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Twenty-two leaders in metro Atlanta's Jewish community shared their experiences in a forum Sunday about their recent trip to Israel.

Residents in a half-dozen subdivisions in Atlanta-area suburbs woke up Sunday morning to a slew of antisemitic flyers in their yards containing hateful tropes about the Jewish faith. 

Shavuot Festival of Weddings, Flowers, Sweet Treats Rituals continue to evolve while the holiday of multiple names connects Jews to history. By Flora Rosefsky May 13, 2021, 6:19 pm Edit “Shavuot,” by Flora Rosefsky, is a paper cutout collage from her Ritual Series. Photo by Flora Rosefsky // An Israeli style cheesecake uses givina levana, a special white cheese imported from Israel. Rabbi Larry Sernovitz holds one of Kol Emeth’s Torah scrolls. Rabbi Lar...

Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson / Flash 90 Jewish men wear protective face masks to pray at a public park in the Jewish town of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, July 22, 2020. Responding to the challenges that many smaller Orthodox Jewish shuls are experiencing in engaging and growing their communities during the pandemic, the Orthodox Union’s Pepa and Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue & Community Services recently convened rabbinic and lay leadership from more than 21 smaller Orthodox c...

Connecting to Tehillim My connection to Tehillim began when I was 12 years old and part of a bas mitzva celebration with six other girls on a Sunday morning at Congregation Agudas Achim Anshe Sphard, in Lower Park Heights. In the faded green play folder I saved from the 50s is a cantata on “The Seven Days of Creation,” written by Rabbi Harry Bolensky. In the cantata, Rabbi Bolensky wrote “King David looked up and sang Hashamayim misaprim kvod Kel, uma’aseh yadav yagid harake’ah, the ...

OU Exec: We Must Bring the Backyard Experience Into the Shul instead of the Shul Experience into the Backyards Release / Orthodox Union OU Exec: We Must Bring the Backyard Experience Into the Shul instead of the Shul Experience into the Backyards With the pandemics end in sight the Orthodox Union convened small synagogues to discuss returning to full operations. Spread the word. (December 20, 2020, New York, JNS Wire) Responding to the challenges that many smaller Orthodox Jewish shuls are expe...

The 5 Towns Jewish Times December 14, 2020 Responding to the challenges that many smaller Orthodox Jewish shuls are experiencing in engaging and growing their communities during the pandemic, the Orthodox Union’s Pepa and Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue & Community Services recently convened rabbinic and lay leadership from more than 21 smaller Orthodox communities to virtually discuss and collaborate on strategies to help them unite and ignite their synagogues throu...