The publisher of the Baltimore Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper in the city since 1919, said it is filing for bankruptcy protection Wednesday afternoon after stumbling financially when it lost a major lawsuit to a printing company.
Alter Communications Inc., a Baltimore-based company that also publishes Style and Chesapeake Life magazines and other publications, said it plans to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. District Court of Maryland in Baltimore.
The bankruptcy filing will not affect the company’s day-to-day operations for employees, readers and advertisers, the company said. The Jewish Times and the other publications will continue to be published, the company said in a statement.
“Here’s the headline: we’re not going anywhere,” said Andrew Alter Buerger, president, publisher and chief executive of Alter Communications said. “Our family and our company have been deep in the fabric of this community for five generations, and we are committed to continuing that relationship.”
For less than a dollar per week, the Jewish Times has been a fixture for news coverage of the Jewish community in the Baltimore area for years. Maryland residents receive the weekly paper, which averages 120 pages, for an annual subscription of $46.59. The paper is distributed to a readership of more than 50,000, according to its Web site.
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The Jewish Times has been on a “crusade” against the Orthodox community for some time, leading to most of the Orthodox community taking their business elsewhere. At the same time, Orthodox Jews have grown in both absolute numbers and as a percentage of the total Baltimore Jewish community. So surprise, they don’t have a strong customer base. They were less a fixture as a fossil.
The Baltimore Jewish Times is a classic non-religious rag. It promotes and glorifies all sorts of things that Torah people despise. Once, I imagined the Baltimore Jewish Times promoting itself to the Torah community with the ad text below.
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Here’s what we’re all about.
Nevelah – Treife – Chazir – Shkutzim – Ramazim – Bosor v’Cholov – Chillul Shabbos – Chillul Yom Tov – K’fira – Minos – Chillul Hashem – Depravity – Abortion – Intermarriage – Alternative Life Styles – Lashon Hara – Motzi Shem Ra – Misunderstanding – Gratuitous hatred – Pritzous – Ostentation – Rechilus – Shmad – Apikorsos – Stam Yenam – B’shul Akum – Giluy Arayos – Shfichos Damim – Avoda Zara – Sheker – Drugs – Dagim T’mayom – Jewish Self-Hate – Xenofilia (sic) – Halloween – Chomets – Chillul HaMais – Chukas HaGoyim – Assimilation … and many other Topics mentioned in the Torah!
Don’t you think it’s time for you to subscribe to a non-Frum Jewish Newspaper?
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By the way, it is no accident that when you spell “Jewish Times” backwards you get Semit Hsiwej (pronounced Semite Sewage).
Good riddance.
No loss. I hate to see ads for treif reataurants in a “Jewish” periodical.