Press
What other people have written about AIC, across 21 local and national newsrooms, year by year. Each headline links to the outlet. The context under it is ours, and so is the section below it, where our own people write.
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In the news
6 stories that AIC ran, co-sponsored, or was called on for.
Lead story
OrganizedAJT editor-in-chief Sasha Heller writes up “Bridges of Hope: Standing Together for a Better Tomorrow,” the March 29 evening AIC hosted at Congregation Beth Shalom: a night of performers, survivors, and activists built around unity.
FeaturedAJT previews the 2026 Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, which moves to a new Dunwoody site on Oct. 18, and reports that AIC executive director Cheryl Dorchinsky is donating 50 kosher ducks to be hidden around the grounds. Find one, bring it to the AJT booth, collect a prize. More than 4,000 people came last year. That is exactly the room the Kosher Duck Revolution was built for.
QuotedNBC News's national report on Jewish voters in the 2026 toss-up Senate and House races quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky of the Atlanta Israel Coalition on how hard she found the choice in Georgia.
FeaturedThe Atlanta Jewish Times' Rosh Hashanah roundup of messages from Atlanta community leaders, with Cheryl Dorchinsky among them.
QuotedCheryl Dorchinsky, founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, is quoted on Jon Ossoff's record on Israel as Georgia's Jewish community weighs the 2026 Senate race.
OrganizedRough Draft Atlanta previewed Bridges of Hope, the March 29 evening AIC built around courage, talent and unity across faiths, with Ghazal Mizrahi, JoDavi, and Mustapha Ezzarghani on the bill. Cheryl Dorchinsky is quoted as AIC's executive director on why the night is about building, not just surviving.
In our own words
Pieces Cheryl Dorchinsky wrote and an outlet ran: her argument, in their pages. Coverage of AIC is above; this is what we said ourselves.
Op-edCheryl Dorchinsky's own account in the AJT of the Atlantans who traveled to New York for the 2026 Israel Day Parade, gathering what marchers said about the day and urging readers to come along next time.
Op-edThe Atlanta Jewish Times ran Cheryl Dorchinsky's signed Chanukah message, which reads the holiday as a story of Jewish resilience and sovereignty and ties the light of the menorah back to the land. Her bio line names her as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition and founder of the Kosher Duck Revolution.
Op-edThe Atlanta Jewish Times ran Cheryl Dorchinsky's signed Rosh Hashanah message, written as a set of open addresses (to Hamas, to the hostages' families, to the people of Israel and to its government) and closing on a call for a year of renewal and healing.
Op-edThe AJT ran Cheryl's letter about the antisemitic signs that went up on Womack Road in Dunwoody, across from a high school, and what happened when neighbors confronted the couple behind them. She writes that silence is not neutrality, and asks the community to answer hate instead of waiting it out.
Op-edCheryl's JNS op-ed on who belongs at the communal table, written around the World Zionist Congress. Her bio there names her as AIC's co-founder and executive director.
Op-edCheryl on the Kosher Duck Revolution and what it grew out of, on her Times of Israel blog. The piece names the Atlanta Israel Coalition as the organization she founded in 2018.
Op-edCheryl's letter to the Atlanta Jewish Times on confronting antisemitism, and on why she founded the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl's Passover message in the Atlanta Jewish Times community issue.
Op-edCheryl's account of the AIC volunteer mission that carried toys to Israeli children, which grew out of one girl's bat mitzvah project.
Op-edCheryl's Rosh Hashanah message in the AJT's holiday issue, written in the first year after Oct. 7. She names the grief and the rise in antisemitism, then argues the answer is standing together and refusing to stay quiet. The paper runs her as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl's Passover message for the AJT holiday issue, reading "Let My People Go" against the hostages still held in Gaza and calling Zionism a civil rights movement. She asks readers to leave a place at the seder table for those who cannot come home, and the paper runs her as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl's Chanukah message, written after she went to volunteer in Israel weeks into the war. She writes about the bomb shelters, the families of hostages walking from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and a country she found more united than divided, and signs as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl's Rosh Hashanah message for 5784 in the AJT's holiday issue, on taking the risk, believing in yourself, and lifting the people around you while you do it. The paper runs her as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl's Passover message for the AJT holiday issue, on what the Exodus asked of our ancestors and what this moment asks of us with antisemitism climbing again. She calls for one voice against antizionism and hate, and signs as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl Dorchinsky's Passover message in the Atlanta Jewish Times, on the holiday as a call to take responsibility, stand up and fight back against antisemitism, and on getting to Israel again after two years of closed borders. She signed as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl Dorchinsky joins Atlanta Jewish community leaders in the AJC urging Georgia to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism in HB 1274.
Op-edCheryl Dorchinsky's message for 5782 in the Atlanta Jewish Times, asking the community to answer honestly what it actually did against Jew-hatred this year before it sets intentions for the next one. The paper identified her as a founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Op-edCheryl Dorchinsky's Rosh Hashanah message for 5781 in the Atlanta Jewish Times, written in the first COVID year: that hope is not wishing the time away but reframing how you meet it, and that the community kept showing up for each other even when it could only do it on a screen. She signed as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Cheryl’s holiday messages, 4 of them, run in the Atlanta Jewish Times each Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah, and Passover. They are all on our site, in full. Messages from Cheryl
The Mitzpe Institute, AIC’s educational program, publishes op-eds under its own name, in The Algemeiner and the Washington Examiner among others. They are collected on mitzpe.org, not here. Mitzpe in the press (opens in a new tab)
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Official statements
On the record, in AIC’s own words.
Press release
ATLANTA, October 18, 2026: The Atlanta Israel Coalition (AIC) will host Joel Rubin and Joel Rayburn for a free live conversation on Wednesday, October 28, the night after Israel votes and five days before Americans do.
Press release
AIC opens membership for the first time, takes in the Mitzpe Institute and its Israel Brief as its educational program, and launches Israel Up Close and the Author’s Table.
Statement
Cheryl Dorchinsky and Uri Zehavi on why the Mitzpe Institute and its Israel Brief became AIC’s educational program.
Press release
ATLANTA, GA, June 30, 2025: In response to Israel’s escalating humanitarian crisis resulting from the recent Iran-Israel conflict, the Atlanta Israel Coalition (AIC) is launching Hearts United…
Analysis
Longer-form research and argument from AIC and Cheryl Dorchinsky.
Report
Let’s talk plainly. In the last two years, antisemitic violence and incitement in metro Atlanta have surged. These are not distant headlines. They show up on our campuses, on our streets, and in our…
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The Atlanta Israel Coalition is a grassroots, nonpartisan coalition that educates, mobilizes, and unites people of many faiths in support of Israel and against antisemitism, in Atlanta and around the world. Founded in 2018, AIC has run more than 231 programs, taken five aid missions to Israel since October 7, and built partnerships across faith and civic communities in metro Atlanta. Its educational program, the Mitzpe Institute, publishes the Israel Brief. Its joyful front door is the Kosher Duck Revolution. atlantaisrael.org
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