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Tag Archives: jewish newspapers
The Holocaust Claims Conference
Professor Yitzhak Kerem emails: If you are still interested in publishing about the rampant cancer in the Jewish leadership of the world you can post my following reaction to Mariln Henry and the Cliams Conferene to whitewash the annual stealing … Continue reading
Posted in Yitzchak Kerem
Tagged holocaust survivors, jerusalem post, jewish leadership, jewish newspapers, marilyn henry, ny jews
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Jewish Press Limps Along
From The Jerusalem Post: Mark Joffe, executive editor and publisher for the Jewish Telegraph Agency, painted a bleaker picture. His organization services more than 90 client Jewish newspapers, and some have either folded, switched from a weekly to a monthly … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism
Tagged american jewish press, american jewish press association, financial constraints, jerusalem post, jewish newspapers, jewish telegraph
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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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Hebrew Union College Keeps Open Its LA Campus
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Cincinnati and Los Angeles campuses of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will stay open, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Discussions had been under way to close the two campuses of the Reform movement’s … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism
Tagged american automakers, american jewish life, cincinnati enquirer, hebrew union college, jerusalem post, jewish newspapers
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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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How Are Jewish Newspapers Holding Up?
Newspapers are in a terrible bind around the world as readers migrate to the web to get their news and there is as yet no way for most publishers to earn a profit online. As I ask around at Jewish … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Rob Eshman
Tagged Jewish Federation, Jewish Journal, jewish newspapers, jewish weeklies, la times, niche audience, nothing like heaven, weeklies
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