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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
The gold dome of the Georgia Capitol in downtown Atlanta, August 27, 2022. (AP/Steve Helber)
August 16, 2024, 6:35 am
US Jewish groups file federal lawsuit alleging antisemitism at Atlanta schools
Civil rights suit accuses the Fulton County district of having ‘fostered a hostile climate that has allowed antisemitism to thrive in its schools’ since Oct. 7
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden delivers a commencement address during Morehouse College's graduation ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia on May 19, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
May 19, 2024, 9:04 pm
Biden’s graduation speech goes uninterrupted after fears of anti-Israel protests
At historically Black college, president calls Israel-Hamas war ‘heartbreaking’, says he’s working for two-state solution; Morehouse school’s head cites ‘Palestinian Jew named Jesus’
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Hitler as a baby (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
May 16, 2024, 6:34 am
Connecticut probes middle school teacher who showed photo of ‘cute’ baby Hitler
In separate incident, private school outside Atlanta comes under fire for asking students to rate the Nazi dictator ‘as a Solution Seeker’ and ‘as an Ethical Decision Maker’
By Andrew Lapin
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
A screenshot from CCTV footage taken on December 1, 2023, across the street from the Israeli consulate in Atlanta where a protester with a Palestinian flag set themself on fire. (X/Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 2, 2023, 1:48 am
Protester with Palestinian flag self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Atlanta
Demonstrator in critical condition after what police call ‘extreme act of political protest’; security guard injured trying to stop act
By Jacob Magid, AFP and ToI Staff
Sgt. Rose Lubin, who was killed in a stabbing attack on November 6, 2023, speaking at an FIDF dinner in April 2023, in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. (Courtesy)
November 9, 2023, 5:15 pm
Policewoman killed in Jerusalem stabbing eulogized as ‘free-spirited people magnet’
Rose Lubin, an immigrant from Atlanta, moved to Israel in 2021, joined the Border Police as a lone soldier a year later
By Jessica Steinberg
This mug shot provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office shows Donald Trump on Wednesday, August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, after he was briefly booked. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office)
August 25, 2023, 4:06 am
Trump surrenders at Atlanta jail over 2020 election charges, is booked and released
Mug shot shows unsmiling former president as he reports for fourth indictment since leaving office; calls sprawling case around his alleged bid to undo vote a ‘travesty of justice’
By Eric Tucker, Kate Brumback and Jill Colvin
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
Dawn Thomas of Kankakee Ill., says a short prayer in front of a statue of former President Jimmy Carter at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP/John Bazemore)
February 20, 2023, 1:44 am
Tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter as former president enters hospice
Dozens make pilgrimage to Carter Center in Atlanta to pay respects to one-term Democrat, 98, after announcement that he will no longer seek medical intervention
By JEFF MARTIN and Maysoon Khanhan
Mayor Sam Massell, center, and his daughter Melanie, seated, welcome members of the Jackson Five to the mayor’s office in Atlanta, April 7, 1971. (Afro American News via Getty Images via JTA)
March 17, 2022, 11:28 am
Jewish Atlanta mayor who shepherded in era of Black-led politics dies at 94
Sam Massell was seen by many in the Georgia metropolis as paving the way for better representation of women and minorities in city government
By Ron Kampeas
US President Joe Biden (second right) and Vice President Kamala Harris (far right) pause with Martin Luther King III and other members of the King family after a wreath laying at the tomb of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King, on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
January 11, 2022, 10:59 pm
Invoking history, Biden launches high-risk gambit for voting rights reforms
President, traveling to Georgia amid sinking poll numbers, describes bills as ‘turning point,’ but passing them will require using ‘nuclear option’ to defuse GOP opposition
By Sebastian Smith
President Joe Biden speaks after meeting with leaders from Georgia's Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, Friday, March 19, 2021, at Emory University in Atlanta, as Vice President Kamala Harris listens. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
March 20, 2021, 1:15 am
Biden, Harris console Asian American community after deadly attack
During Atlanta visit, Harris, first person of South Asian descent to hold national office, vows administration will never be silent in face of hate crimes and discrimination
By Jonathan Lemire, Jeff Amy and Zeke Miller
This booking photo provided by the Crisp County Sheriff's Office shows Robert Aaron Long on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Long was arrested as a suspect in the fatal shootings of multiple people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, most of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. (Crisp County Sheriff's Office via AP)
March 18, 2021, 6:43 am
Gunman charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlors
Deadliest US shooting in almost 2 years horrifies Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic
By Kate Brumback and Angie Wang
Law enforcement officials confer outside a massage parlor following a shooting on March 16, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
March 17, 2021, 7:54 pm
Atlanta police: ‘Sex addiction,’ not racism, may be motive in deadly shootings
Sheriff says investigators probing if killing of 8 people at massage parlors, most of them Asian Americans, was racially motivated, ‘but the indicators right now are it may not be’
By Kate Brumback and Angie Wang
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