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Page 18 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 19, 1986
Synagogue Directory
C andle Lighting Time: 5:14 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 5:30 p.m.;
Friday, 5:30 p.m. and 8:1 5 p.m.; Saturday 8:35 a.m. (followed
by Kiddush), Minha, 4:45 p.m.; Sunday. 8:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m.
Anshe S’Fard (Orthodox), 1324 North Highland Ave., N.E.,
874-4513. l abel 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 Haverim (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 C'ole 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 mit/va classes available.
Beth Jacob (Orthodox), 1855 LaVista Rd., N.E., 633-0551.
Emanuel Feldman, rabbi; Ilan 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, 5:25 p.m. (Class in Halacha nightly
between Mincha and Ma’ariv); Friday 5:20 p.m.; Shabbat
morning, 8:30 a.m. (followed by kiddush); Shabbat evening.
5:05 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 T ucker 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
Hwy. 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 Hwy., Atlanta,
30328, 257-0537. Juda H. Mint/, 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 services. Shabbat evening Minha. Shalosh Seudot, Hav-
dalah begin at the candlelighting time of the week.
Ftz 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 Iriends ol residents are
welcome.
Kehillat C haim (Reform), Office: 141 W. Wieuca Rd., N.W.,
Suite 202-A. Atlanta, 30342, 252-4441. Harvey .1. Winokur!
rabbi. Friday. Northwest Unitarian Congregation, 1025 Mt.
Vernon Hwy., 8:1 5 p.m.
Kol Emeth (Reform), P.O. Box 71031. Marietta, 30007-1301,
3822 Roswell Rd., Suite 6, Marietta, 30062. Steven Lebovv,
rabbi. Friday, 8 p.m.. Chestnut Ridge Christian Church, 2663
Johnson Ferry Road. For information, call Marsha Friedberg
973-3533.
Or VeShalom (Sephardic), 1681 North Druid Hills Rd., N.E.,
633-1737. S. Robert lchay, 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), 1 180 University Dr.. N.F., Atlanta,
30306, 873-1743. Judah Kogen, rabbi. Weekday Minha.
Sunday-T hursday, 5:40 p.m.; Weekday mornings, Monday
and Thursday, 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-Et (Reform), 1580 Spalding Dr., Dunwoody
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 N. Kran/, rabbi; Sid Gottler, Cantor. Friday, 8:15 p.m.
(except November-May, when first Friday of the month is at
7:30 p.m.); Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
The Temple (Reform), 1589 Peachtree Rd., 873-1731 Alvin
Sugarman, rabbi; Samuel Weinstein, assoc, rabbi. Friday, 8:1 5
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-T hursday, 8 p.m.
United Jewish Congregation of Rockdale-Newton ( 1 radition-
al): Services at 7 p.m. Friday evenings, at Oxford College
Chapel.
SIILOMO RISKIX
Shabbat shaloni
Vayishlach
FERAL, Israel Almost ev
eryone in America knows that
Jews don't eat shrimp or pork,
but how many Americans know
that in a kosher restaurant, no
matter how fancy the linen or
how expensive the goblets, you
won’t find filet mignon or por
terhouse steak on the menu.
Other cuts of beef, yes, but if you
want the mignon you can't get it
at 1 on Ci. Siegel's or the Tel Aviv
Hilton.
The reason for this isn't be
cause Jewish vegetarians have
made a heavy in-road into main
stream Judaism, but rather, the
prohibition against eating beef
with the sciatic nerve intact
comes from the Bible itself, and
since it’s very difficult to remove
this nerve and all its branches in
compliance with the laws of
kashrut, Jewish butcher shops
don't carrv the cuts of meat, the
hindquarler. where the nerve is
found.
The background lor the pro
hibition is steeped in a myste
rious biblical event. Jacob has
spent 22 years exiled from his
ancestral home in Israel and
working for his devious Uncle
Laban. Now wealthy, married
and the lather ol 13 children, he
is told by an angel of the Lord
that it’s time for him to return to
Israel and his father's house. As
he begins his trip, he hears that
his estranged brother, Esau, is
coming to "greet” him with 400
men. Does F.sau still want to kill
him lor stealing the Blessing, or
will there be a rapprochement
between the brothers? Jacob is
nervous. The night before this
encounter is to take place, the
Bible describes an almost eerie
battle:
Jacob was left alone. And a
man wrestled with him until the
break of dawn. When he saw that
he had not prevailed... he wrenched
Jacob's hip at its socket...ana
said, “let me go for dawn is
breaking." Said Jacob, "I won't
let yon go unless you bless me."
Replied the man, "your name '"
"Jacob," Jacob answered. Re
sponded the man, “ Your name
shall no longer be Jacob, but
Israel, for you have striven with
beings divine and human ana
have prevailed.’’...That is why
the children of Israel to this day
do not eat the thigh muscle that is
on the socket of the hip, since
Jacob’s hip socket was wrenched
at the thigh muscle.
Rashi says this anonymous
man was the angel of Esau, the
gentile power who in every gen
eration seeks to wipe us out as a
nation, but that the dawn repre
sents the eventual redemption
and victory from these persecu
tions and pogroms. Nachmanides
amplifies on this by suggesting
that the hip bone, so close to the
place of circumcision (and the
womb) symbolizes the seed of
Jacob, the Iruit of his loins, who
will be almost uprooted by the
power of Esau, but ultimately,
the Jews will prevail, from the
seven sons ol Hannah during the
Hellenistic period, to the chil
dren ol the Kovno ghetto in the
1940s, to the student-soldiers in
Ffrat who study with Talmudic
folios in one hand and fight off
Esau with the other.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch,
how ev er, underscoring "Jacob was
alone.” suggests that Jacob’s bat
tle was with an internal Esau, so
to speak, that is. Esau’s culture
and spirit. A struggle of ideolo
gies, says Rabbi Hirsch, with
Jacob the Jew fighting the lure of
assimilation or conversion with
all its glamour and rewards.
Esau’s kind of life was terribly
attractive and hasn’t yet, even in
the year 1986, ceased its allure.
At the end of the Second Temple,
in the year 90. Josephus records
that live million Jews survived
the Roman conquest. By any
kind of mathematic progression,
2,000 years later we should have
at least as many Jews as there are
people in India or China, and it
isn't just because of holocausts
and pogroms that we don’t. Many
ol us just disappeared into the
country clubs. We shouldn't think
that the generous representation
ol Jews in the society pages join
ing the best American families is
something new. We’ve always
had a talent for removing the sci
atic nerve of our historical con
sciousness, no matter how ex
pensive or how difficult the pro
cedure. in order to taste what the
Porterhouses are eating.
When the proud Jew refuses
the temptation of a fancy T-bone
in a fancy steak house and drives,
instead, to a kosher deli and
orders a rib roast or flanken.
remember, the meat isn't the
message, it's the nerve.
Metalworking students at I’Ecole de Travail in Paris, an apprenticeship center in the ORT France
network, created a menorah for the school's annual Hanuka celebration.
ORT schools observe Hanuka
As the eight days of Hanuka
begin, the 158,000 students at
ORT schools in 17 countries
worldwide gear up to celebrate
the holiday. A brief look at eight
OR I schools around the world,
one for each day of Hanuka,
show s the div ersity of Jewish life
in the OR I network.
In Jerusalem, high school stu
dents at the ORT School of
Engineering hold an outdoor
menorah lighting ceremony as
the evening breeze carries the
sound ol their Hanuka songs
over the Jerusalem hills.
Halfway around the world in
Rio De Janeiro, young students
at one of the only two Jewish
schools m Brazil make papier
mac he dreidels in the OR 1 Crea
tive Education Program.
In Paris, at I’Ecole de I ravail,
an apprenticeship center in the
OR I France network, students
light the candles of an iron
menorah created by the students
ol a metalworking class.
In Bombay, at the ORT India
school, staff and students gather
to sing the Hebrew songs they’ve
learned during their six weekly
hours ol Hebrew and Jewish
studies.
In Peru, at the Leon Pinela
Day School in Lima, which is
attended by 90 percent of the
Jewish community’s school age
children, an auditorium of young
students pays rapt attention to a
colorful puppet show that re
counts the story of Hanuka.
In the United States, at the
Jewish High School of South
Florida, where ORT has insti
tuted a sophisticated computer
and robotics training program, a
16-\ear-old hov proudly displavs
the menorah he programmed on
his computer terminal during a
class in computer-aided design.
OR 1 Morocco students in
Casablanca join in a holiday feast
of latkes prepared by the stu
dents ol the w ord processing and
architecture classes, a meal that
has become an annual tradition
at the school.
And in Rome and Milan and
Florence, ORT Italy students
conclude the semester’s studies in
office skills and computer opera
tions to join in a holiday chorus
ol Hanuka songs, just like their
lellow students at OR I schools
throughout the world.
ORT, says Alvin L. Gray,
president of the American ORT
Federation, "is a miracle of the
light ol learning, not only at
Hanuka hut all the year round.”
