FAR FROM LOOKING FOR TSORES, EDITORS OF NEW JEWISH MAGAZINE MAY BE MESHUGENEH LIKE A FOX
So here's the problem: The hip new Jewish magazine, in an urgent but fundamentally superfluous quest to distinguish itself from the Hadassah journal, takes as its name a word guaranteed to give shpilkes to your bubbeh.It's called Heeb. Right. They rooted around until they found an offensive word that nobody has heard in decades.You can see where they were going, though. The editors of Heeb are making it crystal clear that they embrace their Otherness, much in...
Jewish Magazine: SOME JEWS SAY INTERVIEW OF JACKSON MAY ADD TO RIFT
Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson has given an interview to a liberal Jewish magazine intended to help him mend his troubled relations with the Jewish community, although some Jewish activists who have read a pre-publication copy say it may exacerbate Jackson's problems.In the interview to be published in the next issue of the bimonthly magazine Tikkun, Jackson chastised Israel for providing military and economic aid to South Africa, likening the Pretoria...
Jewish Magazine: IN U.S. POLITICS, AN OLD ALLIANCE FACES NEW STRESS A CONCLAVE EXAMINES THREATS TO THE COALITION OF BLACKS AND JEWS.
Michael Lerner had a dream. He was going to prove, politically speaking, that Jesse Jackson was good for the Jews.As editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish magazine that has caught on with Jewish baby boomers, Lerner was eager to play peacemaker between blacks and Jews. So in the summer of 1987, he cajoled Jackson into doing an interview. As Lerner recalled here this week, "I hoped we'd get the proof that Jews had nothing to worry about. I wanted him to come out...
Jewish Magazine: LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE THAT ASKS, `WHAT'S IN A NAME?'
A couple of years ago, Jennifer Bleyer, a year out of Columbia University, had this brainstorm: "There should be a cool Jewish magazine," she thought. "I'm going to do it and call it `Heeb.' "The word "heeb" is generally perceived as an anti-Jewish slur. But Bleyer, 26, says she sees an analogy to some African-Americans reclaiming the word "nigger" and some gay people...
Jewish Magazine: 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...