Wikipedia's first sentence called it “weekly broadsheet”. Today it says “free weekly newspaper that covers the orthodox jewish communities in nassau county”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
The Jewish Star is a free weekly newspaper that covers the Orthodox Jewish communities in Nassau County, New York and New York City . Its offices are in Garden City, New York . The Jewish Star began publication in 2002 led by founding Publisher and Editor Jody Bodner Dubow. It is owned by Richner Communications Inc., the parent company of Nassau County’s Herald Community Newspapers, Long Island Xpress chain of shopper publications, and the Riverdale Press in the Bronx. In 2006, the newspaper became predominantly Orthodox, responding to the demographics of the Five Towns , its primary readership base. In January 2009, the broadsheet format became tabloid . The Brooklyn (NY) Paper, became Publisher in May 2013; Malka Eisenberg is Editor. Green (2011-13), Rabbi David Nasenoff (2011) and Mayer Fertig (2006-2010). The paper's weekly contributors include Alan Jay Gerber (Bookworm), Rabbi Avi Billet (Parsha of the Week), Rabbi Binny Freedman (From the Heart of Jerusalem), Rabbi Simcha Weinstein (Hippest Rabbi), Jeff Dunetz (Politics to Go), Judy Joszef (Who's in the Kitchen) and Rabbi Noam Himstein (who writes a column in Hebrew).1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
The Jewish Star , based in Garden City, New York , is a weekly broadsheet , offered for free, which reports weekly from the Orthodox Jewish communities of Nassau County — including the Five Towns, West Hempstead, Oceanside, Merrick, Long Beach, Lido Beach, Atlantic Beach and Great Neck — and the Far Rockaway and Bayswater areas of neighboring Queens , one of the five boroughs of New York City . The Jewish Star began publication in 2002 led by founding Publisher and Editor Jody Bodner Dubow. It is owned by Richner Communications Inc., also the parent company of Nassau County’s Herald Community Newspapers; the Long Island Xpress chain of shopper publications; and the Riverdale Press , in the Bronx. The publisher and editor of The Jewish Star since 2006 is Mayer Fertig. The Jewish Star is published and distributed each Wednesday at no charge throughout the communities it serves. It has a circulation of over 10,000. Close to half of the circulation is delivered to subscribers with the remainder of the circulation through curbside news boxes, retail establishments and a number of prominent synagogues.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 7 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
The Jewish Star is a free weekly newspaper that covers the Orthodox Jewish communities in Nassau County, New York and New York City . Its offices are in Garden City, New York .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Newspaper published in Garden City, New York The Jewish Star is a free weekly newspaper that covers the Orthodox Jewish communities in Nassau County, New York and New York City . Its offices are in Garden City, New York .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “weekly broadsheet”. Today it says “free weekly newspaper that covers the orthodox jewish communities in nassau county”. Read the current article and compare.
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weekly broadsheet
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free weekly newspaper that covers the orthodox jewish communities in nassau county
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