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Temple Kol Emeth Rabbi Steve Lebow speaks during the Leo Frank memorial service.
August 28, 2024, 11:32 am
Leo Frank’s Yahrzeit Connects Past to Present
Frank's lynching is connected to current events by speakers at annual yahrzeit observance.
By Dave Schechter
Rabbi Steve Lebow at his desk with some of the Leo Frank materials he has amassed over the years.
July 17, 2024, 11:31 am
Preserving Leo Frank History
Leading advocate to clear Jewish lynching victim: "I am certain that he will be exonerated, someday."
By Dave Schechter
Janice Rothschild Blumberg
February 13, 2024, 3:27 pm
A Century of Lived History
Janice Rothschild Blumberg witnessed a century of recovery and growth in Atlanta's Jewish community.
By Dave Schechter
The Leo Frank Memorial
August 30, 2023, 11:37 am
Aug. 17, 1915: My Life with Leo Frank
Rabbi Lebow shares about his personal history with Leo Frank’s legacy.
By Rabbi Steven Lebow
Dave Schechter
August 30, 2023, 11:24 am
Speeding Past History
Do motorists streaming past the Leo Frank Memorial know who he was and why he is important?
By Dave Schechter
A memorial to lynching victims in Marietta, adjacent to the Leo Frank memorial, has been repaired and reinstalled.
December 21, 2022, 12:56 pm
2022 YIR: Lynching Memorial Toppled, Then Repaired
A memorial dedicated to victims of lynching was vandalized in February.
By Dave Schechter
A memorial to lynching victims in Marietta, adjacent to the Leo Frank memorial, has been repaired and reinstalled.
May 5, 2022, 2:40 pm
Lynching Memorial in Marietta Repaired
The black granite slab is several feet from the memorial to Leo Frank, the only known Jewish victim of a lynching in the United States.
By Dave Schechter
February 11, 2022, 4:12 pm
Victims Memorial Vandalized in Marietta
A memorial to lynching victims, adjacent to the Leo Frank memorial in Marietta, has been desecrated.
By Dave Schechter
September 20, 2021, 10:07 am
Judaism Inspired Schwartz’s Pursuit of Justice
The attorney was known to say, “We don’t help individuals in need because they are Jews. We help people in need because WE are Jews.”
By Dave Schechter
Someone painted the swastikas and scrawled the word MAGA at least once on several fences on Holly Springs Road.
August 28, 2020, 9:10 am
Stand Against Swastikas
Community to stand up to hate a week after the anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on residential fences.
By Roni Robbins
Shelley Rose, deputy director of the Anti-Defamation League regional office in Atlanta, chats with Rabbi Steve Lebow of Temple Kol Emeth before the press conference, while former Gov. Roy Barnes checks his phone.
May 15, 2019, 10:57 am
Leo Frank Gets Second Look
“There is no statute of limitations on doing the right thing," as Rabbi Steve Lebow has shown as a leading voice in the effort to exonerate Leo Frank.
By Dave Schechter
August 24, 2018, 1:44 pm
Rededication of Leo Frank’s Memorial
A memorial to all victims of lynching is to be added in the coming months.
By Dave Schechter
Leo Frank
August 23, 2018, 7:21 am
It’s Time: Justice for Leo Frank and Mary Phagan
By acting together and contacting the appropriate authorities, we can bring justice to Leo Frank.
By Erin Miller
July 20, 2016, 11:41 am
How Jews Shaped Atlanta
By David R. Cohen
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