A few days after neo-Nazis menaced worshippers at an east Cobb synagogue, Rabbi Dan Dorsch scanned the faces of hundreds who packed a Methodist sanctuary in Smyrna and marveled at the outpouring of support.
“This is the first time in the seven years,” he said, “that I’ve been here that the Jewish community did not have to organize its own response.”
And on Sunday, nearly 1,000 people piled into a Methodist chapel a few blocks from the downtown Macon synagogue where the same group tried to spread fear and fate.