Press coverage
AIC in the press, and the stories we’re following — across 24 local and national newsrooms. Each headline links to the outlet; the context under it is ours.
In the news
65 stories that AIC ran, co-sponsored, or was called on for. Select an outlet to filter; every headline opens on the publisher’s own site.
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NBC News
NBC News's national report on Jewish voters in this year's toss-up Senate and House races quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky of the Atlanta Israel Coalition on how hard she is finding the choice in Georgia.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl Dorchinsky's Rosh Hashanah message for 5787, published under her own byline in the Atlanta Jewish Times.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The Atlanta Jewish Times' Rosh Hashanah roundup of messages from Atlanta community leaders, with Cheryl Dorchinsky among them.
Jewish Insider
Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, is quoted on Jon Ossoff's record on Israel as Georgia's Jewish community weighs the 2026 Senate race.
Atlanta Jewish Times
AJT editor-in-chief Sasha Heller writes up “Bridges of Hope: Standing Together for a Better Tomorrow,” the March 29 evening AIC hosted at Congregation Beth Shalom — a night of performers, survivors and activists built around unity.
Jewish Insider
Jewish Insider quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky on Jon Ossoff's vote to block an arms shipment to Israel. Disappointed but not surprised, she says, and voting against weapons to Israel in the middle of a war makes no sense to her regardless of who is in power.
Atlanta News First
Atlanta News First came to Cheryl for the community's read on the Israel-Iran ceasefire. We show up for local press because how Georgians understand this war shapes what they do about it here at home.
Washington Examiner
Rough Draft Atlanta
Rough Draft Atlanta previewed Bridges of Hope, the March 29 evening AIC built around courage, talent and unity across faiths, with Ghazal Mizrahi, JoDavi and Mustapha Ezzarghani on the bill. Cheryl Dorchinsky is quoted as AIC's executive director on why the night is about building, not just surviving.
Rough Draft Atlanta
“Hearts United, Boots on the Ground” is ours. We sent Atlanta volunteers to Israel for eleven days in July 2025 to deliver aid, rebuild schools, and support the communities and IDF personnel hit hardest by the war.
Times of Israel Blogs
Israeli writer Bazy Swirsky Rubin, in a personal post on the Times of Israel blog platform, describes speaking at an Atlanta Israel Coalition luncheon while in Atlanta on a World Zionist Organization tour, and being sent home by Cheryl Dorchinsky with one of her kosher cruising ducks. She goes on to quote at length Cheryl's own account of why she founded AIC.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The Atlanta Jewish Times on the Stand Together rally, which the Atlanta Israel Coalition led alongside the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
Israel InSight
Israel InSight's roundup of Jewish reaction to the Senate's rejection of Bernie Sanders' arms-embargo resolutions quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, saying she was disgusted by how Georgia's two senators voted.
Southern Jewish Life
Southern Jewish Life rounds up reaction to the Senate votes on blocking weapons sales to Israel, including the Georgia delegation. Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of AIC, is quoted saying she was disgusted by how both of Georgia's senators voted.
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
One year after the worst massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, Atlanta commemorated together through community programs on October 7 and 27. We joined that commemoration alongside the Federation and partner congregations.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Yohay Sponder brought an Israeli comedy set to Atlanta in September 2024, eleven months into the war. Israeli artists still touring and Jewish audiences still filling rooms is resilience work, and Atlanta turned out for it.
Israel InSight
Israel InSight wrote up the three-part free virtual tour of October 7 sites that the Atlanta Israel Coalition launched with the Jewish Interest-Free Loan Association of Georgia, covering the Nova festival memorial, a kibbutz hit on October 7, and Hostage Square. The piece notes AIC's earlier pandemic-era tour series ran twelve sessions and was viewed more than 16,000 times.
Southern Jewish Life
Southern Jewish Life writes up the free three-part virtual tour of October 7 sites that AIC launched with the Jewish Interest-Free Loan Association of Georgia, again led by guide David Sussman. The piece notes that the 12 sessions of AIC's earlier pandemic-era series have been viewed more than 16,000 times.
Atlanta Jewish Times
AJT's write-up of the fifth annual Atlanta Jewish Life Festival at the Georgia Aquarium notes the Atlanta Israel Coalition's table, where guests could write a note to an IDF soldier or an Israeli evacuee. AIC is also listed among the festival's community partners.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
More than 100 Georgians, including current and former judges and legislators, asked Georgia State to rescind an alumni honor over the recipient's posts on Israel. Holding local institutions to account is the advocacy our community organizes.
Atlanta Jewish Times
AIC sponsored Paintfest at the Marcus Jewish Community Center with the Foundation for Hospital Art, where more than 200 Atlantans painted a mural together. Volunteers then carried it, with supplies, to Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
The Jewish Link
The Jewish Link on Cheryl leaving corporate life to found the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
WSB-TV
Channel 2 Action News covers Cheryl Dorchinsky and Atlanta Israel Coalition members carrying a hand-painted mural and care packages to Rambam Hospital in Israel.
Rough Draft Atlanta
Rough Draft Atlanta on the first Crafting for Israel event, which the Atlanta Israel Coalition co-hosted.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Former CIA operative Darrell Blocker spoke at an Atlanta synagogue about terrorism in the weeks after October 7. Our community reached for someone who had done counterterrorism work professionally, rather than for another round of commentary.
Atlanta News First
Atlanta News First on the Atlanta Israel Coalition's drive to collect equipment for Israeli soldiers in the first weeks after October 7.
WSB-TV
WSB-TV covered how metro Atlanta reacted in the first week of the war, when families here were still counting who they could not reach in Israel. We talk to local press because that coverage reaches Georgians nothing else does.
11Alive
11Alive covered rival demonstrations in downtown Atlanta days after the October 7 attack. Cheryl Dorchinsky is quoted at the pro-Israel gathering in Woodruff Park on why she turned out.
Atlanta Jewish Times
AJT's preview of the 2023 Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival at Brook Run Park lists the Atlanta Israel Coalition among the organizations the festival's proceeds have gone to over the past several years.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The World Zionist Organization gave Cheryl Dorchinsky its 2023 Zionist Legacy Award for the work she began in 2018, when she founded AIC to unite Atlanta's pro-Israel community. The award recognizes what this coalition built together.
The Forward
The Forward covered Georgia's passage of its antisemitism law and quoted Cheryl Dorchinsky, who was in the chamber for the vote, on the rise in antisemitic incidents across the state — including a swastika found at a public school with "Die Jew" written next to it, and police calling the swastika a sign of peace.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The AJT put the Roger Waters protest in its 2022 year-in-review. End Jew Hatred and its Atlanta Israel Coalition partners stood outside State Farm Arena that August, and Cheryl Dorchinsky told the paper that most fans had no idea what Waters had said about Jews — and that showing up changed some minds.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Jan Jaben-Eilon's report on the incoming Netanyahu coalition quotes Cheryl Dorchinsky, founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, saying she is glad her organization is non-partisan because politics divides people. She was travelling to Israel to watch the new government come together.
Atlanta Jewish Times
AJT's recap of the 10th anniversary Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, which drew more than 4,500 people to Brook Run Park in Dunwoody, records that representatives of the Atlanta Israel Coalition were on hand.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Atlanta Jews stood outside State Farm Arena handing Roger Waters concertgoers the record of his remarks and stage symbolism. Showing up at the venue, in person, with the facts in hand is how this community answers Jew-hatred on tour.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Allen Lipis's piece ahead of Roger Waters' Atlanta concert names Cheryl Dorchinsky, founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, as the organizer of two July 31 events hosting author Lana Melman, whose book covers the BDS campaign against performers who play in Israel. Dorchinsky is cited on how the BDS movement borrows the language of human rights to mask its real aim.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The Maccabee award honors Atlanta women who put their talents and commitment to work for the Jewish community. AIC exists because women in this city decided to build pro-Israel infrastructure Atlanta did not yet have.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The AJC previewed Atlanta's two Hanukkah events under the national Shine a Light on Antisemitism campaign and named AIC as co-host, with the Marcus JCC, of the December 5 celebration in Dunwoody. The paper also quoted AIC's own statement on what the week was for, and ran a lead photo credited to AIC.
Southern Jewish Life
Southern Jewish Life announces the return of AIC's "Re-Discovering the Land of Israel" virtual tour series with guide David Sussman. The five Sunday tours run in partnership with the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Atlanta Jews of Color Council.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Sharaka's delegation spoke at Congregations Or Hadash and Ohr HaTorah about what the Abraham Accords changed on the ground. Atlanta hearing regional partners describe normalization firsthand does more than any statement we could issue.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The AJT's report on the July 2021 No Fear rally in Washington quoted Cheryl Dorchinsky, who made the trip from Atlanta, on the scale of the crowd and on her insistence that Israel and Jewish identity are human questions rather than political ones. She is identified in the piece as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Southern Jewish Life
Richard Friedman's write-up of "Legends, Lessons and Legacies," the Zoom program on Birmingham's Jewish community and the civil rights movement, sponsored by Southern Jewish Life, Israel InSight and AIC. The piece credits AIC with managing the program and quotes AIC's Lee Tanenbaum on the turnout — 221 of 318 registrants attended.
Southern Jewish Life
A profile of author T.K. Thorne and her book on the unsung white allies of Birmingham's civil rights years, many of them from the city's Jewish community. It closes by pointing readers to the June 21 "Legends, Lessons and Legacies" Zoom event, co-sponsored by AIC.
11Alive
11Alive asked Atlanta Jewish community leaders to respond to Marjorie Taylor Greene's 2021 apology for comparing COVID rules to the Holocaust. Cheryl Dorchinsky answered for the Atlanta Israel Coalition, saying those comparisons disrespect the people who died.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Jewish Atlanta filled the sidewalk outside the Israeli Consulate in May 2021, during rocket fire on Israel and a wave of antisemitic attacks on American streets. Turning out in numbers, on short notice, is the whole point.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Sandy Springs turned out in May 2021 while rockets hit Israeli cities. Rallies like that one are where Atlanta's pro-Israel community becomes visible to itself and to everyone driving past.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Jan Jaben-Eilon covers the Zoom session AIC ran with Americans United with Israel, where Cheryl Dorchinsky questioned Jerusalem deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum about the violence in the city that April.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The AJT reports Cheryl Dorchinsky taking an executive role at Americans United with Israel while staying on as AIC's executive director, and quotes her on what running both should do for AIC's work.
Israel InSight
Richard Friedman's profile of AIC for Israel InSight — how Cheryl Dorchinsky turned an idea into a volunteer coalition that outgrew Atlanta and kept its programming running straight through the pandemic. Israel's consul general for the Southeast praises the work, and Dorchinsky talks about carrying on through death threats and online abuse.
Southern Jewish Life
A full profile of the Atlanta Israel Coalition by Richard Friedman — how Cheryl Dorchinsky started it, what moving everything online during Covid did for its reach, and why she keeps going after the death threats.
Israel InSight
Israel InSight covered "Re-Discovering the Land of Israel," the five-part virtual tour series AIC ran with guide David Sussman alongside the Israeli Consulate, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Herut and the Evans Family Foundation. The write-up walked through every stop, Gush Etzion to the Golan.
Southern Jewish Life
Southern Jewish Life wrote up "Re-Discovering the Land of Israel," a run of five Sunday virtual tours the Atlanta Israel Coalition put on with the Israeli Consulate, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Herut and the Evans Family Foundation. Guide David Sussman took registrants from Gush Etzion and Hebron to Tzfat, Tel Aviv–Jaffa and the Golan.
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate)
JNS's wire service carried an End Jew Hatred release on simultaneous Holocaust Remembrance Day vigils held in eight cities. Cheryl Dorchinsky is quoted in it as organizer of the Atlanta vigil, on why the Atlanta Israel Coalition broke its pandemic pause on in-person events to take part.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Anna Levy writes up the free Chanukah tour of Jerusalem's Old City that AIC put on with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, ending at the Western Wall. Cheryl Dorchinsky on why they made it free and open to anyone, anywhere.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Bassem Eid has been arrested by the Palestinian Authority and never by Israel, and he says so in public. Palestinian voices who describe the Palestinian Authority accurately are the ones Atlanta audiences almost never get to hear.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The AJT wrote up a webinar the Atlanta Israel Coalition hosted with AJC Atlanta and Temple Emanu-El on the Israeli startup Sonovia and its anti-pathogen face masks. Cheryl Dorchinsky is named as AIC's founding director and one of the speakers.
Israel InSight
Israel InSight reported on the AIC panel on U.S.-Israel police exchanges, where a Fayetteville police chief, GILEE founder Robert Friedmann and Joshua Washington of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel took apart the claim that those exchanges drive police violence against Black Americans. Cheryl Dorchinsky moderated.
Southern Jewish Life
Richard Friedman reports on the panel AIC hosted on US-Israel police exchanges, with a North Carolina police chief, GILEE founding director Robert Friedmann and the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel. Cheryl Dorchinsky moderated, and the piece carries a follow-up interview in which she describes how anti-Israel activists pick a campus target and set out to demonize it.
Israel InSight
Israel InSight wrote up "Let's Rise Up Together," the July 2020 webinar AIC convened on racism, antisemitism and hate with Joshua Washington, Kay Wilson, Kasa Bainesay Harbor and Rev. Anthony Johnson. The magazine listed the co-sponsors AIC pulled in, from the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta to a string of local synagogues.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Melanie Phillips brought “The West: A Civilization in Crisis” to two Atlanta programs in November 2019. Putting serious outside voices in front of Atlanta audiences before a crisis forces the conversation is education worth doing.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The AJT covered U.S. antisemitism envoy Elan Carr's address to 250 people at the Atlanta Jewish Academy, an event the Atlanta Israel Coalition sponsored. Cheryl Dorchinsky is named as AIC's founder alongside Carr and Israel's consul general in Atlanta, Anat Sultan-Dadon.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Ahead of Elan Carr's Atlanta visit, the AJT interviewed the U.S. antisemitism envoy and named the Atlanta Israel Coalition as sponsor of his September 15 program at the Atlanta Jewish Academy.
Israel InSight
Israel InSight previewed the September 2019 program AIC built around Elan Carr, then the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism. The piece introduced the coalition as barely a year old and quoted Cheryl Dorchinsky on wanting a gathering place where Atlanta's pro-Israel groups could actually work together.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Rabbi Yitz Tendler runs Congregation Beth Jacob, the largest Orthodox synagogue in the region, and the Atlanta Jewish Times named him to its 40 Under 40. AIC's work rests on congregational leaders like him.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Marcia Caller Jaffe covered the Atlanta premiere of "Black Forest," Kay Wilson's account of surviving a machete attack in Israel, held at Congregation Beth Jacob. The piece credits Cheryl Dorchinsky with finding Wilson's story and getting her to Atlanta, and names the organization she was starting at the time as Atlanta Israel Connection.
Also following
Reporting on Jewish Atlanta and on Israel that AIC did not run, kept here because it is the context our work happens in. Each headline opens on the publisher’s own site.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Ken Stein warned in November 2023 that anti-Israel sentiment on American campuses had reached extraordinary levels. Georgia's Jewish students have lived that since, and Kol Emeth's student-protection program is one Atlanta congregation deciding to act rather than wait.
Jewish Insider
Sen. Ossoff voted with Bernie Sanders to block aid to Israel, then began repairing relations with Georgia's Jewish community. How that accounting goes matters to every Atlanta family that weighs Israel's security when it votes.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Atlanta lit candles in public in December 2024, the second Chanukah of the war. Jewish celebration held out in the open, in a year like that one, is its own answer to everyone who would rather the community stayed quiet.
Southern Jewish Life
Alon Penzel was a political science student at Haifa University on October 7 and spent the war documenting what Hamas did. Firsthand testimony like his is what Atlanta audiences need on hand, because the denial arrives fast.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival was one of Jewish Atlanta's largest public gatherings, and the Atlanta Jewish Times opened a series asking whether it has a future. Institutions like it are how a community stays visible to itself.
The Jerusalem Post
An American Jewish movement endorsed Palestinian statehood and called for an end to Israel's military presence in Judea and Samaria and Gaza. We watch where Diaspora institutions land on Israel's security, because Atlanta families sit in those pews.
The Jerusalem Post
Anti-Israel protesters took a beloved Jewish song, Olam Chesed Yibaneh, and marched it against the Jewish state. Its composer said no. Jewish liturgy repurposed as anti-Zionist protest is a tactic Georgia students meet on their own campuses.
The Jerusalem Post
Jewish Voice for Peace calls itself the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world, and it rewrote the Haggadah to say so. We name anti-Zionism as antisemitism, including when it arrives wrapped in Jewish ritual.
The Jerusalem Post
Rabbis who called for a ceasefire before Israel could dismantle Hamas repeated a pattern set in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021. Atlanta clergy face the same pressure, and their congregants are watching how they answer it.
The Jerusalem Post
A Spanish-language edition of the same argument: the clergy who demanded early ceasefires in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021 were performing peace. Spanish-speaking Jewish communities face that pressure from their own religious leaders too.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Nazi Germany and its collaborators ran 44,000 camps in twelve years. The Atlanta Jewish Times set that record beside the antisemitism that surfaced after October 7, because Holocaust education in Georgia is a live subject, not a settled one.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Hillels of Georgia walked seven university campuses in support of Jewish students weeks after October 7. Georgia campuses are where the fight over Israel reaches our students first, and no student should walk one alone.
The Jerusalem Post
MIT suspended students who occupied a building for a pro-Palestinian “die-in,” with its president calling the protest a defiance of university rules. Whether administrators enforce their own rules is the question Jewish students at Georgia schools keep asking.
The Jerusalem Post
Three weeks after October 7, JVP recited Kaddish for terrorists and blamed 75 years of conflict on Jewish religious supremacism. We name that for what it is: antisemitism delivered in Jewish vocabulary.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
First Baptist Atlanta had 240 travelers from 21 states booked for ten days in Israel before the war grounded the trip. Christian support for Israel runs deep in Georgia, and that roster is one measure of it.
Best of Perimeter
The Hebrew Order of David set the 2023 Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival for Brook Run Park after the 2022 festival drew some 4,000 guests. Public Jewish gatherings at that scale are how metro Atlanta meets its Jewish neighbors.
Atlanta Jewish Times
A Holocaust survivor spoke at the Holocaust Education Symposium in Marietta in June 2023. Firsthand testimony reaches Georgia audiences that statistics never will, and the window to hear it in person is closing.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Neo-Nazis demonstrated outside a Cobb County synagogue, and Jews and non-Jews answered them in person and online. Metro Atlanta has its own antisemitism problem, and it shows up on the sidewalk in daylight.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Lee Tanenbaum turned a career in public health and speech pathology into volunteer work for a string of Atlanta nonprofits. Grassroots organizations run on people who give their second act to the community.
The Times of Israel
A family commemorated a fallen Israeli soldier by handing out Bamba and Coca-Cola. Small, particular acts of memory carry further than ceremony, and Atlanta families keep finding their own versions of them.
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Kosher barbecue puts Jewish Atlanta squarely inside the most Southern thing there is. Festivals like the 2022 one draw neighbors who would never come to a lecture, and that is exactly what makes them worth running.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Dave Chappelle's “Saturday Night Live” monologue put Jewish stereotypes on network television, and the Atlanta Jewish Times asked where comedy ends. Antisemitism laundered as a joke still lands on Jewish teenagers the next morning.
Daily Mail
Atlanta's May 2021 turnout reached national coverage alongside New York, Louisville, and Beverly Hills. Georgia's pro-Israel community organized at scale during that war and kept it peaceful, and the country saw the contrast.
The Algemeiner
More than 135,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel, and Sigd is their holiday. Teaching Beta Israel's history and traditions is part of teaching Israel accurately, in Atlanta classrooms as much as anywhere else.
The Times of Israel
A 2020 argument that the Movement for Black Lives platform's language on Israel could not be held separate from BLM itself. Black-Jewish relations in Atlanta are older and sturdier than any one platform, which is why that language mattered here.
In our own words
Pieces AIC wrote and an outlet ran — our argument, in their pages. Kept separate from the coverage above, which is other newsrooms writing about us. Each headline opens on the publisher’s own site.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's Passover message for 2026, in the Atlanta Jewish Times holiday issue.
JNS
Cheryl's JNS op-ed on who belongs at the communal table, written around the World Zionist Congress. Her bio there names her as AIC's co-founder and executive director.
The Times of Israel
Cheryl on the Kosher Duck Revolution and what it grew out of, on her Times of Israel blog. The piece names the Atlanta Israel Coalition as the organisation she founded in 2018.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's letter to the Atlanta Jewish Times on confronting antisemitism, and on why she founded the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's Passover message in the Atlanta Jewish Times community issue.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl Dorchinsky's own account in the AJT of the Atlantans who traveled to New York for this year's Israel Day Parade, gathering what marchers said about the day and urging readers to come along next time.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The Atlanta Jewish Times ran Cheryl Dorchinsky's signed Chanukah message, which reads the holiday as a story of Jewish resilience and sovereignty and ties the light of the menorah back to the land. Her bio line names her as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition and founder of the Kosher Duck Revolution.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The Atlanta Jewish Times ran Cheryl Dorchinsky's signed Rosh Hashanah message, written as a set of open addresses — to Hamas, to the hostages' families, to the people of Israel and to its government — and closing on a call for a year of renewal and healing.
Atlanta Jewish Times
The AJT ran Cheryl's letter about the antisemitic signs that went up on Womack Road in Dunwoody, across from a high school, and what happened when neighbors confronted the couple behind them. She writes that silence is not neutrality, and asks the community to answer hate instead of waiting it out.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's account of the AIC volunteer mission that carried toys to Israeli children, which grew out of one girl's bat mitzvah project.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's Rosh Hashanah message in the AJT's holiday issue, written in the first year after Oct. 7. She names the grief and the rise in antisemitism, then argues the answer is standing together and refusing to stay quiet. The paper runs her as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's Passover message for the AJT holiday issue, reading "Let My People Go" against the hostages still held in Gaza and calling Zionism a civil rights movement. She asks readers to leave a place at the seder table for those who cannot come home, and the paper runs her as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's Chanukah message, written after she went to volunteer in Israel weeks into the war. She writes about the bomb shelters, the families of hostages walking from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and a country she found more united than divided, and signs as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's Rosh Hashanah message for 5784 in the AJT's holiday issue, on taking the risk, believing in yourself, and lifting the people around you while you do it. The paper runs her as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl's Passover message for the AJT holiday issue, on what the Exodus asked of our ancestors and what this moment asks of us with antisemitism climbing again. She calls for one voice against anti-Zionism and hate, and signs as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
For its 2022 Chanukah issue, the Atlanta Jewish Times asked community members why we should shine our light bold and bright. Cheryl Dorchinsky wrote that antisemitism is not the only thing darkening the room — division among ourselves dims the light too — and signed as executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl Dorchinsky's Rosh Hashanah message in the Atlanta Jewish Times, on a year of knocks and on the freedom to choose how you meet them. The paper ran her as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl Dorchinsky's Passover message in the Atlanta Jewish Times, on the holiday as a call to take responsibility, stand up and fight back against antisemitism — and on getting to Israel again after two years of closed borders. She signed as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cheryl Dorchinsky joins Atlanta Jewish community leaders in the AJC urging Georgia to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism in HB 1274.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl Dorchinsky's message for 5782 in the Atlanta Jewish Times, asking the community to answer honestly what it actually did against Jew-hatred this year before it sets intentions for the next one. The paper identified her as a founder of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Atlanta Jewish Times
Cheryl Dorchinsky's Rosh Hashanah message for 5781 in the Atlanta Jewish Times, written in the first COVID year — that hope is not wishing the time away but reframing how you meet it, and that the community kept showing up for each other even when it could only do it on a screen. She signed as founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
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