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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

U.S. Jewish-community news; mainstream, center to center-left

Owned byOwned by 70 Faces Media, a U.S. not-for-profit that JTA joined in a 2015 merger with Kveller and MyJewishLearning. An independent board of directors governs it. 70 Faces Media and JTA also jointly acquired the New York Jewish Week in 2020.
FundingMostly philanthropic. 70 Faces Media's major funders include the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, the Maimonides Fund, and the Jim Joseph Foundation. Individual donations and online advertising add to that. JTA does not charge for its news content.
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Background

JTA was founded in 1917 in The Hague and moved to New York in the early 1920s. It is often described as the oldest Jewish news wire service. For decades it supplied news to Jewish newspapers worldwide, many of them local or denominational. Its funding and ties to Jewish communal bodies shifted over time. In 2015 it merged into 70 Faces Media, the not-for-profit parent that also runs Kveller and MyJewishLearning. In 2020 JTA and 70 Faces Media acquired the New York Jewish Week. Andrew Silow-Carroll, a longtime Jewish journalist, is a senior editor there. He is editor at large of the New York Jewish Week and managing editor for Ideas at JTA. In April 2026 JTA announced that veteran journalist Hilary Krieger would lead an expansion of JTA and the New York Jewish Week. The outlet says it is independent of any political or communal group. Its funders are mostly Jewish philanthropies, though, and its audience is mostly the American Jewish community. It generally treats antisemitism, Israel, and Jewish communal life as core subjects. Its Ideas section runs opinion and analysis that includes criticism of Israeli policy and of the press, such as a recent piece on the New York Times' Israel coverage and one on a report that Israeli policies are hurting diaspora Jews. Critics from both the right and left sometimes question its framing of Israel-related issues. Details of its current posture toward the Trump administration rest on limited review of recent output.

Sources

  1. About the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  2. Jewish Telegraphic Agency - Wikipedia
  3. 70 Faces Media - Wikipedia
  4. 70 Faces Media, JTA acquire The New York Jewish Week - Forward
  5. Veteran journalist Hilary Krieger to lead expansion of JTA and New York Jewish Week
  6. Israeli think tank: Israel's policies are making life harder for Jews abroad - JTA
  7. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) - Media Bias/Fact Check

Profile compiled 2026-10-24; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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