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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Andrew Silow-Carroll is the editor-in-chief of JTA
Betty Woolf, left, and her siblings Minna and Joseph celebrate their 90th birthday in 2017. (Courtesy/Jason Paladino via JTA)
June 22, 2023, 6:40 am
Betty Woolf, last surviving of world’s oldest mixed triplets, dies at age 96
Jewish nonagenarian from New York helped found synagogue community in San Diego, held Guinness record with siblings
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Robert Gottlieb, an eclectic literary editor whose career was launched with Joseph Heller’s 'Catch-22' and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker.' (Michael Lionstar/Knopf via AP)
June 15, 2023, 6:24 pm
Robert Gottlieb, legendary editor who championed Heller, Caro and Potok, dies at 92
The famously Jewish New Yorker shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as ‘Catch-22,’ ‘The Chosen’ and ‘The Power Broker’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Amitai Etzioni was a sociologist best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. (Poklekowski/ ullstein bild via Getty Images via JTA)
June 13, 2023, 3:00 pm
Israeli sociologist Amitai Etzioni, coiner of phrase ‘communitarianism,’ dies aged 94
The academic fled Nazi Germany as a child, fought for Israel’s independence, and gained acclaim in the US, where he advised presidents
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Illustrative: The 'chair dance' at a Jewish wedding. (Flickr/ CC BY-2.0/mariko)
June 12, 2023, 5:44 am
The hora, the hora! How American-Jewish wedding music changed its tune over the years
Musicologist Uri Schreter charts how US Jews have fused old traditions with new since arriving in the country
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (left) and Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, in February 2008. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 2.0/ Joan Halifax)
June 2, 2023, 5:12 am
Overdue or overdone? Two US scholars hope to secure the legacy of ‘Jewish Renewal’
In a chapter from a newly released collection on US Judaism, Jerome Chanes and Shaul Magid argue that the countercultural movement had an outsized impact – but not all agree
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
People take a knee as an organizer reads a prayer to the crowd of several hundred gathered during a Proud Boys rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon on September 26, 2020 (Maranie R. STAAB / AFP)
May 21, 2023, 8:50 pm
A scholar sees a common root for antisemitism and racism: ‘Christian supremacy’
Polish-born academic Magda Teter’s new book, ‘Christian Supremacy,’ traces how a history of exclusion and dominance trickles down from Paul the Apostle to today’s Proud Boys
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Group Investments, and chairman of Equity International, smiles during an interview by Neil Cavuto, on the Fox Business Network, in New York, on Aug. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
May 19, 2023, 10:56 pm
Jewish American real estate magnate Sam Zell dies at 81
Billionaire was known for reviving moribund companies but seemed to lose magic touch after tumultuous 2007 purchase of Tribune media company, which ended in bankruptcy
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jeff Sharlet’s 'The Undertow' explores the religious landscape of the far right. (Jeff Goodwin via JTA)
May 12, 2023, 2:26 am
A Jewish journalist takes sides in America’s ‘slow civil war’
In his book ‘The Undertow,’ Jeff Sharlet chronicles his trip across the US interviewing far-right nationalists and conspiracy theorists who are still in thrall to Donald Trump
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
In this file photo taken on October 11, 2010 TV host Jerry Springer celebrates the taping of 'The Jerry Springer Show' 20th anniversary show at Military Island at Times Square in New York. (Michael loccisano / Getty Images North America / AFP)
April 28, 2023, 2:38 am
Jerry Springer, son of Jewish refugees whose talk show was known for conflict, dies at 79
Family spokesperson says late host of eponymous, notorious TV show, which ran for 27 years, passed away after ‘brief illness’ at suburban Chicago home
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Ed Koren, a legendary cartoonist, died at age 87 on April 14, 2023. (YouTube/screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 24, 2023, 6:55 am
The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren
Koren, who died this month at 87, published well over 1,000 instantly recognizable cartoons in The New Yorker magazine over a six-decade career
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Mimi Sheraton (Eric Etheridge/Workman Publishing via JTA)
April 10, 2023, 9:32 am
Mimi Sheraton, groundbreaking food critic and scholar of the bialy, dies at 97
Brooklyn native was first woman to serve as New York Times’ chief restaurant critic and wrote 16 books exploring the history of food during her six-decade career
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project’s multilingual Omer counter highlights Jewish linguistic diversity by presenting each of the 49 days in a different language or dialect. (HUC-JIR via JTA)
April 7, 2023, 11:17 am
New project translates ritual Omer counting to 49 Jewish languages
On each of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, researchers will post recitation in different language, including Ladino, Yiddish and more obscure tongues like Judeo-Georgian
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
An item about Abraham Zarem appears in the January 1949 issue of "Engineering and Science Monthly," a magazine for alumni of the California Institute of Technology. (Courtesy/JTA)
March 17, 2023, 3:58 am
Abraham Zarem, one of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, dies at 106
Jewish engineer joined landmark program to develop atom bomb in his 20s, later developed ‘miracle’ high-speed camera, regularly attended Los Angeles synagogue into old age
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Professor Raphael Mechoulam in his lab in Hebrew University's Ein Kerem campus on September 1, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
March 11, 2023, 4:56 am
Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92
Esteemed scientist led pioneering research into psychoactive substance, with findings that helped ease its shift out of counterculture and into the mainstream
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jeremy Dauber is the author of 'Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew.' (Yale University Press via JTA)
March 8, 2023, 1:57 am
A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’
In new biography, Jeremy Dauber breaks down how the comedian and director just couldn’t help being a loving iconoclast skewering the establishment
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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