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He is the youngest of two children born to Eric Jacobson and Isle Ludomer Jacobson. His parents fled Nazi Germany in 1939, and ended up in Shanghai, China where they met and married. Mark’s older sister, Aileen, was born in Shanghai. His parents and sister immigrated to the United States in 1948.  Mark’s father worked for Atlanta Paper Company and his mother was a homemaker. His family joined The Temple when he was a young child. He was confirmed at The Temple and active in the Temple Youth Group.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark attended Rock Spring Elementary and North Fulton High School. Throughout high school, he played football, basketball, and baseball. After high school, he attended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In college, he also played on the Tufts’ baseball team. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and government. He later earned a master’s in business administration from Georgia State University.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter college, he took a job working for the National Bank of Georgia and eventually became a branch manager. In 1977, he became the Executive Director of The Temple. He worked as the Executive Director for 46 years, retiring in 2023. He currently holds the title of Executive Director Emeritus at The Temple. Mark also was active in the National Association of Temple Administration (NATA). In 2022, he received the Service to NATA Award, and the award was renamed the Mark R. Jacobson Service to NATA Award in honor of his 45 years of service to NATA.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark was active in the Atlanta community, serving as president of Peachtree Corridor Congregations and a board member of AID Atlanta. He also is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta. He and his first wife, Helaine Gordon had two children, Marty Jacobson and Marla Jacobson. He later married Susan Harberg, and she had three sons from her first marriage. Mark and Susan live in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMark begins the interview by sharing how his parents escaped Nazi Germany and eventually came to the United States. He discusses what his father did for a living and what it was like growing up in Atlanta. He reflects on his experience being Jewish at North Fulton High School. Mark also recalls integration occurring while in high school and the impact he saw from that. He shares his involvement in The Temple Youth Group and his religious upbringing in a Reform congregation. He talks about the influence of his parents on him and his sister.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark discusses attending Tufts University and his experience living on the East coast. He shares how his summer baseball coach got him into the banking business at the National Bank of Georgia. Mark mentions that he wasn’t involved in Vietnam protest while at college and how he focused on playing baseball. He recalls getting to know Rabbi Alvin Sugarman and the influence that had on him. He talks about how he came to be hired as Executive Director at The Temple. Mark discusses what he drew him to take the position at The Temple and how blessed he was by the team he worked with over the years.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe reflects on the point he decided that he wanted to make The Temple his life-long career. He mentions other job offers he received over the years. Mark details the changes he saw during his career at The Temple. He spoke about members often driving the changes that happened, and the leadership being open to them. Mark also discusses the opening of other Reform congregations in Atlanta and the impact they had on The Temple. He details various programs that The Temple started during his career. He talks about the changes he has seen with education and services over the years at The Temple. Mark also reflects on his involvement with some of those changes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark shares about being honored by the National Association of Temple Administration and having The Temple’s Executive Director position named for him. He discusses some of the challenges he faced as Executive Director including whether The Temple should move from Midtown. Mark recounts the relationship he developed with the Atlanta police department over the years. He reflects on the challenges The Temple’s faced with their neighbor, Peachtree Pointe and how he handled that. He discusses how The Temple got onto the National Register of Historic Places and the list for the Atlanta Urban Design Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe reflects on the retirement of Rabbi Sugarman and his own decision to consider retirement. Mark discusses his retirement and working with his replacement, Jeremy Perlin. He spoke about the support his wife Susan has given to him over the years, and how his work impacted their life together. He talks about the various Temple staff he has worked with over the years and what they brough to the team. Mark concludes the interview by reflecting on working Rabbi Alvin Sugarman and Rabbi Peter Berg.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29341"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Jacobson, Mark (b. 1950) (personal name)","Jacobson, Susan Harberg (b. 1956) (personal name)","Jacobson, Eric (1910-1994) (personal name)","Jacobson, Ilse Ludomer (1921-1987) (personal name)","Jacobson, Aileen (b. 1947) (personal name)","Lipman, Lawrence “Larry” (b. 1950) (personal name)","Rothschild, Rabbi Jacob (1911-1973) (personal name)","Cleveland, King (1921-1978) (personal name)","Sugarman, Rabbi Alvin (1938-2025) (personal name)","Lance, Thomas Bertram “Bert” (1931-2013) (personal name)","Popkin, Harry (1920-2010) (personal name)","Levine, Jay (1934-2005) (personal name)","Montag, Jackie (b. 1937) (personal name)","Salkin, Rabbi Jeffrey (b. 1954) (personal name)","Berlin, Rabbi Don (b. 1936) (personal name)","Berg, Rabbi Peter (b. 1971) (personal name)","Lehrman, Rabbi Richard J. 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He is the youngest of two children born to Eric Jacobson and Isle Ludomer Jacobson. His parents fled Nazi Germany in 1939, and ended up in Shanghai, China where they met and married. Mark\u0026rsquo;s older sister, Aileen, was born in Shanghai. His parents and sister immigrated to the United States in 1948. \u0026nbsp;Mark\u0026rsquo;s father worked for Atlanta Paper Company and his mother was a homemaker. His family joined The Temple when he was a young child. He was confirmed at The Temple and active in the Temple Youth Group.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark attended Rock Spring Elementary and North Fulton High School. Throughout high school, he played football, basketball, and baseball. After high school, he attended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In college, he also played on the Tufts\u0026rsquo; baseball team. He earned his bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in political science and government. He later earned a master\u0026rsquo;s in business administration from Georgia State University.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter college, he took a job working for the National Bank of Georgia and eventually became a branch manager. In 1977, he became the Executive Director of The Temple. He worked as the Executive Director for 46 years, retiring in 2023. He currently holds the title of Executive Director Emeritus at The Temple. Mark also was active in the National Association of Temple Administration (NATA). In 2022, he received the Service to NATA Award, and the award was renamed the Mark R. Jacobson Service to NATA Award in honor of his 45 years of service to NATA.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark was active in the Atlanta community, serving as president of Peachtree Corridor Congregations and a board member of AID Atlanta. He also is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta. 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Mark also discusses the opening of other Reform congregations in Atlanta and the impact they had on The Temple. He details various programs that The Temple started during his career. He talks about the changes he has seen with education and services over the years at The Temple. Mark also reflects on his involvement with some of those changes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark shares about being honored by the National Association of Temple Administration and having The Temple\u0026rsquo;s Executive Director position named for him. He discusses some of the challenges he faced as Executive Director including whether The Temple should move from Midtown. Mark recounts the relationship he developed with the Atlanta police department over the years. He reflects on the challenges The Temple\u0026rsquo;s faced with their neighbor, Peachtree Pointe and how he handled that. 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Executive Director Emeritus of The Temple for the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project. Mark, welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=0.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. It's an honor to be here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=15.0,18.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Well-deserved honor for us to be interviewing you. Can you tell us a little bit about your family background?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=18.0,27.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e A pleasure. Thank you, Henry. My family arrived in Atlanta, Georgia after leaving Nazi Germany in 1939, very late in the process. My mother and my father . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=27.0,43.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . From where.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=43.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was from the Berlin [Germany] area and my father came from a little town called Stavenhagen in the northern part of Germany. His father was a farmer, and my mother's parents were in the retail business. They had a shop that was on the ground floor and their living residence was above it. They lived in different places and then met each other in the refugee community of Shanghai, China. They lived there for about ten years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=44.0,83.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e How did they get to Shanghai?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=83.0,86.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e They got to Shanghai via land and sea. They were very late in the process, and they have the typical story of leaving with two or three trunks with all their possessions that they were able to leave with, and that's how they arrived in Shanghai. At that time there were not really many places one could go to or be accepted as a refugee. Shanghai was an open city, a free city . . . From what I recall . . . the stories that they told us, they basically just got off the boat and were met by representatives of some agency, something like a Federation, and they were taken to a section called Hong Kyu in Shanghai, which was a ghetto and a slum, and that's where they lived for eight or nine years before they left after the war. Their conditions were less than ideal. Families lived in one room, used a bucket as a toilet. They stepped over dead bodies in the street, people that had died from disease. Yet as terrible as it was, they were not faced with extinction . . . [at] the hands of the Nazis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=86.0,185.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e How did they get to the United States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=185.0,190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e In 1948 was the time when the communists took over and all the refugees were leaving, and they were just able to, through whatever agencies that were available, took a ship from Shanghai to San Francisco [California]. They landed in the port of San Francisco and then another agency took over. They were asked about where they wanted to live going forward, and they were given the choice of staying in San Francisco or going to New York [New York]. Those cities were too large, and they felt they would have been thrust into another population of refugees, so they felt that they wanted to go to someplace else. The three other places that they were given choices of were South Bend, Indiana, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia. While in Shanghai, they had both seen the movie Gone with the Wind. The only city that rang any type of bell was Atlanta, and so that's how I became a native of this city.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=190.0,271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e That's an amazing story. They moved to Atlanta and what did they do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=271.0,277.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e When they arrived here in Atlanta, the area that they lived in was close to Grant Park. I recall seeing pictures of me and my sister in strollers always being at Grant Park. My father was able to land a job at what was then Atlanta Paper Company.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=277.0,308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Time out. [tape stops and resume]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=308.0,310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e He was in an administrative position. I would say it's more like sales support. Maybe that's why he knew Hank Bauer, who was a top salesman at Atlanta Paper.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=310.0,320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e What about your mother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=320.0,322.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was a stay at home mother. That was very important to my dad. She was a stay at home mother and did everything in the context of cooking, cleaning and raising me and my sister.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=322.0,341.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you grow up in Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=341.0,344.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I grew up on, after we moved away from the Grant Park and Georgia Baptist area where the Jewish community was at that time, or much of it was. We moved to Piedmont Circle off of Piedmont Road. A landmark. There is Express Lanes Bowling Alley, which many people of a certain age spent a lot of time doing their bowling and their video game playing. Excuse me, it wasn't video games, it was pinball games that were located at the bowling alley. There was a woman that lived on the top of a hill across the street from us. Her name was Emma Plaster. She was a teacher at North Fulton High School where I went, and her family owned a lot of property in that general area, and the whole Armor Drive, industrial areas, the properties that they owned.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=344.0,404.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you go to grammar school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=404.0,407.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to Rock Springs Elementary on Lindbergh Drive. I remember those years fondly, remembered it being an innocent time in the world. I remember the playground and I remember paper sales. I remembered that everyone would collect their newspapers and take them, and it was done by grade. Whoever got the most papers in a certain time got some kind of prize. But I remember my dad would always stack the papers very neatly and bind them in twine. He got the reputation of always bringing the neatest Atlanta newspapers to the Rock Springs paper sales.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=407.0,462.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e We had them in Morningside. I know you went to North Fulton after you graduated from elementary school. Tell us what your experience was like as a Jewish kid in grammar school and at North Fulton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=462.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think in grammar school, I don't think my being Jewish played a great factor. It wasn't a matter of any type of concern or anything else. It felt different in high school. The school was much bigger, classes at North Fulton ranged from 250 to 275 students, and there were about a dozen of us that were Jewish. While we weren't, I wasn't the only Jew, I was one of only a few. Where I really felt it was that I played sports throughout my whole life and in high school in particular, and I played football, basketball and baseball and had attained some level of competence in those sports. There I was the only Jew, certainly, in my grade.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=480.0,537.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e The only Jew that played sports or the . . . How many Jewish kids were there in North Fulton?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=537.0,543.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e There probably were 50 of us out of 1200 students. [tape stops and resumes]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=543.0,554.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Mark, tell us a little bit more about your neighborhood and your experience in grammar school and high school being Jewish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=554.0,563.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e My sense of being Jewish and being distinctly different from my classmates didn't really take effect until I entered North Fulton High School. When I was one of a few Jewish athletes in the entire school, and I was always the only Jewish in my particular class. I remember things like Fellowship of Christian Athletes was a very big cultural phenomenon in high school sports, and every Sunday night the Fellowship of Christian Athletes would meet. It was a time for social bonding and a social experience as well. I knew that was going on, and it was one of those things where I was never invited. In particular, sometimes I felt like people said, \"I'll see you Sunday night, see you at FCA\" and things of this nature. It was said right in front of me just to make sure that I knew that I was different, that I was Jewish, that I was not to be included. I think that when I think back upon those days, we were still in the mid to late 1960's, the use of the N-word was prevalent in all locker rooms.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=563.0,650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Really, I never experienced that agree. It's surprising.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=650.0,655.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=655.0,657.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . You were going to . . . when you were in North Fulton was it integrated?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=657.0,662.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It was integrated. In my ninth grade year, there was a young black man who was an eighth grader who happened to be also an athlete and was accepted in that regard. But it wasn't until my junior year when schools were like totally integrated. As a matter of fact, North Fulton High School, our first game of my junior year, we played against Murphy High School. Murphy was the first school that became more or less all black. It was a Thursday night. We played at Cheney Stadium, and it was a big deal. But here was the white bred North Fulton High School who was going to play against Murphy High School. Cheney Stadium was kind of in a hole and they were hills around. I remember driving up on the bus and there were policemen everywhere, stationed up on the hill and things of this nature. As it turned out, it was probably the cleanest football game I ever played in because everyone, we played hard, we hit hard, but not the way one might normally do. We were fortunate to have won that game. It was a good season for us. We ended up winning the state championship in Double-A that year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=662.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Quickly, just tell us what position you played.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=750.0,753.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was the center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=753.0,754.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You were the center?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=754.0,755.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I was the center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=755.0,757.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Centers are a little bigger now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=757.0,759.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. At 5'10 and 200 pounds that was big at the time. Now, you can barely be a safety with those kind of statistics. But . . . I remembered even the coaches, when we started playing even more in my senior year, we played more schools that had become all black. The use of the N-word was prevalent. It made me feel uncomfortable. Every once in a while, I'd have a scuffle with someone when it got to be too much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=759.0,799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You spoke up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=799.0,800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I had to because my father and my mother being Holocaust survivors, you need to speak up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=800.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Was that something they taught you or you inherently knew that it was just wrong?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=810.0,817.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I just inherently knew it was wrong. I think . . . that . . .  my teammates respected that. Because I had a certain amount of athletic competence than a lot of that was rooted in that . . . But I'd hear jokes about being . . . that their doctors had to be Jewish because they were going to be well taken care of. Their accountants had to be Jewish. If their center could block well, it's okay that he's Jewish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=817.0,857.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You actually heard, they kidded you about that, some of your teammates.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=857.0,862.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e They kidded me about that. I think they in a way, they expected me to accept it because they knew I was big enough to handle it. There was always the constant comeback. I remember one poignant moment where . . . there was a photograph of the offensive line and the photographer asked me to pull in a little bit, you're sticking out. I remember the guy saying, \"Yes, he's sticking out like a sore Jew.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=862.0,895.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did he know you were Jewish, or he just said that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=895.0,898.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e My teammates certainly knew I was Jewish. No, excuse me . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=898.0,902.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . .  But the photographer asked you . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=902.0,903.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . The photographer asked me to move in because I was sticking out a little bit. The commentary to that was, \"Yes, he's sticking out like a sore Jew.\" I had to push the guy, so he fell over because we were all on one . . . knee. In a way, we all just got back into position, and so I think . . . it was almost like banter that he was going to call me a sore Jew and I was going to push him over and he fell, okay, we're even, and we go on because the fact is we're on a team and we're there to win.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=903.0,940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e When did your parents join The Temple, after they got here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=940.0,946.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e My parents joined The Temple when it was time for my sister Aileen, whose three years older than me. She was born in Shanghai. She's a naturalized citizen of the United States. I was the first born, if you will, here in Atlanta. She's three years older than I, so I would have been like only two or three years old when my parents joined The Temple. I have strong, obviously strong feelings for The Temple. Now, when I was going to Sunday school and coming through the ranks, moving toward confirmation, that was my fellowship of Christian athletes because The Temple Youth Group met on Sunday nights too. It wasn't every Sunday night, but once a month I went to The Temple and The Temple Youth Group, and I remember it being a big part of my high school career. Then I was a member of TYG [Temple Youth Group]. It had a basketball team called the Tigers, the TYGERS. I know that I played with your brother Tommy on that team, we would have played together had we been a little more similar in age.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=946.0,1025.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know anything about your grandparents . . . Jewish religious background when they were in Germany? Were they Reform, Conservative or areligious or . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1025.0,1039.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I would say that's probably . . . a better question of my sister, who's more the family historian than I. The sense of Jewishness was strong. My grandmother was the only grandparent that I knew. She came over to the United States along with my mom and my dad, not at the same time. It took another month or two for her to come, but she came here to the United States. She was, I called her Oma and . . . all of our children call me Opa, because that's what children called their grandparents in German. But I think that joining The Temple and being a part of that was very important and very ingrained in me. When I started playing sports and games were on Saturday morning, and at that time, Sunday school was on Saturday mornings for the older kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1039.0,1115.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1115.0,1117.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It was important enough for my parents . . . for me to go to Sunday school that a . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1117.0,1122.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Miss games.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1122.0,1125.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I missed . . .  The compromise, I guess, was I missed two games every eighth, ninth and tenth grade when we played on Saturday mornings because I had to be in Sunday school. But I don't regret that, that was good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1125.0,1142.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you take your religion seriously when you were growing up at The Temple? A lot of kids didn't. But what about you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1142.0,1153.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I would describe myself probably in Sunday school as being a goody goody. I didn't mind going to Sunday school, and I met my closest adult friend now, I met at Sunday school because we were drawn to each other because we both played sports. But more so . . . my good friend Larry Lipman is his name went to Westminster and I went to North Fulton. We were kind of like, and all the other young people went to Northside, Dykes, some Grady. All those kids knew each other. We didn't really know them. We were kind of drawn to each other because we didn't know each other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1153.0,1202.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e When you were going to Sunday school at The Temple tell us what religious life was like there. I know they didn't have bar mitzvahs. I don't think they had them by the time you graduated from Sunday school, did they?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1202.0,1216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e No, The Temple did not have bar and bat mitzvahs until the early 1970's. My confirmation year was 1966.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1216.0,1226.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Were there any AA [Ahavath Achim] Jews at North Fulton that you encountered that they were getting bar mitzvahed and you weren't? How did that make you feel, if that's the case?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1226.0,1240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I did have a couple of friends that were at AA, and I went to their bar mitzvahs, and I went to the party. Sure, it was great that they got all this attention and gifts but didn't seem to really to bother me because I knew that at The Temple the big occasion was confirmation. Whereas I think my friends who were at Conservative congregations . . . their end line, their goal line was the bar/bat mitzvah. For me, the goal line was confirmation. I remembered invitations going out about the fact that I was being confirmed and things of this nature. At that age you are interested in gifts, but I got all the gifts that anybody could ever want at my confirmation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1240.0,1295.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever have any feelings of when you were going to Sunday school at The Temple of why there were no bar mitzvahs and no yamakas and no prayer shawls, and why was that the case? 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I was glad to know that he was my rabbi because he was so outspoken during the civil rights movement.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1313.0,1349.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e He was speaking out. You and lot of people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1349.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Absolutely, wasn't unique in that regard. When I was president of the National Honor Society at North Fulton High School one of your responsibilities was to get speakers. First on my list [was] Rabbi Rothchild, I wanted everybody at North Fulton High School to know who my rabbi was, who my spiritual leader was. I remember when I introduced him, I made a big deal about the fact that he was a chaplain in the Army in the war zone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1350.0,1379.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e In the Pacific.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1379.0,1381.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. I think that I was very proud of him, and he was very gracious. I had to go to his office to ask him to speak. He made me feel very comfortable and I heard later on that he could be perhaps standoffish at times. I didn't find that to be the case at all. He was about as warm and fuzzy a person as I could know. He certainly came through for me when he gave a great speech at the National Honor Society meeting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1381.0,1416.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e What other sports did you play at North Fulton? 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It's what I continue to do at the Jewish Community Center when I came back from college and played in all the recreational leagues there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1420.0,1462.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us if I sum of your grammar school and high school experience as being Jewish, it wasn't that big a deal, is that a fair statement.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1462.0,1475.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think it was that big a deal and if it did anything it enhanced my experience because it did set me apart. I did feel like I was representative of the Jewish community. 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If I came about it, what I thought was indirectly, it was probably direct. But my dad in particular was intensely patriotic about being here in the United States. They were also, they never hid their Judaism in our social interactions or anything like that. I'd say I grew up in a reaffirming positive way. I think that like many, the refugee and Holocaust surviving parents, everything was poured into my sister and me. They wanted to see Judaism go on through their children. We were the surviving family members.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1501.0,1557.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did they ever directly express that to you or was that sort of by osmosis that you came to feel . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1557.0,1563.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think was osmosis. I think that I knew I was the center of, I and my sister were the center of their lives. That's the way it was and that was to my benefit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1563.0,1582.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Good for your parents. When it came time to decide where are you going to college, what went through your mind as you were a junior or senior at North Fulton? Where am I going to go? What do I want to do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1582.0,1599.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e As far as like . . . going to college was always a table topic discussion during the high school years for both my sister and me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1599.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Your parents saying you're going to college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1607.0,1610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e You're going to college and you're going to go to the best college that you can get into. They didn't say that in a threatening or natural way. That was just that's what we're going to do here. My sister, very smart academically. She was the reader of the two of us, and she was the state star student of Georgia in her senior year with the highest SAT.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1610.0,1636.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did she go to North Fulton too?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1636.0,1638.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e She went to North Fulton too and became the state star student, had a 4.0 average . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1638.0,1648.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Kind of sister you hate to have when you got to keep up with her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1648.0,1653.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e High expectations whenever I came into a class, there were high expectations that I would do well academically, as well. I did okay in school, but I wasn't 4.0. I might have been 3.8.  But she being an outstanding academic student that she was she ended up going to Radcliffe at the time, Harvard and so . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1653.0,1681.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Yes, that is the kind of sister that is hard to live up to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1681.0,1688.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Going up east to school was the focus of where I wanted to be. We'd already done all the college trips with her. Then it was my time, we did the same kind of trip. I wanted to play sports and I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it necessarily at a Division One at the time, Ivy League school. But there were like other schools that would be of interest. My main interest ended up being Tufts University.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1688.0,1727.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Is your decision to go to Tufts partially because you knew you could play sports there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1727.0,1733.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1733.0,1734.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e It was in Boston [Massachusetts].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1734.0,1735.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It was Boston, it was in a town called Medford [Massachusetts]. That's the way I would pronounce it. They call it Medford up there. But it was Medford, Massachusetts, and it was a suburb. It's like Sandy Springs [Georgia] is to Atlanta, Medford is to Boston. Tufts University had a good reputation. One of my best teachers that I had in my high school career was a woman, Miss Williams, and she was my Latin teacher. She did summer programs at Tufts University, so she would talk about Tufts. That's how I first knew about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1735.0,1775.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e When you went to Tufts, did you have any clue about what you wanted to do with your life? What you wanted to study? What you wanted to major in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1775.0,1787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I did not have that focus when I was in college. I was there to get a good education. I was there to . . . experience a different part of the country. I got into it big time, the New England lifestyle. I worked a couple of summers on Cape Cod as a summer student working in a restaurant, in a bar and things of this nature. I spent three years totally up in the Boston area and Cape Cod, and I knew that I would end up in business somehow, and I was going to get into business through networking. When it came time for me to graduate from college, one of my summer baseball coaches was a gentleman named King Cleveland, and he was president of the National Bank of Georgia, and his volunteer time was spent coaching youth baseball teams. I met with King Cleveland for a moment to network and to find out what might be available at the bank. He marched me over to the, what they call the personnel department, the human resources department or the people department. The next thing I knew, I was signing on the dotted line to become a management trainee at the National Bank of Georgia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1787.0,1873.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Was Vietnam an issue when you went to college or was that over?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1873.0,1879.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Vietnam was an issue in that while I was in college, but at that time they were college deferments, so staying in college was important. There was the draft lottery in my years and my draft lottery number was 208. I think . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1879.0,1899.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Somebody was looking out for you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1899.0,1901.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes . . . it was a good number to have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1901.0,1903.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you participate in any protest during your college days over the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1903.0,1910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was a bystander. I . . . was patriotic. I knew how my dad was patriotic. He did express concern about me getting involved in that because he knew it was going on. I felt like I was a bystander. Plus, it was baseball season. I concentrated on baseball when everybody was out in the good weather protesting the war.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1910.0,1944.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You played third base for Tufts?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1944.0,1947.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was an outfielder at Tufts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1947.0,1948.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1948.0,1949.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was an outfielder, and I was on the team, and I was glad to be on the team. I never achieved the competence that I did in high school at the high school level because as you learn from playing athletes at some point in time you reach your level where there are other people that are better. I wasn't the worst person on the team, but I wasn't a starter. But I was on the team and glad to be part of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1949.0,1976.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Is it fair to say that when you graduated you were looking for a job that being the executive director or working for any religious institution was the furthest thing from your mind?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1976.0,1989.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I didn't think about working at The Temple at the time, that's for sure. Now . . . when I was two or three years into working at the bank, my grandmother passed away. Rabbi Sugarman, who was the young assistant rabbi, was the person who did that memorial funeral service for my grandmother. I can just say I liked him. I remembered the following fall when adult education classes started; he was doing a class on Moses Maimonides. Now, did I have a desire to learn about the life and teachings of Maimonides? Probably not. But I did know who the teacher was, and it allowed me to continue that relationship that we started just as being the rabbi during the memorial service and . . . pastoral counsel one does during a death.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=1989.0,2050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us all how this early relationship with Rabbi Sugarman came to be such a big factor in what happened to you in the rest of your life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2050.0,2063.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e That is the truth. I did probably another adult education class or two. When I got to about five years at the bank I . . . was beginning to feel that it was maybe time for me to be doing something else. I either needed to stick with banking, banking was a long haul. You just had to wait your time or I would do something else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2063.0,2087.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You were branch manager, weren't you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2087.0,2088.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was the branch manager after going through the management training program.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2088.0,2092.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e NBG [National Bank of Georgia].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2092.0,2093.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e NBG, National Bank of Georgia. Bert Lance, who was the president during the time that I was there. When I was . . . approaching that five year, I happened to be going to the Jewish Community Center on Peachtree, the gym to go play basketball. Rabbi Sugarman was exiting after getting his workout. We just chatted for a while and he said, \"How you doing? How are things going at the bank?\" I said, \"They're doing fine. But I might want a change. Maybe we could meet, and I could network with you.\" Now I would call him Alvin. \"Let's network and see if maybe there's some people in the business world that you could connect me with and so on and so forth.\" As it turned out and as I came to learn that it really wasn't a networking lunch, it was Rabbi Sugarman was kind of interviewing me for the opening that was at The Temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2093.0,2161.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e He obviously went back to the powers that be at The Temple and said, \"I got an idea.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2161.0,2166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2166.0,2167.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e They said, \"That's a good idea.\" Then he came back, sold you on it or encouraged you . . . to think about it at least.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2167.0,2179.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e He wanted me to think about it. I thought it was a great opportunity because at the time I was 27 years old. Normally, at least in that era of executive directors, executive directors were like 50 plus years old, who this being executive director was like a third or fourth stop on their career paths. For me to be considered at 27 years old to be executive director of an iconic Atlanta institution, my temple that I always had good feelings for, that seemed like a pretty nice opportunity. One thing led to another. I remember Harry Popkin was the incoming president, so he had a big part of the interview process. Jay Levine was the current president, so he's the person that sign my letter of engagement. I remembered Betty Ann Jacobson, no relation, who was the vice president who might have become the first woman president of The Temple and ended up being Jackie Montag. But she was going to be president of Federation, and she couldn't do both, and she was very instrumental in that hiring process. I will say that, when I took the job, I was very excited about it and thought it was a great step for my resume that I could do this now and achieve some competence over the next five years, running the business aspects of The Temple. Then I would be able to network again and perhaps get a bigger and better position.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2179.0,2288.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Into the business world which you had thought about. Is that a fair way to put it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2288.0,2293.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Fair way to put it. I knew that working at The Temple being an executor, you're in touch with so many people. That's what you're there to do. I think also the appeal to be an executive director was being of service to others.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2293.0,2315.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Certainly, at The Temple that's true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2315.0,2320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that making the members of The Temple happy, making them feel well served that's . . . in my DNA, and so I enjoyed that aspect. That was the part of the job that I loved throughout, obviously throughout all the years. I think that when I came over to The Temple at 27, I knew about the business aspect of being a banker.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2320.0,2349.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e What year was that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2349.0,2351.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e 1977.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2351.0,2352.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, keep going.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2352.0,2354.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. 1977 was the year. The business relationship, the financial aspects of The Temple, those things came naturally, and I had some training at the bank, that I could easily translate over. What I had to learn along the way was aspects of building and instead managing just a few employees at a branch. You had a couple of tellers and a couple of service representatives. Now there were all these other people that you'd have to manage and supervise. But I took to it and enjoyed that aspect of it. I think that what helped me, besides whatever I brought to the table, it's what others brought to the table. People were interested in seeing me succeed. I think that The Temple has always been a place that can be supportive of people. It's a place that will meet people halfway and that if you put out, The Temple is going to put out too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2354.0,2434.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You told me when we talk about this interview the other day that the quality and the competence of the . . . rabbis had a lot to do with how fulfilling your job was and the direction you took. But I also see that there were a lot of rabbis that were at The Temple that benefited from you and how you ran The Temple. I think a lot of people think you did run The Temple, so comment on that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2434.0,2474.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that over my time at The Temple, people from the outside will say, \"Boy, The Temple is really well-run and well managed. You can just tell.\" That was the biggest compliment that I could hear from the community because that was what I was there to do. I think that The Temple operates on a management style of the three legged stool of the rabbi, the executive director and the president of the board of trustees. At The Temple, we are lucky to have had the wonderful rabbis that we've had that were leaders in the community that could provide pastoral services. We have had fabulous presidents. Every one of them gave up of their time, their resources to be leaders of the congregation, to be representatives of the member. I wanted to be an equal partner to those two entities. I'm very blessed that I've worked with the kind of presidents that I've worked with and the kind of rabbis that I work with. I did my part to be the very best executive director they could have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2474.0,2554.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You certainly did. When you started, you thought this job might be a steppingstone to business or what you had considered something you wanted to do. At what point did that begin to change, and you think, \"Boy, I might want to do this the rest of my life.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2554.0,2579.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I think it really stuck in at about ten years because I had gone through some things. I had gone through the acquisition of the Selig Building the property next door to us, the old Royal Globe Insurance Company. Our staff grew, the membership was growing. At that particular point in time, I knew that The Temple was an important part to all those members, and it was important to the city of Atlanta. If I was going to be one of the leaders of an institution like that, that was going to be a worthy lifelong career. Some people said it was a calling. Maybe it was a calling.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2579.0,2635.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You certainly conducted yourself like it was a calling. You were clearly dedicated to The Temple. Let me fast forward. How many years were you the executive director before you retired?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2635.0,2650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was at The Temple for 46 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2650.0,2653.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e How many job offers did you get during those 46 years to move on to do either other executive director positions or other business opportunities that you turned down to stay at The Temple?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2653.0,2671.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I guess this is the first time it's going to be on any kind of record, but there were three or four times when major congregations from other communities had a transition at their place. I would get that call and I would also get calls sometimes from headhunters that wanted to find out if I knew of anyone that might be interested in XYZ congregation. I think that I just knew that I wasn't going to leave Atlanta. I knew that. I knew I wasn't going to leave The Temple. I would always make sure that the leadership of The Temple knew that I was being sought after by other congregations just to, not that I felt I needed any further validation, but that's a pretty strong validation when people are calling and inquiring about your services and things of this nature. But I also knew that I never had to parlay that, if you will, for the all the blessings that The Temple leadership bestowed upon me, and by extension to my family in regards to being taken care of. I never had to parlay anything necessarily negative to get that. It just happened because The Temple, like me, we always tried to do the right thing and don't be backed into a corner to do that. You just do it. That's pretty much the way it was for me at The Temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2671.0,2776.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you ever have the opportunity from people inside The Temple who saw your ability as a manager to go into business that you turned down?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2776.0,2785.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I didn't. I think that people knew that I must have exuded something that I was so invested in what we were doing at The Temple and that my desire to do the work at The Temple, I didn't give out any vibes, because I was all in to The Temple and all into doing a good job. There's a saying that Atlanta used, every day as game day. For me, every day was game day. You never knew what was going to be happening. The thing that I always wanted to do at The Temple was to create systems and have people that worked under my direction and worked alongside me that we'd have a structure in place that no matter what happened, we could handle it. Many good things happened to The Temple just out of the blue. Not necessarily because it was part of a strategic plan or anything like that. They just happened. If the Dalai Lama wanted to speak at a religious institution here in the city, they asked The Temple. We were ready to handle it because we have the building for it. We have the structure. We have the safety, the security that people needed. We could handle it. That's part of what drove me is to, the things that we can control. We do the very best we can. Striving towards excellence. But more importantly for me is that we have the people and the systems in place to handle whatever came our way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2785.0,2903.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e This is too open ended a question. I'm going to interrupt you at some point and try to get more specific, but if the question is, tell us what The Temple was like when you first became executive director and how it evolved, how your job evolved through when you retired several years ago. Start and we'll make it more specific. But I want to get, I think, your perspective of The Temple is probably as great as anyone's. You've been there as long as anybody and I think it would be interesting to hear . . . how you would describe that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2903.0,2950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e When I came to The Temple we were like maybe 1300 families, and we were a Classical Reformed congregation. We had people that grew up in the Reform movement and either in large congregations in the north where those Reform Jewish congregations were similar to what we had all in the South that were classic Reform. But Atlanta was always growing and people moved in and there were people that didn't grow up necessarily in the Reform movement, and so things were different for them. I think that people liked The Temple rabbis. They liked the congregation, but they didn't necessarily like the style of worship that we had because there was very little Hebrew in the service. We had non-Jewish singers singing the Jewish melodies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=2950.0,3012.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e An organ.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3012.0,3014.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e The organ and everything like that, and that was pretty much the way it was. But what we always . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3014.0,3020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Alvin was the rabbi for the hold [time] up until he retired.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3020.0,3025.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3025.0,3026.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e He was your only senior rabbi?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3026.0,3028.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e That's correct. But what Alvin did and what I did and what our presidents did is we listened to the members. At the end of the day, that's what it's about. It's wonderful to have that wonderful, beautiful building that we have on the National Register of Historic Places and the majestic sanctuary and its beauty and the symbols that it has. But it's all about the members. I think that was the change. I was just part of a continuum. The Temple was always evolving, and it always met the needs of its members. As more and more members want a little more observance in the style of Judaism, the board discussed it, Rabbi Sugarman discussed it. I was there to endorse what the congregants seemed to want. The Temple evolved and it became more traditional in its observance of Judaism. Today, when I left, we're mainstream Reform Judaism, which means Hebrew, it means observance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3028.0,3104.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Bar mitzvahs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3104.0,3105.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Bar and bat mitzvah. We're doing things like Tashlikh ceremonies and things of this nature. It was a transition when we went . . . my first couple of decades, we only had one day of Rosh HaShanah. But as the membership changed and said why don't we have a second day of Rosh HaShanah, it wasn't like we've always done only one day. It was like, yes, why don't we have the second day, and we started doing second day services.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3105.0,3134.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me interrupt you there for a second. Is it a fair statement that these changes that you've observed over the years were membership directed not coming from the top but the rabbi or rabbis saying we need to . . . have more Hebrew and more this or more that? You're saying it came from the members. Is that correct?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3134.0,3160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it came from an openness of leadership, meaning the president of the board of trustees and the clergy to meet the congregates where they were. I think that Alvin and Jeff [Salkin] and Don Berlin and Peter [Berg], they always seem to listen to the membership and know where they're going. I think it's give and take. I think naturally . . . if you go to rabbinical school and that's your calling, you're going to want more observant, you're going to want more . . . you're going to bring that to the table. But I don't think it was ever dosed out any more than the congregation could handle at a certain time. I think one of the benefits that I saw is that we always had a revolving assistant rabbis that would stay initially three to five years. It's a little different now, and it's good that it's different now. There more long term associates at The Temple. But I think there's a constant push and pull between clergy and the members that the key to it is meeting the needs of the members. If you go too far and your membership is not going to enjoy that, they're going to go someplace else, you don't want them to do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3160.0,3248.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Was part of Jeff Salkin's problems with The Temple, and I know there were others, that he wanted to go too far. He wanted to go further than the membership wanted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3248.0,3261.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . That was between the membership and Rabbi Salkin. I don't know, that was not my concern. My concern about The Temple throughout all the years is, are we balancing our budget? Are we delivering a good enough product to bring in a revenue that's going to meet our expenses? Is our building standing? Is it safe? Is it secure? That's the part that I watched over. The things that happened between the congregation and its rabbis or clergy that was something that I would have an awareness of, but it wasn't of concern to me because . . . I always felt that I was going to be judged about the financial aspects of The Temple, the organization, the administration, the people who work there. Those are the people that I wanted to be sure were okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3261.0,3323.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e When you started as executive director, did The Temple have any real competition in the Reformed Jewish world here in Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3323.0,3335.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . When my confirmation year was Rabbi Lehrman's first year as an assistant rabbi and as we know, in the late 1960's, early 1970's, Temple Sinai started and I think it was welcomed by the community because The Temple wasn't going to be able to handle all the Jews that need to be served. It was good that Temple Sinai formed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3335.0,3364.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You think the split off had nothing to do with wanting more ritual than The Temple offered.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3364.0,3373.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think now a little bit of this is folklore from what I learned over the years is that Temple Sinai from the get-go had bar and bat mitzvahs. People would go, could go to Temple Sinai because they could get a little more observance, a little more ritual. They could have bar and bat mitzvahs. But The Temple was moving in that direction anyway. In the early 1970's, The Temple started having a bar and bat mitzvahs too, once again responding to the needs of the members. I think that it's natural in a growing community like Atlanta is and Jews continually come in, it was inevitable that it wasn't going to be just The Temple, and AA, and Shearith Israel and Beth Jacob anymore. They were going to be other congregations there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3373.0,3430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e When we talked last night. I asked you . . . were you and the leadership of The Temple ever concerned about the competition that started popping up, particularly in the Reform world? Your comment to me was, bring it on. Tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3430.0,3458.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . You're helping me answer the question as you ask it. I always felt that it was good that there was a Temple Sinai and a Temple Emanu-El for our members that lived a little more east and then Dunwoody [Georgia] and that the better that they got, the better that we got. I always . . . felt in a humble sort of way that other congregations always wanted to be like The Temple. I used that sort of a motivation because they wanted to be better than The Temple because we were the best. If you're better than the best, then you're the best. I felt that The Temple is going to remain the best. The better they got because they wanted to be the best. Great. Wonderful, and the fact . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3458.0,3524.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Bring it on . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3524.0,3525.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . that we could maintain that position, bring it on. The competition for all of us, really, this's what I learned over my years, it isn't the other congregations, it's unaffiliation and it's disinterest in formal Jewish institutions. I think that you're only as strong as your weakest link. I . . . hated when I knew that congregations were struggling, and they were losing members and things. I hated that because the stronger all the Jewish institutions are, the better it is for all of us. Because when people left The Temple, sure, they might leave to go to another congregation just as people came to our congregation from other congregations. That's just the natural order of things. But what you have to work on is people that lose total interest in faith institutions and synagogues and things of this nature. I think from my standpoint, keeping people interested in the faith institutions and The Temple in particular, obviously that was the important part, so they wouldn't become unaffiliated and not support what we were trying to do. I would always use examples. You don't have to be in good physical condition, only by belonging to a health club . . . and that's what I would tell prospective members when they would question me. \"Why should I join?\" I say, “You can be a great Jew without being a member of The Temple, just like you can be a great fit and physical condition and not belong to a health club. But if you go to a health club and utilize all the resources, you think about what kind of physical condition you're going to be in. If you join The Temple, just think about the kind of Jew you can be by joining The Temple.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3525.0,3644.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e And participating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3644.0,3647.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that and participate. I think one of the beauties that I found out with The Temple is that and this is also I think is a selling point because we were large. We had, when I left, we were like 1700 families, 4000 people. It's a lot of people; in the church world we'd be mega. A mega temple, big place, doing a lot of work in the community and doing a lot of work in service to our members. I think I kind of lost my train of thought there. But I think that the fact that we are big, allowed people to be anonymous. When I would speak to people about joining The Temple, I would say, if your goal is to get involved in religious life or social action life, The Temple is for you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3647.0,3708.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I know how The Temple evolved from almost no, I wouldn't . . . That's not accurate, but so many more opportunities to participate over the years The Temple created, and I'm sure you had a lot to do with it. Can you comment on that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3708.0,3728.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e That's responding to the needs of the members. The members wanted that. The members wanted to be hands on in their Judaism. They wanted meaningful inputs on their religious school committee, the finance committee, the board and things of this nature. I think that going back to the previous point is that you could also be anonymous at The Temple, and you're not going to be judged. If you want to be a member of The Temple and just want to pay your dues and come to High Holiday services and not even come to Holiday services, you were a valued member of The Temple, every bit as valued as someone who spent every volunteer moment of their life doing something for The Temple. But the things that I'm proud of that I was central to was the establishment of The Temple night shelter for homeless couples, which is now the Zaban Paradies Center. We started Genesis Shelter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3728.0,3791.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's stick with the night [shelter]. Tell us about your role in helping get that started, the night shelter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3791.0,3797.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. The year that it was founded, I think it was 1984, Rabbi Sugarman was concerned about the plight of homeless. Homelessness was the social topic of the time, and Marvin Botnick was the president at the time. He felt that during his term he was going to do something. He didn't know what it was going to be when he took office, but that would manifest the teachings of our faith. One winter . . . ten people died on the streets of Atlanta because of the cold. Marvin, Alvin, and I said, \"What are we going to do about it? I think we've got our project for putting the teachings of our faith together.\" Within ten days, we opened up The Temple night shelter for homeless.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3797.0,3859.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Ten days?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3859.0,3860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Ten days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3860.0,3861.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the Selig building used for before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3861.0,3863.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . That's the key point here. It wasn't when The Temple night shelter started, it was housed in the second floor of The Temple main building.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3863.0,3875.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e That's right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3875.0,3881.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e This . . . is why I cherish my role, while Marvin and Bernie Howard and Patty Cohen and [Ken] . . . her husband, Dr. Cohen, the dentist, at the time, were out there. They were out front getting volunteers and getting things lined up from a procedural standpoint. I was getting the building ready, which meant that in ten days we had to get a plumber out there to install showers, to install the proper electrical components for a washer and a dryer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3881.0,3916.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e What were those spaces used for, Sunday school classes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3916.0,3919.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e They were Sunday school spaces that we converted. We took a classroom facility and made it a residential facility in ten days. It was [as] . . . John Lewis said, . . . \"Good trouble.\" It was a mess, but it was a good mess coordinating all that. You have all the internal things you, the religious school people want to know what's going to happen to their classrooms and things of this nature, and so I had to broker all that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3919.0,3958.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did it have to be done in ten days?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3958.0,3961.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Because the need was so great, and it was real cold in Atlanta . . . Then all the administration it takes to have a shelter because you've got volunteer signups, and you've got people that spend the night and you've got to have people that cook the meals and bring in the meals and do the laundry. Working with our maintenance team and a maintenance company, because every Saturday afternoon we had to break down the residential facility and make it a night shelter for Sunday . . . We had all those transitions and dealing with the homeless community, it's not all pretty, dainty work. There's a lot of cleanup you have to do that. You have to work with security because people steal things, because they have to because they need money. There's drug issues. There are relationship issues. Those are all the things that you don't put in your video about having a night shelter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=3961.0,4041.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4041.0,4042.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Like I said, it's a mess. It's a good mess. There'd be times when it was exhausting, and it was tough.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4042.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did the Temple ever have a PR [public relations] problem . . . when they said, \"We're going to put this night shelter sort of right in the middle of Midtown.\" Was there ever a PR problem that you encountered?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4050.0,4064.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e No, it was a PR opportunity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4064.0,4066.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4066.0,4067.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a PR opportunity because we were doing it because it was the right thing to do, and people were dying on the streets of Atlanta. That's why we did it. But the accolades that we got for doing it just bolstered The Temple's what I thought already high view in the world of the community. It was important for the Jewish community to do something. Shearith Israel and The Temple were the only ones that were doing something, churches up and down Peachtree long before us had . . . provided meals and shelters and things of this nature. It was time for us to get in the game.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4067.0,4104.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e What year was the night shelter open?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4104.0,4106.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e 1984.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4106.0,4107.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e I was president of Sherwood Forest Civic Association then, and this is why I asked the question. There were a whole lot of people in our neighborhood, me not included, because I spoke up in favor, who wanted action taken to not allow The Temple to put this night shelter there. You never had any issue with that, that you knew of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4107.0,4130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I think that our focus was on serving the needs of the homeless. I think over the years, we have great relations with Sherwood Forest and Ansley Park. We're all neighbors. I'd say that 80 to 90 percent of the time, their issues were our issues and some of the issues of the neighborhoods, they didn't affect us. There's some issues that we had, that didn't affect them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4130.0,4156.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You can imagine the concerns the neighbors have when you think you're putting a bunch of homeless people in their midst. I've represented Families First for years. When they put the Florence Crittenton Home at Trinity Presbyterian Church, you can't imagine what the uproar of the neighborhood was that all these unwed pregnant girls were going to be put in the middle of Buckhead.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4156.0,4181.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4181.0,4182.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e My argument, because I've met several times with . . . institutions around there, and I said, \"I don't know what you have to worry about because all these girls, they're already pregnant, so you don't have any\" . . . [tape stops and resumes]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4182.0,4194.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that we did things that . . . would have minimized any of that. We had strict entry. We wanted to do it, and we want to do it right . . . When a person came to the shelter, they could only be there between 6:30 and 7:00 waiting for it to open up at seven. In other words, if someone was hanging out at 5:30, which would have been a concern to the neighbors, it might have been a concern to us if we had midweek Hebrew kids seeing some homeless folks out front. We designed it, once again, we created the system that made it work so that it minimized anything negative that was going to happen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4194.0,4236.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e I knew the reason I asked you the broad question to begin with, because I knew we could talk this long about every program that The Temple instituted. To keep this a reasonable length, just tell us about the other programs but not as in depth that started under your directorship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4236.0,4258.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e We had besides the homeless elements of The Temple's overnight shelter and the Genesis Shelter; we had EXODUS Cities In Schools. That was a high school for kids that didn't fit the normal [nature] of a regular high school student. We created the top floor of the religious school building for a couple of years to have some pretty rough high school students up there to see if they couldn't make it in the high school . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4258.0,4293.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . [I have to] compliant you. I never even knew about that program.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4293.0,4298.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think we probably did publicize it to our members and things of this nature. But I think that it was short in the terms of two years. It wasn't a long time. But we built the Habitat for Humanity homes. We built a couple of those over the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4298.0,4319.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us about WELC [Weinberg Early Learning Center].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4319.0,4321.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e The Weinberg Early Learning Center is something that we should all be very proud of that we put together. The Temple up until 20 years ago didn't really need a preschool. Then it seemed like overnight we needed a preschool, once again because we were responding to the needs of the members. We had our younger families coming to us and say, \"Why do I have to go to a church for my kids preschool? Why can't The Temple do something?\" Within a year, we had an early learning center. We expanded the building to house it in our capital campaign. The campaign to raise the money was in 2000-2002. Then we built it from 2002 to 2004, 2004 is when it started, and here we are 20 years later. I think that . . . anything that would involve the members is something that I always took great pride in. When I got the call from someone wanting to start a synagogue softball league.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4321.0,4405.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Who might that have been?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4405.0,4406.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I called a gentleman named Henry Bauer and said, \"They're trying to start a simple softball team. What about it?\" Once again, that was a perfect staff person and a lay leader that got together. Within a few weeks, we had ourselves a Temple softball team. There we were represented in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4406.0,4428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e That evolved into what, two or three teams didn't it? I know, two.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4428.0,4432.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e We've always had two, after a few years we needed a second team. We've had two teams . . . and what it did and what delighted me in all that was the fact that . . . we had young people, middle aged people, and old people that played on these teams and we all were playing softball together. Then during the holidays, it would just delight me, my favorite spot during the holidays all around the front door and the security desk, I would see like a 60 year old member talking to a 30 year old member like their old buds, and the only reason that they were that way is because of The Temple softball team. It had a great impact on Temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4432.0,4480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e [Tape stops and resumes] . . . Up at your retirement party with The Temple softball jersey on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4480.0,4489.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e As a matter of fact . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4489.0,4490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . One of the older members of the team.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4490.0,4492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that the one of the gifts that I got at that retirement party was . . . an infield on a big green board with three bases on it, and all the players had signed it. I was able to hang that in our basement and enjoy looking at it. Fond memories of the connections in it. For me it always, I love playing for the sake of playing, but I also love being with the members. I wasn't always like executive director. I was just the third baseman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4492.0,4528.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You were the third baseman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4528.0,4531.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e But I always knew what they were talking about. I would know, I'd hear about problems with the carpool line. But when I heard the players on the team talking about it, that was enough of an issue where they were just sitting around talking about it, I knew really the depth of that issue. In an effort to serve the members, Rabbi Rau, who's super duper, educator of our young people, he and I would get together and discuss strategies how to solve that issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4531.0,4569.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Summarize some of the other Temple connect groups that . . . were created during your watch. There are a lot of them, but you can't discuss them all. But just give us some examples of some of those.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4569.0,4588.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that it was member driven. It was part of engagement. There . . . was a common theme that could bring people together that didn't necessarily have anything to do with Judaism. There was one group called \"What Are You Making for Dinner? Reservations.\"  People would make reservations and go to new restaurants and things of this nature.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4588.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Hikers . . . group wasn't there a hiking group.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4620.0,4627.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Hikers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4627.0,4628.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Bridge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4628.0,4629.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e There's a theater group that’s interested in going to theater together. There's people who like to go to museums or Atlanta events together. The biggest impact was in the area of canasta and mahjong. It started with one or two and it blossomed. If someone said that there were ten mahjong groups at The Temple, it wouldn't surprise me at all . . . It brings life to The Temple in that some of the mahjong groups and canasta groups are online. They meet in other people's homes, but some of them meet at The Temple. It brings people into The Temple facility and people interact and things of this nature.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4629.0,4676.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Would it be a fair statement to make that when you started nobody had ever heard of a rabbi being in charge of engagement at The Temple. That this is the kind of thing that evolved on your watch.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4676.0,4694.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that the staffing structure changed and . . . when I started, it was the clergy, and it was an executive director and a director of the religious school. Now we saw the needs and so we created. Director engagement had its roots in program directors. When I'm at that time working with Harry Popkin and Rabbi Sugarman . . . [an] assistant rabbi was coming up to the end of their three years and so we had the, I think we had the foresight to say you know what we don't really need another rabbi at this time. We need a program director that can engage our members and knowing, my thinking was that if we can engage the members and get people involved, members would be happier . . . new people would join because there was this vibrant life of The Temple and more members means more resources, more dues, and we can always bring in the rabbi later on down the road when our finances caught up. Sure enough, they did . . . Companies, anybody has to evolve throughout their lifetime to make things continue to grow and flourish. That's what I felt I needed to be part of that and did what I could to affect those changes . . . When it was no longer time for a program director and have a director of engagement. Yes, we're going to do that. Our senior rabbis are very, they have an ability to touch the lives of our members. Sometimes they touch the lives of our wealthier members that can really provide the resources to make things happen. There's only so much that can be done with the annual dues that people are good enough and kind enough and voluntarily pay. I think I'm so appreciative of that. I think that's the thing that drove me. Everybody that walked in The Temple was my boss because they paid the dues that made the whole budget go when I was part of the budget. That's what drove me to be of service and to be pleasing to the members so they would feel good about being there and also supporting The Temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4694.0,4867.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e We've talked about the evolution of The Temple since you started. Talk to us about what you observed [with] the evolution of religious education and services over the years, starting when you started.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4867.0,4891.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e We had Classical Reform services that started at 8:15 on Friday nights, and that worked for a while. Then people didn't want to have [to] rush from their dinner table to The Temple. They'd rather come to services earlier and then go off to dinner or go home or go out, if you will, for dinner. That was a change that when we heard that was coming that was something that we did. I think that . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4891.0,4931.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . When you say it was coming, it was coming from the members. [It's] what they wanted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4931.0,4935.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Coming from the members and what they wanted, but it worked for everybody. It worked for everybody. Because when you're staff at a temple, you went home or you didn't go home and you had to wait until 8:15 for services. At the end of your business day on Friday, it was only another hour until services started, and you got to go home earlier. There's a very practical aspect to faith and institutions, so that was very practical. Everybody was a winner there. Everybody got what they wanted when we changed that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4935.0,4970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us about the evolution of the type of service that was performed on Friday nights and Saturday.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4970.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think we had a lot of organ and a lot of English. What's just evolved, almost that you didn't notice it, it's like when you hadn't seen a child in a few years. How did you get so tall? In other words, like if you came to The Temple every five years, you'd say, \"Wow, there's so much Hebrew in a service. We're standing and we're bowing in different ways. When did all that happen?\" If you came on a consistent basis, you wouldn't have noticed it. But if you'd been out for a while, you would notice it. I think that . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=4980.0,5019.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e That was member driven then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5019.0,5021.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Member and clergy driven. Nothing at The Temple can happen just because it's so big and so diverse . . . it's not a dictatorship. It's nothing like that. Whether it's the president or the rabbi or the executive director. It's a democracy in its truest sense, and so things all have to come together. But from my standpoint is what the members wanted. At the end of the day, it's not really what the clergy wants, not really what the president wants, what the members want, because that's where it's at. But it went from when you look at worship now, we were always doing things to make it relevant for the time. Most recently, one of the things that I'm most proud of is the role that I played in getting us to be a streaming congregation. We had one camera and a streaming service, and we were streaming, but that wasn't, if we were going to evolve, we had to go in big time. In working with some of the lay leaders and the clergy, The Temple ended up investing over a million dollars in that effort. It happened to happen relatively; it was a relatively short time frame that we did this on. Once again, it was a mess, but a good mess. We had to take rooms that were really designed for something else and make them into TV studios. We had to choreograph services differently. The pulpit on The Temple. If you walked in now, you'd say, that's the pulpit that's been there since 1931. But it's not, it is twice the size of the original pulpit, and it has video screens in it. It has buttons that raise and lower because that's what the clergy and the need of it is now. I was able to find the resources in working with Stanley Daniels, who was the architect of record for most of the years that I was there. He found the woodworkers and then I would have to convey to the woodworkers what the rabbis needed. Then there were things that what the rabbis needed and what the woodworkers could actually do. Then you had to coordinate the electronic component into that woodworking, what was needed and trying to figure all that out and keep everybody happy so that at the end of the day, when I walk into the sanctuary now, I'm so proud to see that new pulpit. It's wide. It's got screens in it and nobody else would know. But I know and I take great pride in that no one knows.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5021.0,5210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Now they do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5210.0,5214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, they do. But I think that people tell you things along the way that helped guide you. I had . . . one of the members of The Temple who said, \"You can always tell how good your administration is when things are quiet.\" That sort of stuck with me because that's what I wanted to do in my time at The Temple. I wanted the administration, building security, delivery of services to the congregation to be as if they didn't even notice, because I knew that I'd be doing my job by keeping things quiet . . . My role is to, or any executive roles in my opinion is to create an environment where the members can come into the building, whether it's electronically or in person, and everything's going to be in place so they can really concentrate on why they're there. If they're there to worship, they got to drive up knowing it's going to be safe and secure, and the building is clean. The restrooms are ready to go. Their name tags are out . . . Their names are spelled correctly. Those little protocol type of touches, those are the things that I would concentrate on. That I work with my staff to do because I would tell people, \"When you walk into a place, what would you expect to see?\" Then that's what we're going to have our members see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5214.0,5314.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us . . . a little about the service that some of these changes caused you as the executive director, like . . . the people don't want bar mitzvahs. They do want bar mitzvahs. They don't want yamakas, they want yamakas. They like the organ. They don't like the organ. Tell us a little bit about those changes and how you participated in those and how they affected your job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5314.0,5345.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think something by example. There was a time when The Temple first started having, like in the . . . late 1970's when bar and bat mitzvahs are really taking place, we had strict rules about what you could serve at a kiddush luncheon. Even down to the size of the bagel and you had to order the gefilte fish and herring through The Temple and you could only bring in sweets and so on and so forth. We had people that wanted to do more. I had to enforce the rules and guidelines of The Temple board of trustees and what the clergy had desired at the time. I enforced them in as good way as I possibly could. I think that I wanted to be the best example of how you can say no to someone and not have them be mad at you or mad at the institution you represent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5345.0,5406.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You were very good at that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5406.0,5409.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I had a knack for that, and I had a lot of practice at it. But I also advocated . . . that when I felt like [it mattered] . . . I . . . advocated for loosening the guidelines. I was like, what does it really matter if they serve big bagels or small bagels and what if we did do the lox . . . all the other congregations are doing it. I would utilize my resources through the, I got very active in the National Association of Temple Administration. I was a board member. I was an officer, and so I developed a great network.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5409.0,5445.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You were also an honorary. Tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5445.0,5448.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was humbly . . . at my last convention, there's something called the Service to NATA [National Association of Temple Administration] Award, and it's now the Mark Jacobson Service to NATA Award. Very humbled by that. Every time I see the notice go out for them seeking nominees for the Service to NATA Award, see your name there. It's kind of like the professional athlete that the first time they see themselves on the top ten highlights, \"That's me.\" I look at my name and that's me. That's very humbling. It's one of those things that I never sought it out. But it taught me that if you do the work and you just give of yourself and give to the organization, give to The Temple . . . Doug Hertz and family endowed the chair. The executive director is called the Mark Jacobson Executive Director Chair . . . I never set out. \"Oh, I will be successful when I have the chair named for me or when an award is named for me.\" If you just do the work and don't care who gets the credit and mean it, eventually, you know what people do see it and people come through for you and it's humbling and it's something to be proud of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5448.0,5544.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You gave me an example the other day or last night of some of the problems that you had to deal with. About the mother of the bride and the mother of the groom at a wedding. Tell us that story without using any names. This is the kind of thing you had to deal with all the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5544.0,5565.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e All of our temple members who might be watching this know that The Temple has only two temperatures, too hot and too cold. The thing is that when you're the executive director, that's all you ever hear. Now, 80 to 90 percent of the time the temperature is perfect, but no one ever comes to you and say, \"Mark, the temperature is perfect. Thank you.\" It's that 10 or 20 percent of the time when because of the seasonal changes and things of this nature, it's too hot or too cold. But . . . we had a big wedding at The Temple. I felt because of the people involved; I needed to be there. I wasn't there for all weddings, but I was there at many weddings just making sure that things ran smoothly for our members. I had the mother of the groom that came up to me and said, \"Mark, it is way too cold in here . . . It's cold. You need to turn it down.\" The mother of the bride heard that. When the mother of the groom walked away, the woman came up to me says, \"Mark, don't you change a thing.\" To me that was the ah, moment of yes . . . one members feels one way in their body temperature and the other feels the other way. Then the next question might be, what did you do? I went with the mother of the bride because she was a member of The Temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5565.0,5651.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e You had an incredible way of smoothing those things over, which if you look at them, it's impossible to make everybody happy. But you somehow managed to do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5651.0,5666.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think maybe in my first NATA conference or the second conference, somebody said when I was seeking wisdom, I was asking a lot of questions in my formative years. They said, \"You know what, if you can please the majority of the people, a majority of the time, you're going to be okay.\" That was my . . . and I feel humbly that probably over the time I please the majority of the people, a majority of the time. I'm sure that there are people that I had to say no to enforcing the policy of the board or whatever that, I'm the messenger and so therefore they may not . . . They think I had something to do with it, but . . . I was very administratively minded. I was big on procedure and systems and things of this nature. If . . . something was left open to interpretation, I'll always do what the member wanted. If it was clear from my job to do otherwise, I had to do it otherwise.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5666.0,5737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's talk about some of the other big issues that confronted The Temple during your tenure. One was the exodus of Jews from Midtown and in-town to the suburbs and the . . . issue of where should The Temple be located. Tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5737.0,5763.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e In the mid to late 1980's, Midtown was declining. It was not what it is today. The Temple and AA, Congregation Ahavath Achim. We had meetings over a three or four month period about should we . . . partner our resources and get some land at that time in either Roswell [Georgia] or Alpharetta [Georgia] because that's where it seemed as though the Jewish community was moving, and it was moving there. Should we have an educational presence out there that we could do things together that . . . would serve our members that are out there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5763.0,5812.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Or even should The Temple move to the suburbs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5812.0,5817.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . When we had done our research there were examples, models in other cities where in-town congregations would go to the suburbs and build an educational facility. Then eventually they would move to the suburban location. I think that we certainly had discussions that were serious about setting up a satellite facility. But all the while, even though we were looking ahead, our membership was still pretty stable and . . . it's not like we were dying or leaving members of The Temple. Our membership stayed stable through this, but like The Temple, it's going to do it right. It's going to look ahead. That's what we're there to do. We also were privy to other studies that Midtown, where there was the Midtown Business Association at the time, felt that in ten years this is going to be different, that Midtown is going to be the cultural center and business center of the city. We bought into that. We felt that was . . . the correct analysis, and we ended up being right because Midtown is what it is today. We're here and we know that the Jewish Federation may or may not always be in Midtown, but The Temple, at least for this seeable future, is going to be sitting up there on Peachtree, up on that hill and be what it is to the Atlanta community. Being a proud Atlantan, I'm so proud of Atlanta. We're the birthplace of Martin Luther King. We have Georgia Tech, Emory, Georgia State University. We are the home of Coke, Home Depot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5817.0,5943.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Delta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5943.0,5945.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Delta. We have . . . Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta, all these iconic institutions. We're the hip hop capital of the world now and all these icons of Atlanta. That's what I feel The Temple is. We're an icon of Atlanta. We were bombed in 1958, and people were going to get rid of us. We're here and we're back better than ever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5945.0,5969.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Speaking of that bomb, leads me to the next question. I assume when you started as executive director, nobody ever thought about having to have police presence at services or really much of any security at all. Tell us how that evolved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5969.0,5989.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think when I started, we had a policeman on Sunday mornings to direct traffic for the Sunday school carpool and things of this nature. Over the years that changed completely. When it was just one little extra thing that I did when I first started, I'd spent a third of my time dealing with security at The Temple. We have now three and four policemen there during the day, many more . . . when we have people, open to the public. We had to . . . learned so much from organizations that were there to teach us whether it was the Anti-Defamation League or Federation. I took those things very seriously and became an expert on security, what it takes. That's one of those things that you do that's behind the scenes. Certain things you share with . . . the public about what we do for security. But 75 percent of it is behind the scenes and how you train your staff and make awareness and have our members participate in all of that. But good things happen on all that. I was able to develop close relationships with members of the Atlanta Police Department who I had engaged over the years. I have so much respect for the men and women in blue because . . . to our members it's just a friendly hello and isn't it great to see the policemen there and things of this nature, but they take their job seriously. When we met before every service and before the holidays in particular, we'd have meetings to discuss the safety, the safe movement of our people, what was going on in the world at the time and things of this nature. I would say that was just like worship changed, the whole idea of safety and security of our members changed 180 degrees from the time in which I got [there]. Like I say . . . when I look back upon it now, I'm a friend of Darin Schierbaum who's the chief of police of Atlanta. How many other people get to say that. That's pretty cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=5989.0,6160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e A Jewish police chief.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6160.0,6163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e He's not Jewish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6163.0,6164.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, he's not. Everybody thinks he is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6164.0,6166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e But he's got a Jewish soul. He does. He cares about us. When there was some antisemitism acts and anti-gay acts going on in Midtown that I wasn't even aware of. He would call me, and he came by. He said, \"Mark, how's it going? There's stuff going on in Midtown. Just want to make sure you guys are okay.\" Yes, I know we're okay because we developed that relationship with the Atlanta Police Department, which we took good care of them because it was the right thing to do. But it also came to be a benefit to us to have the good relationship that we had. I've been invited to the retirement parties of the police that had worked at The Temple. I would sometimes think that, \"Oh well, it's just an extra job for them.\" It wasn't at all because at their retirement dinners they would talk fondly and what a major impact of their police career was working at The Temple","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6166.0,6234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Mark, I think you had a lot, you being the executive director had a lot to do with that, which is a compliment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6234.0,6241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6241.0,6243.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us about the issue of The Temple's neighbors, or at least one, Peachtree Pointe and how that impacted The Temple. What issue was around the building of that building . . . because there were condos there before.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6243.0,6261.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6261.0,6262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6262.0,6264.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think those were times when originally apartments and then turned to condos and then the condos were on the lower end of things. They'd be . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6264.0,6280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . This is where our parking lot is now or no, next to . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6280.0,6283.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Beyond our parking lot . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6283.0,6284.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Yes, beyond our parking lot . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6284.0,6285.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . To the south of The Temple, the corner where Beverly Road and West Peachtree come together. That was a big apartment slash condominium complex. Then I think that when developers came in there, they were all about them and their project and we were just a potential problem. They wanted some of our property and things of this nature, and we had strong presidents at the time. Presidents that need to employ great volunteers like Henry Bauer to represent us at the city. There were zoning issues that came up and we fought them. We fought them effectively. When it was time to compromise, it was time to compromise. Having that building next door to us was not a, from my standpoint, not a bad thing because there are parking decks there. That's what I saw. I knew that when we needed the parking is when the office people left. We could never park there when it was residential because they were there when our members were there. I felt that if we could just find good ways to work with the owners of that property, that it would be eventually good for The Temple. I think that when that property became available for sale, there was some talk that The Temple should acquire it. But we had just raised, at the time was the huge amount of money, three million dollars. There was nothing really left in our capacity to raise the money to buy the property. But that I think that wasn't a bad thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6285.0,6392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did we have to make any concessions to the developer to get the right to use their parking? I believe they offered their parking lot for free during, at least, High Holy Days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6392.0,6406.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that's an evolving relationship. There were times when the building was vacant when they were happy to have Temple members park there at no cost as the building started filling up and they needed the spaces, they compromised by saying, \"Yes, you can use it, but we're going to have to charge you\" . . . and our relationship when I left and the way it is now is that it kind of just depends on the mood of the property manager, if they're going to be an extremely good neighbor by allowing our members park there at no cost. But then again, there are times when . . . the best they could do was give us a discount on the parking. It didn't seem to bother our members that much. Naturally, I always fought for them to say, could you be a really good neighbor and allow our members to park there? We love having you there. I would remind them the things that we could do for them when there were issues on the side of the building and they needed to park their service vehicles in our lot, I would say, \"Sure, do that. Just remember that during the holidays when we need your parking.\" These were like the behind the scenes business deals you had to make as an executive director.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6406.0,6490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Part of your job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6490.0,6492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It's part of what you had to do to negotiate with people. We would get our parking lot restriped for nothing because they had some parking lot issues and they needed to stage some of the stuff on The Temple lot.  I said . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6492.0,6514.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . We need our parking lot restriped . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6514.0,6516.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . \"Our parking lot needs to striped too.\" They said, \"Okay, we'll stripe it, if we can use it the week of April the 10th. We'll use the parking lot and when we're done, you'll get your parking lot striped.\" It worked out great for everybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6516.0,6532.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e I know of at least two other sort of quasi, interesting, stressful issues that landed on your plate. One was the issue of Crest Lawn Cemetery. Can you tell us a little bit about that one?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6532.0,6551.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e The Temple has essentially three or four cemeteries where Temple members are buried. Going way back Oakland Cemetery and some in Westview. But Crest Lawn, in more present day history it's either Crest Lawn or the Sandy Springs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6551.0,6575.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Arlington.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6575.0,6576.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Arlington Memorial Park out there. The Crest Lawn, The Temple doesn't own the property at Crest Lawn, it just has an agreement that Cedar Hill Section A and B are going to be for The Temple. The cemetery is, it's a cemetery, but it's also a business and there would be years where they didn't maintain the property of The Temple members properly and we had to prevail on them. I had to go there with the cemetery committee chair and say, \"Come on.\" They'd say, \"You have no rights here to tell us that we need to maintain it better. We own it. We sold the property to the members and we're here to serve you.\" We said, \"That may be true, but there is this Arlington Memorial Park that's out there and Sandy Springs that people are asking, where should they get their lot? We can tell them either Crest Lawn or Arlington or one or the other.\" You have these behind the scenes business like discussions with people . . . Everybody ended up doing the right thing. Crest Lawn got better over the years, and now our members are there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6576.0,6653.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Now The Temple is on the National Register of Historic Places. Did that happen during your tenure?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6653.0,6662.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It did . . . Thank you for asking that question because that's one of my favorite stories. In 1981, we were 50 years old, and that would allow us to be on the National Register of Historic Places. Everybody at The Temple wanted to be on the National Register. But the forms and the paperwork were like, no one was going to do it. I didn't have the time. None of the ladies were going to take that on and things of this nature. A Georgia Tech student came over and said, \"I'm writing my thesis for my architecture doctorate, and I need a project. One of the projects I'd like to offer to you is to fill out your National Register application\" . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6662.0,6715.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Was this student Jewish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6715.0,6716.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It was not a Jewish student. At the time, I can't even say, probably his name is written on the application. But basically, he just gave it to me, and I signed it. But what he did was he took out this 80 page document and created and got all of our drawings and things of this nature.  I'd help a little bit with the narrative here and there. But basically, he did the whole thing, sent it in. What ended up happening is like a year or two later, we got the designation thanks to this Ph.D. candidate. We got the designation. He got the A, so everybody's happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6716.0,6764.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Then there was the issue of being on the city's historic designation site. Can you tell us a little bit about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6764.0,6772.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e The Atlanta Urban Design Commission does have a list also of places. The National Register was more of a ceremonial thing and an honoraral kind of thing. The Urban Design Commission listing was a little different for us because then they had control over what you were going to do with your building. We at first, we resisted it. We didn't want to be on that list because it was going to cause some restrictions and maybe increase our expense to do some of the restoration work that needed to be done. But at the end of the day, if there's a list of historic institutions in Atlanta that are noteworthy, how could we say no. We got on the list of the Urban Design Commission, as it turned out. It wasn't that big a deal. We wanted to replace our windows with some aluminum windows at one time. The Urban Design Commission said, \"No, that you need to be original equipment, need to be wood.\" We did wood windows instead. As long as you maintain them and paint them, they last a long time, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6772.0,6846.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e What fell on your plate [tape pauses and resumes] [when] Alvin decided to retire?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6846.0,6856.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Once again that was a decision for our lay leaders to deal with.  I . . . loved working with Alvin. He is the quintessential senior rabbi that any executive director wants to work with. He would support the work and . . . he wanted you to take care of everything. I wanted to take care of everything when it comes to the business of The Temple or whatever. We had a great relationship. I think if there is anything, I had the same fears of the congregation had, fear of the unknown. Who's going to be that next person? No one will ever replace Alvin and things of this nature. No one ever will replace Alvin. But you have to think that . . . when you have change it can be a bad change, or it can be a good change. We just went from best to best in that transition. Once again it was up to all the lay leaders at the time to . . . No matter what happened, sure, I wondered what would it be like working for a new rabbi. Is that person going to support me as much as Alvin did, so on and so forth. But I didn't have time to think about that . . . There's so much on your plate as the executive director running the day to day. In the long and near term of The Temple is that, I just said to myself, you know what, I want to continue to focus on the money, the members, the building, the security, and if I do that, anybody that comes in there is going to appreciate that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6856.0,6961.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . [It] was the lay leaders job . . . to replace Alvin, which they successfully did. But who was going to replace you? Alvin didn't run The Temple; you ran The Temple. In a lot of ways, I assume it was a hell of a lot harder to replace you then than it was for replacing Alvin. When did you start planning for your own retirement and telling The Temple, \"You better get to work?\" Because I used to tell the various presidents, \"You better start planning for Mark to retire one day.\" Tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=6961.0,7001.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I think very fortunate that I think we all started thinking about it about the same time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7001.0,7009.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Which is when? How soon before you retired?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7009.0,7011.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I was 73 at the time. Right around the time when I was 70, 71 and I was at full retirement age at 70 and half. Things start happening in your world. Of course, I become eligible for Medicare back when I was 65, but things start happening in the world that kind of have you reflect. I think that a great source of strength at The Temple is the past presidents. I think that whether it was you or somebody else saying, \"We got to start planning about Mark. He may not want to do this forever and ever.\" I was sort of saying, \"Maybe I wouldn't be doing it forever and ever.\"  We just started talking about it. I think that, once again, it was my goal and The Temple's goal to do it the right way, to do the right thing and to have a long runway. My goal for the last, when I announced it was probably 18 months, 12 months to 18 months that I announced the word, and it became public or whatever before I was going to truly leave [at] 73. The whole idea was to maintain The Temple to continue on with having the people there, the systems, the procedures all in place so that a good person would come in and they could hit the ground running and they could take it higher and further. Doug Cotler, a Jewish musician, had this song that I always loved it. It's like we all stand upon the shoulders of those who came before us . . . That song kept resonating with me . . . I stood on somebody else's shoulder to take The Temple to the highest level that I could. Now it's up to Jeremy Perlin, who's a wonderful successor to me. It's his job to now take it from where I had on a high to an even higher thing. That was my job. My job was to get it higher when I was there. It's his job to do it. I [was] going to give him a platform that he could do it. He . . . comes from a larger congregation, not quite as big as ours, but a large congregation nonetheless in Chicago [Illinois]. He had been at Hebrew Union College, so he's a Jewish professional. He came in and we have a great relationship. I look at the relationship that Peter and Alvin have. It isn't always that way. Once again, The Temple does it right. We don't have contentious relationships between the emeritus and the sitting chair of something. Alvin and Pete have a great relationship. Mark and Jeremy have a great relationship because The Temple, it's all about longevity . . . We have things at The Temple that other congregations just can't have. They can have everything, but they don't have our history, and they don't have the quality of our members, and they don't have the quality of our clergy. The whole idea is to keep that going so The Temple will be here. I think the one unsaid thing in all of this is my family and in particular my wife, Susan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7011.0,7241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e I have to say, I've been sitting here thinking we ought to interview Susan because it's obvious she had to make a lot of sacrifices for you to do your job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7241.0,7254.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, the answer to that question is yes. Also, to do my job the way I wanted to do it, in other words, I'm all in. If it meant stopping by The Temple on a Saturday night for a wedding to make sure everything was going okay before we had our Saturday night out with friends or family, that's a sacrifice, that's not for everybody. During Covid . . . one of the great parts in the early Covid was the month and a half I was at home with Susan. It was great. I never had that before.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7254.0,7302.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Some marriages that’s not such a great thing, but good for you that it was good for you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7302.0,7307.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it is. But then there was like ten more months of Covid left and I'd go off to The Temple and have the social interaction with all the guidelines and the mask and the mess that Covid-19 was, but good mess because we got through it. But Susan was at home alone and she has her own thing, of course. But I think that one of the great aspects of retirement for me is that I can just hang out with Susan whenever I want to without looking at The Temple calendar and things related to it. Not that I hated that. That was just the job and the job the way I wanted to do it. I did look at the calendar before we committed to anything, travel, out to dinner the next night or whatever. The Temple, yes. Susan was first, but The Temple was like maybe one and a half because I was so committed. Susan loves me enough to have understood that. I think part of my success in being able to be all in at The Temple and know I had the support at home, that's what helped make me the executive director that I am or that I was, and emeritus that I am now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7307.0,7392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e I think you still are Mark. You left The Temple in such a great place that Jeremy was able to step in and keep up your good work. That's a credit to you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7392.0,7404.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7404.0,7407.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Mark, following up on what we just talked about how well you prepared The Temple. Tell us [about] the help you had from others to do what you were able to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7407.0,7425.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . One of the things I pride myself in is the fact that I had a very stable staff over the years. It's always difficult in these kind of things and whoever's watching when you start naming names of people because there are people that are no longer at The Temple that did a lot of good work for The Temple [that] I worked with very effectively that are no longer there. All the assistant rabbis and associate rabbis and the relationships that I dealt with them and how I'm always honored when they go and have their own congregation, they have their executive director call me to find out about being an executive director because they enjoyed the relationship that we had. We had program directors from Debbie Antonoff to Ronnie Van Gelder. People that I work very effectively that did the programing that could involve the members of The Temple. But the people that are really special, the administrative people, the middle management and administrative people of The Temple . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7425.0,7496.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e It's a credit to you that they all stayed for so long.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7496.0,7502.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7502.0,7504.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e They enjoyed working with you, for you, for The Temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7504.0,7509.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Vice versa and vice versa. They wouldn't have stayed as long as they did or still do if they didn't enjoy working with me. But I enjoyed working with them, too. Melinda Brackin is the accounting person at The Temple, and she probably only thought she was going to be there for a year or two. But she's been there a long time and so effective. Tena Drew, who is my key administrative executive assistant and membership manager, these people probably had opportunities to go someplace else to along the way. On occasion there'd be an adjustment that needed to be made to keep someone with you. I'd go to bat for people and people would go to bat for me. All the other staff there, Dianne Ratowsky, who Alvin and I engaged and hoping that this new secretarial person would work out. She ended up being an icon of The Temple, who knows . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7509.0,7580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Just like you . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7580.0,7583.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I know a lot of stuff, she knows even more when it comes to family relationships and dynamics, because that's the role of the clergy and the pastoral thing and being the person in the middle there she knows a lot of stuff. The thing is that I don't know it and that's a good thing. She had that confidentiality.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7583.0,7601.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e She's really good at that. How many of your years as executive director were . . . [tape stops and resumes]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7601.0,7607.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e The person that . . . I'm proud of everyone, but I'm most proud of the relationship I developed with Lonnie Fitzgerald in my years there. Lonnie was a high school student when I first met him, and he was working part-time because his uncle worked at The Temple full-time . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7607.0,7633.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . In what capacity?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7633.0,7635.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e As a maintenance person. There was just something about that young man that struck me as being different. That he cared about what he was doing because on a maintenance thing just the way in which you clean a table tells a lot about what a maintenance person can do, and Lonnie just had it. When Lonnie graduated . . . from high school, we had an opening. He was not going to go the college route. I just talked to him about filling that position and he did. Lonnie grew in the position and he understood about the systems that we were trying to do. Over the years, the equipment of The Temple became much more sophisticated. We went from everything being manual and analog to digital and computer interface and things of this nature. Lonnie just grew and he accepted all that. But the thing that was so important is that he would be there, have a full day where he'd get there at 7:00 and then it'd be a wedding on a Saturday night. Sometimes he didn't even go home because he stayed there overnight and made sure the religious school, he and his team would have the Sunday school ready for the next thing. Pete Clark was another long term person. He unfortunately passed away in a workplace accident that was a very difficult time for The Temple and for all of us. There's a gentleman there now, Antonio, who's also excellent that fits that mold of being very service oriented. You would always hope that people will emulate you as the leader. In other words, that they saw how much I cared about the members and wanted things right for them, and they bought into that. That means that Lonnie and I dealt with all the realities of everything . . .The mantra was, get them in, make them happy, get them out, onto the next one. That was kind of like our mantra throughout our years together is that nothing ever stopped, and that's why I . . .  love to go to sporting events and theater and whatever, whatnot, but sporting events in particular where I like to get there early because I like to see everything getting ready. While the star attraction is like the game, for me . . . I'm certainly there for the game, but I also marvel at what it takes to put it all on. Susan will stay with me when . . . the game is over, I love to sit in the stands and see how everybody is out there on the field and they're breaking it down and they're getting ready for the next one because that's what it takes. It's just so many components to putting forth something good for our members that you don't see. Just like it is when you go to the ball game. I take pride in that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7635.0,7844.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e These are going to be the last questions. We're about to run out of tape. How much of your tenure was under Alvin and how much was under Peter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7844.0,7856.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Alvin was there from 1977 to 2003. Then . . . I had four years of working with Rabbi Salkin. Then Peter . . . had to work out his contract for a year before he was available to us, if you will. I had the opportunity to work with the Rabbi Don Berlin. It was a really special, great year for The Temple when he was there. He was able to effect some changes that set up a good platform for Peter to take over. Peter, he's a superstar. While I was very loyal to The Temple and the Atlanta community and the role we played there. I had a national view, too. I was proud to be part of The Temple where Rabbi Sugarman is, where Rabbi Berg is, because these guys are superstars in the movement. I had the opportunity to work with them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7856.0,7925.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us . . . they have different personalities, both wonderful, warm human beings. Tell us the difference, what it was like working under Alvin and what it was like working under Peter, if any.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7925.0,7942.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think there's any difference because once again, what they were able to accomplish religiously, all I cared is were they meeting the needs of the members. Both of them did that. My role was different than their role. Where we interfaced, it was all positive. If there needed to be a big ask for some money that we needed, I could rely on them to partner with me to make the ask and to do what needed to be done to help The Temple. If there's anything that they needed to smooth something over with, things would come up in time to time with different staff members and things of this nature that they needed help on, I wanted to help them work through things. I think that we were all brothers. I think that . . . working with both Alvin and Peter and Don and Rabbi Salkin to there's a mutual respect because they were the best. If people say that I was one of the best in regard to executive directors . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=7942.0,8036.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . You were not one of the best. They even recognize you were the best, not one of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8036.0,8046.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . The thing is, I always say it takes the best to know the best. If Peter and Alvin were kind enough to say that I was good for them and I was the best for them, they were the best for me because the best know each other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8046.0,8061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you very much, Mark. This has been a real treat for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8061.0,8066.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e It's been a treat for me to Henry.  You are a great member of The Temple, a great member of the Atlanta community. You're a gift.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8066.0,8080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e I didn't pay him to say this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8080.0,8082.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e No, you didn't. I don't say things that I don't mean . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8082.0,8094.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e I've only done this one time of all the people I've . . . interviewed. I'm going to do it for. You just sit right there. When Nat Gozansky interviewed me. I came up [Interviewer kiss the Interviewee on the head, everyone laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8094.0,8103.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you, Henry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8103.0,8110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Both of you have bald heads too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8110.0,8111.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8111.0,8115.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBAUER:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8115.0,8116.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/transcript/77364/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJACOBSON:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=8116.0,8117.1"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/annotation_set/1854","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/annotation_set/1854/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHenry R. Bauer, Jr. (b. 1942) is an Atlanta lawyer and descendant of one of the founding members of The Temple. Henry later went to Vanderbilt University and obtained a J.D. from Emory University School of Law. He worked as a law clerk and a trial lawyer for an insurance defense firm. Henry opened his own law practice where he served a variety of clientele, including The Temple.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=0.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/annotation_set/1854/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Temple, or “Hebrew Benevolent Congregation,” is Atlanta’s oldest Jewish congregation. The cornerstone was laid on the Temple on Garnett Street in 1875. The dedication was held in 1877 and the Temple was located there until 1902. The Temple’s next location on Pryor Street was dedicated in 1902. The Temple’s current location in Midtown on Peachtree Street was dedicated in 1931. The main sanctuary is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Reform congregation now totals approximately 1500 families. As of 2022, its Senior Rabbi is Peter S. Berg.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=0.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/annotation_set/1854/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAtlanta, Georgia is the capital and largest city in the state of Georgia. During the American Civil War it was a strategically important city for the Confederacy until it was captured in 1864. The city was almost entirely burnt to the ground during General William Sherman’s March to the Sea. After the war, the city rebounded and became a national industrial center.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=27.0,43.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/annotation_set/1854/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), commonly known as the “Nazi Party,” was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945. The party’s leader was Adolf Hitler. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric. In the 1930s the party's focus shifted to antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes. Racism was also central to Nazism. The Nazis aimed to unite all Germans as national comrades, whilst excluding those deemed either to be community aliens or of a foreign race. The Nazis sought to improve the stock of the Germanic people through racial purity and eugenics, broad social welfare programs, and a disregard for the value of individual life, which could be sacrificed for the good of the Nazi state and the “Aryan master race.” Following a series of electoral victories, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Within two years, Hitler and the Nazis had created a dictatorship. The persecution reached its climax when the party-controlled German state organized the systematic murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 people from the other targeted groups.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=27.0,43.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/annotation_set/1854/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIlse Ludomer Jacobson (1921-1987) was born in Konigs Wusterhausen, Germany. She and her family fled Nazi Germany and ended up in Shanghai, China. She met and married her husband, Eric in Shanghai. They immigrated to the United States in 1947 with their daughter, Aileen. They had another child, Mark, after settling in Atlanta, Georgia. She and Eric were members of The Temple. She was also involved in The Temple’s Sisterhood and a member of the National Council of Jewish Women.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725#t=27.0,43.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/144841/file/267725/annotation_set/1854/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEric Jacobson (1910-1994) was born Erich Jacobsohn in Stavehagen, Germany. He was the son of Hans and Kate Jacobsohn. He fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and moved to Shanghai, China. In 1947, he immigrated to the United States with his wife, Ilse and daughter Aileen. Eric and Ilse had another child, Mark after they settled in Atlanta. He worked for Atlanta Paper Company. 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Following German reunification in 1990, Berlin once again became the capital of all of Germany. Today, Berlin is a hub for tourism and industries including the healthcare industry, biomedical engineering, biotechnology, the automotive industry, and electronics. Berlin is home to several universities such as the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Technical University of Berlin, and the Free University of Berlin. 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As World War II intensified, the Nazis pressured their Japanese allies to participate in the Final Solution and hand over the Jewish refugees in Shanghai in what was known as the ‘Meisinger Plan.’ The Japanese refused and instead established a ghetto in Shanghai, where between 20,000 and 25,000 Jews were confined for the duration of the war. Because Japan was allied with the Nazis and Japanese policy could be unpredictable, the Jews in Shanghai were nevertheless left in a difficult position throughout World War II. The Shanghai Ghetto was an area in one of the poorest and most overcrowded sections of Shanghai, China, in which more than 20,000 refugee European Jews were required to live by the Japanese during World War II. Unlike European ghettos constructed by the Nazis, the ghetto was not fenced in and Chinese residents were not required to leave. Jewish educational, religious, and cultural institutions were also allowed to continue and some Jews were able to get passes allowing them leave the ghetto. Conditions in the ghetto were difficult due to overcrowding. Residents were chronically short of necessities like food, clothing, and medicine. The majority of Jewish refugees in the Shanghai Ghetto did survive World War II, but overcrowding and limited supplies made severe hunger and illness widespread. The United States air raids on Shanghai began in 1944. There were no bomb shelters in Hongkew as the water table was close to the surface. Shortly before the end of the war, a United States air raid on industrial Hongkew killed 40 Jewish refugees, including seven Polish Jews, and hundreds of Chinese. 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