Asaf Elia-Shalev

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Asaf Elia-Shalev is a senior reporter with JTA and is based in Los Angeles. He is also the author of "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth," which was published by UC Press in 2024.

From Asaf Elia-Shalev

Global

Sally Rooney’s boycott of Israel publishers gets backing of 70 writers

Members of USY, a Jewish youth movement, visit Millennium Park in Chicago

United States

National survey on youth and religion raises concern about Gen-Z Jews — and questions about how to understand them

United States

Backlash mounts against Orthodox children’s book author accused of abusing minors, surprising many

Members of the Lev Tahor sect at the airport

Global

Their followers on the move, Lev Tahor sect leaders are convicted of child exploitation

United States

6 men and a ‘good old boys’ culture harmed students at Reform movement’s rabbinical school, report concludes

Obituaries

Aaron Feuerstein, ‘Mensch of Malden Mills’ who paid his workers even after his factory burned down, dies at 95

Global

As ‘Jewish Taliban’ sect is tossed out of Iraq, its leaders stand trial in New York

Israel

Israel approves national budget, averting new government’s collapse and repeat election

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss and local resident Lesley Williams/

United States

The case for reparations, according to two Jews living in the first American city to offer them

United States

As pandemic drove Judaism online, Chabad bet on more than $137 million in real estate

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