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 Jack Feldman, Holocaust survivor who told his story in Emmy-winning documentary, dies at 95
(JTA) — In 2016, Jack Feldman’s 10-year-old great-grandson asked him about the number tattooed on his skin. Their conversation became the basis of the short HBO documentary “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm,” an introduction to the Holocaust intended for children. Veteran documentary filmmaker Amy Schatz was attracted to the project because, she said at the…
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Fast Forward Program for Orthodox LGBTQ youth gets $1 million to expand nationwide
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The New York City-based Jewish Queer Youth organization received a $1 million donation to expand its social services to Orthodox LGBTQ youth nationwide. The gift comes from Toronto-based real estate developer Paul Austin, CEO of the Salpam Group, and his partner, Dalip Girdhar, who works in…
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Fast Forward Baruch Levine, Bible scholar who helped grow Judaic Studies at NYU, dies at 91
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Baruch A. Levine, a Bible scholar who wrote the two-volume Anchor Bible commentary on the book of Numbers and the Jewish Publication Society commentary on Leviticus, died Dec. 16 in Hamden, Connecticut. He was 91. The Emeritus Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New…
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Fast Forward John Oliver just celebrated ‘Look for the Union Label,’ a ’70s labor jingle with deep Jewish roots
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — If you watched television in the 1970s and early 1980s, chances are you can sing a few bars of “Look for the Union Label,” a jingle sung on commercials for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. The infectious song was meant to prop up what was…
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Fast Forward Booker Prize goes to novel about a South African Jewish mother’s dying wish
(JTA) — The prestigious Booker Prize for fiction has gone to a South African’s novel about a Jewish woman’s dying wish. Author Damon Galgut picked up the £50,000 ($68,000) prize at a ceremony on Wednesday in London. “The Promise” spans 40 years of recent South African history, and kicks off when the mother of a…
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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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