AJC Welcomes Resignation of Atlanta Jewish Times Publisher

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Jan 23, 2012, 02:48 ET

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC welcomed Andrew Adler's resignation today as publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

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Adler, who has owned the newspaper since 2009, said he will be seeking a buyer for the city's oldest Jewish periodical.

AJC demanded that Adler step down after he had suggested in his column that an Israeli team should consider assassinating President Obama.

"Clearly, Adler, for his sake and ours, ought to find a new line of work," AJC Executive Director David Harris wrote in his Jerusalem Post blog yesterday entitled "Dear Atlanta Jewish Times Publisher Andrew Adler: How Revolting!"

"Owning a community newspaper and seeking to inform readers entails a larger responsibility," Harris wrote. "That's not consistent, shall we say, with conjuring up scenarios for the assassination of the American president or seeking to implicate Israel in such utterly unimaginable schemes."

Adler, according to a JTA report today, announced that he is stepping down as publisher, "relinquishing all day-to-day activities effective immediately" and seeking a buyer to replace him as owner of the newspaper.

"While Adler's resignation cannot undo the damage he has done by publishing his outrageous column, we can only express relief that he has now taken this first step -- to disengage from the Atlanta Jewish Times -- in order to become a silent owner," said Harris.

SOURCE American Jewish Committee