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Category Archives: Alana Newhouse
Alana Newhouse: Editor, Founder, Entrepreneur
Alana Newhouse was born on February 26, 1976, in Lawrence, New York, in the Five Towns area of Long Island, and spent portions of her childhood in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Her father was Ashkenazi and her mother Sephardic. She attended … Continue reading
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Zionism For Everyone
Alana Newhouse says Zionism is for everyone. That’s a stretch. The first problem with her essay is conceptual inflation. Once you say Milei is doing Zionism for Argentines, Modi for Indians, Lee Kuan Yew for Singaporeans, the word stops doing … Continue reading
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Decoding Alana Newhouse
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory explains Alana Newhouse’s career as an attempt to build a new elite alliance rather than manage an old one. Founding logic. Tablet was not created to stabilize the legacy American Jewish coalition. It was created to … Continue reading
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Wayne Hoffman and Alana Newhouse have left the Forward
They now work at Nextbook.org. Alana was passed over for the position of Editor of the Forward.
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Video Of Alana Newhouse
This is the first time I’ve seen her move. It’s not an unpleasant sight. When she cocks her head and smiles, I bet you anything she’s thinking about me and my unique brand of Jewish journalism. I admit it did … Continue reading
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Why Didn’t The Forward Choose Alana Newhouse?
Here’s my Alana Newhouse section. Mark Oppenheimer writes: …Alana has managed the newspaper’s transition to a new, award-winning website, and she is good on TV and radio (listen to her great insights about Portnoy’s Complaint)–she understands how to work in … Continue reading
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Tagged alana, allusion, buzz, credentials, editors, good on tv, heck, insights, j j goldberg, leon wieseltier, management skills, mark oppenheimer, New Republic, newhouse, news writers, panache, strikes, subscription renewals, thirties, writing on the wall
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The Girls Next Door
Daphne Merkin writes in Elle: It was in aid of understanding my own puzzling interest and the equally puzzling interest of women such as my 31-year-old friend Alana Newhouse, who is an editor at a venerable century-old Jewish weekly by … Continue reading
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My Favorite Alana Newhouse Photos
Picture Picture Picture Picture with Daniel Treiman and Nathaniel Popper. That’s what I hope to look like after my surgery (thanks Azamat). Alana’s the Arts and Culture Editor of the Forward and the Editor of this new hardcover — A … Continue reading
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