Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed pushed back on demands from local Black Lives Matter supporters for the city to boycott Israel by standing behind a police training program between his city and Israel. “I happen to believe that (Israel) has some of the best counterterrorism techniques in the world,” Reed said at a July 18 press…
Vice President Joe Biden will speak at a Jewish community center in south Florida and at an Atlanta synagogue this week. Biden will speak Thursday morning at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie, in Broward County, Fla., on Thursday morning. Thursday evening, Biden will speak on the topic “Challenges Facing the U.S. and…
The NBA’s Atlanta Hawks are set to be sold to a group led by businessman Tony Ressler, the team announced on Wednesday, in a deal precipitated by the release last year of a racially charged email by the team’s current owner. The deal, which must be approved by the NBA Board of Governors, comes after…
Over 3,000 teenagers from multiple Jewish youth groups gathered in Atlanta for a series of events aimed at both strengthening Jewish identity among teens and rallying philanthropic support for such programs. The main attractions were the annual conventions of BBYO and NFTY, which were held in adjoining hotels and featured some joint programming. Prior to…
This was likely the first time a Rosh Hashanah sermon was covered by Iran’s national TV. “An American rabbi has called for the genocide of all Muslims,” said the announcer on PressTV, Iran’s English language government-run network. And while this report grossly misrepresented the words of Rabbi Shalom Lewis, his [sermon]( http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/rabbi-schlomo-lewis/ehr-daw-theyre-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FrontpageMag+(FrontPage+Magazine+%C2%BB+FrontPage ‘sermon’) on the…
A historically Jewish fraternity house at Emory University was targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti. The Alpha Epsilon Pi house was defaced with swastikas and other graffiti early Sunday morning in the hours after the end of Yom Kippur. Emory police officers have increased patrols in the area, University President Jim Wagner said in a statement. “On…
NBA player Al Horford took out his phone as he left the U.S. Holocaust Museum on Friday and Tweeted: “Life changing experience.” It was an emotional afternoon for players and staff members of the Atlanta Hawks who arrived in Washington a day before their scheduled game with the Wizards and hustled from the airport directly…
Two Jewish day schools in Atlanta, Greenfield Hebrew Academy and Yeshiva Atlanta, are merging. The Katherine and Jacob Greenfield Hebrew Academy is an independent pre-K-through-8th grade community day school founded in 1953. Yeshiva Atlanta is a modern Orthodox high school founded in 1971. The new entity is being billed as a college preparatory day school…
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