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About JTA
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MARK J. JOFFE is JTA's executive editor and publisher, responsible for overall administration, management, editorial direction and development of the worldwide Jewish news service. He joined the agency in 1987 after serving as news editor at the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia.  |
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LENORE A. SILVERSTEIN is JTA's director of finance and administration, responsible for financial and operational management of the agency, including customer relations. She joined JTA in 1996 after serving as the assistant director of finance and administration at Columbia University. She holds an MBA in finance from Baruch Business School. |
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DANIEL SIERADSKI is JTA's director of digital media, responsible for developing JTA's Web site and guiding its overall Internet strategy. Before joining JTA in the summer of 2007, he served as the publisher and editor-in-chief of Jewschool.com, as well as both a freelance journalist and freelance webmaster for various Jewish publications and non-profit Jewish organizations. He has lectured internationally on the topic of Jewish cultural expression on the Internet, and is regularly featured in the Jewish press for his knowledge on the subject.
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LISA HOSTEIN is JTA's editor, responsible for direction of the agency's global coverage and supervision of its worldwide reporting staff. Before joining JTA in 1994, she served as news editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, she is also co-author of Your People, My People: Finding Acceptance and Fulfillment as a Jew By Choice, published by the Jewish Publication Society. |
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AMI EDEN is JTA's managing editor, responsible for coordinating the agency's North American coverage and reporting staff. Before joining JTA in the summer of 2007, he served as executive editor of the Forward newspaper and the founding editor of the JewishDailyForward
Web site. He also worked as an editor of the
Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia. |
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URIEL HEILMAN is a JTA associate editor. He re-joined JTA in 2007 after a stint doing independent reporting in Israel and the Arab world. Before that, he served as New York bureau chief of the Jerusalem Post. An award-winning journalist, he has served as JTA's news editor and worked as a reporter for a variety of publications in the United States and in Israel. |
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MARC BRODSKY is JTA's copy editor. Prior to joining JTA, he served 15 years as the assistant managing editor at The New York Jewish Week. He also has worked as a reporter and editor in news and sports for daily and weekly newspapers in New Jersey. |
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JACOB BERKMAN is a JTA national staff writer based in New York. An award-winning journalist, he is the former managing editor of the New Jersey Jewish Standard. He also worked for the Baltimore Jewish Times and the Forward newspaper. |
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BEN HARRIS is a JTA national staff writer based in New York. He was formerly the editor of the Jewish Journal Boston North, based in Salem, Mass., and has worked for United Press International and the Long Island Jewish World. His writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, and the Jerusalem Post. |
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RON KAMPEAS is JTA's Washington bureau chief, responsible for coordinating coverage in the U.S. capital and analyzing political developments that affect the Jewish world. He comes to JTA from The Associated Press, where he worked for more than a decade in its bureaus in Jerusalem, New York, London and, most recently, Washington. He has reported from Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Bosnia and West Africa. While living in Israel, he also worked for the Jerusalem Post and several Jewish organizations. |
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LESLIE SUSSER is JTA's diplomatic correspondent in Jerusalem. Also the diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Report, he has covered the peace process and Israeli domestic politics since the early 1990s. Before that he was head of English News at Israel Radio and night editor at the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of the recent Israel chapters in the Middle East Contemporary Survey and the Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook, and co-author of "Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier of Peace." He has a Ph.D. in modern history from Oxford University. |
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DINA KRAFT is JTA's news and features correspondent in Israel. Based in Tel Aviv, she covers a wide range of behind-the-headlines issues, including Israel-Diaspora affairs and economic and social trends. She comes to JTA from The Associated Press, where she worked for over six years, first in the Jerusalem bureau and then in the Johannesburg bureau covering southern Africa. She has reported from throughout Africa as well as Pakistan, Turkey and Jordan. |
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SUE FISHKOFF, a special correspondent based in Northern California, covers American Jewish issues, with a special focus on Jewish identity and affiliation. She also serves as a contributing editor, responsible for coordinating JTA's coverage of the former Soviet Union. She is a former staff writer for the Jerusalem Post, has written extensively for a variety of national Jewish publications and is the author of "The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch," published by Schocken Books. |
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RUTH E. GRUBER is JTA's senior European correspondent. Based in Rome, she travels and writes extensively on Jewish affairs in Italy, Central and Eastern Europe and other European countries. A former UPI reporter, she has also written for The New York Times and the Encyclopaedia Judaica. She is also the author of several books: Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to East-Central Europe and Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today. |
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LEV KRICHEVSKY is JTA's bureau chief in Moscow. He covered Jewish life in Russia and the former Soviet Union for JTA from 1995-1999, when he moved to the United States. While living in New York, he served as Russian affairs director of the Anti-Defamation League. He returned to Moscow in July 2002 to head up JTA coverage of the former Soviet Union. |
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FLORENCIA ARBISER is JTA's correspondent in Buenos Aires. Prior to joining JTA, she worked for nine years at the Clar’n newspaper, the largest Spanish paper in the world. She also currently writes for Ciudad Abierta, the magazine of the Buenos Aires municipality's Department of Culture. In 1998 she won an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship. |
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TOBY AXELROD is JTA's correspondent for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. A former assistant director of the American Jewish Committee's Berlin office, she has also worked as staff writer and editor at the New York Jewish Week. She has won numerous awards from the New York Press Association and the American Jewish Press Association. She has published books on Holocaust history for teen-agers. |
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DAN GOLDBERG is a former national editor of the Australian Jewish News. He currently works for The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as The Jewish Chronicle in Britain and writes scripts for an independent TV production company. |
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JEAN COHEN is JTA's correspondent in Greece. Since 1978, he has been a correspondent for Radio Israel, the daily newspapers Yediot Achronot and Kathimerini and other publications. He also has worked in public relations, as a professor of advertising and as an advisor for various Greek government officials. |
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BRAM EISENTHAL has been JTA's Montreal correspondent since 1990. A freelance journalist and columnist, he contributes to Canadian newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, National Post, and The Globe and Mail. An award-winning travel writer, he also does contract work as a film unit publicist and has more than 50 credits on feature films and TV series. |
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LAUREN ELKIN is a JTA Paris correspondent. Her work has appeared in the London-based Jewish Chronicle, the Paris Voice, the Forward and Publisher's Weekly. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in English literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the University of Paris. |
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BILL GLADSTONE is JTA's correspondent in Toronto, covering Canada's largest Jewish community. He is a columnist for the Canadian Jewish News and a frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, as well as other publications. |
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BRIAN HARRIS is JTA's correspondent in Central America. Based in Costa Rica, Brian covers political, economic and social developments in the region. Born in Concepción, Chile, and raised in California, he has lived in Costa Rica since 1990, reporting for a variety of local and international media outlets, including the financial newswire BridgeNews. |
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MICHAEL J. JORDAN is a Brooklyn-based journalist and the George Polk Journalist-in-Residence at Long Island University, where he also teaches journalism. Jordan has written for JTA and the Christian Science Monitor over the past decade, including as a correspondent in Hungary. Among his topics for JTA have been the former Soviet Union and U.N.-Israel relations. |
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BRETT KLINE is a JTA Paris correspondent. Originally from Long Island, N.Y., Brett has lived for more than 15 years in Paris. He works in French television and also writes for Agence France Presse(AFP). His work has appeared in the Forward and in the Jerusalem Report. |
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LARRY LUXNER is JTA's correspondent in South Florida. He also regularly travels to and reports from Latin America for JTA. He publishes a monthly newsletter, CubaNews and his articles have appeared in the Miami Herald, Wall Street Journal, Washington Diplomat, Christian Science Monitor, Latin Finance and Americas Magazine. |
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VLADIMIR MATVEYEV is JTA's correspondent in Kiev, covering the Jewish community of Ukraine. He worked as a freelance journalist before becoming editor-in-chief of the Open Door, a publication of the Reform Jewish movement in Ukraine. He has a doctorate in linguistics from Kiev State University and a diploma from the Moscow Institute of Asian and African Countries. He is the author of numerous works on Judaism, Jewish language, history and culture. |
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MARCUS MORAES is JTA's correspondent in Rio de Janeiro. A freelance journalist and columnist, he contributes to Brazilian Jewish newspapers, magazines and news portals. He also produces news content for Web sites. |
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MOIRA SCHNEIDER is a JTA correspondent in South Africa. A law graduate and psychology major, she is the Cape Town correspondent for the South African Jewish Report. She contributes to London's Jewish Chronicle, is a reporter for the Cape Jewish Chronicle and has been published in the Cape Times and Cape Argus. |
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JEROME SOCOLOVSKY is JTA's correspondent in Madrid, covering Spain and Portugal. A former AP reporter, he has covered the Arab world, the Lockerbie trial and the Bosnian war crimes tribunal in The Hague. His articles have also appeared in The Economist. |
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DINAH A. SPRITZER is JTA's correspondent in Prague. She has been covering the former Eastern European bloc since 1990 and currently serves as the news editor of The Prague Post. The former Europe editor for Travel Weekly, she also contributes to several other publications, including The Independent on Sunday, Conde Nast Traveler and several guidebooks on the Czech Republic. |
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TOM TUGEND is JTA's Los Angeles correspondent. A veteran journalist, he also writes for the Jerusalem Post, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal and the London Jewish Chronicle. |
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