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PAGE 14 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 13, 1985
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Holiday Project gives gift
of personal visit to shut-ins
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You’re the gift.
Those three words wrap up the spe
cial message of the Atlanta Holiday
Project, a volunteer organization
which coordinates visits to people
confined in hospitals, nursing homes
and other institutions on the holidays.
“There’s a magic created just out
of the willingness of two people to
come together and share themselves
at these visits,” said Carole Ashkinaze,
chairwoman of the Atlanta Holiday
Project. Ashkinaze, who along with
many other volunteers, will be visiting
people staying at over 21 area
hospitals and other institutions on
Hanuka and Christmas.
By calling 939-3354, any individual
or family can find out how to
participate in these visits.
On Dec. 25, 400 volunteers are
expected to meet at The Temple.
There, everyone will pick up small
gifts and then depart in teams for
afternoon visits in institutions
throughout the metro Atlanta area.
The visits last a few hours and
afterwards the Holiday Project
sponsors a celebration party which
will be held at The Temple this
year.
“The people we visit may have
all their physical needs met, but
they really appreciate the human
presence—just someone to be with,”
Carole Ashkinaze visits with 5-year-old Sean at the Georgia Baptist
Medical Center.
said Ms. Ashkinaze. “You know
that by showing up, you really
make a difference. Personally, I
find that the people we visit give so
much more to me than I can ever
give to them.”
The Holiday Project is a non
profit public benefit corporation
which formed in 1980. The holiday
tradition began in 1971, when eight
people in San Francisco delivered
gifts in hospitals on Christmas day
and came together for Christmas
dinner.
Last year, over 23,000 volunteers
in 76 cities brought gifts and shared
the holidays with 210,000 people in
institutions throughout the country.
This year the Atlanta Falcons
have donated their time to the
Holiday Project and will be visiting
children at Egleston Hospital this
month.
For more information on how to
participate in the Holiday Project
through giftwrapping parties, visits
or donations call 939-3354.
Rabbi lays cards on the table,
trumps gambling at bat mitzva
Reprinted from the National Law Journal
To Rabbi Norman Kahan, the
traditional Jewish rite of passage
into female adulthood—the bat
mitzva—does not include initiating
a 13-year-old into gambling.
The Roslyn Heights, N.Y., rabbi
had expected that Judy Kaplan’s
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bat mitzva would be a religious
occasion. But when he discovered
a reception in honor of the ceremony
would include gaming devices, the
rabbi laid his cards on the table
and banned the roulette wheels,
dice tables and card games.
So in a modern rite of legal
passage, Martin and Linda Kaplan
went to court on behalf of their
daughter, seeking a restraining order
to overturn their rabbi’s prohibition.
Judge M. Hallsted Christ held a
hearing on the Kaplan’s prayer for
relief in state Supreme Court in
Nassau County. Attorney John Proios
of Garden City, N.Y., argued for
the couple that the gaming devices
were not really part of adult gambling.
Noting that the rabbi was “over
stepping” his boundaries, he said
the 200 or so guests at the reception
would be allowed to use only play
money.
At the end of the five-hour affair,
however, that money would be
cashed in for real prizes, such as
TV sets.
Robert Van Der Waag of Garden
City, the rabbi’s attorney, said
Kahan’s contract with the synagogue
allowed him to control what went
on inside that house of worship.
Heaven was on the side of the
rabbi.
Judge Christ ruled that Kahan
held the high hand over his congre
gants in such matters and that
gaming devices “would violate the
Temple’s best interests.”
After the Kaplans lost their gamble,
the bat mitzva went on last month
without a roulette wheel in sight.
—Bryan Holzberg