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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Opinion In their classroom, Torah is a three-ring circus — by design
A new book explores the connections between Jews, the circus and the study of Jewish text
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Fast Forward Betty Woolf, last surviving sibling of world’s oldest mixed triplets, dies at age 96
Woolf was also a founder of a San Diego Jewish community, Jewish Collaborative
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Fast Forward Sam Zell, Jewish billionaire whose media purchase tarnished a legendary career, dies at 81
The son of Holocaust survivors, Zell bought the Tribune Co. in 2007 and filed for bankruptcy a year later
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Fast Forward Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg, dies at 103
Ferencz was 27 and a graduate of Harvard Law School when he was named as the chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, in which 20 members of the SS’s mobile death squads were convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity
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Fast Forward Now translated into 49 Jewish languages: the Jewish spring ritual of counting the Omer
The counting, which takes place between the second night of Passover and the festival of Shavuot, can now be done in Judeo-Catalan and other historical Jewish vernaculars
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Fast Forward Margot Stern Strom, who founded pioneering Holocaust education program Facing History, dies at 81
A curriculum launched in 1976 broke a 'powerful silence' about racism and antisemitism in American schools.
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Fast Forward Ben Stiller satirizes Adam Sandler’s ‘Chanukah Song’ at Mark Twain Prize ceremony
Sandler earns this year’s prize in American humor for his 'films, music, and his tenure as a fan favorite' one 'Saturday Night Live'
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A professor of Jewish thought explains how a a debate over language is really about how Jews navigate between competing identities
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