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Anti-Semitic Incidents Double in SE
Twice as many anti-Semitic incidents occurred in the first nine months of 2017 in the Anti-Defamation League’s Southeast Region as were reported in the same period of 2016. In announcing the findings Thursday, Nov. 2, ADL Southeast Regional Director Allison Padilla-Goodman said the numbers include “a dramatic increase in anti-Semitic incidents in K-12 schools in the greater Atlanta area.” That surge inspired the Atlanta Initiative Against Anti-Semitism’s Tackling Anti-Semitism for Our Kids (TASK) Conference with 250 representatives of school districts, schools, Jewish organizations and other concerned groups Wednesday, Nov. 8, at Temple Emanu-El. Nationally, the ADL Audit of AntiSemitic Incidents reports 1,299 incidents from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, a 67 percent increase from the same period of 2016. “We don’t think the statistics paint a full picture of what is happening” at schools, Padilla-Goodman said. “We are regularly hearing about new incidents from victims who are learning to recognize and respond to bias.” ■ • Hate keeps coming, Page 10; ADL learns from Whitefish, Page 15
Photos by Michael Jacobs Above: Ready for the morning’s flag-planting mission at Arlington Memorial Park are (back row, from left) Grace Sklar, Daniel Sklar (whose D-Day veteran father is buried in the cemetery), Don Herrmann, Marc Kranz, Fred Taylor, Sandy Shulman and Stefan Pollack and (front row, from left) Leah Benator, Barry Benator, Gabi Jones and David B. Shulman. Top right: Sandy Shulman plants a flag in tribute to a Jewish veteran buried at Arlington Memorial Park, Bottom right: Barry Benator salutes after planting a new flag at the grave of a Jewish military veteran.
Serving Those Who Served Us Twice a year, in May around Memorial Day and in November around Veterans Day, Jewish War Veterans Post 112 brings volunteers to Atlanta-area cemeteries to plant fresh American flags at the graves of U.S. military veterans, as well as Holocaust survivors, in and near the Jewish sections. On Sunday morning, Nov. 5, veterans and their relatives carried out that mission at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs, Crest Lawn Memorial Park in Northwest Atlanta and Greenwood Cemetery in Southwest Atlanta.
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At Arlington Memorial Park, 11 volunteers placed more than 250 flags at graves in a little more than an hour. “Thank you for your dedication to those who served us,” Navy veteran Barry Benator, whose veteran father is buried in the cemetery, told the group before dispatching them across the northern sections of the graveyard. See more photos from the morning at atlantajewishtimes. com and find more coverage related to Veterans Day on Pages 26 and 27. ■
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SPECIAL REPORT
As many as 15,000 Israelis are believed to live in the Atlanta area, but for a range of reasons most of them remain a community apart from the rest of Jewish Atlanta. Page 18