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Andrew Silverstein

Andrew Silverstein is a New York-based freelance writer and the co-founder of Streetwise New York Tours. In 2023, he was named Best Freelancer of the Year by the American Jewish Press Association.

Mexico’s first female and first Jewish president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said her mother was born in Mexico. Geneological documents show she was born in Bulgaria and survived the Holocaust. Illustration by Odeya Rosenband. (Luis Antonio Rojas/Bloomberg via Getty Images and the Jewish Documentation and Research Center of Mexico.)
Posted inWorld

Mexico’s new Jewish president has not been telling the truth about her family’s Holocaust story

by Andrew Silverstein June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Leer in Español. Claudia Sheinbaum, who last week was […]

Mexico’s first female and first Jewish president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said her mother was born in Mexico. Geneological documents show she was born in Bulgaria and survived the Holocaust. Illustration by Odeya Rosenband. (Luis Antonio Rojas/Bloomberg via Getty Images and the Jewish Documentation and Research Center of Mexico.)
Posted inWorld

¿Sobrevivió la familia de Claudia Sheinbaum al Holocausto y lo mantuvo en secreto?

by Andrew Silverstein June 14, 2024June 14, 2024
As a student journalist at Tufts University, Jonathan Greenblatt, Class of 1992 and future CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, stood up for free speech while fighting against antisemitism. (Illustration/Forward- Odeya Rosenband; Screenshots/Tufts archives.)
Posted inAnalysis

ADL chief backs campus crackdowns. As a student, he stood up for free speech — even by antisemites

by Andrew Silverstein April 29, 2024
George Santos joined the newly elected GOP members of the New York State Senate and United States Congress during a press conference in Baldwin, New York, Nov. 9, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Alejandra Villa Loarca-Newsday RM via Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

George Santos’ fake ‘Jew-ish’ story is not the most troubling lie he told

by Andrew Silverstein and Forward January 6, 2023January 6, 2023
George Santos joined the newly elected GOP members of the New York State Senate and United States Congress during a press conference in Baldwin, New York, Nov. 9, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Alejandra Villa Loarca-Newsday RM via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Congressman-elect George Santos lied about grandparents fleeing anti-Jewish persecution during WWII

by Andrew Silverstein and Forward December 22, 2022
The quest for the identity of the Native American man in the iconic Levy's Jewish Rye ad led Andrew Silverstein to this 1966 photo (left) of Joseph S. Attean in the book “New Haven Division, Murray Hill to Cedar Hill” by railroad enthusiast Allan Sherry.
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It was the most successful Jewish ad campaign of all time — but who was the model?

by Andrew Silverstein and Forward February 15, 2022May 31, 2022

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