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Category Archives: Jewish Journalism
Bizarre Profile Of FrumSatire
On Tabletmag.com, Hadara Graubert writes the strangest thing I’ve read online all week. Here’s an excerpt: "As someone who straddles the line between the Orthodox and secular worlds, Fried catches flak from all sides. The website Jewschool.com refuses to publish … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journalism, The Jewish Press
Tagged frumsatire, kosher restaurants, ordination of women, orthodox judaism, reckless disregard, secular worlds, shabbat service
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How Did A Pot-Smoking Anarchist Become The Guardian Of The Conventional Morality?
JTA’s head of digital media, Daniel Sierardski, writes: One phenomenon that appears to be accelerating the decline of at least some Jewish news organizations is the rise of a group of Jewish news aggregation Web sites, predominantly serving the ultra-Orthodox … Continue reading
Posted in Daniel Sieradski, Jewish Journalism, Journalism, JTA
Tagged jewish news, jewish newspapers, least effort, newspapers around the world, search traffic, unauthorized web
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Will Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Do Anything For Publicity?
The Jewish Journal takes a snide shot at Rabbi Boteach in its Calendar section selection for April 28: "…an Orthodox rabbi whose self-proclaimed Eleventh Commandment is ‘Thou Shalt do anything for publicity and recognition’…" Here’s the 1996 article that pioneered … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Shmuley Boteach
Tagged love quot, national fatherhood initiative, orthodox rabbi, patti stanger, rabbi boteach, relationship book, roland warren, section selection, Yoav Botach
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Newsweek Says, Dance, Jews, Dance!
Steven I. Weiss writes: The very idea of a "most influential rabbis" list is of questionable value in the first place. But Newsweek does seemingly everything in its power to make sure we all get the joke. For starters, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journalism, Jews, Steven I. Weiss
Tagged baseball statistics, jews dance, lisa miller, machers, meaningful analysis, religion editor
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JTA Struggles To Survive
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
Posted in Blogging, Jewish Journalism, Journalism, JTA, Steven I. Weiss
Tagged bildner, Jewish Journal, jewish media, jewish newspapers, media producers, philadelphia jewish exponent
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I Love JTA
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
Posted in Jewish Journalism, Journalism, JTA
Tagged bildner, economic downturn, hellip, madoff, netanyahu, obama
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NYT Columnist Roger Cohen Does Sinai Temple
Rob Eshman writes: “New York Times columnist Roger Cohen visited my synagogue Thursday,“ writes Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple on Huffington Post today. “ All day long the sparks flew and the cultures clashed.“ In a typically lucid and … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Islam, Israel, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Jews, Journalism
Tagged jimmy delshad, mayor of beverly hills, new york times columnist, persian jews, rabbi david wolpe, york times columnist
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Why Are So Many Gays And Jewish Women Telling Us How Proud And Confident They Feel In Their Sexuality?
I’ve never heard a heterosexual man say how proud and confident he is in his sexuality. I’ve never heard a white man say how proud he is to be white. These public pronouncements are extreme over-compensation for the shame much … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Sex
Tagged arfa, cheap booze, heterosexual man, hidden face, observant jews, public pronouncements
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Thrashing Out Your Fantasies With Doreen Seidler-Feller
Here are my favorite sections of the Jewish Journal report on LimmudLA: …for three days and nights of Jews doing Jewish right. …But more than what you learn, LimmudLA is about with whom you learn: It offers a chance for … Continue reading
Posted in Danielle Berrin, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Limmud
Tagged intimate questions, jewish meditation, king solomon, observant jews, open dialogue, sexual repression
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