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Calendar �� 3Candle Lighting �� 4Passover �� 5Opinion �� 10Business �� 12Health & Wellness �� 14Israel News ��24Education �� 25Arts ��26Sports �� 27Obituaries ��28Crossword �� 30

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WALKING ONLauren’s Run helps the Zagoria family find meaning and create a lasting lega-cy for a toddler lost to cancer. 4

PESACH PREPLiven up the seder meal with recipes from asparagus soup to the ultimate cookies. Page 7

WINE TIMECity Winery is bringing house-made wine, chef-driven cui-sine and top music talent to Ponce City Market. Page 12 ACTIVE SHOOTERPhotographer Henry Diltz has captured iconic images from four decades of rock. Page 26

TECH GIANTSHigh school teammates Bran-don Gold and Matthew Gorst are now the top pitchers for Georgia Tech. Page 27

INSIDE: HEALTH & WELLNESS, PAGES 14-22

STEPPING OUTDancing for a cause isn’t just for national stars; Jewish Atlanta celebrities waltz and cha-cha for charities. Page 18

STEPPING UPRyan Diamond is be-ing honored as a hero for raising thousands in response to his Crohn’s diagnosis. Page 21

Georgia Tech has hired Josh Pastner as its men’s basketball coach, put-ting one of Georgia’s most promi-

nent coaching jobs in Jewish hands.The 38-year-old West Virginia native

comes to Atlanta from the University of Memphis, his first college head-coaching job, where he compiled a 167-73 record in seven seasons. He led the Tigers to the NCAA tournament four times and the NIT once but failed to make the postsea-son the past two seasons.

An extensive search for the succes-sor to Brian Gregory, fired March 25 af-ter five seasons, made Pastner the clear choice, Georgia Tech Athletic Dircetor Mike Bobinski said Friday, April 8.

He said Pastner fulfilled the key qualities: integrity; an understanding and appreciation for Georgia Tech; great energy (“This is not a job for the faint of heart”); intelligence; recruiting ability; toughness; persistence; and “a true desire to be here at Georgia Tech.”

“I fully understand what it means to be sitting in this chair, what it means to the community and the entire city and to all the alumni locally and nationally,” Pastner said.

As a coach, “you want to have a championship program year in and year out,” said Pastner, who spoke at the Mac-cabi Games opening ceremonies in Mem-phis in 2012. “I believe that Georgia Tech and the job here is a true gold mine.”

Despite not making the NCAA tour-nament the past six years, the Tech bas-ketball program arguably trails only the three professional sports teams and the football teams at the University of Geor-gia and Tech in prominence in Atlanta. ■

Tech Picks Pastner

The 11-member Yemin Orde Youth Choir brought moving Jewish mu-sic and uplifting life stories to At-

lanta on Wednesday and Thursday, April 6 and 7, during a two-week U.S. tour.

The high school sophomores, juniors and seniors, among 440 at-risk students who live and study at the Yemin Orde Youth Village at Mount Carmel, come from Ukraine, Brazil, France, Ethiopia and Israel itself. All of the students have suffered trauma, from abandonment to poverty.

The educational and therapeutic

Youthful Summitprogram at the school has been success-ful enough that 30 other Israeli schools are adopting Yemin Orde’s Village Way methodology.

The choir performed a fundraising concert at The Temple on April 6, then sang to and talked with students at the Weber School and the Davis Academy the next morning. At Weber, the 11 students shared their career goals, from fashion designer, actress and musician to doctor, lawyer and midwife, and bonded with their American peers over smartphones and social media. ■

Photos by Michael JacobsMembers of the Yemin Orde Youth Choir and Weber

students get to know each other after the show.

Yemin Orde Youth Choir members (from left) Liran, 18, Refael, 15, Ayanawo, 18, and Arthur, 17, sing. Senior Liran and sophomore Refael

are native Israelis. Senior Ayanawo was born in Ethiopia.

Senior Arthur is from Brazil.

Junior Hanah (left), 17, originally from Brazil, and senior Karyna, 18, a native of Crimea, perform.

Weber School students enjoy the show.

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tom runners and is $25 for the 5K until April 16 and $30 race day; 678-264-8575 or www.mynertamid.org.

Veterans post meeting� Jewish War Veterans Post 112 holds its monthly meeting at 10 a.m. at Berman Com-mons, 2026 Womack Road, Dunwoody, with speaker Rabbi Albert Slomovitz addressing Jewish military chaplains in American history and retired Maj. Gen. David Bockel Sr. accepting the post’s annual donation to the USO at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Interna-tional Airport. A kosher breakfast is $10; [email protected] or www.Facebook.com/jwvpost112.

Aging well� Registered nurse Sarah Ka-gan presents a program on ditching the “shoulds” in life to chart your own path to aging well at 11 a.m. at the William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta. Free; www.Jewish-HomeLife.org or 404-351-8410.

Film screening� The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, with the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, is showing “Havana Curveball” at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for JCC members and $15 for nonmembers; bit.ly/1VR4A0X.

Bearing Witness Series� Hershel Greenblat, who was born in hiding in Ukraine, then lived in a displaced per-sons camp for five years until moving to Atlanta in 1950, talks about his ex-periences at 2 p.m. at the Breman Mu-seum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown. Free; thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.

Art show� The Jewish Tower, 3160 How-ell Mill Road, Atlanta, in conjunction with Jewish Family & Career Services, holds the Art Out Loud art show from 2 to 4 p.m. with nearly 100 pieces created by artists ages 58 to 91. Free; 770-677-9344 or [email protected].

Epstein Celebration� The Epstein School’s annual fundraiser honors brothers Bryan and Greg Lewis at 6 p.m. at the InterContinental Buckhead, 3315 Peachtree Road, Buckhead. Tick-ets are $130; www.epsteinatlanta.org/Page/Epstein-Celebration.

MONDAY, APRIL 18Barbecue reception� After Atlanta Jewish Academy’s Jerry Siegel Legacy Golf Tournament, an awards reception honors David and Danny Frankel and offers barbecue and bluegrass by the Cohen Brothers at 6 p.m. at the Dun-woody Country Club, 1600 Dunwoody Club Drive, Dunwoody. Tickets are $36; secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=c50ee4.

ONGOINGGreek history exhibit� The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, hosts “Synagonistis: Greek Jews in the National Resistance,” an exhibition in the Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery of photos and documents telling the story of Greek Jews who fought with resis-tance movements against the Nazis. Free and open to the public when the center is open; www.atlantajcc.org.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14Concert� Texas musician Joe Buchanan performs at 7:30 p.m. at Rodeph Sholom Congregation, 406 E. First St., Rome. Tickets are $5; www.garodephsholom.org or 706-291-6315.

Jews and the drinking gene� Caron Treatment Centers and Jewish Fam-ily & Career Services’ HAMSA hold a workshop in which Rabbi Yosef Lip sker and Ike Dweck dispell myths about substance abuse in the Jewish commu-nity at 6:30 p.m. at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Contact atKGrant @caron.org for details.

FRIDAY, APRIL 15Sober Shabbat� Jewish Family & Career Services’ monthly alcohol-free dinner and service travel to Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Roswell Road, East Cobb, at 6:30 p.m. Free; RSVP to [email protected] or 770-677-9318.

Scholar in residence� Richard Elliott Friedman, the Ann and Jay Davis pro-fessor of Jewish studies at the Uni-versity of Georgia, spends Shabbat at Congregation Shearith Israel, 1180 Uni-versity Drive, Morningside. He speaks at 8 p.m. Friday on “The Great Exodus Debate: History or Story?”; 1 p.m. Sat-urday on “Monotheism and the Death of the Gods”; and 8 p.m. Saturday on “Loving Your Neighbor (and Aliens) as Yourself.” Free; shearithisrael.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16PJ Havdalah� Temple Kol Emeth, 1415 Old Canton Road, East Cobb, marks the end of Shabbat with a potluck dinner, a service and music for ages 4 to 10 at 5:15 p.m. Free with a meatless potluck item; RSVP to www.tkehavdalahinpajamas.eventbrite.com.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17Running from Egypt� Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta, holds its first Exodus 5K/1 Mile Fun Run, including a cos-tume contest, with an 8 a.m. start for the 5K and 8:15 start for the mile. Entry is $20 for the mile and $25 for phan-

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10 Years AgoApril 14, 2006■ Lt� Gen� Moshe Yaalon, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, said during a recent visit to Atlanta that the problem in the Middle East is not Islam itself, but the radical interpretation of the religion by political leaders. He said the battle today is about ideas, values and culture, “and all of us are in the front.”

■ The bat mitzvah ceremony of Nicole Michelle Herzog of Atlanta, daughter of Lonnie and Kim Herzog, was held Saturday, Oct. 29, at Temple Sinai.

25 Years AgoApril 12, 1991■ Atlanta’s proposed Reform Jewish day school will open in September 1992 with kindergartners and first-graders, the school’s new board of directors announced at a meeting Tuesday at The Temple. Nearly every senior rabbi in the city

is on the school’s advisory board. Sandy Springs, Dun-woody and Marietta are the top locations for the school, which will be Atlanta’s fifth Jewish day school.

■ Catherine Foster Gildar and David Gildar of Atlanta an-nounce the birth of a daughter, Hannah Beth, on March 12.

50 Years AgoApril 15, 1966■ A proposal for a counter-boycott of the Coca-Cola Co� by American consumers, in response to the company’s refusal to provide a franchise to an Israeli firm, will be considered by the national executive committee of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. Abraham Kraditor, the JWV executive committee’s chairman, said the proposal includes a recommendation for veterans who are merchants to refrain from selling Coca-Cola products.

■ Bunny Golub, daughter of Mr� and Mrs� Abe J� Golub of Atlanta, became the bride of Stanley Harris Pollock, son of Mr� and Mrs� Hyman Pollock of Atlanta, March 13 at the Progressive Club. The newlyweds will live in Atlanta.

CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMESParshah Metzora

Friday, April 15, light candles at 7:51 p.m.Saturday, April 16, Shabbat ends at 8:49 p.m.

Start of PassoverFriday, April 22, light candles at 7:57 p.m.

Saturday, April 23, light candles after 8:55 p.m.Sunday, April 24, yontif ends at 8:55 p.m.

Genocide talk� Am Yisrael Chai, the Georgia Commission on the Holo-caust and the Georgia Commission to Prevent Genocide present “Witness to Genocide: An Evening With Carl Wilkens,” who was in Rwanda in 1994, at 6:30 p.m. at Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Road, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP required at bit.ly/1SGMdZL.

Israel at college� Emory professor Ken Stein leads a discussion, appropriate for college and pre-college students, about “Learning, Owning & Telling Is-rael’s Story: Generation to Generation” at 7 p.m. at Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP to [email protected].

TUESDAY, APRIL 19Pre-Passover relaxation� Chabad Women’s Circle offers yoga led by Liat Philipson and a panini bar at 7:30 p.m. at Chabad of North Fulton, 10180 Jones Bridge Road, Alpharetta. Admission is $10; [email protected].

THURSDAY, APRIL 21WISH meeting� Wo/Men’s Infertility Support Havurah talks about donor eggs, sperm and embryos and surro-gates during its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP at www.wishatlanta.org.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24Engaging the Christian Bible� Rabbi Thomas Liebschutz at Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta, addresses “The Christian Apocalypse: How Do Jews Fit In Chris-tian End-Time Scenarios and How Do We Neutralize Missionary Activities?” at 3:30 p.m. To register, email Kristine Goldstein at [email protected].

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27Hunger Seder� Ahavath Achim Syna-gogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buck-head, plays host to the annual seder at which discussions about hunger in Atlanta are woven into the meal at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $36; RSVP by April 25 to bit.ly/1LEz4eG or 404-355-3848.

SUNDAY, MAY 1Community run� The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, holds the Harris Jacobs Dream Run 5K race and 1-mile special-needs walk at 8 a.m. Reg-istration is $25 until April 18, $30 until April 30 and $35 race day ($15 for kids 12 and under and for the special-needs walk); www.atlantajcc.org/HJDR.

Blood drive� Jewish War Veterans Post 112, Ahavath Achim Synagogue and the American Red Cross hold a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Ahavath Achim, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. Free; reserve a spot at www.redcross-blood.org with sponsor code JWV.

Car show� Congregation Or Hadash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, holds its Kosher Kar Show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to benefit a homeless shelter project. Entry fee is $18 per car; bit.ly/kosherkarshow. Admission is free; call Ted Marcus at 404-808-3241 or Paul

Flexner at 770-833-0891 for details.

Yom HaShoah� Robert Ratonyi speaks at 11 a.m. at the Holocaust commemo-ration at the Memorial to the Six Mil-lion at Greenwood Cemetery, 1173 Cas-cade Circle, Atlanta. Free; 678-222-3700 or eternallifehemshech.org.

Other’s Day� Leslie Greenberg hosts a fun afternoon for kids 6 to 15 who lack a mother, a father or both at home, per-manently or temporarily, at 2:30 p.m. at the Concourse Athletic Club, 8 Con-course Parkway, Sandy Springs. Free; RSVP by April 22 to 404-520-0190 or [email protected].

Film screening� Congregation Or Ha-dash, 7460 Trowbridge Road, Sandy Springs, shows “Above and Beyond,” about the founding of Israel’s air force, at 5 p.m. Free; www.or-hadash.org.

MONDAY, MAY 2FIDF gala� British Col. Richard Kemp is the keynote speaker at the Atlanta gala of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, honoring IDF lone soldiers, at 6 p.m. at the InterContinental Buckhead, 3315 Peachtree Road. Advance registra-tion for $250 ($118 for those 35 and un-der) is required; www.fidfse.wix.com/atlgala16 or 678-250-9030.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14Chocolate Seder� The Marcus JCC’s Rabbi Brian Glusman leads a decadent twist on the seder for adults at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Etz Chaim, 1190 Indian Hills Parkway, East Cobb. Admission is $25; etzchaim.net/chocolateseder.

FRIDAY, APRIL 15Pre-Pesach dinner� The Kehilla in San-dy Springs, 5075 Roswell Road, holds a community dinner at 8:15 p.m., after services at 7, to preserve your clean kitchen. Dinner is $18 for Kehilla mem-bers, $23 for nonmembers, and $5 for children ages 2 to 12; www.thekehilla.org/community-dinner or 404-913-6131.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17Prep course� Rabbi Neil Sandler leads a class on leading a meaningful seder at 9:30 a.m. at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead. Free (bring a haggadah to take notes); aasynagogue.org or 404-355-5222.

Family program� The Children’s Muse-um of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, downtown, with the Mar-cus JCC, hosts “Matzah at the Museum” with crafts, stories, songs, science and Rabbi Brian Glusman from 2 to 5 p.m. Admission is $14.95; childrensmuseu-

matlanta.org/calendar/matzah-at-the-museum or 404-659-5437.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20Food prep� The Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, holds a class on Pesach desserts at noon. Admission is $25 for members, $45 for nonmembers; www.atlantajcc.org or 678-812-4152.

Steakhouse seder� The Brotherhood of Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Sandy Springs, holds a men’s dinner featuring Passover learning and community at 6 p.m. Tickets are $20 for Brotherhood members, $40 for nonmembers; RSVP by April 15 at templesinaiatlanta.org.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21Mikvah dip� MACoM is open for pre-Pesach immersions without appoint-ments from 10 a.m. to noon today and 9 a.m. to noon Friday. For fees and other detials, contact MACoM at [email protected] or 404-549-9679.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22Seder� The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., Midtown, holds a seder at 6:15 p.m. af-ter 5:30 services. Tickets for members are $60 for adults and $25 for children and for nonmembers are $65 and $35; the-temple.org/passover.

Seder� Chabad of Cobb, 4450 Lower Ros well Road, East Cobb, holds a mysti-cal seder at 7:30 p.m. after services at 6:30. Tickets are $56 for adults, $8 for children ages 4 to 12; RSVP by April 14 at www.chabadofcobb.com/seder.

Seder� Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Midtown, hosts a communi-ty seder at 7:45 p.m. Tickets are $50 for adults, $25 for children; chabadintown.org/community-passover-seder.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23Second seders� Options for the second night of Passover include:• Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, San-dy Springs, 5:30 p.m. Admission: $25 for adults, $15 for children ages 5 to 12, and free for children 4 and under (non-Si-nai members are $5 more each); RSVP by April 19 at templesinaiatlanta.org.• The Sixth Point at 6 p.m. at the Hunt-cliff River Club, 9072 River Run, Sandy Springs. Full-cost tickets: $50. Subsi-dized tickets: $25 for adults and $15 for ages 3 to 12 until April 15 and $5 more after. Register by April 20; thesixth-point.org/event/passover-seder.• Guardians of the Torah at the Lodge at the River Club, 1221 Riverside Drive, Roswell, at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5). Free. Participants are encouraged to bring a dish for at least 10 and donate to the or-

ganization; [email protected].• Temple Kehillat Chaim, 1145 Green St., Roswell, at 6 p.m. Admission: $36 for member adults and $18 for member children ages 6 to 12 and $41 and $20 for nonmembers. RSVP by April 15; office @kehillatchaim.org.• Temple Beth Tikvah, 9955 Coleman Road, Roswell, at 6 p.m. Admission: $34 for members and $36 for nonmem-bers older than 10 and $10 for children ages 5 to 10. Register by April 15; www.bethtikvah.com.• Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Suite 220, Marietta, at 6 p.m.; bring your own matzah and grape juice. Tickets: $10 each or $40 per household for members, $18 for nonmembers 10 and older and $12 for ages 2 to 9. RSVP by April 17 to www.mynertamid .org or 678-264-8575.• Temple Kol Emeth, 1415 Old Canton Road, East Cobb, at 6 p.m. Admission: $36 for adults and $22 for children 10 and under for members, $47 and $32 for nonmembers; register by April 15 at www.kolemeth.net.• Congregation Bet Haverim, 2074 La Vista Road, Toco Hills, at 6:30 p.m. (bring your own grape juice or wine). Tickets: $25 for member adults, $30 for nonmember adults and $15 for chil-dren; congregationbethaverim.org or 404-315-6446.

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Passover is the ultimate children-centered holiday. The focus on the little ones begins in the very

book that tells us about the Passover story, Exodus.

Regardless of age, we are all supposed see ourselves as though we ourselves came out of Egypt. But there is a particular directive in the Torah to tell our children the story of Passover at the seder, and so for genera-tions children have been getting special attention at the seder.

Children even have a starring role in the haggadah: the four children — the wise, the wicked, the simple and the one who does not know how to ask.

The text around these stock characters scripts responses to all the children, outlining for us how to do our job. And it is here that things go from great to woefully wrong.

The wise child is treated with reverence and told all the details of the rules and regulations of Passover. The wise child is the ultimate insider,

entrusted with the map for finding the treasure.

The simple child may only be able to point and ask, “What is this?” But taking pride in the asking, we patient-ly answer the questions.

And every family has, at some stage, a member or two so small or new to this world that they do not know how to ask. So precious is their potential that we happily prompt them to ask and gladly share with them what they are capable of absorbing.

All of this is reasonable, sound parenting advice that resonates through the generations, not only at seder time, but throughout the year. Challenge those who are up to the challenge, answer the question in a way the child will understand, and teach every child the value of ques-

tions. Basic, thoughtful stuff.But the portrayal of the wicked

child and the reaction are offensively misguided.

The question asked by the wicked child is not so different from that of the wise child; both ask about the meaning of the holiday for “you.” The haggadah elaborates so that we hear the difference in tone. According to the haggadah, what differentiates the wicked child is the willingness to be separate from the community.

The wicked child seeks that dis-tance from the group at the very mo-ment we are all meant to see ourselves as part of the contemporary collective and the timeless Jewish collective. For that sin, we are told, we should knock out the teeth of the wicked child.

To modern parents, corporal pun-ishment is abhorrent. And it would be simple enough to dismiss the text on these grounds alone.

There will be those, however, who argue that this is a metaphoric strike, meant to curb the language and words that come forth in the future. Still, even with this modification, the por-trayal of the wicked child is very bad parenting advice that has real-world implications.

To begin with, many commentar-ies on the haggadah remind us that each one of us is all four children. At various times, around various topics or in various settings, we have all been alternatively wise, wicked, simple and clueless.

My husband the physicist can do equations that few others can tackle, but when he tried to learn basic Afri-can dance in college, it was tremen-dously challenging.

At any given point we may ourselves, no matter our age, be the wicked child pushing against the group, pulling away. And the element of ourselves that is wicked needs to be attended to with care and compassion so that it can be brought into balance with the other elements of ourselves.

But let’s face it: There are times when kids (or adults) are just brats, difficult, defiant and surly. It may be only a piece of them, but that piece may dominate and make it difficult to see them as anything but wicked.

Is there is a point where hitting them in the teeth is appropriate? No. Knocking someone in the teeth is do-ing literal or metaphoric lasting and irreparable damage. Taking drastic action to set someone on the proper course is at times necessary, but we

need to distinguish between drastic and damaging.

Fundamentally, Judaism believes in teshuvah, the possibility that any person can turn around a bad situation. Our responses have to be responses that allow for a change of heart. Not just at Passover but throughout the year, we need to be thoughtful in our responses to “wicked” behavior, creating means for going forward, changing the mind, rejoining the community. Let’s face it: Who among us has not benefited from being forgiven the lowest moments of our own behavior?

The rituals of the seder provide a counterpoint to the harshness of the text. Without administering a test to determine the kind of child any given child might be, Ashkenazi and Sep-hardi Jews get the children involved at the beginning by assigning them the task of asking the Four Questions.

Jews from Arab lands engaged children by playing out a short script asking a “traveler” where they came from (Egypt) and where they are heading (Jerusalem). While singing “Dayenu,” Persian Jews get in on the re-enactment of ancient times by gen-tly beating each other with scallions to commemorate the brutality of slavery. And a myriad of modern products, from plague puppets to placemats, are available to keep the children engaged.

The bigger goal of the seder is not to pigeonhole individuals, but to involve and excite all.

The haggadah text gets it wrong when it comes to labeling and react-ing to wickedness. But in doing so it reminds us that it is easy for us all to judge, jump to conclusions and react in ways that may not help us achieve the family unity we desire, grow healthy children or create a commu-nity that allows for disagreement.

The Passover seder is child-centered not only because it sharpens our reflection on where we have come from, but also because it demands that we consider what kind of children, families and community we want as we go forth to the promised land. ■

Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder teaches classes on parenting as well as Jewish food. She works for Be’chol Lashon, an organization dedicated to celebrating the diversity of the Jewish people. She lives in Sandy Springs with her husband, David “Dr. D.” Abusch-Magder, and is mom to two teens. You can find her on Facebook and @rabbiruth on Twitter.

Taking RootBy Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder

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In the quest for creativity in the Passover menu, the AJT offers these options from some of the pros:

Paula Shoyer from her “New Passover Menu” (Sterling Publishing, $24.95); Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart from their “Mastering the Art of South-ern Vegetables” (Gibbs Smith, $25); and Belinda Ossip, a holistic health practi-tioner for Jewish Family & Career Ser-vices’ Health Power Initiative.

Please be aware when planning

your seder that several of these recipes use dairy or meat. Look for more reci-pes to get you through the holiday in our Passover issue April 22.

Asparagus SoupFrom Belinda Ossip

Ingredients2 bunches asparagus (about 2

pounds), tough ends snapped off, stalks peeled

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oilSea salt1 small yellow onion, diced3 leeks, white part only, chopped3 Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and

diced2 cloves garlic, chopped6 cups chicken or vegetable stock,

plus more if neededSet the oven to 400 degrees. Cut off

the asparagus tips and put the stalks and tips on a rimmed baking sheet in a single layer. Drizzle the asparagus with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and sprinkle with ¼ teaspoon of salt. Toss evenly to coat. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until tender. Remove the asparagus tips from the baking sheet and reserve them for garnishing the soup.

Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the onion and leeks and a pinch of salt. Sauté for 4 minutes, then add the potatoes and a generous pinch of salt. Stir occasionally to allow the po-tatoes to soften and the onion to turn golden. Add the garlic and sauté for 1 minute. Pour in 1 cup of the broth, stir-ring to loosen any bits stuck to the pot. Add the remaining broth and bring to a boil. Decrease the heat to low and allow to simmer for 5 minutes.

Puree the soup in a blender, add-ing the broth, then the vegetables and asparagus. Blend until velvety smooth, about 2 minutes. If the soup is too thick, add more broth ¼ cup at a time.

Return the soup to the pot and gently reheat. Taste the soup to check whether to add an extra pinch of salt or a squeeze of lemon to bring out the flavor. Garnish with a spoon of Greek yogurt and a few asparagus tips, or sprinkle with toasted almonds.

Quinoa and AvocadoTabbouli Salad

From Belinda Ossip; serves 4

Quinoa Ingredients1 cup quinoa 2 cups water or stockSeasonings to taste (salt and pep-

per)Using a fine mesh strainer, rinse

the quinoa with cool water until the water runs clear. Combine the quinoa and water in a saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook covered for 15 minutes or until all the water has been absorbed. Remove from the heat and let stand covered 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork and season.Salad Ingredients

2 cucumbers, finely chopped4 large tomatoes, finely chopped Juice of 3 lemons, freshly squeezed 1 ripe avocado, sliced5 tablespoons olive oil 2 cups quinoa, cooked¼ teaspoon ground black pepper ¼ teaspoon salt 1 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley, fine-

ly chopped1 cup fresh mint, finely choppedCombine the parsley, mint, cucum-

ber and tomatoes, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and place into a separate

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Ribboned CarrotsAnd Zucchini

From Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart; serves 2 to 3

Ribboned vegetables are paper-thin strips of firm vegetables such as beets, carrots, zucchini, turnips and po-tatoes. One of their many virtues is that ribbons cook faster than almost any other shape of cut vegetables, except finely chopped. They may be cooked ahead and even used for a salad. This technique is particularly useful when there are stray vegetables in the bin. Vegetables may be ribboned in ad-vance and kept refrigerated for several days until ready to cook.Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter or oil1-2 carrots1-2 zucchini1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme,

rosemary or other favorite herb, op-tional

SaltFreshly ground black pepperMelt the butter in a frying pan.

Ribbon the vegetables with a potato peeler. Reserve one long exterior strip of zucchini for each serving. Add the ribbons to the hot pan. Cover with a lid and cook 1 to 3 minutes. Remove the lid and season to taste with herbs, salt and pepper. Take the reserved zucchini strips and form them into individual rings. Divide the cooked ribbons equal-ly between the rings, piling them inside the rings. Can be cooled and reheated later.

Variation: Add sliced mushrooms and ribboned turnips, potatoes, fennel, beets and/or rutabagas.

Variation: Substitute broccoli for all or some of the carrots.

Cauliflower Slabs With Basil Pesto

From Paula Shoyer; serves 6 to 8Prep time: 10 minutes; cook time:

40 to 45 minutesMay be made 2 days in advance Every year my mother, Toby Mar-

cus, fries cauliflower dipped in egg and matzah meal to create a crunchy side dish. This recipe is lighter and health-ier, although I always hope that my mother will make the fried version for me. The idea here is to cut large slices of the cauliflower head and use any crumbs that fall off in the pesto top-ping.Cauliflower Ingredients

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided

1 large head (or 2 small ones) cau-liflower

½ teaspoon kosher saltBlack pepperPreheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Line a jelly roll pan with aluminum foil, or use a large, shallow roasting pan. Pour 2 tablespoons of the oil onto the pan and spread it around to cover the bottom.

Remove the outer green leaves from the cauliflower. Rinse well and trim off any dirty spots. Using a long, sharp knife, slice the head in half from the stem to the top of the head. Cut ¾-inch-thick slices, from the top of the head to the stem end, and place them

Photo by Michael Bennett KressCauliflower Slabs With Basil Pesto is a healthier version of a recipe Paula

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Ribboned Carrots and Zucchini from Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart’s

“Mastering the Art of Southern Vegetables”

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on the pan, one at a time. Some of the pieces that fall onto the cutting board will stay intact, but the smaller pieces may crumble. Place any pieces that are 1 inch or larger on the pan with the cauliflower slices. Pick out the smaller cauliflower pieces (you should have about 1 cup) and place them in the bowl of a food processor.

Drizzle the remaining oil over the cauliflower on the pan. Sprinkle with the salt and season with pepper to taste. Roast for 20 minutes.Pesto Ingredients

1 cup cauliflower “crumbs,” col-lected after slicing the head

12 large basil leaves3 cloves garlic1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice (from

1 lemon)2/3 cup extra virgin olive oilSalt and black pepperAdd the basil, garlic, lemon juice,

and some salt and pepper to the cau-liflower pieces in the processor bowl. Process until the cauliflower and basil are finely chopped. With the machine running, slowly pour the olive oil into the processor bowl. Use a silicone spat-ula to scrape down any pieces that are stuck to the sides of the bowl.

After the cauliflower has cooked for 15 minutes and is a little browned, spread the pesto on top of the slabs. Reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees and cook for another 5 to 10 minutes or until fork-tender.

Fully Loaded Cookie BarsFrom Paula Shoyer; makes 24 2-inch

squares or 49 1-by-3-inch barsPrep time: 15 minutes; bake time:

30 to 35 minutesMay be made 5 days in advance or

frozen.I am declaring this the official

snack bar of the Passover holiday be-cause these gluten-free bars make everyone happy. First, the ends are crunchy if you like crisp cookies to dunk in milk, and the middle is chewy if you like a gooey cookie. Next, you can vary these cookie bars in so many ways.

Don’t like coconut or raisins? Leave them out.

Love chocolate? Reduce the chopped nuts and substitute some more chocolate chips.

Start with the base recipe the first time you make them and then vary the add-ins as you like. In any case, you will want to make these cookie bars more than once over the holiday.Ingredients

1½ cups sugar 2 large eggs 1 cup vegetable oil, plus extra for

greasing pan

2 tablespoons vanilla sugar (made by placing 1 cup granulated sugar and 1 split vanilla bean in a tightly covered jar for 24 hours)

3¼ cups ground almonds¼ cup potato starch 1 cup mini chocolate chips or 1 bag

(10 ounces) chocolate chips 1/3 cup pecans, chopped into

½-inch pieces 1/3 cup shelled pistachios, chopped

into ½-inch pieces 1/3 cup walnuts, chopped into

½-inch pieces 1/3 cup dried, shredded coconut 1/3 cup golden raisins 1/3 cup dried cranberries Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with oil, and press in a piece of parchment paper to cover the bottom and sides. Grease the top and sides of the parch-ment.

In a large bowl, beat the sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed, or mix well with a wooden spoon until combined. Add the ground almonds and potato starch and mix well. Add the chocolate chips, pecans, pistachios, walnuts, coconut, raisins and cranber-ries and mix to distribute.

Scoop the dough into the pre-pared pan, and use a spatula to spread it evenly. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until the edges are brown and a tooth-pick inserted into the center has just a few crumbs on it when withdrawn. Let cool. Lift out the parchment, then cut into squares or bars. ■

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Editor’s NotebookBy Michael [email protected]

Yaakov Kirschen, Dry Bones

It was inevitable when the presidential nomina-tion process reached New York, whose Jewish population is second only to Israel’s, that Sen. Ber-

nie Sanders would finally have to face serious ques-tions about Israel. So we find the senator’s responses to such questions disappointing if not alarming.

Leading up to New York’s Democratic primary Tuesday, April 19, Sanders met with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, and the transcript of that conversation revealed the depth of the sena-tor’s disinterest in foreign affairs.

When the Middle East came up, Sanders never mentioned Syria, where nearly half a million people have been killed in five years of civil war, or Iran, whose nuclear program has been the central foreign policy debate of President Barack Obama’s second term. Sanders had nothing to offer about the post-Ar-ab Spring chaos in Libya, Egypt’s handling of Islamist terrorists, Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen, or the power dreams of Turkey and Russia.

He named three Mideast nations — one, Jordan, only in reference to an opinion by King Abdullah.

Sanders talked about Iraq, partly to back claims that Islamic State is being beaten on the battlefield and mostly to remind us, yet again, that he voted against the war during “the most important and sig-nificant and far-reaching debate that we’ve had on foreign policy in this country in recent years.”

Sanders also talked about Israel. Had his com-ments come from any other presidential candidate in modern history, they would have been condemned. That they came from the first Jewish candidate to win U.S. presidential primaries, as well as a man who spent months in Israel, leaves us flabbergasted.

Much has been made of Sanders’ ignorance about the casualties in the 2014 Gaza war. He offered a recollection of “over 10,000 innocent people” killed in Gaza. As his campaign noted, the Daily News cor-rected him on the number of Gaza deaths — fewer than 2,200 — and the senator accepted his mistake.

But the number revealed only how unprepared Sanders was for the interview. How could a presiden-tial candidate campaigning in New York, where mil-lions of voters have an interest in Israel, have no idea how many Palestinians died in the 2014 war?

More important was the word he used after the number: “innocent.” As if no one in Gaza took part in attacks on Israel, so all of the casualties were help-less civilians being slaughtered by Israel. In case you missed his point, Sanders piled on with speculation that apartment buildings were leveled and hospitals bombed in Israel’s “indiscriminate” use of force.

That might not be a blood libel, as claimed by Knesset member Michael Oren, a former Israeli am-bassador to the United States, but it’s not far away. Sanders has not apologized for smearing the Israel Defense Forces, has not clarified that one-third to one-half of the Palestinian dead were combatants, and has not acknowledged any of the efforts Israel made to minimize casualties while Hamas did all it could to maximize them for propaganda reasons.

Sanders has swallowed and regurgitated that propaganda, and unless he can admit it, we don’t see how anyone who cares for Israel can support him. ■

Our ViewFeeling Berned

One of the most familiar lines in politics comes from the 19th century English histo-rian Lord Acton, who said, “Power tends to

corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”People forget the last part of that quotation

— “Great men are almost always bad men” — but maybe we’re seeing a rush of politicians trying to prove their greatness. That would require thought, though, and the evidence indi-cates that corruption is far more common than thinking.

So let’s give it some thought: What is the source of corruption?

It’s common to hear ser-mons on money being the root of all political evil from people as different as Hillary Clinton, who has been a nonstop fundraising machine for decades; Bernie Sanders, who has raised $140 million for his presidential run; and Donald Trump, a billionaire who could open his checkbook any time the media stopped giving him free publicity.

People love to pile on the Supreme Court’s Citi-zens United ruling, which, putting the principle of free speech above practical consequences, found that the government may not limit the ability to spend to share a political message. Free speech isn’t free, and barring spending restrains the freedom of speech.

Unlimited spending on unlimited political speech (vital in a free society) annoyingly increases political ads. But it doesn’t create corruption.

The money in the system can be a tool for good (say, in making the case against House Bill 757, the Free Exercise Protection Act) or bad (in lobbying against S.B. 327, Georgia’s anti-BDS legislation).

If you’re clean, if you’re a politician who votes and acts based on certain core principles, all the money in the system won’t corrupt you. But if you can be bought, you’ll be bought, regardless of the price, either above or below the table.

Sanders’ own success at raising money and sticking to his anti-Wall Street guns argues against his message: The system he bashes as evil neither silences him nor slows him down.

So maybe it’s not the money but the power in the system that causes the corruption, as Lord Acton argued. The closer we get to absolute power, the closer we get to certain corruption.

A look at the Georgia Capitol shows how that cor-ruption expresses itself not as avarice, but as arrogance.

In the old days, Georgia was

effectively a one-party state. Democrats ruled, and Georgia suffered through systemic intolerance and discrimination. Only outside intervention forced the state to change.

Now the General Assembly is predominantly Republican, and we’re in our fourth four-year term with a GOP governor. We have Republicans as lieu-tenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, insurance commissioner and both U.S. senators.

Perhaps it’s just a coincidence that the return of one-party dominance has brought a return of arrogant efforts to enact legal intolerance and dis-crimination, this time against LGBT people instead of blacks. But maybe one party winning too easily too often leads to corruption that eats away at the principle of liberty, to be replaced by the exercise of raw power.

Only outside intervention reins in that arro-gance, but the more criticism they face, the more determined certain legislators are to prove they can do what they want. I’m not sure how else to make sense of this never-ending drive for religious liberty legislation that addresses no actual problem and risks real financial and moral consequences. ■

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From Where I SitBy Dave [email protected]

EXPERIENCE MATTERSTEN YEARS OF JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE IN THE

FULTON SUPERIOR COURT AND 27 YEARS OF PRIVATE PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

VOTE MAY 24TH

The late Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen, a gravel-throated Republican from Illinois, did

say “a billion here, a billion there,” but apparently not “and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”

U.S. aid to Israel — $124.3 billion (not adjusted for inflation) since 1948 — qualifies as real money. Israel has received more aid than any other country since World War II and today is the largest annual recipient; almost all of that money is military aid, as economic assistance was phased out a decade ago.

(The average American believes that more than 25 percent of the fed-eral budget goes to foreign aid, polls show. The truth is less than 1 percent.)

The 10-year memorandum of un-derstanding by which Israel receives $3.1 billion a year (and several hundred million more for joint projects, such as missile defense) ends after fiscal year 2018. Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu told visiting Republican law-makers that he wants to enact a new 10-year deal before President Barack Obama leaves office in January.

The United States reportedly is offering a choice: a lower figure with the ability to ask for more or a higher figure with no extras, barring an emer-gency. Annual amounts ranging from $3.7 billion to $4 billion are attributed to American sources, while Israel is said to seek $5 billion.

So it was eye-catching when The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Congressman David Scott told a closed-door session at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington that $7 bil-lion should be earmarked for Israel.

The Democrat represents the 13th District, which arcs outside Interstate 285, taking in Douglas County and parts of Henry, Clayton, Cobb and Fulton counties. The former member of the House Foreign Affairs Commit-tee, who opposes the Iran nuclear deal, worries that a bar on seeking more aid would put Israel at a disadvantage.

“A substantial increase in the new MOU is necessary in order to secure funding for programs traditionally funded outside of the MOU,” Scott told the AJT. “We cannot backtrack on this unfortunate deal with Iran; we can only move forward. And the best way to move forward is to ensure that our Israeli allies are prepared to meet any threat. In order to ensure that Israel

receives enough funding, it is impor-tant to begin negotiations by setting a high bar in order to guarantee that the final number is an adequate amount. If we granted Iran, the leading state sponsor of terrorism, access to $150 billion, why shouldn’t we give Israel,

our staunch ally, access to $70 billion (over 10 years)?”

(The Treasury Department says Iran will receive $55 billion from as-sets frozen under sanctions, not the $150 billion figure frequently cited, because the remainder is committed to paying various Iranian debts.)

Israel’s air force chief recently warned that Israel’s military edge is threatened by a buildup of weaponry elsewhere in the Middle East.

“U.S. military aid for Israel has been designed to maintain Israel’s

‘qualitative mili-tary edge’ (QME) over neighbor-ing militaries. The rationale for QME is that Israel must rely on better equip-ment and training to compensate for being much

smaller geographically and in terms of population than its potential adversar-ies,” reads a June 2015 report by the Congressional Research Service on Israel’s aid arrangement.

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. aid to Israel finances purchases of Amer-ican-made hardware. Israel uses the remainder to support its own defense industry. U.S. aid accounts for about 20 percent of Israel’s defense budget.

A University of Massachusetts study in 2012 estimated that every $1 billion of defense spending contrib-uted to 8,430 jobs. By that formula, aid to Israel supports more than 26,000 American jobs.

“Furthermore, Israeli battlefield use of American equipment helps the

U.S. military improve its hardware and tactics. This deal is not only good for Israel; this deal is good for the U.S. economy and military,” Scott said.

The Arms Export Control Act requires that Israel (and other nations) use U.S. equipment for “legitimate self-defense.” Israel and the Palestinians differ over Israeli compliance.

“No matter how you view the situ-ation in the Middle East, all parties de-sire peace. However, I believe that peace comes through strength. A strong MOU is a long-term investment in peace be-cause peace will not be made without a strong Israel,” Scott said, adding, “The United States is the leading provider of bilateral development assistance to the Palestinian people and has provided over $5 billion in aid since 1994.”

Scott is confident taxpayers would support more than doubling aid to Isra-el. “You don’t have to be Jewish to sup-port Israel. Although I have met with concerned constituents that happened to be Jewish, I have also heard support from people of all backgrounds,” he said. “No matter the political party or demographic, the American people’s support for Israel remains strong.” ■

Why Scott Wants $7 Billion a Year for Israel

Rep. David Scott

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By David R� [email protected]

With Ponce City Market hit-ting its stride in Midtown Atlanta, a music venue is set

to open in the 2.1-million-square-foot project in time for summer.

One part restaurant, one part lounge and one part concert venue, City Winery will host its first perfor-mances in June after construction delays forced the postponement of a schedule of May concerts.

Atlanta will be the fifth city for the business, after New York (two loca-tions), Chicago (two locations), Boston and Nashville.

“Atlanta is a great city and a great market,” said Jewish entrepreneur Mi-chael Dorf, who founded City Winery in New York eight years ago. “We had some great success in Nashville, so we felt good about another location in the South. I looked around Atlanta for a good year trying to find the perfect neighborhood for City Winery, and we think Ponce City Market is going to be a huge draw.”

Dorf, the founder of New York mu-sic venue the Knitting Factory, opened

City Winery to combine his interests in wine and music. The idea is to bring to the city a wine country experience of house-made wine and chef-driven cui-sine, along with top music acts.

The Ponce City Market location will cover around 26,000 square feet over two levels. Performers scheduled for this summer include David Broza, Don McLean, Asleep at the Wheel and Shawn Mullins.

Dorf said he considers numerous factors before opening City Winery in a new location, such as population, wine consumption and the local music infrastructure. The entrepreneur also said a large Jewish community is an important factor.

“I believe that it’s part of an indi-cator for us that the market will have an overall mix of people who will be in-terested in our type of programming,” Dorf said. “We found that Atlanta has a fairly large Jewish community and thought that our programming would be met very positively by the locals.”

Jewish rocker Peter Wolf, former lead singer of the J. Geils Band, will have the distinction of being the first act at Atlanta’s City Winery on Friday, June 3. ■

City Winery Cultivates Ponce City Music

Steve’s Announces ClosingJust as a Jewish-owned music venue is opening in Midtown, another is clos-

ing in Sandy Springs.Steve Grossman announced Wednesday, April 6, on Facebook that he will

close Steve’s Live Music in June after four years of operation, although he is continuing the brand by promoting “Steve’s Live Music Presents” shows at oth-er venues. The first such show was a Neil Young/Tom Petty jam session Friday, April 8, at 5 Seasons Brewing in Sandy Springs.

Grossman told the AJT in January that he would close his venue on Hilder-brand Drive if he couldn’t find a partner to take over the food operations, for which he lacks the passion he holds for music. ■

Jewish entrepreneur Michael Dorf is bringing his New York-founded City Winery concept to Ponce City Market.

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Although Michael Dorf’s City Winery won’t officially open until June, it will provide At-

lanta an early taste with the Freedom Seder on Sunday, April 17.

An annual tradition at City Win-ery locations in New York and Chi-cago since 2008, the Freedom Seder is a 90-minute interactive service that follows customs with a celebrity twist. The event will feature Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza, singer-activist Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary, and venue founder Michael Dorf.

Broza, Yarrow and other perform-ers will sit among the guests and pro-vide their own interpretations of the story of Exodus and the message of the journey from slavery to freedom.

“I grew up in Wisconsin in the ’60s and ’70s,” Dorf said. “My father, being a liberal secular Jew, incorporated Mar-tin Luther King and other sorts of so-cial justice readings into our seder. He made the concept of slavery more rel-evant to me as a very privileged white kid growing up in the suburbs.”

The Freedom Seder will be held on the second floor of Ponce City Market, 1½ miles from the birthplace of Mar-tin Luther King Jr. on Auburn Avenue. Guests can expect to celebrate side by side with musicians, prominent Jewish Atlantans and seder leader Dorf.

Although customs such as drink-ing four cups of wine and reciting the Four Questions will be followed, Dorf has taken a few liberties, including de-signing a custom haggadah.

“As a pragmatist and producer,” Dorf said, “to have 300 hungry Jews waiting for the meal is not the best way to put on a show. So we’ll have matzah and hummus out on tables family style. We do that so guests don’t get so hun-gry waiting for the meal during the presentation.” ■

Yarrow, Broza Join Freedom Seder

What: City Winery Freedom Seder

Where: Ponce City Market, second floor (above Williams-Sonoma)

When: 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17

Tickets: $145 (VIP) or $100, with a glatt kosher upgrade available for $25; www.citywinery.com/atlanta

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By Marcy J� Levinson

Bright blue eyes and bouncing golden curls are two striking fea-tures Janis Zagoria recalls of her

firstborn daughter, Lauren.Until she was almost 2, Lauren

was happy, healthy and playful, Zago-ria said in an interview. But their happy three-person home turned into a place full of community, prayers and doctors because of neuroblastoma.

The brain cancer killed Lauren in 1992 before her third birthday, only 14 months after she was diagnosed, but her legacy lives through Lauren’s Run, which has raised more than $3.4 mil-lion for CURE Childhood Cancer. The 22nd Lauren’s Run, presented by Au-toNation, will include 10K and 5K runs, a 2K run/walk, and a tot trot Sunday, April 24, at the Concourse Office Park.

After Lauren had a checkup at 21 months old, “her left eyelid began to droop, so we went back to the doctor,” Zagoria said. A surgery in the eye sock-et revealed a tumor that had metasta-sized — Stage 4 neuroblastoma.

“Our family rallied, and the com-munity rallied around us. We had so much wonderful support; we were just stunned and grateful,” Zagoria said. “My parents were at every treatment and every hospitalization for us.”

By then Zagoria and her then-hus-band, Marvin, had a son, Daniel, born 14 months after Lauren.

Now a 25-year-old commercial real estate professional in New York, Daniel said that although he does not remem-ber Lauren, he knows her death was hard on his family. “I definitely have a greater appreciation of knowing that things are not always within your con-trol,” he said. “I am more appreciative and aware that not everything is easy.”

Lauren’s Run is the positive from those hard times. It also serves as a me-morial for Lauren Kochman, who died from the same cancer at 20 months old.

Daniel Zagoria and his younger sister, Haley Zagoria, grew up with the legacy of a sister they never got to know as a youngster or as the young adult she’d be today.

“Lauren’s Run has proven to me that good can come from the worst sit-uations. No one is too small or young to make a difference in the world,” said Haley, 23, who lives in Orlando. “The money we have raised has done a lot of good and saved so many lives. It makes me proud of my family and the fact that we could help Lauren leave a last-ing legacy on this world.”

Daniel said every story of a child with cancer strikes a chord with him. When pro athletes visit children in hospitals, he said, those children get a chance to be just regular kids.

Janis Zagoria said some of her best memories of Lauren are regular kid things, such as going to preschool with friends at Temple Sinai.

Hospital life was drastically differ-ent with its hundreds of walks up and down corridors with an IV hanger in tow, but Zagoria said Lauren was too little to understand and never ques-tioned things.

Zagoria cherishes memories such as Lauren’s 2-year-old birthday party after she began treatment and the pink Gund bear she called “Biwwy” and clung to tightly everywhere she went.

“It was just simple, day-to-day things,” she said.

Zagoria said Lauren was a strong little girl. “She was so courageous. She was quite stoic, and she was so little, so so little. She was just really a trooper and just hung in there.” ■

Toddler’s Legacy Keeps Racing Toward Cure

What: Lauren’s Run and CURE picnic

Where: Concourse Office Park, 4 Concourse Parkway, Sandy Springs

When: 8 a.m. Sunday, April 24

Registration: For adults, $35 for the 10K or $30 for the 5K or 2K in advance at bit.ly/1N53MUl, $40 on race day; for children 12 and under, $25 for the 10K, 5K, 2K or tot trot

Photo courtesy of CURE Childhood CancerLauren’s Run, which includes a 10K Peachtree Road Race qualifier as well as a more family-friendly 2K, has raised more than $3.4 million to research childhood cancer.

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Jon Albert has repeated one question thousands of times since founding the Atlanta-based Jack & Jill Late

Stage Cancer Foundation 10 years ago: If you were a young parent who just received a terminal diagnosis, what would be your first thought?

The answer is always the children. Linda Bachman was thinking

about her son, Jack, when her husband, Doug Toma, found out his melanoma had returned and was untreatable.

“It was just a question of how long he had,” said Bachman, the director of the Office of University Experiential Learning at the University of Georgia.

Bachman was wondering how she would explain all of this to her first-grader. So she made an appointment with a social worker at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory in Atlanta. That is where she heard about JAJF.

Soon their family became one of nearly 1,100 treated to an all-expense-paid vacation of their choice by JAJF.

Prescribed by oncologists nation-

wide, JAJF trips for young families with a parent who has a terminal diagnosis have proved so benefi-cial that they have become a part of many treatment plans.

“Oncologists validate the me-dicinal impact that JAJF is having for these families, especially the chil-

dren, at such a vulnerable time,” CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, said in a video statement. “On-cologists believe in the power of music and sports and beaches and sunsets and roller coasters and just fun, as a positive time together as a family as part of the treatment, and I believe it as well.”

On their JAJF WOW! trip to New York in 2010, Toma had the opportuni-ty to show his son some of his own his-tory and have some JAJF-trademarked

WOW! Experiences: going backstage at “The Lion King,” taking a Circle Line cruise to the Statue of Liberty, and just experiencing the city as a family.

Bachman remembers having a hot dog on a bench in Central Park. “My kid was just being a normal kid, having a quintessential New York experience, sharing a hot dog with his dad.”

Just a few months later, in May 2011, Toma died at age 47. Jack was 7.

The trip helped create forever memories for Jack.

“Jack has firsthand memories of his father. He was old enough at that time to have his own memories,” Bach-

man said. “His dad is still a part of who he is, and he knows that.”

Helping families create memories and get a break from the cancer diag-nosis is what Albert and his wife, Jill, who died of breast cancer the year the organization started, had in mind.

“People thought I was crazy back then because my wife was dying, and we had two young kids,” Albert said.

Joel Babbit, the CEO of the Mother Nature Network and a supporter of JAJF, remembers the beginning.

“People respond to tragic events in different ways. When Jill passed away, Jon decided he would respond in the most positive way possible: by helping others that were facing similar situa-tions,” Babbit said.

He said that understanding is re-flected in JAJF’s work. “I think a big part of the organization’s success is the fact that Jon is not just some executive that has been charged with running things. He is someone that can relate very closely to the needs that exist, someone that has gone through the same thing these families are experiencing.”

After doing eight months of re-search and realizing the true need for an organization that helps the whole family, Albert knew JAJF would be worthwhile and successful. “If we could build momentum, I knew that we would touch hearts.”

Sammy Grant, the founder and president of SG Financial Advisors, is one of the people committed from the beginning. After meeting Albert at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, where Albert was the chief marketing officer until he resigned to launch the foundation, Grant knew he wanted to be a part of the organization.

“I was inspired by what he was able to do under such tough personal circumstances: to create memories for families going through similar experi-ences,” said Grant, who started his busi-ness the year the foundation was cre-ated. “Around Thanksgiving of that first year, I decided, in lieu of holiday gifts for my clients, I would make a dona-tion in their honor. Jack and Jill was the first organization I supported, and Jon’s gratitude and his stories of the happy memories created in part because of our help inspired me to continue the giving tradition every year since then.”

Beginning this year, people have a new way to support JAJF.

In January the foundation began the WOW! Society, which allows people

A Decade of Forever MemoriesJack & Jill helps cancer patients make the most of their time with their children

Jon Albert founded the Jack & Jill

Late Stage Cancer Foundation while his wife, Jill, was dying of cancer a decade ago.

Ed and Tina Borg attend the Grammys in February 2012 with their

daughters, Michelle and Sydney. Tina Borg died that October.

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to donate a given amount over five years.

Albert said it costs about $1,500 per family per trip “from door to door.” In-kind do-nations from ho-tels, tourist desti-nations and more cover most costs, but Albert said the organization wants to make sure families do not have to think

about anything except packing. WOW! Society members can ar-

range to meet the families and receive digital albums similar to those each family gets from the trip. Details about the WOW! Society and the foundation are available at www.JAJF.org.

Albert said donors can see the re-turn on investment in the smiles of the families they support. The foundation operates with little overhead. It has just two employees, and 92 percent of the operating budget goes to the families.

Babbit recognizes the impact of the organization despite its size. Albert “has done an incredible job,” he said. “The results he has been able to achieve are higher than many other charitable organizations that have much bigger staffs and far more resources.”

For Albert, it’s all about helping families, and he built the lean structure of the organization deliberately.

After 10 years of success — being featured on the “Today” show twice, on “CBS Sunday Morning,” in The Wall Street Journal and in USA Today — Al-bert is trying to continue the growth of the organization.

“Now it’s time. I won’t be bashful on behalf of these children who are losing their moms and dads,” he said. “We’re about living life. We’re about family, and that just relates to every-one.”

Ed Borg of Atlanta knows all too well the impact that JAJF can have. Before his wife, Tina, died in October 2012, the family — Ed, Tina and their then-teenage daughters, Michelle and Sydney — took a trip to Hollywood and attended the Grammys.

“The most important thing is it created memories that will live for-ever,” said Borg, a child of Holocaust survivors who is originally from Skok-ie, Ill. “It caused a paradigm shift. We went from focusing on the treatments and the inevitable death of my wife to living and making the most of the time that we had left.” ■

Sammy Grant, now the treasurer

of the Marcus Jewish Community Center board, has

been involved with the foundation since its start.

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Now in its 22nd season, “Danc-ing With the Stars” charms viewers who imagine them-

selves accepting the challenge of per-forming with a professional in front of a live audience in a décol-leté feathered ball gown or sequined lime tuxedo.

The adrenaline, stage fright and physicality of performing for judges make it a challenge just to remember the routine.

At a local level, some Atlanta Jewish leaders are jitterbug-ging up to the plate to use big dance programs as platforms to raise thou-sands of dollars for charity.

Ted Blum of Dunwoody, the managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Buckhead office, trained to compete in Atlanta’s Celebrity Dance Challenge on Thursday, April 14, to raise money and awareness for the Eating Disorder Information Network.

In addition to Jewish charities, Blum is active in the business commu-nity as the chairman of the advisory

board of the Chick-fil-A Foundation, a board member of Junior Achievement and an advisory board member of the Emory Center for Ethics.

He stepped out of his comfort

zone with dancing partner Natalie Pruitt, who owns Rock Steady School of Ballroom Dance in Sandy Springs.

“My wife decided to take ballroom dancing lessons a couple of years ago and needed a partner. She is the boss, and I did what she told me to do and took lessons too,” Blum said. “Some-what to my surprise, I enjoyed it. It is good exercise, more fun than running.”

The EDIN benefit led him to practice at least once a week, usually at lunchtime. He surpassed his goal of raising $20,000.

“When they asked me to do it, I thought long and hard and decided, ‘Why not?’ ” Blum said, adding that he doesn’t expect to do it again.

Asked how he would compare this adventure to practicing law, Blum said: “Every lawyer should do it. Takes dis-cipline, brains, finely tuned analytical skills — just like being a lawyer, but you move more.”

Cha-cha maven Karen Schatten Shmerling will hit the dance floor for

the seventh annual Dancing Stars of Atlanta benefit for the Alzheimer’s As-sociation on Saturday night, April 30, at the Cobb Galleria.

She grew up at Atlanta’s Ruth Mitchell Dance Company and graduated as a dance major from Skidmore College. She is a volunteer dance coach and choreographer for the senior dance team for the WNBA’s At-lanta Dream.

Shmerling performed in New York for several years be-fore returning to Atlanta to teach ballet, jazz and second grade.

She and her professional partner, Jonathan Chen, practice two hours a week.

“My goal is to raise $50,000,” she said. “When asked to dance for the Alzheimer’s Association, I felt very privileged to say yes as my father-in-law, Dr. Sanford Shmerling, and my uncle, Dr. Perry Gold, both succumbed to Alzheimer’s. I am also dancing in honor of my mother, who has demen-tia.”

Learning to dance in ballroom shoes has been the most difficult part, she said. “Walking in heels is not a problem for me, but doing a very fast cha-cha routine to Pitbull’s ‘Fireball’ is a different story. Yes, I am ner-vous about performing because who wouldn’t be when all eyes are on you to give a great performance?” ■

Dancing With a CauseBlum, Shmerling take a few spins for eating disorders, Alzheimer’s

Jaffe’s Jewish JiveBy Marcia Caller [email protected]

Photo by Marcia Caller Jaffe

Karen Schatten Shmerling is training with

Jonathan Chen for the Dancing Stars of Atlanta benefit

for the Alzheimer’s Association.

Photos by Hope Beckham Inc.Greenberg Traurig managing shareholder Ted Blum has used practice sessions with Natalie Pruitt, owner of Rock Steady School of Ballroom Dance, to prepare for the Celebrity Dance Challenge.

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By Michael [email protected]

It’s just a part of getting old.People tell themselves that all

the time. If you can’t run as fast at 70 as at 30 or it takes you a few extra minutes to get up and out in the morn-ing, natural aging might be to blame.

But “there’s a lot of things that people presume or imagine or believe that are a part of getting old that are not part of getting old,” said Jonathan Flacker, the chief of geriatrics and ger-ontology at Emory School of Medicine and the Grady Geriatrics Center and the chairman of the American Geriat-rics Society’s education committee.

Geriatricians, who specialize in el-derly health, “usually don’t tell people they have a problem because they’re old,” he said. “They have a problem be-cause they have a problem.”

Among the issues a geriatrician is trained to investigate are incontinence, falling down, memory problems, de-pression, weight loss and even a gener-al sense someone just isn’t doing well.

The key issue, Flacker said, is whether a person can have better func-

tionality and an improved qual-ity of life, which is a different ap-proach than a family medicine doctor, intern-ist or specialist might take. A geri-atrician is less fo-cused on specific numbers on lab tests.

An 80-year-old could wind up on 10 or 20 medi-cations, each jus-

tified in isolation. But taken together, it’s too much. A geriatrician, who gen-erally schedules more time with each patient in part to coordinate care, can help prioritize the issues that are most important to the quality of life.

“People in geriatrics are really trained to address and handle complex multiple problems at the same time,” said Flacker, a member of The Temple, where his wife, Lorie, teaches second grade in the religious school.

That expertise includes dealing

with an aging person’s emotional and mental health and helping family members come to grips with the needs and desires of an elderly patient.

Having multiple problems associ-ated with aging, from hypertension and osteoporosis to moderate demen-tia and organ failure, indicates a geri-atrician would be a good option as a primary care physician. But Flacker said he’s happy to work on a consulting basis and often would prefer to see pa-tients stay with their longtime doctors as long as those physicians can take the time to follow geriatric procedures.

There’s no specific age when pa-tients should think about a geriatri-cian. Flacker said the average age of his patients has remained around 86 or 87 since he arrived in Atlanta in 2000.

People who have suffered a stroke or have multiple sclerosis, for example, might turn to a geriatrician at age 65, but for healthy people that’s an arbi-trary and hard-to-defend age to make a health care change, Flacker said.

“Although I’m perfectly happy to see perfectly healthy older adults and talk about healthy aging … for people like that it’s less clear for me to see the

advantage of seeing a geriatrician over a really good family medicine (doctor) or internist,” he said.

Atlanta is a good place to grow old, though, because of its high number of geriatricians per capita, thanks to strong programs at Emory and More-house, Flacker said. The region also has high-quality services for the elderly, such as the senior centers in Fulton and DeKalb counties, the Atlanta Area Agency on Aging, and a 24-hour advice line for caregivers, he said.

After all, he said, “if you expect somebody to sit in a room all day and not do anything and be happy about it, I wouldn’t be happy about it, nor is any-body’s grandfather going to be happy about it.”

But people have to use the resourc-es available.

“I think there’s just too much out there of people accepting things that are actually treatable, and it’s just a shame,” Flacker said. “A lot can be done to improve people’s quality of life at any age and pretty much any state of disease or impairment. I think we’re a little too accepting of those kinds of things.” ■

Getting the Right Care While Growing Old

Growing up around all of his grandparents in

Philadelphia helped inspire Jonathan Flacker to choose geriatrics, he says.

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Greater Atlanta Hadassah’s Breast Strokes — The Big Reveal sold out the Stave Room at American

Spirit Works in Atlanta with more than 500 attendees Saturday, Feb. 20.

The gala raised money for breast cancer and genetic research programs at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem and for breast cancer education, advocacy and prevention in the United States. The evening followed Paint Day in Oc-tober, when 35 women, many of them breast cancer survivors, had their tor-sos painted and photographed.

The Big Reveal displayed 24-by-30-inch canvases of those photos and provided food, live music and auction items. CNN correspondent Holly Firfer served as the host and auctioneer for the live auction, which included paint-ings by Atlanta artist Gary Bodner, six bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon and a trip to Napa Valley.

The honorees were Maxx Schube and her daughters, Rochelle and Alana, all positive for the BRCA1 gene muta-tion. Maxx and Alana are breast cancer survivors, and Rochelle had a double

mastectomy as a preventive measure.The Big Reveal included a docu-

mentary by Adam Hirsch showing Alana Schube’s journey, from chemo-therapy sessions to surgery at M.D. An-derson Cancer Center in Houston.

Maxx Schube thanked honorary

chair Diane Alexander, a plastic sur-geon who she said instilled in her and her daughters “the confidence that no matter how long the journey, that we would be whole again.”

“The real admiration goes to my two brave and courageous daughters, who each fought the good fight and were both willing to share their stories when called upon,” Maxx said.

Alexander specializes in cosmetic facial surgery, body sculpture, breast rejuvenation and breast cancer recon-struction. She said that 30 years ago

when she was in medical school, a mastectomy was not done in a “pretty way.”

In spite of the improve-ments of the past 30 years, she said, “this disease keeps getting meaner and more vicious. Twenty-three-year-old women should not have breast cancer; 29-year-old women should not have to have their breasts removed to save their lives. And par-ents of those children should not have to watch them go through it. The Hadassah Medical Organization is making an extraordinary difference for our sisters, mothers, daughters and friends who have breast can-cer or the genetic predisposi-tion to have it in the future.”

To support breast can-cer research at Hadassah Medical Organization, you can purchase wall prints, greeting cards, phone cases, throw pillows, shower cur-tains and duvet covers at atlanta-hadassah.finearta-merica.com. In addition, 24-by-30-inch canvases from this year’s and last year’s Big Reveal events are available by calling the Hadassah of-fice at 678-443-2961. ■

Hadassah’s Big Reveal a Big Success

Photo by Rachel Palazzo(From left) Big Reveal chair Wendy

Bearman, Breast Strokes co-chair Sue Rothstein, Greater Atlanta Hadassah centennial chair Phyllis Cohen and

Breast Strokes co-chair Annie Kohut stand with a commemorative canvas

depicting the 35 painted torsos. Remaining canvases are for sale for $200.

Diane Alexander serves as the honorary chair of the Big Reveal.

More than 500 people crowd into the Stave Room at American Spirit

Works for the Big Reveal.

Plastic surgeon Diane Alexander, with husband Kent, says, “The Hadassah Medical Organization is making an extraordinary difference.”

Emcee Holly Firfer runs the live auction.

Photo by Rick MershonThe night’s honorees, Maxx Schube

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By Kevin [email protected]

Ryan Diamond, a seventh-grader at the Epstein School, has been chosen as an Honored Hero for

this year’s Take Steps Walk for Crohn’s and Colitis on Sunday, May 1.

“Ryan is just a good all-around kid. He likes sports, music and hanging out with his friends,” Doug Diamond said of his 13-year-old son.

Doing the walk is a way for him to feel good about helping other people, his father said. Ryan put it this way: “The walk is a couple of hours. It’s an event to raise awareness and money for people who have it so they can lead a better, easier life.”

It’s been a hard road to get here, though.

Ryan was diagnosed in 2014 after visiting several doctors because he had stomach pains and fatigue. Since then, he has had to make quite a few adjust-ments in his life.

“The medicine I’m taking has helped, but I’m still tired a lot,” he said during a phone interview.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, collectively referred to as in-flammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), af-fect a disproportionate number of Ash-kenazi Jews. As yet there is no cure.

Despite his situation, Ryan is still engaged in basketball, track, soccer and water sports. “He’s getting back to himself, though clearly last year was tough for him,” Doug said. “It made it harder for him to participate in a lot of these activities; he was just acclimating himself and dealing with the repercus-sions of being diagnosed. He’s getting some of his energy back. Fatigue is one of the issues, but the more he does, the

better he feels.”Doug said about half a dozen other

kids at Epstein have been diagnosed with IBD in recent years. “I don’t think they spend a lot of time dwelling on it,” he said. “Just knowing that there are others going through something simi-lar makes you feel probably a little less isolated.”

One of those classmates is Ryan’s friend Carly Spandorfer, whose broth-er, Jack, was an Honored Hero at last year’s Take Steps event. Both will be joining Ryan for the walk May 1.

His mother, Margo, said Ryan has taken a keen interest in investigating the disease itself. “We went to three hospitals — Philadelphia, Boston and here at Egleston — and everywhere we went, he asked each doctor and nurse, ‘What can I do to find a cure for this disease? Are you doing any research? Can I participate in it?’ ”

He helped raise a little over $11,000 last year for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foun-dation, according to Margo, and will try again this year with his Game of Crohn’s team. In addition, Ryan set up a lemonade stand with friends and donated that money to Camp Oasis, a summer camp for kids with IBD.

Margo said the family was shocked by the initial diagnosis. “We were caught off-guard. We weren’t ex-pecting it. We were surprised that it does not have a cure and thought it’s just an easy fix. It’s tough.” ■

Crohn’s Walk Honors Epstein Teen Fundraiser

Ryan Diamond, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s in 2014, is an Honored Hero for this year’s Take Steps Atlanta Walk to benefit the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.

What: Take Steps Atlanta Walk for Crohn’s and Colitis

Where: International Plaza, Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young International Blvd., downtown

When: 1 p.m. Sunday, May 1

Registration and donations: cctakesteps.org

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ish Fertility Foundation held its first fundraiser, Games & Dames, Thursday night, April 7.

“We’re so excited to have you here tonight,” Elana Frank, the foundation’s founder and president, said in wel-coming a crowd of 78 women to Con-gregation B’nai Torah for three hours of playing mahjong, noshing, bidding in a silent auction and vying for raffle prizes.

The women came together not only to have fun, but to address the problem of infertility, which affects one in six Jewish couples, compared with one in eight couples in the general population.

The idea to play games to raise money for the newborn foundation came from Frank’s mother, Jeanine Bekerman, and grandmother, Rose So-wadsky.

“My mother and grandmother know how passionate I am about help-

ing others who are going through in-fertility,” Frank said before the event. “They have seen me in my most desper-ate moments of wanting children, and they decided to help the cause by doing what they know and love — playing games.”

Women had the option to sign up for a variety of games, but, regardless of age, they all wanted to play mahjong.

The event brought in more than $3,000 for the foundation’s initial fund raising stage. More programs are being planned.

Frank said the first grants will go out in January 2017 if the foundation meets its financial goals. The founda-tion also is partnering with the Jewish Interest Free Loan Association.

A medical committee of six top fertility specialists has helped create the criteria to select the recipients of grants to help pay for in vitro fertiliza-tion. A round of IVF in Atlanta can cost up to $25,000, and Georgia does not mandate health insurance coverage for infertility. ■

Mahjong as Child’s Play

Rose Sowadsky offers some mahjong advice.

Photos by Michael JacobsFoundation founder Elana Frank (right), with her mother,

Jeanine Bekerman, welcomes the crowd to Games & Dames.

Young women are part of the mahjong fun.

An attendee chooses which raffles to enter. Businesses such as Chai Peking, the Spicy Peach and the Marcus Jewish

Community Center provided prizes.The clacking tiles create quite a racket.

Women gather in groups of four and five to play mahjong.

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www.atlantajewishtimes.comISRAEL NEWS

Blocked artery treatment� Eximo Med-ical in Rehovot has completed a multi-center clinical trial of its laser system and unique catheters for treating pe-ripheral artery disease. Doctors cured 20 patients, some of whom otherwise would have required bypass surgery or leg amputation.

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cer. Israeli security services mounted a secret operation to smuggle a relative with matching bone marrow from “an enemy state” into Israel to treat the girl.

Fighting the Zika virus� One of the Grand Challenge Israel winners is startup Biofeed. It will use the 500,000-shekel ($133,000) prize to ad-vance its solution in the fight against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the Zika virus. Biofeed uses odor to at-tract insects to a poison that eliminates

the pest without spraying crops.

Fish virus identified� Israeli scientists have helped isolate a deadly virus that is killing both wild and farmed tila-pia, an important global food source. The fish eat algae and are essential for freshwater quality. The tilapia lake virus is related to the influenza virus, and the research will help the develop-ment of a vaccine.

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French seek help treating terror vic-tims� French Minister of Health Mari-sol Touraine visited Israel to learn from the Jewish state’s medical expertise on treating victims of terror attacks. To-uraine visited Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Med-ical Center and met with Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman.

Water tech in India� Israel’s agricul-ture minister, Uri Ariel, opened India Water Week in Delhi. It features 11 Israeli companies demonstrating — through simulations — innovations in irrigation, desalination, water purifica-tion, measurement and management for municipalities and farms.

Fast food from Israel� As part of the European Union project Fresh Food Corridors, the first “reefer” (tempera-ture-controlled containers) block train loaded with Israeli fruit and vegetables traveled from the Slovenian port of Koper to Rotterdam. It arrived six days earlier than ships traveling directly from Israel.

The world’s smallest diode� Israeli and U.S. researchers have made the world’s smallest diode — just one molecule small. Diodes are electronic elements that allow current to flow in one direc-tion but prevent its flow in the other di-rection. They are essential for all elec-tronic devices.

Engines to land spacecraft on Mars� The European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission blasted off from Kazahkstan on March 14. Haifa-based Rafael Indus-tries made the vital hydrazine thrusters for the Schiaparelli landing module, which on Oct. 19 will slow the decent of the craft onto the surface of Mars.

Printing your shoes� Rehovot-based Stratasys, the world’s biggest maker of 3D printers, has launched the Stratasys J750, which can print anything from athletic shoes to voice recorders. It has 360,000 color shades and multiple properties, from rigid to flexible and opaque to transparent.

Natural gas estimates tripled� The Is-raeli Energy Ministry has tripled its estimate of the volume of undiscovered natural gas in Israeli waters. The new estimate is a potential 2.1 trillion cubic meters, based on a report by French consulting firm BeicipFranlab. The Tamar and Leviathan gas fields have yielded 750 billion to 950 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

New airport shuttle to Tel Aviv� Tour-ists arriving at Ben Gurion Airport can get to their Tel Aviv hotels without ex-pensive taxis. Flo Shuttle is operating a door-to-door shuttle service between the airport and hotels for $17 per per-son. The service is available 24/7, but pre-booking is required.

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Record crowd at Jerusalem Marathon� A record 30,000 people from 62 coun-tries participated in the sixth annual Jerusalem Marathon. They included 2,400 foreign competitors and 6,000 people who were raising money for good causes.

More gold for gymnasts� Israel’s na-tional rhythmic gymnastics team con-tinued its sensational form with an-other gold medal, winning the ribbons final at the Thiais Grand Prix in France. Israel ended the all-around competi-tion in fifth place.

Ancient tools� A 2,000-year-old incense shovel and jug have been discovered at Magdala, a Second Temple-era Jewish town in the Galilee. The Israel Antiqui-ties Authority has led extensive excava-tions at the site and has uncovered Jew-ish ritual baths and a synagogue with a mosaic floor.

Compiled courtesy of verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com and other news sources.

Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home

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The day was sunny, and so was the attitude of the University of Georgia students celebrating the

second week of Israel Peace Week with Israel Fest on Wednesday, April 6.

Students from university organi-zations such as Sigma Delta Tau and UGA Hillel volunteered to help Dawgs for Israel serve traditional Israeli food, play Israeli music, and showcase the beauty and culture of the country. A camel named Josiah patiently endured mugging, camel-style, for an album of selfies from passing students.

“It’s been great,” said Emilie Vain-er, 23, whose Israeli father moved the family from Canada to Sandy Springs when Emilie was 5. She’s the head of Dawgs for Israel. “We wanted to give people a taste of Israel.”

With family scattered throughout the country, she has visited Israel often and even ridden a camel resembling Jo-siah. Sharing information about Israel comes easily to Vainer. She estimated that more than 2,000 people from across campus stopped at the display tables April 6 to learn about Israeli cities, don some blue beads or take a T-shirt, while others wandered over to a Bedouin tent in the makeshift Negev.

There was also information about the charities and disaster relief groups in Israel that travel the globe to help those in need. In the Tate Center Plaza, so many people gobbled up pita and hummus that the hummus ran out be-fore the pita. Music played, and some people danced, including Meirav Gold-hour and her baby.

Israel Fest coincided with Israeli Apartheid Week, staged from April 4 to 7 by Athens for Justice in Palestine and Christians United for Palestine.

Vainer had heard rumors that those groups were going to construct a wall, symbolizing the separation fence between Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Israel, but a wall was nowhere to be seen on campus April 6. Some students thought university of-ficials had prohibited the construction, but officials in student affairs said they hadn’t heard about a wall.

“We had no idea there was going to be an Israeli Apartheid Week,” Vainer said. “We planned this Israel Fest long ago and wanted it to be outside for peo-ple to enjoy the day.”

Numerous emails, texts and phone calls failed to connect with anyone at the pro-Palestinian groups who would comment. But the groups are active. They have shown movies on campus

about Palestinian struggles, and Pales-tine Solidarity Day is planned for the Tate Center Plaza on Friday, April 15.

But on April 6, the morning and af-ternoon were all about Israel for those enjoying food and friendship.

Ashley Siegel, 19, of Dunwoody said she spent six weeks in high school in Israel. An early childhood educa-tion major, she said she wouldn’t mind teaching at the Davis Academy in San-dy Springs when she graduates.

“I think (building a wall on cam-pus) is crazy,” she said. “They’re talking poorly about a country I feel passion-ate about. I don’t like it.”

Israeli Nadav Aud, 26, came from Atlanta to volunteer at Israel Fest. He said he is an emissary who tries to

UGA Festival Spreads Positive Views of Israel

Photos by Rachel LewackAbove: Robert Cohen of Marietta

staffs an Israel Fest handout table.Below: Josiah the camel patiently

poses for student selfies.

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bring Israel closer to the Jewish com-munity, and he loved the UGA event.

“People showed a lot of interest,” Aud said. “I liked introducing people to Israel.”

Staffing a table of swag was Robert Cohen, 19, a finance major from Mari-etta. He attends services at Hillel and wanted to volunteer at the festival.

His first experience “was just great,” he said. “We gave away a lot of stuff, and I think we reached a good group of students.”

Ilana Sturisky, 19, a communi-cations disorders major from Sandy Springs, plans to spend 15 days in Israel this summer. “I’m so excited about it,” she said. “We’re going to go everywhere and see everything.” ■

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By Kevin [email protected]

A live show featuring iconic pho-tographs taken by Henry Diltz and Pattie Boyd of rock ’n’ roll

legends is coming to the Fox Theatre.Diltz, originally a musician him-

self, started shooting photos with a $20 secondhand camera in his Laurel Can-yon neighborhood in the late 1960s, a time and place that served as a catalyst for the burgeoning singer-songwriter scene in Los Angeles.

Boyd was the muse for songs such as “Layla” and “Something” and is the former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

Boyd and Diltz are touring the country with “Behind the Lens: Up Close and Personal With Pattie Boyd and Henry Diltz,” in which the pair take the stage to reminisce about their lives and display their work.

“It’s been fun traveling with Pat-tie,” Diltz said on the phone from a ho-tel in Arizona. “We complement each other in terms of our photos. I do the L.A. singer-songwriter thing, and she does the Beatles and Clapton and the whole London scene, which I think is really the cherry on top of the dessert. It’s great fun to talk about all those days.”

Diltz said of that era in Southern California: “There was kind of a flower-ing, a whole renaissance.”

The trend of solo singers writing their own songs was a fairly recent phe-nomenon, and the likes of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor were just starting out and struggling to find an audience.

“In the ’40s and ’50s you had sing-ers, and then you had songwriters. Frank Sinatra didn’t write songs, nor did Elvis Presley,” Diltz said. “Then in the middle ’60s, partly because of the Beatles and partly because of Dylan

trying to be like Woody Guthrie, people started writing their own songs and ex-pressing their own feelings and ideas. That was a brand-new thing and a sea change in the music industry, and a lot of that happened right in Laurel Can-yon, where I lived.”

Diltz recalled an afternoon in 1968 in Mama Cass’ garden when Mitchell, then unknown, played her newly re-corded songs for guests who included David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Micky Dolenz, as well as Clapton, who had just arrived from England.

“Crosby brought along this young girl he had discovered who had just done her first album, and she sat there playing the entire record before any-one had even heard it,” said Diltz, who duly captured the moment.

The archive of Diltz’s vast output spans almost five decades and contains hundreds of thousands of photographs.

“They keep on wanting to use them; I’m always asked for photos of the ’60s and ’70s for books and maga-zines and films,” he said. “I just love taking photos, and I never wanted to spend the rest of my life dealing them out to people, but nonetheless it’s a good business.”

The Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York is now Diltz’s base of opera-tions, and it’s where he met Boyd when she held an exhibition of her photog-raphy there. The two became friends and eventually hit the road to show off their wares.

“I am so happy to be doing the ‘Be-hind the Lens’ tour again,” she said in a statement to the AJT. “It’s such a great feeling to share my photographs and the stories behind them with the peo-ple who come to see the show, and to see their reactions to hearing about my life and my work is just humbling and lovely. I am grateful and very happy.” ■

Photographers Rock Music History

Photo by Henry Diltz(From left) Graham Nash,

Stephen Stills and David Crosby are in Los Angeles in 1969.

What: “Behind the Lens: Up Close and Personal With Pattie Boyd and Henry Diltz”

Where: Fox Theatre Egyptian Ballroom, 660 Peachtree St., Midtown

When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19

Tickets: $42 to $83; foxtheatre.org/events/behind-the-lens

Photo by Paul ZolloHenry Diltz has taken many of rock

music’s iconic photos since the late 1960s.

Pattie Boyd has recorded and inspired rock music history.

Photo by Henry DiltzJames Taylor poses in Lake Hollywood, Calif., in 1969.

Photo by Henry DiltzJoni Mitchell, David Crosby and Eric

Clapton hang out at Mama Cass’ house.

Photo by Pattie Boyd“Another Hotel Room” features

Eric Clapton somewhere in the United States in 1974.

Photo by Henry DiltzIn a bit of guerrilla photography, the Doors are captured for the cover of

their fifth album, “Morrison Hotel,” in 1969 after sneaking inside because the proprietors denied them permission

to use the Los Angeles hotel.

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With over half the season in the books, the Georgia Tech baseball team is off to one of

its best starts since the Yellow Jackets’ 2006 run to the College World Series.

Besides a powerful offense with seven starters batting over .300, the Jackets (23-8 going into a game with Georgia on Tuesday night, April 12), who have been ranked as high as 18th, have a stellar pitching staff that fea-tures Jewish high school teammates Brandon Gold and Matthew Gorst.

Gold, the Yellow Jackets’ No. 1 starting pitcher, has a 2.28 ERA and 4-1 record in eight starts. Gorst, the team’s closer, has eight saves and a 0.46 ERA in 16 appearances out of the bullpen.

“We’re a bunch of brothers,” Gold said. “You can see the cohesion on and off the field. When we’re not on the field, we’re hanging out with each oth-er. It’s a great group of guys.”

The 21-year-old is the son of Barry and Kathy Gold, who are mainstays at Tech home games. He attended the Davis Academy for middle school, then Johns Creek High, where he was a four-year baseball letter winner and a Lou-isville Slugger first-team All-American.

After cracking the weekend start-ing rotation as a sophomore, the 6-foot-3 junior has established himself as the team’s Friday night starter.

“Brandon is an outstanding base-ball player and an outstanding person on top of that,” said Georgia Tech’s head baseball coach, Danny Hall. “He can do a lot of things on a baseball field and is certainly a key guy for us as we try to move through our season. We’re count-ing on Brandon to carry a big load.”

Fellow junior Matthew Gorst cata-pulted himself into the role of closer this season after making 26 relief ap-pearances in 2015 with a 4.81 ERA. In 2016, the 6-foot-1 Gorst has allowed only one run on nine hits while strik-ing out 28 in 19 2/3 innings.

The 21-year-old right-hander attri-butes the improvement to the use of a cut fastball, improved command and newfound mental toughness.

“I think mentally I’m a lot stron-ger than I’ve been the past two years,” Gorst said. “I was always afraid to fail rather than trying to succeed. This year I’ve been having the mindset that I can get people out, and it’s worked so far.”

Growing up with Jewish mother Debbie and Christian father David,

Gorst attended Congregation Dor Ta-mid. His parents are also regulars at Tech home games, although Gorst said they don’t come quite as often as Gold’s parents. Their hands are full with his three younger siblings, sister Sydney and brothers Trevor and Kameron.

Like Gold, Gorst was a four-year baseball letter winner and a Louisville Slugger All-American at Johns Creek High. He graduated as the school’s re-cord holder for most innings pitched in a career, most wins in a career, and single-season and career strikeouts.

“Brandon and I, we are definitely buddies,” Gorst said. “We hang out off the field as well. We didn’t just play high school ball together, but we also played summer ball, so I’ve been around him for a long time.”

In the offseason, Gorst and Gold play golf and relax at the pool or beach. Gold is a fishing enthusiast; Gorst is a college football fanatic.

With 24 games left in the regular season, Georgia Tech remains in posi-tion for a bid to the NCAA tournament. As juniors, Gold and Gorst are eligible for June’s 50-round Major League Base-ball draft and, as the top starter and closer at a strong college program, have a good chance to be picked.

“I want us to go to Omaha,” Gorst said, referring to the home of the Col-lege World Series. “If I can help our team win, that’s awesome, but I want to go to Omaha. The last few years have been disappointments for how much talent we have, and I think this team has what it takes to go the distance.” ■

The Jewish Jackets Tech baseball rides arms of Gold, Gorst

Photo by Danny Karnik/Georgia Tech AthleticsBrandon Gold (above) and Matthew Gorst

(below) make a formidable 1-2 punch for the Georgia Tech pitching staff.

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Daniel Appelrouth72, Atlanta

Daniel Jacob Appelrouth, 72, retired rheumatologist, singer and philanthro-pist, died in Grady Memorial Hospital’s ICU on Thursday, April 7, 2016, after a 2½-month battle that began with a fall from a bike in Amelia Island, Fla., and ended with cardiac failure.

He was born Oct. 2, 1943, in Key West, Fla., where he lived until he was 10 years old. He graduated from Beach High in Miami Beach in 1961 and from the University of Florida in 1965. He went to medical school at the University of Miami, where he did his internship, residency in internal medicine and fellowship in rheumatology.

He was a board-certified rheumatologist. He was on the staffs of Northside Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he remained an active staff member, serving on many committees. After practicing north of Atlanta for 25 years, he retired for health reasons.

Dan was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, serving at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, north of Chicago, from 1975 to 1977. Asked by young doc-tors today why he went into the Navy, he would explain he was the last of the Berry Plan doctors. Until the 1980s, all doctors had to serve in the military. After fulfilling his military obligation, he and his wife, Arlene, moved in 1977 to Atlanta, where he became active in many synagogues, serving on the boards of Temple Emanu-El, Temple Beth Tikvah and Congregation Beth Jacob. He was also an ac-tive member of Young Israel of Toco Hills.

He was passionately interested in helping the poor. He founded the Atlanta Hunger Relief Fund (atlantahungerrelieffund.org) and single-handedly raised more than $180,000. He was a former co-chairman of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Hunger Walk committee. He loved to sing, and many people re-member him as a lay cantor. In his beautiful baritone voice, he chanted songs and prayers and joyfully shared the bimah with his lifelong friend, Rabbi Donald Tam.

He gave concerts in retirement centers, asking for an honorarium to add to his hunger fund. He made four CDs, selling them and putting every cent into the hunger fund. He had a classically trained voice but continued taking voice lessons until a few months before his death. Dan worked to challenge himself, always perfecting new music and seeking out voice teachers to help him improve.

Dan coached his children’s sports teams at the Marcus Jewish Community Center in Dunwoody and was a camp doctor at Camp Barney Medintz. He was a docent at the Breman Museum and every Friday visited Jewish patients at Emory as part of the Bikur Cholim Committee of Jewish Family & Career Services.

When Dan heard about people who were homebound because of illness, he frequently called to ask whether he could stop by to perform a private concert.

The day after his death, Rabbi Kalman Rosenbaum, the former headmaster of Torah Day School of Atlanta, called from Israel to express his condolences and say he would never forget Dan’s kindness for singing to Rabbi Rosenbaum’s wife, Malka, when she was dying.

Dan was a man of integrity, good deeds and humility who touched thousands of lives in Atlanta. He helped people who were not his patients navigate the often confusing field of medicine. He went out of his way to help people find jobs. If someone needed advice or a favor, Dan was a go-to person who rarely said no to a request.

Dan ran a pediatric rheumatology clinic and was a frequent lecturer for pharmaceutical companies. He was loved by patients, who might make an ap-pointment because of aching joints but knew they could count on him to be inter-ested in everything about their lives. He was an old-fashioned, holistic doctor who believed that his patients’ healing would be enhanced by his actively listening to them, in addition to his interpretation of their lab results and X-rays.

He was persistent. When he set a goal or intention, he never gave up. As an example, Dan was a season ticket holder for the Atlanta Braves and had a dream of singing the national anthem at a home game. He asked to sing and was turned down. Year after year he called the Braves; it didn’t matter to him that the answer was always no.

For the Braves’ last season at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, Appelrouth repeated his request one more time. Imagine his delight when he was invited to sing. He invited all his friends to the last day game the Braves played in that sta-dium. Dan took the microphone and made one more dream come true.

Dan was a devoted husband to Arlene. April 25 would have been their 45th anniversary. He was a proud father of three: Michelle Appelrouth Seltzer of Silver Spring, Md., an antitrust litigator in the Department of Justice; Jed Appelrouth, entrepreneur and founder of Applerouth Tutoring; and Rabbi David Appelrouth, the educational director and assistant rabbi of the Temmy Latner Jewish Com-munity Centre in Toronto.

Dan was a proud grandfather of seven and wrote to them, expressing his de-sire to be a loving, guiding presence in their lives. He performed a stage mono-logue as part of a senior acting troupe sponsored by the Jewish Community Cen-ter.

Dan loved life and lived his life full on, showing up for his family, his friends, his patients and the greater Atlanta community.

As a young man, he told Arlene he dreamed of being a singer and hoped to earn enough money to become a philanthropist.

He ended each performance with a spirited rendition of “If I Were a Rich Man.” He would put on his favorite black Greek fisherman’s cap and entertain with the words and sounds of that famous song from “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Those who knew him knew he was a rich man: He lived a life filled with love, passion and meaning. His years were meaningful, and he will be mourned by many in addition to his wife, children, relatives and friends.

In addition to his wife, survivors include children Michelle (Yosefi Seltzer), Jed and David (Dalia); grandchildren Raphael Appelrouth, 13, Shua Appelrouth, 11, Elliott Seltzer, 8, Yisroel Meir Appelrouth, 6, Caroline Seltzer 5, Chana Perel Ap-pelrouth, 2, and Nosson Tzvi Appelrouth, 4½ months; brother Mitch Appelrouth (Eileen) of Atlanta, sister-in-law Connie Appelrouth of Virginia, and mother-in-law Mary Caplan of Pembroke Pines, Fla. Dan also leaves behind many cousins and friends.

The funeral was Sunday, April 10, at Congregation Beth Jacob. Burial fol-lowed at Crest Lawn Memorial Park. Charitable donations may be made to the Atlanta Hunger Relief Fund, 1118 Empire Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329.

Allan Fogel79, Atlanta

Allan Lloyd Fogel, age 79, of Atlanta passed away peace-fully Friday, April 8, 2016, surrounded by his loving family at Plantation South Senior Living and Southern Grace Hospice and Palliative Care.

Allan was born in Hollywood, Calif., to Lee and Morris Fogel. He worked in a family business, Atlanta Tallow Co., until opening Freedman’s Shoes and Clothing stores in 1978 with his wife, Brigitte. They ran the stores until they both had enough of the retail world and retired in 2010.

Allan was a member of Temple Sinai and enjoyed play-ing poker with his friends, watching the Braves and Falcons, spending time with his family, and selling shoes. He will be remembered for his big smiles, strong will and easygoing, laid-back personality. He was a caring man who never said a bad word about anyone.

He was predeceased by his dad, Morris Fogel of blessed memory. Allan is sur-vived by his wife, Brigitte Fogel; his children, Steven (Camilla) Fogel, Cory (Jen-nifer) Fogel and Devorah (Alan) Shaw; his grandchildren, Jonas, Eden, Isabella, Dalia, Jake and Olivia; his mother, Lee Fogel; his loving brother, Warren (Carol); an uncle, Robert Kaufman; and many nieces and nephews.

Donations may be made to the Epilepsy Foundation or Parkinson Associa-tion. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. A graveside service was held Monday, April 11, at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Bradley Levenberg officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Eunice Levinson94, Atlanta

Eunice Levinson, age 94, of Atlanta died Saturday, April 9, 2016. She was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Eugene Levinson, of blessed memory.

A native of Savannah, Eunice was always active in the Jewish communities in which she lived. She loved gardening, especially the growing of roses. She was also an avid bridge player.

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Survivors include daughter and son-in-law Sharyn and Manny Lazarnick of Roswell; son and daughter-in-law Robert and Charlene Levinson of Sandy Springs; son Mark Levinson of Paris, France; daughter Kay Levinson of Smyrna; grandchildren Karyn Rotkopf, Juli Pollak, David Levinson, Juliette Sitruk and Lucy Levinson; and four great-grandchildren.

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memo-rial donations may be made to Congregation Bnai Brith Jacob, 5444 Abercorn St., Savannah, GA 31405. A private graveside service was held at Bonaventure Ceme-tery in Savannah. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Robyn Joyce Levy57, Atlanta

Robyn Joyce Levy, 57, of Atlanta, daughter of Charles Morton Levy and Doro-thy Cohen Levy of Columbus, passed away peacefully Monday, April 4, 2016.

Robyn was born Feb. 8, 1959, in Columbus. She excelled at school and was a voracious reader. She was a Governor’s Honors student and graduated early from Hardaway High School. As a premed major, Robyn graduated with honors from Duke University and received her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia.

Robyn went on to specialize in pediatric and adult allergy and clinical im-munology at Washington University in St. Louis and Harbor-UCLA. Robyn began her private practice, Family Allergy and Asthma Center, as a solo practitioner in Atlanta in 1997 and operated it until her retirement in 2015. Throughout her pro-fessional career, Robyn was a sought-after lecturer and speaker worldwide, in-cluding segments on CNN. She also served as a team doctor and consultant during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games as well as the Maccabiah Games in Israel. Robyn was a staff physician at Northside Hospital and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.

Robyn was a long-standing member of the 1998 Society. She was passionate about children’s medical causes and frequently volunteered as a secret Santa for the Fulton County Division of Family and Children Services. Robyn was crazy about basset hounds. She and her husband, Steven, rescued several that eventu-ally joined their family. She had an impressive collection of everything basset hound: paintings, memorabilia, books and sculptures.

Robyn is survived by Steven Goodman, the love of her life, whom she met on JDate. They shared a passion for travel, fashion, funny movies and theater and loved their families above all. Robyn is also survived by her siblings, Susan Levy and Jake Levy (Rosie); nieces Elaina, Isabella and Juliana Levy; sisters-in-law Nina Goodman Mabry and Lisa Goodman Palmer (Mike); and brother-in-law Perry Goodman (Robin).

Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Memorial contributions may be made to Basset Hound Rescue of Georgia (www.bhrg.org) and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (giving.choa.org). Graveside services were held Wednesday, April 6, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Irene Sasine89, Atlanta

Irene “Renee” Sasine, 89, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grand-mother, died Thursday, April 7, 2016, of complications from a stroke.

Renee was born Oct. 1, 1926, in New York and was a graduate of Queens College. She is survived by her husband of 69 years, Stanley Sasine; sons and daughters-in-law Jef-frey and Janice Sasine, Stephen and Joan Sasine, and Robert and Trina Sasine; daughter and son-in-law Jo-Anne and Scott Miller; 13 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Renee and Stanley moved to Atlanta in 1964 and were longtime members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue. She was a certified Braille transcriber and loved golf, world travel, the Atlanta Braves, family and friends.

Graveside services were held Sunday, April 10, at Arlington Memorial Park with Bob Bahr officiating. In lieu of flowers, contributions should be made to the charity of your choice.

Helen Sharfstein85, Atlanta

Helen Sharfstein, 85, of Atlanta passed away peacefully Thursday, April 7, 2016, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Born Helen Hobel on Feb. 28, 1931, in Astoria, Queens, N.Y., she and her hus-band lived most of their lives on Staten Island, N.Y., before moving to Florida and then Atlanta. Helen was devoted to her family and was a lifelong member of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. She attended Hunter College and worked as a bookkeeper for Harry Winston Jewelers, Sancor Photo Lab and Avins Industrial.

Proceeded in death by a daughter, Elaine Meadows, she is survived by her husband, Laurence; her son, Howard; a daughter-in-law, Mary; and four grand-children. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. A memorial service was held Sunday, April 10, in the chapel at Temple Emanu-El with Rabbi Spike Anderson officiating. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Helen’s mem-ory to Hadassah, attn: Donor Services, P.O. Box 1100, New York, NY 10268-1100. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.

Death NoticesBarbara Carroll of Marietta, mother of Erica Miller and Brandt Jennings and

daughter of Debby and Mort Singerman and Lorel and Paul Krulewitch, on April 1.Richard Lee Elrad of Sandy Springs, husband of JoAnne Elrad and father of

Temple Sinai member Andrea Kuniansky and Larry Elrad, on April 1.Emanuel Isaacs, 91, of Atlanta, husband of Charlene Seitz Isaacs and father

of Gail Isaacs, on March 24. Helen Levine Kraun, 92, of Alpharetta, mother of Dana Mastrella, Jill Mar-

golick, Lorie Brockdorf, Robert Kraun and Scott Kraun, on April 1.Joseph Richards of Atlanta on March 30.Ross Shapiro of Athens, son of Gerald and Rhoda Shapiro, on March 26.A� Edward Spitz, 92, of Atlanta, husband of Shirley Spitz and father of Ken-

neth Spitz, Ellen Spitz and Suzanne Spitz, on March 27.

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Daughter No. 2 arrived at my home to pick up Jacob (her son) for tennis. Our home is the

last stop on his carpool route, a place to relax, have snacks and play board games with Savta (me). This is conve-nient because his zaide is the carpool chauffeur.

While we are waiting for Jacob to complete a highly techni-cal, critically important game on the computer, we conversed, mostly about this and that. “This” was about mother-daughter conversations called con-necting, but “that” turned out to be the Daffodil Dash.

I had no idea to what she was referring. The Daffodil Dash? What is that, Amie? I listened with curiosity, then with an eagerness. The race for 1.5 million, in memory of the children of the Holocaust and supporting children in Darfur, South Sudan and Rwanda.

I became aware of an extra heartbeat — a heartbeat filled with an emerging sense of sadness and responsibility.

I am a runner in the loosest sense of the word. I run every day — mostly in the early morning, sometimes in the evening. You can generally find Ari (my rescue dog) and me running in our neighborhood. By the way, this activity is a great way to get a peek at what the neighbors are up to.

I don’t run anywhere else. I don’t run for shirts. I am not interested in running races. I don’t run competi-tively, and I’ve no idea about, nor do I care to know, my times. In the grand scheme of things, who cares?

But the Daffodil Dash rocked me. I heard myself asking her questions like who is running. Is there an entrance fee, and how much is it? Do you have to run the whole 5K? Are there any walkers? Is it too late to participate? Those were precursors to the big ques-tion: Can I participate with you? Do I need a number?

Turns out she did not realize her contribution was for five runners. With four in her family, it was beshert (meant to be) I should be the fifth.

What a magnificent Sunday morning April 3, as if the gods of spring looked down on us thinking, “This will be the reward for all those mitzvah makers at the Daffodil Dash.” Families pushing strollers, little chil-dren, bigger kids, lots of teens from various schools, grownups, puppies,

a couple of huge dogs, all dashing for daffodils.

As if the sounds of laughter, chat-ter, barking, and the huffing and puff-ing of runners were not enough, the Tevyeh Party Express band played for hours, ensuring that our energy level and enthusiasm stayed at 150 percent.

Given that the organizers are of South African/Jewish decent, there

was food galore, gifts, prizes and warm smiles as grateful acknowledgment of our participation. It felt like a giant family affair.

My grandson, one of the seven male grandchildren I get to call all kinds of nicknames, ran the 5K in re-cord time. I will not list all their nick-names, but sometimes Jacob becomes J-Rod, J-Man, Jacobi, Jacob Jonathan and Yahky (a derivative of his Hebrew name, Yaakov).

My sweet granddaughter, one of three female grandchildren I also get to call all kinds of love names, ran with her friend Noa, going an extra mile for the fun of it. Lila answers to Buzhmeister, Buzhie, Lilabean, Lila Naomi, or P’nina, her Hebrew name, a gift from my mom (z”l). Don’t even try to make sense of all this; the important point is their participation.

My daughter Amie and I mostly power-walked — sometimes very pow-erfully, sometimes not.

We got lost! All I can say is thank goodness the entire dash was in Brook Run Park. There was a frightening moment when everyone was going left and we were going right. We surrepti-tiously turned and followed to the left. Neither of us is particularly a crowd follower, but in this case we felt it prudent to join the masses.

My son-in-law Joe approached the finish line with hardly a hair out of place, not out of breath or tired, ready for his next activity, golf.

Tevyeh’s music welcomed us at the finish. So much food and drink to choose from. We took everything, dropping it all into the bags provided.

And then we heard it: the power-ful voice of a survivor, with a powerful message.

Never forget the reason for the Daffodil Dash. ■

Dashing for 1.5 Million

ACROSS1 With 73-Across, who of the Fab Four has a stepfather and wife of Jewish descent?6 One of two in Tishre10 Dozen in the priestly breastplate14 Jon Stewart humor quality15 Beverly Sills bit16 Tennis star Nastase who complained of “too many Jews” in 197617 Not one of the four questions at the seder18 The one at NYC’s Kosher Deluxe is immense19 Clark’s Smallville sweetheart20 What New York venue did Sid Bernstein secure for the Fab Four in 1965?23 Anti-Semitic type?27 The name of his “Paradiso” comes from Hebrew28 Part of Eugene Levy’s “SCTV”29 Worker of many miracles in Kings II34 Velvet finish, for certain yarmulkes35 Faisal and others37 Gets ready to empty the gefilte fish jar39 Who of the Fab Four married two Jewish women?43 Network for Einstein44 Calendar for September, not Tishre46 Ends of Yom Kippur and Passover?49 Where to find soc.culture.jewish51 Like Jewfro hair52 Purim seudah, e.g.54 Dead Sea sectarian56 What was the nickname for Fab Four manager Brian Epstein?61 Glycogen Storage Disease Type ___ (disorder found among Ashkenazi Jews)62 Tool used by one of Sheldon Adelson’s croupiers63 G-d told him to go “to the

land that I will show you”68 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not___ upon your understanding” (Proverbs 3:5)69 How a menorah might be marked at a yard sale70 Beatle___71 They might just sit and watch at a seder72 Jacob’s wives each had one73 See 1-Across

DOWN1 Like a brisket before it’s a brisket2 Freud’s ego3 Chelsea Mezvinsky, ___ Clinton4 Sound from the dog that bit the cat that ate the kid my father bought for two zuzim5 Like “The Fat Jew”6 1980 film set at a performing arts high school with the music teacher Mr. Shorofsky7 Bay ___ Jewish Healing Center (San Francisco medical clinic)8 Mixing linen and wool; and others9 Like tight tefillin10 Radner of note11 Jerry’s TV ex12 The Talmud is known for this kind of detail13 Workers aboard the Exodus21 Kibbutz implement22 Hellenizes, in a way23 Sault ___ Marie (unlikely name for the city where Congregation Beth Jacob is found)24 In Israel, it’s measured in C.25 Director Kazan

26 Any airing of “The Nanny,” nowadays30 Mammon31 Like the B’nai Moshe of Peru32 Tiny hint a fish is kosher33 Sinai start?36 1972 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz38 Sights to behold on Mount Hermon40 Letters next to sigmas and alphas on the outfits of some Jewish frat boys41 First name behind “Night”42 Bubbe meise45 Pastrami locale?46 Have the shekels for47 Mel’s comic partner Carl48 How those who say Tefillat HaDerekh hope to arrive home50 ___ Hai (famous battle site)53 Refuses to make aliyah55 Garment district workers’ targets57 Pack for Sheedy and Nelson58 Not requiring much sechel59 All Jews, on some level60 Israeli teen’s bagrut, e.g.64 Woman’s mitzvah?65 One place to find the Cohen gene66 ___ France (Entebbe crisis flier)67 Desecrate

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