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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Opinion Is the Jewish deli the new synagogue?
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Are sociologists and communal leaders looking for American Judaism in all the wrong places? Rachel B. Gross argues that too many community studies and their authors see Judaism in decline because they measure synagogue attendance, ritual observance and other traditional behaviors and “fail to see it flourishing in…
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Fast Forward NYC mayor says city will make sure Holocaust survivors get vaccine
(JTA) — Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City will initiate an effort to make sure that Holocaust survivors get vaccinated. De Blasio gave few details at a news conference Wednesday, but said the city will partner with a “number of organizations in the Jewish community,” including the Jewish Community Relations Council of New…
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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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