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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.

Amy Ettinger, shown with her husband Dan White, wrote about ice cream, mah-jongg and her mother's kugel recipe. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Dan White via X)
Posted inObituaries

Amy Ettinger, Santa Cruz writer who penned life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2024
Richard Lewis and Larry David in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Photo/HBO)
Posted inObituaries

Comedian Richard Lewis, dark prince of Jewish neurosis, dies at 76

by Andrew Silow-Carroll February 28, 2024
A version of the "Non-Violence" sculpture by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, seen here in Malmö, Sweden. (Photo/JTA-Francois Polito-Wikipedia)
Posted inAnalysis

How ‘ceasefire’ became a dirty word, even to some progressive groups

by Andrew Silow-Carroll February 15, 2024February 15, 2024
Pearl Berg (aged 3) with her parents Archiebald and Anna (Gerson) Synenberg in 1913; at right, Berg in recent years. (Photos/JTA-Gerontology Research Group, Gerry Teitelbaum-Judy Taback)
Posted inObituaries

Pearl Berg, world’s oldest Jewish person and 9th-oldest overall, dies at 114

by Andrew Silow-Carroll February 7, 2024
Don Peretz (second from left), who would later become an American Jewish Committee official studying Arab refugee affairs, in Acre while volunteering to aid displaced Arabs in February 1949. (Photo/Courtesy Deborah Peretz)
Posted inBooks

When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 29, 2024January 29, 2024
National Jewish Book Awards for the best books of 2023 were presented to works by, from left, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ruth Madievsky, Jeremy Eichler and James McBride.
Posted inBooks

Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust is named Jewish book of the year

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 24, 2024January 26, 2024
Many scholars say their schools’ DEI offices ignored Jewish concerns — either not recognizing Jews as a minority or seeing them as white and privileged, and therefore not subject to marginalization. (Getty Images; JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)
Posted inAnalysis

Kill it or reform it? Jewish critics of DEI debate the future of campus diversity programs

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 22, 2024
Bernie Steinberg was the director of Harvard Hillel from 1993 to 2010. (Photo/JTA-Facebook)
Posted inObituaries

Bernie Steinberg, Harvard Hillel director who promoted pluralism and later lived in Berkeley, dies at 78

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 16, 2024January 16, 2024
Placard states AJS and Association for Jewish Studies
Posted inAnalysis

What is antisemitism? Jewish scholars at S.F. conference wrangle with past, present

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 22, 2023December 26, 2023
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Posted inU.S.

‘Quiet middle’ among U.S. Jews has growing qualms over the war

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 18, 2023December 18, 2023

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