The ''Jewish Ledger'' is

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's only weekly

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. The

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newspaper also has a monthly edition serving the

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and

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area. It was founded in April 1929 by Samuel Neusner (who had come to the United States from Poland at the age of 10, in 1906) and Rabbi

Abraham J. Feldman Abraham Jehiel Feldman (June 28, 1893 – July 21, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American rabbi. Life Feldman was born on June 28, 1893 in Kyiv, Russian Empire, Russia, the son of Jehiel Feldman and Elka Rubin. Feldman immigrated to America ...

. Berthold Gaster, whose father had survived the

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and

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s, became the newspaper's managing editor in 1958. Lee Neusner was publisher from 1960 to 1966, when she sold it to Gaster and Shirley Bunis. In 1992, the paper was sold to NRG Connecticut Limited Partnership. As of 2015, the editor was Judie Jacobson.

Jonathan S. Tobin Jonathan S. Tobin is an American journalist. He is editor in chief of JNS.org, the Jewish News Syndicate. Biography Jonathan S. Tobin was born in New York City and educated in local schools. He studied history at Columbia University. Journalism ...

, currently of ''

The Jewish Exponent ''The Jewish Exponent'' is a weekly community newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the second-oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the United States. History ''The Jewish Exponent'' has been published continuously since Apri ...

'' of Philadelphia, is a former editor of the ''Jewish Ledger''.

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