Category Archives: JTA

JTA’s New Media Guru Sets Me Straight

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Luke Ford

Daniel Sieradski aka Orthodox Anarchist, JTA’s director of digital media, posts to my blog: Luke, tell me, since you got rid of your porn gossip site, who actually pays you to write for them? Aren’t you, by your own admission … Continue reading →

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JTA Struggles To Survive

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Luke Ford

Steven Ira Weiss blogs: In a new twist on what’s become the near-constant pleading for donations from JTA, President Elisa Spungen Bildner insults producers of new media explicitly: Without a strong JTA, the storytelling will be left to bloggers, twitterers, … Continue reading →

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I Love JTA

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Luke Ford

JTA president Elisa Spungen Bildner, who I am sure earns many times what I do, emails me for money: It is how we hand down our culture to the generations. Next week we will gather with family and friends to … Continue reading →

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Jackie Mason Calls The President A ‘Schvartze’

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Luke Ford

"Schvartze" is a Yiddish word that means black. In its denotative meaning, there’s nothing pejorative about the word. Just like the German word, it simply means the color black. Still, many of the PC police in Jewish life say it … Continue reading →

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JTA & Duplicate Content

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Luke Ford

I got this email today from JTA.org: Hey Luke, I’m sure you remember me from my Jewschool days. Just a heads up:  JTA’s pretty adamant about making sure that people don’t reprint our content in full if they’re not paying … Continue reading →

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