Leon Wieseltier on Jewish journalism: ‘Investigate and analyze Jewish identity’
Danielle Berrin
January 26, 2017
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Melvin Durslag, journalist, dies at 95
Jewish Journal
August 2, 2016
Melvin Durslag, one of the last surviving major metropolitan newspaper columnists who personified and shaped the golden age of Jewish sportswriters in post-World War II America, died in Santa Monica on July 17. He was 95.
What’s a dollar a month worth?
David Suissa
November 24, 2015
People love the Jewish Journal. They love picking it up, at a shul or deli or cafe or market, and flipping through the stories of the Jewish world.
Sitting shivah for Grantland
David Suissa
November 3, 2015
Human beings get attached to all kinds of things. We have our favorite cafes, our favorite parks, our favorite shows, our favorite people.
Jewish student press group convenes in L.A.
Jared Sichel
October 30, 2013
More than two dozen Jewish high school student journalists from Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco gathered on Oct. 24 for a four-day convention and Shabbaton that aimed to build students’ practical journalism skills while addressing the intersection of news reporting and Jewish ethics.
‘For 2,000 years, the Temple Mount was off-limits to Jews’
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2013
The next morning, the three battalions of Brigade 55 assembled on the Temple Mount, for a victory lineup. Only a week earlier they had been boarding buses ascending in a slow convoy to Jerusalem.
Yossi Klein Halevi’s dream
David Suissa
September 24, 2013
Too many books about Israel try to tell us what to think or feel. Whether from the left or right, it seems that the subject of Israel brings out the emotional partisan in many of us. We feel strongly one way or the other, so we like to read books or articles that support our opinions.
Yehuda Lev, Jewish journalist and columnist, 86
Tom Tugend
August 5, 2013
Yehuda Lev, an iconoclastic journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence, who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, died on Aug. 3 in Providence, R.I., after a prolonged illness. He was 86.
Jewish Journal receives top honors at 55th Annual SoCal Journalism Awards
Jewish Journal
June 24, 2013
The Jewish Journal collected top honors in three categories at the 55th Annual SoCal Journalism Awards.
Criticism is not Islamophobia
David Suissa
April 22, 2013
Criticism is the oxygen of journalism. Here at the Jewish Journal, we will criticize anything that we believe deserves criticism, including religion.
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