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American writer and editor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alana Newhouse (born 1976) is an American writer and editor. She is the founder of Tablet magazine.
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| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
Newhouse was born in 1976 and grew up in Lawrence, New York. Her father is Ashkenazi Jewish, and her mother is Sephardic Jewish.[1][2] She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, a 1997 graduate of Barnard College,[3] and a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
After college, Newhouse worked for political consultant David Garth.[4] Her journalism career began at The Forward, where she was a religion reporter before being named arts and culture editor in 2003.[5] In 2008 she became editor of Nextbook.[5][6] She established Tablet Magazine for Nextbook in 2009.[7][8]
Newhouse is a contributor to other media outlets, most notably The New York Times. In April 2010, she reported on a new discovery related to the photography of Roman Vishniac[9] for The New York Times Magazine and, in July 2010, penned a controversial essay on Jewish conversion in Israel for the op-ed page titled "The Diaspora Need Not Apply".[10][11]
Newhouse lives in New York City with her husband, David Samuels.
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