By COLlive reporter
Kfar Chabad Magazine, the Hebrew weekly and one of the longest lasting Chabad publications, has long resisted the world wide web.
For years, the Chassidic weekly has refrained from including website addresses in articles and advertisements. And a text-only website it once had, is now closed.
But there’s only so much time that modernity can be ignored.
In a new effort to lure subscribers and stabilize its financial situation, its 88 page Sukkos edition, edited by Aharon Dov Halperin, was posted on the web in its original graphic format.
“Two years have passed since I joined the paper and I predict that the coming year will be the turning point,” said Yisroel Brod, the magazine’s director.
He said he hoped the “fascinating and good-quality” contents of the new edition will help boost readership and new subscriptions at kcm.co.il.
Featured in the Sukkos edition: Profiles of Rabbi Menashe Klein, Rabbi Shalom Rivkin (who both passed away last week) and 770 photographer Levi Yitzchok Freidin, memories of Tishrei by the Rebbe and 40 years since the aliya of Georgia’s Jews.
The magazine was uploaded to the web using Dmag, a Lubavitch owned company for digitalizing publications for easy viewing.
+ Kfar Chabad – Sukkos edition
+ Mishpacha Chassidit women’s supplement
Is it possible to get back issues? I am specifically seeking issue #1119. Thank you.
Totally agreed> i was going to email Brod directly, and my hope is that either he will see this or someone will and let him know. Many magazines such as all the “Charedishe” ones (Bina, Beshaa Tovah, Mishpacha, Zman etc.) find a way to get the magazines to their subscribers within 2 weeks. Kfar chabad just received the Gilyon from the end of Elul today!
one of the problems they have is that the magazine takes to long to arrive in the us in states other than NY. There’s absolutely no reason for the magazine to arrive by mail 3/4 and at times 4/5 weeks late. certain weeks are skipped and two issues arrive together weeks later. It becomes outdated, they piled up in your home and you don’t read it. end result: you loose any desire of continuing a subscription.