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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.

A cover of Mad Magazine, which will no longer publish new content, from 1968 (Photo/JTA-Elizabeth W. Kearley-Getty Images)
Posted inComedy

How Mad magazine taught me to think like a Jewish intellectual

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 9, 2019
(Photo/Flickr-Paul S.)
Posted inOpinion

Every Q&A period at every Jewish event ever

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA June 17, 2019
People embrace outside the Chabad of Poway, after a gunman opened fire during services on the last day of Passover, April 27, 2019, leaving one person dead and three others injured. (Photo/JTA-David McNew-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

The Poway shooting exposes the fractured state of our communal discourse

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 29, 2019
Has the Hebrew word “goy” become a slur?
Posted inAnalysis, Opinion

Is ‘goy’ a slur?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 25, 2019
Rice, lentils, chick peas, beans and other legumes shown in a produce market in Netanya, Israel. (Photo/JTA-David Silverman-Getty Images)
Posted inColumns

The Passover kitniyot argument isn’t worth a hill of beans

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2019April 15, 2019
Newsboys for the Forward wait for their copies in the early morning hours, March 1913. (Photo/Wikimedia-Lewis Hine)
Posted inOpinion

The Forward’s woes deal the Jewish world a blow to the kishkes

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 21, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on May 1 in San Jose. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images-Justin Sullivan)
Posted inTech

How Facebook monitors harmful content: 5 takeaways

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 28, 2018January 2, 2019
Amos Oz, shown here in 2015, often blurred the personal and the political in his writing. (Photo/JTA-Gerry Images-Jason Kempin)
Posted inObituaries

Israeli writer, peace activist Amos Oz, dies at 79

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 28, 2018December 28, 2018
(Illustration/JTA-Charles Dunst; Photos/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inAnalysis

Too few Jews, Pew! What about bagel brunchers and the ‘spiritually woke’?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll September 3, 2018August 31, 2018
Richard Siegel was the director emeritus of the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management, headed the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and co-edited the seminal “Jewish Catalog” series of guides to do-it-yourself Judaism.
Posted inReligion

In US Judaism, we’re all ‘Catalogists’ now

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 17, 2018

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