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Manuel Maloof Proclaims March 30,1986
Torah Day School of Atlanta Day
in DeKalb County
DEKALB COUNTY
WHEREAS, The Torah Day School of Atlanta will celebrate its first annual di
March 30, 1986, to honor the school's founders; and
WHEREAS, This new Jewish elementary school serves the Atlanta community; and
WHEREAS, Torah Day School provides an excellent well-rounded Jewish and
educational program for first and second graders; and
WHEREAS, Torah Day School plans to add more grades each year; and
WHEREAS, I am proud to have Torah Day School located in DeKalb County providing
quality education to our citizens as well as the citizens of neighbor
ing counties;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Manuel J. Maloof, DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer,
dc hereby proclaim, Sunday, March 30, 1986, as Torah Day School Day
in DeKalb County and recognize and commend the founder of this school
for its success during the first year of operation and wish them the
very best during the future growth of the school.
PROCLAIMED, THIS, 30th day of March, 1986.
Manuel J. Maloof
Chief Executive Offi
DeKalb County
There is still time to make your reservation for the TDSA
Founders’ Dinner. For reservations or information, call Elyse
& George Wertheimer, 633-6908 or school office, 982-9001.
You’re just the type.
Donate Blood.
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Red Cross
Rick Halpern to spearhead
IRA drive for Israel Bonds
Division, headed by Rubin Piha,
and the Women’s Division, headed
by Miriam Levitas. The two
groups will join forces on Thurs
day evening, March 27, to call
Israel Bonds purchasers to inform
them of the details of the new
campaign.
Halpern, a native of Atlanta, is
the son of Shirley Halpern and the
late Bernard Halpern. He is a busi
ness graduate of George Washing
ton University and is a vice presi
dent of Halpern Enterprises. He is
active with the Atlanta Jewish
Federation and is on their Young
Leadership Council. He is vice
president of Achim Lodge of B’nai
B’rith and works as an audio visual
producer for several organiza
tions. He is a member of Congre
gation Beth Jacob, Ahavath
Achim Synagogue and Chabad of
Georgia.
For more information on the
IRA Israel Bonds Campaign, call
the Israel Bonds office at 634-9500.
Asher Benator, general chair
man of the Atlanta Israel Bonds
Campaign Cabinet, has an
nounced that Rick Halpern will
head up the newly created Israel
Bonds Individual Retirement Ac
count Campaign.
Benator explained that Israel
has just amended its Individual
Variable Rate Issue Bond, which
ordinarily requires a $10,000 min
imum purchase, to make it possi
ble for an IRA to purchase this
bond for as little as $2,000 and
$2,000 increments.
Halpern, in accepting the posi
tion, said that now, for the first
time, individuals have an oppor
tunity to help build Israel’s eco
nomic security and at the same
time, accumulate a good rate of
return for their IRA account.
The first thrust of the campaign
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comfort has been spared. You will experience
exquisitely appointed floor plans that are
more like gracious homes than apartments,
Concierge services in the grand tradition of
the world-class hotels, valet parking for resi
dents and their guests, conveniences like a
washer and drver included, and an incompar
able location just one short block from the
Souths finest shopping and dining. The St.
James is a very special place to live. But only
for those who demand an uncompromising
way of life.
Rick Halpern
Trip to Israel embodies
journey to one’s roots
by Itzhak Sordo
Israeli shaliach, AJC'C
A few days ago, I attended the
reunion of the Panim-El Panim
mission which recently returned
from Israel. The meeting of the
group members reminded me of
the meetings that 1 attend every
year when I participate in the
Israeli Army reserves. There are
some common experiences that are
not meaningful to those who are
not part of this. One looks forward
to these meetings to share the
wonderful experiences.
I believe that to those who are
going to Israel, it’s not just a trip to
another country; it is a trip to one’s
roots, a journey to the homeland,
to the land of our ancestors, a trip
to our common heritage.
If we look at Jewish history, we
can clearly see that there is no
other faith, no other religion in the
world which is so attached to a
specific territory as Jews are to
Eretz-Yisrael, “the land of Israel.”
Jewish memory of, and attach
ment to, the land of Israel re
mained unbroken through every
generation. Every day the devout
Jew prays: “And may our eyes
behold when thou returnest to
Zion in mercy.” On festivals, we
say: “Bring near and gather our
dispersed from the four corners of
the earth. Bring us to Zion, thy
city, in gladness, and to Jerusalem,
Along the streams of Babylon,
the children of Israel sat and wept
at the memory of “Zion.” Rabbi
Judah Halevi, the famous poet
from Spain, (even though he was a
Spanish noble and enormously
wealthy), cried and said: “It would
be easy for me to leave behind all
the good things of Spain; it would
be glorious to see the dust of the
ruined shrine.” (He did it! He went
to Israel!) For most of the Jews,
going to Israel was a dream, not a
real possibility, even if they said:
L’Shanah ha-ba-a b’Yerushala-
yj m — Next year in Jerusalem. But
with the beginning of modern
Zionism as a national movement at
the end of the 19th century (the
first Zionist congress was con
vened in 1897), this movement
approached its goal as the return of
the Jews to their homeland (trans
lating the Messianic dreams to
reality).
We recognize that the history of
New-Streams of aliyah to Israel
begins with the “Bilu” Society Bet
ya'akov L’khu V’nelkha—House of
Jacob arise and we shall go) which
became the first of many organized
groups of “olim.” They established
the city of Rishon L’Zion in 1882,
marking the beginning of the first
aliyah up until the fifth aliyah
(1933-1939) in the shadow of the
Holocaust. After that came Aliyah
Bet and the Bricha (the escaping),
(1937-1947), the “illegal immigra
tion.”
Today there are many questions
regarding the subject of
aliyah: the centrality of Eretz Yis-
rael, the relationship between
Babylonia and Jerusalem, and
who is a Zionist, to name a few.
These questions will not vanish. In
the heart of almost every Jew, no
matter where he is, there is a hid
den place for the homeland, and
we all have to sustain it. Jews rec
ognize that there is a special rela
tionship between them and the
land of Israel, that Eretz-Yisrael is
the original Jewish homeland. It
seems appropriate to finish with
the words of Leon Uris who said in
an interview: “There wasn’t any
one single thing that caused me to
write ‘Exodus,’ it was a series of
many things over many years. I
think 1 was triggered into action
when Israel declared itself inde
pendent. Jews, for the first time in
many thousands of years, were tak
ing their destiny into their own
hands in a language that the
world understood.”
What is our turning point?
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