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celebreating its centennial year
excited to do it.”
The committee plans two additional
exhibits to commemorate Ahavath Achim’s
centennial year. The second, which begins
at the top of next month, will highlight all
of the synagogue’s auxiliary organizations,
including the Sisterhood, the Brotherhood,
the Mr. and Mrs. Club, the Free Loan
Society and Chevra Kadisha.
The second exhibit will also feature the
development and growth of A A’s educa
tional component, from the early days of
the United Hebrew School to the Epstein
School, which will relocate to its new loca
tion at the Underwood Hills School in
September of next year.
Goldstein said the third exhibit will
focus on the staffs that have made the
synagogue and the schools function—the
rabbis, cantors, Hebrew school teachers
and the like. “It will include all those peo
ple who really are a part of the evolution
of the synagogue,” she said, adding that
she expects that exhibit in particular to
draw a lot of attention.
A special feature of the third exhibit
will be the segment devoted to families
who have been members of the congrega
tion from generation to generation.
In fact, “From Generation to Genera
tion” is the working title of the book
Goldstein is writing about Ahavath
Achim’s Centennial. It will be an over
sized coffee table book, replete with his
torical narrative, photographs and quota
tions. Atlanta author Norman Shavin, a
member of the congregation, is handling
the production end of the book, which she
expects to complete by May of next year.
The third exhibit will also feature an
“honor roll,” which will note the contribu
tions Ahavath Achim members have made
both inside and outside Atlanta’s Jewish
community.
Rabbi Harry Epstein conducts services in the Washington Street synagogue in
1954.
Interior of Ahavath Achim’s first synagogue on Gilmer Street during the wed-
ing of Joseph Friedman.
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Exterior of the Washington Street synagogue. It was home to the congregation
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Exterior of the Gilmer Street synagogue. It was Ahavath Achim’s home from
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