When Jon Ossoff was elected to the US Senate in 2021, he became the first Jewish senator from Georgia, and the first from the Deep South since 1885. During his campaign, he declared himself ...

Kosher supervision at Restaurant Jerusalem, which is usually full to its capacity of 30 diners, is overseen by Nanuli Janashvili, a Georgian Jewish woman in her 50s. Janashvili said she belongs to ...

The nearly extinct Krymchaks, meanwhile, are related to Karaites but are believed to be more heavily descended from Georgian Jews. Last month, Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky unveiled a bill ...