U.S. Attorney’s Award Honors Neil Rabinovitz
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U.S. Attorney’s Award Honors Neil Rabinovitz

Neil Rabinovitz lauded for protecting Jewish Atlanta from potential threats and providing security training.

By Compiled by AJT staff October 13, 2022, 10:56 am Edit
Neil Rabinovitz, community security director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, has received a U.S. Attorney’s Award from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
Neil Rabinovitz, community security director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, has received a U.S. Attorney’s Award from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.

Neil Rabinovitz, community security director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, has received a U.S. Attorney’s Award from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.

Rabinovitz, who has held the post since April 2020, was among seven law enforcement and four faith community representatives who “have shared their expertise with hundreds of people in pursuit of prevention, intervention, and suppression of targeted and mass violence,” U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan said in honoring the recipients. Each “embodies the spirit of public service in a way that inspires us all.”

Buchanan said: “The U.S. Attorney’s Awards are intended to recognize particularly superlative work from both within our office and among our partners who we believe deserve personal recognition. In this way, recipients of the U.S. Attorney’s Award lead others in the law enforcement community by their example, not necessarily in obtaining convictions, judgments, or statistics, but by their diligence, effectiveness, and adherence to the highest professional ethics.”

Rabinovitz’s role embodies a relationship between JFGA and the Secure Community Network, the nationwide security program sponsored by the Jewish Federations of North America. While he is paid by JFGA, he technically is an employee of SCN.

Rabinovitz works through SCN and maintains contact with law enforcement at the local, county, state, and federal level to assess possible threats to the Jewish community. He performs physical and technical security assessments for Jewish institutions, including synagogues, schools, camps, senior living facilities. In the wake of the January 2022 hostage incident at a Colleyville, Texas, synagogue numerous Jewish institutions in Atlanta took advantage of training his office provides in how to respond to a security incident.

“All of us at the Federation congratulate Neil on this much-deserved honor, and we are grateful to him for his tireless work on behalf of our community,” Federation CEO Eric Robbins said in a statement. “It is vital that we work closely with our law enforcement partners, and Neil has leveraged his prior professional experience to continue fostering these connections.”

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