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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.