Back in the late 1970s and through the 1980s, Jewish Atlanta saw a new generation of communal professionals emerge. Now another set of leaders in their 30s and early 40s is stepping up to guide the community into the future.
The son of Pakistani immigrants who lived in suburban Milwaukee, Akhtar, now 45, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his first play, “Disgraced,” the tale of an ambitious young New York attorney who attempts to mask his Muslim faith and his ethnic identity, to tragic consequences.