Atlanta

Georgia man arrested at Atlanta airport with AR-15 rifle, planned mass shooting

Billy Joe Cagle's family called police early on Monday, alerting them that he had posted on social media that he was headed to the airport and was "going to shoot it up,"

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A flight crew member walks through a terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia on July 2, 2025
A sign of the CDC is seen on a podium during the meeting of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) advisory panel for vaccines convenes in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 25, 2025.

Emory University shooter likely targeted CDC over COVID conspiracy, suspected shooter's family says

A police officer was killed, leaving behind a pregnant wife two children.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Beyoncé wears an outfit designed by Alon Livné

10-year-old girl screaming at a bug caused stampede after Beyoncé concert, officials say

11 people were hospitalized due to injuries sustained in the stampede.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
CONFIRMATION AT the Orthodox Temple Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1954. Center, Rabbi Jacob Kraft. Fourth from left, Ruth Weinstein.

Confirmations on Shavuot's first day helped preserve American Jewish identity

Most Atlanta synagogues held a confirmation on the first day of the Shavuot holiday - unusual by then for many American Jewish communities.

|ByDAVID GEFFEN

Museum exhibit unearths underground youth magazine in Terezin Ghetto

The exhibit is called "Vedem Underground: The Secret Magazine of the Terezin Ghetto (1942-1944)."

OCTOBER 17, 2018ByTNS
From the exhbition “Vedem Underground: The Secret Magazine of the Terezin Ghetto (1942-1944)”

Israeli flag cookie mosaic breaks Guinness World Record

117,000 blue-and-white cookies assembled an Israeli flag that was more than 3,200 square feet in size.

JUNE 4, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
The Jewish community of Atlanta, Georgia, has broken the Guinness World Record for the largest cookie mosaic

Pride, partnership and pluralism

Navigating between Atlanta and Jerusalem

JANUARY 22, 2018ByERIC M. ROBBINS
‘The institutions we have built and cherish need to evolve. New ones need to be created to address the needs of an assimilating and geographically spread out community that is desperately seeking meaning and connection.’

Georgia on my mind

While Atlanta has long recovered from being burned in 1864, I’m not sure Israel would recover from burning its bridges there today.

JANUARY 16, 2018ByJONATHAN FELDSTEIN
SkyView Atlanta, a 200-foot (61-meter) tall Ferris wheel with 42 gondolas, is seen on the South end of Centennial Park in downtown Atlanta, Georgia July 19, 2013.

Jews fleeing Hurricane Irma are taking refuge in Atlanta’s synagogues

Irma, a Category 4 storm, has been called one of the worst hurricanes in decades.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017ByJTA
A car drives along an empty highway in Miami before the arrival of Hurricane Irma in south Florida