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Andrew Lapin

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

The chair and the teacup from the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage crisis will be entering the American Jewish history museum in Philadelphia. (Photos/JTA-Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and Emil Lippe-Getty Images. Illustration/JTA-Mollie Suss)
Posted inU.S.

The chair a Texas rabbi threw at his captor is headed to American Jewish history museum

by Andrew Lapin and JTA April 5, 2022April 5, 2022
The cast of "CODA" hold their award for Best Picture in the press room during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Frederic J. Brown-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Oscars 2022: the most memorable Jewish moments

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 28, 2022March 29, 2022
An Israeli filmmaker named Y (Avshalom Pollak) makes a series of radical decisions in the movie "Ahed's Knee," written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid. (Photo/Courtesy Kino Lorber)
Posted inCulture

‘Ahed’s Knee’: Fictional director does battle with Israel’s culture ministry in provocative new film

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 22, 2022March 22, 2022
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2019. HUC's board of directors is considering a new proposal to stop admitting rabbinical students to its Cincinnati campus. (Photo/JTA-Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
Posted inNews

Hebrew Union College could shutter Cincinnati seminary where it has trained Reform rabbis for 147 years

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 21, 2022March 21, 2022
A view of Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Photo/JTA-Alex Tai-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inTech

A Jewish Google employee says her activism against an Israel contract got her job moved to Brazil

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 16, 2022March 16, 2022
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

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