Asaf Elia-Shalev

@AsafShaloo

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

United States

WhatsApp’s reclusive founder has quietly become a megadonor to Jewish causes

By Asaf Elia-Shalev June 15, 2022

Politics

Financial firm Morningstar admits to errors on Israel in bid to quell boycott controversy

By Asaf Elia-Shalev June 3, 2022

Global

God Nisanov becomes latest Russian Jewish billionaire philanthropist to face US sanctions

By Asaf Elia-Shalev June 2, 2022

Culture

A Rothschild who debunks conspiracy theories for a living is writing the book about Jewish space lasers

By Asaf Elia-Shalev May 23, 2022

Global

In trying to seize Russian assets, the US is taking a page from Chabad

By Asaf Elia-Shalev May 16, 2022

Exhibit on Jonas Mekas at the Jewish Museum

Global

Historian accuses NY’s Jewish Museum of sanitizing filmmaker’s World War II record in new exhibit

By Asaf Elia-Shalev May 12, 2022

Global

Russian Jewish billionaire Yuri Milner pledges $100 million for Ukrainian refugee relief

By Asaf Elia-Shalev April 28, 2022

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

United States

Number of antisemitic incidents surged in 2021, according to latest ADL tally

By Asaf Elia-Shalev April 26, 2022

Israel

Heirs of Holocaust victim sue Israel Museum over rare medieval hagaddah

By Asaf Elia-Shalev April 15, 2022

United States

Does getting arrested at a climate protest help reduce emissions? A Jewish expert weighs in.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev April 14, 2022

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