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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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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Culture Harry Schimmelman, we know your wife didn’t die of influenza; she’s looking for you
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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News This 94-year-old Holocaust survivor recommended arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders
Much has been said about Amal Clooney's role on the ICC's panel on war crimes, but less attention has been paid to Theodor Meron
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News At Washington University, 2 Jewish seniors differ on Israel, but share a sense of loss
Neither fit neatly on either side of the campus conflict. Both left Wash. U spaces where they once felt at home
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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