Blank on Trump, Jewish Owners; Kosher Fest; Amona

• Federation has hired a chief impact officer.
• Chabad of Georgia holds the annual Kosher Food & Wine Atlanta tonight at 7 at Mason Fine Art, 415 Plasters Ave., in Atlanta’s Armour Junction. In addition to getting your fill of fine food from Atlanta’s kosher caterers and restaurants, you can sample premium kosher wines and celebrate honorees Rita and Michael LeVine and Yaarit and Ian Silverstone. Tickets are $90 at the door.
• The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival continues with nine screenings today: “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You” (twice); “The Freedom to Marry”; “Riphagen”; “Dirty Wolves”; “The Green Park”; “Radio Days”; “Beyond the Mountains and the Hills”; and “The 90 Minute War.”
• Israeli police have broken into the synagogue in the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona to evacuate the final settlers, who had barricaded themselves inside, The Times of Israel reports.
• U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put Iran “on notice” Thursday over its latest ballistic missiles testing, The New York Times reports.
• The Start-Up Nation is one of the worst in the developed world at teaching math, and one researcher points to a lack of discipline, The Times of Israel reports.
• Falcons owner Arthur Blank, continuing his Super Bowl press tour, tells Fox Business News he’s hopeful that President Donald Trump’s pro-business positions will be good for the country. He also promises to dance on his toes if the Falcons win Super Bowl LI on Sunday.
• Blank focuses on a culture of giving back in speculating with The Forward on why the NFL has so many Jewish owners.
• Whoever is making all those bomb threats at JCCs is using technology effectively, making it appear that the calls are coming from inside the centers, JTA reports.
• Thursday marked the 14th anniversary of the explosion the space shuttle Columbia and the death of Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, and Spaceflight Insider takes a look at the mission and its legacy.
• Spurred by anti-Israel U.N. Resolution 2334, a move is afoot to replace the United Nations with the Covenant of Democratic Nations, Edwin Black writes at The Algemeiner.
• Peter Beinart at The Forward condemns not only Jared Kushner for failing to block objectionable actions by his father-in-law, but all of Modern Orthodoxy for producing Kushner. Gary Weiss responds at Tablet that it’s no more acceptable to blame an entire religious denomination for the actions of one of its members than it is to blame all of Islam for the actions of a few Islam-inspired terrorists.
• To end on a positive note, Israeli actress Gal Gadot shared this image of her as Wonder Woman on her Instagram account. The film comes out June 2.

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