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Just Over a Week From Now

Just over a week from now, the Savannah Jewish Federation will fete Joel Greenberg with the highest honor our community has, the Jack Malitz Levy Leadership Award.

The Levy Leadership Award was created by the Governors of the Savannah Jewish Federation in 1988 to honor Jack Levy’s memory…

Live from Israel

There are thousands of Americans in Israel right now to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the miracle of the creation of the State of Israel.  Everywhere you go you see another community with hundreds of participants from Miami, Los Angeles, New York and of course, Atlanta.  They are doing…

From 35,000 Feet

Passover is over and I am on the plane writing this on my way to Israel.  In the “old days” of cellular communication you’d write furiously on your phone to respond to emails before it got too fast on the runway.  Once you lifted off, there was no signal and it was just you and a boo…

The State of Antisemitism

Yesterday (Thursday) I was one of hundreds who took part in the Anti-Defamation League’s “Fighting Hate from Home-2022 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents & the State of Antisemitism in the US” Zoom presentation.  In the presentation they did a deep dive into the state of anti-Jewish hate …

Incident Reporting

It would be hard to open up a web site, a magazine, or a newspaper recently or not see an article about the rise of antisemitism.  To put it simply, American Jews no longer feel as safe as they once did.
 
A recent American Jewish Committee report concluded that over four in ten American…