In the news
4 stories that AIC ran, co-sponsored, or was called on for.
Lead story
“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.
Jewish 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.
Atlanta News First came to Cheryl for the community's read on the Israel-Iran ceasefire. We show up for local press because how Georgians understand this war shapes what they do about it here at home.
Israeli 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.
In our own words
Pieces AIC wrote and an outlet ran — our argument, in their pages.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
Cheryl'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.
Cheryl 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.
Cheryl's letter to the Atlanta Jewish Times on confronting antisemitism, and on why she founded the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Cheryl's Passover message in the Atlanta Jewish Times community issue.
Cheryl's account of the AIC volunteer mission that carried toys to Israeli children, which grew out of one girl's bat mitzvah project.
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.
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.
Sen. Ossoff voted with Bernie Sanders to block aid to Israel, then began repairing relations with Georgia's Jewish community. How that accounting goes matters to every Atlanta family that weighs Israel's security when it votes.
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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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