Asaf Shalev

@AsafShaloo

Asaf Shalev is a California-based staff reporter for JTA. He joined in early 2021 after previous stints in local news and environmental journalism. He has reported from Alaska, Jerusalem and New York and loves data and FOIA.

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

By Asaf Shalev November 22, 2021 2:17 pm

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

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

By Asaf Shalev and Ella Rockart November 19, 2021 11:00 am

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

By Asaf Shalev November 19, 2021 10:03 am

Members of the Lev Tahor sect at the airport

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

By Asaf Shalev November 10, 2021 10:32 pm

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

By Philissa Cramer and Asaf Shalev November 9, 2021 3:14 pm

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

By Asaf Shalev November 7, 2021 1:00 am

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

By Asaf Shalev November 5, 2021 12:29 pm

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

By Asaf Shalev November 4, 2021 9:56 pm

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss and local resident Lesley Williams/

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

By Asaf Shalev and Philissa Cramer October 29, 2021 12:50 pm

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

By Asaf Shalev October 27, 2021 2:32 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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