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JTA — “A Complete Unknown,” the new Bob Dylan biopic set in the early 1960s, ends years before the singer’s controversial “gospel” period....

30.12.2024 3

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

American Jewish mainstream veering slightly right as Trump prepares for second term

JTA — As head of the nonprofit Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Kenneth Marcus was early — critics would say premature — in using...

18.12.2024 4

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism co-chair expounds on complexity of anti-Israel protests

Emeritus journalism dean Nicholas Lemann talks challenges of determining when antisemitism, anti-Zionism intersect, why critics of Ivies are...

10.12.2024 10

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jewish, black artists tackle KKK with satire in new Jewish Museum exhibit

In ‘Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston,’ artists confront symbols of racism, white supremacy,...

07.12.2024 4

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Adam Abeshouse, decorated Jewish producer for A-list classical musicians, dies at 63

Triple-Grammy winning violinist worked with roster of A-list musical artists including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and Russia’s St. Petersburg...

16.10.2024 30

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

From snout to tail: New book tells 3,000-year-old story of Jews and the pig

While the ‘other thing’ is just as unkosher as oysters or cheeseburgers, the taboo around it practically delineates Judaism itself, Jordan D....

14.10.2024 10

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning

Leaders try to find ways to ritualize grief, with some putting out supplements to the usual prayers that focus on the tragedy and 12 months of...

11.10.2024 2

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

New book about October 7 tells ‘100 human stories’ behind the horror

Journalist Lee Yaron seeks to combat political exploitation of tragedy; Palestinian accounts ‘not my stories to tell,’ she says, accusing global...

18.09.2024 3

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

Struck by the number of activists and thinkers who cheered the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, Adam Kirsch has written a book on the misguided idealism...

01.09.2024 10

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Michael Lerner, influential rabbi-activist and founder of Tikkun magazine, dies at 81

Publication promoted two-state solution and liberal agenda, was ‘always deliberately to the left of American Jewish liberalism’

31.08.2024 2

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Americana meets meshuggeneh at a museum exhibit about MAD magazine

‘What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine’ runs at the Norman Rockwell Museum through October 27, showcasing the periodical’s American...

31.08.2024 2

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Bill Pascrell, NJ congressman who played balancing act on Israel, dies at 87

Democrat, whose district included ‘Little Ramallah,’ had weathered pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian primary challengers in his 14 terms: ‘I’ve...

22.08.2024 2

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

A museum exhibit on Jewish food and humor puts the ‘borscht’ in Borscht Belt

Running at the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, NY, through November, ‘And Such Small Portions!’ reflects a bygone era where guests found...

26.07.2024 20

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

US Jews excited, and anxious, about potential representation on Democratic ticket

Kamala Harris, whose husband is Jewish, reportedly considering Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Mark Kelly as running mate; both spouse and VP would be...

24.07.2024 1

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Peter Buxtun, who blew whistle on cruel US medical study on Black men, dies at 86

Born to a Jewish father, Buxtun was reminded of Nazi medical experiments when he heard US health officials withheld treatment from hundreds of...

18.07.2024 3

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Andrew Silow-Carroll