A small group of British Jewish academics has launched a new digital platform, jewthink.org, which they say is an effort to provide an opportunity for “diverse voices” who have something to say, but who are not currently being heard in existing Jewish media.
Two of the men behind the initiative, Nathan Abrams and Keith Kahn-Harris, were due to host an open forum at JW3 in March, before lockdown meant the cancellation of the meeting. The plan then was to discuss “the relationship between the ‘mainstream’ Jewish community, Jewish academics and the Jewish cultural sector”.
The discussion was due to take place in the wake of the closure of the Jewish Quarterly magazine.
Instead, because of lockdown, it has been decided to begin Jewthink, whose launch announcement says it is not in competition with any of the three main Jewish papers — the JC, the Jewish News, and the Jewish Telegraph — but that a “rule of thumb” should be whether or not the contributor could not get their offering published in UK Jewish media.
