Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor in chief of the New York Jewish Week and senior editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He previously served as JTA’s editor in chief and as editor in chief and CEO of the New Jersey Jewish News.
Andrew Silow-Carroll
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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Fast Forward In New York, Lithuania’s president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and after the Holocaust
At the heart of YIVO’s collection of 25 million items are books and documents saved in the Vilna Ghetto
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Fast Forward Mary Ann Stein, philanthropist who supported social justice in US and Israel, dies at 80
The founding president of The Moriah Fund was inspired by her time in the South during the height of the civil rights movement
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Fast Forward Jewish sailor Bill Pinkney, first Black person to circle the globe solo, dies at 87
The barrier-breaking cosmetics executive and ship’s captain chose to be Jewish when he was 12
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Fast Forward Claire Golomb, Holocaust survivor and scholar of children’s art and dreams, dies at 95
Her own childhood ended when the Nazis knocked at her door and arrested her father
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Fast Forward NY congregation can evict tenants of historic Touro Synagogue, Rhode Island judge rules
The ruling is a major development in a legal saga that has stretched for more than a decade
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Fast Forward ‘Golda’ focuses on a few grim weeks in the life of Israel’s first female prime minister. A biographer wants you to see the bigger picture.
For Meir’s defenders, her legacy has often been obscured by misogyny and condescension
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Fast Forward Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54
A Catholic with roots in Slovenia, she found connections between klezmer music and the folk songs of her native Bavaria
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Fast Forward Florence Berger, 83, Cornell professor and practitioner of the art of Jewish matchmaking
As an amateur matchmaker, she reportedly arranged more than two dozen matches that resulted in successful marriages.
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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
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Opinion Why is Netanyahu poised to OK a ceasefire that’s favorable to Hamas? One word: Trump
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Yiddish אַ פֿריִערדיקער גילגול פֿון בינעם העלערס באַרימט ליד „מײַן שוועסטער חיה“A previous version of Binem Heller’s iconic poem, ‘My Sister Khaye’
דעם ערשטן נוסח האָט ער געשריבן אין 1934 אונטער אַ פּסעוודאָנים, צוליב פּאָליטישע סיבות.
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Fast Forward Netanyahu delays ceasefire vote as right-wing protest against deal mounts
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BINTEL BRIEF I live in a Muslim country. Speaking out against antisemitism has left me isolated
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Opinion Gaza ceasefire is the result of political machination — not Donald Trump
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