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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
April 20, 2023, 9:45 am
Should a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? 
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
March 23, 2023, 1:46 pm
Which side are you on — Jewish American or American Jew?
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
December 22, 2022, 9:45 am
Why your synagogue, and mine, needs a pickleball court
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Itamar Ben-Gvir, leader of Israel’s Otzma Yehudit party, and Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, are at a rally with supporters in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Oct. 26. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images)
December 15, 2022, 9:47 am
An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Clint Smith is the author of December’s cover story in the Atlantic, “Monuments to the Unthinkable,” exploring how Germany — and by extension, the United States — accounts for the crimes of its past. (Courtesy the Atlantic)
December 7, 2022, 5:47 pm
A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A scene from “The Conspiracy,” a film by Maxim Pozdorovkin. (Third Party Films/DOC NYC)
November 23, 2022, 9:45 am
The exhausting, never-ending job of debunking antisemitic conspiracy theories
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
November 9, 2022, 6:44 pm
The Kyrie case isn’t about ‘Blacks vs. Jews.’ It’s about bigotry.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Brandon Uranowitz, left, as Nathan, and Arty Froushan as Leo, who is a stand-in for Stoppard. (Joan Marcus)
October 19, 2022, 5:47 pm
The missed opportunities of Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
An antisemitic cartoon from Judge Magazine, ca. 1892, shows Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Russia and establishing businesses in New York, while America’s “first families” flee west. Oddly, the cartoon also seems to credit the Jews for their “perseverance and industry.” (Cornell University/PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography)
October 12, 2022, 5:46 pm
How the Gilded Age created American Jewry
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
September 22, 2022, 9:46 am
Queen Elizabeth mattered. Civil religion explains why.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
September 15, 2022, 8:56 am
A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
August 31, 2022, 4:37 pm
‘Quiet quitting,’ the sudden trend in work, sounds sort of … Jewish? (Hear me out.)
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
July 13, 2022, 5:37 pm
How the Lanner case still haunts American Jewry
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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