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A rendition of a shuk, or Israeli market, built inside the video game Minecraft by the organization Lost Tribe, which works to build Jewish community among young people in online spaces. (Courtesy of Lost Tribe)
August 18, 2023, 11:17 am
Can Video Games Fight Antisemitism?
The popular video game, Fortnite, now includes a Holocaust museum called, "Voices of the Forgotten."
By Andrew Lapin / JTA
Deborah Lauter, a leading civil and human rights activist, has been named executive director of The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (TOLI).
August 11, 2022, 1:26 pm
Deborah Lauter Named Executive Director of TOLI
Lauter brings a distinguished career in nonprofit and government service.
By Compiled by AJT staff
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was chosen to speak at the annual Eizenstat Family Memorial Lecture at AA Synagogue.
January 26, 2022, 6:11 pm
Blinken’s Eizenstat Lecture Comes at Crucial Time
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will give the annual Eizenstat Family Memorial Lecture at AA Synagogue virtually this year.
By Bob Bahr
Jewish groups in Atlanta are keeping a close eye on legislation under consideration during the current session of the Georgia General Assembly.
January 17, 2022, 8:38 am
Jewish Interests Under the Gold Dome
Federation and other communal groups will monitor the state legislature during the next 12 weeks.
By Dave Schechter
Leslie Gordon is the executive director of The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.
September 3, 2021, 4:31 pm
Leslie Gordon’s 2021 Rosh Hashanah Message
Read community insights, perspectives and opportunities seen as we enter into the 5782/ 2021 New Year.
By Leslie Gordon
The planting Sunday was a partnership between members of Temple Sinai, the Chastain Park Conservatory and Am Yisrael Chai.
November 12, 2020, 2:53 pm
Planting Daffodils in Chastain Park
Members of Temple Sinai and Am Yisrael Chai planted the flowers in worldwide effort to plan 1.5 million in memory of children who died during the Holocaust.
By Susanne Katz
The nomination of former far-right politician and military commander Effi Eitam to the post of chairman of Yad Vashem has outraged Jewish leaders around the world.
November 12, 2020, 2:51 pm
ADL and Lipstadt Condemn Yad Vashem Post
Naming of a former far-right politician and military commander to head Holocaust institution sparks international outcry.
By Jan Jaben-Eilon
Dave Schechter
February 12, 2020, 9:39 am
A Proven Antidote to Holocaust Ignorance
Even as lawmakers grapple with the governor's call to cut spending, the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust plans for its future.
By Dave Schechter
Rabbi Prass at a “Bearing Witness” program alongside Holocaust survivor George Rishfeld.
June 19, 2019, 1:32 pm
Prass Moves from Interim to Director of Weinberg Center
Rabbi Joseph Prass was recently named the director of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education after serving as interim director since 2017.
By Eddie Samuels
Lauren Menis welcomed more than 250 people to Temple Emanu-El to question panelists about anti-Semitism in area schools.
February 13, 2019, 12:04 pm
Anti-Semitism Sparks Community Forum
When word spread about the anti-Semitic vandalism discovered at Roswell’s Centennial High School Feb. 4, Lauren Menis of AIAAS immediately assembled a community forum.
By Jan Jaben-Eilon
At the Brandenburg Gate are, from left, Amanda Rosner, Connie Hammond, Kayley Tarantino, Jonathan Boretsky, Madi Jackson, Hilary Miller, Amanda Graff, Gabrielle Burack, Lipaz Avigal, Lauren Goldstein, Julie Covall, Stacey Lynn, Alissa Platz.
September 28, 2018, 7:26 am
Similarities in US and German Holocaust Education
Young adults traveled to Germany with American Jewish Committee program, Germany Close Up.
By Amanda Rosner
Judy Schancupp takes notes at Dora-Mittelbau with historian Peter Hayes and JFR board member Steven Field.
August 9, 2018, 3:10 pm
Holocaust Educator Follows Anne Frank’s Path
Judith Schancupp recently walked Anne Frank’s path from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
By Roni Robbins
Israeli artist Pil Peled’s “Judah” stands defiantly in Krakow, Poland's historic Jewish quarter, Kazimierz. (Photo by David R. Cohen)
January 31, 2018, 2:57 pm
Jewish Geography’s Heavy Lifting
There’s not much to say about a proposed law so wrong that Jews — in Israel, in the Diaspora, on the left, on the right — are unified in outrage.
By Michael Jacobs
October 4, 2017, 12:56 pm
Parallels Between Nazis, Jim Crow Explored
The next U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum program in Atlanta will look at what Georgians were told about what was happening in Nazi Germany.
Nine of the 12 people featured in “Georgia Journeys” attend the opening reception Oct. 23: (from left) Herbert Kohn, Andre Kessler, Jimmy Doi, Tosia Schneider, Tooken Richardson Cade, Jane Tucker, Alton Cadenhead, Louvinia Jordan and Hillard Pouncy. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of History and Holocaust Education)
November 10, 2016, 1:29 pm
KSU Museum Tracks Overlapping Ga. Journeys
By Michael Jacobs
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