The Jewish Chronicle
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The Jewish Chronicle is a London-based Jewish newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world.

Publication data and readership figures

The Jewish Chronicle appears every Friday (except on days which are Jewish festivals, when it appears earlier in the week) providing news, views, social, cultural and sports reports, as well as editorials and a spectrum of readers' opinions on the letter page. It is independent and owned by the Kessler Foundation (UK), a charitable trust in the United Kingdom which has overall control of the newspaper and its assets.

The overall readership is estimated at between
110,000-120,000 weekly reaching up to half of the total UK Jewish population. The newspaper's website includes paid-for searchable archives of all editions from the first issue to the present, making it valuable for Anglo-Jewish genealogists and historians. The website was launched in 2000 and has won three successive Weekly Newspaper on the Web awards. It was relaunched in 2008. On 17 January 2010, the site was briefly hacked by a group calling themselves "Palestinian Mujaheeds" who changed the front page to protest against Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The JC sponsors the Jewish Sunday league system in London, known as the Maccabi
Maccabi World Union
The Maccabi World Union is an international Jewish sports organisation spanning 5 continents and more than 50 countries, with some 400,000 members...

 Football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 League
Sports league
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.

Interviews

The newspaper has conducted several high-profile interviews with leading figures. In 1981, the publication published an interview with then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

. Thatcher was questioned regarding the state of Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 and how Conservative policy affects the Jewish community.
In September 1999, it was the first non-Israeli newspaper to publish an interview with Ehud Barak during his term as Prime Minister of Israel. In December 2007, the newspaper published an interview with the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 donor, David Abrahams.

Chief editors

  • William Frankel
    William Frankel
    William Frankel was the editor of the British weekly newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, from 1958 until 1977...

     (1958–1977)
  • Geoffrey Paul
    Geoffrey Paul
    Geoffrey Paul was the eighth Bishop of Hull in the modern era from 1977 until 1981, who was then translated to Bradford where he served until his death two years later. Educated at Rutlish Grammar School, Queens' College, Cambridge and at King's College London, his first post after ordination was...

     (1977–1990)
  • Ned Temko
    Ned Temko
    Ned Temko is an American Jewish journalist and newspaper editor who has worked much of his life in the United Kingdom. His articles appear mainly in The Observer newspaper and focus on political and social issues. He has previously written for The Guardian and was, until 2005, editor of the Jewish...

     (1990–2007)
  • David Rowan (2006–2008)
  • Jeff Barak (managing editor) (2007–2008)
  • Stephen Pollard
    Stephen Pollard
    Stephen Pollard is a British author and journalist, currently editor of The Jewish Chronicle. He is a former Chairman of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and a former president of the Centre for the New Europe, a free-market think tank based in Brussels...

     (2008–present)

See also

  • Melanie Phillips
    Melanie Phillips
    Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She began her career on the left of the political spectrum, writing for such publications as The Guardian and New Statesman. In the 1990s she moved to the right, and she now writes for the Daily Mail newspaper, covering political and social...

     (occasional contributor)
  • The Jewish Tribune (UK)
  • Hamodia
    Hamodia
    Hamodia is a Hebrew language daily newspaper, published in Jerusalem, Israel. A daily English language edition is also published in the United States, and weekly English-language editions in England and Israel. A weekly edition for French readers debuted in 2008. The U.S. version is the first...


Further reading

  • The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo Jewry, David Cesarani
    David Cesarani
    David Cesarani OBE is an English historian who specialises in Jewish history, especially the Holocaust. He has also written several biographies, notably Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind.-Early life:...

    , Cambridge University Press
    Cambridge University Press
    Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...

    , ISBN 0-521-43434-3

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