Palmach AZA (SR-AC)

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Palmach AZA is a chapter of Atlanta Council BBYO located in the Marietta/East Cobb area. Palmach is one of the newest chapters in Atlanta Council. The chapter colors are green and white, and the mascot is the Kool-Aid Man.

Palmach AZA Mascot

History

Palmach AZA was established in 2005. The name Palmach comes from the special operations unit of the Haganah.

At the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year, Exodus AZA #2505-0420 knew that its membership numbers (which exceeded 75) were extraordinarily large and that a split of some kind was necessary either in the middle of that year or at the end. Alephs Shaun Lee and Sammy Shapiro served as co-S’gans of that chapter, and when the split/fuse (members from Hazakah AZA were supposed to join as well, yet only a few did) took place at the end of that year, Shaun and Sammy went their separate ways to each be the Godol of a chapter, Shaun of Exodus, and Sammy of the new Atlanta Council AZA chapter.

For an extended history and minutes of Palmach business meetings, check out History of Palmach AZA

2011 Spring Board

• Godol - Wryan Ward
• S'gan - Parker Goldstein
• S'gan - Jonathan Shuster
• Moreh - Brandon Fram
• Moreh - Ben Tetenbaum
• Mazkir - Richard Becker
• Shaliach - Reuben Levith
• Gizbor - Seth Yarus
• Sopher - Alec Rush
• Kohen Godol - Brandon Fram

2006-2007 2nd Palmach AZA Executive Board

• Godol - Adam Taylor
• S'gan - AJ Shapiro
• Moreh - Jonathan Cohen
• Moreh - Jared King
• Mazkir - Daniel Mendel
• Shaliach - Michael Craig
• Gizbor - Jonathan Kleinman
• Sopher - Shane Ward
• Mayamen - Josh Kirsch
• Kohen Godol - Sammy Shapiro

2005-2006 1st Palmach AZA Executive Board

• Godol - Sammy Shapiro
• S'gan - Stuart Miller
• Moreh - Jonathan Cohen
• Mazkir - Adam Taylor
• Shaliach - Michael Craig
• Gizbor - Jason Fleet
• Sopher - David Gorvy

Advisors

• Jed Selkowitz
• Brian Monk
• Larry Reicher
• Jason Shwartz
• Scott Greenwald

Sweethearts

• 2005-2006: Carly Migdall (all-time honorary)
• 2006-2007: Laura Galanti
• 2010: Taylor Padawer
• 2011: Amanda Mizell, Beth Galaid, Hilit Jacobson

Awards

• Southern Region Runoffs (2006)

   1st Place Overall (2006)
   1st Place Storytelling (2006)
   2nd Place Video (2006)
   2nd Place Banner (2006)

• Atlanta Council Chapter of the Year (2006) (2010)

• Golden Pen Award (Mazkir of the Year) to Adam Taylor (2006)

Home Of

• Chapter T-Shirts for EVERY SINGLE CONVENTION
• Turkey in the straw
• C-H-A-M-L-A-P- thats palmach backwards, dont mess with me
• The Palmach Cheer

P is for all the People in our chapter
A is for Antelopes
L is for Lolly pops and stuff
M is for M's
A is for Adam Taylor
C is for Christopher
H is for Handjobs and stuff

• The ONLY Mayamen in AC (Josh Kirsch)- video/t-shirt guy
• GREEN AND WHITE
• Highest number of caucusing Council Board members (2006 election): Sammy Shapiro, Stuart Miller, Michael Craig, Adam Taylor
• Two '06-'07 Council Board members: Stuart Miller (Shaliach) and Sammy Shapiro (Gizbor)
• Chapter Conventions are held at Stuart Miller's Lakehouse at Flowery Branch Lake Lanier in North Georgia.
• Shane Ward's life story
• 2010 Atlanta Jewish Teens' Basketball Champions(BBYO and Yeshiva Atlanta)
• Without the R, it's spinkler (Michael Craig)
• Retenting the hell out of freshmen (Jonathan Cohen)
• '05-'06 AIT Representative AJ Shapiro
• Chicks Dig T'fillen
• spending $90 of chapter money on food...in one night (Adam Taylor and Alex Waxman)
• David Lurie's Yellow Shoes.
• Caren (Shane Ward's middle name)
• Golden Pen Award (Adam Taylor)
• Jacked as Hell (Cecil Matthew Moskowitz)
• Shaliach for 6 terms (Reuben Levith)

Links and Stuff

• Atlanta Council Website
• BBYO Website
• Palmach Constitution