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 Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77
The 'first out lesbian in Park Slope' founded an agency that booked LGBTQ acts on college campuses
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It seems everybody's talking about anti-Zionism
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A daughter of American royalty who helped create a uniquely American 'shtetl'
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Fast Forward Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92
Modest but significant changes marked the publication of “Sim Shalom” in 1985
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Fast Forward Robert Chazan, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies, dies at 87
When he earned his doctorate in 1967, Chazan led an effort to expand Jewish studies to institutions “all over the country"
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Fast Forward Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91
Her grandson’s film represented the first time she spoke about her experiences after nearly eight decades
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Fast Forward Pearl Berg, world’s oldest Jew and 9th-oldest person overall, dies at 114
“She didn’t smoke, she ate sensibly, she had good emotional balance and she clearly had remarkable genes,” said her youngest son
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Books And the winners of the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards are…
Jeremy Eichler’s “Time’s Echo” and James McBride’s “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” were among the winners of National Jewish Book Awards for 2023
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