JewishTHE Georgian Volume 18, Number 5 Atlanta, Georgia JULY-AUGUST 2007 FREE JTS embarks on landmark season What’s Inside Jewish Theatre of the South will cele- brate its 13th season—its bat mitzvah year—with a world premiere of a comedy, Thinking It Over a fierce romance, and the regional premiere of a dysfunctional family comedy. A granddaughter’s simple question pro- The season opens October 13, 2007, vokes complex answers. with Mark Goldsmith’s Comparing Books. By Carolyn Gold This new comedy tells the story of Brown Page 17 University student Brad Feingold, who finds himself in debt to the Mafia and brings a loan shark to his family’s Upper Making History East Side apartment to search for money. Mark Goldsmith also wrote Danny Boy, the As the study of Southern Jewish history hit of New York’s 2006 Fringe Festival. has expanded and matured, so has the Directed by Melanie Martin Long, this Southern Jewish Historical Society. world premiere runs through November 4. By Janice Rothschild Blumberg Preview performances are October 10-12. Page 23 The mainstage season continues with Hard Love by Motti Lerner, which runs January 26-February 17, 2008. In this Decades Later romantic drama, divorcees Hannah and Zvi Sharon Zoe Litzky and Eric Mendenhall in Mark Goldsmith’s Comparing She was a Holocaust survivor; he was a See JTS, page 6 Books (Photo: TWMEYER.com) soldier. Their love endures today. By Bill Sonenshine Page12 Treasured artifacts from Israel Imaginations A Fruitful Endeavor featured in Emory exhibition Shearith Israel’s community-supported at work agricultural project nourishes the spirit A major traveling exhibition tracing the This exhibition explores aspects of and the environment. shared roots of Judaism and Christianity is early Jewish life and the concurrent birth of By Leon Socol now at Emory University’s Michael C. Christianity by presenting artifacts drawn Page 7 Carlos Museum. “Cradle of Christianity: from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Jewish and Christian Treasures from the which houses the foremost collection of Holy Land” brings to the United States, for biblical archeology in the world. Organized Road Trip! the first time, the most significant biblical by the Israel Museum, the exhibition will be artifacts ever found, including the Temple on view at the Carlos Museum through This summer, you can learn about Scroll, which is among the most important October 14. Asheville’s Jewish shopkeepers while of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The exhibition focuses on two periods you cool off in the mountains. of modern religious history: the final days By Roberta Scher of the Second Temple (the Herodian Period Page 19 and the 1st century A.D.), the time when Jesus of Nazareth lived; and the concurrent development, side by side, of formative Where the Need Judaism and Christianity in the Holy Land The interactive children’s exhibition (4th-7th centuries). “Your Jewish Home” opens August is Greatest All of the objects in the exhibition are 26, at the Sophie Hirsch Srochi from Israel. The majority of them were Jewish Discovery Museum at the Through Jewish Healthcare found during excavations, and some are Marcus Jewish Community Center International, Susan N. Orloff and displayed publicly for the first time. of Atlanta. Pictured: Sophia and The Temple Scroll, columns 38-40 Among the many artifacts on display Lauren Zimet spent a week helping Isabelle Mokotoff. For complete Qumran, 1st century B.C.E.-1st cen- are the remains of excavated synagogues, children in Moldova. story, see MJCCA News, Page 33. Page 28 tury A.D., parchment. Collection of including capitals, mosaics, and marble fur- the Israel Museum, Jerusalem See ARTIFACTS, page 5 Page 2 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN July-August 2007 JewishTHE Georgian The media as a weapon The Jewish Georgian is published bimonthly by Eisenbot, Ltd. It And if all others accepted the lie which tary action. The mantra was that Israel had is written for Atlantans and Georgians by Atlantans and Georgians. the Party imposed—if all records told the exacted an unnecessary price for Hezbollah’s Publisher Marvin Botnick same tale—then the lie passed into history invasion of Israel, the killing of Israeli sol- Co-Publisher Sam Appel and became truth. diers (who were not in a military conflict with Editor Marvin Botnick Managing Editor Marsha C. LaBeaume —George Orwell, 1984 BY Marvin Hezbollah), the capture of Israeli soldiers on Assignment Editor Carolyn Gold the sovereign Israeli land, and the shelling Consulting Editor Gene Asher Botnick Associate Editor Barbara Schreiber Think of the press as a great keyboard on and attempted killing of Israeli citizens. In Copy Editor Ray Tapley which the government can play. short, they were saying that Israel’s respon- Assistant Copy Editor Arnold Friedman December 18, 2006. “The new element of Makeup Editor Terri Christian —Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister for sive action in defense of its nation and popu- Production Coordinator Terri Christian power that has emerged in the last thirty to Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda lace was not warranted. Medical Editor Morris E. Brown, M.D. forty years and has subsumed the rest is infor- Photographic Staff Allan Scher, Phil Slotin, Phil Shapiro But the information disseminated in con- Graphic Art Consultant Karen Paz mation.” The piece went on to say, “A revo- In February of this year, the Joan nection with Arab fighting Arab in Lebanon Columnist Andi Arnovitz (Israel),Gene Asher, lution happened without us knowing or pay- Jonathan Barach, Shorenstein Center of the Harvard University and Gaza was materially different. Where Janice Rothschild Blumberg (Washington), ing attention. Perception truly now is reality, John F. Kennedy School of Government pub- were the photographs of civilian buildings Marvin Botnick, and our enemies know it.” Shirley Friedman, Carolyn Gold, lished “The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: destroyed in these battles? Where were the Jonathan Goldstein, George Jordan, Consider the public perception that devel- The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical pictures of homes with the furniture Marice Katz, Balfoura Friend Levine, oped as a result of Hezbollah’s incursion into Marsha Liebowitz, Howard Margol, Conflict.” This research paper was written by destroyed and curtains flapping in the breezes Bubba Meisa, Erin O’Shinsky, Israel on July 12, 2006, resulting in the death Marvin Kalb, a senior fellow at the center, that freely moved through the remaining Ben Rabinowitz (Israel), of eight Israeli soldiers and the capture of two Lew Regenstein, Roberta Scher, and Carol Saivetz of Harvard University, and structures? Where were the repeated stories Jerry Schwartz, Leon Socol, others. Israel reacted with a military action Rabbi Reuven Stein, Nancy Taffel, it was prepared for presentation at the U.S.- of innocent civilians trapped in the battle into the territory in Lebanon from which Hannah Vahaba, Cecile Waronker, Islamic Forum in Doha, Qatar, on February areas, hundreds of whom were killed? Where Evie Wolfe Hezbollah was operating. At that instant, Special Assignments Susan Kahn, Lyons Joel, 18, 2007. were the photographs of young people lying there was not a strong opinion expressed by Advertising Marsha C. LaBeaume In the abstract, the authors explain that in hospital beds wrapped in bandages, limbs the rest of the world; however, that was soon the “paper describes the trajectory of the missing, and scars on their bodies? Why were to change. While Israel, as an open society, media from objective observer to fiery advo- there not more on-the-scene reports from the Editorial Advisory Board Members allowed reasonable access to all reporters, Sam Appel Rabbi Alvin Sugarman Sam Massell cate.... The paper also shows how an open media? Jane Axelrod Albert Maslia William Rothschild including agencies that were run and con- society, Israel, is victimized by its own open- If the tagline against Israel had been “dis- Gil Bachman Michael H. Mescon Marilyn Shubin trolled by Islamic news services, Hezbollah Asher Benator Paul Muldawer Doug Teper ness and how a closed sect, Hezbollah, can proportionate force,” what would be the carefully controlled what was seen and said retain almost total control of the daily mes- appropriate term for the wanton carnage and from its locations. 290 Carpenter Drive, Suite 100 sage of journalism and propaganda.” destruction that has been visited by Arabs on During a media tour of a southern suburb Atlanta, GA 30328 The research paper quotes George their fellow Arabs in these territories? (404) 236-8911 • FAX (404) 236-8913 of Beirut, which was conducted by Packer’s article “Knowing the Enemy,” Hundreds of innocent civilians have been [email protected] Hezbollah, the research paper reported that which appeared in The New Yorker on killed, wounded, or had their homes www.jewishgeorgian.com “Foreign correspondents were warned, on destroyed. 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