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PAGE 10 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10, 1986
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The Bar Mitzva of Brian
Wildstein of Atlanta will take
place at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct.
18, at Ahavath Achim Syna
gogue. A congregational kid-
dush will follow.
Brian is the son of Dr. Gilbert
and Lynn Wildstein. Grandpar
ents are Mrs. Estelle Wildstein
of Atlanta, and Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Darwak of Kingston, N.Y.
People in the News
Dr. Ellen Umansky recently re
ceived a tenured appointment at
Emory University. She was pro
moted to associate professor of
religion after serving on the Emory
faculty for four years.
She graduated from Wellesley
College and received advanced de
grees from Yale and Columbia
universities.
* * *
Leo Jay Lipis, a 10th grader at
Yeshiva High School, has recently
completed a fast-paced course in
Logic (college credit) at the Duke
University Summer Residential
Program for Verbally and Mathe
matically Talented Youths.
The Duke Talent Identification
Program, in its sixth year, is avail
able to academically gifted sev
enth-10th graders. Students are ac
cepted based on their SAT scores
while in the seventh grade.
Leo is the son of Allen H. and
Judy S. Lipis of Atlanta.
The Bar Mitzva of Jeremy
Rosenberg of Atlanta will take
place at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Oct. 18. at Temple Sinai. A
congregational kiddush will
follow.
Jeremy is the son of Mrs.
Howard Rothman of Atlanta
and Dr. Paul Rosenberg of Ot
tawa, Canada. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Andres Plochl.
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rosen
berg, all of Montreal, Canada.
Hyman Bookbinder, special rep
resentatives of the American Jew
ish Committee, was one of 18 peo
ple nominated by ethnic organiza
tions to be named an Honored
American by the Americans by
Choice organizations.
* * *
Ruth Rothfarb of Atlanta was
one of more than 100 delegates
representing Women’s American
ORT at the World ORT Union
Congress in Jerusalem.,
Mrs. Rothfarb, chairman of the
Bramson GRT Technical Institute
and local arrangements chairman
of the 16th national board confer
ence which will be held in Atlanta
in November, participated with
delegates and representatives from
27 countries in various workshops.
Professor Ephraim Katzir. for
mer president of the state of Israel
and chairman of Israel s Region
2000 hi-tech development project,
was elected president of the World
ORT Union at the World ORT
Union Congress held recently in
Jerusalem.
Katzir’s first official visit to the
United States on behalf of ORT
will be as guest speaker at the
American OR I Federation Nation
al Conference banquet session to
be held Jan. 24 in New York City.
* * *
Toni Perling of Atlanta recently
completed an internship in episodic
television with the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences. As
an intern, she observed the day-to-
day work of professionals in the
television industry.
A senior at Northwestern Uni
versity and a graduate of River-
wood High School, she is the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. David S.
Perling of Atlanta.
Newcomers
Diane and David Bernstein of
Atlanta, announce the birth of a
son, Charles Arthur Leighton
Bernstein, on Sept. 22.
He was given the Hebrew name
Chaim. The bris was performed by
Dr. Mark Safra.
* * *
Claudia Dreyfus-Levi and Henry
Levi of Atlanta announce the birth
of a daughter, Marisa Brooke, on
Sept. 20.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Dreyfus of Virginia Beach,
Va. and Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Levi of Evansville, lnd.
Marisa was named in memory of
her maternal great-grandparents,
Benjamin and Rebecca Scherb. She
was given the Hebrew name Rivka,
after her great-grandmother, Re
becca Scherb. She was given the
Hebrew name Rivka, after her
great-grandmother, Rebecca
Scherb.
The Bar Mitzva of Seth Law
rence Roskind of Atlanta will
take place at 9 a.m. Saturday,
Oct. 18. at Ahavath Achim Syn
agogue. A congregational kid
dush will follow.
Seth is the son of Phillip and
Faye Purser and Richard and
Betty Roskind. He is the grand
son of Rose Silverman of Atlanta
and the late Stanley L. Silver-
man, and Jean Roskind of Hal
landale, Fla., and the late Her
bert G. Roskind. He is the
great-grandson of Ida S. Sil
verman of Atlanta and Edith
Feldman of St. Paui, Minn.
Harriet Konter of Savannah has
been selected by Armstrong State
College as its Alumni Distin
guished Citizen for 1986. An ad
ministrative vice president of Kon
ter Realty Company, she is the first
woman to receive the award.
In addition to her involvement
in higher educational and realty
organizations, Mrs. Konter is a
former president of Savannah B’nai
B’rith Women, the Jewish Educa
tion Alliance Women’s Club and is
a director of the Jewish Education
Alliance.
The Bar Mitzva of Adam
Benjamin Silverman of Atlanta
will take place at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 18, at Temple
Sinai. A congregational kiddush
will follow.
Adam is the son of Diana and
Mark Silverman. He is the
grandson of Dorothy Silverman
of Dayton, Ohio, and the late
Manuel Silverman, and Helen
Dwane of Redwood City, Calif.
Adam will share his Bar
Mitzva with David Kasperovsky
of the U.S.S.R. .
Jessica Leah Goodman, daugh
ter of Ronald D. Goodman of
Atlanta, has recently completed a
fast-paced course in American
History which was offered as part
of the Duke University Summer
Residential Program for Verbally
and Mathematically Talented
Youths.
The Duke Talent Identification
Program, in its sixth year, is avail
able to academically gifted sev
enth- 10th graders. Students are ac
cepted based on their SAT scores
while in the seventh grade.
Jessica is in the eighth grade this
year at Yeshiva High School.
New officers of Second Generation-Children of Holocaust Survivors (from left to
right) are Willy Spizman, treasurer; Martha Popowski; vice president; Risa Greenblatt,
vice president; Anna Seligman, secretary; Stan Lefco, president; and Saba Silverman,
parliamentarian.
In picture at right, Stan Lefco presents Saba Silverman, outgoing president, with a
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