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"Luke Ford reports all of the 'juicy' quotes, and has been doing it for years." (Marc B. Shapiro)
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)"This generation's Hillel." (Nathan Cofnas)
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Category Archives: Jewish Journalism
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller Profiled In The September Issue Of Los Angeles Magazine
I love how Jesse Katz focuses on how the case became a "Jewish American Rorschach test, its interpretation shaped by ideology, by identity, by religious and partisan agendas." I could never become upset about the case. The rabbi felt verbally … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Jews, Los Angeles, R. Chaim Seidler-Feller
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Cushy Confab’s Contrasting Coverage
The Forward reports Aug. 3: A strange thing happened in Utah this week: Some 40 leading Jewish academics, writers, rabbis and professionals descended on the mountains of Park City, where, among other things, they built teepees. Although the media wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Forward, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism
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Serial Blogger
From JewishJournal.com: I read with great interest your story on serial blogger Luke Ford ("Interview With a Serial Blogger," Aug. 3). His postings seem to be the electronic equivalent of publications like National Inquirer; its articles and Ford’s stories should … Continue reading
Posted in Chaim Amalek, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Personal
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Phil Jacobs Phony Blog
Phil Jacobs, editor in chief of the Baltimore Jewish Times, blogs: There are no “henchmen” out there getting in my way to investigate individuals or institutions. I am not under anybody’s “thumb” to prevent the writing of stories on certain … Continue reading
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How The Japanese Media Is Like The Parochial Jewish Media
Ian Hargreaves writes in his 2003 book Journalism: Truth or Dare: …But the workings of Japanese news media are barely recognizable to journalists from the United States or Britain… Japanese journalists, for example, are bound together in a network of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Japan, Jewish Journalism, Journalism
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