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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.

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
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-Michael Brochstein-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
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ADL develops algorithm to track antisemitism on social media

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 11, 2022
Mikhail Fridman (left) and Pyotr Aven (right) in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Mikhail Svetlov-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Sanctions threaten Russia’s Jewish oligarchs and their philanthropy 

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 2, 2022
The Kutz staff is shown in 1977. (Photo/courtesy of Kutz Camp)
Posted inU.S.

Reform movement’s longtime youth director named in landmark report on sexual misconduct in youth programs

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 17, 2022
An aerial view of American Jewish University's former campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy AJU)
Posted inCalifornia

American Jewish University is selling ‘all or part’ of its Los Angeles campus

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 11, 2022February 11, 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 inNews

Is finance giant Morningstar boycotting Israel? A new BDS battlefront emerges in the investing world

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 9, 2022
Rabbis are leaving their jobs in unusually large numbers as the pandemic enters its third year. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
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The Great Resignation is fueling a rabbinic hiring crisis that could leave synagogues without leaders

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA January 31, 2022
Demonstrators demand the release of Aafia Siddiqui from U.S. custody in Lahore, Pakistan on May 29, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Rana Sajid Hussain-Pacific Press-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the prisoner whom the Colleyville synagogue hostage-taker reportedly wanted to free?

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA January 16, 2022January 16, 2022
A Christmas display at the entrance to the Tel Aviv flagship store of Tiv Ta’am, an Israeli supermarket chain known for selling non-kosher food. (Photo/JTA-Asaf Shalev)
Posted inNews

For a growing number of Jews in Israel, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
The S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Photo/JTA-Ady Manory)
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Ethics probe: Reform rabbinical group finds late professor ducked sexual abuse complaints

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA December 23, 2021

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