JewishTHE Georgian Volume 27, Number 4 Atlanta, Georgia May-June 2015 FREE WHAT’S INSIDE Fighting Campus Anti-Semitism Emory University School of Law is now participating in the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law student initiative. By Kenneth Liebowitz Page 7 Big Battles, Personal Stories The 50th anniversary of the Civil Right Act brings forth memories of the people who made it happen. By Janice Rothschild Blumberg Page 25 We Luv Ya, Jerry! Want to know more about the man behind “Schwartz on Sports”? Here you go. By Gene Benator Page 8 Jewish Culture on the Golden Isles At Temple Beth Tefilloh’s Jewish Food & Culture Festival, guests had a grand time while helping fund the synagogue’s restoration. By Dale Tushman Page 26 A Gathering Place Jewish Family & Career Services’ Café Europa provides a monthly opportunity for Holocaust survivors to come together. By Eva Friedlander Page 31 Changes at JIFLA As Dr. Morton Barr, founder and president of Jewish Interest Free Loan of Atlanta, and his wife, Edith, plan to make Aliyah, Laura Kahn Travis assumes leadership of this important community resource. Page 24 Page 2 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN May-June 2015 Israel’s future and the Gulf Cooperative Council into the human database of people within Prominent in the use of this tactic into power in 1979 in an anti-Western a region? Gun rights in this country, is the attempt by Iran to obfuscate revolution, and it has continued with this which differ greatly from constraints world opinion in connection with its vision in its effort to control the region imposed in other countries, were greatly present nuclear program negotiations and impose its brand of a theocratic BY Marvin influenced by the prohibition of such with the P5+1 group of six world-power government. Among other influences, ownership by the common man in many countries, China, France, Russia, the it sees Israel as a continuation of the Botnick European countries. Branch banking United Kingdom, the United States, subjugation and colonization of these in the United States ran the gamut of and Germany. Israel has no dealings lands by Europeans. While this issue no branches allowed in such states as or relationship with Iran, while Iran of colonization and land control is the Each of us makes choices and Illinois and Texas to statewide branching has taken an aggressor posture in its motivator, it has opted to play on the anti- decisions with the use of our computer. in North Carolina, all of which resulted relationship to the existence of Israel by Israel bias as a marketing tool. In truth, In our personal actions, this computer is from and was a reaction by each state to supporting and encouraging Hamas and its aggression against the other Muslim not some piece of external hardware that the banking debacle suffered during the Hezbollah in its deadly actions against countries is a more intense, immediate accesses programs to arrive at an answer; Depression. At one time, Texas would Israel with arms, military personnel, and battle for the supremacy of its brand of rather, it is our brain. Within each of us not allow a second mortgage to be terroristic encouragement, and it has been Islam and the military imposition of its is an unbelievably large database from placed on a person’s primary residence, the major backer of the Assad regime in control and domination. which factors are accessed to be processed and Georgia had a law that stated that a Syria. Nevertheless, what is projected by Superimposed on this are the in determining how and why we handle married woman could not be held liable Iran is that the support of Israel is a major changing faces of world defense spending, situations and our perspective. Some of as surety on another person’ s debt. element and one of the main linchpins in budget constraints, and the emergence of this data is genetically implanted, while So, too, are relationships and policies the conflicting policies between Iran and new powers and influences around the other information is in place as a result of the different countries influence by the P5+1 nations. world. Each country’s responsibility is to of activities in which we have been history. The regions of the world have Much copy and great emphasis is do that which is in the best interest of its involved or information we have obtained divergent experiences in their evolution to being devoted to creating this perception. citizenry. The days of dominance by one through our exposure to conditions and where they are today, and each, therefore, The truth of the matter is that Iran, in its country are gone, and the increase in the instruction. relates to current conditions differently. pursuit of military control of the region, different political and military flashpoints Is it any wonder, then, that the In Europe, the Middle East, and is the single, most destabilizing force in have created a greater interdependence societal structures and mores around the the Americas, one commonality is the the Middle East. As the major supplier on others. With this comes the politically world differ so drastically as a result of continued portrayal of Jews and Israel of weapons, money, and personnel in the contested areas that involve economic historical events, climate conditions, and as villainous sources of problems. The military clashes in Syria, Iraq, Libya, trade considerations, availability of labor, economic conditions that have been built predisposition to give credence to this Lebanon, Yemen, parts of Turkey, and and the supply of materials. broad-brush attribution provides an Afghanistan, it is the primary support of According to the Stockholm escapist authorship while avoiding the these conflicts. THE Jewish Georgian issues. The existing government came See ISRAEL’S FUTURE, page 7 TThe Jewish Georgian is published bimonthly by Eisenbolt, Ltd. It is written for Atlantans and Georgians by Atlantans and Georgians. Publisher Marvin Botnick On The Cover Co-Publisher Sam Appel Editor Marvin Botnick Managing Editor Marsha C. LaBeaume Assignment Editor Carolyn Gold THE Consulting Editor Gene Asher Jewish Georgian Associate Editor Barbara Schreiber Volume 27, Number 4 Atlanta, Georgia May-June 2015 FREE Copy Editor Ray Tapley WHAT’S INSIDE Fighting Campus Makeup Editor Terri Christian Anti-Semitism Emory University School of Law is now participating in the Louis D. Brandeis Production Coordinator Terri Christian Center for Human Rights Under Law student initiative. By Kenneth Liebowitz Designer David Gaudio Page 7 Big Battles, Photographic Staff Allan Scher, Jonathan Paz Personal Stories The 50th anniversary of the Civil Right Act brings forth memories of the people who made it happen. Graphic Art Consultant Karen Paz By Janice Rothschild Blumberg Page 25 Columnist Gene Asher, Jonathan Barach, We Luv Ya, Jerry! Want to know more about the man behind “Schwartz on Sports”? Here you go. 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Grady High—oops, we mean former As Dori tells us exclusively, “At the ripe girlfriend—Natalie Grude Harrington, has old age of 21, Candice, a native of South always had a great sense of humor and a Africa, started a successful jewelry business, What’s selling to retailers all over the U.S. She also lively personality. Now, she gets to show everyone how well she can tell a story, in was co-founder (with me) of the Arts and her new book published this month. Crafts shows in Buckhead and NW Atlanta The novella, which Natalie calls in 2009 and 2010.” “embellished Today, Candice’s main passions are fiction,” decor and design, which came to her when HAPPENING she built her new house and realized how is called much she enjoyed decorating a home. Arts Festival, May 23-24, Piedmont Park Highland Candice’s company is currently working on Arts Festival, August 14-16, Sandy Springs Avenue, and almost a dozen such projects around Atlanta, Festival, September 19-20, and Atlanta contains some in which Candice decorates and designs the Arts Festival, October 24-25 (though not real Atlanta BY Reg interiors of homes for clients with varied yet confirmed).