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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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 Harvey Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96
The Baltimore developer and philanthropist took over from Elie Wiesel in building the Washington museum
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Fast Forward Louise Levy, ‘supercentenarian’ subject of longevity study among Ashkenazi Jews, dies at 112
She was the oldest resident of New York State
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