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Page 14 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 28, 1986
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kurt/man
Kurtzmans to celebrate 60th
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kurt/man of Atlanta will celebrate
their 60th anniversary at a luncheon to be given in their honor
by their son and daughter-in-law', Lewis and Bette Kurt/man.
The luncheon will take place Saturday. Nov. 29. at the Terrace
Garden Inn. with family and friends.
Mrs. Kurt/man, the former Marie Grude, was born in
Atlanta in 1901. Mr. Kurtzman, a New York native, was born
in 1901. They were married in New York on Nov. 28, 1926.
The Kurtzmans have three grandchildren, Amy Kurtzman
Jampol, Laney Kurtzman and Richard M. Kurtzman, all of
Atlanta.
The Kurtzmans at their wedding on Nov. 28, 1926.
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Rabbis engage in
unusual hobbies
by Ben Gallob
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Rabbis are not usually thought
of as busying themselves in offbeat
hobbies. But how else would you
classify two rabbis wit h “chops”
one who administers the karate
variety and another who plays
jazz trumpet?
Rabbi Samuel Barth, 30, who
recently took the pulpit of Con
gregation Genesis Agudas Achim
in Tuckahoe, N.Y., began learn
ing karate while in undergradu
ate school in Sussex, England.
He is just one unique rabbi,
particularly in his part of the
world, as he speaks with a British
accent and doesn’t own a televi
sion. His late father was a member
of the Jewish Brigade which
helped smuggle Jews into what
was then Palestine. His mother, a
social worker, helped Jews living
in displaced persons camps after
World War 11, according to the
Jewish Chronicle of Westches
ter, N.Y.
A graduate of an Orthodox
day school, Barth studied math
ematical physics at Sussex Uni
versity, completing his bachelor’s
degree with courses in compara
tive religion, philosophy and adult
education.
He also studied for two years
in Jerusalem, where he met his
future bride. Though his back
ground is Reform, he joined the
Rabbinical Assembly, the asso
ciation of Conservative rabbis,
after settling in the United States.
He feels comfortable in the RA.
he said.
Since his arrival, the Tucka
hoe congregation has switched to
the new Conservative prayer book,
w'hich he feels is, among other
distinctions, sensitive to partici
pation by women. He told the
JTA that he had accelerated sub
stantially the calling of w omen to
read from the Torah.
He said it was important that it
be-known that a black belt in
karate is a humble achievement,
one of 10 degrees. He practices,
as best he can, on his own in
Tuckahoe, adding that he will let
it be known to his bar mitzva class
that he could throw a karate
punch.
The trumpeter, David Bock-
man, is assistant rabbi at Beth
Shalom Synagogue in Kansas
City, a city known for its jazz
heritage. He had promised him
self he wouldn't accept a job in a
city where he couldn't play his
horn. A native of Los Angeles,
Bockman, 26, began playing trum
pet in junior high school. As
a rabbinic student at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in New
York, he played in a Jewish wed
ding band.
He also played on the streets
for coins, he told the Kansas City
Jewish Chronicle, usually earn
ing about $4 an hour. He geared
his playing, he said, “to my audi
ence. If 1 saw a man in a skullcap.
I would quickly start to play
some Jewish music."
Now he plays regularly indoors,
at the City Light jazz pub. Bock
man calls himself a follower of
Miles Davis' “cool” school of
trumpet playing.
Although he once considered
trumpet playing as a career, he's
happy with the rabbinate. But it
he could find the time, he said
he’d like to form a band to per
form “experimental Jewish mu-
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