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 Rabbi Stephen Lerner, 80, Brought Over 1,800 Students To Practice Of Judaism
(JTA) — Rabbi Stephen Lerner, who as the founder of the New York-based Center for Conversion to Judaism brought over 1,800 students to the practice of Judaism, died on Jan. 27 of COVID-19. He was 80. Lerner founded the program for Jews by choice in 1981. He and his wife, Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner, an…
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Fast Forward Summer Camp Board Asked To Resign For Ignoring Director’s Predatory Behavior
(JTA) — The president of a Jewish camps association in New Jersey has urged its entire board to resign, in the wake of an investigation finding that the board knew for years about the predatory behavior of its former executive director. The New York Jewish Week reported Wednesday that Peter Horowitz, the current president of…
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Fast Forward This Jewish Summer Camp Raised A Palestinian Flag — And Caused A Ruckus
NEW YORK (JTA) — I don’t know if there is a Yiddish or Hebrew version of “more Catholic than the pope.” More machmir than the rebbe? More kosher than glatt? If there is such an expression, this weekend’s convulsion over a Jewish camp in Washington state raising a Palestinain flag deserves it. The angry reactions,…
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Opinion Why Jews Need To Fight Trump On Voting Rights — 53 Years After ‘Mississippi Burning’ Murders
(JTA) Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are about the closest American Jews have to secular saints. The two Jewish civil rights workers traveled south for the Freedom Summer campaign of 1964, joining the African-American activist James Chaney in canvassing black churches. All three were kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob. Forty-three years ago next Friday, Aug. 4,…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Spouses Matter,’ Study Says. Let The Intermarriage Debate Begin Again.
NEW YORK (JTA) — One of the wisest things ever said about intermarriage came from former Atlantic sports columnist Jake Simpson: “No stat could have predicted … the wonder that was David Tyree’s helmet catch in Super Bowl XLII.” Granted, Simpson wasn’t writing about the high rates of Jews marrying non-Jews. He was complaining that the growing…
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Opinion Why Trump’s Post-London Attack Tweets Are So Chilling
BOCA RATON, Florida (JTA) — In popular myth, South Florida was ground zero of the Great Email Explosion of 2008. That was the year your great-uncle or long-lost cousin couldn’t resist passing on rumors, hoaxes and conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, the true causes of 9/11 or the insidious nature of…
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News The Famed Jewish Doctor Who Survived The Titanic — Then Took His Own Life
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)of the ship’s sinking suggests hundreds of Jews were among the 1,517 victims of the disaster, from passengers in first class like the American businessman Benjamin Guggenheim, to poor Jewish immigrants who were traveling in third class. Kosher meals were served on board. But one of the saddest codas to the tragedy belongs…
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Opinion Why Can’t This White House Get The Holocaust Right?
(JTA) — We interrupt this Passover to bring you two news bulletins: Bashar Assad is worse than Hitler. The “Soup Nazi” was almost a real Nazi. Let’s start with the second revelation, since Sean Spicer’s Hitler gaffe about Hitler is probably better known. Entertainment Weekly reported that, according to a former writer-producer for the sitcom…
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