Mindful of Georgia’s headline-making role two years ago — when Georgia shocked the nation by backing Democrat Joe Biden over incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and by unseating two Republican senators — a spotlight continues to shine on the state. In advance of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, the national…

A friend from New York called a couple of weeks ago, asking for my thoughts on the election, particularly the marquee races in Georgia for governor and U.S. Senate. I gave him an overview of the political climate in the state, with the usual caveats about the uncertainty of turnout…

Listening to Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire,” which I do this time of year, I looked up the Unetaneh Tokef prayer on which the song is based. And as our congregation recited the Al Chet during Yom Kippur, I considered what would comprise a confession of journalism sins. It would…

Repeated surveys have found that Jewish voters — the majority of whom identify as Democrats by party and liberal or moderate by philosophy — prioritize domestic issues ahead of Israel when they cast their ballots. That was reflected in remarks delivered by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock on Oct. 3 to…

The Springs Cinema & Taphouse in Sandy Springs offers plush seating, and an audience there on Sept. 18 appeared equally as comfortable with what they heard from three of the state’s top Republicans. Gov. Brian Kemp headlined a Republican Jewish Coalition event that included Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and…

I began writing this as our children were airborne from Tel Aviv to New York at the end of their seven-day Taglit-Birthright Israel trip. For a week, we had monitored Instagram and WhatsApp for photos and messages, hoping that our daughter and two sons were enjoying the trip and taking…

In my youth, I would descend the metal stairs in our town’s public library into the cool of the shelf-lined basement, where I would lose myself in history, reading back issues of news magazines, mostly from the 1930s, ’40s and ‘50s. Today, my fingers do the walking online. The internet…

A banner headline — “The Nazi Terror In Full Swing” — topped the front page of the Aug. 2, 1935, edition of the Southern Israelite. Robert Brown, a “special correspondent,” reported on “pogroms spreading to hundreds of German cities and towns … passions fanned by the Nazi press,” Jews barred…

Eighty years after two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population was murdered in the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” the questions persist. What did the United States government — and the American public — know and when did it know it? Why did the U.S. not do more to save Jewish lives? …