Jewish Magazine: LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE THAT ASKS, `WHAT'S IN A NAME?'
A couple of years ago, Jennifer Bleyer, a year out of Columbia University, had this brainstorm: "There should be a cool Jewish magazine," she thought. "I'm going to do it and call it `Heeb.' "The word "heeb" is generally perceived as an anti-Jewish slur. But Bleyer, 26, says she sees an analogy to some African-Americans reclaiming the word "nigger" and some gay people...
Jewish Magazine: TIKKUN: A VOICE OF THE JEWISH LEFT
In just five issues, Tikkun, the new Jewish magazine published in Oakland, Calif., has managed to become the principal organ of the Jewish left.It is read widely in political circles and sought after as a forum by well-known writers and thinkers. Its circulation has bloomed to the point at which its first-year anniversary issue, reaching the newsstands this month, begins a change in frequency from quarterly to bimonthly.And none of it, say its founders, publisher Nan Fink and editor...
Jewish Magazine: JEW CALLS FOR HOMELAND FOR ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS
Israel and Palestine should quit trying to blame each other for their ongoing territorial dispute and make a concerted effort for a peaceful solution that will satisfy both sides, a Jewish magazine editor said Saturday night.Michael Lerner, editor of TIKKUN, a Jewish magazine that critiques politics, society and culture, told an audience at the U.S. West Auditorium in the Bell Plaza that the Isreali-Palestinian conflict emerged because both sides were pushed into the current struggle by...
Jewish Magazine: Today's People
o Philip Roth's novel "The Counterlife" was honored by a Jewish magazine as the outstanding work of fiction with a Jewish theme in 1987. "Present Tense," a bimonthly magazine of Jewish affairs sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, made the award in New York.o A book by the former White House chief of staff, Donald Regan, promising "fresh insight" into the Reagan administration, will be out nine months...
Jewish Magazine: RIFT THREATENS FRAGILE BLACK-JEWISH RELATIONS
Fissure in historic solidarity may hurt Democrats
NEW YORK -- Michael Lerner had a dream. He was going to prove, politically speaking, that Jesse Jackson was good for the Jews.As editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish magazine that has caught on with Jewish Baby Boomers, Lerner was eager to play peacemaker between blacks and Jews. So in the summer of 1987, he cajoled Jackson into doing an interview. As Lerner recalled here last week, "I hoped we'd get the proof that Jews had nothing to worry about. I wanted him to...
