Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA, Author at JMORE

Valerie Harper’s Rhoda Broke Down Barriers for Jews in American Culture

by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA | Sep 3, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Opinion

Theater folks in England are debating a recent revival of the musical “Falsettos,” asking whether non-Jews should play its Jewish characters. In an open letter, critics of the casting complain that non-Jewish actors can at best portray only a “secondary...

Why did Kellyanne Conway Ask Jewish Journalist Andrew Feinberg about his Ethnicity?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA | Jul 17, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion

What was Kellyanne Conway trying to say when asking a Jewish reporter, “What’s your ethnicity?” During a press gaggle on July 16 at the White House, Breakfast Media correspondent Andrew Feinberg asked the White House counselor a question about President Donald Trump’s...

Trump Officials Express Concern about the ‘New Anti-Semitism’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA | Jul 16, 2019 | International, Israel, National, National Politics, News

U.S. Attorney General William Barr called anti-Semitism a “cancer” at a Department of Justice summit on the topic held on Monday, July 15. The Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism, held at the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., featured panel discussions and an...

Moe Berg’s Life as Ballplayer and Spy, This Time as a Documentary

by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA | Jun 3, 2019 | Arts & Life, Film & TV

(JTA) — Moe Berg’s 15-year career as a major league shortstop, catcher and coach in the 1920s and ’30s wasn’t much to speak of, but his story keeps being told in about as many ways as there are to tell it. A Columbia Law School graduate who played for the Chicago...

An Idiot’s Guide to Anti-Semitic Tropes

by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA | Feb 20, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Balagan

(JTA) — Dear JTA, I am an elected official in a large democracy in the Western hemisphere. A lot of my colleagues have gotten into trouble recently for using anti-Semitic “tropes.” I know what anti-Semitism is, but am less sure how that differs from a “trope.” Any...