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Leo Frank
Sherry Frank called her friend John Lewis “a hero to the world, but he was a champion of causes central to the Jewish community.”
July 27, 2020, 6:58 am
Farewell to My Hero John Lewis
Decades of treasured memories of a steadfast friend of Israel and the Jewish community.
By Sherry Frank
July 16, 2020, 8:52 am
Letter to the Editor: Rick Diguette
The AJT welcomes your letters. If you would like your letter to be published, please write 200 words or less, and send it to editor@atljewishtimes.com.
By Rick Diguette
Photo courtesy of Bill Rothschild and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum// Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King with Rabbi Jacob Rothschild and Janice Rothschild at the January 1965 dinner in Atlanta honoring King’s receiving the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
June 19, 2020, 7:35 am
Rothschild Helped Lay Path for Today’s Activist Rabbis
At a time when many Southern Jews felt compelled to balance their racial and religious identities, the Pittsburgh native felt no such reticence.
By Dave Schechter
The “Driving Miss Daisy’ house was originally built in 1915 for a prominent Atlanta Jewish family.
April 27, 2020, 6:45 am
‘Driving Miss Daisy’ House for Sale in Druid Hills
The Home lists for $2.7 million of the Broadway play and motion picture, “Driving Miss Daisy.” The Montags, were members of The Temple in Atlanta and who wrote the play.
By Bob Bahr
Shelley Rose, former deputy director of the Anti-Defamation League regional office in Atlanta, chats with Rabbi Steve Lebow of Temple Kol Emeth before the press conference, while former Gov. Roy Barnes checks his phone.
December 23, 2019, 10:41 am
YIR: Leo Frank Gets Second Look
It’s been 104 years since Leo Frank was lynched in the Marietta woods by a confederacy of Cobb County men, and now the case is getting a new look.
By Dave Schechter
Rabbi Steve Lebow alongside the sign commemorating the Leo Frank Lynching.
August 21, 2019, 2:33 pm
My Tribute to Klinger
Rabbi Steven Lebow reflects on his time working with Jerry Klinger on the Leo Frank memorial site, and a new plaque for the ~570 Georgians lynched from 1880-1946.
By Rabbi Steven Lebow
Shelley Rose, deputy director of the Anti-Defamation League regional office in Atlanta, chats with Rabbi Steve Lebow of Temple Kol Emeth before the press conference, while former Gov. Roy Barnes checks his phone.
May 15, 2019, 10:57 am
Leo Frank Gets Second Look
“There is no statute of limitations on doing the right thing," as Rabbi Steve Lebow has shown as a leading voice in the effort to exonerate Leo Frank.
By Dave Schechter
February 13, 2019, 1:12 pm
From ‘Ballyhoo’ to Havdalah on the Square
Uhry's not-so-fictional "Freitags" of 1939 could not imagine today's open expression of Jewish identity.
By Dave Schechter
Photo by Bernice Isaac/Congregation Etz Chaim // The musical trio lit up the stage: Hankus Netsky, Miryem-Khaye Siegel and Abigale Reisman.
January 30, 2019, 2:57 pm
Infusing Life into Yiddish Treasures
Musical trio, Hebrew National Salvage, delighted a full house Saturday night, Jan. 26, at Marietta’s Strand Theatre.
By Marcia Caller Jaffe
Dr. King with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heshel at Arlington National Cemetery, Feb. 6, 1968.
January 23, 2019, 11:36 am
What MLK Means to Us
It is particularly important to reflect upon why King’s legacy means so much to Jews around the world, as well as in Atlanta.
By Tiffany Parks
The new Georgia lynching memorial sits a few feet from the plaque memorializing Leo Frank's lynching in August 1915.
December 12, 2018, 11:24 am
Lynching Memorial Commemorates Georgia Victims
A new granite marking is believed to be the only memorial in Georgia addressing lynchings that took place throughout the state.
By Dave Schechter
On Oct. 6, Brett Kavanaugh became the newest associate justice of the Supreme Court.
October 10, 2018, 8:10 pm
Brett Kavanaugh and Leo Frank
We are morally bound to judge every person on the particular facts of his or her case.
By Bill Rothschild
Patricia Meagher, Georgia Historical Society communications director; Jerry Klinger, Jewish American Society for Historical Preservation president; Shelley Rose, ADL Southeast deputy director; and Rabbi Steven Lebow of Temple Kol Emeth stand before the plaque. //Photos by Dave Schechter
August 30, 2018, 4:41 pm
Rededication of Leo Frank’s Memorial
Rabbi Steven Lebow, ADL and the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation gathered to rededicate Frank's memorial.
By Dave Schechter
August 24, 2018, 1:44 pm
Rededication of Leo Frank’s Memorial
A memorial to all victims of lynching is to be added in the coming months.
By Dave Schechter
Frank's memorial plaque at Roswell Road and Frey's Gin Court.
August 23, 2018, 7:23 am
Historical Marker of Leo Frank Returns
Removed four years ago for a road construction project, GDoT replaced the historical marker.
By Logan C. Ritchie
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