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David Earal
Fred First
The Bar Mitxva of David Steal
of Atlanta will take place at 9:18
a.m. Monday, Sept. 5, at
‘ Beth JbcoI£A con
st kidduah will follow.
,vid ia tHe eon of Mr. and Mn.
Abe Esral. He ia the (
Mr. and Mrs. Steal
the late Mr. and
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Cantor Iaaac Goodfriend (third from right), president of
the Atlanta District, ZionUt Organisation of America,
preeenta the Adolph Rosenberg Media Award for Kfar
Silver Agricultural High School scholarahipa to Dr. Joseph
Sternstein, national ZOA president. At left is Ben Golden,
past president of the Atlanta District.
Atlanta Municipal Court
' Judge Arthur M. Kaplan was
recently sent a certificate of ap
preciation by President Jimmy
Carter for his volunteer life sav
ing and rescue efforts. Over the
last twenty-five years, Judge
Kaplan has administered
emergency first aid to thousands
of accident victims and has sav
ed many lives.
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Rabbi Richard Fagan, 26-
year-old recent graduate of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, has been named the
new rabbi of Savannah’s
Agudath Achitt Synagogue. A
dergraduate degree from
Dickenson College in 1972 and is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He
is . associated with the Institute
for Religious and Social Studies,
a consortium of Jewish and
Christian clergy, and the
National Institute for Jewish
and Christian Relations. He was
on the board of directors of Pro
ject Eire, a program to aid the
poor and elderly on the Lower
East Side of Manhattan.
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L 1Chaim - To Life the WSB
Radio-ADL summer program
will present a discussion of affir
mative action, preferential
treatment, and racial quotas on
Sunday, Aug. 28, at 10:90 p.m.,
on WSB-Radio 750.
Charles F. Wittenstein, ADL’s
Southern Counsel, and Professor
Abraham L. Davis of Morehouse
College will debate the issue of
preferential treatment and
quotas in education and employ
ment, particularly as it relates
to the case of a white, male stu
dent who was denied admission
to the University of California
Madical School despite
qualifications that apparently
exceeded those of some minority
students who were admitted un
der a special admissions quota
established for minority
students.
Aubrey Morris and Stuart
ah will moderate the
Mery Davis
Mary Davis has announced
her candidacy for the Atlanta
City Council from the Sixth
District
A Morningside resident
and active community leader
for the past ten years, Mrs.
Davis is a past president and
current board member of the
Morningside-Lenox Park
Association, having led the
successful neighborhood ef
fort to defeat 1-485. Her ser
vice includes membership on
the city’s Future Funding
Commission, the city’s Task
Force on Energy, and the City
Charter Commission’s Ad
visory Committee.
Mrs. Davis is currently a
member of the State’s Com-
jssion on the Status of
omen and the National
Association of Neighborhoods
Task Force. She was a found
ing member of the City-Wide
League of Neighborhoods and
the Atlanta Coalition on the
Transportation Crisis.
A native Georgian and a
graduate of Emory Universi
ty, Mary Davis is married to
economist Dr. Sidney Davis,
a former resident of Charles
ton, where he was president
of AZA. They have three chil
dren, Anna, 16, Riva, 18, and
: 7.
Esther.
democracy pervaded the 12th
floor reception hall of the United
States Mission to the United
Nations recently, reports The
Southern Israelite's UN cor
respondent David Horowitz. Oc
casion was the swearing in by a
smiling Ambassador Andrew
Young of one of his tong-time
comrades-in-arms in the Civil
Rights movement, Allard K.
Lowenatein, as Ambassador in
charge of Special Political Af
fairs for the world organization.
In a passing remark, Lowenstoin
let the many guests attending
know that “my father was a
Zionist.”
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A steady increase in doctoral
candidates at the Hebrew Union
Coilege-Jewish Institute of
Religion in Cincinnati has
prompted the establishment of
a Graduate School of Jewish
Aliza Begin, wife of Premier
Meoachem Begin, is well again
after a bout of pneumonia and
she was to accompany her hus
band on his official visit to
Rumania this
Mr. and Mrs. Joel A. Harris of
Atlanta announce the birth of a
son, Samuel Jay (Shimon
Yaakov), on July 28. Grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Sackett and Mr. and
Mrs. Haskell Harris, all of
Atlanta. Hie bris was performed
by Dr. Mark Safra.
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Capt and Mrs. Yale A. Shure
of El Paso, Tex. announce the
birth of a daughter, Jean Naomi
(Yohanah Nehama), on August
10. Mrs. Shure is the former
Marilyn Rich. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rich and
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shure, all of
Atlanta. Great-grandfather is
Abraham I. Siegel of Atlanta.
Naming ceremonies were held
August 18 in the Fort Bliss
Jewish Chapel.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomp
son of Atlanta announce the
birth of a son, Jeremy Benjamin,
on May 20. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alpert of In
dianapolis and Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Thompson of Vienna, Va.
The bris was performed by Dr.
Mark Safra.
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Mr. and Mrs. David J. Perling
of Atlanta announce the birth of
a daughter, Suzanne Renee, op
August 5. Grandparents are
Mrs. Irvin Potish of Springfield,
Ill. and the late Irvin Potish and
the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe Perling
of Manchester, Ga.
Fred First, former head of
the Atlanta Police Bureau’s
Executive Protection Section,
has announced hia candidacy
for the Atlanta City Council
city-wide Post 16,
First joined the Atlanta
Bureau of Police Services
upon his arrival in Atlanta in
1970. While police-
community relations officer,
he received the Good
Neighbor Award of the
National Council of
Christians and Jews for
“elimination of inter-group
prejudice.” He also worked
with the B’nai B’rith Anti-
Defamation League in forma
tion of the Georgia Associa
tion of Police-Community
Relations Officers.
A native of Washington,
D.C., First lived for several
years in Miami, where his
parents, Malcolm and
Frances Rosansky First, were
among the founders of a B’nai
B’rith lodge in North Miami.
Beach.
First is a member of the
Temple and Atlanta Lodge
B’nai B’rith. He and his wife
Faye live in Peachtree Hills
with their teenage children,
Marty and Ardis.
Robyn Lm Cohen
The Bat Mitzva of Robyn Lee
Cohen of Doraville will take
at 10:80 a.m. Saturday,
8, at Temple Sinai. A con
gregational kidduah will follow.
Robyn is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Cohen. She is
the granddaughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Cohen of Atlanta j
Mrs. Carl Loef of Gainesville,
Ga.
The Jewish National Fund of
fice in Atlanta reports that, as a
result of numerous requests, an
Elvis Presley Memorial Forest
has been established in the
American Bicentennial Park in
Israel. Numerous trees have
already been planted in rock-
singer Presley’s memory.
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Several courses of particular
Jewish interest are included in
“Evening at Emory” for fall
1977. “Sephardic Art and Musk”
begins September 19 and will be
taught by Sol Baton. .Tzfira
Gitay offers “Jerusalem,” a tour
around historic monuments, also
beginning September 19. “God in
Search of Man: The Biblical
Dialogue Between God and
Man” will be taught by
Yehoshua Gitay beginning
September 22.
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Although the Miami Beach
Police department had only a
few Jews among its 250
members, both the new and the
retiring police chiefs are Jewish.
Rocky Pomerance, who rose to
the presidency of the Inter
national Association of Chiefs of
Police in 1974, is relinquishing
the reins to his assistant, Col.
Larry Cotzin.