JACKSON INTERVIEW DISPLEASES SOME JEWS
An interview with Jesse Jackson in the current issue of a liberal Jewish magazine has rekindled controversy over the Democratic presidential candidate's relations with some members of the Jewish community.Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun, a bimonthly periodical, said that during the interview, Jackson exhibited a "tone of insensitivity." The November-December issue of the magazine, which claims a circulation of 40,000, goes on sale today. In the...
LEIBLER'S LIST / Jews name 2000 One Nation members
AUSTRALIA'S leading Jewish magazine yesterday published the names of 2000 One Nation members and donors, saying it was doing so in the interests of "political transparency". Headlined "Gotcha! One Nation's secret membership list", the 17-page Australia/Israel Review special ignited debate about anti-Hanson tactics within the Jewish community and claims of persecution from Hanson adviser David Oldfield.Publisher Mark...
RELIGION BRIEFING
Christian New Year's celebration slated Judge says Jesus stays Jewish magazine debuts...
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A Sardonic Jewish Magazine Expands Its Ambitions
Heeb, a semiannual and entirely irreverent magazine that likes to refer to itself as "The New Jew Review," wants out of the underground. Joshua Neuman, 31, an adjunct philosophy professor at New York University and Heeb's music editor, is taking over as editor and publisher from the founder, Jennifer Bleyer, who is leaving for a freelance journalism career. And Mr. Neuman has some grand expansion plans.|Joshua Neuman, who is taking over as editor and...
MINISERIES CRITICS WANT EQUAL TIME
A national Jewish magazine based in Oakland and the director of the University of California at Berkeley's mass communications program added their voices Wednesday to the growing din of criticism of ABC's upcoming "Amerika" miniseries.Michael Lerner, editor of the new quarterly magazine Tikkun (which means "to mend" in Hebrew) called on ABC to counter what he said was the right-wing propaganda message of the 12-hour...