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Klorfein Steps Up for Atlanta Tax ForumLONGTIME TRUSTEE NOW PRESIDENT-ELECT

Benator Earns His Eagle BadgeTROOP 73 HAS ITS 43RD EAGLE SCOUT

Mirsky Named Director of AdmissionsLANDMARK 20TH YEAR BEGINS WITH EXCITING FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENT

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Stephen R. Klorfein of Chaiken Klorfein, LLC in Atlanta has been elected president-elect of the Atlanta Tax Forum, the oldest profes-sional organization of tax practitioners serving the Atlanta metro-politan area.

Klorfein began his legal career practicing with the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service in Atlanta, where he was the Real Estate Tax Shelter Coordinator for the Southeastern United States. He has previously served the Atlanta Tax Forum on the Board of Trustees and as vice president. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Tax Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, where he was Chairperson of the Internal Revenue Service Liaison Committee.

Jason Benator recently earned his Eagle Badge, the highest rank a Boy Scout can earn. He is the 43rd scout in Troop 73, sponsored by Congregation Or VeShalom, to earn the Eagle Badge. Benator’s Eagle project benefited Paws Atlanta, a no-kill animal

shelter. He and his peer group refurbished the animal walking trail by clear-ing underbrush, spreading mulch, building a new dog ramp, putting up waste boxes and repairing a cat house. A graduate of the Cottage School, Benator plans to study aerospace engi-neering.Troop 73 meets Wednesdays at 8 p.m. at Congregation Or VeShalom. Contact Scoutmaster Josiah Benator at (404) 634-2137 for more information.

The Davis Academy announces the appointment of Lisa Mirsky as the school’s new Director of Admissions. Mirsky has been a Davis Academy faculty member for some 12 years, including three years teaching third grade and eight years

serving as a reading specialist. Her familiarity with the school, its history and its curriculum, along with her involvement over the past several years in the establishment of Davis Academy’s preschool outreach program, position her well for this role. “I have great confidence that Lisa’s warm and personable nature, deep and authentic knowledge of our academic program and strong relationships

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For the past 20 years, he has provided transactional business planning for corporations and individuals as well as estate planning and representation before fed-eral and state taxing authorities. He is a member of both the Georgia and Florida Bar Associations and is licensed to practice in the United States Tax Court. He takes pride in providing professional legal repre-sentation of his clients while taking a “common sense” approach to problems and issues that face the average business owner.

From left to right, Scoutmaster Josiah Benator with Sam Benator, new Eagle Scout Jason Benator and Ann Benator. PHOTO/courtesy Josiah Benator

with students, faculty and families will contrib-ute greatly to the strength in Davis’s admissions and outreach efforts,” said Davis Head of School Amy Shafron. The Academy, located in Sandy Springs, is cel-ebrating its 20th anniversary during the 2012 – 2013 school year.

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MJCCA and the Hawks Team UpATLANTA’S NBA TEAM AND JCC ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

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Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta MJC-CA recently announced a partnership with the

NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. This partner-ship, focusing mainly on the MJC-CA’s youth sports programs, reflects the mission of both organizations: offering the best recreational sports programs to Atlanta’s youth while inspiring families and children to be active and make healthy lifestyle choices. “This partnership is truly a win-win,” said MJCCA Chief Program Officer Jared Powers. “We want to embark on a true partnership with the Atlanta Hawks, which includes cooperatively enhancing the MJC-CA’s existing youth sports programs and expanding the reach for participants, thus en-abling the MJCCA to build on programs that empha-size life lessons and core values through sports. “We also want to edu-cate our community about the exciting ways that the Hawks impact our children and families, both philan-thropically and through in-novative sports programs.” Elements of the three-year Atlanta Hawks/MJC-CA partnership include:

Basketball Clinic Se-•ries: Atlanta Hawks will lead youth bas-ketball clinics at the MJCCA that include a variety of Hawks per-sonalities.

MJCCA Basketball •Camp: Beginning with the camp during the summer of 2013, the MJCCA Basketball Camp will become the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Camp, run by the Atlanta Hawks at the MJC-CA.

MJCCA Youth Basketball: The •Atlanta Hawks will become the official sponsor of the MJCCA Youth Basketball League, and the MJCCA Youth Basketball League will be an Atlanta Hawks Affiliate.

MJCCA Day at the Hawks: The •Hawks will host an MJCCA day at a Hawks home game. The Hawks will provide special ex-periences as a part of this event such as participation in the Fan Tunnel, Dream Team, Jr. Spirit Squad, etc.

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“The Atlanta Hawks are commit-ted to providing basketball clinics, camps and experiential components that promote youth sportsmanship and health and wellness through-out the community,” Ailey Pennin-groth, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the Hawks and Philips Arena, said. “We are excited to partner with the MJCCA to offer these programs at their facility.”

TOP: Harold Davis, MJCCA day camp counselor, and Harry the Hawk entertain the crowd.

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freshmen who have had many years of Jewish day school education to con-tinue their Jewish journey through textual study, authentic experiences and tikkun olam projects which will impact the lives of as many fellow At-lantans as possible. Leon Covitz, a Jewish educa-tor for nearly 30 years who resides in Atlanta, was approached by the

Marcus Foundation to create AJH. The program is unique in that it will initially focus on recent Jewish Day school graduates, whose needs are not often catered for within Jewish communities. Goals include strengthening each freshman’s Jewish identity, Jewish pride and commitment to Israel as well as increase their activism and

sense of responsibility for the Atlanta community by tackling social causes. AJH aims to be a model which com-munities emulate. There are a number of components that are built into the program, in-cluding live online learning sessions direct from Israel through JConnect, a Jerusalem-based educational pro-vider. Hebrew language will also be an integral component of the curricu-lum. Also important are Jewish eth-ics and “hot-topic” modules that will help the students – new to the high school environment – navigate many of the issues that they will deal with from Jewish view points. The MJC-CA’s Teen Community Service (TCS) program will also play a pivotal role within the curriculum, provid-ing AJH with service learning and hands-on service experiences. Shabbatonim – retreats with other Jewish students from the South – are another large feature, as are leader-ship training courses and meetings with our community’s lay and rab-binic leaders. Covitz has already met with and spoken to the 2012 graduates from Greenfield Hebrew Academy, The Davis Academy and The Epstein School, and the students responded very positively to being offered the opportunity to continue their Jew-ish learning. The students will be reunited with many of their former classmates through this program and will make new friends with fel-low Jewish Day school graduates. After this initial year, program administrators hope to open a simi-lar program for all Jewish students who are attending either public or Metro Atlanta private high schools in the 2013-14 school year. AJH rep-resentatives consult with rabbinical leaders and directors of education at the local synagogues. For those interested in learning more, two informational meetings for parents and their freshmen Jewish day school graduates are to be hosted at the MJCCA; the first occurs Aug. 19, the second Aug. 26, with either starting at 10 a.m. Editor’s note: The first session for stu-dents participating in Atlanta Jew-ish High will be held at the MJCCA on Sept. 9 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. For more information, contact Leon Co-vitz at [email protected] or (404) 245-4301.

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“If we, as a community, want Ruach Relay to flourish, we must step for-ward and be counted,” Marsha Ma-this, event organizer, said. “The work of a few Atlanta metro synagogues could be the foundation for a world-wide relay in the coming years.” Anyone interested in Relay should attend the kickoff and find out how they can be counted. “Remember that one person can make a difference,” Mathis said. “You can make a difference in the success of this groundbreaking event and in the race for a cure.”

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That Evil EyeDON’T EVER TEMPT THE OLD AYIN HARAHBy CHANA SHAPIRo AJT Columnist

I come from a long line of su-perstitious people. For genera-tions, my stock have walked around ladders, never opened

umbrellas indoors and gone out the same door we entered. But the most powerful belief of all is the fear of the Evil Eye, the power which changes good luck to its oppo-site in the, well, blink of an eye. The ayin harah is out there, just waiting for a slip-up, and one can’t be too careful. Anecdotes abound in my family, proving that drawing attention to one’s good fortune, ac-complishments or good deeds inad-vertently leads to disaster. Sad, but, alas, all too true. Many years ago, I took my mother shopping for a dress for an out-of-town family bar mitzvah. We found a beautifulsilksheaththatfitherlikea dream and was the perfect color and length. Not only that, but the costly item had been reduced in price twice. My mother put it on. Aware of the way things work in the realm of the supernatural, and abiding by our family ethos, I knew I had to keep my lips sealed, but an innocent by-standerinthefittingroomremarkedthat my mother looked absolutely fabulous. I think the word “perfect” was even bandied about. I caught the look on my mother’s face. “I don’t think I’ll get it,” my moth-er declared. Of course, I knew why. The prais-ing woman had inadvertently alerted the Evil Eye. “Please,” I begged her, “You’ll nev-erfindanythingbetter.Buyit!” Against her better judgment and with great trepidation, the purchase was made, yet my mother deliber-ated long and hard about bringing the garment on the bar mitzvah trip. It goes without saying that the piece of luggage in which the dress was packed was misrouted; my mother ended up wearing her traveling suit to the simcha.

Having been put on the wrong plane, the perfect dress was deliv-ered to the hotel a few hours after the celebration had ended. One would think that my mother was upset at theturnofevents,butnotabit!Shewas relieved. “It was the ayin harah that woman gavemeatthestore!”sheexplained. My mother had been afraid that something far worse would happen. “Thank goodness it was only the dress,” she continued, intimating that instead of the dress, she herself could have been misrouted. Why didn’t I remember the above incident? Two weeks ago our family em-barked on a trip to New York and New Jersey for fun, adventure and a wedding. It was a complicated ex-cursion, involving planes, trains and automobiles. Coordinating it wasn’t easy: it in-volved our family traveling in two separate groups, one group of fiveand the other of three, on different days, to different initial destinations. During our travels, we were to get to-gether with friends at various times and places. Our two groups needed vehicles from two different agencies, each hours from our destinations. Since we are Sabbath observers, we made detailed arrangements at our off-the-beaten-path Jersey hotel. At this point, let me just mention thatamongourgroupoffivewerea6- and a 7-year old. I was so relieved when the sched-uling was done, all assignations fi-nalized, bags and car seats ready to go. The morning of our departure, I checked in with my out-of-town sis-ter, mother of the groom-to-be, who would meet us a few days later in New Jersey. Emphasizing the intricacies I so deftly handled, I boasted that every-thing was in place: I had arranged every detail and done a splendid job of it. Yes, I actually invited the Evil Eye to come on down. Here’s what happened:

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A series of problems at the airport caused us to spend the entire firstday of our trip in the Atlanta airport; we did not arrive in New York until after midnight. The second day of our trip was non-stop rainy. We did what we could, but it wasn’t easy.

By the third day of our trip, our daughter Rachel was sick and couldn’t leave the apartment in which we were staying. Again, we did the best we could. But on that same day, both soles separated from my walking shoes (I bought duct tape to reattach them), and the zipper to my backpack broke. We missed a few reunions with friends. The metro card we needed for buses and subways repeatedly refused to refill. The tzedakah we’d brought with us to safeguard our trip was burning a hole in my pocket because there was no tzedakah box in the apartment in which we were staying and we were never near a

charitable site. Finally, we gave the money to one of our daughter Sara’s friends…the one she was actually able to meet. We spent several hours looking for a grocery near the apartment that had kosher food. We ended up with bagels and cream cheese. We took the train to New Jersey, and when our granddaughter used the lavatory en route, the train came to an abrupt stop and she fell on the bathroomfloor,notaplaceonewouldever want to land. We washed her down with hand sanitizer. The car we rented in New Jersey showed an almost empty gas tank. It wouldhavebeenfine,exceptthefewmiles we had to travel were one huge trafficjam.Webarelymadeitback,all of us in a foul mood by then, but determined to have a good time once we got together with the celebrants. By now, I had a really bad cold and Rachel was still sick. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. I’m happy to say that the wedding was beautiful, and we had a great time with all the cousins and their kids. It looked like the ayin harah had run its course. ButIwaswrong.Whenwefinallygot back home (after a several-hour plane delay, of course), I had devel-oped a case of conjunctivitis to go along with my cold, and Rachel was too sick to go back to work. I opened my e-mail and listened to phone messages. Every member of my sister’s family and several cous-ins were sick (just call me Typhoid Chana), and many had endured se-vere travel delays. “These things happen,” friends consoled me when they heard our story. But I knew better: I had tempted the Evil Eye…and the Evil Eye loves nothing better than messing with a braggart.

Editor’s note: Chana Shapiro is an educator, writer, editor and illustra-tor whose work has appeared in jour-nals, newspapers and magazines.

“Emphasizing the intricacies I so deftly handled, I boasted that everything was in place…yes, I actually invited the Evil Eye to come on down.”

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By CHERIE KURlAND For the Atlanta Jewish Times

One evening in 2003, I looked at a map of Israel, and I re-alized that the combined colorsoftheflagsofIsrael

and the Palestinian Authority were just about the same as those of the Olympic rings. So? There were many news stories questioning whether Athens, Greece would have its infrastructure ready for its Olympics. Even the Interna-tional Olympic Committee wondered aloud whether future Games would need to be regional in order for mul-tiple countries to absorb the multi-billion-dollar costs. So – what if, someday, somehow, Jerusalem could host the Sum-mer Olympics, with all of the surrounding na-tions hosting key elements of the Games? What if the opening and clos-ing ceremonies could be held in Jerusalem, with…

…Lebanon, long known as a tour-•ist destination, taking charge of the hospitality?…the Palestinian Authority, rec-•ognizing the tourism possibili-ties, arranging extensive tours of Biblical sites within its areas?…Egypt hosting some of the wa-•ter events?…Saudi Arabia leading the •equestrian events, in honor of its namesake horse breed?

Imagine a spectacular marathon run from an archeological site in Jor-dan into Israel… Impossible!Preposterous!There’sa war going on, terrorists and dic-tators destroying everything they touch. The current proposals for peace are tired and obsolete: “Land for peace” results in more bombs, ever

IF yoU ASK mEAJTThe Jerusalem OlympicsMAYBE NOT IN FOUR YEARS, MAYBE NOT IN EIGHT, BUT…

closer to all parts of Israel; “cease-fires” are hudnas, opportunities for re-armament for terrorists; interna-tional peacekeeping forces are tooth-less, unable and/or unwilling to do anything more than watch war prep-arations with binoculars. We need something different. It would take perhaps two gen-erations – 40 to 50 years – before suchaGamescouldhappen.Thefirstgeneration would need to adopt the tolerance and related education that r e c o g n i z e s that people can and will think differ-ently and that those differ-ences are okay. The second generation would

literallyandfigurativelybuildonthefirstandimplementthephysicalandlogistical preparations needed to host the Games. Think of the consequences of this preparation; we’ve seen it with each Games:

The host country upgrades all of •its infrastructure – roads and all methods of transportation, hous-ing, communications, utilities;People worldwide watch, or bet-•ter yet visit and participate in a spectacle that (generally) shows the best of human competition and cooperation.

Think of some of the current prob-lems of the Middle East, and how such a regional Games might help:

Most Arab countries suffer from •high unemployment rates, a dic-

tatorial ruling class, high poverty rates and have little or no middle class. They have high numbers of young males, many educated with college degrees, and nothing to do. Idle hands are the Devil’s, the saying goes, and such people are ready prey for extreme, vio-lent talk that blames “the other” andpromisesaquickfixforwhatappears to be a future of little hope.Building and upgrading a coun-•try’s infrastructure requires

workers of all skills

and levels, and many

would need to be engineers,

architects, con-struction work-ers, communi-

cations technicians, translators, electricians, plumbers and many other professions that make up the middle classes throughout the world. The Arab host coun-tries could create and/or enhance a middle class that would in turn help those nations for genera-tions after the Games.

Think of human nature: We are all competitive, to varying degrees. Competitions are won in two ways – everyone competes to the best of his or her ability, and one simply proves better than the rest; or, someone sab-otages the competition and hopes to be the last one left standing. War is the extreme example of the second type of competition; the Olym-picsusuallyhighlight thefirst type.What if we could channel the basic human competitive desire toward the better type? What if each nation, as it agreed to take responsibility for key elements of the Games, said, “We’ll

prove to the rest of the world that we candothispartbetterthananyone!” With their reputations on the line, they would succeed. We are all persuaded by the same means, and most powerfully by a two-pronged approach: First, we must be convinced that our current thinking or way of doing things is wrong or bad or just not the best; and second, we must be convinced that an alter-native is better. Worldwide, the Jihadis offer no alternatives; they emphasize and demonstrate destruction. It’s no ac-cident that terrorists have tried to blow up newly (re)built schools, clin-ics, hospitals and shops; they know nothing else. The Olympics are that something else. The pride and energy that such an overarching project would require

could literally steamroll the Jihadist philosophy into oblivion. I visited Atlanta in 1978 and didn’t want to go downtown. Now, I work in Atlanta, and, 16 years after it hosted the Olympics, I walk through Centennial Olympic Park at least weekly and walk throughout downtown Atlan-ta many weekdays. I see the continuing, positive effects of

the 1996 Olympics. The entire Middle East deserves no less. Think of it as “Ping Pong di-plomacy gone global,” how mainland China has changed in the past 44 years. But how? If the ultimate goal would likely not be reached for de-cades, what interim steps would be best? Have countries in the Middle East host regional sports events be-yond what they currently do? Have an Olympics hosted by multiple na-tions in a more stable part of the world, perhaps the Scandinavian area, or the newer eastern European nations?

Editor’s note: Cherie Kurland writes from her home in Roswell, Ga.

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The Landsmanschaft PicnicA CUSTOMARILY CULINARY COMING-TOGETHER

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By RABBI mARC WIlSoN AJT Columnist

My mother’s parents, Pa and Bubbe, arrived in Chicago fresh off the boat from Grodno, Po-

land in 1921. As years went by, they took on American ways and prospered but retained ties to the Old Country and old friends through the Grodno landsmanschaft.

The landsmanschaft was a friend-ship circle of the Jewish people who hailed from the same town in East-ern Europe, its members commonly known as landsleit. Landsleit would periodically convene to socialize, play cards and gossip.

They also looked out for each oth-er and financed each other’s debts.They donated selflessly to ransomother landsleit out of the horrors in Europe and get them started in the New Land, which they cherished – you’d get a chuckle out of their Yid-dish version of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” sung on patriotic occa-sions.

To the immeasurable grief of the Stateside landsleit, too many rela-tives and fellow landsleit were left behind toperish in thehorrific con-centration camps. A saintly old rabbi, despite knowing of my grandfather’s socialist leanings, wept when he dis-covered that I was his grandson, tell-ing me in a hoarse whisper:

“He is blessed. He saved many, many lives.”

The Grodno picnic was the apex of the landsmanschaft’s year. By the time I was old enough to be taken along, the landsleit had aged out. They still spoke Yiddish with each other, but the memories of their youth and starting over in the Prom-ised Land had had evolved into full-blown wonder-tales.

Pa lorded over the picnic like a godfather; he had the charisma

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and grooming of Gotti. He was the quintessential glad-hander and big talker: an ingratiating arm around the shoulder, quick with a handclasp, a robust “shalom aleichem [peace be withyou]!”

He had a laugh enhanced at the edges by an asthmatic rasp and was always heaping more food on your plate, want it or not. He called every child by his Yiddish name, then “kum aher[comehere]!”andadollarbillineach kid’s pocket.

Then there was the food…ah, the food.

I was, I guess, the typical all-American kid – baseball, rock-and-roll and picnics of hamburgers and hotdogs. Yet the Old World cuisine of the Grodno picnic intoxicated me. Ironically, I thought that I had to eat it surreptitiously, for fear that a classmate would spy me and report to jeering friends that I ate the same foods that their grandparents did.

Let thembedamned! Itwasde-lectable, a symphony of robust tastes and textures. The American ham-burger is at best a swatch of carpet and its hotdog a link of garden hose while the Grodno picnic was a holy-day al fresco in the Garden of Eden.

Vampire-banishing garlicky brisket and orange-yellow gravy (at home, our brisket was always bland as wet hemp because garlic upset my cranky grandmother’s stomach); roasted “Sabbath-style” chicken; oven-browned potatoes shimmering in grease like motor oil; Pa’s throat-puckering sour pickles and tomatoes, fermented in crocks in his basement; buckwheat kasha; and dense potato kugel (pudding).

To be honest, I do not remember the sweets, despite knowing that they were abundant, because I had already lapsed into a coma of well-fatted meat and potatoes long before dessert.

Of this I assure you: Recreation did not mean egg tosses or potato

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sack races. Instead, there were card games like Kaluki, brought over from the Old Country (although, ironical-ly, its origin may be South African or Caribbean). And Pa, voice still hon-ey-sweet despite his asthma, would lead the landsleit in Yiddish songs, happy and melancholy.

“Teyere Malkeh” – “Fill again my cupwithwine!”

“Hob’n Mir a Nigen’dl” – “Let us singasongofchildhood!”

“A Sudenu” – “How shall we host a feast for Messiah?”

And the doleful “Partizaner Lied,” in memory of the Partisans who struggled valiantly against the Na-zis – “Never say there is only death ahead!”

I still think a lot about the land-sleit, now all of them gone to their

heavenly reward, and their magical picnics. I think of their arrival in Co-lumbus’s Golden Land and the hope, the fear, the unknowingness, the self-doubt. Why I too miss those days I have yet understand.

Perhaps it is because the memo-ries are not simply cherished, but con-secrated. Even as the decades wore on, once a year the landsleit would gather to replicate the deliciousness of their long-ago salad days, their customs and cuisine yet intact.

Ach, maybe next Sunday I’ll take the kids to the park and show them a real picnic with brisket and potato kugel.

Shall I teach them how to play Ka-luki, too?

Editor’s note: Marc Howard Wilson is a rabbi and writer in Greenville, S.C.

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ADL Announces Complete Schedule for “CelebratingDefiance” PROGAMS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO COURAGEOUS ARTISTS OF THE HOLOCAUST

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By BIll NIGUT

Southeast Regional Director, ADL

For the past year, the Anti-Defamation League Atlan-ta staff, our board mem-bers and many of

our supporters have shared a sad but inspiring journey exploring the remarkably rich body of art created by Jewish prisoners who were ensnared by the unspeak-able evils of the Holocaust.

This exploration is moti-vated by the extraordinary multimediaconcert“DefiantRequiem: Verdi at Terezín,” which ADL will present at Atlanta Symphony Hall on Oct. 11 in a co-production with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and theDefiantRequiemFoun-dation of Washington, D.C.

On that same evening, ADL will honor two of At-lanta’s most highly-respected commu-nity leaders, Linda Selig and retired Alston & Bird man-aging partner Ben Johnson.

The Defiant Re-quiem pays trib-ute to a series of performances of the Verdi Requiem Mass given by Jews imprisoned in the Theresien-stadt concentration camp in Terezín, Czechoslovakia. The concert will in-clude a full performance of the Verdi Requiem Mass plus video testimony of Jews who sang in the original cho-rus and actors telling the extraor-dinary story of why Jews awaiting transport to Auschwitz would choose to sing a Catholic mass to fellow pris-oners and their Nazi captors.

Of course, these performances of the Requiem are but one example of

the art produced by Jews in many camps. The work of Jewish compos-ers, visual artists, writers, poets and musicians stands as an extraordi-nary testimony to their insistence on using art to report on the deplorable conditions under which they lived

and died and to assert their human-ity and lift their spirits – however briefly–abovethedirecircumstanc-es imposed upon them by the Nazis.

Toexpandonthethemesof“Defi-ant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín,” ADL is working with a number of deeply committed community partners to present a series of performances, lectures, panel discussions and exhi-bitions highlighting the work of the courageous Jewish artists of World War II.

The programs begin Aug. 29, when the Jacob Weinberg Center for Holo-

caust Education at the Breman Mu-seum and ADL present “Celebrating Defiance,”whichexplores themanymediums artists have used to ex-amine the Holocaust. The program features a performance of “Elegy for the Holocaust,” written by Atlanta Symphony Orchestra violinist Juan Ramirez-Hernández, and a screening of the animations of Cory Godbey, the artist who brought Theresienstadt prisoner Petr Ginz’s drawing to life in the documentary “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz.”

Godbey and Ramirez-Hernández will be joined on the panel by Cath-erine Lewis, Director of the Museum and of Holocaust Education at Ken-nesaw State University, who will show examples of drawings created by concentration camp prisoners; and Atlanta actor Tom Key, who will perform several readings from the DefiantRequiemconcert.

The Breman has also created a small jewel of an exhibit, “There-sienstadt Remembered,” which will display donated artifacts and letters

from Theresienstadt pris-oners. The exhibit opens on Aug. 24 and runs through Oct. 26.

Other community program partners include:

The Emory Cham-•ber Music Society of Atlanta,

which on the afternoon of Sept. 30 will present “Defiant Cham-ber Music,” a concert by the high-ly-acclaimed Vega Quartet of compositions by composer Erwin Schulhoff, who perished in the Wulzburg concentration camp

The Goethe-Zentrum of Atlanta, •where I will present a talk on Oct. 4 on my recent trip to visit Jewish leaders in Berlin, Germa-ny, who are working to rebuild their community

The Alliance Theatre, which on •Oct. 18, 20 and 21, will present “The Survivor,” a play about teenage boys who sneak out of the Warsaw ghetto to smuggle in food for starving Jews and later smuggle in arms for resistance fighters

• Kennesaw State University Mu-seum of History and Holocaust Edu-cation, which on Oct. 24 will present a screening of “My Best Enemy,” and on Nov. 5 will present a concert fea-turing composer in residence Lau-rence Sherr, who will discuss and play Jewish music banned by the Nazis. In addition, visitors to Kenne-saw State will be able to see “Paral-lel Journeys,” a poignant exhibit de-picting teenagers who lived and died during the Holocaust

ADL is producing this ambitious series of programs with the hope that the entire community, regardless of religion or race, will come together to attend these events, celebrate these artists and convene a conversation about courage in the face of bigotry and violence.

“Celebrating Defiance,” the over-all theme of the programs, reinforces our vital mission to stop the defa-mation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all.

Editor’s note: Check the What’s Hap-pening page of the AJT each week for the next event in this can’t miss series. For tickets to “Defiant Requiem: Ver-di at Terezín,” call the Atlanta Sym-phony Orchestra at (404) 733-5000 or visit atlantasymphony.org. For spon-sorship information and more on the community programs, contact ADL at (404) 262-3470.

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At 17, Scrabble Player Kraftchikat the Top of His Game A GAME OF WORDS

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By JESSIE mIllER

Editorial Intern

Over 70 years ago, Alfred Mosher Butts invented the game of Scrabble in the midst of the Great

Depression. He was out of work as an architect and wanted to create a board game that combined aspects of chance and vocabulary skills; thus, an American classic was born, oper-ating on the same basis as the game does now: a selection of letters with point values based on their probabil-ity of use. Today, Scrabble is one of the most popular board games and has even inspired a competitive association of players and tournaments normally dominated by adults. Bucking the

trend at age 17 is local Joey Kraft-chik, who is not just an avid Scrab-bler but has competed in the Na-tional Scrabble Championship every year since 2007. Kraftchik began playing Scrabble as a family hobby, and his mother soon recognized his talent. She con-

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tacted the local club and got in con-tact with Dave Leifer, who soon be-came Kraftchik’s friend and mentor; for the past seven years, the two have gotten together on a regular basis to play, and Kraftchik’s abilities have even surpassed those of Leifer. Leifer began playing scrabble when his children were attending ju-nior high school. “I saw a Scrabble Club in the local newspaper, and I had always liked Scrabble, so I went and got hooked within a month,” he explained. Kraftchik was also hooked on the game from the start.“Every game is so different,” he said. “It challenges you to think and it’s fun to play professionally when you are good at it.”

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Kraftchik advanced quickly, and has evolved from playing Scrabble computer games to now being in the Expert Di-vision. To train for a tournament, he studies words through a prob-ability system, focusing on words most likely to come up during a game. Leifer says that many serious players study lists of strange words, perhaps those ending in V, or containing a J. Also key is the ability to rearrange the letters in front of oneself. “You have to be able to anagram,” Leifer said. “Given any seven letters, the top-level players will be able to tell you within a second every possibility in that rack of letters.”

Kraftchik explains that the big-gest difference in “kitchen-table” ver-sus tournament Scrabble is the dif-ficultyandlargerarrayofwordstheplayers use (his own most obscure play was “tolarjev,” a Slovenian monetary unit). Competitive Scrab-ble also depends on defense, not just racking up the most points.

Players try to balance their rack, meaning they want a mixture of con-sonants and vowels. Each match also has a time limit of 25 minutes per opponent, which can put pressure on the players, Leifer explains. During a game, players can use “ph onies,” a word that doesn’t exist, but the opponent can challenge it. If it really isn’t a word, the player loses a turn. When a player puts all sev-en letters on the board at once, it is called a “Bingo,” but the best Scrab-ble move is putting down a word that stretches from one triple-word square to another. From Aug. 11 through 15, Kraft-chik and Leifer attended the Nation-al Scrabble Tournament in Orlando. Though Kraftchik has attended since 2007,thisisthefirsttimehecompet-ed in the top division, in which he 31 gamesinfivedays;asofpresstime,his record was 7-11 and his conglom-erate margin plus-42, good enough for a ranking 59th in the division. At each tournament, Kraftchik has been given a rank based on his performance against other players; going into this championship, his rating was 1748 (the average being around 1100) and is ranked 160th out of all players who have competed in the past two years. Beyond the Board

To Kraftchik, Scrabble is not just a board game.

“I’ve learned how to face adver-sity,” he said. “When I was younger, I couldn’t deal with [losing] as well, but as I’ve gotten older I realized you can’t let one game get to you because you’ll play a lot of games.” Leifer has also learned from his many years of Scrabble playing. Much like Kraftchik, he knows that “you have to be humble because you’ll have losing streaks and games where luck isn’t with you, even if you play hard.” Despite his success in the Scrabble world, Kraftchik is very humble and enjoys the thrill of the game. Beyond his game of choice, he plays basket-ball, is the statistician and announcer for the Centennial High School bas-ketball team,playspianoand isflu-ent in Spanish. He also likes meeting new people and explains that he has met some of his best friends through Scrabble tournaments. However, the close rela-tionship between Leifer and Kraftchik is clearly one of the most important benefitsfromtheirloveofScrabble. “Dave [Leifer] has three grand-daughters, and I asked him if he ever wished he had a grandson, but he said ‘I have Joey,’” Amy Kraftchik, Joey’s mother, said. “They adore each other.”

Joey Kraftchik (right) and mentor Dave leifer keep their skills sharp with regular games.

PHOTO/Jessie Miller

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The New Freedman’s MusicYOUR CHILD COULD BE THE NEXT MUSICAL GENIUS

My Big PALLIFE-CHANGING BONDS BUILT IN JF&CS PROGRAM

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By SEymoUR GolDSTEIN

For The Atlanta Jewish Times

Freedman’s Music, a new store, has opened in the Ab-ernathy Square shopping center. After speaking with

Gerald Freedman, owner, I found him to be quite the jovial character. Freedman has been in the music instrument business for 10 years. HisfirststorewaslocatedoutsideofSavannah, and his second location was in Bluffton/Hilton Head, S.C. Both stores were large locations that carried a huge variety of musical in-struments, and the latter had over 100 students. Most recently, Freedman’s chil-dren – Renee Lips, Sarah Felgin and Michael Freedman – and all of his grandchildren convinced him and his wife Lynda to move to Atlanta. He sold his music business and opened a new store here, while his wife Lyn-da gave up her teaching career of 32 years in Savannah in order to relo-cate. At the new Freedman’s Music store, you can select from a wide va-riety of musical instruments. I saw numerous guitars – electric, bass and acoustic – by Alvarez, Dean, Luna and Kona. Freedman also car-ries keyboards, drums, sheet music, PA equipment and all kinds of acces-sories; he even carries a great selec-tion of ukuleles. I asked Freedman how music is beneficialforchildren.

Editor’s note: This article was writ-ten by Ariele, Susan Londe’s “little PAL” in the Jewish Family & Career Services PAL Program – Atlanta’s Jewish “Big Brother/Big Sister” pro-gram.

It has been said that “you can not choose your family, but you can choose your friends.” Luck-ily, my relationship with Susan

Londe has given me both: a friend and a family. It has also been said that “every-thing happens for a reason,” and what started 16 years ago from the PAL Program has developed into a lifelong friendship and so much more. Looking back, I am sure my parents were unaware how signifi-cant this relationship would eventu-ally become. At the age of 6, I was blessed when Susan entered my life as my “big sis-ter.” To any little kid, the PAL Pro-gram is a hard concept to grasp; back then, I always questioned what she was to me: a friend? A relative? A babysitter? Today, it makes me smile when her children are wondering the same about me. I am definitely part ofSusan and her husband Michael’s family; I believe Michael sometimes thinks I’m his own daughter, always including me at his family’s Passover seders, showing me short cuts for parking my car and being on guard to scrutinize any boy who walks through the door.

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“It is a proven fact that learning to read music helps with the neces-sary skills in math and reading,” he replied. “Parents have seen improve-ment in children’s school work after just a few short lessons. Many arti-cles have been written on this subject and can be found on the Internet. “You never know if your child could be the next musical genius.” Only the most qualified instruc-tors teach at Freedman’s Music. Re-cently, the owner and one of his gui-tar teachers performed a program for the music camp at the Marcus Jew-ish Community Center of Atlanta; Freedman said it was a great way to promote his business and do some-thingbeneficial fortheMJCCAandthe children. The children sang songs, learned about guitars and were given rhythm shakers to learn to play to the beat of the music. Freedman is looking forward to working with all the community schools in Atlanta. He has been in contact with Greenfield HebrewAcademy, The Weber School, The Epstein School and Davis Academy regarding their music programs.

Editor’s note: Freedman’s Music is lo-cated at 6631 Roswell Rd. in the Ab-ernathy Square shopping center; call (404) 252-3999 or visit freedmans-music.com.

Gerald Freedman of Freedman’s Music offers a wide selection of musical instruments. PHOTO/courtesy Freedman’s Music

Ariele (far left) with the Londes’ daughters, marin and Samantha.

I was in Susan and Michael’s wed-ding, and they both gave a speech at my bat mitzvah. Their daughter Marin was just a baby then, but one year from now, I will be celebrating at her bat mitzvah. With Susan, it was always “mak-ing memories,” whether we were bak-ing cookies, washing her car, picking blueberries or babysitting she and Michael’s two beautiful children. Now, I am working where Susan used to be employed and babysitting for her friends and neighbors. I am currently living in Susan and Mi-chael’s home in a room which was finishedespeciallyforme. I do believe that everyone who comes into your life impacts it in dif-ferent ways. No one could be a more perfect role model for me than Susan, and no one can possibly describe how muchofapositiveinfluenceshehasbeen and continues to be in my life today. Susan might be just one person to the world, but to me she is the world. I can’t thank her enough for being myconfidant;sheisdefinitelysome-one who I can share anything with, be it my secrets, my fears, my hopes or my dreams. Nor can I thank her enough for holding my hand along my journey through life. When I am ready to get married, I cannot imagine that im-portant day without Susan and her family.For more information about the PAL program, please email [email protected]

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BUSINESS & FINANCEAJTIRAs Can Be SIMPLE MAKING RETIREMENT PLANS EASIER

Entrepreneur Profile BEN TAUBE, ENERGY INDUSTRY VET

By GARy AlExANDER

AJT Contributor

For the small business or self-employed individual, a popu-lar retirement plan alterna-tive is the SIMPLE (Savings

Incentive Match Plan for Employ-ees) Individual Retirement Account (IRA). Here are the answers to some commonly asked questions about this type of retirement plan:

Can any business establish a SImPlE IRA plan?

Self-employed individuals and em-ployers with fewer than 100 employ-ees may adopt a SIMPLE plan; the deadline for 2012 is Oct. 1. However, the business must not maintain any other employer-sponsored retirement plan where contributions are made or accrued during the calendar year in which the SIMPLE plan is effective. Note that this does not apply to plans that cover only union employ-ees who are excluded for the SIMPLE plan.

Which employees are eligible to par-ticipate in this type of plan?

An eligible employee is one who has received at least $5,000 in compensa-tion from the employer during any two prior calendar years (not necessarily consecutive) and who is reasonably expected to receive at least $5,000 compensation during the current year. The employer is able to elect in the plan’s initial agreement to reduce the amount of compensation and the number of years required. However, there is no required participation for this plan – eligible employees can choose whether or not they want to participate and contrib-ute.

How much can employees contribute to the plan through salary deferral?

The maximum salary deferral limit to a SIMPLE IRA plan for 2012 is $11,500. If an employee is age 50 or older before Dec. 31, 2012, then an additional catch-up contribution of $2,500 is permitted.What are the maximum employer contribution limits for a SImPlE IRA?

By Al SHAmSAJT Contributor

Atlanta-area entrepreneur Ben Taube has focused his career on environmental and energy policies and their im-

pact on business and society. An At-lanta resident for more than 12 years, his insight and vision into these is-sues have benefited thecity as well as the state at large. Taube grew up in Memphis and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Midway through his studies, he developed a keen interest in earth science and the environment, and upon graduation he moved to Denver where he earned a master’s degree in environmental policy and management. After spending several years as-sociated with various groups for-mulating and implementing policy, Taube moved to Atlanta and shortly thereafter became the environmental manager for the city. In this role, he was responsible for developing and implementing good environmental practices. Among his most notable accom-plishments were:

Creating a public-private part-•nership to develop a green roof garden at city hall. This garden was the first of its kind in theSoutheast and serves as a model for similar efforts in the country.Conducting extensive audits of •city assets to reduce energy ex-pense and enhance environmen-tal quality. In many instances, simple behavioral changes yield-edsignificantresults.Workingwith localfinancial ins-•tutions to develop loan programs to finance energy-saving capitalexpenditures. In many cases, the savings realized would amor-tizetheloanwithinthreetofiveyears.In conjunction with local business •groups, his team developing and implementing important policies and procedures that continue to benefit the city’s environmentalquality.

At the heart of Taube’s public efforts was the belief that with intelligent

Each year, the employer must decide to make either a “matching contri-bution” (the lesser of the employee’s salary deferral or 3 percent of the employee’s compensation) or “non-matching contribution” (2 percent of an employee’s compensation, limited to $250,000 for 2012). All participants intheplanmustbenotifiedoftheem-ployer’s decision.

When must contributions be depos-ited?

Employee deferrals should be depos-ited as soon as administratively fea-sible, but no later than 30 days follow-ing the last day of the month in which the amounts would otherwise have been payable to the employee. These rules also apply to self-employed in-dividuals. The employer contributions dead-line is the due date of the employer’s tax return, including extensions.

How are withdrawals from SImPlE plans taxed?

Withdrawals from this type of ac-count are taxed as ordinary income. However, if a participant is younger than age 59-and-a-half and makes a withdrawalwithinthefirsttwoyearsof plan participation, he or she will owe a 25-percent IRS penalty and or-dinary income taxes on the amount withdrawn. After the initial two years of plan participation, the 25 percent IRS penalty is reduced to 10 percent for pre-59-and-a-half withdrawals. Ex-ceptions to the 10 percent penalty on traditional IRAs are also excep-tions to the 25 percent penalty on the SIMPLE. Direct transfers to another SIMPLE IRA will not be subject to this penalty. Can the assets in a SImPlE IRA be rolled over?

Participants are able to roll over funds from one SIMPLE plan to another at any time, and after two years of par-ticipation, employees may roll assets to a traditional IRA without tax pen-alties.

Editor’s note: Gary Alexander is Man-aging Director – Investment Officer at Wells Fargo Advisors in Atlanta.

and business-friendly environmental policies, private capital – sensing an opportunity–wouldflowtotheindus-try,andthesavingsrealizedwouldfi-nance capital expenditures. Through-out his career, Taube was drawn to challenges and saw problems as dis-guised opportunities.

After some time in the public sector and armed with a wealth of experience and numer-ous industry contacts, he entered the business world as a consultant, entrepreneur and corpo-rate officer. In 2007, hebecame the founder of the Southeast Energy Ef-ficiency Alliance, a non-profitseekingtopromoteenergy efficiency prac-tices across 11 Southern states.

At the time of his arrival, he was SEEA’s sole employee with a budget of $100,000; four years later, the Alli-ance had a budget of $23 million and 15employeesandarecordofsignifi-cant accomplishments. Among Taube’s current involve-ments are:

Consensus Energy, an energy •consultingfirmthatperformsau-dits for commercial and industrial clients and advises companies on good environmental practices. Evaporcool, a Memphis-based •company that modifies existingair conditioning systems to make them more efficient. This is ac-complished by cooling incoming air with a water misting system, and the process is viable for com-mercial and residential applica-tions. Johnson Battery, an R&D com-•pany that has developed a novel lithium process to produce envi-ronmentally friendly high-output batteries for a wide variety of ap-plications. Johnson is seeking in-dustry partners to advance this technology.

Through out his career, Taube has received numerous industry and civic awards and is currently involved with many boards and associations. Along with his wife and two children, he re-sides in Sandy Springs.

Editor’s note: Al Shams is a Sandy Springs resident a former CPA and an investment professional with more than 35 years industry experience.

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Matisyahu, Man of Both Consistency and ChangeALTERNATIVE-REGGAE-RAP STAR COMES TO ATLANTA AUG. 23

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INTERvIEW By JoHN mCCURDyTranscription by Jessie Miller

Matisyahu has been defy-ing genre classificationand giving the non-Jew-ish world a glimpse of

Chasidism for nearly a decade. When he shaved his trademark beard in November 2011 and then showed off a new hairstyle – a short blonde cut, as opposed to his dark curls – in June 2012, he dealt with more questions regarding his identity and direction than ever. Fans can rest easily, though; the man raised as a Reconstructionist Jew who took to Orthodoxy after participating in the Alexander Muss High School program in 1995 is still creating incredible music. With his newest album, “Spark Seeker” (re-leased July 17), he launches a new look and nationwide tour but main-tains his uncompromising and in-spiring style. The Atlanta Jewish Times got a chance to chat with the man formerly known as Mat-thew Paul Miller before he comes to town Aug. 23 for a show at the Masquerade.

John mcCurdy: First of all, I should profess my love for your music, Matis; I was in-troduced to you via “Live at Stubb’s.” I know that was yourfirstalbumtochart,re-ally your big break, and I’m wondering if you still go back to that night that you record-ed the album [Feb. 19, 2005]?matisyahu: Yeah, that night was awesome. It was a special time for me because I had just spent two years in a basement working on it [the music]. My whole career was tak-ing off very quickly, and it felt like it was destiny happening. I got married the August before, took off on this tour and got an agent. I remember that night we record-ed – we had already been out for a month, and all of a sudden this truck pulled up to the show, and there were television monitors, a sound truck and all these people that were interested in our work and art. The show itself was like any other show on the tour; there were defi-nitely better shows. But that was it. That was where it all started.

Jm: A lot has been made about your change in ap-pearance: the shaving of your beard, the cutting and coloring of your hair. I’m just curious if any changes in observance or approach have come with these changes in appear-ance.m: It was a full, all out change for me. I feel like there is a place within Judaism for creativity, and that’s how I started with Judaism: as a creative experience in terms of eating kosher or growing a beard or wear-ing a yarmulke or daven-ing or any of those things. It was much more about my own thoughts and in-stincts, not being afraid to explore and push myself beyond the limits of where I was.

Then, at a certain point it became less about my instincts and more about following the design, following the crowd, following what was ex-pected of me at that point.I think this change has in some ways been a return for me to the initial stages.

Jm: As you’ve become more popu-lar, you’ve gotten a chance to work with artists like Akon and, on “Spark Seeker,” with Shyne J. Ralph. What’s that been like?

m: It’s exciting to work with people who are big stars and all that, but

it’s not the most impor-tant thing, and to me, it’s not really the most exciting thing in terms of this past record. It was more about meeting the individu-als, meeting these ex-tremely talented musi-cians that I was really able to work with on this record. I’m more in-terested in that; to me, people are just people, and just because some-one’s famous doesn’t mean that necessarily they are an interesting person. I’ve been able to work with great musicians all along, and that’s been special for me.

Jm: I’ll put you on the spot: Do you have a favorite track on “Spark Seeker”?m: I don’t really have a favorite, but the song on this album that really stands out for me playing live has been “Crossroads.” I believe in love, and that feels really big when I play it.

Jm: Tell me about the upcoming movie you’re in, “The Possession.” At the very most basic level, did you en-joy acting? m: Oh yeah. I had a great time. I’ve

been interested in acting for a long time; as a kid I did it, and I studied acting in college. I just didn’t end up going down that path [as my career], but I knew that at the right time I would get involved with it again. This role was a perfect way for me to put my foot in the water and test it out. The screenplay is cool, and the people that I worked with were awe-some. It was a good time, and I really enjoyed it.

Jm: One last thing: I know that you’ve been to Atlanta plenty of times before. What do you like about our city?m: Atlanta is a good city. My sis-ter was teaching through Teach for America in Atlanta for a couple years. My memories of Atlanta, we’ve always had great shows there. There’s a couple of bigger the-atres, The Fox and The Tabernacle, that stick out to me. [Those are] old-er types of theatres, and they’re fun places to play in; we do a number of those shows over the tour in different cities.

matisyahu’s new haircut caused a stir among some fans, but all are excited by his new album and cur-rent tour.PHOTO/courtesy PRESS HERE Public Rela-tions

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Kosher Movies: First Blood (1982)TED KOTCHEFF’S ACTION FLICK COMMENTS ON WAR, JUDGMENT

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By RABBI HERBERT CoHEN

AJT Columnist

As a senior at Yeshiva Uni-versity in the ‘60s, I solicit-ed ads for the annual year-book. Since I had recently

purchased a Volkswagen, I asked the dealership for an ad, and they read-ily agreed.

I sent in the ad with the check but a few days later received a letter from the yearbook editor informing me that he had to return the check and could not include the ad. Why? Because there were many Holo-caust survivors who would be upset

that Yeshiva University would run an advertisement for a German com-pany. The incident was eye-opening. I simply was getting an ad, but in the eyes of others who had suffered at the hands of the Germans, my innocent act was perceived as ignorant and insensitive. I quickly became aware that there was a vast gap between my perception of Germany and oth-

ers who had been victims of German cruelty. Someone who has suffered and endured unspeakable horrors re-sponds dif-ferently than someone who has not. The tourist sees tragedy one way, the resi-dent another; for the resi-dent, it is real, not theoreti-cal. That differ-ence in per-ception in-forms “First Blood,” the movie that in-troduced John Rambotofilma u d i e n c e s . His story be-gins after the Vietnam War as he journeys to the Ameri-

can Northwest in search of an Army buddy. His unscrubbed appearance makes him look like a drifter, and he is arrested by the local sheriff – who judges only by appearances – as a vagrant. The long-term effects of the Vietnam War are not on the sheriff’s

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radar screen; to him, it is ancient his-tory. But to Rambo, it is not. At the jail, he is harassed and brutalized. The sight of a razor about to shave him while he is being restrained evokes a memory of his torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese. He responds by bolting from his captors and escaping to the moun-tains on a stolen motorcycle. Only later does the sheriff learn that Rambo is a former Green Beret, an elite Special Forces soldier, who was awarded the Medal of Honor. What makes “First Blood” spe-cial is its portrayal of the aftermath of war and the emotional scars that remain on a person after the battles are over. In a touching scene in which Rambo shares his pain with his for-mer commander, the latter agoniz-ingly laments about the dissonance between now and then: “Backthere,Icouldflyagunship,I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment; back here, I can’t even hold a job parking cars!” He cries over the loss of a close friend who was blown up by a shoe-shine box that was wired with explo-sives:

“The box blew his body all over the place. There were pieces of him all overme.Icouldn’tfindhislegs.” These experiences remain with Rambo long after the guns have been silenced. The memories are part of his DNA for the rest of his life. Three lessons clearly emerge from Rambo’s trial by ordeal. First, the ex-perience of war is a game-changer in the psyche of man: It leaves wounds that are not always visible, but none-theless affect a person’s behavior and thinking. We need to understand this when relating to people who have en-dured such adversity. Second, never judge a person by appearances alone, the way the sher-iff judged Rambo. Jewish wisdom lit-erature reminds us to not look at the bottle, but instead at what is inside of it. Third, judge every man favorably, say our Sages. When we assume the best about others, our own lives will be enriched.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Cohen, former principal of Yeshiva Atlanta, now re-sides in Beit Shemesh, Israel. kosher-movies.com.

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“P.O. Box 1142 – Top Secret Heroes” in the WorksDOCUMENTARY TO TELL STORY OF JEWISH WWII HEROES

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Here, Atlantan Cynthia Michel is referring to her father, Fred Michel, who recently passed away.

Fred worked for the U.S. Govern-ment for most of his life, and his daughter was aware that he was important and that he traveled quite a bit. `She just never knew that he was a hero in World War II; his top se-cret work was a mystery to her un-til now. Michel is currently producing “P.O. Box 1142 – Top Secret He-roes,” a video documentary about her father’s Army unit, which was known by the code name “P.O. Box 1142,” “POB 1142” or just “1142.” These designations also served as the code name of their secret base, which was actually Fort Hunt, lo-cated on what used to be part of George Washington’s Mount Ver-non Estate. Many of the soldiers who worked there from 1942 to 1946 were for-mer German or Austrian Jews who had escaped the holocaust and had come to America; indeed, some of the soldiers were the only people left in their entire family. Their as-signment at P.O. Box 1142 was to interrogate the highest level Nazi prisoners. “It’s really something when you think about it, that these were gentlemen who five years earlierhad been in a very hostile environ-ment over in Germany or in Aus-tria,” Brandon Bies, a Ranger who has been gathering the story for the National Parks Service, said. “They then had fled to this country, hadbeen in many cases drafted as ene-my aliens, weren’t yet even citizens of this nation and then were sitting face to face with people who were Nazis.” Nonetheless, with their knowl-edge of the German language and German culture, their superior training and their intellect, they managed to get information that brought an earlier end to World War II, gave the U.S. advantages in the Cold War and put a man on the moon. Their work also aided the Manhattan District Project, the Army’s part of developing atomic weapons. Their level of success was amaz-ing, but more astonishing was the method that they employed. They

played chess with the prisoners, took long walks, took them to the movies and even, as Veteran Peter Weiss put it, “went shopping with Nazis.” Through these methods, they turned the prisoners, and got them to coop-erate. “So far, we have interviewed a handful of veterans, and a couple of historians,” Michel said. “There is great urgency, as we are losing vet-erans every day. “We also need to continue our work at the National Archive. Anyone who wants to help us can visit our web site [pobox1142-topsecretheroes.com]. You can even contribute there through PayPal. We’re also looking for organizations that want to part-ner with us.” Michel has hired her long-time colleague Jim Sutherland, a Peabody Award and Emmy winner, as execu-tive producer. “The more I learn as we work on it, the more I am convinced that the story must be told,” Sutherland said. The team’s plan is to broadcast the one-hour documentary first onWPBA Channel 30 in Atlanta. From there, it will be pushed to key market PBS stations, festivals and awards competitions around the country, and Michel and Sutherland will also make the video available to schools and museums. Thefilmmakers’determinationtotell the story is contagious. “This is a part of the global Jewish resistance to the Nazis,” Michel said. “They came over here as boys, in short order were put into a situation that they could not have imagined and–thebestpart–theywon!”

“I had no idea that he was such a hero. I never even knew what he did during the war.”

TOP RIGHT: Cynthia michel, daugh-ter of late Army veteran Fred Michel, is making a documentary about the heroic role of her father and many other Jews during World War II.

BOTTOM RIGHT: This vintage photo shows soldiers stationed at “P.O. Box 1142” in suburban Virginia.

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Locals Know BestTHE NINE STREET KITCHEN AND THE VALUE OF NEIGHBORHOOD EATERIES

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By JASoN APPlE

AJT Contributor

Let’s face it: Everyone has to live through some lone-liness. That’s why there are already a few ways out

there to “cure” the blues – playing the blues on your harmonica, singing the blues… But what’s really good for battling the blues? The answer can be found in the story of Nine Street Kitchen.

Located in the beautiful and his-toric downtown Roswell, Nine Street Kitchen seems right at home among the faded brick walls. Here, one gets that small-town feeling of knowing your neighbors, and that’s probably because the owners, Nick and Kel-lie Clark, really are right at home – they’re Roswell/Buckhead natives. The couple took their hometown’s cuisine and made it special by appre-ciating the natural historic ambiance in the most delicious way possible. Nine Street Kitchen provides fresh food,finewineandafriendlycrowd. Looks like the locals are finallymaking a comeback. At Nine Street Kitchen, you imme-diately feel welcome and comfortable because everyone around you seems to

feel the same way. The staff is pleas-ant and friendly because they work in a personable and fun environment, which makes the people they serve happier (and maybe even tip better). The restaurant offers a diverse menu full of fresh ingredients and in-house recipes. From the spinach apple salad (yes, it exists) to a surf-and-turf quesadilla or chicken fettuccini, this kitchen is cookin’ some high-quality food. And if the extensive and amazing menu isn’t enough to impress you,

then the de-lightful service and calm com-munal environ-ment will win you over in-stantly. Dining at a lovely local restaurant like Nine Street Kitchen makes

the idea of go-ing out for dinner pleasant again. It’s more exciting, more romantic – heck, it’s even healthier. So the next time you’re a little lonely, don’t reach for the harmonica; stop by a local legend like Nine Street Kitchen and talk to some strangers over a few drinks at the bar. Make some good memories, eat some great food and eventually your blues will go back to just being the name of a color.Editor’s note: Jason Apple is an At-lanta native and a lover of food. When he’s not running around town trying everything the Atlanta food scene has to offer, he works at Kitchen Fronts of Georgia, a kitchen refacing company, and writes a local food blog, “The Kitchen Man Can.”

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Atlanta Educators Explore the Jewish Role in Civil Rights andLabor MovementsRABBI TRAVIS, MAY-BEAVER ATTEND; DR. ROSENBLIT PRESENTS

AJT EDUCATIoN

In a year that saw Occupy Wall Street and similar protests around the globe, 25 educators from across the country gath-

ered in suburban Boston for a Sum-mer Institute session introducing “Living the Legacy,” four days of pro-fessional development focused on the role of Jews in in two earlier move-ments for social justice: Civil Rights and Labor. Among those attending were Rabbi Reuven Travis of Yeshiva At-lanta High School and Bernadette May-Beaver of the Lovett School in Atlanta, and the Weber School’s Dr. Barbara Rosenblit was a featured presenter. From July 22-26, seminars, expe-riential workshops, hands-on com-puter sessions and evening programs introduced participants to a rich col-lection of teachable material on the role of Jews in the Civil Rights and Labor Movements. “Everyone needs to know about the contributions made by Jewish women in American history,” said May-Beaver. “This is not just a his-torical ‘thread’ that we should teach to women. It’s also not something we should teach only to Jews. “All people need to know this his-tory because the most inclusive story is also the most truthful one.” Among the highlights were pre-sentations by author Dr. Debra Schultz; Dartmouth history profes-sor and author Annelise Orleck; Di-rector of Rabbis for Human Rights Rabbi Jill Jacobs; and Marilyn Snei-derman, longtime labor leader who is now Executive Director of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps. For part of every day, participants worked in small groups to develop plans for using Living the Legacy in a wide range of educational settings. “Each year, participants thank us for providing them with stories of Jewish commitment and courage that their students can relate to, as well as the tools and training that make their transmission of these stories exciting and engaging,” said JWA Ex-ecutive Director Gail Reimer. “These educators are especially aware of the challenges our nation is facing, and especially eager to use the lessons of Living the Legacy to empower their students to claim their own roles as agents of social change.”

Editor’s note: The Jewish Women’s Archive Institute for Educators is made possible by a grant from the Dorot Foundation. For more on the Institute, visit jwa.org or call (617) 232-2258.

CHABADChabad Intown 928 Ponce De Leon Avenue Atlanta, GA 30306 www.chabadintown.org 404.898.0434

Chabad Israel Center 5188 Roswell Rd. Sandy Springs, GA 30324 www.cicatlanta.com 404.252.9508

Chabad Jewish Center 4255 Wade Green Rd. Suite 120 Kennesaw, GA 30144 www.jewishwestcobb.com 678.460.7702

Chabad of Cobb 4450 Lower Roswell Rd. Marietta, GA 30068 www.chabadofcobb.com 770.565.4412

Chabad of Gwinnett 3855 Holcomb Bridge Rd. Suite 770 Norcross, GA 30092 www.chabadofgwinnett.org 678.595.0196

Chabad of North Fulton 10180 Jones Bridge Rd. Alpharetta, GA 30022 www.chabadnf.org 770.410.9000

Congregation Beth Tefillah 5065 High Point Rd. Atlanta, GA 30342 www.chabadga.com 404.257.9306

CoNSERvATIvEAhavath Achim Synagogue 600 Peachtree Battle Ave. Atlanta, GA 30327 www.aasynagogue.org 404.355.5222

Congregation Beth Shalom 5303 Winters Chapel Rd. Atlanta, GA 30360 www.bshalom.net 770.399.5300

Congregation B’nai Torah 700 Mount Vernon Hwy. Atlanta, GA 30328 www.bnaitorah.org 404.257.0537

Congregation Etz Chaim 1190 Indian Hills Pkwy Marietta, GA 30068 www.etzchaim.net 770.973.0137

Congregation Gesher l’Torah 4320 Kimball Bridge Rd. Alpharetta, GA 30022 www.gltorah.org 770.777.4009

Congregation or Hadash 6751 Roswell Rd. Atlanta, GA 30328 www.or-hadash.org 404.250.3338

Congregation Shearith Israel 1180 University Dr. Atlanta, GA 30306 www.shearithisrael.com 404.873.1743

NoN-DENomINATIoNAlAtlanta Chevre minyan Druid Forest Clubhouse North Crossing Dr. Atlanta, GA 30305 www.atlantachevreminya.org

Congregation Shema yisrael 6065 Roswell Rd., #3018 Atlanta, GA 30328 www.shemaweb.org 404.943.1100

Guardians of the Torah P.O. Box 767981 Roswell, GA 30076 www.guardiansofthetorah.org 770.286.3477

Nediv lev: the Free Synagogue of Atlanta 3791 Mill Creek Ct. Atlanta, GA 30341 My.att.net/p/PWP-NedivLev 770.335.2311

oRTHoDoxAnshi S’Fard Congregation 1324 North Highland Ave. Atlanta, GA 30306 www.anshisfard.com 404.874.4513

Congregation Ariel 5237 Tilly Mill Rd. Dunwoody, GA 30338 www.congariel.org 770.390.9071

Congregation Beth Jacob 1855 Lavista Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.bethjacobatlanta.org 404.633.0551

Congregation Beth yitzhak 5054 Singleton Rd. Norcross, GA 30093 770.931.4567 Email: [email protected]

Congregation Ner Hamizrach 1858 Lavista Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.ner-hamizrach.org 404.315.9020

The Kehilla of Sandy Springs 5075 Roswell Rd. Sandy Springs, GA 30342 www.thekehilla.org 404.913.6131

young Israel of Toco Hills 2074 Lavista Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.yith.org 404.315.1417

RECoNSTRUCTIoNIST Congregation Bet Haverim 2676 Clairmont Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.congregationbethaverim.org 404.315.6446

REFoRmCongregation B’nai Torah 1633 Hwy 54 E Jonesboro, GA 30238 www.bnai-israel.net 678.817.7162

Congregation Dor Tamid 11165 Parsons Rd. Johns Creek, GA 30097 www.dortamid.org 770.623.8860

Congregation Ner Tamid 176 West Sandtown Rd. Marietta, GA 30064 www.nertamidonline.com 678.264.8575

Congregation Rodeph Sholom 406 East 1st Street Rome, GA 30161 www.rodephsholomga.org (706) 291-6315

Temple Beth David 1885 Mcgee Rd. Snellville, GA 30078 www.gwinnetttemple.com 770.978.3916

Temple Beth Tikvah 9955 Coleman Rd. Roswell, GA 30075 www.bethtikvah.com 770.642.0434

Temple Emanu-El 1580 Spalding Dr. Atlanta, GA 30350 www.templeemanuelatlanta.org 770.395.1340

Temple Kehillat Chaim 1145 Green St. Roswell, GA 30075 www.kehillatchaim.org 770.641.8630

Temple Kol Emeth 1415 Old Canton Rd. Marietta, GA 30062 www.kolemeth.net 770.973.3533

Temple Sinai 5645 Dupree Dr. Sandy Springs, GA 30327 www.templesinatlanta.org 404.252.3073

The Temple 1589 Peachtree St. NE Atlanta, GA 30309 www.the-temple.org 404.873.1731

SEPHARDICCongregation or veShalom 1681 North Druid Hills Rd. Atlanta, GA 30319 www.orveshalom.org 404.633.1737

TRADITIoNAlCongregation Shaarei Shamayim 1810 Briarcliff Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329 www.shaareishamayeim.com 404.417.0472

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TOP: Bernadette may-Beaver of the Lovett School speaks with colleagues.

MIDDLE: Rabbi Reuben Travis of Yeshiva Atlanta shares with fellow educator Claire Solomon.

ABOVE: Dr. Barbara Rosenblit of the Weber School was among the presenting faculty at the Summer Institute. PHOTOS/Gus Freedman

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Parshat Re’ehTHE SHOFAR AS A TIMEPIECE

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By RABBI HAyyIm J. KASSoRlA

Congregation OrVeShalom and the Atlanta Rabbinical Association

“Behold I set before you this day, a blessing and a curse” (Perashat Re’eh, 11:26).

Today – the Shabbat of the Parshat of Re’eh – is also Rosh Chodesh Elul. This month spells out ani ledodi

vedodi lee, “I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me.” This expresses the love which the Almighty has for us at this time of the year, and conversely, our love

for G-d which manifests itself in the Sephardic tradition of selihoth – penitential prayers every day (except Shabbat) during this month. Many traditions also have the custom of sounding the shofar every day – again, except Shabbat – during this new month of Elul. This brings to mind a lovely story about time and the Shofar: Two elderly Jews who haven’t seen each other in 50 years meet, recog-

nize one another and embrace. One invites the other back to his apart-ment to talk about the old days, and the conversation goes on for hours, and eventually, night falls. “It’s late!” one says to the other.“We have been talking for hours. What time is it? Do you have a watch on?” “I don’t have a watch,” says the second. “Where is your clock?” asks the first. “I don’t have a clock,” the second responds. “Then how do you tell the time?” thefirstinquires,puzzled. “You see that shofar in the cor-ner?” asks the second. “That’s how I tell the time.” “Are you crazy?!” exclaims thefirst.“Howcanyoutellthetimewitha shofar?” “I’ll show you,” says the second. He picks up the shofar, opens the window and blows a deafening blast. Thirty seconds later, an angry neigh-bor shouts out, “Why are you blowing ashofarat2:30inthemorning?!” “You see?” the blower says, turn-ing to his friend. “That’s how you tell thetimewithashofar!” Roughly speaking, that’s how the greatest rabbi of the Middle Ages – Moses Maimonides – explained why we blow a shofar on Rosh Hasha-nah. Maimonides explains that the shofar is G-d’s timepiece; the shofar blast is a wake-up call. In that sho-farblast,G-dsays,“It’slate!Doyouknow what time it is?” When we hear the shofar blast, G-d wants each of us to ask, “What have I done with life G-d has given me? How have I used it? Have I lived for myself, or for others? “Did I hurt or heal? What have I done with the year I asked for 12 months ago? What will be my entry in the Book of Life?”

Maimonides taught that we go through life half-asleep; day follows day in a daze. We go through the mo-tions of waking, working, eating and relaxing, all the while more conscious of the minutes than the years. We feel the tyranny of the clock, but we forget the calendar of life. As the years pass, all too often we re-nounce the dreams of our youth and settle for a routine, only waking mo-mentarily when we are jolted by a car crash, an illness or a crisis which makes us say, “Who am I, and why am I here?” G-d is merciful to us, and once a year at Rosh Hashanah, G-d gives us a way to wake up without crisis and consider our lives. In the context of time, all of us stand equally; whether we are rich or poor, powerful or pow-erless, there are only 24 hours in a day and a lifespan of years that is all too short. For each of us, as there was for Moses, there is beautiful life that we have been given to live; a future we may never experience; a River Jordan we may never cross; and a promised land we may never see. We have only the time we have been given to make choices, and the most consequential is how we use our time.

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No one ever died wishing he or she hadspentmoretimeattheoffice,norhas anyone mourned for dishes left unwashed. In our last moments, we mourn for the simple things that we took for granted: family meals, long walks with our children, helping strangers, saying “I love you” and thanking and praising the Almighty for the gift of life. Those are the bare essence of a life well lived. So next time someone asks you the time, don’t look to a watch or to a clock, look to a shofar. G-d’s time-piece doesn’t measure minutes; it measures moments. On behalf of Congregation Or Ve-Shalom, I wish you and yours a Sha-na tova! Tizku leshanim rabbot!

May this year be a healthy one for all of us, and a year of peace in the holy land of Israel and throughout the world. Amen.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Hayyim Kassor-la is the spiritual leader of Congrega-tion Or VeShalom and a member of the Atlanta Rabbinical Association.

“We have only the time we have been given to make choices, and the most consequential is how we use our time.”

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

This Week’s Highlighted Events

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FRI., AUG. 17Dive Into Shabbat, open swim fol-lowed by poolside song and prayer with Rabbi Brian Glusman. Fri., Aug. 17, 5 p.m. MJCCA’s Zaban Park. [email protected].

A meal and A Prayer, join CDT for din-ner at Abbott’s Grill prior to Shabbat Services. Fri., Aug. 17, 6 p.m. RSVP re-quested. Abbott’s Grill.

SAT., AUG. 18Bush Centre for Ballet open House and Registration, come register for dance classes age 3 and up; 50 per-cent discount on the registration fee if enrolled then. Classes begin the week of Mon., Aug. 20 and include various dance style classes. Sat., Aug. 18, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. The Bush Centre for Bal-let. (404) 256- 5542 or [email protected].

vFI Potluck Dinner Gathering, join the South Region Voluteers For Israel for a potluck dinner. Sat., Aug. 18, 4 p.m. Home of Sharon Sleeper. RSVP by Aug. 15. [email protected].

SUN., AUG. 19Spiritual Hike at Big Tree, Congrega-

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17tion Or Hadash’s annual hike followed by a concert featuring Rick Recht. Sun., Aug. 19, 9 a.m. Big Tree. [email protected] or (678) 779-6938.

onward & Upward, a weekly class that offers women a higher understanding of Yom Kippur. Taught by Chana Rudnick. Sun., Aug. 19, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Congrega-tion Ariel. (423) 400-7353.

Brunch and Fashion Show, hosted by the Mt. Scopus Group of Greater Atlanta Ha-dassah and benefiting Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem. Sun., Aug. 19, 11 a.m. $15/person. (404) 549-8397.

Rich’s: A Southern Institution, come enjoy a slice of Rich’s coconut cake at the launch of historian Jeff Clemmons new book on the South’s favorite depart-ment store, followed by a discussion with journalist Maria Saporta. Sun., Aug. 19, 2 p.m. Free to Breman Members. $12/ non-member. (678) 222-3700.

Remembering the Kindertransports, a poignant documentary that tells the story of the Kindertransports of Jewish children saved from Nazi concentration camps and taken to safety. Followed by Holocaust survior Susi Schwarz and the story of her Kindertransport expereince. Sun., Aug. 19, 3:30 p.m. The Norcross Community and Cultural Arts Center.

Family Picnic, Shearith Israel’s 2nd-Annual Family Picnic Fun, featuring softball, watermelon seed-spitting contest and the all-out Soak Down. Sun., Aug. 19, 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. Glen-lake Park.

BByo Connect Fall Kickoff Pool Party, fun in the sun, pool game and snacks.

Open to all Jewish 6th-8th graders. Sun., Aug. 19, 4 p.m. $10 by Aug. 12, $15 after. [email protected] or (678) 812.3970.

TUE., AUG. 21Greater Atlanta Hadassah & Israel Bonds Host Summer Social, come learn about Hadassah and Israel Bonds while bidding on a silent auction to benefit the work of Hadassah. RSVP by Aug. 15. Tue., Aug 21, 5:30- 7:30 p.m. Ravina Club. [email protected] or (678) 443- 2961.

WED., AUG. 22my Name is Asher lev, a fascinating coming of age story that seamlessly explores art, family and religion. Wed., Aug. 22 through Sun., Sept. 16. The Balzer Theater at Herren’s.

Bingo with the Seniors, join Congre-gation Ariel’s sisterhood at the Bremen Home to play bingo with the residents. Time and details to follow. Wed., Aug. 22. Contact Diane Baron at (770) 458- 6618 or [email protected].

Fall 2012 CAbi Trunk Show, come check out the latest fashions and pro-ceeds will be donated to benefit The Amit Program. Wed., Aug. 22, 7 p.m. RSVP by Aug. 15. The Amit Office. (440) 961- 9966.

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FRI., AUG. 249th-Annual Congregation or veShalom Golf Tournament. Fri., Aug. 24. Registering sponsors now. Bear’s Best in Suwanee. (770) 992-2433 or [email protected].

Guns and Fun, hosted by North Atlanta Jewish Singles, come meet other Atlanta area singles and learn how to shoot guns. Fri., Aug. 24, 7 p.m. $57/ person. Sandy Springs Gun Club and Range. RSVP to Mark Horvath [email protected].

Shabbat UNplugged, as part of Ahavath Achim Open House Weekend, come experi-ence a Shabbat with music and prayer fol-lowed by a social gathering. Fri., Aug. 24 7:30 p.m. Ahavath Achim Synagogue. (404) 355- 5222.

SAT., AUG. 25morning Services, yoga, Torah Study and meditation, as part of Ahavath Achim Open House Weekend, begin Shabbat with a tradi-tional Saturday morning service, followed by yoga, torah study with Judith Hodara and a meditation service. Sat., Aug. 25, 9 a.m. Aha-vath Achim Synagogue. (404) 355- 5222.

Family Day at Cherokee valley Ranch, hosted by North Atlanta Jewish Singles, come meet other Atlanta area singles with your fam-ily and fun activities, like ziplining and horse back riding. Sat., Aug. 25, 10 a.m. Priced per activity from $8- $25/ person. Cherokee Val-ley Ranch, Jasper GA. RSVP to Mark Horvath [email protected].

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Bernard Klug of Atlanta peacefully passed away on Mon., Aug. 6, 2012 at the age of 92. He was born in Czestohowa, Poland on Oct. 8, 1919. Bernard, a Holocaust survivor, was the oldest of all his sibling survivors. After coming to the U.S.,hewentontoownhisownbusiness,firstasapartnerin P&K Kosher Butchers in Brooklyn, N.Y., then as a part-ner in Sal’s Deli in Atlanta. Bernard is survived by his wife, Helen; son, Joe; daughter-in-law, Carole; granddaughters Alli Klug and Sloane and Gillian Silverman; and son-in-law, Les Silverman. He was predeceased by his daughter, Miri-am Silverman; and grandson, Joshua Klug. Funeral services were held at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs on

Aug. 8. Sign on-line guestbook: edressler.com. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care.

Elaine Taffel Pollock75, OF ATLANTAElaine Taffel Pollock, 75, died Aug. 7, 2012, after a nine-year battle with polycythemia and leukemia. Daughter of the late Alice Taffel Tenenbaum and Mose Taffel, she was a native and life-long resident of Atlanta. Elaine graduated from Grady High School and matriculated to Ohio State University. She then attended the University of Ala-bama, where she met her future husband and love of her life, Bernard “Bubba” Pol-lock. After a brief time living in Mobile, Ala., the couple and one young son relocated to her hometown. Back in Atlanta, Elaine’s family grew to include an additional two sons.

Love of family focused her life. Elaine found joy in art and channeled her creativity into painting. She generously shared her beautiful and thoughtful works with those close to her. She was an avid traveler and reader and a loyal friend to many. Elaine was a member of The Temple and, for several years, a Coldwell Banker real estate agent. In addition to her devoted husband of 56 years, she is survived by her sons, MarkandhiswifeJudy,KennethandhiswifeLinda,andRandy;fivegrandchildren,Shayna, Neal, Andrea, Morgan and Rebecca; brother, Martin Taffel; and niece and nephew, Alison and Myles Taffel. An online guestbook is available at edressler.com, andinlieuofflowers,thefamilyasksthatdonationsbemadetotheLeukemiaandLymphoma Society, 3715 Northside Parkway Northwest, Atlanta, GA 30327; The High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, GA; or the charity of one’s choice. Graveside services were held Aug. 9 at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy SpringswithRabbiPeterBergofficiating.ArrangementsbyDressler’sJewishFu-neral Care.

Earl Leonard Smith87, OF DECATUREarl Leonard Smith, 87, of Decatur, passed away peacefully on Sun., Aug. 12, 2012. Born to Louis and Augusta Smith of blessed memory in Dorchester, Mass., he gradu-ated from Harvard University, earning a B.S. in 1946 and an M.B.A. in 1949. Earl alsoserved in theU.S.NavyPacificTheaterduringWWII.A longtimememberofAhavath Achim Synagogue, he is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Shirley; his daughters, Ellen Ratner and her husband David, and Karen Smith and her husband Marcus Helman; his sons, Dan and his wife Gaia, and Michael and his wife Cynthia; his granchildren, Alison, Andrew, Douglas, Natalie, Maayan, Neria, Zachary, Ben-jamin and Bailey; his great-grandson, Amos; and his brother, Barry and his wife Sandy. An online guestbook is available at edressler.com; memorial donations may be made to either the William Breman Jewish Home or Weinstein Hospice, both at 3150 Howell Mill Rd. NW, Atlanta, GA 30327; or to Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave. NW, Atlanta, GA 30327. Graveside services were held Aug. 16 atGreenwoodCemeterywithRabbiNeil Sandler officiating.Arrangements byDressler’s Jewish Funeral Care.

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