Over the past 40-plus years, tens of thousands of refugees from dozens of countries have begun new lives in America in Clarkston, Georgia, often referred to as “the most diverse square mile in the United States” and “the Ellis Island of the South.” Heval Kelli, a Kurdish Muslim whose family…

An auction house in Israel is seeking a minimum bid of $5,000 for a collection of two dozen items related to the lynching of Leo Frank. The online auction, which began May 24 at the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem, is anticipated to bring in some $8,000 to $12,000. Atlantans…

Two years ago, Georgia was in the eye of a national political hurricane. Those winds are swirling around the state again in 2022 and the forecast includes another deluge of political advertising. The May 24 primary — and any necessary runoffs on June 21 — will set the stage for…

I was inspecting the backyard crops when I stopped to take in my surroundings; not just the greenery, but also the call and response by various species of birds and the voices of the neighbors’ children playing outside, while trying to ignore the whine from the highway a mile away…

There are subjects I know enough about to be conversant at a cocktail party and there are subjects I know enough about to keep silent. Art, for example. We recently toured Expo Chicago, an international exposition of contemporary and modern art that filled the 170,000-square-foot exhibition hall at Navy Pier…

I was interviewed recently for a British podcast that promotes political and media literacy, primarily for students and young adults in the United Kingdom. In the course of that conversation, which focused on antisemitism in America, I was asked how news coverage has changed over the course of my professional…

Within days of taking up her post as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Ambassador Michèle Taylor joined a walkout when Russia’s foreign minister defended his nation’s invasion of Ukraine. Not two weeks earlier, on Feb. 17, the Jewish Atlantan nominated by President Joe Biden…

The gavel came down, “sine die” — a Latin phrase that lawmakers translate as “we’re out of here” — was declared and, early on April 5, the frenetic final day of the Georgia General Assembly session came to an end. An unexpected setback for Atlanta’s major Jewish organizations was the…

The statement atop Bev Saltzman Lewyn’s Facebook page reads: “Don’t kvetch. Create something better instead.” Lewyn is receiving treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, in her hometown of Houston. Some days, she undergoes multiple rounds of chemotherapy, even while sleeping. “With this intense chemo you…