11ALIVE RECOGNIZES JEWISH ATLANTAN’S COMMUNITY SERVICE

Awards for Goot, Harnell, Hecht and Rabbi Sugarman   Four members of Atlanta’s Jewish community were honored with 11Alive Community Service Awards at the May 3 presentation.             Steven B. Goot was recognized for his service as a volunteer at the Shepherd Center, where he provides positive peer support to patients and families, shares information [...]

Tongue & Groove: Buckhead’s Best

  NIGHTLIFE AT ITS BALANCED BEST Running a successful nightclub takes a balance. There are the details, from the leather on the booths and barstools to the glasses the drinks are served in; and there’s the big picture, the look and feel of a place.               There’s the bottom line and top line; the [...]

Supporting a Family Member Financially

  WHAT YOU SHOULD CONSIDER FIRST   Families are composed of people with very different personalities, values and financial habits. There may be high earners, low earners and no-earners – and even those who are currently financially comfortable can hit hard times and need help with their finances.   According to recent research commissioned by [...]

Biden speaks to Rabbinical Assembly

ISRAEL’S SECURITY NOT IN QUESTION   In his address to the Rabbinical Assembly Convention at Atlanta’s Westin Perimeter Hotel on May 8, Vice President of the United States Joe Biden made perfectly clear his stance on Iran and its threat to Israel and the rest of the world’s nations.             “President Obama has said that [...]

CREATING A GOOD VISION STATEMENT

        A Vision Shouldn’t Be A Mirage If you want to grow your business, a vision is critical.   A vision is defined as “an image of the future we seek to create;” in other words, who and what we want to be.   Individuals can be so motivated by a compelling [...]

Etz Chaim’s interior improvements

  LOBBY TO UNDERGO RENOVATION On April 30, 2012, after almost 31 years, Congregation Etz Chaim began another groundbreaking with the remodeling of the synagogue’s lobby. As Rabbi Shalom Lewis reminded the crowd, Etz Chaim has come a long way since the days of driving a Suburban containing the portable wooden ark from storage to [...]

Growing Potential for Friends of the IDF in Atlanta

    The Atlanta Chapter of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces welcomes new executive director Caryn Liss and development associate Ginny Adams. The pair bring in a new wave of energy to the distinguished initiative that is FIDF.   These new hires are the next step in growing Atlanta’s opportunities to provide for the [...]

Fifty Years of Bob Dylan

In an age when there were still such things as vinyl records and merchants who sold them, a new release appeared in record shops in March 1962. On the cover was a smooth-faced young man, flashing a look somewhere between a smart-aleck smirk and an innocent’s grin, wearing a corduroy cap and a shearling coat [...]