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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.”