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ISrAElAJTIsraeli Pride GOOD NEWS MADE IN THE JEWISH STATE THIS PAST WEEK

INTErNATIoNAl ASTroNAUTIcAl FEDErATIoN cHooSES ISrAEl AS A FUTUrE coNFErENcE SITE. A mete-oric rise to become one of the world’s aeronautic space powers has been rewarded, as the country has been named the venue for the IAF’s Con-ference in 2015. Over 3,000 scientists attend this annual event.

SPAIN bAckS THE JEwISH STATE. In her speech in the UN General As-sembly, Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez declared Israel to be “The embodiment of the project to create a homeland for the Jewish people.” She rejected Palestinian Au-thority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s “right of return,” a demand for the mass immigration of Arabs to Israel.

NEw cANcEr rADIATIoN TrEATmENT EmErGES. At Israel’s recently up-graded Ariel University, experiments

with sub-millimeter band radiation have proved effective at destroying the DNA of targeted lung cancer tu-mors. As lung cancer is extremely re-sistant to chemotherapy and aggres-sive radiation therapy would damage healthy cells, this new method has tremendous potential.

THE NATIoN qUAlIFIES For THE lAcroSSE worlD cHAmPIoNSHIPS. Israel assembled a lacrosse team just two weeks before the European championships. An eighth-place finish earned the team membership in the Federation of International Lacrosse and a place in the 2014 World La-crosse Championship in Denver.

THANkS To THE ISrAEl DEFENSE ForcES, A NEw SUrGIcAl SImUlA-Tor DEbUTS. Dr. Warren Selman overheard a discussion on flight simu-lation between two Israeli pilots and was inspired to invent the Selman Surgical Rehearsal Platform (SRP). IDF support means the Platform is already being used to educate sur-geons, and once FDA approves, it will be used with real patients.

JErUSAlEm wElcomES 10,000 PUP-PET FANS. The Jerusalem Puppet

Festival in August was the largest ever held in Israel. The Train Theatre venue hosted over 100 shows in six days.

wITH ISrAElI HElP, kENyA rEmovES Al-qAEDA From SomAlIA. The Ke-nyan army has captured Somalia’s In-dian Ocean port of Kismayo, driving Al-Qaeda’s Somali terrorist franchise Al Shabaab out of its last strategic stronghold. Israeli support included planning and intelligence advice, un-manned drones and counter-terrorism training.

THE yArkoN FISH rETUrNS AFTEr 50 yEArS. The freshwater Yarkon Bleak fish (otherwise known as the Lebanon fish) hadn’t been seen in the mid-stretches of the Yarkon River for several decades, but thanks to a substantial improvement in water quality, Acanthobrama telavivensis have returned to inhabit their ancient waters.

THE PrImE mINISTEr STUDIES TorAH. PM Benjamin Netanyahu returned from the Negev to attend his second study session in honor of his father-in-law, who died last year. Bibi said he came from the biblical

desert landscape back to Jerusalem to “connect to the foundations of our existence, and there is no firmer a foundation than the Bible.”

ISrAElI-ArAb TEcHNIoN GrADUATES Go For GolD. Metallo Therapy is developing a cancer treatment using gold nanoparticles that are injected into tumors to improve the effect of radiation therapy. Metallo has three Arab-Israeli employees, two of them Technion graduates and two of them women.

THErE’S STIll TImE To PArTy IN TEl AvIv. Temperatures in the coun-try’s second-most populous city are currently in the upper 20s Celsius – that’s the mid-80s Farenheit – so there is still time to enjoy the top beaches in the world. Particularly, Gordon Beach was recently featured in CheapFlights.com’s list of top 10 beaches worldwide.

Editor’s note: This list courtesy Mi-chael Ordman and verygoodnewsis-rael.blogspot.com.

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mAzEl TovAJTGeorgia Advanced Surgery Center for Women’s Moravec, Ribot at Signature Chefs Auction GASC LEADERSHIP SHOWS SUPPORT FOR MARCH OF DIMES

Jewish community members and Georgia Advanced Surgery Center for Women (GASC) leaders Elena Moravec and Dr. Hugo Ribot attended the 2012 March of Dimes Cobb Signature Chefs Auction held re-

cently at the Marietta Country Club. The GASC was a sponsor of the annual event, which benefits the March of Dimes’s research and medical advancements for infants and children. The mission of the March of Dimes is to help moms carry out full-term pregnancies and research the problems that threaten the health of babies. Opened in May 2010, the GASC is Georgia’s first and only Joint Commission-accredited surgical facility for performing all major and minor gynecological surgeries in a true, proven outpatient setting. Located in Cartersville, Ga., the state-of-the-art, freestanding ambulatory facility specializes in highly advanced laparoscopic and other minimally invasive surgical techniques that spare women unsightly incisions and costly hospitalization and provide for faster and less painful recovery than traditional surgery (see GaAdvancedSur-geryCenter.com). Moravec is the Center’s marketing director and a Buckhead resident, and Dr. Ribot is GASC founder and director and a member of Temple Kol Emeth.

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cHANA’S corNErAJTThe Life and Demise of Suze A FICTITIOUS CHARACTER TAKES OVER

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As our children grew up, my husband and I did our best to ensure that they’d be good people. We tried to present

them with role models who were gen-erous, caring, hard working, creative, honest and G-d-loving. In this carefully curated world, our young daughters were nurtured and challenged to do the right thing. Yes, those were the halcyon days when our children were under our total control. Of course, once our daughters be-came parents, our days of “hands-on” became days of hand wringing. My husband still believed in role model-ing, but I decided to take a more direct approach, and to this end, I devised a clever plan. Our grandchildren loved to hear stories about my childhood, so I decided to make up thrilling, moral-bearing whoppers. I told the grandchildren

the stories were true to underscore my message. In these fake tales, my brother Aar-on and I were always good and heroic protagonists – characters with whom I believed my listeners would side – and there was also an entirely-fictitious third recurring character to demon-strate what not to do: the antagonist, a bad girl named “Suze.” The “Chana, Aaron,and Suze Sto-ries” became our grandchildren’s most requested entertainment. If they wan-dered toward the TV set, all I had to do was shout: “Oh, I just remembered something else that Suze did!” Suze was every adult’s nightmare; every mischief imaginable, she commit-ted it. Every story I made up involved Suze doing something awful, and Cha-na and Aaron would always deal wisely with her. The wrought stories always showed altruism trumping selfishness: In them, being bad was, well, bad. Thus, when

our grandchildren began to beg for more of the tales, I was overwhelmed with self-congratulation. What a fine grandparent I was! For a year or so, the three-character saga was told and embellished, Sche-herezade-like, until I (the tale-bearer, so to speak) had my comeuppance. It came to pass on the playground, as I was enjoying the antics of our grand-children and their friends, when I was approached by a group of parents. They seemed upset. Had one of my grandchildren swiped a swing out of turn, stomped a sand structure or cut into the slide line? I moved over on my bench, but no one sat. “What’s going on?” I asked. “Who’s this ‘Suze’?” one of the par-ents challenged. “How do you know about Suze?” I responded in disbelief. I’d only told the stories to my grandchildren. “How do we know about Suze? Our kids don’t talk about anybody else,” they responded. “It’s, ‘Suze did this’ and ‘Suze did that!’ “So, does Suze go to this school?” was their demand. “Suze isn’t real!” I exclaimed. “I made her up to show my grandchil-dren how they shouldn’t act! Do your kids talk about Chana and Aaron? My brother and I are supposed to be the he-roes of the stories.” “We don’t know anything about you and your brother,” they replied. “Your grandchildren told our kids every single bad thing that Suze does, and they just love Suze. What were you thinking?” “They love Suze? Impossible!” I cried. “She’s a horror. She’s despica-ble. She’s mean, selfish, tricky, bossy, sassy.” “That’s right!” the group called out in unison. “But I invented her to show my grandchildren how NOT to be!” I stam-mered. “They keep asking for more and more stories. It’s hard work thinking of horrible things for Suze to do!” “Right, especially when she gets in trouble and has to go into time out,” was the sarcastic retort. “They just love that. They know it won’t do any good, because Suze will be bad again the next day. Even our older kids are crazy about her!” “There is no Suze! None of it’s true!” I begged. “You’ve got to tell your chil-dren I made it all up!” The women simply stared back at me.

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Editor’s note: Chana Shapiro is an educator, writer, editor and illustrator whose work has appeared in journals, newspapers and magazines.

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Emory University Brings Closure to a Painful Era of Its Past FILM RECOUNTS HISTORY; SCHOOL ACKNOWLEDGES, APOLOGIZES

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With the simple words “I’m sorry…we’re sorry,” Emo-ry President James Wag-ner brought a measure of

closure to a shameful chapter in Emo-ry’s history. The period of time referred to en-tails a long and tangled story brought to light by Dr. Perry Brickman, himself a victim of the anti-Semitic atmosphere fostered at the Emory Dental School by one man, Dean John E. Buhler. It began with Emory flunking some 65 percent of Jewish dental school stu-dents between 1948 and 1961; many who were not thrown out were forced to repeat one or more years. The men who failed did not under-stand; many of them, like Brickman, had been top students. Still, embar-rassment and shame led to a wall of silence: They feared telling their par-ents. They were humiliated and kept their secret from wives and friends. Then, later – after many went on and received dental degrees else-where and founded thriving practices – they continued to keep their secret, this time from patients. They feared what might happen if their patients found they had been deemed “not good enough” for their profession.

Early Efforts Silenced An attempt was made in the early 1960s to expose the facts. Art Levin, head of the Anti-Defamation League at the time, said: “A young man came to me and said he’d been flunked out. He’d been to the Jewish Community Council, the Jew-ish dental fraternity and the Jewish War Veterans. None of them believed him. “They said he was making up an excuse for his inability. I was able to show that 65 percent of the Jewish students had flunked out.” Wanting to confront Emory him-self, Levin was instead convinced by the Jewish Community Council to let them take the lead. The dean they spoke to denied any anti-Semitism but also said he wouldn’t do it anymore. “They were triumphant,” Levin re-membered. “[But] he’d been torturing Jewish students. I didn’t accept it as an excuse, so I went up to see the pres-ident with a friend, Morris Abram.” University President Sidney Wal-ter Martin was out of town, but the information eventually made its way to Dean Buhler, who soon resigned. Sadly, when asked if there was any re-lation between charges of discrimina-tion and Dr. Buhler’s resignation, Dr. Martin replied: “Absolutely not, there’s no substan-tiation to those charges. Dr. Buhler could have remained if he chose to.” End of story? So it seemed. The Jewish community allowed the story to die a quiet death. “Don’t make waves” was the prevalent attitude among many of Atlanta’s powerful Jews at the time. Some felt happy the situation was resolved, and some were upset that there was no acknowledge-ment, but it was over. overdue Unearthing Fast forward to just a few years ago. Eric Goldstein, who had studied as an undergraduate at Emory, returned as a professor. In 2006, he curated an ex-hibit, “The Faces of Emory,” which in-cluded some information on the dental school statistics. Brickman attended the exhibit, and there was the story he had known about, the history he had experienced personally and painfully. Coming to Emory in 1949, Brickman studied as an undergrad for two years and then entered the dental school in 1951. Seeing the exhibit brought back continued on the next page

those years, and he began wondering what happened to the other people who had been forced to leave. He started talking to people and found that the entire chapter had been submerged. He even uncovered the application form Dr. Buhler had used, with a place for race that gave the options of “Caucasian,” “Jewish” or “other.” That form, presented to Dean of Faculty Jake Ward, had been the nail that sealed Buhler’s coffin – even though the University denied the con-nection. Brickman decided to approach Goldstein – who at the time was teach-ing a class on the history of Emory with a focus on Jews – about the situation. Shortly thereafter, they began to work together, discovering Buhler’s papers and tracing former students who had been affected by the anti-Semitism, while Brickman began keeping a re-cord of the men he interviewed, record-ing many discussions on video. A subsequent meeting with Provost Earl Lewis led Brickman and Gold-stein to Emory vice president Gary Hauk, with whom the pair shared the short film Brickman had compiled from his research. Thus, the three be-gan a discussion of what Emory might do to acknowledge the history and do the right thing to try to repair its dam-age. “This is a piece of Emory history comparable to Emory’s entwinement with slavery before the Civil War. It’s there,” Hauk said recently. “It has been acknowledged but has lain quietly in the archives in most respects. Like all chapters of human history, it’s better talked about, looked at and dealt with as best a community can.” Hauk had Brickman edit his video down to about an hour. “It’s hard to view,” he said. “There’s a lot of bitterness and heartache. I thought it would be good to bring in a professional filmmaker to use that material and augment it with mate-rial, other images, and comments by Emory people like professors Deborah Lipstadt and David Blumenthal.” Brickman and Goldstein heeded the advice and brought in documentary

filmmakers David Hughes Duke and his son John. “He tells the sto-ry in a compelling way,” Hauk said of the Duke’s work on the finished product. “It’s a positive sto-ry. This is an over-looked chapter that has come to light in a constructive way, with an end to re-pairing the damages that were done to re-lationships, building

new bridges between the Emory com-munity and other parts of our commu-nity.” Hauk’s office sent out a letter sev-eral months ago to approximately 50 individuals that Brickman had identi-fied as former students or next-of-kin to those no longer alive. The message was one of acknowledgment of the inci-dents and an invitation to a reception and viewing. The response was remarkable. “Some longish letters, speaking with pride of their ability to succeed; some saying they never expected this day to come,” Hauk said of the replies received. “Some said, ‘I’ll be there with bells on.’ “Our actions have to match our rhetoric,” he continued, speaking to the University’s responsibilities. “Our mission statement says that we are an ethically engaged, inquiry-driven com-munity. We know we have to wrestle with the big questions, never ducking the moral questions of our time.”

The long-Awaited Apology Finally, on Oct. 10, came some sort of closure. At a private reception in the Woodruff Library, about 100 people – many of them the formerly disgraced dental students, along with their fami-lies, some friends, and members of Emory’s administration – met to talk openly about that era in their lives. There were tears, laughter and grati-tude to both Emory and to Brickman for making the evening possible. Yes, there was still anger and frus-tration; but there also was pride at how so many of them had overcome a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to become leaders in their field and suc-cessful professionals in spite of the deep scars inflicted by John Buhler.

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Emory Honors Brickman’s Bravery

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Dr. Perry Brickman was one of the many Jews who faced discrimination at Emory University’s dental

school in the 1960s. Though he went on to a highly successful career as an oral surgeon, the pain caused by the event never left him. As our main story (see opposite page) details, Brickman recently helped bring to light the sad saga, and last Wednesday’s events were due in large part to his tenacity. Now, Emory has chosen to honor Dr. Brick-man with the following citation:

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As part of the reception, President Wagner offered a heartfelt apology. Knowing he couldn’t atone for the pain and suffering, he instead welcomed those in attendance, saying what they couldn’t have heard half a century ago: “The Emory community claims you as one of its own.” Wagner, like Hauk, made a com-parison between this issue and that which the university faced for its in-volvement in slavery. “The university is opening a window into another regrettable chapter of its past, and it is similarly important to acknowledge and state our regret for it,” he said. “The university’s silence on this matter meant that many for-mer students not only struggled to get their careers back on track, but also dealt with lingering feelings of shame and anger because the true causes of their experiences were never publicly acknowledged. “By recognizing this chapter in the dental school’s history, we may help in some small way to heal the wounds felt by these former students. We also need to cure the infection – or excise the tumor, if you will – that has affect-ed the institution itself… “As president of Emory University, I hereby express in the deepest, stron-gest terms, Emory’s regret for the anti-Semitic practices of the Dental School during those years. We at Emory also regret that it has taken this long for those events to be properly acknowl-edged… “Emory can never totally repair the impact that discrimination had on Jew-ish dental students more than a half-century ago. But we can use the op-portunity provided by Dr. Brickman’s research to reflect on these events in ways that make us more vigilant. We owe him thanks for helping to remind us that events like these will never be possible again.” Professor Lipstadt was part of a panel discussion that followed a screening of the film. “We have 20 faculty teaching the broad range of Jewish studies, a mag-nificent Marcus Hillel Center, a Cha-bad House, a university that bends over backwards to do whatever it can to make Jews, though not just Jews, feel comfortable here. That’s a whole lot more important,” she said. “But to-night is historical…it speaks volumes about our university.”

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Holy Days Pass, Bittersweet Tears Linger WHY THESE PARCHED CHEEKS HAVE BEEN DAMP OF LATE

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Open for me the gates of righteousness;I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.This is the gate of the Lord, Through which the righteous may enter.

- (Psalm 118)

By nature, I’m not a crier. That doesn’t mean that I am bereft of deep emotions, only that my tears, of joy or

of sadness, simply do not flow forth with ease. So why did I well up with tears when we chanted the above verses in synagogue during the recent celebra-tion of Sukkot? As meaningful as the Psalm is, I realize that it was the plaintive mel-ody that tugged at my heart so com-pellingly. The particular melody that Rabbi Julie sang transports me back nearly a half-century, to San Fran-cisco during the “Summer of Love” of 1967, and a commune at the edge of Haight-Ashbury called The House of Love and Prayer. That summer, home from ye-shiva, I was an on-and-off resident of the House. They even ordained me “Assistant Resident Messianic Prophet in Training.” For a yuk, check out the abbre-viation on that one! But I digress. The resident guru of the House was Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. At that time, there were other gurus in the world of New Age Judaism, but none had the renown of Sholmo; he com-posed and sang beautifully exuber-ant and doleful melodies in hip coffee houses, folk festivals and the like. He regaled his devotees and hangers-on with wonder-tales and parables from the mouths of saintly Chasidic mas-ters (Google him if curious). The first time I heard Shlomo sing Psalm 118 was on a Saturday night after we bid the Sabbath farewell. About 50 of us crowded into the liv-ing room of the House, sitting on the floor, singing, clapping, swaying and holding on to each other shoulder-to-shoulder. I recall being surrounded by a feeling of all-wellness, wrapped in peace, welling up with love. Vietnam, draft cards and political intrigue would have to wait. If only we could envelop the world in such a joyous,

healing sensation. For me, it was a coming of age, truly a Summer of Love. Today, it is the taproot from which my bit-tersweet tears flow when chanting Shlomo’s mystical melody; I am back in San Francisco in ‘67, in the House during sweet and innocent times. Then, as if the described instance wasn’t enough, I cried once more dur-ing these past holy days, on Simchat Torah. How ironic on a day dedicated to rejoicing with the Torah! I spent the holiday in Atlanta with my kids and grandchildren, davening at Young Israel of Toco Hills. Men and women, most of them half my age, circled the Torah scrolls, dancing and whirling while they raised their voices in Hebrew songs that celebrated G-d and His Word. Later, as the dancing subsided, the little children – at least a hun-dred of them – crowded the bimah to receive their special blessing. They huddled under a huge tallis as we joyfully pronounced: “May the angel who redeemed me from all evil now bless these chil-dren!” Watching my grown children dancing and singing and my grand-children being led to the bimah for their blessing, I could no longer re-strain my tears. Almost half a century has passed since the summer of Shlomo and the House. What has happened to us during the intervening years – birth and death, youth and old age, joy and regret, achievement and failure – is almost too much to fathom. So we shed a tear for what once was, then another for the promise of what may yet be. We take the poi-gnant and the promising, yearn for bygone days and marvel at our chil-dren having grown to adulthood as their own children now huddle un-der the magical tallis to receive their blessing. How could one not look longingly back and hopefully forward without welling up with tears of the bitter and the sweet?

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

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We’re all familiar with the term “crunch time.” It probably brings to mind a time of stress, a time

when you were focused on getting something done and done right. Now you can look back on that time or event, laugh and wonder why you were so stressed. It turned out wonderfully, right? Right now, I am in my own crunch time. My school is putting on its first-ever co-ed theatrical production, and I am the student director. For me, this means late nights, more work and plenty of emotions to deal with – my own and others’. But, more importantly, it means that six months from now I will look back at this “crunch time” and smile at the accomplishment. The stress of perfecting an Ad-vanced Placement paper when I get home at 9 p.m. will mean nothing; the perpetual concern that no one will hear the actors will fade away; the

frustration and anxiety will amount to naught. It is the production — the changed lives, the laughs and tears, the relationships built — that will mean the world for all eternity. You see, this production is not just a production. It is a fight and vic-tory against “High School Musical”-esque stereotypes that have for years stopped boys from taking part in the-ater and generally limited the high school experience. The bottom line is that theater is painted as a girly activity, but this is a misconception. Case in point: After last year’s beautiful and successful Chagiga — my school’s for-women-by-women production — many of the guys were feeling excluded. That we have even reached this point is a miracle. Long ago, in Shakespeare’s time, theater was ac-tually forbidden to women, but now it seems we’ve flipped the problem in high school productions – teenage guys who act are rare and sometimes even mocked. There is no reason to associate any activity with one gender only un-

less the goal is to stereotype or even exterminate the activity. The world’s culture needs men and women in unison – in banks, in offices, at home, on stage. After all, if “life is a stage,” then everyone deserves a chance to play. And this is where we come in: High school is about breeding the future generation, and so should be a place where people can try new things, go out on a limb and find themselves. Step by step, with the help of many people, our current produc-tion was put together. No one would have expected the cast to be made up of who they are, and that – for me at least – is the joy of this show. The people in it are not stereotyped ac-tors – they are people who saw an opportunity, grabbed it by the horns and took charge! The cast, representing different grades and backgrounds, has re-ally proved that everyone deserves a chance to play. During one afternoon practice, our administrator walked in for a visit. She took one look at the kids on stage and pulled me aside,

chuckling: “How great is this? There are so many boys, and most of them even came from separate-gender schools. Look what we’re giving them.” She’s right. We’ve carved out an opportunity to go after theater that is open to all. Thus, when I look back on this show years from now, I won’t be thinking about the sleep-loss, the anxiety or the bumps along the path. I’ll be thinking of one thing: that while there may have been only seven people in it, that led to seven newly opened doors, seven newly carved relationships, seven feelings of confidence boosted and seven lives changed.

Editor’s note: Eden Farber, 15, is a soph-omore at Yeshiva Atlanta. She was rec-ognized in the Jewish Heritage National Poetry Contest of 2010 and has published op-eds and poetry in Modern Hippie Mag-azine and the NY Jewish Week’s Fresh Ink for Teens section.

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Medicine as a business is evolving. Both in re-sponse to contemporary needs and economic reali-

ties, many professionals have begun reexamining the systems in which they practice. One answer resides in “concierge” medicine, a revamping of the doctor-patient relationship based on a flat annual fee and nearly un-limited access to top-notch care. Atlanta physician, Dr. Sanford Schwartz offers The Atlanta Jewish Times insight into his own decision to leave the traditional model, in ad-dition to his thoughts on this innova-tive, sometimes controversial move-ment.

AJT: First off, you use the term “pre-ventative care.” could you elaborate on that?

SS: In the old system, we were seeing so many patients a day that by that time you were doing the absolute minimally necessary work. We never had time to get into those preven-tative things [i.e., lifestyle related questions]. For example, we examined this guy who was a pretty sick guy, had pretty serious heart disease. While he was sitting here, he just kind of mentioned a chest pain he was hav-ing, and because we allow at least a half hour for every office visit, I had the time to say, ‘Well. let’s get back in the examining room and see what you’re talking about.’ In other words, we have the op-portunity to go the extra distance to be a complete doctor.

AJT: what is your current business model?SS: There’s an annual fee of $1,500, and that covers a very elaborate, exec-utive-type physical. Worth magazine

called it one of the 10 best physicals in the country, in the same category as that of the Mayo Clinic, the Cleve-land Clinic and Johns Hopkins. In this physical, we do a much more elaborate cholesterol test-ing. I would say that a good num-ber of people come to the hos-pital with heart attacks have “normal” choles-terol – that is, if you look at cho-lesterol the way we did in the 1970s. Today, there are other ways of looking at cho-lesterol, and in our more elabo-rate physical, we can do the more elaborate choles-terol testing.

AJT: I take it you prefer this sys-tem to the tradi-tional one?SS: Well, to me it’s a no-brainer, but I’m sure to other people it’s not. For me, it’s the way to go because the oth-er way was very hectic; it was hectic for me and hectic for the patients. When we used the old approach, patients were always waiting in the waiting room, [but now], we have virtually no waiting room. We have several chairs, but those are for the people accompanying the patients – when someone brings their wife in, or someone brings their husband in, or someone brings their mother or fa-ther in. I would never like to say my visit was rushed, but with the old model, I never had all the time that I wanted to do everything that I wanted to do.

AJT: Now, the big question – what inspired you to switch from a tradi-tional practice?SS: I was very dissatisfied with the old system. A couple of colleagues had tried this, liked it and got me interested in it. The old system was frustrating for the doctors and for the patients.

AJT: Is there any difference in admin-istration or the kinds of resources you have access to?SS: Well, each office is different, but

in my case, we still have the same of-fice administrator. We’re still a divi-sion of a larger office, so I don’t think administratively we’ve changed, but administration is still much simpler

because we have a smaller number of people. Plus, with this approach, I’m on top of things, whereas I couldn’t be on top of things before.

AJT: Focusing on the bigger pic-ture, what are your thoughts on the nation’s health care sys-tem at large?SS: It certainly is broken, and it needs fixing. But I’m not an au-thority on health care in America, other than to say that the system needs fixing and

there’s many ways of fixing it.We just have to start fixing it, and it if it’s the wrong way, we have to back up and try something else. But we can’t leave it the way it is.

AJT: Finally, how do you feel about the ways in which people are refer-ring to this new model of care?SS: The term “concierge” is a little derogatory. [To me], concierge means we send out a Rolls Royce to pick you up at your home and bring you here. We like to call it a preventive care model. The nickname is concierge or “boutique,” but I think that those are not really accurate. This is personal-ized, it’s preventive; if you only have a couple hundred patients, you can be very personalized. Beth, our receptionist, she knows everyone. My assistant, she knows everyone. We only have three em-ployees, and because we only have three employees, they get to know everyone and everyone gets to know them. You know the patients, you know their wives, you know their kids, and that’s the way medicine should be practiced.

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Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States and will claim more than 49,000 lives this year. On the other hand, it’s also one of the few cancers that, when detected in its early stages, is highly preventable through a screening colonoscopy.

Following the American Cancer Society’s guidelines, the board-certified phy-sicians at Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates (AGA) recommend screening colonoscopies for every adult beginning at age 50 (African-Americans beginning at age 45). For those with a family history of colon cancer, or other risk factors, screening should start at a younger age. The primary goal of a screening colonoscopy is to examine the large intestine using an endoscope to find and remove any abnormal growths or polyps. Be-cause polyps grow slowly and may go through precancerous stages and eventu-ally become cancerous, removing them during a colonoscopy eliminates the risk of polyp growth, thus preventing colon cancer. Most colon polyps and early cancers don’t produce any symptoms, so it’s vi-tal to notify your doctor if you notice symptoms such as blood in your stool or a change in bowel habits. Other colon cancer symptoms include persistent ab-dominal discomfort, chronic fatigue and unexplained weight loss. Although some people are apprehensive about having a colonoscopy, the physicians at AGA make every effort to alleviate patient’s concerns before the procedure by answering questions about the screening and discussing the prep-aration required. Said “prep” – which clears the lower intestine of its contents – may be the most feared part of a colonoscopy, but a wide variety of alternative methods are now available, so physicians can choose the best option based on individual patient needs.

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Beat the Odds YOU CAN PREVENT A STROKE

The Future of Orthodontics is Here INVISALIGN MAKES A BEAUTIFUL SMILE ATTAINABLE

by mIcHAEl FrANkEl, mD For the Atlanta Jewish Times

You may not know it, but you live in the area of the U.S. known as the “Stroke Belt.” For reasons that remain un-

clear, people who live in the Southeast have a 50 percent higher risk of dying from stroke than people who live in other parts of the country. That being said, our region’s deadly distinction doesn’t mean you can’t beat the odds. With some basic knowledge and lifestyle changes, you can great-ly reduce your chances of having a stroke.

Dispelling Stroke myths

You’ve heard them all before: the many myths about stroke, who’s likely to have one and the likely outcome. It’s time to learn the facts:

Myth: Strokes only happen to old • people. It’s a consequence of aging. Fact: One quarter of all strokes occur in people under the age of 50.Myth: I’m going to die from some-• thing, so it might as well be a stroke. Fact: Only 20 percent of stroke victims die from the event. Most survive, though half of stroke survivors are left with major disabilities.Myth: Men are more at risk • for stroke than women. Fact: Among stroke deaths in the U.S., men account for about 40 percent and women for 60 percent. Women may be at greater risk because they tend to live longer.

know your risk Factors

Strokes are preventable. Knowing your family history is important, but being responsible for those risk factors on which your behavior and habits can have an effect is even more vital. First of all, high blood pressure is a major risk factor for stroke, so monitor your blood pressure, get it under control and take all medications as prescribed. Avoid smoking and know that a smok-er who quits immediately reduces their chances of having a stroke. Having diabetes, high cholesterol and being overweight can also contrib-

by brETT GlUck, DmD, mS For the Atlanta Jewish Times

There is now an easier way to achieve a great smile without undergoing conventional orth-odontic treatment: Invisalign

is a way to align your teeth without braces, instead using a series of clear plastic aligners molded into progres-sively straighter versions of your own teeth. The benefits of this alternative method include a much less noticeable appearance in comparison with braces and a distinct absence of painful wires causing discomfort to the inside of your mouth. In fact, throughout the day, most people will not even realize that you are wearing the aligners, and the ability to remove the aligners to brush and floss allows for better hygiene throughout the treatment. For these reasons, Invisalign Teen is often the perfect choice for the self-conscious or “hygienically challenged” teenager. Plus, being able to remove the aligners means that patients are still able to eat during treatment all of the foods that they do now, meaning there need be no modification of diet like that which comes with conventional orth-odontic treatment.

The Timing couldn’t be better

The Invisalign process has evolved dramatically since it was first intro-duced in 1999. At the time the method was introduced, orthodontists were us-ing the aligners only for simple cases. Now, with an experienced orthodontist providing the proper treatment plan-ning, Invisalign can be utilized in vir-

ute to your stroke risk. Eating healthy, managing diabetes, exercising and see-ing your doctor for regular check-ups can make a big difference.

know the Symptoms

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, a stroke occurs. Knowing the symp-toms and what to do can mean the dif-ference between maintaining function and suffering disability, let alone life and death. F.A.S.T. is an easy way to remem-ber the sudden signs of stroke:

F • is for face-drooping: Does one side of the face droop, or is it numb? Ask the person to smile.A• is for arm weakness: Is one arm weak or numb? Ask the person to raise both arms; does one drift downward?S• is for speechdifficulty:Is speech slurred, is the person unable to speak or are they difficult to un-derstand? Ask the person to repeat a simple sentence; is the sentence repeated correctly?T • is for “time to call 911”: If the person shows any of the above symptoms, and even if those symp-toms go away, call 911 and get them to the hospital immediately. The sooner a stroke victim gets to the hospital, the sooner brain-sav-ing treatment can begin.

The right care and the right Time

While it’s important to get medical attention quickly, getting a stroke vic-tim to a certified stroke center is best. These hospitals comply with the latest guidelines for the treatment of stroke. As the first hospital in the South-east to have a 24-hour stroke team for emergency care, Grady Memorial Hospital is again leading in stroke care and innovation with its Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center. Through re-search, cutting-edge technology and a team of nationally renowned experts, the Marcus Center offers advanced care in a state-of-the-art facility unlike any other.Editor’s note: Michael Frankel, MD, is a Professor of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine, Chief of Neurology and Director of the Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center at Gra-dy Memorial Hospital.

tually all levels of tooth malalignment; in fact, the process achieves the same results in the same amount of time as braces. What’s more, new three-dimen-sional scanning technology allows Invisalign patients to avoid the most uncomfortable part of the initial re-cords-taking process – that of creating an impression. No longer is it necessary to taste and feel the unpleasant plas-ter, as a more accurate representation of the teeth can be created and relayed directly to a computer. Next, the resulting scan is morphed and manipulated to create a series of images of your teeth in different phases of the process, each shifting towards a straighter and straighter alignment. Finally, the images can be downloaded directly from the orthodontic office to Invisalign to start the treatment plan-ning process, which also lessens the time to fabricate the Invisalign trays. In fact, Invisalign has purchased the company that produces the most capable machine for this purpose, the Cadent iOC scanner. With such de-velopments, the days of traditional orthodontic treatment with braces and uncomfortable impressions are nearing the end.Isn’t technology wonderful?

Editor’s note: Dr. Brett Gluck, DMD, MS, PC of the Brace Place (bracedoc-tor.org; visit locations in Alpharetta or Johns Creek) obtained his doctorate in general dentistry from the Medical Uni-versity of South Carolina and his mas-ter’s in orthodontics from the University of Louisville.


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Recipe for a Healthy Lifestyle FIVE STEPS TO SLOWING DOWNAND BEING HAPPY

by lAUrEN zImET AND kATE DrUmmoND For the Atlanta Jewish Times

Recently, we were asked, “What is a healthy lifestyle?” Most of us are aware that eating nutritious foods full

of real nutrients from the earth that Hashem made – including a “rainbow” of fruits and vegetables full of antioxi-dants; clean, lean kosher protein; and plenty of water – and getting sleep and exercise will make our brain and body happy. That being said, what we’d like to share is that living a healthy lifestyle is connected to feeling happy. To increase your happiness and health, we need to slow down, and not only on Shabbos, but each and every day. But what exactly do we mean by “slow down”? Check out this recipe and tell us what you think:1. Usepositiveaffirmations – talk to yourself, nicely! No need to beat your-self up because of mistakes made. Now, that doesn’t mean you should let goals and work ethic slip; just ac-knowledge your goof-ups, learn from them and analyze what went wrong and what you can do better next time. Stating a positive affirmation to yourself in the mirror, perhaps each time you go to brush your teeth, would be a great starting place.2. Set goals – you need to believe it to achieve it, because as Esther and Jerry Hicks teach, “what you think about, you bring about.” So start thinking about what you want! This is the first step in manifest-ing your dreams, and this healthful practice is beneficial to demonstrate for your children too.3. be mindful – everyone benefits when you are present. As the saying goes, “It is a present to be present.” Unfortunately we as a society are quite used to multi-tasking through our days, and “busyness” even tends to be rewarded. Many of us have become conditioned to feel important and vali-dated when our schedules are packed.

If you can just practice putting your full attention to a task – one thing at a time – you will find space and peace. A good place to start is with simple tasks, such as washing your hands, washing the dishes, unloading the dishwasher or folding laundry. Take the time to pay attention to your breath, water tem-perature, feeling of fabric or any other sensory experience. 4. breathe deeply – slowing down our respirations physically impacts our ner-vous system, both the parasympathetic and sympathetic. The sympathetic nervous system kicks in when we feel danger – our cor-tisol level goes up, and all systems are on for protection – while the parasym-pathetic nervous system controls our basic life functions including breathing, heartbeat, digestion, etc.5. commit loving acts of kindness – be nice to yourself (though that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hold yourself ac-countable; it’s healthy to keep your word). When we are gentle, loving and kind to ourselves, we can more easily be gentle, loving and kind to others in the world. We know Hashem wants a peace-ful world for us. And really, if we all did more mitzvoth, practiced random acts of kindness, we would see and feel a hap-pier and healthier lifestyle in America.

So, what is a healthy lifestyle, you ask? Well, we feel it’s that sense of well-being you get from loving your life with all of its beauty, bumps and imperfec-tions and being present for the ride. Editor’s note: Lauren Zimet, CCC/SLP, and Kate Drummond, OTR, are co-directors at The Healthy Foundations Program. Brain health, social thinking and sensory integration are provided at the Healthy Foundations Studio in De-catur, Ga. for children of all ages and abilities; call (404) 944-9561 for more information.

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Botwinick Volunteers at Grady Heart Monitoring UnitINSPIRED BY LIFE-SAVING SURGEON

Osteoporosis: What You Need to KnowQ & A WITH WELLSTAR’S DR. KELLY WESELMAN

Avi Botwinick, an Epstein School alumnus now in his freshman year at The Weber School, first became interested in cardiology in 2005, when his father had a heart attack that resulted in a quadruple bypass. He was inspired by the cardiothoracic surgeon who saved his father’s life,

Robert A. Guyton, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University Hospital. Botwinick turned interest into action this summer, spending many hours volunteer-ing for the institution that housed his father (which is now part of the Grady Health-care System). In particular, he will forever remember his time in the telemetry unit, where patients are under continuous elec-tronic monitoring. “The best part about it was interacting with the patients,” Botwinick said. “It was so interesting to learn about their lives, and we shared a lot of laughs. Knowing that I was helping to make their day a little brighter made me feel so good.” Avi began by giving 8 hours of his time per week, but he enjoyed it so much, the hours soon grew to 16 (and then 20). He helped by taking discharged patients to their cars, passing ice around to patients, getting food trays from the kitchen, answering phones, making packets, obtaining supplies from supply distribution and running errands around the hospital. Avi hopes to someday attend Johns Hopkins University.

From wEllSTAr mEDIcAl GroUP For the Atlanta Jewish Times

Researchers estimate that ap-proximately one out of five American women over the age of 50 have osteoporo-

sis, making it the most common bone disease. What’s more, about half of all women over the age of 50 will have a fracture of the wrist, hip or vertebra. Dr. Kelly Weselman, MD, FACR, knows these facts all too well. A rheu-matologist with WellStar Medical Group Rheumatology, she sees many patients who suffer from the afore-mentioned conditions. Here, Dr. Weselman answers the questions she is most frequently asked about osteoporosis.

q: what is osteoporosis?

A: Osteoporosis describes a decrease in bone strength that is associated with an increased risk for fractures. Approximately 20 percent of post-menopausal Caucasian females have osteoporosis. Hispanic and African-American women have a lower risk of osteoporosis than Caucasians, and men have a lower risk than women.

q: can osteoporosis be prevented?

A: There are several risk factors for the development of osteoporosis; some of those risk factors can be modified, and some cannot. There are steps one can take to prevent development of osteoporosis. These include avoiding tobacco use, engaging in daily exercise and con-suming adequate calcium and vitamin D. Additionally, limiting alcohol in-take to no more than two drinks a day and avoiding excessive caffeine intake can help to prevent a decline in bone density.

q: How much calcium do I need a day?

A: Adequate daily intake of calcium and vitamin D varies according to age and gender. Postmenopausal women generally require between 1,200 and 1,500 milligrams of calcium and 600 to 800 IU of vitamin D each day, while


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q: who should be assessed for risk?

A: All women age 65 and over should be assessed for risk of osteoporosis. This includes measurement of bone density with dual-energy X-ray ab-sorptiometry (DEXA) of the spine and hips as well as assessment of other risk factors to determine need for treat-ment. Women younger than 65 and men should be screened with DEXA if they have medical problems that affect their risk of osteoporosis or are taking medications that increase their risk. Risk assessment also includes a discussion with your doctor regarding other risk factors in addition to bone density score, especially before chang-ing any medications you are taking.

Editor’s note: Dr. Weselman is a fellow of the American College of Rheumatol-ogy and a member of the Georgia Soci-ety of Rheumatology, American College of Physicians and American Medical Association. She is board-certified in rheumatology and internal medicine.

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The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. Opens First Location in AtlantaGET A “REAL BAGEL” HERE AT HOME Staff Report

Pioneering bakery-restaurant The Original Brooklyn Wa-ter Bagel Co. has opened its first Atlanta-area location

at the Akers Mill Square (2955 Cobb Parkway S.E., Suite 240). The new 3,300-square-feet restaurant is open seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“The Original Brook-lyn Water Bagel Co. restaurants in other parts of the country have attracted large followings, and we’re confident we’ll see the same type of demand in At-lanta,” said Tony Yang, the franchise owner. “We’re excited to provide spe-cial offers for our customers so that can come in and taste the best bagels in town and see what everyone is talk-ing about.”

Founded in 2009 in Delray Beach, Fla., the Original Brooklyn Water Ba-gel Co. is positioned to revolutionize the quick-service food industry world-wide. With proprietary water technol-ogy that creates “Brooklynized” water, each location can produce a distinc-tive Brooklyn bagel anywhere in the world. The menu includes the tradi-tional plain, sesame or poppy seed ba-

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Customers can also experience the original Scooper Melts – an oven-fresh bagel expertly scooped to the crispy interior, filled with the customer’s choice of meat, cheese, vegetables and condiments and then baked to melted perfection. What’s more, the restau-

rant will offer an extensive catering menu for any oc-casion.

“Our com-pany continues to add locations throughout the

country, and now Atlanta area resi-dents will get a chance to have the ul-timate bagel experience,” said Steven M. Fassberg, founder and chief execu-tive officer of Brooklyn Water Enter-prises, Inc. “We’re going to be provid-ing area residents and businesses with an excellent choice for any meal, social gathering or business meeting.”

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ArTS & lIFEAJTKosher Movies: Incendies (2010) SILENCE IN DENIS VILLENUEVE’S MOVIE AND IN JUDAISM

by rAbbI HEbErT coHEN AJT Contributor

When I was a student in an afternoon Hebrew school many years ago, we would misbehave and

cause grief to our well-intentioned teachers. I remember vividly that, one day when the teacher left the room, we started to play catch – not with a ball, but with a tefilin bag that had tefilin still inside of it.

Our teacher suddenly returned, and his face turned ashen when he realized what his charges were do-ing in his absence. He said nothing; he didn’t have to. We were desecrat-ing that which he felt (and what we should have felt) was holy. Later, we found out that our teach-er was a Holocaust survivor, and we immediately sensed the folly of what we had done. He had never spoken about his past; we just assumed he was another teacher to harass. That indelible scene still lingers with me today and was brought to the forefront of my mind as I watched “Incendies,” a film that reminds us of how little we know of the many people who occupy our lives. “Incendies” opens with the reading of the will of the recently passed Nawal Marwan, a Christian woman raised in a turbulent Middle East where Chris-tians and Muslims war with one an-other. She lived in Canada for the 18 years immediately before her death, working as a legal secretary for one employer for the entirety of her stay. Despite such a long tenure, her employer barely knows her other than as a loyal and dependable worker. In an interesting twist of fate, he is now functioning as the executor of her es-tate and must inform her twin son and daughter Simon and Jeanne of an unusual request made by their late mother. Nawal has asked that they deliver two letters: one to their father, whom they have never seen; and one to their brother, a man they didn’t know ex-isted. Although Simon considers this request a sign of his mother’s mad-ness, Jeanne sees it as an opportunity to uncover the truth about who her mother really was. She accepts the as-signment from the executor, and this sets in motion a journey to a war-torn country in the Middle East to discover the past of the deceased.

When Nawal’s son dismisses his mother as unstable and reclusive, he naively assumes that he knows who his mother was. Because of his youth-ful arrogance and insensitivity, he does not yet understand that his mother’s quiet demeanor – her reticence on top-

ics of such import as other family mem-bers – may have been her strategy for survival. As the narra-tive unfolds, we dis-cover that Nawal’s life consisted of un-speakable horrors, and yet she some-how survived and lived, at least out-wardly, a normal life. However, her demons continued to haunt her, and her response was to never confide in her children or reveal to them anything about her past.

Jewish tradition echoes her re-sponse of taciturnity in the face of tragedy. In his first meal after the death of a loved one, a mourner eats a hard-boiled egg, perfectly round and without an opening – without a mouth, as it were. This reminds the mourner that, in confronting the finality of death, the most appropriate response is silence. There are no words to make things better. One of my teachers, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, gave me another per-spective on this matter that relates to Nawal’s hesitance to reveal secrets to her children. He taught that, in some circumstances, to not speak would contribute more to a situation than speech; he said that it is often wise to “strangle the shout” than to engage in a conversation, the consequences of which are unclear. Our sages tell us that “there is nothing better for a man than silence,” implying that sometimes it is through restraining from speaking that our goals are best accomplished.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Cohen, former princi-pal of Yeshiva Atlanta, now resides in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Visit koshermovies.com for more of his Torah-themed film reviews.

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ArTS & lIFEAJTADL Brings “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin” to Atlanta SIDLIN’S MULTIMEDIA CREATION AT WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER

by roN FEINbErG Web Editor

Dark and painful memo-ries of the Holocaust hung about the Woodruff Arts Center late last week. The

melancholy mood filled symphony hall following the final notes of a special concert sponsored by the Anti-Defa-mation League. The Atlanta program, “Defiant Re-quiem: Verdi at Terezin,” has been in the works for a year or so. The experi-ence – a bit of theater neatly wrapped up in an operatic score filled with ce-lestial melodies, fire and brimstone – played to a full house. The artistic approach was novel: a euphonic blend of classical music backed by a massive and exuberant chorus; a fine quartet of soloists and a couple of narrators on stage; and Ho-locaust survivors on tape to help the audience understand the history and context of the work.

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Terezin was a small garrison vil-lage near Prague that the Nazis turned into a ghetto during World War II. Life was difficult there and across Eastern Europe; indeed, there was a daily struggle for survival with little food and medicine. Both the Germans and the ele-ments were brutal. Thousands died of starvation and disease and thousands more were transported to Auschwitz, the nearby death camp where at least 1 million Jews became part of Hitler’s “final solution.” Composer Rafael Schächter walked into this madness and managed to bring both light and hope to his fel-low inmates. His story is remarkable, filled with the stuff of legend. Before the outbreak of war, Schächter was al-ready making a name for himself as a conductor, a man of exceptional talent who had a charismatic personality. As the horrors of life took hold in Terezin, Schächter not only pulled together a chorus of 150 inmates, but managed to teach them Verdi’s “Re-quiem.” The story goes that all learned from a single score and were accompa-nied by just a legless upright piano. Schächter and his chorus per-formed the requiem 16 times, often just for their fellow inmates but occa-

sionally for SS officers, Ger-man officials and other dig-nitaries. The performances were quietly spectacular, a bit of spiri-tual light in a dark and lone-ly place: For a few hours, survivors report they were no longer victims, but defiant men and women holding on to the idea expressed by Schächter that they could “sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.” moving and melancholy

“Defiant Requiem,” the multimedia concert-drama performed in Atlanta last week, was created by Murry Sid-lin. The founder and president of The Defiant Requiem Foundation, Sidlin

also served as conductor for the two-hour affair, man-aging to lead both the Atlan-ta Symphony Orchestra and the symphony orchestra cho-rus while han-dling much of the dialogue

that detailed the horrors that played out at Terezin nearly seven decades ago. It was a subdued cross-section of metro Atlanta’s Jewish community that sat quietly in Symphony Hall, caught up in the iconic work of Verdi that had been transformed into some-thing even bigger by Sidlin’s homage to Schächter and the victims of the Holocaust. Moments before, many in the audi-ence had been feasting and schmoozing

at a pre-concert buffet and honoring two Atlantans – Linda Selig and Ben Johnson – for their good works in the community. In contrast, a melancholy tone took hold in the final moments of the performance as the bombastic, soaring notes of Verdi gave way to the achingly sad melody of Oseh Shalom, the Hebrew prayer that plaintively calls out for peace. Then, surprisingly, members of the chorus began making their way from the stage, followed by the soloists and members of the symphony. As the stage grew dark, only a single violinist remained, playing the final mournful notes of Oseh Shalom and surrounded by the fading totes of the requiem and the lingering ghosts of the Holocaust.

Editor’s note: Next week, The Atlanta Jewish Times explores one of the most bizarre and infamous stories linked to the Holocaust and the Jewish ghetto of Terezin.

“Defiant Requiem” creator and conductor murry Sidlin leads the ensemble at the Oct. 18 performance at the Woodruff Arts Center. PHOTO/Harold Alan Photographers

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The story of the celebrated Tuskegee Airmen — the first African-American pilots to fly in combat during World War

II — is told through “The Tuskegee Air-men: The Segregated Skies of World War II,” housed at the Anne Frank in the World exhibit in Sandy Springs. This addition to the exhibit’s per-manent, titled “The Tuskegee Airmen: The Segregated Skies of World War II,” explores the history and heroism of the first African-American pilots to fly in combat during World War II. In 1941, the U.S. Army established a segregated training program for Afri-can-American pilots at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala. Over the next five years, more than 1,000 pi-lots trained in what became known as the “Tuskegee Ex-periment,” and the “Red Tails” – as they became known in combat – compiled a stellar record during the war. They, as well as the 16,000-some men and women who served as sup-port personnel, made up a group of un-deniable courage and skill that helped bring about the desegregation of the United States Armed Forces. The Air-men’s contributions to the Allied war effort influenced President Harry Tru-man to integrate the military in 1948. Now, “The Tuskegee Airmen” – a series of 10 panels on display at Anne Frank in the World until Dec. 20 – of-fers a look into the historical chal-lenges and triumphs of these unsung American heroes. “We hope the exhibit will be rep-licated by other institutions and com-munication resources and will reach not just the youngest population, but the total population,” said original Tuskegee Airman Val Archer. “We don’t know how the history books will record what the Tuskegee Airmen did, but somehow, someone will remember this,” said Hiram E.

Little, also an original member of the storied bunch. The Georgia Commission on the Ho-locaust awarded the Tuskegee Airmen with the 2012 Humanitarian Award at the State Official Observance of the Victims of the Holocaust. Addition-ally, students of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Atlanta decorated a trunk honoring the Airmen for the Holocaust Learning Trunk Project, a joint effort of the Commission and the Georgia Department of Education which provides educational materials about WWII and the Holocaust to all middle-school educators in Georgia. “The Tuskegee Airmen” comple-

ments “Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran Wil-liam Alexander Scott III,” another exhibit also housed at Anne Frank in the World. The latter is a permanent display that follows Scott, a photojournalist in a segregated bat-talion and witness to the liberation of Buchenwald concen-tration camp, as his experiences inspired him to speak out about the dangers of

unchecked hatred, prejudice and dis-crimination. Scott was a tireless civil rights leader, whose message resonates with hundreds of visitors to the Anne Frank in the World exhibit each year. A trav-eling version of “Witness to the Holo-caust” will be available to schools and libraries throughout Georgia in 2013. “The Commission is dedicated to in-stilling a sense of personal responsibil-ity to combat indifference and apathy so individuals will not be a bystander in the face of bigotry and discrimina-tion,” Viki Staley, Commission Execu-tive Director, said. “These exhibits and the Holocaust Learning Trunk Project allow the lessons of the Holocaust to reach students and adults through awareness and education. Partnering with Kennesaw and the Department of Education strengthens these core values.”

Editor’s note: For more information and exhibit hours, visit holocaust.geor-gia.gov or call (770) 206-1558.

The Tuskegee Airmen are the subject of “The Segregated Skies of World War II,” at Anne Frank in the World until Dec. 20. PHOTO/courtesy the Ga. Commission on

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chai Trip to Savannah, itinerary and price now available. For Breman Museum Chai level members. Leaving Tues., Dec. 4, and returning on Thurs., Dec. 6. thebreman.org. RSVP or upgrade membership via (678) 222-3758 or [email protected]

SAT., ocT. 20Shabbat learner’s minyan, small infor-mal prayer group discussing hows and whys of Shabbat prayer. Sat., Oct. 20, 10:30 a.m. Congregation Etz Chaim. RSVP by Oct. 18 to [email protected].

worship in Pink, celebrate with Komen Atlanta to raise breast cancer awareness by wearing pink. Includes informational packets for participants. Sat., Oct. 20, 9 a.m. Congre-gation Shearith Israel. shearithisrael.com.

Parent’s Night out, evening of games, crafts, activities, dinner and movies. Sat., Oct. 20, 6 p.m. $30/child + $10/sibling (mem-bers); $40/child + $15/sibling (non-mem-bers). MJCCA’s Zaban Park. RSVP to [email protected], (678) 812-3830 or atlantajcc.org.

Singles mixer, metro Atlanta Singles’ first official mixer. Sat., Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Spice Brick Oven Kitchen. meetup.com/Met-ro-Atlanta-Singles.

SUN., ocT. 21cDT Adult Enrichment, “The Atlanta Jew-ish Times: Then and Now” with speaker AJT

publisher Cliff Weiss. Sun., Oct. 21, 9:30 a.m. Monarch School. (770) 623-8860.

women’s Study Group, Rosh Chodesh group study begins with yoga and medita-tion led by Paula Coplon and Sheri Frohlich. Sun., Oct. 21, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Etz Chaim. RSVP by Oct. 18 to [email protected].

Jewish History Through cooking, class taught by executive chef of BLUNUVO. Sun., Oct. 21, 10 a.m. Free. The Epstein School. RSVP to [email protected] or (404) 250-5649.

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Jewish Genealogical Society, amateur genealogist Karien Daniel speaking; open library for visitors to track their own geneal-ogy. Sun., Oct. 20, 1 p.m. $12/adults, $8/seniors. $6/students-teachers, free for mu-seum members. The Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Unveiling for rabbi Ichay, honoring the memory of Rabbi S. Robert Ichay. Sun., Oct. 21, 2 p.m. Greenwood Cemetery. (404) 633-1737.

Family rock concert & Dinner, a Or Ve-Shalom Sisterhood FUNdraiser featuring “The Helpers.” Rain or shine. Sun., Oct. 21, 5:30 p.m. (dinner), 6:30 p.m. (concert). Or VeSha-lom Social Hall. [email protected].

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Adult Hebrew Program, Ulpan Ivrit hosted for spoken Hebrew. Next meeting Tues., Oct. 23, 6 p.m. Chabad Israeli Center. (404) 252-9508 or [email protected]

92nd Street y lecture Series, first pro-gram, “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back” with Thomas Friedman. Tues., Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m. $5/person. Congre-gation Etz Chaim. RSVP by Oct. 19 to [email protected]

minyan leadership lessons, “Show Me the Way: Leading the Daily Minyan” first of three parts. Sun., Oct. 21, 5:15 p.m. $25/person (optional for copy of Siddur Sim Sha-lom). Congregation Etz Chaim. Register by Oct. 8 at etzchaim.net/lilmodereg.

moN., ocT. 22camp barney open House, for families interested in the 2013 sum-mer season. Will include a musical presentation and nosh for refresh-ment. Mon., Oct. 22, 7 p.m. Congre-gation Dor Tamid. (770) 623-8860.

music on main Street, featuring The Baal Shem Tones. Mon., Oct. 22, 7 p.m. Free admission. MJCCA (lobby). [email protected].

Judges, Prophets, rebbes, & kings, a Tanach class studying the Book of Isaiah. Mon., Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. Free. Congregation Beth Tefil-lah. Register at chabadga.com/jlc.

Hebrew reading 102, class series to in-crease fluency, follow-up to Hebrew Boot Camp instructed by Roz Reiss. Mon., Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. Congregation Etz Chaim. RSVP by Oct. 18 to [email protected].

TUES., ocT. 23welcome reception, in honor of Michal Niddam, Israel’s new economic consul for our region. Hosted by McKenna Long & Aldridge; drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

The baal Shem Tones.

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by rAcHEl lAvIcToIrE

AJT Contributor

As I write, it’s a beautiful day in St. Louis. The fall breeze plucks leaves from the trees, yet the sun makes the

weather warm enough for shorts. As far as I know, it’s similar in Atlanta: a classically beautiful autumn. So, then, how is it that I often feel like I’m living in the middle of a tor-nado? It’s Saturday, and here’s my list of things to do: Write two essays…make a study guide for math…write a short story…read philosophy articles…email pro-fessors…squeeze in time to talk to my parents…cheer on my friends at a game of ultimate Frisbee…catch up on my favorite shows…raise money for our upcoming fundraiser…and go to the store to buy groceries.

Do I even have to mention the ba-sic functions of eating, sleeping and having friends? I realize that I’m only 18, so my credibility in the following statement is fairly low, but I think everyone can agree that there’s at least some truth in the following: Our world and society are con-stantly speeding up, things move at a much faster pace than they used to. If it isn’t our schedule that causes the world around us to spin like a tornado, then it’s the media, or the expectations, or the new technology, or that ever-changing carpool sched-ule that keeps you on your toes. One month, a magazine will tell you that a certain food is bad for you and pro-vide methods for keeping yourself mo-tivated to exercise and avoid that bad food. The next month, you aren’t even reading magazines because paper has

become obsolete. So it’s the magazine on your Kindle that tells you that same certain food is no longer the danger food, that the one to watch out for is really another. The icing on the cake? While you’re running around trying to buy the right food so that you can pack healthy lunches for both yourself and your kids, you remember that Sally changed the carpool schedule from last week, and you’re supposed to be in line to pick-up waiting kids in five minutes.

looking to Parsha

It’s in moments like that described above that you might ask, “So, G-d, where’s my Ark?” Appropriate, then, that this week’s Torah portion, Noach, tells the well-known story of Noah and the Ark: G-d instructs the titular individual – the only upstanding and ethical man in the world – to build an Ark and speci-fies that he should bring his family and two of each type of animal onto the boat with him. Then, after all have boarded, it rains for 40 days and 40 nights, a tor-rent with which G-d wipes the earth of all corrupt people. Finally, once the earth is dry, all exit the Ark and are responsible for repopulating the earth with virtuous people. Towards the very beginning of the parshah, G-d warns Noah of the impending flood; then, He makes a promise to his chosen man: “…I will set up My covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you and your sons, and your wife and your son’s wives with you” (Genesis 6:18). In other words, G-d is going to protect Noah from the upcoming storm. Do you not wish you had an Ark for yourself, a place to which you could re-treat when your life began to storm?

Shelter from the Storm

Well, guess what? We all have Arks. When G-d gives his instructions to Noah, he tells him, “asah lecha teivah” (Genesis 6:14), which is com-monly translated as “make yourself an ark.” Consider, though, that the word used for “ark” (teivah) can also

mean “word,” and you can see: As the Ark was meant as a place for Noah to seek refuge, the words of the Torah serve the same purpose for us today. Let’s say you’re having a day where you wake up just not feeling your best. Maybe your hair is disheveled or a zit appeared during the night. Flip to Psalm 139:14, which says, “I praise G-d because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” Maybe you are going to try some-thing new today. Whether it’s that Zumba class at the gym or your first day at work, new experiences are scary. Thus, you might flip to Joshua 1:9: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your G-d will be with you wher-ever you go.” Maybe it’s not one thing, but ev-erything, from which you seek refuge; you feel as though your life is in com-plete disarray, that nothing is work-ing out as you planned. You could look to the book of Isa-iah: “And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them into light... these are the things I do, and I do not forsake them” (Isaiah 42:16). In conclusion: No, we don’t have a physical Ark for protection. We can-not hide within a beautiful boat made of gopher wood that measures 300 by 50 by 30 cubits. We do, however, have a teviah – the word of G-d – so that we may withstand the storm that our lives frequently become.

Editor’s note: Rachel LaVictoire is a graduate of the Davis Academy and Westminster High School, recipient of the prestigious Nemerov Writing and Thomas H. Elliott Merit scholarships at Washington University of St. Lou-is and an active member of Temple Emanu-El and the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.

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Parashat NoachRIGHTEOUS ACTIONS CAN LIVE ON

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by rAbbI NEIl SANDlEr

Ahavath Achim Synagogue and the Atlanta Rabbinical Association

The years have shrouded the specific incident; all I re-member now is my father’s punchline in response to my

objection. As to what I objected and what happened, I’m not sure; what I do know is that I apparently saw my fa-ther do something that disturbed me because I knew he didn’t ordinarily do such things. Whatever it was, I called him on it. He looked at me with a twinkle in his eye, smiled and said, “Do as I say, not as I do!” “Gotcha, Dad…” I said resignedly. Though I can no longer remember the particulars, a general image of the incident has remained in my memory because it was so exceptional. Long after my parents ceased to exert di-rect influence on me, I often reflected on the tremendous role models both Mom, of blessed memory, and Dad were and still are for my sister and me. As I said at my mother’s funeral, we are who we are because of our par-ents, plain and simple. The importance of parents (and grandparents) as role models was reinforced for me awhile back, when I was asked to speak with a class of Epstein School students about Moses as a role model. I began by asking the students to identify role models in their lives, and, as one might expect, parents were high on the list. Apparently, parents were high on the list of medieval biblical commen-tator, Rashi, too. On the matter, he cited the opening verse of our parasha for the week, Noach: “These are the offspring of Noah…Noah was a righteous and whole-hearted man in his generation; Noah walked with G-d.” Most frequently, we focus on its lat-ter half of this verse as we interpret it. Was Noah a relatively righteous individual, or was he an absolutely righteous person? Did his righteous-ness stand out among his peers only because of the immoral nature of most people at that time, or would his righ-

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teousness have shined at any time? Rashi, however, focused on the first half of the verse. “These are the off-spring of Noah,” it says; but who were these offspring? Though the Torah shares their names a bit later in this portion, there is no mention of Noah’s children in this verse; only Noah’s righteousness is mentioned. According to Rashi, quoting Gen-esis Rabbah, it was Noah’s righteous actions that were his most enduring offspring. The Torah thereby teaches you that the real progeny of righteous people are their good deeds. Think about it: After a person dies, we remember his or her actions. But memory eventually fades. How do we recognize his or her continuing pres-ence in the world? One primary way is through the individual’s children. While a child’s nature is a product of many environ-mental factors, among the strongest are the effects his or her parents had in shaping it. Often, the unseen presence in a person’s righteous actions is his or her parents’ righteous actions that in-spired this quality in their offspring. If so, that is because those parents were generally positive role models for their children. Some of us are well beyond the child-rearing years, but many of us in that group can still have great influ-ence on the nature and direction of grandchildren. Generally speaking, we will not influence the youngsters to the degree their parents do, but, if we are fortunate, we can still have an important impact on them and on their nature. So shouldn’t we consider the type of role models we are for them too? Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Your actions speak so loud, I can’t hear what you are saying.” If this is the case, may our actions loudly proclaim our righteousness – not only for our own sake, but for the sake of those who look to us for direc-tion. Shabbat Shalom.

Editor’s note: Rabbi Neil Sandler is the senior rabbi of Ahavath Achim Synagogue and president of the At-lanta Rabbinical Association.

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