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1 week ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
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2 weeks ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Nearly 600 people crowded into the Oceans Ballroom of the Georgia Aquarium for the inaugural gala dinner last month in support of the Avalon Action Alliance. The Alliance, which was founded six years ago, seeks to provide personal care and support services to America’s veterans and first responders. It was an important philanthropic initiative of Bernie Marcus, who co-founded The Home Depot. He contributed more than $250 million in support of programs to aid veterans.
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2 weeks ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
For your next visit to a game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium or a concert at the State Farm Arena, you can now go first class at the new Signia of Hilton Atlanta, which has been built literally next door to both of these staycation venues.
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2 weeks ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Kibbutz Be’eri was once the picture of a perfect Israeli community. Established in the Western Negev just before the partition of Palestine in 1948, it flourished. Its residents lived in neat rows of homes, with red tiled roofs. Flowers grew along the paths that wound through the well-tended streets. The 1,200 residents who lived there treated one another like an extended family with a strong sense of community. Over the years, a well-equipped printing house was established.
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2 weeks ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
For those searching for love and relationships in the fast-moving, technologically driven world of the 21st century, there is the latest title from Aleeza Ben Shalom. After a well-publicized run in the Netflix series, “Jewish Matchmaker,” she recently released her third book about the search for happiness in a satisfying relationship.
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2 weeks ago | 
outdoorpainter.com | Bob Bahr
-advertisement-Find out how just a few changes to your toolkit can make a positive difference to your plein air painting experience. Packing Smart: Plein Air Painting for BeginnersPlein air painting is hard enough. It requires serious brain work, with hundreds of decisions needing to be made, often all at once. Concerns around color temperature, accurate versus expressive drawing, details, abstraction, perspective, focal point, and changing light conditions all gang up on the painter in the field.
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3 weeks ago | 
outdoorpainter.com | Bob Bahr
-advertisement-For this demo on how to paint a busy scene, Alex Hillkurtz painted a cafe located down the street from where he lives in Paris. “One morning the light was hitting just right, and the scene had everything I love about cityscapes — incredible light and shadow, and activity,” he says. “There was a hint of the city just waking up.”The artist started with a graphite sketch, then put down washes of color with a big mop brush, letting the colors blend into each other.
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1 month ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Business BriefArts & Culture The senior living community residents performed the program after their weekly Shabbat service on March 14. The Purim Players of Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit, all of them residents of the senior living community in Sandy Springs, presented a Purim Spiel after their weekly Shabbat service on March 14.
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1 month ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Dr. Robert (Bob) Merril Fine, 95, of Atlanta, Ga., passed away on Sunday evening, March 30, 2025, surrounded by his loving family and devoted caregivers.
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1 month ago | 
atlantajewishtimes.com | Bob Bahr
Dr. Michael Press, 73, passed away peacefully in his home on April 1, 2025. Graveside services were held Friday, April 4, 2025, at 12:30 p.m. at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs, with Rabbi Scott Colbert officiating. A reception followed the service. Michael was born on Jan. 13, 1952, in Hampton, Va., to Margaret (née Goldstein) and Murray Press. He attended Hampton High School where he was a proud member of the state champion basketball team in 1969.
