Yiddish Book Center reboots exhibit
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAOct 26, 2023
Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Book Center has wowed visitors with its architecture. A Jewish village resurrected on a college campus in Amherst, Mass., the...
History v. history: NY can evict Touro
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAAug 31, 2023
NEW YORK — A Rhode Island judge has ruled in favor of a historic New York City synagogue that is seeking to remove the leadership of the congregation that meets...
Ben Ferencz, last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, dies
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAApr 13, 2023
Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials that convicted Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity, died April 7 in...
Abraham Lincoln, a New York Cantor and the Union Army
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAFeb 16, 2023
In Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army, historian Adam D. Mendelsohn recalls the story of how Cantor Arnold Fischel persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to...
UN exhibit explores life in DP camps
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAJan 19, 2023
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the UN Dept. of Global Communications have staged a short-term exhibit, “After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and...
Jewish ‘subculture’ enhances teenage girls’ lives
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAJun 09, 2022
In her new book, G-d, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success, sociologist Ilana Horwitz examines the ways a religious upbringing...
Big funders face big changes in Jewish life
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAApr 14, 2022
In a good year, the annual conference of the Jewish Funders Network functions like a Jewish Aspen Institute: The Jewish fundraising elite, from private and family...
Touro Synagogue board faces eviction
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAFeb 10, 2022
The historic New York City synagogue that controls the equally historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI moved to terminate the lease of the congregation that worships...
New Yad Vashem chair seeks ‘firewall’ between politics and remembrance
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTADec 02, 2021
The Israeli government has approved Dani Dayan as the new chairman of the Yad Vashem directorate.
Holocaust survivor reunited with family’s heirloom Bible
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAOct 28, 2021
In June, a courier dispatched by a German museum arrived at Susi’s Upper West Side apartment with a package. Surrounded by their immediate family and rabbi, she and...
