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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
Portrait of Florence Mendheim, from the Leo Baeck Institution

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 10, 2021

How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda embodied a very Jewish type

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 3, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 9, 2019

The kid in me wants another shot at the moon

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published July 18, 2019

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 17, 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

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
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

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

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published November 5, 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

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 28, 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

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

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
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

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published February 19, 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

Florida seniors are getting self-driving cars? Gevalt!

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 12, 2018

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published January 2, 2018

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

Conan and ‘Transparent’ give Israel the normalcy it craves

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published September 26, 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

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

Donald Trump isn’t funny. Sad!

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published August 8, 2017

When a government won’t let you look away

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 16, 2017

Donald Trump visited Israel in the 1980s. Me too!

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 28, 2017
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