Jewcy’s Return
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
Jewcy, the online magazine appealing to young Jews, relaunched today with a nice-looking website and some fresh content.
The nonprofit cousin of JDub records maintains its robust music and books coverage, but has added sections for news, food, social justice and family and features an events calendar, which is certainly needed in the Jewish webiverse.
Some noteworthy posts:
• Judd Apatow’s public service announcement for American Jewish World Service featuring known non-Jews Lindsey Lohan, Tracy Morgan and Sir Patrick Stewart and a few Jews like Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman.
• A JDate with Jon Stewart. Or his avatar. For that Washington thing he did. It’s so Monday already.
• An interview with Will Schneider, the director of pioneering Jewish philanthropy, Slingshot.
Welcome back, Jewcy.
Why I became the Forward’s editor-in-chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
— Alyssa Katz, editor-in-chief
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