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How much is Jewish innovation worth?

On May 8, in a very cool space in Culver City, I listened to a hundred very cool people talk about their very cool vision for the Jewish future.

Risks, Rewards of the Jewish Angle

When I started moonlighting for a Jewish weekly in the late 1950s, I often encountered sneers that implied that if I were any good, why wasn\’t I working for a \”real\” newspaper?

The Lichtenstein Formula for a Jewish Paper

The role of a Jewish newspaper is to connect the Jewish community, not to unify it,\” said Gene Lichtenstein, founding editor of The Journal.\nDuring his nearly 15-year tenure, which ended in 2000, Lichtenstein\’s formula was to hire good, independent writers and columnists who could produce articles that raised the interest, and frequently the hackles, of both professional and peripheral Jews.

This Week – Not Our Movie

By launching a public, pre-Oscar campaign against the movie \”Paradise Now,\” Jewish activists all but guaranteed that people who might not otherwise see the movie would now be curious to give it a chance.I was among the curious.

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