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PAGE 10 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21, I People in the hew> 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.