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Tennessee Flower Growers ® May/June 2012 www.jewishscenemagazine.com BEACH BONDING IN NAVARRE BEACH FAMILY VACATION SCORES TENNESSEE SPECIAL FLOWER MEMORIES GROWERS KEEP THE BLOOM ON VISIT US ONLINE AT FAMILY BUSINESS WWW.JEWISHSCENEMAGAZINE.COM Thank You Memphis Because of you… • This year 17,023 hot kosher meals were served to seniors in Memphis • Tens of thousands of Jews in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union had access to American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) programs helping to build Jewish life, nurture children and provide relief to those in need • Dozens of Memphians received emergency financial assistance from Jewish Family Service to avert utility cutoff, rental eviction or mortgage foreclosure • The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) enabled 8,000 Ethiopians to resettle in their homeland, Israel There is still time… Make your 2012 Annual Community Campaign gift today: www.memjfed.org 901‐767‐7100 www.facebook.com/memphisjewishfederation Hylander Summers CPA Firm PLLC 155 N. Main Street, Ste. 107 Collierville, Tennessee 38017 901.457.7451 SERVICES Federal & State Income Tax Payroll Services Sales & Use Tax Bookkeeping Services Business Tax Compilation Services Property Tax Review Services Payroll Tax Financial Forecasting IRS Audit Representation Cash Flow Analysis State Audit Representation Budgeting www.HylanderCPAFirm.com • [email protected] Contents 4 HOME AND GARDEN 17 HEALTH, BODY & SOUL Publisher/Editor Brownsville, Tenn., Couple Keeps the Bloom on a Allergies and Acupuncture Susan C. Nieman Family Business Art Director 18 HEALTH, BODY & SOUL 7 FEATURE Electric Vehicles Steer Andy Kaplan on the David Miller Marilyn Serenades Buddy Cohen on Path of Success Art Assistant His 100th Birthday Laura Ehrhardt 19 L’CHAYIM 8 TRAVEL White Oak Winery and Vineyards – a jewel Rebecca Miller Beach Bonding in Navarre that over delivers Photography Contributors Norman Gilbert Photography, LLC 10 TRAVEL 20 HEALTH, BODY & SOUL www.photonorm.com Windstar Announces New Look, New Heart to Heart Mission Inspires Women Rebecca Lynn Miller Places for 2013 Philanthropists Editorial Contributors 11 DOLLARS AND SENSE 22 SCENE Lawson Arney Judi Harrick Simplified Employee Pension Plans (SEPS) Michelle Blundell Mark Hayden 23 COLLEGE SCENE 12 ON THE SIDELINES Gary Burhop Debbie Rosenthal Family Vacation Scores Special Memories 24 Advertiser LISTING Kat Farber Harry Samuels Phyllis Frank Page Stafford 14 BESHERT: True Stories of Connection On The Cover: Christine Arpe Gang A Relative A day of canoeing and kayaking at Adventures Unlimited in Philippa Newfield and Phillip Gordon Santa Rosa County Florida. 15 AGENCY HIGHLIGHT Photo by Susan Nieman Account Executives B’nai B’rith Maimonides Lodge Serves Blind and Bob Drake Visually Impaired Larry Nieman 16 HEALTH, BODY & SOUL Chief Financial Officer An Evolution of Massage Therapy for Healthcare Don Heitner Editorial Assistants Jewish Scene Thanks Our Mailing Sponsors For Their Support Bettye Berlin Shornick Family Emily Bernhardt Sponsors help offset the growing cost of mailing Jewish Scene Magazine Alice Drake not covered by advertising dollars. 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This week I began stuffing what was left of is what we do an 11-room house in Memphis into a small two- best. bedroom apartment near the beach in Lauderdale By The Sea. It has been a challenge, one I hate to think I will ever have to do again, even though I’ve managed to lose about seven pounds! When I get back to Memphis in a few weeks, I am making my appointments with acupuncture specialist Judi Harrick whose magic hands have helped my aches and pains in the past (page 17) and with massage therapist Kat Farber (page 16) who both have some interesting remedies to some of our most common ailments. I am sorry that this issue and Website updates are a little behind this month, but the move has taken its toll on my time and energy. And even though our mailing address has changed, Jewish Scene Magazine will not change its coverage and commitment to the Mid-South and Jewish communities and people around the globe. If you haven’t visited www.jewishscenemagazine. com in the past few months, you’ve missed some exclusive features including Dr. Isadore Lieberman who has been leading medical mission trips to remote villages in Africa for seven years, and On the Sidelines articles by Mark Hayden. Nancy Rosenberg, Lending Assistant, Jeff Hudson, Memphis City President As I get settled in, I will have more time to and Dee Cannell, Branch Manager update the Website, so please visit us often at www.jewishscenemagazine.com. Shalom At Renasant Bank, we take pride in getting to know our customers. You’re not just another number to us. From checking and savings accounts to mortgage and auto loans, we’ll listen to your needs and Susan C. Nieman - Publisher/Editor find the product that’s right for you. Experience it for yourself today. PLEASE SUPPORT JEWISH SCENE MAGAZINE Advertising - starting at $150 per issue - and donations help offset the cost of mailing FREE. Visit www.jewishscenemagazine.com SEND DONATION CHECKS TO: 4637 N. Ocean Dr. #12 Lauderdale By The Sea, FL 33308 EAST MEMPHIS COLLIERVILLE GERMANTOWN 901-684-0670 Jewish Scene I May/June 2012 3 HOME & GARDEN Brownsville, Tennessee Couple Keeps the Bloom on a Family Business By Chris Arpe Gang David Levy says he’s the last of the mo-Jew- their farm on the outskirts of Brownsville. cans – Jews continuing to operate businesses Today the Levys are one of only three started by their parents, grandparents or even Jewish families living in Brownsville. In the great-grandparents in small southern towns. 1890s, some 200 Jews, mostly from Germany, He and his wife, Sarah, own Willow lived there as proprietors of small retail stores Oaks Flower Farm in Brownsville, Tenn., an or cotton merchants. ornamental plant nursery founded by his parents, The Levy’s 15-year-old son, Jacob, who had Louise Sternberger Levy and Henry Levy. his bar mitzvah ceremony almost three years If you live in the Memphis area you have ago in historic Temple Adas Israel, is the only probably seen their spectacular pansies in the Jewish child in Brownsville. Big M at Madison and East Parkway this spring. David and Fred Silverstein, another Richard Beckwith, the city’s horticulturalist, of the few Brownsville Jews, take care of the synagogue, which dates to 1882 and is a national historic landmark beloved “ When I told my by Christian and Jewish residents. The congregation, which never employed a Dad I would do rabbi, has always depended on lay leaders to conduct services. it, I saw the color Although no services are held weekly, a group of 20 to 30 members and non-Jewish return to his face,” town-folks meet there on the first Friday of every month for services, to hear speakers and he said. share a meal. Sarah, an attorney who is now the will soon plant the Big M with vincas, also Clerk & Master of the Haywood County from Willow Oaks. Chancery Court, grew up about 150 miles Many of the plants used in landscaping west of Brownsville in Brinkley, Ark., where David Levy tends to his nursery. around the world headquarters of FedEx were her mother was an optometrist and her also raised at the farm. grandfather was a general practitioner. quit her job. “I knew I could work at the farm And they are enhancing private gardens all “We were the only Jews in Brinkley,” she and be there for Jacob, too,” she said. over the region. said. “So after David and I married and I Just a few years after Jacob was born, Sarah The Levys sell colorful annuals and moved to Brownsville, it felt familiar.” and David moved into David’s family house perennials most Saturdays at the downtown She started taking a bigger role in the family at the farm so they could care for his father Memphis Farmers’ Market, at the Summer business after their son was born.
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