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OrganizedThe AJT put the Roger Waters protest in its 2022 year-in-review. End Jew Hatred and its Atlanta Israel Coalition partners stood outside State Farm Arena that August, and Cheryl Dorchinsky told the paper that most fans had no idea what Waters had said about Jews, and that showing up changed some minds.
QuotedJan Jaben-Eilon's report on the incoming Netanyahu coalition quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky, founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, saying she is glad her organization is non-partisan because politics divides people. She was traveling to Israel to watch the new government come together.
OrganizedAllen Lipis's piece ahead of Roger Waters' Atlanta concert names Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, as the organizer of two July 31 events hosting author Lana Melman, whose book covers the BDS campaign against performers who play in Israel. Dorchinsky is cited on how the BDS movement borrows the language of human rights to mask its real aim.
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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.
Kosher barbecue puts Jewish Atlanta squarely inside the most Southern thing there is. Festivals like the 2022 one draw neighbors who would never come to a lecture, and that is exactly what makes them worth running.
Dave Chappelle's “Saturday Night Live” monologue put Jewish stereotypes on network television, and the Atlanta Jewish Times asked where comedy ends. Antisemitism laundered as a joke still lands on Jewish teenagers the next morning.
AJT's recap of the 10th anniversary Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, which drew more than 4,500 people to Brook Run Park in Dunwoody, records that representatives of the Atlanta Israel Coalition were on hand.
Atlanta Jews stood outside State Farm Arena handing Roger Waters concertgoers the record of his remarks and stage symbolism. Showing up at the venue, in person, with the facts in hand is how this community answers Jew-hatred on tour.
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