🔥 What’s hot and what’s not
Aug. 21 (27 Av 5785)
What’s Hot
👗 Empty your Amazon cart and step away from the Nordstrom app. Loehman’s is making a comeback.
👟 Calling all sneakerheads! Icons Zabars and adidas have a new shoe collab.
📬 A new stamp is honoring Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
What’s Not
😧 “The Body Keeps the Score” author traumatized his audience with antisemitic statements at a recent retreat.
👊🏼 Does the New York Times have a problem with Jews?
⚾ Even this Braves fan agrees that the Yankees suck for drafting this guy.
Y’alla,
Logan
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An unexpected connection
🇨🇳 Don’t miss an exhibit about the Jewish people who resettled in Shanghai, China, from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Russia: “Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai Jewish Experience“ at the Breman.
In the 1930s, Shanghai was the hub of China’s international trade. By 1938, the fourth largest city in the world had 17,000 Jewish refugees. Shanghai required no entry visa, therefore becoming one of the only options for German and Austrian Jews trying to escape the Holocaust.
✔️ The Aug. 24 event with Temple Emanu-El, Asian Arts Alliance, and Chinese Community in Atlanta is sold out. Catch the self-guided exhibit until Oct. 13.
RELATED
🎻 “Fiddler on the Roof: Costumes and Contrasts” opens on Sept. 2 with Itzik Cohen in partnership with the Alliance Theatre and the Atlanta Opera.
A shell of a good time: Open now!
SPONSORED BY THE FERNBANK MUSEUM
🐢 This summer, discover the fascinating world of Turtles at the Fernbank Museum! This new exhibit focuses on the lives and behaviors of these beloved reptiles.
Guests can get up close to live turtles through hands-on activities and daily live animal presentations. Visitors will learn about their natural history and survival challenges, their vital role across ecosystems around the globe, and conservation efforts humans are taking to protect these animals.
➞ Learn more about the exhibit and special after-hours events here!
Jews + Food
👩🏼🌾 Rabbi Jonathan Crane, registered dietitian Julie Taube, and Daron “Farmer D” Joffe will strike up a conversation about Jewish values, food and health on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m.
Adamah CEO Jakir Manela is the moderator of this discussion on the ethical, spiritual, and environmental dimensions of growing, harvesting, and consuming food.
🍅 Get tickets for good eats and good conversation.
Jewish film fest rebrands
📽️ The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival will now be known as ATL Jewish Film, an umbrella term that will cover both the yearly film festival and the organization’s year-round programming, Rough Draft’s Sammie Purcell reported.
ATL Jewish Film unveiled the first wave of iconic movie scores set to be performed live on Oct. 20 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Fiddler on the Roof, Funny Girl, Schindler’s List, and Chariots of Fire. Many more titles will be announced in the coming weeks, according to the festival organizers.
Why did Trump cut hundreds of grants for Holocaust history and Yiddish culture?
💰 The Klezmer Institute – along with hundreds of other NEH projects – all received the same form letter terminating their grants, saying that their projects did not assist in “the furtherance of the President’s agenda” and that the funds would be redistributed to work that was more aligned with Trump’s goals.
➡ Read the full story on the Forward.
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Look & Listen
📖 JewBelong has issued a guide to the High Holidays.
👀 Read Nora Berman’s opinion piece on how to tell whether information about events in Gaza is real.
What’s doin’ around town
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🛝 Aug. 22: Shabbat in the Park and potluck.
🆕 Aug. 23: Shabbat Hadasha, a new Shabbat experience.
🎲 Aug. 25: Mah Jongg Monday at 7 p.m.
✌🏽 Aug. 28: Drop-in Jewish mindfulness meditation.
👶🏼 Sept. 14: Jewish theater for the very young.
✡️ The next Jewish holiday is Rosh Hashanah starting Monday, Sept. 22.
🕯️ Light Shabbat candles this week at 7:58 p.m.
🗓️ August 23, discover Shabbat Hadasha with Rabbi Lauren at Or Hadash—a Shabbat morning with fewer words, deeper meaning, and more heart. Come as you are, bring a friend, and linger for kiddush lunch. Feed your soul, find your community. Details.
Before you go
🗽 Matt Bronfman, principal and CEO of Jamestown Properties, is being honored at the ADL Torch of Liberty award dinner on Thursday, Sept. 18. Bronfman is being recognized for visionary leadership and contributions to the Atlanta community.