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…
The White House responded to President-elect Joe Biden’s trip to Georgia to campaign for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock with a headliner of their own. The president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, arrived in the state on Monday, where she spoke at a rally for Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead…
After weeks of Republican attacks against Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock’s record on Israel, progressive groups are pushing back by pointing to what they say are Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s ties to white supremacists. Loeffler, a Republican, turned her attention to Warnock shortly after the November election, in which neither candidate passed the 50% threshold required to…
Sen. Kelly Loeffler has condemned a white supremacist with whom she posed for a photo, her campaign told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Sunday. Loeffler is the Republican incumbent who is running against Rev. Raphael Warnock, in a runoff race for her Georgia senate seat, set for January 5. The pictured man was Chester Doles, a…
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…
When Rev. Gerald Durley was preparing his endorsements for the 2020 general election in Georgia, he knew U.S. Senate candidate and fellow Black pastor Raphael Warnock would have a place at the top. Durley once served at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where Warnock is now senior pastor and the two have been…
With questions over Israel policy continuing to play an outsize role in the runoff election for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats, Jon Ossoff came to the defense of his fellow Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock on Wednesday. “Reverend Warnock is a beloved friend and ally of Georgia’s’s Jewish community and a friend of Israel,” Ossoff said…
The Israel positions of the Democratic candidate in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs came under scrutiny in the past week from both media organizations and his opponent despite his strong ties to the city’s Jewish community. Rev. Raphael Warnock leads the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the pulpit from which Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…
נאָך איר מאַנס טויט אין 2003 האָט זי געהאָלפֿן אַרויסגעבן זײַן לעקסיקאָן פֿון די ייִדישע שרײַבער אין ראַטן־פֿאַרבאַנד.
