Passover is a time of miracles and redemption so it is perhaps fitting that a Pesach that began with news of the liquidation of the Jewish Chronicle could end with the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper being rescued. In a statement issued today, the JC revealed that its owner, a charity called the Kessler Foundation, has ‘submitted an offer to the proposed liquidators of both the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish News for the assets of both titles’.
A merger of the JC and the JN had been on the cards before the liquidation and the papers are ‘hopeful that the Kessler Foundation will be successful in its bid which will see the Jewish community served by a single merged newspaper which will benefit from all the existing protections which guard its independence’.
If the rescue mission succeeds, JN editor Richard Ferrer will take over as editor of the merged publication while JC editor Stephen Pollard will become editor-at-large and focus on writing for the title.
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