Are you fucking kidding me?

So this new ad on Shmarya's website offers $20 a month for "jewish book reviews."

Totally amazing.

First of all, you can get it online for free at http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/ and no need to pay for print magazine.

Secondly at Amazon you can get free reviews. XD

For example, I'm going to put a few reviewed books from Jewish Review with their Amazon counterparts below. Some of the links will have only editorial reviews. When you consider that this magazine has a website, you will see it minimizes any need Jewish Review attempts to establish a need for spending $20 per month.

1) http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/a-tale-of-two-synagogues
http://www.amazon.com/Beth-Sholom-Synagogue-Religious-Architecture/dp/0226761401
http://www.amazon.com/Resplendent-Synagogue-Architecture-Eighteenth-Century-Community/dp/1584652160

2) http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/about_us/login.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ejewishreviewofbooks%2Ecom%2Fpublications%2Fdetail%2Fsecularism%2Dand%2Dsabbateans
http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Secularization-Eighteenth-Century-Culture-Contexts/dp/0812242734/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331108961&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Mixed-Multitude-Frankist-Movement-1755-1816/dp/0812243153/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331109034&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Messianic-Sabbatai-1666-1816-Littman-Civilization/dp/1904113842/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331109052&sr=1-1

3) http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/about_us/login.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ejewishreviewofbooks%2Ecom%2Fpublications%2Fdetail%2Funtrue%2Dblood
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=SINNERS+ON+TRIAL%3A+JEWS+AND+SACRILEGE+AFTER+THE+REFORMATION



See my point? No reason to get ripped $20 / month and $240 / year. You can spend the $240 on some books.