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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Culture Remembering Garry Marshall, the Jewiest Non-Jew in Hollywood
(JTA) — If there were a competition for the most Jewish-seeming non-Jew, the late Garry Marshall would have topped the podium (or sat on the bimah). The director, writer and actor, who died Tuesday at age 81, was so often mistaken for a Jew that the misconception was mentioned in a number of his obituaries….
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Breaking News Jews Join Interfaith Coalition Urges Action on Merrick Garland
— Fifteen Jewish groups joined an interfaith coalition in calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. During a conference call Thursday, 40 national and state religious organizations urged senators to hold a swift hearing and vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland, who is Jewish, to fill…
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Breaking News Is New British Prime Minister Theresa May a Friend of Israel?
— British Conservative Party leader Theresa May, who is expected to succeed David Cameron as prime minister when he resigns Wednesday, is being welcomed as a longtime friend of Britain’s Jewish community and a strong advocate for Israel. May, 59, was named party leader Monday following weeks of jockeying and political turmoil surrounding the decision by…
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Breaking News San Francisco’s Only Orthodox High School To Close
— San Francisco’s only Orthodox Jewish high school is closing. Parents of students at the Lisa Kampner Hebrew Academy received an email on Wednesday from its leadership saying the academy is closing after 47 years because it can no longer count on financial support from its main benefactor, Stanley Kampner of Hillsborough, California. Kampner is battling cancer,…
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Breaking News Did Benjamin Netanyahu Smuggle Auschwitz Blueprints Out of Germany?
BERLIN — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought back original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to Israel from Germany seven years ago – likely without knowing he was doing something illegal, according to a German journalist. The blueprints were given to Netanyahu on a trip to Germany, Kai Diekmann said in an interview for the…
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Breaking News Pro-Trump Pastor Backtracks on Claim That Bernie Sanders ‘Gotta Meet Jesus’
(JTA) — An African-American pastor who warmed up the crowd at a rally for Donald Trump by urging the religious conversion of Bernie Sanders said he hadn’t meant to insult the “Jewish faith.” Mark Burns, the president of the Christian NOW Television Network and one of Trump’s few public supporters in the black community, spoke…
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Breaking News Don’t Laugh! Some Say Al Franken Could Be Great Veep for Hillary.
Last week Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said that if Hillary Clinton asked him to be her running mate, he’d take the job. “If Hillary Clinton came to me and said, ‘Al, I really need you to be my vice president, to run with me,’ I would say yes, but I’m very happy in the job…
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Breaking News $400 Million Gift Thought to Be Largest-Ever to Israeli University
— A $400 million gift to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, earmarked in large part for water research, is believed to be the largest-ever bequest on behalf of an Israeli university. The university’s American fundraising organization announced the gift by the estate of Dr. Howard and Lottie Marcus of San Diego, California, on June 24. Lottie…
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