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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Owner | Grand RabbiY. A. Korff |
| Publisher | Jewish Advocate Publishing Corp |
| Editor | Gabe Kahn |
| Founded | 1902 |
| Ceased publication | September 25, 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 15 School Street,Boston,Massachusetts 02108 |
| Circulation | 40,000 (as of 2019)[1] |
| ISSN | 1077-2995 |
| Website | The Jewish Advocate |
The Jewish Advocate was a weeklyJewish newspaper servingGreater Boston and theNew England area. It was established in 1902 and, with 118 years of publication, was the oldest continuously-circulated English-language Jewish newspaper in the United States until it suspended publication on September 25, 2020.[2][3] Before May 28, 1909, it was briefly known asThe Jewish Home Journal and then asThe Boston Advocate.[4][5]
The Jewish Advocate was founded in 1902 byTheodor Herzl, a journalist who is considered to be the founder ofmodern political Zionism.[6][7] Shortly after founding newspapers inVienna andBasel, Herzl sent his executive secretary,Jacob de Haas, to Boston to createThe Jewish Advocate for the purposes of "inculcat[ing] Judaism into the community and progress[ing] the cause of the re-establishment of the Jewish faith and a Jewish state."[6] Before May 28, 1909, the newspaper was briefly known asThe Jewish Home Journal and then asThe Boston Advocate.[4][5] In 1917, when Herzl took the position of executive director of theZionist Organization of America, he transferred leadership of the newspaper to Alexander Brin.[6][8]
The newspaper operated out of the formerBoston Post building in downtown Boston where the office remains located.The Jewish Advocate remains an active501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.[6]
In the September 25, 2020 issue,The Jewish Advocate announced it would be "going on hiatus" (but keep the organization and website active), citing decreasing advertising revenue which had "virtually disappeared" due to theCOVID-19 pandemic and lagging support from communal organizations and the federation. In the announcement, they also said they were developing plans to launch a digital version of the publication, and left open the possibility of resuming publication. The newspaper also reached an agreement withNewsBank to add the complete archives ofThe Jewish Advocate to their digital catalogue and make it available to the public through The Jewish Advocate website.[3][9]
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