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Page 18 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 5, 1986
Synai»'ot;'iic Directory
Candle Lighting Time: 5: II 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).
Bet H averim (Gay and Lesbian) Quaker House, 1384 Fairview
Road, 642-3467. Friday night services, first and third Friday of
the month.
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, 5:15 p.m. (Class in Halaeha nightly
between Mincha and Ma’ariv); Friday 5:30 p.m.; Shabbat
morning. 8:30a.m. (followed by kiddush); Shabbat evening, 5
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
Huy. 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 Hwv., 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 serv ices. Shabbat evening Minha. Shalosh Seudot. Hav-
dalali begin at the candlelighting time of the week.
F.tz 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 Ferrv 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), I 180 University Dr., N.E., Atlanta,
30306, 873-1743. Judah Kogen, rabbi. Weekday Minha.
Sunday, Lhursday, 5:40 p.m.; Weekday mornings, Monday
and I hursday. 6:50 a.m.; Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday. 7
a.m.; Friday night. 5:15 p.m.. Saturday, 8:30 a.m.. 4 p.m.
(followed by Minha and Havdalah); Sunday, 9 a.m.
Temple Emanu-EI (Reform). 1580 Spalding Dr., Dunwoodv
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 V Kranz, rabbi; Sid dottier. Cantor. Friday. 8:1 5 p.m.
(except November-May. w hen lirst Friday of the month is at
7:30 p.m.); Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
The Temple (Reform), 1589 Peachtree Rd., 873-1731. Alvin
Sugar man, rabbi; Samuel Weinstein, assoc, rabbi. Friday, 8:15
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-1 hursday. 8 p.m.
United Jewish Congregation of Kockdale-Newton (Tradition
al): Services at 7 p.m. Friday evenings, at Oxford College
Chapel.
S11LOMO RISKIX
Shabbat shalom
Toldot
EFRAT, Israel—A few months
ago w e celebrated my oldest son's
bar mitzva, which means that
before I know it, Hillel (Hilly)
will be putting away his cordu
roys and sandals and trading
them in for green and brown
army fatigues. But it will be the
Uzi submachine gun over his
shoulder as he walks away from
our house in Efrat which will
underline the painful fact that
he's being asked to defend the
Jewish people with bullets in his
gun.
Israel is still fighting its ene
mies, and it’s only the tenacious
brilliance of its army which makes
it possible to eat falafel in Tel
Aviv, buy seats to the Philhar
monic, pray at the Kotel, and
attend to all the nuances of a
normal life without having to
look over your shoulder to see
who might be sneaking up on
you; the security we all feel day to
day is in large measure due to the
soldiers on the front, most of
w horn were celebrating their own
bar mitzva five or six years ago
because another line of soldiers
were defending them.
If a durable peace is not created
soon, the day may come when
H illy will receive orders to partic
ipate in a military operation called
nikui hayil, one ot the most tragic
elements of the war we are forced
to fight. Nikui bayit, or “the
cleaning out of a home,” is an
operation to flush out terrorists
from a civilian dwelling and takes
place because these terrorists take
advantage of the Jewish war ethic
by hiding out in Arab citizens’
homes, banking on the premise
that the Jews will not destroy
innocent civilians. Unfortunately,
they leave us no choice. A group
of my students, barely 18 years
old, were sent in to participate in
such an action wherein an Arab
child was used by the terrorists to
camouflage their attempted es
cape. Before the smoke cleared,
the 4-year-old was dead.
There was no consolation. Not
for the family of the child, nor for
those student-soldiers who will
live till the end of their lives the
agony of that death. And don’t
think that everyone who wears a
uniform and carries an Uzi is not
vulnerable to attacks of self
doubt.
This week’s Torah reading also
speaks of violence, and although
it’s of a different kind, the vio
lence of family deception, it
nevertheless foreshadows the vio
lence existing today between the
two Semite nations in the Holy
Land.
The bibilical narrative begins
with the mother, Rebecca. How
could she have duped her blind
husband. Isaac, and have made
Jacob dress up like Esau, cover
ing his arms and neck in goat’s
skins so he could receive the
blessing from their father? Rabbi
Samson Raphael Hirschsuggests
an answer that made me w-onder
if the dialogue between husband
and w ife might not actually have
been something like this:
“1 know how much you love
Esau, Isaac, but you're making a
mistake. You know in vour heart
that Jacob deserves the blessing.
Esau just married two Hittite
women. How can you let him
direct the future of our family
and the Jewish people?”
"Rebecca, I'm dividing the
blessings. Esau will receive the
physical blessing, the dew of the
heaven and the fat of the earth.
But Jacob will get my spiritual
blessing, the destiny of our
people.”
“That's foolish. How far can
Jacob go in this world without
the power and the physical strength
needed to be a leader.’ Look w hat
your father Abraham left you.
Wealth. Crops. Livestock. The
resources to continue his work.
To run around the territories and
spread God’s word. Isaac, my
sweet, innocent, naive husband,
you can't win friends and influ
ence people when you're weak
and poor. I beg you, both bless
ings must go to Jacob."
“He won’t know what to do
with the power! If his head isn't
in the holy books, it’s in the
clouds. What does our little
‘Yankele’ know about muscles,
brawn and cunning? Believe me,
it's a waste of a blessing.”
Do the ends justify the means?
We must remember that accord
ing to our biblical interpretation.
Rebecca intended not to deceive
Isaac by having the younger
brother steal his older brother’s
blessing, but rather, to once and
for all prove to Isaac that Jacob
could be “physical” if he wanted
to, that he could appear cunning
if necessary in order to gain what
be believed was rightfully his.
Rebecca stages this little “play"
so that Isaac would understand
that Jacob was capable of using
the hands of Esau to put on his
army boots and walk out to
battie.
After thousands of years ot
studying like Jacob, we’ve learned
to wear the hands of Esau in
order to survive. And if these
hands look shocking, ugly and
brutal, sometimes there is no
other way. If we have to use the
strength of Esau to secure the
peace his brother Jacob dreamed
of, alas, it's the price we must
pay. “May God give strength to
His people," we say in the grace
after meals, "may He bless them
with peace.” It is only alter we
show our strength that we can
arrive at the peace we so passion
ately desire.
Organizations
NCJW
Atlanta Section
The National Council of Jew
ish Women will present a com
munity forum titled “Prospects
for the Next Reagan/Gorbachev
Summit: Arms Control, Human
Rights and Regional Conflicts” at
7:30 p.m. Dec. 9. at the Presiden
tial Pavilion. Carter Presidential
Center.
Cynthia Tucker, associate edi
tor. editorial pages, Atlanta
Constitution, w ill he the modera
tor. Scheduled panelists are I mda
P. Brady, fellow in international
security and arms control. Carter
Center, Emory University; Tom
Teepen. editor, editorial pages,
Atlanta Constitution; and Dr.
Dan Papp. professor of interna
tional affairs and director,
school of social sciences. Georgia
Tech.
T he community is invited.
Admission is free but reserva
tions are required.
To r.s.v.p., call Pam Rubin at
399-7873; Margo Edlin at 399-
6665, or the NCJW office at
262-7199.
Evening Branch
I he Evening Branch ot the
Atlanta Section of the National
Council ot Jewish Women will
host a Shabbat dinner at the
Louis Kahn Group Home at 6
p.m. Friday. Dec. 12
For more information, call
Janet Sugarman at 876-6027, or
Carol Wallen at 262-7199.
Wildwood Pines
The Wildwood Pines Garden
Club will meet at 10:15 a.m.
Monday, Dec. 8, at the home of
Eleanor Parks.
Horticulturalist Wayne Ming's
topic will be “Hanging Baskets.”
Hostesses will be Eleanor
Parks, Esther Capilouto and
Teddy Haber.
For more information, call Ms.
Parks at 255-7490.
Women’s ORT
Regency Chapter
Regency ORT will be gift
wrapping through Dec. 24 at the
Mall At Market Square (formerly
North DeKalb) shopping center.
Co-chairmen in charge of gilt
wrapping are Sue Mandel and
Ethel Lesser.
All proceeds w ill go to support
the vocational, technical and
scientific education programs of
ORT.
B'nai B'rith Women
I he Nashe Shalom Chapter ol
B'nai B'rith Women will meet at
8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at the
home of Sandv Cohen.
For more information, call
Sheila Rotter at 457-4652.
Yeshiva High
Yeshiva High School P EA will
hold a “Sweet 16” party at 6 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 7, at AJCC Peach
tree.
Music will be provided by
Matzah, the Yeshiva band, and
supper will be served.
Tickets are $18 for adults. $10
for students and $5 for children 8
and under.
To r.s.v.p.. send a check paya
ble to Yeshiva H lgh School, I 745
Peachtree Road. Atlanta 30309.
For more information, call
Sherron Lazarus at 496-1804. or
Diane Ram at 633-5486.
Club 50
Club 50 will host a game night
at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8. at
AJCC'Zaban.
Poker, bridge, canasta, mah-
jongg, Uno and Trivial Pursuit,
will be played.
Admission at the door is 50c
for members; $1.25 for non-mem
bers. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, call
Benno Wolffs, chairman, at 257-
0896.