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Asaf Elia-Shalev

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Asaf Elia-Shalev is J.'s editor in chief. He previously worked as an investigative reporter for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Children light candles as part of their lessons at Yachad Religious School in Oak Park Michigan. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Yachad)
Posted inEducation

Hebrew school enrollment across US down by nearly half since 2006, report says

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA April 20, 2023April 20, 2023
Jews move along a crowded street in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Posted inWorld

Wikipedia tackles alleged conspiracy to distort Holocaust history

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 28, 2023March 6, 2023
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews' daily vigil in front of the Soviet Consulate, Nov. 24, 1986 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inNews

Soviet Jewry protest leaders in San Francisco secretly recruited help from Jews for Jesus, FBI file says

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 6, 2023
Far right Israeli lawmaker and Noam party leader Avi Maoz speaks to the press before a party meeting in Jerusalem, Nov. 28, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Amir Levy-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Netanyahu ally wants to stop Diaspora donors from funding pluralistic education in Israeli schools

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA January 31, 2023
Two ships carrying 1,014 Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors arrive in Haifa, on Jan. 1, 1945. (Photo/JTA - Hulton-Deutsch Collection - CORBIS - Corbis via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

How to find newly released Israeli immigration records from 1919 onward

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA January 13, 2023January 13, 2023
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Posted inTech

‘Now that Elon is taking over’: Online antisemites see opening as Twitter is handed over to Musk

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA October 28, 2022October 28, 2022
Stanford University from above (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford apologizes for Jewish admissions quotas in the 1950s

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA October 13, 2022October 13, 2022
People protest at a Los Angeles City Council meeting, Oct. 11, after council members were recorded making racist comments. (Photo/JTA-Sarah Reingewirtz-MediaNews Group-Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

Los Angeles council member recorded making racist comments also discussed Jews disparagingly

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA October 13, 2022
The building housing the Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque and the Jewish Federation of New Mexico (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of the JCC)
Posted inU.S.

New Mexico’s Jewish federation is on the brink of collapse with no staff or funding for programs

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA September 19, 2022September 19, 2022
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Posted inNews

With climate bill passed, Democrats have delivered on top Jewish policy concern

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA August 12, 2022

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