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 Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92
Modest but significant changes marked the publication of “Sim Shalom” in 1985
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Fast Forward Robert Chazan, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies, dies at 87
When he earned his doctorate in 1967, Chazan led an effort to expand Jewish studies to institutions “all over the country"
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Fast Forward Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91
Her grandson’s film represented the first time she spoke about her experiences after nearly eight decades
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Fast Forward Pearl Berg, world’s oldest Jew and 9th-oldest person overall, dies at 114
“She didn’t smoke, she ate sensibly, she had good emotional balance and she clearly had remarkable genes,” said her youngest son
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Fast Forward And the winners of the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards are…
Jeremy Eichler’s “Time’s Echo” and James McBride’s “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” were among the winners of National Jewish Book Awards for 2023
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Fast Forward Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94
Charlop once said that his ideal YU would be “a yeshiva like Volozhin,” a legendary seminary in what is now Belarus, and a university like Columbia
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Fast Forward Bernie Steinberg, 78, a Harvard Hillel director who promoted pluralism, and courted controversy, to the end
An admired educator whose last public act was a controversial essay on anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League school
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News Many Jews criticized Harvard’s Oct. 7 response. Fewer are applauding President Claudine Gay’s resignation.
A campus controversy threatens to heighten Black-Jewish tensions while drafting Jews into ideological battles many never signed up for
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