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Secrets for Springtime Fun

AJTs editor and managing publisher, Kaylene Ladinsky, sums up this years Spring issue of STYLE Magazine.

By Kaylene Ladinsky March 11, 2022, 11:26 am Edit

In addition to being the AJT’s managing publisher and interim editor, Kaylene Ladinsky is the president of Americans United With Israel.

  • Jordyn Aronowitz and Blake Simon are ready to party and celebrate their marriage. // Credit: Mavila Photography
    Jordyn Aronowitz and Blake Simon are ready to party and celebrate their marriage. // Credit: Mavila Photography
  • White daylight illuminates a wooden hangar prepared for a wedding dinner.
    White daylight illuminates a wooden hangar prepared for a wedding dinner.
  • Hanna and David share a love of sci fi shows // Dark Rush Photography.
    Hanna and David share a love of sci fi shows // Dark Rush Photography.
  • Flowers appear to grow out of the table for this double baby shower at the St. Regis Hotel. // Credit: Anna Shackleford
    Flowers appear to grow out of the table for this double baby shower at the St. Regis Hotel. // Credit: Anna Shackleford
  • Chuck Wolf transforms photographs into gifts and works of art at his photo design bar in Buckhead.
    Chuck Wolf transforms photographs into gifts and works of art at his photo design bar in Buckhead.
  • Photo Wow offers colorful photo options, including personalized welcomes, simcha sign-ins and beautiful works of art.
    Photo Wow offers colorful photo options, including personalized welcomes, simcha sign-ins and beautiful works of art.
  • Table setting for a customer’s party.
    Table setting for a customer’s party.
  • Dad Mark Winarsky, sister Sara Winarsky, Izzy and mom Karen Winarsky // Dani Weiss Photography.
    Dad Mark Winarsky, sister Sara Winarsky, Izzy and mom Karen Winarsky // Dani Weiss Photography.
  • The Korman family enjoys time by the sea, which reminds them of their hometown, Odessa.
    The Korman family enjoys time by the sea, which reminds them of their hometown, Odessa.
  • The twins display their golf and soccer-themed pillows.
    The twins display their golf and soccer-themed pillows.
  • Zohar Holland chose the colors, her favorites, for the friendship bracelets.
    Zohar Holland chose the colors, her favorites, for the friendship bracelets.
  • Carole arranged for “King” Sid Kirschner to have a throne to greet guests. // Glenny Brown Photography
    Carole arranged for “King” Sid Kirschner to have a throne to greet guests. // Glenny Brown Photography
  • Newlyweds Leslee and Pete Morris pose with their singles group.
    Newlyweds Leslee and Pete Morris pose with their singles group.
  • Josiah Benator in front of congratulatory lawn signage.
    Josiah Benator in front of congratulatory lawn signage.

It’s an exciting time of the year with lots of simchas in the air and we have lots of “simcha secrets” for you in this Spring issue. Martha Jo Katz goes on the record with tips on making sure you ask all the right questions when planning your next swanky affair. Need your special dress or suit updated for your next party?

Well, here’s a little secret: Alexandra’s Alterations has served our local community since her family arrived here from Ukraine. We interview Yona Benstock Friedman, who shares her secrets of success for any occasion’s floral bliss.

Next in line with tips is Rivka Halpern, owner of Gifts to Dazzle, who sells beautiful disposable tabletop items for you to dazzle any guest at your table. Do you know what to do with all those photos on your phone? We have the answer in “Preserving Your Picture-Perfect Memories.”

This issue’s cover features the same couple we featured on the cover of our Summer 2020 issue, remember the cute couple attempting to kiss while masked. We are so lucky to now be on the other side, starting to heal from the pandemic, and now we have the opportunity of featuring Jordyn Aronowitz and Blake Simon again, but this time it’s their beautiful wedding photo on the cover of this year’s Spring issue.

Speaking of engagements and weddings, you will also get the details of Hanna Hier and David Eisenberg’s engagement party at Under the Cork Tree in Sandy Springs, and the small secret David kept to share with his future bride.

The AJT dives into a novel about love in Atlanta’s Sephardic community. You may know the author’s father, who ran the popular Roxy Deli in Midtown Atlanta for many years. Our Roving Reporter was busy this week, working her magic in Jewish Atlanta, on a mission to uncover all the romantic stories of “How I Met Your Father …” with then and now photos to double the fun.

How about the secret of living a long life? Well, at Josiah V. Benator’s 100th birthday celebration in Toco Hills, well-wishers gathered to ring in not just the scoutmaster’s birthday, but also to share in some of the amazing accomplishments of his long life. Speaking of birthdays, did you know that Sid Kirschner has had a standing tradition to celebrate his birthday at the Buckhead Club for the last 40 years? His advice for a happy life is to “Never say ‘no’ to a request for help; and do good where you can.”

So, I will wrap up my secrets with a couple of mitzvahs, starting with the Swartz twins, Gabrielle (Gabi) Claire and Tyler Benjamin, who celebrated their b’nai mitzvah at Ponce City Market. We feature Isabelle “Izzy” Winarsky’s bat mitzvah party, in her basketball shoes and a beautiful blue dress, where everyone got to dance and shoot some hoops.

Last but not least is a story about a unique bat mitzvah project by Zohar Holland that aims to build connections between soldiers in Special in Uniform, a Jewish National Fund-USA program and their American friends and supporters.

Now don’t go out and share all our secrets at once, our next issue, full of summertime fun, will be here before you know it.

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