{"id":3376,"date":"2008-07-01T07:27:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2008-07-01T07:27:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T15:27:51","slug":"american-jewish-life-magazine-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"American Jewish Life Magazine Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea there was an American Jewish Life magazine but I am glad whenever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/benyamin_cohen.htm\">Benyamin Cohen<\/a> falls on his face.<\/p>\n<p>I could pretend to be all objective and just report the news but Cohen was my worst experience while compiling my American Jewish Journalism book.<\/p>\n<p>When I wouldn&#8217;t change his transcript from &quot;sucks&quot; to &quot;stinks,&quot; he went on an online jihad against me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/post\/american_jewish_life_bites_dust\">Matthue Roth writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;American Jewish Life<\/em> closed its doors for the last time this past week. Asked for a reason, editor (and, ultimately, the sole full-time employee) Benyamin Cohen told the <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/13647\/\">Forward<\/a><\/em> that &quot;[u]nfortunately, this is just not the right economy for a print publication,&quot; and that, effectively, print media is dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;With all due respect to the recently departed, it seems like there&#8217;s still a space in this world for some Jewish magazines &#8212; the <em>O<\/em>-inspired <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jwmag.org\/\">Jewish Woman<\/a><\/em> magazine is doing a fair job on that corner of the market, and <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/heebmagazine.com\/\">Heeb<\/a><\/em> and <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/www.guiltandpleasure.com\">Guilt and Pleasure<\/a><\/em> aren&#8217;t showing any signs of going anywhere. Meanwhile, former editor Benyamin Cohen isn&#8217;t moping around at the gravesite; he&#8217;s already at work <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benyamincohen.com\/\">hyping<\/a> his next project, the memoir <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061245178?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=matthuecom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061245178%22\">My Jesus Year<\/a><\/em>, will be released in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea there was an American Jewish Life magazine but I am glad whenever Benyamin Cohen falls on his face. I could pretend to be all objective and just report the news but Cohen was my worst experience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10075],"tags":[7795,31616,10077,29890,10078,10076],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benyamin-cohen","tag-american-jewish-life","tag-benyamin-cohen","tag-guilt-and-pleasure","tag-jewish-journalism","tag-jewish-magazines","tag-jewish-woman-magazine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}