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GRAND OPENING Midas of Sandy Springs JewishTHE Georgian Volume 18, Number 4 Atlanta, Georgia MAY-JUNE 2007 FREE USO expresses nation’s gratitude What’s Inside By Leon Socol The USO was organized 66 years ago in the year the United States entered WWII. Too Far Away Several years after that, I had my first visit Nostalgic for the old days and old to a USO facility. During my three years of ways? Maybe you should think naval service, I visited a number of USO twice about that. canteens and particularly recall the hospi- By Balfoura Friend Levine tality and welcome I received in Chicago and Los Angeles. Page 6 As a teenager away from home for the first time, I was in awe when I went to the Hollywood Canteen and mingled with the As She Saw It movie stars and celebrities of the l940s. I Ilse Reiner’s childhood diary is at particularly remember spending the night in a facility adjacent to the Hollywood the heart of her new book about Canteen and having bagels and coffee the how she survived the Holocaust. next morning with Eddie Cantor. By Evie Wolfe Frankly, I haven’t thought much about Page 21 the USO since those war years. I didn’t realize the role it continued to play in enhancing the lives of servicemen and women, as well as their families, during all USO greeters at airport ramp welcome incoming servicemen. Playing War the wars and other national disasters A children’s game takes on new to date about the workings of the Atlanta Action Task Force. We rode MARTA to the endured by our citizens over the past 66 chapter of the USO this past March when USO’s facility at Hartsfield-Jackson meaning when the realities of life years. we volunteered to serve as part of set in. My wife, Frieda, and I were brought up Congregation Shearith Israel’s Social See USO, page 10 By Bill Sonenshine Page 26 Nellie Bush, the shoe, and the Halizah ceremony Pseudo-Science By Carolyn Gold Nellie, described as “strong-willed as The Nazi’s eugenics program is well as beauti- documented in a chilling exhibition Georgians take pride in the fact that the ful,” was the first Jews landed in Savannah in July 1733. sister of at the CDC. Not only do we celebrate their courage, but Revolutionary Page 23 now a story War hero has come to Solomon light that Bush. “Nellie Don’t Know Much should delight was undoubt- every Jewish edly deeply in Shoe that Nellie threw about History? feminist. love with The Moses,” says The Southern Jewish Historical brother-in-law or the woman (in the usual Society conference in Washington, Sheftall fami- historian B.H. ly, on that first Nellie Bush Levy, but she case, a widow) from the obligation of this D.C., promises to be enlightening ship to arrive, had one fear. Biblical injunction, Levirate marriage. and entertaining. had a son The Book of Deuteronomy prescribes The ceremony involved taking off the Page 32 Mordecai who, that should the husband die, leaving no brother- or sister-in-law’s shoe, spitting in turn, had child, the wife shall marry her husband’s toward his or her face, and pronouncing three sons, brother, so that a firstborn shall carry on the certain prescribed words. Common Goals The Book of Ruth also refers to the Sheftall Sheftall Sheftall name of the dead brother. Oglethorpe University’s students Sheftall (that’s Nellie had no intention, should Moses ancient custom of removing the shoe, a celebrate the religious diversity of right, same first and last name), Benjamin predecease her, of marrying “his short, lazy, symbol of a transfer of rights and a state of mourning. In Nellie’s case, she insisted on their small campus. Sheftall, and Dr. Moses Sheftall. Nellie and unattractive brother,” Sheftall Sheftall. the insurance of this ceremony on June 1, Page 6 Bush of Philadelphia was engaged to marry So twenty days before the wedding, she Dr. Moses in 1772. participated in a Halizah ceremony. This is an “escape clause,” releasing either the See NELLIE BUSH, page 5 Page 2 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN May-June 2007 JewishTHE Georgian Yom Hashoah The Jewish Georgian is published bimonthly by Eisenbot, Ltd. It place was an attempt “to wipe out [a] . fulfillment of covenant with God by which is written for Atlantans and Georgians by Atlantans and Georgians. civilization that had existed for over 3,000 we are to be a moral light and conscience to Publisher Marvin Botnick years.” the world. It is our duty and responsibility Co-Publisher Sam Appel Sound familiar? to shine a light on the decadence of such Editor Marvin Botnick Managing Editor Marsha C. LaBeaume BY Marvin Would you believe that everything behavior, and we must try to lead the world Assignment Editor Carolyn Gold quoted above refers to the Armenian towards a recognition and condemnation of Consulting Editor Gene Asher Botnick Associate Editor Barbara Schreiber Genocide, which is considered to have such actions. Copy Editor Ray Tapley begun in 1915, approximately 20 years After the end of World War I, Assistant Copy Editor Arnold Friedman According to a quotation from Joyce Makeup Editor Terri Christian before the Nazis came to power. Hitler is President Woodrow Wilson warned that Production Coordinator Terri Christian Matz, they “were tattooed, men separated quoted as saying, “Who, after all, speaks “those that forget history are bound to Medical Editor Morris E. Brown, M.D. from their families, women were violated Photographic Staff Allan Scher, Phil Slotin, Phil Shapiro today of the annihilation of the repeat it.” How prophetic. Graphic Art Consultant Karen Paz and children impaled upon . bayonets.” In Armenians?” Each year we recall the tragic events Columnist Andi Arnovitz (Israel),Gene Asher, Michael Oren’s book Power, Faith, and Jonathan Barach, As we know, in World War I, the of the Holocaust, and we take time to Janice Rothschild Blumberg (Washington), Fantasy, Jesse B. Jackson, a U.S. consul, Ottoman Empire was allied with Germany remind the world what can and did happen. Marvin Botnick, “described a seemingly endless procession Shirley Friedman, Carolyn Gold, as one of the countries that made up the Blood and suffering have punctuated the Jonathan Goldstein, George Jordan, of railway cars crammed with . deportees Central Powers. Is it not strange that so centuries, yet many either do not know or Marice Katz, Balfoura Friend Levine, and estimated that no more than 15 percent Marsha Liebowitz, Howard Margol, much of what was inflicted upon the do not acknowledge the general complicity Bubba Meisa, Erin O’Shinsky, were liable to survive the journey.” Oren Armenians reads like a textbook for the that provided the fertile soil for this virus to Ben Rabinowitz (Israel), goes on to quote Anna Harlowe Birge as Lew Regenstein, Roberta Scher, Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust? Just incubate. Perhaps, just possibly perhaps, Jerry Schwartz, Leon Socol, remembering seeing “old men and old Rabbi Reuven Stein, Nancy Taffel, think of it, in a scant 20-year span of time, Yom Hashoah will act as the town crier to women, young mothers with tiny babies . Hannah Vahaba, Cecile Waronker, Evie the world forgot about the inhumanities and remind the world what it is to have human- Wolfe and children, all huddled together like so Special Assignments Susan Kahn, Lyons Joel, degradations; allowed the same despotic, ity. many sheep or pigs – human beings treated Advertising Marsha C. LaBeaume sadistic mania to sweep through supposed- worse than cattle.” ly civilized people; and permitted an unin- Peering through sunken and At www.historyplace.com, it is report- telligible massacre of innocents of all ages, expressionless eyes Editorial Advisory Board Members ed that women, children, and the elderly Sam Appel Rabbi Alvin Sugarman Sam Massell not for what they did but because of who Looking forlornly out into Jane Axelrod Albert Maslia William Rothschild were given very short notice to “pack a few they were. space Gil Bachman Michael H. Mescon Marilyn Shubin belongings and be ready to leave home, Asher Benator Paul Muldawer Doug Teper We Jews remember. We remember There was still a feeling of hope under the pretext that they were being relo- and recognize the good things, e.g., the giv- and faith cated to a non-military zone for their own 290 Carpenter Drive, Suite 100 ing of the Law, the redemption from slav- That somehow there would be safety. They were actually being taken on Atlanta, GA 30328 ery, the harvest of food. And we remember sanity in the human race (404) 236-8911 • FAX (404) 236-8913 death marches.” Merle English, in an article and recognize bad happenings, e.g., the [email protected] in Newsday, quoted a speaker at a com- breach of the walls of Jerusalem prior to the Scorned and rejected by so www.jewishgeorgian.com memorative rally who said that what took destruction of the first Temple, and the many for so long destruction of the Temples. They summoned their strength Unfortunately, we now have a Day of and set forth to cope Remembrance – remembrance of the suf- As the doors of shame and ferers; remembrance of the transgressions; fences of pain Atlanta Art Gallery 30 JF&CS - Child Testing Services 5 remembrance of the bigotry and prejudice Were thrown open to freedom Bangkok Thyme Thai Cuisine JF&CS - College Counseling 8 that allowed this to happen; remembrance and a feeling of hope & Sushi Bar 11 JF&CS - Legacy Home Care 18 of human inaction in the face of incompre- hensible inhuman acts; and a day of prayer Remember those who did not The Breman 7 JF&CS - Volunteer Services 26 that mankind will remember and not toler- survive Balloons by Bernadette 14 Kosher BBQ Cook Off 19 ate such unconscionable, grotesque behav- Remember the skeletons and Brickery Catering 9 Kroger 36 ior.
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