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NCJW Atlanta’s Sheroes co-chairs, Diana Silverman and Rachel Silverman, preside over the sold-out luncheon.
May 10, 2023, 12:30 pm
NCJW Honors Local Sheroes
The National Council of Jewish Women-Atlanta Section honored local community members for their impact.
By Compiled by AJT staff
Temple Kol Emeth streamed live on March 28 to announce Rabbi Larry Sernovitz’s resignation to their members.
April 26, 2023, 11:33 am
Temple Kol Emeth Begins New Rabbi Search
TKE looks for new leadership after resignation of Rabbi Larry Sernovitz.
By Fran Putney
The Stieglitz family marched in the Fourth of July Dunwoody Parade and gave out bagel coupons from their donors.
January 1, 2023, 12:06 pm
Bagel S.O.S.
Volunteer coordinator Erin Steiglitz has rescued more than 500,000 bagels to help feed those in need.
By Marcia Caller Jaffe
Three Jewish Atlantans — Barbara Ducoffe, Deborah Lamensdorf Jacobs and Susan Hart Sandler — share memories of growing up in New Orleans.
January 28, 2022, 2:18 pm
Museum of Southern Jewish Experience is Open
Three Atlantans select their favorite artifacts from the museum and share their memories of growing up in the Big Easy. Take a virtual tour of through ten of its artifacts.
By Susanne Katz Karlick
Rabbi Berg (right) with Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish.
December 22, 2021, 1:48 pm
YIR: Rabbi Berg Delivers Vice President’s Mezuzah
November 2021: History was made as a mezuzah, loaned by Atlanta’s oldest Jewish congregation, was affixed to the Naval Observatory House.
By Dave Schechter
Piedmont Park, Atlanta
October 28, 2021, 2:41 pm
Crime Tops the List of Atlanta Mayoral Race Issues
The election of Atlanta’s next chief executive will be the most significant yet under the state’s new voting laws.
By Dave Schechter
Michal Hart Hillman is the chair of the Lilith magazine’s board of directors.
October 13, 2021, 12:28 pm
Atlanta’s Hillman Chairs Lilith Magazine Board
Independent, Jewish and frankly feminist since 1976, Lilith’s mission is to be the feminist change-agent in the Jewish community.
By Susanne Katz Karlick
Mark Papier and son enjoy Anderson Family Farm in Cummings.
September 17, 2021, 6:25 pm
Relevant Social Justice Action with a Shmita Plan
A local synagogue rediscovers an ancient Biblical tradition to mitigate climate change.
By Flora Rosefsky
August 13, 2021, 11:43 am
Atlanta’s First Female Rabbi Looks Back
Forty-two years have passed since The Temple made history by hiring Rabbi Devon Lerner.
By Dave Schechter
Rabbi Rachel Bregman served the Brunswick, Ga., community.
December 22, 2020, 11:17 am
2020 YIR: Former Atlanta Rabbi Wasn’t Prepared for Brunswick Killing
Rabbi Rachel M. Bregman, a self-described "social justice junkie," offered her words of support in May after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
By Jan Jaben-Eilon
Voters wait in line at the Judicial Center in Noblesville, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, to cast their ballot on the second day of early voting in Indiana. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
October 26, 2020, 6:52 am
How US Jewish Groups are Protecting Voting Access in 2020
Mobilizing legal teams to report voter suppression, educating voters and help people get signed up, the organizations say they are united in fighting minority disenfranchisement.
By RON KAMPEAS
Cantor Deborah Hartman
June 26, 2019, 10:46 am
Cantors Sing A Different Tune These Days
When the American Conference of Cantors held its annual convention in Atlanta this week, its participants had more than just the latest Shabbat melodies on their minds.
By Bob Bahr
Lily Brent, director of Repair the World Atlanta.
June 12, 2019, 11:37 am
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., has a steel pillar for each county in the United States where a lynching took place.
By Lily Brent
Amanda Berman (left), Zioness founder and executive director, has a background as a civil rights attorney. Atlanta activist Michal Ilai (right) with her three children.
May 15, 2019, 10:51 am
Atlantans Eager to Launch Atlanta Zioness Chapter
Founded by Amanda Berman, Zioness is an initiative to empower and activate Zionists on the progressive left to “stand proudly in social justice spaces as Jews and Zionists.”
By Jan Jaben-Eilon
Doug Weinstein
April 3, 2019, 12:30 pm
Democratic ‘Jexodus’
Most Jews identify as Democrats, and that is unlikely to change under the current policies of today’s GOP.
By Doug Weinstein
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