Serving a community of 600,000, The Jewish Journal is the largest Jewish
weekly outside New York City. Our award-winning paper reaches over 150,000
educated, involved and affluent readers each week. No other LA Jewish
institution reaches so many Jews on a weekly basis.
JewishJournal.com is the web hub for Jewish Los Angeles; our
GodBlog was selected by The Times of London as one of the best religion
blogs in the world.
The Journal also publishes Jewish Life: Traditional Living in Los Angeles
and Jewish Family magazine in the Conejo Valley.
The Journal is an independent publication, unaffiliated with any movement or
institution.
Editor-in-Chief: Rob Eshman
Chief Operating Officer: Kimber Sax
Editorial Staff
Managing Editor: Susan Freudenheim
Senior Editor: Adam Wills
Arts & Entertainment Editor:
Naomi Pfefferman
Religion Editor: Amy Klein
Education Editor: Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Senior Staff Writer: Brad A. Greenberg
Chief Copy Editor: Shoshana Lewin
Copy Editors:
Anita Kantrowitz, Morris Mazur
Calendar Editor: Dikla Kadosh
Circuit Editor: Danielle Berrin
Editorial Associate: Jay Firestone
Contributing Editors:
Tom Tugend, Jane Ulman
Contributing Writers:
James David Besser (Washington),
Bill Boyarsky, Carin Davis,
Joel Kotkin, Gina Nahai,
Judea Pearl, David Suissa, Raphael Sonenshein, Nancy Sokoler Steiner, Teresa Strasser, Tom Teicholz
Production Staff
Production Director: Lionel Ochoa
Art Director: Daniel Kacvinski
Cover/Graphics: Carvin Knowles
Production Assistant: Sindia Arroyo
JewishJournal.com
Web Director: Dennis Wilen
Videographer: Jay Firestone
Advertising
Sales Manager: Allison Drucker
Account Executives:
Shoshana Cohen,
Tina Meyers,
David Nemetz, Toni Van Ness
Classified Sales: Rivka Bankhalter
Circulation and Marketing Manager: Matthew Tenney
Sales and Circulation Coordinator: Debbie Kahen
Business Staff
Office Manager/Assistant to COO: Pamela LaFleur
Accountant: Susan DuBois
Reception/Classified: James Black
Members of the Corporation
Chairman of the Board: Irwin S. Field
Irwin Daniels, Susan Gordon, Osias Goren,
Anita Hirsh, Dora Kadisha, Mark Lainer, Steven Z. Leder, Philip A. Metson, Michael Parks, Karen Richards Sachs, Michael Sanders, Alan Stern, Orna Wolens
Legal Counsel/Accountants
Leon Katz of Tyre, Kamins, Katz, Granof and Menes, Jonathan Kirsch of Law Offices of Jonathan Kirsch,
Gerald Block of Block, Plant and Eisner
Past Publishers
Richard Volpert (1985-1986)
Ed Brennglass (1986-1997)
Stanley Hirsh (1997-2003)
