Pumpkin spice and everything nice
Oct. 23 (1 Heshvan 5786)
📱 Recently, a group of third generation Holocaust survivors (3Gs) attended Scarlett Johannson’s new film, Eleanor The Great, at the Tara Theatre. The impromptu meet up was sparked by a chat in 3G’s WhatsApp group, which is open to new members.
🎃 The General Muir is offering a fun deal related to the movie. The first 125 people to order the October special coffee of the month (pumpkin spice latte) by its new name, “The Eleanor,” will get the drink for only $2.
🥯 Speaking of lattes, this pop-up Torah tour has sparked my curiosity. On Oct. 31, Dr. Amy Cooper Robertson will pop by Alon’s Bakery inside Phipp’s Plaza with a traveling Torah. In the following weeks, the Torah will be in Sandy Springs and Chamblee so come for the Torah, stay for the schmooze (or vice versa).
Y’alla,
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Digital antisemitism
💻 CyberWell, a non-profit partner of major social media platforms, tracks online antisemitism and Holocaust denial. The organization is reporting “a rapidly escalating digital trend exploiting Holocaust memory to target Jews, Israel, and the historical record of the Holocaust.”
Since the October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, CyberWell has reported that antisemitic and anti-Israel users have flooded social media with terms like “Gaza Holocaust” and “Gaza Holocaust survivor,” appearing in over 525,000 posts, generating 2.6 million interactions and reaching 552 million users worldwide.
CyberWell CEO Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor said: “This is not just a modern form of classical antisemitism, but a deliberate dehumanization of Jews and a purposeful distortion of the historical record of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis and their allies against the Jewish communities of Europe.”
👓 Read about CyberWell’s findings.
Italian Ruins to DIVE for!
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🌊 Journey beneath the waves with Sunken Treasures, Ancient Seas at Fernbank Museum.
You won’t want to miss this immersive journey beneath the Mediterranean Sea to uncover ancient shipwrecks, artifacts, and lost worlds. Featuring real relics found off the coast of Italy, HD video explorations, and more, this exhibition reveals how underwater archaeologists bring the past to light.
➞ This exhibit is open daily, or you can swing by for after-hours during select special events! On view now until Jan. 11, 2026.
Must-see events
🤩 Watch for these two cultural events in early November: “The Nightingale of Iran” at The Breman and author Shari Rabin at the MJCCA Book Festival.
Sisters Danielle Dardashti, an Emmy award winning documentarian, and Galeet Dardashti, a renowned musician and anthropologist of Middle Eastern Jewish culture, dive into the reasons their family left Iran. In the 1950s, a religious Jew named Younes Dardashti became a national celebrity, singing at the Shah’s palace and on the radio. In the 1960s, his son Farid became a teen idol on TV. But at the height of their fame, they left the country.
🕊️ Attend “The Nightingale of Iran” performance at The Breman on Sunday, Nov. 2.
🇺🇸 Shari Rabin, author of “The Jewish South: An American History,” draws on three centuries of original archival findings to demonstrate how Southern Jews tried fit in.
In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,” causing Jewish people to settle in cities and towns throughout the Confederate states. “The Jewish South” offers the first narrative history of Southern Jews.
Rabin is the associate professor of Jewish Studies and Religion at Oberlin College. A historian of American religions and modern Judaism, she received her PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University in 2015.
🪑 Sit in on Rabin’s talk at the MJCCA on Nov. 5.
NJ Republican gubernatorial nominee faces backlash after aide says he wouldn’t take ‘money from Jews’
✡️ The Republican nominee for New Jersey governor has come under fire after one of his aides said he wasn’t “taking money from Jews” at a campaign event.
Ibrar Nadeem, the Muslim relations adviser to Jack Ciattarelli, made the remarks at a “community dinner” in Piscataway, New Jersey, on Saturday organized by a group called Muslims 4 Jack.
“People from my community, when I was blamed that somebody said, ‘You are taking money from Jews.’ I said, ‘I check my bank account every day, brother, it is not there,’” Nadeem told the crowd.
➡ Read the full story on the Forward.
Be a mensch
🫶🏽 3G ATL is seeking mentors for the Witness Through Us project in collaboration with Am Yisrael Chai’s Daffodil Project and the Schoenbaum Shinshinim. Work with teens in the community who are eager to tell stories and learn more. As a mentor, you will share your grandparent’s Holocaust story and inspire teens to explore their own family histories. All projects will be presented at The Daffodil Dash in March 2026.
🔜 Apply to be a mentor.
What’s doin’ around town
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🇮🇱 Oct. 26: Take action for Israel.
🎲 Oct. 27: Mah Jongg Monday at 1 p.m.
📗 Oct. 28: Virtual Jewish Bible study.
🗝️ Nov. 3: The Abraham Initiatives at The Spring.
🧪 Nov. 4:Science, Hope and Resilience at The Temple.
🌳 Nov. 7:Plantlanta with Trees Atlanta at AA Synagogue.
✡️ The next Jewish holiday is Chanukah on Dec. 14.
🕯️ Light Shabbat candles this week at 6:50 p.m.
🗓️ Torah, coffee, and community—what could be better? Join Or Hadash’s Heshvan Torah Tour, Fridays at 10 a.m. around town: Oct 31 Alon’s Bakery (Phipps), Nov 7 Café I Am, Nov 14 TBD. Come for the scones, stay for the schmooze!
We remember
🎗️ Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, 92, died on Oct. 22. A trained historian and secular activist until 1968, he created The Freedom Seder hagaddah after witnessing a military takeover in Washington, D.C.
Waskow grew up in Baltimore, Md. He was an author, an activist, thought-leader in eco-Judaism, and the founder of the Shalom Center.
👱🏼♀️ Waskow was arrested more than two dozen times during activist protests. His first arrest was during an effort to integrate Gwynn Oaks amusement park in Baltimore in 1963, an event that was later fictionalized in John Waters’ movie Hairspray.