bio

Alana joined Nextbook in September 2008 and oversaw its redesign and relaunch as Tablet magazine. Before that, she spent five years as culture editor of the Forward, where she supervised coverage of books, films, dance, music, art, and ideas. She also started a line of Forward-branded books with W.W. Norton and edited its maiden publication, A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Alana has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Slate.

Alana Newhouse

Alana is reinventing the way the world thinks about Jewish culture with 'a new read on Jewish life,' through the pages of Tablet magazine. Whether its getting in touch with her orthodox Jewish roots - discovering the art of making gumbo gefilte fish or looking for love in Manhattan, Alana has steadily attracted readers from across the Jewish spectrum. Alana recently attended the UJC General Assembly in Washington D.C. to talk about Tablet and what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century.