Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor in chief of the New York Jewish Week and senior editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He previously served as JTA’s editor in chief and as editor in chief and CEO of the New Jersey Jewish News.
Andrew Silow-Carroll
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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Fast Forward Mordechai Rosenstein, calligrapher whose art illuminates Jewish homes and synagogues, dies at 90
“The big thing is that they’re happy,” an associate said of the artist’s works based on Hebrew text
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Culture Americana meets meshuggeneh at a museum exhibit about MAD magazine
The Norman Rockwell Museum show about the influential humor magazine presents a merger of two sensibilities: gentle and crude, rural and urban — and gentile and Jewish
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News Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state
A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish"
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Fast Forward Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79
Friedman claimed to be he first “full-blooded” Jew to take the stage at the Grand Ole Opry. He also ran for governor of Texas
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Fast Forward Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87
“She was a feisty, brilliant and extraordinary woman,” recalled a colleague
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Fast Forward Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in U.S., dies at 110
Markoff became a prolific blogger after 105, titling one post about his long life "Bashert," Yiddish for "fate"
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Opinion ‘Bring them home’ means different things to Israelis and American Jews
The messaging behind the “free the hostages ” activism range from harsh criticism of the Netanyahu government to apolitical calls for solidarity
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Fast Forward Ivan Boesky, financier whose downfall led to a Jewish communal reckoning, dies at 82
The Wall Street mogul inspired the character of Gordon Gekko and came to epitomize the excesses of the go-go 1980s
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