Jewish Newspapers Published in the United Kingdom - The Jewish Chronicle, Hamodia, Jewish Telegraph, Jewish Tribune (Paperback)

Chapters: The Jewish Chronicle, Hamodia, Jewish Telegraph, Jewish Tribune. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Jewish Chronicle ("The JC") is a London-based Jewish newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. It appears every Friday (except on days which are Jewish festivals, when it appears earlier in the week) providing news, views, social, cultural and sports reports, as well as editorials and a spectrum of readers' opinions on the letter page. The JC also sponsors the Jewish Sunday league system in London, known as the Maccabi Football League. It is independent and is owned by the Kessler Foundation (UK), a charitable trust in the United Kingdom which has overall control of the newspaper and its assets. The Jewish Chronicle circulation was recently audited in December 2009 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed a figure of 28,408 purchased in the UK and overseas the total audited weekly circulation stands at 31,224.The overall readership is estimated at between 110,000-120,000 weekly reaching up to half of the total UK Jewish population. The newspaper's own website includes paid-for searchable archives of all editions from the first issue to the present, making it valuable for Anglo-Jewish genealogists and historians. The website was launched in 2000 and has won three successive Weekly Newspaper on the Web awards. It was relaunched in 2008. On 17 January 2010, the site was briefly hacked by a group calling themselves "Palestinian Mujaheeds" who changed the front page to protest Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. The newspaper has conducted several high-profile interviews with leading figures. In 1981, the publication published an interview with then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatche...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=84747