Asaf Elia-Shalev is editor-in-chief of J. The Jewish News of Northern California. An award-winning journalist, he previously spent five years as an investigative reporter with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and has also reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. His work has appeared in The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth and has received multiple Simon Rockower Awards and California Journalism Awards.