Andrew Silow-Carroll
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Pope Francis meets with Hispanic Jewish leaders from Argentina, Spain and the United States at the Vatican on Aug. 22 2019. (Courtesy of Hispanic Jewish Foundation)
April 21, 2025, 7:15 am
Pope Francis, who advanced church’s relationships with Jews, dies at 88
“Dialogue and friendship with the children of Israel are part of the life of Jesus’ disciples,” Francis wrote in 2018.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Dara Horn's latest book is a graphic novel featuring a time-traveling talking goat. (Norton Young Readers)
April 3, 2025, 10:43 am
Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews
Horn has launched a nonprofit, Mosaic Persuasion, to advance her vision.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
President Trump posted a message on Truth Social that put social media and college campuses, including Columbia University, on high alert, March 4, 2025. (Truth Social)
March 12, 2025, 3:26 pm
As ICE targets Palestinian activist, some Jews ask if this is the fight they signed up for
Leaders who denounced campus antisemitism caution about the use of the issue as justification for President Trump’s broader agenda.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Straight-arm gestures were recently flashed by, counter-clockwise from lower right, White House special adviser Elon Musk, far-right podcaster Steve Bannon, Michigan Anglican priest Calvin Robinson, and the CEO of an Idaho-based construction company. (Images via YouTube)
March 2, 2025, 4:09 pm
Watchdogs see a mainstreaming of far-right extremism
From Nazi salutes to anti-immigrant conspiracies, ideas once on the fringes are at the beating heart of the political discourse.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
In "10/7," journalist Lee Yaron profiles victims of the Oct. 7 massacre from a wide range of communities. (Uri Bareket; St. Martin's Press)
January 22, 2025, 12:21 pm
Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year
’10/7: 100 Human Stories’ was among a number of books on Israel honored by the 74th National Jewish Book Awards.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Peter Yarrow performs at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas at a three-day Vietnam War Summit, April 28, 2016. (LBJ Presidential Library/Wikipedia)
January 8, 2025, 3:56 pm
Peter Yarrow, Jewish musician and activist of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, dies at 86
A champion of Middle East peace whose career was tarnished by a morals charge involving a minor.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
(Richard Drury/Getty Images)
January 1, 2025, 3:37 pm
The world after Oct. 7, and before Trump 2.0: The essential Jewish conversations of 2024
In a tumultuous year, JTA essayists struggled with the trauma of the Israel-Hamas war and the impact of a polarizing election.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Graffiti is pictured on a wall as pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the Millar Library on the campus of Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon on April 30, 2024. (John Rudoff / AFP via Getty Images)
December 15, 2024, 7:54 pm
Amid war and an election, the Jewish mainstream bends to the right
Jews feeling threatened by campus protests and the rise of antisemitism look to Jewish organizations and a new administration to crack down.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The pro-Palestinian encampment on the lawn in front of Columbia University's Butler Library, April 24, 2024. (ProudFarmerScholar, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
December 8, 2024, 7:54 pm
What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests
Nick Lemann, dean emeritus of the university’s journalism school, sees a disconnect among parents, students, faculty, donors and the administration.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Arthur Frommer on a trip to Berlin in the 1950s. (Courtesy Frommers.com)
November 20, 2024, 2:11 pm
Arthur Frommer, ‘wandering Jew’ who launched a travel guide empire, dies at 95
He wrote his first travel book as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Berlin.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The artist Mark Podwal in his studio in 2007; at right, his illustration "Munich Massacre," drawn in memory of Israeli athletes killed by Black September terrorists during Summer Olympics in Munich, was published in the New York Times in 1972. (Wikipedia)
September 17, 2024, 12:52 pm
Artist and physician Mark Podwal, whose work adorned museums and synagogues, dies at 79
Podwal devised a Jewish visual vocabulary that made him one of the best known Jewish artists of his era.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
President George W. Bush, second from left, looks on with, from left, Benjamin Meed, Rabbi Irving Greenberg and Elie Wiesel, behind candle, during a memorial candle lighting service at the National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance, April 19, 2001 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Pool Photo/Newsmakers via Getty Images)
August 11, 2024, 8:21 am
At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for 
“The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism" is a “culmination of a lifetime of theological reflection.”
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist, was featured in the 2019 documentary "Ask Dr. Ruth." (Austin Hargrave)
July 13, 2024, 9:34 pm
Ruth Westheimer, Holocaust survivor who offered grandmotherly sex advice, dies at 96
She was a firm believer in sex as healthy dialogue among consenting partners, in which each indulged and appreciated the other's needs and quirks.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Curt Schleier
Kinky Friedman styled himself after popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. (JTA files)
June 27, 2024, 4:09 pm
Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79
In 2006 he ran for governor of Texas, looking to unseat incumbent Republican Rick Perry in a bid that went from joking to serious.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
hora - jewish wedding dance. (Photo by JuNoah, courtesy of Flickr.com)
June 6, 2024, 10:05 am
Dreading wedding season?
Shut up and dance with me.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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