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St. Louis Jewish Light
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
All content by Andrew Silow-Carroll
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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
Published April 25, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 22, 2021

NY judge killed in hit and run while vacationing in Florida

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 12, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 6, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 30, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 30, 2021

Germany funds vaccination drive for Holocaust survivors

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 23, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 22, 2021

NJ Jewish paper apologizes for joke about shooting Palestinians

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 22, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 15, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 3, 2021

What Jewish comedians made of Michael Che’s Israel Joke

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 24, 2021

Is the Jewish deli the new synagogue?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 11, 2021

NYC mayor says city will make sure Holocaust survivors get vaccine

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 11, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 10, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 4, 2021
Lerner

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 1, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 28, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 28, 2021

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 20, 2021

How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda embodied a very Jewish type

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 3, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 21, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 9, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 26, 2019

The kid in me wants another shot at the moon

Andrew Silow-Carroll
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?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 17, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 16, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 15, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 11, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 8, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 17, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 3, 2019
Politico’s ‘cheap’ shot at Bernie Sanders

Politico’s ‘cheap’ shot at Bernie Sanders

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

Is ‘goy’ a slur?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 22, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 9, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 8, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 1, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 25, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 31, 2018

How Facebook monitors harmful content: 5 takeaways

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 28, 2018

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 28, 2018

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
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.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 18, 2018
Robert Arnow

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 18, 2018

Oscar turns its back on latest Israeli film

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 18, 2018

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 9, 2018

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 7, 2018

My day job is translating from Jewish to English. Gevalt!

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 27, 2018

New York’s ‘Snowvember’ and the kindness of friends and strangers

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 16, 2018

NY Times’ Facebook investigation unearths George Soros, ADL and Chuck Schumer controversies

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 15, 2018

Yes, anti-Semitism is a problem again. No, it is not 1939.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 5, 2018

What Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau really said about the Pittsburgh shooting

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published October 30, 2018

Smoked meat without cherry soda? Canadians say ‘Thanks, Trump.’

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published October 19, 2018

Why Roseanne Barr and Shmuley Boteach need each other

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published October 17, 2018

Who’s sorry now: The top 10 apologies of the Jewish year

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 17, 2018

Too few Jews, Pew! Where are the ‘secular maximalists’? The Sunday brunchers?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 31, 2018

A Neil Simon play that helps explain how we got to Donald Trump

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 28, 2018

Deportation of Nazi ignites a fight between right and left. You’re surprised?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 21, 2018

People are talking about whether Trump used the N-word. A Breitbart writer wants to talk about hip-hop.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 15, 2018
Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor in chief of JTA, a syndicated news service for Jewish media. 

If Israel has such bad PR, why does it remain so popular?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 13, 2018
Leonard Bernstein conducting a performance at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Mass. (BSO Press Office)

The non-misogynist, non-hypocritical case for Jewish continuity. With music.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 6, 2018

Richard Siegel left behind a Jewish denomination: Catalogism

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 17, 2018

How I learned to stop worrying and love an Israeli dance company

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 11, 2018

Holocaust comparisons are muddying the immigration debate

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 19, 2018

Your guide to Shavuot, now with 50 percent less facts

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 18, 2018

Mahmoud Abbas’ remarks on the Holocaust explain why two-state solution is dying

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 2, 2018

The ADL’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 30, 2018

How JTA reported on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 4, 2018

Don’t eat off the seder plate, and other tips for non-Jews attending their first seder

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 23, 2018

‘Nobody is talking about anti-Semitism.’ You’re kidding, right?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 19, 2018
Dahn Vo’s “She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene,” on display at the Guggenhim Museum in New York, features a 13-star American flag and musical instruments bought at auction. (Jean-Daniel Pellen, Paris/© Danh Vo)

What a Vietnam-born artist can teach us about Jewish memory

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 13, 2018

Who is King Cyrus, and why is Netanyahu comparing him to Trump?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 7, 2018

Why Wayne LaPierre’s CPAC speech freaked out Jews and heartened anti-Semites

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 27, 2018

Thank you for supporting the American Friends of The Sheldon & Miriam Adelson Embassy of the United States in Israel!

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 23, 2018

Here’s why we report on the Jewish victims of general tragedies

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 19, 2018

Mike Huckabee says US should follow Israel’s lead to prevent mass shootings. Twitter takes issue.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 15, 2018
Campers at Camp Watitoh in Becket, Mass., in 1950. Photo: Center for Jewish History

Seven works of fiction set at Jewish sleepaway camp

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 13, 2018

What’s in a name? Reconstructionist Judaism is finding out.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 6, 2018

Does the Obama-Farrakhan photo matter? Does anything?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 30, 2018

Female reporters were kept separate from men during Mike Pence’s Western Wall visit

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 23, 2018

Jared Kushner’s Jewish high school wants students to advocate for Israel. That’s a bad thing?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 19, 2018

Florida seniors are getting self-driving cars? Gevalt!

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 12, 2018

The underwhelming fact that Jared Kushner has ties with Israeli businesses

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 8, 2018

How do you define anti-Semitism? It’s complicated.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 2, 2018

A classic play sounds more American when it is performed in Yiddish. Go figure.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published December 5, 2017

NY Times article shows how not to write about neo-Nazis

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 27, 2017

Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken are Jewish, but are they Jewish news?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 21, 2017

Federations rally around pluralism — but wish they didn’t have to

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 14, 2017
Larry David presents his opening monologue on”Saturday Night Live” including bits on the Holocaust and the high-profile Jews being accused of sexual harassment, Nov. 4, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Larry David’s Holocaust joke was an offense — against comedy

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 6, 2017

Breitbart, racists and the dirty work of laundering the ‘alt-right’

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published October 9, 2017

Conan and ‘Transparent’ give Israel the normalcy it craves

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 26, 2017

The left has an Israel problem. Does that mean colleges have an anti-Semitism problem?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 11, 2017

Self-hatred: It’s not just for self-haters!

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 5, 2017

Rabbi leads a team of spiritual first responders in storm-tossed Texas

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 1, 2017

Billy Joel wore a yellow Jewish star. Thanks, but the trend should stop there.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 29, 2017

Who are you calling a Nazi?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 18, 2017

Our president just asked us to be fair to white supremacists

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 16, 2017
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