While much of the world smiles at the “firsts” attached to Vice President Kamala Harris’ swearing in, I think as well of something closer to home. It sounds like the opening line of a Borscht Belt joke: “A Jew and a Black minister walk into the Senate …” When the results came in from Georgia’s…
Hackers disrupted the Rev. Raphael Warnock’s sermon at a virtual Shabbat service on Friday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, blocking viewers from hearing him and triggering problems at other synagogues across the country. Some congregants of The Temple, the synagogue that has hosted the annual event for more than a decade, assumed…
When you finish a book of Torah, as we did this past Shabbat, we utter the phrase “Hazak, Hazak, V’nithazek. From strength to strength, may we be strengthened.” On the eve of the election, this feels like the perfect blessing for this moment. This is a time where we must find resilience. In a time…
Like many Georgians, over the last 20 years, I have enviously watched my friends in so-called battleground states feel a real sense of purpose with respect to their votes. Those friends in Iowa who launch presidencies? Yeah, I was jealous. My brother in Philadelphia, whose vote would help determine a President? I wanted to be…
The fate of the United States Senate may hang in the balance of an unlikely political force in Georgia: the Atlanta Jewish vote. Political operatives and election forecasters have zeroed in on the Atlanta metro area and its suburbs as the key sites for Democratic turnout, specifically Fulton, Gwinnett, and Cobb counties. This area happens…
This election cycle has become a tale of two Georgias for the state’s Jewish community. In January’s run-off election, Jon Ossoff is poised to become the first Jewish Senator ever elected, not just in Georgia but from any Deep South state since Reconstruction. At the same time, this campaign season has seen the rise of…
The next high stakes election is in Georgia, and the Jewish community is ready for it. Local synagogues and political groups are planning efforts to get people who will turn 18 before the vote to register. The Republican Jewish Coalition has raised money and is sending staff over from Florida. The Anti-Defamation League is monitoring…
Matt Lieberman is a 52-year-old attorney, single father of two young women, and former principal of an Atlanta-area Jewish school. The son of longtime Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman is also raising the ire of his fellow Georgia Democrats by refusing to exit an expensive and complicated Senate race, despite being called out by the state…
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