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Photo courtesy of Emory Healthcare Staring Down CancerDr. David Kooby, an Ahavath Achim Synagogue member who is the director of surgical oncology at Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital, is looking for ways to be more precise in surgeries for pancreatic cancer to improve what remain grim odds for survival. Page 21

SHARED PASTOrganizers hope Rabbi Ken Spiro brings mod-ern unity with his talk of Jewish history’s wonders. Page 6

RAINY JOYDespite wet weather during Sukkot, Jewish Atlanta found time for fun in sukkahs of all sizes. Page 28

SWEET LIFEDavid Abes is oversee-ing three Buckhead Atlanta restaurant concepts that aim to be a cut above. Page 31

Bukharan Shul Set To Celebrate New HomeCongregation Beit Yitzhak is ready

for a homecoming party in Nor-cross, and the whole Jewish com-

munity is invited.The Orthodox congregation serv-

ing a Bukharan population — Jews from Central Asia — has spent about two years renovating a building it purchased in 2009 to serve as its synagogue at 6030 Goodwood Blvd. in Norcross.

The work includes an expansion of about 1,000 square feet and a new mik-vah, said Simon Barayev, who handles communications for Beit Yitzhak. The congregation also erected an eruv around 2,000 houses; brought in a new spiritual leader, Rabbi Nathan Phuzayloff; and established a night kollel in association with Kollel Ner Hamizrach in Toco Hills.

Rabbi Israel Zelman, who has led the congregation, remains a spiritual leader for Atlanta’s Russian Jews and becomes a teacher at the Beit Yitzhak kollel.

“Our new home allows people to live next to shul rather than walking two miles every Shabbat or holiday” to the King David Community Center at 5054 Singleton Road, the former site for servic-es, Barayev said. “We can invest this time in learning Torah and to actually enjoy the holy day with the family.”

Beit Yitzhak is dedicating the facili-ties and inaugurating the kollel with a two-part Chanukat HaBayit celebration Sunday, Oct. 18. A dinner at the shul at 5 p.m. is for invited guests only, including Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson. But the event at the King David Community Cen-ter at 7 p.m. is for everyone. ■

GREEK TO THEMUGA’s Sigma Delta Tau chapter is doing more than grinding out campus fun and fundraising with its annual all-sorority dance competition. Page 25

DIVERSE TOUCHAs it prepares for At-lanta Pride, SOJOURN works with youths at day schools and in other groups to build support systems. Page 30

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Hope for bipolar depression. NeuroRx, an Israeli company that does research in the United States, has demonstrated a 50 percent reduction in symptoms of depression and a 75 percent reduction in suicidal feelings in a small trial of its Cyclurad treatment in combination with ketamine on treatment-resistant patients with bipolar disorder.

U.S. purchase of burn treatment. The Biomedical Advanced Research & De-velopment Authority, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, has awarded a $112 million con-tract to Yavne-based Mediwound. BAR-DA will use Mediwound’s NexoBrid in major incidents to remove dead tissue from medium to severe burns. BARDA will also help Mediwound finance its efforts for Food and Drug Administra-tion approval for NexoBrid.

Award for cancer therapy. A team from Ben-Gurion University of the Ne-gev won the Best Heath and Medicine Project category in the 12th annual Gi-ant Jamboree International Genetically Engineered Machine competition in Boston with a cutting-edge biological cancer therapy called Boomerang.

New center for hearing-impaired children. The Jerusalem Foundation has opened a home in Abu Tor for Jew-ish and Arab children with hearing impairments. The MICHA (Society for Deaf Children in Israel) center contains four preschool classes and an audiol-ogy institute.

Academic degrees up 500 percent since 1990. The number of university-level degrees handed out in Israel has multiplied by five the past 25 years. At the end of the 2013-14 school year, 75,100 degrees were awarded to Israeli students. The increase is particularly high among Israeli women and Arabs.

Study Israel in Washington. George Washington University is establishing an Israel studies program, including an endowed professorship, in the lat-est example of universities developing closer ties with Israel.

Zambian Embassy reopens. Zambian Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba

reopened the country’s embassy in Is-rael, saying, “We view Israel as a true friend in the Middle East.” Kalaba also said Zambia expects “cooperation and the strengthening of ties.”

18-country delegation to fight BDS. A delegation of 22 lawmakers from 18 countries is in Israel for the Israel Al-lies Foundation’s annual Jerusalem Chairman’s Conference. The visitors will sign a resolution declaring support for Israel and vowing to take a stance against anti-Israel movements such as boycott, divestment and sanctions.

Cutting greenhouse gases. The Israeli Cabinet approved plans to slash emis-sions of greenhouse gases by 25 percent by 2030. The cost of 800 million shekels ($206 million) would eventually save the economy 100 billion shekels in fuel and reduced disease from pollution.

EU needs Israeli encryption technol-ogy. Top international lawyer Patrick Van Eecke has said that stricter Euro-pean Union regulations on data se-curity in the wake of leaks at Target, Sony and the Internal Revenue Service require companies to seek advanced encryption software such as that sup-plied by Israeli cybersecurity firms.

Keeping West Point cadets in shape. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point and numerous NBA teams are turning to Tel Aviv-based startup PhysiMax, which, using 3D cameras, provides cloud-based analytics of how players are performing. One of the main aims of the system is to prevent injuries from inefficient movement.

App to report bad drivers. Just the ticket! The iPhone dash-cam app from Nexar records and reports traffic viola-tions and reckless driving. Israeli driv-ers, please join the Nexar community to make the roads safer.

Bon Jovi rocks. In front of 50,000 fans at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, Jon Bon Jovi kicked off his band’s first performance in Israel by telling the crowd, “I’ve waited a long time for this!” He later dedicated a new song, “We Don’t Run,” to the crowd, saying “This should be the fight song for Tel Aviv.”

Big buy for Teva. Petah Tikva-based Teva Pharmaceuticals has announced the $2.3 billion purchase of Rimsa, giv-ing the company a manufacturing and

distribution network in Mexico.

Compiled courtesy of verygoodnewsis-rael.blogspot.com and other news sources.

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home

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Local BriefsNeuman Trial Set

Hemy Neuman’s second murder trial for the killing of Rusty Sneider-man has been scheduled for August 2016.

At a hearing Wednesday, Sept. 30, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory Adams scheduled jury selec-tion to begin Aug. 1.

Adams was the judge in Neuman’s first trial in 2011, which resulted in his being found guilty but mentally ill of gunning down Sneiderman outside a Dunwoody preschool in November 2010.

In June, the Georgia Supreme Court threw out that verdict, ruling that Adams erred in allowing evidence from two mental health experts who were hired by the defense but were not going to be called to testify at the trial.

Neuman admitted killing Sneider-man but claimed that he was out of his mind because of an affair he was hav-ing with Sneiderman’s wife, Andrea, who worked for him at GE Energy. An-drea Sneiderman, who was convicted in 2012 of perjury, lying to police and obstructing the murder investigation, has repeatedly denied having a roman-tic relationship with Neuman.

Driver Charged in I-285 WreckSandy Springs police have charged

Howard Silverstein, 64, with failure to maintain his lane in the crash Friday, Sept. 25, that sent a Publix tractor-trailer and a tanker truck careering off eastbound Interstate 285 onto Ga. 400

below.Although the crash tied up traffic

for hours, no one was seriously hurt.Police released videos from a traf-

fic camera and another vehicle’s dash-board camera that showed Silverstein’s 2014 Kia Sorento veering to the right so that its right front tire hit the Publix truck’s left front tire and caused truck driver Leroy Edwards to lose control.

Silverstein told various media outlets that the wet road caused the trouble.

ADL Condemns Alabama on IDsThe Buckhead-based Southeast

office of the Anti-Defamation League has criticized Alabama for a decision to help balance the state budget by end-ing the issuance of driver’s licenses at 31 satellite offices statewide, including every office in any county with a popu-lation that is at least 75 percent black.

Alabama last year enacted a voter ID law, so the lack of a local office to get a license creates a voting rights issue.

ADL Southeast Regional Director Mark Moskowitz responded with a statement Thursday, Oct. 1, the day the changes went into effect.

“Alabama’s decision is disgraceful and will undoubtedly further under-mine the right to vote in counties with the largest communities of color,” he said. “Citizens in the affected areas will now have to expend additional time and money to obtain a driver’s license needed to cast a vote.”

The action “raises the obvious question of whether it was intended to disenfranchise communities of color,”

Moskowitz said, so the ADL is urging an investigation by the U.S. Justice De-partment.

Eight of the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentages of non-white registered voters no longer can license new drivers, so potential voters will have to travel to other counties to get the IDs they need to vote.

“This is a sad — and dangerous — reminder of 50 years ago when march-ers literally gave their blood, sweat and tears for the right to vote on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama,” Moskowitz said. “Before passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Alabama and other states constantly devised new

and creative ways to disen-franchise com-munities of color.”

The ADL also renewed its call for passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act.

That act, sponsored by Atlanta Demo-cratic Con-gressman John Lewis among others, would restore the federal pre-clearance of voting-related laws that the U.S. Supreme Court threw out in 2013.

The new legislation would replace the Voting Rights Act’s fixed list of states requiring preclearance with a chang-ing list of the states facing the most voting rights complaints.

Sykes to Lead School in IsraelRabbi Loren Sykes, who was the

founding executive director of the Con-servative movement’s Camp Ramah Darom, has been hired as the new prin-cipal of the Reform movement’s NFTY Eisendrath International Experience High School in Israel.

The Union for Reform Judaism announced Friday, Oct. 2, that Rabbi Sykes will spend November and De-cember working with Baruch Kraus, who is retiring at the end of December after a quarter-century as the NFTY-EIE principal. As of Jan. 1, Rabbi Sykes will be the principal.

In addition to his work at Ramah Darom, Rabbi Sykes founded Camp Yofi for Jewish families with children with autism. Rabbi Sykes and his fam-ily made aliyah in 2013.

“As a rabbi and educator, my mis-sion is to help Jewish teens take the next steps on their Jewish journeys. It is also to create opportunities and experi-ences that lead to loving the people, the land and the state of Israel with all her blessings, achievements, challenges and shortcomings,” Rabbi Sykes said in the announcement. “As principal of EIE, I look forward to combining these two missions, to helping grow the fu-ture leadership of Reform Judaism in North America, and to strengthening the value of religious pluralism in the state of Israel.”

He also said he was humbled to follow Kraus.

The Metulla Group of Greater Atlanta Hadassah visits the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum on Sept. 3 for a curator-led tour of the Midtown museum, followed by a kosher

lunch. If you are interested in participating in Metulla Hadassah events, call 678-443-2961.

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■ Delta Air Lines will begin daily nonstop service from Atlanta to Tel Aviv on March 28 as part of a marketing campaign to lure some of the nation’s estimated 98 million evangelical Christians from the heart of the Bible Belt to the Holy Land. The Israeli Tourism Ministry estimates that the new route could mean an additional 100,000 seats a year available on flights between Israel and the United States.

■ Neil and Lauren Schwartz of Atlanta announce the birth of their second daughter, Sydney Claire, on March 17, 2005.

25 Years Ago Oct. 12, 1990

■ More than 300 people responded positively to a survey on the creation of a Reform Jewish day school in Atlanta.

The results of the survey, taken by Reform leaders, were released at an Oct. 7 meeting on the proposed school. Fewer than 40 people attended the meeting at Temple Sinai. Sandy Springs was the first choice for the school’s location; Dun-woody was second.

■ The bar mitzvah of Micah Gabriel Katz of Atlanta, son of Nathaniel and Monica Katz, will take place at 8:30 a.m. Satur-day, Oct. 20, at Beth Jacob Synagogue.

50 Years Ago Oct. 8, 1965

■ Forty-seven leading Jews, representing all groups and de-nominations in American Jewry, joined Protestants, Ortho-dox Christians and Catholics meeting with Pope Paul VI on Monday in New York to dramatize “the mutual concerns of religion for world peace.”

■ Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Levitas of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Kevin Noah, on Sept. 7. A bris was held Sept. 15 with Rabbi Harry Epstein and the Rev. M. Kleinmann officiating.

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After reading and listening to Rabbi Ken Spiro’s books and classes, David Weinstein want-

ed to hear him in person. Learning that the rabbi would be traveling from Israel to the United States, Weinstein decided to try to bring him to Atlanta.

“I ran into some stumbling blocks,” said Weinstein, a gastroenter-ologist who lives in Sandy Springs with his wife and children. “I had never done anything like this before.”

Rabbi Spiro will be speaking about “The Seven Wonders of Jewish History” on Sunday, Oct. 11, at Atlanta Jewish Academy’s Sandy Springs campus.

“I wanted to create an event that would be uplifting and inspiring. I strongly believe we have more cause to celebrate and more to be thankful for as a people today than we have cause to worry about,” Weinstein said.

He said he recruited cousin Mitch-ell Blass of Sandy Springs to help “in the spirit of our grandfathers, who did so much for the Jewish community.”

Fraternity brother Brian Statisky also helped, he said.

Dentist Nathan Blass, Weinstein’s maternal grandfather, lived in Atlanta all his life and died in 1973. He was well known in the Jewish community.

“He’s always been this mythic fig-ure in my life,” said Weinstein, who was 4 when his grandfather died. “He gave us the blessing of a great name.”

Saul Blass, Mitchell’s grandfather, was born in 1916 with a twin, Annie (Mislowe), in Atlanta. He started a gro-cery store. His father, Moses, was the first gabbai at Congregation Beth Jacob.

“My grandfather was one of the kindest men I have ever known, second only to my own father, Allen,” Blass said.

For Weinstein, growing up Jewish was cultural and Zionistic, he said. He knew he was expected to marry Jewish but said he wasn’t raised observant.

But he said his family went to his grandparents’ home every Friday night for Shabbat dinner until his grand-father died. About six years ago, he started becoming more observant and learning about Jewish history.

“There’s this overriding sense of anti-Semitism in the world. Every-thing in the news is about the Middle East and Iran. Israel is either villain or potential victim. Both are negatives. I wanted to do something positive,” Weinstein said.

He and his wife, Julie, are members at Congregation Or Hadash. Weinstein also likes to attend daily minyan at Congregation Beth Tefillah and Shab-bat at The Kehilla in Sandy Springs.

“I’m obsessed with the divisions in our community. I think about Iran, but I feel like the biggest threat to us is our own fractiousness. That’s why the Sec-ond Temple fell,” he said.

He felt that bringing Rabbi Spiro to speak about the wonders of Jewish history could bring the community to-gether. “We can’t argue about our own history,” he said. “We should all know our own history. You can’t ignore the miraculous in it. You can’t ignore the fact that it’s inspiring. No synagogue can have an issue with it. History is unifying when it’s your history.”

He noted that biblical Hebrew doesn’t have a word for “history.”

“It’s all about memory,” he said, noting that one of the common re-frains in the Torah is to remember.

Born and raised in the United States, Rabbi Spiro made aliyah in 1982. He served in an Israel Defense Forces infantry unit and lives in Givat Zeev with his wife and five children.

He is known for his quick-paced, humorous style and ability to explain deep concepts. He is a lecturer and re-searcher with Aish HaTorah’s Discov-ery Seminar and a licensed tour guide.

He has appeared on radio and TV and is the author of “WorldPerfect — The Jewish Impact on Civilization” and “Crash Course in Jewish History.” ■

Jewish History Talk Brings Hope of Unity

Who: Rabbi Ken Spiro

What: “The Seven Wonders of Jewish History”

Where: Atlanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs

When: 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11

Admission: Free

Information: Email David Weinstein at [email protected]

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FRIDAY, OCT. 9Shabbat Ruach. The Marcus Jewish Community Center’s music-filled, casu-al community service starts at 7 p.m. at Congregation Dor Tamid, 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek. Free; www.atlanta-jcc.org.

SUNDAY, OCT. 11Pride Parade. Organized by SOJOURN, 44 Jewish organizations march togeth-er in the Atlanta Pride Parade from the Civic Center MARTA station to Pied-mont Park at 1 p.m. To march, meet by 12:30 at the white float in the grand marshal’s staging area on Ralph Mc-Gill Boulevard between Courtland and Peachtree streets. The parade is part of the Pride Festival at Piedmont Park from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Participation is

free; www.sojourngsd.org/atlpride.

Walk to fight cancer. Relay for Life of Ruach, the only American Cancer So-ciety Relay for Life held on a Sunday, begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 8 at North Springs Charter High School, 7447 Ro-swell Road, Sandy Springs. Sign up at www.RelayForLife.org/ruachga.

Gathering your key documents. Jew-ish Home Life Communities presents Part 2 of “Preparing Your Top Drawer File,” a program providing informa-tion and tools to create your own file of important medical, legal and finan-cial documents, at 2 p.m. at the William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta. Free; RSVP to 404-351-8412 or JewishHomeLife.org.

Jazz show. Pianist Joe Alterman per-forms at the Marcus Jewish Commu-nity Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dun-woody, at 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $17 for JCC members and $22 for nonmem-bers; www.atlantajcc.org.

Ethics in science. Arri Eisen of the Cen-ter for Ethics at Emory addresses “The Convergence of Science and Religion” to inaugurate the Dr. Paul Fernhoff Eth-ics in Science Program Lecture at At-lanta Jewish Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs, at 7 p.m. Free; secure .acceptiva.com/?cst=e4b126.

TUESDAY, OCT. 13Clowning around. Israeli master clown Ofir Nahari plays Dionysus in a student presentation of a new Ken-

nesaw State-7 Stages co-production, “The Followers,” at 5 p.m. at the Onyx Theater at Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Road, Kennesaw. Free.

Self-defense for middle school girls. Girls Can Fight Too, a weekly, five-class self-defense workshop operated by Di-vas in Defense for girls in sixth through eighth grades, starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. The series is $140 for center members, $180 for nonmembers; www.atlantajcc.org/pldb-live/girl-s-can-fight-too-self-de-fense-workshop-29675 or 678-812-3978.

“Spill the Honey” discussion. A trailer for a documentary about Spill the Hon-ey, which spreads knowledge of the civ-il rights movement and the Holocaust and promotes genocide prevention, is shown at 7 p.m., followed by a discus-sion among faith leaders and educa-tors including Rabbi David Spinrad, the Rev. Gerald Durley, C.T. Vivian and Susannah Heschel, at The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown. Free; RSVP to [email protected].

Business discussion. Entrepreneur Mi-chael Coles, namesake of the Kennesaw State University business school, talks to the Sinai Business Alliance about “Taking on Goliath” at 7 p.m. at Tem-ple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Admission is $10 in advance or $20 at the door; templesinai.wufoo.com/forms/k1i5ky9l1wf65ro. Self-defense for high school girls. Fierce & Fabulous, a weekly, five-class self-defense workshop operated by Di-vas in Defense for girls in high school, starts at 7:45 p.m. at the Marcus Jew-ish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. The series is $140 for center members, $180 for nonmem-bers; www.atlantajcc.org/pldb-live/fierce-fabulous-self-defense-work-shop-29676 or 678-812-3978.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14Rothschild Memorial Lecture. Dart-mouth College Jewish studies profes-sor Susannah Heschel addresses “The Age of Race: Judaism, Ethics, and the Invisible Seductions of Racism,” the keynote of the Race With Judaism con-ference, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Emory’s Oxford Road Building, 1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta. Free; js.emory.edu/events/RacewithJewishEthics.htm.

THURSDAY, OCT. 15Conference on race and ethics. Emory University’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and Center for Ethics hold a

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CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMESShabbat During Sukkot

Parshah BereishitFriday, Oct. 9, light candles at 6:53 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10, Shabbat ends at 7:47 p.m.Parshah Noach

Friday, Oct. 16, light candles at 6:45 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 17, Shabbat ends at 7:39 p.m.

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conference on Race With Jewish Ethics from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 162 of the Center for Ethics, 1531 Dickey Drive, At-lanta. Free; js.emory.edu/events/Race-withJewishEthics.htm.

Caregiver help. Federation and the Meyer Balser Naturally Occurring Re-tirement Community present a series of six weekly classes teaching power-ful tools for caregivers and using “The Caregiver Handbook,” starting today at 4:30 p.m. at the Meyer Balser NORC in-side the Zaban Tower, 3156 Howell Mill Road, Buckhead. Free but registration required; [email protected] or 404-355-5696.

Dealing with elderly parents. AJT con-tributor Nancy Kriseman leads a work-shop at the Renaissance on Peachtree, 3755 Peachtree Road, Buckhead, at 5 p.m. on approaching such sensitive top-ics as moving a parent into assisted liv-ing, giving up driving, going to the doc-tor despite resistance, and overcoming resistance from someone with demen-tia or depression. Free; rmatthews@arborcompany .com or 404-237-2323.

Infertility support. The Wo/Men’s Infertility Support Havurah holds its monthly meeting, this time focusing on providing group support, at 7 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; www.wishatlanta.org, [email protected] or 404-252-3073.

SUNDAY, OCT. 18Super Sunday. Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta holds its phonathon for the Community Campaign from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; www.jewishatlanta.org/supersunday or 678-222-3721.

Fall fun. The Marcus Jewish Commu-nity Center offers a petting zoo, bounce house, face painting, crafts and more from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Brook Run Dog Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Road, Dun-woody. Admission is $20 per family for JCC members or $32 for nonmembers; www.atlantajcc.org.

Kosher barbecue contest. The third Atlanta Kosher BBQ Competition &

Festival starts at 11:30 a.m. at Brook Run Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Road, Dunwoody, with $1 tastings, additional food and arts and crafts for sale, chil-dren’s activities, and Atlanta Jewish Music Festival entertainment. Free ad-mission; TheAtlantaKosherBBQ.com.

Pet blessings. The Marcus Jewish Com-munity Center and My Pooch Face present the Blessing of the Pets festival from noon to 2 at Brook Run Dog Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Road, Dunwoody. Free; www.atlantajcc.org.

Shul dedication. Congregation Beit Yitzhak celebrates the opening of its new building, its new mikvah and its night kollel program at 7 p.m. at the King David Community Center, 5054 Singleton Road, Norcross. Free.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21Israeli author. Etgar Keret reads from “The Seven Good Years,” screens some of his short films and talks with Emory psychologist Marshall Duke at 7 p.m. at Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trow-bridge Road, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP to [email protected].

THURSDAY, OCT. 22Baking bread. The Shabbat Project and the Marcus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, hold the Great Big Challah Bake at 7 p.m. Ad-vance registration for $10 is required; atlanta.theshabbosprojectusa.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 24Photography presentation. The Center for Israel Education presents Israeli photographer Adi Nes and his work at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP required at www.israeled.org/adi-nes-rsvp.

SUNDAY, OCT. 25VFI potluck picnic. Volunteers for Is-rael (www.vfi-usa.org) holds a picnic at 1 p.m. at 2276 Fair Oaks Road, Decatur, to share information about volunteer-ing on an Israel Defense Forces base for two to three weeks. Free; contact Stephen Prestwood at 470-331-7241 or [email protected].

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Editor’s NotebookBy Michael [email protected]

Our ViewTwo LeadersTwo men who just took turns criticizing each

other in speeches before the U.N. General As-sembly now must work together or see their

New York rhetoric explode into West Bank warfare.As we go to press, Palestinian Authority Presi-

dent Mahmoud Abbas is reasserting his governmen-tal authority, pushing his security forces to quell the violent protests that spread from Jerusalem through the West Bank and inevitably led to the deaths of young men challenging the Israel Defense Forces.

Yet when he spoke to the United Nations on Sept. 30, Abbas did his best impression of Pontius Pilate, washing his hands of all responsibility for his people and their actions while declaring the 1993 Oslo peace accords to be null and void.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is again focusing on Judaea and Samaria and the areas nominally controlled by the PA while weighing the angry recommendations of his coali-tion partners and security advisers. He has cleared the way for the homes of Palestinian terrorists to be bulldozed but has shown restraint and, we dare say, leadership in not unleashing the IDF to attack.

Yet when he spoke to the United Nations on Oct. 1, Netanyahu treated the Palestinians like an after-thought, issuing a less-than-convincing call for peace talks as a rebuttal to Abbas after aiming most of his speech and all of his passion at the international bo-geyman of Iran.

Can anyone be surprised that Palestinian gun-men killed a couple driving home with their four children within a day of Abbas’ nullification of the agreement that was supposed to end terrorism as a Palestinian tool? Especially after Abbas incited Tem-ple Mount rioters the past month and continued to deny Jewish roots in Israel?

Can anyone be shocked that Palestinians, frus-trated at seeing the world focus on Syrian refugees and the violence and chaos elsewhere in the Middle East, responded to Netanyahu’s Iran obsession with a wave of violence designed to grab his attention?

Netanyahu and Abbas now face the ultimate test of leadership. The easy path for each is to let the hawks sway them to escalate the violence into war — a war that, because of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, would be far messier, deadlier and harder to disengage from than last year’s fighting in Gaza.

Since at least the failure of President Bill Clin-ton’s last-ditch bid to be a peace broker in 2000 and the resulting murderous violence of the Second Inti-fada, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have preferred the blame game to the adult business of making peace with people you fear and perhaps hate. If we’re to avoid a Third Intifada — one that could destroy the national dreams of two peoples — Netanyahu and Abbas must take the ultimate leap of faith.

If they commit to their peoples’ future and their personal places in history over their grasp on con-temporary political power, we’ll perhaps look back at this month’s terrorist killings as the terrible but final price paid for peace. Otherwise, the names of Rabbi Eitam and Naama Hankin, Nehemia Levi, and Aharon Benet might be lost in the bottomless pool of blood spilled on both sides. ■

Bizarre occurrences and upsetting incidents are more common than sweetness in a newspaper-man’s life, but I experienced a sweet moment

at the end of the Atlanta Scholars Kollel’s network-ing event at Atlanta Jewish Academy last month.

While I gathered up my camera, notebook and cellphone-as-voice-recorder a few rows from the stage, the dean of the kollel, Rabbi David Silverman, came rushing over with a big smile and a greeting that included a handshake and a kiss.

Rabbi Silverman of course delivered a lesson before moving on to other familiar faces. He ob-served that I was always taking notes and acknowledged that doing so could help me remember what was said. But he wondered whether all the writing prevented me from contemplating and understanding what I was hearing.

Like all good lessons delivered to not-so-good students, that 10-second teaching from Rabbi Silver-man was quickly forgotten but not gone. It settled into my subconscious, only to emerge this week while I observed my 46th birthday. (I’m not sure middle-age birthdays are cause for celebration, but that’s a discussion for another day.)

In this week’s Health & Wellness section, two stories bring home Rabbi Silverman’s point: I’m hearing what people are saying, but am I so focused on presenting the information that I don’t bother to think about it myself?

One of the stories is about the arrival of flu season. Dr. Jason Schneider of the Emory School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital explains how we can reduce our risk of catching the flu bug and minimize the consequences if we do get it.

Of course, the No. 1 recommendation for me and you (unless you’re reading this while younger

than 6 months old) is to get a flu shot — something I have never done. Why bother?

As a healthy adult, I’m at low risk for complica-tions if I get the flu. I don’t hang around with a lot of toddlers or retirees, so the risk of passing along the virus to a more vulnerable person isn’t high. The shot doesn’t work all the time and was less than 20

percent effective last year, and who wants to deal with the side effects? Besides, I fig-ure I’m more likely to catch something while waiting in a doctor’s office for the shot than I am to

get the flu in my everyday life.I’ll have a hard time overcoming that last

thought, especially given my irrational dislike for doctor’s offices, hospitals and other health care facilities. But if I stop and think about Schneider’s overriding point — the flu is so miserable and the shot’s side effects so minor that even a vaccine with a 20 percent success rate is worthwhile — I have no rational reason to say no to the vaccination.

The second story brings home a more important reality if I bother to think about it.

I spent two hours at the William Breman Jew-ish Home on Sept. 25 to learn about planning for end-of-life decisions, and I must admit I’m no more prepared now than I was at 18. I’ve never had The Conversation with my wife or with my parents about preferences regarding lifesaving medical care and dying with dignity. Not only don’t I have a living will, but I don’t have a final will either.

If I’ve learned from Rabbi Silverman, I’ll be call-ing a lawyer soon and perhaps having an uncomfort-able talk with my parents when I visit. If not, well, at least I’m thinking about thinking about things. ■

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A slippery slope can be hard to recognize until you’re already sliding downhill.

John F. Kennedy warned during his 1960 presidential campaign that America was edging close to such peril on religious grounds. Protestant lead-ers suggested that because the Demo-cratic senator from Massachusetts was Catholic, he might be beholden to the pope in Rome, and they called on him to repudiate church teachings.

In a forceful rebuke, delivered Sept. 12, 1960, before the Houston Ministerial Association, Kennedy said, “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”

Watch the address (www.jfkli-brary.org/Asset-Viewer/ALL6YEB-JMEKYGMCntnSCvg.aspx). Consider his words in light of today’s political climate.

“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a

Baptist. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious soci-ety is ripped at a time of great national peril,” Kennedy warned.

Kennedy recognized the slippery slope.

Since 9/11, that finger of suspicion has pointed at American Muslims.

That no Muslim is seeking a

major 2016 presidential nomination has not stopped Republican hopeful Ben Carson from pandering to that suspicion by declaring Islam “antithet-ical to Americanism” and saying that a Muslim should not lead the country.

Carson later said he could support a Muslim who would swear to put the Constitution before religion and disavow Sharia (a religious legal code based on the Quran and the words of the Prophet Mohammed).

Article 6, Paragraph 2 of the Con-stitution, known as the “Supremacy Clause,” states that the Constitution “shall be the supreme law of the land.”

Article 6, Paragraph 3 states that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or pub-lic trust under the United States.”

Citing these provisions, Arsalan Iftikhar, a lawyer and senior editor of The Islamic Monthly, suggested that Carson should retroactively fail eighth-grade social studies.

In a Gallup Poll conducted in June, 91 percent of respondents said that if the presidential nominee of their party was a Jew, they would vote for that person. Likewise, 60 percent would vote for a Muslim and 58 per-cent for an atheist.

Someday we may have a president who attends a synagogue.

Someday we may have a president who attends a mosque.

When a Jew, a Muslim or someone of another non-Christian faith — or someone with no religious affiliation at all — is elected president, that per-son will swear an oath that includes the words “and will, to the best of my

ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Decades ago, alleged fealty to the pope was at the root of prejudice against Catholics and suggestions that they were insufficiently loyal to Ameri-can values.

If you suggest that a U.S. citizen who is Muslim might be less commit-ted to the nation’s well-being than a U.S. citizen of another faith, you are treading near that slippery slope.

Jewish candidates should not face suspicions about the role of religion in their lives — such as whether Judaism divides loyalties between the United States and Israel — any more than Kennedy should have as a Catholic.

American Jews — whose history is replete with suffering from prejudice in the workplace, in education and in public accommodations — must be willing to publicly reject any litmus test based on religion.

Kennedy’s warning is as valid in 2015 as it was in 1960. ■

Dave Schechter’s career includes writing and producing reports from Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Take Care When You Point That Finger

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The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College voted Sept. 21 to admit and graduate students in com-

mitted relationships with partners who are not Jewish. By revoking its “non-Jewish partner” policy, the RRC has become the first major Jewish seminary to welcome students in interfaith relationships.

As a Reconstructionist rabbi and the director of Interfaith-Family/Atlanta, I see this as a monumental decision for Jews and the future of Judaism. Some compare this event to a change in the admissions policy in 1984 when RRC became the first rabbinical seminary to accept openly gay students. This new decision further opens the door to inspiring spiritual leaders and dynamic role models.

This is an important time in Jewish history. According to the Pew Research Center, about 60 percent of Jews who married between 2000 and 2013 had a spouse of another faith.

In Atlanta, I’ve met with many Jews with partners from other back-

grounds. They are searching for Jewish community, meaningful experiences and deep connection. Many of these couples have felt rejection from Jewish leaders, their families and members of the Jewish community.

Our role as rabbis and as Jews is not to exclude interpartnered Jews who want to remain involved in Jewish life; rather, it is our duty to welcome,

empower and enhance the lives of our community members. We need to make Judaism relevant, accessible and inclusive and find creative ways to welcome these religiously diverse families.

To say that rabbis are only al-lowed to in-marry is to say that being in an interfaith family is wrong, thus forcing interfaith families to feel like second-class citizens.

To fully recognize and welcome

rabbis whose partners are not Jewish models radical hospitality and accep-tance of all kinds of Jewish families.

Not everyone agrees with this change of policy at RRC. There is concern that rabbis should only marry other Jews and be held to a higher standard than their congregants.

There is a prominent fear in the Jewish community about the watering down of Judaism or that these rabbis are not taking Judaism seriously enough.

And yet the only litmus test for these rabbinical students is the religion of their partner — not their morals, values, Jewish practices, fam-ily observances, etc. The expectation should be about how a rabbi’s family engages in Judaism and embodies a Jewish life.

I strongly believe that the religion of the rabbi’s partner does not detract from the rabbi’s ability to serve as a Jewish leader. In fact, I see it as a unique asset.

Rabbis with partners of different backgrounds are in constant dialogue with religion. They can relate to the challenges, struggles and rejections that these couples and families face. At the same time, they can share their wisdom and experience as they navi-gate Jewish community, family life, rituals and customs.

We need to embrace rabbis who

Seminary Right With Non-Jewish Spouses exemplify a deep commitment to Juda-ism and religious life, no matter their partners’ religions.

There are many examples in the Torah that explicitly point to the im-portance of the stranger in our midst as a source of strength and hope. Moses, for instance, who was cred-ited as being our first rabbi, married Tziporah, the daughter of a Midianite priest. He was not married to a Jewish woman and would not have been accepted into rabbinical school solely based on his marital status. And yet we regard Moses as one of the most important spiritual leaders in the Bible for the Jewish people.

There is much hope and excite-ment about the future of Judaism. We need to embrace families where one partner is not Jewish. If not, we will drive these families away.

It is not enough to say that intermarriage is acceptable for our congregants but not our leaders. Beyond performing interfaith lifecycle events and educational programming, Jewish communities must live out their claims of inclusivity.

In order to honor and affirm Jews and the people who love us, we must keep Judaism relevant while embrac-ing the beauty of tradition.

We must welcome all who wish to lead a rich and meaningful Jewish life. ■

Guest ColumnBy Rabbi Malka Packer

Letter to the EditorOn the Mount

Some excellent points were made in this week’s Our View column (“Stones’ Throw,” Sept. 25). However, I must disagree with the suggestion that Israel “ignore the international criticism.” It is extremely important that Israel tells her story, loud and clear, and that she keeps telling it until the world starts asking the right questions.

Do people who stockpile stones and explosives in their own mosque have a right to demand that soldiers respect the sanctity of that mosque? Do people who hurl stones and Molotov cocktails down on worshippers at the foot of the mountain have a right to demand access to the mountaintop?

I do not favor the rebuilding of the Temple or a return to our ancient sacrificial system. However, a good start on the road to true peace would be for the Waqf (Jordanian Islamic authority in charge of Haram al-Sharif) to recognize that the site is holy to Jews and Christians as well as Muslims and to find a way for good people of all faiths to visit peacefully, just as Israel has found ways to accommodate both Jewish and Muslim prayer at sites such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Machpela).

— Toby F. Block, Atlanta

Write to UsThe Atlanta Jewish Times welcomes your opinions on our articles and

other issues of interest to the Jewish community. Letters to the editor should be 400 or fewer words; proposed guest columns may be as long as 700 words. Email them to Editor Michael Jacobs at [email protected]. Include the town where you live and a phone number for verification.

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Encore! Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s anniversary concert returns for more tikkun olam

and talent. Some 700 ticketholders will

attend the Tower of Talent concert, marking Children’s 100th anniversary, at the Alliance Stage/Woodruff Arts Center at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, spon-sored by Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits, owned by bene-factor Michael Greenbaum.

The event is coordi-nated by Robyn Spizman Gerson and inspired by musicologist and beloved classical music teacher Dr. Warren Woodruff and his book “Dr. Fuddle and the Gold Baton” (soon to be a major movie).

Gerson has assembled a world-class team of talent by pulling together Woodruff, Thomas Ludwig of the Beethoven Chamber Orchestra, Lynn Stallings of the Atlanta Workshop Players and Maniya Barredo of the Metropolitan Ballet Theatre to raise the curtain for “Beethoven to Broad-way” to benefit Children’s Healthcare

of Atlanta. The idea was initiated and funded

by Greenbaum, who is dedicated to supporting medically fragile children.

“During the High Holiday time of self-reflection, I thought about the pas-sion for my own grandchildren and others who are less fortunate,” he said. “I have enough to live on and the rest

to do good with. My father stepped up to the plate to help others ever so quietly. That is my legacy. Music is healing. And as Dr. Woodruff says, ‘One note can make a difference’ for these medically fragile children.”

Melisa Morrow, a CHOA devel-opment officer, said, “Greenbaum’s generosity thus far has developed in his honor a rehab room where families can stay while recovering children

learn how to function. We’re currently evaluat-ing this year’s Greenbaum project. It may involve advancing technology. Greenbaum knows that CHOA is a nonprofit where all children are treated equally.”

“We’ve already sold 500 tickets and secured 50-plus world-class chil-dren ages 6 to 16 perform-ing an amazing program of orchestral strings, pianos and dancing,” Gerson said. “Greenbaum is generously covering 100 percent of the expenses so all revenues can go directly to the children.”

She added: “This is one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever done. We’ve raised WAY over half a million dollars in just two years. One of the many impressive performers is 8-year-old Angelica Hale, who received a kidney from her mom. Her Streisand-esqe emotion is amazing; she recently sang the national anthem at the U.S. Open. The children are appearing on Channel 11 with astounding responses for a sneak peek.”

The chairs for the event include Marianne Garber, Alvaro Arauz and Linda Suvalsky, who are backed by such generous supporters as Sara Blaine and Mendel Rotenberg of eSBe Designs, who created a bracelet in

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Jaffe’s Jewish JiveBy Marcia Caller [email protected]

What: Tower of Talent

Where: Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St., Midtown

When: 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6

Tickets: $30 standard, $75 VIP; www.choa.org/toweroftalent

Photo by Marcia Caller JaffeRobyn Spizman Gerson joins Michael Greenbaum,

the owner of Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits, and Warren Woodruff, the author of “Dr. Fuddle and the Gold Baton.”

honor of Children’s Healthcare. “So many people have been

touched by Children’s … from a broken arm to a heart transplant,” Gerson said. “The bottom line is you’ll want to bring the family to this event. These kids will knock your socks off.”

The VIP reception before the show is sold out, but a few more spots could be reserved for generous con-tributors. Regular-admission tickets are $30. ■

Website Tries to Spread Gaucher AwarenessPharmaceutical company Genzyme is sponsoring a new national program

called Gaucher on the Map to raise awareness of Gaucher disease during October, which is Gaucher Awareness Month.

Gaucher is a genetic disorder that affects one in 40,000 to 60,000 people worldwide but whose incidence is one in 850 among Ashkenazi Jews.

By visiting GaucherOntheMap.com, you can light up your state on an interac-tive map and share information about Gaucher disease in a few clicks using social media and other communication tools. Participation is free.

The goal is to get every state involved in raising awareness of Gaucher during October.

“Because Gaucher disease is such a rare disorder and the community of peo-ple impacted is spread so thin across the United States, we often find that efforts to improve awareness and understanding of the condition are fragmented,” said Jarrod Trainque, the senior product manager for Gaucher disease at Genzyme.

People who revisit the website will be able to track the participation of states and to read messages that other members of the community have posted.

Gaucher is the most common condition in a family of more than 40 rare dis-eases known as lysosomal storage disorders. A deficiency in a particular enzyme leads to lipid accumulation in organs.

Symptoms ranging from bone pain and fatigue to life-threatening complica-tions can appear at any time from infancy to adulthood in people with Gaucher. For more information about Gaucher disease, visit www.gaucherdisease.org. ■

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October means not only cooler temperatures, the end of the Jewish holiday season, the start of the Braves’ long offseason and the rise of Georgia-Florida football excitement, but also the arrival of flu shot season.

According to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention, everyone over the age of 6 months should get a flu shot by the end of the month. Doc-tors’ offices, drugstores and Grady Me-morial Hospital, among other health care facilities, have the vaccine ready for the public, said Dr. Jason Schnei-der, an associate professor at Emory University’s School of Medicine who works in general medicine at Grady.

“It’s important to emphasize that a flu shot is the single best way to protect yourself and friends and loved ones from the flu,” Schneider said during an interview about the 2015-16 flu season.

The flu vaccine could be a harder sell than usual this year because of the poor results last year. The vaccine’s composition badly missed the mark, blocking only 19 percent of the U.S.

flu cases, one of the lowest matches Schneider can re-member.

“Last year was a pretty rough year,” he said. He ex-plained that the CDC usu-ally succeeds in planning the shot’s makeup based on flu activity in the South-ern Hemisphere, but the genetics of the viruses can change quickly.

The hope is that the vaccine is more effec-tive this year, but even if it’s not, Schneider said, it’s worth getting the shot. After all, if mutating viruses make the vaccine ef-fective against only 20 percent of the flu cases, that’s still one in five poten-tial cases of the flu that are avoided. If you don’t get a shot, you’re protected against none of the flu viruses.

“If it were a riskier proposition, it would be a different discussion,” Schneider said, “but there is little harm to getting the flu shot in my opinion as a physician.”

The CDC expects 171 million to 179

million doses of flu vaccine to be ready this flu season.

Schneider said people have misconceptions about the potential side effects of a flu shot.

“You cannot get the flu from the flu shot,” the doctor said, because the vaccine uses only killed viruses, which provoke a response by the immune system but cannot repli-cate and spread.

Common side effects include some soreness at

the injection site, a low-grade fever and muscle aches, but they last only a couple of days and can be treated with over-the-counter acetaminophen (Tyle-nol), Schneider said. “The side effects are nowhere near as bad as the actual infection itself.”

The flu can make you feel misera-ble for days with a high fever and mus-cle aches, but the danger comes from complications like dehydration and secondary infections. Schneider said 18,000 people were hospitalized last

year with flu complications, and Grady saw 95 percent or more of its beds filled at the peak of the flu season.

The people hardest hit by compli-cations are younger than 5 years old or older than 65, as well as those who are pregnant or already ill. Anyone in a high-risk group should err on the side of caution and seek medical at-tention right away for flu-type symp-toms, Schneider said, because doctors have tests to diagnose the flu and have effective medications that can cut the severity and duration of the illness and reduce the chance for complications.

Even if you’re at low risk, getting the shot helps protect high-risk people around you, Schneider said. “If I get the flu shot, I’m much less likely to pass it on if I were to become infected.”

The vaccine is unlikely to be as ineffective as it was last flu season, but it won’t be 100 percent successful. You can fight the flu by covering yourself when you cough and sneeze, wash-ing your hands regularly, and using hand sanitizer. If you still get the flu, Schneider said, stay home from work or school. ■

Doctor, CDC Agree: Get a Flu Shot

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Confidence in our appearance is an important component of developing a positive self-image.

As we move through life, strong self-es-teem often contributes to our success.

Throughout the teen years, our faces go through a transformation because of normal growth and development. It is dur-ing this time that our most prominent facial feature, the nose, morphs into its adult shape. It also is often during these years that nasal appearance becomes an issue. It is not uncom-mon for teens to get self-conscious about appearance, and if a feature as prominent as the nose causes discon-tent, their self-confidence can be hurt.

Modern nasal surgery techniques often permit complete correction of both aesthetic and functional issues during the same procedure. However, aes-thetic nasal sur-gery, also known as rhinoplasty, is often referred to as the most challenging of all cosmetic surgery procedures. There-fore, the expertise of the surgeon is critical to obtain-ing consistently excellent outcomes.

Of course it is absolutely neces-sary that your surgeon be knowledge-able and skilled, but, just as important, he or she must also have an artist’s eye for detail, proportion and symmetry.

If you are unhappy with your na-sal appearance, you might wish to ex-plore surgical correction. But patients are often confused. Whom should I see? What can I afford? These are real issues that must be considered.

Allow me to share some of the wisdom that I have acquired dur-ing my 20 years in practice. Find a surgeon with experience who listens to your concerns, whose aesthetic you share and whose judgment you trust.

Don’t spend more than you can afford, but don’t choose a doctor solely on price. Price is not an exact indica-tor of quality, but there’s truth to the statement “You get what you pay for.”

You can achieve technical success (a result that is appropriate for the

treatment without complications) but artistic failure (you simply don’t look better or perhaps look even worse). Aesthetic procedures are just that — aesthetic. If you don’t look naturally more beautiful after treatment, the procedures have not served you well.

Personally, I respect the ethnicity of the face and aesthetically enhance the nose in that context. Cosmetic rhinoplasty should create a natural, un-operated-on, more attractive ap-pearance.

While rhinoplasty improves one’s appearance, the real power lies in its ability to enhance self-con-fidence. Achiev-ing that goal consistently de-fines excellence in rhinoplasty.

Choose your rhi-noplasty surgeon wisely. Your face is worth it. ■

Dr. Seth A. Yellin is the founder and director of Marietta Facial Plastic Surgery, Laser & Aesthetics Center (www.MariettaFacialPlastics.com, 770-425-7575). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Facial Plastic & Reconstruc-tive Surgery and is dual board-certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and the Ameri-can Board of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. As one of Atlanta’s most well respected and sought after facial plastic surgeons, he has treated thou-sands of patients during more than 20 years in practice, with the goal of making each patient happy. Yellin is nationally renowned for his expertise in creating a natural look when performing cosmetic and reconstructive facial plastic surgery and 3D facial volumization. He has ap-peared on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox to discuss facial aesthetic procedures and was the chief of facial plastic surgery at Emory Healthcare from 1999 to 2011.

Rhinoplasty Can Help Create Positive Self-Image

Guest ColumnBy Dr. Seth A. Yellin

This patient (shown before surgery on the left and a year later on the right) has an

improved but natural look after rhinoplasty.

By Michael Jacobsmjacobs@[email protected]

Thinking about death isn’t fun or pleasant, but one of the best things you can do for your loved

ones is to make formal plans for your end so they don’t have to.

Two lawyers, Michelle Koufman

and Abbey Flaum, walked a crowd of about 75 people through the steps they need to take and the forms they need to fill out in Georgia to ensure that end-of-life decisions and actions match their preferences. The meeting Sunday, Sept. 25, at the William Breman Jewish Home was the first of two sessions about cre-ating a “top drawer file” of vital docu-ments for your heirs.

The failure to have the family con-versation about what people want in terms of lifesaving medical care has led to a disparity between preferences and actions, Koufman said. For exam-ple, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study in 2005 found that 70 percent of people would prefer to die at home, but most people die in hospitals.

In Georgia, any competent adult may refuse any medical treatment, including life support, for any reason, Koufman said.

The wise step for any adult who has a chronic illness or otherwise fre-

quently receives medical care is to complete a physical order for life-sus-taining treatment, Koufman said. The POLST form, which is pink to be highly visible, is filled out and signed by a physician and a patient or a patient’s representative to provide immediate guidance in a medical emergency.

The form, which can be updated at any time, directs whether the patient wants to receive CPR, medications, nutrition and fluids through tubes, and other life-saving measures. Le-gally, the wishes ex-pressed on the POLST must be followed in all health care settings, Koufman said.

The POLST works with an advance direc-tive for health care, the form that in Georgia and some other states combines a living will and a durable power of attorney to guide end-of-life decisions.

While the POLST is important for any-one who anticipates those decisions com-ing soon, the advance directive is appropri-ate for any adult be-cause accidents hap-

pen, Koufman said.Flaum used the example of Terry

Schiavo, whose husband and parents fought in court for 15 years while she lay in a hospital bed in a vegetative state, to show the value of completing an advance directive.

If Schiavo had expressed her wish-es in a living will, her family would have avoided the bitter legal battles.

The conversation on end-of-life planning will continue Sunday, Oct. 11, with a focus on wills, trusts and other financial concerns. ■

Documents Defend End-of-Life Decisions

What: “Preparing Your Top Drawer File,” Part 2

Who: Michelle Koufman and Abbey Flaum

Where: William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Buckhead

When: 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11

Cost: Free; RSVP to 404-351-8412 or at JewishHomeLife.org

Photos by Michael JacobsMichelle Koufman helps sort through the alphabet

soup of terms related to advance directives,

including do not resuscitate, allow natural death, physical order for life-sustaining treatment

and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Abbey Flaum strongly advises against creating

an advance directive without a lawyer’s help.

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This time of year many of us critique our lives, including the people who have come in and

out of our world. We never know who will play an important role, who will inspire and who will disappoint.

I will never forget my first time walking into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Arbiser, who lived in the Emory University area. Sam was getting a bit older, wanted to remain in his home to maintain his independence and knew home care was coming fast. His wife, Pola, was none too thrilled to meet me.

Both were fiercely independent, having immigrated to the United States in 1959, built a suc-cessful business, raised a family and enjoyed life. Pola told me my services would not be needed, and she politely thanked me for coming.

Husband and wife exchanged some words in Yiddish and Russian, and I was told my company would begin services but only two days per week, and it was only temporary.

I did not have high hopes that this

family would become a bigger client, much less one of the most important people in my life. But then again, no one knows the future other than our Creator.

Over the years, as the Arbisers needed more assistance in their home, I became very involved. Our company eventually had a caregiver in the home

on a 24/7 schedule. Most important, I built a relationship with Sam and Pola, and I had lunch with Sam every other Tuesday.

Sam was an amazing man. His background was fascinating, with the history he shared of their journey to America: from Warsaw to Siberia to Israel and eventually to the United States. He told me stories of the old country, his transition here, how they almost moved to Chicago but it was

too cold, how he built his company, Arbiser Machine, with a niche in building parts for any type of machine that needed custom designs.

The other thing about Sam was his determination that age, even at 90 years old, would not slow him down. I admired that as he got older, needed more care, went from walking to a walker and from walker to electric wheelchair, he always remained posi-tive.

Sam would preach over and over that the brain can continue to thrive even as the body ages. He was able to remain positive and mentally vibrant via a combination of many factors that, if we incorporate into our own lives, could help us remain young:

• Stimulation. Sam subscribed to three daily newspapers: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for local news, The Wall Street Journal for the stock market and financial aspects of his life, and The New York Times. He read each cover to cover every day. He and Pola were avid readers, and their li-brary had hundreds of novels on every subject. Each wrote an autobiographi-cal novel. Pola’s was titled “Give Me the Children,” and Sam’s was “An Unlikely Life.” I believe both are still available on Amazon.

• Hobbies. Sam made artistic pieces throughout his life, even in his 90s. One of his most famous pieces is a huge sculpture titled “The Worker,” which can be seen today on the campus at Emory University near the Visual Arts building. On the lighter side, he was an avid fisherman, a pas-time he loved to share with daughter Sherry’s children, Jordan, Malree, Elan and Zoe.

• Nutrition. Although Sam had a sweet tooth, he knew the importance of a balanced diet. He would eat the right combination of fresh fruits (with

an emphasis on the berry and melon families) and protein (chicken and fish, light on meat).

• Exercise. Sam did some form of daily exercise, though he did not par-ticularly enjoy it. The Arbisers owned an exercise bike that was placed right in the kitchen.

• Spiritual faith. Sam remained involved with Congregation Beth Jacob to feed his soul. He was a grateful man and knew there was a G-d standing over us.

• Family. Most of all, Sam under-stood the importance of family. He was a dedicated and loyal father to his two children, Jack and Sherry. He was always there for them during any crisis or just to say hello. And Sam’s real highlight was his grandchildren. His face would light up when any of the grandchildren visited or called.

I learned more about life with Sam than almost anyone who has come into and out of my life. He was a role model as a businessman, a father, a husband and a survivor, but most of all in terms of his sheer determina-tion that no matter the odds, one has to remain positive and keep pushing forward. There is no giving up if you want to succeed.

Sam was 94 years young when he passed away Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. I cried the day he passed because he was such an important part of my life. But I am also happy that he taught me the importance of diet, exercise, stay-ing mentally challenged, and the most important things in life, such as fam-ily, faith and close friends. We could all learn a lesson from Sam. ■

Jeffrey Taratoot is the owner of A Caring Approach Home Care.

Feeling Young Is All in the Mind

Enrichment for LifeBy Jeff [email protected]

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The fall season is tradition-ally a time to harvest, when we gather the abundance of Mother

Nature’s crop before the dark days of winter. As we begin to observe our en-vironment, it empowers us to respond to daily and seasonal changes in our local climate.

Most of us adapt our habits seasonally without being conscious of doing so. For instance, summer is a time when we often eat strawberries and raspber-ries in abundance; those berries protect eye health with their antioxidant properties, an important factor during the bright, sunny days of summer.

In the fall months we make pump-kin muffins and warming soups, foods that naturally boost our immune systems in preparation for the winter ahead. By making diet and lifestyle choices that embrace each season, we can improve and balance our health throughout the year.

The diet is a powerful tool to help nourish and protect the body and bolster the immune system while embracing the change of season. By incorporating seasonal fall foods into your diet, you can help avoid the com-mon colds and flu that are associated with the fall and winter months.

When you eat seasonally from one season to the next, you strengthen and support your immune system. One season supports the next, and they are all connected. The very foods we need to protect our health are available in nature during that season.

Adapting to a seasonal diet and building meals around the foods that have been harvested at their peak of ripeness offer huge health benefits. Fruits and vegetables that are har-vested just as they’ve matured are abundant in nutrients.

In contrast, fruits and vegetables transported from far away are picked before they’re ripe and nutritionally mature. The produce thus can endure days or weeks in a truck and storage, but that doesn’t do your body any favors.

Produce that is seasonal generally is more nutrient-dense and higher in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Eating sweet potatoes in fall provides us with up to three times as much vi-tamin C as eating them out of season. We also bring a variety of tastes and flavors to our diet as we get the full

range of vitamins that nature offers.By eating foods seasonally and

locally, we also support small and midsize local farmers and in turn cut down on pollution, reduce our carbon footprint and boost our local economy. Seasonal local foods are also often cheaper and save you money.

When you eat seasonally, you are

getting fruits and vegetables that are at their peak in health benefits, can strengthen your immune system, and support the environment and local farmers. ■

Belinda Ossip is a holistic health practitioner for Jewish Family & Career Services’ Health Power Initiative.

Why to Eat Seasonally

Fall Golden Vegetable SoupPrep time: 10 minutesCooking time: 20 to 30 minutesIngredients2 cups chopped carrots1 large onion, finely chopped, or 2 leeks2 stalks of celery, finely chopped2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil2 sweet potatoes2 turnips1 rutabaga2 parsnips1½ pints vegetable stock2-3 cups water (if needed)Pinch of salt and pepperPinch of nutmeg or macePinch of cinnamonDirections

Finely chop the celery, carrots, and onion or leeks. Warm the olive oil in a pan and add those chopped ingredients. Stir and allow to cook for 2 to 3 minutes until tender. Add the nutmeg and cinnamon and cook for a further 2 minutes. Chop the remaining vegetables and add them to the pan. Stir well and add the vegetable stock. The stock should just cover the vegetables. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Liquidize until smooth (you may have to add some water for a smoother consistency).

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By Cady [email protected]

When Albert Maslia battled pancreatic cancer and en-dured a second surgery in

2012 to remove his pancreas, his family showed support by participating in the annual PurpleStride Atlanta walk.

In 2013, his grandson Andrew Lad-den decided to take that support fur-ther by raising money for pancreatic research for his bar mitzvah project.

In the past two years Andrew, now a freshman at Pace Academy, has raised more than $30,000 for the cause to honor his grandfather, affectionate-ly known as Poppy, who died from the disease in 2014.

“I feel like he would be proud of me if he knew all about this, and I think he does,” Andrew said.

It’s not just Andrew walking for Maslia. Family members have walked with Andrew each year, and last year friends from school joined Andrew’s Team Poppy for the 5K walk at Centen-nial Olympic Park.

“I think it’s really cool how all these people come out and support,” Andrew said. “They all want to help.”

With just more than a month be-fore this year’s walk Saturday, Nov. 14, Andrew has raised more than $3,300.

In the past, Andrew raised money by asking for donations, but this year he hopes to hold a bake sale at school as a fundraiser.

You can donate to Andrew’s team at bit.ly/1OKdqev.

Poppy’s widow, Lucy Maslia, gets

teary when she talks about her grand-son’s project.

“I get choked up,” she said. “I’m so proud. It’s been very difficult for me since I lost my husband. He was a big factor in Drew’s life. Andrew is very much like him, very much.”

In addition to honoring her late husband, the walk is instrumental in bringing pancreatic cancer awareness to the forefront.

According to the American Cancer Society, pancreatic cancer accounts for approximately 3 percent of all cancers and 7 percent of cancer deaths in the United States.

Approximately 24,840 men and 24,120 women will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year, and ap-proximately 20,710 men and 19,850 women will die from it.

“It’s neglected,” Lucy Maslia said. “You hear so much for the walk for breast cancer and recently for demen-tia. They brought that to the forefront. When the American Cancer Society sends out their general mailings, they always mention other cancers but very, very seldom mention pancreatic. It’s quite a killer. It needs to be brought to the attention of the American public.”

Her grandson’s efforts have land-ed him at No. 3 on the PurpleStride’s list of top fundraisers.

“It’s remarkable how much he’s earned for pancreatic,” Maslia said. “It’s really amazing.”

The 2015 PurpleStride Atlanta 5K Run and Family-Friendly Walk will be held on Nov. 14 at Centennial Olympic Park. ■

Walk On for PoppyGrandson continues battle against pancreatic cancer at PurpleStride walk

Andrew Ladden, Albert Maslia and family members form the core of Team Poppy at the 2013 PurpleStride. Maslia died in 2014.

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WE’RE CELEBRATING!!100 YEARS OF HADASSAH ATLANTA

A CENTURY OF SUCCESS!

You are invited toHadassah Atlanta’s Kickoff Event

and Opening of the Centennial Exhibitwith honored guest, Marcie Natan,

National Hadassah President

Sunday, November 1, 201512:30 pm

The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum 1440 Spring Street, Atlanta, GA 30309

RSVP online at hadassah.org/events/bremanor call the offi ce at 678-443-2961

Breman members free ~ please call to RSVP $8 per person with reservation

$10 per person at the door$50 Patron contribution ~ admission included

Paula Zucker, GAH PresidentPhyllis M. Cohen, Centennial ChairRuthanne Warnick, Exhibition Chair

Committee:Sheila BaridLois Blonder

Delilah CohenJustine CohenEileen Cohn

Gail CohnArlene Glass

Cheryl GordonLinda HakeremMartha Jo Katz

Nancy KesslerKatie KloderAnnie Kohut

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A day of EXCITEMENT and FUN for everyone! Be the fi rst to see our history come alive,

record your memories in a photo/video booth,color an original Hadassah coloring book,

enjoy the entertainment and all Breman exhibits.

Following the Hadassah program, authorJoan Adler will discuss the letters between

Nathan Straus Jr. and Otto Frank, and revealthe amazing Straus-Hadassah connection.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

By Michael [email protected]

When Dr. David Kooby writes or talks about pancreatic cancer — specifically pan-

creatic ductal adenocarcinoma — he can’t get around the reality of a grim prognosis.

The best approach to fight this cancer is surgery that carves out the malignant cells, but Kooby said only 15 percent to 20 percent of patients, who average about 67 years of age, are candidates for the opera-tion because the disease is too advanced or they aren’t healthy enough for the pro-cedure.

Perhaps 20 percent of those who get the surgery see a long-term survival benefit. That’s three or four out of every 100 patients diagnosed who will live for several years after surgery, said Kooby, a member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue who is the director of surgical oncology at Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital.

That’s not to say the surgery is rarely worthwhile. The average patient who gets no treatment lives six months after a ductal adenocarcinoma diagno-sis; the life expectancy grows to eight or nine months with chemotherapy. With surgery, survival is typically clos-er to 20 months, the doctor said.

Kooby and his colleagues are working hard to improve the odds and perhaps have reason for optimism in a tool developed by Georgia Tech and Emory engineers and scientists.

“We are hopeful that survival for patients will improve in the years to come,” he said.

The additional grim news is that surgeons need more success against pancreatic cancer because the inci-dence of the disease is growing.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported about 29,000 new cases annually 15 years ago; now the number is about 50,000.

Multiple factors are producing more cases, Kooby said. The most ob-vious is that baby boomers are hitting their 60s and 70s, so more people are in the age group most likely to develop the disease. Better diagnostic technolo-gy is helping find tumors whose spread might have confused doctors 20 years

ago. And people are more likely to talk about pancreatic cancer now.

The biggest risk factor for pancre-atic cancer is something you can con-trol — smoking — and Kooby said it’s likely that obesity and diet play roles in cancer in a digestive organ. Dysfunc-tion in the pancreas is connected to diabetes, so it’s not surprising that the development of diabetes later in life is associated with pancreatic cancer.

There also are genetic influences, including the BRCA gene linked to breast cancer. If you have a family history of pancreatic cancer, your risk is higher. But unlike breast, colorectal, prostate and lung cancers, there’s not a good test for pan-creatic cancer, so it’s hard to catch early even if you think you’re at risk.

The symptoms often are nonspecific, such as weight loss and malaise, but jaundice in someone in his 60s is a sign, as are dark urine from bile in the

bloodstream or white stools from bile not making it to the colon.

For those pancreatic cancer pa-tients who have surgery, Kooby said, one of the keys to success is removing the whole tumor but as little healthy tissue as possible. Taking out the whole pancreas, for example, leaves the pa-tient with diabetes and digestive prob-lems. The more of the pancreas you can leave, the better.

“We’re pioneering ways to identify where the tumor ends and tissue be-gins to optimize removal,” Kooby said.

That’s where a surgical tool called the SpectroPen, announced by Emory and Georgia Tech five years ago, might make a difference.

A medical dye that binds to pro-teins in the bloodstream is injected into the patient at the start of surgery. Be-cause the blood vessels around a tumor are abnormal, the amount of dye spikes at the edges of a tumor. The SpectroPen uses a spectrometer to identify with precision those areas and thus define the margins of the tumor.

In preliminary testing, the pen seems useful, Kooby said.

“We’re in an era when we are treating and helping patients with this disease — making some progress,” he said. “We have to maintain some opti-mism for the future.” ■

St. Joe’s Tests Tool Vs. Pancreatic Cancer

Dr. David Kooby is cautiously optimistic

about better results against pancreatic cancer.

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By Cady [email protected]

When Jason Mendelsohn felt a bump on his throat last year, he immediately made

an appointment with his doctor. Af-ter 10 days of antibiotics and steroids without seeing a change in the bump, Mendelsohn had a needle biopsy and was faced with something he never ex-pected: Stage 4 tonsil cancer that had spread to two lymph nodes.

“I had no symptoms,” said Men-delsohn, 45, who leads a financial firm in the Orlando area. “Zero. I was taking a financial exam, put my hand on my face, moved it down to my neck and found a bump. Had I not felt that bump on my neck, cancer would have spread throughout my whole body.”

Mendelsohn was terrified of suc-cumbing to the cancer, leaving his wife of 19 years and their three children, who are regulars at Camp Barney Med-intz. He immediately called his insur-ance agents to make sure his life insur-ance policy was on auto draft just in case he didn’t survive.

“I was scared to death,” he said. “Financially, I wasn’t worried about my family. But, I’ll tell you, it is heartbreak-ing to think about missing every aspect of your kids’ lives. The whole thing is really overwhelming. The good thing is that I’m not afraid of dying anymore.”

Within a few weeks of his diag-nosis, Mendelsohn underwent a radi-cal tonsillectomy and neck dissection during which 42 lymph nodes were removed from his neck. That was fol-lowed by seven weeks of chemothera-py, radiation and a feeding tube.

Now in remission, Mendelsohn has made it his goal to spread the word about tonsil cancer, which can be caused by HPV. Doctors think Men-delsohn got the virus when he was a student at Emory University, where he graduated in 1990.

“They don’t think I just got this,” he said. “They think I had it. The face of oral cancer used to be a 75-year-old man that smoked. Now it’s men and women in their 20s who are athletic and got the virus.”

To promote his cause, Mendelsohn

participated in the Ride to Conquer Cancer in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago. He rode with employees of AgencyOne, one of his clients, and when his team approached the finish line, his teammates let him cross first.

“They were just so appreciative and wonderful that it was a great expe-rience from the beginning to the end,” Mendelsohn said.

He raised $24,022 for the ride, sur-passing his goal of $20,000 and landing him in third place among fundraisers.

According to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention, 7 percent of Americans have oral HPV, but only 1 percent have the cancer causing strain. Each year, around 8,400 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer caused by HPV. The virus and cancer are more prevalent in men than women.

Even though HPV vaccines on the market, such as Gardasil, are geared

toward other forms of the virus, the CDC says it’s possible they will protect against oral cancers caused by the virus.

Mendelsohn is getting the word out about the vaccines in the hope that more parents will vaccinate chil-dren. Boys and girls can be vaccinated against HPV starting at age 9.

In addition to participating in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, Mendelsohn spoke at the ride’s opening ceremonies.

“They always say to me, ‘Jason, be-fore you, I never knew anyone who had tonsil cancer from HPV,’ ” Mendelsohn said. “It’s been so interesting to me how much interest there is on a topic that’s kind of like an epidemic. Rather than be quiet, I thought, if I can stop some-one from getting it, that would be a wonderful thing.” ■

A Race Against TimeHPV can lurk for decades before causing no-symptom oral cancer

Top: With his teammates letting him take the lead, Jason Mendelsohn crosses the finish line in the Ride to Conquer

Cancer in Washington, D.C., in early September.Right: Jason Mendelsohn raised $24,022

through last month’s bike ride.

Free Help for CaregiversA free series of six weekly classes is being offered to help family caregivers

reduce stress, improve self-confidence, communicate feelings better, find balance, make tough decisions and locate needed resources.

Two experienced class leaders conduct “Powerful Tools for Caregivers” with interactive lessons, discussions and brainstorming to help caregivers choose and use the right tools for them.

The classes use the Caregiver Helpbook, developed specifically for the class. The classes are free, thanks to support from the Jewish Federation of Greater

Atlanta and the Meyer Balser Naturally Occurring Retirement Community.Classes will be held at the Meyer Balser NORC at the William Breman Jewish

Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Buckhead, on Thursdays from Oct. 15 to Nov. 19. Each 90-minute session will start at 4:30 p.m.

To get more information or to register, contact Anne Davis at 404-355-5696 or [email protected]. Advance registration is required. ■

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LET’S TALK HOME CARE.Jeffrey Taratoot & Lester Czuper

Ruach Atlanta Relay Seeks TeamsRelay for Life of Ruach Atlanta, the

only Relay for Life event held on a Sun-day, returns Oct. 11 and is seeking more participants.

The fourth annual event, which is moving to North Springs Charter High School, 7447 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, is held on a Sunday so Shab-bat-observant Jews can participate.

Teams representing Temple Beth Tikvah, Temple Kol Emeth, Congrega-tion Ner Tamid and Jewish Family & Career Services have signed up, as have teams from across the area, to help raise the $35,000 goal. By Monday, Oct. 5, $18,000 had been raised.

Relay for Life is an American Can-cer Society fundraiser that traditional-ly lasts up to 24 hours to represent the 24-hour-a-day struggle against cancer and takes place on Friday night and Saturday, conflicting with Shabbat.

Former Temple Beth Tikvah Presi-dent Sheryl Blechner came up with the idea of a Sunday Relay as a solution.

“People that participate in this event help raise awareness for Ameri-can Cancer Society’s research efforts to find a cure for all cancers,” said Blech-ner, a co-chair of the event. “By partici-pating, they are also sending a message to the American Cancer Society that there is a need for a Sunday Relay for Life for those who observe Shabbat on Friday and Saturday.”

She said participation is off this year, so Ruach Atlanta hopes more peo-ple sign up. The walk coincides with the 45th annual Atlanta Pride Festival, for which SOJOURN has lined up 44 Jewish organizations as co-sponsors.

“We are not sure why participa-tion is down,” Blechner said. “Participa-tion in many nonprofit events has been down this year. We are having a hard time getting people to register prior to the event; however, we know of many people who plan to attend but have not yet registered.”

The event runs from 1 to 8 p.m. Oct. 11 and incorporates traditional ele-ments of Relay for Life.

To register or join a team, go to www.RelayForLife.org/ruachga. A $10 donation is suggested as a sign-up fee. Cancer survivors are always free.

JCC Helps Girls Defend ThemselvesThe Marcus Jewish Community

Center is teaming up with Atlanta-based Divas in Defense to provide two sets of self-defense workshops for sixth- to 12th-grade girls.

The weekly Tuesday-night classes start Oct. 13 at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Girls Can Fight Too! is for sixth- to eighth-graders and meets at 6:30. Fierce and Fabulous

for ninth- to 12th-graders meets at 7:45. Each class lasts an hour.

“Navigating through the difficult dynamics that adolescence, middle and high school present is daunting,” said Colette Steel, a mother of teen girls and the chairwoman of the BBYO Par-ent Committee. “I am proud that the MJCCA is taking this matter seriously and providing the resources to arm our daughters — both literally and figura-tively — with the life skills they need to navigate the challenges they face.”

Girls Can Fight Too! covers basic self-defense, bullying prevention, In-ternet safety and personal empower-ment. Fierce and Fabulous includes basic self-defense, personal and street safety, boundary setting, and personal empowerment.

To register, visit www.atlantajcc.org/teens, or call 678-812-3978. The cost of either series is $140 for JCC members and $180 for nonmembers.

Cancer Drug Disappoints on FertilityA breast cancer drug with promise

for resolving unexplained infertility without increasing the risk of multiple births apparently does not deliver, ac-cording to a comparative study.

“The question was could we reduce the risk of twins and triplets without

negatively impacting the total number of women who can conceive,” said Dr. Michael P. Diamond, a reproductive en-docrinologist and the chairman of the obstetrics and gynecology department at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University in Augusta.

In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, research-ers showed that pregnancy rates and live birth rates were significantly low-er in women treated with letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor that enables ovulation, than in those receiving the front-line drugs gonadotropin and clo-miphene. The live birth rate was 32.3 percent in women taking gonadotro-pin and 18.7 percent with letrozole.

The cancer drug has been used off-label for infertility for several years be-cause of anecdotal reports that it could help women conceive with less risk of multiple births.

PCOS affects 5 percent to 10 per-cent of reproductive-age women whose major infertility problem is that they don’t ovulate.

But letrozole’s success in women with PCOS does not hold up when the cause of infertility is unclear.

While patients with unexplained infertility taking letrozole did have a significantly lower number of multiple

births than those taking gonadotro-pins, those rates were comparable to clomiphene, said Diamond, the new study’s corresponding author. Letro-zole therapy did significantly reduce the number of multiple births com-pared with gonadotropin, but its rates were 2½ times those of clomiphene.

“The conclusion for couples with unexplained infertility is that clomi-phene probably still remains the first-line therapy,” Diamond said.

Women taking gonadotropin, which is given by shot rather than by tablet, had the highest rate of pregnan-cy and live births but also the highest multiple birth rate, Diamond noted. There were no significant differences among the three treatments regarding birth defects or complications.

The study looked at 900 women ages 18 to 40 with unexplained infertil-ity at 12 centers nationally.

A third of patients were randomly assigned to receive up to four cycles of ovarian stimulation with gonadotro-pin, clomiphene or letrozole; there was no placebo group.

Researchers obtained an inves-tigational new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration for the study because letrozole is approved only for breast cancer treatment.

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University of Georgia student Leigh Harris was visiting some friends at another school when

they took her to a campus event, a dance competition in which sororities competed and raised money for a char-ity.

A big fan of dance, Leigh remem-bers thinking, “Why don’t we have some-thing at UGA like this?”

She discussed the idea with her soror-ity sisters at Sigma Delta Tau, who loved it. Thus, SDT Greek Grind was born.

Eleven years after Harris’ idea took to the dance floor, SDT Greek Grind is still go-ing strong — in fact, stronger than ever. This year’s event is Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Classic Center in downtown Athens.

You can cheer for the sorority of your choice — SDT, as the host, doesn’t compete but does perform.

Hosting the eve-ning is Josh Murray, a star of “The Bachelor-ette,” ex-fiancé of Jew-ish Atlanta native and reality TV star Andi Dorfman, and older brother of former UGA quarterback Aaron Murray. He’s following in the footsteps of Aaron’s former football teammate Chris Con-ley, who hosted in 2014.

Conley was a star student athlete who majored in journalism, finished school in 2014 and now is a backup wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs. Aaron Murray is the Chiefs’ third-string quarterback.

The theme of this year’s SDT Greek Grind is “Rock the Grind,” said SDT Greek Grind coordinator Rebecca Friedman.

There are changes on tap. For ex-ample, Greek Grind will include an all-male act, the Accidentals, one of the many outstanding a cappella groups on campus.

The show is moving from the Clas-sic Center Auditorium to the 1,500-seat Classic Center Arena on a stage being built for the event.

Last year’s competition, in which all 17 UGA sororities participated, raised $76,000 for Prevent Child Abuse America, a national nonprofit organi-zation that raises awareness and pro-vides education to stop child abuse. Prevent Child Abuse America is the na-tional philanthropy for all SDT chap-ters.

Greek Grind raises money through ticket sales — $20 for sorority mem-bers and $30 for fraternity members — raffles, T-shirt sales and donations, Friedman said. Donations have been flowing in for months. To contribute, visit sdtgreekgrind.com/donate.

The event’s creator, Harris, said so-rorities begin practicing their routines in August to be ready by the fall, and some teams lay out the choreography in May. Besides bragging rights, the sororities are competing for monetary donations to their own philanthropies of choice.

Fifteen percent of teams’ final scores come from spirit points, based on involvement in events led by Sigma Tau Delta, donations and other pro-motional programs before the show. A panel of judges determines the other 85 percent of the score based on cos-tumes, use of the theme, performance and originality. ■

Grinding for GoodUGA sororities dance for SDT fundraiser

Photos by Blane Marable PhotographyTop: Alpha Chi Omega members perform

during the 2014 SDT Greek Grind.Bottom: Sigma Delta Tau members celebrate the

fundraising success of the 2014 event.

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WeddingLevine-RiceBerna and Noah Levine of Marietta

announce the marriage of their son, Avi Levine, to Meghan Rice, daughter

of Becky Rice and Peyton Rice Jr. of Little Rock, Ark.

Avi is the grandson of Cecelia and Eugene Levine of Delray Beach, Fla., the late Anne and Edward Leonard of Del-ray Beach, and the late Deana and Sam Popowcer of Cherry Hill, N.J. Meghan is the granddaughter of Betty and the late Jim Miller of North Little Rock, Ark., and the late Catherine Rice and the late Betty and Peyton Rice, all of Little Rock.

The ceremony and reception were held Sept. 6, 2015, in Vail, Colo.

The bride has bachelor’s degrees in engineering science and Spanish from Vanderbilt University and a master of business administration from the Univer-sity of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. She is a brand manager for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.

The groom has a bachelor’s degree in economic science from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a master of business administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is the executive director of the Digital Professional Institute.

After a honeymoon in Santorini, Greece, the couple lives in Chicago.

Southern Jewish History Conference in NashvilleSunday, Oct. 18, is the registration deadline for the 40th annual conference of

the Southern Jewish Historical Society.The theme of the conference, set for Nashville from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, is

“Jews and the Urban South.” Presentations will include Nashville, Atlanta, Colum-bus, New Orleans, Miami, Gadsden, Ala., Dallas, Texas, and Jackson, Miss.

Professor Ira Sheskin of the University of Miami’s Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Jewish Studies, who edits the American Jewish Year Book and writes its article on the number of Jews in the United States, will deliver the keynote address Saturday, Oct. 31, on Jewish demographic trends in the South since 1950.

Another highlight will be dinner and Friday night services at The Temple (Congregation Ohabai Sholom) on Oct. 30. The speaker will be Rabbi Gary Zola, a Hebrew Union College history professor and the executive director of the Ameri-can Jewish Archives in Cincinnati.

The conference will begin with an optional tour the afternoon of Oct. 29 of a Julius Rosenwald school in Cairo and the Rosenwald Collection at Fisk University. That tour should be of particular interest to anyone who saw Aviva Kempner’s documentary “Rosenwald” when it came to Atlanta in September.

During lunch Oct. 30, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos will address his university’s outreach to Jewish students and the Jewish community. That afternoon the Forward’s Paul Berger will talk about the most notorious kill-ing of a Jew in the South in the half-century between the end of the Civil War and the lynching of Leo Frank: the nonhanging lynching of shopkeeper Samuel Bier-field in Franklin, Tenn., in 1868.

Among Atlantans participating in the conference, Georgia Tech’s Ronald Bay-or will chair a session on violence during the civil rights movement Oct. 31. The Breman Museum’s Jeremy Katz will be part of a discussion of synagogue archives. The full schedule is available at www.jewishsouth.org/upcoming-conference. Ac-tivities will be based at the Homewood Suites and Vanderbilt University. Registra-tion, open only to society members, is $125; student registration is $50. ■

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A federal judge’s decision support-ing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s

refusal to allow the Georgia Aquarium to import 18 beluga whales from Rus-sia could be a death sentence for those marine mammals — if the aquarium doesn’t successfully appeal the ruling.

After nearly a decade under hu-man control in some cases, the belugas are incapable of living in the wild. But their care and feeding cost the aquar-ium $700,000 to $800,000 a year, a figure that approaches $1 million after additional expenses such as personnel traveling to Russia with translators and security every three or four months to check on the whales, aquarium CEO Mike Leven said in an interview.

After spending almost $11 million on the project, the nonprofit aquarium can’t afford to care for the whales over-seas forever, Leven said.

“I don’t know what’s going to hap-pen to them if we go away,” he said, noting that only a couple of aquariums outside North America work with belu-gas, and they couldn’t take more than three or four whales.

Leven doesn’t expect the Russians

to keep caring for the belugas indefi-nitely. “It’s a stalemate. If we give it up, we just don’t know what’s going to hap-pen to these animals.”

That stalemate continues after U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a 100-page ruling Monday, Sept. 28, that NOAA acted properly when it refused Aug. 5, 2013, to issue the aquarium an import permit. The aquarium sued the government in September 2013, about four years into its effort to add diver-sity to the U.S. beluga gene pool.

(Note: AJT Publisher Michael A. Morris is on the aquarium board.)

The aquarium owns two belu-gas, which are in Florida, while three whales on loan are in Atlanta. The plan to bring belugas from Russia grew out of a desire to have a large and di-verse enough beluga population at U.S. aquariums for the whales to be self-sustaining without any further capture of animals in the wild.

The aquarium wanted to bring in 12 whales, but NOAA suggested 23, Lev-en said. The two sides settled on 18, to be shared with other U.S. facilities, and the aquarium contracted with the Rus-sians for that number and paid most of

the purchase price while also paying for the belugas’ upkeep.

After working with the aquarium for several years to bring in the belu-gas, NOAA abandoned ship and poked holes in the application just weeks be-fore the transaction was to be executed.

NOAA Fisheries got a new admin-istrator, who quickly denied the permit under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. That law defines the legal path for aquariums to obtain belugas.

NOAA decided that the loss of the belugas from their home waters might hurt the wild population and, in a relat-ed factor, that if the Georgia Aquarium imported 18 whales, Russians would catch more to sell in the future. Those concerns had been discussed and re-viewed at length earlier in the process.

NOAA was asking the aquarium to prove that importing the belugas wouldn’t hurt the Russian whale popu-lation, and Leven said the aquarium did so, providing ample scientific evi-dence that the wild population would not be depleted. He added that the point of importing 18 belugas was to provide enough biodiversity so that no U.S. aquarium would need to buy more

Russian whales, so the transaction would not have encouraged captures.

Leven said NOAA applied sub-jective standards, possibly because someone or some group wants to stop putting mammals on display. NOAA Fisheries denies that the decision rep-resents anything beyond this specific case and says a different application could receive approval.

The decision on the belugas rep-resents a slippery slope of irrational regulatory overreach, Leven added.

According to aquarium lawyers, Leven said, the subjectivity and irratio-nality come through in inconsistencies in Totenberg’s decision. The aquarium likely will appeal, he said — not in the hope of seeing a more favorable ad-ministration in 2017, but because the decision was unfair and the lives of the belugas are at stake.

Still, Leven said he’s not optimistic about the long-term outlook for facili-ties such as the Georgia Aquarium that are devoted to education and conserva-tion or about the fate of the belugas. “I wish I could get more optimistic,” he said. “If it’s a rational decision, I think we win, but we can’t be certain.” ■

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The rainy weather through most of Sukkot dampened decorations but not spirits in sukkahs around Atlanta. We thank all of you who shared photos of your holiday huts and your celebrations. See additional photos online at atlantajewishtimes.com. We welcome more photos at [email protected] to add to the gallery.

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A and B: Kristina and Mitchell Blass welcome friends and family to their first sukkah in 30 years, made beautiful with the help of decorator Lance Underhill.

The sukkah has a long local history: The Blasses got it from a friend, Andrea Goldklang, who received it from a mutual friend, Devorah Shaw, who said it

started with the Blasses’ neighbors and close friends Sam and Sheli Feldman.C and E: Claire and Howard Peck personalize their Sandy Springs sukkah to bring home their out-of-state grandchildren. Claire Peck has painted biblical

characters to decorate the sukkah, then added their grandchildren’s faces. The latest addition is a new grandson depicted as Moses in a basket.D: Geo and Janet Cohen welcome friends into their Marietta sukkah.

F: Doris and Martin Goldstein have ample room for a full dining table in their sukkah.G: Children’s decorations add color to one of two sukkahs outside the entrance

to the Marcus Jewish Community Center while the weather forces most of the action at the Blues, BBQ and Jews event inside Thursday, Oct. 1.

H: Jeanine Bekerman hosts her annual ladies’ sukkah party, featuring her famous chocolate martinis, in her Dunwoody sukkah.

I and J: Amid threatening skies Thursday, Oct. 1, The Kehilla, Tribe Atlanta and the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival hold their annual sukkah bash.

K: Strings of lights add nighttime color to the sukkah at Marc Medwed’s house.L: The Atlanta Jewish Times’ Stacy LaVictoire and Julie Benveniste and

ORT America’s Jay Tenenbaum and Evan Alberhasky get into the holiday spirit with the help of Chabad of Georgia’s mobile sukkah lounge.

M: Ahavath Achim Synagogue Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal’s family sukkah is open to all throughout the holiday.

N: Sheryl and Alan Cohn’s sukkah embraces the spirit of the fall harvest season.

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The upcoming Atlanta Pride Fes-tival and the associated parade are the immediate focus of SO-

JOURN, the Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diver-sity, but the pattern of partnerships for Pride is repeated year-round in SO-JOURN’s work with youth.

A work-shop on pre-venting bul-lying is one example.

Held at the Epstein School early in 2015, the w o r k s h o p was mean-ingful, said Robyn Faint-ich, the Con-s e r v a t i v e day school’s outreach and engagement coordinator. “ E v e r y o n e walked away with some-thing they were think-ing about, s o m e t h i n g they wanted to take action on or share with another person.”

The attendees were a mixture of professionals, clergy, parents and teens, Faintich said. “I think the impact on people was significant.”

The session included a screening of the documentary “Let’s Get Real,” a hard look at the prevalence of student violence. SOJOURN also invited the makers of the film to appear.

“SOJOURN is now a resource for us as a result of that, and we have an ongoing relationship with them,” Fain-tich said. “I’ve reached out to them when parents ask us about how to handle a situation with their kids — questions about bullying, LGBT, com-ing out. Sometimes it’s a personal ques-tion, sometimes a professional one, like when colleagues are struggling with an LGBT issue in their family. It’s impor-tant for Epstein to know that SOJOURN is available to help in the community.”

At the Weber School, SOJOURN

acts as a consultant to the new Gender & Sexual Diversity Alliance. English teacher Michael Bennett said students initiated the program.

“A few years ago a group of Weber students started going to the Pride Pa-rade informally,” he said. That number grew the past two years, leading to the formation of the GSDA.

In its first year as an official club, its goal is to encourage kids to become

allies, Ben-nett said. “It’s about giving them the vo-cabulary to u n d e r s t a n d in the context of gender and sexual diver-sity. It also gives them the skills to advocate for their peers, to become more i n f o r m e d citizens in the modern world. We talk about the way history has unfolded. This is all about educa-tion.”

Weber is committed to

diversity, said public relations direc-tor Elana Frank, speaking the day that Muslim and Christian students visited the high school for the Peace by Piece program. “We’re not one-size-fits-all.”

SOJOURN also holds reading pro-grams for kindergartners and works with teen youth groups, including B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and the North American Federation of Temple Youth.

The Pride Parade from the Civic Center MARTA station to Piedmont Park starts at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. SO-JOURN is a grand marshal.

SOJOURN Executive Director Re-becca Stapel-Wax said her organiza-tion picked many Pride partners, such as the Davis Academy and Jewish Kids Groups, because of youth connections.

More than 40 Jewish organiza-tions, including the Atlanta Jewish Times, are co-sponsoring SOJOURN’s Jewish Community Tent at the Pride Festival at Piedmont Park. ■

SOJOURN and Partners Provide Youth Support

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David Abes, a familiar face on the restaurant scene, left Here to Serve Restaurants (which

at least temporarily shut down Oct. 6) after 14 years to become LDV Hospital-ity’s regional director of operations.

All three of Abes’ new concepts are in the Rodeo Drive-type development called Buckhead Atlanta.

Abes attended Riv-erwood High School, got his degree in industrial psychology and business management from Arizona State, and says he has “been training every day for the last 25 years.”

See how Abes lives the dream and his journey along the way.

Jaffe: How did you get the food bug growing up?

Abes: My parents took my sister and me out to dinner to nice places like Avanti, Papa Piroshki’s, and Coach and Six, of course. I was always in awe of the energy and excitement in restaurants.

Jaffe: Has working

long hours affected your family life?

Abes: This is all I have ever done, and the hours don’t bother me. I love what I do. My wife, Julie, and kids have been very understanding with my crazy schedule for the last 22 years. We make Sunday nights our Saturday nights.

Jaffe: Describe you first concept, Corso Coffee (opened in 2014).

Abes: Corso is an amazing Italian coffee cafe that takes you away from Atlanta. We serve breakfast items, sandwiches and refreshing salads. We have a full bar, so guests can enjoy a Negroni or glass of Prosecco for happy hour.

Jaffe: Dolce opened recently and was touted in The Atlanta Journal-Con-stitution. What is its trajectory?

Abes: Dolce has been exciting to open. It’s an upscale Italian restaurant with a 125-bottle wine list. My service team’s hospitality will wow with our

philosophy of la dolce vita. We have a 150-seat dining room with Mid-Cen-tury furniture and art and a 50-foot wrap-around terrace.

Dolce won best new restaurant on Bravo TV for our Miami location.

Even though our company is based out of NYC, we are local. My entire team has been working in Atlanta restau-rants for years. All the pasta is made in house. Chef Paolo’s best dishes are Dolce meatballs and the whole-roasted

branzino.

Jaffe: What kind of customers do you see at Buckhead Atlanta? Local pedestrian workers? Tourists? How many people buy Hermes scarves in repeat fashion to establish a loyal base?

Abes: Our clientele has been perfect — businessmen, ladies who lunch. There is a lot of people watching going on with the locals and tourists alike.

Jaffe: When you eat out, where do you go?

Abes: Love eating on Buford High-way, but for special occasions we are on a Gunshow kick. Never the same menu twice.

Jaffe: What knowledge can we glean from you as a food experience expert?

Abes: Always live by the answer is “yes”; what’s the question? Treat every-one like they are the king and queen of the restaurant.

Jaffe: What are the most memo-rable experiences you’ve had?

Abes: My favorite two stories are hosting Michael Jordan, my basketball hero. He invited me to Charlotte to sit courtside with him to watch LeBron James play. And the president of Po-land. Never seen so much security. ■

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Movers & ShakersConexx Names Board, Officers

Conexx: America Israel Business Connector has selected its 2015-16 offi-cers and board members, led by Chair-man Benjamin Fink of Atlanta law firm Berman Fink Van Horn.

Fink, recently chosen by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2016 in the area of labor and employment litigation, has three vice chairmen at Conexx: Tal Cohen, the founding partner of My Seed Tech Fund; Jonathan Zucker, the president of the InterTech Group; and Randall

Foster, the CEO of Vu-mii Imaging. J o n a t h a n Minnen, a partner at law firm Smith, Gambrell & Russell, is the secretary, and Steve Horn, a partner at ac-counting firm

Williams Bena-tor & Libby, is the treasurer.

“I am looking forward to working with our incredible board members and Conexx staff,” said Fink, who re-places two-year Chairman Joel Neu-man. “This organization does such ex-traordinary things, and I’m proud to lead it into the next phase.”

Also selected for the executive committee are Dawn Ely of Palladium Group International, Morris Ellison of Womble Carlyle, Todd Porter of H.T. PROF Executive Search, Adam Fein-berg of UPS and Mark Spiegel of UBS.

Guy Tessler remains Conexx’s president and top professional staff member.

New to Conexx’s board are Jus-tin Daniels (Baker Donelson), Renée Rosenheck (Global Growth Advisors), Steven Rosen (Raymond James), Pame-la Dubin (CyberUP), Robert Friedman (King & Spalding), Orna Sharon (Mer-gence Global) and Diane Weiner.

“Our members are our driving force,” Tessler said. “We’re thrilled to have such esteemed members of the business community helping us ac-complish our mission.”

Conexx’s upcoming activities in-clude a group Southeastern trip to Is-rael from Oct. 10 to 15 for the WATEC water conference in Tel Aviv.

Rotenberg Joins HHRAtlanta family law firm Hedge-

peth, Heredia & Rieder has added Jon Rotenberg to the firm in an of counsel

capacity.“Jon Rotenberg is known in his

p r a c t i c e of fam-ily law for his com-p a s s i o n -ate, even-k e e l e d approach, w h i c h m a k e s him a va l u a b l e a d d i t i o n to our team,” managing partner Hannibal He-redia said in an announcement.

Rotenberg has practiced family law for more than a decade.

The Congregation Bet Haverim member serves as a guardian ad litem for Fulton County and volunteers with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Associa-tion.

He earned bachelor’s and law de-grees from Emory University and was a partner in family and commercial law at Howick, Westfall & Kaplan.

The Candler Park resident has two children at the Paideia School in Druid Hills.

Five Stars for Morgan, WeinbergThree estate-planning lawyers at

Atlanta firm Morgan & DiSalvo have been named 2015 Five Star financial service professionals by Atlanta maga-

zine: Rich-ard Morgan, L o r a i n e DiSalvo and Diane Wein-berg.

M o r -gan, a six-time recipi-ent of the recognition, is a member of Congre-

gation Dor Tamid in John’s Creek, and Weinberg is a member of Congregation Beth Sha-lom in Dunwoody.

Both have been involved with Jew-ish Family & Career Services, among other Jewish community activities.

The Five Star selection resulted from rigorous research that included a regulatory and consumer complaint review and an evaluation of objective criteria associated with wealth manag-ers who provide quality client services.

The award is presented in over 45 markets to wealth managers, real estate agents, mortgage professionals, insurance agents and dentists. ■

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By David R. [email protected]

How can Americans and Israelis best conduct business?

That was the central ques-tion at the opening session of the 19th annual Professional & Business Semi-nar presented by Conexx: American Israel Business Connector on Wednes-day, Sep. 30.

The event at Northpark Town Center aimed to discuss American and Israeli business cultures and explore methods to expand partnerships between the countries. The session was moderated by Cheri Levitan, the Jewish Federation of Greater At-lanta’s vice president of commu-nity planning and impact, and featured speakers Alon Zaibert of MaxMedia and Mark Satisky of NCR.

After a brief introduction by Levitan, Zaibert shared an Israeli perspective on American busi-ness culture. “Many Israelis can speak English,” he said, “but not all can speak American.”

Zaibert, who was born in Israel and has lived in the United States for two decades, explained that not only are there cultural differences between the countries, but there also are vast differences among States.

“In New York,” he said, “people are eager to get down to business, but in Georgia they usually want to establish a rapport. Every state has their own colloquial and sports team.”

The vice president of business de-velopment at MaxMedia described the advice he gave two Israeli profession-als before a business trip to Alabama. “There’s only two words you need to know there,” he told them. “Roll Tide.”

Just as there are subtle differences between the cultures, there also are

many more challenging differences to work around.

Zaibert said Israelis are notori-ously tough negotiators and have been raised to be naturally suspicious. Whereas Americans typically negoti-ate in three rounds, he said, Israelis never stop until a deal is finalized.

Satisky, the vice president of cor-porate development at Duluth-based

NCR, detailed his company’s dealings with Israel.

“We bought a leading company in Israel, Retalix, and it’s been a great acquisition that we’ve been very happy with,” Satisky said after the event. “I was pleased to share with the group at Conexx why it has been a good deal and some of our lessons learned from the experience.”

After Satisky and Zaibert spoke, they participated in a question-and-an-swer session with Levitan moderating. They agreed that although navigating cultural differences can be difficult, both sides have much to gain by part-nering.

The next session of the Conexx Professional & Business Seminar is Nov. 11. To register, contact Barry Swartz at [email protected]. ■

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Photos by David R. CohenAbove: Alon Zaibert (left) and Mark Satisky take

questions to close out the Conexx session Sept. 30.Top: A packed room listens to

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FINAL WEEKS

By Al Shams

Jay Winik’s “1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History” examines in great detail the major events that

occurred in that pivotal year of World War II and how President Franklin D. Roosevelt dealt with these events and the unfolding Holocaust.

The book pro-vides a view from FDR’s vantage point, including rela-tions among the Al-lied leaders: FDR, Churchill and Stalin.

Winik also de-votes many pages to the events leading up to 1944.

About half the book examines the Holocaust — its ori-gins, its scope, its im-pact on the war, what was known and what could have been done.

It is clear from “1944” that the Allies were aware of the final solution, what was occurring in the concentration camps and the fate of 750,000 Hun-garian Jews. They had received much creditable information from a variety of sources, and detailed information reached London and Washington.

In early 1944, Churchill was in fa-vor of bombing the camps, but the Brit-ish did not have the resources for such raids.

Some military historians say Aus-chwitz was beyond the range of U.S. bombers, but raids were conducted on rubber factories a few miles from the camp.

New evidence reveals that the Al-lies did bomb the camp by mistake. When that occurred, the inmates stood in the open cheering, while the Nazis scurried for cover like scared rats.

Inmates later said they would have willingly run the risk of dying in a raid just to see the Germans run for cover or be killed.

The Allies could have diverted some aircraft for that purpose, and the raids would have upset the Nazis’ timetable. The inmates could have dis-persed into the woods, creating some havoc.

Winik offers some discussion that Budapest could have been bombed to

delay the transport process, but that plan was not implemented.

Winik and I agree that FDR was a great wartime leader who did much to save Western civilization. He was a man of great intellect, insight and per-severance. He was instrumental in cre-

ating the War Refugee Board, which saved more than 200,000 Jewish lives.

But the key ques-tion remains: Being such a compassionate person, knowing of the Jewish plight, why didn’t he do more?

Winik offers no definitive reasons, but we can speculate about what was on FDR’s mind during 1944:

• Enormous man-power and resources were dedicated to D-Day. It was essential that the invasion be successful; a failure was intolerable.

•People within the Roosevelt ad-ministration, especially the State De-partment, were deeply opposed to im-migration of Jewish refugees.

• The war could easily have been lost.

• Germany was working on an atomic bomb, wonder weapons, long-range rockets and biological warfare, although it was later learned that Hit-ler regarded nuclear physics as “Jew-ish science” and did not see a military value to the research.

• The Russian occupation of East-ern Europe was a growing concern.

• FDR was seeking re-election while in poor health.

• Many felt that a rapid conclusion to the European war was the best way to aid the Jews.

• Allied war deaths were escalating rapidly.

• The United States was almost alone in fighting Japan, and losses were escalating in the Pacific.

We should remember that no ma-jor decision is reached in a vacuum; there are always many considerations to weigh. Events were moving fast, and the full implications were visible only in hindsight.

In my opinion, as a person famil-iar with the Allied bombing effort,

‘1944’ and the Decision Not to Bomb Auschwitz

Jay Winik also has written about the end of the American Civil War and

the United States from 1788 to 1800.

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Key EventsThis chronology should help those without a good grasp of the history before and through 1944.

• 1933 — Adolf Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany in January. Franklin Roosevelt becomes U.S. president in March. Anti-Semitic actions begin in Germany.

• 1936 — Germany begins to rearm, occupies the Rhineland and supports Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War.

• 1938 — Germany annexes Austria. Chamberlain secures “peace in our time” with Hitler at Munich. German troops occupy all of Czechoslovakia.

• 1939 — Britain and France warn Hitler to cease all aggression or face war. On Sept. 1, Germany invades Poland. Britain and France declare war. Poland is overrun in one month.

• 1940 — Germany invades Western Europe in the spring. By June, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and most of France are occupied. The British army in Europe is destroyed. Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. German air raids over Britain begin. Britain fights alone. Roosevelt and Churchill form a friendship.

• 1941 — Britain wins the aerial Battle of Britain to survive. In June, Hitler invades Russia; by November, German forces are 30 miles from Moscow. The Russian army loses more than 1 million men in six months. On Dec. 7, Japan attacks the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. The United States enters the war.

• 1942 — On Jan. 1, the war could be described as the bad guys are on our 10-yard line, trying to secure a total victory. The Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Guam, Wake and Singapore are lost to Japan early in the year. In July, the United States scores a stunning naval victory over Japan at Midway. Japanese power has passed its peak. Small U.S. offensive operations begin in the Pacific. In November, U.S. troops invade North Africa, forcing the German Afrika Korps to fight on two fronts. By December, German forces have bogged down at Stalingrad, and German power has passed its peak.

• 1943 — Germany is decisively defeated at Stalingrad and loses more than 250,000 men and 25 percent of all German military equipment. By June, North Africa is cleared of all Axis forces. The Allies invade Sicily. In October, Italy switches to the Allies’ side. In April, Jewish patriots arise in the Warsaw Ghetto and fight the Nazis for more than six weeks. The U.S. island-hopping campaign begins to secure bases and put Japan within bomber range. British and American planes begin long-range bombing of Germany. The Germans suffer huge losses on the Eastern Front as the Russians take the offensive, which they maintain through the war’s end.

• 1944 — The Allies start the year with enormous momentum and the ball on the Axis 35-yard line. The United States and Britain regularly conduct 1,000-airplane bombing raids over Germany. Planning for D-Day begins. Germany occupies Hungary and begins to deport the Hungarian Jewish community (750,000 people) to Auschwitz. The Russians drive westward, destroying much of the German army. Roosevelt shows clear signs of great fatigue and illness as he campaigns for a fourth term. Free Polish forces arise against the Nazis but are not aided by nearby Russian forces, so they are crushed. The fate of postwar Poland is clear. D-Day is a huge success. The Germans suffer huge losses in France after D-Day. In July, some German officers try to kill Hitler. Erwin Rommel, once Hitler’s favorite general, takes part in a coup and is later forced to commit suicide. Paris is liberated. The U.S. Pacific campaign secures Guam, Saipan and the Philippines. The bulk of the Japanese navy is sunk at Leyte Gulf. Roosevelt wins a fourth term. France, Belgium and Holland are mostly liberated. Hitler launches the last desperate offensive in the West (the Battle of the Bulge) in late December. After some initial success, the Germans suffer huge losses. Virtually all of the Hungarian Jewish community is destroyed by year’s end.

• Jan. 1, 1945 — Nazi Germany is doomed. The Allies have the ball on the 8-yard line, and the Germans have a third-string defense on the field.

raids could and should have been launched against Auschwitz or other camps. Many of the camps were within range, especially Auschwitz.

The diversion of military resourc-es would have been modest. I believe that 10 bombers could have done ma-terial damage to camp facilities and would have caused some disarray among the Germans.

Long-range fighter aircraft could have provided support, and it is unlike-ly that the Germans had anti-aircraft defenses for the camps.

1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History

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Do a Mitzvah WithJF&CS on Oct. 25

Thursday, Oct. 22, is the deadline to register for the Mitzvah Day orga-nized by Jewish Family & Career Ser-vices’ Volunteers in Action.

VIA is holding Atlanta’s largest community service day for young Jew-ish professionals Sunday, Oct. 25. The event is open to the community.

More than 200 people participated in nine projects last year.

This year, volunteers can choose among 12 projects, partner sites throughout Atlanta, varying start times and family-friendly opportunities. Visit www.MitzvahDayAtl.org to sign up.

This year’s projects:• Camp Twin Lakes, which pro-

vides life-changing camp experiences to children with serious illnesses, dis-abilities and other challenges. Volun-teers will plant shrubs and do other landscaping at the new group home for adults with developmental disabilities.

• Historic Westside Gardens (proj-ect partner: Moishe House Decatur), which addresses the issues of disinvest-ment and food security in the revital-ization of the intown neighborhoods of Vine City and English Avenue. Volun-teers will weed fall crops and turn over the garden beds for winter.

• Hope Lodge, which offers can-cer patients and their caregivers a free place to stay when their treatment is in another city. Volunteers will help or-ganize the pantry and kitchen and do light cleaning as needed.

• JF&CS Older Adults Social (proj-ect partner: Atlanta Jewish Music Fes-tival). Volunteers will assist the Toco Hills Naturally Occurring Retirement Community’s family and friends day with a potluck and with music orga-nized through AJMF.

• JF&CS Zimmerman-Horowitz Independent Living Program (project partner: Jewish Federation of Greater

Atlanta under-40 division), a highly individualized living program that en-ables people with disabilities to live as independently as possible. Volunteers will help get one of the new homes ready for clients to move in.

• New American Pathways, which offers a variety of programs and servic-es to resettle refugees in Atlanta. Vol-unteers will help set up an apartment for a newly arrived refugee family or help organize the storage room.

• Oldcastle Nature Trail (project partners: Hebrew Order of David and Young Israel of Toco Hills), an outdoor learning space at the Marcus Autism Center. Volunteers will help enhance the trail by removing weeds and inva-sive plants and by mulching.

• Concrete Jungle — Dog Head Farm (project partner: PAL), which helps distribute food to the hungry. Volunteers will weed fall crops, turn over garden beds for winter and help with general farm maintenance.

• JF&CS Toiletry Packing (Fami-lies Inspired to Serve project; families only). Volunteers will pack toiletries for JF&CS clients and make celebration cards for older adults.

• William Breman Jewish Home (FITS project; families only), a nurs-ing home that provides short- and long-term dementia, Alzheimer’s, and skilled nursing care. Volunteers will have an ice cream social with the resi-dents and brighten their day.

• PAWS Atlanta (project partner: Marcus Jewish Community Center Young Adults), which provides love, nutrition, medical care and basic train-ing to enrich the lives of orphaned ani-mals. Volunteers will help with general landscaping and socializing with the animals. This project is full.

• Open Hand, which seeks to elim-inate disability and untimely death from nutrition-sensitive chronic dis-eases. Volunteers will pack nutritional meals in the kitchen for delivery to people in need. This project is full. ■

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Bennie Auerbach94, Atlanta

Bennie Auerbach, 94, passed away Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, in his home.

Affectionately known as Bobo, he was born in At-lanta, where he attended Boys’ High School before serv-ing in the Army Air Corps during World War II. While in the service, he married Sylvia Pamarance, also from At-lanta. After the war, he worked with his father, Abe Au-erbach, and his brother Sam at the Auerbach Furniture Store, but he made his career in the real estate industry. He loved working in partnership with his brothers Leon and Hymie. In business as in life, Bobo was honest and generous, and all who knew him understood that his handshake was as good as a contract. He took great joy in helping other people succeed and would go to any length to ease the suffering of not only friends and family, but also strangers.

Bobo loved football and was a holder of Atlanta Falcons season tickets since their arrival in Atlanta in 1966. Many friends and acquaintances attended the games over the years because of his largesse. With his father, he was a mem-ber of Congregation Shearith Israel and was responsible for its relocation from Washington Street near Turner Field to University Drive in Morningside. After the death of his father, he joined Congregation Beth Jacob, where he continued to enjoy attending services until his death.

Bobo Auerbach was predeceased by his first wife, Sylvia Auerbach, with whom he had three daughters, Elaine Alexander (Peyton), Sheryl McCormick and Jill Auerbach (Tim Crimmins). He was proud of his six grandchildren, Do-rie Mufson (Mike), Stacy Morris (Gary), Joshua McCormick, Casey McCormick, Sydney Shaffer (Jeff Roizen) and Mickey Shaffer, and his special niece, Shelley Pamarance Alperin. He had three great-grandchildren, Alex and Wyatt Mufson and most recently 2-year-old Paul Morris, whose frequent visits brought joy to his great-grandfather. He was also preceded in death by his brother Sam; his sister, Betty Cohen; and his second wife, Florence Berger Auerbach. He always wanted to live out his life in his home, which was also the home of his parents, Minnie and Abe. With the support of his daughters, sons-in-law, grandchildren and caring caregivers, his last wish was made possible.

A graveside service was held Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, at Greenwood Cem-etery. There is an online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, do-nations may be made to One Good Deed, 1308 Vista Leaf Drive, Atlanta, GA 30033, www.1gooddeed.org/donations; Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 LaVista Road, At-lanta, GA 30329; Atlanta Scholars Kollel, 1959 LaVista Road, Atlanta, GA 30329; or the charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Shimon Edery55, Atlanta

Shimon Edery, age 55, of Atlanta died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015.He was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to Esther and Yaacov Edery. Mr. Edery

was the co-owner, along with his wife, of Café Posh. Survivors include his wife, Simona Edery; children Coby, Talya and Benja-

min Edery; mother Aliza Edery; and sisters Mimi Sababo, Claudine Chazan, Floret Shachir, Eti Benhamoun, Teres Benzimra, Anita Levy and Yaffa Benhamoun.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made to Weinstein Hospice or the Chabad Israeli Center. A graveside service was held Sunday, Oct. 4, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbis Yossi New and Mendy Gurary officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Janet Eleanor Meyer90, Atlanta

Janet Eleanor Meyer, 90, of Atlanta passed away Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, surrounded by her family.

She was born in New York, N.Y., on July 30, 1925,

to Ruth and Samuel Miller, both of blessed memory. After marrying in 1946, Janet moved to Atlanta to start her family. She had a warm, friendly, outgoing person-ality and loved to socialize with family and friends. She was a woman of great compassion, always concerned for and eager to help all of her many friends. She was a strong, loving, devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to her family. Since arriving in Atlanta and joining, she was an active member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue. She was a past president of Sisterhood and worked in the gift shop for many years.

She is survived by her loving husband of 69 years, Leonard A. Meyer; her three sons, R. Scott Meyer of South Lake Tahoe, Nev., Dr. Roger P. Meyer of Carson City, Nev., and Richard C. Meyer and daughter-in-law Donna Edwards Meyer of Milton; four grandchildren, Dr. Seth E. Meyer (Shinobu), Hilary Pine (Kristopher), Annie-Michele Meyer and Max David Meyer; and two great-grandchildren, Ben and Remy.

Janet will be so dearly missed but always remembered. Sign the online guest-book at www.edressler.com. Funeral services were held Thursday, Oct. 1, at Ar-lington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs with Rabbi Neil Sandler officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to one’s favorite charity. Ar-rangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Death NoticesAlbert Pashman of Atlanta on Sept. 30.Elias Rafal, 91, of Watkinsville, Temple Sinai charter member and father of Diane Gresham, Ron Rafal and Sam Rafal, on Sept. 30.

Motown Press Officer Dies at 74Al Abrams, the first press officer for Berry Gordy’s Motown Records, died

Saturday, Oct. 3, at his home in Ohio. He was 74. The Detroit native once de-scribed himself as a “white Jewish kid in an all-black company where people my age were making music and history.” ■

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CROSSWORDEditor: Yoni Glatt ([email protected] ) Difficulty Level: Manageable

“English Class”

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS1. Fixes a torn kittel5. Joins a Seder9. Billy Crystal might do this when hosting14. Dreyfus made one15. Rabbinic contemporary of Ravina16. Who opposed Joshua leading the Jews after Moses died?17. Uncle of Judah18. Author often taught in high school20. Abraham gets into a dispute over them22. They make (kosher) waffles23. High Holiday time: Abbr.24. Lift to the top of Hermon26. Before Einstein was Doktor28. Geoff Schwartz and oth-ers: Abbr.29. Plots, like Haman32. What Marty calls Emmett Brown34. “___ Myself” (“The Pro-ducers” song)35. ___flot, cheaper way to get to Israel, often38. Levi to Leah42. Slash called her “a shot in the arm for music.”44. Dreidel45. Jake Gyllenhaal wears one on his wrist sometimes46. Murderous Judean king47. “25th ___,” David Benioff novel and film49. Make smooth for Shabbat50. Oy52. Bring to a total, as Der-showitz might do at the end of an arguement54. “___ La-La” (1964 Man-fred Mann hit)57. Many a Jewish custom: Abbr.60. Say “lo”61. Quaker that’s kosher63. Rages, likes Moses after the golden calf incident65. Bear that must have

traveled a long way to get to Noah’s Ark68. Author often taught in college71. Magazine that called Netanyahu “King Bibi”72. Locale for doing the mitz-vah of shiluach hakan73. One of a plague in Egypt74. Singer Day in Landis’ “Animal House”75. Kill, biblically76. Heaven-___77. Clark created by Siegel and Shuster

DOWN1. Gush forth, like a rock did in the Torah2. “Anything ___” (2003 Woody Allen film)3. Bloomberg, compared to millionaires4. Author often taught in grad school5. A fan may send one to get Ryan Braun’s autograph: Abbr.6. Main setting of a Helen Hunt - Tom Hanks film7. Sciatic nerve local8. One started on 10 Tevet9. ___ Maamin10. Kosher forest animals11. Schlemiel12. Like a schlemiel13. Zets (yiddish)19. Amen, in slang21. Shortened name of two Judges25. Portman’s “V for Vendetta” co-star27. Campus military org. not at YU29. Iran ruler, once30. Make like Egypt in ’6731. Third son33. Author often taught in middle school36. Hopper in novelist Elliot Perl-man’s homeland

37. “The Mishneh Torah,” e.g.39. Dweller in Judah, once40. Mel Brooks, to many41. A ready challah in the oven43. Nusach ___ Hamizrach48. Go up against Bibi51. ___ Lehnsherr (Magneto)53. Howard Stern’s hair54. Shabbat crashing items55. Ladies locale in Esther56. Video game name once owned by Jack Tramiel58. Some Israeli citizens59. He played Elias in Stone’s “Platoon”62. Mashugana fit64. Very little of it is asked to be shown in Meah Shearim66. Ugandan madman67. It’s what Shabbat is for69. Zayin counterpart70. El Al plane reading: Abbr.

New Moon MeditationsDr. Terry Segal [email protected]

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan is observed Tuesday, Oct. 13, and Wednesday, Oct. 14.

Cheshvan’s Zodiac sign is Scorpio; Hebrew letter, nun; tribe, Menasheh; sense, smell; and controlling organ, intestines.

Often this month is referred to as Mar (bitter) Cheshvan, with no holidays to celebrate. Some believe that Cheshvan is set aside as the month in which the Moshiach will arrive to create the Third Temple and also that Moses will reincarnate to return as the Moshiach.

The 11th is the yahrzeit of our ma-triarch Rachel, who died while birth-ing her second son, Benjamin. This is the Jewish Mother’s Day. To honor her memory, we strive to become our best selves, exhibiting principles and behaviors that would make our moth-ers proud.

Water is highlighted during Cheshvan, whether through the tears Rachel cried when her children were exiled or from the rain that fell dur-ing the great flood, lasting from one Cheshvan until the next. In Israel, the focus is on preparation, plowing the land and planting seeds that rely on water for growth. On the 7 Cheshvan, prayers for rain begin.

Our task is to integrate personal discoveries made during the holidays into our daily lives and routines. We cleared our spiritual and emo-tional weeds, nourished our souls, and now must distinguish between the thoughts and behaviors that will move us toward or away from the mark.

The Zodiac sign is Scorpio, represented by the scorpion, whose positive aspects are loyalty, passion, resourcefulness and dynamic person-ality. When out of balance, scorpions exhibit jealousy and obsessiveness and are power-driven, suspicious, ma-nipulative, controlling and inflexible. There’s no middle ground with scor-pions, only black or white, with the ever-present stinger on the scorpion’s tail in between. It is reminiscent of the snake’s venom in the Garden of Eden.

The Hebrew letter this month is nun. In our time, it’s bent over and constricted, but the belief is that with the arrival of the Moshiach it will extend itself into a final nun.

The tribe is Menasheh, the firstborn son of Joseph. The name

contains the letters of neshama, or soul. Menasheh had the gift of turning darkness into light. In much the same way that the pains of childbirth are dimmed once one beholds the beauti-ful baby, Menasheh had the ability to transform the difficulties of the exile.

The sense is smell, which is considered the only sense not tar-nished by sin in the Garden of Eden. It is also the sense associated with the Moshiach in the Book of Isaiah, which states that “he shall smell with the awe of G-d” and that “he shall judge by smell” to connect the Jewish souls to their Source and to their tribes of origin. The sense of smell is appreci-ated by the soul rather than by the physical body.

The controlling organ is the intes-tines. In the Torah laws, fats in the in-testines created the pleasing aroma on the altar for G-d. In traditional Chinese medicine, the intestines are linked to the lungs, which represent grief. The small intestine sends waste down to the large intestine to be excreted.

Fiery Scorpios can retain too much heat as a result of toxic rela-tionships or environments. It’s held in the body as stagnation from poor dietary choices, grief or pent-up anger that’s not released. This can appear as an inability to let wasteful things go. Holding on to anger and resent-ment accumulates toxic energy. Water, again, is important in flushing out the immobility that produces imbalance.

Meditation focus: Imagine your own small parcel of land. You’ve just cleared the weeds, tilled the soil, and amended it with composted, organic material. It’s now rich and fertile. You’ve divided rows for planting and are ready to drop in seeds that you’ve carefully selected.

Visualize yourself nurturing those seeds, protecting and watering them through the winter. See them in spring, growing strong, rooted to the earth but pushing up the soil as they reach upward toward divine light. Nourish and grow your spirit in the same way. ■

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