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70 Faces Media is an American non-profit media organization, focusing on the Jewish community. The name is a reference to the idea of the Torah having "70 faces", or multiple methods of espousal. The idea comes from the religious text Numbers Rabbah. [1]
70 Faces Media formed in 2015 as a merger of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news agency and wire service, Jewish motherhood-focused website Kveller and Jewish education website MyJewishLearning. Together the 3 platforms generated 3.4 million pageviews per month. [2]
In 2017, 70 Faces Media launched Hey Alma, an online magazine aimed at Jewish millennial women. [3]
In December 2020, 70 Faces Media acquired New York Jewish Week , a community newspaper for the Jewish community of the metropolitan New York City area. [4] The paper had suffered prior to purchase due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5]
70 Faces Media publishes the following publications:
The organization is supported by 25 philanthropic foundations, 45 Jewish federations, and 2,000 individual donors. [2] Among its major funders are the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, [2] the Maimonides Fund, and the Jim Joseph Foundation. [6]
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