Media Talk
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...
Jewish Magazine: CAMPAIGN `88
Jackson interview criticizes Israel for aid to South Africa
Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson has given an in-depth interview to a liberal Jewish magazine intended to help him mend his troubled relations with the Jewish community, but some Jewish activists who have read a pre-publication copy said it may exacerbate Jackson's problems. In the interview, to be published in the forthcoming issue of Tikkun, a 40,000-circulation bimonthly magazine, Jackson criticized Israel for providing military and economic aid to South Africa,...
Jewish Magazine: TIKKUN: A VOICE OF THE JEWISH LEFT
In just five issues, Tikkun, the new Jewish magazine published in Oakland, Calif., has managed to become the principal organ of the Jewish left.It is read widely in political circles and sought after as a forum by well-known writers and thinkers. Its circulation has bloomed to the point at which its first-year anniversary issue, reaching the newsstands this month, begins a change in frequency from quarterly to bimonthly.And none of it, say its founders, publisher Nan Fink and editor...
Jewish Magazine: Today's People
o Philip Roth's novel "The Counterlife" was honored by a Jewish magazine as the outstanding work of fiction with a Jewish theme in 1987. "Present Tense," a bimonthly magazine of Jewish affairs sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, made the award in New York.o A book by the former White House chief of staff, Donald Regan, promising "fresh insight" into the Reagan administration, will be out nine months...
Jewish Magazine: Magazine's list irks Holocaust survivor
A HOLOCAUST survivor yesterday condemned the decision of a Jewish magazine to publish the names and suburbs of 2000 One Nation members, but community leaders, journalists and publishers from ethnic groups praised the move. Marika Weinberger, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and president of the Australian Jewish Holocaust Survivors, said she was distressed by the publication because Jewish people did not appreciate "lists". "Those of us who survived...