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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

Atlanta Jewish community

Demonstrators, also holding pro-Palestinian signs, march to the courthouse supporting 61 defendants that are being arraigned on RICO charges related to vandalism at the site of the new Public Safety Training Center, outside the a Fulton County courthouse, November 6, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
November 4, 2024, 4:18 pm
Atlanta Jews on high alert as anti-Israel group Stop Cop City goes national
Progressive movements mix anti-capitalist and anti-police messages with antisemitic tropes while diverse far-left causes band together under the anti-Israel banner
By Katja Ridderbusch
Talia Segal, a fourth-year biomedical engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, fears not only for her physical safety but struggles with 'the lack of emotional safety' in the United States. (Katja Ridderbusch)
April 9, 2024, 1:29 am
These US Jews are recalibrating their identity in a tempestuous post-Oct. 7 environment
Concerned about their safety and uncertain about their values and friends, Jewish Americans experience a seismic shift, and a wide range of reactions, as the war in Gaza rages on
By Katja Ridderbusch
Illustrative: Demonstrators gather outside of Atlanta's City Hall on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, as local officials announce they are moving forward with plans to build the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The protesters have called for officials to abandon plans for the project which they derisively call Cop City. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)
March 9, 2023, 4:35 am
Invoking Jewish traditions, activists protest planned Atlanta police training center
In the forest where an 85-acre law enforcement compound is set to be built, ‘Stop Cop City’ protesters have prayed, celebrated Shabbat, built a sukkah, and lit Hanukkah candles
By Dave Schechter
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
September 18, 2021, 12:59 am
In Yom Kippur address, Jon Ossoff condemns antisemitism at Georgia high schools
Local officials call ‘Heil Hitler’ and swastika graffiti hate speech, but not antisemitic
By Ben Sales
Democratic US Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock waves to supporters during a drive-in rally, Jan. 3, 2021, in Savannah, Georgia (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
January 17, 2021, 11:44 am
Hackers attack Atlanta synagogue stream of senator-elect Warnock’s sermon
Rabbi says ‘malicious user agents’ blocked access for speech by newly elected Democrat, who serves as pastor at church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached until his assassination
By Ron Kampeas
Jon Ossoff speaks in Atlanta after losing in a special election for a House seat, June 20, 2017. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/via JT)
November 30, 2019, 6:09 am
In Atlanta, race question complicates Jewish hopes for ousting Trump in 2020
The city’s 120,000 Jews have many common interests with its African-American majority, but will the chasm between the communities prevent them from cooperating?
By Ron Kampeas
Atlanta-based historian Deborah Lipstadt in Jerusalem, July 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
July 9, 2019, 11:26 am
‘Feh!’ Top Holocaust scholar pans Netanyahu for warm ties with Poland, Hungary
‘Don’t have the chutzpah to say Israel is the leader in the fight against anti-Semitism,’ Deborah Lipstadt says in scathing criticism of PM’s realpolitik approach
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative photo of swastika graffiti. (Flash90)
February 7, 2019, 9:29 pm
Swastikas sprayed inside and outside of an Atlanta-area high school
Nazi symbol found in Centennial High in Georgia; principal says vandalism ‘will not be tolerated’
By Marcy Oster
Screen capture from video of a world-record breaking Israeli flag made out of cookies on the floor of the Heritage Hall in Atlanta’s Congregation Beth Jacob, June 3, 2018. (YouTube)
June 5, 2018, 6:41 pm
Israeli flag made of cookies in Atlanta breaks Guinness record
Volunteers lay out 117,000 edible baked treats over 3,224 square feet to celebrate 70 years of Israel’s independence
By JTA
Shloime Newmark, Rabbi Michoel Alterman and Joel Alpert catch their breath while responding to an emergency Sept. 11 at Beth Jacob Atlanta: When the power went out, hundreds of pounds of food needed to be moved quickly from the synagogue refrigerators into a cooler truck provided by Quality Kosher. (Atlanta Jewish Times)
From the WebSeptember 14, 2017, 4:34 pm
Florida evacuees weather Irma in Atlanta synagogues
Atlanta Jewish Times: Local community hosts more than 1,000 people who escaped from the hurricane, only to brave the storm there
By Sarah Moosazadeh
Volunteers in Atlanta’s Orthodox Jewish community coordinate homes for evacuees from Hurricane Irma, which is set to hit Florida this weekend. (Courtesy of Adam Starr via JTA)
September 8, 2017, 10:17 pm
Jews fleeing Hurricane Irma are taking refuge in Atlanta’s synagogues
The number of families seeking shelter with Atlanta’s Orthodox community is up to 250 — and growing
By Ben Sales
Adam Hirsch, Eliana Leader, Prodezra Beats, Maddie Cook, Bobby Nooromid, Whitney Kweskin, Jonathan Tescher, Corby Hershman, Noah Pawliger and Mamie Vogel are just a few members of the 2017 AJT 40 Under 40.
From the WebJuly 14, 2017, 10:19 am
Meet Jewish Atlanta’s 40 under 40
Atlanta Jewish Times: These 20 women and 20 men are making the Atlanta Jewish community better
By AJT staff
Ana and Steven Weisman and Stephanie Trump march to Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate during the 2012 'mega event' of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation’s mission of 700 people to Israel. (Randi Sidman-Moore/JTA)
June 28, 2017, 6:36 pm
Crisis with world Jewry could cost Israel billions, deputy minister warns
Amid alleged threats to cut donations, US-born Michael Oren says Diaspora Jews’ contributions and investments ‘almost equal our defense budget’
By Raphael Ahren
The Temple in Atlanta is a hub of social activism. (Ben Sales/JTA)
From the WebMarch 31, 2017, 11:41 am
In Georgia, anti-Semitism spurs hundreds to act
Atlanta Jewish Times: The newly formed Atlanta Initiative Against Anti-Semitism convenes 150-plus interfaith groups
Janice Rothschild Blumberg remembers when her Atlanta synagogue was bombed in 1958 by white supremacists and sees the same hatred still festering. (Bill Rothschild)
March 25, 2017, 5:18 am
60 years after synagogue bombing, an Atlanta rebbetzin remembers her friends Martin and Coretta
Spate of threats against JCCs eerily reminded Janice Rothschild Blumberg of when her temple was targeted during the civil rights movement
By Ben Sales
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