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...
The plan: To map every former shul in Manhattan
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAAug 12, 2021
NEW YORK — Writer Luc Sante calls them the “ghosts of Manhattan.” Those are the souls of the poor and marginal people, now dead, whose presence can be felt like...
‘The Ratline’ helped Nazi murderers escape Germany
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAApr 01, 2021
NEW YORK — I first met Philippe Sands when he was promoting his 2015 documentary, “My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did.” It told the story of Niklas Frank and...
Jewish librarian spied on NYC Nazis in the 1930s
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAFeb 18, 2021
NEW YORK — There is zero evidence that Florence Mendheim was the inspiration for Batgirl. But the real-life Jewish woman from the Bronx and the fictional daughter of...
YIVO holds exhibit on Yiddish anarchism
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAJan 24, 2019
NEW YORK — To the degree that you know anything about Yiddish anarchism, it probably boils down to one name: Emma Goldman. Even then you are probably more familiar...
