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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
On the first day of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV pledged “to continue and strengthen the Church’s dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish people.”The pledge from the newly installed leader of nearly one and a half billion Roman Catholics, came in a letter to Rabbi Noam Marens, the American Jewish Committee’s Director of Interreligious Affairs.
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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Usher Raymond, the popular singer and entertainer, who prefers to be known just by his first name, brought some show-business glamour and gentle advice about how to achieve success to Emory University’s Commencement Exercises earlier this month.
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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Melissa Goodman who has been the Executive Director of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in Atlanta for 40 years is retiring.
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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Howard Levy, the world-famous harmonica and keyboard virtuoso, has played with many of the great names in popular music. He’s recorded with the likes of Dolly Parton, Chuck Mangione, Paquito D’Rivera, Styx, and Paul Simon. He toured extensively with Kenny Loggins and for a number of years was a founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. He’s won two Grammys and has been nominated for another four. Many consider him a major innovator and among the greatest masters of the modern harmonica.
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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Two large tour busses filled with the first group this summer of Birthright participants from the Hillels of Georgia chapters traveled through Israel earlier this month. The group is part of an ambitious effort to expand the popular program during the summer vacation period. The four-and-a-half-month Birthright session is expected to involve 20,000 young Jewish adults from the United States, Canada and 30 other countries.
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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Joel Katz, the Atlanta attorney who died last month at the age of 80, was, during his lifetime, among the most important figures to shape the world of entertainment. For years he was at the top of Billboard Magazine’s Power 100 list and represented a who’s who in popular music. He was the lawyer for such music legends as B.B. King, Willie Nelson, George Jones, and Jimmy Buffett as well as such contemporary stars as Jamie Foxx, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill.
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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Historically, the neighborhood barber shop was a male preserve. A red and white pole outside the shop was a universal sign that the long tradition of male grooming practices were offered inside. The barber pole might also mean, in much earlier times, that certain medical practices, like bloodletting, were offered in the belief that they could help cure bodily aches and pains. Customers were often friends, on a first name basis with the shop’s owner.
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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
For its second consecutive Legends of Atlanta fundraising gala for National Jewish Health, the prestigious hospital and research center in Denver, local organizers put together a high-profile event honoring Andrew Young. In attendance for the tribute to Young were Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and former mayors, Bill Campbell, Shirley Franklin, Kasim Reed, and Keisha Lance Bottoms.
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3 weeks ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
When David Abes was growing up, much of what is now the city of Dunwoody was still farmland. He and his friends would bicycle over to what is the present-day Dunwoody Village shopping center that fronts on to Roberts and Mt. Vernon Roads. On the corner where the two streets intersect, the two-story old Dunwoody Farmhouse stood and remains as a focal point of the community.
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3 weeks ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Eighty years ago, this month, when the Second World War ended in Europe, the world was finally able to add up the cost Jews paid during the deadliest war in history. But as a recent program of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) points out, we are still adding up the price that Europe’s Jews paid in so many other ways during those years.
