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Jewish News
TorahMusings.com reports: ▪ Secular Judaism and its discontents ▪ NY Times’ appalling article about the breakdown of two marriages ▪ New ethical kosher mark to be tested in January ▪ Who should replace Jonathan Sacks as chief rabbi? ▪ Eating … Continue reading
Posted in Jews
Tagged brady bunch, chief rabbi, jewish news, jonathan sacks, kindergarten classroom, mortgage foreclosure, neighborhood gossip, orthodox jews, painful path, state attorney generals
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Web Traffic Down 25% Across The Jewish Blogosphere
As I look at the Jewish blogs section of blogads.com and talk to my fellow Jewish bloggers, I see that traffic is down across the board about 25% the past six months. I’m not sure why. Traffic traditionally goes down … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Tagged bloggers, blogosphere, good weather, jewish news, six months, vosizneias, web traffic
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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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I Want To Get All My News From Rebecca Honig Friedman
What a babe! This is her first on-camera appearance: It’s Steven I. Weiss‘s first on-camera appearance too and his first edition of Jewish news since he abandoned blogging on canonist.com.
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Inside The Jewish News Media
Here’s the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s 990 filing for 2007. 2006. 2005. JTA website. I was surprised that JTA’s revenues are half those of the Jewish Journal. JTA gets half of its income from charity while the Journal gets zero. Mark … Continue reading
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Tagged jewish news, jewish telegraphic agency, news media
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Bring Out The Tam Tams
Oy, those crazy Jews! The New York Times reports: What will you do in the great Tam Tam shortage of 2008? It’s true, the unleavened, bite-sized matzo cracker has nearly disappeared from shelves across the country, leaving Jews anguished as … Continue reading
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Tagged anguish, company officials, cracker, domestic beer, hellip, jewish news, mdash, metropolitan chicago, mr rossi, New York Times, news site, Passover, passover season, schechter day school, season approaches, shelves, solomon schechter day school, sundown, tam tam, york times reports
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