The Algemeiner Journal
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Gershon Jacobson Jewish Continuity Foundation |
| Founder(s) | Gershon Jacobson |
| Publisher | Simon Jacobson |
| Editor | Dovid Efune |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Circulation | 23,000 |
| Website | www |
The Algemeiner Journal is a New York-based newspaper, covering American and international Jewish and Israel-related news. Former Senator Joseph Lieberman described the paper and the Jacobson Foundation as "independent truth telling advocates for the Jewish people and Israel". The Algemeiner's Advisory Board was chaired by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
In 1972, Gershon Jacobson founded the Yiddish-language Der Algemeiner Journal, after consultation with the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He served as editor and publisher from its inception until his death in 2005.
The inaugural issue was published by Der Algemeiner Journal Corporation on February 23, 1972. The ten-page paper was priced at 25 cents. Twenty thousand issues were printed.Der Algemeiner Journal aimed to fill the gap created by the 1971 closing of the daily Yiddish paper Der Tog Morgen Zhurnal, for whom Jacobson had written and served as its city editor. The largest circulation Yiddish weekly in the United States,Der Algemeiner Journal emphasized Jewish community news, with a politically independent viewpoint, and did not hesitate to report on tensions between rival Hasidic sects, most notably Lubavitch and Satmar. Although Jacobson himself was an Lubavitcher Chasid, according to the New York Times, he "defied easy categorization." At its peak, Der Algemeiner’s circulation neared 100,000 copies.
In 1989, in response to the increasing marginalization of the Yiddish language, Der Algemeiner Journal began printing a four-page English supplement in the middle of the paper, bringing in a wider and more diverse Jewish audience. In May 2005, after Gershon Jacobson's passing, his elder son, Simon Jacobson, became the Publisher of Der Algemeiner Journal. He then founded the Gershon Jacobson Jewish Continuity Foundation (GJCF), a Jewish media organization with the mission to serve as a voice for Jews and Israel. In 2008, Der Algemeiner Journal was reconceived as an English publication, dropping the Yiddish "Der" in its title for "The". That year, Dovid Efune became the Editor-In-Chief of The Algemeiner and Director of the GJCF.
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