Programming
Speaker events, briefings, and missions. AIC brings firsthand voices and expert analysis to the communities we serve. New dates are announced to our community first.
On the calendar
Next event
Shai Davidai taught at Columbia Business School until he resigned in July 2025, so he is not writing about this from a distance. The first session is free and open to everyone.
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Mustapha Ezzarghani grew up in Morocco and now spends his days telling Arabic speakers the truth about Jews and Israel. He comes to Israel Up Close to talk about that work, and to take your questions.
Next event
Since October 7, some publishers and agents have told Jewish writers “now is not the time.” Howard Lovy started a press to say yes.
Next event
A Hanukkah love story, read the week after Hanukkah. Amanda Elliot comes on at eight to take your questions.
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Amotz Eyal started TPS in 2013 to fix the coverage of Israel where it begins, with the reporting that newsrooms around the world pick up. He comes to Israel Up Close to talk about the media war, why it’s so hard to win, and what’s working.
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Zeeva Bukai’s first novel follows an Israeli family from the 1967 war to Brooklyn. It won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction.
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Lara Burns spent two decades following Hamas’s money through America for the FBI. She’ll show you what she found, and what’s still here.
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Yishay Ishi Ron served in an elite combat unit and came home with PTSD, and Dog is the novel that came out of it. Note the time: this one is at noon Eastern.
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Justin Yehuda built a New York coffee company that gives 18 percent of its profits to organizations supporting Israel. He’ll tell you how it came together.
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A year after the war with Iran began, where it has left Israel, the region, and Jewish communities here.
Next event
Rachel Lester was inside the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit for the war over the story, from October 7 through the campuses. Note the time: this one is at noon Eastern.
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Lana Melman spent twenty years in Hollywood, then took on the campaign to make artists boycott Israel. Artists Under Fire is that fight, story by story.
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On the calendar
Our book club, once a month
· Zoom (live online)
Shai Davidai taught at Columbia Business School until he resigned in July 2025, so he is not writing about this from a distance. The first session is free and open to everyone.
Live talks, twice a month
· Zoom (live online)
Mustapha Ezzarghani grew up in Morocco and now spends his days telling Arabic speakers the truth about Jews and Israel. He comes to Israel Up Close to talk about that work, and to take your questions.
Live talks, twice a month
· Zoom (live online)
Since October 7, some publishers and agents have told Jewish writers “now is not the time.” Howard Lovy started a press to say yes.
Our book club, once a month
· Zoom (live online)
A Hanukkah love story, read the week after Hanukkah. Amanda Elliot comes on at eight to take your questions.
Live talks, twice a month
· Zoom (live online)
Amotz Eyal started TPS in 2013 to fix the coverage of Israel where it begins, with the reporting that newsrooms around the world pick up. He comes to Israel Up Close to talk about the media war, why it’s so hard to win, and what’s working.
Our book club, once a month
· Zoom (live online)
Zeeva Bukai’s first novel follows an Israeli family from the 1967 war to Brooklyn. It won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction.
Live talks, twice a month
· Zoom (live online)
Lara Burns spent two decades following Hamas’s money through America for the FBI. She’ll show you what she found, and what’s still here.
Our book club, once a month
· Zoom (live online)
Yishay Ishi Ron served in an elite combat unit and came home with PTSD, and Dog is the novel that came out of it. Note the time: this one is at noon Eastern.
Live talks, twice a month
· Zoom (live online)
Justin Yehuda built a New York coffee company that gives 18 percent of its profits to organizations supporting Israel. He’ll tell you how it came together.
Virtual
· Live online
A year after the war with Iran began, where it has left Israel, the region, and Jewish communities here.
Our book club, once a month
· Zoom (live online)
Rachel Lester was inside the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit for the war over the story, from October 7 through the campuses. Note the time: this one is at noon Eastern.
Our book club, once a month
· Zoom (live online)
Lana Melman spent twenty years in Hollywood, then took on the campaign to make artists boycott Israel. Artists Under Fire is that fight, story by story.
The record
A look back at AIC briefings and speaker evenings, with recordings and recaps where we have them. See them by year.
A partial record. We've rebuilt this list from Facebook events, old emails, and recordings, so it won't have every program AIC has run. Missing one? Tell us.
Virtual
· Zoom (live online)
Virtual
· Microsoft Teams (live online)
Joel Rayburn, former US Special Envoy for Syria, on what the midterms could mean for Israel: aid, Iran, Congress, campus, and whether support for Israel stays bipartisan.
In person
· Toco Hills, Atlanta
Hosted with Congregation Beth Jacob, Congregation Ohr HaTorah, and New Toco Shul
Rabbi Leo Dee came to Toco Hills to talk about losing Lucy, Maia, and Rina, and about faith and what holds a people together. AIC hosted the evening with Congregation Beth Jacob, Congregation Ohr HaTorah, and New Toco Shul.
Virtual
· Microsoft Teams (live online)
Three years to the day, David Sussman took AIC live across the Nova festival site and through the communities along the Gaza border, with an opening prayer led by Cheryl Dorchinsky.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Hosted with Rhode Island Coalition for Israel
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Arnold Roth, Kathleen Luken, Tal Hartuv, and attorney Mark Goldfeder joined AIC over Zoom to examine why the killers of American citizens have never been tried in a US courtroom, and what would change that.
Hybrid
· Temple Torat Yisrael, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and on Zoom
CAMERA's David Litman on how misinformation and anti-Israel narratives travel through media channels, including the situation at Brown University. A Rhode Island event AIC supported as a community partner.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Hosted with Israel Brief and Rhode Island Coalition for Israel
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)A virtual evening with Sami Steigmann, co-hosted for a Rhode Island audience with Israel Brief and the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel. His testimony and his E.M.E.T. framework went out live to the community over Zoom.
In person
· Chabad Israeli Center of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann told his story, and brought his E.M.E.T. framework of Educate, Motivate, Empower, Tolerance, to a free evening at the Chabad Israeli Center of Atlanta.
In person
· Dunwoody (venue shared after ticketing)
Bridges of Hope brought a Persian Jewish vocalist, a soul composer, a Moroccan-born Muslim author, an Iranian-African American comedian, a hip-hop producer, a Holocaust survivor, and a survivor of Kashmir’s ethnic cleansing to one Dunwoody stage, for a night of music, comedy, and testimony.
In person
· Marietta
With Gil Hoffman
Gil Hoffman of HonestReporting gave an insider's look at the Middle East and what people here can do to help Israel. Congregation Etz Chaim hosted, and AIC co-sponsored.
In person
· Buckhead, Atlanta
With Yirmiyahu Danzig
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Yirmiyahu Danzig of Unpacked came back to Atlanta to talk about Jewish identity, the 'other' Jewish histories, belonging, and antisemitism.
In person
· Toco Hills, Atlanta (venue shared upon registration)
Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, came to Toco Hills to talk about Israel and world Jewry, the rise in antisemitism, and what the two can do about it together.
Virtual
· Online
A webinar with the #EndJewHatred movement for Georgia parents who want to push back on Jew-hatred in their children's schools, with the legal background to do it.
In person
· Alpharetta (venue shared upon registration)
International comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding played a full room in Alpharetta, one night of stand-up for Israel, with the proceeds going to AIC's programs.
In person
· Private residence, Milton, GA (address shared upon registration)
With Amos Davidowitz
Lt. Col. (Res.) Amos Davidowitz read from the ethical will he wrote his children before going to war, and talked with a small gathering in Milton about leadership under fire and turning survival into hope.
In person
· Atlanta, Georgia
With George Rishfeld
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)AIC sat down with George Rishfeld, who was hidden as a small child in wartime Poland, for a long conversation about what he remembers, what his parents did to keep him alive, and why he still tells it. Published by AIC in November 2025; the recording itself is undated.
In person
· Buckhead, Atlanta (venue shared upon registration)
Sammy Yahood of Peace Through Strength and Yocheved Ruttenberg of Sword of Iron Israel Volunteer spoke in Buckhead on turning conviction into volunteering and action for Israel.
In person
· Alpharetta
A free preview screening of Bau, Artist at War, the true story of Holocaust survivor Joseph Bau, the night before it opened in theaters.
In person
· Toco Hills, Atlanta (venue shared upon registration)
Knesset member Ohad Tal walked a Toco Hills crowd through Israel’s 12-Day War with Iran from the inside, then answered pointed questions on the north, the hostages, and the next round.
Hybrid
· Atlanta area (venue shared upon registration) and online
A free afternoon for Jewish students heading to college, run by the Center for Israel Education with partners including AIC.
In person
· Toco Hills, Atlanta
With Rawan Osman
A screening of Tragic Awakening, a 55-minute documentary on the resurgence of antisemitism, followed by a conversation with Syrian-Lebanese activist Rawan Osman.
In person
· Sandy Springs
Kesher Torah collected new toys for children in Israel before Purim, with costumes, hamantaschen baking, face painting, and a yard sale. AIC's logo was on the flyer beside Kesher Torah's.
In person
· Toco Hills, Atlanta
With Aviva Siegel, Yarden Gonen, Maya Roman, Rabbi Dr. Moshe Goldfeder
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Congregation Beth Jacob, with AIC and Congregation Ohr HaTorah, welcomed Aviva Siegel, Yarden Gonen, and Maya Roman, from three families of Israeli hostages, for an evening of song, prayer, and conversation.
In person
· Washington, DC
Atlanta's delegation to Stand Together in Washington, a gathering of nearly 40,000 Jewish community members, allies, and partners. Cheryl Dorchinsky was the delegation's contact.
In person
· Atlanta, Georgia
With Alon Penzel
Alon Penzel, author of Testimonies Without Boundaries, gave the keynote at an evening that honored the victims of October 7 and stood against the denial that followed.
In person
· A private home in Georgia
With Alon Penzel
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)The evening after the first anniversary of October 7, author Alon Penzel talked with AIC about the testimonies he collected for Testimonies Without Boundaries.
In person
· Midtown, Atlanta
With Yaniv Lavi
A screening of the Israeli short film Scratch That at Atlanta's Out on Film festival, followed by a Q&A with its director, Yaniv Lavi.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Three free live tours from Israel with guide David Sussman, nearly a year after October 7: Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Kibbutz Re'im, and the Nova festival site.
In person
· Atlanta, Georgia
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)An Israeli wine and cheese tasting followed by a practical session on how to actually get to Israel and volunteer: routes, costs, and interest-free loans from JIFLA.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Six women who fight antisemitism in very different jobs, from the Simon Wiesenthal Center to the Chicago City Council, sat on one Zoom roundtable, with Cheryl Dorchinsky there for AIC.
In person
· Atlanta, GA (venue shared upon registration)
With Benaya Cherlow
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)AIC hosted an in-person evening with Benaya Cherlow.
In person
· Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta
Atlanta's community Yom Ha'atzmaut at the MJCCA, the first Independence Day after October 7, with AIC among the co-sponsors.
In personPostponed
· The William Breman Jewish Home
A candle-making workshop in memory of those killed on October 7 and in the war that followed, open to all ages. AIC postponed it.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Neil Lazarus, "Ali"
Neil Lazarus and a Palestinian opponent of Hamas talked about Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian relations after October 7, and why BDS hurts Palestinians.
Virtual
· Online
With Anne Herzberg, Dr. Joan Lurie
A CAEF Web Talk, co-sponsored by AIC, with Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor and Dr. Joan Lurie of Jewish NGOs at the UN on how the UN's agencies and agenda feed antisemitism.
In person
· Little Five Points, Atlanta
An intimate Matisyahu concert for Atlanta's Jewish community, produced by Chabad Intown. AIC was one of the partners on the flyer.
In person
· Chabad Israeli Atlanta
An interactive evening with Rudy Rochman: IDF paratrooper, campus organizer, and maker of the documentary series We Were Never Lost.
In person
· Congregation Gesher L'Torah
With Yirmiyahu Danzig
Yirmiyahu Danzig, who posts as @that_semite, came to Atlanta to talk about Jewish diversity, history, and identity. It was his first AIC program, two years before he returned in 2026.
In person
· Sandy Springs
With Avi Zimmerman
Author Avi Zimmerman's Atlanta stop on the launch tour for Kosher Giving, his guide for donors written out of the Iron Swords War. Fuego Mundo hosted, and AIC supported the evening.
In person
· The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
A day at the Georgia State Capitol meeting legislators to pass HB 30, which adopts the IHRA definition of antisemitism. The Israeli American Council organized it, and AIC was among the partners.
In person
· Dunwoody
Atlanta volunteers painted a mural for Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa with the Foundation for Hospital Art. AIC carried it to Israel the next month.
Virtual
· Online
Two months into the war, Cheryl Dorchinsky talked Israel advocacy with Virag Gulyas, a Hungarian Zionist who isn't Jewish, and Ian Halperin, a filmmaker and the son of a Holocaust survivor.
Hybrid
· Atlanta, and on Zoom
With Darrell Blocker
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Five days after October 7, former CIA counterterrorism officer Darrell Blocker sat down with Cheryl Dorchinsky at Ahavath Achim Synagogue to talk about how he came to Judaism and about the war that had just begun.
Hybrid
· Georgia State Capitol, and on Zoom
The annual community Holocaust memorial at the Georgia State Capitol: reading aloud the names of victims, with their ages and where they died.
In person
· Atlanta, GA (venue shared upon registration)
With Nadia Bilchik, Anat Sultan-Dadon
A Yom Ha'atzmaut reception and program for Israel's 75th, with Nadia Bilchik presenting and Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon as guest speaker. It was on AIC's calendar; AIC's part in it is not recorded.
In person
· Emory University, Atlanta
With Prof. Danny Orbach
Military historian Danny Orbach on the Mossad's Cold War operations against Nazi scientists, from his book Fugitives. Emory Hillel presented the evening, and AIC was among its partners.
In person
· The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
Students and community members met Georgia legislators at the State Capitol to urge a yes vote on HB 30, which adopts the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
In person
· Toco Hills, Atlanta
With Nerya Meir, Anat Sultan-Dadon
A screening of the documentary Shamir, His Way, and the evening the World Zionist Organization presented its Zionist Legacy Award to AIC's founder, Cheryl Dorchinsky.
In person
· Dunwoody
Israeli tour guide David Sussman told how a Phish fan living in his van became a combat soldier in the Second Lebanon War, and what it taught him.
In person
· Sandy Springs
The economic partnerships between Israelis and Arabs in Judea and Samaria that coverage of the region routinely leaves out.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Carolina Simon
A book talk led by Carolina Simon of Zachor Shoah on A Convenient Hatred, tracing antisemitism from Alexander the Great through the Holocaust to modern Israel.
Hybrid
· Atlanta, Georgia
AIC's 2022 GivingTuesday campaign, which asked the community for time, skills, and voice alongside money.
In person
· Congregation Beth Jacob, Atlanta
Israel's Ambassador to the UN came to Atlanta to describe the fight for Israel inside the building. Beth Jacob Atlanta hosted; AIC partnered.
In person
· Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Caesarea, Tiberias, Tzfat, Masada, the Dead Sea, Petra, and Eilat
AIC's first in-person tour of Israel: ten days across the country led by Cheryl Dorchinsky with guide David Sussman, plus an optional Petra and Eilat extension.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Prof. Jeffrey Herf on the forces that opposed, and nearly blocked, the re-establishment of the Jewish state between 1945 and 1949, including the Nazi links to Arab antisemitism.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Maurice Hirsch
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Maurice Hirsch of Palestinian Media Watch on the Palestinian Authority's own output as a source of antisemitism worldwide.
In person
· Midtown, Atlanta
AIC was a community partner for the Atlanta run of Three Minutes: A Lengthening, the documentary built from three minutes of 1938 home-movie footage of the Jews of Nasielsk, Poland.
In person
· Temple Beth Tikvah (Roswell) and Temple Emanu-El of Atlanta
Author and anti-BDS advocate Lana Melman spoke on how boycott campaigns target Israel through the entertainment industry, and how to answer them.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Richard Green
Clarion Project co-founder Richard Green on how extremism and antisemitism are connected, and how social media helps them along. A CAEF web talk; AIC was a sponsor.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
The director of the Roger Waters documentary, an entertainment lawyer, a Lawfare Project counsel, and AIC's executive director, on Waters's antisemitism and his BDS campaigning, timed to his North American tour.
Virtual
· Online
The Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation honored The Lawfare Project and its founder Brooke Goldstein for their work on Jewish civil rights, with tributes from Ronald Lauder and others. AIC participated.
In person
· Beth Jacob Atlanta
A free private screening of Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin, at Beth Jacob Atlanta with the World Zionist Organization.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Cheryl Dorchinsky and guide David Sussman answered questions about AIC's first in-person Israel tour before anyone had to commit.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Lana Melman on the BDS campaign inside the entertainment industry, in the Fighting Back series. AIC co-sponsored; she came to Atlanta in person that July.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Two Israeli brigadier generals in reserve, Amir Avivi and Yossi Kuperwasser, briefed on Israel's security position. Presented by IDSF, with AIC named among its partners.
Virtual
· Online
As Yom HaZikaron began in 2022, Bishvil Hanoflim remembered Major Yochai Kalangel with his siblings. AIC took part.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Hugh Kitson, Simon Rufus Isaacs, Natasha Hausdorff
Israel's 74th Independence Day, marked with the documentary Whose Land? and a live webinar with its director Hugh Kitson, the Marquess of Reading, and Natasha Hausdorff of UKLFI. AIC co-sponsored.
Hybrid
· Atlanta, Georgia
The 2022 reading of Holocaust victims' names at the Georgia State Capitol and online, held by B'nai B'rith's Achim/Gate City Lodge and hosted that year by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Ilan Sinelnikov
Ilan Sinelnikov of Students Supporting Israel on Palestinian Apartheid Week, the campus initiative SSI launched in 2022 to answer Israel Apartheid Week. A CAEF Fighting Back web talk that AIC co-sponsored.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
James Sinkinson of FLAME laid out five practical strategies an ordinary person can use to help Israel in everyday life. Part of the Fighting Back series; AIC co-sponsored.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Sam Sokol
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Journalist Sam Sokol joined AIC over Zoom to trace how Putin’s war has devastated Ukrainian Jewry.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Alyza Lewin
Alyza Lewin of the Brandeis Center on what can actually be done about Jew-hatred on campus, with a Q&A. Part of the Fighting Back series; AIC co-sponsored.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Amb. Danny Ayalon and Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi on what Russia's invasion of Ukraine was doing to the Middle East. Presented by IDSF, with AIC named among its partners.
Virtual
· Zoom
The Jewish Women's Fund of Atlanta put a pot of money in front of its donors and let them vote it out in one evening. Cheryl Dorchinsky pitched for AIC as one of three finalists.
In person
· Atlanta, GA (venue shared upon registration)
With Olga Meshoe Washington, Gerard Filitti, Carolina Simon, Cheryl Dorchinsky
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Olga Meshoe Washington, Gerard Filitti, Carolina Simon, and Cheryl Dorchinsky on what Jewish students face at school, and how to make campuses safe for them.
In person
· Downtown, Atlanta
Atlanta's largest single-day Jewish festival, at the Georgia Aquarium. The Atlanta Jewish Times produced it; AIC took a table for the day as a community partner and signed people up.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Hen Mazzig on using social media to strike back at the antisemitism his grandparents never warned him about. Part of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation's Fighting Back series; AIC co-sponsored.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Prof. Anne Bayefsky on the UN Human Rights Council's open-ended inquiry into Israel, and a strategy for answering it. Hosted by IBSI; AIC was a partner.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Brigadier General (Res.) Amir Avivi on new approaches to fighting antisemitism, in the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation's Fighting Back series. AIC co-sponsored.
Virtual
· Online
With Sami Steigmann, Cheryl Dorchinsky, Alicia Post
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, AIC hosted Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann with Cheryl Dorchinsky and Alicia Post.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Masha Merkulova, Daniel Koren
Masha Merkulova of Club Z and Daniel Koren of Hasbara Fellowships Canada on what students need to know, and be able to do, to answer Jew-hatred. A Fighting Back web talk from the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation; AIC co-sponsored.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Alfred Ngaro, Sheree Trotter
Alfred Ngaro, a Cook Islander and former New Zealand MP, and Māori historian Dr. Sheree Trotter of the Indigenous Coalition for Israel, on Jewish indigeneity. A CAEF and CIJR webinar that AIC co-sponsored.
In person
· Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Atlanta's community Hanukkah celebration at the MJCCA, held under the global Shine A Light on Antisemitism campaign. AIC joined it as one of the campaign's partners.
Hybrid
· Midtown, Atlanta
The fourth night of Hanukkah at The Temple, with the ADL, the AJC Black/Jewish Coalition, local rabbis, elected officials, and interfaith allies from Ebenezer Baptist Church. AIC was one of thirteen named community partners.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Five more Sunday-morning virtual tours with David Sussman: the Hula Valley in migration season, ancient Caesarea, Masada, Eilat, and Haifa.
In person
· Atlanta, Georgia
The Atlanta Jews of Color Council's Sigd celebration, which AIC brought to its community a year after hosting its own Sigd program.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Two Georgia state representatives, one Republican and one Democrat, briefed Georgia's Israeli-American and pro-Israel community on BDS and antisemitism in the legislature.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Craig Dershowitz
Craig Dershowitz of Artists 4 Israel on how to read Banksy's work, and on the trajectory that took the world's most famous street artist toward supporting Israel.
Virtual
· Online
Palestinian human-rights campaigner Bassem Eid took the questions people were asking after the spring's fighting with Hamas, from the ceasefire and Gaza to Sheikh Jarrah and BDS.
In person
· Congregation Or Hadash
With Yahya Mahamid, Omar Al Busaidy, Sumaiiah Almheiri, Najat Al-Saied, Dan Feferman
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Five members of Sharaka, the Israeli and Gulf group building ties between ordinary people, on what the Abraham Accords changed and what a treaty can't do by itself.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With T.K. Thorne, Richard Berkowitz, Stephen Grafman, Tracy Friedman Stein, Larry Brook
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Author T.K. Thorne and the children of three Birmingham Jewish leaders on the part the city's Jewish community played in the civil rights movement.
Virtual
· Online
A conversation with former diplomat and Knesset member Ruth Wasserman Lande, held on the morning Israel's new government won its confidence vote.
In person
· Midtown, Atlanta
A community-wide rally in midtown Atlanta days after the May 2021 ceasefire, called by AIC with more than forty Atlanta organizations, congregations, and schools behind it.
Virtual
· Online essay contest and Zoom conversations
An essay contest built on Yossi Klein Halevi's Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, open to anyone 14 and up, culminating in facilitated conversations with the author.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor on the unrest in her city in April 2021 and the attacks from Gaza, in a Zoom conversation with Cheryl Dorchinsky.
Virtual
· Livestream
Israel's Embassy to the United States marked the 73rd Independence Day with a national livestream. AIC carried the broadcast to its community.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Dr. Elai Rettig on what a change of U.S. administration meant for Israel, for the normalization agreements, and for the Israeli-Palestinian question.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Five Sunday-morning virtual tours of Israel with guide David Sussman (Gush Etzion, Hebron, Tzfat, Tel Aviv and Jaffa, and the Golan Heights), free and open to any age.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
A three-night series for Black History Month, run with the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel, on Israel-Africa and Black-Jewish relations and the strategy for turning back antizionism.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
AIC marked its first two years by creating the AIC Impact Award and giving it to Kay Wilson, whose testimony had already moved five of the evening's speakers to act.
In person
· Dunwoody
A socially distanced vigil at the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of the End Jew Hatred vigils held that evening around the world.
Virtual
· Facebook Live and Zoom
A second free virtual tour a week after the Hanukkah walk, this one through all four quarters of the Old City with the residents who live in them.
Virtual
· Facebook Live and Zoom
A free live virtual tour of the Old City with guide David Sussman, walking the streets to the Kotel and reaching the Western Wall in time for the official Hanukkah candle-lighting.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Naftali Aklum
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)Naftali Aklum introduced the community to Sigd, the Ethiopian Jewish holiday marked on the 29th of Cheshvan and an Israeli state holiday since 2008.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
A five-session activism course run with the Israeli-American Council: the vocabulary of pro-Israel advocacy, Jewish identity, answering hostile questions, and building a campaign against antisemitism.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights campaigner who grew up in the Shuafat refugee camp, gave the community his own account of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and who actually pays for the conflict.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Sonovia's co-founder and research team on how a small Israeli start-up turned an anti-pathogen fabric technology into a commercial business in the middle of a pandemic.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
An Inspiration from Zion webinar on Israel's Olympic athletes, in the year the Tokyo Games were postponed. AIC partnered with the Genesis 123 Foundation on it.
Virtual
· Online
A ninety-minute session on education as the tool for building a Zionist argument that holds up. Whose program it was is not recorded.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, then Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, on American diplomacy in Israel. Rescheduled from 12 August; AIC sponsored.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Gina V. Hawkins, Robert R. Friedmann, Joshua Washington
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)A briefing on the exchange programs that send U.S. police officers to train in counterterrorism prevention and response with Israeli colleagues.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
An instalment of the Genesis 123 Foundation's Inspiration from Zion webinar series, on new work in ancient Jerusalem. AIC partnered on the series.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
With Joshua Washington, Kay Wilson, Kasa Bainesay Harbor
Watch the recording (opens in a new tab)A three-way conversation on racism, antisemitism, and hate, with Joshua Washington of IBSI, terror survivor Kay Wilson, and Israel's Deputy Consul General in Miami, Kasa Bainesay Harbor.
VirtualPostponed
· Zoom
A national Jewish virtual rally in solidarity with Black communities, called in the weeks after George Floyd's killing. AIC was one of roughly forty-five co-sponsors. It was postponed.
Virtual
· Zoom Webinar
Raheel Raza, a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and founding member of the Muslim Reform Movement, spoke on how she came to support Israel and what it costs a Muslim who says so publicly.
Virtual
· Zoom
Atlanta's Holocaust remembrance ceremony, moved onto Zoom in 2020 by the Achim/Gate City Lodge of B'nai B'rith with Rabbi Peter Berg of The Temple. It was on AIC's calendar.
In person
· The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
A morning at the Georgia State Capitol lobbying for the state's hate-crimes bill, HB 426, alongside an interfaith coalition.
In person
· Chabad of North Fulton
With Yaakov Selavan
Captain (Res.) Yaakov Selavan, a Golan resident and former Armored Corps combat commander, briefed the community on Israel's security challenges from the ground he lives on.
In person
· Beth Jacob Atlanta
With A.Y. Katsof
Major (Res.) A.Y. Katsof told the story of the month-long rescue mission through four African countries that reunited an estranged Ethiopian Jewish family in Israel.
In person
· Cobb Galleria (Monday evening) and Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center (Tuesday breakfast)
Melanie Phillips spoke in Atlanta twice on a CAMERA speaking tour: a Monday evening at the Cobb Galleria and a Tuesday breakfast in Sandy Springs. AIC co-sponsored the Atlanta leg.
In person
· Atlanta, Georgia
An Orthodox Israeli rabbi and a Palestinian activist from the Roots joint initiative in dialogue over two nights in Atlanta. The JCRC of Atlanta brought the program; AIC sponsored it.
In person
· Atlanta, Georgia
Australian author Alex Ryvchin discussed his book Zionism: The Concise History in Atlanta. AIC was part of the program, which Israel's Consul General to the Southeast brought to the community.
In person
· Atlanta Jewish Academy, Sandy Springs
The sitting U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, spoke to the Atlanta community on antisemitism, antizionism, and what U.S. policy was doing about both.
In person
· Atlanta, Georgia
With Gil Hoffman
Jerusalem Post chief political correspondent Gil Hoffman on America's impact on the future of Israel and the wider Middle East, on Yom Ha'atzmaut 2019.
In person
· Toco Hills, Atlanta
With Kay Wilson
AIC's first program: the U.S. premiere of the Israeli documentary Black Forest, with survivor Kay Wilson present for a Q&A on the salaries the Palestinian Authority pays the men who tried to kill her.
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AIC brings education, advocacy training, and firsthand speakers to synagogues, schools, and community organizations. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate.
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What to know before you come.
Admission to an AIC event is $18 to join online and $36 to be there in person. Israel Up Close, our talks twice a month, is $18 a talk and free for every AIC member. Some events are free to attend and ask for a gift instead, which you can give or not. If you’re in the Leadership Circle, your membership covers a set number of events each year: online ones free, in-person ones at half price. Register with the email on your membership and the price comes off on its own. That doesn’t apply to a fundraising gala. Each event’s page shows its price.
See membership levelsIt’s for AIC members, and it’s free for them. It starts in November 2026. One book a month, read together and talked through live on Zoom. Each month’s book is announced the month before, so there is time to get a copy. You only buy the book.
About the book clubFour times a year, the Mitzpe Institute’s research presented live for AIC: what the analysis found and what it means for this community. It starts in Tuesday 2 March 2027. Sustaining Members and the Leadership Circle come free. Anyone else can drop in for $18, or come to all four for $54.
See membership levelsYes. Register or RSVP ahead of time on the event’s page. It is how we know to expect you and how we send you the details you need.
You get the details when you register. For an in-person event the venue arrives in your confirmation. For an online one, your confirmation either carries the link or tells you your own Zoom link is on its way in a second email.
Joining an online eventNot on a computer. Open your link in Chrome, Safari or Edge, or in the Zoom app if you have it. You don’t need an account. On a phone or tablet you do need the free Zoom Workplace app, because Zoom doesn’t run in a phone’s web browser. Install it, then tap your link again.
More on joining onlineAIC takes the safety of everyone who comes seriously and arranges appropriate security for its in-person events, working with security professionals. If you have a concern before or during an event, tell a member of the AIC team.
Most AIC events are speaker evenings and briefings: a firsthand voice or expert on Israel, time for questions, and a chance to meet others in the community. Some run online on Zoom, some are in person in metro Atlanta, and a few are missions or delegations. Each event’s page tells you which.
Often, yes. Many past briefings and speaker evenings are recorded and free to watch, with recaps where we have them.
Watch past programsGive
Community briefings, advocacy training, humanitarian missions to Israel, and the Kosher Duck Revolution, with specifics on every tier.
Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
January mission to Israel
Cheryl and Kirsten will be in Israel from 11 to 22 January, delivering aid. What they bring depends on what we raise.
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Clips from our talks and news from our missions, Sunday through Friday.
