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Carmel: One year later

A little over a year has passed since the devastating Carmel forest fire, the worst natural disaster in Israeli history, which killed 44 people and consumed 7,500 acres of forested area. Boaz Rakia, head of the regional fire department in Givatayim near Tel Aviv, was among those working in the main command center during the [...]

Be prepared: “Combat Girls” at the AJFF

Director David Wnendt’s “Combat Girls” (“Kriegerin” in its native German) pulls relatively few punches – figuratively and literally – and thereby is able to portray the extremes of compassion and inhumanity as accurately as any other film. As such, viewers seeking an escape from real life need not apply. The movie follows Marisa (Alina Levshin), [...]

Benator’s spirit evident by award, passion

It may take coffee, chocolate, brisk walks and/or cold water to make it through a 12-hour shift in the neo-natal intensive care unit at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. It takes something wholly different – and all the more uncommon – to keep a person on his or her toes, eager and impassioned throughout [...]

This is must-see: “This is Sodom” at the AJFF

Hit Israeli TV sketch comedy show “Eretz Nehederet” (English: “A Wonderful Country;” think “Saturday Night Live” with a strong doses of Monty Python and Mel Brooks) made its first cross-over to the big screen in 2010, and now – after a few scattered festival showings in the U.S. and extremely limited DVD release – “This [...]

Beauty and the Beast Jr. put on by GHA

Students, faculty and staff of the Greenfield Hebrew Academy invite the community to “be [their] guest” for a production of “Beauty and the Beast, Jr.” Four showings spread across three days offer opportunities to see the performing talents and rehearsal rewards of many GHA middle schoolers. Director Mira Hirsch, in her fourth year at the [...]

Passionate people behind Camp Barney

Before he gets to the Omega (the 1,000-foot-long zip-line from high hilltop to lake), the guest-artist instructors (like rock musician Rick Recht and chef Jenny “Souper Jenny” Levison) or the beautiful 516-acre Cleveland, Ga. grounds, Camp Barney Medintz’s Jim Mittenthal wants to talk about the people. He’s entering his 20th year as director, and he’s [...]

Adventuring in good company at ESA

Choosing a summer camp doesn’t have to be a decision between an exciting new specialty program and being with one’s friends and favorite counselors. At Epstein Summer Adventures, activity options abound, but it’s still the place where everybody knows your name. Director Laura Blaskett lists themes like Circus, Lego, Webkinz, the Science of Hair and [...]

Local wins worldwide mashgiach award

Kashrus Magazine established its “Mashgiach of the Year” award in 2011 to identify and recognize the unsung heroes of the kosher industry. In the Atlanta Kashruth Commission’s Gedalya Silverstein, KM founder and editor Rabbi Yosef Wikler has a most deserving inaugural honoree. “We feel this is a very, very special kind of guy who gets [...]