It’s just a hat. It’s a thing. I should not get upset over a thing. Get The AJT Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up That’s what I told myself as we prepared to leave after a three-day trip to Chicago, all the while mentally…

The Seder plate has been cleaned and placed in a drawer, to remain there until next Passover. The Haggadot were collected, save for one or two that guests took home, and put in our unofficial Judaica cabinet, to be pulled out when I prepare next year’s edition. This year’s notable…

On the last day of its 2023 session — and for the second consecutive year — a bill to define antisemitism failed to clear the Georgia General Assembly. The legislature adjourned shortly after midnight, Wednesday, without the necessary votes on the Senate and House floors to send the bill to…

Here is part three of how sausage — er, law — is made. Or, rather, how it wasn’t. My March 15 column ended with the Georgia House passing a bill to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism as the state’s legal standard. Get The AJT Newsletter by…

Welcome to part two of how sausage — er, law — is made. Part one (my last column) ended with the Georgia House approving legislation that would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism as the state’s standard. How will part two end? As I write this, on…

The setting for a Friday night Shabbat service on March 10 was deep in the woods of Intrenchment Creek Park in southeast DeKalb County, beneath a large blue tarp strung between the trees in a section of forest known as the “living room.” After hours of rain earlier in the…

( JTA) — As the sun set on Feb. 5, signaling the start of Tu Bishvat, a group of Jews carried shovels into the South River Forest southeast of downtown Atlanta. In the day’s declining light, they planted saplings — seven paw paws, three fig and two peach — to…

Is there really a crisis between Israel and American Jewry? The headlines and the op-ed’s, particularly in Jewish media, say there is. When big money American donors — the kind whose checks, in increments of $18, come in six digits or more- publicly, politely caution the Israeli government as it…

Paige Alexander first met Jimmy Carter on a cold day in December 1979 as the president welcomed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the White House. The 13-year-old Alexander was visiting Washington, D.C., with her mother, Elaine. …