THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
i0 Friday, September 9, 1983
`Women Making Inroads in Jewish Journalism'
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
One area in American
Jewish communal service in
which women appear to
have achieved a major
career breakthrough in re-
cent years is Jewish jour-
nalism, according to the
findings of an informal sur-
vey by the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency of Jewish
news publications in the
United States and Canada.
An examination of the
editorial staffing of 62 of the
publications, representing
all but a few of those media,
showed that nine of the pub-
lications had women in the
categories of editor-
publisher, co-publisher, and
publisher/executive editor.
No fewer than 38 — nearly
60 percent — of the publica-
tions listed women as
editors and managing
editors.
In addition, 16 women
serve as associate and assis-
tant editors and six hold
various sub-editor posi-
tions. The list of women
staff members includes 13
editorial assistants.
More than a dozen
women were listed as
editorial contributors.
The findings showed that
only six of the publica-
tions listed no women in
any editoriaf capacity.
The survey was based on
an examination of editorial
mastheads, the member-
ship list of the American
Jewish Press Association
(AJPA), and listings in the
current American Jewish
Year Book.
The current membership
list of the AJPA lists 51 full
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Women serve as editor
and publisher, or as
editors and managing
editors, on both
privately-owned and
federation-sponsored
news publications, on
weeklies with substantial
numbers of pages and
wide circulation, down to
letter-head size private
and federation - spon-
sored publications rang-
ing in size from four to 12
to 16 pages, published
and circulated within a
limited geographical
area.
Two publishers, one .con-
sidered the dean of Jewish
publishers, and one of the
relatively young men com-
ing into the field of pub-
lishers, commented on the
survey at the request of the
JTA.
Philip Slomovitz, veteran
editor and publisher of The
Penitential
Days Arrive
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
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members and 13 associate
members among news pub-
lications, for a total of 64
Jewish news publications.
The 1983 American Jewish
Year Book lists 71 such pub-
lications in the United
States and five in Canada
for a total of 76.
The presence of women in
key editorial positions ap-
peared to be totally unre-
lated to such factors as geo-
graphical location, owner-
ship by either federations or
private individuals, or size
and circulation of publica-
tions.
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Since Rosh Hashana falls
on the first of the month
(Tishri) and Yom Kippur
falls on the 10th day of that
month, the 10 days which
include both holidays and
the days in between them
are listed as the "10 Days of
Penitence."
The basic significance is
that the. New Year brings
an element of judgement.
This period of judgement
begins on Rosh Hashana
and is finally determined on
Yom Kippur. The days in
between give a person a
chance to repent and finally
obtain forgiveness.
Some claim that these 10
days represent the 10 trials
that Abraham went
through to test his faith.
Others say that the 10 days
represent the Ten Com-
mandments which are the
basic laws of the faith. It is
also claimed that the 10
days represent the 10 sac-
rifices that were offered on
the altar on Yom Kippur in
the ancient temple (1 bull, 1
goat, 1 ram and 7 lambs).
There are also those who
claim that the 10 days of re-
pentance correspond to the
10 "orders" issued by the
Almighty commanding the
creation of the universe.
The implication is that one
who sins is considered to
have destroyed part of the
world created by the Al-
mighty. By repenting he
creates or rebuilds a new
world just as the Almighty
did.
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Detroit Jewish News, and
Jerome Lippman, publisher
and editor-in-chief of the
Long Island Jewish World,
expressed gratification at
the survey findings.
Slomovitz, a vice
president of the board of the
JTA, commented that The
Jewish News may have
been one of-the pioneers in
openings its doors to women
for key editorial positions.
sentation were "six too
many," said that the high
proportion of women in key
Jewish journalistic posi-
tiOns meant that oppor-
tunities in Jewish jour-
nalism are wide open for the
competent journalist, male
or female.
Trojan
He declared that "one
of our earliest city editors
was a woman whose
skills I would match with
the best," establishing a
tradition maintained to
the present.
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Lippman, president of the
AJPA, commenting that the
six publications without
any women editorial repre-
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