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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Andrew Silow-Carroll is Editor at Large of the New York Jewish Week and Managing Editor for Ideas for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Jared Armstrong (left) took part in a Birthright Israel trip in 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Jared Armstrong)
Posted inOpinion

Israel’s never-ending, and very human, ‘Who Is a Jew?’ saga

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA February 24, 2022February 22, 2022
"Twitter isn't real life, but it is a close simulacrum of how Jews talk to and about one another." (JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)
Posted inOpinion

From vigils to vitriol, the Texas hostage crisis showed social media at its best and worst

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 19, 2022
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
In a recent episode of the 11th season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Larry David feels obligated to clean a Klansman's robe. (Photo/John P. Johnson-HBO)
Posted inOpinion

Larry David has never been more Jewish than in this season’s ‘Curb’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA December 8, 2021December 8, 2021
A view of "Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art" at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo/JTA-New York Jewish Week)
Posted inOpinion

How to talk about Nazi-looted art — and how not to: An exchange

Ben Sales by Andrew Silow-Carroll, Ben Sales and JTA November 1, 2021
Children attend a rally for peace and unity in Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to remember victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, Nov. 9, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Flickr Commons-Gov. Tom Wolf)
Posted inOpinion

What the Tree of Life shooting revealed about American Jewry

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA October 20, 2021
A New Yorker article about circumcision features an illustration by Javier Jaén. (Photo/Jewish Week)
Posted inOpinion

We may be talking about Gary Shteyngart’s botched circumcision for a long time

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA October 12, 2021
The author's grandmother’s French residence permit from 1914 includes a spelling of her husband’s original name, Karolchouk, before he and his brothers changed it to Carroll.
Posted inBooks

No one lost their Jewish last name at Ellis Island. But we gained a safe haven.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA September 15, 2021
an abstract illustration of an american flag with six-pointed stars waving over a background of pie charts and bar graphs
Posted inAnalysis

How demographic studies have shaped decades of Jewish life

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 25, 2021
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Ezra Medical Center to speak with Holocaust survivors who were getting their Covid-19 shots. (Photo/JTA-Twitter-@NYCMayor)
Posted inU.S.

Germany funds vaccination drive for Holocaust survivors

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA March 24, 2021

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