Apparently Gawker, the immensely popular Internet gossip blog, has a lot of Jewish flavor to it. According to this article of the Forward 50, Gawker has a lot of Jewish flavor and humor to it, which seems to make sense being that it’s run by Jews Jessica Coen and Jesse Oxfeld. Some of the Jewish flavor found in Gawker can be found in the short Foreword paragraph about its to main editors:
Currently run by co-editors Jessica Coen, 25, and Jesse Oxfeld, 29, the site courses with Jewish flavor, ridiculing old canards about Jews and the media even as it relishes them. “Next week’s New York [magazine] wonders whether, as a recent scientific study purported to prove, Jews really are smarter,” an entry right after Yom Kippur stated. “All we’ll say: We had a day off yesterday, and we ate pounds of excellent lox for dinner. You goyim did not. QED.” Another time, the editors said “yisgadal v’yiskadash” over a Conde Nast employee’s firing.
Of course, despite Gawker’s Jewish flavor, it’s not exactly my favorite type of blog. I think that I’ll stick with reading Engadget and the rest of the tech blogs.
P.S. Right below Coen and Oxfeld’s paragraph is a paragraph about Carolyn Hessel, who is a very, very powerful woman in the Jewish book world who my dad knows personally and who I have met on several occasions. She can be summed up briefly as “very small, but very powerful.”
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