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Billie Feinman wins Brandeis arts award
Ihe Brandeis Helen M. Gold
stein Volunteer of the Year Award
was presented to Billie Feinman at
the Brandeis Creative Arts Festi
val. The award was established by
the Goldstein family in Helen’s
honor for her commitment to vol-
unteerism and to Brandeis Uni-
\ersity.
Ms. Feinman has held almost
every position in the Atlanta chap
ter of Brandeis. Accepting the pre
sidency for a second term, she has
also served as regional president
and vice president. She has chaired
the regional nominating commit
tee several times and has served on
the national board and was a na
tional vice president for two years
Ms. Feinman currently co-chairs
the Women’s Division of the Atlanta
Jewish Federation and has served
on many Federation committees,
including: campaign planning and
policy; leadership development;
community planning; campaign
cabinet; young leadership council;
and school allocations and scho
larships committee.
She also serves on the national
United Jewish Appeal leadership
development committee and on
the national UJA Women’s div
ision board. In 1983, she was
awarded the Abe Schwartz UJA
Young l eadership Award.
Ms. Feinman is part of a U.S.
delegation presently visiting the
Soviet Union and Israel to deter
mine the greatest needs of world
wide Jewry for 1987.
AJCC plans ‘Jewish by Choice’ panel
The singles department of the
Atlanta Jewish Community Cen
ter will hold a panel discussion,
Jewish by Choice, at 8 p.m. Tues
day, June 17, at the AJCC'Peach
tree. Five panelists, all of whom
are Jewish by choice, will share
their experiences.
Panelists are Van Lane, Michael
McQueen, Dick Puls, Kathleen
Pulner and Anita Zinger. Lane, a
native Atlantan whose family is
Baptist, sat for his Bet Din (Con
servation conversion) in 1977 at
age 26. He is a member of Congre
gation Beth Shalom.
Board, executive slate
elected at B’nai Israel
Congregation B’nai Israel
recently held its election of 1986-87
executive committee and board
members.
Elected were Mark Turetsky,
president; Andrea Feinstein, vice
president; Dr. Jeffrey Kalins,
treasurer; and Ginger Grayson,
secretary. Board members are Carol
Montesinos, Elaine McGee, Lt.
Col. (Ret.) Marvin Rottenberg,
Kathy Baker, Pat Robbins, Sharon
Stroger, Susan Levine, Frank Dorn
and Irv Gersten.
All singles are invited to a “Big,
Bountiful Beautiful Brunch” at
11:30 a.m. Sunday, June 22, at the
AJCC/Peachtree. Bagels, lox, hash
browns, eggs, blintzes and Danish
will be served.
Cost is $4 for members, $6 for
non-members. For more informa
tion. call Patsy, 875-7881.
& & &
People Meeting People invites
all singles to a “Singles Dinner
Out” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June
19, at Ray’s on the River, 6700
Powers Ferry Road.
Reservations can be made by
June 17, For reservations or more
information, call Patsy, 875-7881.
& & &
People Meeting People invites
all singles to a wine and cheese
party at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 26,
at the AJCC/Peachtree. Cost is $1
lor members, $2 for non-members.
For more information call Patsy,
1(75-7881
McQueen was raised as a Catho
lic in his native city of Cincinnati,
and was a seminary student to
become a Marist priest. In 1973 he
had a Reform conversion in Beau
fort, S.C., and an Orthodox con
version in Atlanta in 1979. He is a
member of Congregation Shearith
Israel.
Puls, born and raised a Catholic
in Evanston, Ill., was a monk at the
Monastery in Conyers for 11 years.
He was converted as a Reform Jew
in Macon in 1967. He moved to
Atlanta in 1980, where he is a
member of Beth Shalom.
Beth Tefillah chooses
officers, board members
Congregation Beth Tefillah
named its officers and board
members for 1986-87 this week.
Officers are Dr. David Wester-
man, president; Dennis Kodesh,
treasurer; Baruch Asher Chastain,
secretary; and Mrs. Melissa
Goodman, Sisterhood president.
Board members are Ronald
Goodman, Larry Hoffman, Dr.
Malcolm Joel and David Watkins.
Rabbi Yossi New is the spiritual
leader of the congregation. For
more information, call 843-2464.
AM IT Tikvah Chapter of Chi
cago will sponsor its fifth National
Jewish Singles Conference, Friday.,
Aug. 15 to Sunday, Aug. 17 at
Marriott’s Lincolnshire Resort in
Lincolnshire, III
The weekend will include kosher
meals, prominent speakers and
entertainment. Swimming pools, a
night club and a fully equipped
health club will be available.
The price is $200 a person for
members ol AM IT, and $210 for
non-members until Aug. 1. After
Aug. 1. add $25 late fee.
All singles 21-35 are invited. For
more information, contact Mark
Tannenbaum, (312) 973-6925 or
write: NJSC, 6443 N. Maplewood,
Chicago, Ill. 60645.
& & &
All singles are invited to play
volleyball with Kaleidoscope at 8
p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at the
AJCC/ Peachtree. The game is free
for members, $3 for non-members.
For details, call Patsy,^ 875 : 7881.
Pulner, born in Providence, R.I.,
attended Catholic schools for 12
years and had a Conservative con
version in 1979. The followingyear
she moved to Atlanta and is the
editor of AJCC’s Centerline.
Zinger, born in New York City
and raised as an Episcopalian in
the Midwest, converted to Juda
ism at age 30 in Indianapolis. She
moved to Atlanta in 1980.
The program is free for AJCC
members, $1 for non-members. For
more information, call the AJCC,
875-7881.
Installation luncheon set
by Lenox Chapter ORT
Lenox Chapter of Women’s
American ORT will hold its instal
lation luncheon at noon Tuesday,
June 17, at the Standard Club.
The following officers will be
installed: Fay Adler, president;
Anne Gilner, Sadie Meilman, Flo
rence Shander and Elsa Travis,
vice presidents; Violet Levis,
treasurer; Ethel Cohen and Emma
Silverman, secretaries; and Ida
Friedman, parliamentarian.
Max E. Robkin will entertain.
For further information and reser
vations, call Ida Friedman, 237-
3765.
Rita invites all singles over 22 to
a party at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 22,
at Annie’s Sante Fe, Lenox Square,
opposite the Maey’s parking lot.
There will food, cash bar and music
lor dancing. There will be a $5
cover.
To place your name on the party
list or for additional information,
call Rita, 458-4584.
& & &
Kaleidoscope will sponsor an
open panel discussion on being
Jewish by choice at 8 p.m. Tues
day, June 17, at the AJCC/Peach
tree. Michael McQueen, Dick Puls,
Kathleen Pulner, Van Lane and
Anita Zinger, all of whom are Jew
ish by choice, will be on the panel.
All singles are invited. The event
is free for members, $1 for non
members. For more information,
call Patsy, 875-7881. . '
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What's Happening
a comprehensive community calendar
JUNE 13, Friday:
7 p.m.—Chavurat Shalom, Candler Park.
JUNE 15, Sunday:
6:30 p.m.—Yeshiva High 16th Annual Dinner, Westin Peachtree
Plaza.
JUNE 16, Monday:
7:30 p.m. — BBW Chevra Chapter.
JUNE 17, Tuesday:
10 a.m. — New ORT Chapter Organizational Coffee.
Noon -Lenox ORT Installation Luncheon, Standard Club.
8 p.m. — Men’s ORT Presents “An Evening of Modern and Tradi
tional Cantorial Music,” Civic Center.
8 p.m.—“Jewish by Choice” Panel Discussion, AJCC/Peachtree.
JUNE 18, Wednesday:
1 p.m.—Club 1 Na’amat USA Closing Meeting, Jewish Tower.
7:30 p.m. —Beth Shalom Sisterhood Hosts Bingo, Jewish Home.
JUNE 19, Thursday:
7:30 p.m.—AJF Annual Meeting, Academy of Medicine.
JUNE 22, Sunday:
Noon — B’nai B’rith Sidney J. Marcus Lodge Installation Banquet,
Chamblee Steak and Ale, Savoy and 1-85.
JUNE 25, Wednesday:
7:30 p.m.—Mitzva BBW Hosts Bingo, Jewish Home.
JUNE 26, Thursday:
8 p.m.—Israel Scout Show, B’nai
Learning
by Itzhak Sordo
AJCC Israeli shaliach
Learning Hebrew as a conversa
tional language in modern times
isn’t an easy task. I am enjoying a
Hebrew “chug” (group) which in
cludes Americans who have a strong
desire to retain their knowledge of
Hebrew by speaking it four hours
each month.
It seems that this group consid
ers speaking in Hebrew different
from speaking other languages; it
is in many ways our natural, an
cient language that our patriarchs
and matriarchs spoke and that was
used in our holy books. And one of
the signs of rebirth of our home
land (Israel) is to help to spread
Hebrew all over the world in every
place where Jews live. Presently,
Hebrew is the only universal lan
guage that Jews all over the world
can speak (even more so than our
beloved Yiddish and I.adino).
For the rebirth of our language,
we have to thank Eliezer Ben-Ye-
huda( 1858-1922). When he was 23
years old, he settled in Israel. Upon
arriving in Jaffa, he and his wife
spoke only in Hebrew. Their child,
lthamar Ben-Avi, became the very
first modern Hebrew-speaking child.
Ben-Yehuda established a society
called “Tehiyyat Israel” (Rebirth
oflsrael), a society which struggled
for the revival of spoken Hebrew
and for the creation of a truly
modern Hebrew literature. “Vaad
Halashon”(Hebrew Language Com
mittee) helped to introduce new
words into the ancient language.
Ben-Yehuda also published and
edited magazines. All these efforts
helped to extend the language be
yond the prayer book, and to change
it to a living language.
The task of making Hebrew a
living language wasn’t easy. There
were those who saw Hebrew as a
“Holy language” that should remain
only in books and which should
not be spoken. Others saw in using
Hebrew a separation from Yiddish
culture that could lead to a separa-
forah Synagogue.
Hebrew
tion from the Jews of Eastern
Europe.
Another difficulty that is now a
milestone in the history of Hebrew
in Israel was the “Battle of Lan
guages” (1913-1914). It was the
battle of “Agudat HaMorim,” “the
union of the teachers” against the
German “Ezra” Society which es
tablished the Technion in Haifa
(the MIT of Israel). The question
was: Should the teachers teach in
Hebrew or German? Hebrew enthu
siasts were then still defining and
inventing basic words for the revi
talized language.
Many of the teachers didn’t
know Hebrew, and they knew that
at the beginning they would have
to read their lectures translated to
Hebrew using Latin characters. The
union of the teachers won. It was
really a great success for the drea
mers who saw their dream come
true. From then until the present
time, the struggle for Hebrew still
exists. Even in places where Jews
are not allowed to learn Hebrew
(like Russia), they continue learn
ing underground. Everyone saw
how Anatoly Shcharansky, when
he came to Israel, spoke Hebrew
very well. In America the use of
Hebrew is not widespread. There
are many who say that it should be
obvious that hand-in-hand with
the survival of the Jewish people, is
the vitality and the renewal of the
Hebrew language, and the ques
tion that every one of us must ask
himself: “What are we doing to
improve our knowledge in this
so ancient and modern language?”
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9 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE June 13, 1986