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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.

Students at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Yonkers, New York study a biblical text through circus movement in 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ora Horn Prouser, from “Under One Tent”)
Posted inBooks

In their classroom, Torah is a three-ring circus — by design

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 1, 2023
Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the "Monuments Men" in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago. (Photos/Monuments Men and Women Foundation; Dignity Memorial)
Posted inObituaries

Richard Barancik, last of the ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered art and treasure looted by the Nazis, dies at 98

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 27, 2023
Alan Arkin in one of his last major roles co-starring in two seasons of "The Kominsky Method" opposite Michael Douglas. (Photo/Netflix)
Posted inObituaries

Alan Arkin, Jewish actor with uncommon versatility, dies at 89

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 30, 2023
A Jewish wedding in Philadelphia, circa 1960. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Mara Swift)
Posted inCulture

The hora, the hora! How Jewish wedding music got that way

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 5, 2023June 5, 2023
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of Jewish Renewal, at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut, in 2007. (Photo/JTA-Daniel Sieradski)
Posted inOpinion

Overdue or overdone? Two scholars hope to secure the legacy of ‘Jewish Renewal’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll May 30, 2023May 30, 2023
Survivor David Wisnia and his pianist grandson Avi in a scene from “How Saba Kept Singing,” a documentary airing on PBS on April 18. (Photo/JTA-Retro Report)
Posted inYom HaShoah

Can a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? Should it?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA April 17, 2023
(Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel; Photo/JTA-Erik Marmor-Flash90)
Posted inAnalysis

‘Two Israels’: What’s really behind the judicial reform protests

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA April 10, 2023April 19, 2023
A world pioneer in cannabis research, Raphael Mechoulam helped form the Hebrew University Multidisciplinary Center for Cannabinoid Research in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Yoram Aschheim-Hebrew University)
Posted inObituaries

Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA March 10, 2023
Michael Twitty
Posted inBooks

Michael Twitty’s ‘Koshersoul,’ a memoir of food and identity, named Jewish book of the year

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 18, 2023January 18, 2023
Republican Jewish Coalition members listen to a prerecorded video from Donald Trump, in the Venetian resort in Las Vegas, Nov. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inAnalysis

Does Trump hate Jews, or just ‘bad Jews’?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA October 25, 2022

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