Comments on: Without a strong JTA, the storytelling will be left to bloggers, twitterers, and non-professionals.

By: Jewlicious » Jewish Twitter Girls Gone Wild: The Top 50!

Jewlicious » Jewish Twitter Girls Gone Wild: The Top 50! — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:53:42 +0000

[...] President Elisa Spungen Bildner. The letter contained words that some bloggers and twitterers found somewhat disparaging. A quick quasi-apology was issued and calm was urged. About a month later, the JTA published a list [...]

By: JTA Vs The Blogosphere

JTA Vs The Blogosphere — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:32:17 +0000

[...] summarize, the JTA sent out a fundraising letter that insulted bloggers and tweeters. The JBloggers got pissed and the JTA backtracked. That should have been the end of it right? But then the Forward picked up [...]

By: Jewlicious » Terror Army of Jew Robots

Jewlicious » Terror Army of Jew Robots — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:56:19 +0000

[...] cares. To summarize, the JTA sent out a fundraising letter that insulted bloggers and tweeters. The JBloggers got pissed and the JTA backtracked. That should have been the end of it right? But then the Forward picked up [...]

By: Jameel @ The Muqata

Jameel @ The Muqata — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:54:37 +0000

My blog’s news reporting during Cast Lead (and the Second Lebanon War) was carried everywhere. It was alot more up to date and informative than anything on the web, let alone JTA (except of course, for Aussie Dave and Israel Matzav)

A Happy and Kosher Passover.

Jameel & Crew
The Muqata

By: Jewlicious » JTA President Elisa Spungen Bildner Responds

Jewlicious » JTA President Elisa Spungen Bildner Responds — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:20:39 +0000

[...] already wrote a post about the JTA’s fund raising letter, sent last Friday, that offended so many Jewish bloggers. Elisa Spungen Bildner, President of the [...]

By: Rabbi Yonah

Rabbi Yonah — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:09:08 +0000

Thanks EV for your comments and I hope that you will join the discussion on a regular basis.

By: Dan Sieradski

Dan Sieradski — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:16:37 +0000

JTA President Elisa Spungen Bildner responds: is.gd/qWxw

By: ck

ck — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:12:25 +0000

EV: No you have to guess! I didn’t use your birthday pic skin tone because it was too pale – from the flash, not the shtetl skin.

And speak for itself? Don’t you LOVE the discussion inspired by your comics?

By: froylein

froylein — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:44:19 +0000

given that I don’t get paid to blog That’s too bad. I make serious coin. And I get to have lunch with Kelsey and dinner tonight with two more infamous bloggers.

By: EV

EV — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:41:22 +0000

“perhaps fed by said “pernicious hucksters?””

– or by overexcited imbeciles whose agenda may or may not be pernicious. I give them the benefit of the doubt and conclude they’re simply imbeciles. It’s the community’s responsibility to see through the bloviation and blather and stop latching itself on to the latest trends. But as the community is led by so many of the imbecilic persuasion, and as the community is desperate to be “hip” to the “next-gen,” the phenomenon feeds itself quite nicely, and will continue to do so with whatever trend appears next on the horizon.

Anyway, I didn’t comment mostly b/c I would like my comics to speak for themselves without explanation, but I do think the distinction re. “hucksters” is worth pointing out.

So whose skin tones did you use? Mine?