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Andrew Lapin

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

Irish author John Boyne's "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" has been heavily criticized by Holocaust historians and educators in the years since its release. (Paul Faith - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
Posted inBooks

‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,’ Holocaust novel decried for inaccuracies, is getting a sequel

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 16, 2022
Birthright Israel participants at the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve in Israel. (Photo/Melanie Fidler-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Birthright Israel to lower its age limit back to 26

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 8, 2022March 8, 2022
Andrew Garfield in "Tick, Tick ... BOOM!"
Posted inFilm

Spielberg, Gyllenhaal, Garfield among 2022 Jewish Oscar nominees

by Andrew Lapin and JTA February 8, 2022
Theodore Katz in the 2022 documentary "Tantura," directed by Alon Schwarz. (Photo/JTA-Yonathan Weitzman-Reel Peak Films)
Posted inFilm

Explosive Israeli documentary ‘Tantura’ is prompting calls to excavate a possible Palestinian mass grave

by Andrew Lapin and JTA February 7, 2022July 12, 2022
Art Spiegelman, author of "Maus," poses in Paris, March 20, 2012. (Photo/JTA-Bertrand Langlois-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

The great ‘Maus’ giveaway is on as comic shops, professors and churches counter Tennessee school board’s ban

by Andrew Lapin and JTA February 2, 2022February 2, 2022
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker talks to reporters outside of Whites Chapel United Methodist Church following a special service on Jan. 17, 2022 in Southlake, Texas. (Photo/JTA-Emil Lippe-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Texas rabbi who escaped hostage situation wants to correct the record

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 19, 2022
Alejandro Mayorkas, then deputy secretary of Homeland Security, addresses the Orthodox Union at a conference in Washington, Sept. 21, 2016. (Photo/Courtesy Orthodox Union)
Posted inU.S.

Mayorkas, Garland and other US officials meet with Jewish groups to discuss synagogue security post-Colleyville

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 19, 2022
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker was held hostage inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15, 2022.
Posted inUncategorized, U.S.

‘Quite simply a mensch’: Meet Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, freed after hostage crisis at his synagogue

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 16, 2022
Jacob Kamaras is the new editor and publisher of the San Diego Jewish World.
Posted inCalifornia

The new owner of a San Diego Jewish news site has no qualms about blurring journalism and PR

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 6, 2021
Ethiopians are reunited with their families at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, Feb. 4, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
Posted inWorld

Israel to speed up evacuations of Ethiopian Jews in midst of civil war

Shira Hanau by Andrew Lapin, Shira Hanau and JTA November 11, 2021

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