About 500 people, including U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, Deputy Consul General of Israel Anna Shteingart, a handful of state and local politicians, and dozens of Jewish community leaders gathered at Greenwood Cemetery in Southwest Atlanta today to mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
In the wake of October 7, and the bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli government, many American Jews have found themselves questioning something that had long felt like a given: that if you were Jewish, you would support Israel, and that was that. But as more Jews speak out against Israel's actions in Gaza, it's exposing deep rifts within Jewish communities – including ones that are threatening to break apart friendships, families, and institutions.
After a year of restoration, the Memorial to the Six Million will reopen in time for Yom HaShoah, the commemoration of the Holocaust. Sen. Jon Ossoff, the first Jewish senator from Georgia, will speak at the event.
Republican donors and pro-Israel Democrats are working to defeat some of the most liberal members of the House for their criticism of Israel in its handling of the ongoing war with Hamas.
A strong majority of Jewish Americans are Democrats, but the Israel-Hamas war is highlighting fault lines in the Democratic Party over U.S. policy toward Israel.
The charges against 21-year-old Patrick Dai, a junior, come as tensions have risen on college campuses across the U.S. Dai hasn't yet entered a plea and is expected in federal court on Wednesday.
Fifty years ago, Larry Schlesinger was sitting in the Yochanan Ben-Zakkai synagogue in Jerusalem when he suddenly heard air raid sirens that marked the beginning of the Yom Kippur War.
