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PAGE 10 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10, 1986 KM >wv/ 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 Bar >i WqMCS arm** arwnr* Generation-C hildren of Holocaust Survivors. The programs of t ^ uV nC,UdC * SpeakerS ’ bureau ’ the video taping of the accounts which survii 6 T ° C * USt ’ rap sess * on s *nd the newest program, adopt-a-survivor, vors who may not have any family in the area are assisted with basic nee<