Thankful for fresh start

  As you hopefully saw, last week’s issue was full of advertisements and local stories. This is the first time in a while that the AJT did not have any “filler” in the paper. In fact, there were several articles that we were forced to either delete or postpone for this issue, and as my [...]

YA JUMP takes first place

LEAPING INTO LEADERSHIP   From Yeshiva Atlanta For The Atlanta Jewish Times   The idiomatic expression “to jump through hoops” seems to perfectly describe the typical high school experience. Most often, this expression is defined as “doing a lot of extra things so you can have or do something you want.” At Yeshiva Atlanta, this [...]

A special dayenu

THANKFUL FOR SO MUCH   Adapted from the work of Laura Barnard   It would have been enough… To have the most awesome and supportive husband and daughters that allow me to enjoy this amazing life of health and fitness, and a boss/father that provides me flexibility to take a day here and there in [...]

Harris Jacobs Dream Run ready and set

ANNUAL EVENT CHANGES DATE, DISTANCE   The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) is proud to present the 19th-annual Harris Jacobs Dream Run (HJDR) on Sun., May 6, 2012, at the Zaban Park campus (5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, 30338). This year’s race features a new 5K distance as well as a half-mile agility fun [...]

Loventhal earns for Brain Tumor Foundation

MDRT GRANT FOR $5,000   William (Bill) G. Loventhal III has secured a $5,000 grant from the MDRT Foundation on behalf of the Brain Tumor Foundation for Children. A 37-year MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table) member, Loventhal is an active supporter of the Brain Tumor Foundation for Children, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization that focuses on [...]

Gen. Schwartz, Col. Jacobs to be honored

On May 5 at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead, the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation will hold its second-annual Atlanta event. The evening will feature the presentation of the Patriot Award to General Norton A. Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force; to host is Medal of Honor recipient and CFPF Board Member Col. Jack [...]

Contest winners awarded

  Atlanta Jewish Times publisher Cliff Weiss made trips to the Epstein School and the Davis Academy to present last week’s Passover essay contest winners with their prize of a $100 Israel Savings Bond. Davis fifth-grader Cydney Wolchock was named the winner for the Grades 3 to 5 division in recognition for her excellent writing, [...]

Celebrate Kleber’s half-century of teaching and caring

Fifty years ago, Ahavath Achim Synagogue received a gift from Miami: the one and only Barbara Kleber. She joined the faculty at AA Hebrew School as a full-time teacher and mentor for many Atlanta area children and over the years has even had the honor of teaching multiple generations in several families. Barbara is not only [...]