Press coverage
AIC in the press, and the stories we’re following — across 15 local and national newsrooms. Each headline links to the outlet; the context under it is ours.
In the news
21 stories that AIC ran, co-sponsored, or was called on for. Select an outlet to filter; every headline opens on the publisher’s own site.
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Atlanta Jewish Times
AJT editor-in-chief Sasha Heller writes up “Bridges of Hope: Standing Together for a Better Tomorrow,” the March 29 evening AIC hosted at Congregation Beth Shalom — a night of performers, survivors and activists built around unity.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The World Zionist Organization gave Cheryl Dorchinsky its 2023 Zionist Legacy Award for the work she began in 2018, when she founded AIC to unite Atlanta's pro-Israel community. The award recognizes what this coalition built together.
Jewish Insider
Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, is quoted on Jon Ossoff's record on Israel as Georgia's Jewish community weighs the 2026 Senate race.
Atlanta News First
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.
WSB-TV
Channel 2 Action News covers Cheryl Dorchinsky and Atlanta Israel Coalition members carrying a hand-painted mural and care packages to Rambam Hospital in Israel.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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. AIC's work rests on congregational leaders like him.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Marcia 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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Sandy Springs turned out in May 2021 while rockets hit Israeli cities. Rallies like that one are where Atlanta's pro-Israel community becomes visible to itself and to everyone driving past.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Former CIA operative Darrell Blocker spoke at an Atlanta synagogue about terrorism in the weeks after October 7. Our community reached for someone who had done counterterrorism work professionally, rather than for another round of commentary.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Jewish Atlanta filled the sidewalk outside the Israeli Consulate in May 2021, during rocket fire on Israel and a wave of antisemitic attacks on American streets. Turning out in numbers, on short notice, is the whole point.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Bassem Eid has been arrested by the Palestinian Authority and never by Israel, and he says so in public. Palestinian voices who describe the Palestinian Authority accurately are the ones Atlanta audiences almost never get to hear.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Sharaka's delegation spoke at Congregations Or Hadash and Ohr HaTorah about what the Abraham Accords changed on the ground. Atlanta hearing regional partners describe normalization firsthand does more than any statement we could issue.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The Maccabee award honors Atlanta women who put their talents and commitment to work for the Jewish community. AIC exists because women in this city decided to build pro-Israel infrastructure Atlanta did not yet have.
Rough Draft Atlanta
“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.
WSB-TV
WSB-TV covered how metro Atlanta reacted in the first week of the war, when families here were still counting who they could not reach in Israel. We talk to local press because that coverage reaches Georgians nothing else does.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
AIC 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.
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. Each headline opens on the publisher’s own site.
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
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.
The Jerusalem Post
Three weeks after October 7, JVP recited Kaddish for terrorists and blamed 75 years of conflict on Jewish religious supremacism. We name that for what it is: antisemitism delivered in Jewish vocabulary.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
First Baptist Atlanta had 240 travelers from 21 states booked for ten days in Israel before the war grounded the trip. Christian support for Israel runs deep in Georgia, and that roster is one measure of it.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
The Times of Israel
A family commemorated a fallen Israeli soldier by handing out Bamba and Coca-Cola. Small, particular acts of memory carry further than ceremony, and Atlanta families keep finding their own versions of them.
The Times of Israel
A 2020 argument that the Movement for Black Lives platform's language on Israel could not be held separate from BLM itself. Black-Jewish relations in Atlanta are older and sturdier than any one platform, which is why that language mattered here.
The Jerusalem Post
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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
Southern Jewish Life
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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Hillels of Georgia walked seven university campuses in support of Jewish students weeks after October 7. Georgia campuses are where the fight over Israel reaches our students first, and no student should walk one alone.
The Jerusalem Post
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 anti-Zionism as antisemitism, including when it arrives wrapped in Jewish ritual.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
The Jerusalem Post
MIT suspended students who occupied a building for a pro-Palestinian “die-in,” with its president calling the protest a defiance of university rules. Whether administrators enforce their own rules is the question Jewish students at Georgia schools keep asking.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Neo-Nazis demonstrated outside a Cobb County synagogue, and Jews and non-Jews answered them in person and online. Metro Atlanta has its own antisemitism problem, and it shows up on the sidewalk in daylight.
Best of Perimeter
The Hebrew Order of David set the 2023 Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival for Brook Run Park after the 2022 festival drew some 4,000 guests. Public Jewish gatherings at that scale are how metro Atlanta meets its Jewish neighbors.
Jewish Insider
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.
Daily Mail
Atlanta's May 2021 turnout reached national coverage alongside New York, Louisville, and Beverly Hills. Georgia's pro-Israel community organized at scale during that war and kept it peaceful, and the country saw the contrast.
The Jerusalem Post
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 anti-Zionist protest is a tactic Georgia students meet on their own campuses.
The Jerusalem Post
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.
The Jerusalem Post
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.
Atlanta Jewish Times
A Holocaust survivor spoke at the Holocaust Education Symposium in Marietta in June 2023. Firsthand testimony reaches Georgia audiences that statistics never will, and the window to hear it in person is closing.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Lee Tanenbaum turned a career in public health and speech pathology into volunteer work for a string of Atlanta nonprofits. Grassroots organizations run on people who give their second act to the community.
The Algemeiner
More than 135,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel, and Sigd is their holiday. Teaching Beta Israel's history and traditions is part of teaching Israel accurately, in Atlanta classrooms as much as anywhere else.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Nazi Germany and its collaborators ran 44,000 camps in twelve years. The Atlanta Jewish Times set that record beside the antisemitism that surfaced after October 7, because Holocaust education in Georgia is a live subject, not a settled one.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
In our own words
Pieces AIC wrote and an outlet ran — our argument, in their pages. Kept separate from the coverage above, which is other newsrooms writing about us. Each headline opens on the publisher’s own site.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cheryl Dorchinsky joins Atlanta Jewish community leaders in the AJC urging Georgia to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism in HB 1274.
Atlanta Jewish Times
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.
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