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is JTA’s CEO and editor in chief, responsible for overseeing all aspects of the agency’s operations, including editorial, business, marketing and fundraising. Before joining JTA in the summer of 2007, he served as executive editor of the Forward newspaper and the founding editor of the Jewish Daily Forward Web site. He also worked as an editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia.

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  • What Knesset members could learn from the Cardinals

    March 13, 2013 7:02pm

    White smoke! The Cardinals took less than 48 hours to pick a pope. Meanwhile, it’s been weeks and the parties in Israel can’t come up with a coalition. And that new pontiff could end up serving for decades, while this new Israeli government will be lucky to last more than two years. What’s taking Bibi,…

  • What’s next, frogs?

    March 6, 2013 3:26pm

    One million locusts swarm Israel. (At least it wasn’t #10.)

  • Hey, ZOA, tell us what you really think about Hagel

    March 5, 2013 6:40pm

    Subject line from ZOA’s email responding to Chuck Hagel’s confirmation: Deeply Troubled That U.S. Senate Confirmed Iran/ Terror Group Apologist, Anti-Israel, Incompetent Hagel for Secy. Defense

  • ‘Jewish Jocks’ — plenty of Jews, not enough jocks (What would Howard Cosell say?)

    March 4, 2013 2:37pm

    A new anthology from Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy celebrates Jewish athletes, and the role of Jews in sports.

  • Beren loses quadruple overtime thriller

    March 1, 2013 9:11pm

    Beren Academy, which made international headlines last year with its battle to avoid a forfeit in the Texas state boys’ basketball tournament over a Sabbath scheduling conflict, lost a quadruple overtime game in the state semifinals.

  • Daily Show: Dov Hikind’s black face is a war on Purim

    February 27, 2013 3:12pm

    Jon Stewart & Co. have some fun with Dov Hikind’s decision to go black face on Purim. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook In the spirit of our "How to tell a kosher Jewish Oscars joke" video, check out Billy Crystal…

  • How to make a kosher Jewish Oscars joke

    February 27, 2013 3:03pm

    For all you future Oscars hosts…

  • L.A. Jewish Journal editor defends Seth MacFarlane

    February 26, 2013 2:48pm

    Oscars host Seth MacFarlane has been getting hammered over his off-color jokes Sunday night, with the ADL and the Wiesenthal Center raising objections over this Jews-run-Hollywood gag: Rob Eshman, editor and publisher of the L.A. Jewish Journal, says relax: I found these reactions more annoying than MacFarlane’s comments, which varied from the very funny to the remotely…

  • Hey, Tablet: E.T. go home, make ‘Lincoln’ #1

    February 25, 2013 3:24pm

    “Lincoln” didn’t walk away with the Oscar for best picture. But maybe our friends at Tablet could show this movie some love by making it #1 on their “Greatest Jewish Films” list instead of E.T. Yes, that’s right. Last year At the end of 2011, Tablet published its Top 100 list and made E.T. numero…

  • Top three Jewy moments at the Oscars

    February 25, 2013 1:53pm

    So Steven Spielberg and the Israeli films came up empty. But there were still a few Jewy moments. [[READMORE]] 1) The Oscar for best "Jews control Hollywood" joke [UPDATE: The ADL isn't laughing]: 2) Babs! 3) We’re not sure if it was meant as a nebbish-gets-the-shiksha-goddes joke, but… Seth MacFarlane asks the audience to imagine the two…