Papers & Articles

It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Chanukah

It’s beginning to look a lot like Chanukah Everywhere you go Take a look at the latkes fry, I’m winning all the gelt tonight When the dreidels spin to and fro   Chanukah is my favorite time of the year. As a child, it was all about the gifts and the gelt. The first...

Two Bridges Park: A Garden of Earthly Delights

I moved to the Lofts Apartments on Nov. 4, 2012. While directing the movers to my new apartment, I noticed a sign across the street that was standing before a long, deep strand of trees. Coming: Perimeter Center East Park. The park, as the years passed, and did not...

Opening up the Floodgates to a New Normal

Published in the Atlanta Jewish Times, April 15, 2020 Last year I wrote that the Hebrew’s ten plagues was the first recorded use of applied terror to achieve political goals. The plagues brought about the Exodus from Egypt, and after the wandering, the ancient...

Myrna Cohen, Vice Chair, Visits Ra’anana November 14, 2019

Myrna Cohen, Vice Chair of the Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister City Committee, visited Ra’anana, Atlanta’s sister city in Israel, on November 14, 2019. The major aim of her visit was to support the Daffodil Project by planting five hundred daffodil bulbs to honor the memory...

Dunwoody, GA, 2019: My Ten Favorite Places Around Town

Given the popularity of my web page that lists ten good happy hour places in Dunwoody’s Perimeter Mall area – see www.arnoldheller.org/homepage/dunwoody-perimeter-area-ten-good-happy-hour-places.html – permit me to list my ten favorite places that make Dunwoody...

Forgiveness in the Dark Age of Trump

Psychologists define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you (Google). On Yom Kippur, Jews ask God to forgive their sins and atone by fasting to learn that repentance is...

Arnie Heller’s Big Fiftieth Birthday Party

Both my grandfather Albert Heller and father Bernie Heller died at age forty.  That I might too experience that fate influenced me to make every moment in life count.  So, when I turned forty, I celebrated as if it might be my last year. If you’ve not viewed the...