About Joey Kurtzman
Joey Kurtzman is former president of Jewcy Partners, LLC, and co-founding editor of Jewcy.com
How to Avert Future Jewish Catastrophes in One Easy Step!
We Jews just love to beat ourselves up. We can't even get depressed without feeling guilty about it. This weekend is Tisha b'Av, the one time of year when Jews get to have a good old-fashioned bitching session. We weep … Read More
UPDATE: Jews and Armenians discuss genocide denial at UCLA, say stirring things
So here's the promised update on the panel discussion on genocide denial that took place Thursday night at UCLA. Commenter Micromike wonders whether anything was accomplished. I frankly don't know. The discussion was interesting. Professor David Myers drew incisive connections … Read More
American Jewish Committee: First Half of 20th Century Was So Long Ago, Who Knows Whether Genocides Took Place?
I've been sent a recording and transcript of a public exchange that took place yesterday between Barry Jacobs of the American Jewish Committee and Aram Hamparian of the Armenian National Committee. It happened at a Washington, DC lecture on Israeli-Turkish … Read More
Is Tom Cruise Dangerous?
Scientology has been in the news nonstop since the Tom Cruise promotional video was scandalously "leaked" two weeks ago. The Cruise news was followed by fellow Scientologist Kirstie Alley’s moment in the spotlight: her legal team threatened to have a … Read More
The Jewcy Redesign SUCKS!!!
Leave a comment telling us about bugs, problems, or what you think should be different, better, or just less miserably sucky about the Jewcy site design. If it's a bug you're reporting, please tell us what operating system and browser … Read More
Tom Cruise Scientology Video
Tom Cruise, Scientology's very own Torquemada
In a Democracy, Media Must Do As Bernie Sanders Says
Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont wants to know why the media sucks at teaching us about "the greatest problems facing our country." Clip at bottom (Hat tip Kvetcher). Bernie says “the function of the media is to educate you to … Read More
Protest of ADL’s “Humanitarian Awards Dinner” Tonight
UPDATE: Read how the protest went, here. ****Â Think it's just no good for a Jewish civil rights organization to support a campaign of genocide denial? Then come out with Jewcy tonight in Los Angeles as we join with the … Read More
The Judean People’s Front, the Blogosphere, and Jewcy
Yesterday, some Jewcy readers observed that Brendan O'Neill, editor of the online magazine Spiked and recent contributor here, began his journalistic career at a magazine named Living Marxism. Living Marxism was the organ of Britain's Revolutionary Communist Party, which held … Read More
Web 3.0, Scraping, and IFrames
Being an online media professional is very much like being a sociologist or a psychiatrist. None of us really have any clue how anything in our field works or how it ought to work, so we spend much of our … Read More