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Andrew
Silow-Carroll

One people, separate worlds

I gave a talk to a Jewish women’s group recently, on the subject of Jews and the presidential vote. In the question-and-answer period, one woman asked, “What am I supposed to say when my [presumably non-Jewish] neighbors ask me about the ultra-Orthodox on welfare in Lakewood?” A few days later, I spoke at a Reform synagogue on the same topic. Another q-and-a, similar questions: “Do you think we’re headed to a civil war with the ultra-Orthodox?” asked one man. “What do you think about the arrest of the rabbis in the New Jersey corruption scandal?” asked another. Probably at no other time in Jewish history have non-Orthodox Jews and the haredim — fervently Orthodox — had less to do with one another. Read More

JustASC Blog

A multilog with NJJN Editor-in-Chief
Andrew Silow-Carroll. Read More

Remember the Munich 11

There had been terrorist attacks on Israelis before the 1972 Munich Olympics, but none with so large an audience or as devastating an emotional impact. Read More

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