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Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologizes on selecting anti-Zionist juror to judge human rights films

The Israeli Consulate withdrew its support for the annual festival Friday after learning one of the student jurors in the human rights category “shared antisemitic and anti-Israel content."

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PANELISTS FROM the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival speak onstage.
GRADUATES FROM a What's Mine is Yours class at Keshet in Chicago.

Jewish education organization targets program at adults with intellectual disabilities

The program, called What’s Mine is Yours: Jewish Adult Learning for All., aims to provide Jewish academic resources for adults with disabilities, who have few options for Jewish educations.

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Panelists speak onstage during the 25th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s ‘Bad Shabbos’ opening night premiere at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, last week.

Jewish Atlanta showed how communities confront institutional failure on Israel - opinion

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival faced backlash for retaining a juror who publicly delegitimized Israel, prompting the film festival to reverse course.

|ByDAVID ZALIK, HELEN ZALIK
ILLUSTRATIVE: A member of the FBI removes items from a home in Dearborn, Michigan, on October 31, 2025.

FBI searches Atlanta election office, chasing Trump 2020 vote fraud claims

This comes a week after Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that people will be prosecuted for what they did in the 2020 election, which he again falsely claimed was "rigged."

|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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