Members of metro Atlanta’s Jewish community will show solidarity and pride during #JewishandProud Day on Monday.
A special event kicks off at 7:30 p.m. at Byers Theatre at City Springs, 1 Galambos Way in Sandy Springs, where people are asked to wear “your Judaism with pride.”
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The #JewishandProud initiative follows a string of anti-Semitic incidents in metropolitan New York last month, including an attack that left several people wounded when a machete-wielding assailant stormed a Hanukkah ceremony at a rabbi’s Monsey, New York, home
People attending Monday's event are asked to wear anything that is "identifiably Jewish" and to post a photo of themselves on social media using the hashtag #JewishandProud.
Similar events are being held across the United States.
In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League recorded 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents in the United States. That year included the massacre of 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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Locally, the event is being sponsored by several organizations including the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Atlanta Rabbinical Association.
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