SoCal Jewish News announced itself last month with a GoFundMe campaign and a July 19 target launch date. They have begun publishing stories via email newsletters and social media.
Elliot Resnick was identified in a video of the Capitol breach by an anonymous researcher and first reported by Politico.
That model, its publisher and newly formed foundation hope, will allow the paper to stave off the financial pressures that have caused many papers to shutter or switch to digital only in recent years
A consortium from the Jewish community and beyond has reached an agreement with the paper’s former owners, the Kessler Foundation, to take over The Chronicle.
According to its statement, the weekly newspaper ‘will not be able to survive the impact of the current coronavirus epidemic in its current form’. In truth, its problems predate the pandemic.
The veteran journalist will succeed Gary Rosenblatt, who stepped down last month after 26 years as editor and publisher of the Jewish Week.
Matt Nesvisky fawns over Amos Oz’s ‘Judas,’ frowns at Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ and is left with mixed feelings by an anthology of fiction from the Forward.
I’m privileged to have known him. His voice and his heart are already sorely missed.