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Organizations What’s Happening 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