In the news
4 stories that AIC ran, co-sponsored, or was called on for.
OrganizedThe AJT covered U.S. antisemitism envoy Elan Carr's address to 250 people at the Atlanta Jewish Academy, an event the Atlanta Israel Coalition sponsored. Cheryl Dorchinsky is named as AIC's founder alongside Carr and Israel's consul general in Atlanta, Anat Sultan-Dadon.
OrganizedAhead of Elan Carr's Atlanta visit, the AJT interviewed the U.S. antisemitism envoy and named the Atlanta Israel Coalition as sponsor of his September 15 program at the Atlanta Jewish Academy.
OrganizedIsrael InSight previewed the September 2019 program AIC built around Elan Carr, then the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism. The piece introduced the coalition as barely a year old and quoted Cheryl Dorchinsky on wanting a gathering place where Atlanta's pro-Israel groups could actually work together.
OrganizedMarcia Caller Jaffe covered the Atlanta premiere of "Black Forest," Kay Wilson's account of surviving a machete attack in Israel, held at Congregation Beth Jacob. The piece credits Cheryl Dorchinsky with finding Wilson's story and getting her to Atlanta, and names the organization she was starting at the time as Atlanta Israel Connection.
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Reporting on Jewish Atlanta and on Israel that AIC did not run, kept here because it is the context our work happens in.
Melanie Phillips brought “The West: A Civilization in Crisis” to two Atlanta programs in November 2019. Putting serious outside voices in front of Atlanta audiences before a crisis forces the conversation is education worth doing.
Rabbi Yitz Tendler runs Congregation Beth Jacob, the largest Orthodox synagogue in the region, and the Atlanta Jewish Times named him to its 40 Under 40. He and Cheryl Dorchinsky founded AIC in 2018.
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