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PAGE 10 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21,
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The Rat Mitzva of Allison
Royce Soble of Atlanta will
take place at 8:30 a.m. Satur
day, March 29, at Shearith
Israel Synagogue. A congrega
tional kiddush will follow.
Allison is the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Sheldon Soble.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Soble, and the late Mr.
and Mrs. Irving Streem, all of
Cleveland, Ohio.
Camp Judaea, Hadassah’s
summer camp in Hendersonville,
N.C., has a new director, Jerry
Pepper. Jerry, 31. is married and
has one child. He has been teach
ing school for the last eight years in
Florida and North Carolina.
He graduated from Florida
State University w ith a bachelor of
science degree in elementary edu
cation. He is a past Young Judaean
and Camp Judaean as well as a
past staff member. He has been in
Israel on the Volunteer In Israel
program, Shirut La’am, and
worked on Kibbutz Ashdot
Yaacov.
* * *
The Bat Mitzva of Amy Beth
Winner of Atlanta will take
place at 9 a.m. Saturday,
March 29, at Ahavath Achim
Synagogue. A congregational
kiddush will follow.
Amy is the daughter of Dr.
Jonathan and Sue Winner.
Grandparents are Marianne
and Sol Nieman of Chicago and
Phoenix, Ariz., and Fan and
Archie Winner of Des Moines,
Iowa.
She will share her Bat Mitzva
with Beulah Ginis of the Soviet
Union.
Phyllis Freedman and Dr. Perry
Brickman. co-chairmen of Israel
EXPO ’85, will accept the JWB
Program Award for Excellence at
the 1986 JWB Biennial Conven
tion which will be held April 9-13
in Toronto, Canada.
Atlanta’s winning program was
an eight-day exposition featuring
all aspects of Israeli life. More than
50,000 attended the event. In addi
tion to the exposition, the Center
also coordinated a scholar-in-res-
idence program and an archaeo
logical exhibit and along with the
Bureau of Jewish Education deve
loped a two-part curriculum guide
for the Atlanta area schools. Over
10,000 school children came with
their teachers.
A delegation from the Atlanta
area will attend the JWB Bienniel.
Newcomers
The United Synagogue of Amer
ica, the association of congrega
tions of the Conservative Move
ment, has named Rabbi Jerome
M. Epstein to the post of senior
vice president and chief executive
officer.
Epstein is currently director of
the Department of Regional Activ
ities of United Synagogue. He was
ordained in 1970 by the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
after receiving an undergraduate
degree cum laude in psychology
from the University of Pittsburgh
and a master of science degree in
education and counseling from
Old Dominion University. He also
holds a doctorate in education
from Temple University.
Rabbi Epstein has served as spir
itual leader of congregations in
Galveston, Texas and Ports
mouth, Va.
Bryan L. and Benji llirsch of
Euless, Texas, announce the birth
of a son, Jacob Brennan, on March
12.
Grandparents are Gladys and
Jack Hirsch of Atlanta, and Bar
ney and Bonnie Matthews of
Euless. Great-grandmother is Mrs.
Mary Denaburg of Birmingham
and the late Simon Denaburg, and
the late Mathilda and Hermann
Hirsch of Frankfurt, Germany.
* * *
Cathy and Philip Karlick an
nounce the birth of a son, Jordan
Vance, on Feb. 25.
Grandparents are Arleen and
Joe Karlick, and Gladys and Leo
nard Rosinger, all of Atlanta.
Jordan was given the Hebrew
name of Nathan Reuven, named
for Nathan Karlick and Virginia
Rosinger.
The bris was performed by Can
tor Akiva Ostrovsky.
The Bar Mitzva of Stuart
Brandon Mager of Dunwoody
will take place at 8:30 a.m. Sat
urday, March 29, at Congrega
tion B’nai Torah. A congrega
tional kiddush will follow.
Stuart is the son of Elaine
and Stanley Mager. Grandpar
ents are Ruth and Nat Mager,
and Mania Borenstein and the
late Jacob Borenstein, all of
Montreal, Canada.
Ronald James Mandel, son of
Suzanne Mandel of Atlanta and
the late Benjamin Mandel, recently
received his doctorate from the
University of Southern California.
He graduated with honors and was
nominated for the Best Graduate
Student of the year. Ronald will do
his post-doctoral research at the
University of California, San
Diego on Alzheimers Disease.
* * *
Sidney E. Cohn, senior partner
of the New York law firm of Cohn,
Glickstein and I.urie, will receive
the American Jewish Congress
1986 Justice Award at a testi
monial dinner to be held Thurs
day, March 27, at the Pierre Hotel
in New York City.
Leo Jaffe, chairman emeritus of
Columbia Pictures Industires Inc.,
is the dinner chairman. Honorary
chairmen are former New York
State Attorney General Louis J.
Lefkowitz, Lew R. Wasserman,
chairman and chief operating
officer of MCA, Inc., and Jihan
Sadat, widow of the late Anwar
Sadat and visiting professor at
American University in Wash
ington, D.C., and the University of
South Carolina.
* * *
Fred S. Lafer, New Jersey
business and community leader,
has been elected to a second term
as national president of the
American Friends of the Hebrew
University.
Lafer, senior vice president and
general counsel at Automatic Data
Processing, Inc., is active in many
community and educational or
ganizations.
The Bat Mitzva of Lori
Dudovitz of Dunwoody will
take place at 10:30 a.m. Satur
day, March 29, at Temple
Sinai. A congregational kid
dush will follow.
Lori is the daughter of David
and Renee Dudovitz. Grand
parents are Herbert and Pearl
Harris of Evergreen, Col., and
Louis and Fay Dudovitz of
Jerusalem.
The Bat Mitzva of Rebecca
Lyn Kranz of Atlanta will take
place at 10:30 a.m. Saturday,
March 29, at Temple Sinai. A
congregational kiddush will
follow.
Rebecca is the daughter of
Rabbi and Mrs. Philip N.
Kranz. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin R. Kranz,
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.
Weston, all of Cleveland, Ohio.
Rachel and Isaac Wise of Atlanta celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary on Feb. 16 by renewing their wedding vows in a
ceremony at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, with Rabbi Harry H.
Epstein and ( antor Isaac Goodfriend officiating. Following the
ceremony, their children and grandchildren hosted a dinner in their
honor.
The Wises were married in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1936. Survi
vors of the Holocaust, they were separated for over two years and
were reunited after the liberation. They emigrated to the United
States in 1949 and have lived in Atlanta for 37 years.
The Wises children are Karen and Eli Wise, and Helen and
Michael Arnoldi. Grandchildren are Jarrod and Jonathan Wise,
and Michelle and Jennifer Arnoldi.