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Page 10 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 5, 1986
The Bar Mitzva of Jason Mit
chell Eden of Atlanta will take
place at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec.
13. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
A congregational kiddush will
follow.
Jason is the son of Margie and
Mark Eden. He is the grandson
of Lil Cohen of Atlanta and the
late Morris Cohen, and Lorraine
Siegel of Atlanta, and the late
Jack J. Eden. He is the great-
grandson of Ann Tannenbaum
of Atlanta.
Jason will be sharing his Bar
Mitzva with Alexei Abramovich
of the Soviet Union.
The Bat Mitzva of Susan
Rebecca Eisenband of Atlanta
will take place at 8:30 a.m. Sat
urday, Dec. 13, at Congregation
B’nai Torah. A congregational
kiddush will follow.
Susan is the daughter of Kathy
and Bob Eisenband. She is the
granddaughter of Betty and Sol
Eisenband and Elizabeth and Ed
Barnum, all of Atlanta.
Susan will share her Bat M itzva
with Evenya Chernobilsky of
Moscow.
The Bar Mitzva of Adam Fil
lip Rabb of Atlanta will take
place at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec.
13, at Temple Emanu-El. A con
gregational kiddush will follow.
Adam is the son of Elaine
Rabb and the late Robert M.
Rabb. He is the grandson of
Muriel and Maurice Solin of
Atlanta and Helen Rabinovitz. ot
Chelsea, Mass., and the late
Nathan Rabinovitz.
People In The News
Dr. Wendy J. Katz was re
cently inducted into membership
of the American Association of
Orthodontists at the 65th annual
meeting of the Southern Society
of Orthodontists in Asheville,
N.C.
Dr. Katz received her dental
degree in 1980 from Emory Uni
versity and her orthodontic degree
in 1983 from Boston University.
She is in private practice in
Marietta and Sandy Springs.
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Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-
N.J.) was keynote speaker at
Boys Town Jerusalem's Interna
tional Dinner of Tribute held
recently in New York.
Guest of honor was M ichael J.
Scharf, chairman of the board
and chief executive officer of
Edgcomb Metals Company.
Scharf is president and trustee of
Park East Synagogue in New
York.
The Hon. Meir Rosenne, Is
rael's ambassador to the United
States, was the special guest.
Marjorie Fine Knowles was
recently named dean of the col
lege of law at Georgia State Uni-
versity.
Before her appointment. Mrs.
Knowles served on the law faculty
of the University of Alabama.
A cum laude graduate of Har
vard Law School, she was named
statutory inspector general of the
U.S. Department of Labor in
1979. In New York, she served as
an assistant U.S. attorney and
assistant U.S. district attorney.
Births
Dr. Bruce and Olga Rickoff, of
Atlanta announce the birth of a
son, ( ary Feldman, on Nov. 5.
Grandparents are Greta and
Nat Rickoff of Pensacola, Fla.,
and Renee and Saul Feldman of
Atlanta.
Rabbi Judah Kogen officiated
at the bris.
Cary was given the Hebrew
name Zvi.
Jody Beth Sloan has been
elected to Who's Who in Ameri
can Women for the second con
secutive year. Ms. Sloan’s selec
tion was based on her contribu
tions as a city planner and in the
real estate field.
She received a master of city
planning degree after graduating
first in her class while attending
Georgia Institute of Technology
as a Georgia Board of Regents'
scholar. She was also awarded a
research fellowship funded by
the National Science Foundation
to study the ellects of earthquakes
on humans. Ms. Sloan earned a
liberal arts degree, cum laude,
lrom Georgia State University.
Ms. Sloan is employed by the
United States Postal Service as
Real Estate Specialist.
A native Atlantan, she is the
daughter of Beryl and Myer Sloan
of Sandy Springs.
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Rhea Karlin Zukerman has
been appointed director of com
munications and organizational
relations of the Jewish Educa
tion Service of North America
Inc. (JESNA).
Erik Prober
by Lynn Friedman
Erik Prober became a bar
mitzva. What does that an
nouncement mean? To his im
mediate family, of course, it
means joy and pride. In Erik’s
case, his family includes the entire
Epstein School, and perhaps the
entire Jewish community of At
lanta.
Erik came to Atlanta in 1979
as one of many “new Americans”
who had left Russia. Rita Prober
followed the age-old immigrant
path, struggling to make a new
life for herself and herson. Even
tually her parents joined them
here. A few years ago Rita met
and married an American. Erik
now has a baby brother, and Rita
is studying for her Ph.D. at
Emory. Is this the American suc
cess story? Perhaps, but it is also
a real Jewish success story.
Rita Prober actualized the
dreams we all had w hen working
with the new Americans. She
made use ol the services provided
by the Epstein School, the Jew
ish Family Service and the Atlanta
Bureau of Jewish Education. She
volunteered at the Epstein School
and participated in the commun
ity, staying here to establish her
family in Atlanta. Many of the
other Russian families moved
away, exercising a freedom to
relocate unknown to them before.
Yet the memories stir and curios
ities arise on days like Erik’s bar
mitzva. Did those other boys and
girls stay on a Jewish American
path? Have other bar and bat
mitzvas been celebrated?
Erik celebrated his bar mitzva
on Oct. 24 in the presence of his
Epstein School seventh grade
classmates at the Ahavath Achim
morning minyan and led morn
ing services for the entire school
shortly alter.
As American children choose
“twins” in Russia at bar mit/va
time, so Erik’s bar mitzva had an
added dimension. Erik was matched
with our dreams of Tikun Olam
and our sorrows for all the lost
boys and girls of the Holocaust.
He shared the bima w ith our best
visions of what Jewish life can
be. He truly represented more
than his immediate family on his
bar mitzva day. And he did it
well.
Lynn Friedman was a volun
teer English teacher for many of
Atlanta's Russian Jewish immi
grants.
s l.ior Hod (second from left) and Ayal Hod, co-captains
of this year’s Maccabees basketball team at Yeshiva University in
New York City, with head coach Dr. Jonathan Halpert (left), and Dr.
Jeffrey S. Gurock, assistant coach.
Lior is a computer science major and Aval is an accounting major.
Aval was named “Rookie of the Year" of the Independent Athletic
( onference last year.
1 he 6 5 sons of Dr. Dov and Rivi Hod are graduates of ( ross
Keys High School.