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PAGE 10 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 4, 1986
The Bat Mitzva of Cathv
Ann Morris of Atlanta will take
place at 6:30 p.m. Saturday,
April 12, at Ahavath Achim
Synagogue.
Cathy is the daughter of
Lynn and Lewis Morris. Grand
parents are Tootsie and Saul
Nassau, and Rose Morris, all ol
Atlanta, and the late Hyman B.
Morris.
Atlantans Jane and Harold Yudelson (right) at the recent
merican ORT hederation National Conference, where founders
f the newest OR I school were honored at a reception held at
a'ern on the Green in New York's Central Park. The school, the
rau e ORT I ethnical Institute, is currently under construction in
Karmiel, Israel.
Irs. Yudelson displays a 3,000-year-old urn recovered from
nl of Israel, which the couple received. At left is Joseph
larmat,. director-general. World ORT l nion;and Alvin L. Gray,
president.
The Bar Mitzva of Andrew
Scott Koransky ot Atlanta will
take place at 10 a.m. Saturday,
April 12, at Temple Emanu-El.
A congregational kiddush will
follow.
Andrew is the son of Jack
and Ellen Koransky. Grandpar
ents are Dr. and Mrs. Herbert
Arbeiter of Munster, Ind., and
Dr. and Mrs. David Koransky
of Highland. Ind.
Actress Patricia Neal (second from right) accepts the B'nai
B’rith Women Perlman Award for Human Advancement for her
work in rehabilitating the handicapped. The award, the highest
given by BBVV, was presented during the organization's Biennial
Convention in Las Vegas. With Miss Neal are, from left. Anita
Perlman, BBW past president; Beverly Oasis, president and the newly
elected president, Irma Gertler.
Ms. Henya Pruss has been
selected to be head counselor of
the Gan Israel Camp. Rabbi
Yossi New. director of Chabad
of Georgia, made the announce
ment.
Ms. Pruss. who is from Brook
lyn, N.Y., has served on the
staff of Gan Israel camps in
Kansas City, Mo., and Denver,
Colo. Last year Ms. Pruss was
chosen by the Beth Rivkah Sem
inary in New York to partici
pate in a one-year teachers’
program at the Jewish Day
School in Sydney. Australia.
She also assumed the role of
head counselor at the Jewish
community summer camp in
Sydney.
Ms. Pruss is currently in
volved in post graduate studies
at the Beth Rivkah Seminary.
Harold Cohen, president of Ke-
hillah Lodge of B'nai B'rith. was
named Outstanding Lodge Presi
dent for 19X5 in the state of Geor
gia.
I he award was presented at the
recent Georgia B’nai B’rith Con
vention. Kehillah is one of u
lodges and units in the state.
The Bar Mit/va of Jonathan
Todd Goldstein of Atlanta will
take place at 9 a.m. Saturday,
April 12, at Ahavath Achim
Synagogue. A congregational
kiddush will follow.
Jonathan is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Joel Goldstein. Grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Max
W. Hitchman and Mrs. Lillian
Goldstein, all of Baltimore, and
the late Bernard Goldstein.
Norman Lamm, president of
Yeshiva University in New York
City, has been awarded the Corn
ing Glass Works Higher Education
Leadership Award in Albany.
Lamm has been president of
Yeshiva University since 1976.
The award, a Steuben Glass
Apple, was presented during the
1986 annual meeting of the Com
mission on Independent Colleges
and Universities, which is the
official coordinating body and pub
lic policy forum for 1 16 independ
ent institutions of higher education
in New York State. The Corning
award honors chief executive of
ficers for important contributions
to higher education in this state.
The Bat Mitzva of Michele
Elizabeth Lesser of Atlanta will
take place at 8:30 a.m. Satur
day, April 1 2, at Shearifh Israel
Synagogue. A congregational
kiddush will follow.
Michele is the daughter of
Dr. Laurence M. and Alayne
Lesser. Grandparents are Lay
and David Wasserman of New
York and Rose and Eli Lesser
of Key Biscayne, Fla.
She will share her Bat M itzva
with Esther Essas of the Soviet
IJ nion.
Robert L. Israeloff of Hewlett
Bay Park, N.Y., was elected to a
third one-year term as president of
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid So
ciety ( H1 AS), at the agency’s 106th
annual meeting, on March 12 in
New York City. Speaker at the
event was Morris B. Abram, chair
man of the National Conference
on Sov iet Jewry. Irving Haber was
re-elected as HI AS’ vice president
of finance and assistant secretary.
The Bar Mitzva of Jonathan
David Leff of Dunwoody will
take place at 10 a.m. Saturday,
April 12, at Temple Emanu-El.
A congregational kiddush will
follow.
Jonathan is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Stephen Leff. Grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ber
nard Mirvis of Hallandale,
Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. Jack
L.eff of Tamarac, Fla.
Newcomers
Katie and Kevin McLoughlin of
Larchmont, N.Y. announce the ar
rival of ason, Benjamin Becker, on
March 13.
Maternal grandparents are Syl
via and Saul Becker of Atlanta,
and Ruth Esterene of Los Angeles.
Great-grandparents are Vera Gold
berg of New York and Helen Pol
lock of Sarasota, Fla.
Benjamin was given the Hebrew
name Reuven Benyomin in mem
ory of his maternal grandfathers,
Benjamin Pollock and Robert Becker.
The bris was performed by Rabbi
Phillip Weinberger of Anshe Sha
lom Synagogue in New Rochelle,
N.Y
Jerusalem Post correspondent
Wolf Blitzer will receive a Com
municator’s Award at the JWB
Biennial convention which will be
held in Toronto from April 9-13.
Blitzer, whose articles frequent
ly appear in The Southern Israe
lite, is the Washington Bureau
chief of the Jerusalem Post and has
been covering the Washington for
eign policy scene since the 1973
Yom Kippur War.
He is the author of the highly
acclaimed book. “Between Wash
ington and Jerusalem: A Repor
ter’s Notebook.”
His television appearances in
clude “Nightline,” Good Morning,
America,” “Overnight,” “McNeil-
Lehrer News Hour” and “Washing
ton Week in Review.”