Abraham Jacob Terkeltaub (born 1986) is an American journalist and humorist who writes under the pen name Turx. He is currently the senior White House correspondent and chief political correspondent for the magazine Ami.[1] He is also a political contributor at Newsmax.[2]
The first Hasidic Jew to become a member of the White House press corps,[3][4] Turx received international media coverage on February 16, 2017, after posing a question regarding anti-Semitism to President Donald Trump during a press conference.[5]
Abraham Jacob Terkeltaub, born in Borough Park, Brooklyn,[6] is the eldest of eleven children.[6] As a child, he studied in Yeshiva Bnei Tzion of Bobov.[6]
At a young age, Turx and his family moved to Los Angeles, California. There he attended the cheder of a Los Angeles elementary school and the Yeshivas Rav Isacsohn. For high school, Hamesivta of Los Angeles, and Telshe Yeshiva of Chicago.[6]
Turx also studied informally at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, under New York Times columnist Professor Ari Goldman.[7] He speaks three languages: English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
Turx began his professional career as a camp counselor, and then as a head counselor, in Camp Machane Yehuda/Yeshivas Hakayitz. He also served as a rabbi/teacher in Yeshiva Rav Isacsohn.[6]