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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Books In new book, historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise
“Trump is not Hitler, by any means,” says Timothy Ryback. “But I think there are modalities that are very similar"
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Fast Forward David Biale, scholar of Jewish thinkers and ideas on the margins, dies at 75
One of his best-known books was a history of Jewish attitudes about sexuality
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Culture A museum exhibit on Jewish food and humor puts the ‘borscht’ in Borscht Belt
Jewish comedy and cuisine provided an ethnic haven for Jews looking for a break from the big city
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Fast Forward Peter Buxton, whistleblower who compared Tuskegee syphilis study to Nazi atrocities, dies at 86
Born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, he sounded the alarm on an unethical study of Black men
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News Ruth Westheimer, Holocaust survivor who offered grandmotherly sex advice as ‘Dr. Ruth,’ dies at 96
Her program, “Sexually Speaking,'” which launched in 1980 on the now defunct WYNY-FM, broke broadcasting taboos.
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Fast Forward Mordechai Rosenstein, calligrapher whose art illuminates Jewish homes and synagogues, dies at 90
“The big thing is that they’re happy,” an associate said of the artist’s works based on Hebrew text
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Culture Americana meets meshuggeneh at a museum exhibit about MAD magazine
The Norman Rockwell Museum show about the influential humor magazine presents a merger of two sensibilities: gentle and crude, rural and urban — and gentile and Jewish
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News Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state
A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish"
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