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professor Deborah Lipstadt details America’s
changing views on the
Holocaust from 1945 to
1978. Page 3
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Reform
Community
Combines
V
ice President Joe Biden will speak
at Ahavath Achim Synagogue on
Sept. 3, in the 27th Fran Eizenstat
and Eizenstat Family Annual Lecture.
The vice president’s topic will be
“Challenges Facing the U.S. and the World
in the 21st Century” when he speaks at
the free, public event.
The 72-year-old was first elected to
the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972
when he was 29 and was re-elected six
times before resigning to serve as vice
president in 2009.
Biden, who first flirted with a run
for president in 1988, has not ruled out a
2016 Democratic presidential campaign.
One previous Eizenstat Lecture
speaker is in the 2016 race: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Other
Eizenstat lecturers have included former
U.S. presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill
Clinton; former vice president, Al Gore;
former Israeli prime ministers, Shimon
Peres and Ehud Olmert; two other former
secretaries of state, Henry Kissinger and
Madeleine Albright; and Supreme Court
justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
Last year’s speaker was New York
Times columnist Thomas Friedman. ■
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Tribe of Many Colors
Photo by Logan C. Ritchie
Norvin Bey Israel, a Jewish resident of Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood
who has worked and studied with ModernTribe owner Jennie Rivlin Roberts since
being drawn to her store by the sight of Hebrew, is one of the presenters at the free
Twelve Tribes diversity event Sunday, Aug. 2, at the store. Story, Page 6
FRONT-LINE FIGHT
A Congregation Etz Chaim
member explains what
happened when a synagogue group arrived in
Vienna to find the Iran deal
near. Page 12
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Calendar 2 Education 15
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2 Simchas 28
Israel 9 Obituaries 29
Opinion 10 Crossword 30
Business 13 Marketplace 31
Arts 14 Sports 32
ll of the Atlanta-area Reform
congregations, along with the Reform movement’s Davis Academy
and Camp Coleman, are coming together
July 31, for a communal celebration of
Shabbat at Temple Sinai.
The service will include the community’s welcome for new Reform clergy in
the Atlanta area:
• Rabbi Spike Anderson of Temple
Emanu-El.
• Rabbi David Katz, the interim spiritual leader of Congregation Dor Tamid.
• Rabbi Alexandria Shuval-Weiner
of Temple Beth Tikvah.
• Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder, who
has been the rabbi in residence with
Be’chol Lashon in San Francisco and
brought her mission to town with husband, David, the new head of school at
the Epstein School.
• Cantorial Chair Beth Schafer of
Temple Sinai.
The full range of clergy from the
area’s nine Reform congregations will
participate in the service, and all of the
synagogues other than Sinai will be dark
for the night in what has become an annual event.
The cantors will use new and old
tunes to highlight the spirit of the Reform movement, and rabbis will take
turns providing brief thoughts.
The evening will begin with a Kabbalat Panim (wine and cheese reception)
at 5:30. The Shabbat service will start
at 6:30 and will be followed by a festive
oneg.
Temple Sinai is at 5645 Dupree Drive
in Sandy Springs. ■