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

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

By Philissa Cramer and Asaf Elia-Shalev November 9, 2021

Obituaries

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

By Asaf Elia-Shalev November 7, 2021

Members of the Lev Tahor sect at the airport

Global

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

By Asaf Elia-Shalev November 5, 2021

Israel

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

By Asaf Elia-Shalev November 4, 2021

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

By Asaf Elia-Shalev and Philissa Cramer October 29, 2021

United States

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

By Asaf Elia-Shalev October 27, 2021

United States

In a shift, Conservative movement publicly lists the rabbis it has expelled and suspended

By Asaf Elia-Shalev October 22, 2021

Global

Medieval Jewish prayerbook sold for $8.3 million, a near-record for Judaica

By Asaf Elia-Shalev October 20, 2021

Israel

How offshore accounts turned the British Virgin Islands into an east Jerusalem landlord

By Asaf Elia-Shalev October 19, 2021

New York

Creator of Chabad’s famous menorah sexually abused girl, lawsuit claims

By Asaf Elia-Shalev October 12, 2021

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