(JTA) — In Georgia’s battle of the Staceys, Stacey Abrams, the state’s onetime House minority leader, defeated former State Rep. Stacey Evans in the Democratic primary for governor. Nationwide, the win is seen as a bellwether in the battle for the Democratic soul between progressives and moderates. Abrams is a progressive. The Israel wrinkle in…
Laura Moser hopes to ride a wave of progressive voters to victory in a suburban Houston congressional district Tuesday, while her opponent is making outreach to disaffected moderates her main calling card. The down-to-the-wire primary race between Moser and attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher is one of several high-stakes primary battles that between those who want…
Two dozen neo-Nazi protesters flooded a small Georgia town outside Atlanta with law enforcement Saturday, before retreating to a hillside to burn a massive swastika and rune symbol, the New York Times reported. The group, the National Socialist Movement, obtained a permit to demonstrate in Newnan, Ga., last month. Over 700 law enforcement agents from…
Fifth-grader Rose Calvillo has a goal to commemorate the 1.5 million children who died during the Holocaust. She wants to see 1.5 million handmade butterflies decorating the walls of her Elementary School in Dalton, Georgia. Calvillo and her classmates are learning about World War II and the Holocaust. “It’s important that we remember the Holocaust,…
A Georgia middle school teacher is under investigation after she tasked her students with creating a “colorful” mascot for a Nazi rally in 1935, the Atlanta Jewish Times reported. An official from the school says the assignment was an attempt to fulfill the state curriculum requirement that students learn about Nazi propaganda. “The year is…
The gubernatorial election in Georgia is a ways away, but Republicans vying for the position are already lining up, including one unlikely candidate who has never held political office before — and who just declared himself a Messianic Jew. Marc Allen Urbach, a Marietta man who is a patron of Jewish War Veterans USA, faced…
After his failure to win a Republican-leaning Georgia congressional district in June, Jon Ossoff stayed away from politics, trying to make sense of his loss. He had run in the most expensive House race in history, one that had Democrats hoping would herald a wave of anti-Republican backlash. Now, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, Ossoff…
Now that Georgia’s dramatic special election is over, it’s time for Jewish groups to fight over bragging rights. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which backed GOP candidate Karen Handel to the tune of $50,000, celebrated the victory with a fundraising email blast urging supporters to donate now, because “as the GA-6 election showed, Republican turn-out is…
נאָך איר מאַנס טויט אין 2003 האָט זי געהאָלפֿן אַרויסגעבן זײַן לעקסיקאָן פֿון די ייִדישע שרײַבער אין ראַטן־פֿאַרבאַנד.
