‘Grounds for Collaboration’: First Jewish Zine Festival Celebrates Unconventional Publishing

By Hannah Docter-Loeb September 29, 2022

Creatives across North America flocked to pop-up events hosted by the Jewish Zine Archive to revel in a renaissance of small-scale Jewish independent publication.

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Living Memory of the Jewish Left: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection

By Chaya Holch and Miriam Saperstein January 11, 2021

Two New Voices Fellows discuss their year working with Jewish Currents, weaving memory about the Jewish Left through the eyes of the magazine’s lineage of writers and editors.

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A Magazine for All ’70 Faces’ of Our Community

By Lauren Rosenblatt May 21, 2015

It started over a cup of coffee. I had just gone to Israel and was eager to continue learning about that illusive country I had just been exposed to. Courtney Strauss had just started her new job as Director of Engagement of the Hillel Jewish University Center at the University of Pittsburgh and was eager…

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Israel Gets Its Very Own Hebrew Playboy

By H. B. Rubin March 6, 2013

My friend Kyle emailed me earlier this morning with the subject line “Baruch Hashem.” And baruch hashem indeed. As AP reports, Hugh Heffner’s vast pornographic empire has finally extended its titillating grasp to the olive-lined land of our brethren: Playboy, the 60-year-old popular men’s magazine/soft porn magazine (depending on your mood), has just launched its very own Hebrew…

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