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Organized“Hearts United, Boots on the Ground” is ours. We sent Atlanta volunteers to Israel for eleven days in July 2025 to deliver aid, rebuild schools, and support the communities and IDF personnel hit hardest by the war.
QuotedJewish Insider quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky on Jon Ossoff's vote to block an arms shipment to Israel. Disappointed but not surprised, she says, and voting against weapons to Israel in the middle of a war makes no sense to her regardless of who is in power.
QuotedAtlanta News First came to Cheryl for the community's read on the Israel-Iran ceasefire. We make time for local press because how Georgians understand this war shapes what they do about it here at home.
FeaturedIsraeli writer Bazy Swirsky Rubin, in a personal post on the Times of Israel blog platform, describes speaking at an Atlanta Israel Coalition luncheon while in Atlanta on a World Zionist Organization tour, and being sent home by Cheryl Dorchinsky with one of her kosher cruising ducks. She goes on to quote at length Cheryl's own account of why she founded AIC.
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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.
Ken Stein warned in November 2023 that anti-Israel sentiment on American campuses had reached extraordinary levels. Georgia's Jewish students have lived that since, and Kol Emeth's student-protection program is one Atlanta congregation deciding to act rather than wait.
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January mission to Israel
Cheryl and Kirsten will be in Israel from 11 to 22 January, delivering aid. What they bring depends on what we raise.
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