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AJF to sponsor energy workshop
An energy management
workshop, sponsored by the
Atlanta Jewish Federation's
Energy Conservation Committee,
will be held from 5-9 p.m.
Thursday, April 29, at the
Federation.
All synagogues, Federation
agencies and Jewish organizations
who have their own buildings are
invited to attend. The workshop
will provide technical information
on understanding utilities and
utility rates, on surveying a
building for conservation
opportunities and on implementing
key energy measures.
All key leaders of these
organizations are invited to attend,
especially those people who are
responsible for the energy
management of a facility.
Dinner will be provided. There
is no cost for the workshop.
Citywide blood drive
to be held May 2
The American Red Cross
announces that the 131st
consecutive quarterly Citywide
Blood Drive, cosponsored by the
Mack Frankel Atlanta Post 112
Jewish War Veterans and Ladies
Auxiliary and Fulton Lodge No.
216 F&AM, will be held from 9
a m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 2, at
the Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
All donors will receive a free
continental breakfast.
Community participants
include all Atlanta synagogues,
B’nai B’rith Lodge No. 1773, the
Loganville American Legion Post,
the American Legion Post No. 77,
the Red Devil Club and the Shrine
clowns.
Donations to help continue this
program may be sent to JWV,
Fulton Lodge Blood Bank, P.O.
Box 4974, Atlanta, 30302.
Memorial collection to be dedicated
On Friday, April 30, at Shabbat
evening services, Congregation
Beth Shalom will formally
dedicate the Rabbi Samuel I.
Zakuto Memorial Library
Collection.
Rabbi Zakuto, who received his
doctor of divinity honoris causa
from the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York, spent the
17 years prior to his death as rabbi
of Temple Israel in Valdosta. He
served as rabbi for the Waycross
Jewish community, traveling there
weekly during his stay in Valdosta.
He also served as chaplain at the
South Georgia Medical Center
and at Moody Air Force Base in
Valdosta.
Bom in Liverpool, England, in
1903, the son of Rabbi Gabriel
Zakuto, Rabbi Zakuto was
actively involved in the Jewish
Temple Sinai hosts
Haim Sharett
Temple Sinai will host an
evening with Haim Sharett at 7:30
p.m. Monday, May 3. Sharett is
the central shaliach to the Reform
movement attached to the aiiyah
desk of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations (UAHC).
Sharett will be in Atlanta under
the auspices of the Association of
Reform Zionists of America
(ARZA). He will speak to the
combined ARZA chapters of
Temple F.manu-El, the Temple,
Temple Beth David, and Temple
Sinai. He will give the local ARZA
chapters a report on the present
and future projects of the Reform
movement in Israel, and will
address himself to Kibbutz Lotan
and the Mitzpah in the Galilee.
Sharett will bring movies and
slide presentations taken in Israel
and update the local Atlanta
chapters on the struggle for
religious pluralism in Israel and his
personal goal of establishing an
Israel experience as part of the
elementary Jewish education of all
Reform youngsters.
The community is invited to
attend.
community all his life. He was a
member of the Zionist Organization
of America and B’nai B’rith. For
several years he acted as
secretary/treasurer of the
Valdosta United Jewish Appeal,
and served as treasurer of the
Southeastern Region Rabbinic
Association. He was director of a
B’nai B’rith program. “On the Air,"
in Austin, Texas, and Monnessen,
Pa., and the Temple Israel
program, “On thfc 'Air,” in
Valdosta. Over the years he had
been a contributor to The
Southern Israelite.
Congregation Beth Shalom will
welcome Rabbi Zakuto’s wife and
their children. Dr. and Mrs. Allen
H. Stem of Montgomery, Ala.,
Morton and Sandra W. Stem of
Birmingham, Ala., and Morton
and Ua Stern Berenson, to the
dedication services. All friends and
family of Rabbi Zakuto are
invited.
Etz Chaim plans
upcoming events
Congregation Etz Chaim will
hold a Shabbaton on May 7 and 8.
Adult study group topics
include “Shabbos and the I .aw,”
and “Philosophy of Shabbos.”
Cost includes three meals, three
snacks and baby sitting.
For information, call Paula
Schwartz, 992-3898.
‘Avenue of the Just’
to be aired April 26
“Avenue of the Just,” a filmed
story of Christians who risked
their own lives and the lives of their
families to rescue Jews during the
Holocaust, will be shown on
WTBS Channel 17 at 12:05 a m
Monday, April 26.
In all cases documented in the
ADI film, the hero or heroine is
living, as well as the person who
was saved, and together they tell
their stories.
Radio Free Georgia (89.3 FM)
will rebroadcast "The Tragedy of
Ieo Frank” at 9 p.m. Sunday, April
25, and at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April
30.
Jewish Home residents
celebrate April birthdays
The Young Professionals branch
of the National Council of Jewish
Women will be hostesses for the
Tuesday, April 27 birthday party
at 7:30 p.m., at the Jewish Home,
honoring residents’ birthdays in April
The families are invited to attend.
Atlanta Hadassah
to hold raffle
A “Raffle for Research” is being
held by the Atlanta Chapter of
Hadassah to launch its annual
April Appeal.
Donations received support the
continuing research in the fight
against cancer and heart disease
being conducted at Hadassah’s
Moshe Sharett Institute of
Oncology and at the Department
of Cardiology at Hadassah-
Hebrew University Medical
Center.
A trip to Paradise Island is being
raffled on a special $10 ticket.
Included are round trip air
transportation, four days and
three nights accommodations, and
a discount book.
Other tickets may be purchased
in a book of 13 for $25, or
individually at $2 each. Prizes
include two get-away weekends for
two, one year’s membership at
Aerobic Exercise Club, a portable
TV, an AM-FM radio, two
sculptures, and other items.
The Moshe Sharett Institute of
Oncology provides a comprehensive
treatment program for malignant
diseases. Basic and clinical
research are conducted, as well as
teaching and training It is the
largest facility of its kind between
Tokyo and Paris.
Two new instruments, the
echocardiogram and the gamma
camera, are used in the Department
of Cardiology to diagnose and
prevent heart attacks and to
control other cardiac diseases.
The raffle drawing will be June 8
at the chapter closing meeting. For
tickets and information, contact
Phyllis Cohen, 255-2180
What’s Happening
a comprehensive community calendar
APRIL 23, Friday:
4 p.m. —Dr. Bernard Wasserstein of Brandeis University Lecture on
“Jerusalem," Emory University’s White Hall Room 110.
APRIL 24, Saturday:
—Congregation Etz Chaim Sisterhood Art Auction, Patrician
Galleries.
APRIL 24-29, Saturday-Thursday:
— Brandeis Used Book Sale, Phipps Plaza Parking Area at Saks Fifth
Avenue.
APRIL 25, Sunday:
1 p.m.—Yom Hashoa Services, Greenwood Cemetery.
6:30 p.m.—Ahavath Achim Art Expo and Auction, the Synagogue
APRIL 27, Tuesday:
6 p.m.—North Atlanta Synagogues’ Israel Independence Day
Celebration, B’nai Torah Synagogue.
7:30 p.m. — Crosstown ORT Meeting, AJCC/Zaban.
7:30 p.m.—Jewish Home April Birthday Party, Jewish Home.
APRIL 28, Wednesday:
7:30 p.m. Barbara Nevins at the Jewish Tower.
7:30 p.m.—Sandwoody ORT Membership Coffee, Home of Betty
Wagner, 5389 Seaton Drive, Dunwoody.
APRIL 29, Thursday:
’ —Israel Bond Dinner, Peachtree Plaza Hotel.
9:30 a.m.—City of Hope, Spirit of Life Chapter’s Meeting, Home of
Susan Blank, 2487 MacLaren Circle.
5 p.m.—AJF Energy Management Workshop. Federation.
APRIL 30, Friday:
—Dedication of Rabbi Zakuto Memorial Collection, Beth Shalom
Synagogue
APRIL 30-May 2, Friday-Sunday:
—UGA Delta Phi Epsilon Annual Street Dance.
MAY I, Saturday:
7:30 p.m.—Sandwoody ORT Theater Party, DeKalb Federal
Savings, 5571 Chamblee Dunwoody Road.
MAY 1-2, Saturday-Sunday:
—Or VeShalom Musical Comedy; Showtimes, Sat., 9:30p.m.; Sun.,
4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., the Synagogue.
MAY 2, Sunday:
—AJF Walk for Israel.
8:45 a.m.—Shearith Israel Honors Teachers, the Synagogue.
9 a.m.—Citywide Blood Drive, Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
MAY 3, Monday:
10:15 a.m.—Shearith Israel Sisterhood Flections, the Synagogue.
7:30 p.m.—Haim Sharett at Temple Sinai.
Shearith Israel plans celebration
Synagogue celebrations usually
bring thoughts of weddings, bar
and bat mitzvas and holidays.
Congregation Shearith Israel, a
synagogue devoted to ongoing
Jewish education for children,
teen-agers and adults, is planninga
unique “celebration of learning” in
honor of the completion of
Tractate Berachot by its Saturday
afternoon Talmud class
"Scholar’s Evening" will begin at 4
p.m. Sunday, May 16, at the
synagogue.
The guest scholar will be Rabbi
Irving Greenberg, director of the
National Jewish Resource Center.
Rabbi Greenberg, a scholar,
prominent lecturer, frequent
columnist for The Southern
Israelite, and a respected national
figure, is particularly known and
admired in the Atlanta Jewish
community.
The evening marks the
culmination of five years of
dedicated study by the members of
the Talmud class, which includes:
Paul Borstein. Joe Cohen,
Ronald Goodman, W. Heubner,
Ed Krick, E. Morse, David Mink,
Allen Rosenthal, Jack Sadoff,
Rabbi Arnold Samian, Gabe
Sosne, Zalman Sosne, Harry
Werbin. Ben Saffan, H Jacobi and
Rabbi Marc Wilson.
The tractate they have
completed is the foundation of
daily ritual and worship.
The evening will begin with a
“shiur” (scholarly lesson),
delivered by Dr. Greenberg,
followed by cocktails and dinner.
A dessert reception for Dr.
Greenberg and patrons of the
event will be held at the home of
Ellen and Allen Rosenthal The
cost of the evening is $18 a
person. The cost to be a patron is
$100 a couple
Congregation Shearith Israel
invites the community to join in
this meaningful evening of study,
stimulation and fellowship
l or additional information and
reservations, call the synagogue
office at 873-1743.
Friday, 5 p.m. is the deadline for all announcements to be
placed in the Organizations section for the tollowing week’s paper.
Announcements should be typed, double-spaced, and include a
contact number
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