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( .J. ( ahoy, a preschooler at The Country School Ltd. in
Dunwoody, dresses as a “Torah” after a study of all aspects of the
Bet Knesset. Amy Honigman-Zell joined the children in the fun.
Teachers of the class are Gerrie Schwartz and Sandy Ferko.
The Swig and Dinner family of
San Francisco has been named as
the recipient of the Golda Meir
Leadership Award by the State of
Israel Bonds.
Efraim Zuroff, first director
of the Simon Wiesenthal Cen
ter in Los Angeles from 1978-
1980, has been appointed direc
tor of its Israeli office.
For the past six years, Zuroff
has been chief historian and
investigator at the Israeli branch
of the U.S. Justice Department’s
Office of Special Investigations,
responsible for locating docu
ments, evidence and survivors
in the archives which have as
sisted in the prosecution of Nazi
war criminals living in the Uni
ted States. His evidence con
tributed to convictions in sev
eral cases.
Bruce B. Teicholz, president
of Woodhole Realty Company
and chairman of the New York
ORT Scholarship Fund for the
last 10 years, will be guest of
honor at the chapter’s 1986 re
ception Tuesday, Oct. 30, in
New York City.
The native of Poland was the
first chairman of the reorgan
ized ORT in postwar Vienna.
He is vice president of the Amer
ican ORT Federation, chairman
of the American ORT budge*
and finance committee, and a
member of the board of direc
tors of the Bramson ORT Tech
nical Institute in New York. In
addition, he is a member of the
American Jewish Joint Distri
bution Committee, a member
of the executive board of the
Raoul Wallenberg Committee
and a board member of the
national executive committee
for the American Gathering of
Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
The Bar Mitzva of Todd
Cohen of Atlanta will take
place at 10:30 a.m. Saturday,
Oct. 25, at Temple Sinai. A
congregational kiddush will
follow.
Todd is the son of Shirley
and Stanley Cohen. He is the
grandson of Sarah Cohen of
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Ar
thur Lefko of Savannah.
Todd will be sharing his Bar
Mitzva with Karl Motelevich
Klesman of the Soviet Union.
Peonle in the News
Maxine Goldstein of Milledge-
ville was recently re-elected vice
chairwoman of the Democratic
Party of Georgia at the state con
vention held in Atlanta.
Mrs. Goldstein serves on the
Democratic National Site Selec
tion Committee to help determine
the site of the 1988 convention.
Milton S. Shapiro of Great Neck,
N.Y., was recently elected as the
national president of the Zionist
Organization of America.
Shapiro, a senior partner in the
law firm of Shapiro, Mortman,
Schwartz and Greene in New York,
served for six years as chairman of
the American Zionist Fund, the
fundraising arm of the ZOA.
* * *
Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusa
lem will receive the second Ray
mond and Miriam Klein Founda
tion annual award for “distin
guished contribution to the ad
vancement of Jewish life and
thought.”
He will be presented the award,
which includes a $100,000 grant,
early next year.
U.S. Cong. Dante B. Fascell (D-
Fla.) will receive the Jewish Theo
logical Seminary of America’s
Herbert H. Lehman Ethics Medal
next month at the Seminary’s Flor
ida Convocation and Awards Cere
mony, being held in celebration of
the Seminary’s centennial year.
The presentation will be made at
Temple Emanu-El in Miami Beach.
Mark Jacobson, executive di
rector of The Temple, has been
appointed by the president of the
National Association of Temple
Administrators to be chairman of
the Temple Administrative Assist
ance Program (TAAP) committee
of the commission on synagogue
administration of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations-
Central Conference of American
Rabbis and the National Associa
tion of Temple Administrators.
Prior to the appointment Jacob
son was representative for the
Southeast Council. He succeeds
Alvin Platt, former executive di
rector of North Shore Congrega
tion Israel in Glencoe, Ill., now
serving Temple Emanu-El of Bev
erly Hills in Los Angeles.
TAAP assists member congre
gations of the UAHC with any
problem relating to administrative,
personnel or fiscal structures. Jac
obson will lead a team of 20 Tem
ple executive directors throughout
the country in meeting the admi
nistrative needs of UAHC congre
gations.
* * *
Judge Herbert S. Shapiro of
Miami Beach will be presented the
National Community Service Award
by the Jewish Theological Semi
nary of America.
The presentation will take place
Sunday, Nov. 9 in Miami Beach.
* * *
Reuban Rodriquez has been
named director of the B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundation at the Univer
sity of Georgia, replacing Phyl
Rubinstein, director for the past
two years.
Rodriquez, a native of New Or
leans, was director of student activ
ities last year at New Orleans Hil
lel. He holds a bachelor’s degree
from Emory University, and has
worked with Jewish organizations
in the Atlanta area.
* * *
Beverly Beren of Atlanta, artist
affiliate of Emory University’s de
partment of music, will give a
piano recital at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 28, at Emory’s White Hall,
Room 208.
Rachel Schleifstein, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schleifstein of
New Orleans, recently starred in
the New Orleans Opera Company
production of “Madam Butterfly
as the child of Madam Butterfly.
Rachel is the granddaughter of
Marcia and Raymond Yarfitz of
Atlanta.
Isak Arbus of New York has
been elected president of the Holo
caust Survivors Association USA.
He succeeds John Ranz, who
will become executive secretary.
Fran and Steven Simon of Macon
announce the birth of a daughter.
Julie Ann, on Sept. 20.
Grandparents are Susan and
Stanley Simon of Macon, and
Thelma Yoffe of Spartanburg,
S.C., and the late Earl Bernard
Yoffe. Great-grandmothers are Lil
lian Eisenbergof Jackson Heights,
N.Y., and Pearl Tanenbaum of
Spartanburg.
Julie was named in memory of
her paternal great-grandfather,
Jules Simon, and her maternal
great-uncle, Jules Goldstein.
Anabelle Perez, social chairwoman of Atlanta Hillel, smiles at
the outcome of a band party given at Emory University’s Turman
dormitory complex. The event was co-sponsored by Hillel, Intra-
Fraternity Council and MOVE (Motivating Emory). During
orientation Hillel and MOVE sponsored a band party in the new
Student Union which attracted a record 3,000 people. Hillel's next
major social event will be a break-the-fast dance, co-sponsored
with the Reform Jewish Students Committee at Emory.
The Bat Mitzva of Michelle
Anne Levy of Atlanta will take
place at 8:30 a.m. Saturday,
Oct. 25, at Congregation B’nai
Torah. A congregational kid
dush will follow.
Michelle is the daughter of
Marcia and Howard Levy. She
is the granddaughter of Miriam
and Martin Shenker of Colum
bus, Ohio, and the late Charles
and Edna Levy of Cleveland.
New photo policy
Beginning immediately, The
Southern Israelite will no longer
charge organizations or indivi
duals for running photographs.
However, in order to ensure
quality reproduction, we must
insist that all photos submitted
be black and white and of 35mm
quality. The editors reserve the
right to select and limit photos
for size and space. We will
honor photos already in house
by Oct. 17.
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