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Jon Ossoff, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia, will be sworn in Jan. 20 using a Hebrew Bible that belonged to Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild. Rothschild, who died in 1973, is an icon of the Jewish South who played an integral role in the region’s civil rights and social justice movements. In 1946, the former army chaplain became the spiritual leader of The Temple. He used his pulpit to denounce segregation and build bridges to the city’s Black community. Founded in 1860 shortly before the Civil War, The Temple is Atlanta’s oldest synagogue. Its distinctive domed roof can be seen f...

Image by Getty Rev. Raphael Warnock Some congregants of The Temple, the synagogue that has hosted the annual event for more than a decade, assumed that a spike in interest had crashed the website. After all, Warnock’s recent election – who is the pastor at Martin Luther King’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – helped give the Democratic Party control of the United States Senate. But the broadcast’s disruption was caused by people with malicious intent. Kent Alexander, the synagogue’s president, emailed the congregation on Saturday with the news. “To the many of you w...