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He is the oldest of five children born to Rabbi Dr. Emanuel and Rebbetzin Estelle Feldman. Ilan was raised in Atlanta and attended The Hebrew Academy. He spent a year in Bnei Brak, Israel, as a child when his father went on sabbatical there. While attending school in Israel, the Six-Day War broke out and Ilan followed the conflict closely. He moved to Baltimore as a young teenager to live with his grandparents and attend the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan attended the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and remembers Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger’s visit to Israel in 1974. He credits Kissinger’s visit and the media flurry around it as being highly influential in Ilan’s decision to go into the rabbinate. He attended Loyola University and graduated with a degree in Counseling Psychology. He was ordained at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, studying under the \u003cem\u003erosh yeshiva\u003c/em\u003e Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile studying at Ner Israel he was introduced to his wife, Miriam Weinberg, by her brother. Miriam is the daughter of Rabbi Weinberg and an active teacher and leader in the Atlanta Jewish community. The couple married in 1976 and together they have eight children, living across the United States and in Israel. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1980, Ilan joined his father as assistant rabbi of Congregation Beth Jacob in Atlanta. He assisted in the development of the Torah Day School and went on to serve as its Rabbinic Advisor. In 1987, Ilan had the idea to found a \u003cem\u003ekollel\u003c/em\u003e in Atlanta. He pursued the funding and fellow rabbis to successfully open the Atlanta Scholars Kollel. The Kollel is very successful today, its impact extending beyond the Atlanta community. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Ilan’s father retired in 1991, Ilan was elected senior rabbi by Congregation Beth Jacob’s board of directors. Rabbi Ilan has served the Atlanta community, especially the Orthodox community through numerous endeavors and educational efforts. He continues to serve as the senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Jacob and he serves as the Dean of the Atlanta Kashruth Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on Rabbi Ilan’s childhood, rabbinical career, and the formation of the Atlanta Scholars Kollel. He provides background on his early childhood and what it was like growing up as a rabbi’s son. He recalls an early memory of walking to synagogue with his father in the rain and being offered rides by passersby. He describes this as an early experience of what it was like to grow up Orthodox in a non-observant community. Ilan mentions other students he went to school with and recalls memories of teachers. He shares that he did well in his Hebrew classes in school, being the son of a rabbi. He recalls memories from school assemblies, and attending school during the Cuban Missile Crisis. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe provides background on his parents’ childhood, and shares about his grandparents. He discusses living with his paternal grandparents while attending high school in Baltimore. He reminisces on spending time with his maternal grandfather, who was a kosher butcher. Ilan talks about his siblings and being close in age to his brothers Jonathan and Amram. He shares where his siblings are living now, including his two sisters who moved to Israel. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe discusses how he decided to become a rabbi, detailing an experience he had while studying in Israel when Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was visiting. Ilan shares that during Kissinger’s visit, he came to see how obsessed the world was with Jewish people and this inspired him to advocate for American Jews. He then details his experience living in Israel for a year while his father was on sabbatical. He talks about learning Hebrew and teaching himself to read the \u003cem\u003eTalmud\u003c/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e for his \u003cem\u003ebar mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e. He shares that he got to read the portion of the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e from his \u003cem\u003ebar mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e while visiting Vilnius, Lithuania. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan describes living in Israel during the Six-Day War, following the conflict closely over the radio, getting to cross into the captured territories by car, and seeing the remnants of war. He recalls people praying all day in anticipation of war and realizing the contrast between this and Atlanta. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe talks about his schooling, moving to Baltimore to attend the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore and Loyola University where he graduated with a degree in Counseling Psychology. He recalls the areas and neighborhoods where he lived in Atlanta and he remembers when the building for Congregation Beth Jacob was built. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan shares how many generations of rabbis are in his family on his father’s side, and shares memories of his grandfather. He talks about his grandparents losing a total of 15 siblings in World War II and his grandfather deserting the Polish army. He mentions that his grandfather changed his last name and refused to share his birth name out of fear. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe shares how he became involved with Congregation Beth Jacob as a rabbi, serving with his father as senior interim rabbi while his father went on sabbatical. He shares his feelings regarding his performance during that time. Ilan details how he transitioned from interim rabbi to senior rabbi after his father retired, being voted in by the board. He shares how the congregation has changed and been shaped by his leadership, becoming more observant. He discusses the relationship between the Atlanta community and Orthodox Judaism and shares his opinion that the Orthodox community has not been successful in serving non-Orthodox Jews. Ilan talks about October 7, and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. He details how he feels the event has created more receptivity for message and meaning through Judaism. He discusses the negative impact of the internet on being observant. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe shares how he helped create the Atlanta Scholars Kollel, detailing how he applied for a grant that would allow the community funds to create a \u003cem\u003ekollel\u003c/em\u003e with other rabbis. He shares the conversation he had with his father about the Kollel and the need to fundraise to support this endeavor. Ilan talks about asking Rabbi Menachem Deutsch to join the project. He reflects on the success of the Kollel and its impact on the community. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan recounts how he was introduced to his wife, Miriam, by her brother. He recalls how he interacted with his mentor and future father-in-law, Rabbi Weinberg, following their engagement. He shares about Miriam and her dedication to the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTalmud\u003c/em\u003e. He mentions some of her work in the community, including starting Temima High School. He talks about their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He shares information about each of his eight children, their spouses, professions, and where they are living.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan is asked about what he likes to do in his free time and he talks about exercising and following politics and political commentary. He goes on to discuss and express his awe at Jewish people’s capacity for sacrifice and their ability to accomplish things. 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He is the oldest of five children born to Rabbi Dr. Emanuel and Rebbetzin Estelle Feldman. Ilan was raised in Atlanta and attended The Hebrew Academy. He spent a year in Bnei Brak, Israel, as a child when his father went on sabbatical there. While attending school in Israel, the Six-Day War broke out and Ilan followed the conflict closely. He moved to Baltimore as a young teenager to live with his grandparents and attend the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan attended the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and remembers Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger\u0026rsquo;s visit to Israel in 1974. He credits Kissinger\u0026rsquo;s visit and the media flurry around it as being highly influential in Ilan\u0026rsquo;s decision to go into the rabbinate. He attended Loyola University and graduated with a degree in Counseling Psychology. He was ordained at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, studying under the \u003cem\u003erosh yeshiva\u003c/em\u003e Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile studying at Ner Israel he was introduced to his wife, Miriam Weinberg, by her brother. Miriam is the daughter of Rabbi Weinberg and an active teacher and leader in the Atlanta Jewish community. The couple married in 1976 and together they have eight children, living across the United States and in Israel.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1980, Ilan joined his father as assistant rabbi of Congregation Beth Jacob in Atlanta. He assisted in the development of the Torah Day School and went on to serve as its Rabbinic Advisor. In 1987, Ilan had the idea to found a \u003cem\u003ekollel\u003c/em\u003e in Atlanta. He pursued the funding and fellow rabbis to successfully open the Atlanta Scholars Kollel. The Kollel is very successful today, its impact extending beyond the Atlanta community.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Ilan\u0026rsquo;s father retired in 1991, Ilan was elected senior rabbi by Congregation Beth Jacob\u0026rsquo;s board of directors. Rabbi Ilan has served the Atlanta community, especially the Orthodox community through numerous endeavors and educational efforts. He continues to serve as the senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Jacob and he serves as the Dean of the Atlanta Kashruth Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on Rabbi Ilan\u0026rsquo;s childhood, rabbinical career, and the formation of the Atlanta Scholars Kollel. He provides background on his early childhood and what it was like growing up as a rabbi\u0026rsquo;s son. He recalls an early memory of walking to synagogue with his father in the rain and being offered rides by passersby. He describes this as an early experience of what it was like to grow up Orthodox in a non-observant community. Ilan mentions other students he went to school with and recalls memories of teachers. He shares that he did well in his Hebrew classes in school, being the son of a rabbi. He recalls memories from school assemblies, and attending school during the Cuban Missile Crisis.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe provides background on his parents\u0026rsquo; childhood, and shares about his grandparents. He discusses living with his paternal grandparents while attending high school in Baltimore. He reminisces on spending time with his maternal grandfather, who was a kosher butcher. Ilan talks about his siblings and being close in age to his brothers Jonathan and Amram. He shares where his siblings are living now, including his two sisters who moved to Israel.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe discusses how he decided to become a rabbi, detailing an experience he had while studying in Israel when Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was visiting. Ilan shares that during Kissinger\u0026rsquo;s visit, he came to see how obsessed the world was with Jewish people and this inspired him to advocate for American Jews. He then details his experience living in Israel for a year while his father was on sabbatical. He talks about learning Hebrew and teaching himself to read the \u003cem\u003eTalmud\u003c/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e for his \u003cem\u003ebar mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e. He shares that he got to read the portion of the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e from his \u003cem\u003ebar mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e while visiting Vilnius, Lithuania.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan describes living in Israel during the Six-Day War, following the conflict closely over the radio, getting to cross into the captured territories by car, and seeing the remnants of war. He recalls people praying all day in anticipation of war and realizing the contrast between this and Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe talks about his schooling, moving to Baltimore to attend the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore and Loyola University where he graduated with a degree in Counseling Psychology. He recalls the areas and neighborhoods where he lived in Atlanta and he remembers when the building for Congregation Beth Jacob was built.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan shares how many generations of rabbis are in his family on his father\u0026rsquo;s side, and shares memories of his grandfather. He talks about his grandparents losing a total of 15 siblings in World War II and his grandfather deserting the Polish army. He mentions that his grandfather changed his last name and refused to share his birth name out of fear.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe shares how he became involved with Congregation Beth Jacob as a rabbi, serving with his father as senior interim rabbi while his father went on sabbatical. He shares his feelings regarding his performance during that time. Ilan details how he transitioned from interim rabbi to senior rabbi after his father retired, being voted in by the board. He shares how the congregation has changed and been shaped by his leadership, becoming more observant. He discusses the relationship between the Atlanta community and Orthodox Judaism and shares his opinion that the Orthodox community has not been successful in serving non-Orthodox Jews. Ilan talks about October 7, and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. He details how he feels the event has created more receptivity for message and meaning through Judaism. He discusses the negative impact of the internet on being observant.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe shares how he helped create the Atlanta Scholars Kollel, detailing how he applied for a grant that would allow the community funds to create a \u003cem\u003ekollel\u003c/em\u003e with other rabbis. He shares the conversation he had with his father about the Kollel and the need to fundraise to support this endeavor. Ilan talks about asking Rabbi Menachem Deutsch to join the project. He reflects on the success of the Kollel and its impact on the community.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan recounts how he was introduced to his wife, Miriam, by her brother. He recalls how he interacted with his mentor and future father-in-law, Rabbi Weinberg, following their engagement. He shares about Miriam and her dedication to the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTalmud\u003c/em\u003e. He mentions some of her work in the community, including starting Temima High School. He talks about their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He shares information about each of his eight children, their spouses, professions, and where they are living.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIlan is asked about what he likes to do in his free time and he talks about exercising and following politics and political commentary. He goes on to discuss and express his awe at Jewish people\u0026rsquo;s capacity for sacrifice and their ability to accomplish things. 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I'm Shirley Brickman, I have the distinct honor of\ninterviewing Rabbi Ilan Feldman, the senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Jacob.\nThis interview is for the archives of oral histories of the Breman Museum of\nAtlanta. Good afternoon, Rabbi Feldman.\n\nFELDMAN: Good afternoon.\n\nBRICKMAN: I'd like for you to travel back in time with me and share stories of\nyour early childhood. Where were you born and when? The opening years.\n\nFELDMAN: Got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. [I was] born in 1954. I'm told that I was born at Georgia\nBaptist Hospital. Obviously don't remember that, but I do remember living on\nParkway Drive, Charles Allen drive, which is Parkway Drive, right about a block\nor two from Grady High School, which was then the central high school for all\nJewish people in Atlanta. I remember, the synagogue building that we had on\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Boulevard. I remember being in that building. It was built for a church, and it\nsubsequently is a church. But at the time . . . I remember the bright red\ncarpeting that they had down with the pews. I remember that very vividly. What\nelse did you want me to . . . ?\n\nBRICKMAN: A little bit about your early years.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . In the early years, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there was a thing called the rabbis' sons,\nmeaning there was a . . . the rabbis' sons were evidently, an object of\ncuriosity because we were the only kids who went around town all the time\nwearing a kippah. A lot of Jewish kids would ask us what we're doing that for.\nWhy are we wearing that? What is that all about? We didn't even think it was\nunusual. 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I don't know . . .\nhow people get that at an early ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"age, but that's the way it was. I remember even\nas a young child walking to shul on Shabbos morning with my father, and I don't\nknow if I created this memory, I know at least a couple of times I remember very\nvividly people stopping in their cars to offer a ride during the rain, because\nthey couldn't imagine that people would walk in the rain to shul. My father\nwould politely ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"decline. In my mind, that was kind of like a preparation for\nbeing an Orthodox Jew in a town that didn't have a lot of Orthodox Jews. It was\nkind of like people don't understand what observances looks like, and it's not\ntheir fault, and it's our job to teach it. Even just walking to shul became a\nlesson and a preparation in a certain sense, for being an adult, and a leader in\nthe community.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you remember any of your very good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends in grade school at the academy?\n\nFELDMAN: I sure do. I remember them, I remember their names.\n\nBRICKMAN: I'd like to know who they are.\n\nFELDMAN: I remember Stephen Stoltz [sp]. I remember Richard Kauffman. I\nremember, let's see, there was a . . . Steven Levitas. I remember the Bregman\ngirls. I remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Melanie . . . I'll get it in a minute. Melanie, she was my\nfirst love. There was Timothy Mescon . . . I can't believe I forgot Melanie's\nlast name; I had a crush on her.\n\nBRICKMAN: I know the folks you're talking about, and it's . . .\n\nFELDMAN: Susan Tannenbaum [sp], do you remember Susan Tannenbaum? I can go on\nand on if you give me a little bit more time . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Did you have a favorite teacher in those early days?\n\nFELDMAN: I don't recall a favorite teacher. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do remember that in first grade,\nwe had an Israeli teacher who would pace back and forth in the classroom and\nevery time she would get to the end of her pacing and have to turn around, she\nwould almost lose her balance. That I remember. She was bow legged . . . When\nshe got to the end of the . . . to the wall, she would turn around and almost\nfall down. That was my first grade Hebrew teacher.\n\nBRICKMAN: What about a subject in those early years. Which one did you like the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most?\n\nFELDMAN: I had an unfair advantage. [In] Hebrew, we had a teacher who had a\ndaily contest, how far you could read without making a mistake. Everybody else\nwould be waiting to catch a mistake, if you caught the mistake then you got to\nread. Of course, when I read, I would never make a mistake because I was the\nrabbi's son. I'm lousy in athletics, but I know how to read Hebrew. That would\ngo on and on, it was not fair. Once I got it, it was like the rest of the class.\nI'd be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"reading, and reading, and reading, and that was it. That was my favorite.\n\nBRICKMAN: How did you feel about that?\n\nFELDMAN: I knew it was unfair, but I would much rather win than be fair.\n\nBRICKMAN: Than lose.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. Then, one of my most vivid memories was a Friday at assembly. We\nused to have assemblies on Friday in honor of Shabbat, and I'm sitting in the\nfront row and the American flag ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"toppled and the eagle on top of the flag hit me\non top of the head. The whole place went crazy. I don't remember crying or\nanything like that, but I think I was in second or third grade and I believe the\nseventh graders at the Hebrew Academy at that time . . . seventh grade was a top\ngrade . . . seventh graders were the safety patrols. I remember Toby Gross was a\nseventh grader. I don't know if you remember the Gross family? Toby Gross, came\nover and helped me, and I felt so good that somebody was taking care of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me. Then\nI remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, where we trained to run to different\nshelters in the neighborhood from school. We each had a different color coded\ntag, and we knew where we had to go. We practiced that.\n\nBRICKMAN: I can relate to that, the gentleman who owned our home before we\npurchased it was a teacher at Georgia Tech, and he built a fallout shelter\nduring that time because he was afraid.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: But it has blocks that have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"holes in it so it wouldn't have done much\ngood. The luggage is stored there now. I'd like for you to tell me a little bit\nabout your parents and grandparents. Where were they born? Where did they live?\n\nFELDMAN: My parents are American born. My mother was born in Brooklyn [New\nYork], my father was born in Newburgh, New York. My father was born to\nimmigrants who came over in 1927, right before he was born. He was born in 1927.\nThey . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: In America?\n\nFELDMAN: In America, yes. They came over . . . the legend in our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family has it,\nI don't know if this is true because people make up legends . . . Supposedly\nthey saw [Charles] Lindbergh's plane . . . from the ocean, supposedly. But if\nnot, they could have, because it was the same type. It was the same.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a good story.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. My grandfather, my father's father, was a real scholar and served\nas a rabbi in a number of communities, most of the time he served in Baltimore\n[Maryland] for about 40 years as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"public rabbi there. But before that he served\nin Manchester, New Hampshire and I believe he served in Newburgh as well. There\nwas a period of time where I think he actually sold insurance, but that was a\nvery short amount of time.\n\nBRICKMAN: Along with?\n\nFELDMAN: Not along with. That's what he did to make a living but most of the\ntime he was a Yiddish speaking scholar who learned English by studying the\nEnglish translation of the Talmud, the Soncino. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because he knew what the Talmud\nin Aramaic was saying but he didn't know what the English was, but by studying .\n. . that way he figured out. That's how he learned English.\n\nBRICKMAN: Anything you remember in particular about his mom?\n\nFELDMAN: My father's mother?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes.\n\nFELDMAN: Oh my gosh, I remember a lot of things. First of all, I lived with them\nin the eighth grade . . . so they were very real for me. Very hands-on\ngrandparents. I lived with them for that year and then I was in a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dormitory, in\nhigh school, in the same town as them for several years.\n\nBRICKMAN: I was going to ask you about that.\n\nFELDMAN: My earlier years, I remember my paternal grandmother canning fruit. She\nwas a caterer in a synagogue, in the synagogue kitchen, which was owned by my\ngrandfather. My grandfather owned the entire shul. You didn't have no board.\n\nBRICKMAN: Explain that to me.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . The model of synagogues used to be that the rabbi would basically\nfield the entire ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue. He owned the building. I remember my grandfather on\nhis back on the floor, hooking the chairs together to get ready for the big\ncrowds on the High Holidays . . . He's on, literally on his back, hooking up the\nchairs. Of course, at that time I thought he was an old man, he's 20 years\nyounger than I am now, but that's another story. My grandmother was quite a, as\nthey say, balabusta.\n\nBRICKMAN: I was going to use that word.\n\nFELDMAN: Balabusta, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yes. She baked all the time. When I lived with them, I'd\ncome home from eighth grade, about 5:30 at night and she'd greet me at the door,\ntake my coat, hang it up. My grandfather would train me how to wash my face,\nincluding behind the ears. Then I'd sit down to fresh bread and hot soup and a\ncooked meal every single night. I didn't realize what a gift it was at the time. Unbelievable.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's magic.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . They served ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me and just stood over me and loved everything I had\nto tell them.\n\nBRICKMAN: You weren't spoiled or anything.\n\nFELDMAN: I was absolute spoiled; I didn't know it then. My grandfather had to\nstudy with me every night and I'd rather watch The Twilight Zone, which was on\nat 7:30.\n\nBRICKMAN: Same thing.\n\nFELDMAN: [Memoirist laughs] Same thing. Anyway, those are my paternal\ngrandparents. My mother's parents were Russian born.\n\nBRICKMAN: Where in Russia?\n\nFELDMAN: I don't know, I honestly don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know.\n\nBRICKMAN: We could find out.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, we probably could find out. My mother's father, my maternal\ngrandfather, was a shochet, he was a butcher. I can still smell now the sawdust\non the floor of the store, and I could see the chickens with the chicken feet\nstill on them in there. I remember visiting him there very often. He would take\nus . . . he was the fun Zeyde . . . because he wasn't the scholar. He knew a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot, but he was not the scholar. When he had time, he would take us to Coney\nIsland, and we'd go to the beach and that kind of thing. We would [indistinct:\n12:10] to ice cream.\n\nBRICKMAN: Two completely different lifestyles.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. They loved each other, they had a great relationship. One was in\nNew York, and one was in Baltimore, and we visited them every summer. They would\ncome down here too, they used to drive down. This was before the jet plane.\n\nBRICKMAN: Before the big highways.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, right. They would take three ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days to get down here, no\nsuperhighway . . . I remember them visiting a number of times.\n\nBRICKMAN: You were very lucky because a lot of children don't have that\nrelationship. Those are special, special memories.\n\nFELDMAN: Unbelievable.\n\nBRICKMAN: I love that. I'd like for you to tell me a little bit about your\nsiblings. Who are they? Where are you in the order? That's a lot of action with\na big family. Any special growing up memories with this group?\n\nFELDMAN: I'm the oldest of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five. At this moment, three of my four siblings are\nalive. One passed away. We say, tragically, I don't if it was, when he was 39.\n\nBRICKMAN: It is tragic.\n\nFELDMAN: There were three boys and two girls. I'm the oldest, like I say, and\nthat definitely makes a difference, because I was the guy who was too mature to\nplay with my brothers when they wanted to go out and play ball. The field was\ntoo small, the ball was too soft.\n\nBRICKMAN: Is the age difference big?\n\nFELDMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, I'm less than two years older than the next one in line, than\nJonathan. Jonathan and Amram, the one who passed away, were less than a year\napart. Then my parents had two brisim . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Within a year?\n\nFELDMAN: . . . Crazy, one was on Pesach, and the other one was, I think before\nPesach or something like that.\n\nBRICKMAN: I would think with a group of guys like that, there would be a lot of\ntime you could spend together either beating up on each other or whatever.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FELDMAN: We did a lot of stuff together. We didn't beat up on each other. I\ndon't remember a lot of violence or a lot of animosity at all. I remember the\nbunk beds. When we got Ked sneakers, we thought that they were going to make us\nabsolutely fly, so we tried to test them out by jumping off the bunk beds. We\nimagined that they would keep us in the air longer.\n\nBRICKMAN: God bless your mother.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: Where do they live, these brothers and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sisters?\n\nFELDMAN: Now, they live in Baltimore, Washington [D.C]. My two sisters both made\naliyah, they live in Israel. They're both grandmothers and they have children\nand grandchildren in Israel. Amazing. Nobody would . . . It's just an absolute\nrevolution. It wasn't even a discussion, as you know, in the 1960's, that if\nsomebody would have said you're going to have children and grandchildren in\nIsrael. What? That's . . . I don't know.\n\nBRICKMAN: What enticed them to do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that at that period in their life? They were young.\n\nFELDMAN: They made aliyah later. They got married in America and lived in the\nUnited States and then made aliyah.\n\nBRICKMAN: Both sisters?\n\nFELDMAN: Both sisters, yes. Together with their husbands and little kids. They\nboth married rabbis . . . we consider ourselves unusual as rabbis' children who\nactually admire the rabbinate. My parents, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think, were geniuses that way. They\ndid not . . . if there was any negativity, we did not absorb it. My father felt\nguilty, I think, when he knew that I wanted to go into the rabbinate, pulpit\nrabbinate. He said . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Why?\n\nFELDMAN: Because he said, \"It's not really all that fun. Are you sure you really\nwant to do that?\" The fact is probably because watching him, he made it not look\nlike fun, but he made it look like a really fulfilling thing . . . 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There was no . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: At what time in your life did you say, \"This is what I want to do.\"?\n\nFELDMAN: I decided that I wanted to be a pulpit rabbi after being very clear and\nemphatic that I did not want to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"be when I was 20 years old. When Henry Kissinger\nwas doing his shuttle diplomacy, I was in Jerusalem as a student in the Mir\nYeshiva. Henry Kissinger would stay at the King David Hotel, which is less than\nabout a mile away from the Mir Yeshiva. He was shuttling between Syria, and\nEgypt, and Israel and back and forth, and they're arguing over about 20 grains\nof sand in the Sinai Desert that nobody cared about. The entire world is\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"watching this thing like it's the most important thing in the world. CBS, NBC\nand ABC, which are the only networks that existed at the time in 1975, they're\nsitting there obsessing over every . . . \"He's taking off.\" \"He's landing.\"\n\"He's coming back.\" I decided I want to go see Henry Kissinger. I actually\nwalked . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Into the hotel?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, I walked, I got through three layers of security, got into the\nrevolving . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: How?\n\nFELDMAN: I just kept on . . . because they thought maybe I was some kind of a\nguy who was a tourist staying at the hotel.\n\nBRICKMAN: Who should be allowed to come in.\n\nFELDMAN: I walked into the revolving door of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hotel, a Secret Service guy saw\nme and just ushered me right out. Just came in and right out, in and out. But\nthe point is, what that translated to me was that the Jewish people is the\nobsession of the world, and I am not going to abandon American Jews and study.\nI'm going to go back to America and make a difference to keep American Jews\nalive . . . Henry Kissinger did it, I always ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"blame Henry Kissinger for making me\ngo with the rabbinate. I remember telling my parents, \"Okay, I think I really\nwant to do this.\" They were surprised.\n\nBRICKMAN: The response from them?\n\nFELDMAN: The response from them was, \"Are you sure?\" My father . . . I never\nonce heard an expectation from either of them about me being a rabbi . . . I\nsay, I'm the kind of guy who likes to surprise people. I don't like the fact\nthat everybody in the world who knew me knew that I was going to be a rabbi\nexcept me. I thought I surprised ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody, but they weren't surprised.\n\nBRICKMAN: I'm glad you made that choice. There are a lot of people who are glad\nyou made the choice.\n\nFELDMAN: Thank you.\n\nBRICKMAN: When you became a bar mitzvah, did your dad teach you how to read\nTorah or someone else? For that particular occasion.\n\nFELDMAN: That is interesting. I'm going to answer the question by backing up,\nthe year before my bar mitzvah, my father had a sabbatical.\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes.\n\nFELDMAN: We were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in a suburb of Tel Aviv [Israel], Bnei Brak, extremely\nreligious community. They dropped me . . . they air-dropped me right into the\nHebrew speaking, Israeli school, one grade lower than the grade I had been in\nAmerica. By the time I finished that year, I was able to read and decipher\nTalmud on my own and I taught myself my bar mitzvah partial all by myself.\nNobody taught me.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's unusual.\n\nFELDMAN: It's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"unusual. For everybody over there, it was normal but over here it\nwas unusual.\n\nBRICKMAN: I know, here it's like . . .\n\nFELDMAN: Nobody taught me, I learned it myself. Interestingly enough, fast\nforward about 50 years and I was on a tour of, Eastern Europe, and we found\nourselves in Vilna [Lithuania] for Shabbos and it was my bar mitzvah partial.\nThe small group of us there, they look around and say, \"Who knows, [indistinct:\n19:58]?\" That was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me, I was able to . . . one of the thrills of my life, to be\nable to read Torah in Vilna, which was, of course, as we know, the Jerusalem of\nEurope. When I finished, some learned rabbi came over to me and said, \"Was that\nyour bar mitzvah partial?\" I said, \"Yes.\" he said, \"I could tell because there\nwere certain juvenile kinds of intonations that was still there.\" I taught\nmyself, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happened to have taught myself . . . I just want to add, I was there\nfor the Six-Day War. That changed my life.\n\nBRICKMAN: That was a question I had later. Please tell me about it. How did that\naffect you? Where were you staying?\n\nFELDMAN: We were in Bnei Brak. My father wrote a book about it, by the way, The\n28th of Iyar. Whatever I tell you is taking a second-hand . . . No, not really.\nIt's my own memories through the eyes of a 12 year old . . . because of the\nCuban Missile ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Crisis back in 1962, when I was seven or eight years old, I was a\nnews junkie. I brought a shortwave radio with me to Israel, and I was listening\nto the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and to Radio Cairo, and all this kind of\nstuff all year long. As the crisis develops before June of 1967, I'm already\nlistening to English broadcasts from . . . \"This is the Hashemite Kingdom of\n[Jordan] . . . coming to you from Jerusalem.\" They were broadcasting in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"English.\nI remember hearing them say we will push the Jews into the sea. There's a lot of\ndrama here.\n\nBRICKMAN: Here we go again.\n\nFELDMAN: Right. It was very dramatic. Then, as the war seemed to be inevitable,\nwe were filling sandbags, which was thrilling to a 12 year old. \"Sandbags? Wow,\nthis is real.\" We're emptying the air raid shelters and stuff like that. Then,\nin school, we had drills to learn how to evacuate the classroom to go down to\nthe shelter in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school. Then the war broke out. I remember we were in school,\nand we ended up going down into a shelter. I remember when we got the all clear,\nmy father showed up to pick us up to take us home. We were only two or three\nblocks from home, where the school was. The aftermath of the war was just\nunbelievable because the occupied territories, the captured territories [Hebrew\nword: 22:22], those were not open to the public at all yet. They were still\nclearing mines from the path ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"between New Jerusalem and Old Jerusalem to get to\nthe Kotel, even. But my father had an American car because we traveled to and\nfrom Israel by ship. We had an American 1964 Chevy Biscayne in Israel, which to\nan Israeli means you're an American official. Therefore, when we got to the 19\nyear old guarding the border, saying, \"You can't go any further,\" we were able\nto convince them with a press card from the Southern Israelite in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta. Yes,\nthat, \"Okay, you can go ahead.\" We ended up following half . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Journalists.\n\nFELDMAN: Yeah, exactly. We ended up with . . . four little kids in the back, and\nwe picked up a hitchhiker. We're driving through the West Bank with Jordanian\ntanks with white flags on them, and ordnances all over on the side of the road.\nIt's still residue of the war . . . it wasn't open to the public yet. We went\nand saw Bethlehem and we saw Hebron. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came upon Jerusalem from the other side\nand saw the gold dome. It was just wild stuff. This was life changing for me . .\n. and the way it changed my life was I saw the hand of God; we were supposed to\nbe annihilated. There were Arab armies all over, six days later, we've wiped\nthem out. I heard Kaddish live broadcast from the Western Wall on Kol Israel on\nWednesday night of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"war when they got to the Kotel. This to me . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Gives me chills.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, this to me was like . . . you're literally in a God theme park.\n\nBRICKMAN: I like that, a God theme park.\n\nFELDMAN: It's crazy. Before the war, the entire city of Bnei Brak shut down so\nthat everybody could go to shul and daven all day. It was like Yom Kippur\nbecause it was a disaster about to happen and people fasted, and they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"recited\nTehillim all day long. I'm walking up and down the street and I'm hearing from\nevery direction, people in unison, crying out passage by passage, all 150 psalms\nall day long. You can imagine what kind of an impression that makes on a young kid.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's not an American scene.\n\nFELDMAN: No, it's not.\n\nBRICKMAN: That is not an American scene.\n\nFELDMAN: No, it's not . . . Just to emphasize the contrast in Atlanta, I was the\nmost religious Jew in the world, except for my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father and maybe the principal of\nthe Hebrew Academy. I'm walking around with a yarmulke at 12 years old . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Is that [Ephraim] Frankel?\n\nFELDMAN: Not yet, it was not Frankel yet. Frankel came later.\n\nBRICKMAN: Who was that?\n\nFELDMAN: This was Chaim Feuerman. When we got to Israel and we got off the ship\nand we went down to where we were going to live, I saw a man with a beard, and I\nwas afraid of him, I thought, because the only other man with a beard like that\nwas my father's . . . the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dean of his yeshiva, who ordained him. I was afraid he\nwas going to ask me a question about what I'd learned so I crossed . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: How old were you?\n\nFELDMAN: Twelve. I crossed the street in Bnei Brak to avoid him, the problem is\nin Bnei Brak, everybody's got a beard. The point is, in Bnei Brak I don't know\nthe language, everybody there is studying Torah, it's a very religious city. I\ncome from a city where I was the most knowledgeable person other than my father.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's eye opening.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, it was a totally ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"different . . . it was like being air-dropped\ninto a whole new . . . it changed my life, changed it, changed everything.\n\nBRICKMAN: When did your family . . . No, no. Before we get there, where did you\nattend high school? I know you said you were in different places.\n\nFELDMAN: Where did I attend high school? At Talmudical Academy of Baltimore.\n\nBRICKMAN: You had family there? That's where your grandparents were?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, my grandparents were there. There was no high school in Atlanta at\nthat time, a Jewish high school. My bar mitzvah was celebrated on Labor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Day of\n1967 and that afternoon I got on a train . . . I'm going to cry here.\n\nBRICKMAN: Don't, because I'm pretty good about that too.\n\nFELDMAN: I know. That afternoon, I got on a train with my grandparents, but I\nremember my mother on the train platform waving goodbye because her little boy\nwas going away. I'm crying for her, I loved it. It didn't bother me at all.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's a beautiful scene though.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: You were there how long in Baltimore?\n\nFELDMAN: I was there . . . when I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"left for eighth grade, I didn't come back to\nAtlanta until I was . . . another 15 years later, when I was 27, married already\nwith two kids. I was there for high school, and then post high school and\ncollege, got ordained there. I got my degree there.\n\nBRICKMAN: Where were you in college?\n\nFELDMAN: Loyola College, got a degree in counseling psych[ology]. [I] came back\n. . . I left in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1967. Obviously, I came home for vacation, came home for Pesach,\nwent for the summer. I went to Lakeside High School for two summers in a row to\nget extra credit so I could graduate high school one year early.\n\nBRICKMAN: Early?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. Why I did that, I don't know. My father said, \"do it,\" so I did it.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's happened to my husband. His father said, \"Take this and get\n[done] early.\" He did that. He came here when he was 16.\n\nFELDMAN: I'm always wondering how come I didn't say like I don't want to do\nthat. I don't want to go.\n\nBRICKMAN: Because you have respect for your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father.\n\nFELDMAN: I don't even think it was that. I was just too innocent to even think\nthat I had a choice. \"Okay, I guess I'm going to take that course. Okay.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: He wouldn't steer you down the wrong road.\n\nFELDMAN: I trusted him, that's true.\n\nBRICKMAN: When did your family move? You said Parkway Drive.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: I know that street well, I had an aunt who lived on Parkway Drive.\nWhen did you move to this area? Where was the next move?\n\nFELDMAN: The next move was to Milledge Place. I think it was 961 Milledge Place.\n\nBRICKMAN: Off Briarcliff?\n\nFELDMAN: Off Briarcliff, right.\n\nBRICKMAN: The cul de sac.\n\nFELDMAN: That's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right, and that's where Doctor [Ted] Levitas lived, on that\nstreet also.\n\nBRICKMAN: And a few others.\n\nFELDMAN: A few others, yes. The Lincolns.\n\nBRICKMAN: There were like five houses, maybe.\n\nFELDMAN: That's right. You got it. The Lincolns were right there. Anyway, that's\nwhere we lived and the reason, we moved there is because the synagogue had\npurchased a piece of property on Briarcliff Road, which ended up being in a\nflood zone, which they didn't know when they bought it.\n\nBRICKMAN: How did they find out that information?\n\nFELDMAN: I don't know if it got flooded or what, but they never built ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there . .\n. I don't know what the details [are], but that was in 1959 or 1960.\n\nBRICKMAN: How long did you stay on Milledge, do you remember?\n\nFELDMAN: I do not know. It had to be at least four years, like 1957, 1958, 1959.\nWe moved to Biltmore Drive to be around here, in this zip code in 1962, that I remember.\n\nBRICKMAN: Was the shul built . . . ? When was this synagogue built?\n\nFELDMAN: This physical facility was built in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1960 or 1961.\n\nBRICKMAN: You're very close, you could walk to synagogue, it's here.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes . . . To walk from Milledge Place to here was quite a trudge.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's a walk.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, it was. I remember the Biltmore Drive part that we walked on was\ndirt or gravel, it wasn't even paved yet.\n\nBRICKMAN: Were there other houses on the street, on Biltmore at that time?\n\nFELDMAN: There were only . . . When we moved to Biltmore, we were the fifth\nhouse on the entire street. Most of the street was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"woods.\n\nBRICKMAN: Not there yet?\n\nFELDMAN: Nothing, yes. As a matter of fact, my brothers and I would . . . we\nwould collect lumber from the construction sites and build these little . . .\nand nails from the construction site to build these little boats and floated\ndown the creek behind, Biltmore Drive.\n\nBRICKMAN: Today, the original Biltmore was old Biltmore. You were on new Biltmore.\n\nFELDMAN: New Biltmore, yes. [indistinct: 30:24]\n\nBRICKMAN: You're close to the synagogue?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. I remember the synagogue a lot ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before the building was built.\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes.\n\nFELDMAN: There was a Sophie Green who was . . . I don't know what if she was a\nsister of the president or what, but she would always make mandelbrot and it was\nKiddush in her house. I think it was her house on this lot before they trucked\nthe house away.\n\nBRICKMAN: Have you ever heard the expression, \"kamishbrot?\".\n\nFELDMAN: No.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's from Europe, it's mandelbrot.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes?\n\nBRICKMAN: But a little bit different. That's a treat no matter when you get it.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a long process. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was going to ask you about your time in Israel,\nbut you explained that to me previously, and that's a fascinating story. How\nmany generations of rabbonim are in your family?\n\nFELDMAN: We say 12. I don't know if we have them all, I don't know if we have\nthem all down, but we've been saying 12 for the last 60 years. That's what I'm told.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a good number.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: On who's side, Rabbi?\n\nFELDMAN: On my father's side. Now, of course, the word ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbi means something\ndifferent in Europe in the 1800's. That's not . . . It's a totally different\nscene, totally different context.\n\nBRICKMAN: Explain that to us.\n\nFELDMAN: My ancestors were all extremely learned, steeped in Talmud study, Torah\nstudy, and involved in determining and applying Jewish law to whatever the\ncircumstances were. They were just up to my grandfather. My grandfather ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was\nsomebody who . . . I know one year, he finished the entire Talmud in one year,\nwhich means he learned about seven folios a day. But for him, it was not\nlearning, it was review. I remember my grandfather getting up in the middle of\nthe night in his long underwear. [Indistinct: 32:21 possibly 'he shall excuse\nme'] please forgive me, Zeyde. To go into his study to write down an insight\nthat he had in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Talmud that he had while he was sleeping. I would say,\n\"Zeyde, what were you doing at 2:00 in the morning?\" He would say, \"An angel\ncame to me and gave me an answer to a problem I have with the Rambam, and I\nwanted to write it down before I forgot.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: I'm sorry, I didn't know him, I like him already.\n\nFELDMAN: He was amazing. He was a class act. He was a three piece, goatee\nwearing, gold watch kind of a guy, gold pocket watch kind of guy . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: With a good sense of humor?\n\nFELDMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Great sense of humor . . . he would say to us with his European accent,\n\"Boys keep smiling, keep smiling.\".\n\nBRICKMAN: I love it. Do you have pictures of these people?\n\nFELDMAN: Of course. Not here.\n\nBRICKMAN: No, but I mean pictures that go how far back? Can you go back?\n\nFELDMAN: We don't know a lot about their parents. I think there was a lot of\nsurvivor's guilt involved here because they left in 1927, and my paternal\ngrandparents lost a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"total of 15 siblings in World War II.\n\nBRICKMAN: Oh my gosh.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. My grandmother was one of, I think, eight. My grandfather was one\nof seven, and they were all gone. We didn't hear a lot about Europe at all.\nMatter of fact, my grandfather's last name was not Feldman. He changed his name\nbecause he himself was drafted into the Polish Army. The Jewish boys were cannon\nfodder in Polish wars. On the way to the front . . . he sees a train coming from\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"front. He gets off, crosses the platform and gets onto the train coming from\nthe front. He was AWOL [absent without leave] and he changes his name.\n\nBRICKMAN: Wait, they didn't catch him?\n\nFELDMAN: They didn't catch him, no. But until his dying day he was afraid they\nwould, even though the Polish government had changed 19 times already . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: What did he change his name to?\n\nFELDMAN: To Feldman, Feldman is a name he changed it to. We're pretty sure that\nit was Saltzman before him.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's not even close.\n\nFELDMAN: Because he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married a Felner, he took 'Fel' from Felner and 'man\" from\nSaltzman and he made it Feldman. That's what we're pretty sure.\n\nBRICKMAN: We'll keep that.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. He would never admit it. He was afraid to his dying day.\n\nBRICKMAN: He didn't share that with you?\n\nFELDMAN: No, he would not let us know. We would ask him, and it was a big joke,\n\"I'm not going to tell you.\" We would say, \"Zeyde, the Polish police are not coming.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: But they might.\n\nFELDMAN: He wouldn't tell us.\n\nBRICKMAN: You had talked to me about your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful grandparents. Did they have\nanything to do with your making a decision about the rabbinate?\n\nFELDMAN: No.\n\nBRICKMAN: No one ever said to you, \"I would love for you to . . .\"\n\nFELDMAN: Nothing, not even close. It was real clear without any question that\nthey wouldn't . . . there wasn't even the discussion of do they want you or do\nthey not want you. It wasn't even a question. The issue of me being a rabbi was\nnever really raised ever.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's your decision 100 percent.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. What was real clear, though, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"always was . . . we heard this all\nthe time, \"We don't care what you do, what you become, as long as you are an\nobservant Jew.\" That was all that mattered, that was it. It was very matter of\nfact, it wasn't even like, \"You better be an observant Jew. You're going to go\nto hell if not!\" . . . It was nothing like that, it was just all we care about\nis that you keep . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Say it again.\n\nFELDMAN: All we care about is that you keep the Torah. That's it.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a shame more parents don't say that in hopes that they will have\ntheir wish come true.\n\nFELDMAN: I know.\n\nBRICKMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many years did you serve Beth Jacob with your father?\n\nFELDMAN: Eleven.\n\nBRICKMAN: Can you tell me about the transition?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. First of all, my father, I'm not sure if this was pre-planned or\nif it just worked out this way, but towards the end of his 39 years of service,\nhe took a sabbatical, split over four years. He took four months, three times\nover four years. He was the senior ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbi . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Somebody had to cover it.\n\nFELDMAN: I was what they called 'SIR,' senior interim rabbi. They used to\njokingly call me SIR. I don't know how they put up with me, to be honest with you.\n\nBRICKMAN: Why?\n\nFELDMAN: Because I was young, inexperienced, naive, and impatient.\n\nBRICKMAN: Except for those things, is that it?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, I was an impatient . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Impatient why?\n\nFELDMAN: Why?\n\nBRICKMAN: For change?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, for change. For, \"Why don't you get it?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. I think with youth,\noften comes arrogance and I had some of that.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's a trait. Who is offering all this outside information to you?\nPeople you work with or?\n\nFELDMAN: What do you mean outside information? That I was young, arrogant, whatever?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, who's telling you all this?\n\nFELDMAN: No, I'm telling you that. Nobody ever told me that. They put up with\nme. I didn't have anybody tell me that.\n\nBRICKMAN: You just felt it?\n\nFELDMAN: No, I didn't feel it. I'm now looking back, but at the time, I thought\nI was just right and good.\n\nBRICKMAN: You plowed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"forward?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, and there was a tremendous learning experience to be . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: What year was this, Rabbi?\n\nFELDMAN: 1987 to 1991, 1991 is when my father retired, and I succeeded him.\n\nBRICKMAN: I remember that.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. During those years . . . those were transition years. It wasn't\npre-planned. It wasn't like we both said, \"Hey, I'll go to Israel for four\nmonths and you take ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over, and then afterwards you'll succeed me.\" We had no\nidea, and not only that, the decision for me to succeed him was not in our\nhands. The shul . . . we went through whatever possible legitimate process we\ncould for the shul to have a right to choose whether or not they even wanted to\ngo on a search for another rabbi.\n\nBRICKMAN: That had to be presented to the board?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, the board and the membership. There was a huge membership meeting\nduring which the membership was going to vote on whether or not they would open\nup a search for another rabbi or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not.\n\nBRICKMAN: Or have you do this, step into that?\n\nFELDMAN: Right. It was 80 percent voted to go with me and 20 percent said, \"No,\nlet's have another . . . let's have a chance of looking at somebody else.\" It\nmade sense to me, although . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a fair way to do it.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, and I wanted people to have a choice. I encouraged them to have a\nsearch, I encouraged them to look for candidates. But they realized, I think,\nthat it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was going to be a waste of time because after all is said and done, how\ndo you say no to the guy who served 11 years as assistant rabbi, and who was the\nrabbi's son, and who grew up here?\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a little tricky.\n\nFELDMAN: How do you say no? Even if he's not qualified, you don't say yes\nbecause you think he's qualified. You say yes because you're stuck. Why should\nthey waste anybody's time? It took me years . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: This is an in depth thought you had about all this.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, it took me years to accept that I chose them, and they chose me.\nIt took me years.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"choice. Nothing remains constant, tell me about\nsignificant changes that you've noticed in your congregation since you became\nthe senior rabbi.\n\nFELDMAN: When I became the senior rabbi, more than half of the active membership\nwas not Shabbos observant. Now, 98 percent, and I'm making up that number but\nsomething like that, is Shabbos observant.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a big challenge.\n\nFELDMAN: It's a big, big change.\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes.\n\nFELDMAN: It's a big change and it's wonderful . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: What did that, do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think?\n\nFELDMAN: What did that? A lot of things. We created the infrastructure that\nwould support observant people, so that you had from cradle to death, we had\norganized . . . eruv, mikveh, kashrus, high school, boys, girls, the whole thing.\n\nBRICKMAN: All available.\n\nFELDMAN: Right. Therefore, you could see Atlanta as a destination and run your\nprofessional career here as an Orthodox Jew. That made it possible for people\nwho were raised here to come ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's exciting, to be able to create that.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. No, it is exciting. It also comes at a cost because, I would like\nOrthodoxy, even at this minute I sit here and tell you, I would like Orthodoxy\nto be an Orthodoxy that is warm, open, accepting to all kinds of people. It's\nvery hard to create that when you have a synagogue filled with knowledgeable\npeople who are committed and who look committed. It's very hard to do that.\n\nBRICKMAN: In other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"words, I'm not interested in that?\n\nFELDMAN: [Do] you mean than those who are less observant, or?\n\nBRICKMAN: Those who are very observant are not interested in pulling in a\ndifferent kind.\n\nFELDMAN: It's not that they're not interested, it's that the overwhelming\nfeeling to a newcomer is, \"I don't belong here. These guys know what they're\ndoing, and I don't know what I'm doing. These guys know how to respond. They\nknow what page they're on. They're davening fast in Hebrew and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not so\ncomfortable.\" Whatever it is, it's just culturally, it's overwhelming. It's like\nthe way I would feel if I went to church.\n\nBRICKMAN: How do you handle that?\n\nFELDMAN: So far, we've failed to handle it. Meaning, we have a wonderfully\nsuccessful synagogue serving Orthodox Jews, and we are not successful in serving\nnon-Orthodox Jews. That is a disappointment of mine, it's a major\ndisappointment. Now, I will . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Because it's a major disappointment, are you still working on it?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, I absolutely ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"am. This is not history; this is the future. It is my\ncontention, and I have no authority or evidence for this, it's my contention\nthat October 7 has changed the dynamic in the United States dramatically.\n\nBRICKMAN: I agree with you.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . And that there is a receptivity out there for meaning and for\nmessage, and for reassessing of what it means to be a Jew that is unprecedented.\nWe have to rise to the occasion and I'm struggling ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right now with what does that\nlook like? Meanwhile, the synagogue has changed dramatically. I will tell you\nthat there's something else that changed dramatically. In 1960, 1970, when I was\ngrowing up, if somebody, if an American Jew in their adult life committed to\nbecoming Orthodox, to being Shabbos observant, to buying a house in the\nneighborhood, to walking to shul, to keeping kosher, to sending his kids or her\nkids to a Jewish educational ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school. At that point, you felt that they're home\nfree, that family is safe . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: They wanted that.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, but what I'm saying is you could feel secure that that family was\ngoing to be okay religiously. That is no longer the case, that being observant\nis not a guarantee for anything.\n\nBRICKMAN: Say that again for me.\n\nFELDMAN: Being observant in no way guarantees any secure religious future.\nBecause the world has changed so dramatically that just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because you keep Shabbos\nand just because you keep kosher does not mean your son wants to.\n\nBRICKMAN: You're talking about the next . . .\n\nFELDMAN: I'm talking about . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: It's not monkey see, monkey do anymore.\n\nFELDMAN: Right, exactly right. You would go to the large metropolitan areas,\nLakewood in New York, Chicago. Every single family struggles with having their\nkids be observant or care about being observant.\n\nBRICKMAN: What is doing that?\n\nFELDMAN: I don't want to be oversimplistic, but the internet's doing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. In\nother words, this piece of plastic that I wear on my . . . my hip, this has\nevery single source of spiritual and psychological contamination known to man\navailable to me day and night. When I come home, I'm not home. When I come home,\nI'm surrounded by bricks and mortar but it's not a home because there's no\nenvironment that my parents create that is unique to them. Because when I come\nhome, I go to my room and get on my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"device, and I continue to communicate with\nevery putz in the world. Okay? That's the problem. There's no home anymore. Just\nfor the record, I cracked her up [memoirist and interviewer laugh].\n\nBRICKMAN: When did you decide to bring the Kollel to Atlanta? Were they always\nassociated with Beth Jacob? What results have you witnessed from their being ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here?\n\nFELDMAN: You have another hour? That's a long story.\n\nBRICKMAN: To the best of your ability, the highlights.\n\nFELDMAN: [I] decided to bring the Kollel to Atlanta in 1987, during a period of\ntime when I had no right to do so. Which means I was the senior interim rabbi.\nMy father's in Israel for four months on sabbatical, and somehow it didn't occur\nto me to even check with him ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to begin exploring the idea of moving some guys\nhere to run this thing called the Kollel. My father is in Israel . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Explain what in quotes, \"those guys\" . . . tell me, who are those guys.\n\nFELDMAN: Excuse me, right, those guys. Meaning the idea would be that some\nrabbis who were not responsible for a congregation, who would run adult\neducation. Who would study amongst themselves and also devote half their day or\nmore to what we call ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"outreach, which means teaching Jews who are not that\nknowledgeable and creating interest in Judaism. They would come in. I knew that\nthe only way that there would be growth in this town is if we had freelance\nteachers who were actually working full time or part time, but significant time,\nreaching ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"adults . . . We explored this idea. There was a family up in New York .\n. .\n\nBRICKMAN: We? Who is we?\n\nFELDMAN: It was me . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: You didn't make this decision yourself?\n\nFELDMAN: As best as I can recall, it was me alone who heard that there was a\nchallenge grant made by a family up in New York, the Fruechtl [sp] family, to\nany community that could open up a mini ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kollel of four guys, they would cover 50\npercent of the first year's budget, 30 percent of the second year budget, and 15\npercent of the third year budget.\n\nBRICKMAN: Sounds like a deal.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. They never offered that to Atlanta, I went up to New York and\ncomplained to their rabbi who was advising them, \"That's not fair. Why can't\nAtlanta get that deal?\" They said, \"Fine. We'll give it to you, too.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: Meanwhile, excuse me, your father knew nothing about this backyard ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"planning?\n\nFELDMAN: I go back to Baltimore, it happens that this is all, what you call\nserendipity, I call it divine providence. It happens to be that I married the\ndean of Ner Israel's daughter, so I have some access to Ner Israel. I go back\nand ask him advice, I say \"Pa,\" because he's my father-in-law, \"Pa, I'm thinking\nabout . . . doing this thing. Who can I get?\" He says, \"There's one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy\" . . .\nLet me back up, Torah Day School had just opened two years before. Torah Day\nSchool was a major financial drain on the community. It wasn't making it payday\nto payday and that was also a project that I had been highly involved with. Now,\nI'm sitting here thinking about making a kollel, my father hears this in Israel.\nHe calls me up and he says, \"You're going to run the entire enterprise into the\nground.\" I always remember his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"words, \"You're going to run the entire enterprise\nin the ground.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: Was that the opening? That was the opening sentence?\n\nFELDMAN: That was the opener . . . He said it lovingly. I remember saying to him\n. . . I don't remember exactly how this went, but I remember saying to him, \"If\nI can't have people\" . . . I said, \"I'm going to be doing weddings, and bar\nmitzvahs, and funerals all day long. Who's going to attend to everybody else?\nWe've got to have rabbis who are going to be able to educate and inspire.\" He\ngave me a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"test, meaning he said, \"You have to meet the following criteria, if\nyou can find out X, Y, and Z, by whatever amount\" . . . One of the things was a\nthreshold of fundraising. How much money can I raise for this future thing? We\nthought that we wanted to raise $15,000 in the next two weeks, just as a test.\nWe ended up raising $60,000. The response . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: There's your answer.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. My father was shocked, my father was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shocked. We had one\nparticular donor who guaranteed the $60,000, no matter what. He said, \"Raise\nwhatever you can, I'll guarantee the $60,000.\" Anyway, Rabbi Menachem Deutsch is\nthe single most effective, valuable partner in life that I've ever had, besides\nmy wife. I don't say that lightly. Rabbi Menachem Deutsch was . . . Rabbi\n[Yaakov] Weinberg, when I went to visit him at Ner Israel, agreed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with my father\nthat it's too soon to open up a kollel after we had just opened up, the Day\nSchool. It was going to make no money, and it's just too much, and it's\nexhausting. He knew how much work would be involved, and he said, almost as an\nafterthought, and I remember this very, very dramatically, \"Unless, of course,\nyou get a person like Menachem Deutsch, then you can make it work.\" I said,\n\"Who's Menachem Deutsch?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He says, \"Right now, he's in the Soviet Union doing\nsome project over there but when he comes back, I'll talk to him.\" I find out\nhe's coming back on a particular Friday. Unbeknownst to his wife . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Miriam?\n\nFELDMAN: To his wife, Dena. I send them flowers with a note that says, \"The\nAtlanta Jewish community welcomes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you.\" She gets the note and thinks that he has\nalready committed to move to Atlanta, and she doesn't know anything about it. I\nactually wanted to make it sound like a fait accompli, I knew that we had not\ndated each other yet.\n\nBRICKMAN: You had not talked to him?\n\nFELDMAN: I'd spoken to him superficially by phone once, and I knew he was going\nto come down. He came down, we did some joint fundraising. The fundraising went\nsplendidly. Three times during the two days that we went and visited ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people in\ntheir living rooms and asked for money . . . three times what would happen would\nbe, we'd sit there in front of the head of the household. He'd make a\ncommitment, the wife happened to come in after that and up the commitment, which\ngoes against the grain. The wife is always supposed to say, \"You're giving away\ntoo much money.\" But . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: That's on page four.\n\nFELDMAN: Point is, that was the beginning of the Kollel. The Kollel changed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything.\n\nBRICKMAN: It worked for you.\n\nFELDMAN: It worked tremendously. Again, every leap forward comes at a cost. When\nyou have a kollel and you have three or four rabbis running around town, who\nlook extremely Orthodox, it defines you. But it also gives you more manpower,\nand more talent, and more personality. We were able to create connections to\npeople all over town that otherwise wouldn't have ever happened. At the same\ntime, it defined this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community and made it a little bit more Orthodox looking,\nand it made it a little bit harder to swallow for some people who maybe didn't\nwant everything totally Orthodox. That led, in my mind, to the creation of Young\nIsrael, down the street. Young Israel was all Beth Jacob members who I think\nloved my father, who retired in 1991 . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: And you.\n\nFELDMAN: And me. But somehow the kollel seemed to be too intensely ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orthodox, and\nit defined us in a certain way, and they wanted a different version. I wouldn't\neven say a different version. They wanted Orthodoxy the way it was here in\nAtlanta, beforehand. I was upsetting the apple cart.\n\nBRICKMAN: The Kollel was able to reach out, you couldn't do all of that.\n\nFELDMAN: Absolutely not . . . I was very naive. I was not smart enough to know\nhow good the Kollel idea ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was, I honestly did not know. The Kollel was much, much\nmore brilliant than any level of intelligence that I had.\n\nBRICKMAN: They have expanded too, there's not just three or four.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes . . . How many kollels now? I don't know, 12 or 13.\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, and they just brought in new people.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, and they're doing very well.\n\nBRICKMAN: That is good news. Who made the wonderful shidduch between you and\nyour precious wife?\n\nFELDMAN: Her oldest brother.\n\nBRICKMAN: How'd that happen?\n\nFELDMAN: How'd that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happen? I'll tell you how it developed for me, which is I'm\nstudying in the yeshiva one day, and I get . . . her older brother at that time\nwas a [indistinct: 54:12 possibly 'hakham'], which means he was kind of like a\ncounter-revolutionary, modern, brilliant scholar who . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: That's a lot of adjectives.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . Who would have all kinds of gatherings in his living room.\nTalking a deep Torah with the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lights down and all kinds of incense burning\n[indistinct: 54:35] and his wife played guitar. This guy . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Very dramatic.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. This guy, he's a wild man. He is still to this day, a wild man. I\nget a summons, Matis wants to talk to you. I go up to Matis' little cubicle, he\nhad a tiny little office somewhere in the building there. He says, \"I want you\nto meet my sister.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: What was he doing?\n\nFELDMAN: He was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doing his thing.\n\nBRICKMAN: His thing?\n\nFELDMAN: He's the dean's grandson, and Rabbi Weinberg, who was then an extremely\nactive, dynamic, major figure like an assistant dean almost, and he was his son.\nHe was kind of running . . . doing his own thing. He had his own special group,\nit was called Matis' group. They had their own curriculum, they had their own .\n. . it was a whole different approach to how to study, how to master Talmud. It\nwas a whole different ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing, I was a little leery of it, I stayed away from it.\nHe wanted me to join that group and I said, \"No.\" Now when I get summoned to his\noffice, I figure he's going to try again to get me to join the group. He says,\n\"I want you to meet my sister.\" I swallow hard and, of course, I call my parents\nbecause I'm a little boy. I'm like . . . The reason I wasn't studying in Israel\n. . .\n\nBRICKMAN: How old were you?\n\nFELDMAN: I was 21. The reason I wasn't studying in Israel was because I wanted\nto get married, and I felt my parents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"deserved to have me in close range while I\nwas getting involved in this kind of area of life. I called my parents, and my\nfather . . . He says, \"Why isn't she married yet?\" Like what . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: What's wrong with her?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, exactly. He was being a very wise man. The rest is history. I\ncannot tell you from my point of view what it was like to drive up to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"house\nof Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg to pick up his daughter. To me, the greatest dread in\nthe world would be that he would show up, he would be there. I didn't know how .\n. . The man was, to all of us, he was just a larger than life figure. When I\nfinally got engaged, there was an exclusive, for married men only group that he\nled, Rabbi Weinberg on Wednesday night at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"6:00. I now qualified because I'm\nengaged. When we finish the group, it's over at 6:30, he says to me . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: That's your first time?\n\nFELDMAN: This is my first . . . I get engaged on a Monday and on Wednesday I'm\nat this group. At the end of the group, he says to me, we're eating at your\nfuture sister-in-law's, I didn't know where we're going to go to. We're walking\nto her house from the group, and I spoke to him in third ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"person, the way we all\ndid, which is the, \"Rosh Yeshiva said.\" That's how we . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Respect.\n\nFELDMAN: Respect, exactly.\n\nBRICKMAN: Absolutely.\n\nFELDMAN: He grabs my hand, and he says, \"They call me Pa.\" That was . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: That's beautiful.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. He was an extremely warm father-in-law.\n\nBRICKMAN: Tell me a little bit about Miriam. I know some things.\n\nFELDMAN: Miriam is . . . first of all, what me to tell you about her then? Or\ntell you about her now? Because I'm still learning about that lady.\n\nBRICKMAN: Every day is an experience, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but the highlights.\n\nFELDMAN: Miriam is an extremely, creative, feeling, absorber of an undiluted\nmessage from the Torah. She is just . . . she just got it. She got the whole\nthing. She has ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"aspirations, and yearnings, and visions for what's possible for a\nhuman being developed by Torah. That's basically it, I saw that right away.\n\nBRICKMAN: What did she do in your early married life? What is she doing now?\n\nFELDMAN: . . . Between the time . . . When I met her, she was a teacher of fifth\ngrade. Beloved, by the way, still meet students of hers. Doctor Eric Fier is a\nstudent of hers in the fifth grade . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: He's a psychiatrist?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Between the time, then and now, she has taught every grade\nfrom preschool through 12th grade. She is the founding principal of Temima High\nSchool, which, in my opinion, as a rabbi, not as a husband is one of the most\nsuccessful educational enterprises, anywhere, not just in Atlanta. She has\ntremendous integrity. She refuses to compromise, which makes her a pain in the\nneck. [interview pauses, then resumes] . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which means that she does not give\nup on what's possible. If a kid says, \"The work is too hard.\" Instead of what\nnowadays, you say, \"In that case, we have to adjust the curriculum.\" She says,\n\"You don't realize what you're capable of and I'm not going to give up on this.\nWe'll work with you.\" Whatever it is, that kind of thing. Or a teacher who says,\n\"I can't be on time all year long. I reserve the right to come five minutes late\nto a class and have the class just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wait around for me.\" My wife says, \"I'm\nsorry, you're going to have to be fired.\" She doesn't work that way as a thug,\nbut the point is, there are standards, and she will not give up on them.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's dedication, that truly is.\n\nFELDMAN: It's not just . . . Yes, it is. It is dedication, it's also not\nprofessionalism, it's a very deeply ingrained commitment to the truth. Yes, I\nknow this is a little bit Freudian, and you can do all kinds of psychoanalysis\non me, but in a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very spiritual way, I married my mentor. Rabbi Weinberg, changed\nmy life, before I ever knew he had a daughter. He changed my life. I discovered\nhim once at a lecture, and I remember stumbling out of the lecture and telling a\nfriend, \"I've got to make this man my mentor.\" He became my mentor, and I never\nknew he had a daughter but when I got to know her, she had absorbed his message.\nIn the Orthodox yeshiva ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"world, a daughter doesn't study the same texts that a\nman does but she was . . . during the engagement, I'll give an example of who\nshe was, during the engagement, I'm studying with my future father-in-law and .\n. .\n\nBRICKMAN: Her dad.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . The [indistinct: 1:01:16 likely 'madrich'], it's 250 guys there.\nI'm studying at the front, at the eastern wall, whenever we're studying. We had\nto look up a source in Maimonides, Maimonides has 14 volumes, and you have to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know which one it's going to be in. We were trying to look at this thing . . . I\nsay, \"Which one is it?\" He says to me with a little smile . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: He heard you?\n\nFELDMAN: . . . \"Ask your wife, because she knows the entire index of Maimonides\nby heart.\" Because he taught it to her casually at the Shabbos table for years.\n\nBRICKMAN: She wanted that; see how it's absorbed when you really want that?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, exactly . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Until this day, by the way, she's made a special\nclass out of teaching that index of the 613 commandments by category, so that\nthey're grouped by category, and she teaches them. When every graduate of Temima\nHigh School, after four years knows all 613 by heart, by category and what they\nmean . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: So lucky are the students who are under her tutelage.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . Besides everything else, she's a lot of fun. She has tremendous\nsense of humor.\n\nBRICKMAN: That blends in with you. How many years are you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married?\n\nFELDMAN: Forty seven.\n\nBRICKMAN: To 120.\n\nFELDMAN: Amen, thank you . . . We're great grandparents. We have four great\ngrandchildren. It's insane.\n\nBRICKMAN: I knew you had grandchildren, but I didn't know about the great.\nThat's magnificent.\n\nFELDMAN: It's insane. My father was just a sandek at a bris of a great-great grandson.\n\nBRICKMAN: You can't beat that.\n\nFELDMAN: No. In Jerusalem [indistinct: 1:02:52]\n\nBRICKMAN: . . . Now it's naches time, I want you to tell me about your children.\nWho are they? Where are they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"living? Their children? Just little stories\nwhatever you can.\n\nFELDMAN: Our oldest son is a brilliant scholar who lives in Jerusalem. Also, a\nvery quiet, revolutionary, which means he plays by the rules, but he doesn't\nagree with them.\n\nBRICKMAN: Does he admit that out loud?\n\nFELDMAN: To the ones who he trusts, yes. He works very closely with Rabbi\nYitzchak Berkovits, who runs a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing called The Jerusalem Kollel, which is a\nvery outwardly focused kollel. He trains people to go out into the diaspora and\nserve. He's a very important resource. He basically runs half the day of the\ncurriculum there. He also works in other things as well. He's the father of six\nchildren, one of whom, just had a baby, that's what makes him a grandfather.\nHe's married to a wonderful girl from Baltimore, Ruhama, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who's just an angel of\na daughter-in-law. Just an unbelievably beautiful, inside and out, girl. Our\ndaughter, our oldest daughter is married to a rabbi in, Scottsdale, Arizona.\nVery successful. They, as a couple have built up a community from nothing,\nliterally from nothing in Scottsdale, Arizona. They've been there for 17 years.\nThey have . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did he get to Scottsdale?\n\nFELDMAN: Because he joined a different mini kollel that went to Phoenix\n[Arizona], and then he was assigned from Phoenix to Scottsdale.\n\nBRICKMAN: They wanted him there.\n\nFELDMAN: He did what Rabbi [Binyomin] Friedman did over here at Ariel, started a\nnew synagogue. They started there in Scottsdale and it's doing very, very well.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's two children.\n\nFELDMAN: Avraham [sp] is a 6'3\" scholar, skinny scholar, in Baltimore, father of\neight. I hope I've got it right. Married ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to . . . happens to be married to the granddaughter of Rabbi\nShmuel Kamenetsky, who happened to be a cousin of Rabbi Ritterman . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: It worked.\n\nFELDMAN: It worked very well, yes. Then, we have a son who is a radiation\noncologist in Detroit [Michigan] who is also . . . We're very proud of the fact\nthat he devotes several hours a day to Torah study. He just started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a pre . . .\nwhat do they call it? Not a breakfast kollel. He started a program where people\nstudy at 6:00 in the morning until morning services.\n\nBRICKMAN: He used to do that sometimes at some of the hospitals around here,\nthat a kollel representative would go to the hospital . . .\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: . . . The physicians who are on staff would come early or whatever,\nfor an hour, to get a part of the Torah.\n\nFELDMAN: This is not for physicians; this is for anybody in Detroit. He has it\nin his synagogue, and his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wife cooks breakfast for everybody, and whatever it is\n. . . He's a very, very high quality physician. He's got a great bedside manner\n. . .\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a complex field.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, you ain't kidding. It's also complex now, because Detroit, as we\nknow, has a well-developed Jewish community and a well-developed Arab community.\nHe's got many nurses there who are on the other side of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"divide. He's got . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: Challenges, challenges.\n\nFELDMAN: He's got to navigate that situation.\n\nBRICKMAN: We've only been doing this for 5,000 years, challenges.\n\nFELDMAN: Our next child is a daughter who is very capable. She's now an\nadministrator of a middle school in Waterbury, Connecticut. She's married to a .\n. . also a brilliant Russian-born genius of a scholar who's also got one of the\nbest voices I've ever heard in my life. He creates music and that kind of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stuff.\nThey have a very musical family. Our granddaughters send us all kinds of musical\ncompositions that they made, that kind of stuff. Let's see who is next . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: That's four.\n\nFELDMAN: No, that's five. We have a wonderful 36 year old, not married,\ncharismatic. I know the closest thing I can say to a Jewish James Bond. This is\na ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy who has lived in Arab Bethlehem, with Arabs, speaks Arabic. He's gone to Thailand.\n\nBRICKMAN: What does he do in his real time?\n\nFELDMAN: Anything. He does a lot of things very well. Whatever he does, he does\nwell. He's done . . . he managed the construction site at the Kotel for over a\nyear. He was the guy who up until . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: How's he know this?\n\nFELDMAN: He literally started from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"answering an ad in a paper during Covid.\nThey're looking for low grade workers. He ended up rising to the top. He's a\nvery capable guy. He's an automatic leader, will have nothing to do with\nestablished anything. He doesn't believe in the establishment. He doesn't\nbelieve in the state of Israel, doesn't believe in the Arabs, for sure not. But\nhe has great friends among the Arab population and among the Jewish population.\nHe's a very interesting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy and we're very close.\n\nBRICKMAN: Is that the baby?\n\nFELDMAN: No, he's number six, and we've got two more. We have our daughter,\nRussy, is a fantastic photographer, very talented photographer, and mother of\nsix herself. Her husband is the executive director of Congregation Beth Jacob.\nOur youngest is a social worker. Also, I consider . . . when I talk to her about\nsocial work, she's not my little girl. She's like an unbelievably capable . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: She knows things.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, I'm like, where did you come up with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that? She's really . . .\nThat's it, that's our children.\n\nBRICKMAN: Rabbi, with children all over, everywhere?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: When do you get to see . . . ? Do you do it separately? A trip to\nCalifornia, a trip here . . .\n\nFELDMAN: We just take whatever comes . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: How do you manage that?\n\nFELDMAN: First of all, my wife is the manager of all this. She's the one who's\nalways telling me what we have to do and I'm always the one who is saying, \"Do\nwe have to?\"\n\nBRICKMAN: That was in the ketubah, you may have missed that.\n\nFELDMAN: She wins, so we end up wherever we can. For ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"example, I'm going to be\npidyon haben, the redemption of the firstborn of my great grandson on Sunday.\n\nBRICKMAN: In Israel?\n\nFELDMAN: Up in Baltimore. Not in Israel, in Baltimore. This one's in Baltimore.\nThere'll be one in Israel, too. I can't make that one . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: You see them when you can, but you make part of your . . . ?\n\nFELDMAN: When we can and they come for Sukkot, they come for Pesach, and\nwhatever it is. We realize one day we're going to get . . . [interview pauses,\nthen resumes]\n\nBRICKMAN: No such thing as too tired. How do you spend your, in quotes . . .\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: \"Free ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time\" or free minutes, whichever one it is.\n\nFELDMAN: Right now, every free moment I have is exercise.\n\nBRICKMAN: On your own?\n\nFELDMAN: On my own, I've hired a personal trainer. I don't have one right now. I\nhave different phases of life where I have a personal trainer. The problem is\nconsistency, that's a big problem for me. I've got 15 pounds that I haven't been\nable to lose in several years . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: That's not much.\n\nFELDMAN: It's not about the weight, though. To me, it's just about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"moving. It's\njust about movement. I bought an expensive bike that is sitting there very\ncalmly, not moving in my office at home . . . I exercise.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you enjoy it?\n\nFELDMAN: I don't enjoy the exercise. I enjoy finishing the exercise, I love it\nwhen it's over. But what do I do in my free time? I love . . . I am obsessed\nwith politics, and news, and commentary, and that kind of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stuff.\n\nBRICKMAN: In today's time that should take a lot of your time.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. My wife says too much of my time. She says, \"Are you sure you want\nto spend so much time on that?\"\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, I need to know everything. I have two questions; I'll ask them together.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: Who is your favorite biblical or post-biblical hero or heroine? Over\nthe years, your favorite sermon?\n\nFELDMAN: That's a great question!\n\nBRICKMAN: You can make it up, I won't be able to check it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out.\n\nFELDMAN: Oh my God, wow. The first one was a favorite hero or heroine?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes.\n\nFELDMAN: I'll tell you what comes to mind, it's really not a particular figure.\nI am in awe of the average ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jew's capacity [for] sacrifice for something larger\nthan him or herself. BRICKMAN: That's a biggie.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. I'm in awe of that. When I hear, when I see figures, or\nbiographical figures, they to me are not exceptional. They just represent a\nwhole genre of Jew. To me, it's just I am in awe of what a Jew could accomplish\nand what a Jew can do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with his or her life.\n\nBRICKMAN: If they so desire.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's difficult.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, if they're in touch with who they are.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's real dedication when you do that.\n\nFELDMAN: I know, it is. We're all . . . Life is a struggle between\nself-preservation and standing for something. When you stand for something, you\ndon't preserve yourself.\n\nBRICKMAN: Exactly.\n\nFELDMAN: It doesn't work.\n\nBRICKMAN: But you want to stand for something. Do you remember the sermon you\ngave that when you finished you said, \"That was good.\" Can you sense ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: In the congregation?\n\nFELDMAN: I've had a lot of those, thank God. I would . . . I'll tell you the\ntruth. I'm very . . . the word is not 'proud.' Satisfied? I don't like the word\npride for obvious reasons. But I'm very happy with the results of the sermons\nthat I've given in the past three months, since October 7.\n\nBRICKMAN: Because of October 7?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. I'm going to say ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something which I if anybody watches this,\nthey're going to know that they should never take me seriously ever again. I\nthink I was born for this crisis. I believe that October 7, is the defining\nmoment of my life. I don't mean just my life, the last 70 years.\n\nBRICKMAN: What are you going to do about that?\n\nFELDMAN: I'm not sure, I'm still working on it. One thing for sure, my job is to\nkeep Jews awake and we like to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sleep. We like to go back to normal. We like to\navoid; we can't stand crisis for too long.\n\nBRICKMAN: You want an intense believer?\n\nFELDMAN: Not intense, just alert, thoughtful. In other words . . . therefore, to\nme, this antisemitism that's developed in America that we're all aware of,\nwhich, by the way, is not the whole story. We have we are the recipients of a\ntremendous amount of Gentile love in this country right now. We have a pile, a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stack of letters that come to the synagogue unsolicited, sometimes with money.\nIt's right there in the lobby, you can see on the way out. But antisemitism is\ndefinitely a major problem. To me, it's a great development. I am thrilled\nbecause Jews love to fade into the background, and that's why we are failing as\na religious movement. Jews as a religious movement is a failure.\n\nBRICKMAN: You're taking it upon yourself to be a leader in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this time to educate,\nintensify, open their eyes? What do you want to do?\n\nFELDMAN: I want people . . . First of all, I would like the affiliated Jewish\ncommunity to be more responsible for the unaffiliated Jewish community. Because\nI think the unaffiliated community finds us, not just orthodoxy but anybody\naffiliated, find us foreboding and hard to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"join, and expensive, and cliquey, and\nall that kind of stuff. Right now, I think that there is an awakening that is\nunprecedented. Maybe there was such an awakening after the 1967 war, after the\nSix-Day War, maybe, the Soviet Jewry thing helped a lot too. But antisemitism is\na good thing. Jews have to understand we're never going to fit in, ever. It\nnever has happened. We think we will, there are entire . . . there are\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"multimillion dollar Jewish organizations whose job is to tell the goyim, \"We're\njust like you. Just treat us like you.\" But we're not, and the goyim know it . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: What if you're not? You're your own people and with your own . . .\n\nFELDMAN: That's the problem. We have to give people a reason to live as a unique\npeople. What makes us unique?\n\nBRICKMAN: It's a big responsibility you're undertaking.\n\nFELDMAN: Being Jewish is a big responsibility.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"true. It's exhausting.\n\nFELDMAN: It's exhausting and it costs lives.\n\nBRICKMAN: What is your most meaningful accomplishment thus far?\n\nFELDMAN: I would have to say, it's one and a half things, two things.\n\nBRICKMAN: One and a half?\n\nFELDMAN: Meaning it's something I didn't do. My most meaningful accomplishment,\nI think, is the creation of the Atlanta Scholars Kollel. No question about it.\nIt changed the whole dynamic. Again, we paid a price, but we also gained a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tremendous amount, and it transformed . . . that led to many other things inside\nthe Orthodox community, too. It led to other things that served the community\nwell. It was a snowball effect in many ways. The reason I say one and a half\nthings is because in order to do that. I had to remove myself as a center of\nattention. I had to make room for other people. I want credit for the fact that\nI figured out the key to success in life, which is give other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: An opportunity.\n\nFELDMAN: Opportunity, and power, and let them have the limelight. Guess what I\nfound out? You get the credit anyway. The point is . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: The kids used to say, \"Rabbi, you started it.\"\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, that kind of thing. I always kid, on my gravestone, I just want\nsomething that says \"He stayed out of the way.\" Rabbis, we have a way of getting\nin the way because we always have to be involved in everything. 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Menachem Deutsch, the guy walks around with a to do list, and he\nactually does ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything on the list, constantly for the last 40 years.\n\nBRICKMAN: We're lucky here. We're very fortunate here.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, we are very blessed.\n\nBRICKMAN: What are your goals for tomorrow? We only have a couple more\nquestions. What would you like to see happen?\n\nFELDMAN: I'd like . . . I don't know how I'm going to do it but like I said,\nwe've got to change the stance of orthodoxy. It's got to become more relevant.\nOrthodoxy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is . . . it's got to be an answer to people's questions. Right now,\nit's not.\n\nBRICKMAN: You think it frightens people away? You think it's too much?\n\nFELDMAN: It's insular in its attitude. Socially we're insular. The more orthodox\nwe . . . this is just the way it works, the more orthodox you become, the less\nyou deal with other people. It's not even a judgmental thing. It's just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a\ncultural thing, it's like in a black neighborhood, black people go to a black\nlaundromat, and they go to black doctors, a black church, and whatever it is.\nThe more sophisticated a community becomes, the more difficult it is for people\nwho are not totally committed to feel that there's any value or feel that they\nare wanted. That's got to change. Why does it have to change? Because one of the\nfundamental beliefs in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orthodoxy is that God actually is behind the Torah. He\nactually said what he said. We actually believe that, we actually think God said\nthat. If so, why are we happy that 90 percent of the Jewish world doesn't know\nanything at all. Not any orthodoxy, don't know anything.\n\nBRICKMAN: It's frightening.\n\nFELDMAN: There's an optical illusion because all of us who are involved in the\nJewish community, JCC [Jewish Community Center], Federation, AJC [American\nJewish Committee], whatever it is, we spend all our time with the 10 percent who\nare involved with this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stuff and 90 percent of American Jews have nothing to do\nwith anything. What are we going to do about it? Why doesn't it bother us? Why\ndon't we wake up with agony? Where are my Jewish brothers and sisters? No, we're\nnot, we're complacent.\n\nBRICKMAN: My mother had an expression when she wanted you to really understand\nand to be aware of things, \"loz es aykh arn,\" \"let it bother you.\" Let it bother\nyou so that you have constant headaches.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, exactly.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's it.\n\nFELDMAN: She's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good.\n\nBRICKMAN: You always greet people with a smile on your face and you seem so\ncalm. Is that self-taught, or was that a class?\n\nFELDMAN: . . . I'm going to tell you something, this is probably the biggest\nshock of the whole thing, I view my love of the rabbinate, after 40 something\nyears in the rabbinate, and I view my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"joy in the people and my love for the\npeople. My . . . [interview pauses, then resumes] Should I continue the sentence\nor start from beginning? . . . I would just view the pleasure that I have in the\nrabbinate . . . first of all, I don't think I'm that joyous, by the way, or that\ncalm. But I'm not burnt out. I love what I do and in a certain sense, I love it\nmore than I did 20 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years ago. All of that comes from a seminar that I took. I\ncan't believe I'm going to disclose this, I am a graduate of the Landmark Forum.\n\nBRICKMAN: What does that mean?\n\nFELDMAN: The Landmark Forum is a secular, non-denominational, transformational .\n. . Are you a Landmark graduate? Okay.\n\nBRICKMAN: Maybe I'll join, go ahead.\n\nFELDMAN: The Landmark Forum is really an ontological ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"study of being and I\nabsorbed . . . I took the lessons from there and applied it to the Torah that I\nhave. It enhanced my faith, my ability to be present to the faith, and to my\nfaith in God, and be present to the love that I have for people, to be aware of\nwhen I'm driving myself crazy and creating problems for myself that I don't even\nrealize that I'm creating . . . It's done . . . I stayed in that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"program against\ntremendous opposition. I've had people who have told me that, \"It's not\nresponsible for you to be going there, Rabbi Feldman. It's a cult.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: It works.\n\nFELDMAN: They say it works because you're being brainwashed. It's absolutely not\ntrue. I've actually developed with a non-Jewish partner, a seminary for Jews\nonly, not using their methodology because you're not allowed to, but similar\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"methodology. I've offered it in Seattle [Washington] and in Phoenix, and Denver\n[Colorado], in Lakewood.\n\nBRICKMAN: Does it work? Do they accept it? It's working?\n\nFELDMAN: The ones who trust me come to it and then they find that it's good, but\nthe ones who don't trust me, they go, \"This is weird.\"\n\nBRICKMAN: \"I'm not doing that.\"\n\nFELDMAN: \"What are you . . . ?\" I'm leading a seminar for Jews with a non-Jewish\npartner. I got a guy standing in front of the room with me who's not Jewish.\n\nBRICKMAN: So what?\n\nFELDMAN: Right, because it's not a religious seminar. It's about whatever you\ncare about. If you care about God, it's about that.\n\nBRICKMAN: Everything you do and every breath you take, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really, there's a\nvariety. You can't just be suctioned in one way.\n\nFELDMAN: That's right. Anyway, I'm blessed. There can't be a better thing in the\nworld to do than to live for other people's wellbeing . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: That's great. It's a big burden but it makes you feel good.\n\nFELDMAN: I don't see it as a burden, it's not because I'm a valiant guy. It\ndoesn't occur to me as a burden. It just occurs to me as that's what I'm here\nfor, that's what I'm supposed to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do.\n\nBRICKMAN: I'm with you . . .\n\nFELDMAN: But I love vacations!\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you get them?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, whenever I want.\n\nBRICKMAN: Where do you go?\n\nFELDMAN: No, I am not telling you. We make sure we only go where there are no\nJews and we and we don't care because we don't eat kosher food because we don't\neat kosher when we go on vacation . . . No, I'm joking because . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: I'm thinking, turn off the recorder!\n\nFELDMAN: No, no, because we're almost totally vegetarian. Except for Shabbos, we\neat only fruits and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"vegetables. We're kosher everywhere.\n\nBRICKMAN: You can do it.\n\nFELDMAN: Right.\n\nBRICKMAN: I love that. I suspect that you're bullish about the future of\nJudaism, am I correct?\n\nFELDMAN: The article of faith that this is all going to end well, along the way,\nthere's going to be a lot of pain. This is not going to end smoothly.\n\nBRICKMAN: And? Not 'but', but 'and.'\n\nFELDMAN: And at the end of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"story, the Jewish people will lead the world in\nawareness of our creator and lead the world in loving humanity. That's where\nthere'll be the end of the story. On the way there, it's not going to be neat.\n\nBRICKMAN: You've moved many people to love and respect Judaism.\n\nFELDMAN: I hope.\n\nBRICKMAN: You know that, I know that. I understand that you'll soon be traveling\nto Israel. I'm requesting that you give my best regards to your dear parents and\nyour family. Are there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"topics that I might have overlooked or questions I should\nhave asked you for this oral history?\n\nFELDMAN: It doesn't matter because as you can tell, I will turn any question\ninto whatever I want to talk about. I've covered whatever is on my mind, so it\ndoesn't matter. No, you're really good, Shirley.\n\nBRICKMAN: Thank you for your honesty, Rabbi.\n\nFELDMAN: You're really good.\n\nBRICKMAN: Thank you for your honesty and thank you for your time. This is a\ndistinct honor.\n\nFELDMAN: Thank you, I . . .\n\nBRICKMAN: The Breman and I . . .\n\nFELDMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/transcript/66120/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Just to talk to Shirley is worth it. It's unbelievable.\n\nBRICKMAN: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=5190.0,5220.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBeth Jacob is an Orthodox synagogue on LaVista Road in Atlanta founded in 1942 by former members of Ahavath Achim who were looking for a more Orthodox congregation. Beth Jacob is now Atlanta’s largest Orthodox congregation. The congregation first met in a rented grocery store on Parkway Drive. It moved to a permanent location on Boulevard when it purchased and renovated a two-story apartment building. In 1956, it converted the Tabernacle Baptist Church on Boulevard to a synagogue. It built its current synagogue building on a five-acre lot on LaVista Road in 1961. Rabbi Joseph Safra was the congregation’s first permanent rabbi in 1951, followed by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman from 1952 to 1991. Rabbi Ilan Feldman has been the congregation’s Senior Rabbi since his father Emanuel’s retirement in 1991.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWellstar Atlanta Medical Center, formerly known as Georgia Baptist Hospital, is a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia operated by Wellstar Health System. It has 460 beds and over 700 physicians. The hospital is a Level I Trauma Center, and an Advanced Primary Stroke Center. It houses a Neurointensive Care Unit and a Level III Neonatal ICU.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMidtown High School, formerly Henry W. Grady High School, is a public high school located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It began as Boys High School and was one of the first two high schools established by Atlanta Public Schools in 1872. In 1947, the school was named after Henry W. Grady, a famous journalist and orator in the Reconstruction Era, but controversially, a white supremacist. In December 2020, the school's name was changed to Midtown High School.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJewish men cover their heads during prayer with a small skullcap called a \u003cem\u003eyarmulke\u003c/em\u003e (Yiddish) or \u003cem\u003ekippah\u003c/em\u003e (Hebrew). 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In 2014, GHA merged with Yeshiva Atlanta high school to become what is now Atlanta Jewish Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eShearith Israel was established 1891 in Columbus, Georgia. The name was chartered as “Chevro Saris Israel.” In 1950 the name was officially changed to Shearith Israel Synagogue. The original building was on the corner of 7th Street and 1st Avenue in downtown Columbus. In 1951 the congregation moved to a new synagogue on Wynnton Road. In 2007 the building was sold. In 2013 the congregation moved to its current home on River Road. 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Shabbat observance entails refraining from work activities and engaging in restful activities to honor the day. \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e begins at sundown on Friday night and is ushered in by lighting candles and reciting a blessing. It is closed the following evening with the recitation of the \u003cem\u003ehavdalah\u003c/em\u003e blessing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOrthodox Judaism is a traditional branch of Judaism that strictly follows the written \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e and the oral law concerning prayer, dress, food, sex, family relations, social behavior, the Sabbath day, holidays, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSteven Levitas is the oldest son of Ted and Earlyne Levitas and stepson of Miriam Strickman Levitas. He attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Harvard Law School. He was the founder of the North Carolina office of the Environmental Defense Fund and is a former Deputy Secretary of the North Carolina Department, Health and National Resources. He also is also a retired partner at Kilpatrick Townsend, where he focused on environmental law. 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During the German occupation of the city in WWII, tens of thousands of Jews from Vilna and the surrounding area, as well as Soviet prisoners of war and others suspected of opposing the Germans, were massacred in the Ponar woods outside of Vilna with the help of Lithuanian collaborators. The Germans established two ghettos—ghetto # 1 and ghetto # 2—in Vilna in early September 1941. The larger ghetto (ghetto #1) was for 11,000 Jews considered able to work. The smaller (ghetto #2) was for 9,000 sick, the elderly, and those without work permits. 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On June 7, 1967—the third day of the Six Day War—Israeli paratroopers took over the Old City, giving Israel sole control of Jerusalem, which it had previously shared with Jordan. 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It is landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant region of West Asia, it is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel to the south, west, and north. The territory first emerged in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a region controlled and subsequently annexed by Jordan. Jordan ruled the territory until the 1967 Six-Day War, when it was captured by Israel. Since then, Israel has administered the West Bank as the Judea and Samaria Area, expanding into East Jerusalem in 1980. 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The city's economy is largely tourist-driven; international tourism peaks around and during Christmas, when Christians embark on a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, revered as the location of the Nativity of Jesus.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebron is a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank. It is located 19 miles south of Jerusalem and the second largest city in the West Bank. 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Mourner's \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c/em\u003e is said at all prayer services and certain other occasions. Following the death of a parent, child, spouse, or sibling it is customary to recite the Mourner's \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c/em\u003e in the presence of a congregation daily for 30 days, or 11 months in the case of a parent, and then at every anniversary of the death. 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It operated as a division of the Israel Broadcasting Service from 1951 to 1965, the Israel Broadcasting Authority from 1965 to 2017, and the radio stations it used to administer are currently administered by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation. \u003cem\u003eKol Yisrael \u003c/em\u003ewas originally an underground Haganah radio station that broadcast from Tel Aviv. It started consistently broadcasting in December 1947 under the name \u003cem\u003eTelem-Shamir-Boaz\u003c/em\u003e, and was renamed \u003cem\u003eKol HaHagana\u003c/em\u003e in March 1948. 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Most of the day is spent in prayer, reciting \u003cem\u003eyizkor\u003c/em\u003e for deceased relatives, confessing sins, requesting divine forgiveness, and listening to \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e readings and sermons. People greet each other with the wish that they may be sealed in the heavenly book for a good year ahead. The day ends with the blowing of the \u003cem\u003eshofar\u003c/em\u003e (a ram’s horn).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Book of Psalms or \u003cem\u003eTehillim\u003c/em\u003e in Hebrew, is the first book of the section in the Hebrew Bible called Writings (\u003cem\u003eKetuvim\u003c/em\u003e). It is an anthology of 150 poems attributed to King David and to others. It includes songs of praise to God, laments of communal or personal tragedy, and expressions of anger, despair, hope, and gratitude. Psalms are prevalent throughout Jewish liturgy and are commonly recited as an independent form of prayer. They are often sung or chanted.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/127171/file/239065/annotation_set/1307/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEphraim Frankel (1930-2012), an immigrant from Cologne, Germany, was headmaster for the Atlanta Hebrew Academy (now the Atlanta Jewish Academy) for 23 years. 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The attacks began early on Saturday with a barrage of at least 3,000 rockets launched against Israel. Hamas fighters breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking military bases and massacring civilians in Israeli communities, including in Be'eri, Kfar Aza, and Nir Oz, and at the Nova music festival. The attackers killed 1,139 people: 695 Israeli civilians, 71 foreign nationals, and 373 members of the security forces. About 250 Israeli civilians and soldiers were taken as hostages to the Gaza Strip, including 30 children, with the stated goal to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners. There are numerous reports of rape and sexual assault by Hamas fighters. After clearing Hamas militants from its territory, the Israeli military responded with extensive aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip followed by a large-scale ground invasion beginning on 27 October. Since the start of the Israeli operation, an estimated 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. 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