The Algemeiner Journal is a New York

New York

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-based Jewish

Jews

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, Yiddish

Yiddish language

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 and English weekly newspaper

Weekly newspaper

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History

The Algemeiner Journal was founded in 1972 by Gershon Jacobson

Gershon Jacobson

Gershon Jacobson was the founder, editor and publisher of Der Algemeiner Journal, one of the largest Yiddish-language weekly newspapers in North America. He died at the age of 70 and lived in Brooklyn....

 (1934–2005). The Algemeiner is currently owned and operated by the Gershon Jacobson Jewish Continuity Foundation. The current publisher is Simon Jacobson

Simon Jacobson

Simon Jacobson is the author of Toward a Meaningful Life , founder of and publisher of the Yiddish English weekly, The Algemeiner Journal.-Life and career:...

 and the director is Dovid Efune.

The Algemeiner website lists as its chairman of advisory board Dr. Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

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, and Yosef Y. Jacobson

Yosef Jacobson

Yosef Yitzchok Jacobson , an Orthodox Chabad rabbi, is the editor of the Algemeiner Journal, a Yiddish-English weekly newspaper-Life and career:Jacobson was born in Brooklyn, New York...

as editor in chief.