{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/fx73t9g42j/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Gerson, Rabbi Ronald and Tammy"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2002-02-28 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Gerson, Ronald (Interviewee)","Gerson, Tammy (Interviewee)","Sparer, Bert (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta","Congregation Children of Israel Legacy Program"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRabbi Ronald and Tammy Gerson were interviewed by Bert Sparer on February 28, 2002, in Athens, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eRabbi Ronald Gerson is rabbi emeritus of Congregation Children of Israel in Athens, Georgia. He was born in San Diego, California, to Rabbi Phillip R. Gerson and Doreen Brody Gerson. He is third generation San Diegan. He attended Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was ordained in 1974. His first two years of rabbinical studies were done while attending the University of California Los Angeles. After ordination, he was assistant rabbi in New Rochelle, New York, in a very large congregation. One of his first pulpits was in Florida, New York. Besides performing rabbinic pastoral tasks at Congregation of Israel Children, he belongs to several clergy organizations and does outreach to the larger non-Jewish community. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBoth of his parents were born in the United States. His mother was from San Diego. His grandfather was one of the first Jewish merchants in Coronado, California. His father was from Cleveland, Ohio. Rabbi Ronald Gerson’s parents met and married in San Diego after World War II. They continued to live in San Diego.  \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTammy Gerson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Rabbi Philip Fried and Sounia Noveck Fried. Tammy’s father was a Conservative rabbi. He was born in Jerusalem in 1912 and immigrated to the United States with his mother in 1920. Tammy’s mother was born in West Virginia.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTammy Gerson lived in various parts of the United States, Northeast, West, and South, wherever her father’s rabbinic work took them. As a teenager, she lived in Dalton, Georgia, where her father was rabbi at Temple Beth El. Tammy attended the University of Jerusalem and University of Cincinnati. She earned her master’s in library science at the University of South Carolina in a distance education program while living in Athens. She works at the University of Georgia library. She is active in Sisterhood at Congregation Children of Israel and was president for two years. She teaches religious school at the temple, mainly Hebrew. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy met in Cincinnati and married in 1974. They have two children, Philip Gerson and Tzipporah Gerson Miller.   \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eCongregation Children of Israel in Athens, Georgia, interviewed Rabbi Gerson and his wife Tammy together with the purpose of gaining their perspectives on important issues of their day. Rabbi Gerson and Tammy Gerson begin the interview talking about coming to Athens in 1990 for rabbinic work at the Congregation Children of Israel. Rabbi Gerson talks about acclimating quickly to Athens and describes that he enjoys having a small congregation. Rabbi Gerson notes that Tammy had a more complex job with the obligation of setting up a home and settling into a new city with children. Tammy talks about settling into the city with their children, new schools, and meeting new parents. She talks about the children acclimating fairly quickly and describes their interests. She reflects on how moving to Athens was not a culture shock, as she grew up with her father, who was a rabbi, in a small town in Georgia.  \u003cbr\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy each trace their family histories and roots to Palestine and Eastern European countries. They talk in detail about their rich family stories and immigration to the United States. Rabbi Gerson describes his family’s history and his roots as very much Southern California and his grandfather being one of the first merchants in Coronado, California. Tammy describes her life as living in various places in the United States, where her father’s rabbinic work took him. They each talk about meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where they were each studying. He was attending Hebrew Union for his rabbinate. Tammy was attending University of Cincinnati.  \u003cbr\u003eThey both talk about being comfortable with a small congregation and living in smaller communities, such as Congregation of Children Israel. They discuss their involvement in the Athens community. Tammy discusses working at the University of Georgia after receiving her master’s in library science at the University of South Carolina. She talks about her love of language and teaching Hebrew at the temple. Rabbi Gerson talks about his rabbinic work and how the rabbinate came to him very naturally. He talks about being involved in several clergy organizations and outreach as a representative of the Jewish community.  \u003cbr\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy each speak on modern social issues: antisemitism, mixed marriages within their congregation and the wider Jewish population, peace in the Middle East, and the State of Israel. They each reflect on the September 11 event. Rabbi Gerson speaks of ethics and Reform Judaism. He reflects on his concerns for the larger society and discusses how the Torah provides direction for the Jewish people. He talks about his rabbinic mentors and speaks of the importance of the rabbinate for him. Tammy talks about her mentors and speaks of her concerns of educating Jewish children and the abundance of information as a social concern. They each speak of religious division in Israel. \u003cbr\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy each point to their own contributions which make them particularly proud. They talk about their two children, their actives and interests, and how they are leading their lives as clergy children.  \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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One of his first pulpits was in Florida, New York. Besides performing rabbinic pastoral tasks at Congregation of Israel Children, he belongs to several clergy organizations and does outreach to the larger non-Jewish community.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBoth of his parents were born in the United States. His mother was from San Diego. His grandfather was one of the first Jewish merchants in Coronado, California. His father was from Cleveland, Ohio. Rabbi Ronald Gerson\u0026rsquo;s parents met and married in San Diego after World War II. They continued to live in San Diego. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTammy Gerson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Rabbi Philip Fried and Sounia Noveck Fried. Tammy\u0026rsquo;s father was a Conservative rabbi. He was born in Jerusalem in 1912 and immigrated to the United States with his mother in 1920. Tammy\u0026rsquo;s mother was born in West Virginia. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eTammy Gerson lived in various parts of the United States, Northeast, West, and South, wherever her father\u0026rsquo;s rabbinic work took them. As a teenager, she lived in Dalton, Georgia, where her father was rabbi at Temple Beth El. Tammy attended the University of Jerusalem and University of Cincinnati. She earned her master\u0026rsquo;s in library science at the University of South Carolina in a distance education program while living in Athens. She works at the University of Georgia library. She is active in Sisterhood at Congregation Children of Israel and was president for two years. She teaches religious school at the temple, mainly Hebrew.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy met in Cincinnati and married in 1974. They have two children, Philip Gerson and Tzipporah Gerson Miller. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongregation Children of Israel in Athens, Georgia, interviewed Rabbi Gerson and his wife Tammy together with the purpose of gaining their perspectives on important issues of their day. Rabbi Gerson and Tammy Gerson begin the interview talking about coming to Athens in 1990 for rabbinic work at the Congregation Children of Israel. Rabbi Gerson talks about acclimating quickly to Athens and describes that he enjoys having a small congregation. Rabbi Gerson notes that Tammy had a more complex job with the obligation of setting up a home and settling into a new city with children. Tammy talks about settling into the city with their children, new schools, and meeting new parents. She talks about the children acclimating fairly quickly and describes their interests. She reflects on how moving to Athens was not a culture shock, as she grew up with her father, who was a rabbi, in a small town in Georgia. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy each trace their family histories and roots to Palestine and Eastern European countries. They talk in detail about their rich family stories and immigration to the United States. Rabbi Gerson describes his family\u0026rsquo;s history and his roots as very much Southern California and his grandfather being one of the first merchants in Coronado, California. Tammy describes her life as living in various places in the United States, where her father\u0026rsquo;s rabbinic work took him. They each talk about meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where they were each studying. He was attending Hebrew Union for his rabbinate. Tammy was attending University of Cincinnati. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eThey both talk about being comfortable with a small congregation and living in smaller communities, such as Congregation of Children Israel. They discuss their involvement in the Athens community. Tammy discusses working at the University of Georgia after receiving her master\u0026rsquo;s in library science at the University of South Carolina. She talks about her love of language and teaching Hebrew at the temple. Rabbi Gerson talks about his rabbinic work and how the rabbinate came to him very naturally. He talks about being involved in several clergy organizations and outreach as a representative of the Jewish community. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy each speak on modern social issues: antisemitism, mixed marriages within their congregation and the wider Jewish population, peace in the Middle East, and the State of Israel. They each reflect on the September 11 event. Rabbi Gerson speaks of ethics and Reform Judaism. He reflects on his concerns for the larger society and discusses how the Torah provides direction for the Jewish people. He talks about his rabbinic mentors and speaks of the importance of the rabbinate for him. Tammy talks about her mentors and speaks of her concerns of educating Jewish children and the abundance of information as a social concern. They each speak of religious division in Israel.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eRabbi Gerson and Tammy each point to their own contributions which make them particularly proud. They talk about their two children, their actives and interests, and how they are leading their lives as clergy children. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm Bert Sparer. I'm\ntalking with Rabbi Gerson and Mrs. Tammy Gerson. It is Thursday, February 28,\n2002. Thank you, Rabbi and Tammy, for adding your story to the legacy program.\nOur purpose is to record the oral history of temple members. We are also asking\nthem to express their views on important issues in our time so that future ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ngenerations of Jews can know their heritage and add their own stories to it.\nWelcome. I'd like to start by asking you both what brought you to Athens, you\ncame here, and what you've done since then. It's obvious you are our rabbi. You\ncame here to be our rabbi. I have to ask how you become comfortable and the\nthings you’ve done.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=30.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RABBI GERSON: We came here in August ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=57.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof 1990, so we've been here almost 12 years. I think that, for me, I became\nacclimated very quickly. Of course, we had been in our previous congregation .\nBut rabbis basically being rabbis and do the same things. I just quickly came\nhere and began doing the same rabbinic work I’ve always done was my primary\ntask, pastorally. I think that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand I'm going to turn it over to Tammy in just a moment. I think that, for me,\nit probably was a little easier being acclimated because a lot of what I began\ndoing was working, as I say, rabbinic work. Although this congregation is\ndifferent, and maybe we will get into that later. As far as the area, I liked it\nvery much. I just really very, very quickly became acclimated ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nhere. I think for Tammy, because she had an obligation of setting up a home, and\nparticularly with the kids getting acclimated to new schools, which is more\ndifficult. I think it might have been a little more complex.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=120.0,135.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Let's ask Tammy that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=135.0,137.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=137.0,138.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: How was it when you came here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=138.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY GERSON: I can't say that it was it was a culture shock or anything like\nthat because as a teenager I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=141.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nlived in Dalton, Georgia, where my father [Rabbi Philip Fried] had a\ncongregation [Temple Beth El]. We lived there for about in Georgia, that helped\nsoften the move.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=150.0,161.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Was he a Reform rabbi?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=161.0,163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: No, he was Conservative. It was a very small congregation. So, moving\ndown here wasn’t a culture shock. I think that our children, especially our son\n[Philip Gerson], who was only eight at the time, acclimated very quickly. He\nimmediately got interested and was active ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=163.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin different activities. Our daughter [Tzipporah Gerson Miller], who was 13 at\nthe time, it was a little bit more difficult for her. Gradually, she also\nenjoyed school and other activities, especially Athens Creative Theatre. It kept\nher very busy. It was difficult . . . one of the most difficult things was\nlearning all the new parents of the friends of our children because we lived in\none place for so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nlong, Orange County New York. We knew everyone. Everyone knows you. Here, our\nchildren were bringing home new friends, and that was difficult not knowing them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=210.0,223.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Let's back up a little bit. Tell us something .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=223.0,228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Sure. I'll go first. Again, Tammy's is more complex because she's been\nin tremendously more places than I have. Actually, this is good practice ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=228.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbecause I'm supposed to do this at Rotary [Club] in a few weeks. This is like a\nvocational lesson.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=240.0,250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: A rehearsal.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=250.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes, right. As my congregants well know, from allusions in my preaching,\nI'm a native of San Diego, California. Actually, I am a third-generation San\nDiegan. My grandfather was one of the first Jewish merchants ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=252.0,271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin Coronado [California]. It was across the Bay from San Diego. I lived all my\nlife, my youth, in San Diego. From there, I went to college. I'm a graduate of\nUCLA [University of California] Los Angeles. I did my first two years of\nrabbinical studies in college in Los Angeles, where we have a there. Then, the\nReform rabbis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=271.0,301.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand practically all Reform rabbis are ordained in Cincinnati [Ohio] at the\nHebrew Union College. I went there. I was ordained in 1974. That is where I met\nTammy. We’ll get into that later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=301.0,317.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: In Cincinnati?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=317.0,318.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes, I met her in Cincinnati, where she was studying at the University\nof Cincinnati. From there, again, as most people know, I’ve really only had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=318.0,331.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ntwo pulpits. Actually, my first two years, I was assistant rabbi, in New\nRochelle, New York. It was a very, very good rabbinic experience, a very large\ncongregation. I decided very quickly that I never wanted to be the rabbi of a\nplace that large, but it was a good experience for two years learning it. Then\ncame my two pulpits in Florida, New York. 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While I was there, I had friends, some people who were\nfrom Hebrew Union College. When I came back to the United States, that was a likely ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=394.0,421.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nplace that I would go. That's where I met my husband. Prior to that, as he, I\nhad a . Since my father was a rabbi . . . he’s totally different than my\nhusband. He went to many congregations. I was born in Raleigh, North Carolina,\nbut I’ve lived in just about every part of the United States. Northeast, West,\nand South. Everywhere. 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North Carolina.\nSome of them are vague memories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=511.0,538.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: We speak of army brats . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=538.0,541.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nTAMMY: Right. I very adept at small communities, small congregations. 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It certainly would have been easy enough to finish\nmy degree with the university [University of Georgia] here, but I just took some\ntime off. I needed the time to help the children. I got a part time job downtown\nworking at the book center, which was on Clayton Street. I worked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=572.0,602.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthere for a couple of years in the morning. I was always home before the kids\ngot home from school. Then I decided, about that point, a couple of years after\nwe moved here, to try to decide what exactly I wanted to do once the kids were\nout of school. You know, when they got a little bit older. 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To my knowledge, I think he's the only Jewish football player that\never played for Cedar Shoals ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1054.0,1084.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n[High School], to my knowledge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1084.0,1087.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: What position does he play?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1087.0,1090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: He did play. He was a tight end. Thank God he never Tzipporah, as most\npeople know, really found her niche in drama, singing, dance, things like that.\nI'm really happy that . . . I keep using the word, but very normal, typical\nlives. Now, Tzipporah is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1090.0,1115.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin Europe doing theater. Philip is continuing college. He seems to be\ngravitating a lot . I think they’ve handled it pretty well. I know that not all\nclergy children have, but I think that they handled it very well. Yet, I think\nthey participated a lot in temple life. I think we never tried to be\noverdemanding to them like they had to be models.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1115.0,1143.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Sometimes they weren't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1143.0,1145.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes. 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They’re basically good kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1146.0,1161.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: We know that they have extremely good hearts and are very comfortable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1161.0,1166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: They certainly have no shortage of tutors . Let me ask you, Tammy, if\nyou think your children will carry on the same feelings ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1166.0,1176.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwith .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1176.0,1177.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: That's really hard to say because they're at a certain age and very\ninvolved. They're so much involved in what they're doing. I think young people .\n. . there are two things that I've noticed. First of all, young people of our\nday looked inward a lot into what they're doing and don't seem to see the bigger\npicture around them. Also, I've noticed a trend among ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1177.0,1206.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nkids from different backgrounds, that there's this idea of multiculturalism that\nwe have now. That it's not just my religion, but it's your religion. I think\nthat the kids these days kind of take from each other what they see, what they\nlike. Like going out to the store and I'll pick a little bit from this and a\nlittle bit from that. 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Let me ask you, Rabbi, you’re\nthird generation of American.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1247.0,1257.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I'm actually, I guess, technically second generation American, but my\ngrandfather, as I said, he came here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1257.0,1266.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand he lived here a long time. Anyway, my grandparents, all four of them, to my\nknowledge, the two on both sides all came typically, as so many of our\ngrandparents did, although Tammy’s is slightly different. I’ll let her tell you\nabout that. They came from Russia. On my dad's side, they were from Latvia. On ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1266.0,1296.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmy mother's side, they were from Ukraine. Kiev. Very typically, they came over\nwith that wave of Eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century. It's\nsort of a typical American story. As I said, my grandfather, I’m very proud, was\none of the first merchants of Coronado, which is an island off of beautiful San\nDiego. My mother [Doreen Brody Gerson] was born ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1296.0,1326.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthere. She's a native San Diegan. My father [Phillip R. Gerson], may he rest in\npeace, was from Cleveland [Ohio]. That's where his parents came. After the war\n[World War II], he was in the service and ended up with a minor something at a\nnaval hospital in San Diego. That's where he met my mom at the USO [United\nService Organizations] dance temple. When ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1326.0,1356.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI went back to San Diego to speak right after I was ordained, the rabbi said, he\nused a bad choice of words. He said, the Rabbi Ronald Gerson, was even conceived\nin his temple. He wasn’t. It was a bad choice of words. That’s where my parents\nmet and married in the temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1356.0,1379.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: A good story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1379.0,1381.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: That's where they met. My dad just settled out there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1381.0,1386.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMy father was a merchant, too. He had a couple clothing stores. That's where my\nroots are. Russia, Eastern Europe, is where my grandparents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1386.0,1397.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Tammy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1397.0,1398.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Very interesting. I learned a lot in the last year on our Eastern\nEuropean heritage, Jewish heritage tour.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1398.0,1407.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Tracing down roots.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1407.0,1409.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Yes. First of all, on my father's side, may he rest in peace, is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1409.0,1416.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nkind of simple. My father [Rabbi Philip Fried] and his mother were born in\nJerusalem in Israel. My grandmother, her family came from Prague\n[Czechoslovakia]. That was probably in the early 1800s. There were different\nsettlements, immigration times, throughout the 19th century, to Israel. They\nwere, I think, one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1416.0,1446.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof the earliest in 1800s. My father's father, my grandfather, was from,\nBudapest, Hungary. It was very interesting. I learned on this trip that we took\nlast year, because he emigrated to Palestine in, it was either the late 1800s or\nvery early 1900s, because my dad was born in 1912. I’ll ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1446.0,1476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nget to the immigration to the United States. I asked the professor who was\ngiving our tour, what were some of the reasons he thought that my grandfather\nwould have immigrated at that time, at that particular time, because it wasn't a\nlarge immigration at that period. He told me something very interesting. He said\nthat there was a law in Hungary at that time when my grandfather was a young\nman, that only one Jewish boy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1476.0,1506.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin each family could be married. I'm thinking that rather than not be able to\nfind a wife, you know, to be able to get married, that he immigrated to\nPalestine. He met my grandmother there. They were married. My father, as I say,\nwas born in 1912. Then, in 1920, they immigrated to the United States.\nUnfortunately, my grandmother fell in love with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1506.0,1536.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe United States. My grandfather, I don't know if he thought he was going to be\nhere temporarily, but he really longed to go back to Israel. So, he did. They\nwere never divorced, but that's where they lived out the rest of their lives. My\ngrandmother in United States. My grandfather in Israel, in Jerusalem. On my\nmother's side, her father was from Ukraine. Her mother was from, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1536.0,1566.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nVienna, Austria. They met. My grandmother came through Baltimore [Maryland]\nthrough the immigration port in Baltimore. Worked in a buttonhole factory.\nThat's where she met my grandfather. They were married, and they moved to\nRichwood, West Virginia, where my grandfather had a farm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1566.0,1586.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1586.0,1587.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Yes, he had a little farm out in the middle of nowhere. They decided they\ndidn't like it there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1587.0,1596.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand subsequently ended up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where my grandparents\nopened up a jewelry store. He fixed watches. I think that was his trade as a\nyoungster, fix clocks and watches and so on. They had a very nice, lovely store\non Atlantic Avenue. I have memories of some lovely vacations there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1596.0,1626.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThat's where . . . my mother [Sounia Noveck Fried] was born in West Virginia,\nand that's where close today. But most of her family stayed in that area until\nthey passed away. Out of six children, there's just two left right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1626.0,1645.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: What a remarkable journey you two have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1645.0,1648.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: No more remarkable than a lot of the other stories out there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1648.0,1654.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: That's true, but yours ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1654.0,1656.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nis .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1656.0,1657.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I admire you for listening to them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1657.0,1662.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: I’m entranced. Tammy, yours is a chronology I've never heard before.\nLet's put aside things Jewish for a moment. Let's talk about the larger society.\nAll of us have a variety of concerns about what's happening today. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1662.0,1686.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI know that you live in the larger world as much as any of us. Talk to us about .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1686.0,1696.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: That's a big question.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1696.0,1698.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Take a small bite.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1698.0,1700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes. I guess, I would just take mention of two aspects. I think that\nI've always been concerned in my rabbinate, as I am today, with the ethical\nconfusion in society. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1700.0,1715.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nSituational ethics that we have sort of rampant. That's very complex. I have\nalways seen that as a real challenge. Another thing that propels me, you know,\nin the rabbinate because our Jewish faith has a certain direction to it, a Torah\ndirection, and my role to teach that to people. 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Of course, I'm\nvery glad that in Reform Judaism, I think we do it in a rational, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1775.0,1805.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nopen way and try to do it in a way that's tolerant and open, as I say, in a\nrational way, not fundamentalist, because when you have ethical recklessness, it\ndoes and we see it today obviously, and I've talked about it in temple, it gives\nrise to many hardline fundamentalist groups on all sides. 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It’s my\nrole to teach people that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1835.0,1858.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: There is a second.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1858.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: A second. Yes, right. The second. You asked me a concern of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1860.0,1865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmine in society today. The second thing I get to, and that's something I'm\nconcerned and look with trepidation. The second part of what I would say is . .\n. the other thing which I'm sort of confident in and feel good about, although\nI'm very sorry that it took September 11 to be quite a catalyst. 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I think our country is going in the right direction.\nSlow, but, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1925.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Tammy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1950.0,1951.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Sure. My husband will be surprised to hear me say this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1951.0,1956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbecause we really don't talk about modern social issues, more Jewish issues\ninstead. There are also two things that stand out in my mind. One, being an\ninformation specialist. I say that we live in an age of information and an\noverload of information. I feel that we're letting machines thinking more and\nmore for us. I know that Ron will agree with me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1956.0,1982.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Here, here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1982.0,1983.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Because he's not a lover of computers. 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Just information overload.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1986.0,2011.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: And as you say, information is not .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2011.0,2015.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Exactly. 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Has there been\nsomething special which you've done or participated in that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2058.0,2077.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmakes you particularly proud?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2077.0,2079.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I know what I'm going to say. I've done a lot of things in the last 28\nyears that made me proud. I think the thing that more than any high point of my\nrabbinate, in a certain way, I'm very proud of my heritage was when I went to\nWashington, DC, a few years ago at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2079.0,2107.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ninvitation of Congressman [Juanita] Millender to deliver the opening prayer\nbefore Congress. Because, as I stood there that morning, at that podium, which\nis the place where presidents, popes, and kings stood. I couldn't help but think\nthat, here I was, representing here and now, not only the community of Athens,\nbut on that day, the Jewish people. 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I'm reading right now, which Tammy gave me, I wanted to\nread it, Henry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2137.0,2167.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nFord and the Jews. You read things like that. Then, to go from that to a point\nwhere a rabbi from a small town in the South, like me, could be standing at the\npodium in the Congress of the United States and delivering a prayer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2167.0,2189.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: For the purpose of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2189.0,2191.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: For the purpose praying for peace and the peace of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2191.0,2196.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe nation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2196.0,2197.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: This was to . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2197.0,2200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Right. Every day. I'm sorry. Every morning, the Senate and the House of\nRepresentatives opened up with prayer and a different clergy. Person. Are we\nstill going?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2200.0,2213.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2213.0,2214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Is called to do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2214.0,2217.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Go ahead and finish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2217.0,2219.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Representing the Jewish people at that point in Washington at that place ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2219.0,2225.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nreally made me very, very proud to be a Jew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2225.0,2229.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Rabbi, there aren’t many of us who could say GERSON: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2229.0,2235.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: I think all of us. Tammy, let me turn to you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2235.0,2240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: The event that stands out in my mind, I have to go back a little way\nbefore I talk about simcha is that, having grown up in a home where one of my parents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2240.0,2255.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas from Israel, he was actually Palestinian. But growing up in a home like that\nand hearing the history and understanding at an impressionable age, I've always\nbeen proud of my but of Israel, the State of Israel as well. When the\nopportunity arose while here in Athens to celebrate Israel’s 50th birthday, I\njust jumped ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2255.0,2285.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nat the idea that our synagogue could have a citywide event, as many other cities\nin the country and the world, to promote the State of Israel, to celebrate its\n50th birthday and to share that with the greater, the larger Athens community.\nAlmost a year before I brought up the idea to Sisterhood, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2285.0,2315.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthink everybody was enthusiastic about it, but didn't realize at the time that\nhow long and how hard it would be to put something together. I just felt, for so\nmany, hundreds and hundreds of years prayed towards Jerusalem, but couldn't be\nthere. To have the miracle of the State of Israel in our time, I just felt that\nwe had to do something. What happened, was we had Simcha, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2315.0,2345.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwhich means celebration. We held it at The Classic Center downtown. It lasted\npretty much all day. It's just, something I'll never forget.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2345.0,2355.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Remarkable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2355.0,2356.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: It brought the whole temple together too. I mean, everyone in the\ncongregation worked on it. I think we all derived a lot of satisfaction and pride.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2356.0,2368.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: What kind of, response?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2368.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: I know that we had several hundred people attend ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2370.0,2374.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nfrom the community. We only got one criticism in the mail, one letter, about the\nfood. Everyone was very, very helpful. helped support us in the paper, the\nnewspaper. I think it was just something that I'll never forget. My husband\nkeeps asking me if I'll do the 75th. I may ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2374.0,2404.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbe too old by then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2404.0,2406.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: By golly, you two have made a contribution that, obviously, nobody else\nhas done.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2406.0,2412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I would add to that . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2412.0,2416.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: GERSON: Right. I was thinking the other day and just sort of looking\nback over the 12 years of being here. Without a doubt, to me, the two best\nthings that our congregation did over the past 12 years, one is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2416.0,2434.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . I didn't mean to preempt you. One is one is in the physical area. That, of\ncourse, was the building of the addition. That was the best physical thing. But\nas far as the best activity, and my wife was in charge, but to me, there's no\ndoubt about it that was the best thing we did. I can't comment on before we were\nhere, but the best thing that's been done so far to get 1,000 people at The\nClassic Center to celebrate that day really showed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2434.0,2464.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwhat we could do, and everybody was working.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2464.0,2468.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: I can assure you, for as long as I've been here since 1953, nothing .\nThat sort of gives us a segway into another kind of question which has been with\nus through the ages, that is antisemitism, and may be with us forever. Let me\nask you about your impressions before, since .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2468.0,2493.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2493.0,2494.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin Athens, I would very definitely say that I personally have not felt very much\nantisemitism. I have seen a lot of things that I would just classify as ignorant\nof some people out there. There is a lot more ignorance, I think, down here\nbecause I think when we were up north in New York, I think . . . I'll turn over\nto Tammy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2494.0,2524.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin a minute. But I think that being in New York and the proximity to New York\nCity and the media all the time, Christians were much more familiar with\nJudaism. They knew what a rabbi was. They knew what a synagogue was. Knew what a\nJew was. Here, and I'm not criticizing the Southern Baptists at all, but being\nin a sea of Southern Baptists and especially a lot of in the backwoods areas and\nso forth. 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I was shocked that it was a letter to\nme from a minister, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2554.0,2584.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand not from the backwoods. This was one of Athens, a rather newer minister here\nin one of Athens more prominent churches, who wrote me a letter which was\nreplete . . . it was a nice letter. He was asking the congregation to\nparticipate in something, but he kept calling us a church. He said, “Will your\nchurch do this? Will your church do that?” I thought to myself, this is an\neducated man, I thought, describing us as a church. Believe me, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2584.0,2614.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nit wasn't a form computerized letter. It was personally to me. That's the kind\nof thing. But as far as hostility and hatred to Jews, I have not found that much\ndown here. I think that I didn't find that much up north either. But they talk\nabout the redneck mentality down here and everything. 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I get email notices about\nhorrible things that are being written about Jews ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2674.0,2704.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin Arabic newspapers and things that are being said, things that are being\ntaught to Palestinian children about Jews. I can't help but feel, on a group\nlevel or a religious level, I feel offended and hurt by the things. They're not\ntrue. Also, I'm very afraid ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2704.0,2734.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nover time that revisionist, Holocaust revisions are going to persuade people. As\nthe Holocaust survivors die out, we're losing vital witnesses. I don't know\nwhere that's going to leave us. It is in a way, it's frightening. I feel that\nhas a Jew, I feel offended by that is going on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2734.0,2761.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: This is on a global ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2761.0,2764.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n level?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2764.0,2764.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Right. Not on a personal level here in Athens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2764.0,2768.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Right. I think we all share that same feeling. I have a $64,000 jackpot\nquestion to ask. We've only got about 30 minutes to talk about it, but we won’t\ntake all that time. Let me ask you straight away, do you think that Israel and\nwhat would it take ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2768.0,2789.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Again, I'll answer. Tammy has a deep interest in the Middle East. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2789.0,2794.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nSPARER: I was kidding about not taking all that time on the tape. I have some\nother questions I’d like to ask.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2794.0,2806.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I'm confident about peace in the Middle East. We're going through a\nvery, very difficult time right now as we speak. Sometimes it looks dire, but I\nthink, and I've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2806.0,2824.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nspoken about this, that in the long run, there will there will be a more\npeaceful situation. I feel that, in recent years, the Palestinians were offered\nso much and there almost was a binding agreement. They were offered so much of\nthe West Bank and Gaza. I don’t want to go into all the details of that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2824.0,2854.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbut, hopefully, and this has to be done through negotiation. Hopefully, the\nPalestinian leadership of the future will come to its senses and realize that\nvery, very kind offers were made. In negotiation, you can't have everything.\nThat's the trouble. [Yasser] Arafat, we want all of Jerusalem. We want this. We\nwant that. Nothing is enough, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2854.0,2884.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyou know? Ultimately, leadership will come around and realize that they have\nbeen made make good offers, and they need to make peace. They need to make peace\nwith Israel. I mean, to be offered 90 some percent of the West Bank was quite a\nbit. They'll come to their senses. I think in the long run, and I've spoken\nabout this from the pulpit, the goals of Yitzhak Rabin, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2884.0,2914.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmay he rest in peace, Shimon Peres, and people like that. By the way, I think\n[Ariel] Sharon right now is doing a pretty good job. I think in the long run,\nthe hopes of those people, I think, it's going to take time. But I think they\nwill be realized because both sides need it so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2914.0,2938.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: I agree with everything you said. But, I just heard a report today that someone ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2938.0,2944.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas being interviewed and they said the only way that the Palestinians are going\nto accept it is if they're totally defeated. You know, faith. Understanding\npsychology, they're fighting for something. They're not going to just like that,\nsay, okay, we give up. I think that they have a real crisis in their leadership.\nI don't think that Yasser Arafat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2944.0,2974.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncan really fulfill the leadership that they need. They need a strong leader\nwho's going to lead them economically and have a constitution. Have a real\nstate. I’m hopeful that whoever follows Arafat will have that vision because he\ncertainly doesn’t. Also, I think that in order for there to be lasting peace, I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2974.0,3004.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat the Arab countries that surround Israel, that they all have to agree to her\nright to exist. Once that happens, that they say she can exist, there will be a\nlasting peace.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3004.0,3019.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Several people that I've interviewed point out that the divisions of\nopinion within Israel itself, being the Orthodox, Conservative, and the more\nsecular part of the population, is an impediment. 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I keep prefacing things that I've\nspoken about this. I guess I've spoken a lot of sermons in twelve years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3044.0,3062.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: It's good to know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3062.0,3064.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat you .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3064.0,3066.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I think that the religious divisions in Israel, as you commented between\nthe Reform and the Orthodox and so forth, have created a difficulty for the\nIsraelis because, as we've talked about so much with the non-recognition of\nReform Judaism, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3066.0,3094.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nalthough that is improving. There were major things that happened this past week\nwith conversions there. I think the basic Israeli is faced with a choice of\nfundamentalism or nothing. That's been a big problem, but that will improve. You\nasked the question more in political strategic terms. No, I don't think the\ndivisions in Israel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3094.0,3124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwill impede the progress of the country or peace because it's wonderful. Israel\nis a democracy. We should be proud of that. 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I think it's healthy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3154.0,3166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: It will be interesting to those listening to this tape a few years from\nnow to give suggestions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3166.0,3175.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes. Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3175.0,3176.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Tammy, you have . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3176.0,3179.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Again, I agree. 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As you know, many .\nWhat do you think?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3253.0,3271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: There's no doubt ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3271.0,3273.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nabout it’s a problem. It’s a big problem. I think it's something that is with\nus. It's a fact of life. I don't think the answer is the way the Orthodox do it,\nto be on these crusades against it and to make everyone feel guilty and so\nforth. I think Reform Judaism is on the right track, that is on its emphasis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3273.0,3303.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\non outreach like we do here at the temple, and being very, very welcoming to\nmixed married families, which I think we are here. I think they would agree that\nwe are the mix-married families. By doing that, hopefully in a very comfortable,\nloving way, encouraging the non-Jewish spouse, if they so wish, to convert. 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They call me the conversion king of northeast Georgia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3333.0,3344.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: with such a crowd.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3344.0,3346.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes, but, no, it's a big problem. It's a very big problem. The challenge\nis how you're going to approach it. 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But even those that don't are fully welcomed to\nthe temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3367.0,3381.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: They are. I think that’s very good and that's the way it has to be, but\nit is a big problem in American Jewish life. 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I would say that mixed marriage is certainly, probably, one of the\ngreatest and most important issues in American Jewish life today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3422.0,3435.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Tammy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3435.0,3436.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: I agree with that. We talk a lot that we can even see it here in our own\ncongregation, say, in our Sisterhood where, like you were saying, members, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3436.0,3452.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nspouses, especially spouses are not Jewish. We could see it because it's been\nvery difficult the last couple of years to have an executive board in our\nSisterhood because a lot of the younger women are not Jewish and have no desire\nto be either to be in Sisterhood or to lead Sisterhood. So, we're beginning to\nsee some of the effects of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3452.0,3482.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3482.0,3483.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Has there been an impact .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3483.0,3487.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: From what I can see, the children of mixed marriage, whether the spouse\nis female or male, they are very supportive of their children in the school, and\nI think they're doing a good job with raising as Jewish children. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3487.0,3512.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndon't say it often, but I've said it in the past that, unfortunately, I see, or\nit could turn out, that the only type of Judaism that we end up with in this\ncountry 100 years from now is Orthodox Judaism. That's the way I see it. I\nwouldn't want it to be that way. We need that diversity. 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I read recently that the way\nit stands right now among affiliated ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3563.0,3572.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nJews and, of course as Tammy alluded to, most American Jews, unfortunately, are\nnot affiliated with synagogue. Surprising. But among the affiliated Jews, Reform\nnow is the highest, and we are really gaining a lot of synagogues. Thus, we have\na shortage of rabbis right now, too, because of that. That's one of the reasons\n. . . 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We are sort of in the lead right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3602.0,3627.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: From what I've read in the surveys that were done, among ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3627.0,3632.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nall the majority of Jews who don't affiliate, they don’t send their children to\nreligious school. So, these children are not being brought up with a Jewish\nbackground. I don't know, I've always felt that Jews were in such a hurry to be\na part of the United States to assimilate when they got here, that there was a\nwhole generation that was left out. It was a whole generation of what would be\ngrandparents now, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3632.0,3662.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ngrandparents age, that that really didn't have enough to pass on to their\nchildren. Judaism is more than just eating bagels on Sunday morning. Judaism\nisn't going to survive on that. You need to have the spirituality and that\nreligious feeling of wanting to belong to the Jewish faith.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3662.0,3686.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes. I would just add before we conclude.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3686.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: I know, I’m ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3690.0,3692.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na pessimist anyhow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3692.0,3693.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: I think both of you see a dark side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3693.0,3698.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Yes. It's a very interesting question, too. I just wanted to conclude by\nsaying, as Tammy said, we see the ramifications just in our congregational life\nso much. I can tell you that in the months coming up, I have a lot of bar and\nbat mitzvahs. I have confirmation coming up. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3698.0,3722.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI would say almost, not all, but almost all of the families, the children are\nthe result of a Jew and a non-Jew. In other words, there are conversions, but\npractically all of them, it's where a Jew and a non-Jew came together. You can\nimagine. 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I came to the rabbinate\nvery naturally. I didn't receive a call or anything like that, like our\nChristian brethren. A sudden call on a mountain or anything like that. It was\nvery natural. I was very active in temple life. My parents were. I went to\nJewish camping and so forth. It was something I naturally wanted to do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3812.0,3842.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBut when I went to our UCLA camps, there were certain professors there from\ncollege who would come to camp, and I talked to them about the rabbinate. I\nstill see a few of them today. They were instrumental. I had a few rabbis in San\nDiego who were very helpful to me also. 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I think she'll stay with me for\nall the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3901.0,3928.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Was she the one who gave you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3928.0,3931.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyour interest in education?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3931.0,3933.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: No, not so much educational. She was a nurse. Just her giving. Kind. Her\nkindness her tzedakah and how she felt about tzedakah. Just led a very simple\nlife. I think I've learned a lot from her. 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Young people always\nhave a different viewpoint. Sometimes, they’re better. You think you have a good\nviewpoint. You find out that the students, you don't know how, but they're much\nmore worldly than you are and see things that you don’t see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3968.0,3989.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Such an interesting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3989.0,3991.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n comment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3991.0,3991.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: I think I've learned a lot being a teacher, a religious school teacher.\nI’ve learned a lot from students.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3991.0,3999.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: What a remarkable time I’ve had listening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3999.0,4002.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I just admire you sitting with all these people and us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4002.0,4007.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: A whole world is opening up. I wish everybody could hear these things,\nbut I'm not certain everybody wants . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4007.0,4016.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: It sort of reminds me of when I did my rabbinical thesis. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4016.0,4021.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI did the history of the Jews of San Diego. All summer I sat and interviewed\npeople and went over microfilm in the library and old newspapers. The thing is,\nI could stop when I wanted and take a break. You just keep going and going and going.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4021.0,4042.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: We’ve got a moment or two. 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Do you think that ten years from now, as you’re\nthinking about retiring, do you think that you will be living a neighborhood\nthat has been swallowed up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4051.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4080.0,4081.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nnot an expert in demography. I guess you're right. I guess it's closer to us.\nYes, yes, I guess I see it as sort of parallel to my home state of California\nand of San Diego, where those metropolitan areas of San Diego and Los Angeles,\nthere is just one stretch of housing together now. That ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4081.0,4111.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nprobably will happen here more and more. But I did want to say, because I didn't\nknow whether you were going to ask it at the end, I think the future of the\nAthens Jewish community, and we should probably say that at the end or deal with\nthat. I think it's very, very bright. I think that our congregation is really\nexperiencing phenomenal growth. People, the temples are very important to them.\nI see it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4111.0,4141.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin many, many ways. It's very, very important to them as a center of Jewish\nlife. I think the temple will, it's very bright. I think the temple is going to\nkeep growing like that. I think our challenge in that is that as we grow to keep\npeople knowing each other better, because that's the thing that sort of bothers\nme sometimes. 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When you have a congregation that's approaching 150 families, that's a\nlot different than a congregation of 80 to 90 families.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4171.0,4181.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Or 40 to 50.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4181.0,4183.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Well, yes. I guess it bothers me sometimes that a lot of us don't know\neach other anymore. 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I think we have to\nstrive to get to know each other better, but I think the future is very bright.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4201.0,4218.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Your thoughts on that Tammy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4218.0,4220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Going back to, I think one of your very first questions of how did you\nmanage when we got here? 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I hope that Athens will be able to come out from under this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4291.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: Development . 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We'll have to look into the future.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4322.0,4328.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: Forget driving to Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4328.0,4330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: I've had an experience here. I want you to know, it's been wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4330.0,4336.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"TAMMY: We've enjoyed it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4336.0,4338.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: I hope we did an adequate job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4338.0,4342.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: You certainly have. The test will be those who think about what you have\nto say. Thank you, Tammy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4342.0,4351.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThank you, Rabbi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=4351.0,4359.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/transcript/72787/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GERSON: Thank you for doing all of this. 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Also active were Ben Winkler, Ira Nochumson, Leo Koplan, Jack Braver, Irving Funk and Dr. Eli Rosen. World War II delayed the construction of the temple until 1947. The 1950s and 1960s saw strong Jewish involvement. In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the temple celebrated its 40th, 50th and 60th anniversary. Beginning in the 1980s, many of the original congregants and temple leaders passed away, including Mr. and Mrs. Ben Winkler and four past presidents – Leo Koplan, Sam Millender, Joseph Ginsberg, and Lester Goldberg. Throughout the 1990s, elderly members retired with many moving. While the older population disappeared, younger Jews who grew up in Dalton went off to college and never returned. 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While the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, \u003cem\u003ebat mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e, and women rabbis), instrumental music is allowed in the services, and most of the service is in the local language as opposed to Hebrew.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=161.0,163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlso known as Masorti Judaism, Conservative Judaism is a form of Judaism that seeks to preserve Jewish tradition and ritual, but has a more flexible approach to the interpretation of the law than Orthodox Judaism. It attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture, while preserving a commitment to Jewish observance. In general, Conservative congregations also observe gender equality (mixed seating, women rabbis, and \u003cem\u003ebat mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e). The governing body for Conservative Judaism in the United States is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), formerly known as the United Synagogue of America.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=163.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAthens Creative Theatre (ACT) presents several productions each year, including comedies, dramas, and musicals. Performances are presented at the Morton Theatre and Quinn Hall at Memorial Park. Formed in 1966, ACT continues to provide outstanding community theater. In addition to theatrical performances ACT offers a range of theater classes for youth and adults. During the summer ACT has two theater performance camps out of their locations at Quinn Hall (Memorial Park) and the Morton Theatre in downtown Athens.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCoronado is a resort city located in San Diego, County, California, across the San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. It was founded in the 1880s and incorporated in 1890. 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Louis Rose, Lewis Franklin, Jacob Marks, and Charles Fletcher, all European immigrants recently settled in the United States. By the fall of 1851, all had become merchants doing business in the plaza area of Old Town.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1296.0,1326.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWorld War II (abbreviated WWII or WW2) was a global war involving fighting in most of the world and most countries. Most countries fought in the years 1939–1945 but some started fighting in 1937. Most of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. World War II was the largest and deadliest conflict in all of history. It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died. The majority were civilians. It included massacres, the deliberate genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons against civilians in history.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1326.0,1356.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSince 1941, Just prior to the onset of America’s involvement in World War II, President Franklin D. 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The ten categories are significant because they form the basis of man’s relationship with G-d and man’s relationship with his fellow people. While G-d directly gave the Ten Commandments to the Jewish people, it was Moses, who also led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, that received the tablets and brought them down from Mount Sinai.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1748.0,1775.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe September 11th attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks resulted in 2,977 fatalities, over 25,000 injuries, and substantial long-term health consequences, in addition to at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. 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It borrows elements from Nazi doctrine, including antisemitism, ultranationalism, racism, xenophobia, ableism, homophobia, and anti-communism. Holocaust denial is common in neo-Nazi circles.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2674.0,2704.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIn the years immediately following World War II, survivors typically referred to the systematic state-sponsored killing of Jews as \u003cem\u003eSho’ah\u003c/em\u003e [Hebrew: catastrophe] or \u003cem\u003eHurban\u003c/em\u003e [Yiddish and Hebrew: destruction]. 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On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” in Washington D.C. Israel accepted the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace. Both sides agreed that a Palestinian Authority (PA) would be established and assume governing responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five-year period. Then, permanent status talks on the issues of borders, refugees, and Jerusalem would be held. By 2000, the peace process had run aground, and a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence, known as the Second Intifada, had begun.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2824.0,2854.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/annotation_set/1664/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat (1929­2004), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and then President of the Palestinian National Authority (PND). 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He graduated from UCLA and completed his first two years of rabbinical studies in LA. Then, he relocated to Cincinnati, where he was ordained at the Hebrew Union College. He only had three pulpits -- Florida, New York, and Athens, and was very proud to have long stays with each community.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=206.0,385.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's back up a little bit. 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Her father was a rabbi, and they moved all over the country to different congregations. Most of her culture shock being married to a rabbi was related to congregation size.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=385.0,558.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/356","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We'll come back again to some things. Tammy, tell us a little bit about where you've been. How did you meet the rabbi?  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When they moved, she decided to take time off to focus on adjusting to Athens and caring for her children. She got a part-time job at a book center and eventually revisited, completing a secondary degree.\r\n\r\nShe decided to earn her master's degree in library science after working as a library receptionist. The University of South Carolina instituted a distance education satellite school, and after completing the program, she worked for the library for over a decade.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=558.0,675.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/360","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Since you've been here, you've been involved so many things aside from raising your kids. 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Tammy taught religious school, mainly Hebrew, to younger ages. She also taught the pre-confirmation group and was involved in the Sisterhood, having served as president for two years.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=675.0,757.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/365","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Give us a brief summary of all the complications of being a rabbi’s wife at the temple.   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He enjoyed his work as a representative of the community and felt like the community welcomed him with open arms. Although there were negative experiences like anything else, his temperament and relationships allowed him to serve as a resource for his community that was learning. 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Gerson, had ancestry originating in Latvia, and his mother's side [Doreen Brody Gerson] was from Ukraine. His parents met at the United Service Organizations dance temple after the war.\r\n\r\nTammy Gerson's father [Rabbi Philip Fried] and his mother were born in Jerusalem, and her grandmother came from Prague to Palestine in the early 1800s. Her paternal grandparents came to the United States in 1920, where they lived together a few years before her grandfather returned to Jerusalem and her grandmother remained in the USA. Her mother's family was from Ukraine and Vienna. 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He acknowledged the tragedy of 9/11 and how it encouraged a heightened sense of patriotism and altruism.\r\n\r\nTammy reflected on the impact and role of improved technology and its effects on people. She worried that 9/11 had opened the door for the government to limit freedoms of choice and speech.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1670.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/382","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All of us have a variety of concerns about what's happening today. I know that you live in the larger world as much as any of us. Talk to us about ","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1670.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/383","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"9/11","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ethics","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1670.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/384","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"9/11","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ethics","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Torah","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ten Commandments","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=1670.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/385","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Moments of Pride","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2057.0,2480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/386","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tammy and Rabbi Gerson reflect on the moments that have made them proud. Rabbi Gerson shared a moment where he delivered the opening prayer before Congress at the invitation of Congresswoman Juanita Millender. Tammy's proudest moment stemmed from growing up in a home where one of her parents was Palestinian. She was able to have Simcha in honor of Israel's 50th Birthday at The Classic Center.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2057.0,2480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/387","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It seems a bit strange for me to ask this question of a rabbi and the rabbi’s wife, but I’ll pose it to you anyway just for the record. Has there been something special which you've done or participated in that makes you particularly proud? 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They did not feel that they experienced many instances of malice but instead fielded many questions of well-intended ignorance. Moving from New York where there was an increased familiarity with Jewish life, Athens was surprisingly well-informed and had heard words like \"temple\" and \"rabbi\" in most cases. They felt that the most pressing feelings of antisemitism are felt globally, through neo-nazi propaganda and Holocaust revisionists. ","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2480.0,2787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/392","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Here in Athens, I would very definitely say that I personally have not felt very much antisemitism. 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He worried that the representatives of Palestinians, especially Yasser Arafat, would continue to undercut potential agreements due to extreme demands. Tammy agreed and emphasized that surrounding Arab countries need to agree to Israel's right to exist before there can be lasting peace.\r\n\r\nThe pair also reflected on the religious division within the Jewish Israeli community.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=2787.0,3259.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/397","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let me ask you straight away, do you think that Israel \u003cunintelligible\u003e and what would it take \u003cunintelligible\u003e?   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Rabbi Gerson, though concerned, noted that many spouses are converting to Judaism and are very committed. Tammy agreed, noting that membership in Sisterhood is down because many wives are not Jewish and younger, Jewish women have no interest in Sisterhood.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077#t=3259.0,4352.9599"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138541/file/257077/index/86189/annotation/401","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think we could probably spend another hour talking about Israel. \u003cunintelligible\u003e Let me come back to the state’s problem \u003cunintelligible\u003e the Jewish population. As you know, many \u003cunintelligible\u003e. 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