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 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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Opinion Which side are you on: Jewish American or American Jew?
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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Fast Forward Abraham Zarem, one of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, dies at 106
The electrical engineer, a regular at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, also developed the fastest camera of its time
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Fast Forward Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92
As a professor at Hebrew University, Mechoulam destigmatized the plant by isolating its medicinal properties
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The star of 'Fiddler on the Roof' brought his Israeli self to a musical film about the Jewish Diaspora.
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Jewish literature and American studies scholar Jeremy Dauber centers Jewish identity in a new biography of the director and actor
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