Guilt & Pleasure — \”A magazine for Jews and the people who love them\” — hit newsstands across North America last month, offering readers content ranging from long-form essays and memoirs to fiction, comics, photography and archival material.
For years, young Jews have voted with their feet after their bar or bat mitzvahs, with about half of those in non-Orthodox synagogues\’ religious schools leaving before the 12th-grade confirmation.
He\’s not your typical yenta, he\’s not JDate and he\’s certainly not your grandmother\’s cousin once removed, but Asher Aramnia loves making love connections for local Jewish singles.\n\nWith countless successful matches to his credit, Aramnia\’s matchmaking activities through the Iranian Jewish Chronicle (Chashm Andaaz) magazine, which is operated by the Eretz-SIAMAK Cultural Center in Tarzana, has become something of a unique surprise in the local Jewish community, where women traditionally help Jewish singles find their soulmates.
The current March/April issue of Adbusters magazine features a lead-in piece by editor Kalle Lasn titled, \”Why won\’t anyone say they are Jewish?\” In it, Lasn points out the fact that of the 50 or so neocons influencing United States diplomatic and defense policy either within government or in media and think tanks, about half are Jewish.
Teen magazines like YM or Seventeen are usually aimed at young girls who can spend hours contemplating the deeper questions of life like \”How can I tell if he likes me?\” or \”Is 50 Cent hot or not?\”
All traces of the solemnity and sadness of Holocaust Remembrance Day were gone by nightfall when the gang from New York-based Heeb Magazine threw their first West Coast party at the Hollywood-and-Vine hotspot Deep.
Rabbi Arnold Rachlis, spiritual leader of Irvine\’s University Synagogue, earned a spot on OC Metro magazine\’s \”Hot 25\” list of people who are making a significant difference in Orange County.
Last week, before the premiere of my new show \”While You Were Out,\” I got my first big national magazine review.
Calabasas may sound like an unlikely origin for a rap magazine, especially one started by a young, Jewish teen.
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