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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. * * * 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. * * * 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.