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Scholars and enthusiasts alike believe this portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken on November 8, 1863, eleven days before his famed Gettysburg Address, to be the best photograph of him ever taken.Public domain

The real story about Abraham Lincoln and a New York cantor is better than the legend

Published February 8, 2023
A Peeps Mobile at the Just Born candy factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (Andrew Silow-Carroll)

Bob Born, Jewish maker of Peeps marshmallow candies, dies at 98

Published January 31, 2023
What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

Published January 22, 2023
Michael Twitty’s ‘Koshersoul,’ a memoir of food and identity, named Jewish book of the year

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

Published January 18, 2023
Itamar Ben-Gvir, leader of Israels Otzma Yehudit party, and Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, attend a rally with supporters in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Oct 26, 2022. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images)

An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government

Published December 8, 2022
Comedian Freddie Roman, who brought the Borscht Belt to Broadway, dies at 85

Comedian Freddie Roman, who brought the Borscht Belt to Broadway, dies at 85

Published November 29, 2022
A Black writer explores how U.S. and Germany differ in remembering their pasts

A Black writer explores how U.S. and Germany differ in remembering their pasts

Published November 29, 2022
The exhausting, never-ending job of debunking antisemitic conspiracy theories

The exhausting, never-ending job of debunking antisemitic conspiracy theories

Published November 21, 2022
Birmingham, Alabama, synagogue fire wasn’t an antisemitic attack, rabbi says

Birmingham, Alabama, synagogue fire wasn’t an antisemitic attack, rabbi says

Published November 6, 2022
High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors

High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors

Published September 25, 2022
Elena Kagan, in synagogue talk, says courts lose legitimacy when they stray from precedent

Elena Kagan, in synagogue talk, says courts lose legitimacy when they stray from precedent

Published September 13, 2022
‘Quiet quitting’ sounds sort of … Jewish?

‘Quiet quitting’ sounds sort of … Jewish?

Published August 28, 2022
The Catskills meet Mount Sinai at a night of Jewish comedy

The Catskills meet Mount Sinai at a night of Jewish comedy

Published August 21, 2022
How to understand Nathan Fielder’s HBO show ‘The Rehearsal’

How to understand Nathan Fielder’s HBO show ‘The Rehearsal’

Published August 7, 2022
Can Jews ever agree to disagree?

Can Jews ever agree to disagree?

Published August 4, 2022
When a Jewish group fought antisemitism with radio shows and comic books 

When a Jewish group fought antisemitism with radio shows and comic books 

Published July 24, 2022
The Torah supports me in an argument with my wife that I will never win

The Torah supports me in an argument with my wife that I will never win

Published June 26, 2022
Religion for non-believers: It’s a Jewish thing

Religion for non-believers: It’s a Jewish thing

Published June 19, 2022
An app that identifies trees and flowers is changing my life 

An app that identifies trees and flowers is changing my life 

Published June 5, 2022
A wall at ANU—Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv honors Jewish literary greats. (Andrew Silow-Carroll)

What is a Jew? Israel’s renovated Diaspora museum attempts a three-story answer.

Published May 29, 2022
The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders

The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders

Published May 22, 2022
Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan

What Putin’s talking about when he talks about ‘denazification’

Published February 28, 2022

John Oliver just celebrated ‘Look for the Union Label,’ a ’70s labor jingle with deep Jewish roots

Published November 16, 2021
Dani Dayan, who was Consul General of Israel in New York from 2016-2020, became the chair of the Lad Vashem directorate in August 2021. (Courtesy)

The new chair of Yad Vashem wants to build a ‘firewall’ between politics and Holocaust remembrance. Can he?

Published November 9, 2021
Jacob Leiter and his grandmother, Susi Kasper Leiter, examine an heirloom Bible that had been hidden by family members during the Holocaust, June 9, 2021. (USHMM)

A New York family is reunited with an heirloom Bible thought lost in the Holocaust

Published October 20, 2021
Children attend a rally for peace and unity in Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to remember victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, Nov. 9, 2018. (Flickr Commons/Gov. Tom Wolf)

What the Tree of Life shooting revealed about American Jewry

Published October 19, 2021
A New Yorker article about circumcision features an illustration by Javier Jaén. (Jewish Week)

We may be talking about Gary Shteyngart’s botched circumcision for a long time

Published October 11, 2021
Two By Two by Barbara Reid is a whimsical version of the Noahs Ark story. (Scholastic)

Noah’s ark is one weird bedtime story

Published October 8, 2021
Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

Published October 4, 2021
Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Published October 3, 2021
The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Published October 3, 2021
The authors grandmother’s French residence permit from 1914 includes a spelling of her husband’s original name, Karolchouk, before he and his brothers changed it to Carroll. (Courtesy)

No one lost their Jewish last name at Ellis Island. But we gained a safe haven.

Published September 13, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

Published August 29, 2021
GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

Published August 27, 2021
18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

Published August 8, 2021
Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

Published August 6, 2021
Trader Joe’s is not your synagogue. But what if?

Trader Joe’s is not your synagogue. But what if?

Published June 22, 2021
Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

Published June 16, 2021
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, seen at a Hanukkah event in 2019, has been counting on support from Brooklyn’s Orthodox community in his race for New York City mayor. (Office of the Brooklyn Borough President/Flickr)

NYC’s mayoral candidates haven’t said much about Jews or Israel. The Pew study suggests why.

Published May 21, 2021
Ira Sheskin, a prominent Jewish demographer, conducted at least 43 Jewish federation population surveys between 1982 and 2014. (Uriel Heilman)

A new Pew survey comes out today. Here’s how studies like it have shaped 3 decades of Jewish life.

Published May 11, 2021
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arrives at the federal courthouse in New York, Nov. 24, 2015. (Seth Wenig/AP Images)

Sheldon Silver, former NY Assembly speaker, ordered back to prison, sources say

Published May 6, 2021
A vandal smashed windows at the Chabad-Lubavitch of Riverdale, N.Y., in a series of attacks on area synagogues that began on April 24, 2021. A lone suspect has been arrested in the spree. (Twitter)

Hate crimes see 73% rise in NYC, with Asians and Jews most targeted

Published May 6, 2021
Brendan Hunt, also known as “X-Ray Ultra,” appears in one of his YouTube videos. (Screen shot from YouTube)

NY man convicted of threatening lawmakers railed against ‘Zionist Occupied Government’

Published April 29, 2021
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, top, third from left, meets with haredi Orthodox Jewish leaders in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in an undated photo supplied by his campaign. (Yang for New York)

Top NYC mayoral candidates vie for haredi Orthodox endorsements

Published April 28, 2021
The Regal Edwards theater in La Verne, California, forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is seen in May 2020. (Russ Allison Loar/Flickr Commons)

Portal for federal grants will no longer launch on Shabbat, following complaints

Published April 25, 2021

Brooklyn man, 19, charged with breaking into Capitol on Jan. 6

Published April 22, 2021

NY judge killed in hit and run while vacationing in Florida

Published April 12, 2021

Yehuda Ben-Yishay, Israeli psychologist who pioneered treatment for brain trauma, dies at 88

Published April 12, 2021
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, is interviewed by Michael Miller, head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, April 1, 2021. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez meets with top NYC Jewish group for first time since assuming office

Published April 6, 2021
Influential critic Morris Dickstein was born in the Lower East Side and attended Jewish schools. (Nancy Crampton)

Morris Dickstein, literary critic and public intellectual, dies at 81

Published March 30, 2021

A ‘Nazi love story’ about a mass murderer who got away

Published March 30, 2021
Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Ezra Medical Center in New York’s Boro Park neighborhood Sunday, March 14, 2020 to speak with Holocaust survivors who were getting their COVID-19 shots. (Twitter/ @NYCMayor)

Germany funds vaccination drive for Holocaust survivors

Published March 23, 2021

Jewish Theological Seminary names first woman as dean of its rabbinical school

Published March 22, 2021
(Screen shot from Jewish Link)

NJ Jewish paper apologizes for joke about shooting Palestinians

Published March 22, 2021

The COVID relief package includes $2.75B for private schools. Orthodox Jewish groups thank Chuck Schumer.

Published March 15, 2021
Yeshiva Basketball

Yeshiva University men’s basketball is on a 35-game winning streak

Published March 3, 2021
Michael Che makes a joke about Israels vaccine rollout on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 20, 2021. (Screen shot from YouTube)

What Jewish comedians made of Michael Che’s Israel Joke

Published February 24, 2021
Beyond the shul

Is the Jewish deli the new synagogue?

Published February 11, 2021

NYC mayor says city will make sure Holocaust survivors get vaccine

Published February 11, 2021
Portrait of Florence Mendheim, from the Leo Baeck Institution

Meet the Jewish librarian who spied on New York Nazis in the 1930s

Published February 10, 2021
View of Manhattan Detention Complex known as The Tombs.

Jewish inmate’s COVID-19 death cited in effort to get vaccines to NY prisoners

Published February 4, 2021
Lerner

Rabbi Stephen Lerner, 80, brought over 1,800 students to practice of Judaism

Published February 1, 2021

Times Square’s new ‘Margaritaville Resort’ to include a first-floor synagogue

Published January 28, 2021

Clergy ask why New York’s prisoners aren’t on priority list for vaccines

Published January 28, 2021

More than a dozen Jews, but not Sheldon Silver, among Donald Trump’s last-minute pardons

Published January 20, 2021

Pride rallies held across Israel in lieu of annual parades due to coronavirus

Published July 2, 2020

Ohio’s Health Dept. director resigns after backlash over stay-at-home orders

Published June 18, 2020

Protesters shout ‘dirty Jews’ at Paris rally against police racism

Published June 18, 2020

How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda embodied a very Jewish type

Published September 3, 2019

What Trump really (maybe) meant by calling Jewish Democrats ‘disloyal’

Published August 21, 2019

Trader Joe’s is not your synagogue. But what if?

Published August 9, 2019

It can’t be anti-Semitism if you’re not an anti-Semite, right? Right?

Published July 26, 2019

The kid in me wants another shot at the moon

Published July 18, 2019
Why did Kellyanne Conway ask a Jewish reporter about his ethnicity?

Why did Kellyanne Conway ask a Jewish reporter about his ethnicity?

Published July 17, 2019

Donald Trump and the perils of loving Israel just a little too much

Published July 16, 2019

Top Trump officials headline conference focusing on the ‘new anti-Semitism’

Published July 15, 2019

Lucette Lagnado, whose prize-winning memoir recalled her family’s Egyptian-Jewish past, dies at 63

Published July 11, 2019

How Mad magazine taught me to think like a furshlugginer Jewish intellectual

Published July 8, 2019

Every question-and-answer period at every Jewish event ever

Published June 17, 2019

Moe Berg’s life as ballplayer and spy, this time as a documentary

Published June 3, 2019
Politico’s ‘cheap’ shot at Bernie Sanders

Politico’s ‘cheap’ shot at Bernie Sanders

Published May 28, 2019
Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor in chief of JTA, a syndicated news service for Jewish media. 

Is ‘goy’ a slur?

Published April 22, 2019

The Passover kitniyot argument isn’t worth a hill of beans

Published April 9, 2019

US environmental group Hazon wants an Israeli right-wing upstart to stop using the same name

Published March 8, 2019
An Israeli worker hangs a campaign billboard of President Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a Jerusalem building on Feb. 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu can’t get enough of each other. Here’s why

Published March 1, 2019

Trump invokes Israel’s ‘wall’ in saying he has agreed to reopen government

Published January 25, 2019

American-born biologist to head Israel’s Ben-Gurion University

Published December 31, 2018

How Facebook monitors harmful content: 5 takeaways

Published December 28, 2018

Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art

Published December 28, 2018

‘I’m Vietnamese, I’m Jewish.’ And he is performing Christmas Eve at a Chinese restaurant.

Published December 21, 2018

40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation.

Published December 18, 2018
Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, left, with Israel’s Ambassador to Brazil, Yossi Shelley. (Consulate of Israel in Rio de Janeiro)

Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to Brazil marks the end of an era of strained ties

Published December 18, 2018
Robert Arnow

Robert Arnow, NY philanthropist and real estate developer, dies at 94

Published December 18, 2018

Oscar turns its back on latest Israeli film

Published December 18, 2018

Pro-Palestinian groups claim victory as New England police pull out of training program in Israel

Published December 9, 2018

A history of the radical Jewish feminists and the one subject they never talked about

Published December 7, 2018

Steven Spielberg warns: Genocide as possible today as it was during Holocaust

Published December 6, 2018

Israeli special ops force was in Gaza for two months before its firefight with Hamas, report says

Published December 6, 2018

Brazil arrests Israeli head of international drug smuggling network 

Published December 6, 2018

EU Council approves declaration on fight against anti-Semitism

Published December 6, 2018
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