A monthly German Jewish magazine will now deliver copies to subscribers in blank envelopes. The magazine Jüdisches Berlin, or Jewish Berlin, is taking the measure, which will hide the publication’s name, as a response to recent anti-Semitic attacks across Europe. “We decided to do so despite the significant additional costs to reduce the likelihood of…
(JTA) — The departure of most of the editorial team at The New Republic – including Franklin Foer, Leon Wieseltier, Judith Shulevitz and Julia Ioffe – didn’t just blow a hole in the landscape of American journalism. It also threw into doubt the future of what has long been a primary address for American Jewish thought….
How do you say kaddish for a magazine that lived to be 100 years old? Because that is precisely what many fans of The New Republic are doing, as well as engaging in the more of-this-world-ly act of cancelling their subscriptions. By now, everyone in the literary world and blogosphere is aware of what has…
(Haaretz) — Think Vogue, circa 1929 – a drawn silhouette of a fashionably, but conservatively, dressed woman, holding a weekend bag. A women’s fashion magazine without a celebrity on the cover is a real rarity today, what with Kanye and Kim peering from newsstands this month – but Hadar Magazine, a new publication for Orthodox…
The Economist apologized for a cartoon that was published in its weekly print and Internet editions that was characterized as anti-Semitic. The cartoon had been removed on Jan. 21, several days after it was published alongside an article, with a brief note that the cartoon “caused offense to some readers.” The cartoon published with the…
The Economist removed a cartoon from an article on its internet edition that has been characterized as anti-Semitic. The cartoon was removed Tuesday from the weekly publication, where it ran alongside an article published on Jan. 18. The cartoon appears in the print edition of the magazine. An editor’s note appended at the end of…
A German publisher said it would drop a magazine which was seen to glorify the action of troops involved in the Holocaust. The Hamburg-based Bauer Media Group said Sept. 13 it would stop publishing Der Landser, a magazine which has survived numerous challenges since being founded in the 1950s by a veteran of the German…
Debbie Stoller, 49, always had lofty aspirations for Bust, the genre-smashing, stereotype-shattering magazine she and Laurie Henzel launched in 1993. “Even though it just started as a [photocopied], stapled-together thing, we always thought it would take its place on the newsstand, next to all the other women’s magazines,” Stoller said. “We hoped it would provide…
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