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Page 18 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 7, 1986
Synagogue Directory
Candle Lighting Time: 5:23 p.m.
Ahavath Achim (Conservative), 600 Peachtree Battle Ave.,
N.W., 355-5222. Arnold Goodman, rabbi; Dr. Harry H.
Epstein, rabbi emeritus; Marvin Richardson, asst, rabbi; Isaac
Goodfriend, cantor. Daily services, 7:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Fri
day, 6 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.; Saturday 8:35 a.m., Minha, 7:30 p.m.
(followed by kiddush); Sunday, 8:30 a.m., 6 p.m.
Anshe S’Fard (Orthodox), 1324 North Highland Ave., N.E.,
874-4513. Label Merlin, president; Nathan Katz, rabbi. Satur
day, 9 a.m. (followed by kiddush).
Atlanta Hillel (Non-denominational), Drawer A, Emory Uni
versity, Atlanta 30322, 727-6490. Zvi Shapiro, rabbi; Dr.
Aaron Shatzman, program director. Friday, 6 p.m. (followed
by dinner, Oneg Shabbat).
Beth David (Reform), Meeting at 869 Cole Dr., Lilburn, But
ton Gwinnett United Church of Christ. Mailing address, P.O.
Box 865, Snellville 30278, 662-4373. Student Rabbi Daniel
Schiff. Harry Bloch, cantor. Friday, 8 p.m.; Call for Sun
day/Hebrew school hours; bar/bat Mitzva classes available.
Beth Jacob (Orthodox), 1855 LaVista Rd., N.E., 633-0551.
Emanuel Feldman, rabbi; Ilan Daniel Feldman, asst, rabbi-
educational director. Daily morning minyan, Monday and
Thursday, 6:50 a.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 7 a.m.;
Daily evening minyan, 5:30 p.m. (Class in Halacha nightly
between Mincha and Ma’ariv); Friday 5:30 p.m.; Shabbat
morning, 8:30 a.m. (followed by kiddush); Shabbat evening,
5:10 p.m. (Talmud group one hour prior to Minha, followed by
Shalosh Seudot); Sunday, 8 a.m. (followed by breakfast).
Beth Shalom (Conservative), 3147 Chamblee Tucker Rd., 458-
0489. Leonard H. Lifshen, rabbi, 451-9414 (h). Friday, 8 p.m.,
followed by Oneg; Saturday, 9:30 a.m., (followed by kiddush).
Beth Tefillah 5065 High Point Rd., 843-2464. Rabbi Yossi
New. Friday, 6:15 p.m.; Saturday, Torah discussion, 9 a.m.,
service 9:30 a.m. Kiddush will follow.
B’nai Israel (Reform), P.O. Box 383, Riverdale, 30274, 471 -
3586. Meeting at Christ Our Hope Lutheran Church, 2165
Hwy. 138, Riverdale. Student Rabbi Debbi Pipe-Mazo. Fri
day, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 a.m., services and religious school.
Hebrew school, Wednesday.
B’nai Torah (Traditional), 700 Mt. Vernon Hwy., Atlanta,
30328, 257-0537. Juda H. Mintz, rabbi. Morning services,
Monday and Thursday, 6:50 a.m.; Sunday, 9:30 a.m.; evening
services, Tuesday and Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.;
Saturday morning, 8:45 a.m. Kiddush follows Friday and Sat
urday services. Shabbat evening Minha, Shalosh Seudot, Hav-
dalah begin at the candlelighting time of the week,
i Etz Chaim (Conservative), 1190 Indian Hills Pky., Marietta,
30067, 973-0137. Shalom Lewis, Rabbi. Friday, 6:30 p.m.;
Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Torah study, 10:15 a.m.; Monday and
Thursday, 7 a.m.
Jewish Home 3150 Howell Mill Rd., N.W., 351-8410. Nathan
Becker, chairman, Religious Committee. Friday, 7:30 p.m.;
Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Relatives and friends of residents are
welcome.
Kehillat Chaim (Reform), Office: 141 W. Wieuca Rd., N.W.,
Suite 202-A, Atlanta, 30342, 252-4441. Harvey J. Winokur,
rabbi. Friday, Northwest Unitarian Congregation, 1025 Mt.
Vernon Hwy., 8:15 p.m.
Kol Emeth (Reform), P.O. Box 71031, Marietta, 30007-1301,
3822 Roswell Rd., Suite 6, Marietta, 30062. Steven Lebow,
rabbi. Friday, 8 p.m., Chestnut Ridge Christian Church, 2663
Johnson Ferry Road. For information, call Marsha Friedberg,.
973-3533.
Or VeShalom (Sephardic), 1681 North Druid Hills Rd., N.E.,
633-1737. S. Robert Ichay, rabbi. Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday,
8:45 a.m.; Sunday, 8:30 a.m.
Reform Jewish Students Committee, Drawer A, Emory Uni
versity 30322,727-6496. Beth Fleet, director. Shabbat service, 6
p.m. Nov. 21 and Dec. 5, Turman.
Shearith Israel (Traditional), 1180 University Dr., N.E., Atlanta,
30306, 873-1743. Judah Kogen, rabbi. Weekday Minha,
Monday-Thursday, 5:40 p.m.; Weekday mornings, Monday,
Thursday, 6:50 a.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 7 a.m.;
Friday night, 5:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m., 4:05 p.m. (fol
lowed by Minha and Havdalah); Sunday, 9 a.m.
Temple Emanu-EI (Reform), 1580 Spalding Dr., Dunwoody
30338, 395-1340. Barry R. Friedman, rabbi. Friday, 8 p.m.;
Saturday, 10 a.m.
Temple Sinai (Reform), 5645 Dupree Dr., N.W., 252-3073.
Philip N. Kranz, rabbi; Sid Gottler, Cantor. Friday, 8:15 p.m.
(except November-May, when first Friday of the month is at
7:30 p.m.); Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
The Temple (Reform), 1589 Peachtree Rd., 873-1731. Alvin
Sugarman, rabbi; Samuel Weinstein, assoc, rabbi. Friday, 8:15
p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
Yeshiva High (Orthodox), 1745 Peachtree Rd., N.W., 873-
1492. Rabbi Herbert Cohen, dean. Weekday services, 8 a.m. at
the AJCC: Minha, 2:10 p.m. Community Beit Midrash meets at
Beth Jacob Synagogue Sunday-Thursday, 8 p.m.
United Jewish Congregation of Rockdale-Newton (Tradition
al); Services at 7 p.m. Friday evenings, at Oxford College
Chapel.
SIILOMO RISKIN
Shabbat shalom
The reading of Noah
EFRAT, Israel—The push to
make Esperanto a universal lan
guage contains within it a basic
truth. Where there are fewer
interpreters needed to make the
prime parties in a negotiation
understood, the greater chances
there are of achieving a peaceful
settlement. One language equals
one world, and one world equals
shalom, universal harmony inch
ing closer and closer, passports
and visas mere formalities. All
we have to do is look at how the
relationship of the U.S. with its
northern neighbor differs from
that of its neighbor to the south.
In this week’s portion, we dis
cover that Esperanto, or its an
cient equivalent, once existed.
“All the earth had the same lan
guage and the same words.”
And yet not only wasn’t there
universal peace, but God broke
up that world into a babble of
languages. Why? As narrated by
the sages of the Midrashic lore,
the people contracted among
themselves to build the tallest
structure in existence. What char
acterized this project, an obses
sion to scrape the heavens, was a
desire for the builders to create
names for themselves, and brick
and mortar became more impor
tant than flesh and blood. That
workers fell to their deaths mat
tered less than the expense of fal
ling brick. In Babel, lives were
expendable. The Midrash explains
that the builders’ deeper desire
was to build a city and a tower
with its top extending to heaven
so that they might destroy God.
To use the modern vernacular,
an atheist state.
To be sure, God loved the
unity of nations speaking one
language, but not at the price of
His existence and the world of
His spiritual and ethical values.
And so He nipped this “God Will
Be Dead” movement in the bud
by “confounding their speech”
and scattering the builders over
the face of the earth. The pun
ishment fit the crime. Because
there was no human sensitivity
even when people could under
stand each other, then people
would stop understanding each
other altogether. Now there would
be languages and misunderstand
ings and wars. It was a heavy
price for trying to kill the God of
Noah.
Today, totalitarian states in
which God is officially dead also
unofficially view humans as ex
pendable unless they can be used
to build the society. Even spying
on one’s own parents is meritor
ious because it’s the Party, the
emblem, which ultimately matters.
The Torah doesn’t single out
any one individual in Babel. As
far as we know, no one escaped
that confusion. But among the
Babels in existence today, those
societies making the concerted
effort to raise man above God,
there are a number of heroic
individuals who stand up to the
dictates of the builders of the
Towers, One such individual is
Yuli Edelstein, the 28-year-old
refusnik from Moscow, who stood
up to the authorities by teaching
the kinds of things one forgets
from Hebrew school, and what it
earned him was three years of
imprisonment in a Siberian labor
camp.
Like most Russians, Yuli had
no connection with Judaism for
most of his life, but with dili
gence and patience, he not only
learned Hebrew, but even became
a Hebrew teacher, an ignored
profession in America, but one
of the most dangerous jobs in the
Soviet Union.
In August 1984, his home was
searched for six hours by seven
KGB agents and a policeman.
His Hebrew books were confis
cated. And tobacco that was re
moved from the apartment became
“hashish” and the basis of a drug
charge. The Soviet press then
invented charges that Jews were
using drugs as part of the cele
bration of the Sabbath and other
holidays. Was Edelstein’s court-
appointed defense allowed to
examine “the drugs” when it was
presented in court? One guess.
Yuli Edelstein is now in a labor
camp on the Mongolian border.
On Jan. 29, he either fell or was
pushed from a 13-foot height on
an ice covered ladder on which
he was working. His pelvic bones
were shattered and internal organs
were ruptured. After pressure
from the West, he was given
some medical care but it was ter
ribly inadequate and his body
has not healed properly. You can
help get him out of the camp and
out of Soviet Babel. Write a let
ter of support to his wife, Tati
ana, and if the KGB opens it first,
as its likely, they will know that
Yuli has not been forgotten, that
the powerful totalitarian machine
that is out to destroy him is not as
strong as his individual human
spirit.
Tatiana will be relieved to know
people are thinking of them and
she will pass your words on to
Yuli as best as she is able. Tati
ana Edelstein’s address is Lenin-
gradskaya Pr. 33/6, Apartment
505, Moscow, U.S.S.R. Thank-
you.
Shabbat shalom.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is chief
rabbi of Efrat. Israel and dean of
the Ohr Torah Institutions.
Organizations
B’nai B’rith Women
Young Professionals
The Young Professionals
Chapter of B’nai B’rith Women
will holds its next meeting at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the
AJCC/Zaban.
A speaker from the Anti-Def
amation League will address the
group on the subject of terrorism.
For directions or more infor
mation, call 393-3250.
Nashe Shalom,
Mitzvah chapters
The Nashe Shalom Chapter
and Mitzva Chapter of B’nai
B’rith Women will hold a joint
meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov.
10, at the Tempo 2000 Club
house on Buford Highway.
Ms. Nancy Kriseman will speak
on “Worry and Guilt" after a
short business meeting.
A covered dish supper will be
served. Members are asked to
bring a favorite recipe.
Guests are invited. For reser
vations, call Shelly Brailowsky
(evenings) at 448-6045, or Leslie
Weiner at 457-9825.
Chug Aliyah
Atlanta Chug Aliyah will met
at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, at
the home of Paul and J udy Merlis.
David Wolfe, shaliach aliyah
of Chicago, will speak on the
North American Aliyah Experi
ence.
Chug Aliyah is an organiza
tion of people who are planning
to make aliyah within three years.
R.S.V.P to 876-1554.
City College Alumni
The City College Alumni As
sociation is having a social dinner
evening at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 15, at the Colonnade Res
taurant on Cheshire Bridge Road.
All CUNY alumni and former
students of City, Brooklyn,
Queens, Hunter colleges, Baruch
School and Staten Island are
invited.
Cost is $12.50 a person. Reser
vations are by check to Anita
Herman, 6717 Ridge Mill Lane,
Atlanta, Ga. 30328, by Nov. 12.
For more information, call Sy
Oberlander at 321 -5866 (evenings)
or Connie Giniger at 237-1908
(days).
Wildwood Pines
The Wildwood Pines Garden
Club will hold its next meeting at
10:15 a.m. Monday, Nov. 10, at
the Bennington Towers Club
house, 2460 Peachtree Road.
The topic will be the Trustees
Garden in Savannah. The speaker
will be Diane Pulley, a consumer
information specialist with the
Atlanta Gas Light Company.
Hostesses include Jeanette
Arogeti, Joan Kalish and Floda
Glaser. For more information,
call Kate Saks at 355-5841.
Women’s American ORT
The Atlanta Region of
Women’s American ORT is spon
soring a Friday morning bowling
league with proceeds benefiting
the ORT vocational installations
in this country and abroad, with
focus on Israel.
AllORT members are encour
aged to join the league. Cost is
$15 a year. There are vacancies
on some teams and available
lanes for additional teams. Sub
stitutes are welcome.
For more information, call
Suellen Katz, 252-6453, or Paula
Light, 491-1372