Jewish Living Craps Out
Suburban Jewish housewife rag, Jewish Living, announced yesterday that it would be closing up shop. According to sources, investors suspended the monthly in reaction to Monday’s market crash (not because it’s most fascinating story to date was "Tu B’Sh What?: The Most Delicious Holiday You’ve Never Heard Of"). Even though the UJA pre-purchased 40,000 issues before it even launched, the magazine didn’t last one year.
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submit a comment10.01.08 at 11:10 am
Jewish Living didn’t close because it wasn’t good. It closed because they couldn’t afford their professional team. Their publisher and editor got real salaries and their writers were probably paid. The sorry truth is that that businesses catering to Jews seem to need to rely on volunteers or subsidized or underpaid labor. I’ll miss Jewish Living.
But Hustler, I’ll lend you a copy of JL so you can capture some of their advertisers who may suddenly have some $ to spend including: Ahava, Viking, Hilton Hotels, and ClubMed.
Oh, and nice pic!
10.01.08 at 1:10 pm
In other Jew-periodical failings, The NY Sun http://nysun.com/ closed shop yesterday.
Who would have expected that a Neocon newspaper would fail after all the wonderful things they accomplished?