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Andrew Lapin

Andrew Lapin is the Managing Editor for Local News at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A swastika was painted on Temple Sinai’s carved wooden door in Oakland in 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Temple Sinai)
Posted inU.S.

Jews on uncertain alert ahead of planned ‘National Day of Hate’

by Andrew Lapin, JTA and J. Staff February 24, 2023February 24, 2023
Actors Alex Bakri and Juna Suleiman in a scene from "Let It Be Morning," directed by Eran Kolirin. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
Posted inFilm

With ‘Let It Be Morning’ and ‘Cinema Sabaya,’ Israeli filmmakers are winning awards for portraying Palestinian stories

by Andrew Lapin and JTA February 8, 2023
(From left) Producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, director Steven Spielberg, Seth Rogen, Julia Butters, co-writer Tony Kushner, Keeley Karsten and Sophia Kopera on the set of "The Fabelmans." (Photo/JTA-Merie Weismiller Wallace-Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)
Posted inTV & Film

Spielberg’s ‘Fabelmans’ earns 7 Oscar nods, JFI’s Rosenblatt gets his second

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 24, 2023January 24, 2023
Thousands rally in Tel Aviv to protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government and judicial overhaul, Jan. 7, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Matan Golan-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Left-wing Israelis take to the streets as new government presses right-wing agenda further

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 9, 2023January 10, 2023
David Duchovny as Arnold, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Shelley, Jonah Hill (Writer-Producer) as Ezra, Lauren London as Amira, Eddie Murphy as Akbar, and Nia Long as Fatima in "You People." (Photo/Parrish Lewis-Netflix)
Posted inFilm

In Netflix’s ‘You People,’ Jonah Hill is a Jewish guy who finds love with a Farrakhan follower’s daughter

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 6, 2023January 9, 2023
Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks with Religious Zionist party head Bezalel Smotrich during a vote in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Dec. 20, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Who’s who in Israel’s new far-right government, and why it matters

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 21, 2022
Various beer bottles by Shmaltz Brewery on display in an exhibition on "Jewish brewing stories" at the Jewish Museum in Munich, Germany, April 11, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Sven Hoppe-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

He’Brew maker Shmaltz Brewing relaunches with new owner: a rabbinical student

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 13, 2022
John Muhammad is sworn in to the St. Petersburg city council, Oct. 20, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Tampa Bay Times)
Posted inUncategorized

How Jewish leaders tried — and failed — to keep a Farrakhan follower off a Florida city council

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 7, 2022
John Boyne, author of the Holocaust novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and its sequel "All the Broken Places." (Photos/JTA-Rich Gilligan-Courtesy of Penguin Random House)
Posted inBooks

The sequel to the Holocaust novel ‘Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ is here. Its author has no regrets.

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 1, 2022
Kanye West (left), wearing a full-face mask and doing a Netanyahu impression, with Alex Jones on "InfoWars," Dec. 1, 2022. (Screenshot/JTA)
Posted inNews

‘I like Hitler,’ Kanye West repeatedly tells Alex Jones during 3-hour ‘InfoWars’ appearance

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 1, 2022

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