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 Joyce Newmark, a New Jersey rabbi who won on ‘Jeopardy!’, dies at 73
(JTA) — One of the happiest nights I ever spent in synagogue was May 16, 2011, when my fellow congregants and I gathered to watch that night’s episode of “Jeopardy!” One of our members, Rabbi Joyce Newmark, was a contestant, but of course she hadn’t been able to tell us the results of a game…
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Fast Forward A 20-year-old college student in Texas is mapping every Manhattan address that used to be a synagogue
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Writer Luc Sante calls them the “ghosts of Manhattan.” Those are the souls of the poor and marginal people, now dead, whose presence can be felt like a shade in the history of now affluent neighborhoods, “where they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials…
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News Putting Pew’s new survey into context: How similar studies have shaped 3 decades of Jewish life.
(JTA) — On Tuesday, the Pew Research Center will present the results of its latest major survey of Jewish Americans, its biggest since 2013. If history is any guide, the results will launch a thousand internal Jewish debates about who is a Jew, who gets to decide and what’s the future for a diverse, splintered,…
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Fast Forward NY Jewish Federation sending $200K in COVID relief to India
(JTA) — UJA-Federation of New York announced $200,000 in grants to four organizations working on COVID relief efforts in India. The grants are focused on providing equipment and relief in hard-to-reach and especially vulnerable communities in the country, where a second wave of infections has overwhelmed hospitals and crematoria. The funding will include a $60,000…
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Fast Forward Jewish NYC councilman pleads guilty to tax fraud
(JTA) — Chaim Deutsch, a Brooklyn politician who chairs the Jewish Caucus of the New York City Council, pleaded guilty to tax fraud. Deutsch, a Democrat, filed a 2015 tax return that included “false and fraudulent information” related to outside income from his real estate management company, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn man, 19, charged with breaking into Capitol on Jan. 6
(JTA) — The FBI has charged a 19-year-old Brooklyn man for breaking into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Dovid Schwartzberg confessed to breaking into the building along with the pro-Trump mob and recording several videos. A tipster informed the FBI after security cameras and social media video captured images of Schwartzberg, wearing…
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Fast Forward Yehuda Ben-Yishay, Israeli psychologist who pioneered treatment for brain trauma, dies at 88
(JTA) — Yehuda Ben-Yishay, a psychologist whose experience treating Israeli soldiers after the Yom Kippur War led to pioneering therapy for traumatic brain injuries, has died. Ben-Yishay, the founder and retired director of New York University’s Rusk Holistic Day Program, died March 24 at the NYU Langone Health hospital in Manhattan. He was 88. His…
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Culture Meet the 27-year-old amplifying the sounds of the Borscht Belt (and listen to his favorite Yiddish songs)
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Growing up, Aaron Bendich would spend lots of time with his grandfather Max in the North Bronx, in a house “filled to the brim” with records, videotapes and CDs. Among Max’s collection were recordings of Yiddish songs and other Jewish music. Fast forward a few years…
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