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Andrew Silow-Carroll

May 19, 2018, 12:58 AM

Guide to Shavuot, now with half the facts

Cheesecake sweetens the Shavuot holiday and is great for entertaining or just for having around the house. (Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

When nobody knows what you're talking about, you have a great opportunity to fill in the details creatively

Apr 19, 2018, 2:08 AM

70, I mean 13, women who don't roar

Illustrative. A woman avoiding the housework. (iStock)

The first annual list to defy all lists by honoring the slackers among us

Apr 9, 2018, 11:00 AM

The Onion hires Hamas writer

Famous satire and humor magazine, "The Onion" recently decided to staff Hamas activist Mahmud Abu Tawfiq to write what they deemed a funny take on Birthright. The Onion’s Editor In Chief Heinrich Vodenplatz thought it would be a good...

Apr 3, 2018, 4:12 PM

A two-state solution for the United States

Illustrative: Red and blue states, US presidential elections 2012. (via iStock)

Divide the country to bring peace to the US: blue on the coasts and red in the middle (Chicago's got to go)

Feb 28, 2018, 3:54 PM

Netanyahu, police chief do Purim during interrogation

Illustrative: Israeli Chief of Police Roni Alsheich seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony held in Alsheich's honor in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

PM to host Roni Alsheich for festive meal, as investigators question premiere over corruption allegations (satire)

Feb 21, 2018, 6:46 PM

Real heroes are carers, not cape wearers

Night Of Heroes, a celebration of the community’s outstanding achievers held by Jewish News on Monday night, was inspired by a remarkable man my team and I simply call ‘Our hero’. On Wednesday, 1 July 2015, we were set to...

Joshua Hammerman

Jan 27, 2018, 1:19 AM

Why God and Ben Franklin pick the Patriots

I have a foolproof way to pick the Super Bowl winner using Jewish sources and I'm almost never wrong

Jan 23, 2018, 1:05 PM

Baby, it's cold inside

The beach in Tel Aviv on a stormy winter day in Tel Aviv, January 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Winter in Tel Aviv means... bringing a sweater when you go to the beach

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jan 15, 2018, 3:43 PM

The trials of a Florida self-driving car

Illustrative: A Google self-driving connected car. (Courtesy)

Giving rides to retirees one pharmacy stop at a time (Humor)

Jan 3, 2018, 10:23 PM

On not having a driver's license in Israel

Illustrative. Traffic on I-75 through Sarasota, Florida, on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. (Mike Lang /Sarasota Herald-Tribune via AP)

For starters, don't tell me about your cousin who failed the test 12 times

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