ATLANTA — When antisemitic graffiti was discovered last month just a mile from Congregation Or VeShalom in Brookhaven, Rabbi Joshua Hearshen said the news barely made a ripple among his congregants.
“It’s just business as usual,” he said. “We’ve come to this point now when people are no longer surprised by such awful things.”
Like many cities across the country, metro Atlanta has seen a dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents in 2022. According to researchers with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), through October there have been 17 reported incidents in the metro area in 2022. That’s nearly double the 2021 total and does not include incidents in the farther-flung suburbs and the rest of the state.
