’t you miss delivering ba-bies?” is a question I often get these days. After leav-

ing a clinical practice of many years, I admit I do miss delivering babies. But I have found other ways to nurture my midwife’s heart.

I am spending the majority of my time mov-ing my elderly parents to Atlanta, which involves a different type of caretak-ing.

One of the similarities between being a midwife and a caretaker is the amount of waiting involved. Between waiting in doctors’ offices and sitting with my mother, who lives with de-mentia, my mind is free to wander and to contemplate midwifery and life’s bigger questions.

Recently, I wondered why there are so many opportunities for Jewish ceremonies and rituals after the birth of a child and so few (if any) during pregnancy.

Many Jewish women refrain from baby showers or other celebrations because of the unpredictability of

pregnancy. Historically, any celebra-tion may have caught the attention of the evil eye (or similar superstition) and invited catastrophe.

Even the traditional response to a new pregnancy is not mazel tov but b’sha-ah tovah, which literally means “in a good hour,” referring to the tim-ing of the birth, as opposed to any kind of congratulations. Our Jewish culture, always cautious, reserves mazel tov until the baby and mother are deliv-ered safely.

Childbearing years can be filled with happiness, but some women are forced to deal with the heartache of infertility and miscarriage. Many women find that this can be a very lonely and isolating time.

No formal rituals exist for those struggling with fertility issues. This

needs to change, and it is changing, albeit slowly.

We can take the customs and prayers of previous generations and create rituals that nurture us in good times as well as bad.

Fortunately in Atlanta, we have a new space to explore and create cer-emonies and rituals for many of life’s transitions. Volunteers and leaders at the Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah are busy writing rituals to help people spiritually address the good transi-tions as well as the difficult ones in life.

Pregnancy encompasses the body, mind and soul. Most Jewish women get prenatal care to monitor their preg-nancy and promote physical health. What do they do to nurture their minds and their souls?

That is one of the big questions that my midwife’s heart wants to answer.

I encourage any Jewish woman who is pregnant or wants to explore new and innovative ways to set inten-tions (kavanot) for pregnancy to join me and massage therapist Rebecca Leary Safon, the founder of Mother to

Mother Massage and Yoga Therapy, for a one-time workshop at MACoM on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. The program is free, but please RSVP to [email protected].

We will explore some contem-porary uses of mikvah for pregnant women. These include immersion dur-ing the ninth month, as well as other times one might want to immerse dur-ing pregnancy or the postnatal period.

We also will explore meditation and yoga as tools to heighten this sacred period in a woman’s life.

Lastly, we will gather to discuss the wondrous possibilities to recon-nect with your soul and Judaism in a way that feels just right for each woman.

I may not be delivering babies right now, but I can certainly continue to help nurture the bodies, minds and souls of pregnant women in new and meaningfully equal ways. I hope you will join me. ■

Caryn Hanrahan is a certified nurse-midwife who serves as vice presi-dent of MACoM (www.AtlantaMikvah.org).

Pregnancy Support in a Ritual Pool

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Editor’s NotebookBy Michael [email protected]

One of my recurring frustrations as a member of the Atlanta Jewish community is our fel-low Jews in places such as New York ignore

or look down on us, as if Southern Jews are as rare as unicorns or as insignificant as Lilliputians.

We have amazing creativity and vibrancy and wrestle with ideas great and small. Atlanta ought to be seen as one of the pillars of American Jewry.

Then we turn something that should have been beauti-ful and unifying into a source of anger and division, and our perception as flyover territory for Jews traveling to and from Florida makes sense.

Israeli singer Achinoam Nini, known as Noa, took time out of her American tour to make a special stop in Kennesaw and perform free Sunday night, Feb. 14, to benefit the Arava Institute for Environmental Stud-ies, which brings Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians and others together to tackle issues of conservation and sustainability.

Nearly 350 people attended the concert, but others boycotted and cost the institute thousands of dollars in potential earnings.

At the center of the storm was Noa, who was born in Israel to a family that escaped Yemen, grew up in New York, then decided as a teenager to make aliyah. She is an Israeli by birth and by choice, and she loves her country.

She also has benefited Israel by projecting a positive image over a quarter-century of recording and touring, including representing Israel in the 2009 Eurovision contest and performing almost a dozen times at the Vatican.

Yet the news that she was coming to Atlanta sparked outrage. Nasty, defamatory claims about Noa spread by social media, email and phone. You’d think she sang the Hamas anthem instead of “Hatik-

vah,” endorsed BDS and called for Palestine to reach from the sea to the river.

Of course, none of that is true. When I asked her about boycott, divestment and sanctions in January, Noa went on a rant. Trust me: She hates BDS.

Like most Jews in the United States and Israel, including the prime minister, she believes in a two-state solution. Like many, she thinks Israel could do

more to seek peace. Like many, she is sad and frustrated that Israel keeps getting sucked into wars. And like some, she questions the con-duct of those wars.

You can dis-agree with her. You can get angry at her statements and the potential damage to Israel’s reputation. You can wish she would just sing and stay out of politics.

But why do legitimate disagreements coming from a shared desire for a peaceful, secure Israel have to descend into the nastiest of name-calling? Why do we battle boycotts against Israel but resort to that same bludgeon against our own people?

As Sunday’s concert, I kept thinking about the end of my interview with Noa. After 30 minutes, she realized she had an immediate need that was more important than her career or the Arava Institute: It was time to pick up her daughter from school.

That’s who she is: an Israeli mom who wants a safe future for her three children. It’s petty and de-meaning of us in the Diaspora not to give her every benefit of the doubt and not to listen to her instead of rumors and innuendo.

She would have been justified as the boycott talk spread to cancel the trip and enjoy a day off. Instead, she did the right thing and put on a great show.

She also made Jewish Atlanta look small and not ready for the spotlight we’re so often denied. ■

Becoming Our Own Worst Enemy

The presidential selection process is approach-ing Georgia. Early voting for the primary be-gan Feb. 8, and SEC Primary Day itself, March

1, is less than two weeks away.Next week we will present columns from sup-

porters of all of the major candidates, making appeals for your vote. We expect the style of those columns to vary as much as the candidates for whom the writers are speaking.

We also expect the columnists to disagree on the basis on which you should choose our president. Dif-ferences on issues, including which issues matter, are normal, but questions of identity also come into play.

Should people, especially women, as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and feminist icon Gloria Steinem argued before the New Hamp-shire primary, vote for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman and it’s time for the United States to have its first female president?

Should people, especially we Jews, vote for Ber-nie Sanders, who in New Hampshire became the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential primary, be-cause he would be the first Jewish president?

Should Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz gain votes not only because of their Hispanic last names and Latino origins, but because they showed during the Republi-can debate in South Carolina on Saturday night, Feb. 13, that they can speak Spanish?

Does Ben Carson bounce back from his awful showing in lily-white New Hampshire — where he finished well behind two candidates, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina, who then dropped out of the race — because more voters in South Carolina share his skin tone? Or, just as being Catholic was removed as a serious consideration once John F. Kennedy became the first Catholic president, have Barack Obama’s two terms as the first black president allowed us as an electorate to move on?

Sanders has gotten some criticism for not play-ing the game of identity politics. Faced with an op-ponent who claims to be anti-establishment simply because her sex would allow her to make history, the Vermont senator has argued over who is the true war-rior against the establishment: the socialist who has served in Congress for 25 years or the former sena-tor and secretary of state who has the overwhelming backing of Democratic superdelegates, who by defini-tion are the establishment.

Sanders has shied away from discussing his re-ligion to an awkward extent, as when he talks about his father as a “Polish immigrant” and when he said in a debate that his election would be historic because of his background without specifying why.

It’s possible Sanders doesn’t want to discuss his religious identity because he doesn’t want to talk about whether he has faith in anything other than government. Perhaps 35 years of campaigns in Ver-mont have conditioned him not to bring up religion. Maybe, as he indicated in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, his Jewishness is so obvious that it’s not worth addressing.

We suspect Sanders simply rejects the notion that voters should respond to a candidate’s identity instead of his ideas. It’s a refreshing approach. ■

Our ViewIdentity Politics

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From Where I SitBy Dave [email protected]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the greatest show on Earth is coming to town.

No animal acts, just men and women demonstrating prodigious abilities, such as stretching and bend-ing the truth into unrecognizable shapes.

Every four years, American presidential campaigns tour cities and towns, tantalizing audiences with unrivaled showmanship.

The performers — er, candidates — make prom-ises that even they know cannot be fulfilled, boasting with the enthusiasm of carnival barkers hawking attrac-tions under the big top.

Their pitch is whatever they think the rubes — er, voters — want to hear, even if that means changing their spiel along the way.

On Super Tuesday, March 1, primary elections are scheduled in Georgia and five other Southern states (along with primaries and caucuses in eight other states). Regionally, this has been dubbed the SEC Primary, refer-ring to the collegiate athletic confer-ence in which football is a religion.

In this, the nation’s most faith-driven region, candidates will invoke the phrase “Judeo-Christian values,”

no matter any confusion about what it means.

Israel will be mentioned often, more to appeal to Christians, par-ticularly evangelicals, than to these Southern states’ relatively small Jewish populations. The fewest such refer-ences may come from the lone Jewish

candidate, who says little on this subject.

Speaking for myself, I cringe when a candidate tells a Jewish audience that he watched the movie “Schindler’s List” the night before, when another recalls his mother urging him as a boy to make Jew-ish friends because they would be loyal, and when a third makes light of the reputation of Jews as dealmak-ers. Then there is the candidate who donned a kippah bearing his name as an entrepreneurial rabbi asked him to say “Gut Shabbos” into a camera for promotional purposes.

What motivates candidates to do such things? Votes and money.

Jews are roughly 2 percent of the U.S. population but on Election Day make up about 4 percent of the voters. In a nation where 55 percent to 60 percent turnout is considered good for a presidential election, Jewish turnout is around 80 percent.

Jews also make campaign contri-butions in excess of their percentage of the population.

Attention, pandering politicians: A photograph of you wearing a kip-pah does not impress me, nor does a grip-and-grin handshake with Israel’s prime minister, nor does your version of “Some of my best friends are Jew-ish.”

As for the pledge “I stand with Israel,” please articulate any sub-stance behind that statement because it makes me want to ask, “Which Israel are you talking about?” Do you make the mistake of assuming that American Jews are monolithic in their opinions?

On the subject of Israel, former U.S. diplomat Aaron David Miller recently offered a reality check on campaign rhetoric. “And the next president will soon encounter the reality that the U.S.-Israeli relation-ship is not some precious talking point or slogan on a pedestal, but a living breathing one where the interests of both countries can simultaneously

collide and coincide,” Miller, who has advised both Democratic and Republi-can administrations, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine.

Some Jews base their votes pri-marily on candidates’ positions on Is-rael. I am not a single-issue voter. Yes, I am interested in what a candidate says — or actually believes — about Israel, but it is just one issue of consequence.

I also want to hear their thoughts on:

• How to improve the quality of public education.

• How to restore Main Street’s confidence in Wall Street.

• How to repair our nation’s dete-riorating infrastructure.

• The role of religion in the public square.

• How to secure the nation with-out sacrificing the civil liberties on which it was founded.

• How to prevent the renewal of cold wars and cool the heat in existing conflict zones.

• Whether the Constitution is static or open to interpretation (not unlike the arguments about aspects of Jewish law).

Political campaigns, like a circus, can be entertaining, but elections have long-term consequences. So enjoy your popcorn but pay close attention to what the candidates say and do. ■

The Circus Comes to Town

Israel’s PrecedentsAn editorial titled “Full Disclosure”

(Feb. 12) expresses discomfort with two recent Israeli actions. The first is the suspension of three Israeli Arab mem-bers of the Knesset who honored the families of terrorists who killed Jews. The second is new legislation that re-quires anti-Israel nongovernmental organizations to reveal the source of funding from European governments.

Actually, Israel is on solid ground with both actions, based on precedents in U.S. history.

During the Civil War, a small seg-ment of Union Democrats opposed President Abraham Lincoln’s prosecu-tion of the war and wanted to recog-nize the Confederacy. This faction was called the Copperheads and was led by an Ohio congressman, Clement Val-landigham. After Vallandigham was warned multiple times that his activi-ties were treasonous, he was arrested, tried and convicted under military law,

then was expelled to the Confederacy by order of Lincoln.

The treatment of the Arab mem-bers of the Knesset was mild compared with what the United States did under similar circumstances. In fact, these anti-Israel members of the Knesset were told to get out of Nazareth by its Arab mayor, who noted that their pres-ence was bad for business.

The United States has strict regu-lations on lobbyists and requires those who receive foreign funding to disclose it. Israel would be on solid ground adopting similar legislation.

Finally, the major reason the AJT advises caution is because of how these actions might be perceived. Just as it is futile to ask sharks to become vegetar-ian, it is futile to think that haters of Israel will all of a sudden love Israel if it tries to please them. Abrogating self-respect never ends well.

— Jack L. Arbiser, Atlanta

Torn Over Trump, SandersWhile Donald Trump rants like a

dictator of old, Bernie Sanders stands for all that Jews and right-thinking

people have fought for in this country since they first came, such as freedom of religion and freedom from religion, workers’ rights, education for all, ad-vancement of science and medicine, and equal rights and justice for all.

Striving for those ideals should be the obligation of anyone who rep-resents us, but there is a higher call-ing for any president of these United States: the protection of all Americans from evil, both foreign and domestic.

This great country has derived its strength and growth from immigrants, who for the most part fled oppression and insecurity in their homelands and came here seeking freedom and oppor-tunity, captivated by the values they had learned this land espoused. I for one support any and all in desperate situations yearning for safety and free-dom, whatever their ethnicity.

However, we are faced with a new breed of immigrants yearning to come here. Never before have we been faced with a multitude of immigrants who have been indoctrinated and brain-washed for nearly a century, if not a millennia, not to love what we espouse,

but to hate America, hate Jews, despise Christians, and seek the death and de-struction of Israel and all its people.

Lessons of hate taught in their mosques, newspapers, schools and homes and on radio and TV now del-uge them on the Internet. How exactly does one vet such people to determine that neither they nor their offspring will ever express those hatreds?

I am sure many Muslims seek to live here peacefully, but I doubt they will ever vote for a politician who sup-ports Israel and freedom from religion.

Already the children of Muslims are denouncing Israel in our universi-ties and depriving Jews of the right to speak. Already children of so-called peace-loving Muslims commit terrorist acts and plan more and more.

Already Muslims send money overseas to organizations committed to killing Jews and Americans. Already Muslims illegally export weapons and technology to terrorist groups.

And most of those already passed our vetting process — with flying col-ors.

— Barry Edelson, Hollywood, Fla.

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Guest ColumnBy Randy [email protected]


Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps the strictest “strict construction-ist” U.S. Supreme Court justice,

died Saturday, Feb. 13. His legacy will almost certainly be that in every decision he made or in which he participated, he tried his best to apply the Constitution as he be-lieved the original drafters intended it to be applied.

Many detractors claimed that he needed to change with the times, that the Consti-tution was outdated. But he saw things simply and clearly: It was his mission to understand and to enforce what-ever the original drafters intended (or perhaps would have intended?).

An immediate impact may be felt in cases such as Whole Woman’s Health vs. Cole, No. 15-274, in which a conservative majority led by Scalia might have determined that a Texas law allowing strict medical restric-tions on abortions could have provid-ed a state a way to ban many or most abortions. This case could have been the closest the Supreme Court had ever come to overturning Roe vs. Wade.

In Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association, union rights are at stake on the question of whether states may require union membership

as a condition of employment. Scalia seemed to be on track to help overturn current law and not allow states to require union membership. Unions’ ability to require fees from everyone at the job may now remain.

Evenwel vs. Abbott could affect voting rights, and other cases are certain to engender much discussion, including a case covering religious or-ganizations and contraception under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

There will be an interesting debate and many story lines about whether the Senate will block Presi-dent Barack Obama’s attempt to appoint a successor, hoping for a more

conservative (Republican) president to take office in January.

Until then, the interesting thing is there are eight justices, and to para-phrase a baseball term, a tie goes to the appellee. Those seeking to over-turn a law or a decision will need a 5-3 majority instead of 5-4 (unless a justice abstains or recuses) because a 4-4 deci-sion is a victory for the appellee.

The U.S. Supreme Court as the final arbiter or interpreter of law is vital. Whether one agrees with its rulings or not, we must have the rule

of law, and we often need closure and resolution. Getting it right, accurately applying the Constitution and main-taining the public confidence will con-tinue to be vital, and nothing suggests that the current court will do anything other than continue this quest.

As the Chinese proverb foretells, “May you live in interesting times.” We certainly do. ■

Randy Kessler is the founding part-ner of the Atlanta family law firm Kessler & Solomiany (www.ksfamilylaw.com).

Scalia’s Death Alters Math on Abortion, Union Dues

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Two Atlanta Jewish community members who didn’t start play-ing football until their junior

years in high school, Samuel Slo-man and Daniel Gothard, signed to continue their sports careers at college Wednesday, Feb. 3.

Placekicker Sloman, a senior at Pace Academy, has signed with Miami University in Ohio for 2016.

Originally a soccer goalkeeper, he was recruited as a junior to kick for the football team and in his first season was named First Team All-State for AA.

His senior season, Sloman con-verted 20 of 23 field goal attempts, set-ting a state record for field goals in a season. His longest was 53 yards.

He was named All-Region, All-State and a metro All-Star and gained national accolades: First Team All-American with the two largest kicking camps, Kohl’s and Chris Sailer Kick-ing; National Placekick of the Year by Chris Sailer Kicking; and the MaxPreps Small Schools All-American Team.

Sloman and his family are mem-bers of Temple Emanu-El.

Dunwoody High School offensive tackle Gothard has signed to play for the University of Pennsylvania.

The 6-foot-6, 300-pounder started playing football his junior year and picked up the sport quickly. Although Dunwoody finished 2015 with a record of 3-8, Gothard was recruited by Yale and Harvard before choosing fellow Ivy League school Penn. He is the son of Julie Horowitz and Andy Gothard.

Gothard and Sloman join Walton High linebacker Joey Goodman, com-mitted to Harvard University, in sign-ing to play college football next year. ■

Send news of local college sports sign-ings to [email protected].

Signings: Gothard To Penn, Sloman to Miami

Daniel Gothard has learned enough

in two years of high school football to win

a spot on Penn’s team next fall.

Samuel Sloman sports the hat of

his college choice, Miami University.

That Championship SeasonDavis Academy basketball teams won three Metro Atlanta Athletic Confer-

ence division championships this winter. The A boys and B boys and girls won titles.

The members of the Davis Academy’s A boys team, coached by Yaman Taylor

and Loren Spaulding, are (back row, from left) Joey Rubanenko, Evan Bernath,

Simon Ben Moshe (holding trophy), Ben Shapiro and Alex Effron and (front row,

from left) Zach Leaf, Austin Margol, Ethan Ben Moshe, Justin Edelman,

Isaac Goldman and Ethan Goldberg.

Davis Academy’s B boys team is composed of (back row, from left) Coach Rashad Gunn,

Jordy Elster, Eric Rubinger, Evan Tessler, Logan Spector and Micah Kornblum and

(front row, from left) Andrew Altmann, Eli Minsk, Charlie Janko, Grant Miller,

Adam Rubinger and Max Murray, plus (not pictured) Jared Berenthal.

Matt Barry coaches (from left) Alisa Steel, Mary Ella Rinzler, Alexa Warner, Ellie Rifkin, Emma Perlstein, Emma Bernath, Noa Grace Pollinger and Emma Tessler, plus (not pictured) Jenny Sullivan, on the Davis Academy B girls team.

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By Logan C. [email protected]

Local day schools stand to benefit from the formation of a national Jewish educational collaborative.

Historically, day schools looked to independent organizations to help with fundraising, professional develop-ment, recruitment and more. Reform, Conservative and Orthodox schools reached out to networks within their own affiliations for resources. Reform day schools like the Davis Academy in Sandy Springs used one network, while Orthodox day schools like Torah Day School of Atlanta in Toco Hills used an-other to meet similar needs.

Now NewOrg (a temporary name) is combining five national Jewish non-profits for a one-stop shop.

The effort was announced in 2014 at a Jewish day school conference in Philadelphia. A major financial back-er of these five groups, the AVI CHAI Foundation, reportedly decided the or-ganizations were duplicative.

In discussions for years, AVI CHAI wanted to be more efficient and save money by forming one group to en-compass the affinity organizations. AVI CHAI hoped to roll out NewOrg in fall 2014, but the effort took longer. A summer launch is on target.

NewOrg is composed of agencies in Boston and New York, but outposts will be located in every region of the country. It is aiming to cater to 375 Jew-ish day schools across North America.

Geography plays an important role in NewOrg. Employees will be re-motely located to identify school chal-lenges in each demographic.

Davis Academy Head of School Amy Shafron wrote: “As the largest Reform Jewish Day School in the coun-try, The Davis Academy looks forward to benefitting from the rising tide of excitement that comes from a shared commitment to educating our youth, while continuing to devote ourselves ever more deeply to the mission and identity that is uniquely Davis and the special feeling of our school. While we are in so many ways very different from other Jewish Day Schools, we look forward to the opportunities that will come from collaboration on a national platform.”

According to NewOrg board mem-ber Jane Taubenfeld Cohen, the execu-tive director of the Yeshiva University Institute for University-School Part-

nership, there are plenty of needs that day schools share.

“The organization will be struc-tured in a similar way to how we set up our schools,” Cohen said. “In your classroom, there are things you do with the whole class and times you need to address individual students.”

NewOrg combines the Progres-sive Association of Reform Day Schools (PARDES), the Partnership for Ex-cellence in Jewish Education (PEJE), the Schechter Day School Network, RAVSAK (the Jewish Community Day School Network), and the Yeshiva Uni-versity School Partnership.

Each organization has an area of expertise, but with overlaps. RAV-SAK is known to enhance community through coaching and mentorship skills for professional leaders; PEJE also focuses on staff training in ad-dition to financial sustainability and fundraising.

Although some longstanding rela-tionships are ending with this merger, Atlanta-area schools are optimistic.

“There is finally a place where one voice can respond to Jewish education. Before it was a divisive split between us [affiliations] where everyone spoke for themselves. One organization will work together in a much more efficient way,” Atlanta Jewish Academy Head of School Rabbi Pinchos Hecht said.

“We are all in the same business. It’s a waste of energy to not have this resource — one organization to train, help and support will be an impactful thing,” he said.

Struggling schools will get servic-es, Cohen said. A sliding scale will help address the needs of poorer schools.

“We find donors or fundraise to support schools in financial need. A common conversation we have is, ‘This school is struggling, they called for help, and what will we do?’ People volunteer. Currently I’m just helping a school who cannot afford services. We speak on the phone, and I am helping them to get out of their current strug-gle. That’s exactly how the organiza-tion will help,” she said.

David Abusch-Magder, the head of school at the Epstein School, said: “I hope that, as the field moves for-ward with the birth of this new day school organization, we will engage with them along similar and expanded lines and that the planned synergy of the combined organization allows for greater resources and support.” ■

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Camp Living Wonders has earned a reputation as an innovator in providing a summer home and

community for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities. Now it’s trying to take innovation to another level by sponsoring a maker event.

The Atlanta-based camp, operat-ing in Clarksville this summer, is work-ing with the University of Florida Hillel on the launch of BuildUp, a weekend event to create devices that could en-hance the lives of people with physical, developmental or mental disabilities.

Students in engineering and spe-cial education will have 24 hours to create a prototype that addresses one or more of four major issues faced by Living Wonders’ population, camp Di-rector Noah Pawliger said: sensory, mo-bility, motor complications and mental health.

The event will take place at UF Hillel from Friday to Sunday, Feb. 19 to 21, and thus will be a part of Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month.

In what Pawliger said is a pilot he hopes will be repeated at other univer-sities, students and community mem-bers will brainstorm, pitch ideas and develop products.

American and Israeli entrepre-neurs will attend the event to mentor the teams, which will have the oppor-tunity to pitch their ideas to entrepre-neurs and investment bankers. Pawl-iger said he hopes Israeli companies will produce some of the prototypes.

He said BuildUp offers a chance to answer big questions while promoting Jewish organizations and businesses and boosting Israel. “People need to see all the great things coming from the Jewish people because the Jewish people are doing great things.”

Pawliger and Rabbi Adam Gross-man, the CEO of UF Hillel, came up with the idea of BuildUp. They became connected through their involvement in the Jewish innovation accelerator organization UpStart.

“Beyond the start of companies and the creation of products that could drastically help people, we hope this offers inspiration for individuals to continue to develop, build and experi-ment with ideas that impact our world for the greater good,” Rabbi Grossman said.

Aside from the big-picture goals, Pawliger said Camp Living Wonders is involved in BuildUp because it needs

innovative devices to help its special needs population lead normal lives.

“The truest form of inclusion is when we give people with challenges the tools and empowerment to include themselves,” Pawliger said.

“After all, without them, our com-munity is not complete. Through op-portunities like BuildUp, we are com-municating to them, ‘We need you, you are part of us, and we are going to give you what you need to make us whole again.’ ”

If the weekend goes well, he said, he hopes the next BuildUp-type event will take place at Georgia Tech. ■

Living Wonders, UF Hillel Test 24-Hour Innovation Two Sandy Springs day schools

are breaking ground on their latest campus improvements be-

fore the end of February.The Davis Academy is bringing out

the shovels at 8:15 Friday morning, Feb. 19, during an all-school Kabbalat Shab-bat celebration at the Lower School at 8105 Roberts Drive for the ceremonial start of its $7.5 million upgrade. Donors and city officials will join school lead-ers for a reception after the one-hour public celebration.

The Davis construction includes a dining hall and kosher kitchen, a com-munity gathering space, and adaptable learning spaces, but the centerpiece of the project is a 600-seat performing

arts center behind the media center.Nine days later and about seven

miles south, Atlanta Jewish Academy will hold its construction celebration from 10 a.m. to noon.

AJA’s $10 million project will en-able the Upper School, formerly Ye-shiva Atlanta, to move from Doraville to the Lower School campus at 5200 Northland Drive. When the work is done, preschoolers through high school seniors will study at what used to be the home of Greenfield Hebrew Academy.

While it’s too late to make plans to join the Davis ceremony, you can be part of the free AJA event by RSVPing at secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=52ce3a. ■

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Rabbi Michoel Druin is the first head of school for the Chaya Mushka Elementary and Middle

School in Sandy Springs.While the Chabad-operated Chaya

Mushka Children’s House preschool, under the direction of Dassie New, follows the authentic Montessori program, Rabbi Druin said the upper school is Montessori-inspired.

In an interview, he said he sees “great potential” in the blended learn-ing, self-directed program that comple-ments the beliefs of Chabad. Chaya Mushka serves 65 children from first to seventh grades and is expanding to the eighth grade.

Rabbi Druin was born in Cali-fornia and raised in Israel. He was awarded a master’s degree from Bel-levue University, where his research in-cluded a Montessori program. He also completed the Lookstein Center Prin-cipals’ Program and the School Leader-ship Program of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

In South Africa, where he met his

educator wife, Rabbi Druin founded the Machon L’Horah smicha (rabbinic ordination) program and Crawford College (now with 1,500 students), both in Pretoria. Only 10 percent of the stu-dents at Crawford are Jewish, but Rabbi Druin oversaw the school while head-ing a program for the Jewish students.

The past five years he was the head of school for the Jewish Academy in Commack, N.Y., on Long Island. Un-der his leadership, 75 percent of the eighth-graders passed the High School

Regents Exam, the highest percentage for any school in Suffolk County.

To prepare for his appointment in Atlanta, Rabbi Druin visited Montes-sori Jewish day and secular schools in New York, including the well-known Chabad Lamplighters.

The Chabad educator gave an ex-ample of Montessori-inspired blended learning: If 15 children are in a class-room, five will be learning with a teacher, five will be working on their daily tasks in a Montessori fashion, and five will be learning online at com-puters, working at their own rate. Oth-er schools, Jewish and secular, may use this approach to save money, as it could enable a teacher to monitor 45 students in a classroom, Rabbi Druin said, but “that’s not Chabad’s reason.”

At a Yeshiva University conven-tion, Rabbi Druin tested participants’ expectations for a Chabad Montessori school. The written responses showed “so much overlapping and synergy” be-tween Montessori and Chabad, he said. “Many of the participants recognized Chabad’s outreach approach, where individuals are encouraged to interact

and grow within Judaism at their own pace, which equates with the Montes-sori philosophy of teaching each and every child as an independent learner.”

Marie Montessori was an Italian physician who in the early 1900s gave children with special needs sensory and tactile tasks and saw them succeed. She then introduced her individualized methods to all children, especially pre-schoolers. Her child-centered program was the Montessori Method.

Rabbi Druin said children might have 10 tasks for the day and choose the order in which to accomplish them.

Another difference in a Montes-sori school is the attitude toward home-work. Some educators believe that they need to eliminate homework and get all the work done at school.

“We, however, believe that instead of homework being something to get done with in school, the students go home feeling a sense of self-ownership in regards to their learning even while at home,” Rabbi Druin said. He added that “Montessori differs from tradi-tional education, where the teacher owns the class and the students repeat what’s said to them to get a good grade.”

As the Chaya Mushka Elemen-tary and Middle School’s first head of school, Rabbi Druin said he has been welcomed by rabbis and feels the com-munity support. Although he sees the benefits of Montessori, he doesn’t want to dismiss the philosophy of education in other schools in the Atlanta area.

To test the proficiency and growth of students in secular studies, Rabbi Druin plans to use the Measure of Aca-demic Progress, or MAP, which assesses children by adapting to each one’s lev-el. It will be used as a formative assess-ment, enabling teachers to fine-tune their instruction over the year. MAP is part of the not-for-profit Northwest Evaluation Association.

Success in the Judaics program will be measured by seeing the stu-dents develop skills and by hearing the parents “tell me that the children are enjoying what they are learning,” Rabbi Druin said. “It’s very subjective to measure kodesh.”

He hopes students will be inspired by their heritage and plans to hire a program director to give them lots of opportunities to celebrate holidays and traditions in and out of school.

“I could do all the talking,” Rabbi Druin said at the end of the interview. “The parents should come see the school in action.” ■

New Head Eager to Blend Chabad, MontessoriRabbi Michoel Druin sees self-paced synergy in Chaya Mushka’s approach

Rabbi Michoel Druin says he sees education as a combination of five

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Rabbi Ari Leubitz never could have guessed two decades ago that he would be moving to At-

lanta this summer to become the head of school of Atlanta Jewish Academy.

Back then, the Cleveland native was making his way in the Wall Street world with a Yeshiva University busi-ness degree. While trying such jobs as stock trader and currency trader, he had no plans to be an educator or a rab-bi or even to leave New York, where he met his future wife, Florence, a native of the city who had no desire to move.

The bursting of the Internet bub-ble in the late 1990s led him to call center management, where he worked hard but felt that he was missing some essential meaning or purpose in life. “I didn’t have that language at the time, but I was going through the motions,” Rabbi Leubitz, 42, said in a phone inter-view from California, where he heads the Oakland Hebrew Day School. “I guess I was content.”

The first turning point came when his synagogue offered free one-on-one study with rabbinical students. He said the program wasn’t wildly popular, but it clicked with him. He switched to a graveyard shift at the call center so he could spend more time studying, and he began teaching religious school in the afternoon.

He felt tremendous tension about where he was headed, but he didn’t see himself as a rabbi. He was just passion-ate about learning and teaching as he found his way religiously after grow-ing up with a Conservative father and an Orthodox mother and attending an Orthodox day school.

A mentor helped him accept that if he found purpose in teaching children and being a pastoral leader, he had to go to rabbinical school, even though that meant giving up his job. When he realized he could be 30 years from achieving career fulfillment in the call center world but was only four or five years from being a rabbi, “it just hit me like a ton of bricks.”

He spent a year at a small rab-binical school as a test, then enrolled in Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, where he received his ordination four years later in 2006.

The next trick was finding a job. Rabbi Leubitz still had the intention of being a pulpit rabbi, but after he strug-gled to find a job in the New York area, or even within a one-hour flight, he took a part-time teaching position in

Los Angeles that soon became full time. He worked his way up to principal of a Modern Orthodox high school, Shalhe-vet School, then four years ago took the Oakland job, where he leads a school that runs through the eighth grade.

Rabbi Leubitz, whose only ties to Atlanta are a few friends who moved here, took notice when Greenfield He-brew Academy and Yeshiva Atlanta announced their merger in 2014. He said the model of preschool through high school on one campus provides a wonderful professional opportunity. “Part of me wanted to get back to high school,” he said. “Part of me loved the lower school.”

At AJA, he gets both, along with the

opportunity to guide a school that has deep community roots but also is new and embarking on a major construc-tion project. “Now I get to have a say in every small part.”

He said AJA is and will remain Modern Orthodox. “I think that means it can still be a place that is open-mind-ed and welcoming to people of differ-ent geographic backgrounds and prac-tice backgrounds.”

The school he leads will focus on how it can meet the needs of each learner, which is why he is excited that AJA offers the M’silot Program for chil-dren with learning differences, Rabbi Leubitz said.

His educational philosophy starts

with the notion that “an excellent Jew-ish and general studies education has to be something that feels holistic, cen-tered around students and the needs of students.”

He said the school must nurture the unique abilities of each child so that he or she can blossom and find a voice while developing the skill set in general studies to be “amazing citizens of the world.”

His children — Eliana, 12, Aviva, almost 11, and Ezra, 5 — will be part of the school, while his wife, a pediatric audiologist, is looking for work.

“This feels like the place where we can settle down and create roots,” the rabbi said. ■

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More than 200 tech-savvy Jew-ish students competed in the 12th annual North Atlanta

Jewish Students Technology Fair on Sunday, Jan. 24, at the Weber School.

The 16 competition categories range from game design and robotics to digital photography and 3D model-ing in age groups from third grade to 12th grade. First-place winners in each category and age group move on to the state-level competition, the Georgia Educational Technology Fair, on Satur-day, March 5, in Macon.

The regional tech fair is held on a Sunday to avoid forcing Jewish stu-dents to compete during Shabbat. Because the state competition is on a Saturday, the students are allowed to submit their entries via video.

Winning entries in the regional fair came from students at Atlanta Jew-ish Academy, Davis Academy, Epstein School, Torah Day School of Atlanta, Weber School, Druid Hills High School and North Springs Charter High School.

Davis had 15 projects created by a total of 21 students win first-place rib-bons to give the school bragging rights. Close behind were Epstein with 11 first-place projects produced by 19 students and AJA with 13 first-place projects from 13 students.

Epstein’s state qualifiers for Grades 3 and 4 are Shai Bachar in device modi-fication, Jessica Covin and Foster Ber-lin in Internet applications, Sophie Carmel and Leo Silver in mobile apps, Elliott Furie and Naomi Furie in mul-timedia, Andrew Frank in robotics, and Lila Ross and Lindsay Green-wald in video production. For fifth- and sixth-graders, Epstein’s first-place finishers are Gavin Brown and Dylan Wendt in device modification, Jacob Greenwald and Matthew Neuberger in game design, Jonah Katz and Jordan

Leff in robotics, and Barri Seitz in the technology literacy challenge. Maya Kahn and Galya Fischer are the region-al champs among seventh- and eighth-graders in animation.

AJA has the top individual win-ner: Dan Jutan, who won blue ribbons in three categories (technology literacy challenge, Internet applications and tech programming challenge) among 11th- and 12th-graders. Also earning multiple first-place finishes for AJA are Shaun Regenbaum, who won 3D mod-eling and animation for the same age group; and the team of Ben Goldberg and Yoni Kassorla, who won audio pro-duction and non-multimedia applica-tions among fifth- and sixth-graders.

Both Jutan and Regenbaum are high school juniors, and AJA Director of Technology Sue Loubser said their projects “were some of the best I have seen our students create.”

AJA’s other state qualifiers are Zach Agichtein in animation (Grades 3 and 4), Shiraz Agichtein in graphic design (Grades 5 and 6), Daliya Wal-lenstein and Sophie Knapp in project programming (Grades 5 and 6), Lillian Zaidel and Noa Rudisch in 3D modeling (Grades 5 and 6), Paulina Lebowitz in digital photo production (Grades 7 and 8), and Bobbi Sloan and Deena Glus-man in non-multimedia applications (Grades 7 and 8).

Second-place finishers for AJA are Simon Stein and Zellik Silverberg in 3D modeling (Grades 3 and 4), Caroline Cranman and Kayla Feingold in mul-timedia applications (Grades 3 and 4), Jordan Joel in 3D modeling (Grades 5 and 6), Shiraz Agichtein and Margalit Lytton in game design (Grades 5 and 6), and Sammy Lebowitz in project pro-gramming (Grades 5 and 6).

Double winner Regenbaum also claimed a third place in the technol-ogy literacy challenge, along with the

Dozens of Young Techies Advance to State Fair

Weber Head of School Rabbi Ed Harwitz stands with the high school’s one winner of multiple first-place ribbons, freshman Josh Glass,

who won his age group in animation and game design.

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Cranman-Feingold team in animation, Joel in digital photo production, Zach Agichtein and Kayla Wallenstein in game design (Grades 3 and 4), Zachary Amdur in game design (Grades 5 and 6), and Ethan Rice in 3D modeling (Grades 7 and 8).

“As technology becomes more commonplace, our students are using increasingly complex projects to show off their skills,” Loubser said. “We look forward to seeing our students com-pete at the state level.”

She and Michael Chalmers of the Weber School serve as co-chairs for the

region.Weber also had a double winner

among the five students taking five projects to the state fair: freshman Josh Glass in animation and game design.

Torah Day School, which is small-er and had fewer entrants, advanced one student to the state contest: Eli Litvin in Internet applications among fifth- and sixth-graders. In the same age group, Torah Day School’s Effy Freundlich and Noah Kalintz finished third in game design.

Two students outside day schools advanced to the state competition,

both among ninth- and 10th-graders: Druid Hills’ Yoni Bachar in robotics and North Springs’ Jared Rakusin, teamed with former Epstein classmate Isabel Berlin, now a Weber student, in 3D modeling.

Weber’s other winners were senior Amanda Kraun in digital photography for Grades 11 and 12, sophomore Justin Cobb and junior Levi Durham in robot-ics for Grades 11 and 12, and sophomore Isabelle Jacobs in the technology litera-cy challenge for Grades 9 and 10.

Jacobs and freshman Thomas Foodman placed second in robotics

for the younger high school age group, as did Cobb in the technology literacy challenge.

Davis’ state qualifiers for Grades 3 and 4 are Sylvie Bella Brown and Julia Moss, audio production; Jack Baylin and Maccabee Anderson, game design; Charlie Berss, 3D modeling; and Jake Martin, technology literacy challenge.

The winners among fifth- and sixth-graders are Adam Tepper, digital photo production; Jack Anderson and Connor Swislow, video production; An-drew Levingston, multimedia applica-

The Epstein School has 19 winners advancing to the state technology competition March 5: back row (from left), Jonah Katz, Maya Kahn, Galya Fischer, Matthew

Neuberger and Jacob Greenwald; middle row (from left), Dylan Wendt, Lila Ross, Jessica Covin, Barri Seitz, Lindsay

Greenwald, Shai Bachar and Gavin Brown; and front row (from left), Foster Berlin, Andrew Frank, Jordan Leff, Elliott Furie, Naomi Furie, Leo Silver and Sophie Carmel.

The Davis Academy Lower School’s nine first-place winners are (back row, from left) Adam Tepper, Jack

Anderson, Connor Swislow and Jake Martin and (front row, from left) Julia Moss, Sylvie Bella Brown, Charlie Berss, Jack Baylin and Maccabee Anderson.

The Davis Academy Middle School students who finished in first place are (back row, from left) Andrew

Levingston, Matthew Aronin, Andrew Altmann, Ethan Wolfson and Stephen Rusnak and (front row, from left) Eli Weiser, Derek Coffsky, Caroline Goldman,

Jordan Liban, Jake Friedman and Lucas Jannett.

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tions; and Eli Weiser, animation.The Davis seventh- and eighth-

graders advancing to the state contest are Derek Coffsky, video production; Caroline Goldman, multimedia ap-plications; Jordan Liban, game design; Ethan Wolfson and Andrew Altmann, robotics; Jordan Liban and Jake Fried-man, 3D modeling; Lucas Jannett and Stephen Rusnak, graphic design; and Matthew Aronin, technology literacy challenge.

The following Davis students fin-ished in second: Ari Levi and Jack Tolk, animation (Grades 3 and 4); Micah Margolis and Etai Vajima, device modi-fication (Grades 3 and 4); Jolie Levy and Sarah Meiselman, game design (Grades 3 and 4); Sarah Menis, robotics (Grades 3 and 4); Sydney Bressler and Dani Werbel, video production (Grades 3 and 4); Harrison Green, tech literacy challenge (Grades 3 and 4); Avery Fried-man and Jenna Prass, video production (Grades 5 and 6); Jordan Palgon and Anna Baylin, digital photo production (Grades 5 and 6); Max Martin and Jake Martin, robotics (Grades 5 and 6); Alexa

Warner, video production (Grades 5 and 6); Carson Wolff, tech literacy chal-lenge (Grades 5 and 6); Bryan Kopkin, 3D modeling (Grades 7 and 8); Derek Coffsky, animation (Grades 7 and 8); Jordyn Rosenberg, multimedia applica-tions (Grades 7 and 8); Isaac Goldman and Joey Rubanenko, robotics (Grades 7 and 8); and Lily Fleischmann, video production (Grades 7 and 8).

Davis’ third-place finishers are third-graders Gabriella Haviv and Kyra Russotto in video production; fourth-graders Ross Bernath in multimedia applications, Jordan Frank and Har-rison Green in multimedia applica-tions, Bradley Amato and Ari Levy in robotics, and Jordan Frank in the tech literacy challenge; fifth-graders Car-son Wolff and Caleb Mahle in robot-ics and Connor Swislow in the tech literacy challenge; and seventh-grader Jake Friedman in the tech literacy chal-lenge.

“This has been one of the biggest tech fairs,” Loubser said. “We are very proud of all the students who compet-ed.” ■

Dan Jutan from the AJA Upper School is the winner of three categories: technology

literacy challenge, Internet applications and tech programming challenge.

The AJA Lower School has 28 participants in the tech fair: back row (from left), Deena Glusman, Bobbi Sloan, Zellik Silverberg, Daliya Wallenstein, Ilan

Benamram, Adam Berkowitz, Lillian Zaidel and Ethan Rice; third row (from left), Noa Rudisch, Ian Yagoda, Sophie Knapp, Jordan Joel, Zachary Amdur,

Shiraz Agichtein, Hannah Mandel and Paulina Lebowitz; second row (left), Yoni Kassorla, Ben Goldberg, Sammy Lebowitz, Amishai Weismark and Zachary

Agichtein; and front row (from left), Kayla Joel, Sam Wachtel, Gabriella Schakett, Ethan Rolnick, Kayla Feingold, Kayla Wallenstein and Justin Rolnick.

AJA Upper School winner Shaun Regenbaum has two blue ribbons this

year, for 3D modeling and animation. The animation project explains infinitesimals and nonstandard analysis in an intuitive

way, the same approach for which Regenbaum was a national finalist for a $250,000 prize with a video in the fall.

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WSB-TV (Channel 2) meteorologist Katie Walls visited Davis Academy first- and third-graders Tuesday, Feb. 2, to speak about weather, weath-er safety, and the importance of a data project the students are partici-

pating in.Davis first-graders are monitoring rainfall — a full-time task this school year

— with a new rain gauge located near the fields behind the Lower School and reporting the data to the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, known as CoCoRaHS.

Organizations and individuals including the National Weather Service, hy-drologists, emergency managers, ranchers and farmers use the collective data to which the Davis pupils are contributing. ■

On an unseasonably warm day in February, WSB-TV meteorologist Katie Walls and Davis Academy first-graders gather near the weather gauge attached to the

red fence behind the Lower School fields at the Sandy Springs campus.

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Cardboard PioneersSecond- through eighth-graders at

the Davis Academy took virtual field trips Wednesday, Feb. 10, using the Google Cardboard viewer through the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program.

Davis students visited places such as Spain and Israel and experienced 360-degree panoramas and 3D images with the virtual reality delivered by Cardboard and a smartphone. As beta testers, the students then gave Google representatives feedback on the prod-uct.

“The Google reps, who visit many schools, shared specifically how im-pressed they were with our students for their respectful behavior and thought-ful insights and with our faculty’s pro-fessionalism and creative plans for the Google tool,” Davis Head of School Amy Shafron reported to parents.

Teens Can Learn ImprovA new program could make the

Marcus Jewish Community Center the place for teens who are class clowns, are interested in theater, or just watch comedy on TV and think, “I could do that.”

Weekly improv comedy classes for eighth- to 12th-graders start Wednes-day, March 9, and run through April 20 at the Marcus JCC’s main campus at 5342 Tilly Mill Road in Dunwoody. Classes meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednes-days.

The April 20 session, the sixth in the series, will be a performance for students’ families.

Skilled improv artists will teach the class. Participants require no expe-rience.

The fee for the six sessions is $75 for JCC members and $95 for nonmem-bers. For more information, call 678-812-4082, email [email protected], or visit www.atlantajcc.org.

Tough Task at Model U.N.The Weber School’s model United

Nations team had to defend two of the

world’s less popu-lar nations while participating in the University of Georgia Model U.N. Conference in Athens during the first weekend in February.

It was the We-ber team’s second U.N. conference of the school year.

A l t h o u g h there are no win-

ners or losers in model U.N., the We-ber team wound up representing two tough countries: Qatar, which finances Hamas and whose abysmal human rights record has gained global atten-tion since the emirate began prepa-rations to host soccer’s World Cup in 2022; and North Korea, known to launch rockets into space as a test of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and to spread Sony’s secrets through cyber-attacks.

Juniors Justin Wolozin, Yarden Willis and Shannan Berzack participat-ed in the first General Assembly of the United Nations, which focused on the

Davis Academy middle-schoolers test out the Google Cardboard viewer.

Model U.N. team members Aaron Gordon, Justin Wolozin, Yarden Willis, Asher

Stadler, Adam Spector, Jordan Arbiv and Sam Fialkow hang out at UGA with faculty

adviser Marc Leventhal. Not pictured is team member Shannan Berzack.

Iran nuclear deal and maritime piracy. Sophomores Aaron Gordon, Asher Stadler, Sam Fialkow, Jordan Arbiv and Adam Spector participated in the third General Assembly, which explored the economic, social and cultural rights of Syrian refugees.

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JELF also accepts applications in September.

Ben Franklin’s Books Offer Educational Shelter

Ben Franklin Academy’s philan-thropy club in one month collected 120 children’s picture books from school families to donate to the Genesis Shel-ter and Our House Shelter, which pro-vide shelter to homeless newborns and their families.

Encouraging the literacy of the next generation fits the Ben Franklin community’s strong belief in the ben-efits of reading for a child’s develop-ment.

Science T-Shirt ContestThe Atlanta Science Festival (At-

lantaScienceFestival.org) is offering young artists the chance to get involved with the event, set for March 19 to 26, by entering its annual student T-shirt design contest. This year’s theme is “Meet the Future.”

Georgia sixth- to 12th-graders may submit a design that depicts the future

and how science and technology will affect it. The contest’s “future” could address the world as a whole or the stu-dent artist’s personal future.

Designs must use the template available at www.atlantasciencefes-tival.org/tshirtcontest and must be emailed to [email protected] so that they are received by 11 p.m. Tuesday, March 1.

The winner will receive two tick-ets to “Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Sci-ence” at the Fox Theatre on April 9, an onstage award during the festival’s Exploration Expo on March 26, and 10 T-shirts for family and friends.

A panel of festival staffers, board members, sponsors and partners will judge the designs on artistry, creativ-ity, originality, and the ability to com-municate a clear and positive message about the future and how science and technology will affect it.

“Last year’s contest was extremely successful and a true testament to the imagination, talent and curiosity of the next generation,” said Meisa Salaita, executive co-director of the festival. “This year’s theme, ‘Meet the Future,’ is the perfect way to showcase the power of our local youth and encourage them to dream big and have fun while doing it.”

March of the Living Alters Attitudes Toward Israel

A study by March of the Living In-ternational (www.motl.org) has found that the organization’s trips to Poland and Israel lead half of the participants to consider making aliyah in the fu-ture.

The recently released study was conducted by sociologist William Helmreich of the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Colin Powell School at City College. “What’s most remarkable about the march is how deeply it impacts par-ticipants over a period of many years,” he said in an announcement about the study. “These include life choices like selecting a mate, moving to Israel, and career choices. In addition, it greatly impacts not only on Jewish identity, but also on compassion toward other people.”

More than 220,000 students have taken March of the Living trips since the program was founded in 1988. The Holocaust education trips annually take 10,000 to 20,000 students from any religion to Poland and Israel, but the report focused only on the Jewish participants.

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signed up to better understand their Jewish culture.

“We are very pleased with the re-sults of this study,” said Shmuel Rosen-man, the chairman of the March of the Living. “To think that the march is such a successful program in terms of ensur-ing and enhancing Jewish identity and in making people realize the impor-tance of engaging as a Jew within their communities and caring for those out-side of them truly illustrates the goals that we had when initially forming the first march so many years ago.”

Among the findings:• Fifty-four percent said the march

made them more tolerant toward other groups. Among those who participated 20 years ago, that number rose to 66 percent.

• Eighty-six percent said it’s impor-tant to marry someone who is Jewish, and 91 percent said that raising their children with some sort of Jewish edu-cation is important. Some 65 percent said that raising their children in a Jew-ish neighborhood is important.

• According to 90 percent of those surveyed, the march instilled the im-portance of reacting to confrontations with anti-Semitism, and 95 percent said the march strengthened their sense of Jewish Identity.

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Atlanta’s PAL program, a mentor-ing program operated by Jewish Family & Career Services, is cel-

ebrating its 30th anniversary with a big party Sunday, Feb. 28, at Congregation B’nai Torah in Sandy Springs.

The Atlanta area’s only Jewish Big Brother/Big Sister program has touched the lives of hundreds of chil-dren, families and volunteers over the years and formed close relationships that in some cases have lasted decades.

PAL was started in 1986 by Archie Solomon and Ellen Moore, the first PAL program manager. According to his widow, Kaethe, Archie was involved in a Big Brother/Big Sister program in Cleveland. When the Solomons moved to Atlanta, he found a need for a simi-lar program and decided to start one.

“Ellen Moore was a social worker here at JF&CS, and she was seeing a lot of families who were going through di-vorces,” said Carly Sonenshine, the PAL program manager. “The parents were coming in for counseling, saying that their children are really in need of ad-ditional support. They said that this is a really difficult time, and if they had a special person of their own outside of the family but supporting the family at the same time and supporting their child, giving them that one-on-one at-tention, how much they would benefit.”

So the Solomons and Moore start-ed PAL with JF&CS. Through about 500 matches over the years, about 1,500

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people have been helped, including the children (little PALs), the PAL parents and the volunteers (big PALs).

The PAL name was an acronym. “It actually used to stand for People Are Loving,” Sonenshine said. “About five years ago, they got away from the acro-nym and just started calling it the PAL program, like a pal, a friend.”

Somewhere PAL hit a period of de-cline, she said, and the program man-ager position became part time. But four years ago the program went back to a full-time clinician, and PAL has seen strong growth from 14 to 45 active matches in that time. The program has a goal of 55 matches by the end of 2016.

“We are really working hard to be out in the community, teaching people about the PAL program and about the benefits of mentorship,” Sonenshine said. “We’re really getting out there with our name and having wonderful advocates of the program to share the wonderful work that we do and mak-ing sure that the families who need us know that we are here.”

To volunteer as a big PAL, you must be at least 21, a Georgia resident and Jewish and have a driver’s license. You must commit for a minimum of one year, during which you meet with your little PAL at least twice a month and connect with weekly phone calls.

Matching big and little PALs is a long process. A volunteer must pass a background check, a drug screening, interviews and other vetting. A fam-ily who would like a child to be in the

Photos courtesy of JF&CSAttending one of the first PAL planning meetings are Kaethe and Archie

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program has an intake meeting, an in-terview with the child and family, and a home visit. PALs are matched based on hobbies, backgrounds, social needs, interests and preferences. All matches are the same sex.

“The reality is that every child can benefit from a mentor. Nine out of 10 kids in the United States are growing up without a mentor,” Sonenshine said.

PAL serves diverse family situa-tions. Little PALs are the children of parents who are single because of di-vorce, death of a spouse or choice. PAL also serves LGBTQ families, military families, children raised by guardians other than their biological parents, and, more recently, siblings of children with developmental disabilities. The child with a developmental disability is referred to the Friendship Circle, and the sibling gets a big PAL, giving that child the attention he or she needs.

Little PALs range from 5 to 17. Chil-dren graduate from the program at 18, but the typical PAL match does not end at that point, Sonenshine said. “I know people who tell me that they are still in touch with their PALs literally 30, 25 and 20 years later. They are in each oth-er’s weddings and at each other’s break fasts. They are celebrating simchas to-gether because they have become such a huge part of each other’s lives.”

Elissa Fladell and her little PAL graduated from the program over 10 years ago, but they remain close, talk-ing daily and seeing each other often.

“I got to watch her grow up,” Fla-dell said. “I got to bring something to her that she did not get from anyone else. For me, as an adult, she has be-

come part of my family. Not only have we gotten to give to her, but she has given to us. She is there for my chil-dren to be their mentor. She’s someone that they can go to that they trust when they don’t want to come to me or their father. We’ve almost come full circle in that regard. She really is part of our family. She adds to the dynamic of our whole family.”

Fladell highly recommends PAL to others.

“It’s a very special program, and it touches lives, not only of children, which is some of the most important work to be done, but it gives back to the parents that need that in their lives for their children to give them that sense of peace,” she said. “As a big PAL, to me it’s about what I get from it and not what I give to her. She gives so much back to me and my family. I really think that it is a program that is not only reward-ing to those that are touched by it, but everybody that those people will then touch.”

Marc Alexander started as a big PAL in the mid-1990s and served on the JF&CS board for a number of years. Al-exander said the program is an impor-tant service for the community.

“I think it gives the little PALs a great outlet to have someone other than a parent to talk about issues and things that are coming up in their life,” he said. “I think it’s great to have some-one help out in the different struggles they might be having. The biggest re-ward is of the big PAL; it gives them the opportunity to reflect on what they had. Being a big PAL is an opportunity to put life in balance a little bit. To take

Adam Sonenshine (left) and David Manne take their little PALs to a Braves game.

Marni Bronstein and her little PAL create artwork and memories.

Big and little PALs prepare to board the bus for Camp Day Away.

David Manne shows his little PAL around his favorite childhood place, Camp Barney Medintz.

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a step back and make an impact on the younger PAL’s life is extremely reward-ing. To me, the reward is making an im-pact on his life, which comes right back to you.”

Alexander and his little PAL liked to do outdoor activities such as camp-ing, river rafting and attending sport-ing events. His little PAL has a brother who was also in the PAL program. The four of them were friendly and did a lot of activities together.

The sibling’s big PAL is Michael Londe, who met his wife, Susan, through PAL.

Susan Londe volunteered to be on the committee for the annual PAL ben-efit called Havinagala, which used to be held at California Pizza Kitchen. Susan ended up being on Michael’s Havina-gala committee.

“We started dating, and he had been a PAL for years. It’s kind of funny that it’s hit home in several different ways,” Susan said.

Susan remains close to her little PAL eight years after they graduated from the program. Their relationship has lasted 20 years even though her little PAL now lives out of state.

“She’s awesome,” Susan said. “From the beginning, our personalities could not have been better matched. We both loved to do crafty things and bake. We’ve always loved children.”

Susan feels that her little PAL is a part of her family, and they have been through a lot together.

“I love that I have my little PAL in my life,” she said. “She was with me when I went through my dating of my husband and got to know him. She’s watched me have both of my children. She baby-sat for them even. She’s gone on family trips with us. It felt really good to be able to be a role model for somebody, especially at such a young age, when I was probably the one who needed a role model. We taught each other a lot of things.”

JF&CS doesn’t charge anything for program participants and encour-ages free and low-cost activities for PALs to do together. The program also sponsors monthly activities and offers resources to PALs so participation will not be a financial burden.

Other services JF&CS offers to families in the program include finan-cial assistance, counseling, referrals and access to information on overnight Jewish camping.

The 30th anniversary party will bring about 200 people together for pizza, cookies and other kosher snacks, music from a Jewish band called Smothered and Covered, a photo booth, games, and other activities for children of all ages. A ceremony will honor Ka-ethe Solomon and Ellen Moore.

“I’m delighted that the program has remained so dynamic, and my hus-band would love to have seen this 30th anniversary,” Solomon said. “He would have been very proud of it.” ■

Bennett Ginburg and Marni Bronstein attend Camp Day Away with their little PALs.

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Little and big PALs thank their sponsors at the PAL Chanukah bowling party in 2015.

Big PALS gathered for networking in July 2013 are (from left) Brian Shulman,

Ari Weitz, Jeff Masarek, Mimi Hall Gottschalk, Brett Davis, Scott Levy, Daniel

Kaufman, Carly Sonenshine, Adam Sonenshine, Lauren Bloom Wishna, David

Manne and Dana Lupuloff Maloof.

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Volunteers in Action, the young professionals volunteer group of JF&CS, organized the party, which raised more than $41,000 to be the most successful Havinagala in the event’s 20-plus-year history. Attendees enjoyed desserts, drinks, music, a photo booth and a silent auction.

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Margie Greenberg79, Atlanta

Margie Greenberg, 79, of Atlanta died peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016.She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Joel Greenberg; their children,

Mark Greenberg (Lisa) and Karen St. Amand (Mike); grandchildren Haley, Jamie and Noah Greenberg and Jacob, Emma and Daniel St. Amand; and brother Robert Gordon Weinstein (Gene Morgan).

She was born in Baltimore on Aug. 25, 1936, to Rose and Harry Weinstein, both of blessed memory. She grew up in Anderson, S.C., before attending college at Vanderbilt University, where she met her beloved husband, Joel. She received her degree in speech and hearing pathology. In addition to her boundless love for her family, Margie enjoyed her volunteer work as a board member and past president of the Jewish Home Auxiliary, playing bridge and reaching Life Master status, travel, her travel business, and music. Her friends and family will miss her exuberant personality and joy and love of life. Most of all, she found joy in her family as they found joy in her.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Funeral services were held Friday, Feb. 12, at Temple Sinai with Rabbi Bradley Levenberg officiating. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to the Auxiliary of the William Breman Jewish Home or the American Diabetes Association. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Claire Perlman91, New York

Claire Field Perlman, 91, died at home Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. The daughter of the late Helen and Sam Field, Claire was born in New York City and lived most of her adult life in Woodmere, Long Island. She graduated from Hunter High School and Pembroke College and was married to the late Sidney Perlman.

Claire’s belief in helping others made her an active volunteer: typing books in Braille in the 1950s and 1960s and serving as vice president and board member of the Samuel Field YM-YWHA for many years and as a volunteer with senior citizens at the Y. Her lifelong financial support for those in need began early. In 1934, 8-year-old Claire and five friends sent $1.05, the proceeds of a play Claire had directed, to the New York American Christmas and Relief Fund. The New York Times was so touched that it published Claire Field’s letter.

Claire was a generous donor to numerous charitable organizations, includ-ing UJA Federation of New York, the Samuel Field YM-YWHA, Israel Goldstein Youth Village in Israel, and Ramat Hadassah north of Tel Aviv, where a gym and sports field are named in memory of her beloved husband.

Claire was an excellent athlete, enjoying golf and tennis and working out at her gym three times a week. When she could no longer get there, the trainers came to her home. She loved to play cards and was well known for her knitting skills. She was the life of the party, whether singing, dancing or telling jokes. She had a wonderful social circle of lifelong friends and a true zest for life. Claire was playing cards, singing and moving to the beat until this past year. She particularly liked Sinatra and followed his belief in living life “My Way.” One of her defining traits in later years caused her to be known as the candy lady: The drivers, wait-ers and other people taking care of her appreciated her offering them a piece of wrapped candy.

Claire is survived by her daughter, Toni Young; a son and daughter-in-law, John and Maxine Perlman; a stepson, Jim Mindling; and five grandchildren, Mitchell Young (Katka), Ann Young Saban (Hanoch), Betsy Perlman, Sam Perl-man and Natasha Mindling. She has two great-grandsons, Giladi Shmuel Saban and another due to be named at his bris Feb. 17.

Special thanks to her outstanding team of caregivers in her final years, Patri-cia Muir, Dawn Hutchinson, Gladys Barnes, Valerie DaCosta and others. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Samuel Field YM-YWHA or the charity of your choice.

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My high school friends studied Latin or French, but my father said, “Learn Span-

ish. It’s useful.” That’s how I came to spend four years in Senora Gonzalez’s classes. I took more Spanish in college. I naively considered myself, for want of a more honest word, fluent.

On a trip to Ensenada, Mexico, I gabbed away, and the clever shopkeep-ers let me show off to sell us things. My confidence remained intact. When we lived in New York, I exercised my waning linguistic skills via a flexible crossbreed, Spanglish. Alas, even those diminished skills, like anything else one doesn’t use, rusted and withered.

On Buford Highway, there’s a shopping mall that our family calls “Mexico.” Fiesta Plaza features the sights, smells, goods and overall ambience of south-of-the-border culture.

One day I invited our granddaughter Miriam and her friend Rebecca to go to Mexico. Miriam and I had made this excursion two years earlier, and we’d had a lot of fun. This time I promised plenty of time among the incredible ball gowns 15-year-old quinceañera girls get to wear. That, and the fact that there’s an arcade, nailed it.

The signs at the entrance were in Spanish. “Don’t worry,” Miriam declared proudly. “My bubbe speaks Spanish.” Well, kind of.

On our previous sojourn, I had located the bathroom at a crucial mo-ment by asking, “Donde esta el bano?” I know the official and the tongue-in-cheek words to “La Cucaracha.” I often call out “Hola!” to fellows working across the street. I use the correct pro-nunciation of the double ll’s in llama. I’m also crazy about piñatas.

Yes, I’m a regular Latina wannabe. Here our story begins.Fiesta Plaza was a great quasi-

Hispanic experience, and we even happened upon a gorgeous teen trying on quinceañera dresses.

“She looks a lot older than 15,” my 11-year-old companions remarked.

“You’ll probably look like that in a few years,” I declared.

With that intriguing thought in mind, we headed toward the arcade.

En route, I translated shop placards and signs. We stopped at a window of a minuscule shop that sells fancy shoes, Zapatos Elegantes, and the three of us were impressed with a pair that caught the light and glittered alluringly. We had to find out the price.

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Spanish,” Miriam whispered.

I squared my shoul-ders. “Que sera sera,” I thought.

Us-ing the remains of my schoolroom Spanish, I asked about the shoes and was given the price, which, of course, I misunderstood.

I told the saleswoman, who I learned was named Clara, that we might come back, and I meant it, but I

cautioned the girls not to count on it. Rebecca, a practical girl, declared

that she already had dress shoes, but Miriam claimed she was in dire need. Naturally, we returned to the tiny store an hour later. This time the woman spoke English to us, and I learned that the shoes cost less than I had thought.

The conversation between Clara and me would make a great “Saturday Night Live” routine. Her English and my Spanish were beautifully matched, and we ended up speaking Spanglish.

The effort was worth it, because in the eyes of my granddaughter, the glittering, bowed, jeweled shoes were fabulous. Miriam modeled them in black, gold and silver. Rebecca (re-member, she’s sensible) recommended black, but Clara and I knew better.

“Abuelas!” I laughed, acknowl-edging that both Clara and I were grandmothers, destined to supply our granddaughters with fancy shoes. Would it be gold or silver? Again, Clara and I were in consonance. “Plata!” we agreed, as Miriam decided, “Silver!”

On the way home, Rebecca told us her family was going to the real Mexico in February, so in preparation she practiced “Donde esta el bano?” As my father said, it could be useful.

Miriam was wearing her new shoes when our daughter picked her up. “Where’d those come from?” Sara laughed. She knew that, whatever the backstory, I was culpable.

“Mexico,” I boasted. We looked at the insole: “Made in China.” ■

Found in Mexico, made in China.

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