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New Jewish news site launches in LA amid hard times for Jewish journalists

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.

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
15/06/2021
Elliot Resnick, the chief editor of the Jewish Press, was among the Capitol rioters on Jan. 6.

Editor of Jewish Press revealed as one of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters

Elliot Resnick was identified in a video of the Capitol breach by an anonymous researcher and first reported by Politico.

By SHIRA HANAU/JTA
08/04/2021
A newsstand in Manhattan outfitted with ‘Fake News’ headlines was a stunt by ‘Columbia Journalism'

While Jewish newspapers struggle, Detroit's decides to go nonprofit

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

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
19/09/2020
Pittsburgh

London’s Jewish Chronicle saved from extinction

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.

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
25/04/2020
A man buys a Sunday newspaper at a news stand in London July 17, 2011.

Will someone please save the Jewish Chronicle? - opinion

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.

By DAVID ISAACSON
11/04/2020
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JTA editor in chief Silow-Carroll named editor of the NY Jewish Week

The veteran journalist will succeed Gary Rosenblatt, who stepped down last month after 26 years as editor and publisher of the Jewish Week.

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
01/08/2019
Israeli author Amos Oz

Books: Of lovely writing, paper bags and congenial homes

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.

By MATT NESVISKY
01/01/2017
Leibel Fein and Nadine Epstein.

Remembering Leibel Fein

I’m privileged to have known him. His voice and his heart are already sorely missed.

By MICHAEL FELSEN
25/08/2014
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