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Asaf Shalev
Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles invested in remote learning technology during the pandemic. In the fall, students located in Arizona will begin to attend Shalhevet classes via video. (Courtesy/Tushar Dwivedi via JTA)
April 5, 2021, 3:08 am
Students in Arizona, teachers in LA: Jewish high school plans post-COVID future
Newly formed Shalhevet Scottsdale High School will merge remote instruction with in-person student gatherings in a possible new education model for smaller US Jewish communities
By Asaf Shalev
Bret Stephens at a Christians United for Israel summit in Washington on July 13, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)
March 25, 2021, 7:27 am
NYT’s Bret Stephens is editing new Jewish journal
Columnist says the first issue of Saphir, an initiative of the Maimonides Fund, will deal with Jews and social justice
By Asaf Shalev
Clockwise from top left: Rebecca Kuss, Melody Muhlrad, Yoshi Silverstein, Hanah Bloom (Kuss: Emily Berge-Thielmann; Muhlrad: Courtesy of Muhlrad; Silverstein: Courtesy of Silverstein; Bloom: Courtesy of Bloom/ all via JTA)
March 25, 2021, 3:31 am
Asian-American Jews react to Atlanta spa murders, rising anti-Asian hate crimes
Though predating the pandemic, bigotry has escalated in the last year. Here’s what leaders and active members of the Asian-American Jewish community have to say, in their own words
By Asaf Shalev and Andrew Lapin
Chris Silver, a professor of Jewish History at McGill University, collects records from around the world for the first archive of North African Jewish music, currently housed in his apartment in Montreal. (Courtesy of Chris Silver/via JTA)
March 23, 2021, 3:32 am
Historian turns obsessive 78s collector to preserve North African Jewish music
In the first archive of its kind, Prof. Chris Silver possesses about 500 albums recorded by Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian Jewish vocalists and instrumentalists
By Asaf Shalev
Jewlia Eisenberg (Courtesy of Charming Hostess via JTA)
March 16, 2021, 1:43 am
Musical intellectual and Jewish radical Jewlia Eisenberg dies at 50
Charming Hostess band leader was fixture of avant-garde, experimental music scenes in San Francisco and New York since 1990s
By Asaf Shalev
Zooming in to reciting Kaddish, the mourners' prayer, at home. (Photo montage, Gil Be'eri)
March 9, 2021, 4:53 am
US Jews in mourning are finding unexpected comfort in virtual minyans
As the pandemic ravaged the United States, some feared they were doomed to mourn in social isolation, but online gatherings allow them to commemorate loved ones and be consoled
By Asaf Shalev
Fritz Berggren appears in a holiday video shared by the US Department of Defense in 2018. (Department of Defense via JTA)
February 27, 2021, 4:54 pm
‘Jewish ideas poison people,’ State Department official writes in blog
Fritz Berggren has been working as a mid-level civil servant since 2009; the personal site under his own name spreads white nationalist and anti-Semitic content
By Asaf Shalev
CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) David M. Schizer at the Spivack gymnasium in Ramat Gan, playing basketball as part of the Israel Unlimited partnership with the Ruderman Family Foundation and Israeli government to empower Israelis with disabilities, February 2018. (JDC)
February 26, 2021, 5:50 am
The Jewish world’s biggest donor to disability inclusion is pulling its funding
Some worry as the Ruderman Foundation begins to redirect funds after 18 years of successful activism — though experts say more diverse sources could be beneficial in the long run
By Asaf Shalev
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