Andrew Silow-Carroll

I spoke to Holzman and Schmelkin Thursday on Zoom, days before the 2024 election, in the hope that they could provide some encouragement, Jewish wisdom and practical advice.

“Terrified” or gratified, groups told us how they are pivoting for a new era on climate change, reproductive rights, antisemitism, campus protests, religious freedom and social welfare.

“Terrified” or gratified, groups told us how they are pivoting for a new era on climate change, reproductive rights, antisemitism, campus protests, religious freedom and social welfare

The director of the American Jewish Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights sought to balance the universal and the particular.

Other recent notable Jewish deaths included a beloved garden columnist and a Jewish scholar at a Jesuit university.

A communications professional, she organized public events for the paper from 2007-2012.

Works by Philip Guston and Trenton Doyle Hancock suggest the possibilities — and limitations — of satirical art.

Other recent deaths in the Jewish world include a leading 20th-century painter, a noted jazz impresario and one of the country’s most vocal atheists.

Arthur Frommer on a trip to Berlin in the 1950s. (Courtesy Frommers.com) By Andrew Silow-Carroll November 20, 2024

He wrote his first travel book as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Berlin.