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9 stories that AIC ran, co-sponsored, or was called on for.
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OrganizedChannel 2 Action News covers Cheryl Dorchinsky and Atlanta Israel Coalition members carrying a hand-painted mural and care packages to Rambam Hospital in Israel.
OrganizedThe Atlanta Jewish Times on the Stand Together rally, which the Atlanta Israel Coalition led alongside the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
Southern Jewish Life rounds up reaction to the Senate votes on blocking weapons sales to Israel, including the Georgia delegation. Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of AIC, is quoted saying she was disgusted by how both of Georgia's senators voted.
QuotedIsrael InSight's roundup of Jewish reaction to the Senate's rejection of Bernie Sanders' arms-embargo resolutions quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, saying she was disgusted by how Georgia's two senators voted.
OrganizedIsrael InSight wrote up the three-part free virtual tour of October 7 sites that the Atlanta Israel Coalition launched with the Jewish Interest-Free Loan Association of Georgia, covering the Nova festival memorial, a kibbutz hit on October 7, and Hostage Square. The piece notes AIC's earlier pandemic-era tour series ran twelve sessions and was viewed more than 16,000 times.
Southern Jewish Life writes up the free three-part virtual tour of October 7 sites that AIC launched with the Jewish Interest-Free Loan Association of Georgia, again led by guide David Sussman. The piece notes that the 12 sessions of AIC's earlier pandemic-era series have been viewed more than 16,000 times.
OrganizedAIC sponsored Paintfest at the Marcus Jewish Community Center with the Foundation for Hospital Art, where more than 200 Atlantans painted a mural together. Volunteers then carried it, with supplies, to Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
FeaturedThe Jewish Link on Cheryl leaving corporate life to found the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
OrganizedRough Draft Atlanta on the first Crafting for Israel event, which the Atlanta Israel Coalition co-hosted.
Also following
Reporting on Jewish Atlanta and on Israel that AIC did not run, kept here because it is the context our work happens in.
Atlanta lit candles in public in December 2024, the second Chanukah of the war. Jewish celebration held out in the open, in a year like that one, is its own answer to everyone who would rather the community stayed quiet.
One year after the worst massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, Atlanta commemorated together through community programs on October 7 and 27. We joined that commemoration alongside the Federation and partner congregations.
Alon Penzel was a political science student at Haifa University on October 7 and spent the war documenting what Hamas did. Firsthand testimony like his is what Atlanta audiences need on hand, because the denial arrives fast.
Yohay Sponder brought an Israeli comedy set to Atlanta in September 2024, eleven months into the war. Israeli artists still touring and Jewish audiences still filling rooms is resilience work, and Atlanta turned out for it.
The Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival was one of Jewish Atlanta's largest public gatherings, and the Atlanta Jewish Times opened a series asking whether it has a future. Institutions like it are how a community stays visible to itself.
An American Jewish movement endorsed Palestinian statehood and called for an end to Israel's military presence in Judea and Samaria and Gaza. We watch where Diaspora institutions land on Israel's security, because Atlanta families sit in those pews.
Anti-Israel protesters took a beloved Jewish song, Olam Chesed Yibaneh, and marched it against the Jewish state. Its composer said no. Jewish liturgy repurposed as antizionist protest is a tactic Georgia students meet on their own campuses.
Jewish Voice for Peace calls itself "the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world," and it rewrote the Haggadah to say so. We name antizionism as antisemitism, including when it arrives wrapped in Jewish ritual.
AJT's write-up of the fifth annual Atlanta Jewish Life Festival at the Georgia Aquarium notes the Atlanta Israel Coalition's table, where guests could write a note to an IDF soldier or an Israeli evacuee. AIC is also listed among the festival's community partners.
Rabbis who called for a ceasefire before Israel could dismantle Hamas repeated a pattern set in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021. Atlanta clergy face the same pressure, and their congregants are watching how they answer it.
A Spanish-language edition of the same argument: the clergy who demanded early ceasefires in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021 were performing peace. Spanish-speaking Jewish communities face that pressure from their own religious leaders too.
More than 100 Georgians, including current and former judges and legislators, asked Georgia State to rescind an alumni honor over the recipient's posts on Israel. Holding local institutions to account is the advocacy our community organizes.
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