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Jews fleeing Hurricane Irma are taking refuge in Atlanta’s synagogues
Atlanta private school students expelled, suspended for Jews vs. Nazis beer pong
Jordan Farmar waived by Hawks, to play in Turkey
Jordan Farmar was waived by the NBA\’s Atlanta Hawks and reportedly will continue his professional basketball career in Turkey.
Messianic Jewish groups claim rapid growth
About 200 congregants filled the stain glassed-windowed sanctuary on a Shabbat morning this spring, praying, singing and welcoming new members. Among the newly welcomed members was a young Israeli man, named Yoav. Not really extraordinary news, except Congregation Beth Hallel in a northern suburb of Atlanta is not a typical synagogue. Indeed, it is a member of the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS), the largest ordaining body in the messianic Jewish movement.
The ADL and America’s worst case of anti-Semitism
On Confederate Memorial Day, 1913, a 13-year-old child laborer named Mary Phagan was strangled to death in the Atlanta, Ga. pencil factory where she worked. The last person to admit to having seen her alive was the plant superintendent, Leo Frank, an Ivy League-educated Northerner and, of vital importance, a Jew.