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a comprehensive community calendar
FEBRUARY 5-7, Friday-Sunday:
— Beth Jacob Torah Retreat, Guntersville, Ala.
FEBRUARY 6, Saturday:
—Gate City Lodge "Hawks Night.”
9 a.m. — Boy Scout Troop 73 Scout Sabbath, Congregation Or
VeShalom.
7:30 p.m. B’nai Torah Sisterhood Auction. Tower Place Hotel.
FEBRUARY 7, Sunday:
—Sandwoody ORT Study Group, Home of Hilda and Allen
Goodelman.
9 a.m.—Citywide Blood Drive, Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
FEBRUARY 8, Monday:
10:30 a.m. Wildwood Pines Group, Meeting, Home of Ragolda
Stein.
6:30 p.m.—Atlanta Chapter of Hadassah's Education Night, Home
of Jennie Blau, 1737 Ridge Valley Court.
8 p.m.—Nashe Shalom B’nai B’rith Women, Home of Esther
Rechtman, 1608 Johnson Road.
FEBRUARY 10, Wednesday:
10:30 a.m. -Jewish Book Review Club Meeting, Atlanta Bureau of
Jewish Education.
FEBRUARY 13, Saturday:
7:30 p.m.—Temple Beth David Art Auction, Summit Chase Country
Club.
8:30 p.m.—L’chaim Chavurah BYOB Gathering Party, Home of
Leslie Leavitt, Tempo Majestic II Apartments, 3638 Buford Highway,
Apt. 8
FEBRUARY 14, Sunday:
11 a.m.—Jewish War Veterans Bi-Centennial Post 976 Meeting,
Decatur Federal Savings and Loan, Dunwoody.
7:30 p.m. — AJCC Club 50 Meeting, AJCC/Zaban.
FEBRUARY 15, Monday.
2 p.m.—American Mizrachi Women Meeting, JNF office.
7:30 p.m.— NCJW, Young Professionals Branch Meeting, Home of
Jill Diamond, 3207 Henderson Mill Road, Apt. 0-8.
FEBRUARY 16, Tuesday:
11:30 a.m. -Ahavath Achim Sisterhood Donor Luncheon, Srochi
Auditorium.
Mizrachi women to meet at JNF
Young Professionals learn
about domestic violence
The Young Professionals
Branch of the National Council of
Jewish Women will meet at 7:30
p m Monday, Feb 15, at the home
of Jill Diamond, 3207 Henderson
Mill Road, apartment 0-8. Her
telephone number is 939-1260.
Jack Mallory, head of the
Domestic Crisis Intervention
Program of the Child Services and
Family Counseling Center, will
discuss some of the more
frequently asked questions about
domestic violence.
Members are asked to bring a
paper item for the Battered
Women’s Shelter such as paper
towels or toilet paper, in place of
an admission cost.
JWV Post 976
sponsors art auction
The community is invited to an
art auction sponsored by the
Jewish War Veterans Post 976,
Saturday, Feb. 20, at the
Marriott/Perimeler Hotel off I-
285
Auction time starts at 8:30 p.m.,
preview at 7:30 p.m. Each couple
or single attending the auction will
also receive a free lithograph and
there will be a door prize.
Admission is $2.50 a person,and
refreshments will be served. The
art collection includes works by
Calder, Chagall, Dali, Leroy
Neiman, Picasso, Norman
Rockwell, Vasarely, Heshi Yu and
many other internationally
recognized artists. Etchings,
engravings, watercolors, original
oils, batiks, sculpture, enamels and
various mixed media will be
offered, in addition to lithographs.
Visa and Mastercard will be
accepted.
At the recent Beth Jacob
Installation/Awards dinner
“Members of the Year” awards
were given to Louis Taratoot and
Linda Miller.
Taratoot served as president of
Congregation Beth Jacob during
1979-80, has been a member
since 1963, and currently is serving
as parliamentarian on the board.
Taratoot, along with his wife
Bunnie, and sons Barry and Jeffrey,
continues to be active in all Beth
Jacob activities.
M tiler is serving her second term
as sisterhood president and has
been a member of Beth Jacob for
17 years. Shd was literally brought
up in the congregation as her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Krieger, served as president
of the congregation and sisterhood
respectively. She is married to
Donald Miller and they have four
daughters, Sylvia, Amy, Julie and
Kimberly.
Other awards were given to
AJCC Club 50
to hear Lou Davis
The AJCC Club 50 will present
an evening with Lou Davis at 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, at the Zaban
Branch.
Davis, of WSB-TV’s 2-the-
Point will address the issues of
"The Reagan Cutbacks and Their
Effect on Adults Over 50 ” A social
hour will follow the presentation
and refreshments will be served.
Club 50 is an ongoing group for
adults, married and single, ages 50
and over, that meets the second
Sunday of each month.
For further details regarding
Club 50, or this specific program,
call Jen Feldman, Zaban Branch
supervisor, or Marcie Pretekin,
adult services worker, 396-3250.
Book review club
to meet Feb. 10
The Jewish Book Review Club is
presenting a discussion of the life
and works of Hannah Senesh at
10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10.
Hannah Senesh was a young
Jewish poetess in Palestine, who in
1944 volunteered to go into
Nazi-occupied Hungary on a
rescue mission. Captured, tortured
and executed, she is now a symbol
of heroic resistance to the brails.
Mrs. Lu Glenn, who recently
visited Hungary and Israel, will
lead the discussion of Senesh’s
diary and poetry.
The public is invited to attend.
The meeting will be held in the
library of the Atlanta Bureau of
Jewish Education, in the rear of
the Atlanta Jewish Community
Center on Peachtree.
William Lerner tor chairing the
goods and services auction of
1981; to Susan Shumsky for her
chairing of the art auction last
year; to Joseph Hershey for service
rendered at the Sunday morning
minyan breakfast; and to Ann
Dershowitz for active participation
as chairman of the Junior Youth
Activities this past year.
Dr. Sheldon May was awarded
for his teaching of the Chumash class
each Tuesday night on a volunteer
basis; and to Norman Raab for
untiring devotion as chairman of
the year-round Ushers’Committee.
The newly elected officers
installed are: A. Robert Maran,
president; Michael Feinerman,
M.D., Gerald Epstein, Stanley
Steinberg and Dr. Mark Fisher,
vice presidents; Joseph Gellman,
recording secretary; George
Wertheimer, financial secretary;
Murray Siegel, treasurer; Louis
Taratoot, parliamentarian; and
Tillie Shapiro, honorary treasurer.
AJCC adults
to view film
The AJCC adult department
will be showing the film, “Nan’s
Class,” Wednesday, Feb 17, at
AJCC at Zaban
The film follows a number of
couples attending Lamaze
childbirth classes, beginning with
the last months of pregnancy,
through labor and actual delivery.
The film will be shown free to all
participants in the AJCC Lamaze
classes; a $2 donation is requested
from all other couples.
Reservations are requested; for
further details, contact Jen
Feldman, Zaban Branch
supervisor, 396-3250.
Rabbi Tam to speak on
Moral Majority
Rabbi Donald Tam of Temple
Emanu-El will speak on The
Moral Majority on Sunday
morning, Feb. 7, at the North
Campus of DeKalb Community
College, located in Dunwoody at
the intersection of Lilly Mill and
Womack Roads.
The public and Temple Emanu-
El congregants are invited to
attend. Coffee will be served.
For further information, call the
Temple Emanu-El office, 257-
0633.
Purim workshop
to be offered
The Bureau of Jewish Education
and the Early Childhood
Department Parents' Group are
offering a workshop for parents
who have young children.
The Workshop "Making a
Joyous Purim,” will offer arts and
crafts to decorate the home,
baking hamantaschen, learning
how to retell the story of the
megillah, and learning the
significance of Purim.
Sara Spotts and Shelly
Edelschick are the presenters. The
workshop will be at 9:30 a.m.
Monday, March 1, at Zaban
So you want
to tell a story?
For all those times you tried to
tell a Yiddisha story, but didn’t
know how...For all those times
you wanted the perfect Jewish tale,
but couldn’t get it together- Fret no
more!
The AJCC adult department
and the Bureau of Jewish
Education are co-sponsoring a
four-week workshop on “How To
Tell A Jewish Story.”
Classes will be held on Thursdays
for four weeks from 8-9:15 at the
Peachtree building, beginning
Feb. 18.
The fee is $14 for members and
$17 for nonmembers.
For further details, call Jen
Feldman, Zaban branch
supervisor, 396-3250 or Cheryl
Finkel, assistant director. Bureau
of Jewish Education, 873-1248
The Atlanta Chapter American
Mizrachi Women will hold its next
meeting at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb.
15, at the Jewish National Fund
office, 3 Piedmont Center, Room
416. All Mizrachi members are
asked to bring their Mizrachi Blue
Boxes to the meeting.
Harvey Schwartz, JNF Atlanta
director, will present a new film,
“Norm Crosby in Israel.” Mrs.
Lillian Geller, co-chairman of the
recent Mizrachi Donor Dinner,
will have an evaluation of the
donor.
Three years ago, a group of
Atlanta's professional Jewish
youth workers formed a council to
foster the growth of programming
for Atlanta’s Jewish youth. The
goals of the Atlanta Jewish Youth
Workers Council (AJYWC) were
designed to maintain and
strengthen Jewish identity among
young people and to promote
communitywide interest in youth
activities.
AJYWC will direct its energies
to forming a resource pool for
program ideas, contacts and
membership, to coordinate a
community youth calendar, and to
support the Federation’s citywide
programs. Members of the
AJYWC decided that these goals
should be implemented through a
governing youth council to be
comprised of liasons from every
She will also present the slate of
officers for 1982-83.
A cake sale is being planned to
be held in February, date and place
to be announced. To volunteer,
call Eva, 634-5961
Canteen managers Bessie
Borstein and Eva Iteld need help at
the canteens at the Peachtree
AJCC and at Zaban Park. Call
Bessie, 872-2907, or Eva and
volunteer to give a few hours.
Anyone able to give a ride, or
anyone needing a ride, call
Charlotte Rich, 872-8960.
Jewish high school-aged
organization in our community.
As a result, this past fall an Atlanta
Jewish Youth Council (AJYC) was
formed and is now an integral part
of the community.
Plans are underway for
AJYWC’s and AJYC’s first major
event. The two councils will
present Debbie Friedman live in
concert. Friedman is known
throughout the country as a
concert performer, composer,
recording artist and song leader.
Some of her works include: “Im
Tir-tzu,” "Thou Shah Love,” and
most notably “Not by Might. Not
by Power.”
Friedman’s concert will be held
Sunday afternoon, March 21, at
Ahavath Achim Synagogue
Ticket information will be
available soon.
Beth Jacob awards its members
Debbie Friedman to perform
PAGE 17 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE February 5, 1982