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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