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Carrie Rehkopf
Edward Zilberkant
Ahavath Achim plans chamber
The Cultural Arts Committee of
the Ahavath Achim Synagogue
will present its fourth chamber
music concert of the 1983-84 series.
The concert will feature Edward
Zilberkant, pianist, and Carrie
Rehkopf, violinist, on Wednesday,
Dec. 21, at 8 p.m,, at the Ahavath
Achim Synagogue. It is free and
open to the public.
Edward Zilberkant will return
to Atlanta from the University of
Michigan where he received a
scholarship and is a student of
Theodore Lettvin He began his
piano studies in Russia at age 3 and
was enrolled in music school at 6.
He emigrated to the United States
from the Soviet Union with his
parents in 1974. He studies piano
• n Atlanta with Mrs. Betty
Nolling. He was a member of the
Atlanta Youth Symphony and was
a piano soloist with them in Saint-
Saens Carnival of the Animal and
the Tchaikovsky B-flat and
Gershwin concertos. He
performed the Rachmaninoff
Concerto No 2 with the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra.
He has won several competitions
including the Baldwin Junior
Achievement Award, Brevard
Music Camp Concerto competition,
and was a state winner in the
Georgia Music Teachers
Association auditions.
Ms. Rehkopf was born in 1965
in Oak Park, III Her early studies
consisted of the Suzuki method,
and she spent a week at age 10
under Dr. Suzuki's personal
guidance. During her teens, while a
student of Edgar Muenzer of the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she
performed the Brahms. Menotti,
Saint Saens and Wiemawski
concertos. She attended the
National Music Camp at
Interlochen in 1981, where she won
the chair of concertmistress each
week for the eight-week session.
The only violinist to be a winner in
the concerto competition, she
soloed with the World Youth
Symphony Orchestra under the
music concert
direction of A Clvde Roller. Her
chamber music study has included
lessons with Samuel Rhodes of
the Juilliard String Quartet; John
Celentano, former chairman of
chamber music at the Eastman
School; and Luise Vosgerchian,
former chairman of the Harvard
music department. She has
performed in recital in Troy, New
York, Ann Arbor, the Chicago
area, and across Germany and
Austria. Ms. Rehkopf has won the
MacDowell Artists Association
scholarship, the Farwell Award from
the Musicians Women’s Club of
Chicago, and a $20,000 scholarship
to the University of Michigan. A
pupil there of Angel Reyes, she is
currently studying with Charles
Castleman at the Quartet
Program.
The musicians will perform
works by Beethoven, Bartok, Suk,
Kabalevsky and Franck.
For further information, call the
synagogue office, 355-5222, or
Harriet and Sam Draluck, cultural
arts chairmen, 355-0629.
Bowling league needs new teams
What’s Happening
a comprehensi we community calendar
DECEMBER 16, Friday:
8:15 p.m. Temple "Helping Hand" Shabbat, The Temple
DECEMBER 18, Sunday:
6 p.m. -Hebrew Academy Dinner of Honor, Peachtree Plaza Hotel.
DECEMBER 19, Monday:
7:30 p.m.—Israel Program Center, AJCC/Peachtree.
DECEMBER 20, Tuesday:
1 p.m. Lenox ORT Meeting, AJCC/ Peachtree
DECEMBER 21, Wednesday:
I p.m. Golda Meir Women Holiday Tea, Home of Mrs. Becky Levy,
3200 Unox Road, Apt. C-302.
8 p.m. Ahavath Achim Synagogue Chamber Music Concert, the
Synagogue.
DECEMBER 23, Friday:
Temple’s Homecoming Dinner for College Students, Colony Square
Hotel.
JANUARY 2, Monday:
— AJCC Film Series Production, “The Fixer,” (English), AJCC/
Peachtree.
JANUARY 3, Tuesday:
6:30 p.m. Yeshiva High School Dinner of Honor, AJCC.
JANUARY 9, Monday:
7:30 p.m.—Jewish Home Family Council Meeting, Jewish Home.
JANUARY 18, Wednesday:
7:30 p.m. JFS Meeting for Widowed and Divorced People, JFS.
JANUARY 21, Saturday:
—JNF “A Night in Galilee,’’ Peachtree Plaza.
Atlanta delegates
Officers of the Atlanta Chapter of Brandeis University
National Women's Committee at a recent regional conference in
Philadelphia are (left to right) Rita LeVine, administrative vice
president; Brenda Lorber, president; Ellie Shuman, national vice
president; and Sharon Greenblatt, arrangements vice president.
BBW to hold training sessions
The Atlanta Jewish Bowling
league is looking for at least two
additional teams to add to its
present roster for the second half of
the season.
The league is open to singles and
married couples from age 18 and
up.
Bowling is on Sunday nights at
8:30 p.m , at the Northeast
Bowling Lanes.
For more information call,
Sheldon Graiser, 939-4977, or Roz
Brotman, 452-7457 (after 7 p.m.).
Kick-off party
\ At the recent host party kick-off for JNE’s 1984 Dinner Dance
are (left to right) Amy Singer, vice president of the 1984 dinner,
Sylvia and Sam Weissman, Barbara and Daniel KinglofT, and
Renee and Bobby Rinzler, co-chairmen of the host committee. The
host party was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Kingloff.
This year’s annual dinner will be held on Jan. 21, at the
Peachtree Plaza Hotel. Mike Burstyn will be the entertainer. Music
and dancing will be by the Ray Bloch orchestra.
For more information about the dinner, call the JNF’ office, 633-
1132.
Lenox women to meet
for Dec. 20 dessert
Unox Chapter ORT will have its
next meeting at I p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 20, at the Jewish Community
Center on Peachtree.
This will be a dessert meeting.
Guests are invited. Dr. Louis G.
Pack, podiatrist, will speak on
“How To Take Care of Our Feet —
Solving Foot Problems."
Golda Meir women
to have holiday tea
The Golda Meir Chapter of
Pioneer Women will hold a
holiday tea at I p m. Wednesday,
Dec. 21, at the home of Mrs.
Marion (Becky) I evy, 3200 Lenox
Road, Apt C-302.
Mrs. Ruth Clark, A raconteur in
the field of Jewish wit and humor,
will review “Daughters of
Chutzpah" by Mollee Kruger, a
humorous verse on the Jewish
woman.
Members and friends are invited
to attend. For reservations and
further information, contact
Dorothy Levy, 874-2937, Sophie
Zwecker, 321-0356, or Edith
Jones, 633-1153.
Ruth Spero Feldman, executive
director of B’nai B’rith Women,
will visit Atlanta on Dec. 16 to
attend the first of three leadership
training sessions for BBW
members.
As director of the 125.000-
member service and advocacy
organization, Mrs. Feldman
directs programs reaching into
many areas of the community,
with emphasis on children, young
adults, women and the elderly. She
manages BBW's headquarters
office in Washington, D.C.. which
serves as the hub of a 15-region
network throughout the United
States.
B’nai B’rith Women is launching
its training program, “Leadership:
Preparation for the 21st Century,"
to enable women, some of whom
have never held leadership
positions, to tap their potential for
successful leadership. The Dec. lb-
18 session wil be held at the Westin
Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta
B’nai B’rith Women members
will learn how to accept both their
feminine and leadership qualities
under the guidance of New York
practicing psychotherapists Lynne
Jones, CSW, and Wendy Levine,
CSW
The three-day training sessions
Ruth S. Fridman
will be under the direction of
Frieda Waldman of Claremont,
Calif . BBW national leadership
training consultant.
The second traning session will
be held Jan 13-15, at the Westin
Peachtree Plaza Hotel. The final
session is slated for March 30-31
and April I, at the Sheraton
Atlanta Hotel
For more information, contact
Connie Giniger, director of B’nai
B’rith Women's Southeastern
Region. 237-1908.
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