Tag Archives: The Temple
Remembering Rabbi Alvin Sugarman
“I put on my pants one leg at a time. I’m just one guy, trying to make sense of this chaos we call life.” That is how Rabbi Alvin Marx Sugarman, of The Temple, described himself in a 2015 interview with Atlanta’s AIB Network. Sugarman engaged in that quest from childhood until his death on Jan. 17 at age 86. Read more » »
AJLF Brings ‘Mitzvah Madness’ to Aquarium
It was a “maddeningly” good time at the Georgia Aquarium on March 3 at the fifth annual Atlanta Jewish Life Festival as thousands of community members poured into the Ocean Ballroom to enjoy a Kids Zone with children’s activities, listen to live Read more » »
Atlanta Mourns Matriarch Janice Rothschild Blumberg
When this AJT writer visited Janice Rothschild Blumberg for the last time earlier this month, she was resting with several large pillows behind her, a soft blue bed jacket with rounded lapels neatly tied around her. Read more » »
A Century of Lived History
As anyone who has been in her presence knows, Janice Rothschild Blumberg’s stories have an “in the room where it happened” quality. This chronicler of Atlanta and Southern Jewish history is marking the centennial of an extraordinary life that provided her with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of material. Read more » »
