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Joey Sherr, a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Emory
University, and his fiancee Esther Levy use the newly con
structed ramp permitting handicap access to the Emory Hillel
House to attend Friday night services.
Georgia Tech student Joe Shimmel took part in the con
struction of the ramp. He is a member of Hillel at Tech.
Israeli doctors hail
transplant ruling
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Lead
ing Israeli physicians and Health
Minister Shoshana Arbeli-Almos-
lino welcomed the Chief Rabbi
nate Council’s ruling Monday
that heart transplant operations
are permissible under certain
conditions according to religious
law.
A leading heart surgeon com
mented that the halachic deci
sion means that Israel is now
among the world’s enlightened
countries. The Hadassah Medi
cal Center here announced prep
arations for the first heart trans
plant surgery. The hospital indi
cated that it is fully qualified and
equipped for the procedure but
had delayed only because it
wanted to comply with rabbini
cal directives.
The Chief Rabbinate ruling
came after weeks of discussion
between the 12-man Rabbinate
Council and a panel of doctors.
The issue was the definition of
death, as applied to the donor of
the heart or other vital organs.
Many rabbis had long insisted
that death occurs only when the
heart stops beating, regardless of
the fact that hearts can be kept
beating by artificial means alter
the brain ceases to function. Now
apparently the Chief Rabbinate
accepts the medical definition of
death, which is death of the brain.
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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 7, 1986 Page 25
A.A.’s ‘Remember when...’
saluted by council on aging
The Fulton County on Aging
has recognized Ahavath Achim
Synagogue and nine Atlanta area
churches for their efforts on behalf
of the metro area’s growing pop
ulation of older citizens.
Ahavath Achim Synagogue was
noted for its program “Remember
When...?,” which is operated in
conjunction with Jewish family
Services and the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center. “Remember
When . . .?” is an outgrowth of
the Reminiscence program, a
project of the Crisis Support Pro
gram of the American Associa
tion of Retired Persons.
The traditional Jewish family
unit, where three generations
often lived under the same roof,
has increasingly become a victim
of “Americanization.” The days
are largely gone when grandpar
ents and grandchildren can inter
act on a daily basis. Now, they
often live miles apart, which
greatly diminishes the sharing
and communication in which the
two generations might engage.
Recognizing that this situation
impacts on the older person’s life
far more than it does the younger
family members, “Remember
When:..?” was created to pro
vide the older person with an outlet
they might not otherwise have
for communicating their thoughts
and experiences.
By reminiscing about life ex
periences, older persons are often
able to forge new friendships and
affirm their lives anew by coming
to terms with aging and recogniz
ing their own self-worth.
“Remember When . . .?”
further affords older persons in
the Jewish community their right
ful role in transmitting to younger
generations the social and cultural
heritage of the Jewish people.
The “Remember When . . .?”
project trains an intergenerational
corps of volunteers how to listen
and to share in a person’s life
experiences. The training is
offered to interested persons age
13 and older who are willing to
become volunteers to visit with
shut-ins and other isolated Jew
ish persons in the metro Atlanta
area.
Volunteers learn communica
tion skills, which help them to
draw out others’ experiences and
make them more comfortable
with older people, who must cope
with a myriad of changes in their
lives, including physical, mental
and emotional health.
Training sessions are limited
to 20 persons. Volunteers who
agree to visit a minimum of one
hour a week over a 12-week
period will receive free training.
Other interested persons may par
ticipate at a cost of $ 18 a person.
“Remember When . . .?” pro
vides a tool for the Jewish Com
munity to record and preserve
the history of the Jewish com
munity in metropolitan Atlanta,
officials believe.
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man, national executive commit
tee chairman, will deliver a pro
gress report and review structural
modifications.
Monday morning, delegates
will attend commissions on over
seas program developments,
United States program develop
ments, or organizational devel
opments. Joseph Harmatz, di
rector-general of the World ORT
Union, is Monday’s luncheon
speaker. He will outline projec
tions for the future needs of the
global ORT network and elabo
rate on remarks he made at the
World ORT Union Congress,
where he said: “The greatest chal
lenge facing the world today is
the challenge of the integration
of technology with humanity.
ORT is successfully meeting that
challenge.”
Monday afternoon will con
tinue with conferences on Growth,
Promotional Enterprises. Capi
tal Funds, Basic Fundraising
Activities, Community Action,
Internal and External Commun
ication and Chapters-at-Large.
Monday evening’s banquet at
7:30 p.m. will feature Daniel
Schorr, national affairs corres
pondent for National Public
Radio. He will give his analysis
of the recent political elections
and the effect the growing fun
damentalist movement had upon
the results. He will also discuss
the implications of the election
results on American foreign pol
icy, domestic issues, women’s
issues and human rights.
On Tuesday morning, planned
giving sessions and leadership
discussion groups will take place
followed by a luncheon and in
formal fashion show featuring
designs by ORT students of
France and Israel. Community
and educational awards will be
presented, along with special
recognition of past presidents.
The closing plenary, including
a financial report and address,
will follow with the conference
concluding at around 5 p.m.
Gertrude White
NEW YORK—Milton S. Sha
piro, president of the Zionist
Organization of America, has
called for a dialogue between
Orthodox, Conservative and Re
form Jewish leadership in order
to resolve the continuing conflict
over Reform and Conservative
religious standing in Israel.
Referring to the recent disrup
tion of one Reform congrega
tion’s celebration of Simhat Torah
in Jerusalem by an Orthodox
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The
Orthodox Augdath Israel of
America and the Reform Union
of American Hebrew Congrega
tions (U A H C), in a rare coopera
tive effort, have helped ensure
that persons wearing yarmulkes
will never be barred from the
Senate’s visitors’ galleries.
The effort came about, accord
ing to David Luchins, an aide in
the New York office of Sen.
Daniel Moynihan(D-N.Y.), after
a constituent told Moynihan that
Marcy Marks, conference co-
chairman and national vice pres
ident, sums up the importance of
the conference this way. “As our
organization moves forward into
the next century, Women’s Amer
ican ORT members must deter
mine how to broaden our outreach
and our involvement. We must
plan and take those actions
that will assure a meaningful
education for thousands of
youngsters and adults in Israel,
Latin America, Europe and the
United States; an education
which will serve their needs and
help them become independent
and productive citizens in their
country.
rabbi, Shapiro said, “This kind
of enmity is doing tangible dam
age to Jewish unity and must be
stopped through constructive and
positive encounters between the
main branches of Judaism. As all
these groups are now members of
the American and world Zionist
movements, ZOA will undertake
to arrange a dialogue between
these groups both in the United
States and in Israel.”
a pass to the gallery he received
from Moynihan’s office barred
persons wearing hats.
This is not true in the House
where the gallery passes read:
“Hats may not be worn by gen
tlemen except for religious rea
sons.”
Luchins said that no one wear
ing a yarmulke has ever been
barred from the Senate galleries.
This was pointed out also by
Moynihan in a letter to Ernest
Garcia, the Senate sergeant-of-
arms.
ZOA leader calls for
inter-Jewish dialogue
Orthodox Reform join
to get yarmulkes in Senate