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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News David Weiss Halivni, pioneering and sometimes controversial Talmudist, dies at 94
Halivni was a Holocaust survivor who regarded Jewish tradition as a living thing, not a closed canon
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Fast Forward Phil Ritzenberg, former editor and publisher of the New York Jewish Week, dies at 90
Ritzenberg came to the Jewish Week from the New York Daily News, where he led the tabloid’s transition to computerized typesetting.
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Fast Forward Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Cohen’s book satirizes a real-life visit to America by the future prime minister’s father.
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Culture The straight dope: YIVO’s new exhibit is all about Jews and weed
A menorah-shaped bong inspires a scholarly look at once-taboo topic.
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Fast Forward Brandeis grad convicted in 2018 Brooklyn synagogue attacks is arrested for subway mugging
The latest chapter in a life marked by hardship, mental illness and second chances.
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Culture Lego rabbis, Hasidic coloring books: How toy makers and publishers created an alternative Jewish universe
A new book explores the toys, music and kids’ books found in strictly Orthodox homes.
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Fast Forward Charles Entenmann wasn’t Jewish. But Jews saw his cakes and cookies as part of the family.
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Nothing seemed so Jewish as a box of Entenmann’s cake or cookies. “All of the Jews I know bought Entenmann’s,” wrote Nancy Kalikow Maxwell, in her 2019 book “Typically Jewish.” The bakery earned a place in Tablet magazine’s list of “100 Most Jewish Foods,” with an essay by…
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Fast Forward Park East Synagogue, NYC congregation that fired assistant rabbi, seeks ‘worthy successor’ for 91-year-old rabbi Arthur Schneier
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Park East Synagogue, the Manhattan congregation that made headlines when it fired an assistant rabbi in what was reported as a succession struggle, is looking for a successor for its nonagenarian rabbi, Arthur Schneier. An announcement posted on the Yeshiva University rabbinic jobs site did not…
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