Steven I. Weiss is director of original programming and new media at The Jewish Channel. An award-winning religion journalist, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Harper's, Forward, and many other publications, and launched several of the most-trafficked Jewish issues blogs since 2002.

Blog Entries by Steven I. Weiss

Billionaire Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt Condemns Jewish Leadership

Posted November 5, 2009 | 08:30 AM (EST)


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Billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt delivered a bold speech indicting Jewish leadership for not doing enough on Monday. The speech came at an event touting a study...

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Why Newsweek's 50 Most Influential Rabbis...Aren't

Posted April 17, 2009 | 10:45 AM (EST)


Newsweek may be selling a lot of extra issues of its Passover edition thanks to its annual "50 Most Influential Rabbis" list, but that same list is having the opposite effect for the magazine's journalistic integrity. Newsweek's rabbis list is a transparent joke - something that even the magazine acknowledges...

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How New York Media Grinches Taught Me the True Meaning of Chanukah

Posted December 30, 2008 | 05:03 PM (EST)



You can learn some really fascinating things when interviewing celebrities, comedians and New York media types about their Judaism. Holy Dazed, our series that combines these interviews...

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