Andrew Silverstein is a New York-based freelance writer and the co-founder of Streetwise New York Tours. In 2023, he was named “Best Freelancer of the Year” by the American Jewish Press Association.
Andrew Silverstein
By Andrew Silverstein
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The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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Culture A reunion project for Holocaust survivors and their families runs a race against time
The Nazis destroyed families and their histories — a pair of genealogists is trying to put the pieces back together
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Culture In place of a proud emblem of Jewish immigration in NYC, million-dollar condos and a private garden
Gentrification comes for the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
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Culture A small town in Spain is finally embracing its Jewish history — but is any of that history true?
In Hervás, a rural hamlet of 4,000, an invented Jewish heritage has become a point of pride and a marketing tool
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Once upon a time, immigrant husbands would try to ditch their spouses in America. Enter the National Desertion Bureau
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News Exclusiva: ¿Sobrevivió la familia de Claudia Sheinbaum al Holocausto y lo mantuvo en secreto?
Una investigación del Forward descubre que la madre de la presidenta electa nació en Bulgaria, no en México
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News Exclusive: Mexico’s new Jewish president has not been telling the truth about her family’s Holocaust story
A Forward investigation finds the Jewish president-elect’s mother was born in Bulgaria, not Mexico, as she has claimed
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