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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.

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Their fortunes come from oil. Here’s how these Jewish philanthropies deal with climate change.

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA July 25, 2022July 25, 2022
WhatsApp founder Jan Koum addresses the audience during Science Channel's "Silicon Valley: The Untold Story" Screening at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, January 17, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Lachlan Cunningham-Getty Images for Discovery)
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WhatsApp founder Jan Koum donates record $2 million to AIPAC’s campaign efforts

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA July 22, 2022
Map of Jewish households in Los Angeles, according to the new population survey (Graphic/Courtesy Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles)
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Landmark survey of Jewish LA reveals an increasingly diverse and engaged community

Asaf Elia-ShalevJackie Hajdenberg by Asaf Elia-Shalev, Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 24, 2022
(Graphic/JTA-Grace Yagel with images from Getty Images and Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inPhilanthropy

How WhatsApp’s reclusive founder quietly became a megadonor to Jewish causes

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA June 15, 2022June 15, 2022
Downtown Chicago, where Morningstar’s headquarters is located, became the site of pro-Palestinian protests, featuring calls to boycott Israel, during last May’s fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas in Gaza. (Photo/JTA-Jacek Boczarski-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Financial firm Morningstar admits to errors on Israel in bid to quell boycott controversy

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA June 6, 2022
Author and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild (Photo/JTA-Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

A Rothschild who debunks conspiracy theories and writes about Jewish space lasers

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA May 26, 2022May 26, 2022
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar attend a ceremony marking the handover of items in the Schneerson library to a Chabad-run museum in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Yuri Kadobnov-AFP via Getty Images)
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In effort to seize Russian assets, the U.S. is taking a page from Chabad

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Clockwise from the top: Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (JTA-Erik McGregor-LightRocket via Getty Images), Rabbi Jill Jacobs (JTA-Courtesy Jill Jacobs), Rabbi Angela Buchdahl (JTA-Michael Brochstein-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images). Background: Demonstrators gather at the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem with flags of Israel during the controversial Flag March, organized by Israeli right-wing nationalists on June 15, 2021. (JTA-Ilia Yefimovich-picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Rebuffed privately, influential rabbis go public with plea to cut off American Jewish funding of Israeli extremists

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA April 11, 2022April 11, 2022
In Aug. 2021, the American Sephardi Federation hosted a virtual discussion about the changes to Spain’s Sephardic citizenship program with the participation of Rob Lennick (lower left) and Sara Koplik (top center) of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, who are now engaged in a court battle. (Screenshot/JTA)
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New Mexico’s Jewish community fears ‘implosion’ as lawsuits allege harassment and mismanagement

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 30, 2022
Serafim Sabaranskiy, a Ukrainian Jew who volunteered to defend his country, was killed by a Russian missile in Kharkiv, March 13, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Yuliya Pototska)
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Serafim Sabaranskiy, a Ukrainian Jew who enlisted to defend his country, dies in a Russian airstrike

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 16, 2022

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