Charles Lutin is a 68-year-old political novice, a self-described “moderate … traditional” Republican, a retired doctor and Air Force flight surgeon, who says his Jewish identity motivates his campaign against congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th district.
In an email informing the AJT of his candidacy, Lutin wrote that…
Many months ago, Rabbi Peter Berg of The Temple received a telephone call from someone who said they were calling on behalf of a high-profile couple who recently had moved to Washington, D.C.
Thinking it was a prank call, the rabbi nearly hung up.
The caller assured Berg that the…
Several years ago, the Buckhead Heritage Society dug into how that section of Atlanta got its name. …
The “Anne Frank in the World” exhibit and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust (GCH) are a step closer to a permanent home in Sandy Springs.
The City Council voted 5–1 on Nov. 2 to approve relocation of the exhibit and GCH offices to the city-owned Heritage Sandy Springs Museum…
Signing a will is an acknowledgement of your life’s finality.
Planting trees recognizes that life will continue beyond your own.
Existential terrors that lurk in the subconscious come to the fore as you put pen to paper on a will and advance directive. …
The nomination of Deborah Lipstadt to be the U.S. envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism has stalled in the Foreign Relations Committee.
Despite being nominated by Biden on July 30, the Emory University professor, renowned for her scholarship on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, has yet to receive a confirmation hearing…
If an American Jew — a columnist for a Jewish newspaper, for example — suggested what I am about to quote, they might be hauled into the court of Jewish opinion, excoriated in some quarters and lauded in others.
But these are the thoughts of Israelis who, while grateful for…
Atlantan Michèle Taylor has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
In announcing the nomination Oct. …
When my sister called to say that Dad had died, I was northbound on Interstate 75 in Florida, returning to Atlanta from a road trip to watch our older son play a collegiate soccer game.
My father, whose physical and mental capabilities had declined the previous two or three years…
Atlanta attorney David Schoen has been elected chairman of the Zionist Organization of America, a 124-year-old group known for its blunt — and unapologetic — support of Israel.
Schoen, 62, will serve a three-year term guiding the organization on whose board he has served for 20 years. …
