Jake Turx - From Borough Park to the White House

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🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Avraham Yaakov Terkeltaub is an American journalist and humorist who writes under the pen name Turx. Born in Borough Park, Terkeltaub is the eldest of eleven children. As a child, he attended Yeshiva Bnei Tzion of Bobov. Terkeltaub and his family eventually moved to Los Angeles, California where learned in Hamesivta of Los Angeles before joining the Telshe Yeshiva of Chicago. Terkeltaub began his professional career as a head counselor in Camp Yeshivas Hakayitz. Terkeltaub was a teacher in the Lakewood Cheder from 2008 to 2017. He is currently the senior White House correspondent and chief political correspondent for Ami Magazine. He is also a political contributor at Newsmax. He is the first-ever Chassidic Jew to become a member of the White House press corps. Turx received international media coverage in February 2017, after posing a question regarding anti-Semitism to President Donald Trump. He has been featured on BBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, & NPR.

Turx resides in Washington, DC during the week; his family lives in Lakewood, NJ. He is currently the Director of Camp Chevra, and is the CEO of TurxWurx Studio, a company producing, directing, and editing movie shorts and music videos. He is also the author of the book ‘Stop Drop & LOL’.

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0:00.0	We are here joined by just Turks.
0:04.0	I hear you introduce yourself as Turks to people.
0:06.4	Are you going by Jake?
0:07.4	Just Turks?
0:08.2	I don't look like a Jake.
0:09.1	I actually introduce myself as Avrami Ago Terkotab.
0:10.9	I almost never just met Jake.
0:11.9	Avrami Ago?
0:12.9	Yeah?
0:13.9	Avrami Ago Terkotab, my full name is.
0:14.9	Terkotab.
0:15.9	It's not a secret.
0:16.9	It sounds like the most made-up name ever.
0:17.9	Terkotab, I hear it.
0:18.9	Terkotab?
0:19.9	Who would have thought that the Turks was the made-up part?
0:22.0	Yeah.
0:23.0	Interesting.
0:24.0	Terkotab.
0:25.0	Wow.
0:26.0	A lot of tabs originally their name was Terkotab.
0:27.0	I like that.
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