Andrew Silow-Carroll
Tessa Veksler, the student body president at UC Santa Barbara who was targeted for her pro-Israel views, tells her story in “The Encampments.” (© 2025 Briarcliff Entertainment. All Rights Reserved)
April 10, 2025, 9:41 am
How ‘October 8’ and ‘The Encampments’ talk right past each other
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Donald 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 13, 2025, 9:43 am
As ICE targets a Palestinian activist, some Jews ask if this is the fight they signed up for
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Ian Frazier’s new history of the Bronx is a celebration of what cities can be, and an indictment of the political and economic actors who too often harm them. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
February 13, 2025, 9:56 am
Was the Jewish Bronx really a paradise?
A new book looks at the borough from 1930 to 1963
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
January 16, 2025, 9:42 am
What an obituary writer learned by saying goodbye to hundreds of people
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A detail from “Step and Screw Part Too Soon Underneath the Bloody Red Moon” (2018), by Trenton Doyle Hancock, shows the artist’s alter ego, Torpedoboy, left, and a figure based on Philip Guston’s images of Klansmen. (Collection of Mandy and Cliff Einstein, Los Angeles)
November 21, 2024, 9:41 am
A Black artist and a Jewish artist mock the KKK in a new Jewish Museum show
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
October 31, 2024, 9:41 am
Closing campaign arguments, Jewish partisans articulate Jewish fears gone mainstream
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Etgar Keret and his wife Shira Geffen speak about their work in Ness Ziona, Israel, on August 28, 2024. (Facebook)
September 26, 2024, 9:46 am
Why writer Etgar Keret wants to get back to Israel as soon as he can
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
One of several hundred demonstrators protesting against Israel’s retaliation in Gaza in response to October 7. (Wikimedia Commons)
September 5, 2024, 9:31 am
A literary critic on why the settler colonial framing is bad for Israel, Palestine
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
May 30, 2024, 10:56 am
Exhausted by the Israel discourse? Blame backlash fatigue. 
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Immigrants waiting for approval of their entry into the U.S. crowd a lunchroom at Ellis Island in 1923. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
April 11, 2024, 9:46 am
How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy to this day
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Comedian Richard Lewis relaxes a few years ago.(Photo by Jon Levi)
March 7, 2024, 9:56 am
Remembering comedian Richard Lewis
Dark prince of Jewish neurosis grew up in Bergen County
By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Joanne Palmer
December 28, 2023, 9:45 am
What is antisemitism, Jewish studies conference asks
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
December 14, 2023, 11:42 am
Here’s how Jewish life changed (for now) after Oct. 7
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Magda Teter teaches at Fordham; her new book explores how “white European Christians branded both Jews and people of color with ‘badges of servitude’ and inferiority.” (Chuck Fishman)
May 17, 2023, 7:43 pm
A scholar sees a common root for antisemitism and racism: ‘Christian supremacy’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jeff Sharlet’s “The Undertow” explores the religious landscape of the far right. (Jeff Goodwin)
May 11, 2023, 8:47 am
A Jewish journalist takes sides in America’s ‘slow civil war’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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