Nextbook is a nonprofit Jewish organization founded in 2003 by Elaine Bernstein's Keren Keshet Foundation to promote Jewish literacy and support Jewish literature , culture and ideas. The organization sponsors public lectures, commissions books on Jewish topics through Schocken Books , and publishes an online magazine, Tablet .
4-649: On June 9, 2009, Nextbook changed the name of its online magazine from Nextbook to Tablet Magazine . As of 2009, Nextbook is funded primarily by the Jewish Communal Fund of New York, a donor-advised fund to which Keren Keshet contributes $ 16 million per year, according to the 990 tax filing available in 2009. The New York Jewish Week describes Keren Keshet as a "powerhouse" in Jewish philanthropy that provided essentially all of Tablet's $ 5 million annual budget. Jonathan Rosen became editorial director in 2007. As of 2012
8-509: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jonathan Rosen Jonathan Rosen is an American author and editor. Rosen graduated from Yale and began graduate studies working towards a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley . He dropped out of graduate school to become a writer. In 1990 he was hired by The Jewish Daily Forward to create an arts section of
12-630: The paper's then newly editorially independent English language edition, a job he held for 10 years. As of 2007 he was editorial director of Nextbook . Rosen's novel Joy Comes in the Morning (2004) features a protagonist, Rabbi Deborah Green, who struggles with the perceptions of women rabbis. This work's inclusion of a woman rabbi is viewed as a significant development in American Jewish writings featuring women rabbis. In April 2023, Rosen published The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and
16-402: The president of the board is Arthur W. Fried, and Morton Landowne is executive director, described by JTA as a "New York businessman and longtime Modern Orthodox lay leader" whose community experience could help in correcting what some critics call Nextbook's inability to establish a broader reach across the Jewish community. This article about a subject related to a Jewish organization
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