The Jewish Tribune (Canada)

{{Short description|Canadian Jewish newspaper}}

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| name = The Jewish Tribune

| logo = Jewish-tribune-header.gif

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| type = Weekly newspaper

| format = Tabloid

| owners = Jewish Tribune Inc.

| founder = B'nai Brith Canada

| publisher = Michael Mostyn

| editor = Norm Gordner

| chiefeditor =

| assoceditor =

| maneditor = Arie Dimant

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| foundation = 1964 as The Covenant

| political = Conservative

| language = English

| ceased publication = January 29, 2015

| headquarters = 15 Hove Street,
North York, Ontario, Canada{{cite journal|title=The Jewish tribune|journal=The Jewish Tribune|oclc = 43631482}}

| circulation = 60,490 copies (as of September 2014)

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The Jewish Tribune was a privately owned community-based Canadian weekly Jewish newspaper founded by and closely associated with B'nai Brith Canada.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RvWQgnl80XIC&pg=PA278 |title=Transnational identities and practices in Canada |author=Lloyd Lee Wong, Vic Satzewich |publisher=UBC Press |year=2006 |isbn=9780774840996 |access-date=January 28, 2012}} It was founded in 1964 as The Covenant, B'nai Brith's in-house newsletter and was later relaunched in the mid-1990s as an external publication at which point it adopted the name Jewish Tribune.{{cite news|title=B'nai Brith's Jewish Tribune suspends print edition|url=http://www.cjnews.com/news/israel?q=node/135653|access-date=February 5, 2015|work=Canadian Jewish News|date=February 2, 2015}} The Tribune was initially a fortnightly newspaper but became a weekly after several years. At its peak it had a circulation of over 100,000.

As of May 2013, The Jewish Tribune had a circulation of 60,500 copiesThe masthead on their website, as of May 2013. a week which made it, for a time, the largest Jewish weekly publication in Canada. It was distributed in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Hamilton, and Windsor, both by regular mail and by the internet and was available for free from newspaper boxes, news stands, businesses, synagogues and various outlets, mostly in Jewish neighbourhoods.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kMgRAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Jewish+Tribune%22+Canada |title=From immigration to integration: the Canadian Jewish experience: the Canadian Jewish experience: a millennium edition

|author=Ruth Klein, Frank Dimant |year=2001 |publisher=Institute for International Affairs, B'nai Brith Canada

|isbn=9780968863503

|access-date=January 28, 2012}}

Politically, the newspaper was generally conservative both in Canadian and Israeli politics and may be considered an ideological successor to the Jewish Times, a newspaper published by M.J. Nurenberger from 1974 to 1992 as a right-wing rival to the more centrist Canadian Jewish News. Many of the news items it carried documented activities of B'nai Brith Canada and generally reflected the views of the organization while being critical of, first, the Canadian Jewish Congress and then its successor, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

Notable contributors to the newspaper included Mike Cohen, city councilman for Cote Saint Luc and Daniel Smajovits, a well-known Montreal-area writer. M.J.Nurenberger's daughter, Atara Beck, worked as a journalist for the Jewish Tribune for several years before emigrating to Israel in 2011, after which she freelanced as the paper's Israel correspondent.

The Jewish Tribune{{'s}} main competition was the Canadian Jewish News (which temporarily ceased publication in 2013). It also competed with Shalom Life, an English-Hebrew publication aimed at Israeli Canadians in Toronto, and other regional Jewish publications.

B'nai Brith Canada CEO Frank Dimant was the newspaper's publisher from 1985{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pj1_-1a79kkC&pg=PA152 |title=No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit |author=Martin Cohen |year=2006 |publisher=Disinformation |isbn=9781932857290 |access-date=January 28, 2012}} until September 2014 when incoming B'nai Brith Canada president Michael Mostyn was appointed publisher.

On January 29, 2015, B'nai Brith Canada announced that it was suspending publication of the periodical's print edition for 13 weeks, and possibly permanently. Though the organization claimed it would continue publishing the Tribune online, one of its columnists announced that staff had been laid off,{{cite tweet|user=mikecohencsl|author=Mike Cohen|number=561236630921437185|date=30 January 2015|title=The Jewish Tribune has ceased publication of its print edition and laid off staff until further notice. B'nai Brith will try & revive it,.}} and its website was not updated after the suspension was announced.{{cite news|title=B'nai Brith Canada's weekly to suspend print edition|url=http://www.jta.org/2015/01/30/news-opinion/world/bnai-brith-canadas-daily-to-suspend-print-edition|access-date=January 30, 2015|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=January 30, 2015}} Subsequently, it was reported that the newspaper folded as a cost-cutting move along with the sale of B'nai Brith Canada's headquarters and other facilities.{{cite news|title=B'nai Brith Canada puts headquarters up for sale|url=http://www.jta.org/2015/07/09/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/bnai-brith-canada-puts-headquarters-alzheimers-facility-up-for-sale-2|access-date=July 10, 2015|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=July 9, 2015}}