Atlanta

Atlanta Falcons face backlash over social media logo resembling Nazi imagery

According to NBC, the profile picture is likely to honor the expansion 1966 Atlanta Falcons ahead of their game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Atlanta Falcons social media profile picture.
An immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent raises a finger moments after detaining a man during an immigration raid, on Sunday in Minneapolis.

Incendiary device reportedly thrown at ICE building in Georgia, FBI agents investigating

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel and evidence response technicians are on site collecting evidence, the agency's Atlanta public affairs department said in an emailed statement.

|ByREUTERS
An American Airlines Airbus A321 airplane departs from Los Angeles International Airport en route to Dallas on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California; Illustrative.

Passenger burned after laptop computer catches fire aboard American Airlines flight to Dallas

The incident comes as the FAA continues to warn about the dangers lithium-ion rechargeable batteries pose to aircraft, including those found in laptops, cell phones, and other common devices.

|ByAARON GLICK
A Georgia Democratic candidate for the state Senate, Nathalie Kanani, came under ridicule after a Passover ad published in the Atlanta Jewish Times reportedly featured challah, a leavened bread traditionally avoided during the holiday. April 5, 2026.

Georgia political candidate apologizes for Passover ad that featured challah

The ad quickly drew ridicule online, particularly after Greg Bluestein, a Jewish Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter, tweeted about it on Saturday, writing, “It’s the thought that counts, I guess.”

|ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

From Atlanta to Jerusalem

Only now at 80 have I begun to understand what life challenges you excitingly face as you add up the years and want to add more.

OCTOBER 23, 2018ByDAVID GEFFEN
David and Rita 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