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We Read Jewish Magazines So You Don’t Have To
Izzy Grinspan

by Izzy Grinspan, February 14, 2008

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We weren't exaggerating: The cover, naked bird-men and allWe weren't exaggerating: The cover, naked bird-men and allThings of note in the Jewish media this week:

• The LA Jewish Journal runs the ugliest cover of all time (pictured right)

• Hamas’s lovable children’s characters Farfel and Nahul have been replaced by Assud the rabbit, who suspiciously resembles a famous American bunny and sings songs like "We Will Never Recognize Israel." [Heeb]

• The Jewish Awareness Movement, an outreach organization dedicated to frum-inizing college students, is run by a woman who regularly makes people cry. David Kelsey points out that her tactics are surprisingly successful. [New Voices, The Kvetcher]

• The English edition of the daily Jewish paper Hamodia won’t run pictures of women because the female form is “immodest”—which means no Hillary pictures, even if she becomes president. [Jewish SF via JTA]

• Australia’s Prime Minister apologized to the nation’s Aboriginal population for years of discrimination and abuse. Behind this measure? Jews! “We’ve suffered 2,000 years of persecution, and we understand what it is to be the underdog,” said Mark Leibler, the co-chair of Reconciliation Australia. [JTA]



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Jonathan

02/14/08 9:41 pm
Following on my theme for the day....

“We’ve suffered 2,000 years of persecution, and we understand what it is to be the underdog,”

We've suffered way more than 2000 years of persecution...probably closer to 5768 years.  Apparently, Mr. Leibler thinks our first 3760+ years were a cakewalk.



Carvin Knowles

02/19/08 7:08 pm
Ugliest Cover

I have to confess, this isn't my best work, but if you think it was the Journal's worst cover ever, it only shows you weren't paying attention.

I don't like talking about my failures, but by far, my greatest bad cover was the one for April 22, 2005. That was the glossy Passover issue which featured a frog, sitting on a knaedl in the middle of a bowl of soup, reading a Haggadah. Fine china bowl. Matzohs in the background.....yet the first and lasting impression was that the frog was sitting on the toilet. What a lovely image for Pesach! I don't even want to think about what it cost the paper to print that thing on a glossy cover.

The irony is that my worst designs always took much more time and effort than my good covers.

After more than 500 cover designs, I have created my share of dogs. You take the good with the bad. But now, after eleven years, I am leaving Los Angeles and my beloved Jewish Journal. So while I'm glad to win such a great honor for my next-to-last design here at the Journal, believe me, I have done much more deserving work.

Thanks for giving me a good laugh on my last day on the job. And keep reading (and critiquing) the Jewish Journal.

 

Shalom, yo

 

Carvin Knowles

Cover Design

The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles