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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Henry Zachs |
Founder(s) | Samuel Neusner and Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman |
Publisher | 20/20 Media [1] |
Editor | Judie Jacobson |
Founded | April 1929 |
Headquarters | West Hartford, Connecticut |
Circulation | 15,000 [2] |
OCLC number | 37017172 |
Website | jewishledger |
The Jewish Ledger is Connecticut's only weekly Jewish newspaper. [3] [4] The Hartford newspaper also has a monthly edition serving the Greater Hartford and western Massachusetts area. [5]
It was founded in April 1929 by Samuel Neusner (who had come to the United States from Poland at the age of 10, in 1906) and Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman. [6] Berthold Gaster, whose father had survived the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, became the newspaper's managing editor in 1958. [7] Lee Neusner was publisher from 1960 to 1966, when she sold it to Gaster and Shirley Bunis. [7] [8] In 1992, the paper was sold to NRG Connecticut Limited Partnership.
As of 2015, the editor was Judie Jacobson. [9] Jonathan S. Tobin, currently of The Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia, is a former editor of the Jewish Ledger.
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Connecticut and Massachusetts Jewish Ledgers ... joined forces to create the Southern New England Jewish Ledger...by 20/20 Media, ... in West Hartford, Connecticut...the Ledger will switch from a weekly to a bi-weekly schedule
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