Category Archives: Jewish Journalism

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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