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DeKalb County CEO names Rabbi Zev Chaim Fehr 2026 Nathaniel Mosby Humanitarian Award recipient

DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran Johnson · March 2, 2026

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DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran Johnson announced that Rabbi Zev Chaim Fehr has been named the 2026 Nathaniel Mosby Humanitarian Award recipient, citing his leadership, education work and civil-rights activism, including marching with John Lewis in 1982 to commemorate the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march.

DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran Johnson announced that Rabbi Zev Chaim Fehr is the 2026 Nathaniel Mosby Humanitarian Award recipient. Johnson described Fehr as “a well known leader, educator, and advocate for social justice” and congratulated him on the honor.

According to Johnson’s announcement, Fehr frequently leads Torah study programs and educational sessions and has been active in both theological teaching and local civil-rights advocacy. Johnson noted that in 1982 Fehr marched with civil-rights leader John Lewis at the seventeenth-anniversary Selma to Montgomery march, a commemoration of the 1965 Bloody Sunday voting-rights marches.

Johnson framed Fehr’s long record of community engagement and advocacy as embodying the core principles of the Nathaniel Mosby Humanitarian Award, and she closed the announcement by congratulating him on the recognition. The county did not specify a date for a presentation or ceremony.