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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Andrew Silow-Carroll is the editor-in-chief of JTA
L: Larry David leaves an NBA basketball game on February 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray) R: Bill Maher watches a basketball game on April 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
April 22, 2025, 9:33 am
Larry David skewers Bill Maher’s sit-down with Trump in NYT essay
In unsolicited piece, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star pans HBO comedian for gushing over US president’s apparent normalcy behind closed doors
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Chaim Grade’s 'Sons and Daughters' was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers. (YIVO; Alfred. A. Knopf via JTA)
April 7, 2025, 1:16 am
How Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued and wrestled into print
The editors discuss how a previously lost decades-old manuscript was found and pieced together. It’s being called ‘probably the last great Yiddish novel’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Dara Horn's latest book is a graphic novel featuring a time-traveling talking goat. (Norton Young Readers via JTA)
April 6, 2025, 2:46 am
Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews
The author of bestseller ‘People Love Dead Jews’ takes readers to the seder tables of historically iconic Jews such as Sigmund Freud in ‘One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Etta Shiber, seen in a publicity photo for the 1943 book 'Paris-Underground,' and Kate Bonnefous, shown in 1940, were friends and unlikely heroes of the early French resistance. (Courtesy Ballantine Books via JTA)
March 12, 2025, 6:08 am
Two friends defied the Nazis. Then one woman ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other
In ‘Paris Undercover,’ author Matthew Goodman digs up the truth behind a successful ‘memoir’ that played fast and loose with facts as one of its subjects sat in Nazi prison
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The son of Jewish parents who fled the Nazis for safe harbor in the United States, Sen. Ron Wyden shares lessons from 40-plus career in politics in a new memoir. (Grand Central Publishing via JTA)
February 6, 2025, 1:19 am
Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power
The senior Oregon legislator’s new memoir, ‘It Takes Chutzpah,’ draws on his Jewish background to explain his approach to life and governing
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
In '10/7,' journalist Lee Yaron profiles victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre from a wide range of communities. (Uri Bareket; St. Martin's Press via JTA)
January 23, 2025, 2:56 pm
Young journalist’s accounts of Oct. 7 assault named Jewish book of the year
Jewish Book Council gives top honor to Lee Yaron for her ’10/7: 100 Human Stories’; reporter Amir Tibon wins best autobiography for account of how parents rescued him from attack
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The parents of Staff Sgt. Yuval Shoham, who was killed in the Gaza Strip, attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, December 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
December 31, 2024, 3:41 am
Fallen IDF soldier Yuval Shoham laid to rest as father pleads for hostage deal
Thousands attend funeral for 22-year-old, who searched for his childhood friend, hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as he fought in Gaza in the early days of the war
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A Jewish student watches a protest in support of Palestinians at New York’s Columbia University campus, November 14, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)
December 18, 2024, 4:36 pm
American Jewish mainstream veering slightly right as Trump prepares for second term
While many US Jewish organizations believe in free speech, they are hoping the incoming president will curb antisemitism on college campuses and in schools
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, speaks at the Limmud New York LearningFest in Manhattan, November 17, 2024. (Art M. Altman/Limmud NY)
December 10, 2024, 4:48 am
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 oversimplifying issue
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston,' at The Jewish Museum, features works by Philip Guston, left, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, right. (JTA)
December 7, 2024, 4:06 pm
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, antisemitism
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A New York Times reviewer called Paul Mendes-Flohr's 2019 book 'Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent' a 'scrupulously researched, perceptive biography' of the German Jewish philosopher. (Wikipedia; Yale University Press via JTA)
October 30, 2024, 3:46 am
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Israeli-American authority on Martin Buber, dies at 83
A scholar of modern Jewish intellectual history, philosophy and religious thought, he edited and wrote 62 books and taught for 30 years at Hebrew University
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Adam Abeshouse in an undated photo. (Abeshouse Productions via JTA)
October 16, 2024, 12:39 am
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 Philharmonic Orchestra
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'Why does the pig matter?' Jordan D. Rosenblum asks in his new book, 'Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig.' (Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons)
October 14, 2024, 3:22 am
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. Rosenblum argues in ‘Forbidden’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered during the October 7 massacre one year ago, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 11, 2024, 2:23 am
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 conflict with no end in sight
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Etgar Keret and his wife Shira Geffen speak about their work in Ness Ziona, Israel, Aug. 28, 2024. (Via Facebook)
October 1, 2024, 7:30 am
Writer Etgar Keret wants to remain useful and sane in a post-October 7 world
Promoting his new book, author tells of his work with victims, the challenge of the ‘narcissistic’ anti-Israel far-left, and his internal barriers brought down by the massacre
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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