JVibe

{{Short description|American Jewish teen magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2013}} {{Infobox magazine |title =JVibe |image_file =Nov-Dec 07 small.jpg |image_size =150px |editor =Lindsey Silken |editor_title =Editor-in-Chief |frequency =Bi-Monthly |circulation =13,000 subscribers nationally |category =Teen magazine |company =JFL Media (defunct) |founded =2004 |lastdate =2009 |country = USA |based = |language =English |website =[http://Jvibe.com// JVibe website] (inactive) }} {{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}

'''''JVibe''''' was a bimonthly magazine for Jewish teens aged 12–18, published by a company called JFL Media between 2004 and 2009.

== Overview == Sections of the magazine included pop culture events, celebrity interviews, news from Israel, sports stories, music, and movies.<ref>{{cite book|title=Religion, Media, and the Marketplace|author=Lynn Schofield Clark|author-link=Lynn Schofield Clark|year= 2007|pages=92|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0813540184|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei4uOJT96YsC&q=%22JVibe%22+-Wikipedia&pg=PA92}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=13028|title=Heeb Teens Get Zine of Their Own|publisher=www.jewishjournal.com|accessdate=January 28, 2008 |last=|first=}}</ref>

Lack of funds forced the publisher to close down all activities in October 2009, including the publication of ''JVibe''.<ref name="JFL">[http://www.jflmedia.com/index.html JFL Media pressrelease] Retrieved February 2, 2011</ref><ref name="Peoplehood">[http://www.peoplehood.org/?p=1185 ''Teen mag to stop printing'', Peoplehood.org] Retrieved February 2, 2011</ref>

The magazine's companion website, ''jvibe.com'', was taken over by web hosting service Jvillage Network,<ref name="JFL"/> but has been inactive since April 2010.<ref>[http://www.jvibe.com/pop_culture/ATrak.php ''On "Trak" for Gold'', last article published] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216184835/http://jvibe.com/pop_culture/ATrak.php |date=December 16, 2010 }} Retrieved February 2, 2011.</ref> It included a discussion board, blog entries, on-going polls, surveys, and contests.

The magazine's website hosted "The Homer Calendar," an online guide to the Jewish ritual counting of the omer using the Homer Simpson character from The Simpsons.<ref>[https://homercalendar.net/Welcome.html ''The Homer Calendar'', homercalendar.net] Retrieved January 16, 2023</ref>

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