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Page 18 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 14, 1986
Synagogue Directory
Candle Lighting Time: 5:18 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; llan 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.
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 Fried berg,
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., 4:00 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, 7:30
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
EFRAT, Israel—One of the
most famous midrashim in the
entire lore of the Jewish people
tells the famous tale of how
Abraham, the son of a man who
dealt in idols, turned the tables
on his father by smashing those
idols and then planting a stick in
the arms of the largest represen
tation. When his astonished fath
er, Terach, demanded an expla
nation, “innocent” Abraham
pointed to the idol with the plank
of wood next to him, as if that
inanimate god of bronze was the
actual culprit. Terach’s store was
not a perpetual going-out-of-
business store on Lower Fifth
Avenue in New York, but a thriv
ing center for the idol arts, more
like one of the cavernous cham
bers in the Museum of Natural
History on Central Park West,
and Abraham’s action was not a
childish prank, but a revolution
ary stroke which changed the
way humanity perceived its own
reality and the reality of the uni
verse for all subsequent genera
tions until this very day.
In this midrash, Terach is seen
simply as a naive soul who gives
Abraham an opportunity to pull
a fast one on his old father—
brilliant son, dull dad. But what
if there’s another Terach inside
the idolator, so that Abraham’s
break with the past is not a com
plete break from his father, but a
continuation in the footsteps of
his parents?
There is every reason to believe
Lech Lecha
that when God tells Abraham in
this week’s portion, “Go forth
from your native land and from
your father’s house to the land
that I will show you,” He’s talk
ing to a man who had already
received a religious education,
that is, that Terach, Abraham’s
father, may at one time have
been a believer in idol-power but
slowly turned to the One God.
Certainly there is nothing in
the biblical text itself that tells us
that Abraham was an iconoclast
who discovered God by himself,
but there is a clue about Terach’s
views two verses before the “Go
forth” commandment in last
week’s portion: “Terach took his
son Abram, his grandson Lot,
the son of Haran, and his daugh
ter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his
son Abram, and they set out
together from Ur of the Chal
deans for the land of Canaan; but
when they had come as far as
Haran, they settled there. The
days of Terach came to 205 years;
and Terach died in Haran.”
Why on earth would Terach
set out for Canaan, the very same
place where Abraham himself
ends up at the relatively ad
vanced age of 75 after listening to
the call of the Lord to journey to
the land that he will be shown?
Could Abraham have been com
pleting the journey his father had
begun decades earlier?
The answer, 1 believe, can be
found in this week’s reading. The
city of Salem, the home of Mel-
Organizations
Club 50
Club 50 will hold its next
Game Night at 7:30 p.m. Mon
day, Nov. 17, at the AJCC/Zaban.
Choice of games for the even
ing include Poker, Bridge, Ca
nasta, Uno, Trivial Pursuit, or
just conversation. Refreshments
will be served.
Admission at the door is 50
cents for members; $1 for non-
members. For more information
call Benno Wolffs, chairperson,
at 257-0896.
Club 1, Na’Amat USA
Club One, Na’Amat USA
(formerly Pioneer Women) will
hold its next regular meeting at
12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19,
at the Jewish Tower. Herbert
and Sylvia Broder will entertain
the group.
Sponsors are Rose Draluck,
Annie Lee Esterman, Bluma
Goldman, Goldie Krys and Bes
sie Merlin. A light lunch will be
served. Members and friends are
invited.
For reservations and more
information, call Annie Lee Es
terman, 351-6534, or Rose Kite,
355-5783.
Atlanta High School
The Atlanta High School of
Jewish Studies will sponsor a
parent-student bieakfast at 9:30
a.m. Sunday, Nov. 16. at the
Hebrew Academy.
Arthur Koll, Israel vice con
sul, will speak on the dilemmas
facing the relationship between
the American and Israeli Jewish
communities.
The breakfast is open to the
community. For information
about the breakfast, or to inquire
about the school program, call
Miriam Stadtler Rosenbaum, as
sistant director of the ABJE and
school principal, 873-1248.
ZO A—Atlanta District
The Zionist Organization of
America—Atlanta District will
hold a luncheon forum at noon,
Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center.
The program is titled “A Per-
son-to-Person Message From
Soviet Jewry to You” and will be
presented by Jack and Lynne
Halpern, who will show slides
and share experiences of their
trip to the Soviet Union.
Cost is $4.50. Reservations are
by check by Tuesday, Nov. 19, to
Atlanta ZOA, 1745 Peachtree
Road, N.E., Atlanta, Ga. 30309.
The community is invited.
Hadassah
Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus Hadassah will
host a community-wide meeting
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.
19, at the Hebrew Academy.
Tom Ieepen, editorial page
editor of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, will discuss “Terrorism —
chizedk, the priest of the One
God, was within the borders of'
Canaan. Perhaps Terach’s origi
nal intention was to immigrate to
the land of the believers, join up
with them and assimilate his fam
ily into their midst. The com
mentator Nachmanides maintains
that from the very beginning of
the world there lived in Canaan
believers in the One God. Isn’t it
possible that the much-maligned
Terach of our Hebrew school
days was someone who had come
to believe in this one God, and all
along God knew that Terach’s
devoted son would welcome the
opportunity to continue where
his father had left off?
In the old, traditional interpre
tation, Abraham defies his father’s
way of life and makes his own
way, becoming a model for pen
itents who radically break away
from non-believing parents. In
this alternative view, however,
Abraham defines his father’s way
of life and takes it to another
rung on the spiritual ladder. If
anything, he’s a model for those
spiritual inconoclasts who don’t
throw out the baby with the
bathwater when they embark on
a journey of religious hope.
This distinction may have
broader implications. Whose path
survives, thrives, and becomes a
link to the next generation? The
revolutionaries, the evolutionar-
ies, or a combination of both?
Shabbat shalom.
How It Affects Us!”.
Chairwoman for the evening is
Claudine Geduldig. Hostesses are
Hilda Lincer, Sonya Rabinowitz
and Shirlee Kaplan.
Admission is $2 a person. There
is no charge for guests, paid-up
members and life members of the
chapter. To r.s.v.p., call 634-
4150 (evenings).
Yeshiva High School
The Yeshiva High School
PTA will present a program titled
“Citizens Against Crime” at 8
p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Room
2 at the AJCC/Peachtree.
Speakers will discuss simple
life-saving tips that will increase
safety awareness in the home, on
the streets and in the car.
The community is invited. All
students must be accompanied
by an adult.
B’nai B’rith
Gate City Lodge #144
Gate City Lodge B’nai B’rith
# 144 will hold its monthly dinner
meeting Wednesday, Nov. 19, at
Steak and Ale restaurant on Bu
ford Highway. The meeting will
begin with cocktails at 6:30 p.m.
Attorney General Michael J.
Bowers will be the speaker, lead
ing a general discussion on var
ious important issues affecting
Georgia residents.
The community is welcome.
Members can bring wives and
guests. For reservations, call the
lodge office at 851-9705.