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St. Louis Jewish Light
All content by Andrew Silow-Carroll
President Donald Trump speaks with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as they tour a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," in Ochopee, Florida, July 1, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Alligator Auschwitz’? Critics’ nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility renews debate over Holocaust comparisons

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published July 8, 2025
Marthe Cohn greets well-wishers during a car parade celebrating her 100th birthday, April 13, 2020. (Courtesy)

Holocaust Hero and WWII Spy Marthe Cohn, who married in St. Louis, dies at 105

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published July 1, 2025
Under Leonard Lauder's leadership, Estée Lauder Companies would grow into a global empire with a portfolio that includes Clinique, La Mer, The Ordinary, MAC Cosmetics and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. (Estee Lauder Companies)

Leonard Lauder dies at 92

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 16, 2025
Aaron Lansky speaks at a Yiddish Book Center gala, May 4, 2025. (Susan Magnano/Magnanimous Pictures)

He saved Yiddish from the dumpster—now, a new chapter begins

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 8, 2025
Dan Senor delivers "The Sate of World Jewry" speech at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, May 13, 2025. (Mark Doyle/Michael Priest Photography)

Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published May 18, 2025
Betty Friedan, Leonard Bernstein, Norman Mailer and Mel Brooks are the the subjects of the group biography, "Eminent Jews." (Images via Wikipedia)

The 20th century was very good for these Jewish icons. Is the Golden Age really over?

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published May 11, 2025
Yaacov Kirschen drew his "Dry Bones" comic strip, which at one point ran in 35 newspapers around the world, for over 50 years. (Image via Amazon.com)

Remembering ‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published May 8, 2025
David Horowitz speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C., Feb. 12, 2011. (Gage Skidmore/Wikipedia)

David Horowitz, ’60s radical turned right-wing firebrand and critic of Islam, dies at 86

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published May 1, 2025
A temporary billboard displayed by Nike was meant to inspire runners in the 2025 London Marathon, April 27, 2025. (Via X)

Nike apologizes for marathon ad using the Holocaust phrase ‘Never Again’

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published April 28, 2025
Larry David at a Los Angeles Lakers game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Nov. 15, 2019. (Kevork S. Djansezian/Getty Images)

Larry David’s ‘My Dinner with Adolf’ essay skewers Bill Maher’s meeting with Trump

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published April 21, 2025
Pope Francis meets with Hispanic Jewish leaders from Argentina, Spain and the United States at the Vatican on Aug. 22 2019. (Courtesy of Hispanic Jewish Foundation)

Pope Francis, a champion of Jewish-Catholic dialogue, dies at 88

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published April 21, 2025
Chaim Grade’s "Sons and Daughters" was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers. (YIVO; Alfred. A. Knopf)

How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 27, 2025
President Trump posted a message on Truth Social that put social media and college campuses, including Columbia University, on high alert, March 4, 2025. (Truth Social)

As ICE targets a Palestinian activist, some Jews are asking if this is the fight against antisemitism they signed up for

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published March 11, 2025
Ari Richter depicts his visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in his graphic memoir "Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz." (Fantagraphics Books, Inc.)

A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published January 26, 2025
Peter Yarrow of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, take a bow during their sold-out concert at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on March 24, 1984. The capacity-plus Jackson Hall audience of 2,462 was one of the largest crowds in the facility this year.

Peter Yarrow, Jewish musician and activist of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, dies at 86

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published January 7, 2025
Is the Jewish mainstream bending to the right?

Is the Jewish mainstream bending to the right?

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published December 15, 2024
Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to Alice Brock’s diner in western Massachusetts. (Larry Bessel, Los Angeles Times, via Wikipedia)

Jewish woman who inspired Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published December 4, 2024
(L-R) Writers and directors Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker attend the 30th Anniversary screening of "Airplane!" at the Walter Reade Theater on August 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Jim Abrahams, the filmmaker who co-piloted ‘Airplane!’ into comedy history, dies at 80

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published December 4, 2024
Arthur Frommer on a trip to Berlin in the 1950s. (Courtesy Frommers.com)

Arthur Frommer, ‘wandering Jew’ who launched a travel guide empire, dies at 95

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 20, 2024
“Cigar” (1969) by Philip Guston, on view at The Jewish Museum, features the Ku Klux Klan figure found in several of his paintings from the period. (JTA)

A Black artist and a Jewish artist mock the KKK in a new Jewish Museum show

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 17, 2024
(Getty Images; JTA illustration)

National Jewish leaders weigh in about their priorities after Trump’s return

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 10, 2024
"Why does the pig matter?" Jordan D. Rosenblum asks in, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig." (Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons)

From snout to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published October 13, 2024
In the hours after the deadly pager attacks on Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, social media was flooded with memes about the operation. (JTA collage by Joseph Strauss)

The deadly pager operation in Lebanon is no laughing matter. Or is it?

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published September 19, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, left, speak to the press while making a stop at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Ryan Collerd / AFP via Getty Images)

Here’s why Jews are excited — and nervous — about a Democratic ticket that could include another Jew

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 23, 2024
A 1958 photo of Jennie Grossinger and the kitchen staff at her eponymous Catskills resort is featured in a new exhibit at the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York.

New showcase on Jewish food and humor puts the ‘borscht’ in Borscht Belt

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published July 22, 2024
Mordechai Rosenstein, seen in 2014 at a sale of his works, combined bright colors and stylized Hebrew letters for pieces that hang in countless homes, offices and synagogues. (Courtesy Rosenstein Arts, via Facebook)

Mordechai Rosenstein, calligrapher whose art illuminates Jewish homes and synagogues, dies at 90

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published July 11, 2024
A carving of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments on the facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Proponents of public displays of the decalogue say it has historical, not just religious, significance. (Steve Petteway/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

The 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 30, 2024
Jeffrey Shandler, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, is the author of "Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum." (Etty Lassman; Indiana University Press)

The true story of the ‘The Lost Jewish Museum’

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 24, 2024
Morrie Markoff in 2023. (Courtesy The Brain Donor Project)

Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 11, 2024
Amy Spitalnick, right, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, speaks about antisemitism and democracy at the Samson Family JCC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 19, 2024. Ann Jacobs was the moderator. (Courtesy JCPA)

Despite deep divides over Gaza, a Jewish leader seeks allies in defense of democracy

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published May 12, 2024
Mo Husseini's article on the Israel-Hamas war was widely shared on social media by Jewish readers. At rear is an image from the essay. (Courtesy Mo Husseini)

‘I’m tired of stupid people’: Palestinian-American’s blunt call for compromise is resonating with Jews online

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published May 6, 2024
Martin Greenfield, tailor for Bill Clinton and Colin Powell, in his Brooklyn shop. (Photo by mark peterson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published March 21, 2024
Singer Steve Lawrence, son of a cantor and half of ‘Steve and Eydie,’ dies at 88

Singer Steve Lawrence, son of a cantor and half of ‘Steve and Eydie,’ dies at 88

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published March 11, 2024
Richard Lewis in 2018

Comedian Richard Lewis, dark prince of Jewish neurosis, dies at 76

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published February 29, 2024
In his new book, “Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978,” he writes about an early, formative era before American Jewish institutions had unequivocally embraced Zionism, and when American Jewish leaders disagreed with the Israeli government over the fate of the 750,000 Palestinians displaced by Israel’s war for independence.

When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published January 28, 2024
National Jewish Book Awards for the best books of 2023 were presented to works by, from left, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ruth Madievsky, Jeremy Eichler and James McBride. (Random House, Catapult, Knopf, Riverhead)

Jewish book of the year is announced

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published January 24, 2024
(JTA collage by Mollie Suss)

The best Jewish books I read in 2023

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published December 31, 2023
Palestinians and their supporters protest outside the Embassy of Israel in London two days after Hamas killed s1.200 people in an attack on southern Israel, Oct. 9, 2023.

Understanding what ‘Decolonization is not a metaphor’ really means

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published December 3, 2023
Samuel Klagsbrun, Israel Francus and Avraham Holtz were on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary. (Via JTS)

Conservative Judaism’s flagship mourning death of 3 influential scholars

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 20, 2023
Ariel Levy and John Turturro at the opening night party for The New Group Theater's new play "Sabbath's Theater," at Green Fig Urban Eatery in New York City, Nov. 1, 2023.

How Ariel Levy adapted Philip Roth’s filthiest book for the stage

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 3, 2023
Starbucks issued a statement expressing its “deepest sympathy for those who have been killed, wounded, displaced and impacted following the heinous and unacceptable acts of terror, escalating violence and hate against the innocent in Israel and Gaza this week.”

As Israel wages war on Hamas, Indiana U and other colleges, companies take flak over their responses

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published October 22, 2023
Israelis donate blood at a hospital in Tel Aviv after a barrage of rockets were fired and fighters from the Gaza Strip infiltrated Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli opposition, pro-democracy protesters press unity in face of attacks from Hamas

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published October 7, 2023
Reproductions of book and magazine covers hang over the main book room of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, part of the center's new core exhibit.

25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published September 30, 2023
Jonathan Brent, executive director and CEO of YIVO, and Gitanas Nausėda, president of Lithuania, examine holdings in the Strashun Rare Books Room at YIVO's New York headquarters, Sept. 18, 2023. The room is named for a Jewish scholar in Vilna (now Vilnius) who collected nearly 7,000 volumes of Yiddish and other books before his death in 1885.

Lithuania’s president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and after the Holocaust

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published September 19, 2023
High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors.

High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors.

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published September 14, 2023
Claire Golomb, with the winner of a scholarship given at the University of Massachusetts Lowell to environmental science majors in memory her late husband, fellow survivor Dan Golomb, Oct. 27, 2015.

Claire Golomb, Holocaust survivor and scholar of children’s art and dreams, dies at 95 

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published August 29, 2023
"We Need to Talk About Antisemitism" responds to an era of rising concerns about hatred directed at Jews. (JTA illustration; Getty Images)

A rabbi answers her congregants’ question: Why do they hate us?

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published August 20, 2023
Author Elizabeth Graver tells the story of her mother's Turkish Jewish family, above, in her novel “Kantika.” Her grandmother, Rebecca Baruch, who inspired the novel's main character, is seated front row, fourth from right. (Courtesy of the author)

A novel of Sephardic life revives the Jewish family saga

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published August 6, 2023
Aharon Ariel was a Jerusalem-born scholar and journalist who fought in Israel's War of Independence; at right, Ariel with his granddaughter Yael Ariel-Goldschmidt. (Courtesy Yael Ariel-Goldschmidt)

Journalist and scholar Aharon Ariel, 97, veteran of Israel’s war of independence and ‘walking encyclopedia’

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published July 18, 2023
J. Robert Oppenheimer, left, at the Guest Lodge in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1946. (Ed Westcott/DOE Digital Archive Image); Lewis Strauss when he was Acting Secretary of Commerce, 1958-59. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce)

At the heart of the film ‘Oppenheimer’ is a clash between real-life Jews 

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published July 16, 2023
Marlena Spieler wrote that she carried her signature green and white polkadot handbag "to most corners of the world." (Roving Feast, Substack)

Marlena Spieler, globetrotting writer of Jewish cookbooks, dies at 74

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published July 11, 2023
Reuben Baron, far right, and his wife Joan Boykoff Baron, second from right, were among the honorees at a Jewish National Fund dinner in Teaneck, New Jersey, Dec. 15, 2015. (Gerald Bernstein, via The Jewish Standard)

Reuben Baron, Jewish co-author of the most widely cited paper in the history of psychology, dies at 86

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 27, 2023
Betty Woolf, left, and her siblings Minna and Joseph celebrate their 90th birthday in 2017. (Courtesy Jason Paladino)

Betty Woolf, last surviving sibling of world’s oldest mixed triplets, dies at age 96

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 20, 2023

Robert Gottlieb, legendary editor who championed Joseph Heller, Robert Caro and Chaim Potok, dies at 92

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 15, 2023
Amitai Etzioni

The Israeli origins of Amitai Etzioni’s big ideas about community

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 11, 2023
Magda Teter’s new book explores how “white European Christians branded both Jews and people of color with ‘badges of servitude’ and inferiority.” (Chuck Fishman)

Author finds common root for antisemitism and racism is ‘Christian supremacy’ 

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 15, 2023

‘Two Israels’: What’s really behind the judicial reform protests

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published April 9, 2023
(Ben Yehuda Press)

From ‘how to’ to ‘why bother?’ The new guide to being Jewish

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published April 2, 2023
(JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)

Which side are you on: Jewish American or American Jew? 

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published March 19, 2023
Director Norman Jewison and actor Chaim Topol (Tevye) share a laugh on the set of the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof.” Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films.

How the late actor Topol turned Tevye into a Zionist

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published March 12, 2023
Pogrom? Terrorism? What do we call what happened in Huwara?

Pogrom? Terrorism? What do we call what happened in Huwara?

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published March 7, 2023
Jeremy Dauber is the author of "Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew" (Yale University Press)

A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published March 5, 2023
Larry David attends a bat mitzvah in a season 6 episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” (HBO)

No joke, the entire history of Jewish comedy is in this one book

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published February 19, 2023
Israelis march during a rally against government plans to give lawmakers more control of the judicial system, Tel Aviv, Feb. 4, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Diaspora alarm over Israel: Your guide to what the critics are saying

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published February 12, 2023
Composer Burt Bacharach (left) and lyricist Hal David hold Oscars they won for "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," at the Academy Awards, April 7, 1970. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Missouri born Burt Bacharach, sophisticated Jewish hitmaker of the ‘60s and ‘70s, dies at 94

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published February 9, 2023
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published January 31, 2023
What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published January 18, 2023

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published December 8, 2022

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 29, 2022

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 29, 2022

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 21, 2022

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published November 6, 2022

High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL, JTA
Published September 25, 2022

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published September 13, 2022
‘Quiet quitting’ sounds sort of … Jewish?

‘Quiet quitting’ sounds sort of … Jewish?

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published August 21, 2022
How to understand Nathan Fielder’s HBO show ‘The Rehearsal’

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published August 7, 2022

Can Jews ever agree to disagree?

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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 

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL, JTA
Published July 24, 2022

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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL, JTA
Published June 26, 2022

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of the New York Jewish Week
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 

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL, JTA
Published June 5, 2022

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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL, JTA
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published May 22, 2022
Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan

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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
Published February 28, 2022

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 16, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
Published October 11, 2021
"Two By Two" by Barbara Reid is a whimsical version of the Noah's Ark story. (Scholastic)

Noah’s ark is one weird bedtime story

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published October 8, 2021
The author's 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.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 13, 2021
Trader Joe’s is not your synagogue. But what if?

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Published June 22, 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.

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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.

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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’

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
Published April 29, 2021
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